Chief Ministers in India

List of Chief Ministers in India India’s Chief Minister Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister of Assam Chief Minister of Bihar Chief Minister of Chhattisgarh Chief Minister of Delhi Chief Minister of Goa Chief Minister of Gujarat Chief Minister of Haryana Chief Minister of Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister of Jharkhand Chief Minister of Karnataka Chief Minister of Kerala Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister of Maharashtra Chief Minister of Manipur Chief Minister of Meghalaya Chief Minister of Mizoram Chief Minister of Nagaland Chief Minister of Orissa Chief Minister of Puducherry Chief Minister of Punjab Chief Minister of Rajasthan Chief Minister of Sikkim Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu Chief Minister of Tripura Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister of Uttarakhand Chief Minister of West Bengal

State	Chief Minister
Andhra Pradesh	Shri Nallari Kiran Kumar Reddy
Arunachal Pradesh	Shri Jarbom Gamlin
Assam	Shri Tarun Gogoi
Bihar	Shri Nitish Kumar
Chhattisgarh	Dr. Raman Singh
Delhi	Smt Sheila Dikshit
Goa	Shri Digambar Kamat
Gujarat	Shri Narendra Modi
Haryana	Shri Bhupinder Singh Hooda
Himachal Pradesh	Prof. Prem Kumar Dhumal
Jammu and Kashmir	Shri Omar Abdullah
Jharkhand	Shri Arjun Munda
Karnataka	Shri B. S. Yeddyurappa
Kerala	Shri Oommen Chandy
Madhya Pradesh	Shri Shivraj Singh Chouhan
Maharashtra	Shri Prithviraj Chavan
Manipur	Shri Okram Ibobi Singh
Meghalaya	Dr. Mukul Sangma
Mizoram	Shri Pu Lalthanhawla
Nagaland	Shri Neiphiu Rio
Orissa	Shri Naveen Patnaik
Puducherry	Shri N. Rangasamy
Punjab	Shri Parkash Singh Badal
Rajasthan	Shri Ashok Gehlot
Sikkim	Shri Pawan Chamling
Tamil Nadu	Sushree J. Jayalalithaa
Tripura	Shri Manik Sarkar
Uttar Pradesh	Kumari Mayawati
Uttarakhand	Shri Ramesh Pokhriyal
West Bengal	Kumari Mamata Banerjee

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National Highways in India

National Highways in India Indian National Highways NH List of National Highways in India List of NH 2010 List of NH 2011 Andra Pradesh Hyderabad Arunachal Pradesh Itangar Assam Dispur Bihar Patna Chhattisgarh Raipur goa Panaji gujarat Gandhinagar Haryana Chandigarh Himachal Pradesh Shimla Jammu and Kashmir Srinagar and Jammu Jharkhand Ranchi Karnataka Bangalore Kerala Thiruvananthapuram Madya Pradesh Bhopal maharashtra Mumbai Manipur Imphal Meghalaya Shillong Mizoram Aizawi Nagaland Kohima Orissa Bhubaneshwar Punjab Chandigarh
Rajasthan Jaipur Sikkim Gangtok Tamil Nadu Chennai Tripura Agartala Uttaranchal Dehradun Uttar Pradesh Lucknow West Bengal Kolkata Union Territories Capital Andaman and Nicobar Islands Port Blair Chandigarh Chandigarh Dadar and Nagar Haveli Silvassa Daman and Diu Daman Delhi Lakshadeep Kavaratti Pondicherry Pondicherry by Highway Number Important National Highways in India Total Number of National Highways in India

Indian National Highways

NH No	Passing Route	Length (in Km)
1	Delhi – Ambala – Ludhiana – Jalandhar – Amritsar – Indo-Pak Border	456
1A	Jalandhar – Madhopur – Jammu – Udhampur – Banihal – Srinagar – Baramulla – Uri	663
1B	Batote – Doda – Kistwar – Symthan pass – Khanbal	274
1C	Domel – Katra	8
1D	Srinagar – Kargil – Leh	422
2	Delhi – Mathura – Agra – Kanpur – Allahabad – Varanasi – Mohania – Barhi – Palsit – Dankuni	1,465
2A	Sikandra – Bhognipur	25
2B	Bardhaman – Bolpur	52
3	Agra – Gwalior – Shivpuri – Indore – Dhule – Nasik – Thane – Mumbai	1,161
4	Junction with NH 3 near Thane – Pune – Belgaum – Hubli – Davangere – Bangalore – Kolar – Chittoor – Ranipet – Chennai	1,235
4A	Belgaum – Anmod – Ponda – Panaji	153
4B	Nhava Sheva – Kalamboli – Palaspe	27
5	Junction with NH 6 near Baharagora – Cuttack – Bhubaneswar – Visakhapatnam – Vijayawada – Guntur – Ongole – Nellore – Gummidipoondi – Chennai	1,533
5A	Junction with NH 5 near Haridaspur – Paradip Port	77
6	Hazira – Surat – Dhule – Akola – Amravati – Nagpur – Raipur – Sambalpur – Baharagora – Kolkata	1,949
7	Varanasi – Mangawan – Rewa – Jabalpur – Lakhnadon – Nagpur – Hyderabad – Kurnool – Bangalore – Hosur – Krishnagiri – Dharmapuri – Salem – Namakkal – Karur – Dindigul – Madurai – Virudunagar – Tirunelveli – Kanyakumari	2,369
7A	Palayamkottai – Tuticorin Port	51
8	Delhi – Jaipur – Ajmer – Udaipur – Ahmedabad – Vadodara – Surat – Mumbai	1,428
8A	Ahmedabad – Limbdi – Morvi – Kandla – Mandvi	473
8B	Bamanbore – Rajkot – Porbunder	206
8C	Chiloda – Gandhinagar – Sarkhej	46
8D	Jetpur – Somnath	127
8E	Somnath – Bhavnagar	220
NEI	Ahmedabad – Vadodara Expressway	93
9	Pune – Solapur – Hyderabad – Vijayawada – Machillipatnam	841
10	Delhi – Fazilka – Indo-Pak Border	403
11	Agra – Jaipur – Bikaner	582
11A	Manoharpur – Dausa – Lalsot – Kothum	145
11B	Lalsot – Karauli – Dholpur	180
12	Jabalpur – Bhopal – Khilchipur – Aklera – Jhalawar – Kota – Bundi – Devli – Tonk – Jaipur	890
12A	Jabalpur – Mandla – Chilpi – Simga near Raipur – Jhansi	333
13	Solapur – Chitradurga – Shimoga – Mangalore	691
14	Beawar – Sirohi – Radhanpur	450
15	Pathankot – Amritsar – Bhatinda – Ganganagar – Bikaner – Jaisalmer – Barmer – Samakhiali	1,526
16	Nizamabad – Mancherial – Bhopalpatnam – Jagdalpur	460
17	Panvel – Mahad – Panaji – Karwar – Udupi – Suratkal – Mangalore – Cannanore – Kozhikode – Ferokh – Pudu – Ponnani – Chavakkad – North Paravur Junction with NH 47 near Edapally at Cochin	1,269
17A	Junction with NH 17 near Cortalim – Murmugao	19
17B	Ponda – Verna – Vasco	40
18	Junction with NH 7 near Kurnool – Nandyal – Cuddapah – Junction with NH 4 near Chittoor	369
18A	Puthalapattu – Tirupati	50
19	Ghazipur – Balia – Patna	240
20	Pathankot – Mandi	220
21	Junction with NH 22 near Chandigarh – Ropar – Bilaspur – Mandi – Kullu – Manali	323
21A	Pinjore – Nalagarh – Swarghat	65
22	Ambala – Kalka – Shimla – Narkanda – Rampur – Indo China Border near Shipkila	459
23	Chas – Bokaro – Ranchi – Rourkela – Talcher – Junction with NH 42	459
24	Delhi – Moradabad – Bareilly – Lucknow	438
24A	Bakshi Ka Talab – Chenhat (NH 28)	17
25	Lucknow – Kanpur – Jhansi – Shivpuri	352
25A	Km – 19 (NH 25) – Bakshi Ka Talab	31
26	Jhansi – Lakhnadon	396
27	Allahabad – Mangawan	93
28	Junction with NH 31 Near Barauni – Muzaffarpur – Pipra – Kothi – Gorakhpur – Lucknow	570
28A	Junction with NH 28 near Pipra – Kothi – Sagauli – Raxaul – Indo-Nepal Border	68
28B	Chhapra – Bettiah – Lauriya – Bagaha – Junction with 28A at Chapwa	121
28C	Barabanki – Bahraich – Nanpara – Indo-Nepal Border	184
29	Gorakhpur – Ghazipur – Varanasi	196
30	Junction with NH 2 near Mohania – Patna – Bakhtiarpur	230
30A	Fatuha – Chandi – Harnaut – Barh	65
31	Junction with NH 2 near Barhi – Bakhtiarpur – Mokameh – Purnea – Dalkhola – Siliguri – Sevok – Cooch Behar- North Salmara – Nalbari – Charali – Amingaon Junction with NH 37	1,125
31A	Sevok – Gangtok	92
31B	North Salmara – Junction with NH 37 near Jogighopa	19
31C	Near Galgalia – Bagdogra – Chalsa – Nagrakata – Goyerkata – Dalgaon – Hasimara – Rajabhat Khawa – Kochgaon – Sidili – Junction with NH 31 near Bijni	235
32	Junction with NH 2 near Gobindpur – Dhanbad – Chas – Jamshedpur	179
33	Junction with NH 2 near Barhi – Ranchi – Jamshedpur Junction with NH 6 near Baharagora	352
34	Junction with NH 31 near Dalkhola – Baharampur – Barasat – Dum Dum	443
35	Barasat – Bangaon – Petrapole on India–Bangladesh border	61
36	Nowgong – Dimapur (Manipur Road)	170
37	Junction with NH 31B near Goalpara – Guwahati – Jorabat – Kamargaon – Makum – Saikhoaghat	680
37A	Kuarital – Junction with NH 52 near Tezpur	23
38	Makum – Ledo – Lekhapani	54
39	Numaligarh – Imphal – Palel – Indo Burma Border	436
40	Jorabat – Shillong – Indo Bangladesh Border near Dawki – Jowai	216
41	Junction with NH 6 near Kolaghat – Tamluk – Haldia Port	51
42	Junction with NH 6 Sambalpur Angul Junction with NH 5 near Cuttack	261
43	Raipur – Jagdalpur – Vizianagaram Junction with NH 5 near Natavalasa	551
44	Shillong – Passi – Badarpur – Agartala – Sabroom	630
44A	Aizawl – Manu	230
45	Chennai – Tambaram – Tindivanam – Villupuram – Trichy – Manapparai – Dindigul- Periyakulam – Theni	387
45A	Villupuram – Pondicherry – Chidambaram – Nagapattinam	190
45B	Trichy – Viralimalai – Melur – Madurai – Tuticorin	257
45C	The highway starting from its junction with NH 67 near Thanjavur – connecting Kumbakonam – Sethiyathope – Vadalur – Neyveli Township – Panruti and terminates near Vikravandi on NH-45	159
46	Krishnagiri – Ranipet	132
47	Salem – Bhavani – Coimbatore – Palghat – Trichur – Cochin – Quilon – Trivandrum – Nagercoil – Kanyakumari	640
47A	Junction with NH 47 at Kundanoor – Willington Island in Cochin	6
47C	Junction with NH 47 at Kalamassery – Vallarpadom ICTT in Cochin	17
48	Bangalore – Hassan – Mangalore	328
49	Cochin – Madurai – Dhanushkodi	440
50	Nasik – Junction with NH 4 near Pune	192
51	Paikan – Tura – Dalu	149
52	Baihata – Charali – Tezpur – Banderdewa – North Lakhimpur – Pasighat – Tezu – Sitapani Junction with NH 37 near Saikhoaghat	850
52A	Banderdewa – Itanagar – Gohpur	57
52B	Kulajan – Dibrugarh	31
53	Junction with NH 44 near Badarpur – Jirighat – Silchar – Imphal	320
54	Dabaka – Lumding – Silchar – Aizwal – Tuipang	850
54A	Theriat – Lunglei	9
54B	Venus Saddle – Saiha	27
55	Siliguri – Darjeeling	77
56	Lucknow – Varanasi	285
56A	Chenhat(NH 28) – Km16(NH 56)	13
56B	Km15(NH 56) – km 6(NH 25	19
57	Muzaffarpur – Darbhanga – Forbesganj – Purnea	310
57A	Junction of NH 57 near Forbesganj – Jogbani	15
58	Delhi – Ghaziabad – Meerut – Haridwar – Badrinath – Mana Pass	538
59	Ahmedabad – Godhra – Dhar – Indore	350
59A	Indore – Betul	264
60	Balasore – Kharagpur — Raniganj – Siuri – Moregram (junction at NH 34 )	446
61	Kohima – Wokha – Mokokchung – Jhanji	240
62	Damra – Baghmara – Dalu	195
63	Ankola – Hubli – Hospet – Gooty	432
64	Chandigarh – Rajpura – Patiala – Sangrur – Bhatinda – Dabwali	256
65	Ambala – Kaithal – Hissar – Fatehpur – Jodhpur – Pali	690
66	Pondy – Tindivanam – Gingee – Thiruvannamalai – Krishnagiri	214
67	Nagapattinam – Tiruchirapalli – Karur – Coimbatore – Mettupalayam – coonoor – Ooty – Gundlupet	555
68	Ulundrupet – Chinnasalem – Kallakkurichchi – Attur – vazhapadi – Salem	134
69	Nagpur – Obedullaganj	350
70	Jalandhar – Hoshiarpur – Hamirpur – Dharmapur – Mandi	170
71	Jalandhar – Moga – Sangrur -Jind- Rohtak – Rewari – Bawal	307
71A	Rohtak – Panipat	72
71B	Rewari – Dharuhera – Taoru – Sohna – Palwal	74
72	Ambala – Nahan – Paonta Sahib – Dehradun – Haridwar	200
72A	Chhutmalpur – Biharigarh – Dehradun	45
73	Roorkee – Saharanpur – Yamuna Nagar – Saha – Panchkula	188
74	Haridwar – Nagina – Kashipur – Kichha – Pilibhit – Bareilly	300
75	Gwalior – Jhansi – Chhatarpur – Rewa – Renukut – Garhwa – Daltonganj – Ranchi	955
76	Pindwara – Udaipur – Mangalwar – Kota – Shivpuri – Jhansi – Banda – Allahabad	1,007
77	Hajipur – Sitamarhi – Sonbarsa	142
78	Katni – Shahdol – Ambikapur – Jashpurnagar – Gumla	559
79	Ajmer – Nasirabad – Neemuch – Mandsaur – Indore	500
79A	Kishangarh(NH 8) – Nasirabad(NH 79)	35
80	Mokameh – Rajmahal – Farrakka	310
81	Kora – Katihar – Malda	100
82	Gaya – Bihar Sharif – Mokameh	130
83	Patna – Jahanabad – Gaya – Bodhgaya – Dhobi	130
84	Arrah – Buxar	60
85	Chhapra – Siwan – Gopalganj	95
86	Kanpur – Chhatarpur – Sagar – Bhopal – Dewas	674
87	Rampur – Pantnagar – Haldwani – Nainital	83
88	Shimla – Bilaspur – Hamirpur – Bhawan – NH 20	115
90	Baran – Aklera	100
91	Ghaziabad – Aligarh – Eta – Kannauj – Kanpur	405
92	Bhongaon – Etawah – Gwalior	171
93	Agra – Aligarh – Babrala – Chandausi – Moradabad	220
94	Hrishikesh – Ampata – Tehri – Dharasu – Kuthanur – Yamunotri	160
95	Kharar(Chandigarh) – Ludhiana – Jagraon – Ferozepur	225
96	Faizabad – Sultanpur – Pratapgarh – Allahabad	160
97	Ghazipur – Zamania – Saiyedraja	45
98	Patna – Aurangabad – Rajhara	207
99	Dobhi – Chatra – Chandwa	110
100	Chatra – Hazaribagh – Bagodar	118
101	Chhapra – Baniapur – Mohammadpur	60
102	Chhapra – Rewaghat – Muzaffarpur	80
103	Hajipur – Mushrigharari	55
104	Chakia – Sitamarhi – Jaynagar – Narahia	160
105	Darbhanga – Aunsi – Jaynagar	66
106	Birpur – Madhepura – Bihpur	130
107	Maheshkhunt – Sonbarsa Raj – Simri-Bakhtiarpur – Bariahi – Saharsa – Madhepura – Purnea	145
108	Dharasu – Uttarkashi – Yamunotri – Gangotri Dham	127
109	Rudraprayag – Guptkashi – Kedarnath Dham	76
110	Junction with NH 98 – Arwal – Jehanabad – Bandhuganj – Kako – Ekangarsarai Bihar Sharif – Junction with NH 31	89
111	Bilaspur – Katghora – Ambikapur on NH 78	200
112	Bar Jaitaran – Bilara – Kaparda – Jodhpur – Kalyanpur- Pachpadra – Baloootra – Tilwara – Bagundi – Dhudhwa – Madhasar – Barmer	343
113	Nimbahera – Bari – Pratapgarh – Zalod – Dahod	240
114	Jodhpur – Balesar – Dachhu – Pokaran	180
116	Tonk – Uniara – Sawai Madhopur	80
117	Haora – Bakkhali	119
119	Pauri – Najibabad – Meerut	260
121	Kashipur – Bubakhal	252
123	Barkot – Vikasnagar	95
125	Sitarganj – Pithorgarh	201
150	Aizwal – Churachandpur – Imphal – Ukhrul – Jessami – Kohima	700
151	Karimganj – Indo-Bangladesh border	14
152	Patacharkuchi – Indo-Bhutan Border	40
153	Ledo – Lekhapani – Indo-Myanmar – Border	60
154	Dhaleswar – Bairabi – Kanpui	180
155	Tuensang – Shamator – Meluri – Kiphire – Pfutsero	342
200	Raipur – Bilaspur – Raigarh – Kanaktora – Jharsuguda – Kochinda – Deoghar – Talcher – Chandikhole	740
201	Borigumma – Bolangir – Bargarh	310
202	Hyderabad – Warangal – Venkatapuram – Bhopalpatnam	280
203	Bhubaneswar – Puri	59
204	Ratnagiri – Kolhapur	126
205	Anantpur – Renigunta – Chennai	442
206	Tumkur – Shimoga – Honnavar	363
207	Hosur – Sarjapur – Devanhalli – Nelamangala	155
208	Kollam – kundara – kottarakkara – Punalur – Thenmala -Aryankavu – Sengottai – Tenkasi – Rajapalayam – Thirumangalam(Madurai)	206
209	Dindigul – Pollachi – Palani – Coimbatore – Annur – Kollegal – Bangalore	456
210	Trichy – Pudukottai – Devakottai – Ramanathapuram	160
211	Solapur – Osmanabad – Aurangabad – Dhule	400
212	Kozhikode – Mysore – Kollegal	250
213	Palghat – Kozhikode	130
214	Kathipudi – Kakinada – Pamarru	270
214A	Digamarru – Narsapur – Machilipatnam – Challapalle – Avanigadda – Repalle – Bapatla – Chirala – Ongole	255
215	Panikoili – Keonjhar – Rajamunda	348
216	Raigarh – Sarangarh – Saraipali	80
217	Raipur – Gopalpur	508
218	Bijapur – Hubli	176
219	Madanapalle – Kuppam – Krishnagiri	150
220	Kollam – Kottarakkara – Adoor – Kottayam – Pampady – Ponkunnam – Kanjirappalli – Mundakayam – Peermade – Vandiperiyar – Kumily – Theni	265
221	Vijaywada – Bhadrachalam – Jagdalpur	329
222	Kalyan – Ahmednagar – Tisgaon – Pathardi – Kharwandi – Balam Yelam – Jategaon – Kambi – Majalgaon – Pathri – Manwat – Parbhani – Nanded – Nirmal	610
223	Port Blair – Baratang – Mayabunder	300
224	Khordha – Nayagarh – Sonapur – Balangir	298
226	Perambalur – Manamadurai	144
227	Trichy – Chidambaram	136
228	Sabarmati Ashram – Nadiad – Anand – Surat – Navsari -Dandi	374
229	Tawang – Pasighat	1,090
230	Madurai – Thondi	82
231	Raibareli – Jaunpur	169
232	Ambedkarnagar (Tanda) – Banda	305
232A	Unnao – Lalganj (Junction of NH-232)	68
233	India-Nepal border – Varanasi	292
234	Mangalore – Belthangady – Belur – Huliyar – Sira – Chintamani – Venkatagirikota – Gudiyatham – Katpadi- Vellore – Thiruvannaamalai – Villuppuram [1]	780
235	Meerut – Hapur – Gulaothi – Bulandshahr	66

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CURRENT AFFAIRS QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

1. India's first "sea bridge" which was officially opened in Mumbai, which is 5.6-kilometre (3.5-mile) long covers from?

Bandra to Worli Sea

It is hoped that the 16.5-billion-rupee (340-million-dollar) eight-lane freeway will help cut the 40-minute journey between the suburbs of Bandra and Worli to just eight minutes and will ease chronic congestion on the city's notoriously choked roads. Sea Link was inaugurated by the ruling Congress party Chief Sonia Gandhi and named after her late husband and former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi.

2. The only known survivor of the crash of the Yemeni airliner clung to wreckage in the Indian Ocean carrying 153 people (142 passengers, 11 crew members)?

Baya Bakari, 13.year old girl

3. The Commission probing the 1992 demolition of Babri Masjid in Ayodhya which submitted its report to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh recently?

Liberhan Commission

4. India's ambassador to China, who is appointed as the next foreign secretary of India ?

Nirupama Rao

5. Former England cricket captain who retired from all forms of professional cricket recently?

Michael Vaughan

6. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has recently invited a musician from India to join its roster of voting members. (i.e. Oscar Academy Membership). Name that musician?

A.R. Rahman

7. Confederations Cup champions who ousted Spain from the first place at FIFA world Football ranking, after one year of leadership?

Brazil

8. Veteran Japanese diplomat who was elected as new director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)?

Yukiya Amano

9. The state of USA which was declared a fiscal emergency recently as the Legislature continued struggling with a budget for the cash-strapped state?

California

10. Air Marshal of Southern Air Command chief, who has been appointed as Honorary Air aide de camp (ADC) to President Pratibha Patel?

S. Radhakrishnan

11. Famous Indian painter whose one painting was auctioned for a record $2 million at Christie’s in June 2008 passed away recently due to a cardiac ailment?

Tyeb Mehta

12. Prime minister of Croatia and leader of the centre-right Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) who resigned recently?

Ivo Sanader

13. Who won the Wimbledon Women's Singles title 2009 after defeating Venus Williams in the final?

Serena Williams

14. Who has taken charge as the new Secretary of the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (MIB) from July 6, 2009.

Raghu Menon

15. Who won the Wimbledon Men's Singles title 2009 after defeating Andy Roddick in the final?

Roger Federer. He becomes the first man to win 15 grand slams, and to regain the world No 1 ranking.

16. Who won Wimbledon Women's doubles title 2009?

Venus Williams and Serena Williams. They beat Samantha Stosur and Rennae Stubbs of Australia

17. Who won Wimbledon men's doubles title 2009?

Daniel Nestor of Canada and Nenad Zimonjic of Serbia won Wimbledon men's doubles title 2009. They beat top-seeded American twins Bob and Mike Bryan in the final.

18. The Organisation of American States (OAS) recently expelled a country in reaction to last week's military coup that ousted its President Manuel Zelaya. Which is that country?

Honduras

19. American court has recently banned publication of a Swedish book promoted as a sequel to JD Salinger's “The Catcher in the Rye”. ? Name that book and its author?

“60 Years Later: Coming through the Rye” written by Fredrik Colting

20. Who became the first woman Prime Minister of Croatia?

Jadranka Kosor

21. The person who served as US defence secretary during the Vietnam War and the Cuban Missile Crisis, has died recently at the age of 93?

Robert McNamara

22. Who won the mixed doubles titles at Wimbledon 2009?

Mark Knowles of the Bahamas and Anna-Lena Groenefeld of Germany.

They beat top-seeded Leander Paes of India and Cara Black of Zimbabwe 7-5, 6-3, in the final.

23. Pakistan Cricket player and one of its cricketing pioneers, who bowled the first delivery and took the first wicket in the country’s inaugural Test match died recently after battling prostate cancer?

Khan Mohammad

24. Who is appointed as Director (Projects) of GAIL India?

Mr R D Goyal

25. French Tennis Player, who was banned by ATP Tour for betting on matches, found dead in stairwell of his Paris apartment ?

Mathieu Montcourt

26. City of Australia which has decided to ban the sale and use of bottled water to act for the preservation of the environment?

Bundanoon

27. Player of Manchester United’s who has joined Real Madrid for $70 million?

Cristiano Ronaldo

28. Versatile Actor who was inducted into the Territorial Army as Honorary Lieutenant Colonel.

Mohanlal

This Malayalam Superstar has won four national awards and the second recent high-profile personality after Kapil Dev to don the Territorial Army uniform.

Lt Col Mohan Lal will be working with the Kerala based 122 Infantry Battalion of the Territorial Army (TA).

29. Name the first pilot from Kerala of the Royal Air Force (Later Indian Air Force) and the First Head Of Training Team of The Indian National Defence Academy who died recently?

Moorkoth Ramunni

30. Fifteen-year-old girl of Toronto who broke the world record in the women's 50-metre breaststroke at the world championships swimming trials?

Amanda Reason

31. Who sets new world record in 100 meter backstroke and first ever to go under 52 sec (51.94 seconds) at the U.S. national championships.

Aaron Peirsol

32. Global fast food Company which has apologized to Hindus for running an advertisement in Spain that showed an Indian goddess Lakshmi about to eat a beef burger?

Burger King

33. Who is elected as president of Indonesia for the second term?

Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono

34. Former Australian coach John Buchanan has criticized some of the present and former Indian cricket stars like Sourav Ganguly, Yuvraj Singh, Sunil Gavaskar, Sachin Tendulkar and Harbhajan Singh in his recently-published book. Name of that book.

"The Future of Cricket: The Rise of Twenty20."

35. The Cricket Team which have boycotted the series against Bangladesh because of an outstanding contractual dispute with its Cricket board?

West Indies Cricket Team

36. Who will remain captain of the German national team for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa?

Michael Ballack

37. Who sets new world record in 100 meter butterfly at the U.S. national championships in 50.22 seconds, lowering Ian Crocker's mark of 50.40 set at the 2005 world championships in Montreal?

Michael Phelps

38. Which country finished at the first position at the 5th South Asian Shooting Championship bagging 21 gold medals out of 24 gold medals?

India

39. Player turned coach who has been named the India under-16 football coach for the Asian qualifiers to be held in Abu Dhabi in October 2009.

C.M. Ranjith

40. The world's most famous bell ringing out the hours on the world's most famous clock, celebrated its 150th anniversary on July 11, 2009 in London?

Big Ben

41. The former boxing champion and one of the most amazing boxer of his generation, who has been found dead in a Brazilian hotel room recently?

Arturo Gatti

42. Who sets new world record in 200 meter backstroke at the U.S. national championships?

Aaron Peirsol

43. Indian Squash player who won the third WISPA title of her career when she defeated home favourite Low Wee Wern in the final of the $ 16,000 NSC series event on Saturday in Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia

Joshna Chinappa

44. Who wins Newport Hall of Fame Tennis championships ATP Title?

Rajeev Ram

45. Renowned Marathi actor to win Maharashtra government's best actor award consecutively for three years, died recently in Pune after prolonged illness?

Neelu Phule

46. A distinguished conductor and his wife have recently died at the Dignitas suicide clinic in Switzerland. He was conductor emeritus of the BBC Philharmonic among many other great achievements, and Lady Downes, 74, was a former ballet dancer and choreographer. Who are they?

Sir Edward Downes and Joan

47. Second cricket test between Srilanka and Pakistan at Colombo won by?

Srilanka

Man of the match: Fawad Alam

Sri Lanka won the first test match on the last day of the match.

48. Former prime minister of Poland and European Parliament member since 2004, who has been elected president of the European Parliament?

Jerzy Buzek

49. Who is appointed as the new defence secretary of India?

Pradeep Kumar

50. First test between West Indies and Bangladesh held in July is won by?

Bangladesh

51. Indian Scientist and National Research Professor at the Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research who has been nominated for the prestigious Royal Medal by the Royal Society, London.

Prof. C.N.R. Rao,

52. England all-rounder who decided to retire from test cricket after the ashes series against Australia?

Andrew Flintoff

53. Who has become the first Indian batsman in over four years to head the batting rankings in test matches by ICC?

Gautam Gambhir

54. Canadian comedian of Indian parents, came from Kolkatta, who has been ranked among the Top 10 Earning Comedians in the world by Forbes?

Russell Peters

55. Carnatic music exponent and film playback singer in many Indian languages, popularly referred as one of the “female trinity of Carnatic music” who passed away at the age of 90?

Damal Krishnaswamy Pattammal (D.K.Pattammal)

56. Chairman of the Iranian Atomic Energy Organization who resigned from his post?

Gholam Reza Aghazadeh

57. The space shuttle of NASA descended safely to Earth, ending a successful 16-day assembly mission to the international space station ?

Endeavour

58. Summit of the Non-Allied Movement in 2012 will take place in?

Iran.

59. Former India cricket captain who has been awarded an Honorary Fellowship by the University of Lancashire.

Sourav Ganguly

60. Name the club of Argentina which won the Libertadores Cup beating Brazil's Cruzeiro by two goals to one?

Estudiantes

61. The Middlesex University in Hendon, London, has conferred an Indian music director with an honorary doctorate. Who is he?

A.R.Rahman

62. Name the 112th element which has been officially added to the Periodic Table, earlier named as Ununbium?

Copernicium.

The element with symbol "Cp" is named in honor of astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus. This name is expected to be officially endorsed by IUPAC in January 2010, after six months for discussion.

63. Lt Governor of the Union Territory of Puducherry?

Iqbal Singh

64. New Governors of States of India

Uttar Pradesh-B.L. Joshi

Gujarat-Devendra Nath Dwivedi

Assam-Jharkhand Syed Sibtey Razi

Jharkhand-K Sankaranarayanan

Uttrakhand- Margaret Alva

Hariyana-Jagannath Pahadia

65. “The most trusted man in America," who was the pioneering television news anchor died recently at the age of 92?

Walter Cronkite

66. First World War veteran who became the world's oldest man last month died at the age of 113.

Henry Allingham

67. Srilankan bowler who retired from test cricket after the test match against Pakistan?

Chaminda Vas

68. Womens hockey champions trophy won by?

Argentina. They beat Australia (4-3) in the final

69. India agreed to enter into an understanding on end-use monitoring agreement recently with a country that will pave the way for greater defence cooperation. Which country?

United States of America

70. Second test of Ashes held at Lord’s won by?

England. This is for the first time in 75 years that England has won the Ashes at Lord's. They beat Australia by 115 runs in the second Test

Man of the Match: Andrew Flintoff (five wickets for 92 runs)

71. The solar eclipse witnessed on the month of July 2009 was the longest total solar eclipse during the 21st century, not to be surpassed until June 2132. It lasted a maximum of 6 minutes and 39 seconds off the coast of Southeast Asia, causing tourist interest in eastern China, Japan, India and Nepal. Which day it witnessed?

July 22, 2009

72. The second Indian archer to win a Youth World Championship title after bagging gold in the girls' Cadet Recurve category in the 11th edition of the tournament at Ogden (Utah), USA?

Deepika Kumari

73. The Airlines apologized for frisking former Indian President Abdul Kalam at the Indira Gandhi International Airport when he was going on a visit to the US this April?

Continental Airlines of U.S.A

74. Hindustani music legend who mesmerized audiences with her melodious voice for over six decades, died recently?

Gangubai Hangal

75. Test Cricket Series between West Indies and Bangladesh won by ?

Bangladesh.(2-0)

Man of the Match: Shakib Al Hasan

76. Who was awarded the Mahatma Gandhi International Award for Reconciliation and Peace?

Aung San Suu Kyi, the Myanmarese pro-democracy activist and leader,

77. Who becomes the first ever black Miss England?

Rachel Christie

78. Former Peruvian president who was sentenced to seven and a half years in prison on corruption charges.

Alberto Fujimori

79. Who is named as new LTTE chief?

Selvarasa Pathmanathan

80. Who became the youngest player (12 years old) ever to play in professional football when he came on as a substitute for Aurora in a Bolivian Clausura championship match?

Mauricio Baldivieso

81. Who becomes the highest ever Australian run scorer in first class cricket surpassing the record of the legendary Sir Donald Bradman?

Justin Langer

82. Two piano works recently have been identified as the creation of a legendary musician which has long been in the possession of the International Mozarteum Foundation in the Austrian city of Salzburg. Name that musician?

Mozart (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.)

83. Newly elected President of Kyrgyzstan?

Kurmanbek Bakiyevi

84. Which country has won the team tech gold medal in synchronized swimming at the world championships?

Russia.

Russia has won both gold medals in synchro at the last three Olympics.

85. Test Cricket series between Srilanka and Pakistan held is won by?

Sri Lanka won the series by 2-0.

Man of the series:Nuvan Kulasekhara

Man of the match of third test: Kumar Sangakkara. Third Test ended in a draw.

86. Who received the Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development for 2007?

Bill Gates, on behalf of “Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation” for their exemplary philanthropic work across the world and in India especially in the area of health.

87. One of the world's largest optical telescopes, installed on a mountain in the Canary Islands, which is extremely powerful and will be able to spot some of the faintest, most distant objects in the Universe?

Great Canary Telescope

With a main mirror 10.4 metre across, it will effectively be the largest telescope for visible and infrared light in the world.

88. India’s first nuclear powered ballistic missile submarine at the naval dockyard, Visakhapatnam which is launched by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his wife Gursharan Kaur on July 26,2009?

INS Arihant

89. Eminent music director and sitarist composed the musical scores for about 40 films in Hindi, Marathi, and Malayalam who blended Indian classical and Western music in his work, was a disciple of Pandit Ravi Shankar died at the age of 73?

Bhaskar Chandavarkar

90. Who won ITF Lexington Challenger Tennis title?

Sania Mirza

91. Which country won CONCACAF Gold Cup Football title beating U.S.A (5-0) in the final?

Mexico

92. Who has been awarded the 2009 Amnesty International Ambassador of Conscience award?

Aung San Suu Kyi

93. Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister who resigned after a senior PDP leader alleged in the state assembly that he was involved in the 2006 sex scandal, a charge dismissed by him as false?

Omar Abdullah

94. Who win gold in the women's 200 metres individual medley at the World Championships?

Ariana Kukors(U.S.A)

95. Who won women's 100 metres butterfly final at the world swimming championships?

Sarah Sjostrom(Sweden)

96. Veteran Malayalam actor, who won critical acclaim for the ease with which he portrayed villainous roles in Malayalam and Tamil cinema died at the age of 55?

Rajan P.Dev

97. Charismatic Jaipur royal, a three-time MP and who was once named as ”World’’s Ten Most Beautiful Women” by ”Vogue” magazine, died here today following a prolonged illness.?

Rajmata Gayatri Devi

98. Sports Awards 2009:

Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna:

M.C. Marykom (boxer),

Vijender Kumar (boxer)

Sushil Kumar (wrestling)

Arjuna Award:

Mangal Singh Champia (archery), Sinimol Paulose (athletics), Saina Nehwal (badminton), L. Saritha Devi (boxing), Tania Sachdeva (chess), Gautam Gambhir (cricket), Ignatius Tirkey (hockey), Surinder Kaur (hockey), Pankaj Shirsat (kabaddi), B. Prabhu (physically challenged), Satish Joshi (rowing), Ranjan Sodhi (shooting), Poulami Ghatak (table tennis), Yogeshwar Dutt (wrestling), G.L. Yadav (yatching)

Dronacharya Award:

Baldev Singh (hockey), Jaidev Bisht (boxing), Satpal (wrestling), Pullela Gopichand (badminton) and Udaikumar (kabaddi).

99. One day cricket series between West Indies and Bangladesh won by ?

Bangladesh (2-0)

100. Who won gold in the 200- meter freestyle final at the world swimming championships in Rome?

Paul Biedermann

He won in a world record time of 1 minute, 42 seconds, ahead of previous record-holder Michael Phelps

101. Who is appointed as the captain of 20-20 Team of Pakistan?

Shahid Afridi

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