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Wangari Maathai, the Nobel Prize winner from Kenya, is known for her contribution to which one of the following?
(a)
Journalism
(b)
International economics
(c)
Sustainable development
(d)
Child development
(C)
Robert Webster is known for his work associated with which one of the following?
Cardiology
Influenza virus
HIV/AIDS
Alzheimer
(B)
How is Gabriel Garcia Marquez well-known as?
Known for research in agriculture
A renowned football coach
A great writer who won the Nobel Prize for literature
Known for research in railway engineering
For which one of the following books did Kiran Desai win the Man Booker Prize 2006?
The Secret River
In the Country of Men
Mother’s Milk
None of the above
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
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