Monday, February 12, 2007

Answers to the questions of Feb 05 2007

Why is Ganderbal in the news?
A: Fake encounter case in Jammu and Kashmir leaving the army and the local police the prime accused.

What is ECGC?
A: Export Credit Gaurantee Corporation of India Limited

Who is the head of RAW?
A: Ashok Chaturvedi (the former chief is PKH Thaparan)

Who is the field medal winner for mathematics for the last year?
A:

What is the percentage of Shia muslims in the total population of muslims?
A: 10 to 15 % of the total world muslim population is Shias. 20% of muslims in India are shias.

Are "Jains" a minority community?
A: Jains are a minotity community in India.

Friday, February 9, 2007

Answers to the questions of Feb 02 2007

Which is the largest oil company in Russia?
A: Lukoil is the private largest oil company, and rosneft is the state owned largest oil company

How many heavy water plant are there in India?
A:

What is SLR in economic terms?
A: Statuory Liquidity Ratio - it is the amount that a bank has to maintain in the form of gold, cash or securities with the RBI and the RBI decides the value of the SLR

What is money laundering?
A: it is the main operation of the underground money transactions for tax evasion and other purposes.

What is third party insurance?
A: insurance provided by a third party like the auto insurance etc.

What is Balkanisation?
A: the process of divison of a region into hostile parts

Which is the largest province in Pakistan?
A: Balochisthan

Which is the largets mountain range in the world?
A:

What is a Graben and Horst?
A: geological terms referring to regions that lie between the faults

Who was the 2nd Sarsanghachalak of RSS?
A: MS Gowalkar - Shri Guruji

Who is Asma Jahangir?
A: Human rights activist and a lawyer in pakistan and the founder of a law practise there

Who was the first foreigner to lead an Indian unit for the republic day parade?
A: Ismail Tunk from Malaysia. he lead the 62 cavalry of Jaipur

Who is Ajeet Bajaj?
A: the Indian to reach both the north pole and the south pole this year

Who is the head of BHAVINI?
A: BHAVINI - Also called NPCIL - Nuclear Power Corporation of Indis Ltd. Shri SK Jain Chief
Managing Director.

Who heads the Economic Advisory committee of the Indian Govt?
A: C. Rangarajan

What is sea floor spreading?
A: the theory of continental drift by the tectonic theory

What are the fundamental duties?
A: the Part IV A of the constitution of India forming the article 51A which prescribes some 10 fundamental duties to all the citizens of India.

Thursday, February 8, 2007

Answers to the questions of Jan 31 2007

Who is S K Poddar?
A: Indian Industrialist, Former FICCI president and Gillette Chairman.

Write about Winter games?
A: Olympic games held every four years on Ice or Snow... Last held in Italy, 2006, and the next one in 2010 in British Columbia

Which Padma award winner has created a controversy saying that giving Padma awards is unconstitutional?
A: - Sukumar Azhikode

Who is PC Haldar?
A: New Director, Intelligence Bureau after ESL Narasimham

Who is the new head FICCI?
A: Habil Khorakiwala

What is Muharram?
A: the first month in the Islamic Calendar and a month of sadness and mourning

Which is the land of lakes?
A: Nainital

Who was VD Savarkar?
A: Hinduvata propagandist and the prime alleged in the killing of Mahatma Gandhi

What is Magna Carta?
A: Limiting King's power and gauranteeing basic Fundamental and constitutional rights

What is Truth Serum test?
A: Some process of narco - analytical test used for investigations

What is brain mapping?
A: Neuroscience technique of mapping the brain into neuromappings

Who is the head of coast guard?
A: - farmooze contractor

Who is the head of backward class commission?
A: - k.singh

When was IIT Kharagpur sestablished?
A: 1951. It was the first IIT to be established

Where is the Indian Institute of Horticulture located?
A: Benguluru

Who is ECG Sudarshan?
A: Indo Americal Physist from Kerala.

Whos is the present head of Muslim personal law board?
A: Hazrat Maulana Syed Mohammad Rabe Hasani Nadwi

Whos is the head of minorities commission?
A: - Hamid Ansari

Which committee enquired the oil controversy related to Natwar Singh?
A: Volcker Committee

Which committee enquired the MPLADS scam and the cash for question scam?
A: Parliamentary committee headed by V. Kishore Chandra S. Dev

Who is the CM of Sikkim?
A: pawan chamling

Which is India’s 17th state?
A: Haryana

What is the capital of Kazhakstan?
A: Astana

What is GUAM?
A: US Territory in the southern most tip of the Marina islands on the Western Pacific Ocean

What is the capital of Armenia?
A: Yerevan

Wednesday, February 7, 2007

Answers to the questions of Jan 30 2007

What is ETA in Spain?
A: Euskadi Ta Askatasuna or ETA

Who is the Israeli president who is facing charges on rape?
A: Moshe Katzav

What is Indo Russian trade volume?
A: around 3 Billion Dollors

What is Sinopec?
A: The China Petroleum and Chemical Corporation

Who is Jagdish Khattar?
A: MD, Maruti Udyog Limited. and former IAS officer

What is IRDA in insurance terms?
A: Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority

Write the full form of TRAI?
A: Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of India

Who has the major stake in VSNL?
A: Tatas

What is MIDHANI?
A: Mishra Dhatu Nigam limited, DOD agency, Hyderabad

How many sites in India are there in the world heritage list?
A: 26

Who is the head of SBI?
A: Om Prakash Bhatt - Chairman. SBI is under RBI as of now and may go into the hands of the government.

Which Indian bank is having the largest number of foreign branches?
A: SBI - the largest bank in the world in terms of manpower and branches

What is the institute started in Chennai testing on newsprint and inks?
A: Ifra India and the Research Institute of Newspaper Development Institute, Chennai

Who are the largest producers of gas?
A: Saudi Arabia, Canada and Iran

Which country is supporting the Koodankulam reactors?
A: Russia

Who is the guest for this years Republic day celebrations?
A: Vladimir Putin, the President of Russia

What is FBTR?
A: Fast Breed Test Reactor under IGCAR and BARC

What is bio dynamic farming?
A:Biodynamics is a method of agriculture which seeks to actively work with the health-giving forces of nature. It is the oldest non-chemical agricultural movement in the world

What are the different types of diabetes?
A: Insulin - Dependent Diabetes Mallitus, Non-Insulin-Dependent Diabetis Mallitus and Gestational Diabetis

Which company produces the Flexcube banking software?
A: I-Flex

What is OVL’s stake in Sakhalin 1?
A: 20%

Who was the Armenian journalist shot dead recently for condemning the Armenian genocide by Turkey?
A: Dink

Where is Karwar naval base?
A: Karnataka - a Blue water project of the Navy exclusively, code named Seabird - INS Kadamba - Binaga Point to the Anjadip Island is the exact place.

What is a bogoslof?
A: Bogoslof Island is the summit of a largely submarine stratovolcano located in the Bering Sea

When was the Secretary of State post established in India?
A: Pitt's India Act 1784

Who is the head of Tata steels?
A: Ratan Tata, MD of Tata Steel is Muthuraman

What is POSCO famous for?
A: Pohang Iron and Steel Company, third largest steel company in the world, South Korea

Who is the head of HAMAS?
A: Khaled Mashaal and Ismail Haniya

Who is the PM of PoK?
A: Attitque Khan

Where was Vijay Nambiar selected?
A: Chief of Staff of the New Secretary General, UN

Answers to the questions of Feb 06 2007

What is IPCC?and what is its recent conclusions on the world cliamte
A: Intergovernmental panel for climate change - it said the globe is heating at an alarming rate of 3 degrees per millennium

What is isostasy?
A: it is something similar to the archimedis principle relating to the tectonic movement inside the earth between the lithosphere and the asthenosphere owing due to the pressure of the heavy lithosphere on the other!

Where is proposed space command of India coming?
A: At Akkulam near Thiuruvananthapuram in Kerala and mostly it will be under the control of IAF

Where is INS Zamorin located?
A:Ezhimala in Kerala a depo base for coordinating administrative matters under Western Naval Command (HQ: Mumbai)

Which country has the highest cashewnut production?
A:India

Between whom was the third battle of Panipat fought?
A:Between the Marathas and the Afghan Emperor Ahmed Shah Abdali in 1761

Where is Isfahan located?
A: Old Persia - it is near to Tehran and has some World Heritage sites in this beatuful Islamic city

Where is the river Irawady located?
A:Myanmar near the city Mandalay which is the old capital city of Burma

Who is the military general of Myanmar?
A: Sr Gen Shan Thwe

Against whom did Che and Castro wage the war?
A: Against the incumbent government of Batista

Who are the Sandinistas?
A: The FSLN - the members of this party in Nicargua are called as Sandinistas and are in power again in 2006 under Daniel Ortega

Which is the second highest gallantry award in India?
A: Maha Vir Chakra