Current Affairs

Ques 1. Which institution has been established by the United Progressive Alliance Government for boosting the Manufacturing sector?

Ans. National Manufacturing Competitiveness Council (NMCC)
(It has brought out the National Manufacturing Strategy Paper)

Ques 2. When did Sri Lanka adopt the presidential form of government?
Ans 2. 1978

Ques 3. Who is the founder of the Self-Employed Women's Association (SEWA)?
Ans 3 Ela R. Bhatt

4. This bank was established in Lahore in 1943 by Rai Bahadur Lala Sohan Lal, who also became its first Chairman. After Partition, the bank's registered office shifted to Amritsar. Its current head office is in New Delhi. Can you name this bank? ANS-- Oriental Bank of Commerce

5.Can you name the company set up by Prince Charles in the early 1990s to make organic food products? ANS-- Duchy Originals

6. Which company is focussing on long-term goals collectively called the 'Garuda Vision'? (Clue: This has got nothing to do with Indonesia's airliner Garuda!) ANS-- Ranbaxy

7. "Know. Now." This is the base line of a brand, 150 years old, which is in the business of providing information to its customers. Which company?
ANS-- Reuters

8. What was created by Umesh Rao, an artist with JWT, and Bobby Kooka in 1946? ANS--The Air-India Maharajah; Kooka was Air-India's Commercial Director then.

9. What is the real name of Deep Throat, the secret source whose insider guidance was vital to The Washington Post's groundbreaking coverage of the Watergate scandal?
Ans-- W. Mark Felt, FBI's No. 2

(As the bureau's second- and third-ranking official during a period when the FBI was battling for its independence against the administration of President Richard M. Nixon, Felt had the means and the motive to help uncover the web of internal spies, secret surveillance, dirty tricks and coverups that led to Nixon's unprecedented resignation on Aug. 9, 1974, and to prison sentences for some of Nixon's highest-ranking aides.)

10. Names of reporters aided by "Deep Throat"?
Ans-- Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein

11. Which WorldCom chief was found guilty of fraud?
Ans-- Former Worldcom chief executive Bernie Ebbers has been convicted of conspiracy and fraud in connection with the 2002 collapse of the telecoms giant.
(Shareholders lost about $180bn (£94bn) in Worldcom's collapse - the largest bankruptcy in US history - and 20,000 workers lost their jobs. )