Current Affairs 2012 - Questions and Answers

116. With a view to protecting the Jarawa tribes, the Supreme Court in July, 2012 banned all kinds of commercial and tourism activities within a five-kilometre radius around the Jarawa Tribal Reserve in

117. A bill granting official status to Russian and other languages triggered a major political crisis in which country in July 2012, with the Speaker of Parliament resigning in protest and the President threatening to dissolve the legislature?

118. Which state, in July 2012, claimed to have emerged as the first hookah bar-free State in the country?

119. Who among the following were, in July 2012, chosen for the prestigious Gujar Mal Modi Award for Innovative Science and Technology?

120. Protests were recently held in Hong Kong amid swearing-in of Leung Chun-ying as the new and third Chief Executive. The present political system of Hong Kong has been in place since