Exam

FORTH COMING EXAMINATION 2011

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FORTH COMING EXAMINATION 2011

April
● Prathama Bank Office Assistant Exam. (April 24)
● Wainganga Krishna Gramin Bank Office Assistant (Multipurpose) Exam. (April 24)
● Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya Entrance Exam. (Class VI) (April)
● Rajasthan Sub-Inspector Police Combined Competitive Exam., 2010 (April/May)

May
● C.B.S.E. All India Engineering Entrance Exam. (AIEEE) (May 1)
● S.S.C. Indo-Tibetan Border Police Force (ITBPF) Constables (G.D.) Recruitment Exam. (May 1)
● S.S.C. Assam Rifles Rifleman (General Duty) Recruitment Exam. (May 1)
● U.P. Polytechnic Joint Entrance Exam., 2011 (May 8-10)
● Prathama Bank Officer Junior Management Scale-I Exam. (May 8)
● Andhra Bank Probationary Officers Recruitment Exam. (May 8)
● Wainganga Krishna Gramin Bank Officer (Scale-I) Exam. (May 8)
● Allahabad Bank Clerical Cadre Recruitment Exam., 2011-12 (May 8)
● Himachal Pradesh Judicial Service Competitive (Pre.) Exam., 2011 (May 8)
● Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya Entrance Exam. (Class IX) (May 9)
● C.B.S.E. All India Pre-Medical and Pre-Dental (Mains) Exam., 2011 (May 15)
● Gurgaon Gramin Bank Office Assistant Group ‘B’ Exam. (May 15)
● Andhra Bank Clerical Cadre Exam. (May 15)
● Syndicate Bank Asstt. Manager Rural Development (AMRD) in JMGS-I Exam., 2011-12 (May 15)
● Common Law Admission Test (CLAT), 2011 (May 15)
● Gurgaon Gramin Bank Officer JMG Scale-I Group ‘A’ Exam. (May 18)
● New India Assurance Co. Administrative Officers Exam. (May 22)
● Haryana Gramin Bank Office Assistant Examination (May 22)
● Jhabua-Dhar Kshetriya Gramin Bank Clerk-cum-Cashier (Office Assistant) Exam. (May 22)
● Indian Overseas Bank Probationary Officers Recruitment Exam. (May 22)
● I.E.R.T. Entrance Exam., 2011 (Allahabad) ( Engg./ Technology Diploma Course) (May 24) (Closing Date : 19 April, 2011)
● Corporation Bank Probationary Officers Exam. (May 29)
● Jhabua-Dhar Kshetriya Gramin Bank Officer (Scale-I ) Exam. (May 29)
● Haryana Gramin Bank Officer Junior Management (Scale-I ) Examination (May 29)
● Indian Overseas Bank Clerk Exam. (May 29)
June
● U.P. B.Ed. Joint Entrance Exam., 2011-12 (June 2)
● S.S.C. Central Police Organisation Constable Recruitment Exam. (B.S.F., C.I.S.F., C.R.P.F. & S.S.B.) (June 5)
● U.P.S.C. Civil Services Preliminary Exam, 2011 (June 12)
● S.S.C. Combined Graduate Level Examination, 2011 (Tier-I) (June 19 & 26) (Closing Date : 15 April, 2011)
● Chhattisgarh Civil Judge (Entry Level) Preliminary Examination., 2011 (June 26)

OBJECTIVE QUESTIONS FOR ECONOMICS, TAXES MONEY AND BANKING

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OBJECTIVE QUESTIONS FOR ECONOMICS, TAXES MONEY AND BANKING

Choose the correct option from the choices given under the question.

1. The largest revenue in India is obtained from __________

1. Railways 2. Excise Duty

3. Sales Tax 4. Direct Taxes

ANSWER: 2

2. The tax levied by Central Government and collected by State Government is

________

1. Stamp Duty 2. Excise Duty

3. Income Tax 4. Gift Tax

ANSWER: 1

3. What is the major share in revenue of State Governments?

1. Stamp Duty 2. Excise Duty

3. Sales Tax 4. Income Tax

ANSWER: 3

4. The tax levied by Local Governments i.e. Municipal Corporations and

municipalities is ____________

1. Income Tax 2. Wealth Tax

3. House Tax 4. Gift Tax

ANSWER: 3

5. The tax collected by the State Governments and given to local bodies is

__________

1. Income Tax 2. Wealth Tax

3. House Tax 4. Professional Tax

ANSWER: 4

6. The period for Call Money is ________

1. 10 to 15days 2. 1 to 14 Days

3. 15 to 30 Days 4. One Month

ANSWER: 2

7. Who regulates the money circulation in India?

1. State Bank Of India 2. Reserve Bank Of India

3. NABARD 4. Commercial Banks

ANSWER: 2

8. Which of the following is not an organized sector in India?

1. Nationalised Banks 2. Regional Rural Banks

3. Cooperative Banks 4. Chits and Money lenders

ANSWER: 4

9. Who will settle the grievances of customers of banks?

1. Reserve Bank of India 2. State Bank of India

3. Local Courts 4. Ombuds Men

ANSWER: 4

10. Who introduced the Banking Ombudsmen Scheme?

1. RBI 2. SBI

3. Ministry of Finance 4. NABARD

ANSWER: 1

11. When was OMBUDS MEN SCHEME first introduced?

1. November 2006 2. October 1981

3. June 1995 4. January 1998

ANSWER: 3

12. Which was the firth Bank corporated by the Indians? (1881)

1. Imperial Bank of India 2. State Bank Of India

3. Avadh Commercial Bank 4. Reserve Bank of India

ANSWER: 3

13. When was the Avadh Commercial Bank established?

1. 1881 2. 1894

3. 1898 4. 1899

ANSWER: 1

14. When was Reserve Bank of India established?

1. 1920 2. 1925

3. 1935 4. 1948

15. When was Reserve Bank of India Nationalised?

1. 1947 2. 1948

3. 1949 4. 1950

ANSWER: 3

16. When was Indian Banking Act come into force?

1. 1948 2. 1949

3. 1950 4. 1951

ANSWER: 2

17. Imperial Banks were amalgamated and changed as _________

1. Reserve Bank of India 2. State Bank of India

3. Subsidiary Banks 4. Union Bank of India

ANSWER: 2

18. When was Imperial Bank was Changed as State Bank of India?

1. January 1st 1935 2. Feb 26 1947

3. July 1st 1955 4. July 1st 1959

ANSWER: 3

19. How many banks were first nationalised?

1. 10 2. 12

3. 14 4. 16

20. When was the second phase of nationalisation of banks done?

1. 9th July 1969 2. 10th July 1968

3. 16th August 1985 4. 15th April, 1980

ANSWER: 4

21. How many banks were in second phase of nationalisation?

1. 4 2. 5

3. 6 4. 7

ANSWER: 3

22. Who will act as the banker to the Government of India?

1. State Bank of India 2. Reserve Bank of India

3. NABARD 4. Nationalised Banks

ANSWER: 2

23. Where is the Head Quarter of Reserve Bank of India?

1. Mumbai 2. Delhi

3. Kolkotta 4. Ahmedabad

ANSWER: 1

24. Who was first governor of Reserve Bank of India?

1. K.A. Narasimham 2. Malhotra

3. A.K. Vadia 4. A.B.A Smith

ANSWER: 4

25. When was Lead Bank Scheme introduced?

1. 1967 2. 1968

3. 1969 4. 1974

ANSWER: 3

General Socio-Economic and Banking Awareness For Bank Probationary Officers Exam

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General Socio-Economic & Banking Awareness For Bank Probationary

Officers Exam

1. India recently proposed with which of the following countries to develop

solar city ?

(A) Russia

(B) Japan

(C) U.S.A.

(D) Poland

2. Which of the following has been brought within the ambit of the Right to

Information by the recent Delhi High Court Verdict?

(A) President of India

(B) Prime Minister of India

(C) Chief Justice of the Supreme Court

(D) None of the above

3. The Jawahar Lal National Solar Mission recently launched by Prime Minister

Dr. Manmohan Singh aims at generating/adding 20,000 Megawatt of power by—

(A) 2015

(B) 2022

(D) 2021

4. The full form of BVRAAM is—

(A) Beyond Visual Range Airto- Air Missile

(B) Beyond Visionary Resistence Air-to-Air Machine

(C) Beyond Vision Random Airto- Air Missile

(D) None of the above

5. As per a recent survey, which of the following Indian Institutes of

Technology has been ranked on

the top ?

(A) IIT Kanpur

(B) IIT Madras

(C) IIT Kharagpur

(D) IIT Hyderabad

6. The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) recently approved the

setting up in the country of—

(A) 375 Model Colleges

(B) 374 Model Colleges

(C) 372 Model Colleges

(D) 380 Model Colleges

7. As per the New York Times recently conducted survey the fourth best

destination in the list of 31 places to go in 2010 is—

(A) Mumbai

(B) Mysore

(C) Agra

(D) Lucknow

8. Mohd. Najib bin Tun Abdul Razak is the Prime Minister of—

(A) Indonesia

(B) Malaysia

(C) Sudan

(D) Egypt

9. Recently ISRO (Indian Space Research Organisation) tested successfully its

most powerful rocket motor. It was—

(A) S-500

(B) S-200

(C) S-700

(D) S-300

10. Lee Myung-bak is the President of—

(A) South Korea

(B) Singapore

(C) Hong Kong

(D) North Korea

11. India recently celebrated its—

(A) 60th Republic Day

(B) 61st Republic Day

(C) 59th Republic Day

(D) None of the above

12. Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage (INTACH) recently signed

a Memorandum of Understanding with—

(A) China

(B) Japan

(C) Mongolia

(D) None of the above

13. The high level panel formed in Nepal to push Peace Process in Nepal is

headed by—

(A) Pushpa Kumar Dahal

(B) Girija Prasad Koirala

(C) Jalanath Khanal

(D) None of the above

14. Sebastian Pinera has been elected the President on January 17, 2010 of which

one of the following South American Countries ?

(A) Chile

(B) Ecuador

(C) Venezuela

(D) Peru

15. Protocol 14 which recently came into news is related to—

(A) UN sanction against Iran

(B) European Human Rights

Convention

(C) UN initiative on climate

change control

(D) None of the above

16. China has recorded growht for 2009—

(A) 8·5% (B) 9·2%

(C) 8·7% (D) 7·5%

17. World Economic Forum Meeting this year was held in—

(A) Geneva (B) Davos

(C) London (D) Paris

18. World Social Forum Meeting in January 2010 was held in—

(A) Mexico

(B) Mumbai

(C) Porto Alegre

(D) Doha

19. On January 28, 2010, five persons for the murder of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman

were executed Mujibur Rahman was the first President of—

(A) Afghanistan

(B) Maldives

(C) Pakistan

(D) Bangladesh

20. Which of the following states has recently signed three agreements with

World Bank ?

(A) Orissa

(B) Andhra Pradesh

(C) Karnataka

(D) Kerala

21. Which of the following recently acquired Chocolate Bar-maker Cadbury ?

(A) Tata Industries

(B) Kraft Foods

(C) Reliance

(D) Convergys

22. Which of the following States/ UTs recently approved its new industrial

policy ?

(A) Delhi

(B) Puducherry

(C) Rajasthan

(D) Madhya Pradesh

23. SAARC International University is being set up at—

(A) Kathmandu

(B) Delhi

(C) Dhaka

(D) Colombo

24. The new National Security Advisor (NSA) is—

(A) J. N. Dixit

(B) M. K. Narayan

(C) Shiv Shankar Menon

(D) V. K. Singh

25. Who among the following is not

correctly matched ?

Governor State

(A) K. Sankarnarayanan — Maharashtra

(B) Shivraj Patil — Jharkhand

(C) E. S. L. Narsimhan — Andhra Pradesh

(D) Urmila Singh — Himachal Pradesh

26. V. K. Singh is the new Chief of—

(A) Army Staff

(B) Air Force

(C) Navy

(D) None of the above

27. The new Prasar Bharti Chief is—

(A) Urmila Singh

(B) Mrinal Pande

(C) Prabha Rao

(D) Shiv Shankar Menon

28. Reena Kaushal is the first Indian woman to reach—

(A) South Pole

(B) North Pole

(C) Mt. Everest

(D) None of the above

29. The 2008 Dada Saheb Phalke Award has been conferred on—

(A) Dilip Kumar

(B) Dev Anand

(C) V. K. Murthy

(D) None of the above

30. As per 56th National Awards recently announced, the best feature film is—

(A) A Wednesday

(B) Antaheen

(C) Oye Lucky

(D) Aai Kot Nai

31. As per 56th National Film Awards for 2008, which of the following is

incorrectly matched?

Awardee Award

(A) Bala — Best Director

(B) Arjun Rampal — Best Supporting Actor

(C) Upendra Limye — Best Actor

(D) Shreya Ghoshal — Best Supporting Actress

32. Who has won the Best Actress Award under 56th National Film Awards for 2008

(A) Rekha

(B) Priyanka Chopra

(C) Kangana Ranaut

(D) Kareena Kapur

33. Who among the following has not been given Padma Vibhushan Award the second

highest

civilian award of India this year ?

(A) Zohra Sehgal

(B) Prathap C. Reddy

(C) Umalayapuram Shivaraman

(D) Amir Khan

34. Antarctica recently had its first—

(A) Biggest wind farm

(B) Solar power project

(C) Observatory

(D) None of the above

35. Port-Au-Prince is the capital of—

(A) Jamaica

(B) Haiti

(C) Venezuela

(D) None of the above

36. World Consumer Rights Day is observed on—

(A) March 20 (B) March 15

(C) March 22 (D) March 23

37. The winner of Ranji Trophy this year is—

(A) Goa

(B) Mumbai

(C) Punjab

(D) West Bengal

38. The winner (men’s category) in Mumbai Marathon is—

(A) Siraj Gena

(B) Denis Ndiso

(C) Both (A) and (B)

(D) None of the above

39. The runner up in Australian Open Tennis Championship for 2010 (women’s

singles) is—

(A) Serena Williams

(B) Venus Williams

(C) Justine Henin

(D) None of the above

40. Which of the following won the National Volleyball Championship ?

(A) Tamil Nadu

(B) Punjab

(C) Karnataka

(D) Kerala

Answers with Hints

1. (B) A Japanese delegation led by Japan’s Internal Affairs and Communications
Kazuhiro Hargguchi on January 6, 2010 met the Union Minister for New and
Renewable Energy Farooq Abdullah and decided to jointly develop a solar city in

India.

2. (C) 3. (B)

4. (A) India on January 11, 2010 successfully carried out two ballistic flight
tests of Astra, Beyond Visual Range Air-to-Air Missile (BVRAAM) from the

Integrated Test Range (ITR) at Balasore, Orissa.

5. (C) 6. (B) 7. (B)

8. (B) Malaysian Prime Minister Mohd. Najib bin Tun Abdul Razak was on a five

day visit to India during January 2010.

9. (B)

10. (A) South Korean President Lee Myung-bak was the Chief Guest at the Republic

Day in India this year.

11. (B) 12. (C)

13. (B) After prolonged a stalemate, the major political parties in Nepal on
January 8, 2010 decided to form a high level mechanism–a three member panel. The
panel would focus on speeding up the peace process and writing the new

Constitution of Nepal.

Bank of Baroda Probationary Officers Exam Solved Paper

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Bank of Baroda Probationary Officers

Exam Solved Paper

General Socio-Economic & Banking

Awareness

1. RBI’s open market operation transactions are carried out

with a view to regulate—

(A) Liquidity in the economy

(B) Prices of essential commodities

(D) Borrowing power of the banks

(E) All the above

2. When more than one banks are allowing credit facilities

to one party in coordination with each other under a formal arrangement, the

arrangement is generally known as—

(A) Participation

(B) Consortium

(D) Multiple banking

(E) None of these

3. Open market operations, one of the measures taken by RBI

in order to control credit expansion in the economy means —

(A) Sale or purchase of Govt. securities

(B) Issuance of different types of bonds

(D) To make available direct finance to borrowers

(E) None of these

4. The bank rate means—

(A) Rate of interest charged by commercial banks from

borrowers

(B) Rate of interest at which commercial banks discounted

bills of their borrowers

deposits

(D) Rate at which RBI purchases or rediscounts bills of

exchange of commercial banks

(E) None of these

5. What is an Indian Depository Receipt ?

(A) A deposit account with a Public Sector Bank

(B) A depository account with any of Depositories in India

by an Indian depository against underlying equity shares of the issuing company

(D) An instrument in the form of deposit receipt issued by

Indian depositories

(E) None of these

6. An instrument that derives its value from a specified

underlying (currency, gold, stocks etc.) is known as—

(A) Derivative

(B) Securitisation Receipts

(D) Factoring

(E) Venture Capital Funding

7. Fiscal deficit is—

(A) total income less Govt. borrowing

(B) total payments less total receipts

(D) total expenditure less total receipts excluding

borrowing

(E) None of these

8. In the Capital Market, the term arbitrage is used with

reference to—

(A) purchase of securities to cover the sale

(B) sale of securities to reduce the loss on purchase

profits from price

(D) variation in different markets

(E) Any of the above

9. Reverse repo means—

(A) Injecting liquidity by the Central Bank of a country

through purchase of Govt. securities

(B) Absorption of liquidity from the market by sale of

Govt. securities

growth rate

(D) Improving the position of availability of the

securities in the market

(E) Any of the above

10. The stance of RBI monetary policy is—

(A) inflation control with adequate liquidity for growth

(B) improving credit quality of the Banks

(D) supporting investment demand in the economy

(E) Any of the above

11. Currency Swap is an instrument to manage—

(A) Currency risk

(B) interest rate risk

(D) cash flows in different currencies

(E) All of the above

12. ‘Sub-prime’ refers to—

(A) lending done by banks at rates below PLR

(B) funds raised by the banks at sub-Libor rates

per Banker’s Almanac

(D) lending done by financing institutions including banks

to customers not meeting with normally required credit appraisal standards

(E) All of the above

13. Euro Bond is an instrument—

(A) issued in the European market

(B) issued in Euro Currency

currency of the Bond

(D) All of the above

(E) None of these

14. Money Laundering normally involves—

(A) placement of funds

(B) layering of funds

(D) All of (A), (B) and (C)

(E) None of (A), (B) and (C)

15. The IMF and the World Bank were conceived as

institutions to—

(A) strengthen international economic co-operation and to

help create a more stable and prosperous global economy

(B) IMF promotes international monetary cooperation

and poverty reduction

(D) All of (A), (B) and (C)

(E) None of (A), (B) and (C)

16. Capital Market Regulator is—

(A) RBI

(B) IRDA

(D) BSE

(E) SEBI

17. In the term BRIC, R stands for—

(A) Romania

(B) Rajithan

(D) Regulation

(E) None of these

18. FDI refers to—

(A) Fixed Deposit Interest

(B) Fixed Deposit Investment

(D) Future Derivative Investment

(E) None of these

19. What is Call Money ?

(A) Money borrowed or lent for a day or over night

(B) Money borrowed for more than one day but upto 3 days

(D) Money borrowed for more than one day but upto 14 days

(E) None of these

20. Which is the first Indian company to be listed in

NASDAQ ?

(A) Reliance

(B) TCS

(D) Infosys

(E) None of these

21. Which of the following is the Regulator of the credit

rating agencies in India ?

(A) RBI

(B) SBI

(D) SEBI

(E) None of these

22. Who is Brand Endorsing Personality of Bank of Baroda ?

(A) Juhi Chawla

(B) Kiran Bedi

(D) Kapil Dev

(E) None of these

23. The branding line of Bank of Baroda is—

(A) International Bank of India

(B) India’s International Bank

(D) World’s local Bank

(E) None of these

24. The logo of Bank of Baroda is known as—

(A) Sun of Bank of Baroda

(B) Baroda Sun

(D) Sunlight of Bank of Baroda

(E) None of these

25. Which of the following statements(s) is/are True about

the exports of China which is a close competitor of India ?

(i) China’s economic success is basically on the fact that

it exports cheaper goods to rich nations like the USA, etc.

(ii) In the year 2007 China’s exports became almost 40% of

its GDP.

(iii) When compared to India China’s share in the World

Exports is more than 30% whereas India’s share is mere 6% of the global exports.

(A) Only (i)

(B) Only (ii)

(D) All (i), (ii) and (iii)

(E) None of these

26. One of the major challenges banking industry is facing

these days is money laundering. Which of the following acts/norms are launched

by the banks to prevent money laundering in general ?

(A) Know Your Customer Norms

(B) Banking Regulation Act

(D) Narcotics and Psychotropic Substance Act

(E) None of these

27. Lot of Banks in India these days are offering M-Banking

Facility to their customers. What is the full form of ‘M’ in ‘M-Banking’ ?

(A) Money

(B) Marginal

(D) Mutual Fund

(E) Mobile Phone

28. Which of the following is/are true about the ‘Sub-Prime

Crisis’ ? (The term was very much in news recently.)

(i) It is a mortgage crisis referring to credit default by

the borrowers.

(ii) Sub-Prime borrowers were those borrowers who were

rated low and were high risk borrowers.

(iii) This crisis originated because of negligence in

credit rating of the borrowers.

(A) Only (i)

(B) Only (ii)

(D) All (i), (ii) and (iii)

(E) None of these

29. Which of the following is not the part of the structure

of the Financial System in India ?

(A) Industrial Finance

(B) Agricultural Finance

(D) Development Finance

(E) Personal Finance

30. Which of the following is not the part of the scheduled

banking structure in India ?

(A) Money Lenders

(B) Public Sector Banks

(D) Regional Rural Banks

(E) State Co-operative Banks

31. As we all know Govt. of India collects tax revenue on

various activities in the country. Which of the following is a part of the tax

revenue of the Govt. ?

(i) Tax on Income

(ii) Tax on Expenditure

(iii) Tax on Property or Capital Asset

(iv) Tax on Goods and Services

(A) Both (i) and (iii) only

(B) Both (ii) and (iv) only

(D) Only (ii), (iii) and (iv)

(E) None of these

32. We very frequently read about Special Economic Zones (SEZs)

in newspapers. These SEZs were established with which of the following

objectives ?

(i) To attract foreign investment directly.

(ii) To protect domestic market from direct competition

from multinationals.

(iii) To provide more capital to agricultural and allied

activities.

(A) Only (i)

(B) Only (ii)

(D) All (i), (ii) and (iii)

(E) None of these

33. Which of the following groups of countries has almost

50% share in global emission of carbon every year ?

(A) US, China, India, South Africa

(B) India, China, Russia, Britain

(D) US, Russia, China & India

(E) None of these

34. Which of the following correctly describes the concept

of ‘Nuclear Bank’ floated by International Atomic Energy Agency ?

(i) It is a nuclear fuel bank to be shared by all the

nations jointly.

(ii) It is a facility to help nations in enrichment of

uranium.

(iii) It is an agency which will keep a close vigil on the

nuclear programme of all the nations.

(A) Only (i)

(B) Only (ii)

(D) Only (iii)

(E) Both (i) and (ii) only

35. Many times we read about Future Trading in newspapers.

What is ‘Future Trading’ ?

(i) It is nothing but a trade between any two stock

exchanges wherein it is decided to purchase the stocks of each other on a fixed

price throughout the year.

(ii) It is an agreement between two parties to buy or sell

an underlying asset in the future at a predetermined price.

(iii) It is an agreement between stock exchanges that they

will not trade the stocks of each other under any circumstances in future or for

a given period of time.

(A) Only (i)

(B) Only (ii)

(D) All (i), (ii) and (iii)

(E) None of these

36. Inflation in India is measured on which of the

following indexes/indicators ?

(A) Cost of Living Index (COLI)

(B) Consumer Price Index (CPI)

(D) Wholesale Price Index (WPI)

(E) None of these

37. As per the reports published in the newspapers a

section of society staged a demonstration at the venue of the G-8 Summit

recently. What was/were the issues towards which these demonstrators were trying

to draw the attention of G-8 leaders ?

(i) Food shortage which has taken 50 million people in its

grip.

(ii) Inflation which has gone up substantially across the

Globe.

(iii) USA’s consistent presence in Iraq.

(A) Only (i)

(B) Only (ii)

(D) Both (i) and (ii) only

(E) None of these

38. Hillary Clinton formally suspended her campaign to

ensure election of who amongst the following for the next President of USA ?

(A) George Bush

(B) Barack Obama

(D) Bill Clinton

(E) None of these

39. Hugo Chavez whose name was recently in news is the—

(A) President of Congo

(B) Prime Minister of Uganda

(D) Prime Minister of Brazil

(E) None of these

40. The Govt. of India has raised the amount of the Loan

Waiver to the farmers by 20%. Now the amount is nearly—

(A) Rs. 60,000 crore

(B) Rs. 65,000 crore

(D) Rs. 76,000 crore

(E) Rs. 80,000 crore

41. Delimitation Commission has made a recommendation that

next Census should be Panchayat-wise. When is the next Census due ?

(A) 2010

(B) 2011

(D) 2013

(E) 2015

42. The World Health Organisation has urged that

advertisements of which of the following should be banned to protect youth from

bad effects of the same ?

(A) Tobacco

(B) Alcoholic drinks

(D) Soft drinks with chemical preservatives

(E) None of these

43. Which of the following countries has allocated a huge

amount of US $ 10 billion to provide relief to its earthquake victims ?

(A) Japan

(B) South Korea

(D) South Africa

(E) None of these

44. India and Nepal have many agreements on sharing of the

water of various rivers. Which of the following rivers is not covered under

these agreements ?

(A) Kosi

(B) Gandak

(D) Mahakali

(E) All these rivers are covered

45. Which of the following names is not closely associated

with space programme of India or any other country ?

(A) CARTOSAT

(B) NLS - 5

(D) GSLV

(E) SCOPE

46. Vijay Hazare Trophy is associated with the game of—

(A) Hockey

(B) Cricket

(D) Football

(E) Golf

47. Which of the following was the theme of the Olympic

Torch ?

(A) Journey of Harmony

(B) Green World Clean World

(D) Journey for Hunger-free World

(E) None of these

48. Which of the following schemes is not a social

development Scheme ?

(A) Indira Awas Yojana

(B) Mid Day Meal

(D) Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan

(E) All are social schemes

49. Which of the following is not a member of the ASEAN ?

(A) Malaysia

(B) Indonesia

(D) Britain

(E) Singapore

50. Which of the following Awards are given for excellence

in the field of Sports ?

(A) Kalinga Prize

(B) Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award

(D) Pulitzer Prize

(E) None of these

Answers :

1. (E) 2. (B) 3. (A) 4. (D) 5. (C) 6. (C) 7. (D) 8. (C) 9.

(A) 10. (E)

11. (D) 12. (D) 13. (C) 14. (D) 15. (D) 16. (E) 17. (C) 18.

21. (D) 22. (E) 23. (B) 24. (B) 25. (C) 26. (E) 27. (E) 28.

(D) 29. (E) 30. (A)

31. (C) 32. (A) 33. (D) 34. (B) 35. (B) 36. (D) 37. (B) 38.

(B) 39. (C) 40. (A)

41. (B) 42. (A) 43. (C) 44. (C) 45. (E) 46. (B) 47. (A) 48.

Current Who’s Who :2010

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Current Who’s Who :2010

UNION GOVERNMENT

Ms. Pratibha Devisingh Patil : President (From July 25, 2007)

Mohammad Hamid Ansari : Vice-President

UNION COUNCIL OF MINISTERS

CABINET MINISTERS

Dr. Manmohan Singh : Prime Minister and also in-charge of Ministers/Departmenters

not specifically allocated to the charge of any Minister Viz. : (i) Ministry of

Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions; (ii) Ministry of Planning; (iii)

Department of Atomic Energy; (iv) Department of Space and ; (v) Ministry of

Culture

Mr. Pranab Mukherjee : Finance

Mr. Shared Pawar : Agriculture; Food and Civil Supplies; Consumer Affairs and

Public Distribution

Mr. A.K. Antony : Defence

Mr. P. Chaidambaram : Home Affairs

Ms. Mamata Banerjee : Railways

Mr. S.M. Krishna : External Affairs

Mr. Ghulam Nabi Azad : Health and Family

Mr. Sushil Kumar Shinde : Power

Mr. M. Veerappa Moily : Law and Justice

Mr. S. Jaipal Reddy : Urban Development

Mr. Kamal Nath : Road Transport and Highways

Mr. Vayalar Ravi : Overseas Indian Affairs

Mr. Murli Deora : Petroleum and Natural Gas

Mr. Kapil Sibal : Human Resource Development

Ms. Ambika Soni : Information and Broadcasting

Mr. B.K. Handique : Mines; Development of North Eastern Region

Mr. Anand Sharma : Commerce and Industry

Mr. Virbhadra Singh : Steel

Mr. Vilasrao Deshmukh : Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises

Mr. C.P. Joshi : Rural Development and Panchayati Raj

Kumari Selja : Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation; Tourism

Mr. Subodh kant Sahay : Food Processing Industries

Dr. M.S. Gill : Youth Affairs and Sports

Mr. G.K. Vasan : Shipping

Mr. Dayanidhi Maran : Textiles

Dr. Farooq Abdullah : New and Renewable Energy

Mr. Mallikarjun Kharge : Labour and Employment

Mr. Pawan K. Bansal : Parliamentary Affairs; Water Resources Development

Mr. Mukul Wasnik : Social Justice and Empowerment

Mr. Kantilal Bhuria : Tribal Affairs

Mr. M.K. Azhagiri : Chemicals and Fertilizers

Mr. A. Raja : Communication and Information Technology

MINISTER OF STATES (Independent Charge)

Mr. Praful Patel : Civil Aviation

Mr. Prithviraj Chavan : Science and Technology, Earth Sciences; Prime Minister’s

Office

Mr. Sriprakash Jaiswal : Coal; Statistics and Programme Implementation

Mr. Salman Khursheed : Corporate Affairs and Minority Affairs

Mr. Dinsha J Patel : Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises

Ms. Krishna Tirath : Women and Child Development

Mr. Jairam Ramesh : Environment and Forests

MINISTERS OF STATE

Mr. Srikant Jena : Chemicals and Fertilizers

Mr. E. Ahmed : Railways

Mr. Mullappally Ramachandran : Home Affairs

Mr. V. Narayansaamy : Planning and Parliamentary Affairs

Mr. Jyotiraditya Madhavrao Scindia : Commerce and Industry

Ms. D. Purandeswari : Human Resource Development

Mr. K.H. Muniyappa : Railways

Mr. Ajay Maken : Home Affairs

Ms. Panabaka Lakshmi : Textiles

Mr. Namo Narain Meena : Finance

Mr. M.M. Pallam Raju : Defense

Mr. Saugata Ray : Urban Development

Mr. Jitin Prasada : Petroleum and Natural Gas

Mr. S.S. Palanimanickam : Finance

Mr. A. Sai Prathap : Steel

Ms. Preneet Kaur : External Affairs

Mr. Gurdas Kamat : Communications and Information Technology

Mr. Harish Rawat : Labour and Employment

Prof. K.V. Thomas : Agriculture; Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution

Mr. Bharatisinh Solanki : Power

Mr. Mahadev S. Khandela : Road Transport and Highways

Mr. Dinesh Trivedi : Health and Family Welfare

Mr. Sisir Adhikari : Rural Development

Mr. Sultan Ahmed : Tourism

Mr. Mukul Roy : Shipping

Mr. Mohan Jatua : Information and Broadcasting

Mr. D. Napoleon : Social Justice and Empowerment

Dr. S. Jagathrakshakan : Information and Broadcasting

Mr. S. Gandhiselvan : Health and Family Welfare

Mr. Tusharbhai Chaudhary : Tribal Affairs

Mr. Sachin Pilot : Communication and Information Technology

Mr. Arun Yadav : Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises

Mr. Pratik Prakashbapu Patil : Youth Affairs and Sports

Mr. R.P.N. Singh : Road Transport and Highways

Mr. Sashi Tharoor : External Affairs

Mr. Vincent Pala : Water Resources

Mr. Pradeep Jain : Rural Development

Mr. Agatha Sangma : Rural Development

HEAD OF IMPORTANT OFFICES INDIA:

CHIEF OF ARMED FORCES

Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces : President Pratibha Devisingh Patil

Chief of the Army Staff : General V.K.Sinh (From April 1, 2010)

Chief of the Air Staff : Air Chief Marshal Pradeep Vasant Naik (May 31, 2009)

Chief of the Naval Staff : Admiral Nirmal Kumar Verma (August 31, 2009)

Commander-in-Chief Strategic Forces : Vice-Admiral Vijay Shankar

Chief of Integrated Defence Staff : Vice Admiral Raman Puri

CONSTITUTIONAL & OTHERS

Rajya Sabha, Chairman : Md. Hamid Ansari

Rajya Sabha, Deputy chairman : Mr. K. Rahman Khan

Speaker of Lok Sabha : Ms. Meira Kumar

Leader of Opposition (Lok Sabha) : Mr. Lal Krishna Advani

Chairperson of Congress Parliamentary Party : Ms. Sonia Gandhi

Leader of Opposition (Rajya Sabha) : Mr. Arun Jaitely

Chief Election Commissioner : Mr. Navin Chawla

Comptroller and Auditor-General of India : Mr. Vinod Rai

Deputy Speaker of Lok Sabha : Mr. Charanjit Singh Atwal

Election Commissioner : Mr. S Y Quaraishi

Election Commissioner : Mr. VS Sampath

Secretary General, Rajya Sabha : Mr. Vivek Kumar Agnihotri

Lok Sabha, Secretary General : Mr. P D T Achary

OFFICERS OF UNION GOVERNMENT

Cabinet Secretary : Mr. K.M. Chandrasekhar

Principal Secretary to Prime Minister : Mr. T K A Nair

National Security Adviser and Special adviser to PM (Internal Security) : Mr. M

K Naryanan

Deputy National Security Adviser : Mr. Vijay Nambiar

Scientific Adviser to Defence Minister and Secretary, Defence Research and

Development Organisation (DRDO) : Mr. V K Saraswat (September 1, 2009)

Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government : Dr. R Chidambaram

Foreign Secretary : Ms. Nirupama Rao

Home Secretary : Mr. Gopal Krishna Pillai (June 30, 2009)

Defence Secretary : Mr. Vijay Singh

Finance Secretary : Mr. Ashok Chawla

Information and Broadcasting Secretary : Mr. Surendra Arora

Chairman, Economic Advisory Council to Prime Minister : Mr. C Rangarajan

Registrar-General of India and Census Commissioner : Mr. D K Sikri

Chief Vigilance Commissioner : Mr. Pratyush Sinha

Principal Information Officer, Government of India : Mr. Saheb Singh

JUDICIARY

Chief Justice of India (From January 14, 2007) : Mr. Justice KG Balakrishnan

Attorney General of India : Mr. Goolam Essaji Vahanvati (June 8, 2009)

Chairman Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) : Mr. Justice Ashok Agarwal

Solicitor-General of India : Mr. Gopal Subramaniam (June 15, 2009)

Additional Solicitor General of India : Indira Jaisingh (June 30, 2009) First

Woman to hold post

HEAD OF COMMISSIONS

Chairman, Planning Commission : Dr. Manmohan Singh

Deputy Chairman, Planning Commission : Dr. Montek Singh Ahluwalia

Chairman, Atomic Energy Commission and Secretary, Department of Atomic Energy :

Mr. Anil Kakodhar

Chairman, Space Commission and Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) : Mr. G

Madhavan Nair

Chairman, 18th Law Commission : Mr. Justice A. R. Lakshamanan

Chairman, National Consumer Protection Commission : Mr. Jutice M B Shah

Chairman, National Commission on Labour : Mr. Ravindra Verma

Chairman, National Commission for Backward Classes : Justice S RAtnavel Pandian

Chairman, National Commission for Scheduled Tribes : Mr. Kunwar Singh

Chairman, MRTPC : Justice C N Nayar

Chairman, National Commission for Farmers : Dr. M.S. Swaminathan

Chairperson, National Commissioner for Women : Ms. Girija Vyas

President, National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission : Mr. Justice D P

Wadhwa

Chairman, National Commission on Educational Institutions for Minorities : Mr. M

S A Siddiqui

Chairman, National Human Rights Commission : Mr. Justice S Rajendra Badu

Chairman, Telecom Commission : Mr. Anil Kumar

Chairman, Telecom Regulatory Authority of India : JS Sharma (May 14, 2009)

Chairman, National Forest Commission : Mr. B.N. Kirpal

Chairman, Central Water Commission : Mr. R Jeyasheelan

Chairman, Sixth Pay Commission : Mr. B N Srikrishna

Chairman, National Knowledge Commission : Mr. Sam Pitroda

HEADS OF LAW ENFORCEMENT ORGANISATIONS

Director, General, National Investigation Agency (NIA) : Mr. Radha Vinod Raju

(January 15, 2009)

Director, Intelligence Bureau (IB) : Mr. Rajiv Mathur (January 1, 2009)

Director, Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) : Mr. Ashwini Kumar (July 31,

2008)

Director, Research And Analysis Wing (RAW) : Mr. KC Verma (January 31, 2009)

Director-General, Border Security Force (BSF) : Mr. Raman Srivastava (July 31,

2009)

Director-General, Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) : Mrs. Niraj Ranjan

Das (November 17, 2008)

Director-General, Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) : Mr. Vikram Srivastava

Director-General, Coast Guard : Vice Admiral anil Chopra

Director-General, Defence Intelligence Agency (DIA) : Lt. General Avtar Singh

Director-General, Railway Protection Force (RPF) : Mr. Ranjit Sinha

Director-General, Border Roads Organisation : Lt. General A.K. Nanda

Director-General, National Security Guards (NSG) : Mr. NPS Aulakh

Director-General, Defence Intelligence Service : Lt Gen, Avtar Singh

Director-General, Rashriya Rifles : Lt. Gen. Satish Nambiar

Director, Police Research and Development Bureau : Mr. N C Joshi

Director, Institute of Defence Studies and Analysed (IDSA) : Mr. N S Sisodia

Director-General, National Cadet Core (NCC) : Lt. Gen. MC Bhandari

Director, Enforcement Directorate : Mr. R N Das

Director General, Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) : Mr. Gopal Sharma

HEADS OF SCIENTIFIC ORGANISATIONS

Director, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) : Mr. S Banerjee

Chairman, Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB) : Mr. S K Sharma

Director General, Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) : Dr. Vishwa Mohan

Katoch

Director General, Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) : Dr. Mangal

Rai

Director General, Council of Scietific and Industrial Research (CSIR) and

chairman, Indian National Science Academy : Dr. Samir Kumar Brahmachari

HEADS OF PUBLIC SECTOR UNITS

Chairman, Steel Authority of India Ltd. (SAIL) : Mr. Sushil Kumar Roongta

Chairman, Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) : Mr. Sarthak Behuria

Chairman and Managing Director, ONGC : Mr. R S Sharma

Chairman, Central Electricity Authority : Mr. D V Khera

Chairman and Managing Director, Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) : Mr.

Kuldeep Goel

Chairman, Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited (MTNL) : Mr. R S P Sinha

Chairman, Videsh Sanchar Nigam Limited (VSNL) : Mr. Subodh Bhargava

Director General, Maruti Udyog Limited : Mr. S Nakanashi

Chairman and Managing Director, GAIL (India) : Mr. BC Tripathi (August 1, 2009)

Chairman-cum-Managing Director, Food Corporation of India (FCI) : Mr. Deepak

Kumar Panwar (November 6, 2008)

Chairman and Managing Director, Indian Tourism Development Corporation (ITDC) :

Mr. M S Manchanda

Managing Director, Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) : Mr. E Sridharan

Chairman, Damodar Valley Corporation (DVC) : Mr. Ajay Shankar

Chairman, National Highway Authority of India : Mr. Pradeep Kumar

Chairman, HUDCO : Mr. K L Dhingra

Chairman and Managing Director, National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) : Mr.

RS Sharma (May 1, 2008)

Chairman and Managing Director, National Aviation Company of India Ltd. (NACIL)

: Mr. Arvind jadhav (May 1, 2009)

Chairman and Managing Director, BHEL : Mr. B Prasada Rao

Chairman and Managing Director, Oil India : Mr. N M Borah

HEADS OF BANKS AND COMMERCIAL ORGANISATIONS

Governor, Reserve bank of India (RBI) : Mr. Duvvuri Subbaroa

Chairperson, Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) : Mr. SSN Moorthy (January 31,

2009)

Chairman, Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) : Mr. CB Bhave (February

14, 2008)

Chairman, Central Board of Excise and customs : Mr. V Sridhar (July 31, 2009)

Director General, Indian, Institute of Foreign Trade : Mr. Prabir Sengupta

Chairman, NABARD : Mr. Y S P Thorat

Chairman, State Bank of Indian (SBI) : Mr. O.P. Bhatt

President, Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) : Mr.

Harsh Pati Singhania

Chairman, Life Insurance Corporation (LIC) : Mr. T S Vijayan

President, Confederation of Indian Industries (CII) : Mr. Venu srinivasan (March

31, 2009)

President, NASSCOM : Mr. Som Mittal

Chairman, NASSCOM : Mr. Pramod Bhasin (April 2, 2009)

President, ASSOCHAM : Mr. Sajjan Jindal

President, IFFCO : Mr. Surendra Kumar Jakhar

President, State Trading Corporation (STC) : Mr. Arvind Pandalai

President, National Manufacturing competitiveness Council : Mr. V Krishnamurthy

President, Export Credit Guarantee Corporation (ECGC) of India : Mr. P K Das

Chairman, South Asian Federation of Accountants : Mr. Ashok Chandok

Chairman, Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority : Mr. J Harinarajan

Chairman, IDBI : Mr. V P Shetty

HEADS OF BOARDS & COUNCILS

Chairperson, Central Social Welfare Board : Ms. Rajni Patil

Chairman, Indian Council of Historical Research (ICHR) : Mr. D N Tripathi

Chairman, ICSSR : Mr. Andre Beteille

Chairperson, Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER)

: Mr. Ishar Judge Ahluwalia

President, ICCR : Dr. Karan Singh (Resigned)

Vice-Chancellor, IGNOU : Mr. V N Rajasekharan Pillai

Prof. Krishan Kumar : Director, NCERT

Chairman, Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) : Mr. V Rajagopalan

Chairman, Central Social Welfare Board : Ms. Prema Cariappa (June 16, 2008)

Chairman, Railway Board : Mr. S S Khurana

Chairman, National Shipping Board : Mr. V.K. Khanna

Chairman, National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) : Dr. Amrita Patel

Chairman, Company Law Board : Mr. Justice Ajay Kumar Banerji

Chairman, 13th Finance Commission : Mr. Vijay L Kelkar

HEADS OF ORGANISATION : ARTS & FILMS

Chairman, Sahitya Akademi : Mr. Sunil Gangopadhyay

Chairman, Sangeet Natak Akademi : Mr. Ram Niwas Mirdha

Chairman, National Film Development Corporation : Mr. Om Puri (April 2008)

Chairperson, Central Board of Film Certification : Ms. Shramili Tagore

Chairperson, Children’s Film Society of India : Ms. Nandita Das (July 31, 2009)

President, Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA) : Mrs. Kapila

Vatsyayan

Chairman, Lalit Kala Akademi : Mr. Ashok Bajpai

Director, Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) : Mr. Tripurari Sharan

Director General, Doordarshan : Mr. Naveen Kumar

Director General, AIR : Mr. T R Malakar

HEADS OF SPORTS ORGANISATIONS

President, Indian Olympic Association : Mr. Suresh Kalmadi (Since 1996)

President, All India Sports Council : Mr. Vijay Kumar Malhotra

President, BCCI : Mr. Shashank Manohar

President, Sports Authority of India : Mr. V K Mittal

Director General, SAI : Mr. Shyam Chatterjee

President, All India Football Federation : Mr. Praful Patel (October 20, 2009)

President, Indian Wrestling Federation : Mr. M S Malik

President, Fencing Federation of India : Mr. Arvind Khanna

President, Badminton Association of India : Mr. VK Verma (since 1998)

President, Tennis Association of India : Mr. yashwant Sinha (since 2000)

President, Table Tennis Association of India : Mr. Ajay Chautala (since 2001)

President, Archery Association of India : Mr. VK Malhotra (Since 1972)

HEADS OF PRESS INSTITUTIONS

Chairman, Press Council of India : Mr. Justice G N Ray

Director Press Institute of India : Mr. Ajit Bhattacharjea

Chairman, United News of India : Mr. Ravindra Kumar

President, Indian Newspapers Society : Mr. T Venkattraman Reddy (September 24,

2009)

Chairman, Press Trust of India : Mr. Vijay Kumar Chopra (August 27, 2009)

Chairperson, Audit Bureau of Circulation (ABC) : Mr. Subroto Chattopadhyaya

(September 2009)

Chairman, Copyright Board : Mr. S Ramaiya

HEADS OF OTHER ORGANIZATIONS

India’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations : Mr. Hardeep Singh Puri

(April 2009)

India’s Ambassador and Permanent Representative to WTO : Mr. K M Chandrasekhar

Chairman, University Grant Commission (UGC) : Mr. Sukhdeo Thorat

Chairman, Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) : Mr. Vinit Joshi

Chairman, All India Council of Technical Education (AICTE) : Mr. Damodar Acharya

Chairman, UPSC : Mr. DP Agarwal

Chairman, SSC : Mr. NK Raghupathy

Director General of Archaeological Survey of India : Mr. Anshu Vaish

S.S.C. Combined Graduate Level (Pre.) Exam. 2010

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S.S.C. Combined Graduate Level (Pre.) Exam. 2010

General Awareness

1. Which of the following is not considered

as National

Debt ?

(A) National Savings Certificates

(B) Long-term Government Bonds

(D) Provident Fund

Ans : (C)

2. The main determinant of real wage is—

(A) Extra earning

(B) Nature of work

(D) Purchasing power of money

Ans : (D)

3. The birthrate measures the number of births during a year per—

(A) 100 population

(B) 1000 population

(D) 100000 population

Ans : (B)

4. Which of the following is not included

in the National

Income ?

(A) Imputed rent of owneroccupied houses

(B) Government expenditure on making new bridges

(D) Commission paid to an agent for sale of house

Ans : (C)

5. Personal disposable income is—

(A) Always equal to personal income

(B) Always more than personal income

(D) Equal to personal income minus direct taxes

Ans : (D)

6. Who prepared the first estimate of National Income for the country ?

(A) Central Statistical Organisation

(B) National Income Committee

(D) National Sample Survey Organisation

Ans : (C)

7. A Bill referred to a ‘Joint Sitting’ of the two Houses of the

Parliament is required to be passed by—

(A) A simple majority of the members present

(B) Absolute majority of the total membership

(D) 3/4th majority of the members present

Ans : (A)

8. Who is the constitutional head of the Government of India ?

(A) President

(B) Prime Minister

(D) Attorney General

Ans : (A)

9. Who certifies a Bill to be a Money Bill in India ?

(A) Finance Minister

(B) President

(D) Prime Minister

Ans : (C)

10. By which Amendment were ‘Fundamental Duties’ added to the

Constitution ?

(A) 40th Amendment

(B) 42nd Amendment

(D) 45th Amendment

Ans : (B)

11. The Vice-President of India is elected by—

(A) The members of the Parliament

(B) The members of the Rajya Sabha

(D) The members of the Parliament and State Legislatures

Ans : (A)

12. When was the comprehensive reorganisation of Indian States completed in

accordance with the recommendations of States Reorganisation Commission ?

(A) 1953

(B) 1956

(D) 1966

Ans : (B)

13. When Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated, who said, "None will believe

that a man like this in body and soul ever walked on this earth" ?

(A) Bertrand Russell

(B) Leo Tolstoy

(D) Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan

Ans : (C)

14. Who built the ‘Tower of Victory’ (Vijay Stambha) in the Chittor Fort ?

(A) Rana Sanga

(B) Rana Ratan Singh

(D) Rana Kumbha

Ans : (D)

15. In violation of the Salt Laws, Gandhiji started a movement called—

(A) Non-Cooperation Movement

(B) Swadeshi Movement

(D) None of the above

Ans : (C)

16. In which of the following wars, were the French completely defeated by

the English ?

(A) Battle of Wandiwash

(B) Battle of Buxar

(D) Battle of Adyar

Ans : (A)

17. The Cabinet Mission came to India in—

(A) 1943

(B) 1944

(D) 1946

Ans : (D)

18. The first to come and the last to leave India were—

(A) The Portuguese

(B) The French

(D) The Dutch

Ans : (A)

19. IR 20 and Ratna are two important varieties of—

(A) Wheat

(B) Bajra

(D) Paddy

Ans : (D)

20. The Trans-Siberian Railway (9438 km) connects…...........… in the

West to …........… in the East.

(A) Moscow, Tashkent

(B) St. Petersburg, Omsk

(D) St. Petersburg, Vladivostok

Ans : (D)

21. Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Udan Academy is located at—

(A) Secunderabad

(B) Rae Bareilly

(D) Delhi

Ans : (B)

22. Which one of the following rivers of Peninsular India does not join

Arabian Sea ?

(A) Periyar

(B) Cauvery

(D) Tapti

Ans : (B)

23. Which one of the following correctly describes AGNI ?

(A) A fighter plane

(B) A versatile tank

(D) A long-range gun

Ans : (C)

24. Instrument used for measuring area on maps is called—

(A) Planimeter

(B) Eidograph

(D) Opisometer

Ans : (A)

25. If the blood group of one parent is AB and that of the other O, the

possible blood group of their child would be—

(A) A or B

(B) A or B or O

(D) A or B or AB or O

Ans : (A)

26. How many bones are there in the human body ?

(A) 187

(B) 287

(D) 306

Ans : (C)

27. Dinosaurs were—

(A) Mammals that became extinct

(B) Large herbivorous creatures which gave rise to hippopotamus species

(D) Reptiles that became extinct

Ans : (D)

28. Sweat glands in mammals are primarily concerned with—

(A) Removal of excess salts

(B) Excretion of nitrogenous wastes

(D) Sex-attraction

Ans : (C)

29. The vitamin that helps to prevent infections in the human body is—

(A) Vitamin A

(B) Vitamin B

(D) Vitamin D

Ans : (A)

30. The normal RBC count in adult male is—

(A) 5•5 million

(B) 5•0 million

(D) 4•0 million

Ans : (B)

31. A storm is predicted if atmospheric pressure—

(A) Rises suddenly

(B) Rises gradually

(D) Falls gradually

Ans : (C)

32. The gas which turns into liquid at the lowest temperature among the

following is—

(A) Hydrogen

(B) Oxygen

(D) Nitrogen

Ans : (A)

33. An egg sinks in soft water but floats in a concentrated solution of salt

because—

(A) Egg absorbs salt from the solution and expands

(B) Albumin dissolves in salt solution and egg becomes lighter

(D) Water has high surface tension

Ans : (C)

34. What should a person on a freely rotating turn table do to decrease his

(angular) speed ?

(A) Bring his hands together

(B) Raise his hands up

(D) Sit down with raised hands

Ans : (C)

35. Gunpowder consists of a mixture of—

(A) Sand and TNT

(B) TNT and charcoal

(D) Sulphur, sand and charcoal

Ans : (C)

36. Which of the following is the sweetest sugar ?

(A) Sucrose

(B) Glucose

(D) Maltose

Ans : (C)

37. In nuclear reactors, graphite is used as a/an—

(A) Fuel

(B) Lubricant

(D) Insulator

Ans : (C)

38. Which of the following celestial bodies contains abundant quantities of

helium-3, a potential source of energy ?

(A) Earth

(B) Moon

(D) Saturn

Ans : (D)

39. Which of the following International Tennis Tournaments is held on grass

court ?

(A) US Open

(B) French Open

(D) Australian Open

Ans : (C)

40. What is the name of the writer of Indian origin whose novel, The

Inheritance of Loss has bagged Man Booker Prize ?

(A) Vikram Seth

(B) Kiran Desai

(D) V. S. Naipaul

Ans : (B)

41. Which country from the following is a permanent member of the UN

Security Council ?

(A) Switzerland

(B) People’s Republic of China

(D) Ukraine

Ans : (B)

42. The Loktak Lake on which a hydroelectric project was constructed is

situated in the State of—

(A) Madhya Pradesh

(B) Manipur

(D) Himachal Pradesh

Ans : (B)

43. What is the motto incorporated under our National Emblem ?

(A) Satyam Shivam

(B) Satyam Shivam Sundaram

(D) Jai Hind

Ans : (C)

44. The H5N1 virus which causes bird flu was first discovered in—

(A) 1991

(B) 1995

(D) 2001

Ans : (C)

45. The Southern tip of India is—

(A) Cape Comorin (Kanyakumari)

(B) Point Calimere

(D) Kovalam in Thiruvananthapuram

Ans : (A)

46. According to a resolution adopted by the United Nations General

Assembly, ‘International Day of Peace’ is observed every year on—

(A) September 1

(B) September 14

(D) September 30

Ans : (C)

47. Where was the last Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit held

(A) Sydney

(B) Auckland

(D) Beijing

Ans : (A)

48. According to the UN Convention on the rights of children, which of the

following is not a

right ?

(A) Safe drinking water

(B) Adequate standard of living

(D) Marriage

Ans : (D)

49. Who is the author of Ageless Body, Timeless Mind ?

(A) V. S. Naipaul

(B) Deepak Chopra

(D) Tony Kusher

Ans : (B)

50. Which cricketer holds the record for scoring highest number of runs in a

test match innings ?

(A) Gary Sobers

(B) Vivian Richards

(D) Brian Lara

Ans : (D)

Banking and Marketing Aptitude Exam Paper

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Banking and Marketing Aptitude Exam Paper

1. A prospect means

a) any customer who walks into the bank

b) an employee of the bank

c) a customer who is likely to be interested in bank’s product or service

d) a depositor of the bank’

e) a borrower of the bank

2. A lead means

a) a prospect who is more likely to avail of the Bank’s product

b) a political leader

c) a religious leader

d) a bank chairman

e) None of these

3. Innovation means

a) Compensation

b) inspiration

c) additional perquisites

d) implementing new ideas or new methods

e) None of these

4. A Call means

a) calling on friends

b) calling on bank employees

c) calling on prospective customers

d) to make telephone calls

e) calling on relatives

5. The Traditional Marketing style involves

a) Telemarketing

b) Digital Marketing

c) Indirect Marketing

d) Direct Marketing

e) All of these

6. Modern Method of Marketing include

a) Publicity on the net

b) Advertisement on the net

c) Soliciting business through e-mails

d) Tele marketing

e) All of these

7. A true marketing requires

a) Command and other mindset

b) Control Mindset

c) Passive mindset

d) Active mindset

e) None of these

8. Which of the following sentences is true?

a) Marketing is not required in a Buyers’ Market

b) Marketing is not required in a Sellers’s market

c) Marketing is not required due to competition

d) Marketing is not required due to liberalization

e) Marketing is not required due to globalisation

9. For effective marketing the salesmen should have which of these qualities?

a) Creativity

b) Team spirit

c) Motivation

d) Effective communication skills

e) All of these

10. Market information means

a) Knowledge of shops and bazaars

b) Knowledge of shopping malls

c) Knowledge of customer profile and product mix

d) knowledge of various languages

e) None of these

11. Market Research is needed for

a) checking the market area

b) checking the right product to be sold

c) making proper marketing decisions

d) deciding right time to sell

e) All of these

12. Which of the following statement is true

a) Marketing makes the company to go into loss due to higher expenses

b) Marketing is not required in profit making companies

c) Marketing sharpens the minds of the employees

d) Marketing is a time bound seasonal function

e) Marketing is a waste of time

13. Marketing plan helps in

a) better lead generation

b) better systems

c) better results

d) improved balance sheet

e) better customer service

14. If Marketing is done effectively which of the following is not required?

a) Advertisement

b) Publicity

c) Market Research

d) Market Segmentation

e) None of these

15. Motivation means

a) Inspiring employees to perform better

b) Better communication skills

c) Sales Coaching

d) Market Research

e) None of these

16. In a Selling Process in today’s world?

a) Only standard products are sold

b) No customization required

c) the seller need not have product knowledge

d) the seller should aim at customer satisfaction

e) only quantum of sales matters

17. Find the true statement

a) Marketing is a waste of the employees’ time

b) Marketing is not required in India due to its vast population

c) Marketing involves additional work

d) Marketing involves team work

e) Marketing is not required today due to IT advancement

18. A Target market is

a) entire country

b) entire city

c) entire globe

d) that which consists of customers who need the identified product

e) all of these

19. Sales forecasting involves

a) Sales Planning

b) Sales Pricing

c) Distribution Channels

d) Consumer tastes

e) All of these

20. Which of the following product is being sold under the brand name ZODIAC

a) Shirts

b) Ties

c) Both A and B

d) Liberty

21. SWIFT - cars are being manufactured by

a) DCM

b) Maruti

c) Premier Automobiles

d) Hyundai

22. With you all the way is the slogan of

a) Vodafone

b) SBI

c) ICICI

d) Raymonds

23. Which company used the slogan "The complete Man"

a) DCM

b) GRASIM

c) RAYMONDS

d) VIMAL

24. Which brand uses the slogan "Made for each other" for its cigarettes?

a) Cavenders

b) Four Square

c) Red & White

d) Wills

25. Cross Selling means

a) Identifying customer needs

b) matching the products to customer needs

c) convincing the customers of product benefits

d) responding to questions and objections of customers

e) all of these

ANSWERS

1 (c) 2

(a) 3 (d) 4 ( c) 5 (d)

6 (e) 7 (d)

8 (b) 9 (e) 10 (c)

11 (e) 12 (c)

13 (c) 14 (b) 15 (a)

16 (d) 17 (d)

18 (d) 19 (e) 20 (c)

21 (b) 22 (b)

23 (c) 24 (d) 25 (e)

Allahabad Bank Probationary Officer Exam 2010

2010-02-22T09:09:00.000-08:00

Allahabad Bank Probationary Officer Exam 2010

Computer General Awareness

1. Programs from the same developer , sold bundled together ,

that provide better integration and share common features , toolbars and menus

are known as ....

(A) software suites

(B) integrated software packages

(D) personal information managers

(E) none of these

ANS (A)

2. A data warehouse is which of the following ?

(A) Can be updated by the end users

(B) Contains numerous naming conventions and formats

(D) Contains only current data

(E) None of these

ANS (C)

3. ______________ servers store and manages files for network users.

(A) Authentication

(B) Main

(D) File

(E) None of these

ANS (D)

4. All of the following are examples of real security and privacy risks Except

_____

(A) hackers

(B) spam

(D) identify theft

(E) None of these

ANS (B)

5. ___________ terminals (formerly known as cash registers) are often connected

to complex inventory and sales computer systems .

(A) Data

(B) Sales

(D) (Point-of-sale (POS)

(E) None of these

ANS (B)

6. The OSI model is divided into _______ processes called layers.

(A) five

(B) six

(D) eight

(E) None of these

ANS (C)

7. System software is the set of programs that enables your computer's hardware

devices and ______ software to work together.

(A) management

(B) processing

(D) application

(E) None of these

ANS (D)

8. ________ are specially designed computer chips reside inside other devices,

such as your car or your electronic thermostat.

(A) Servers

(B) Embedded computers

(D) Mainframes

(E) None of these

ANS (B)

9. The following are all computing devices , except.........

(A) notebook computers

(B) cellular telephones

(D) personal digital assistants

(E) None of these

ANS (C)

10. in a ring topology , the the computer in possession of the ______ can

trasmit data

(A) packet

(B) data

(D) token

(E) None of these

ANS (D)

11. This part of operating system manages the essential peripherals, such as the

keyboard, screen , disk drives, and parallel and serial ports ____

(A) basic input/output system

(B) secondary input/output system

(D) marginal input/output system

(E) None of these

ANS (A)

12. ________ Viruses are often transmitted by a floppy disk left in the floppy

drive

(A) Trojan horse

(B) Boot sector

(D) Logic bomb

(E) None of these

ANS (B)

13. ________ controls the way in which the computer system functions and

provides a means by which users can interact with the computer

(A) The platform

(B) Application software

(D) The motherboard

(E) None of these

ANS (C)

14. Servers are computers that provide resources to other computers connected to

a ___________

(A) mainframe

(B) network

(D) client

(E) None of these

ANS (B)

15. A goal of data mining includes which of the following?

(A) To explain some observed event or condition

(B) To confirm that data exists

(D) To create a new data warehouse

(E) None of these

ANS (A)

16. URL stands for ........

(A) Universal Research List

(B) Universal Resource List

(D) Uniform Research Locator

(E) None of these

ANS (C)

17. A database management system (DBMS) is a ............

(A) hardware system used to create , maintain and provide controlled access to a

database

(B) hardware system used to create, maintain, and provide uncontrolled access to

a database.

(D) software system used to create, maintain, and provide controlled access to a

database.

(E) None of these

ANS (D)

18. Which of the following is NOT a goal of transaction processing system ?

(A) Capture , process and store transactions

(B) Produce a variety of documents related to routine business activities

(D) Produce standard reports used for management decision making

(E) None of these

ANS ()

19. A Proxy server is used for which of the following?

(A) To provide security against unauthorized users

(B) To process client requests for web pages

(D) To provide TCP/IP

(E) None of these

ANS (B)

20. When data changes in multiple lists and all lists are not updated, this

causes:

(A) data redundancy

(B) information overload

(D) data inconsistency

(E) None of these

ANS (D)

21. _____________ are words that a programming language has set aside for its

own use.

(A) Control worlds

(B) Reserved words

(D) Reserved keys

(E) None of these

ANS (B)

22. What is the primary difference between a virus and a worm?

(A) A worm has the ability to self-propagate from an infected user's computer to

other computers

(B) A worm is usually written by a cracker: Script bunnies do not have the

skills to develop a worm program

serious a problem

(D) Anti-virus software is effective in fighting viruses but not worms

(E) None of these

ANS ()

23. ______ describe what is database fields.

(A) Structures

(B) Field markers

(D) Field names

(E) None of these

ANS (D)

24. You must install a (n) ____________ on a network if you want to share a

broadband Internet connection.

(A) router

(B) modem

(D) cable

(E) None of these

ANS (A)

25. A goal of normalization is to __________

(A) minimize the number of relationships

(B) minimize the number of entities

(D) minimize the number of redundancy

(E) None of these

ANS (D)

26. Granting an outside organization access to internet web pages is often

implemented using a (n) ____

(A) extranet

(B) intranet

(D) hacker

(E) None of these

ANS (A)

27. Which term identifies a specific computer on the web and the main page of

the entire site

(A) URL

(B) Web site address

(D) Domain name

(E) None of these

ANS (A)

28. The code that relational database management systems use to perform their

database task is referred to as .....

(A) QBE

(B) SQL

(D) Sequel Server

(E) None of these

ANS (B)

29. Chip is a common nickname for a (n):

(A) transistor

(B) resistor

(D) semiconductor

(E) None of these

ANS (c)

30. The purpose of the primary key in a database is to:

(A) unlock the database

(B) provide a map of the data

(D) establish constraints on database operations.

(E) None of these

ANS (B)

31. A _________ contains specific rules and words that express the logical steps

of an algorithm.

(A) programming language

(B) syntax

(D) logic chart

(E) None of these

ANS ()

32. The design of the network is called the network:

(A) architecture

(B) server

(D) type

(E) None of these

ANS (A)

33. The most frequently used instructions of a computer program are likely to be

fetched from:

(A) the hard disk

(B) cache memory

(D) registers

(E) None of these

ANS (B)

34. The ____________ contains data descriptions and defines the name, data type,

and length of each field in the database.

(A) data dictionary

(B) data table

(D) data field

(E) None of these

ANS (A)

35. Personal logs or journal entries posted on the Web are known as:

(A) listservs

(B) Webcasts

(D) subject directories

(E) None of these

ANS (C)

36. A(n) _______ uses pictures (called icons) and menus displayed on the screen

to send commands to the computer system.

(A) command - based user interface

(B) GUI

(D) API

(E) None of these

ANS (B)

37. The _____ manual tells you how to use a software program.

(A) documentation

(B) programming

(D) user

(E) None of these

ANS ()

38. Which of the following is NOT a type of broadband Internet connection?

(A) Cable

(B) DSL

(D) Satellite

(E) None of these

ANS (C)

39. Software, such as viruses, worms and Trojan horses, that has a malicious

intent, is known as:

(A) spyware

(B) adware

(D) malware

(E) None of these

ANS (D)

40. Making a field ______ means that it cannot be left blank.

(A) numeric

(B) required

(D) validated

(E) None of these

ANS (B)

41. _________ is the process of finding errors in software code.

(A) Debugging

(B) Compiling

(D) Running

(E) None pf these

ANS ()

42. ____________ are viruses that are triggered by the passage of time or on a

certain date.

(A) Boot-sector viruses

(B) Macro viruses

(D) Worms

(E) None of these

Ans (C)

43. Linux is a (n) ____________ operating system.

(A) open-source

(B) Microsoft

(D) Mac

(E) None of these

ANS (A)

44. What is a backup?

(A) Restoring the information backup

(B) An exact copy of a system's information

failure

(D) All of these

(E) None of these

ANS (D)

45. Which of the following places the common data elements in order from

smallest to largest

(A) character, file, record, field, database

(B) character, record, field, database, file

(D) Bit, byte, character, record, field, file, database,

(E) None of these

ANS (C)

46. The internet is ......

(A) a large network of networks

(B) an internal communication system for a business

(D) All of these

(E) None of these

ANS (D)

47. ____________ are lists of commands that appear on the screen.

(A) GUIs

(B) Icons

(D) Windows

(E) None of these

ANS (C)

48. Which of the following statements is FALSE concerning file names?

(A) Files may share the same name or the same extension but not both

(B) Every file in the same folder must have a unique name

(D) The file extension comes before the dot (.) followed by the file name

(E) None of these

ANS (D)

49. Verification of a login name and password is known as:

(A) configuration

(B) accessibility

(D) logging in

(E) None of these

ANS (C)

50. Which of the following would most likely NOT be a symptom of a virus?

(A) Existing program files and icons disappear.

(B) The CD-ROM stops functioning.

(D) Odd messages or images are displayed on the screen.

(E) None of these

ANS (B

Books and Their Author For Forth Comming Exams

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Books

and Their Author

A Backward Place : Ruth Prawer Jhabwala

A Bend in the Ganges : Manohar Malgonkar

A Bend in the River : V. S. Naipaul

A Billion is Enough : Ashok Gupta

A Bride for the Sahib and Other Stories : Khushwant Singh

A Brief History of Time : Stephen Hawking

A Brush with Life : Satish Gujral

A Bunch of Old Letters : Jawaharlal Nehru

A Cabinet Secretary Looks Back : B. G. Deshmukh .

A Call To Honour-In Service of Emergent India : Jaswant Singh

A Captain's Diary : Alec Stewart

A China Passage : John Kenneth Galbraith

A Conceptual Encyclopaedia of Guru Gtanth Sahib : S. S. Kohli

A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy : Karl Marx

A Critique of Pure Reason : Immanuel Kant

A Dangerous Place : Daniel Patrick Moynihan

A Doctor's Story of Life and Death : Dr. Kakkana Subbarao & Arun K. Tiwari

A Doll's House : Henrik Ibsen

A Dream in Hawaii : Bhabani Bhattacharya

A Farewell to Arms : Ernest Hemingway

A Fine Balance : Rohinton Mistry

A Foreign Policy for India : I. K. Gujral

A Gift of Wings : Shanthi Gopalan

A Handful of Dust : Evelyn Waugh

A Himalayan Love Story : Namita Gokhale

A House Divided : Pearl S. .Buck

A Judge's Miscellany : M. Hidayatullah

A Last Leap South : Vladimir Zhirinovsky

A Long Way : P. V. Narasimha Rao

A Man for All Seasons : Robert Bolt

A Midsummer Night's Dream : William Shakespeare

A Million Mutinies Now : V. S. Naipaul

A New World : Amit Chaudhuri

A Pair of Blue Eyes : Thomas Hardy

A Passage to England : Nirad C. Chaudhuri

A Passage to India : E. M. Forster

A Peep into the Past : Vasant Navrekar

A Personal Adventure : Theodore H. White

A Possible India : Partha Chatterjee

A Prisoner's Scrapbook : L. K. Advani

A Revolutionary Life : Laxmi Sehgal

A Ridge Too Far : Captain Amarinder Singh

A River Sutra : Gita Mehta

A Royal Duty : Paul Burrel

A Search for Home : Sasthi Brata

A Secular Agenda : Arun Shourie

A Sense of Time : S. H. Vatsyayan

A Simple Path : Lucinda Vardey

A Sin of Colour : Sunetra Gupta

A Spaniard in the Works : John Lennon

A Speaker's Diary : Manohar Joshi

A Stream of Windows–Unsettling Reflections on Trade, Imigration and Democracy :

Jagdish Bhagwati

A. Study of History : Arnold Toynbee

A. Sudden Change of Hearts : Barbara Taylor

A Suitable Boy : Vikram Seth

A Tale of a Tub : Jonathan Swift

A Tale of Two Cities : Charles Dickens

A Tale of Two Gardens : Octavio Paz

A Thousand Days : Arthur M. Schlesinger

A Thousand Suns : Dominique Lapierre

A Time of Coalitions : Paranjoy Guha Thakurta & Shankar Raghuraman

A Tribute to People's Princess–Diana : Peter Donelli

A Tryst With Destiny : Stanley Wolfer

A TunnelofTime-AnAutobiography : R. K. Laxman

A View from Delhi : Chester Bowles

A View from Outside : Why Good Economics Works for Everybody : P. Chidambaram

A Village by the Sea : Anita Desai

A Voice of Freedom : Nayantara Sehgal

A Week with Gandhi : Louis Fischer

A Woman's Life : Guy de Maupassant

Aasman Aur Bhi Hain : Mridula Halan

Abhigyana Shakuntalam : Kalidasa

Adam Bede : George Eliot

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn : Mark Twain

Adventures of Robinson Crusoe : Daniel Defoe

Adventures of Sherlock Holmes : Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Adversary in the House : Irving Stone

Advice and Consent : Allen Drury

Afghanistan & Asian Stability : V D. Chopra

After All These Years : Susan Issacs

After the Dark Night : S. M. Ali

Against the Grain : Boris Yeltsin

Age of Reason : Jean Paul Sartre

Ageless Body; Timeless Mind : Deepak Chopra

Agni Pariksha : Acharya Tulsi

Agni Veena : Kazi Nazrul Islam

Ain-i-Akbari : Abul Fazal

Airport : Arthur Hailey

Ajatshatru : Jai Shankar Prasad

Akbarnama : Abul Fazal

Alexander the Great : John Gunther

Algebra of Infinite Justice : Arundhati Roy

Alice in Wonderland : Lewis Carroll

All for Love : John Dryden

All Is Well That Ends Well : William Shakespeare

All Quiet on the Western Front : Erich Maria Remarque

All the King's Men : Robert Penn Warren

All the President's Men : Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward

All the Prime Minister's Men : Janardhan Thakur

All Things Bright and Beautiful : James HerrQit

All Under Heaven : Pearl S. Buck

Along the Road : Aldous Huxley

Ambassador's Journal : J. K. Galbraith

Ambassador's Report : Chester Bowles

Amelia : Henry Fielding

American Capitalism : J. K. Galbraith

An Admiral's Fall : Wilson John

An American Dilemma : Gunnar Myrdal

An American in Khadi : Asha Sharma

An American Tragedy : Theodore Dreiser

An Area of Darkness : V. S. Naipaul

An Autobiography : Jawaharlal Nehru

An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding : David Hume

An Equal Music : Vikram Seth

An Eye to China : David Selbourne

An Idealist View of Life : Dr. S.Radhakrishnan

An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations : Adam Smith

An Unfinished Dream : Dr. Verghese Kurien

Anandmath : Bankim Chandra Chatterjee

And Quiet Flows the Don : Mikbail A. Sholokhov

And Through the Looking Glass : Lewis Carroll

Angry Letters : Willem Doevenduin

Anguish of Deprived : Lakshmidhar Mishra

Anna Karenina : Leo Tolstoy

Another Life : Derek Walcott

Answer to History : Mohammad Reza Pahlavi

Antic Hay : Aldous Huxley

Antony and Cleopatra : William Shakespeare

Ape and Essence : Aldous Huxley

Apple Cart : George Bernard Shaw

Arabian Nights : Sir Richard Burton

Arion and the Dolphin : Vikram Seth

Arms and the Man : George Bernard Shaw

Around the World in Eighty Days : Jules Verne

Arrival and Departure : Arthur Koestler

Arrow in the Blue : Arthur Koestler

Arrow of Gold : Joseph Conrad

Arthashastra : Kautilya

As I See : Kiran Bedi

As You Like It : William Shakespeare

Ascent of the Everest : Sir John Hunt

Ashtadhyayi : Panini

Asia and Western Dominance : K. M. Panikkar

Asian Drama : Gunnar Myrdal

Aspects of the Novel : E. M. Forster

Assassination of a Prime Minister : S. Anandram

Assignment Colombo : J. N. Dixit

Athenian Constitution : Aristotle

Atoms of Hope : Mohan Sundara Rajan

August 1914 : .Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Author's Farce : Henry Fielding

Autumn Leaves : O. Pulla Reddi

Ayodhya–6 December 1992 : P.V. Narasimha Rao

Back to Methuselah : George Bernard Shaw

Bandicoot Run : Manohar Malgonkar

Bang-i-Dara : Mohammad Iqbal

Beach Boy : Ardesher Vakil

Bearders–My Life in Cricket : Bill Frindall

Beast and Man : Murry NIidgley

Beginning of the Beginning : Acharya Rajneesh

Being Digital : Nicholas Negroponte

Being Freddie : Andrew Flintoff

Being Indian : Pawan Varma

Believe–Achieve : Paul Hanna

Beloved : Toni Morrison

Ben Hur : Lewis Wallace

Bermuda Triangle : Charles Berlitz

Betrayal of Pearl Harbour : James Rusbridger and Eric Nave

Between Hope and History : Bill Clinton

Between the Lines : Kuldip Nayar

Bewilderedlndia–Identity, Pluralism, Discord : Rasheeduddin Khan

Beyond Autonomy-Roots of India's Foreign Policy : A. K. Damodaran

Beyond Belief : V. S. Naipaul

Beyond Boundaries-A Memoire : Swraj Paul

Beyond Good and Evil : Friedrich Nietzsche

Beyond Modernisation, Beyond Self : Sisir Kumar Ghose

Beyond Peace : Richard Nixon

Beyond the Horizons : Eugene O'Neill

Beyond the Veil, Indian Women in the Raj : Pran Nevile

Beyond the Walls of Silence : Lalini Rajasuriya

Bhagvad Gita : S. Radhakrishnan

Bharat Aur Europe : Nirmal Verma

Bharat Bharati : Maithili Sharan Gupta

Bharatiya Parampara Ke Mool Swar : Govind Chandra Pande

Big Money : P. G. Wodehouse

Bin Laden–The Man Who Declared War on America : Yossef Bodansky

Birds and Beasts : Mark Twain

Birth and Death of the Sun : George Gamow

Birth and Evolution of the Soul : Annie Besant

Bisarjan : Rabindranath Tagore

Black Holes and Baby Universes : Stephen Hawking

Black Sheep : Honore de Balzac

Bleak House : Charles Dickens

Blind Ambitions : John Dean

Blind Beauty : Boris Pasternak

Blind Men of Hindoostan–Indo–Pak Nuclear War : Gen. Krishnaswamy Sundarji

Bliss was it in that Dawn : Minoo Masani

Blood Brothers : M. J. Akbar

Blood Sport : James Stewart

Blue Bird : Maurice Macterlink

Bofors The Ambassador's Evidence : B. M. Oza

Book of the Sword : Sir Richard Burton

Borders & Boundaries; Women in India's Partition : Ritu Menon & Kamla Bhasin

Born Free : Joy Adamson

Branded by Law : Dilip D'Souza

Bread, Beauty and Revolution : Khwaja Ahmed Abbas

Breaking the Silence : Anees Jung

Breakthrough : Gen. Moshe Dayan

Brick Lane : Monica Ali

Brideless in Wembley : Sanjay Suri

Bishbriksha : Bankim Chandra Chatterji

Britain's True History :Prem Bhatia

Broken Wings : Sarojini Naidu

Buddha Charitam : Ashvaghosha

Buddha's Warriors : Mikel Dunham

Bureaucrazy : M. K. Kaw

Burial At Sea : Khushwant Singh

Business at the Speed of Thought : Bill Gates

Business Legends : Gita Piramal

By God's Decree : Kapil Dev

Caesar and Cleopatra: George Bernard Shaw

Can India Grow Without Bharat : Shankar Acharya

Cancer Ward: Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Candida: George Bernard Shaw

Candide: Voltaire

Candle in the Wind: Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Canvas of Life : Sheila Gujral

Caravans: James A. Michener

Carnage By Angels: Y P. Singh

CBK : Graeme Wilson

Cell: Stephen King

Centennial: James lvIichener

Chaitali : R. N. Tagore

Chakori : Chandrasekhar Kamba

Chance: Joseph Conrad

Chandalika : Rabindranath Tagore

Charisma & Cannon–Essays on the Religious History of Subcontinent: Vasudha

Dalmia, Angelika Malinar and Marcin Christ

Chemmeen : Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai

Chikaveera Rajendra : Masci Venkatesh Iyengar

Child and Law in India: K. Chandru, Geeta Ramaseshan and Chandra Thanikachalam

Child Who Never Grew: Pearl S. Buck

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: George Byron

Childhood: Maxim Gorky

Children and Human Rights: S. K. Pachuri

Children in Globalising India– Challenging Our Conscience: Enkashi Ganguly

Thukral

Children of Gebelawi : Naquib Mahfouz

Children of the Sun: Maxim Gorky

China, the World and India: Mira Sinha Bhattacharjee

China's Watergate: Leo Goodstadt

China–Past and Present: Pearl S. Buck

Chinese Betrayal: B. N. Mullick

Chithirappaavai : P. V. Akilandam

Chithrangada: R. N. Tagore

Chitra: Rabindranath Tagore

Choma's Drum: K. Shivaram Karanth

Christabel : Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Christmas Tales: Charles Dickens

Chronicle of a Death Foretold: Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Circle of Reason: Amitav Ghosh

City of Joy: Dominique Lapierre

City of Saints: Sir Richard Burton

City of the Yellow Devil: Maxim Gorky

Clear Light of Day: Anita Desai

Climate of Treason: Andrew Boyle

Clockwork Orange: Anthony Burgess

Cold Street: Paul Carson

Colonel Sun: Kingsley Amis

Comedy of Errors: William Shakespeare

Common Sense: Thomas Paine

Communalism-Handled with a Difference: Daniel Steel

Communist Manifesto: Karl Marx

Comus : John Milton

Confessions: J. J. Rousseau

Confessions of a Lover: Mulk Raj Anand

Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit: Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Confessions of a Swadeshi Reformer–My Years as Finance Minister :Yashwant Sinha

Confrontation with Pakistan: Gen. B. M. Kaul

Conquest of Happiness: Bertrand Russell

Conquest of Self: M. K. Gandhi

Considerations on Representative Government: John Stuart Mill

Continent of Circe: Nirad C. Chaudhuri

Corporate Governance, Economic Reforms & Development: Darryl Reed and Sanjoy

Mukherjee

Count Your Chickens Before They Hatch: Arindam Chaudhuri

Court Dancer: Rabindranath Tagore

Courts and Their Judgements: Arun Shourie

Coverly Papers: Joseph Addison

Creation: Gore Vidal

Crescent Moon: Rabindranath Tagore

Crescent Over Kashmir: Anil Maheshwari

Cricket on the Hearth: Charles Dickens

Crime & Money Laundering: Jyoti Trehan

Crime and Punishment: Fyodor M. Dostoevsky

Crisis into Chaos :E.M.S. Narnboodiripad

Critical Mass: William E. Burrows

Crossing the River: Caryl Phillips

Crossing the Rubicon : C. Raja Mohan

Crossing the Threshold of Hope: Pope John Paul II

Cry, My Beloved Country: Alan Paton

Cuckold: Kiran Nagar Kar

Culture and Anarchy: Matthew Arnold

Culture in the Vanity Bag: Nirad C. Chaudhuri

Curtain Raisers: K. Natwar Singh

Damsel in Distress: P G. Wodehouse

Dancing with the Devil: Rod Barker

Dangling Man: Saul Bellow

Daniel Deronda : George Eliot

Dark Debts: Karen Hall

Dark Home Coming: Eric Lustbader

Dark Side of Camelot: Seymour Hersh

Darkness at Noon: Arthur Koestler

Das Kapital : Karl Marx

Dashkumar Charitam : Dandi

Dateline Kargil : Gaurav C. Samant

Daughter of the East: Benazir Bhutto

David Copperfield: Charles Dickens

Days of Grace: Arthur Ashe & Arnold Rampersad

Days of His Grace: Eyvind Johnson

Days of My Years: H. P. Nanda

De Profundis : Oscar Wilde

Dean's December: Saul Bellow

Death and Mter : Annie Besant

Death Be Not Proud: John Gunther

Death in the Casde : Pearl S. Buck

Death in Venice: Thomas Maim

Death of a City: Amrita Pritam

Death of a Patriot: R. E. Harrington

Death of a President: William Manchester

Death on the Nile: Agatha Christie

Death Under Sail: C. P. Snow

Death–The Supreme Friend: Kakasaheb Kalelkar

Debacle : Emile Zola

Decameron : Giovanni Boccaccio

Decline and Fall of Indira Gandhi : D. R. Mankekar and Kamala Mankekar

Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: Edward Gibbon

Decline of the West: O' Spengler

Democracy Means Bread and Freedom: Piloo Mody

Democracy Redeemed: V. K. Narsimhan

Democratic Governance in India–Challenges of Poverty, Development & Identity:

Nirja Gopal Jayal & Sudha Pai

Descent of Man: Charks Darwin

Deserted Village: Oliver Goldsmith

Detective: Arthur Hailey

Devdas : Sharat Chandra Chatterjee

Development and Nationhood–Essays in the Political Economy of South Asia:

Meghnad Desai

Development As Freedom: Amartya Sen

Development Banks-Infrastructure and Industrial Output: Prakash Salvi

Development with Dignity-A Case for Full Employment: Amit Bhaduri

Devi–The Great Goddess: Vidya Dahejia

Dharamashastra : Manu

Dialogue With Death: Arthur Koestler

Dialogue With Pakistan: S. G. Kashika

Diana Versus Charles: James Whitaker

Diana–Her Time Story in Her Own Words: Andrew Martin

Diana–Princess of Wales: A Tribute: Tim Graham

Diana–The Story So Far: Julia Donelli

Diana–The True Story: Andrew Morton

Die Blendung : Elias Canetti

Differentiate or Die: Jack Trout & Steve Rivkin .

Difficult Daughters: Manju Kapoor

Dilemma of Our Time: Harold Joseph La ski

Diplomacy: Henry Kissinger

Diplomacy and Disillusion: George Urbans

Diplomacy for the Next Century: Abba Eban

Diplomacy in Peace and War: J. N. Kaul

Disappearing Acts: Terry McMillan

Discovery of India : Jawahadal Nehru

Disgrace: J. M. Coetzee

Distant Drums: Manohar Malgonkar

Distant Neighbours : Kuldip Nayar

Divine Comedy: A. Dante

Divine Life: Swami Sivananda

Doctor Faustus: Christopher Marlowe

Doctor's Dilemma: George Bernard Shaw

Dolly–The Birth of a Clone: Jina Kolata

Don Juan: George Byrqn

Don Quixote: Saavedra Miguel de Cervantes

Don't Laugh–We are Police: Bishan Lal Vohra

Double Betrayal: Paula R. Newburg

Double Tongue: William Golding

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: Robert Louis Stevenson

Dr. Zhivago : Boris Pasternak

Dragon's Teeth: U. B. Sinclair

Dream of Fair to Middling Women: Samuel Beckett

Dreams,Roses and Fire :Eyvind Johnson

Drogon's Seed: Pearl S. Buck

Drunkard: Emile Zola

Dude, Where's My Country? : Michael Moore

Durgesh Nandini : Bankim Chandra Chatterjee

Dust to Dust: Tami Hoag

Dynamics of Social Change: Chandra Shekhar

Dynasties of India and Beyond–Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh: lnder Malhotra

Earth: Emile Zola

Earth in the Balance–Forging a New Common Purpose: Al Gore

East West: Salman Rushdie

East Wind: Pearl S. Buck

Echoes from Old Calcutta: H. E. Busteed

Economic Planning of India: Ashok Mehta

Economics of Peace and Laughter : John K. Galbraith

Economics of Public Purpose: John K. Galbraith

Economics of the Third World: S. K. Ray

Educational Reforms in India–For the 21st Century:J. C. Aggarwal

Edwina and Nehru: Catherine Clement

Egmont :J. W. Von Goethe

Eight Lives: Rajmohan Gandhi

Elegy Written in a Country

Churchyard: Thomas Gray

Emile: J. J. Rousseau

Eminent Churchillians : Andrew Roberts

Eminent Victorians: Lytton Strachey

Emma: Jane Austen

Empire of the Soul–Some Journeys in India : Paul William Roberts

End of an Era: C. S. Pandit

End of the Chapter: John Forsyte

End of the Line: Neelesh IvIishra

Ends and Means: Aldous Huxley

Enemies: Maxim Gorky

Engaging India–Diplomacy, Democracy & the Bomb: Strobe Talbott

Environmental Economics–An Indian Perspective: Rabindra N. Bhattacharya

Envoy to Nehru: Escott Reid

Erewhon : Samuel Butler

Escape: John Forsyte

Escape the Night: Richard North Patterson

Essay on Life: Samuel Butler

Essays for Poor to the Rich: John Kenneth Galbraith

Essays in Criticism: Matthew Arnold

Essays of Elia : Charles Lamb

Essays on Gita : Aurobindo Ghosh

Estranged Democracies: Dennis Kux

Eternal Himalayas: Major H. P. S. Ahluwalia

Eternity: Anwar Shaikh

Ethics: Aristotle

Ethics for New Millennium: Dalai Lama

Ethics Incorporated: Dipankar Gupta

Eugenie Grandet : Honore de Balzac

Europa: Time Parks

Everest Hotel: Allan Sealey

Every Man a Tiger : Tom Clancy

Executioner's Song: Norman Mailer

Exile and the Kingdom: Albert Camus

Expanding Universe: Arthur Stanley Eddington

Eyeless in Gaza : Aldous Huxley

50 Years of India's Independence: D. S. Subramaniam

Faces of Everest: Maj. H. P. S. Ahluwalia

Facing Up: Bear Grylls

Facts are Facts: Khan Abdul Wali Khan

Failing Slowly: Anita Brookner

Faith & Compassion: Navin Chawla

Faith & Fire: A Way Within: Madhu Tandon

Falling Leaves Return to Their Roots: Adeline Yen Man

False Witness: Dexter Dias

Family Matters: Rohinton :Mistry

Family Moskat : Issac Bashevis Singer

Far From the Madding Crowd: Thomas Hardy

Farewell the Trumpets: James Morris

Farewell to a Ghost: Manoj Das

Farm House: George Orwell

Fasting, Feasting: Anita Desai

Father and Sons.: Ivan Turgenev

Faust: J. W Von Goethe

Fidelio : L. Beethoven

Fiesta: Ernest Hemingway

Fifth Column: Ernest Hemingway

Fifth Elephant: Terry Pratchett

Fifty Years of Indian Management–An Insider's View: Arabinda Roy

Fights Into Fear: Captain Devi Sharan

Final Passage: Caryl Phillips

Finding a Voice–Asian Women in Britain: Amrit Wilson

Fire in the East–The Rise in Asian Military Power and the Second Nuclear Age :

Paul Bracker

Firefly–A Fairytale : Ritu Beri

First Circle: Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Flags in the Dust: William Faulkner

Flames from the Ashes: P. D. Tandon

Flash Point: Mainank Dhar

Flight into Fear: Captain Devi Sharan & Srijoy Chowdhury

Flight to Parliament: Rajesh Pilot

Follywood Flashback: Bwmy Reuben

Food, Nutrition and Poverty in India: V. K. R. V. Rao

For the Love of India: Russi M. Lala

For the President's Eyes Only: Christopher Andrew

For Whom the Bell Tolls: Ernest Hemingway

Fortynine Days: Amrita Pritam

Franklin's Tale: Geoffrey Chaucer

Fraternity: John Forsyte

Free Man's Worship: Bertrand Russell

Freedom at Midnight: Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre

Freedom Behind Bars: Tarsem Kumar

Freedom from Fear: Atmg San Suu Kyi

Freedom in Exile: Dalai Lama

Freedom Song: Amit Chaudhuri

French Leave: P. G. Wodehouse

French Revolution: Thomas Carlyle

Friends and Foes: Sheikh Mujibur Rehman

Friends, Not Masters: Ayub Khan

From Here to Eternity: James Jones

From India to America: S. Chandrashekhar

From Raj to Rajiv : Mark Tully and Zaheer Masani

From Raj to the Republic–A Political History of India: Jean Alphonse Bernard

From Rajpath to Lokpath : Vijaya Raje Scindia

Frozen Assets: P. G. Wodehouse

Fun Moon: P. G. Wodehouse

Fury: Salman Rushdie

Future of NPT : Savita Pande

G Ganadevata : Tara Shankar Bandopadhyaya

Gandhi and Stalin: Louis Fisher

Gandhi–A Sublime Failure : S. S. Gill

Ganganvani : Ram Karan Sharma

Gardener: Rabindranath Tagore

Garrick Year: Margaret Drabble

Gathering Storm: Winston Churchill

Geet Govinda : Jaya Dev

General Theory of Employment, Interest & Money: Keynes

Ghosts in the Machine: Arthur Koestler

Girl in Blue: P. G. Wodehouse

Girl On the Boat: P. G. Wodehouse

Gita Govinda : Jaydev

Gita Rahasya : Bal Gangadhar Tilak

Gitanjali : Rabindranath Tagore

Gladiators: Arthur Koestler

Glass Palace: Amitabha Ghosh

Glimpses of Indian Ocean: Z. A. Quasim

Glimpses of Some Great Indians: M. L. Ahuja

Glimpses of World History: Jawaharlal Nehru

Global Crises-Global Solutions: Bjorn Lombarg

Go Down Moses: William Faulkner

God and the Bible: Matthew Arnold

God as Political Philosopher–Buddha's Challenge to Brahminism : Dr. Kanchan

Illaiah

God's Little Soldier: Kiran Nagarkar

Godaan : Munshi Prem Chand

Godrej–A Hundred Years: B. K. Karanjia

Golden Threshold: Sarojini Naidu

Gone with the Wind: Margaret Mitchell

Good Earth: Pearl S. Buck

Goodbye, Mr. Chips : James Hilton

Gora : Rabindranath Tagore

Governance and the Sclerosis that has set in :Arun Shourie

Government@net: New Governance, New Opportunities for India : Kiran Bedi,

Parminder Jeet Singh & Sandeep Srivastava

Grace Notes: Bernard Mac Lavarto

Grammar of Politics: Harold Joseph Laski

Granny Dan : Danielle Steel

Grapes of Wrath: John Steinbeck

Great Expectations: Charles Dickens

Great Gatsby : F. Scott Fitzgerald

Great Illusion: Norman Angell

Great One-Day Internationals: Gulu Ezekiel

Great Tragedy: Z. A. Bhutto

Grey Eminence: Aldous Huxley

Ground Beneath Her Feet: Salman Rushdie

Growing Old In India–Voices Reveal, Statistics Speak: Ashish Bose & Mala Kapur

Shanker Dass

Growing up in Anglo-India: Eric Stracey

Grub Street: Henry Fielding

Guide for the Perplexed: E. F. Schumacher

Guiding Souls-Dialogues on the Purpose of Life. : Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam and

Arun K. Tiwari

Gulag Archipelago: Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Gul-e-N aghma: Raghupati Sahai 'Firaq' Gorakhpuri

Gulistan Bostan : Sheikh Saadi

Gulliver's Travels: Jonathan Swift

Gulzari Lal Nanda : A Peep in the Service of the People: Promilla Kalhan

Guns & Yellow Roses-Essays on Kargil War: Pamela Constable

Gurusagaram : O. V. Vijayan

100 Best Parliamentary Speeches–1947-97 : Dr. Subhash C. Kashyap

Hacks And Headlines : Raslune Sehgal

Half a Life : V. S. Naipaul

Halfway to Freedom : Margaret Bourke-White

Hamlet : William Shakespeare

Hamsters : C. P. Snow

Hannibal : Thomas Harris

Happy Death : Albert Camus

Hard Times : Charles Dickens

Harlot High and Low : Honore de Balzac

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows : J. K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire : J. K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince : J. K. Rowling

Harsha Charita : Bana Bhatt

Harvest : Manjula Padmanabhan

Havana Bay : Martin Cruz Smith

Hayavadana : Girish Karnad

Headlong : .Michael Frayen

Heart of Darkness : Joseph Conrad

Heat and Dust : Ruth Prawer Jhabwala

Heaven Has No Favourites : Eric Maria Remarque

Heavy Weather : P G. Wodehouse

Heir Apparent : Dr. Karan Singh

Henderson the Rain King : Saul Bellow

Henry Esmond : William M. Thackeray

Heritage : Anthony West

Hero of Our Times : Richard Hough

Heroes and tIero Worship : Thomas Carlyle

Hidden Iran–Paradox and Power in the Islamic Republic : Ray Takeyh

Higher than Hope : Fatima Meer

Himalayan Blunder:J. P. Dalvi

Hind Swaraj : M. K. Gandhi

Hindi Sahitya Aur Samvedna Ka Vikas : R. S. Chaturvedi

Hindu Civilisation : J. M. Barrie

Hinduism : Nirad C. Choudhuri

Hindu-Muslim Unity : Ian Bryant Wells

His Excellency : Emile Zola

Hold Back the Night : Adam Baran

Home Comings : C. P. Snow

Honest Thief and Other Stories : Pyodor Dostoevsky

Horizons–The Tata India Century : Aman Nath, Jay Vithalani, Tulsi Vatsal

Hornet's Nest : Patricia Cornwell

Hot Water : P. G. Wodehouse

House of the Dead : Fyodor Dostoevsky

How India Votes–Election Laws, Practice and Procedure : Rama Devi and S. K.

Mendirata

How Late It .Was, How Late : James Kelman

How to Win Friends and Influence People : Dale Carnegie

Human Factor : Graham Greene

Human Knowledge : Bertrand Russell

Humour : Ben Johnson

Hungry Stones : Rabindranath Tagore

Husband of a Fanatic : Amitava Kumar

I am Not an Island : K. A. Abbas

I Dare : Parmesh Dangwal

I Follow the Mahatma : K. M. Munshi

I Muse; Therefore I Am : V. N. Narayanan

I Too Had A Dream:Dr. Verghese Kurien

I Will Lie Down in Peace : Usha Jesudasan

IC 814 Hijacked : Anil Jaggia & Saurabh Shukla

Ideology and Social Science : Andre Beteille

Identity and Violence–The Illusion of Destiny : Prof. Amartya Sen

Idols : Sunil Gavaskar

Idylls of the King : Lord Alfred Tennyson

If I Am Assassinated : Z. A. Bhutto

Imperial Woman : Pearl S. Buck

Importance of Being Earnest : Oscar Wilde

Impossible Allies : C. Raja Mohan

In Mghanistan's Shadow : Salig S. Harrison

In Confidence : Anatolyu Dobrynin

In Defence Qf Globalisation : Jagdish Bhagwaci

In Evil Hour : Gabriel Garcia Marquez

In Light of India : Octavio Paz

In Memoriam : Lord Alfred Tennyson

In Retrospect–The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam : Robert S. McNamara

In Search of Gandhi : Richard Attenborough

In Search of Identity : Anwar el-Sadat

In the Mternqon of Time : Dr. Rupert Snell

In the Bluest Eye : Toni Morrison

In the City by the Sea : Kamilla Shamsie

In the Company of Women : Khushwant Singh

In the Light of the Black Sun : Rohit Manchanda

In the Shadow of Pines : Mandeep Rai

In the Stream of History–Shaping Foreign Policy for a New Era : Warren

Christopher

Inconceivable : Ben Elton

India Mter Gandhi–The History of World's Largest Democracy : Ram Chandra Guha

India Betrayed : The Role of Nehru : B. N. Sharma

India Changes : Taya Zinkin

India Discovered :John Keay

India Divided : Rajendra Prasad

India First : K. R. Malkani

India in Mind : Pankaj Mishra

India in Slow Motion : Sir Mark Tully

India in Transition–Freeing the Economy : Prof. Jagdish Bhagwati

India is for Sale : Chitra Subramaniam

India of Our Dreams : M. V. Kamath

India Remembered : Percival & Margaret Spear

India Remembered–A Personal Account of the Mountbattens During the Transfer of

Power : Pamela Mountbatten and India Hicks

Imdia Today : Rajni Palme Dutt

India Unbound : Gurcharan Das

India We Left : Hymphry Trevelyan

India Wins Freedom : Maulana Abul Kalam Azad

India's China Perspective : Subramanian Swamy

India's China War : Neville Maxwell

India's Culture, the State, the Arts & Beyond : B. P. Singh

India's Development As Knowledge Society : K. Venkatasubramanian

India's Economic Crisis : Dr. Bimal Jalan

India's Economic Reforms and Development Essays for Manmohan Singh : I. J.

Ahluwalia & I. M. D. Little

India's March to Freedom; The Nehru Epoch; The Post Nehru Era : D. P. Mishra

India's Neighbours–Problems And Prospects : Ayanjit Sen

India's Politics–A View From the Backbench : Bimal Jalan

India's Priceless Heritage : N. A. Palkhivala

India's Rise to Power in the Twentieth Century & Beyond : Sandy Gordon

India's Unending Journey-How its Future will Affect Us All : Mark Tully

India–A Million Mutinies Now : V. S. Naipaul

India–A Wounded Civilisation : V S. Naipaul

India–Facing the Twenty–First Century : Barbara Crossette

India–From Curzon to Nehru and Mter : Durga Dass

India–From Midnight to the Millennium : Shashi Tharoor

India–Independence Festival (1947 1997) ~ Raghu Rai

Indian Arms Bazaar : Maj-Gen. Pratap Narain

Indian Economy–Essay on Money and Finance : Dr. C. Rangarajan

Indian Home Rule : M. K. Gandhi

Indian Judiciary–A Tribute : Poornima Advani .

Indian Mansions : Sarah Tillotson

Indian Philosophy : Dr. S. Radhakrishnan

Indian Summer–The Secret History of the end of an Empire : Alex Von

Tunzelmann Indian Summers : John Wright

India-Pakistan–History of Unsolved Conflicts : Lars Blinkenberg

India–The Critical Years : Kuldip Nayar

Indica : Megasthenes

Indira Gandhi's Emergence and Style : Nayantara Sehgal

Indira Gandhi-The "Emergency" And Indian Democracy : P. N. Dhar

Indira's India : S. Nihal Singh

Indira–The Life of Indira Nehru Gandhi : Katherine Frank

Indomitable Spirit : Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

Inferno : Alighieri Dante

Ink : John Preston

Inside Asia (also Inside Europe and Inside Mrica) : John Gunther

Inside the CBI : Joginder Singh

Inside the Olympics : Dick Pound

Inside the Third Reich : Albert Spencer

Insulted and the Injured : Fyodor M. Dostoevsky

Intelligence Services : Dr. Bhashyam Kasturi

Internet–The Rough Guide : Angus J. Kennedy

Intimacy : Jean Paul Sartre

Intruder in the Dust : William Faulkner

Iran Awakening–A Memoir of Revolution and Hope : Shirin Ebadi

Iron Harvest : C. P. Surendran

Iron in the Soul : Jean Paul Sartre

Ironhand : J. W. Von Goethe

Is New York Burning? : Dominique Lapierre & Larry Collins

Is Paris Burning? : Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre

Isabella : John Keats Islamic Bomb : Stev Weissman and Herbert Krousney

Islamic Seal on India's Independence : Abul Kalam Azad–A Fresh Look : Syede

Saiyiadan Hameed

Island in Chains : Indres Naidoo

Islands in the Streams : Ernest Hemingway

It's Always Possible : Kiran Bedi

Ivanhoe : Sir Walter Scott

Ivanov : Anton Chekhov

J. K.-Biography of J. K. Rowling : Seen Smith

Jack and Jackie–Portrait of an American Marriage : Christopher Anderson

Jaguar Smile : Salman Rushdie

Jai Somnath : K. M. Munshi

Jane Eyre : Charlotte Bronte

Jankijeevanam : Prof. Rajendra Mishra

Japan–South Asia Security and Economic Perspectives : K. V Kesvan

Jawaharlal Nehru, Rebel and Statesman : B. R. N anda

Jawaharlal Nehru–A Communicator & Democratic Leader : A. K. Damodran

Jazz : Toni Morrison

Jean Christopher : Romain Rolland

Jewel : Danielle Steel

JFK–An Unfinished Life : Robert Dallek

Jobs for Millions : V. V. Giri

Julius Caesar : William Shakespeare

Jungle Book : Rildyard Kipling

Jungle Girl : Ginu Karnani

Jurassic Park : Michael Crichton

Kabeer Aur Eesaayee Chintan : M. D. Thomas

Kadambari : Bana Bhatt

Kagaz Te Kanwas : Amrita Pritam

Kailasb Mansarovar : Lt. Col. A. S. Berar (Retd.)

Kaleidoscope of India: Tomoji Muto

Kali Aandhi : Kamleshwar

Kamadhenu : Kubernath Ray

Kamasutra : S. H. Vatsyayan

Kamayani : Jai Shankar Prasad

Kanyadaan : Vijay Tendulkar

Kanya–Exploitation of Little Angels: Ms. V. Mohini Giri

Kapal Kundala : Bankim Chandra Chatterjee

Kargil War–Past, Present & Future: Colonel (Rtd.) Bhaskar Sarkar

Kargil–Cross Border Terrorism: M. K. Akbar

Kargil–From Surprise to Victory : Gen. V. P. Malik

Kashmir Diary–Psychology of Militancy: Gen. Arjun Ray

Kashmir in the Crossfire :Victoria Shaffield

Kashmir Underground : Sati Sahni

Kashmir, the Untold Story : Humra Qureshi

Kashmir–A Tale of Shame : Hari Jaisingh

Kashmir–A Tragedy of Errors : Tavleen Singh

Kashmir–Behind the Vale : M. J. Akbar

Kashmir–The Wounded Valley : Ajit Bhattacharjee

Kasturba–A Life : Amn Gandhi

Katghare Main : Ram Sharan Joshi

Kayakalp : Munshi Prem Chand

Kenilworth : Sir Walter Scott

Khak-i-Dil : Jan Nissar Akhtar

Khushwant Singh...In the Name of the Father : Rahul Singh

Khushwant Singh–An Icon of Our Age : Kaamna Prasad

Kidnapped : Robert Louis Stevenson

Killer Angels : :Michael Shaara

Kim : Rudyard Kipling

King Lear : Wilham Shakespeare

King of Dark Chamber : Rabindranath Tagore

Kipps : H. G. Wells

Kiran Bedi–The Kindly Baton : Meenakshi Saxena

Kiss of God : Marshall Stewart Bell

Kohima to Kashmir–On Terrorist Trail : Prakash Singh

Koraner Nari : Taslima Nasreen

Kore Kagaz : Amrita Pritam

Kshuditta Pashan (Hungry Stone) : Rabindranath Tagore

Kubla Khan : Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Kulliyat : Ghalib

Kumar Sambhava : Kalidas

L'Allegro : John Milton

La Divine Comedia : A. Dante

La Peste : Albert Camus

Lady Chatterley's Lover : D. H. Lawrence

Lady of the Lake : Sir Walter Scott

Lady with the Lapdog : Anton Chekhov

Lajja : Taslima Nasreen

Lal Bahadur Shastri : C. P. Srivastava

Last Analysis : Saru Bellow

Last Burden : Upamanyu Chatterjee

Last Days of Pompeii : Edward George Lytton

Last Orders : Graham Swift

Last Things : C. P. Snow

Law, Lawyers & Judges : H. R. Bhardwaj

Laws Versus Justice : V. R. Krishna lyer

Laws, Ideas and Ideology in Politics–Perspective of an Activist : Ashwani Kumar

Le Contract Social (The Social Contract) : J. J. Rousseau

Lead Kindly Light : Cardinal Newman

Leaders : Richard Nixon

Learning to Forget–The Anti Memoirs of Modernity : Dipankar Gupta

Leaves of Grass : Walt Whitman

Legacy of a Divided Nation : Mushirul Hasan

Les Miserables : Victor Hugo

Lest We Forget : Amarinder Singh

Letter from Peking : Pearl S. Buck

Letters Between a Father and Son : V. S. Naipaul

Letters From the Field : Margaret Mead

Leviathan : Thomas Hobbes

Liberty & Death : Patrick French

Life and Death of Mr. Badman : John Bunyan

Life and Times of Michael K : J. M. Coetzee

Life Divine : Aurobindo Ghosh

Life is Elsewhere : Milan Kundera

Life Isn't All Ha Ha Hee Hee : Meera Syal

Life of Pi : Yann Martel

Light That Failed : Rudyard Kipling

Lighting : Danielie Steel

Like Water for Chocolate : Laura Esquivel

Line of Control : Tom Clancy & Steve Pieceznik

Lines of Fate : Mark Kharitonov

Lipika : Rabindranath Tagore

Listening Now : Anjana Apachana

Little Angels : Ms. V. Mohini Giri

Living History–An Autobiography of Hillary Rodham Clinton : Simon & Schuster

Living Room : Graham Greene

Lolita : V. Nabokov

Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner : Allan Sillitoe

Long Day's Journey into Night : Eugene O'Neill

Long Road Home : Danielle Steel

Long Shadow–Inside Stalin's Family : Svetlana Allilyuyeva

Long Walk to Freedom : Nelson Mandela

Look Back in Anger : John Osborne

Lord Jim : Joseph Conrad

Lord of the Flies : William Golding

Lost Child : Mulk Raj Anand

Lost Honour : John Dean

Lost Illusion : Honore de Balzac

Lotus Eaters : A. Tennvson

Love and Longing in Bombay : Vikram Chandra

Love in a Blue Time : Hanif Khureshi

Love in a Dead Language : Lee Seigel

Love Story : Eric Segal

Love, Truth and a Little Malice : Khushwant Singh

Lycidas : John Milton

M.A. Jinnah : Ayesha Jalal

Macbeth : William Shakespeare

Madame Secretary–A Memoir : Madeleine Albright

Magic Mountain : Maharishi Ved Vyas

Magic Seeds : V. S. Naipaul

Mahabhashya : Patanjali

Mahatma Gandhi : Romain Rolland

Main Street : Sinclair Lewis

Main Waqt Ke Hoon Samane : Girija Kumar Mathur

Major Barbara : George Bernard Shaw

Making Peace With Pakistan : Radha Kumar

Making Sense of Chindia–Reflections on China & India : Jairam Ramesh

Malavikagnimitra : Kalidas

Malgudi Days : R, K Narayan

Malti Madhav : Bhavabhuti

Mama : Terry McMillan

Man and Superman : George Bernard Shaw

Man for Moscow : G Wynne

Man of Destiny : George Bernard

Shaw Man of Property : John Galsworthy

Man Who Changed China : Pearl S. Buck

Man, Beast and Virtue : Luigi Pirandello

Man, The Unknown : Lewis Carroll

Management and Cultural Values : Henry S. R. Kao

Managing for Results : Peter F. Drucker

Managing for the Future : Peter F. Drucker

Mandela–The Authorised Biography : Anthony Sampson

Maneaters of Kumaon : Jim Corbett

Mangal Pandey : Brave Martyr or Accidental Hero? : Rudrangashu Mukherjee

Mankind and Mother Earth : Arnold Toynbee

Mansfield Park : Jane Austen

Manviya Sanskriti Ke Rachnatmak Aayam : Prof. Raghuvansh

Many Worlds : K. P. S. Menon

Mao, the Unknown Story : Jung Chang & Jon Halliday

Marriage and Morals : Bertrand Russell

Mars & Venus–A Match In Heaven? : John Gray

Mass Media in Contemporary Society : P. B. Sawant

Mati Matal : Gopinath Mohanty

Maurice : E. M. Forster

Maximum City : Suketu Mehta

Meditations on First Philosophy : Rene Descrates

Meghdoot : Kalidas

Mein Kampf : Adolf Hitler

Memoirs of a Bystander–Life in Diplomacy : Iqbal Akhund

Memories of Hope : Charles de Gaulle

Memory and Identity–Conversations Spanning

Millenniums : Pope John Paul II

Men from Stone Age to Clone Age : Bob Beale

Men Who Kept the Secrets : Thomas Powers

Meri Rahen Meri Manzil : Krishna Puri

Metaphysics : Aristotle

Middle March : George Eliot

Midnight Diaries : Boris Yeltsin

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil : John Berendt

Miguel Street : V. S. Naipaul

Mill on the Floss : George Eliot

MirrorImage : Danielle Steel

Mirror of the Sea : Joseph Conrad

Missed Opportunities : Indo-Pak War 1965 : Major General Lakshman Singh

Mistaken Identity : Nayantara Sehgal

Moby Dick : Herman Melville

Mod Classics : Joseph Conrad

Modern Jihad : Loretta Napuleoni

Modern Painters : John Ruskin

Modern South Asia–History, Culture, Political Economy : Sugata Bose & Ayesha

Jalal

Modernity, Morality And The Mahatma : MadhuriSanthanam Sondhi

Mohandas : A True Story of a Man, His People and an Empire : Rajmohan Gandhi

Mondays on Dark Night of Moon : Kirin Narayan

Monsoon : Wilbur Smith

Mookhajjiva Kanasugalu : K. Shivram Karanth

Moon and Six Pence : W Somerset Maugham

Moonlight Sonata : L Beethoven

Moonwalk : Michael Jackson

Mortal Fea! : : Greg Iles

Mother : Maxim Gorky

Mother India : Katherine Mayo

Mountbatten and Independent India : Larry Collirs and Dominique Lapierre

Mountbatten and tne Partition of India : Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre

Mrichchhakatikam : Shudraka

Mrinalini : Bankim Chandra Chatterjee

Mrityunjaya : Shivaji Sawant

Mrs. De Winter : Susan Hill

Mrs. Gandhi's Second Reign : Arun Shourie

Much Ado About Nothing : William Shakespeare

Mudrarakshasa : Vishakhadatta

Mughal Maharajas and the Mahatma : K. R. N. Swami

Murder in the Cathedral : T. S. Eliot

Murder on the Orient Express : Agatha Christie

Murky Business : Honore de Balzac

Muslim Law and the Constitution : A M.Bhattacharjea

My Country,

My Days:R. K. Narayan

My Early Life : M. K. Gandhi

My Expetiments with Truth :M. K. Gandhi

My Father, Deng Xiaoping : Xiao Rong

My God Died Young : Sasthi Brata

My India : S. Nihal Singh

My Life : Bill Clinton

My Life and Times : V. V. Giri

My Music, My Love : Ravi Shankar

My Own Boswell : M. Hidayatullah

My Own Witness : Mrinal Pande

My Presidential Years : Ramaswamy Venkataraman

My Several Worlds : Pearl S. Buck

My Side : David Beckham

My Son's Father : Dom Moraes

My South Block Years : J. N. Dixit

My Struggles : E. K. Nayanar

My Truth : Indira Gandhi

Mysterious Universe : James Jeans

Myth of Sisyphus : Albert Camus

9-11: Noam Chomsky

Naari: Humavun Azad

Nai Duniya Ko Salam & Path or Ki Dewar: .Ali Sardar Jafri

Naivedyam (The Offering) : N. Balamai Amma

Naked Came the Stranger: Penelope Ashe

Naku Thanthi: D R. Bendre

Nana: Emile Zola

Natya Shastra: Bharat Muni

Neela Chand: Shiv Prasad Singh

Nehru and the Language Politics of India: Robert D. King

Nehru Family and Sikhs: Harbans Singh

Nehru–A Political Life: Prof. Judith Brown

Neither Here Nor There ~ Bill Bryson

Nelson Mandela–A Biography: Martin Meredith

Netaji Subhash–Ideology & Doctrine: Amlendu Guha

Netaji–Dead or Alive: Samar Guha

Never At Home: Dom Moraes

New Dimensions of India's Foreign Policy: Atal Bihari Vajpayee

Nice Guys Finish Second: B.K Nehru

Nicholas Nickelby : Charles Dickens

Nile Basin: Sir Richard Burton

Nine Days' Wonder: John Mansfield

Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984) : George Orwell

1999–Victory Without War: Richard Nixon

Nirbashita Narir Kabita : Taslima Nasreen

NirmaJa : Prem Chand

Nisheeth : Uma Shankar Joshi

Niti-Sataka : .Bhartrihari

Nixon and Kissinger–Partners in Power: Robert Dallek

No Full Stops in India: Mark Tully

Non-Violence in Peace and War: M. K. Gandhi

North: Seamus Heaney

Northanger Abbey: Jane Austen

Nostromo : Joseph Conrad

Notebook of a Foot Soldier: Randhir Khare

Notes from a Big. Country: Bill Bryson

Notes from a Small Island: Bill Bryson

Nothing Like The sun : Anthony Bugess

Nuclear Deterrence in Southern Asia–China, India & Pakistan: Arpit Rajan

Nuclear India: G. G. Mirchandani and P. K S. Namboodari

Numbered Account: Christopher Reich

Nursery Alice: Lewis Carroll

Nurturing Development: Ismail Serageldin

173 Hours in Captivity : Neelesh Mishra

O is for Outlaw : Sue Grafion

O'Jerusalem : Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre

Occasion for Loving : Nadine Gordimer

Oddakkuzal : G. Shankara Kurup

Odyssey : Homer

Of Human Bondage : W Somerset Maugham

Of Some Consequence–A Soldier Remembers : General K. Sundarji

Old Curiosity Shop : Charles Dickens

Old Goriot : Honore de Balzac

Old Path–White Clouds : Thich Nht Hanh

Oliver Twist : Charles Dickens

Oliver's Story : Erich Segal

Omeros : Derek Walcott

On History : Eric Hobsbawm

On the Edge of a Century : Amlan Datta

One Day Cricket–The Indian Challenge : Ashis Roy

Once was Bombay : Pinki Virani One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich :

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn One Hundred Years of Solitude : Gabriel Marquez

One World : Wendell Wilkie

One World and India : Arnold Toynbee

One World to Share : Sridath Ramphal

One-eyed Uncle : Laxmikant Mahapatra

Open Secrets–Indian Intelligence Unveiled : M. K. Dhar

Operation Black Thunder : Sarbjit Singh

Operation Bluestar–The True Story : Lt. Gen. K. S. Brar

Operation Parakaram–The War Unfinished : Lt. Gen. V. K. Sood and Pravin Sawhney

Operation Shylock : Philip Roth

Origin of Species : Charles Darwin

Oru Desathinte Katha : S. K. Pottekkatt

Oscar and Lucinda : Peter Carey

Othello : William Shakespeare

Other People's Children : Joanna Trollope

Our Fathers : Andrew O'Hagan

Our Films, Their Films : Satyajit Ray

Out of My Comfort Zone : Steve Waugh

Paddy Clarke Ha, Ha, Ha : Roddy Doyle

Painted Veil : W Somerset Maugham

Painter of Signs : R. K. Narayan

Pak Proxy War : Vijay Karan

Pakistan Between Mosque and Military : Hussain Haqqani

Pakistan Crisis : David Loshak

Pakistan Cut to Size : D. R. Mankekar

Pakistan in the 20th Century–A Political History : Lawrence Ziring

Pakistan Leadership Challenge : Lt. Gen. (Rtd.) Jahan Dad Khan

Pakistan Papers : ¥ani Shankar Aiyer

Pakistan's Failed Gamble : Col. (Retd.) Anil Shourie

Pakistan–The Gathering Storm : Benazir Bhutto

Panchatantra : Vishnu Sharma

Paradise : Alighieri Dante

Paradise Lost : John Milton

Paradise Regained : John Milton

Param Vir–Our Heroes in Battle : Major Gen. Ian Cardozo

Past and Present : Thomas Carlyle

Past Forward : G. R. Narayanan

Path to Power : Margaret Thatcher

Pavilion of Women : Pearl S. Buck

Pay the Devil : Jack Higgins

Peculiar Music :Emily Bronte

People Like Us : Pawan Kumar Verma

Perceptions, Emotions Sensibilities : Tapan Raychaudhuri

Perfect Hostage–A Life of Aung San

Suu Kyi : Justin Wintle

Perils of Democracy : P. C. Alexander

Personal Injuries : Scot Turow

Perspectives on Indian National Movement; Selected Corres pondence of Lala

Lajpat Rai :

Dr. Joginder Singh Dhanki

Persuasion : Jane Austen

Peter Pan : J. M. Barrie

Philosophical Investigations : Ludwig Wittgenstein

Pickwick Papers : Charles Dickens

Pillow Problems and the Tangled Tale : Lewis Carroll

Pinjar : Amrita Pritam

Plans for Departure : Nayantata Sehgal

Platform : Michael Houellebecq

Platform No. Chaar : Dr. Himanshi Shelat

Pleading Guilty : Scott Turow

PMO Diary-I, Prelude Emergency : B. N. Tandon

Point of Origin : Patricia Cornwell

Poison Belt : Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Politics : Aristotle

Portrait of India : Ved Mehta

Post Office : Rabindranath Tagore

Power and Glory : Graham Greene

Power of Movement in Plants : Charles Darwin

Power That Be : David Halberstan

Prateeksha : Harivansh Rai Bachchan

Pratham Pratishruti : .Ashapurna Devi

Prelude : William Wordsworth

Prem Pachisi : Munshi Prem Chand

Premonitions : P. N. Haksar

Preparing for the Twentieth Century : Paul Kennedy

Press Freedom–The Indian Story : K. G. Joglekar

Price of Partition : Rafiq Zakaria

Price of Power–Kissingerin the Nixon White House : Seymour M. Hersh

Pride and Prejudice : Jane Austen

Princess in Love : Ann Pasternak

Principia : Isaac Newton

Prison and Chocolate Cake : Nayantara Sehgal

Prison Diary : Jayaprakash Narayan

Prithviraj Raso : Chandra Bardai

Profiles & Letters : K. Natwar Singh

Promises to Keep : Chester Bowels'

Prospects for Democracy in Asia : Tatu Vanhanen

Pulsating Presence of a Painful Past : Taisha Abraham

Punjab, The Knights of Falsehood : K. P. S. Gill

Purgatory : Alighieri Dante

Pygmalion : George Bernard Shaw

Pyramids of Sacrifice : Peter L. Berger

Quarantene : Jim Crass

Quest for Conscience : Madhu Dandvate

Rabbit, Run : John Updika

Radharani : Bankim Chandra Chatterjee

Raga Mala–Autobiography of Ravi Shankar : George Harrison

Rage of Angels : Sydney Sheldon

Raghuvamsa : Kalidas

Rags to Riches : M. G. Muthu

Ragtime : E. L. Doctorow

Rahul Dravid–A Biography : Vedam Jaishankar

Rains Came : Louis Bromefieid

Raj Kapoor Speaks : Ritu Nanda

Rajtarangini : Kalhana

Raj–The Making & Unmaking of British India : Lawrence James

Ram Charita Manas : Twsidas

Ramanujar : Dr. Indira Parthasarathy

Ramayana : Maharishi Valmiki

Rangbhoomi : Munshi Prem Chand

Rang-e-Shairi : Raghupati Sahai 'Firaq' Gorakhpuri

Rape of Bangladesh : Anthony Mascarenhas

Rape of Nanking (Nanjing)–An Undeniable History of Photographs : SIll Young

Ratnavali : Harsha Vardhan

Ravi Paar (Across the Ravi) : Gulzar

Razor's Edge : W Somerset Maugham

Real Time : Amit Chaudhuri

Rebirth : Leonid Brezhnev

Red and Black : Stendhal

Red Star Over China : Edgar Snow

Rediscovering Asia : Prakash Nanda

Rediscovering Dharavi : Kalpana Sharma

Rediscovering Gandhi : Yogesh Chadha

Reflections on the French Revolution : Edmund Burke

Regional Security in South Asia–The Ethno-Sectarian Dimensions : Muchkund Dubey

& Nancy Jetly

Remembering Babylon : David Malouf

Reminiscences : Thomas Carlyle

Reminiscences of the Nehru Age : M. O. Mathai

Remorseful Day : Colin Dexter

Rendezvous with Rama : Arthur C. Clark

Reprieve : Jean Paul Sartre

Republic : Plato

Resurrection : Leo Tolstoy

Rethinking Early Modern India : Richard B. Barnett (Ed.)

Return of the Aryans : Bhagwan S. Gidwani

Returning to the Source : Acharya Rajneesh

Revenge and Reconciliation–Understanding South Asian History : Rajmohan Gandhi

Reverse Sweep–Confessions of a Cricket Junkie : Gautam Bhimani

Revolutionary Wealth : Alvin and Heidi Toffler

Rich Like Us : Nayantara Sehgal

Riding the Nuclear Tiger : N. Ram

Riding the Storm : Harold MacMillan

Rights of Man : Thomas Paine

Rise and Fall of the Great Powers : Paul Kennedy

Ritu Ka Pehla Phool : Vijendra

Ritu Samhara : Kalidas

Road to Folly : Leslie Ford

Road to Freedom : K. K. Khullar

Romantics : Pankaj Mishra

Romeo and Juliet : William Shakespeare

Room at the Top : John Braine Roots

Routine Violence : Gyanendra Pandey

Rubaiyat : Omar Khayyam

Rubaiyat-i-Omar Khayyam : Edward Fitzgerald

Rukh Te Rishi : Harbhajan Singh

Runaway Jury : John Grisham

Saaket : Maithili Sharan Gupt

Sacked or Sunk ? Admiral Vishnu Bhagwat : Brigadier R. P. Singh & Comdre Ranjit

B. Rao

Sacred Games: Vikram Chandra

Sadar-i-Riyasat : Karan Singh

Saddam's Bomb : Shyam Bhatia and Daniel McGrory

Saket : Maithili Sharan Gupt

Sakharam Binder : Vijay Tendulkar

Samler's Planet : Saul Bellow

Sanctuary : William Faulkner

Sands of Time : Sidney Sheldon

Santa Evita : Tomas Eloymartinez

Sardar Patel and Indian Muslims : Rafiq Zakaria

Satanic Verses : Salman Rushdie

Satyartha Prakash : Swami Dayanand

Saving Capitalism From The Capitalists : Raghuram G. Rajan and Luigi Zingales

Saving Faith : David Baldacci

Savitri : Aurobindo Ghosh

Scarred–Experiments with Violence in Gujarat : Dionne Bunsha

Scenes from a Writer's Life : Ruskin Bond

Sceptred Flute : Sarojini Naidu

Schindler's List : Thomas Keneally

Scholar Extraordinary : Nirad C. Chaudhuri

Second Wind : Dick Francis

Secret Agent : Joseph Conrad

Sense and Sensibility : Jane Austen

Sesame and Lilies : John Ruskin

Seshan–An Intimate Story : K. Govindan Kutty

Seven Lamps of Architecture : John Ruskin

Seven Summers : Mulk Raj Anand

Sex, Art and American Culture : Camille Paglia

Shadow from Ladakh : Bhabani Bhattacharya

Shadow Line : Joseph Conrad

Shadow of a Princess : Patrick Jephson

Shahnama : Firdausi

Shakuntala : Kalidas

Shalimar : Manohar Malgonkar

Shalimar The Clown : Salman Rushdie

Shall We Tell the President ? : Jeffrey Archer

Shame : Salman Rushdie

Shape of Things to Come : H. G. Wells

She Stoops to Conquer : Oliver Goldsmith

Sher-e-Shor Angez : Shamsur Rahman Faruqi

Ship of Fools : Katherine Anne Porter

Shivaji, The Great Patriot : Lala Lajpat Rai

Shivaji–Hindu King of Islamic India : James Laine

Siddharta : Hermann Hesse

Silas Marner : George Eliot

Silent Spring : Rachel Carson

Single & Single : John Le Carre

Single in the City–The Independent Woman's Handbook : Sunny Singh

Six Characters in Search of an Author : Luigi Pirandello

Slaughter House Five : Kurt Vanuegut

Slumming India : Gita Dewan Verma

Small Island : Andrea Levy

Small Land : Leonid Brezhnev

Small Remedies : Shashi Deshpande

Smell : Radhika Jha

Snakes & Ladders–A View of Modern India : Gita Mehta

Snow Country : Yasunari Kawabata

Social Justice & the Constitution : Ajit Bhattacharjea

Socialite Evenings : Shobhaa De

Sohrab and Rustam : Matthew Arnold

Sole Survivor : Derek Hansen

Something Barely Remembered : Susan Visvanathan

Song of Solomon : Toni Morrison

Sons and Lovers : D. H. Lawrence

Soul And Structure of Governance in India : Jagmohan

Soul Mountain : Gao Xingjian Mabel Lee

South Asia on a Nuclear Fuse : Praful Bidwai & Achin Vanaik

South from the Limpopo; Travels Through South Africa : Dervla Murphy

South-East Asia on a Shoestring : Hugh Finlay

Soz-i-Watan : Munshi Prem Chand

Special Tests–The Memoirs of an Unwanted Witness–A Soviet Spymaster : Pavel

Anatolievich Sudoplatov

Speed Post : Shobhaa De

Spirit of the Age : William Hazlitt

Spouse : Shobhaa De

Spy Catcher : Peter Wright

St. Cyril Road : Amit Chaudhuri

St. Joan : George Bernard Shaw

Stability in South Asia : Ashley J. Tellis

Stalin : Edvard Radzinsky

Starry Nights : Shobhaa De

Stars of New Curfew : Ben Okri

Stolen Harvest : Vandana Shiva

Stopping by Woods : Robert Frost

Storm in the Sea Wind–Ambani Vs Ambani : Alam Srinivas

Story of My Life : Moshe Dayan

Story of Real Man : Nikolayev Polevoi

Straight From Heart : Kapil Dev

Strangers and Brothers Omnibus : C. P. Snow

Street Lawyer : John Grisham

Strife : John Galsworthy

Stripped Steel : N. K. Singh

Struggles of Indian Federalism : Bonica Aleaz

Studies in the Psychology of Sex : Havelock Ellis

Subsidies–A Bottomless Bucket : K. S. Ramachandran

Sula : Toni Morrison

Sultry Days : Shobhaa De

Summa Theologica : Thomas Aquinas

Summer Sisters : Judy Bloom

Sun Stone : Octavio Paz

Sunny Days : Sunil Gavaskar

Surrender at Dacca : Lt. Gen. J. F.R. Jacob

Surviving Men : Shobhaa De

Surviving Women : Jerry Pinto

Swapnavasvadatta : Bhasa

2003 World Cup Cricket–Action Replay1983 : Rahul Sehgal

Tahqiq-i-Hind : Alberuni

Tales from Shakespeare : Charles Lamb

Tales of Sherlock Holmes : Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Taliban-Islam-Oil and the New Great Game in Central Asia : Ahmed Rashid

Talisman : Sir Walter Scott

Tar Baby : Toni MorrisonTarkash : Javed Akhtar

Tarzan of the Apes : Edgar Rice Burroughs

Tears of Renewal : Henry Kissinger

Tehriq-e-Mujahideen : Dr. Sadiq Hussain

Temple Tiger : Jim Corbett

Temptations of the West–How to be Modern in India, Pakistan and Beyond : Pankaj

Mishra

Tess of D'Urbervilles : Thomas Hardy

Thank You, Jeeves : P. G. Wodehouse

The 21st Century Ambassador : Kishan S. Rana

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer : Mark Twain

The Affairs : C. P. Snow

The Affluent Society : J. K. Galbraith

The Afghan Turmoil–Changing Equations : Sreedhar & Mahendra Dev

The Age of Extremes : Eric Hobsbawm

The Agenda–Inside the Clinton White House : Bob Woodward

The Agony and the Ecstasy : Irving Stone

The Alchemy of Desire : Tarun J. Tejpal

The Animal Farm : George Orwell

The Argumentative Indian : Dr. Amartya Sen

The Asian Elephant-A Natural History : J. C. Daniel

The Assassination : K. Mohandas

The August Coup : Mikhail S. Gorbachev

The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian : Nirad C. Chaudhuri

The A-Z of Bradman : Alan Eason

The Banyan Tree : Hugh Tinker

The Beach Tree : Pearl S. Buck

The Beauty of These Present

Things : Avtar Singh.

The Believers : Abdul Sultan P. P.

The Betrayal of East Pakistan : Lt. General A. A. K. Niazi

The Big Fisherman : Lloyd C. Douglas

The Big Idea : Robert Jones

The Birth of Europe : Robert S. Lopez

The Black Arrow : Robert Louis Stevenson

The Black Economy in India : Arun Kumar

The Black Pharaoh : Christian Jacq

The Blackwater Lightship : Colm Toibin

The Blessing : Jude Deveraux

The Blind Assasin : Margaret Atwood

The Blue Bedspread : Raj Kamal Jha

The Book I Won't Be Writing And Other Essays : H. Y. Sharda Prasad

The Book of Shadows : Namita Gokhale

The Brethren : John Grisham

The Bride's Book of Beauty : Mulk Raj Anand

The British Conquest and Dominion of India : Penderal Moon

The Bubble : Mulk Raj Anand

The Buddha & The Terrorist : Satish Kumar

The Butcher of Amritsar; Nigel Collett

The Calcutta Chromosome : Amitav Ghosh

The Canterbury Tales : Geoffery Chaucer

The Cardinal : Henry Morton Robinson

The Career & Legend of Vasco de Gama : Sanjay Submmanyam

The Castle : Franz Kafka

The Changing Global Order : World Leaders Reflect : Nathan Gardels

The Changing World of the Executive : Peter Drucker

The Cinemas of India : Yves Thoraval

The Clash of Civilisations and the Remaking of World Order : Samuel Huntington

The Class : Erich Segal

The Clown : Heinrich Boll

The Cocktail Party : T. S. Eliot

The Commitments : Roddy Doyle

The Company of Women : Khushwant Singh

The Confessions of an English Opium Eater : Thomas De Quincy

The Confidential Clerk : T. S. Eliot

The Conservationist : Nadine Gordimer

The Contemporary Conservative : Dhiren Bhagat

The Corrupt Society : Chandan Mitra

The Count of Monte Cristo : Alexander Dumas

The Coup : John Updike

The Crisis in India : Ronald Segal

The Critique of Pure Reason : Immanuel Kant

The Crown and the Loincloth : Chaman Nahal

The Crown of Wild Olive : John Ruskin

The Cutting Edge : Javed Miandad

The Dangerous Summer : Ernest Hemingway

The Dark Room : R. K. Narayan

The Dark Side of Camelot : Seymore Hersh

The Day in Shadow : Nayantara Sehgal

The Day of the Jackal : Frederick Forsyth

Ulysses : James Joyce

Uncle Tom's Cabin : H. B. Stowe

Under Western Eye : Joseph Conrad

Understanding Partition : Yuvraj Krishan

Unhappy India : Lala Lajpat Rai

Until Darkness : Parvin Ghaffari

Unto This Last : John Ruskin

Untouchable : Mulk Raj Anand

Urvashi : Ramdhari Singh 'Dinkar'

Utopia : Thomas More

Uttara Ramcharitam : Bhava Bhuti

Vairagya Shataka : Bhartri Hari

Vajpayee's Foreign Policy–Daring the Irreversible : Prof. M. L. Sondhi & Prakash

Nanda

Valley of Dolls : Jacqueline Susann

Value Reporting & Global Comparative Advantage–Banking and Finance : Vipin Malik

Vanity Fair : William Thackeray

Vector : Robin Cook

Vernon God Little : D. B. C. Pierre (peter Finlay)

Very Old Bones : William Kennedy

Victory : Joseph Conrad

Video Nights in Kathmandu : Pico lyer

View from the UN : U. Thant

Vikram and the Vampire : Sir Richard Burton

Vikram Sarabhai–A Life : Amrita Shah

Vinay Patrika : Tulsidas

Virangana : Maithili Sharan Gupta

Vish Vriksha : Bankim Chandra Chatterjee

Voice of Conscience : V. V. Giri

Voice of the Voiceless : Ruth Harring

Waiting for Godot : Samuel Barclay Beckett

Waiting for the Mahatma : R. K. Narayan

Waiting to Exhale : Terry McMillan

Wake up India : Annie Besant

Wall at Wagah–India-Pakistan Relationship : Kuldip Nayar

War and No Peace Over Kashmir : Maroof Raza

War and Peace : Leo Tolstoy

War at the Top of the World–The Clash for Mystery of Asia : Eric S. Margolis

War Minus the Shooting : Mike Marquesec

Way of All Flesh : Samuel Butler

We, Indians : Khushwant Singh

We, the People : N. A. Palkhivala

We'll Meet Again : Mary Higgins Clark

Weight Loss : Upamanyu Chatterjee

West Wind : Pearl S. Buck

Westward Ho : Charles Kingsley

What the Body Remembers : Shauna Singh Baldwin

What Went Wrong : Dr. Kiran Bedi

When Men & Mountains Meet–The Explorers of Western Himalayas : John Keay .

When the Wind Blows : James Patterson

Where the Grass is Greener : David M. Smith

While England' Sleeps : David Leavitt

Whispers of the Desert : Fatima Bhutto

White House Years : Henry Kissinger

White Moghuls : William Dalrymple

Who is Kalam ? : R. Ramanathan

Why America Slept : Gerald Posner

Widening Divide : Rafiq Zakaria

Wild Ass's Skin : Honore de Balzac

Wilhelm Meister : J. W. Von Goethe

Wings of Fire : A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Winston Churchill : Clive Ponting

Without Fear or Favour : Neelam Sanjiva Reddy

Witness to an Era : Frank Moraes

Witness to History : Prem Bhatia

Women and Men in My Life : Khushwant Singh

Women Reborn–An Exploration of the Spirituality of Urban Indian Women : Renuka

Singh

Working a Democratic Constitution–The Indian Experience : Granville Austin

World Commitment and India-Pak Relations : Verender Grover & Ranjana Arora

Worshipping False Gods : Arun Shourie

Worthy It Is : Odysseus Elytis

Wuthering Heights : Emile Bronte

Yajnaseni : Pratibha Ray

Yama : Mahadevi Varma

Yashodhara : Maithili Sharan Gupta

Yayati : V. S. Khandekar

Year of the Upheaval : Henry Kissinger

Years of Pilgrimage : Dr. Raja Ramana

Yesterday and Today : K. P. S. Menon

Yoga Sutta : Patanjali

You Can Do It : Paul Hanna

You Can Win : Shiv Khera

Young Husband–Troubled Campaign : Maj. Gen. (Retd.) Shubi Sood

Zafarnama : Gurli Gobind Singh

Zool–The Final Odyssey : Arthur C. Clarke

Zulfi, My Friend : Piloo Mody

Zulfikar Ali Bhutto & Pakistan : Rafi Raz

General Awareness for Forthcomming Teachers Exams

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General Awareness for Forthcomming Teachers Exams

1. The World Heritage Day is observed on—

(A) March 18

(B) April 20

(D) April 18i

Ans : (D)

2. Which of the following held the of Deputy Prime Minister of India

simultaneously with Jagjivan Ram?

(A) Y.B. Chavan

(B) Charan Singh

(D) B.D. Jatti

Ans : (B)

3. The first Nobel Prize in Economics was awarded to Tinbergen and Frisch in—

(A) 1969

(B) 1968

(D) 1967

Ans : (A)

4. Who amongst the following is the author of the book 'Straight from the Heart

(A) Kapil Dev

(B) Nelson Mandela

(D) Tami Hoag

Ans : (D)

5. 'From each according to his ability, to each according to his work' is the

basis of—

(A) Socialism

(B) Capitalism

(D) Fascism

Ans : (C)

6. The head of the State Bank of India is Designated as -—

(A) Executive Director

(B) Governor

(D) Chairman

Ans : (D)

7. Which of the following gases does not form part of the atmosphere?

(A) Nitorgen

(B) Chlorine

(D) Carbon dioxide

Ans : (B)

8. The headquarters of the U.S. Department of Defence is located in—

(A) Marlborough House

(B) The Pentagon

(D) None of these

Ans : (B)

9. The Secretariat of the UN is headed by—

(A) Security Council

(B) Secretary General

(D) President of General Assembly

Ans : (B)

10. India's national calendar is based on—

(A) Saka era

(B) Christian era

(D) Vedic era

Ans : (A)

11. Who amongst the following won the "WTA Player of the year" Award ?

(A) Serena Williams

(B) Jelena Jankovic

(D) Justin Henin

Ans : (D)

12. The foreign trade policy announced in the year 2004 was announced for a

period of -

(A) Two Years

(B) Five Years

(D) Four Years

Ans : (B)

13. When was the capital of India shifted from Calcutta to Delhi?

(A) 1906

(B) 1910

(D) 1901

Ans : (C)

14. 'Economic Justice' as one of the objectives of the Indian Constitution has

been in the—

(A) Preamble, Fundamental Rights and Directive Principles

(B) Preamble and Directive Principles

(D) None of these

Ans : (A)

15. India earns maximum foreign exchange through the export of—

(A) Tea

(B) Jute

(D) None of these

Ans : (A)

16. Which of the Indian Constitution

recognises Hindi in Devanagari script as the official language of India?

(A) Article 345

(B) Article 343

(D) None of these

Ans : (B)

17. In its thirteenth flight PSLV-C9 successfully launched ten satellites with a

total weight of 820 kg. Which of the following satellites launched by PSLV-C9 is

not a nano satellite ?

(A) NLS-4

(B) NLS-5

(D) IMS-1

Ans : (D)

18. Name the periodical which Gandhiji published during his stay in South

Africa—

(A) Indian Opinion

(B) Young India

(D) None of these

Ans : (A)

19. Which country is known as the 'Sugar Bowl' of the world?

(A) India

(B) Cuba

(D) U.S.A.

Ans : (B)

20. Which of the following ports has a free trade zone?

(A) Cochin

(B) Mumbai

(D) Kandla

Ans : (D)

21. Which of the following museum is located at New Delhi?

(A) Government Museum

(B) Salar Jung Museum

(D) Prince of Wales Museum

Ans : (A)

22. Which of the following commissions is responsible for control and

utilisation of water resources in India?

(A) Floods Commission

(B) Central Forestry Commission

(D) Planning Commission

Ans : (C)

23. The Reserve Bank of India was established in—

(A) 1935

(B) 1947

(D) 1969

Ans : (A)

24. Lala Hardayal was an active member of which of the following parties?

(A) Gadar Party

(B) Anushilan Samiti

(D) Hindustan Socialist Association

Ans : (A)

25. Who amongst the following of Indian origin is nominated as the Governor of

Louisiana an American?

(A) Lakshmi Mittal

(B) Bobby Jindal

(D) V.S.Naipaul

Ans : (B)

RAILWAY RECRUITMENT BOARD TICKET COLLECTOR EXAM SOLVED PAPER

2010-02-20T07:05:00.000-08:00

RRB TC EXAM SOLVED PAPER

(General Awareness)

1. Who

is considered the real founder of the Gupta Empire?

(a) Chandragupta II

(b) Chandragupta I

(d) Srigupta

2. Shahjahan ascended the Mughal throne in

(a) 1628 AD

(b) 1626 AD

(d) 1627 AD

3. Which is correct order?

(a) Babur, Humayun, Jahangir, Akbar, Shahjahan, Aurangzeb

(b) Babur, Humayun, Akbar, Jahangir, Shahjahan, Aurangzeb

(d) Babur, Humayun, Shahjahan, Akbar, Jahangir, Aurangzeb

4. Ibn Batutah visited India during the rule of

(a) Alauddin Khilji

(b) Ghiyasuddin Tughlaq

(d) Muhammad-bin-Tughlaq

5. Who was the Nawab of Bengal during ‘Battle of Plassey’?

(a) Siraj-ud-daola

(b) Mir Jafar

(d) None of these

6. FIFA World Cup, 2006 was played in

(a) Germany

(b) France

(d) UK

7. Munaf Patel plays which sport?

(a) Badminton

(b) Football

d) Table-Tennis

8. The first Asian lady swimmer to have crossed the English Channel was

(a) Bula Choudhury

(b) Arati Saha

(d) None of these

9. Which country has never won the Cricket World Cup?

(a) India

(b) Pakistan

(d) England

10. Which cricket playing countries fight for the ‘ASHES’?

(a) Indian and Pakistan

(b) Australia and South Africa

(d) England and West Indies

11. Who was the first Law Minister of independent India?

(a) Jawaharlal Nehru

(b) Vallabhbhai Patel

(d) Dr. B.R.Ambedkar

12. Who was the first speaker of the Lok-Sabha?

(a) B.R.Ambedkar

(b) G.V.Mavlankar

(d) Dr. S.P.Mukherjee

13. How many states (except Delhi) are there in India?

(a) 28

(b) 29

(d) 30

14. Which country won the first World Cup Cricket?

(a) Australia

(b) India

d) West Indies

15. Who was the woman President of the United Nations?

(a) Sarojini Naidu

(b) Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

(d) Margaret Thatcher

16. Who was the first man to land on moon?

(a) Neil Armstrong

(b) Edwin

(d) John Collins

17. One inch is equal to how many centimeters?

(a) 2.54 (b) 2.84

18. Bronze is an alloy of copper and

(a) Nickel (b) Tin

19. Minus 40 degree centigrade is equal to _____ degree Fahrenheit.

(a) 104

(b) 122

(d) None of these

20. What is the value of XC (Roman Number)?

(a) 100

(b) 40

(d) 90

21. The person of which of the following blood groups can accept the blood

of any group?

(a) AB

(b) O

(d) B

22. Mountain K2 is known as

(a) Everest

(b) Nanga Parbat

(d) Austen

23. Lucknow is situated on the banks of river

(a) Yamuna

(b) Tapti

(d) Gomti

24. Who won the Golden Ball Award during FIFA World Cup 2006?

(a) Ronaldo

(b) Klose

(d) Zidane

25. Who is the Chief Minister of Orissa?

(a) K C Singhdeo

(b) Nandini Satyaji

(d) Rameshwar Thakur

26. Who is the Finance Minister of India?

(a) Manmohan Singh

(b) P Chidambaram

(d) Pranab Mukherjee

27. Where is the headquarters of South-East Central Railway located?

(a) Bilaspur

(b) Jabalpur

(d) Raipur

28. Which of the following places in India receives maximum precipitation?

(a) Itanagar

(b) Mawsynram

(d) Tezpur

29. Who was elected the President of the Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB)

in July 2006?

(a) Prasen Mukherjee

(b) Ajit Panja

(d) Sourav Ganguly

30. Who built the ‘Tower of Victory’ in Chittor ?

(a) Rana Sanga

(b) Rana Rattan Singh

(d) Rana Partap

ANSWERS

1. (a) 2. (a) 3. (b) 4. (d) 5. (a) 6.

(a) 7. (c)

8. (b) 9. (d) 10. (c) 11. (d) 12. (b) 13. (a) 14. (d)

15. (b) 16. (a) 17. (a) 18. (b) 19. (c) 20. (d) 21. (a)

22. (c) 23. (d) 24. (b) 25. (c) 26. (b) 27. (a) 28. (b)

29. (c) 30. (c)

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12:01 AM

1. Which of the following agencies plans to build a nationwide grid of

supercomputers called I-Grid?(a) Simputer computers (b) C-DAC (c) NIIT(d)

Infosys

2. Name the satellites launched by NASA to investigate the earth’s gravity?

(a) Dennis (b) Garfield (c) Tom and Jerry (d) Peanuts

3. The South Asian Travel and Tourism Exchange Conference was held at which

of the following places?

(a) Chennai (b) Tokyo (c) Bangalore (d) Delhi

4. Name the newly launched entertainment robot of Sony:

(a) Alfa Roman (b) Multipla (c) Robio (d) Flatirm

5. Name the company planning to introduce Genetically Modified Mustard seeds

in India?

(a) Maharashtra Hybrid Seed Corporation (b) Proagro (c) Bt. Must (d) None of

these

6. The biggest textile fair of Asia known as Hemi textile was held in:

(a) Japan (b) India (c) Sri Lanka (d) Indonesia

7. Name the first Internet company to figure in annual fortune 500:

(a) Satyam (b) Arzoo (c) AOL (d) Infi

8. Name the first American President who modelled for Van Huesan Shirts:

(a) Jimmy Carter (b) Ronald Reagan (c) George Bush (d) William J. Clinton

9. Name the first bank to launch a card especially for doctors in India:

(a) Punjab National Bank (b) Dena Bank (c) State Bank of India(d) IOB

10. “Smooth as Silk” is a punchline used by _____ airline:

(a) Singapore (b) Thai (c) Quantas (d) Cathay Pacific

11. Who has authored the book ‘Beyond the Last Blue Mountain’?

(a) Swaraj Paul (b) Ajit Haksar (c) Anil Ambani (d) JRD Tata

12. Who among the following has founded the organization ‘World Economic

Forum’?

(a) Klaus Schwab (b) William J. Clinton (c) Amartya Sen and Mehboob Haq (d)

All of these

13. The new name of Jardine Matheson and Waffoong is:

(a) ANZ Grindley (b) Standard Chartered (c) Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking

Corporation (d) Vyasa Bank

14. Which home appliance company has introduced the concept of hire and

purchase?

(a) Singer Sewing Machine (b) Usha home appliances (c) Inalsa (d) Bajaj home

appliances

15. Name the Parle Brand that takes Britannia’s 50-50 biscuits:

(a) Monaco (b) Krack Jack (c) Parle-G (d) None of these

16. Name the trade organization founded by G.D. Birla and Purshottam Thakur

in 1927:

(a) CII (b) PhdCC (c) Assoc ham (d) FICCI

17. Name the car brand of GM named after the founder of Detroit:

(a) Rolls Royce (b) Hamriza (c) Cadillac (d) None of the above

18. FiFi awards are given in_____industry:

(a) Film (b) Home Appliances (c) Automobiles (d) Perfumes

19. In which year the first insurance company ‘The Calcutta Insurance’ was

established in India?

(a) 1758 (b) 1798 (c) 1768 (d) 1788

20. Name the Indo-US joint venture life insurance company which launched its

operation in India in April 2001:

(a) ICICI Prudential (b) Bajaj Alliance (c) Max Life New York (d) All of the

above

21. Through school quiz, Nestle company is promoting a brand known as:

(a) Bournvita (b) Maggie (c) Soyabisc (d) All of these

22. Which corporation now owns the brand Rolls Royce?

(a) GM (b) BMW (c) Daewoo(d) None of the above

23. ‘Transporting Goods, transforming lives’ is the adline of:

(a) Shipping Corporation of India Ltd. (b) Stock Holding Corporation of

India (c) State Bank of India (d) Container Corporation of India

24. Which international company’s logo is made up of exactly 42 dots?

(a) Max (b) Sony (c) Videocon (d) Whirlpool

25. International Advertising film festival is organized annually at:

(a)Shanghai (b) Washington (c)Cannes(d) Paris

26. Name the official sponsor of French open tennis championship:

(a) Nike de Paris (b) Banque National de Paris (c) Adidas Paris (d) Richie

inte d’ Paris

27. Which Indian city is known as the Manchester of South?

(a) Kochi (b) Coimbatore (c) Lonavala (d) Chennai

28. The Tatas take over charge of the Videsh Sanchar Nigam Ltd. after

acquiring______per cent stake in the telecom major for Rs 1439 crore:

(a) 46(b) 75(c) 25(d) 26

29. Which of the following State do not fall among the Cauvery Basin State?

(a) Tamil Nadu (b) Karnataka (c) Kerala (d) Maharashtra

30. The management control of Haldia Petrochemicals Ltd will be given to

which of the following company?

(a) The Tatas (b) The Reliance Petroleum Ltd (c) The IOC (d) The Chatterjee

Soros Group

31. India’s first ethanol blended fuel project was launched in:

(a) Pune (b) Miraj (c) Nasik (d) Bareilly

32. Which country is the largest importer of Indian marine products?

(a) Thailand (b) Indonesia (c) Russia (d) Japan

33. “Started a family, son attends University, loved ones falls ill, birth

of a grand daughter” is the baseline used by____company:

(a) Life Insurance Corporation (b) General Insurance Corporation (c) Allianz

Bajaj Life Insurance Corporation (d) Standard Chart Life Insurance

Corporation

34. Name the first Indian woman to graduate from Harvard University:

(a) Dr Indira Nath (b) Naina Lal Kidwai (c) Parmeshwar Godrej (d) Sarojini

Naidu

35. Asia week, the Hong Kong-based weekly which closed down was owned by:

(a) AOL Time Warner (b) Indiatimes.com (c) Express Group(d) None of the

above

36. In which advertisement do you find ’software that powers the Internet’:

(a) Wipro (b) Oracle (c) Infosys (d) Sun Microsystems

37. Name the biggest tenant of New York World Trade Centre at the time of

the 2001, September 11th attack:

(a) IMF (b) Morgan Stanley (c) IBRD (d) NASDAQ

38. Name the first country to ban the import, sale and manufacture of

chewing gum:

(a) Hong Kong (b) Singapore (c) Netherlands(d) Thailand

39. Who among the following has founded the Heal the World foundation?

(a) Pt Ravi Shankar (b) Bhimsen Joshi (c) Madonna (d) Michael Jackson

40. Name the company which has the world’s largest retail outlet:

(a) Walmart (b) Harrods (c) Woolworth Corp (d) Louis Phillipe

41. Name the first country to have an electronic Parliament:

(a) Singapore (b) Thailand (c) Japan (d) Hong Kong

42. Name the first Indian singer to earn royalty for records:

(a) Asha Bhonsle (b) Lata Mangeshkar (c) R.D. Burman (d) Nadeem Shravan

43. In 1952 Morris Motors and Austin Motors merged and were renamed as:

(a) British Motor Corporation (b) General Motors (c) Austin Morris Motors

(d) British Morris Motors

44. Ashok Leyland is owned by_____group:

(a) Hinduja (b) Ambani (c) Godrej (d) Tata

45. Name India’s first Euro 11 complete car:

(a) Matiz (b) Santro (c) Ambassador (d) Indica

46. ‘The man of substance’ is the promotional logo of which suiting

shirting?

(a) Raymond (b) Graviera (c) Van Huesan (d) Louise Phillipe

47. Mohan Bagan football tournament is promoted by:

(a) Shaw Wallace (b) Mohan Meakens (c) McDowell (d) Seamars

48. ‘Bite the Bullet’ is a book written by:

(a) Ajit Haksar (b) K.R. Narayanan (c) Mukesh Ambani (d) both (a) and (c)

49. ‘Give Earth a Chance’ is the caption launched for:

(a) World Population Day 2002 (b) World Environment Day 2002 (c) World

Environment Day 2001 (d) World Habitat Day 2002

50. ‘Ethics for the New Millennium’ is a book written by:

(a) Dalai Lama (b) Tiger Woods (c) Hillary Clinton (d) Andrew Miller

1. (b) 2. (c) 3. (a) 4. (c) 5. (b)6. (b) 7. (c) 8. (b) 9. (c) 10. (a)11.(d)

12. (a) 13. (c) 14. (a) 15. (b)16. (d) 17. (c) 18. (d) 19. (b) 20. (c)21.

(b) 22. (a) 23. (a) 24. (b) 25. (c)26. (b) 27. (b) 28. (c) 29. (d) 30.

(d)31. (b) 32. (d) 33. (c) 34. (b) 35. (a)36. (b) 37. (b) 38. (b) 39. (d)

40. (a)41. (a) 42. (b) 43. (a) 44. (a) 45. (d)46. (b) 47. (c) 48. (a) 49.

(b) 50. (a)

State Bank of India Clerk Examination, 2009 Solution

2010-02-06T08:28:00.000-08:00

State Bank of IndiaClerk Examination, 2009
(Held on 8-11-2009)
Marketing Aptitude/Computer Knowledge

1. If text was highlighted and ‘Edit’ ‘Copy’ was clicked, what would happen ?
(A) Text would be copied from the document and placed in the clipboard
(B) Text would be removed from the document and placed in the clipboard
(C) Text from the clipboard would be placed in the document at the place where the cursor is blinking
(D) Only (B) and (C)
(E) None of these
Ans : (A)
2. The blinking point which shows your position in the text is called—
(A) Blinker
(B) Cursor
(C) Causer
(D) Pointer
(E) None of these
Ans : (B)
3. For seeing the output, you use—
(A) Monitor
(B) Keyboard
(C) Mouse
(D) Scanner
(E) None of these
Ans : (A)
4. CDs are of which shape ?
(A) Square
(B) Rectangular
(C) Round
(D) Hexagonal
(E) None of these
Ans : (C)
5. A scanner scans—
(A) Pictures
(B) Text
(C) Both Pictures and Text
(D) Neither Pictures nor Text
(E) None of these
Ans : (C)
6. A directory within in directory is called—
(A) Mini Directory
(B) Junior Directory
(C) Part Directory
(D) Sub Directory
(E) None of these
Ans : (D)
7. For opening and closing of the file in Excel, you can use which bar ?
(A) Formatting
(B) Standard
(C) Title
(D) Formatting or Title
(E) None of these
Ans : (C)
8. Which of the following controls the manner of interaction between the user and the operating system ?
(A) User interface
(B) Language translator
(C) Platform
(D) Screen saver
(E) None of these
Ans : (A)
9. Computer language used on the Internet is—
(A) BASIC
(B) COBOL
(C) Java
(D) Pascal
(E) None of these
Ans : (C)
10. You click at B to make the text—
(A) Italics
(B) Underlined
(C) Italics and Underlined
(D) Bold
(E) None of these
Ans : (D)
11. Which part is the ‘brain’ of the computer ?
(A) CPU
(B) Monitor
(C) RAM
(D) ROM
(E) None of these
Ans : (A)
12. A disk’s content that is recorded at the time of manufacture and that cannot be changed or erased by the user is—
(A) Memory-only
(B) Write-only
(C) Read-only
(D) Run-only
(E) None of these
Ans : (C)
13. Help Menu is available at which button ?
(A) End
(B) Start
(C) Turnoff
(D) Restart
(E) None of these
Ans : (B)
14. You can keep your personal files/folders in—
(A) My Folder
(B) My Documents
(C) My Files
(D) My Text
(E) None of these
Ans : (B)
15. A central computer that holds collections of data and programs for many PCs, workstations, and other computers is a(n)—
(A) Supercomputer
(B) Minicomputer
(C) Laptop
(D) Server
(E) None of these
Ans : (D)
16. A Website’s main page is called its—
(A) Home Page
(B) Browser Page
(C) Search Page
(D) Bookmark
(E) None of these
Ans : (A)
17. Data that is copied from an application is stored in the—
(A) Driver
(B) Terminal
(C) Prompt
(D) Clipboard
(E) None of these
Ans : (D)
18. Changing an existing document is called ……… the document.
(A) creating
(B) deleting
(C) editing
(D) adjusting
(E) None of these
Ans : (C)
19. In a spreadsheet program the ………… contains related worksheets and documents.
(A) workbook
(B) column
(C) cell
(D) formula
(E) None of these
Ans : (A)
20. Which of the following is not an input device ?
(A) Keyboard
(B) Monitor
(C) Joystick
(D) Microphone
(E) None of these
Ans : (B)
21. Marketing is the combined study of—
(A) Buyer’s behaviour and consumer tasks
(B) Product demand and Product supply
(C) Brand building and Publicity
(D) Sales force abilities and customer responses
(E) All of these
Ans : (A)
22. Effective Marketing helps in—
(A) Boosting the sales
(B) Boosting the purchases
(C) Boosting the demand and supply
(D) All of these
(E) None of these
Ans : (A)
23. Market size means—
(A) Size of the sales teams
(B) Size of the company
(C) Scope for profit
(D) Scope for marketing
(E) None of these
Ans : (D)
24. Market share means—
(A) Share Market
(B) Sensex
(C) Market changes
(D) Market demands
(E) Share of business among pears
Ans : (E)
25. Direct Marketing means—
(A) Face to face marketing
(B) Over the counter marketing
(C) Door to door marketing
(D) All of these
(E) None of these
Ans : (D)
26. A ‘Lead’ means—
(A) A buyer
(B) A seller
(C) Employee
(D) Employer
(E) None of these
Ans : (B)
27. DSA means—
(A) District Sales Authority
(B) Direct Selling Agent
(C) Distributor and Sales Agents
(D) Distributor and State Agent
(E) None of these
Ans : (B)
28. A DSA’s main function is—
(A) To boost customer contacts
(B) To boost emails
(C) To boost telemarketing
(D) All of these
(E) None of these
Ans : (D)
29. A ‘Prospect’ means—
(A) Company’s Prospectus
(B) Company’s Memorandum of Association
(C) A likely buyer
(D) A likely seller
(E) None of these
Ans : (C)
30. To ‘close a call’ means—
(A) To clinch the sales
(B) To abandon the sales
(C) To lose the business
(D) To annoy the customer
(E) To exit from the sales team
Ans : (A)
31. Good selling skill calls for—
(A) Patience
(B) Perseverance
(C) Persuasion
(D) Pursuit
(E) All of these
Ans : (D)
32. Marketing channels means—
(A) Delivery time
(B) Delivery period
(C) Sales outlets
(D) Purchase outlets
(E) All of these
Ans : (C)
33. Value added services means—
(A) Additional cost
(B) Additional production
(C) Additional staff
(D) Additional services
(E) All of these
Ans : (D)
34. A ‘Target Group’ means—
(A) Group of salesmen targeting the customers
(B) Likely buyers
(C) Group of products
(D) Group of companies
(E) All of these
Ans : (B)
35. ‘USP’ in Marketing means—
(A) Useful Sales Procedures
(B) Useful Selling Propositions
(C) Useful Sales Persons
(D) Used Sales Plans
(E) Unique Selling Propositions
Ans : (E)
36. ‘ATM’ stands for—
(A) Anywhere Marketing
(B) Any Time Marketing
(C) Any Time Money
(D) Automated Teller Machine
(E) Automatic Timely Machine
Ans : (D)
37. Market Plan is a—
(A) Selling process
(B) Year-end-budget
(C) Calendar
(D) Business document for marketing strategies
(E) All of these
Ans : (D)
38. Market segmentation means dividing—
(A) The market group into homogeneous groups
(B) The market process into easy steps
(C) The sales teams into small groups
(D) All of these
(E) None of these
Ans : (A)
39. ‘HNI’ means—
(A) Highly Non-interested Individuals
(B) Highly Needy Individuals
(C) High Networth Individuals
(D) Highly Negative Individuals
(E) None of these
Ans : (C)
40. Digital Marketing includes. Find the incorrect answer—
(A) Web advertisement
(B) E-mail canvassing
(C) Blogs
(D) SMS campaigns
(E) Mobile alerts
Ans : (C