Read National Affairs Quiz-II December- Current Affairs 2012

1) Which wild life reserve of India won the coveted U.N. India Biodiversity Governanace award in October 2012 which has been instituted by the Government of India and the United Nations Development Programme(UNDP)?

1) Periyar

2) Keoladeo

3) Kaziranga

4) Sariska

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2) Which celebrated Bollywood music composer was given the Prestigeous Akshaya Samman for the year 2012 during the annual Akshya Utsav in Bubaneshwar on October 13, 2012?

1) Sajid-Wajid

2) Anu Malik

3) Kalyanji-Anandji

4) A.R Rahman

Ans 3

3) The $ 600 million Multirole Transport Aircraft(MTA) moved a significant step forward on October 12,2012 with Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd(HAL) signing the initial design phase contract in New delhi. MTA is a partnership between India and 

1) Japan

2) China

3) Russia

4) United States of America

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4) The International Committee of Red Cross  an Press institute of India , in October 2012 awarded Indian Journalists for their articles on humanitarian issues.Who are those journalists

1) Ramachandrareddy Patil of Week

2) Rohini Mohan of the carvan magazine

3) The Times of India Supriya Sharma and the statesman SOma Basu

4) All of the above

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5) Invoking the name of which of the following fam,ous leaders apart from Mahatma Gandhi did India against corruption on october 2, 2012 announce the launch of a aprty in Newdelhi to provide"alternative Politics for changing the system and giving power back to people"?

1) Sardar Patel

2) B.R. Ambedkar

3) Lal Bahadur Shastri

4) All of the above

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6) In a first of a kind initiative, which University and the defnce Research and development organisation(DRDO) entered into a mutually complimentary collaboration on october 7, 2012 for undertaking scientific projects as well as exchange of knowledge between DRDO Scientists and the faculty?

1) Delhi University

2) Jawaharlal Nehru university

2) Osamania University

4) Santiniketan

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7) The Energy and Resources Institute(TERI), in collaboration with which of the following bodies launched a clean energy "Lighting a Million Lives"(LaML) compaign in Pakistan on October 12, 2012?

1) Buksh Foundation

2) LEAD Pakistan

3) Alternative Energy Development Board(AEDB), Pakistan

4) All of the above

Ans  4

8) In the state of the world's cities report, released by the U.N. habitat in October 2012, New Delhi and Mumbai figured low on the list of Prosperous cities across the globe.The reasons for Indian cities being ranked low was the poor status of

1) Environmental Conditions

2) Avenues for employment

3) Infrastructure

4) All of the above

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9) The Union cabinet  recently approved amendments to the Indecent Representative of women(Prohibition) Act 1986 under which sending a pornographic multimedia message and emails may lead a persons in jail for a maximum of 

1) 10 years

2) 7 years

3) 3 years

4) 6 years

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10) In abid to raise global funds for biodiversity conservation, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on October 16, 2012 committed $50 million as India took over the two years presidency of the conservation on Biological Diversity. How was this commitment termed by the Indian Prime Minister?

1) Hyderabad Pledge

2) Millennium Resolution

3) A Green World

4) Pact for Tomorrow

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