Test 5

To be completed later

Test 4

1. Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana: BPL to get health insurance with benifit of 30000 for each family.

2. Risk Capital Fund: For MSMEs(Micro Small Medium Enterprise) is maintained and operated by SIDBI (Small Industry Development Bank of India

3. New Scheme for Girl Child: Dhan Lakshmi

The insurance scheme, called Dhanalaxmi (goddess of wealth), is a conditional cash transfer for a girl child with insurance cover (CCT). It will start in Andhra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Orissa, Jharkhand, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and Punjab.

When a girl child is born, the family will get money. If they give her proper vaccination on time, they will get a certain amount. When they enrol her in school, and as she continues her education, they will get more. The incentive will continue till she attains the age of 18

4. Shakkarlal Guru Committee: Agriculture Marketing

5. Jawahar Gram Samridhi Yojhna

This wage-employment scheme helps create necessary village infrastructure. It generates employment for the unemployed rural poor. Preference is given to SCs/STs and families living below the poverty line. The scheme will provide employment to local unemployed people. The involvement of the local people in these development projects will improve the condition of their village. The District Rural Development Agency (DRDA) will provide only half the funds for the project. The villagers will be required to provide the other half. Contact The Gram Panchayat. 6. Total Fertility Rate: the average number of children that would be born to a woman over her lifetime. Target for 2012 is 2.1

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Test 3

1. 2010: International Year of Biodiversity by UN

2011: International Year of Forest by UN

2. Palakkad district was declared as India's fully electrified district in Feb 2010

3. Aka-Bo is the extinct language of Andaman

4. Ghulam Nabi Azad: Polio Champion Award 2010

Ela Bhatt: Global Fairness Initiative Award 2010

5. Jundallah ( Soldiers of God‎), also known as People's Resistance Movement of Iran (PRMI) is an organization based in Balochistan that claims to be fighting for the rights of Sunni Muslims in Iran.

6. Rose Revolution: Georgia

Orange Revolution: Ukraine

Cedar Revolution: Lebanon

Pink Revolution: Kyrgyzstan

7. AVAHAN: Foundation of HIV/AIDS by Bill Gates

8. Gorkha Janmukti Morcha: forming a separate state by bifurcating West Bengal in Darjeeling Hill

9. India and Oman Naval exercise: Tamar-al-Tahir

India and Qatar Naval exercise: Incisive Falcon

10. Rohini Bhate: Khatak

11. Institute place

Gas Turbine Research Establishment Bangalore

Liquid Propulsion System Center Mahendradiri

Interim Missile Test Range Chandipur on Sea

Space Physics lab Trivandrum

12. E-Court Project implemented first in Gujrat High Court

13. Murrah breed of Buffaloes: India's first official clone of buffalo calf "SAMRUPA"

14. BHAVINI a public sector undertaking: in Nuclear Power Generation

15. Maitree Express a Confidence Building Measures: runs between India and Bangladesh

Test 2

1. The C. Rangarajan Committee on the proposed food security bill in January 2011:

a. legal entitlement of subsidised foodgrains to the poor (below the poverty line).

b. The Committee estimated the subsidy bill at Rs. 83,000 crore for the entitled groups at 100 per cent lifting.

c. Price of subsidised foodgrains for the poor (BPL) be linked to inflation and indexed to the

Consumer Price Index in the coming years, and the price at which wheat and rice was to be

made available to the non-poor (APL) might be linked to the minimum support price (MSP).

d. Rejected NAC recommendation

2. The NAC, headed by Congress president Sonia Gandhi had recommended

a. 75 per cent coverage of the population in two phases, with 90 per cent rural and 50 per cent urban population included.

b. The Committee suggested 46 per cent of the rural population and 28 per cent of the urban population be entitled to 35 kg of rice at Rs. 3 a kg or wheat at Rs. 2 a kg per household a month.

3. Tendulkar Committee's poverty estimates: Rural poor = 41.8 % and urban poor =25.7 %.

4. Bharat Jyoti Award of the India International Friendship society to Agricultural Scientist K.V Raman

5. Nationalisation of bank

The Public sector banks are those where govt holdings are more than 50% while nationalised banks are those banks which were nationalised in 1969 and 1980. Thus all nationalised banks are public sector banks.

• 1955 : Nationalisation of State Bank of India.
• 1959 : Nationalisation of SBI subsidiaries.
• 1969 : Nationalisation of 14 major banks. Started by Indira Gandhi (1st Phase of Nationa.)
• 1980 : Nationalisation of seven banks with deposits over 200 crores.(2nd Phase)

6. Tejas: is a lightweight multirole jet figher developed by India.

a. Will replace MiG 21

b. Trials off Goa, speed = 1,350 km per hour (2nd supersonic fighter manufactured by HAL)

c. 1st supersonic figher was HAL Marut

d. SuperSonic speed = speed above speed of sound (Mach). speed of sound is 343.2 metres

per second (1,126 ft/s). This is 1,236 kilometres per hour (768 mph), or about one

kilometer in three seconds

7. Moncondo Blowout is related to Gulf Oil Spil by BP

8. Mandav Gadgil Committee : Western Ghat

B.N Srikrishna: Telangana

V K Shunglu: CWG probe

Tendulkar: poor in india

Sachar Committee: condition of muslims

Malegam Committee: Micro Financial Institution

9: Jaitpur Nuclear Power Plant: Maharashtra : French: Areva: Will be biggest in the world

10. Article 164: non MLA can remain minister for 6 months

11. The Financial Action Task Force (FATF), also known by its French name Groupe d'action financière (GAFI), is an intergovernmental organization founded in 1989 on the initiative of the G7. The purpose of the FATF is to develop policies to combat money laundering and terrorist financing. The FATF Secretariat is housed at the headquarters of the OECD in Paris.

12. Census of People with disability: Started in 2001

13 Infant Mortality Rate in India : 50/1000. Number of deaths of babies under one year of age per 1000 live births.

14 River Disputes:

Ravi-Beas dispute: Haryana, Rajasthan and Punjab

Krishna dispute: Maharashtra, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh

Cauvery dispute: Karnataka, TN, Pondicherry and Kerala

Madheyi Dispute: Karnatak, maharashtra and Goa

15. Kadar Tribes: Western Ghat

Athirappilly Dam on the Chalakudy River in Kerala have focused on elephant corridors and hornbill habitat, with only brief mentions of a Kadar village which would also be destroyed.

KuKi Tribes: Manipur

16. Asian Development Bank: head quarter in Manila, Philippines

It is major lender for development in infrastructure in india

17. POSCO Project: India and South Korea

India's single largest FDI investment

In Jagatsinghpur in Orrisa

June 2005 | South Korea’s Pohang Steel Co (POSCO) signs memorandum with Orissa govt to set up Rs 51,000cr steel project, the biggest FDI in India.

18. Tropical Cyclone hitting queensland, Australia : Yasi

19. S Band: by IEEE standard for radio waves with frequencies that range from 2 to 4 GHz

It is part of the microwave band of the electromagnetic spectrum. The S band is used by weather radar, surface ship radar, and some communications satellites,

WiMAX (Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access) is a telecommunications protocol that provides fixed and mobile Internet access.

20. 3GPP Long Term Evolution (LTE), is the latest standard in the mobile network technology tree that produced the GSM/EDGE and UMTS/HSPA network technologies

21. The South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) is an organization of South Asian nations, founded in December 1985 and dedicated to economic, technological, social, and cultural development emphasizing collective self-reliance. Its seven founding members are Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. Afghanistan joined the organization in 2005. Meetings of heads of state are usually scheduled annually; meetings of foreign secretaries, twice annually. It is headquartered in Kathmandu, Nepal.

22. Raiganj Wildlife Sanctuary (also known as Kulik Bird Sanctuary) is situated near Raiganj in Uttar Dinajpur district of West Bengal.

23. South Sudan: newest country, Juba will be capital

24. China account for 97% of rare earth material production of the world

a. Produces 99 percent of the world's rare earth dysprosium which is used in smart phones

b. China plans to cut its quota for rare earth exports by 35%. It will impact the market since product are dependent on rare earth material which is imported from china.

25. India is the world's third largest coal consuming nation after China and the USA.

50% of electricity is produced from coal in india

Test 1

1. National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences (NIMHANS), Bangalore was declared institute of national importance.

2. National Green Tribunal: India is only the third country, after Australia and New Zealand, to have a dedicated court for environmental cases.

3. MP has highest number of National Parks in the country

4. New five sites for setting up Light Water Reactors for Nuclear Power Project

Jaitapur in Maharashtra, by Areva company of France,

Kudankulam in Tamil Nadu, by Russian

Haripur in West Bengal, by Russian

Chhayamithi Virdi in Gujarat by US

Kovvada in Andhra Pradesh by US

5. India's Kishanganga Hydroelectric Projectis on Jhelum River: objected by pakistan under Indus Water Treaty

6. India has signed Civil Nuclear Deal with :

1. U.s.a
2. Russia
3. france
4. Namibia
5. mongolia
6. argentina
7. kazakhstan
8. UK
9. S.Korea

7. West Bengal: introduced street vendor and hawker policy, legalizing street vending and entitling vendors to various social security and poverty alleviation schemes.

8. East Asia Summit in Hanoi, Vietnam

9. Nuclear Power Plan in Bushehr, Iran

10. Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS) is an intergovernmental organization of low-lying coastal and small Island countries. Established in 1990

11. UN National Security Council:

Permanent members:

1. China
2. US
3. UK
4. Russia
5. France

NonPermanent member for 2011 to 2012

1. Colombia
2. Germany
3. India
4. Portugal
5. South Africa

12 ITBP raised first all india women battelion

13. National Centre for Molecular Materials (NCMM), will be established at Thiruvananthapuram

14. Direct to Home (DTH) television service (Tata sky etc) operates in ku band

15. Preah Vihear Temple is a Hindu temple built during the reign of Khmer Empire, in the Preah Vihear province, Cambodia

Dispute between Thailand and Cambodia over ownership

16. Jalan Committee Report on Stock Market Reform

17. India hav tied up with Norway for Polar research. Himadri is Indian Station in Arctic