Current Affairs Quiz (Last Week December 2010)

 

Q 1:Name the committe responsible for submitting the report on Telangana issue?
K G Balkrishna Committee
Sri Krishna Committee
Mukhopadhya Committee

Q 2:................ of Punjab has been elected as the president of the National Rifle Association of India (NRAI) at its governing body meeting here recently.

Baljit Singh Sethi
Raninder Singh
Digvijay Singh

Q 3:Minister of State for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh on 29/12/10 ruled out review of the conditional environmental clearance given to the Jaitapur nuclear power plant, and urged ‘interest groups' not to use environment as an issue to target the government.Where is Jaitapur?
Orissa
West Bengal
Maharashtra

Q 4:The Central Committee of the banned Communist Party of India (Maoist) has called for an all-India “protest week” from January 2 to 8 to protest against the life sentence handed down to physician and human rights activist Binayak Sen, businessman Pijush Guha and alleged Maoist leader Narayan Sanyal.Binayak Sen is the national Vice-President of the .............?
Communist Party of India (Maoist)
People's Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL)
Socialist Party of India

Q 5:......................., a former President of Argentina, is sentenced to life imprisonment after being convicted of crimes against humanity.
Isabel Martínez de Perón
Jorge Rafael Videla
Leandro Anaya

Q 6:The Indian Overseas Congress in the US has urged the Indian government to confer the Padma Shri, India's fourth highest civilian honour, on the Air India Kanishka inquiry head for the far-reaching recommendations in his report. Former Canadian Chief Justice,............, who headed the public inquiry into the lapses that led to the bombing of the Kanishka flight 25 years ago -- which killed all 329 passengers on board -- recommended a major overhaul of Canadian security to avoid such tragedies in the future.
Stephen Harper
Jarnail Singh
John Major

Q 7:The government will decide on developer Lavasa Corp's township project near Pune by Jan 10, environment minister Jairam Ramesh said on Wednesday. Last month, the ministry had asked Lavasa, 65% owned by .............., to stop construction work at the site and sought clarification on
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GTL Ltd
Hindustan Construction Co
IRB Infrastructure

Q 8:The ............. water dispute tribunal has given its verdict on the 43-year-old Krishna water dispute.Andhra Pradesh will get 1000 TMC-ft of surplus water, Karnataka gets 911 TMC-ft and Maharashtra will get 666 TMC-ft.




Godavari
Krishna
Vainganga

Q 9:Against the backdrop of unease in BJP over pursuance of 2G probe by Parliament's Public Accounts Committee , its Chairman ............ on 30/12/10 associated himself with his party's demand for JPC into the issue of corruption during UPA-II, saying he was "fully committed" to it.
Jaswant Singh
Sushil Modi
M.M. Joshi

Q 10:ULFA 'chairman' ............. was 30/12/10 granted bail by a designated TADA court.
Raju Baruah
Arabinda Rajkhowa
Umakanta Rajkonwar