Current Affairs 2009

current affair news, science current affairs, general knowledge current affair, current government affair and international current affairs. Only studying India's current affairs or political current affairs is not sufficient as you have to cover international events and current affairs along with the Indian current affairs, as well as those in the field of science and sports. International Current Affairs 2009

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Air France 447 jet Crash

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Racial attack in Australia

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LTTE chief Prabhakaran's body found

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Escaped Bali Terror Suspect Is Caught in Malaysia

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Obama gets a 'B+ grade' for his presidency

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Over 150 people died due to Swine flu in Mexico

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6 killed in murder-suicide bid in US

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Titanic museum to open in UK

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LTTE loses Mullaithivu

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Bush gets attacked by shoes in Iraq

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Israel attacks Gaza

National Current Affairs 2009

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Air Force AN-32 aircraft Crash

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Family donates their dead son's organs to 7 people

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Dream Houses / Mumbai Flats on rent for Rs. 800/-

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Oz Racial attack: AP student battling for life

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Congress' victory, credit to Sonia's inner voice

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UPSC results: Women on top, 791 succeeded

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River Ganga still reels under Pollution

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Girl dies due to asthma in Delhi School

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Satyam bidding Completed: Tech Mahindra wins bidding

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Parents protest fee hike in schools

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Tata Nano The People's Car Launched

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Modi minister held in post-Godhra riot case

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Varun guilty; EC asks BJP not to field Varun

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Tata Nano The People's Car Launched

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Modi minister held in post-Godhra riot case

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Satyam fraud

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Mangalore Pub Attack

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Railway Budget 2009

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Demonstrations against Valentine's day

Sports 2009

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India knocked out of World T20

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Federer won French Open

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Anand wins Chess Oscar for sixth time

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Brasa appointed Indian men's hockey coach

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BCCI nominates Gambhir, Jhulan for Arjuna award

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Book on Tendulkar released

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IPL 2 to be held in South Africa

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India thrash New Zealand to seal ODI series

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India win Hamilton Test, a win in NZ after 33 years

Science and Technology 2009

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Largest ever telescope launched from French Guiana

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First face transplant patient in US shows face

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UK scientists to develop Swine Flu vaccine

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PET bottles potential health hazard

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ISRO launches RISAT-2

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Discovery Crew Returns Home From ISS

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Internet Crime Up 33 Percent, FBI Reports

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Adobe, Facebook partner to create Flash developer tools

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Microsoft to discontinue Encarta

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World's First Internet Car Radio Unveiled

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Motorola Unveils Cellphone Made From Recycled Water Bottles

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UK Doctors Deliver Cancer-Proof Baby

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Sony To Launch World's Lightest 8-Inch Notebook PC

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Indian Scientists Conduct Anti-Warming Experiment In Antarctic Ocean

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Indian Scientists To Clone Pashmina Goat

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NASA's Kepler Mission To Begin Quest To Find Planets Hosting Life

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ISRO To Use Home-Grown Cryogenic Engine For GSLV Launch

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Obama to restore stem cell research funding

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India To Send Sun Mission Aditya In 2012

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Indian-American Scientist Vivek Pai Creates Top Web Technology

Current Affairs May June 2009 1.Which ministry has recently proposed to install a surveillance system (biometric tracing system), so that every move the employee makes can be tacked? (A)Ministry of Defense (B)Ministry of External Affairs (C)Home Ministry

2.Recently the Union government has decided to augment the presence of Border Security Force along the 4096-kilometer-long frontier with _____? (A)Pakistan (B)Bangladesh (C)China

3.Recently William J Burns visited India. He is Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs from which of the following country? (A)US (B)Britain (C)Australia

4.Recently who has won $50,000 first prize in 2009 Young Epidemiology Scholars Competition for American high school students for her research on osteoporosis. (A)Amrita Sehhgal (B)Allan Joseph (C)Visakha Suresh

5.Which state government of India is considering a proposal by the Forest and Wildlife Department to market the medicinal herb Cordyceps Sinensis, popularly known as Himalayan Viagra? (A)Himachal Pradesh (B)Sikkim (C)Jammu & Kashmir

6.The Rs 240-crore worth Helicopter Academy to Train by Simulation of Flying (HATSOFF) will become a functional by 2010. Where this academy is going to be opened? (A)Hyderabad (B)Bangalore (C)Chennai

7.In which Hindu Month Ganga Dassehra is observed? (A)Chaitra (B)Jyeshta

(C)Kartika

8.Kiran Kumar Reddy has recently occupied the chair of which state's legislative assembly ? (A)Andhra Pradesh (B)Orrisa (C)Chhattisgarh

9.Kamala Surayya Das recently passed away . She was a noted short story writer of which language? (A)Malayalam (B)Tamil (C)Punjabi

10.Indian Naval Ship Beas, India's indigenously built Brahmaputra class missile frigate, armed with state-of- the-art weapons, including the Barak anti-missile battery will hold joint naval exercises in Baltic Sea with which of the following country's navy ? (A)Israel (B)Russia (C)Japan

11.Who among the following has won the third Man Booker International Prize (A)Alice Munro of Canada (B)V S Naipaul of India (C)Mahashweta Devi of India

12.Recently UN Antiracism conference was held at which of the following places? (A)Geneva (B)Paris (C)London

13.Recently Aurakzai Tribal region was in news. In which country this region is located? (A)Afghanistan

(B)Pakistan (C)Iran

14.Jacob Zuma is the new president of which of the following African countries? (A)Nigeria (B)South Africa (C)Sudan

15.Who among the following is "Wisden" Leading Cricketer of the word 2008? (A)Virendra Sehwag (B)Irfan Pathan (C)M S Dhoni

16.Who among the following is Prime Minister of Sri Lanka? (A)Mahinda Rajpaksa (B)Ratnasiri Wickramanayake (C)Chandrika Kumaratunga

17.Dr. Margaret Chan is related to which of the following International Body ? (A)World Bank (B)World Health Organization (C)World Trade Organization

18.Ms. Irene Zubaida Khan is related to which of the following agencies? (A)Amnesty International (B)SAARC (C)International Red Cross Society

19.Space Capsule Recovery Experiment SRE is a project of which of the organizations? (A)BNSC, Britain (B)ISRO, India (C)NASA ,US

20.Shubh Grah Pariyojna has been launched by ? (A)Indian Government (B)Reliance Group (C)Tata Group

Q- Providing credit facilities by more than one banks for single party with formal agreement with each other. What is this concept called? ----Consortium Q- Rate at which RBI purchases or rediscounts bills of exchange of commercial banks. What this rate is called? ----Bank rate Q- An instrument in the form of depository receipt created by an Indian depository against underlying equity shares of the issuing company.

----Indian Depository

What do you call this instrument? Q- An instrument that derives its value from a specified underlying [currency , Gold, stocks] etc. is called as ……..? ---- Hedge Fund Q- What is derived from total expenditure less total receipts excluding borrowing? ----Fiscal Deficit Q- In the capital market , simultaneous purchase and sale of securities to reduce the loss on purchase is known as …..? ---Arbitrage Q- Injecting liquidity by the central bank of a country through purchase of Govt. securities. What do we call this? ----Reverse repo Q- What is used to manage cash flows in different currencies? ----currency swap Q- Lending done by financing institutions including banks to customers not meeting with normally required credit appraisal standards. What do

we call this? Q- In instrument (bond) issued in a country other than the country of the currency of the bond. What type of bond is this? Q- What does Money Laundering includes?

Q- Which organization is capital market regulator? ----SEBI Q- What term is used for Money borrowed or lent for a day or overnight ?

----Call Money Q- Which bank uses punch line "India's International Bank" ----Bank of Baroda Q- Which bank uses punch line " Trusted Family Bank"? ----Dena Bank Q- What is NSCCL? ---National securities clearing corporation ltd

Q- In which year Bombay Stock Exchange was established? ---1875 Q- In which year NSE was established? ---1994

Q- Personal Finance is a part of Financial System in India. Is it true or false? Q- Money lenders are part of scheduled banking in India. True or false? Q- International Atomic Energy Agency provides a facility to help nations in enrichment of Uranium. What this concept has been named? ----Nuclear bank Q- An agreement in two parties to buy or sell an underlying asset in future at a predetermined rate. What this agreement is called as? ----Future Trading Q- Inflation is measured on basis of which index in India? -----Whole sale price index

1.The leaders of the world’s biggest emerging markets Brazil, Russia, India and China are to meet for their formal summit in Yekaterinburg, Russia. This is _first_________Formal BRIC Summit? (A)First (B)Second (C)Third

2.Which country is hosting the SCO Shanghai Cooperation Organization meeting? (A)China (B)Russia (C)India

3.Which among the following is not a member of SCO (Shanghai Cooperation Organization)? (A)China (B)Russia (C)India

4.Which among the three facts about BRIC is wrong? (A)BRIC countries account for 42 percent of the world's population (B)BRIC Countries account for 14.6 percent of global Gross Domestic Product (GDP) (C)BRIC countries account for 12.8 percent of the global trade volume.

5.Recently Bindeshwar Pathak of Sulabh International was honored by Intergovernmental Renewable Energy Organization at the United Nations headquarters in New York . He was presented this honor for _________? (A)Running public toilets in India (B)Developing low cost toilet technology to produce energy out of human excreta (C)Uplifting the socio-economic and environmental status of poor.

6.Recently Which state political parties have registered their demand to repeal Armed Forces Special Powers Act AFSPA? (A)Meghalaya (B)Assam (C)J & K

7.Recently President Barack Obama has nominated Vinai Thummalapally of Colorado Springs, Colorado, as the next US Ambassador to ______? (A)Belize (B)Guatemala (C)Honduras

8.The only country in Central America that has English as official language?

(A)Belize (B)Honduras (C)Guatemala

9.What is the official language of other central American countries viz. Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala , Honduras , Nicaragua, Panama ? (A)Portuguese (B)Spanish (C)French

10.If US senate confirm the nomination of Vinai Thummalapally, then he would be _____________Indian American ambassador in US history? (A)First (B)Second (C)Third

11.Recently constitutional council of a European Country ruled that "The Internet is a fundamental human right that cannot be taken away by anything other than a court of law, only when guilt has been established there" . Which is the country ? (A)England (B)Germany (C)France

13.Recently a list was released by FastCompany a Business Magazine about world's 100 most creative people in business. Who among the following Indians is / are in this list ? (A)A R Rahman, Music Director (B)Prith Banerjee of HP Labs (C)Padmasree Warrior of Cisco

14.Recently an agreement was signed between the Bhutan government and a leading BPO firm which will recruit 200 Bhutanese graduates every year to be

trained and employed in India. What is the name of the firm? (A)Genepact (B)WNS Group (C)vCustomer

15.Tim Morse has been appointed as chief financial officer by which of the internet giants? (A)Yahoo (B)Microsoft (C)Google

17.Who has been recently appointed as ATS Chief? (A)Parambir Singh (B)K P Raghuvanshi (C)D.Sivanandan

19.At present what fraction of India's population is below poverty line? (A)18.5% (B)27.5% (C)23%

20.Recently, which of the following has become the first rail network in the world to get a UN certificate for preventing over 90,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide from being released into the atmosphere, doing its bit to fight against global warming? (A)Delhi Metro (B)Mumbai Suburban Railway (C)Kolkata Metro

21.Majles-e Shura-ye Eslami is parliament of which country ? (A)Iraq (B)Iran (C)Saudi Arab

22.Who is the Chairman of Prime Minister's Economic Advisory Council ? (A)Suresh. D. Tendulkar (B)C Rangrajan (C)Y V Reddy

23.Who has been recently chosen for Mahatma Gandhi International Award for Peace & Justice 2009? (A)Aung San Suu Kyi (B)Nelson Mandela (C)Desmond Tutu

24.Where was held the International festival of Children's Films in May 2009? (A)Bangalore (B)Kolkata (C)New Delhi

25.Which team was IPL2 runner up ? (A)Deccan Charges (B)Royal Challengers (C)Chennai Superkings

26.Who was the winner of Italian Open Tennis Tournament in May 2009? (A)Dinara safina (B)Svetlana Kuznetsova (C)none of them

27.Equipped with management skills after a stint at the Indian School of Business, Hyderabad, Viren Rasquinha is back to contribute to Indian sport by joining the Olympic Gold Quest as Chief Operations Officer (COO). He was a former ace player of________? (A)Tennis (B)Hockey (C)Golf

28.Andy Roddick is related to which of the following sports? (A)Tennis (B)Badminton (C)Football

29.Anand Pawar is related to which of the following sports? (A)Tennis (B)Badminton (C)Basketball

30.Business magazine Forbes has released its list of the world's richest women. Who is the only businesswoman of India who could get a place in this list ? (June 15, 2009) (A)Savitri Jindal (B)Indu Jain (C)Kiran Mazumadar Shaw

31.Nanao Singh is related to which of the following sports? (A)Motor racing (B)Boxing (C)Wrestling 39.World Population Day is an annual event, observed on July 11, and was established by the Governing Council of the United Nations Development Programme in 1989. What was the another term used for this day in 1989? (A)Population Explosion Day (B)UNDP Population Day

(C)Five Billion Day

40.An unusual rock art discovery, petroglyphs, which are engravings made with a hard tool, have been found in Beruthorapatti in which state recently? (The Hindu, May 24, 2009) (A)Tamil Nadu (B)Kerala (C)Karnataka

41.International Day of Cooperatives is celebrated on what date / day every year ? (A)July 7 (B)First Sunday of July (C)First Saturday of July

42.Mr. Kamalnath is India's new________? (A)Minister of Commerce (B)Minister of Road Transport and Highways (C)Minister of Water Resources

43.Inspired by the success of NREGS , which north east state has recently decided to launch a job guarantee scheme for those who are below poverty line ? (A)Nagaland (B)Tripura (C)Meghalaya

44.Despite dissent from China, India scored a diplomatic victory at the ADB board meeting recently as all other members voted in favour to grant approval for the $2.9-billion India plan. Which country with maximum voting share voted in favour of India? (A)South Korea (B)US (C)Japan

45.The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has proposed to the HRD Ministry to ask the school boards to introduce a subject in the curriculum to enhance the students’ knowledge in the field. Which subject ? (A)Financial Management (B)Business Management (C)Marketing Management

46.Who won the French Grand Prix on May 17, 2009? (A)Jorge Lorenzo (B)Valentino Rossi (C)Marco Melandri

47.Composite Leading Indicators are used by which organization to provide early signals of turning points (peaks and troughs) between expansions and slowdowns of economic activity? (A)Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) (B)World Bank WB (C)International Monetary Fund IMF

48.John Higgins is the world Champion of Snooker. He belongs to ________? (A)Scotland (B)Ireland (C)Wales

49.Suma Shirur is related to which sports? (A)Swimming (B)Shooting (C)Gymnastics

50.Yelena Gadzhievna Isinbaeva is a two-time Olympic Gold Medalist (2004 and 2008), was named Female Athlete of the Year by the IAAF in 2004, 2005 and 2008, and World Sportswoman of the Year by Laureus in 2007 and 2009. She is related to which athletic game?

(A)Pole Vault (B)High Jump (C)Triple Jump