multiple choice questions on current affairs

262 Pages·2012·0.56 MB·English

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS
ON
CURRENT AFFAIRS
2011-12

HARSH GAGRANI
DIRECTOR
LEGALEDGE TUTORIALS, BHOPAL

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Anything that comes under the Sun,
comes under Current Affairs-
Anonymous

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Contents

Preface……………………………………………………………………….………9
How to use this book…………………………………………………………11
Chapter I…………………………………………………………………………13
Appointment, Removal, Cabinet Ministers, Chairpersons,
Government and Private Heads, Board Directors etc.
Chapter II…………………………………..……………………………………42
Name of recently released books, authors, prominent book
prizes etc.
Chapter III………………………………………………………………………52
Important days and dates of historic or current importance,
Symbolic days, National Events etc.
Chapter IV………………………………………………………………………61
Recently appointed company Chiefs, Resignations and
Removals, Takeovers and Mergers, Economic affairs etc.
Chapter V………………………………………………………………………..72
Conferences, Meetings, Summits, Fairs, Festivals, Reports,
Prominent Lists, Pacts, Agreements etc.
Chapter VI………………………………………………………………………91

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Newly appointed and transferred judges, Heads of Prominent
Committees and Commissions, Noted Legislations, Key
features of Pending Bills etc
Chapter VII…………………………………………….……………………..106
Portfolio and connected information of prominent persons
who passed away recently.
Chapter VIII………………………………………………………………….120
World records, National records, First, Biggest, Highest,
Largest, Shortest, Lengthiest etc.
Chapter IX…...………………………………………….…………………….135
Indians holding prominent global positions, Records, India’s
ranking in major lists and indexes etc.
Chapter X……..………………………………………….……………………155
National and International awards, Noted Prizes, Prestigious
Titles etc.
Chapter XI………………………………………………...…………………..179
Awards instituted by Indian States, Important State News,
Position of States in important lists and surveys etc.
Chapter XII…………………………………………………………………...192

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Sports news, Names of Coaches, Venues of major
competitions, Newly appointed administrative post holders,
Names of winners of sports competitions etc.
Chapter XIII………………………………………………………….……….217
Miscellaneous
Answer Key…………………………………………………….…………….242

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PREFACE

With Current Affairs now being a substantial part of almost all
major entrance examinations, it becomes highly imperative for
any student giving such exams to have basic knowledge of all the
important current events. However, with abundance of current
information available online as well as in various books and
magazines, it is a tiresome task to separate the wheat from the
chaff and extract the useful and valuable information from such
books. Furthermore, with overabundance of theory material
available widely, what was required was a practice book on
current affairs to put your knowledge to test.

This book seeks to fill that void. MCQs on Current Affairs features
over 1100 highly relevant questions covering all the important
news of the past one year (specifically March, 2011 – March,
2012) neatly compiled and segregated into thirteen chapters.
Each of these questions signifies the importance of the
underlying topic, and seeks to test the student on the most
important part of the subject.
ACKNOLEDGEMENTS
As with any body of work, this book could not have been
completed without unlimited references to various newspapers,
general knowledge books, reference books, general magazines,
as well as online material available on blogs and other news
websites. I remain indebted to all such sources.

Further, I would also like to acknowledge the part played by my

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students in the continuous vetting of the questions over the past
9 months, and bringing out the errors to ensure that this
compilation remain as accurate as possible.

Additionally, I would also like to wholeheartedly thank Aashwin
Rastogi, Akshansh Vishwakarma, Vinay Pratap Singh and Kriti
Pradhan for their last day vetting which helped in fine tuning the
questions and weeding out the repeated and unimportant
questions from the final draft of the book.
Note
While every possible effort has been made to make sure that the
book remains error free, some error might have inadvertently
and unintentionally crept in. I would be grateful to anyone
pointing out such an error, so that the same can be removed
from the next edition of this book. In case you find any error,
grammatical or otherwise, please mail the same with chapter
number, page number, and question number at
[email protected].

Harsh Gagrani

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