Current Affairs and Gk -March Part-1 2013

Current Affairs and Gk -March 2013

49. HPCL is setting up an oil refinery in Rajasthan, which is the biggest ever investment in the desert State. This refinery is coming up in ___:

[A]Jodhpur
[B]Jaisalmer
[C]Barmer
[D]Jalor

members approving the State Government’s proposal in this regard. The project’s cost is estimated to be in the range of Rs.36,000 crore to Rs.40,000 crore,

which would be the biggest ever investment in the desert State. The State Government, which has been demanding installation of refinery since crude oil was

discovered in the Barmer-Sanchore basin, gave in-principle approval to provide a financial package of Rs.3,376 crore to HPCL last month.

50. . Which among the following is a Coral Island?

[A]Maldives
[B]Lakshadweep
[C]Tasmania
[D]Medagaskar

51. Who among the following is known as “Father of Pentium Chip”?

[A]Sugata Mitra
[B]Vinod Dham
[C]Ajit Balakrishnan
[D]Ajay V. Bhatt

Processors from Intel. Vinod Dham is also one of the co-inventors of the Flash memory.

52. Who among the following is known as “The father of India’s communication revolution“?

[A]Nandan Nilekani
[B]Azim Premji
[C]Narayana Murthy
[D]Sam Pitroda

Advisor to the Prime Minister of India on Public Information Infrastructure & Innovations. He is founder and CEO of company named C-SAM, Inc.

53. Also sometimes known as ‘Father of fiber optics‘, which among the following Indian personalities has been honoured by the Fortune magazine as one of the

seven ‘Unsung Heroes‘?

[A]Narinder Singh Kapany
[B]Krishna Bharat
[C]Sashi Reddi
[D]Vinod Khosla

and further study and Ph.D. from London. Fortune Magazine honoured him as a one of the seven ‘Unsung Heroes‘. Also note that in west, Charles K. Kao is known

as Godfather of Broadband”, “Father of Fiber Optics” or “Father of Fiber Optic Communications”. Kao is 2009 Nobel Prize Winner.

54. Who among the following is appointed as the Mission Director for the ambitious Direct Benefits Transfer (DBT) scheme?

[A]Deepak Kumar
[B]Saurav Goel
[C]Sindhushree Khullar
[D]Akhil Batra

Benefits Transfer (DBT) scheme. Khullar will be the Mission Director for the DBT Scheme, in addition to her present charge. Under the scheme, termed as UPA’s

vote-catcher for general election 2014, the government provides welfare subsidies to beneficiaries by transferring the money directly into their bank

accounts.

55. Who among the following is the head of the 16-member committee set by the SEBI to suggest new rules for dealing with insider trading?

[A]Rajeev Luthra
[B]N K Sodhi
[C]Arundhati Bhattacharya
[D]Menaka Doshi

has said that world over, the regulatory focus is shifting towards containing the rising menace of insider trading effectively and hence SEBI is seeking a

review of the extant Insider Trading Regulatory regime in India. Although several amendments have been introduced to SEBI (Prohibition of Insider Trading)

Regulations, 1992; the new guidelines will help in replacing the nearly two-decade old set of norms. The committee headed by Presiding officer of the

Securities Appellate Tribunal, N K Sodhi, will include SEBI officials, executives from companies, legal experts and journalists.

56. Hugo Chavez, who recently passed away was the President of ___________?

[A]Colombia
[B]Argentina
[C]Venezuela
[D]Chile

wielding the country’s oil reserves as a tool for his Socialist-inspired change has died recently due to cancer. For years, he succeeded in curbing U.S.

influence. He breathed life into Cuba, the hemisphere’s only Communist nation, with economic assistance; its revolutionary leader, Fidel Castro, was not only

an ally but also an inspiration. Chavez forged a Bolivarian alliance with some of Latin America’s energy-exporting nations, like Ecuador and Bolivia, and

applauded when they expelled U.S. ambassadors, as he had done. He asserted greater state control over Venezuela’s economy by nationalizing dozens of

foreign-owned assets, including oil projects controlled by Exxon Mobil and other large U.S. corporations.

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