Topics to be covered from Hindu Paper dated on Wednesday December 5^th    

Topic	Page No.
Samajwadi walkout may bail out UPA government on FDI	1
India suspended from Olympics	1
No excuses for this error of judgement	10
‘More FDI in insurance will undermine economic security’	11
Dream run hits the hurdles	11
Ministries seek ‘declared good’ status for ATF	16
Supersvisory college for SBI, ICICI Bank set up	16
Naresh Fernandes wins Shakti Bhatt Prize	20

Today current affairs

Having nearly 275 million tobacco users, India ranks --- globally and very close to China	Second
--- (country) granted asylum to Wiki Leaks founder Julian Assange.	Ecaudor
The Union Cabinet cleared a Bill which seeks to give IIITs administrative autonomy and enables setting up of 20 more such institutes in the country Expand IIIT,	Indian Institutes of Information Technology
India’s space odyssey crossed a historic landmark when a ---- put two foreign satellites in orbit in the Indian Space Research Institutions 100th mission	PSLV-C21
The Centre informed the supreme court that it had not accepted ---- of the 81 recommendations of the Ashok Chawla Committee that natural resources be auctioned	6.9
Recently terriorists breached Pakistan Air Force’s Minhaa Base in ----	Kamra
The expert group has been set up under the championship of --- to review the methodology of meausirng poverty and look into the criteria of pagging the poverty line	C Rangarajan
---- joined the World Trade Origanization after 18 years of negotiation	Russia
The Supreme Court appointed ---- (name) amicus curiae in the Padmanabha swami temple case to render assistance and to represent the expert committee going into the security, inventory and other aspects related to the temple	Gobal Subramaniam
--- won the Castrol Indian cricketer of the year award for 2011	M S Dhoni
Union Railway Minister Mukul Roy recently flagged of double – decker air-conditioned train to --- from Sarai Rohilla station in New Delhi	Jaipur
A working group headed by -- will  asses the WGEEP report and submit and action plan for its “effective implementation” to the MoEF.	K.Kasturi Rangan
Extending its August 31 deadline, the Supreme Court directed the centre to complete fresh auction of the cancelled 122  2Gspectrum licence by Jan --	2013

Disgraced Pakistani Nuclear scientist AQ Khan floated a political forum named	Tehrik – E – Tahaffuz Pakistan
The union cabinet approved a proposal for amending the child labour (prohibition and regulation) Act, 1986, to band employment of children aged upto – in any form of Industry	14
India offered Bangladesh a stake in the Rs. 15,000 crore tipaimukh hydroelectric project on the --- river in the Manipur	Barak
--- abolished direct censorship of the media in the most dramatic move yet toward allowing freedom of expression in the long – a repressed nation	Myanmar
The union cabinet approved an amendment to the constitution to provide special status to bidar, Gulbarga, Yadgir, --, Raichur and – districts in the Hyderabad  Karnataka region	Koppal Bellary
Morethan 1.4 lakh companies in India are lying dormant, with – (state) accounting for the largest number of such entities	Maharashtra
The World Bank approved a dollar – million credit, representing the first part of a to – phase loan to support India’s efforts to improve the nutrional out come for children under six, with particular focus on 0-3-year –olds.	106
India will construct a four – lane bridge on the river – in Tripua’s South district to connect Chittagong division of Bangladesh to boost bilateral trade between the two countries	Feni
The expert committee on GAAR headed by – advocated postponement of the controversial tax provision by three years till 2016 -17	Parthasarathi Scheme
--- won the silver medal in the high jump at the Paralympic Games in London,	Girisha
The Ambassador of the United States to Libya --- killed during an armed mob attack in Benghazi on the 11th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks	Christepher Stevens
With almost 19,000 children under five years of age dying every day across the world. India tope the last of countries with the highest number of --- lakh such deaths in 2011, according to a UN agency	16.55
---- replaced England as the world’s number one Test side	South Africa
The 56th Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference was held in	Colombo

Questions

1. Consider the following statement(s):-
1. The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare's tobacco control campaign has launched music video 'Life Se Panga mat Le Yaar'.
2. The Government of India launched the National Tobacco Control Programme (NTCP) 2007-08,to implement the tobacco control laws and create awareness on the harmful effects of tobacco.
3. Evidence suggests that 40% of all TB deaths are directly attributable to tobacco use.
Which of the above statement is/are correct:-
(a) 1 only
(b) 2 and 3 
(c) 1, 2, 3(d) 3 only

2. Consider the following statement(s):-
1. Assam is going to be the first state in the country to conduct Gross State Happiness Index survey.
2. Supported by the United Nations Development Programme,the survey will be based on bhutan gross national happiness.
3. The happiness index will be measured on the aspects of living standard, health, education, culture etc.
Which of the above statement is/are incorrect:-
(a) 1 only
(b) 2 and 3 
(c) 1, 2, 3
(d) None of these
3. Consider the following statement(s):-
1. The International Advisory Panel (IAP) is of the view that National Rural Health Mission has made progress in its journey of providing accessible, equitable and affordable health care ever since its launch in 2003.
2. There is a three point decline in the IMR both in 2009 & 2010 and the decline in rural IMR is greater than the decline in Urban IMR.
3. Extensive focus on child care through implementation of the ASHAs; incentives for ASHAs for delivering such care in the rural areas; launch of Janani Shishu Suraksha Karyakaram (JSSK), in June, 2011 with initiatives stipulating free drugs, free diet, free diagnostics, and, if required, free blood, besides free transport from home to institution.
Which of the above statement is/are correct:-
(a) 1 only
(b) 2 and 3 (c) 1, 2, 3
(d) 3 only

4. Consider the following statement(s):-
1. Artificial heart 'Heartmade II', considered a boon for those suffering from heart ailments will soon be going to be launch in Southeast Asia.
2. It will be demonstrated at the 58th annual meeting of the Indian Association of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgeons to be organised in kolkata.
3. Artificial hearts are typically used to bridge the time to heart transplantation, or to permanently replace the heart in case other heart transplantation is impossible.
4. The first artificial heart to be successfully implanted in a human, was the Jarvik-7, designed by Paul Winchell and also attributed to Robert Jarvik and implemented in 1982.
Which of the above statement is/are correct:-
(a) 1 only
(b) 2 and 3 
(c) 1, 2, 3 and 4(d) 3 only

5. Consider the following statement(s):-
1. India and France stressed on the need to build on the existing good bilateral cooperation in the area of Science and Technology (S & T).
2. India stated that cooperation in new areas where France has expertise like geological mapping, water resource management, sub soil management, health, bio technology, nano material, Information Communication Technology, cloud computing and supercomputing can be explored, and thus there is need for commercializing technology and translating research into the well-being of the society.
3. France too stressed on the need to develop cooperation in higher education and scientific research.
Which of the above statement is/are correct:-
(a) 1 only
(b) 2 and 3 
(c) 1, 2 and 3(d) 3 only