General Awareness - Questions and Answers

1341. Who aming the following is a recipient of the ""Padma Bhushan"" given away recently ?

1342. India recently launched its advanced communication satellite named as

1343. In the financial transaction of the Gocernment, we often hear a term ""Deficit Financing"". Deficit Financing is 1. Practised whenver Government expenditure exceeds the receipts from the public. 2. That part of the Government expenditure which is met by drawing down the cash balance of the Government held in RBI or in State treasuries. 3. That part of the Government expenditure which is required to be compensated by printing new notes/supply of fresh

1344. In commercial and trade world, very often, we hear a term ""Free Trade"". What does it realy mean ? 1. It means no restriction on the movement of goods between two countries or a group of countries. 2. It means no custom duty or any other tax or duty on the goods supplied to each other by the countries 3. It means exchange of goods between the countries to overcome shortage of particular type of goods. 4. It means a particular nation is allowed to sell its g

1345. Which of the following statements is/are True about the restructuring of the Regional Engineering Colleges (RECs) in the country, recently in the news ? 1. The colleges are taken over by the State Government concerned and their funding, etc. will be done by them only. 2. The Central Government has taken over all the RECs and now they will be developed on the lines of Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs). 3. All RECs will now be the provate institutes as no government funding will be available to them.