General Awareness Questions

Punch-card ballots voting method was discontinued as a result of the Help America Vote Act because of some issues in the counting process by the tabulating machines.

The plan to set up an innovation council called ”Kayakalp” for business re-engineering and introducing a spirit of innovation in the Indian Railways.

Masala bonds are bonds issued outside India but denominated in Indian Rupees, rather than the local currency. Kerala Infrastructure Investment Fund Board have listed 21.5 billion rupees ($305 million) of Masala bonds on the London Stock Exchange.

The regional meeting of World Customs Organisation is host in Jaipur.

India’s biggest water carnival through ‘Jal Mahotsav’ is organized every year in Hanuwantiya Island in Madhya Pradesh. The festival is a celebration of the natural beauty and the culture od Madhya Pradesh.

The Summit at Sanya will mark the admission of South Africa to the group, which will extend the geographic representation of the mechanism in a moment when the financial system reform is sought worldwide, as well as agreater democratization of global governance in general.On 14 April 2011, 3rd BRICS (Brazil, Russia, China and South Africa) Summit is to be held in the Chinese city of Sanya, alongside the President of China, Hu Jintao, the President of Russia, Dmitri Medvedev, the Prime Minister of India, Manmohan Singh, and the President of South Africa, Jacob Zuma. The previous Summits were held in Yekaterinburg (June 2009) and Brasília (April 2010)