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1.Gas Production in Oil & Gas Fields is measured in Million Metric Standard Cubic Meters(MMSCM)
2.Punjab National Bank has recently started distributing Biometric Cards to the weaker sections of the society in Uttar Pradesh
3.92.5% was the operating ratio of Indian Railways in the Interim Budget 2009-10
4.70%from goods traffic & 26%from Passenger traffic of a rupee comes to the Indian Railways
5.Bill Gates won the Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development for 2007
6.Pittsburgh hosted the G-20 Summit
7.“Lisbon Treaty” is the treaty accepted / adopted by the members of European Union
8.Beri-Beri is the deficiency disease caused by the vitamin B1
9.Dadabhai Naoroji is called the “Grand Old Man of India”
10.The fifth five year plan had the objective” Garibi Hatao”
11.The founder director of the CBI was D.P. Kohli who held office from 1 April 1963 to 31 May 1968.
12.Ashwani Kumar is the Director of Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI)
13.The Beijing Olympics were inaugurated at 08-08-08
14.Jhumpa Lahari won the prestigious Franc O'Connor Prize for writing
15.The period for 11th Five Year Plan is 2007-2012
16.10 satellites were launched with PSLV-9 to register world record by India
17.Haryana and Punjab have a common high court at Chandigarh. The Article 231 gives 18.the power to parliament to establish such common high courts
19.India will be hosting the 2010 Men's Hockey World Cup
20.London will be hosting the 2012 Olympic Games
21." Sheru" is official mascot of Common wealth Games to be held at Delhi in 2010
22.Surya Shekhar Ganguly won the Parshvanath International Open Chess Tournament
23.Marathi writer Shyam Manohar was given National Sahitya Award 2008.
24.Saroja Vaidyanathan is a Bharatnatyam dancer who won Sangeet Natak Academy Award 2009.
25.Brahmos is the Indo-Russian supersonic cruise missile with speeds of Mach 2.5 to 2.8, which is world's fastest cruise missile and is about three and a half times faster than the U.S.A's subsonic Harpoon cruise missile

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1.Big Mother is the term used to describe the use of modern geolocation wireless and video technologies by parents to constantly the activities of the child
2.Reverse Merger is the practice of a listed company acquiring an unlisted company in order to make it listed automatically
3.Time 100 was first published in 1999 whenTime magazine named the 100 most influential people of the 20th century.
4.Kyoto protocol is the name of the protocol to the UNFCCC produced at the United Nations Conference on Environment and development (UNCED), known as the Earth Summit, held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1992
5.“Jyotigram Yojna” is a flagship programme of Gujarat Government. It offers 24 hours three phase Electricity in Rural Areas
6.“Chiranjivi Yojna” of Gujarat is related to safety of Mother & Child at Birth
7.“Beti Bachao Yojna" was launched in Gujarat to fight gender inequality
8.The “Jalayagnam” a chief minister flagship programme to construct 74 irrigation projects is running is running in Andhra Pradesh
9.Restructured Accelerated Power Development and Reforms Programme has been taken up to reduce the losses of Electricity Supplier Companies in Karnataka
10.Planning Commission approved a plan outlay of 17322 crore, the highest ever allocation to the state by a central body in Maharashtra
11.“Rajiv Gandhi Grameen Vidyutikaran Yojna " was launched in Tamil Nadu
12.Mahamaya Gharib BalikaYojna launched by UP Chief Minister Mayavati allotted 900 crore rupees for making the girls self dependent
13.Uttarakhand state government has sanctioned “Atal Behari Vajpayee Awas Yojna" for providing free houses to 10000 poor dalits
14.Suman Sharma became the world's First woman to fly the MIG-35 fighter jet at Aero Indian International Air Show at Bangalore
15.Chairman of SBI ,Mr. OP Bhatt was given Asiamoney Best Executive of the Year 2008
16.Exercise Tropex 2009 is the largest ever amphibious exercise of Armed Forces of India in Gujarat
17.As per the latest report brought out by United Nations World Food Program 230 million people in India are undernourished
18.Radha Vinod Raju has been appointed as the First Director General of National Investigation Agency
19.The 35th National Games are scheduled to held in May 2010 in Kerala
20.“Pappu Can't Vote” Delhi State Election Commission launched this campaign
21.Planning Commission approved Rupees 12400 crore amount for ISRO's manned mission to be launched by 2015
22.In January 2009 Chief Minister of Gujarat State, signed an agreement with several companies to provide "Solar Lanterns" in the villages where kerosene is used
23.Planning Commission approved Van Panchayat Yojna which aims to cover 2.42 lakh villages to have rich forest by 2012 and sanctioned Rs. 890 crore rupees for it.
24.The total forest cover in India is 23%
25.Indian navy is acquiring “Admiral Gorshkov" an aircraft carrier from Russia, it will be called INS Vikramaditya

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1.India needs to raise its food grain production by almost 40% by 2025 from the present level to feed its huge population, which will grow to 1.3 billion by 2025.
2.Michael Steele is the first African American Chairman of the Republican Party
3.Margaret Court holds the record of winning most (24) Grand Slam womens singles titles
4.Killinocchi was the political and administrative capital of LTTE
5.The chairman of the News Corporation is Rupert Murdoch
6.The founder and the Executive Chairman of World Economic Forum is Klaus Schwab
7.The Worlds Human Rights day is observed on December 10
8.The year 2009 was the year of Astronomy as declared by United Nations
9.‘Omid’ was the first home made satellite launched successfully by Iran
10.The Dilwara temple is located in Rajasthan
11.India has the worlds second largest muslim population
12.The state with the maximum number of illegal immigrants is West Bengal
13.Kenya is the largest tea exporting nation in the world
14.Imagining India: Ideas for the New Century is the book written by Nandan Nilekani
15.Akio Morita was the co-founder of Sony Corporation
16.World’s population will be 7 billion by the end of 2012 and 9 billion by 2050
according to the revised estimates by the United Nations
17.The global economy shrank for the first time in 2008-09 since the World War II
18.RK Shanmukhan Chetty presented India’s first budget
19.Jawahar Lal Nehru was the first Prime Minister to present the budget when he held the Finance portfolio in 1958-59
20.CD Deshmuk was the first Indian Governor of RBI to have presented the interim budget for 1951-52
21.NRI industrialist Swaraj Paul is the first Asian to preside over the House of Lords after he became the Deputy Speaker for the house
22.Brazil has won the World Cup Football Championship a record five times
23.A loan with a low rate of interest is called soft loan
24.Indira Gandhi was the Prime Minister of India at the time of nationalization of banks in 1969
25.The 13th Finance Commission’s recommendations will be implemented for the period 2010-2015

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1.The ex-officio chairman of the Planning Commission of India is the Prime Minister
2.The hill range between Narmada and Tapti river is Satpura.
3.The first linguistic state in India came into being in the year 1953 (Andhra Pradesh)
4.The violent and destructive tropical cyclones in China and Japan are known as Typhoons
5.The ‘Zero Hour’ is the hour after the question hour in the house in the parliamentary procedure.
6.Endoscope, used by doctors for examining the inside of a patient’s stomach, works on principle of total internal reflection.
7.The Uruguay Rounds of talks led to the formation of World Trade Organization
8.Himadri is the name of India’s first research station in the Arctic.
9.The greater part of the Earth’s surface has Semi-Arid climate.
10.Gopal Hari Deshmukh the famous nationalist leader was also called “Lokhitwadi”
11.C. Rajgopalachari was also known as the ‘Conscience keeper of Gandhiji’
12.The ‘National Girl Child Day’ is observed on January 24.
13.‘National Science Day’ is observed on February 28
14.Lord Canning was the Governor-General of India at the time of the 1857 Sepoy Mutiny
15.‘Ping Pong diplomacy’ is associated with USA and China
16.The first Municipal Corporation in India was set up at Madras
17.Targeted Public Distribution System (TPDS) was introduced in the year 1997 in India.
18.Education is included in the Concurrent list of the Indian Constitution
19.The Chairman and CEO of ITC limited is Y.C. Deveshwar
20.The Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan (RMSA) aims to enroll 100 % class 8 students to the secondary level by the end of 12th Five Year Plan in 2017
21.The base year for Consumer Price Index is now 2004-05 earlier it was 1980-81
22.The Bombay Stock Exchange uses the free-float Market Capitalisation Weighted method
23.National Association of Securities Dealers’ Automated Quotations (NASDAQ) is an electronic stock exchange in USA which was founded in 1971
24.The New York Stock Exchange is the World’s biggest stock exchange by market capitalization
25.The National Stock Exchange in Mumbai, is India’s biggest stock exchange by market capitalization