Latest General Knowledge Jan. 2013

Latest General Knowledge Jan. 2013

Which state ranks third in India on school education
indicators?
- Punjab

Who is going to head HP screening panel for Assembly poll?
- Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit (Committee set up to short list
probable candidates from the state for forthcoming Assembly poll)

Name the Indian who won Magsaysay award for community
initiatives in Tamil Nadu?
- Kulandei Francis

Which megastar carried the Olympic flame on the torch relay
leg between the City of London and the borough of South wark
in London on 26th July,2012, a day before the opening
ceremony of sporting spectacle?
- Amitabh Bachchan

Where is the venue for the 2012 Olympics?
- London

Who is the new Chief Justice of the Punjab and Haryana High
Court?
- Arjan Kumar Sikri

Which place is going to have North India's biggest turf club?
- On the outskirts of Ludhiana

Which milk federation is planning to export lassi to US?
- The Punjab State Cooperative Milk Producers Federation Limited
known as Milkfed.

Who won the first medal for India in Olympics 2012?
- Gagan Narang ( won a bronze medal in 10m air rifle shooting.)

At which place the largest industrial solar plant of the country
became operational on 29th July,2012?
- Ludhiana

Where is a tunnel near the Indo-Pak border detected?
- In Samba

At what price the menu of the first dinner served to the first
class passengers of the ill fated liner Titanic on 10th April,1912
sold?
- $46,000



Which country recently ( on 17th July,2012) offered joint
production of sophisticated military equipment with India,
including cargo planes?
- Russia ( Recently Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin
and Foreign Minister SM Krishna co chaired a meeting of
Indo-Russian Inter Governmental Commission on trade,
economic,scientific, technical and cultural cooperation)

The 800 MW Parbati (stage 11) project is part of which project?
- Part of the 2,013 MW Parbati project, Asia's biggest hydro-power
project on the Parbati river in HP.

Name the first ever pill approved by US to prevent HIV?
- Truvada ( The once a day pill reduces the chance of contracting
HIV)

Who was called Bollywood's first superstar?
- Rajesh Khanna ( died on 18th July, 2012)
Who is going to receive highest US award?
- Aung San Suu Kyi

Name the 3rd indigenous stealth frigate inducted by India on
21st July,2012?
- INS Sahyadri ( The first two ships in the class are INS Shivalik and
INS Satpura) INS Sahyadri has 6,200 tonne displacement and is
143m long. It can stay in sea for more than 3 weeks or cover
10,800Km without refuelling.

Who will be the India's 13th President?
- Pranab Mukherjee. He will take oath in Central Hall of Parliament
on 25th July,2012 ( He is first person from West Bengal to occupy
the top constitutional post)

Where is ABG Shipyard the India's largest private sector
shipyard?
- At Magdalla port near Surat.


Scientists of which foreign countries have offered help to the
Union Ministry of Health and the Bhabha Atomic Research
Centre in finding the sources of uranium contamination and
studying its impact on human and animal health in Punjab?
- UK, Germany and South Africa

Name the woman boxer of India who have won five time world
championship in succession?
- Mary Kom

Who was conferred the Honorary General of the Nepal Army by
Nepalese President Ram Baran Yadav on July 11,2012?
- Gen Bikram Singh

Where is the world's largest solar power project going to be set
up?
- Maharashtra

Name the first country in the Asia Pacific to house a UNESCO
category 1 institute to be located in Delhi and named as the
Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Education for peace and
Sustainable Development?
- India



Name the Indian genetic researcher from Hyderabad in
cooperation with American scientists who developed a
technique to treat cancer cells without affecting healthy cells
using nano-medicine?
- Dr Rao Panieni (Currently working as chief scientist and senior
principal investigator at Care-Stream Health Inc,USA)

What is the India's position now in the latest ICC Test
Championship ranking table after the annual update took place
on July 14, 2012?
- Fifth Position


Name the Indian American astronaut who begins her 2nd space
odyssey on July 15,2012?
- Sunita Williams ( She took off for her second space odyssey on a
Russian Soyuz rocket, which blasted off successfully from a
cosmodrome in Kazakhstan)

Who will be the flag bearer of the Indian contingent for the
London Olympic Games?
- Sushil Kumar Solanki, winner of a bronze medal in the 66Kg free
style wrestling category in the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.

Who will take the final decision to resume bilateral cricketing
ties with Pakistan ( Almost five years after Mumbai attacks, the
Board of Cricket Control (BCCI) in India agreed to three ODIs
and two T20 matches)?
- By Ministry of Home Affairs, led by P Chidambaram