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The correct answer is Germany.

Key Points

• Joachim Gauck became the president of Germany on 18 March 2012.

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The correct answer is National Telecom Policy.

Key Points

• The cabinet on 31 May 2012 adopted the National Telecom Policy.

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• National Telecom Policy
• It aims to provide a single license framework, unbundled spectrum from licenses, and liberalized spectrum.
• It aims to achieve higher connectivity and quality of telecommunication services.
• It targets simplification of licensing framework by establishing a unified license for all telecom services and conversion to a single-license system for the entire country.
• It also seeks to remove roaming charges.
• It seeks to liberalize the spectrum.
• The spectrum would be delinked from all future licenses.
• It aims at making 300 MHz of additional spectrum available for mobile telecom services by the year 2017 and another 200 MHz by 2020.
• It aims to increase rural teledensity from the current level of approximately 39% to 70% by 2017, and 100% by 2020.
• It seeks to incentivize and give preference to domestic telecom products in procurements that have security implications for India or are for the government’s own use.
• It also seeks to establish a Telecom Finance Corporation to mobilize and channelize finances for telecom projects.
• The policy seeks to review the TRAI Act to remove impediments to the effective functioning of TRAI.

Source:- https://www.prsindia.org/theprsblog/national-telecom-policy-2012

The correct answer is Britain.

Key Points

• Britain on 31 May 2012, opened a consulate in Hyderabad to be headed by a deputy high commissioner.

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• Alex Ellis is the high commissioner of Britain to India. (July 2021)
• Gaitri Issar Kumar is the high commissioner of India to Britain.

The correct answer is 631.

Key Points

• As per the study conducted by the Association of Indian Universities, 631 foreign education providers were operating in our country in 2010.

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• As per a study conducted by the Association of Indian Universities (AIU), 631 foreign education providers were operating in the country in 2010.
• Of these, 440 were functioning from their home campuses, 5 opened their own campuses in India, 60 had a programmatic collaboration with local institutions, 49 were operating under twinning arrangements and 77 had arrangements other than twinning or programmatic collaboration.
• A twinning program is one whereby students enrolled with a foreign education provider complete their study partly in India and partly in any other educational institution situated outside India.
• Out of the 440 foreign universities reported to be operating from their home campuses, 158 were from the UK, followed by 80 from Canada, 44 from the US, and 43 from Australia, among others.

Source:- https://www.prsindia.org/uploads/media/Foreign%20Educational%20Institutions%20Regulation/Foreign%20Universities%20Bill%20_SCR.pdf

The correct answer is the 5^th  time.

Key Points

• Vishwanathan Anand won the World Chess Championship for the 5^th  time in May 2012.

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• He defeated Israel's Boris Gelfand to gain the world championship title for the fifth time in 2012.
• He is an Indian chess master.
• He won the world championship in 2000, 2007, 2008, 2010, and 2012.
• At age of 15, he became the youngest Indian to earn the international master title.
• He earned the international grandmaster title in 1988.
• He earned the nickname of the “Lightning Kid” in India for his quick tactical calculations.
• In 1998 Anand published a collection of his games, Vishy Anand: My Best Games of Chess, which he expanded with new games in 2001.

The correct answer is T. Pattabhi Rama Rao.

Key Points

• Andhra Pradesh High Court Chief Justice Madan B Lokur has suspended CBI Judge T Pattabhi Ramarao on corruption charges on 31 May 2012.

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• Ramarao allegedly received Rs 5 crore for granting bail to former Karnataka minister Gali Janardhan Reddy, the key accused in the OMC illegal mining case.
• Ramarao allegedly granted bail to Reddy on May 12, the day after a huge sum was deposited in a bank account opened in a Benami name.
• Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI)
• It is the premier investigating police agency in India.
• It functions under the superintendence of the Deptt. of Personnel, Ministry of Personnel, Pension & Public Grievances, Government of India.
• However for investigations of offenses under the Prevention of Corruption Act, its superintendence vests with the Central Vigilance Commission.
• It is the nodal agency to conduct and coordinate investigations with Interpol.
• It can investigate cases under the Prevention of Corruption Act against Public officials and the employees of Central Government, Public Sector Undertakings, Corporations, or Bodies owned or controlled by the Government of India.
• It can investigate cases of major financial scams and serious economic frauds.
• It also investigates serious and organized crimes under the Indian Penal Code and other laws on the requests of State Governments or the orders of the Supreme Court and High Courts.
• CBI can Suo-moto take up investigation of offenses only in the Union Territories.
• The Central Government can authorize CBI to investigate a crime in a State but only with the consent of the concerned State Government.
• The Supreme Court and High Courts, however, can order CBI to investigate a crime anywhere in the country without the consent of the State.
• In 2014, the Lokpal Act provided a committee for the appointment of CBI Director which will :
• be headed by Prime Minister
• include Leader of Opposition/ Leader of the single largest opposition party, Chief Justice of India/ a Supreme Court Judge.
• The Director of CBI has been provided security of two-year tenure, by the CVC Act, 2003.
• Subodh Kumar Jaiswal is the incumbent director of CBI.

The correct answer is the U.S.A.

Key Points

• Nancy Powell, the then ambassador of the US to India visited Hyderabad on May 31, 2012, and met N Kiran Kumar Reddy, the then Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, and E. S. L. Narasimhan,  the then Governor of Andhra Pradesh.

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• Eric Garcetti has been nominated as the U.S.A's new ambassador to India on 9^th July 2021.
• Taranjit Singh Sandhu is the incumbent ambassador of India to the U.S.A.
• Andhra Pradesh (As of 16 July 2021)
• Capital- Visakhapatnam, Kurnool, Amaravati
• Chief Minister- YS Jagan Mohan Reddy
• Governor- Biswabhusan Harichandan

The correct answer is Mandela.

Key Points

• Nelson Mandela is the author of the book " The struggle of my life."

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• The struggle of my life is the autobiography of Nelson Mandela.
• Nelson Mandela was the former president of South Africa from 1994 to 1999.
• He was the country's first black head of state and the first elected in a fully representative democratic election.
• He was an anti-apartheid revolutionary.
• He is known as the Gandhi of South Africa.
• Cyril Ramaphosa is the incumbent President of South Africa.

The correct answer is Arabic.

Key Points

• The word 'Monsoon' is derived from the Arabic word " mausim."

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• Mausim in Arabic means weather.
• Owing to the yearly appearance of torrential rain, indicating a marked shift in weather, mausim gradually became monsoon.
• Indian monsoon occupies two divisions viz. the southwest monsoon season (between June and September) and the retreating monsoon season (October and November).
• The Indian summer monsoon typically lasts from June-September.
• Most areas of western and central India receiving more than 90% of their total annual precipitation during the period, and southern and northwestern India receiving 50%-75% of their total annual rainfall.
• The climate of India is described as the ‘monsoon’ type.
• Generally, the monsoon arrives at the southern tip of the Indian peninsular by the first week of June.

The correct answer is Krishna.

Key Points

• The Himalayan rivers are the ones that originate or drain the areas of the Himalayas.
• The Krishna River is a river of south-central India.
• It rises in Mahabaleshwar, Maharashtra.
• It mainly flows in Maharashtra, Karnataka, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh.
• So, the Krishna is not a Himalayan river.

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