General Knowledge Questions And Answers :: Current Affairs 2012: part1



General Knowledge : Current Affairs 2012 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS :: part1 : 66 to 70

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

66.The Union Cabinet on 19th July, 2012, approved a proposal to replace the word “rape” with the phrase “sexual assault,” making it a gender-neutral offence, and identified acid attacks as a separate offence punishable by a maximum of

2 years
5 years
10 years
14 years

67.The Centre, in July 2012, approved a pilot project for a vocational education programme for school children above Class IX in

Assam
Bihar
West Bengal
Odisha

68.U.S. President Barack Obama, in July 2012, nominated James B. Cunningham as the new U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan; and Richard G Olson as the new envoy to

India
Pakistan
Russia
Britain

69.The Rajasthan government decided on 18th July, 2012, to ban the production, storage, distribution and sale of gutkha. Which other states have done it before?

Bihar
Kerala
Maharashtra
All of the above

70.The Cabinet of which state, on 16th July, 2012, decided to extend the benefit of enhanced pension of Rs 1,500 per month to all categories of women in distress-widows, divorced, abandoned and separated?

Delhi
Bihar
Uttar Pradesh
Kerala

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