General Knowledge Questions And Answers :: Current Affairs 2012: part2



General Knowledge : Current Affairs 2012 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS :: part2 : 71 to 75

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

71.The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI), on 18th July, 2012, issued guidelines allowing overseas individual investors to invest up to how much in corporate bonds and debt schemes of mutual funds without any lock-in period?

$1 billion
$2.5 billion
$4 billion
$5 billion

72.Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia, on 06th July, 2012, conceded that achieving a GDP expansion of __ through the XII Plan would require a ‘major effort.’

8 per cent
9 per cent
9.5 per cent
10 per cent

73.As per the data released in New Delhi on India’s exports and imports in July 2012, which of the following statements is/are correct?a. Sharp compression in imports and declining exports has narrowed the trade deficit to a 15-month low of $10.3 billion in Juneb. In June 2011, the rate gap stood at $14.42 billionSelect the correct answer using the codes given below

Only a
Only b
Both a and b
Neither a nor b

74.Market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI), in July 2012, granted permission to MCX Stock Exchange (MCX-SX) to operate as a full-fledged stock exchange which would be able to offer additional asset classes such as

Equity and equity F&O (Future and Options)
Interest rate futures
Wholesale debt segiments
All of the above

75.Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, in July 2012, unveiled a digitised 3-D image of which leader, based on remains exhumed two years ago to determine whether the South American independence hero was murdered?

Che Guevara
Simon Bolivar
Alfred Allende
Kirk Bishop

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