Allahabad Bank GK Paper

Allahabad Bank (IT-Officer) General Awareness Paper held on 5th Dec. 2010 (some question's ans. based on memory)

1.  Paul Kagame is the President of the Republic of Rwanda.

2.  Namibia is the  world's fifth-largest producer of uranium.

3.  Gagan Narang , ace Indian shooter in Air Rifle shooting is well known sports-person.

4.  Term related to Hockey game is Short corner

5.  Vedanta Alumina Limited is engaged in mining of Bauxite in the Niyamgiri Hills of Orissa.

6.  Fiscal Policy And Budget Deficit is a part of budgetary policies.

7.  SEBI is the regulator for trading in stock exchanges

8.  Angle of Reflection is not a financial term

9.  The US military mission in Iraq is being renamed "Operation Dawn" as of 1 September      2010

10. Tejaswini Sawant was failed to win a gold medal for India in Commonwealth Games       2010.

11. Commonwealth Games are conducted after every four years.

12. Uranium & Thorium are used in nuclear reactors to generate electricity for commercial      purposes.

13. The 11th South Asian Games (SAG) was held from Jan. 29 to Feb. 8 in 2010 in Dhaka

14.  Ajay Kumar Bansal chosen for the Dronacharya Awards for 2010 is associated with       Hockey game

15. South Asian Film Festival for 2010 was held in GOA, September 17-20.

16. The Inheritance of Loss is the second novel by Indian author Kiran Desai

17. Sachin Tendulkar hits the first ever ODI Double Century against South Africa at Gwalior      ODI  on 24th Feb. 2010

18. Superbug is a bacteria resistant to nearly all antibiotics (only A is ans.)

19.  Bilogical disease is not included in Disaster Management Programme

20. Recently, Initial Public Offering (IPO) of Coal India Limited (CIL) was oversubscribed.

21. Asian Development Bank (ADB) approve a loan Bihar government for building nearly 365      km of state highways, new drainage and bridges.

22. In Madhya Pardesh, efforts are on to provide 24 hour electricity supply to all villages by       year 2013, MoU signed with private companies for production of 56 thousand MW      thermal power

23. Operation flood (also known as the White revolution of India) was a rural development      programme started by India's National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) in 1970

24.  Liu Xiaobo won the Nobel Peace Prize 2010 for his long and non-violent struggle for       fundamental human rights in China.

25.   Kerla won e-Governance Award

26.  The 2012 Olympic Games will be held in London from 27 July to 12 August 2012

27. The Public Distribution System (PDS) in the country facilitates the supply of food grains       to the poor at a subsidised price.

28. BETA measures a stock's volatility in comparison to the overall stock market at any       given time

29. Presently, India's nuclear power capacity is about 4000 MW.

30. The Indian government has approved a bill to enhance the retirement age of High Court       judges from 62 to 65 years on 30th July 2010.

31. Fiscal Deficit occurs when government's total expenditures exceed the revenue that it      generates excluding money from borrowings.

32. Deficit Financing means sale of debt securities in order to finance expenditures that are       in excess of income.

33. To check/control inflation, RBI has to control the money supply by conducting monetary       policy

Note : May be some of the ans. are wrong  as all ques's answers are on  memory based. If anybody know about other questions of the that exam. Plz.. write in comment section..