Name the inspector-general of police (IGP) from Andhra Pradesh who participated in the Mumbai Marathon in honour of the late Ashok Kamte and Vinod Gadge.
Name the inspector-general of police (IGP) from Andhra Pradesh who participated in the Mumbai Marathon in honour of the late Ashok Kamte and Vinod Gadge.
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1. Name the alleged Naxalite leader who was arrested in Mumbai last week by the anti-terrorism squad (ATS).
Surya D Prabhakar
Shankar P Jadhav
Kishen M Singh
More information: Surya D Prabhakar, a state committee member of the banned CPI (Maoist), was wanted in several cases of violence in Naxal-hit areas of Maharashtra. He was a policy maker in the state Naxal committee and actively involved in various Maoist activities.
2. Name the US defence secretary who praised India's restraint and statesmanship following the 26/11 attack on Mumbai and remarked at how both India and Pakistan have kept tensions at a ‘manageable level’.
Mark Stanford Robert Gates
James Kelly
More information: Former CIA director Robert Gates was officially sworn in as US secretary of defence in 2006, replacing Donald Rumsfeld, by the Republican administration of president George W Bush. He was retained as defence secretary by the Democratic administration of president Barack Obama.
3. Name the inspector-general of police (IGP) from Andhra Pradesh who participated in the Mumbai Marathon in honour of the late Ashok Kamte and Vinod Gadge.
Rajiv Trivedi
Sumeet Rao
Prabhakar Reddy
More information: Rajiv Trivedi, currently posted as additional director of the Andhra Pradesh Police Academy in the rank of senior IGP, was commander of a contingent of Indian police officers which served in the UN mission in Bosnia-Herzegovina in 1999-2000. Kamte was part of the mission.
4. Name the high-profile former foreign secretary who was appointed on January 21, 2010, as India's new national security adviser (NSA).
MK Narayanan Shivshankar Menon
KV Joshi
More information: Shivshankar Menon, a 1972 batch Indian Foreign Service officer, had served in China, Israel, Austria, Japan, and Sri Lanka and was an adviser in the Department of Atomic Energy during the course of his diplomatic career.
5. Name the Malaysian prime minister who is on a visit to India.
Najib Tun Abdul Razak
Nooryana Najwa Abdul
Zainuri Mohamad Idrus
More information: Najib bin Tun Haji Abdul Razak is the sixth and current prime minister of Malaysia. Najib is president of the United Malays National Organisation (UMNO) and son of Malaysia's second prime minister, Tun Abdul Razak.
6. Name the president of Nepal who decorated Indian Army chief General Deepak Kapoor with the honorary rank of General of the Nepal Army on January 21, 2010, signifying the close relationship between the two forces.
Chandra Mohan Yadav
Mohan Shekhar Yadav Ram Baran Yadav
More information: Ram Baran Yadav was elected Nepal's first president in July 2008. He previously served as minister of health and as general secretary of the Nepali Congress party.
7. Name the World Bank president who said Haiti can't be reconstructed by outsiders, so donors are going to have to work hand-in-hand with the Haitian government and people.
Robert Zoellick
Paul Wolfowitz
William Cohen
More information: Robert Bruce Zoellick is the eleventh president of the World Bank, a position he has held since July 1, 2007. He was previously a managing director of Goldman Sachs, US deputy secretary of state (resigning on July 7, 2006) and US trade representative from February 7, 2001, to February 22, 2005.
8. Name the daughter of Cuba's president Raul Castro, who accused the ruling Communist Party on January 20, 2010, of discriminating against homosexuals in the country.
Jane Castro
Kelly Castro Mariela Castro
More information: Mariela Castro Espin is director of the Cuban National Centre for Sex Education in Havana and an activist for homosexual rights. She is the daughter of president Raul Castro and Vilma Espín, and niece of former president Fidel Castro.
9. Who was sworn as the new governor of Punjab?
Mukul Moudgil Shivraj Patil
Prabha Rau
More information: Born in 1935 in Chakur village of Maharashtra's Latur district, Patil, a former Union home minister and former speaker of the Lok Sabha (1984-89), is a science graduate from Osmania University. He studied law at Bombay University.
10. What is the full name of Prince Michael of Kent, Queen Elizabeth II's first cousin who pledged a donation of $100,000 to rebuild part of Nariman House, one of the terror sites in the November 26 attack, during his visit to the building in South Mumbai on January 20, 2010?
Michael George Charles Franklin
Michael John Charles Edward
Michael James Charles Frederick
More information: Prince Michael of Kent (Michael George Charles Franklin; born July 4, 1942) is a member of the British royal family and a grandson of King George V and Queen Mary. He is a cousin of Queen Elizabeth II, but he does not officially carry out royal duties on her behalf.
| Edited By: |Source: DNA |Updated: Jan 25, 2010, 10:09 PM IST
