Current Affairs 2012 - Questions and Answers

186. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) said in July 2012: ‘The economy is expected to continue contracting through the year owing to tight financial conditions, the global slowdown, and the needed fiscal consolidation.’ IMF said this about the economy of

187. Iran, on 03rd July, 2012, took the first step towards military intervention in which of the following bays/straits-a move that could skyrocket global oil prices?

188. Which country, in July 2012, agreed to extend a $3.4-billion credit for setting up two more 1,000-MW atomic power plants at Kudankulam in Tamil Nadu?

189. A former South American dictator Jorge Rafael Videla was, in July 2012, convicted and sentenced to 50 years for a systematic programme to steal babies from prisoners who were kidnapped, tortured and killed during the military junta’s war on Leftist dissidents. Which country is in reference here?

190. National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD), in July 2012, announced to have identified warehousing as one of the priority areas for financially supporting