08 dec 2008

1.Pritika kalra Gandhi who recently won National women Excellence Award 2008 is an:-

a. odissi dancer
b. author
c. painter
d. social worker
Ans A

2.Scopus Young Scientist awards are instituted by:-
a. Elsevier, the world’s leading research publisher of scientific information.
b. Indian Institute Of Sciences,banglore
c. CSIR
d. UGC
Ans a)

3. ans the following
a. statement 1 and 2 are true and reason it out.
b. statement 1 and 2 are true and do not relate to each other
c. statement 1 is true and 2 is false
d. statement 1 is false and 2 is true

1. A securitization company or reconstruction company may resort to take over the management of the borrower “when the amount due to it from the borrower is not less than 25 percent of the total assets owned by the borrower”
2. It allows under the securitization and Reconstruction of Financial Assets and enforcement of Security interests Act, 2002 (SARFAESI Act)

Ans A

4. Autorickshaw ferrying children is banned in which city of India from jan 2009:-

a. bhubaneswar
b. delhi
c. chandigarh
d. jaipur
Ans C

5. Find mismatch


(i) National Institute of Nutrition : Hyderabad
(ii) National institue of cell sciences: pune
(iii) National institue of family and health management: mumbai

a . i only
b. ii only
c. iii only
d. none

Ans c NIFHM is at new delhi







6. Valganciclovir is a treatment for cytomegalovirus (CMV), a virus that often attacks the retina of people with lower immune systems, such as AIDS patients it is a patented drug under:-
a. Roche
b. Ranbaxy
c. Cipla
d. Aventis

Ans A

7. WI-Max is:-

a. wireless digital communications system that can provide broadband wireless access up to 50 km for fixed station .it is higher version of Wi- Fi
b. technology dealing with maximum current transfer with less loss in electricity supply
c. A new videogame
d. Wires required for connecting gates of transistor

Ans A

8. BECIL is
a. Broadcast Engineering Consultants India Ltd is a consultancy agency and turnkey solution provider in the area of broadcast engineering.
b. English name of Tulsi plant
c. subsidiary of Coal India limited (CIL) working in bihar.
d. none of above

Ans A .recently it was conferred mini ratna status, it was established as the government opened the broadcasting sector after the gulf war in 1989. regulates TV and radio broadcast ,FM broadcast, DTH etc

9. who invented blackberry

a. Mike lazaridis of University of waterloo, Canada
b. Ivan smith of Stanford
c. Vinod Dham
d. Microsoft
Ans a





10. Dr.Douglas Engelbart deviced X-y coordinator named as “mouse of computer” ,today celebrating 40 years of existence is now more accurate and operates with;-
a. LED
b. Infrared Laser
c. roller balls
d. transistor

Ans b

11. Who has termed SCI-FI:-
a. Issac Newton
b. Stevan Spielberg
c. Forrest J Ackerman
d. Stephan king

Ans C

12 Baju Melayu is:
a. traditional outfit of Malaysia
b. martial arts of assam
c. drink of Colombia
d. Japanese art of flowers

Ans A

4th dec 2008

1. Recently a country started giving subsidy to it’s citizen for settling in rural areas and take up farming:-
a. Romania
b. Bulgaria
c. hungary
d. Italy


Ans A..under national rural development program a non-disbursable EU fund of $106million.

2. According to International Telecom Union the definition of broadband is fulfilled when the connection speed is
a. 128kbps
b. 256kbps
c. 512kbps
d. 2 Mbps
Ans B

3. oslo convention also known as CCM called for banning
a. Grenades
b. AK-47
c. cluster bombs and munitions
d. anti-tank Mines.
Ans C

4. International Centre of material science is located at
a. Vienna
b.bangalore
c. Bangkok
d. Frankfurt
Ans B

5.Indian Institute of soil science is located at
a. new delhi
b. cuttack
c Bhopal
d. panjim

Ans C bhopal

3 Dec 2008

1. The city of Izhevsk , capital of Udmurt Republic, Russia has a history attached to it:-
a. The famous October revolution against Czar started here.
b. The city where Mikhail Kalashnikov designed AK-4 7 rifle.
c. The city having ice free port through out year.
d. Chess originated here.


Ans B

2. Find Mismatch;-
i. Indian Institute of packaging : Chennai
ii. National institute of Virology: Pune
iii. Administrative Staff College of India: Hyderabad
iv. IIFT: New Delhi

a. i only
b. i & ii only
c. none
d. iv only

Ans A….Indian Inst. Of Packaging is at Mumbai.

3. match the following

a. ▲ 1. 500 rs
b. ● 2. 100 rs
c. ◊ 3. 1000 rs

A….. B….C
a) 1……2…..3
b) 2……1…..3
c) 1……3…..2
d) 3……1…..2

Ans B …Marks on Indian Currency notes embossed for blinds to identify the value of note.

4. what are vanilla products offered by banks:-

a. A straightforward financial instrument, such as a standard fixed-interest product with no sophisticated add-ons.
b. Special add-on attractions that dress up an otherwise conventional investment or financial instrument to give it novelty. They are often used to improve the credit of securitized assets.
c. A kind of spice offered in exchange of gold
d. Ice cream available in bank canteen

Ans A…….the RBI has allowed banks from this week……..option b is called as bells and whistles……


5. Which article makes it a constitutional obligation for the government to preserve heritage buildings and protect them as in case of recent Mumbai attack on Taj heritage.:
a. article 48
b. article 49
c. article 50
d article 51
Ans b

1.Put the place on map




1. Hambantota
2. Kandy
3. batticaloa
4. triconomalee
5. Mannar


A B C D E
a) 1 2 3 4 5
b) 3 2 1 4 5
c) 1 3 2 5 4
d) 4 3 1 2 5



Ans d)



2. The tunnel passing through the north ossetia and south ossetia region is
a. gotthard
b. roki
c. laerdal
d.seikan

Ans B.. is a mountain tunnel of the Transkam road through the Greater Caucasus Mountains, north of the village Upper Roka. It is the only road joining North Ossetia-Alania in the Russian Federation to South Ossetia, a breakaway republic of Georgia.







3. find the mismatch
Book and author
1. The Audacity of Hope – Hillary clinton

2. The White Tiger - Arvind Adiga

3. The Algebra of infinite justice- Arundhati Roy

4. A town called dehra - Ruskin bond


a) 1 only
b) 1 &4
c) 3 &4
d) None


Ans A as barrack Obama has written the book



4 . match the following
a. Suvarnabhumi airport 1. london
b. heathrow 2. rome
c. Flumicino 3. Bangkok


A B C
a. 1 2 3
b. 3 1 2
c. 1 3 2
d. 2 1 3


Ans…………… b










5.. Indian Institute of Science and Education Research has been opened at
1. Bhopal
2. Thiruvananthapuram
3. Mohali
4. Pune
5. Kolkata
6. shillong

a) all of above
b) 1,2,3,4,5
c) 3,4,5
d) 2,4,5,6
Ans B


6. MC Mary Kom is
a. sportsperson (boxing)
b. sportsperson (weight-lifter)
c. author
d. fast food chain

Ans A ..4 times gold medalist in women boxing hailing from Manipur fights in 46 kg category

30th nov 2008

After a traumatic 59 hours of operation it really feels heartening for the victims of terror in the recent Mumbai attack. My sympathy and condolences are with all the victims.

As the NSG commandos said after the operation “Yehi to Humara kaam hai”
It would be learning lesson for all of us.
We as civil service aspirants have to learn and imbibe the spirit of dutifulness by doing our job and performing our duty with sense of responsibility and best of our ability always.
To this day our duty lies to give our heart and soul to clear the CSE and if unlucky, utilize our learning to its best form in our line of duty in whatever we do in future.

I apologize for the discontinuity of current question for the last fortnight.
I would try my best to frame questions on those missed days too

30th Nov .2008

1. National security guards (NSG) , consider the following facts and choose the correct
Ones:-
1. Started as Federal contingency deployment force in 1984 after operation Bluestar.
2. Modelled on UK’s Special Air Services(SAS) and Germany’s elite counter-terrorism force GSG-9
3. NSG centered at Manesar,Gurgaon has two wing special Action group(SAG) all from army only and Special Ranger Groups (SRG) paramilitary force included.
4. NSG comes under cabinet secretariat.

a) 2 & 3
b) 1, & 2&, 3& ,4
c) 1, &2, &3
d) 1, &3
Ans C………..NSG under home ministry and SPG in cabinet secretariat

2. Safeguard duty is:-


a. Customs duty over and above the applicable duty, may be imposed by the cent govt on any article if its import has increased due to reduction in the rates of customs duty or relaxation of import restriction, causing domestic industry manufacturing the same or directly competing goods.
b. NSG, MARCOS, doing there duty as a counter terror responsive team as in case of recent terror attacks
c. The component of automobile which act as reducing the impact of jerk during a road accident example air bags,
d. A recently launced anti-virus software by IIT Delhi students. Allowing free updating for users on internet against worms and viruses infecting database of computer.
Ans A




3. Find the mismatch

1. Operation black thunder :: Golden Temple
2. Operation cyclone: Taj heritage attack
3. Operation black tornedo: Cleaning of Taj mahal,Agra
4. Operation Meghdoot: Siachin operation

a) 1,2,3,4
b) 1,2,3
c) 1,2,4
d) 2,3

Ans C op black tornedo is of NSG action in Nariman house


4. The recently hit cyclone in coromondel coast of India , devastating Chennai city
a) Cyclone Nisha
b) Cyclone Pawan
c) Cyclone Chandni
d) Cyclone Megha

Ans A

5. Consider the statement about Taj Heritage hotel
1. Taj heritage was build by JRD Tata in 1903
2. built by Italian architect with amalgamation of Moorish,oriental and Florentine style.at cost of 25 lakhs.
3. The taj heritage shares it’s space with Gateway of India at the Apollo Bunder of south Mumbai.
4. It was the first electrified building of Mumbai.
5 . It is under Indian Hotels group of Tata’s.

a) all of the above
b) 2,3,4,5
c) 1,2,3,4
d) 1,2,5
Ans B) built by jamesdji nusserwanji TaTA