Current Affairs 2012
March 2012
1. Who is crowned Miss India World 2012?
Vanya Mishra
Chandigarh girl Vanya
Mishra is crowned the Pantaloons Femina Miss India World 2012 in a glittering
grand finale of the 49th edition of the beauty pageant. The Miss India Earth
title went to 24-year-old Prachi Mishra of Pune, while Chennai girl Rochelle Maria
Rao, 23, is crowned as the Miss India International.
2. Name the cricket
personality called 'The Wall' who retired from International cricket recently.
Rahul Dravid
The 39-year-old Batting great Rahul Dravid,
the second most prolific batsman in the game’s history and India’s middle order
bulwark for years, on Friday bid adieu to Test cricket, bringing down the
curtain on a glorious 16-year career.
3. Which
country has India agreed 'in-principle' to the participation in hydro
power-projects in the North-East?
Bangladesh
4. Name the Tech-savvy
state which set a record by winning the National Tourism Award for its
website for 5th time
in last 10 years.
Kerala
5.
Which Malayalam language daily has tied up with Yahoo India to deliver premium
digital content in Malayalam?
Malayala
Manorama
6. Name
the Delhi-based group which has been nominated in the best international
brand/group award at the British Reggae Industry Awards.
Reggar Rajahs
7. Which
movie of Indian filmmaker Mani Ratnam is now part of the permanent collection
at the Austrian Film Museum?
Raavanan
8. Who has been awarded
the Pritzker Architecture Prize considered as Nobel prize in
Architecture?
Wang
Shu
9.
Which railway station became the first railway network to offer BluFi, a
combination of Bluetooth and WiFi to provide information to passengers?
Bangalore
City Railway Station
10. Which
state bagged the second best national award in the Comprehensive Development Of
Tourism category?
Rajasthan
11. Name the Kerala-based
UAE business magnate who was awarded with Interfaith Harmony
Award at Kuala
Lumpur.
M.A.Yusuf
Ali
12. Name the men's mixed
doubles winner of the ATP Dubai Open 2012.
Mahesh Bhupathi and
Rohan Bopanna
13. When was the World's
oldest post office opened as it celebrates its 300th anniversary?
1712 in Sanquhar,
London
14. Name
the Indian American filmmaker who won the '2012 Rising Star Award' for his
feature film '9 Eleven' at the Canada International Film Festival.
Manan Singh Katohora
15. Who won the women's
Kabaddi World Cup championship?
India
16. Who is expected to
visit India with export of gas and investment on agenda?
Qatar's Emir Sheikh
Hamad bin Khalifa al Thani
17. Who has been elected
as Russian President?
Vladimir
Putin
18. Name the West
Indian cricketer who died in a car accident recently.
Runako Morton aged
33
19. Name India's first 3D
dance film.
ABCD (Any Body Can
Dance)
20. Which 4 financial
institutions have agreed to form country's first $2 billion (about Rs.10,000
crore) Infrastructure
Development Fund to finance infrastructure projects in India?
Bank
of Baroda, ICICI Bank, LIC and Citi Financial
21. Who has been appointed
as MD of Hyundai Motor India Ltd.?
Bo Shin Seo
22. Which Chinese
Electric company has started office in India?
Shangai Electric
23. Which
university conferred honoris causa(as honorary academic degree) during its 12th
convocation to the finance minister Pranab Mukherjee?
Assam University
24.
Which India's leading commodity exchange would be listed on the BSE making it
India's first exchange to be listed?
Multi
Commodity Exchange
25. Which western India
university will start the Institute of International Studies?
M S University
26. HSBC will sell its
general insurance for US $914 million to which 2 companies?
AXA Group and QBE
Insurance Group
27. Against which team
India will play one-off Twenty20 International cricket on March 30th 2012
to commemorate the
150 years of settlement of Indians in that country?
South
Africa
28. Who
retained his title of being the world's richest Indian in Forbes magazine's
annual list of the world's richest people?
Mukesh Ambani
29. Name the music
director - king of soft melodies who passed away recently.
Ravi
Shankar Sharma
30. Who has been
appointed as head coach of the Pakistan cricket team?
Dav Whatmore
31. Name the bank that
has entered into a partnership with Remit2home to offer Sri Lankans to
transfer money back
home.
Nations
Trust Bank
32. Where is Kerala a
film city is to be built?
Varikkassery Mana at
Ottapalam
33. Who will be appointed
as CEO of L&T?
K Venkataraman
34. Name the chocolate
boy of Hindi cinema during 1960's who passed away recently.
Joy Mukherjee
35. Who is appointed as
ISI chief of Pakistan Government?
Lt. Gen. Zaheerul
Islam
36. Which
Indian NGO has been chosen for America's first Innovation Award for the
Empowerment of Women and Girls, for training and organising wastepickers and
eliminating
child
labour from recycling?
Chintan
37. What is the reduced
CRR of scheduled banks as revised by RBI at 75 basis points?
4.75%
38. At
what value did Euro zone finance ministers release 2nd bailout package for
debt-hit Greece? $46.9 billion
39. Where was the
International Financial Hub inaugurated in India recently?
New Town, Kolkata
40. What is the extended
number of days for advance reservation of Indian railway tickets?
120
41. Which state has
recorded an increase in foodgrains production that touched 50.22 lakh tonnes
during Kharif 2011
season?
Haryana
42.
Name the ambulance launched for farmers in Andhra Pradesh by Srihari Kotela, a
Charterted Accountant.
Rythu
Ratham (Tollfree - 18002666208)
43.
Which non-banking finance arm of Tata Sons have decided to ramp up its travel
business and focus on the retail segment?
Tata
Capital
44. Which financial
service will Nokia close in India?
Nokia Money
45. Which rank does India
hold as per U5MR rates by UNICEF?
46th rank
46. Who will take over
the rein of Deutsche Bank CEO at the end of May 2012?
Anshu Jain
47. Who was sworn in
as Uttarkhand's Chief Minister?
Vijay Bahuguna
48. Name the Indian
railway minister who will present Railway Budget 2012-13.
Dinesh Trivedi
49. Who has been
appointed as Director General of Police for Punjab?
Sumedh
Singh Saini
50. Who and at what age
became 5th time Chief Minister of Punjab?
Parkash Singh Badal
51. Where
was FICCI FRAMES 2012 - Asia's largest global convention on film media and
entertainment inaugurated?
Kolhapur, Maharashtra
52. Who is sworn as
youngest Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh?
Akhilesh
Yadav at the age of 38 years.
53. What is the proposed capital support to
be infused to PSU's and financial institutions during the next fiscal year as
per Budget 2012-13?
Rs.15,888
crore
54. Who has been
appointed as Additional Advocate General of Tamil Nadu?
P.H.Arvindh Pandian
55. From which tax will
RBI be spared?
Wealth Tax
56. Who won the
Australian Grand Prix 2012?
Jenson Button
57. Who won the Swiss
Open 2012 title against China's Shixian Wang?
Saina Nehwal
58. Who will replace
Dinesh Trivedi as Railway Minister?
Mukul
Roy
59. The indoor hall built
at Orissa Cricket Association is named of which cricket personality?
Sachin Tendulkar
Indoor Hall
60. Who has been elected
as German President?
Joachim
Gauck
61. Which bank recently
celebrated its 75th anniversary?
Indian Overseas Bank
62. As Jet Airways
discontinues JetLite, which company it is set to merge?
JetKonnect
63. Name the hockey
player who was declared the winner of 'Survivor India'.
Raj Rani
64. Expand - NPCI
National
Payment Corporation of India
65. Which Indian city has been selected as
city of focus at the Toronto International Film Festival 2012?
Mumbai
66. Who has been
named for Dada Saheb Phalke award?
Soumitra Chatterjee
67. Which European nation has tied up with
the Indian Railways to renovate 14 railway stations in India?
Belgium
68. Name the Goa Tourism
minister who died of heart attack recently?
Matanhy Saldanha
69. Which team won the
cricket Asia Cup 2012?
Pakistan
70. Expand - NBFC
Non-Banking
Finance Companies
71. Which British
newspaper won the annual Press Awards - the Oscars of British Journalism?
Daily Mail (Newspaper
and Website of the year)
72. What amount of loan
for education has been offered to India by World Bank?
$500
million
73.
64 years after Independence which Indian state saw a
locomotive train for the first time?
Manipur (12km from
Jiribam to Dholakhal)
74. Longding became the
17th district of which Indian state?
Arunachal
Pradesh
75.
Israeli Government is planning to setup 3 agricultural excellence centres in
which Indian state?
Gujarat
76. Who has been
nominated for World bank President post by US President?
Korean-American
Physician-Anthropologist Jim Yong Kim
77. Who will be appointed as Army chief to
succeed Gen.V.K.Singh?
Lt.
Gen. Bikram Singh
78.
Who won 2nd silver medal in the men's 50m rifle three position at the Amir of
Kuwait International Shooting Grand Prix?
Gagan
Narang
79.
Name the new tax norms which will come into effect from
April 1st 2012.
GAAR - General
Anti-Avoidance Rules
80.
Which 2 banking facilities would not require signature
attestation instead only thumb
impression as per
RBI?
Fixed
deposits and Opening a bank locker
81.
Which state will get its first
commercial dairy for processing of camel milk into various products in Kutch
district once the provision is made in its 2012-13 budget?
Gujarat
82.
Who is appointed as chairman of Haldia Petrochemicals?
Kolkata's
industry minister Partha Chatterjee
83. Who is named as Peace ambassador of world
religious Parliament?
Pt.Arjun
Prasad Bastola
84.
Who is appointed as Wipro's banking head?
Rajan Kohli
85. Who
was named as the winner of the Templeton Prize 2012 for his contribution to
affirming life's spiritual dimension?
Dalai Lama
86.
Name the bill passed against conduct of any
constitutional authority in India.
Judicial
Accountability Bill
87.
Where in India Guru Gobind Singh refinery will be
inaugurated in April 2012?
Bathinda, Southwest
Punjab
88.
Where in Chennai is the 2nd airport is to be setup?
Sriperumbudur
89.
Where in Arunachal Pradesh Reserve Bank of India is
planning to open its office?
Itanagar
90.
Which Indian state passed Rs.201.05 crore deficit budget
for the financial year 2012-13?
Arunachal Pradesh
91.
Which IPL cricket team signed up with UNICEF in a bid to
support the adolescent girls in
India?
Delhi
Daredevils
92. Who has replaced
Shankar Bidari as DGP and IG in Karnataka?
A.R.Infant
93.
Which Indian state would celebrate 77th foundation day on
1st April 2012?
Odisha or Orissa
94.
Name the 26/11 Mumbai terror survivor
who has been selected as a flag bearer at the London 2012 Olympics.
Harnish Patel
95. Name the PSU bank
whose 108 branches were inaugurated electronically by Union Minister of
State for Finance
Namo Narain Meena.
Syndicate
Bank
