India Current Affairs Quiz/Questions-Answers January 2012, January 16-January 22

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1.  10th PBD( Pravasi Bhartiya Divas) was held at which one of the following Indian cities?
a) Jaipur
b) Patna
c) New Delhi
d) Chennai
Answer:  (a) Chennai

2.  Planning Commission of India on 18 January 2012 approved Rudrasagar development scheme. The scheme is related__.
a) Tripura
b) Assam
c) Manipur
d) Sikkim
Answer:  (a) Tripura

3. Writer/diplomat Pavan K. Varma's new book set in contemporary India and in the Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan, was launched in the New Delhi by Ashi Dorji Wangmo Wangchuck, the Queen Mother of Bhutan in January 2012. The protagonist Anand is wrongly diagnosed with cancer. He quits his high-power job and loses himself in a Bhutanese retreat.
Name the book.
a.    When Loss is Gain
b.    Ghalib: The Man
c.    The Great Indian Middle Class
d.    The Times
Answer: (a)

4. Identify the photographer with the help of the following clues.
1.    She was India’s first woman photo-journalist and was the only professional woman photojournalist between 1939 and 1970
2.    She was commonly known by her pseudonym Dalda 13
3.    She also captured the first flag-hoisting ceremony at the Red Fort on August 16 1947, the departure of Lord Mountbatten from India and the funerals of Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru and Lal Bahadur Shastri.
4.    The Padma Bhushan Awardee breathed her last on 15 January 2012.
a.    Ronika Kandhari
b.    Asha Kochar
c.    Prabuddha Dasgupta
d.    Homai Vyarawala
Answer: (d)

5.    Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on 11 January 2012 launched the signature tune of the Indian Customs Pragati ki Dhadkan in New Delhi.  The signature tune was composed by which of the noted music directors?
a.    A. R. Rahman    
b.    Aadesh Shrivastava    
c.    Adnan Sami
d.    Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy
Answer: (b)

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