India?s medium range surface-to-surface missile,
successfully launched from Chandiprur Test Ground, was called
(1) Prithvi
(2) IRS-IB
(3) Rohini
(4) Agni III
. The book The Man who knew Infinity by Robert Kanigel published in 1991 and extensively reviewed in news papers in India is the biography of (a) Vikram Sarabhai (b) Homi Bhabha (c) Sir C.V. Raman (d) Srinivasa Ramanujan
Who amongst the following has edited the book ?People?s Power in Practice? released recently? 1 Manishankar Iyer 2 Nikhil Chakravartty 3 Nirad C.Chaudhuri 4 Jyoti Basu
The most important source of calcium is (1) Meat (2) Egg (3) Milk (4) Cheese
The book ?The Kargil Conflict 1999:Separating Fact From Fiction? is written by 1 Dr.Shireen Mazari 2 Khuswant Singh 3 Nawaz Sharif 4 None of these
J D Rockfeller was: (a) an industrialist (b) a scientist (c) American President (d) world famous navigator
The Indian National congress had its birth in the year: (a) 1757 (b) 1775 (c) 1857 (d) 1885
. The abolition of the I.A.S and the I.P.S has been recommended by the (a) Dhebar Commission (b) Kalekar Commission (c) Kher Commission (d) Rajamannar Commission
The Royal shell which recently got a clearance from the Government of India to set up around 2000 petrol pumps in the country is basically a/an 1 Iraq-based company 2 Dutch company 3 US-based company 4 Irani company
Which organisatioin was the forerunner to the World Trade Organisation 1 The World Bank 2 General Agreement on Tariff and Trade (GATT) 3 The United Nations Development Fund 4 The League of Nations
?International Atomic & Energy Agency? is located in 1 Paris 2 Geneva 3 Vienna 4 Rome
. Which one of the following statements correctly defines the term ‘drain theory’ as propounded by Dadabhai Naoroji? (a) That the resources of the country were being utilized in the interest of Britain (b) That a part of India’s national wealth or total annual product was being exported to Britain for which India got no material returns (c) That the British industrialists were being given an opportunity to invest in India under the protection of the imperial power (d) That the British goods were being imported to the country making it poorer day by day
The first statesman who received World Statesman Award is (1) I.K. Gujral (2) Abdul Gayoom (3) K.R. Narayanan (4) A.B. Vajpayee