1.Poverty and Un-British Rule in India by Dadabhai Naoroji, was the original classic work on poverty in India. In which year this work was published?
(A)1897
(B)1901
(C)1905
(D)1908
(E)1910
2.Which of the following Ministry of Government of India has launched a scheme named as
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(A)Ministry of New & Renewable Energy
(B)Ministry of Panchayati Raj
(C)Ministry of Rural Development
(D)Ministry of Road Transport
(E)Ministry of Commerce
3.Recently an e-platform NTREES (Trade Receivables Engine for E-discounting) promoted by SIDBI (Small Industries Development Bank of India) & NSE (national Stock Exchange) was launched. The following is the beneficiary segment of this platform?
(A)Large Corporate
(B)Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises
(C)Unorganized Sector
(D)A & B
(E)All of them
4.Which among the following is encompassed in the Medal With Honor motto of Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, Govt. of India?
(A)Prevention of Age frauds in Sports
(B)Increase transparency and accountability of National Sports Federations
(C)Formulating a Scheme of Sports & Games for the Disabled
(D)Strengthing of Anti-Doping Mechanisms
(E)Pocket allowance for athletes participating in the international tournaments
5.Which of the following command hospitals begged the Raksha Mantri’s Trophy for the Best Command Hospital for the year 2009 recently?
(A)Command Hospital, Eastern Command, Kolkata
(B)Command Hospital (Air Force) Bangalore
(C)Command Hospital Udhampur, Northern Command (Army)
(D)Command Hospital Chandimandir Cantonment, Western Command (Army)`
(E)None of them
6.Recently Govt. of India has approved how many cities in India to be developed as Solar Cities?
(A)22
(B)26
(C)34
(D)39
(E)44
7.For which of the following energies production in India , there is an incentive scheme called Generation Based Incentives has been launched?
(A)Coal Based
(B)Gas based
(C)Hydropower
(D)Renewable energy
(E)all of them
8.In context with the Fertilizer requirement in the country, for which of the following resource we are 100 % import dependent?
(A)Urea
(B)Phosphate
(C)Potash
(D)All of above
(E)None of above
9.On which date of December we observe Minorities Rights Day ?
(A)10
(B)18
(C)19
(D)25
(E)17
10.Who among the following is heading the expert Committee for up gradation of National Film Awards (NFA) which will submit its recommendations by 15th March 2010 to be able to make qualitative changes for NFA 2009?
(A)Shabana Azmi
(B)Shyam Benegal
(C)Sai Paranjape
(D)Sharmila Tagore
(E)None of them
11.To keep pace with the developed countries, India needs to increase its expenditure on Science & Technology as recently it was published in newspapers that India currently incurs half of the level of the expenditure by the Developed countries. At present what fraction of our GDP is spent on Science & Technology?
(A)1%
(B)3%
(C)4%
(D)6%
(E)2%
12.To facilitate synergy between research and higher education in science, at which of the following places National Institute of Science Education and Research (NISER) was started in 2007?
(A)Kolkata
(B)Bhubneshwar
(C)Bhopal
(D)Bangalore
(E)Hyderabad
13.What is MCA21?
(A)A post graduate course in Computer applications for 21st century students
(B)An e-Governance project of Ministry of corporate affairs Government of India
(C)A satellite recently launched by North Korea
(D)A code name given to an exercise of Indian Army
(E)None of them
14.At which of the following places Indian Institute of Corporate Affairs is being set up?
(A)New Delhi
(B)Faridabad
(C)Gurgaon
(D)Chandigarh
(E)Mumbai
15.Recently National Policy on Bio-fuels and its implementation has been approved by the Union Cabinet which encompasses setting up of National Biofuel Coordination Committee and a Biofuel Steering
Committee. Who among the following will be heading the National Biofuel Coordination Committee ?
(A)Minister of Petroleum, Govt. of India
(B)Prime Minister of India
(C)Cabinet Secretary
(D)Minister of New & Renewable Energy
(E)President of India
16.In which year Govt. of India made mandatory Mid Career Training Programme (MCTP) for IAS officers, in three different phases of 8 weeks duration?
(A)2004
(B)2005
(C)2006
(D)2007
(E)2008
17.In context with the Indian Agriculture, what is KMS?
(A)Kharif Monsoon Season
(B)Kharif Marketing Season
(C)Kharif Marketing System
(D)Kharif Merchandising Season
(E)Kharif Merchandising System
18.Where was held the 60th International Executive Council Meeting of the International Commission on Irrigation and Drainage (ICID) in December 2009?
(A)Beijing
(B)New Delhi
(C)Moscow
(D)Colombo
(E)kuala lumpur
19.In which of the following states in India , the first megawatt scale capacity grid-interactive Solar Photovoltaic Power Plant of the country has been setup ?
(A)Gujarat
(B)Maharastra
(C)Karnataka
(D)Tamilnadu
(E)West Bengal
20.At which of the following places 17th National Children’s Science Congress started recently ?
(A)Shillong
(B)Ahmedabad
(C)Bangalore
(D)New Delhi
(E)Kolkata
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