Current Affairs 2012 - Questions and Answers

161. Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, in July 2012, announced that her country would itself implement the $3-billion __ bridge project through mobilising domestic resources after the World Bank cancelled the loan deal recently

162. 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

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

164. 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

165. 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?