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Name the senior IPS officer who deposed before the special Ayodhya court as a prosecution witness against BJP leader LK Advani and others in the 1992 Babri Masjid demolition case.

Name the senior IPS officer who deposed before the special Ayodhya court as a prosecution witness against BJP leader LK Advani and others in the 1992 Babri Masjid demolition case.

Name the senior IPS officer who deposed before the special Ayodhya court as a prosecution witness against BJP leader LK Advani and others in the 1992 Babri Masjid demolition case.
1. Name the president of the All-India Mahila Congress who submitted a memorandum to Congress chief Sonia Gandhi seeking the introduction of a new bill for 33% reservation for women in central government jobs after the women's reservation bill was passed in the Rajya Sabha.
Shobha Singh
Malini Iyer
Prabha Thakur
 
Prabha Thakur is president of the all-India Mahila Congress. She is also a member of Parliament representing Rajasthan in the Rajya Sabha. She is a renowned Hindi poetess and social worker.
2. Name the head of the special investigation team (SIT) appointed by the Supreme Court to probe the 2002 Gujarat riots, who asked chief minister Narendra Modi to appear before the panel for questioning.
RK Raghavan
MK Narayanan
SV Patil
 
RK Raghavan is the head of the special investigation Team (SIT) constituted by the Supreme Court to investigate the Gujarat riots of 2002. He is a former director of the Central Bureau of Investigation (1999-2001).
3. Name the senior IPS officer who deposed before the special Ayodhya court as a prosecution witness against BJP leader LK Advani and others in the 1992 Babri Masjid demolition case.
Sumita Mishra
Anju Gupta
Manju Sen
 
Anju Gupta, a 1990 batch IPS officer, is currently posted in the Research and Analysis Wing in Delhi; she was the ninth witness to depose before the special court in connection with Babri mosque demolition case. Gupta, who was posted as LK Advani's personal security officer at the time in Ayodhya, had already deposed before the CBI, which investigated the offence.
4. Name the Belgian prince who was in India on an official visit on the invitation of vice-president Hamid Ansari.
Prince Philippe
Prince Gabriel
Prince Emmanuel
 
Belgium's Prince Philippe was in India to strengthen bilateral trade ties with the country. He arrived in New Delhi on March 20, 2010 along with Princess Mathilde and deputy prime minister and foreign minister Steven Vanackere. He met president Pratibha Patil and vice-president Hamid Ansari. He was heading a 340-strong economic mission from Belgium to India.
5. Former Madhya Pradesh chief minister Uma Bharti resigned on March 25 from the very party she had founded in 2006. Name the party.
Bharatiya Samaj Party
Bharatiya Janshakti Party
Bharatiya Lokshakti Party
 
Uma Bharti has resigned from the Bharatiya Janshakti Party, the political outfit that she founded after being expelled from the Bharatiya Janata Party. Uma Bharti was expelled from the BJP in 2005 after she protested against the appointment of Shivraj Singh Chouhan as the chief minister of Madhya Pradesh.
6. Name the school education minister of Maharashtra who told the state legislative assembly on March 22, 2010, that online evaluation of schools will be conducted from the next academic year.
Mahesh Jadhav
Rajesh Tope
Balasaheb Thorat
 
A software for online evaluation of schools is being prepared in Maharashtra. The software consists of a form where schools will have to fill in their details and based on which the gradation will be done.
7. Name the last king of Nepal who, almost two years after he was dethroned, said on March 25, 2010, that the country's centuries-old Hindu monarchy may be "some day revived".
Bhupendra
Gyanendra
Birendra
 
Gyanendra was the last king of Nepal. He came to the throne in 2001 after a palace massacre in which his elder brother, Birendra, and his entire family was killed by the drunk crown price, Dipendra, who then shot himself.
8. Name the US ambassador to the United Kingdom who drove four hours to Manchester to ensure that a zealous American airline security did not body-scan Pakistan's foreign minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi ahead of his arrival in Britain.
Louis B Susman
Andrew N Stevenson
Edward J Phelps
 
Louis B Susman is an American businessman and lawyer and the current ambassador to the United Kingdom. Selected by president Barack Obama, he was confirmed in the job by the United States senate on July 10, 2009.
9. Name the first turbaned Sikh in over two decades to complete basic training by graduating from the army officer course in the US.
Captain Baljeet Singh Rana
Captain Tejdeep Singh Rattan
Captain Manpreet Singh Goel
 
Captain Rattan was recruited and commissioned by the US Army as part of the health professionals scholarship programme. After completing his final year of dental school, he joined the US Army officer basic course.
10. Name the former prime minister of France who announced the creation of a new centre-right party to challenge bitter rival and current president Nicolas Sarkozy in the elections due in 2012.
Dominique de Villepin
Jean-Bertrand Aristide
Noël Forgeard
 
Dominique de Villepin, author of numerous works on Napoleon, served as prime minister under former president Jacques Chirac from May 31, 2005, to May 17, 2007. He had a tense relationship with the blunt and ambitious Sarkozy, who served as his interior minister.

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