Weekly Question Paper

CIVIL SERVICES CLUB
Paper on current affairs
(10.01.2010)
Q 1. Write about the following (Attempt any 15, not exceeding 20 words each): 2x15=30
(a).Ms.Tessy Thomas
(b)Asha Khemka
(c)Economic governance
(d)COPE –INDIA -09
(e)EDGE
(f)”JAGO MUMBAI”
(g)GIS
(h)Cyclone PHYAN
(i)School wiki
(j)NEPA
(k)ACYUT
(l)TEAM-9
(m)ILDP
(N)Bi-valent OPV
(O)Countervailing duty
(P)VOIP
Q.2: Write about the following (not exceeding 40 words each) 3x15=45
(i)GM Crops
II) ALPHA 9 syndrome
(iii)Special Drawing Rights
(iv)National Skill Development Corporation
(v)Human development Index 2009&India
(vi)India’s three stage Nuclear Technology Programme
(vii)Cut motions of budgetary process
(viii)BT Brinjal
(IX)Names of eight core national missions of India’s National action plan on climate change.
(x)Radhakrishna committee
(xi)START
(XII)Panda Diplomacy
(xiii)Bioremediation
(xiv)Oceansat-2
(xv)National Mission for Female Literacy
(Xvi) Group farming
Q.3 Write about the following (Not more than 75 words) 5x2=10
(a)Briefly discuss the Article 155 and Article 156 of Indian Constitution.
(b)Briefly discuss about the recently held conference of speakers and presiding officers of the commonwealth (CSPOC).
Q.4 Answer the following (In about 150 words) 1x15=15
Indo-Japan relations-‘Emergence of a new bond’. Comment?