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



General Knowledge : Current Affairs 2012 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS :: part2 : 26 to 30

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

26.The International Monetary Fund (IMF), in July 2012, marginally reduced India’s growth projections from 6.8 per cent to 6.1 per cent for 2012 and from 7.2 per cent what per cent in 2013?

6.9 per cent
7 per cent
6.5 per cent
6.3 per cent

27.In the WPI data for June 2012 released in New Delhi in July 2012, headline inflation eased a tad to 7.25 per cent in June following a marginal cooling in prices of

Food items
Petroleum products
Manufactured goods
All of the above

28.In the official data on direct tax collection released in New Delhi in July, 2012, the growth in which of the following tax sectors was described as a ‘worrying factor’?

Wealth Tax
Corporate Tax
Sales Tax
Securities Transaction Tax

29.David Miller, on 13th July, 2012, won the longest stage of the Tour de France after dominating a two-up sprint with Frenchman Jean-Christophe Peraud in Annonay (France). Millar is from

Australia
Germany
Britain
Spain

30.In its Macroeconomic and Monetary Developments first quarter review 2012-13, which was released on 31st July, 2012, the Reserve Bank of India cut the gross domestic product (GDP) forecast for the current financial year from 7.3 per cent to

7.1 per cent
7 per cent
6.5 per cent
6.3 per cent

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