Current Affairs 2012 - Questions and Answers

121. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was dubbed an ‘under-achiever’ by which magazine/newspaper in July 2012?

122. The Centre, in July 2012, announced a relief package of what amount to the States facing drought-like situation and offered a diesel subsidy of 50 per cent to farmers for saving standing crops?

123. Donors at a major development conference for Afghanistan in July 2012 pledged aid of more than $16 billion for four years to 2015. Where was this conference held?

124. Union Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh, on 01st July, 2012, laid the foundation stone for nine roads to be built under the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana and inaugurated the check-dams in the erstwhile Maoist bastion in

125. Fifty six-year old Lingayat leader from north Karnataka Jagadish Shettar was sworn in Chief Minister on 12th July, 2012, becoming the ___ Chief Minister of the state.