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1. Which among the following are true about the recently passed Food Security Bill?

1. It gives legal entitlement to 67 per cent population for subsidised grains

2. It includes 75 per cent rural and 50 per cent urban population

3. A beneficiary will be entitled to 5 kg of rice, wheat or coarse cereals at Rs. 3, 2 and Re. 1 a kg a month

4. Beneficiaries will be identified by the State Government

Select the correct answer using the codes given below:

(a) 1, 2 and 4 Only

(b) 2 and 4 Only

(c) 1 and 3 Only

(d) 1, 2, 3 and 4

D is the right answer.
The Union Cabinet cleared the National Food Security Bill that gives legal entitlement to 67 per cent population (including 75 per cent rural and 50 per cent urban) for subsidised grains under the Targeted Public Distribution System (TPDS). A beneficiary will be entitled to 5 kg of rice, wheat or coarse cereals at Rs. 3, 2 and Re. 1 a kg a month and will be identified by the States based on parameters prescribed by the Union government. The Bill favours the “two-child norm” by denying maternal benefits to a pregnant woman beyond two live births. (thehindu)

2.Who among the following has been appointed the new Vice-Chancellor of Indira Gandhi National Open University for next five years?

a) M. Aslam

b) Sanjay G Dhande

c) O N V Kurup

d) Chethan Bhagat

A is the right answer.
Prof. M. Aslam has been appointed the new Vice-Chancellor of Indira Gandhi National Open University for five years. He has also held the post of director at the School of Continuing Education several times. Prof. Aslam is an experienced hand in university administration and of his 35 years in university education, he has spent about 21 years at IGNOU. His specialisation is in Sociology.(thehindu)

3. Who among the following has won this year’s prestigious Abel Prize in Mathematics.?

a) Alexander Grothendieck

b) John Milnor

c) Kristi Strøm

d) Pierre Deligne

D is the right answer.
Belgian mathematician Pierre Deligne, who is regarded as one of the most celebrated mathematicians of the 20th century, has been chosen for this year’s prestigious Abel Prize in Mathematics. The 69-year-old professor emeritus of the Institute of Advanced Study, Princeton, is being awarded for his “seminal contributions to algebraic geometry and for their transformative impact on number theory, representation theory and related fields.” It carries a cash award of 6 million Norwegian krone (about €800,000 or $1 million). The prize will be given by His Majesty King Harald V of Norway at an award ceremony in Oslo on May 21.(thehindu)

4. This week, the Submarine variant of which supersonic cruise missile was test-fired in the Bay of Bengal?

a) Virat

b) Arjun

c) Agni

d) BrahMos

D is the right answer.
The maiden flight of the submarine variant of the Indo-Russian supersonic cruise missile, BrahMos, was successful on Wednesday when it was test-fired from a pontoon off Visakhapatnam in the Bay of Bengal. It marked a global first in the vertical launch of a supersonic cruise missile from an underwater platform. BrahMos has already been inducted into the Navy and the Army, while its air version is under development for arming the Su-30 MKI fighter. The naval variant of the missile comes in vertical and inclined launch configurations.(thehindu)

5. India loses how many children under the age of five every day?

a) Approximately 1000

b) Approximately 2000

c) Approximately 3000

d) Approximately 4000

D is the right answer.
India loses 4,200 children under the age of five every day. The country accounts for nearly a fifth of the world’s child deaths. In terms of numbers, it is the highest in the world — nearly 16 lakh every year. Of these, more than half die in the first month of life. Officials believe that the reason for this is the absence of steps to propagate basic healthy practices relating to breast feeding and immunisation. Also the large reproductive population of 2.6 crore remains bereft of care during the critical phases of pregnancy and post-delivery. Read full article here

6. Kandhamal district in Odisha is in news recently for what reason?

a) Lowast literacy rate in India

b) Largest IT park to be established there by Odisa Government

c) Largest tourism project to come there

d) Highest Under Five Mortality Rate in India

D is the right answer.
145 children per 1,000 live births die in Kandhamal!!! What a shame to all of us!!!Read full article here

7. Which Indian state has the lowest dropout rate of school students in the country?

a) Kerala

b) Andhra Pradesh

c) Tamil Nadu

d) Karnadaka

A is the right answer.
Kerala, which stands out from the rest of India with 94 percent literacy rate, has achieved another distinction of having the lowest dropout rate of school students in the country at just 0.53 percent. While the national birth rate figure stands at 22.1 per 1,000, in Kerala it is 14.8 per 1,000. The total number of teachers in schools dropped marginally from 1,68,062 in 2010-11 to 1,66,939 in 2011-12. Another feature highlighted by the report that remained unchanged in the state is that 71.5 percent of all the teachers are women.

8. The newly elected Pope Francis belongs to which nationality?

a) Brazil

b) Argentina

c) England

d) United States

B is the right answer.
Pope Francis laid out the priorities of his pontificate,urging the princes, Presidents, sheiks and thousands of ordinary people attending to protect the environment, the weakest and the poorest and to let tenderness “open up a horizon of hope”. It was a message he has hinted at in his first week as pontiff, when his gestures of simplicity often spoke louder than his words. But on a day when he had the world’s economic, political and religious leadership sitting before him on the steps of St. Peter’s Basilica for the official start of his papacy, the Pope made his point clear. “Please,” he told them. “Let us be protectors of creation, protectors of God’s plan inscribed in nature, protectors of one another and of the environment.”

9. Who won the Man Asian Literary Prize for the year 2012?

a) Tan Tweng Eng

b) Orhan Pamuk

c) Jeet Thayil

d) Jiromi Kawakami

A is the right answer.
Malaysian author Tan Tweng Eng has won this year's Man Asian Literary Prize for "The Garden of Evening Mists," set in the aftermath of the Japanese occupation of Malaysia. This comes as a huge shock. It's such a strong list that I'm speechless," said Tan, who beat four other shortlisted books to win the $30,000 prize. The shortlist included some big names -- Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk, "The Silent House", Indian poet and writer Jeet Thayil, "Narcopolis", Jiromi Kawakami, "The Briefcase" and Musharraf Ali Farooqi, "Between Clay and Dust". Pamuk was the only one not to attend the formal black-tie dinner at Hong Kong's Peninsula Hotel.

10. 2013 BRICS Summit will be held at

a) Durban

b) New Delhi

c) Beijing

d) Brasília

A is the right answer.

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