Saturday, March 5, 2011

current affairs questions 3



1) Name the executive chairman of Mindtree who resigned recently? Ashok Soota
2) When is the deadline for checking pesky calls? - March 1
3) Owner of Sun TV Network? Kalanithi Maran
4) Movie that fetched 179 Crore to Sun TV Network accounting for nearly 30% of the company’s revenues? Robot
5) Which company offers $1,000 Esops to India staff i.e. around 7-8 Shares to be Offered for Employees WhoDon’t Quit Before 2015? IBM
6) Which company will acquire the US carbon black Columbian chemicals company for $875 million? ADITYA BIRLA GROUP
7) Which South Korean company got clearance from environmental ministry recently to set up a plant in Orissa? Posco (steel maker)
8) Which company gave six bonuses in a year which work out to be between 200% and 700% of basic salary? LG
9) What is the abbreviation of EPFO? employee provident fun option
10) The income tax department has issued notice to which company? Cadbury India and its overseas parent Kraft Foods.
11) Name the two CEO’s who recently resigned from Wipro? Suresh Vaswani & Girish Pananjpe.
12) Which mobile operating system dethroned Nokia’s Symbian? Google’s Android.
13) Airlines that took decision to buy 111 aircrafts by spending 50000 cr? Air India
14) The social networking company that plans to raise $175 million in an initial public offering? Linkedin
15) Name of recently appointed COO of CITIGROUP? John Havens
16) US based Columbian chemical, a carbon black company is about to be acquired by Aditya Birla group for? 800 million dollars
17) The market share of global carbon black of Columbian chemicals is about? 9%
18) Which home grown consumer durables like soaps, detergents and personal care products, is about to delist its share on stock exchanges? Nirma
19) The public share holding of Nirma is ____ whose prices are at s.260? 2.17 crores
20) The top 20% or about 45 million households of India accounts for almost ___ of the total income and ____ of consumption respectively? 52% and 39%
21) The bottom 40% or 90 million households accounts for ___ of income and ___ of consumption respectively? 14% and 22%
22) The food inflation had no way of coming beneath the estimated ___ for Jan 2011? 16-18%
23) The Prime Minister’s ____is likely to up revise its inflation forecast of 7% for the end of the fiscal? Economic Advisory Council
24) The Income tax exemption limit of ____ is about to be extended to Rs.2, 00,000 as a measure to help inflation hit homes? Rs1, 60,000
25) RBI has stopped giving ___to companies for few amendments for proper monitoring of the Banks? Banking licenses
26) The CAG questions the rationale behind the purchase of 111 aircrafts by? Air India
27) The total fall of the Nifty over the Jan 2011 is ___ as a result of uncontrolled inflation? about 10%
28) Foreign Indirect Investors have purchased stocks and bonds in Jan2011 for about? Rs.79420crore
29) The Investments from FIIs are often called___, because they can be pulled out any time out of the country’s market? ‘hot money’
30) As BSE’s PSU index has fallen over 7%, there is a lingering doubt on ___of ONGC? FPO
31) IBM has decided to offer $1000 Esops to its Indian staff.....Why? To check attrition and celebrate its hundred years of existence.
32) Consumer durables Major LG Electronics has decided to give out ---- bonuses in a year. Six
33) Who is the acting chairman of ONGC as of 1-2-11? AK Hazarika
34) POSCO stands for? Pohang Iron and Steel Company
35) When was IndusInd Bank established? 1994
36) What is the current repo rate as of 1-2-11? 6.5%
37) What is the current reverse repo rate as of 1-2-11? 5.5%
38) Finmin to pay ---- oil subsidy in Dec qtr? $1.74 bn
39) Who is the MD of Share Microfin? Udaia Kumar
40) What is a Bullion Market? A bullion market is a place where precious metals such as gold, silver, platinum and palladium can be bought and sold.
41) What all metals come under Indian Bullion Market? Gold and Silver.
42) Which is the regulating body for commodities trading? FMC (Forwards Market Commission).
43) Which is India’s no.1 Commodity Exchange Market? MCX(Multi Commodity Exchange)
44) Who is the current chairman of SEBI? CB Bhave
45) ADB to provide $---- assistance to India for the period 2011-2013? $7.4 billion
46) ADB stands for-----? Asian Development Bank.
47) Who is the current Minister for Corporate Affairs as of 1-2-11? Murli Deora
48) Who is the head of Planning Commission in India? Dr. Manmohan Singh.
49) Which is the mobile OS from Samsung Electronics? Bada
50) Which mobile OS has the largest global mobile phone market share? Nokia
51) Nokia Corp. is from which country? Finland
52) POSCO is from which company? South Korea
53) Who is the chairman of IBM? Sam Palmisano
54) Aegis bags $---- deal from Saudi Telecom for customer care operations? $2bn
55) India, Indonesia signs ---- trade pacts worth $15.1 bn? 18
56) Lavasa is the project of which infra giant? HCC (Hindustan Construction Co.)
57) Who is the chairman of SBI? OP Bhatt
58) SBI has decided to rise ------ through Bonds? 10000 crore
59) Who is the MD of HDFC bank? Aditya Puri
60) HDFC stands for? Housing Development Finance Corporation.
61) Name the COO of Infosys technologies: SD Shibulal
62) How many basis points have been increased by HDFC for home loan? 25 bps
63) Who is the current finance minister of India? Pranab Mukherjee
64) Wal-Mart has entered into a joint venture with which company to enter India: Bharti Enterprises
65) Name the person appointed by FMCG firm Nivea as its MD: Rakshit Hargave
66) Who has been roped by Sony as its brand ambassador: Mahendra Singh Dhoni
67) Sony has joined hands with which Indian company to offer DTH connection on purchase of its Bravia HD: Airtel
68) Name the MD of Unibic India: Nikhil Sen
69) Which famous cereal brand has planned to enter into the snack business: Kellogg India
70) Name the upcoming product of Unibic: Chyawanprash cookie
71) Name the BPO of Essar group: Aegis
72) What is the name of the joint venture company between Bharti group, Idea group and Vodafone Essar: Indus Towers
73) Indus towers is a joint venture between which company: Bharti group, Idea group and Vodafone Essar
74) Name the PE firm founded by Aditya Parekh: Fearing Capital
75) Name the chairman of Godrej group: Adi Godrej
76) How much is the contract amount between Aegis and Saudi telecom to manage their entire customer care operations to over 28 million STC customers in Saudi Arabia: $2 bn
77) N.S.S.O Represents: National Sample Survey Organisation
78) Who is the Chairman of CBEC (Central Board of Excise & Customs)? Sumit Dutt Majumdar
79) The first multi-asset exchange in Middle East and North Africa? Bahrain Financial Exchange
80) Who is the largest realty player in India? DLF
81) The most valuable listed pharma company in India? Sun Pharma
82) Which Pharma company was integrated with Sun Pharma in Sep 2010? Taro Pharma
83) FMC represents? Forward Markets Commission
84) Who is the chairman of FMC? B C Khatua
85) Which is the Delhi based brokerage who is the anchor investor in NCDEX? Jaypee Capital
86) Who is the chairman of Tobacco Board? Kamalavardhana Rao
87) NFPDB represents? National Fish Processing Development Board
88) Who is the Union Minister of micro, small and medium enterprises? Virabhadra Singh
89) Which is Japan’s No:1 global brand? Toyota
90) Who is the President of Egypt? Hosni Mubarak
91) Expand NCDEX? National Commodity and Derivatives Exchange
92) Director of TATA Sons? Dr.J.J.Irani
93) The biggest among the 17 Euro Nations GERMANY
94) Instruments issued by banks to raise short term funds is called Certificate of Deposits(CD)
95) Which bank entered into an agreement with the Indian Army for extending modern banking products to the personnel in uniform? ICICI
96) How much stake does the Japan based Honda group had in Hero Honda? 26%
97) Name the India’s largest power generating company. NTPC
98) Horlicks is the Indian subsidiary of which british healthfood major? Glaxo Smith Kline (GSK)
99) MD of GSK? Zubair Ahmed
100) What is the expected growth rate of Indian during the current financial year by finance ministry? 8.5%
101) Expand CSO. Central Statistical Organization
102) Name of the Commerce and Industry Minister. Anand Sharma
103) A type of mutual fund which is qualified for tax exemption under section 80C. Equity Linked Saving Schemes(ELSS)
104) Lock in period for ELSS. 3Years
105) CFO of Edleweiss. S.Ranganathan
106) Expand PRP. Performance Related Payment

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