Prof. Vijay Raghavan, an Indian scientist, who has been elected Fellow of Royal Society in the year 2012, is a renowned

• Biotechnologist

• Chemist

• Agricultural scientist

• Missile engineer

Operation Cactus is the name given to Indian Military intervention in

• Maldives

• Sri Lanka

• Bangladesh

• Bhutan

Consider the following statements about the visit of Indian President Smt. Pratibha Patil to Mongolia in July 2011:

1. She became the first Indian President to make an official visit to the country.
2. In the area of defence, India and Mongolia agreed to expand collaboration through an increased level of joint exercises and training.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

• 1 only

• 2 only

• Both 1 and 2

• Neither 1 nor 2

Who among the following, is the latest Indian to win the Pulitzer Prize for literature?

• Jhumpa Lahiri

• Geeta Anand

• Gobind Behari Lal

• Siddhartha Mukherjee

Which one among the following led to the Greece economic crisis in 2010?

• Excessive borrowing from IMF

• Sudden depreciation of Euro

• Unrestricted spending and cheap loans

• Outflow of foreign capital due to political unrest

The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), a mechanism to reduce greenhouse gas emission as per Kyoto Protocol implies that

• industrial countries receive carbon credits by funding carbon saving projects in another relatively affluent nation

• industrial countries reduce their carbon emission by using environment friendly technology in production

• developed countries invest in carbon reduction in developing countries and receive carbon credit in return

• developed nations purchase carbon credit from other nations