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RAPID GK SERIES 60

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<ol style="margin-top: 0in;" type="1"><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in;">Grand Central Terminal, Park Avenue, New York is the world's<span style="mso-list: Ignore;"> </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span>Entomology is the science that studies<span style="mso-list: Ignore;"> </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span>Eritrea, which became the 182nd member of the UN in 1993, is in the continent of<span style="mso-list: Ignore;"> </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span>Garampani sanctuary is located at<span style="mso-list: Ignore;"> </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span>For which of the following disciplines is Nobel Prize awarded?<span style="mso-list: Ignore;"> </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span>Hitler party which came into power in 1933 is known as<span style="mso-list: Ignore;"> </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span>FFC stands for<span style="mso-list: Ignore;"> </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span>Fastest shorthand writer was<span style="mso-list: Ignore;"> </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span>Epsom (England) is the place associated with<span style="mso-list: Ignore;"> </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span>First human heart transplant operation conducted by Dr. Christian Bernard on Louis Washkansky, was conducted in</li>
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</div><ol style="margin-top: 0in;" type="1"><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list .5in;">largest railway station</li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list .5in;">Insects</li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list .5in;">Africa</li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list .5in;">Diphu, Assam</li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list .5in;">Physics ,Chemistry, Medicine, Literature, Peace and Economics</li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list .5in;">Nazi Party</li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list .5in;">Film Finance Corporation</li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list .5in;">Dr. G. D. Bist</li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list .5in;">Horse racing</li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list .5in;">1967</li>
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RAPID GK SERIES 60

Grand Central Terminal, Park Avenue, New York is the world's Entomology is the science that studies Eritrea, which became t...

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Decision on Bt. Brinjal not influenced by NGO: Jairam Ramesh

Decision on Bt. Brinjal not influenced by NGO: Jairam Ramesh

Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh denied any NGO influencing his decision to put a moratorium on Bt Brinjal. He was responding quer...

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WHO removes India from polio endemic countries’ list

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><ul><li style="text-align: justify;">Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh has  said that health and education will be the key priorities of the 12th  Five-year plan. He said that the public expenditure on health had been  increased from less than one per cent of GDP in 2006-07 to an estimated  1.4 per cent of GDP by the end of the Eleventh Five-Year plan. </li>
</ul><ul style="text-align: justify;"><li>Dr. Singh stressed the need to work harder to achieve the goal of  increasing public expenditure on health to two and a half per cent of  GDP.  </li>
</ul><ul style="text-align: justify;"><li>Inaugurating the Polio Summit, 2012 in New Delhi today, Dr. Singh  asserted to accelerate the efforts for providing universal access to  healthcare. </li>
</ul><ul style="text-align: justify;"><li>Dr. Singh said there was a need to work towards hassle free and cash  less outpatient care in public hospitals. The Prime Minister said the  Government's massive effort to rid the country of the terrible scourge  of Polio had shown result. Expressing satisfaction over the completion  of one year without a single new case of polio in India, he said it had  become possible because the Centre and the states had worked in close  partnership. </li>
</ul><ul style="text-align: justify;"><li>He also lauded the work of NGOs and 23 lakh volunteers who  repeatedly vaccinated children even in the remotest areas of the  country. </li>
</ul><ul style="text-align: justify;"><li>Earlier, Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad announced that World  Health Organisation had taken India's name off the list of Polio endemic  countries. </li>
</ul><ul style="text-align: justify;"><li>The Minister said it had been done in view of remarkable progress in  containing new case of polio in the country and not a single polio case  has been reported for more than past one year. </li>
</ul><ul style="text-align: justify;"><li>Azad said the Government was aware of the risks that persist not  only on account of indigenous transmission but also importation from  other endemic countries and a zero tolerance plan has been put in place  across the country. </li>
</ul><ul style="text-align: justify;"><li>It is reported that there were four countries in the list including  Pakistan, Nigeria and Afghanistan. India will now have to remain Polio  free for the next two years to achieve the Polio free status.</li>
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WHO removes India from polio endemic countries’ list

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EGoM meet fails to decide on gas allocation issue

EGoM meet fails to decide on gas allocation issue

The meeting of the Empowered Group of Ministers (EGoM) on gas remained inconclusive and decided t...

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Chinese delegation hold talks with India to step up tourism

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><ul><li style="text-align: justify;">A Chinese delegation led by Vice  Chairman of China National Tourism Administration Wang Zhifa, called on  Union Tourism Minister Subodh Kant Sahai. They discussed ways to step up  tourism between the two countries. </li>
</ul><ul style="text-align: justify;"><li>Speaking on the occasion Sahai said, efforts are on by the two  friendly neighbours for increased cooperation to boost people-to-people  exchange between India and China. He said, improving the tourism  prospects of the Buddhist circuit is also being explored. Sahai told the  Chinese delegation that India needs investments in the hotel and  hospitality sector and 22 lakh hotel rooms are required in the country.  He said that hundred per cent FDI is permitted in the hotel sector. </li>
</ul><ul style="text-align: justify;"><li>The Chinese delegation also included Ambassador of China to India  Zhang Yan and Director of China National Tourist Office in New Delhi Liu  Shijun. </li>
</ul><ul style="text-align: justify;"><li>Sahai also said that he met Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on  Saturday and sought budget allocation of 50 thousand crore rupees for  his ministry. This, he said, will help to increase the arrival of  tourists by another five million in the country.</li>
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Chinese delegation hold talks with India to step up tourism

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Sania -Vesnina crash out of Dubai Open

Sania -Vesnina crash out of Dubai Open

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US keen to invest in North East

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div id="6106" style="display: block; text-align: justify;">                                          <ul style="text-align: justify;"><li>United States Ambassador Peter Burleigh said trade missions from his  country will visit the north eastern region soon to explore possibility  of investment in key sectors. </li>
</ul><ul style="text-align: justify;"><li>"Trade missions of US to India's major cities are going on and we  are in the process of expanding it to other areas including the north  east," he said. </li>
</ul><ul style="text-align: justify;"><li>"We are learning about increasing business opportunities in the N E  region and American companies have shown interest for investments," the  envoy, who is on a visit to Assam and Arunachal Pradesh, said. </li>
</ul><ul style="text-align: justify;"><li>Climate change and renewal of energy were being focussed on by the  USA, Burleigh said his country was, however, open to collaboration in  almost all major areas of interest. "We are open to exploring virtually  any area for investment." </li>
</ul><ul style="text-align: justify;"><li>USA was currently participating in a conservation programme at  Kaziranga National Park in Assam, he said and expressed satisfaction at  the 'amazing' pace of development activities taking place in the state  and its congenial atmosphere for investment.</li>
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US keen to invest in North East

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India seeks exclusion of its waters from war zone notification

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><ul><li style="text-align: justify;">India will make a fresh appeal before  the London-based Joint War Committee, a body of insurance underwriters,  to exclude India’s Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) from the war zone  notification as there have been no piracy incidents in Indian waters for  the last nine months. </li>
</ul><ul style="text-align: justify;"><li>The Navy has sanitised the country’s EEZ. There have been no  piracy-related incidents over the last three quarters and India is keen  to see that its waters up to 78 degree East are excluded from the war  zone notification. </li>
</ul><ul style="text-align: justify;"><li>If that is not possible, at least its EEZ should be out of the zone,  said Union Shipping Secretary K. Mohandas and Director General of  Shipping S. B. Agnihotri at a press conference. </li>
</ul><ul style="text-align: justify;"><li>Exclusion of India’s EEZ from the war zone has implications on  premiums on insurance cover. More importantly, it has a security angle  to it. Once within the war zone list, ships plying the Indian Ocean and  Arabian Sea will hug the Indian coast for safety from perceived threats.</li>
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India seeks exclusion of its waters from war zone notification

India will make a fresh appeal before the London-based Joint War Committee, a body of insurance underwriters, to exclude India’s Exclusive...

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IAEA team inspects Kudankulam plant, protesters announce fast

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><ul><li style="text-align: justify;">A two-member team from  the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) carried out a detailed  inspection at Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project(KNPP) even as the  anti-plant protesters announced a 72-hour fast to protest a clean chit  by a state government panel.  </li>
</ul><ul style="text-align: justify;"><li>Noting that the inspection and the accounting of nuclear materials  will be detailed and meticulous, Jain said it normally takes two days to  complete such an inspection.  </li>
</ul><ul style="text-align: justify;"><li>To a query on to the choice of inspection time when KNPP is facing  opposition from the villagers and protests are on, Jain said: "The IAEA  has the right to inspect at any time they want."  </li>
</ul><ul style="text-align: justify;"><li>The first unit of KNPP is under safeguards as per the agreement between Indian government and IAEA.  </li>
</ul><ul style="text-align: justify;"><li>India's nuclear power plant operator, NPCIL, is building two 1,000  MW atomic power reactors with Russian collaboration at Kudankulam in  Tirunelveli, around 650 km from Chennai.  </li>
</ul><ul style="text-align: justify;"><li>However villagers in Kudankulam, Idinthakarai and nearby areas,  fearing their safety in case of any accident, protested against the  project.  </li>
</ul><ul style="text-align: justify;"><li>Their agitation, led by the People's Movement Against Nuclear  Energy (PMANE), has put a stop to the project work, delaying the  commissioning of the first unit slated last December.  </li>
</ul><ul style="text-align: justify;"><li><span>The Tamil Nadu government set up a four-member expert  committee to look into the project's safety aspects and the fears of the  local people about the project.</span> </li>
</ul><ul style="text-align: justify;"><li><span><span>The panel members certified  that the KNPP is safe and has sufficient safety measures. The clean  chit upset the PMANE, who announced their fast. </span></span></li>
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IAEA team inspects Kudankulam plant, protesters announce fast

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Health & education to get priority in 12th Plan: PM

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div id="6109" style="display: block;">                                          <ul><li style="text-align: justify;">The Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh  has said that education and health will be the key priorities of the  Twelfth Five year plan. He said that public expenditure on health has  been increased from less than one per cent of GDP in 2006-07 to an  estimated 1.4 per cent of GDP by the end of the Eleventh five year  plan.  </li>
</ul><ul style="text-align: justify;"><li>Dr. Singh stressed the need to work harder to achieve the goal of  increasing public expenditure on health to two and a half per cent of  GDP.Dr. Singh stressed the need to accelerate the efforts for providing  universal access to health care.  </li>
</ul><ul style="text-align: justify;"><li>The Prime Minister said that government's massive effort to rid the country of the terrible scourge of Polio has shown results. </li>
</ul><ul><li style="text-align: justify;">Expressing satisfaction over the  completion of one year without any new case of polio in India, Dr.  Manmohan Singh said it has become possible because Centre and the States  have worked in close partnership. He also lauded the work of NGOs and  23 Lakh volunteers who repeatedly vaccinated children even in the  remotest areas of the country. Earlier, Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad  announced that World Health Organisation has taken India's name off the  list of Polio endemic countries.</li>
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Health & education to get priority in 12th Plan: PM

The Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh has said that education and health will be the key prioriti...

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US envoy's secret cable warns of terror sanctuaries in Pakistan

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div id="6110" style="display: block;">                                          <ul><li style="text-align: justify;">America's envoy to Kabul has warned  that the existence of terror sanctuaries in Pakistan and insurgent  activities of the Haqqani network are a deal-killer for the US strategy  in Afghanistan. </li>
</ul><ul style="text-align: justify;"><li>In a top-secret cable to the Obama administration last month  Ambassador Ryan. C. Crocker said it amounts to admitting that years of  US efforts to curtail insurgent activity in Pakistan by key Taliban ally  and lethal Haqqani network are failing. </li>
</ul><ul style="text-align: justify;"><li>Disclosing this, the Washington Post reported that the cable was  sent through CIA channels rather than the usual State Department ones to  keep it secret. </li>
</ul><ul><li style="text-align: justify;">The State Department refused to comment  on the authenticity of the cable. Spokesman Mark Toner said in  Washinton that they are not in a position to comment on alleged leaked  cables. He said the adminstration's position is that the Haqqani network  remains and safe havens continue to pose a threat to Pakistan,  Afghanistan and the United States . All must be done to eliminate them,  he said.</li>
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US envoy's secret cable warns of terror sanctuaries in Pakistan

America's envoy to Kabul has warned that the existence of terror sanctuaries in Pakistan and ...

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