Daily general awarenss update 19 March 2015

Daily general awareness update 19 March 2015


EVM’s to carry photo card:EC
Election Commission has announced that Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) and ballot papers will carry photographs of candidates from 1 May 2015.
This move of EC seeks to avoid voters being misled by several namesakes in the election fray. In this regard EC has issued an order to all political parties and State Chief Electoral Officers for implementation.

English quiz: Set-102 (Assistant Level)

English Quiz:

Directions (Q. 1-10): In the passage below, there are blanks, each of which has been numbered. Below the passage these numbers are printed and against each, five words are suggested, one of which fits in the blank appropriately in the context of the whole passage. Find out the appropriate words.
Summer in Delhi usually means much (1) and many (2) throats, (3) to long hours of power cuts and (4) shortage of water supply. The condition annually is also (5) by a lot of sand (6)from the Thar desert by hot winds across Rajasthan and Haryana. While every Delhiwala has learnt to (7) with all this, some who have to cross the

Reasoning Quiz Set-102 (Syllogism and Inequalities)

Reasoning Quiz: Set 102

Directions (1-5): In each of the questions below are given two statements followed by three conclusions numbered I, II and III. You have to take the given statements to be true even if they seem to be at variance with commonly known facts. Read all the conclusions and then decide which of the given conclusions logically follows from the given Statements disregarding commonly known facts.

1. Statements:

English Quiz (Cloze test and Error correction)

English Quiz:

Directions (1-10): In the following passage, there are blanks each of which has been numbered, one of which fits the blank appropriately. Find out the appropriate word in each case.
A Kolkata-based company recently said it's (1) to repay a loan of around Rs. 2000 crore to a consortium of public sector banks, claiming it (2) a loss of around Rs. 1000 crore because its vendors took it for a (3) . The banks promptly (4) a corporate investigator to get to the bottom of the matter and it (5) out to be a (6) of fraud. "The forensics report clearly (7) that the vendors were all the owner's relatives and the money was (8) off. This was a clear case of fraud," said one of the bankers on condition of (9) . Indian banks are increasingly hiring consultancies to do corporate investigations and forensic audit of their non-performing loans, after a (10) on their wrist by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) and the Ministry of Finance (MoF).

Quantitative Aptitude Data Sufficiency and Data Analysis

Quantitative Aptitude Data Sufficiency and Data Analysis

 Directions (1-4): Each of the questions below consists of a question of and two statements I and II. You have to decide whether the data provided in the statements are sufficient to answer the question and based on this give answer
1) if the data in statement I alone are sufficient to answer the question, while the data in statement II alone are not sufficient.
2) if the data in statement II alone are sufficient to answer the question, while the data in statement I alone are not sufficient.

General awareness revision Set 101

General Awareness Revision Set 101:

1. Who among the following has been chosen for Vikram Sarabhai Memorial Award for 2014-15 as announced by the Indian Science Congress Association (ISCA)?
1) Subbiah Arunan
2) Mylswamy Annadurai
3) G Madhavan Nai
4) MYS Prasad
5) Roddam Narasimha