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For which one of the following books did Kiran Desai win the Man Booker Prize 2006?
(a)
The Secret River
(b)
In the Country of Men
(c)
Mother’s Milk
(d)
None of the above
(C)
Where was the first conference of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs held in the Year 1957?
Minnowbrook (USA)
Rhode Island (USA)
Nova Scotia (Canada)
Nagasaki (Japan)
Geography
Where were Shevaroy Hills located ?
Andhra Pradesh
Karnataka
Kerala
Tamil Nadu
(D)
Economics
Participatory Notes (PNs) are associated with which one of the following ?
Consolidated Fund of India
Foreign Institutional Investors
United Nations Development Programme
Kyoto Protocol
(B)
International Relations
Who among the following served as the Chief Economist of the International Monetary Fund?
Ashok Lahiri
Sumantra Ghoshal
Saumitra Chaudhuri
Raghuram Rajan
Tarapore Committee was associated with which one of the following?
Special Economic Zones
Full capital account convertibility
Foreign exchange reserves
Effect of oil prices on the Indian economy
Polity
Which one of the following is the correct chronological order of the formation as full States of the Indian Union?
Sikkim-Arunachal Pradesh-Nagaland-Haryana
Nagaland-Haryana-Sikkim-Arunachal Pradesh
Sikkim-Haryana-Nagaland-Arunachal Pradesh
Nagaland-Arunachal Pradesh-Sikkim-Haryana
Science and Technology
Who among the following is considered as the inventor of the World Wide Web (WWW)?
Edward Kasner
Bill Gates
Tim Berners-Lee
Vinod Dham
Which one of the following cities has been the venue of the Asian Games for the maximum number of times from the year 1951 to the year 2006?
Delhi
Bangkok
Rio de Janeiro
Beijing
Where is Copacabana Beach located?
Buenos Aires
Hawaiian Islands
Valletta