General Knowledge Questions And Answers :: Current Affairs 2009: part5



General Knowledge : Current Affairs 2009 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS :: part5 : 61 to 65

Following General Knowledge Multiple choice objective type questions and answers will help you in TRB, SSC and UPSC 2024 examinations :

61.Director General of Hydrocarbons, V K Sibal, whose five year term ended recently, was on deputation from which public sector company?

Gas Authority of India Ltd
Oil India Limited
Hindustan Petroleum Company Ltd
Power Grid

62.The Reserve Bank of India forecast for GDP growth in 2009-10 made in its second quarter (July-September 2009) review of Monetary Policy 2009-10 recently is the same as it was in its first quarter (April-June 2009) review of Monetary Policy 2009-10 in July 2009. What is the current RBI GDP growth forecast for 2009-10?

5.5 per cent with downward bias
6.0 per cent with upward bias
6.5 per cent with downward bias
7.0 per cent with upward bias

63.What was the Year 2010 declared as by the 61st session of the United Nations General Assembly in 2006?

International Year of Environmental Conservation
International Year of Biodiversity
International Year of Marine Life
International Year of Tropical Rainforests

64.This NASA scientist was one of the principal investigators for the Chandrayan-I mission of ISRO and played a key role in finding water on the Moon. He was arrested by the FBI on espionage charges when he allegedly tried to sell classified defence documents to an Israeli agent recently. Who is this scientist?

Salome Gluecksohn-Waelsch
Stewart David Nozette
Herbert Goldstein
Thomas B. Kornberg

65.The Reserve Bank of India increased the Statutory Liquidity Ratio (SLR) by 100 basis points recently while keeping other rates unchanged. Which of the following rates is incorrect?

Statutory Liquidity Ratio – 25 per cent
Repo Rate – 4.75 per cent
Reverse Repo Rate – 3.25 per cent
Bank Rate – 5.5 per cent

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