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March 1 week: 1. Who is the new Secretary -General of SAARC? (a) Fathimath Dhiyana Saeed (b) Arsad Jafari (c) Vinayak Balaswami (d) Nitesh Kumar (e) None of these 2. Ireland's Kevin O'Brien has broken whose record of fastest century in cricket World Cup? (a) A dam Gilchrist (b) Sachin Tendulkar (c) Mathew Hayden (d) Kapil Dev (e) None of these 3. What is the name of Egypt's Prime Minister, who recently resigned after the unrest? (a) Ahmed Shafiq (b) Ashaq Rubeka (c) Jafir Kidari (d) Yunus Ahmed (e) None of these 4. The Central Information Commission (CIC) has called or disclosing the norms in all future public private partnership projects undertaken by the central and state governments. The head of the CIC is? (a) Satyendra Nath Mishra (b) Rahul Shukla (c) Rohit Bist (d) P.C. Jain (e) none of these 5. The three-week long India festival 'Maximum India' kicked off in (a) Washington (b) Paris (c) Amsterdam (d) Frankfurt (e) None of these 6. India today successfully test-fired sophisticated AAD interceptor missile from the Wheeler Island off Odisha coast. AAD stands for (a) Advanced Air Defence (b) Air to Air Defence (c) Air to Air Destroyer (d) Air and Aernautics Defence (e) none of these 7. International Children Broadcasting Day is celebrated on.. (a) March 1 (b) March 6 (c) March 7 (d) March 2 (e) Feb 28 8. The U.S. Air Force has launched an experimental robotic space plane on a secret mission. The name of this pilotless Orbital Test Vehicle is... (a) X-37 B (b) A rea-51 (c) Secret- 11 (d) US-11 C (e) None of these 9. Which of the following companies is running in losses and costs are seen rising for (a) Reliance Communication (b) Tata Mobile (c) Airtel (d) Indicom (e) Hutch 10. Bollywood diva Madhuri Dixit will be the global brand ambassador of Bush Foods' basmati rice brand__ (a) Neesa (b) Rajmahal (c) Hansraj (d) Desi Tadha (e) none of these 11. The railway s have introduced modern luggage trolley s, operated by Rail Yatri Sevaks, for the convenience of senior citizens and ladies at (a) Howrah station (b) New Delhi station (c) Mumbai Junction (d) All stations of Eastern Railway (e) None of these

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12. The Delhi High Court recently ordered the complete phase out of privately -owned Blueline buses, blamed for accidents in the capital, by (a) June 2012 (b) December 2011 (c) July 2012 (d) December 2012 (e) none of these 13. Harish C. Mariwala, chairman and managing director of consumer goods firm Marico Ltd, has taken over as president of.... (a) ONGC (b) FICCI (c) CII (d) NTPC (e) none of these Answers: 1 .a, 2.c, 3.a, 4.a, 5.a, 6.a 7 . b, 8.a, 9.a, 10.a, 11 .a, 1 2.a 1 3.b March 2 week: 1 . Who is Aruna Ramachandra Shanbaug? (a) A nurse seeking mercy killing (b) A lady who is raging crusade against euthanasia (c) The first lady speaker of SAARC (d) The only female commentator in the ongoing WC 2011 (e) None of these 2. Women's Day is observed on (a) March 8 (b) Feb 8 (c) March 10 (d) April 1 (e) None of these 3. Which of the following five states will go for assembly election in mid 2011 (a) West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Pondicherry and Assam (b) UP, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Pondicherry and Assam (b) West Bengal, J&K, Kerala, Pondicherry and Assam (c) West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Pondicherry and Tripurs (d) West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Gujarat and Assam (e) None of these 4. When was world international women's day celebrated for the first time? (a) 1901 (b) 1911 (c) 197 1 (d) 2000 (e) None of these 5. The Centre has set up a Mortgage Risk Guarantee Fund to cover the risk of---given to the poor. (a) education loans (b) home loans (c) subsided loans (d) agriculture loans (e) none of these 6. The Centre has initiated a cancer detection programme in how many districts in the country. (a) 100 (b) 1000 (c) 750 (d) 600 (e) none of these 7. The breeding of white tigers is being done in (a) Panna tiger reserve (b) Corbett National park (c) Bandhavagarh (d) Kanha (d) none of these 8. World Cup Squash 08-12 March 2011, held in (a) Chennai (b) Hyderabad (c) Dhaka (d) Chicago (e) Houston

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9. Recently the Supreme Court allowed a single entrance test from next year for (a) Law (b) MBBS (c) Defence (d) CBI (e) none of these 10. India recently signed air service agreement to start a direct flight from New Delhi to Brasilia. Where is Brasilia? (a) Brazil (b) Peru (c) Libya (d) Chile (e) none of these 11. India recently successfully test fired nuclear capable ballistic missile___ (a) Agani (b) Nag (c) Sultan (d) Dhruv (e) Eklaya 12. Which of the following countries was recently hit by massive earth quake and Tsunami? (a) Indonesia (b) Japan (c) Australia (d) China (e) Sri Lanka 13. Who is Sasadhar Mahato, who was in news recently? (a) AIDAK supremo (b) New and controversial gov. of Assam (c) Top Maoists leader (d) 2G spectrum probing committee chief (d) none of these 14. Tsunami warning was not issued for which of these countries after massive earth quake measuring 7.9 on the Richter scale hits Japan? (a) Russia (b) Taiwan (c) Philippines (d) Hawaii (e) Sri Lanka Butterflys 15. What is UDRS? (a) Umpire Decision Referral System (b) Umpire Decision Review Syndrome (c) Updated Decision Review System (d) Umpire Directed Review System (d) none of these 16. Where does mass nesting of rare Olive Ridley turtles happen in India in the spring season (a) Kerela (b) Odisa (c) Gujarat (d) Karnataka (e) None of these 17. Which committee reviewing controversial Antrix -Dev as deal? (a) Goswami committee (b) Chaturvedi committee (c) Sri Krishna committee (d) Wahi committee (e) none of these the

Answers: 1 .a, 2.a, 3.a, 4.b, 5. b, 6.a, 7 .a, 8.a, 9.b, 10.a, 11 .a, 1 2.b, 1 3. c, 1 4. e, 1 5. c, 16.b, 1 7 . b March 3 week: 1. What was the profession of Hasan Ali Khan, who recently surrendered before the Enforcement Directorate in a money laundering case? (a) stud-farm owner (b) Dry fruits dealer (c) Merchant Banker (d) Citibank employee (e) none of these 2. World Sparrow Day was observed on (a) March 20 (b) March 19 (c) Feb 20 (d) January 21 (e) none of these

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3. ___to hike prices of passenger vehicles from 1st April? (a) Ashok Leyland (b) Tata Motors (c) Volv o (d) Toyota (e) none of these 4. NHK is the Public Broadcaster of (a) Libya (b) Egypt (c) Spain (d) Japan (e) none of these 5. Full Moon is the phenomenon which occurs after every (a) 20 years (b) 19 years (c) 25 years (d) 33 years (e) none of these 6. Navin Nischal, who died recently was associated with (a) cinema (b) sports (c) politics (d) real estate (e) none of these 7. Who won Swiss Open Grand Prix Gold title 2011 (a) Ji Hyun Sung (b) Ashwani Nagchappa (c) Saina Nehwal (d) Ji Dang (e) none of these 8. What is the name of NASA spacecraft which began orbiting Mercury, becoming the first to fly around the solar system's innermost planet? (a) Challenger (b) Mx -2011 (c) Messenger (d) CRT-9XT (e) none of these 9. Which state is embarking on a multipronged strategy with funds value 315 Butterflys
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crore rupees to develop and showcase the tourism potential of the state both at domestic and international level? (a) Assam (b) Goa (c) J&K (d) Sikkim (e) none of these 10. The Finance Ministry has approved higher interest of ----- per cent for depositors with the Employees' Provident Fund Organisation for the year 2010-11 . (a) 10.5 (b) 8.5 (c) 11 (d) 9.5 (e) none of these 11. When Pakistan defeated Australia in WC 2011 they ended Australia's how many games unbeaten streak in the Cricket World Cup? (a) 33 (b) 36 (c) 35 (d) 34 (e) none of these Answer: 1 .a, 2.a, 3. b, 4. d, 5. b, 5. a, 6.a, 7 . c, 8.c, 9. c 10.d, 11 . d March 23: 1. What is the name of operation against Libya by US-lead forces? (a) Odyssey Dawn (b) Thunder Storm (c) Anaconda (d) Black Thunder (e) Rhapsody Strike 2. Which is the first Arab country to join US-lead forces in attack against Libya? (a) Dubai (b) Kuwait (c) UAE (d) Saudia Arabia (e) None of these

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3. The government has imposed how much fine on various telecom operators for carrying out illegal activities in their services. (a) rupee 700 crore (b) rupee 800 crore (c) rupee 900 crore (d) rupee 650 crore (e) none of these 4. World Forestry Day was observed on (a) March 21 (b) March 22 (c) March 20 (d) March 1 9 (e) None of these 5. Gov t has decided to withdrew proposed service tax on (a) air-conditioned hospitals (b) International Air Fare (c) Five star hotel in NCR (d) SMEs directors salaries (e) none of these 6. Gov. has announced __hike in dearness allowance for central government employees from January this year. (a) 5 percent (b) 6 percent (c) 7 percent (d) 9.5 percent (e) none of these 7. Nirmal Gram Puraskar has been one of the pioneering initiatives of the Ministry of Rural Development to encourage (a) Panchayati Raj Institutions (b) Women Gram Pradhan (c) BDOs (d) Basis Shikha Adhakri (e) none of these 8. World Water Day is observed on (a) March 22 (b) March 21 (c) March 23 (d) March 24 (d) March 1 Butterflys

9. Elizabeth Taylor, who died recently was a famous (a) actress (b) scientist (c) Pro-democrat campaigner (d) Social Worker (e) None of these Answers: 1.a, 2.b, 3.a, 4.a 5.a, 6.b, 7.a,8.a,9.a March 24: 1. Show cause notices have been issued to how many companies for termination of their licences in connection to 2G spectrum allocation scam. (a) 13 (b) 15 (c) 20 (d) 11 (e) None of these 2. The Government has reconstituted Society of Film and Television Institute of India, FTII. Who is heading this Society? (a) Sanian Ansari (b) Saeed Mirza (c) Javed Akhtar (d) Anupam Kher (e) none of these 3. Members in both Houses of Parliament have made a strong demand for implementation of the recommendations of the___ wage boards for working journalists and non-journalists without further delay. (a) Justice Shiva (b) Justice Majithia (c) Justice Suleman (d) Vir Bhradra commitee (e) none of these 4. Recently, Planning Commission has approved record 1,950 crore rupees annual Plan for (a) Assam (b) West Bengal (c) Gujarat (d) Tripura e, none of these

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5. From which state Jats have been demanding reservation in central government jobs (a) Haryana (b) Delhi (c) UP (d) Rajasthan (e) none of these 6. What is PFRDA? Which was in news recently Answer: Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority 7. Name the companies to whom Comptroller and Auditor General of India has urged to fix specific targets for reduction of carbon emission? (a) SAIL and RINL (b) ONGC and SAIL (c) IOL and ONGC (d) SAIL and RIL (e) none of these Answer: 1 . a, 2. b, 3. b, 4. d, 5. c, 7 . a March 25: 1. Who is Warren Edward Buffett? (a) industrialist (b) Honorary UN ambassador (c) investor (d) philanthropist (e) a, c and d 2. What the name UN Secretary -General, who recently warned Libya of further action if Colonel Gaddafi does not halt violence against masses? (a) Ban Ki-moon (b) Alfred Jones (c) Ben Graham (d) Saly Jones (e) none of these 3. Which committee recently submitted its report of CWG 2011 scam recently ? (a) Sarkari Committee (b) Shangvi committee (c) shunglu committee (d) srikrishna committee Butterflys (e) none of these 4. 12th National Road Safety Council Meeting held in (a) Banglore (b) Chennai (c) New Delhi (d) Jaipur (e) Lucknow 5. Sports car R8 Spyder, has been launched by (a) Merc (b) Ferrari (c) Audi (d) Fiat (e) none of these 6. The World Bank has sanctioned a loan of USD 350 million to expedite the process of highway development in ____ (a) Karnataka (b) UP (c) Kerela (d) Jharkhand (e) none of these 7. Which Airlines has suspends first woman pilot in licence scam (a) Go air (b) SpiceJet (c) Air India (d) King Fisher (e) none of these 8. First Indian co to make 1 lakh CV s is... (a) Tata (b) Ashok Leyland (c) M&M (d) Eicher (e) none of these Answers: 1 . e, 2. a, 3.c, 4. c, 5.c, 6. a, 7 .b, 8.a March 26: 1. Earth Hour, was observed on? (a) March 25 (b) March 26 (c) March 27 (d) March 20 (e) none of these
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2. The Indian Coast Guard (ICG) commissioned its base in ___ to improve coastal security network in Maharashtra sea-coast? (a) Beed (b) Yavatmal (c) Ratnagiri (d) Akola (e) Mumbai Sub-urban 3. The Prevention of Bribery of Foreign Public Officials and Officials of Public International Organisations Bill, 2011, will make bribery as__ offence. (a) extraditable (b) RI (c) non-bailable (d) hawala (e) none of these 4. Aena, is the national airport operator of which country, where its employees went on 22 day s of strikes part-privatization of the said operator? (a) Spain (b) New Zealand (c) Peru (d) Chile (e) None of these 5. Who is Prime Minister's Economic Advisory Council (PMEAC) Chairman? (a) Vimal Jalan (b) C Rangarajan (c) Mukesh Diwan (d) Bejan Daruwala (e) none of these 6. Which state would launch a scheme where 27 lakh school going children will be offered free medical care? (a) Punjab (b) Goa (c) Gujarat (d) J&K (e) none of these 7. Recently government has announced that ban on export of pulses would continue till___ (a) March 2012 (b) December 2011 Butterflys (c) April 2013 (d) July 2014 (e) none of these 8. India to have satellite to monitor green cover by the year (a) 2013 (b) 2012 (c) 2020 (d) 2015 (e) none of these Answers: 1 . b, 2. c, 3.a, 4.a , 5.b, 6.e (Delhi). 7 .a, 8. a March 27: 1. In the latest Tiger Census data released on March 28, 2011, The tiger population in the country has risen to___ in 2010 from 1,411 in 2006. (a) 17 06 (b) 1806 (c) 2000 (d) 1900 (e) none of these 2. Which of this reserve was included for the first time in the recent tiger census data report? (a) Panna Tiger Reserve (b) Rajajee National Park (c) Sunderban region (d) Pench Sanctuary (e) none of these 3. Indian Coast Guard has decided to set up how many coastal surveillance centres in different parts of the country in 2011 to further strengthen the coastal security? (a) 120 (b) 46 (c) 80 (c) 24 (e) 11 4. Once implemented the coast of Yamuna Action Plan-III would be.. (a) 1656 crore (b) 3000 crore (c) 1700 crore (d) 1576 crore (e) 2000 crore

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5. CII's India-Africa 2011 conclave held at (a) Chandigarh (b) Bangalore (c) New Delhi (d) Hyderabad (e) none of these 6. India and Africa have been targeting how much worth trade by the year 2015 (a) $80 bn (b) $70 bn (c) $90 bn (d) $100 bn (e) none of these 7. As per a report by Amnesty International, nearly how many people were awarded death sentences across the world in 2010 (a) 18000 (b) 20000 (c) 15000 (d) 25000 (e) none of these Answers: 1 . a, 2. c, 3. a, 4. a, 5. c, 6. b, 7 . a March 29: 1. UN, NATO, Arab League and African Union recently met in to discuss situation in Libya? (a) New York (b) London (c) Berlin (d) Dubai (e) none of these 2. 48th Indian Maritime Week held at (a) New Delhi (b) Mumbai (c) Kochi (d) Kolkata (e) none of these 3. Recently Government enhanced subsidy allocation for modernisation of the textiles industry to crore rupees (a) 15404 (b) 16056 Butterflys (c) 17000 (d) 20000 (e) none of these 4. BIPA stands for? (a) Bilateral Investment Protection Agreement (b) Bilateral Internal Protection Agreement (c) Bilateral Investment Provision Agreement (d) Bilateral Investment Protection Assignment (e) none of these 5. The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs has approved a proposal for 4,500 crore rupee foreign direct investment (FDI) (a) Hero Investments Pvt Ltd (b) Reliance Ltd) (c) Maruti Ltd (d) Tata Motors (e) none of these 6. Sirte, a town, is in..., which was in news recently (a) Japan (b) Libya (c) Egypt (d) Sudan (e) none of these 7. Who is the writer of controversial book, Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle with India, which alleged Gandhi as a homosexual? (a) Jposeph Lelyveld (b) Thomas Cook (c) Petre Andre (d) Murphy Brown (e) none of these Answers: 1 .b, 2.a, 3.a, 4.a, 5.a, 6.b, 7 . a March 30: 1. In the 2nd instalment of grant in aid released for 4 states under Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana Name these 4 states (a) Gujarat, Arunanchal Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Tripura
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(b) UP, Arunanchal Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Tripura (c) Gujarat, Andhra Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Tripura (d) Gujarat, Arunanchal Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Bihar (e) Gujarat, Arunanchal Pradesh, Bihar and Tripura 2. Centre has provided an assistance of over 216 crore rupees for Subernrekha project. This project is in (a) Orissa (b) UP (c) Gujarat (d) Karnataka (e) none of these 3. A huge rare earth deposit that has more than 70 tonnes of scandium, has been discovered in____ (a) India (b) China (c) Brazil (d) Japan (e) none of these 4. Which country has decided to deploy a special motorized infantry brigade in its Arctic sector in 2011? (a) China (b) Russia (c) Norway (d) Greenland (e) Iceland 5. RBI's has directed that Customers will get alerts on their e-mails for all transactions done through their debit or credit cards from ___ (a) April 1, 2011 (b) July 31, 2011 (c) June 30, 2011 (d) December 30, 2011 (e) none of these 6. Council for Advancement of People's Action and Rural Technology (CAPART) 55th Executive committee meeting held in.... (a) Mumbai (b) New Delhi Butterflys (c) Nagpur (d) Indore (e) Leh 7. Who was judged Man of the match in ICC 2011 2nd semi-final, played between India and Pakistan? (a) Yuvraj Singh (b) Munaf Patel (c) Misba Ulaq (d) Zaheer Khan (e) Sachin Tendulkar Ans. 1 .a, 2. a, 3. b, 4. b, 5. c, 6. b, 7.e March 31: 1. As per Provisional Census 2011 , India's Population is (a) 1 .21 billion (b) 1 .22 billion (c) 1 .20 billion (d) 1 .11 billion (e) 1 .25 billion 2. India's first census was done in... (a) 1872 (c) 1912 (d) 1892 (e) 1921 3. As per 2011 Census there are how many females against 1,000 males? (a) 927 (b) 914 (c) 892 (d) 1001 (e) none of these 4. To which country India will provide grant assistance of 2.67 crore to built three storied campus building (a) Nepal (b) Bhutan (c) Sri Lanka (d) Maldives (e) none of these 5. Indian Railway s made highest ever achievement in 2010-11 since independence by constructing how much new lines in the said period? (a) 1050 km (b) 709 km (c) 879 km (d) 910 km (e) none of these
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6. Who is the new captain of Australian cricket team for Test, ODI teams? (a) Mike Hussey (b) Shane Watson (c) Michael Clarke (d) Cameron White (e) none of these Answers: 1 . a, 2. a, 3.b, 4.a, 5. b, 6. c

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