GENERAL KNOWLEDGE: 1. HIGHEST LAW OFFICER IN INDIA IS ATTORNEY GENERAL 2. HIGHEST LAW OFFICER IN STATES IS ADVOCATE GENERAL. 3.

GURU RAM DAS (SIKH GURU) WAS GIVEN PALACE OF AMRITSAR BY MUGHAL EMPEROR AKBAR 4.SECTION 304 A OF IPC IS RELATED TO DEATH UNDER NEGLIGENCE. 5.SHARAVATI POWER PROJECT IS LOCATED IN KARNATAKA. 6.OLYMPIC FLAME SYMBOLIZE CONTINUITY BETWEEN NEW AND ANCIENT GAMES. 7.The Balimela Power Project forms the second stage of development of Machkund - Sileru River, the first stage being the Machkund Project. The water released from Machkund Power House and the inflow from intermediate catchment between Machkund-Balimela Dam are impounded by a Earth-cum-Rock fill at Chitrakonda known as Balimela Dam. Balimela Dam is a joint project of Odisha and Andhra Pradesh Governments and the inflow into Balimela Reservoir is shared between the two States on 50:50 basis. The original estimates framed in the year 1962 for the purpose of agreement between the two States of Odisha and Andhra Pradesh was for 24 Crore rupees. Subsequently, this estimate was revised in the year 1972 for 46.30 Crore rupees. Again the estimate was revised in the year 1975 for 52.14 Crore rupees. The revision of the estimate at different phases of investigation and construction of the Project was necessitated for different reasons, which include the rising costs of different spares, consumables and wages of different categories of Workmen and Employees, decrease in the efficiency of the machineries, due to longer use and also idling for non-availability of spares, increase in the distance to borrow areas and height of the Dam from year to year etc. The requisites Civil and Electrical works for the Balimela Reservoir for Power Generation in Balimela Power House constitutes the Balimela Power Project. Thus, while the Balimela Dam Project has been a joint project of Odisha and Andhra Pradesh, the BALIMELA POWER PROJECT is entirely of ODISHA STATE. 8.Economic offences, CONSERVATION OF FOREIGN EXCHANGE AND PREVENTION OF SMUGGLING ACTIVITIES (COFEPOSA) WAS ENACTED IN 1974 9.SHARAVATI POWER PROJECT :The Sharavathi Generating Station with 10 Units and an installed capacity of 1035 MW The Linganamakki Dam Powerhouse with 2 units and an installed capacity of 55 MW The Gerusoppa Dam Project with 4 units totalling to 240 MW. 10. EARTH'S OWN AXIS ROTATION IS FROM WEST TO EAST AND WHEN SEEN FROM NORTH POLARIS THE ROtATION IS IN ANTICLOCKWISE DIRECTION. 11. UNITED KINGDOM CONISITS OF SCOTLAND, WALES, NORTHERN IRELANDAND ENGLAND. 12. EMPLOYMENT NEWS IS PUBLISHED BY MINISTRY OF INFORMATION AND BROADCASTING. 13. KOYNA HYDROELECTRIC POWER PROJECT IS IN MAHARASHTRA. 14. DAMODAR VALLEY CORPORATION IS SPREAD IN STATES OF JHARKAND AND WAST BENGAL COVERING AREA OF 24235 SQ.KM. DVC Plants: i. Thermal-Coal based Bokaro Thermal Power Station B Jharkhand 630 2 Chandrapura Jharkhand 1,140 3 Durgapur Thermal Power Station West Bengal 350 4 Mejia Thermal Power Station West Bengal 2,340 5 Koderma Stage-1 Jharkhand 1,000 6 Durgapur Steel Thermal Power Station West Bengal 1,000 7 Raghunathpur phase-1 Thermal Power Station West Bengal 1,200 15. MYANMAR AND INDIA SHARE 1.640 KM OF BORDER.MANIPUR, MIZORAM, NAGALAND AND ARUNACHAL PRADESH SHARE BORDER WITH MYNMAR. 16. GHOOLAMGIRI WAS WRITTEN BY MAHATMA PHULE.

17. COAL INDIA LTD. IS PSU KNOWN FOR HIGHEST IPO OF RS.240000 CRORE IN 2010 18. MORARJI DESAI WAS PM WHEN MANDAL COMMISSION WAS CONSTITUTED (JANATA PARTY RULE) 19. DELHI AND KOLKATA ARE CONNECTED BY NH-2 20 FIRST INSAT SERIES SATELLITE WAS LAUNCHED IN 1983 21 ABHINAV BHARAT SOCIETY WAS FOUNDED BY V.D.SAVARKAR IN 1904 22 SAFETY VALVE THEORY OF FOUNDATION OF CONGRESS WAS PROPOUNDED BY LALA LAJPATRAI. 23 CHITTAGONG ARMY RAID WAS CONSPIRED BY SURYA SEN. 24 FIRST MUSLIM PRESIDENT OF INDIAN NATIONAL CONGRESS WAS BADRUDDIN TYABJI AND FIRST WOMAN PRESIDENT WAS SAROJINI NAIDU. 25 PROCESS OF TRANSFER OF POWER AND PARTITION OF INDIA WAS HURRIED IN 72 DAYS. 26. A.O. HUME IS THE FATHER OF CONGRESS AND FIRST SESSION WAS HELD INN 1885 IN BOMBAY AND WAS PRESIDED OVER BY WYOMESH CHANDRA BANERJEE. 27.THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY FOUNDED CONRESS. ITS MEMBERS WERE W.C. BANERJEE, MAHADEV GOVIND RANADE, A.O.HUME, DADABHAI NOWROJEE,DINSHAW WACHA,SURENDRANATH BANERJEE, MONMOHON GHOSE. 28. PIONEER OF COMMUNISM IN INDIA IS M.N.ROY. 29 SWAMI VIVEKANANDA FOUNDED THE RAMAKRUSHNA MISSION IN 1896 TO CARRY ON HUMANITARIAN RELIEF AND SOCIAL WORK. 30 WARREN HASTINGS LAID THE FOUNDATION OF CALCUTTA MADARASA 31 SANSKRIT COLLEGE WAS FOUNDED BY JONATHAN DUNCAN IN BENARAS. 32 LORD RIPON IS ASSOCIATED WITH ILBERT BILL CONTORVERSY, 33. T HE I LBE RT BI LL W AS A B IL L I NT RO DUCE D I N 18 83 FO R B RI TI S H I NDI A B Y V I CE RO Y RI P O N THAT P RO P OS E D A N A ME NDME NT FO R E XI ST I NG L AW S I N T HE CO UNT RY A T THE T I ME TO AL LOW I NDI A N JUDG E S A ND MAG I ST RAT ES T HE JURI S DI CT I O N TO T RY B RIT IS H O FFE NDE RS I N CRI MI NA L CA S ES A T THE DI ST RI CT L EV EL , SO ME T HI NG T HA T W AS DI S AL L OW ED AT T HE TI ME. 3 4. T HE RE SO L UT I O NS O F FUNDA ME NTA L S RI G HT A ND E CO NO MI C PO L I CY W ERE P AS S E D I N K A RA CHI ,1 93 1 SE SS O N O F I NC. 3 5. G A YAT RI MA NT RA HA S BE E N ME NT I O NE D I N RI G VE DA . 3 6. AT HA RVA V E DA HA S BE E N DES CRI B E D AS B RA HA MVE DA . 3 7. DE V I CHA NDRA G UPT A M W AS W ORK O F VI S HA KA DUTT A. 3 8. T HE RO YA L SE AL O F G UP TA S B O RE THE E MB LE M O F GA RUDA (E A G LE ). 3 9. CO MMO DIT Y MA RK ET I N I NDI A IS REG UL AT E D B Y FO REI G N MA RK ET CO MMI S S I O N, MUMB A I . 4 0. FO REI G N CO NT RA CTS (RE G UL AT IO N)A CT W AS E NA CT E D I N 1 95 2 4 1. SE B I A CT W AS PA SS E D I N 19 92 4 2. A ME NDME NT T O FO REI G N CO NT RA CTS A CT A ND SE BI A CT W AS DO NE I N

2 01 0 4 3. THE ST RA I TS TI ME S BE L O NGS TO SI NG AP O RE 4 4. S I NGL E LA RG ES T S HA RE HOL DE R I N S MA L L I NDUS T RIE S DEV E LO P ME NT B A NK O F I NDI A I S I DB I . 4 5. SB I LI FE I NS URA NCE I S THE JO I NT VE NT URE B ETW EEN SB I A ND B NP P A RIB A S. 4 6. LA RG E ST BA NK I NG FRA NCHI S E IS O F SB I . 4 7. I NDI A S FI RS T TRA NS GE NI C CRO P IS B T COT TO N 4 8. BE TW EE N T HE AS SA S I NAT IO NS I S B OO K W RITTE N B Y A RAV I NDA A DIG A 4 9. I NDI A N G RA NDMA S TE R V . A NA ND RE TA I NE D HIS 5 T H G RA NDMA ST E R TI TL E B Y DE FE AT I NG B O RIS G EL FA ND, IS RA E L. 5 0. A RMY DA Y I S O BS E RV E D O N 1 5 JA N EV E RY YE A R I N I NDIA . 5 1. UNI O N GO V E RNME NT CO NS TI TUTE D A CO MMIT TE E T HE FUNCT IO NI NG O F P ET ROL E UM S E RVI CE S CO MPA NI E S UNDE R CHA I MA NS HIP O F DR. C. RA NG A RA JA N. 5 2. I NDI A S FI RS T UNI VE RS I T Y O F CO - OP E RAT IV E MA NA G E ME NT IS S ET UP I N S IB S AG A R, AS S A M. 5 3. I NDI A S TA LL Y O F ME DA L S A T OL YMP I CS 2 01 2 IS 2 S IL VE RS A ND 4 B RO NZE . Sushil Kumar became the first Indian to get back-to-back Olympic medals. He won silver medal in 66kg Freestyle Wrestling. He had won a bronze medal in the Beijing Olympics. Subedar Vijay Kumar Sharma of 16 Dogra Regiment bagged silver medal in 25m rapid fire pistol event. Yogeshwar Dutt, 2010 CWG gold winner, won India its fourth Bronze medal in 60kg freestyle Wrestling. Five-time world champion MC Mary Kom won a bronze medal in womens boxing (51 kg) event. Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna (2009), Arjuna Award (2003) and Padamshree (2006) awardee, Mary Kom is the first Indian women boxer to qualify for Olympics. The 29-year-old boxer from Manipur came back from a twoyear sabbatical after the birth of her twins to clinch her fourth successive world title in 2008, a feat that got her the sobriquet Magnificent Mary. Ace marksman Gagan Narang opened Indias account in London Olympics by clinching a bronze medal in the men's 10 meter air. The burly Indian, who narrowly missed the final in Beijing, raised his gun above his head as his many compatriots in the crowd cheered loudly at the country's first medal of the Games. Saina Nehwal won womens singles bronze in badminton when her opponent Wang Xin of China broke down with a knee injury after taking the opening game. Nehwal, ranked fifth in the world, became only the second Indian woman to win a medal in an individual Olympic sport. 54. IN 42ND AMENDMENT THE WORDS SOCIALIST AND SECULAR WERE ADDED TO THE CONSTITUTION. HINDUSTAN AERONAUTICS LTD.

Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) came into existence on 1st October 1964. The Company was formed by the merger of Hindustan Aircraft Limited with Aeronautics India Limited and Aircraft Manufacturing Depot, Kanpur. The Company traces its roots to the pioneering efforts of an industrialist with extraordinary vision, the late Seth Walchand Hirachand, who set up Hindustan Aircraft Limited at Bangalore in association with the erstwhile princely State of Mysore in December 1940. The Government of India became a shareholder in March 1941 and took over the Management in 1942. Today, HAL has 19 Production Units and 10 Research & Design Centres in 8 locations in India. The Company has an impressive product track record - 15 types of Aircraft/Helicopters manufactured with inhouse R & D and 14 types produced under license. HAL has manufacturedover 3658 Aircraft/Helicopters, 4178 Engines, Upgraded 272 Aircraft and overhauled over 9643Aircraft and 29775 Engines. HAL has been successful in numerous R & D programs developed for both Defence and Civil Aviation sectors. HAL has made substantial progress in its current projects : Advanced Light Helicopter Weapon System Integration (ALH-WSI) Tejas - Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) Intermediate Jet Trainer (IJT) Light Combat Helicopter (LCH) Various military and civil upgrades.

Dhruv was delivered to the Indian Army, Navy, Air Force and the Coast Guard in March 2002, in the very first year of its production, a unique achievement. HAL has played a significant role for India's space programs by participating in the manufacture of structures for Satellite Launch Vehicles like PSLV (Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle) GSLV (Geo-synchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle) IRS (Indian Remote Satellite) INSAT (Indian National Satellite)

Apart from these, other major diversification projects are manufacture & overhaul of Industrial Marine Gas Turbine and manufacture of Composites. HAL has formed the following Joint Ventures (JVs) : BAeHAL Software Limited Indo-Russian Aviation Limited (IRAL) Snecma-HAL Aerospace Pvt Ltd SAMTEL-HAL Display System Limited HALBIT Avionics Pvt Ltd

HAL-Edgewood Technologies Pvt Ltd INFOTECH-HAL Ltd TATA-HAL Technologies Ltd HATSOFF Helicopter Training Pvt Ltd International Aerospace Manufacturing Pvt Ltd Multi Role Transport Aircraft Ltd

Several Co-production and Joint Ventures with international participation are under consideration. HAL's supplies / services are mainly to Indian Defence Services, Coast Guard and Border Security Force. Transport Aircraft and Helicopters have also been supplied to Airlines as well as State Governments of India. The Company has also achieved a foothold in export in more than 30 countries, having demonstrated its quality and price competitiveness. HAL was conferred NAVRATNA status by the Government of India on 22nd June 2007. The Company scaled new heights in the Financial Year 2010-11 with Turnover of Rs.13, 116 Crores and PBT of Rs 2,841 Crores. HAL has won several International & National Awards for achievements in R&D, Technology, Managerial Performance, Exports, Energy Conservation, Quality and fulfillment of Social Responsibilities. Some of the prestigious Awards received during 2009-10 & 2010-11 are: 2009-10 MoU Excellence Award for the top performing CPSEs for the year 2006-07(Top Ten Public Sector Enterprises). HAL has been receiving awards consecutively since 2001-02. Raksha Mantris Award for Excellence for the year 2007-08 under the Institutional category. Regional Export Award from EEPC, India for the year 2007-08.This award was presented on 21st Feb 2010 in Maldives. The Supplier of the year 2009 by Boeing, USA. Foundry & Forge Division, Bangalore conferred with International Diamond Star Award for Quality in the realm of customer satisfaction, leadership, innovation and technology as established in QC100 TQM Model. Foundry & Forge Division, Bangalore conferred with Gargi Huttenes-Albertus Green Foundry Award of the year 2008-09 by Institute of Indian Foundrymen.

2010-11 MoU Excellence Award for the top performing CPSEs for the year 2008-09. Raksha Mantri's Award for Excellence for the years 2008-09, for Export under the Institutional category. International Aerospace Awards (instituted by SAP Media Worldwide Ltd) as mark of recognition to the Indian Industry for excellence in innovation, indigenous technology and entrepreneurship under the following categories:o o o

Outstanding contribution to the Defence Industry. Most Influential Company of the year Excellence in Indigenous Technology Excellence in Exports

Golden Award for Quality and Business Prestige from Otherways Management Association Club, France Performance Excellence Award -2009 (Organisation) for the year Industrial Engineering. 2008-09 by Institution of

Foundry & Forge Division, Bangalore conferred with Casting of the Year 2010 award to Main Gear Box (MGB) casting of ALH from the Institute of Indian Foundrymen. Aerospace Division, Bangalore: Runner-Up in Viswakarma Rashtriya Puraskar and National Safety Award 2008 instituted by Ministry of Labour, Government of India. Aerospace Division, Bangalore was awarded Gold Medal by the Society of Aerospace Manufacturing Engineers (SAME) for the year 2010 for outstanding contribution in the field of Aerospace Manufacturing. Engine Division, Bangalore won Rajiv Gandhi National Quality Awards 2009, instituted by Bureau of Indian Standards, New Delhi for Commendation for Large Scale Manufacturing IndustryEngineering & Others. Avionics Division, Korwa conferred with IMTMA-SIEMENS Productivity Championship Award for excellence and outstanding work in the area of productivity. Shri G.C Bhagwanani, Chief Supervisor, HAL- TAD, Kanpur, was awarded the Prime Ministers Shram Shree Award for 2006 on 15th Sept 2010. Shri A.Selvaraj, AGM (Mfg), Foundry & Forge Division, Bangalore was awarded the Foundryman of the year 2010 by the Institute of Indian Foundrymen. Shri Mohan Lal, Chief Supervisor of Accessories Divison, Lucknow was selected for Prime Ministers Shram Vir for the year 2009.

55. The Counter Insurgency and Jungle Warfare School (CIJW) in Vairengte, Mizoram,India is a training and research establishment of the Indian Army specializing inunconventional warfare, especially counter-insurgency and guerrilla warfare. CIJW is one of the premier counter-

insurgency training institutions in the world.[2] The school's motto is to "fight the guerrilla like a guerrilla". Brigadier Mathew Thomas was appointed the school's first Commandant. 56. COLLEGE OF DEFENCE MANAGEMENT , SECUNDERABAD 57.DEFENCE SERVICES STAFF COLLEGE, WELLINGTON, TN 58. The head of the Jury of the award committee of the padma, and other honorary awards is vicepresident. 59. Assam shares border with Bangladesh and Bhutan. West Bengal shares border with Nepal and Bhutan. Mizoram shares border with Myanmar and Bangladesh. 60. GDP is the monetary value of all the final goods and services produced in a year. 61. Governor appoints the district judges. 62. Fiji is called the crossroads to pacific. 63. National Institute of nutrition is locate in Andhra Pradesh. 64. Dharmapala founded vikramsila university. 65. Abu fazl wrote akbar nama 66. Altamas Kabir will be succeeding S.H Kapadia as next chief justice of Supreme court. 67.Mustafa abu shagour is the new prime minister of Libya. 68. K.N. tilakkumar was elected as new president of The newspaper society for 2012-2013 69. Gujarat will son get Indias largets industrial exhibition centre in gandhinagar. 70. Robert Zeigler is the president of international rice research institute, manila. 71. Japan is the host country for the fourth edition of asia cup basketball. 72. The 52nd National Open Atheletics Championship was held in Chennai . 73. Andy Murray is the first British man to win Grand Slam title after 76 years and 1st olympic medal in 100 years. 74. Fred Perry was the british palyer to win championship in US open in 1936. 75. US Scientists Robert Lefkowitz and Brian Kobilka won the 2012 Nobel prize for chemistry 76. literature Nobel for 2012 is conferred to Mo yan whose real name guan moye.some of his notable work are i. Red Sorghum ii.The Republic of wine iii. Life and Death are wearing me out. 77. Physics nobel for 2012 are given to Serge Haroche of France & David Wineland of America. 78. Alvin Roth and Lloyd Shapley of US were receiver of Economics Nobel Prize 79. Anup Kumar yama is the first Indian to win the bronze medal in inline artistic category in roller-skating on extremely smoothand slippery wooden surface in world championship held in new zealand.

80. Austere challenge 2012 is the joint military exercise among US and Israel. 81. Delhi State govt. is set to implement an islanding pattern of power installations to prevent disruptions in power supply during grid disturbances. 82. The 12th Summit of economic co-operation organization was held in Azerbaijan. The Economic Co-operation Organization was formed in 1985 and is a regional intergovernmental economic body of countries in middle east and central asia, and is the successor of regional co-operation for development which acted on the basis of the charter of Izmir Treaty signed by three founding members Pakistan, iran and turkey in march, 1977. Member Nations of ECO are as follows: i. Afghanistan ii. Pakistan iii. Iran iv. Azerbaijan v. Kazakhstan vi. Krygz republic vii. Tajikistan viii. Turkey ix. Turkmenitan x. Uzbekistan xi. Turkish CypriotState(observer) 83. Pranay Sahay is DG of CRPF. 84. Padshahnama(chronicle of the emperor) written by abdul hamid lahori is the official visual history giving detailed account of of the reign of mughal emperor shahjahan. 85. DEVICHANDRAGUPTAM WAS WORK OF VISHAKHDATTA. 86.THE ROYAL SEAL OF GUPTAS BORE THE EMBLEM OF GARUDA(THE EAGLE) 87.RAGHUVANSA,RITUSAMHARA,MEGHDUTA,MALVIKAGNIMITRA,ABHIGYANSHAKUNTALAM,VIK RAMORVASHIYAM ARE THE WORKS OF KALIDASA. 88. Arunachal Pradesh has been selected for the krishi karman award of 2012-13 for increase in foodgrain production in 2010-11 89. Rajkeswur purryag is the chief guest at pravasi bhartiya divas 2013, he is the president of Mauritius. 90. IC- 2233