GK & CA- SELECTED 50 QUESTIONS PART I

1. Singapore will host the 1st Youth Olympics in 2010
2. Kachch in Gujarat is India's latest biosphere reserve
3. Asteroids are found in between Mars and Jupiter
4. Virgin Airlines(UK) started flights on bio fuel
5. Theodore Roosevelt was the first American to win Nobel Peace Prize
6. Hardeep Singh Puri is India's permanent representative to UN
7. Areva the French nuclear giant has signed a nuclear deal with India
8. Centurion Bank has been taken over by HDFC
9. Mark Zukerberg invented Facebook
10. RK Raghavan Committee on Ragging
11. First ever DNA Bank in Asia in Lucknow
12. Mistral of France is now the fastest train in the world
13. Iraq acceded to CTBT in 2008
14. Denmark recently started a Climate Change Accountability Act
15. Foreign reserve of India as on January 2009- $ 255.4Billion
16. Project Sankalp is on AIDS
17. Belgium is the only country with which India has signed a Social Security Agreement
18. Madagascar was recently suspended from African Union
19. Members of Prime Minister's Global Advisory Council-Jagadish Bhagawati,Sam Pitroda and Amartya Sen
20. Urban VII was a Pope for just 12 days
21. Sujatha Ranganathan developed and designed EVM
22. RS Pandey received UN public Service Award
23. 2008 Arab League Summit-Doha
24. 2008 World Energy Summit-Jeddah
25. Equador will purchase Dhruv helicopters from India
26. First World Cities Summit- Singapore
27. India's first Defence University will be set up in Rewari( Haryana)
28. India signed BIPA with Myanmar
29. Amarpura in Rajasthan has been selected as Millennium village by UN
30. Cape Verde is the latest entrant of WTO
31. President of Guines Bissau Joao Vieira was assassinated in March 2009
32. Albania and Croatia joined NATO in 2008
33. 7th Asia Europe Meeting-Beijing
34. UY Canis Majoris is the largest star known to us
35. Canada recently started Carbon tax.Finland was the first country to start Carbon tax
    
36. Rainforest Declaration- Between Brunei,Malaysia and Indonesia to save Borneo
37. Dabur has been purchased by Singapore based company Fresenius-a $ 10 bn deal
38. Achyut is the name of India's humanoid robot
39. Jason II- a US-Frencj satellite is monitoring sea level rise
40. Harmony si the first room of International Space station whereas Kibo is the first research laboratory there
41. Louis Diaga is Mozambique;s first woman President
42. Martha Nassabaum developed HDI
43. David Villa with 4 goals top scored in Euro 2008
44. Pemayantshe monastry is in Sikkim
45. Cuba recently started land reforms
46. World's first robotic surgery was performed in Canada
47. India, Israel,Pakistan and North Korea are not party to the Nuclear Proliferation Treaty
48. Cyprus and Malta joined Euro Zone in 2008
49. Areawise smallest nation in Asia-Maldives
50. Shine- a website launched by Yahoo for women