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- Ministry of Rural Development
- Government of India and World Bank
- Planning Commission and UNDP
- Ministry of Social Justice
(a) 3 only
(b) 1 only
(c) 2 only
(d) 4 only
The correct answers to the above question in:
Answer: (a)
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Question : 1
Consider the following statements
- The Lal Bahadur Shastri National Award is an annual prestigious award instituted by Lal Bahadur Shastri Institute of Management, Delhi.
- It is awarded to a business leader, management practitioner, public administrator, educator or institution builder for his/her sustained individual contributions for achievements of high professional order and excellence.
- The award was started in 2000.
a) 1, and 3 only
b) 1 and 2 only
c) 2 and 3 only
d) 1,2 and 3
Answer »Answer: (b)
He award was started in 1999.
Question : 2
Who was the recipient of the Dada Saheb Phalke Award for the year 2010 ?
a) K. Balachandar
b) Javed Akhtar
c) A.R. Rahman
d) V.K. Murthy
Answer »Answer: (a)
Legendary Cinematographer V K Murthy has been conferred the 2008 Dada Saheb Phalke Award. Veteran producer and Guinness record holder Daggubati Ramanaidu has conferred the 2009 Dada Saheb Phalke Award on October 22, 2010.
Director K Balachander has conferred the 2010 Dada Saheb Phalke Award. Soumitra Chatterjee has conferred the 2011 Dada Saheb Phalke Award on May 3, 2012.
Note: 2016 Dadasaheb Phalke award recipient is filmmaker Kasinathuni Viswanath who will be honoured at the 64th National Film Awards ceremony.
Question : 3
Who of the following pairs of Nobel Laureates in Physics was awarded the 2010 Nobel Prize?
a) David Gross, Frank Wilczek
b) Albert Fert, Peter Grunberg
c) John C Mather, George F. Smoot
d) Andre Geim, Konstantin Novoselov
Answer »Answer: (d)
Russian-born scientists Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov shared the Nobel Prize in physics for “groundbreaking experiments” with an atom-thin material expected to play a large role in electronics. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences cited Geim and Novoselov, who are both linked to universities in Britain, for experiments with graphene, a flake of carbon that is only one atom thick.
Experiments with graphene could lead to the development of new material and “the manufacture of innovative electronics,” including faster computers, the citation said. Geim, 51, is a Dutch national while Novoselov, 36, holds British and Russian citizenship. Both are natives of Russia and started their careers in physics there.
Note: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics 2016 with
- one half to David J. Thouless(University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA) and
- the other half to F. Duncan M. Haldane(Princeton University, NJ, US) and
- J. Michael Kosterlitz(Brown University, Providence, RI, USA)
“for theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter”.
Question : 4
Who was the recipient of the Dada Saheb Phalke Award for 2014 ?
a) Shashikant Kapoor
b) Shakti Kapoor
c) Shashi Kapoor
d) Shekhar Kapoor
Answer »Answer: (c)
Veteran actor Shashi Kapoor was, in March 2015, honoured with the Dada Saheb Phalke award 2014, India’s highest honour in cinema. He is the 46th winner of the honour. In 2011, he was honoured with the Padma Bhushan; he is also a proud recipient of three National Film Awards.
Note: 2016 Dadasaheb Phalke award recipient is filmmaker Kasinathuni Viswanath who will be honoured at the 64th National Film Awards ceremony.
Question : 5
Consider the following statements:
- Devika Rani was the first Indian to win Dadasaheb Phalke Award.
- Bhanu Athaiya was the first Indian Oscar Winner.
- Arundhati Roy is the first Indian to win Booker Prize.
a) 2 and 3
b) 1, 2 and 3
c) 1 and 2
d) 2 Only
Answer »Answer: (b)
Question : 6
Which of the following statements are correct about International Children’s Peace Prize?
- The prize is an initiative of KidsRights Foundation.
- The Prize was launched in the year 2005.
- The prize for 2014 has been awarded to Neha Gupta, an Indian citizen.
a) 2 and 3 only
b) 1 and 3 only
c) 1 and 2 only
d) All of these
Answer »Answer: (c)
Neha Gupta, the winner of International Children’s Peace Prize-2014, is a citizen of the USA.
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