Andhra Bank Recruitment 2012 – Apply Online for 850 Clerk Vacancies

Andhra Bank Recruitment 2012 – Apply Online for 850 Clerk Vacancies:

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Andhra Bank is a leading public sector bank invites applications for the Clerical Cadre posts, from Indian citizens who have taken the Common Written Examination for Clerical cadre conducted by IBPS in 2011-12 and have a valid Score card issued by IBPS.

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Vacancy Details:  

Name of the Post: Clerical Cadre_850Posts

Age Limit: Candidate age must be between 18 to 28 years as on 01-08-2011.

Educational Qualification: Candidates must possess Graduation or a pass in 10+2 examination in First Class or with aggregate of 60%.

Application Fee Details: General/OBC candidates need to pay Rs. 150/- and Rs. 50/- for SC/ST/Persons with Disability (PWD)/EXSM candidates.

How to Apply: Candidates are required to apply online through website www.andhrabank.in on or before 10-11-2012.

Important Dates:
Dates for Payment of Application Fee: 27-10-2012 to 10-11-2012
Opening Date for Online Registration: 27-10-2012 to 10-11-2012

General Awereness Practice Question For All Exams

1. Who was sworn in as the 39th Chief Justice of India on September 29, 2012?
1) Justice K.S. Radhakrishnan
2) Justice J.S. Khehar
3) Justice Altamas Kabir
4) Justice D. Murugesan
5) Justice M.Y. Eqbal

2. The Supreme Court directed which of the following companies/groups to refund over Rs. 24,400 crore collected from 2.21 crore depositors through the optimally fully convertible debentures (OFCDs) by way of bonds?
1) Reliance
2) Murugappa
3) Sahar
4) Kingfisher
5) Essar

3. K.R. Kamath took charge on October 1, 2012 as the Chairman of Indian Banks' Association (IBA). He is the Chairman and Managing Director (CMD) of which of the following public sector banks?
1) Bank of India
2) Indian Bank
3) Corporation Bank
4) Punjab National Bank
5) United Bank of India

4. At the 2012 US Open tennis championships Andy Murray became the first British man since Fred Perry in 1936 to win a Grand Slam singles tournament when he defeated which of the following players in the final?
1) Marin Cilic (Croatia)
2) David Ferrer (Spain)
3) Tomas Berdych (Czech Republic)
4) Novak Djokovic (Serbia)
5) Roger Federer (Switzerland)

5. Which of the following statements about the ICC Awards is not true?
1) The 2012 ICC Awards function was held on September 15, 2012 in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
2) Kumar Sangakkara of Sri Lanka has won three awards- Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy for Cricketer of the Year, Test Cricketer of the Year and LG People's Choice Award.
3) ICC Emerging Cricketer of the Year is Sunil Narine of West Indies.
4) ICC Twenty20 International Performance of the Year award was won by Richard Levi of South Africa.
5) Jacques Kallis of South Africa received the Spirit of Cricket Award.

6. Who won the US Open women's singles title in September 2012?
1) Sara Errani (Italy)
2) Marion Bartoli (France)
3) Serena Williams (USA)
4) Victoria Azarenka (Belarus)
5) Maria Sharapova (Russia)

7. The 62nd meeting of Nobel Laureates was held in Lindau from July 1 to 6, 2012 that was dedicated to Physics. Lindau is located in which of the following European countries?
1) Italy
2) Portugal
3) Spain
4) Germany
5) France

8. Eight Indian companies are in the list of world's 500 largest companies compiled by Fortune magazine in July 2012. Which is the only bank in that list?
1) PNB
2) HDFC Bank
3) ICICI Bank
4) IOB
5) SBI

9. Which company topped the Fortune magazine's list of top 500 companies globally for the year 2012?
1) Royal Dutch Shell
2) Exxon Mobil
3) Wal-Mart
4) BP
5) Sinopec

10. Who was appointed the new Chairman of the High Level Committee on Financing Infras-tructure in July 2012?
1) R. Gopalan
2) Deepak Parekh
3) Yogesh Agarwal
4) J. Harinarayan
5) G.V. Sanjay Reddy



11. The Government has set up a co-mmittee to recommend the fram-ework for cloud computing services under the Chairmanship of?
1) Kapil Sibal
2) Gulshan Rai
3) S. Gopalakrishnan
4) Shiv Nadar
5) None of these

12. Who was crowned the winner of the Asia Youth Under-19 Badminton Championship in South Korea in July 2012?
1) Saina Nehwal
2) P.V.Sindhu
3) Jwala Gutta
4) Ashwini Ponappa
5) None of these

13. Identify the mismatched pair of the Ministers and their portfolios?
1) P.Chidambaram- Finance
2) Sushil Kumar Shinde- Home
3) M.Veerappa Moily- Corporate Affairs & Power
4) Subodh Kant Sahai- Tourism
5) Jairam Ramesh- Parliament-ary Affairs

14. According to the latest Education Development Index (EDI) released by the Human Resource Development Ministry on July 24, 2012 which of the following States/ Union Territories retained the first position?
1) Puducherry
2) Lakshadweep
3) Punjab
4) Mizoram
5) Sikkim

15. Agni I missile was test-launched from the Wheeler Island, off the Odisha coast on July 13, 2012. Its range is?
1) 500 km
2) 400 km
3) 700 km
4) 1000 km
5) 1500 km

16. Which country has announced on July 19, 2012 that it would provide $20 billion in credit to African countries over the next three years, doubling its earlier loan commitment?
1) India
2) China
3) UK
4) USA
5) Russia

17. Democratic Republic of Congo signed a pact aimed at eliminating the threat of armed rebels in eastern Congo with which of the following countries on July 16, 2012 in Addis Ababa?
1) Uganda
2) Burundi
3) Zambia
4) Rwanda
5) Ethiopia

18. Identify the mismatched pair?
1) Army Chief- Bikram Singh
2) Navy Chief- D.K.Joshi
3) Air Force Chief-N.A.K. Browne
4) CEC- Syed Naseem Ahmed Zaidi
5) Competition Commission of India Chairman- Ashok Chawla

19. Jan Eliasson became the Deputy Secretary- General of the United Nations on July 1, 2012. He is from?
1) Germany
2) Sweden
3) Norway
4) Denmark
5) Poland

20. Abid Hussain passed away recently. He was the former?
1) National Security Advisor
2) Director General of NIA
3) Ambassador to the USA
4) CBI Director
5) None of these

21. Who became the first Britishman ever to win the Tour de France cycling competition that concluded in Paris, France on July 22, 2012?
1) Bradley Wiggins
2) Chris Froome
3) Vincenzo Nibali
4) Cadel Evans
5) Alberto Contador

22. Who among the following is not associated with the Formula One Championship?
1) Lewis Hamilton
2) Kimi Raikkonen
3) Fernando Alonso
4) Mark Webber
5) Ernie Els

23. The Asian Cricket Council Under-19 Asia Cup was jointly won by India and Pakistan. Where was the final played on July 1, 2012?
1) Karachi
 2) Dhaka
3) Kuala Lumpur
4) Colombo
5) Singapore

24. P.M.Rungta passed away on July 12, 2012. He was a former?
1) Cricket Captain
2) BCCI President
3) ICC President
4) IPL Chairman
5) None of these

25. Agriculture and Food Processing Industries Minister Sharad Pawar inaugurated the first Mega Food Park in the country in which of the following states on July 11, 2012?
1) Haryana
2) Punjab
3) Kerala
4) Andhra Pradesh
5) Uttar Pradesh

26. India signed an agreement to establish Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Education for Peace and Sustainable Development with which of the following organizations in July 2012?
1) FAO
2) WHO
3) UNESCO
4) UNICEF
5) UNDP

27. Which country recently test fired Shahab-3, a medium range ballistic missile?
1) Syria
2) Pakistan
3) Iran
4) Afghanistan
5) Israel

28. Which of the following has launched 'Bank Branch Locator', a dynamic database that gives information on location of branches of a bank?
1) SBI
2) PNB
3) HDFC Bank
4) RBI
5) ICICI Bank

29. Mark Boucher has retired from international cricket after suffering a severe eye injury. He play-ed 147 Tests with a world record of 555 dismissals for which of the following countries?
1) England
2) Australia
3) South Africa
4) Wet Indies
5) New Zealand

30. Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh was criticized by which of the following US magazines as "The Underachiever" in July 2012?
1) Newsweek 2) World
3) TIME
4) The National Journal
5) U.S. News & World Report

31. Enrique Pena Nieto is the Pres-ident elect of which of the following countries?
1) Mexico
2) Spain
3) Italy
4) Portugal
5) Brazil

32. Olafur Ragnar Grimsson has been re-elected for a fifth term as the President of?
1) Ireland
2) Poland
3) Norway
4) Sweden
5) Iceland

33. Union Minister Virbhadra Singh resigned recently on corruption charges. He was the Cabinet Minister for?
1) Health and Family Welfare
2) Labour and Employment
3) Commerce and Industry
4) Chemicals and Fertilizers
5) Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises

34. Yitzhak Shamir passed away on June 30, 2012. He was the former Prime Minister of?
1) Belarus
 2) Israel
3) Poland
4) Germany
5) None of these

35. Rajesh Khanna, a Bollywood actor, passed away on July 18, 2012. He did not act in which of the following Hindi hits?
1) Aradhana
2) Safar
3) Kati Patang
4) Anand
5) Zanjeer

36. Identify the mismatched pair?
1) Bank Rate-9%
2) Repo Rate-8%
3) Reverse Repo Rate-7%
4) Cash Reserve Ratio-4%
5) Statutory Liquidity Ratio-23%

37. Freedom fighter and a close aide of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose, Captain Lakshmi Sahgal passed away on July 23, 2012. She was defeated by which of the following leaders in the 2002 Presidential elections?
1) R. Venkatraman
2) K.R. Narayanan
3) Giani Zail Singh
4) A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
5) Shankar Dayal Sharma

38. Brett Lee announced his retirement from all forms of international cricket on July 12, 2012. He played 76 Tests, 221 ODIs and 25 T20s for which of the following countries?
1) South Africa
2) West Indies
3) England
4) New Zealand
5) None of these

39. India shares longest border with which of the following countries?
1) Nepal
2) China
3) Bhutan
4) Pakistan
5) Bangladesh

40. 'World Day for Water' is observed on which of the following dates?
1) March 20
2) March 21
3) April 22
4) April 21
5) March 22


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First in India

No.	Particular	Name
1.	British Governor General of Bengal	Warren Hastings
2.	Governor General of Independent India	Lord Mountbatten
3.	Commander-in-chief of Free India	General Roy Bucher
4.	Cosmonaut	Sqn. Ldr. Rakesh Sharma
5.	Emperor of Moghul Dynasty in India	Babar
6.	Field Marshal	S. H. F. J. Manekshaw
7.	Indian Governor General of Indian Union	C. Rajagopalachari
8.	Indian I.C.S. Officer	Satyendra Nath Tagore
9.	Indian Member of Viceroy's Executive Council	Sri S.P. Sinha
10.	Indian to swim across English Channel	Mihir Sen
11.	Indian woman to swim across-English Channel	Miss Arati Saha
12.	Man to climb Mount Everest	Tenzing Norgay
13.	Man to climb Mount Everest without Oxygen	Phu Dorjee
14.	Man to climb Mount Everest twice	Nwang Gombu
15.	Nobel Prize winner	Rabindra Nath Tagore
16.	President of Indian National Congress	W. C. Banerjee
17.	President of Indian Republic	Dr. Rajendra Prasad
18.	Talkie Film	Alam Ara (1931)
19.	Test Tube Baby (Documented)	Indira
20.	Viceroy of India	Lord Canning
21.	Woman Minister of Indian Union	Rajkumari Amrit Kaur
22.	Woman Chief Minister of State	Mrs. Sucheta Kriplani
23.	Woman Governor	Mrs. Sarojini Naidu
24.	Woman President of Indian National Congress	Dr. Annie Besant
25.	Woman Prime Minister	Mrs. Indira Gandhi
26.	Woman Speaker of a State Assembly	Mrs. Shanno Devi
27.	Prime Minister of India	Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru
28.	Muslim President of Indian Union	Dr. Zakir Hussain
29.	Speaker of Lok Sabha	G. V. Mavlankar
30.	Woman to climb mount Everest	Bachhendri Pal
31.	Woman Judge in Supreme Court	Mrs. Meera Sahib Fatima Biwi
32.	Woman Chief Justice of a High Court	Smt. Leela Seth
33.	Indian Woman to go in space (Now U.S. Citizen)	Kalpana Chawla
34.	The first Indian weightlifter to win bronze medal in Olympics	Karnam Malleshwari (Sydney, in 2000)
35.	The First Indian World Chess Champion	Vishwanathan Anand
36.	India's first paperless Newspaper	The News Today (Launched on Jan. 3, 2001)
37.	India's First woman Merchant Navy Officer	Sonali Banerjee
38.	The first Dalit Speaker of the Lok Sabha	G. M. C. Balyogi
39.	The first Vice-President of India to die in harness	Krishna Kant
40.	The first Indian woman cricketer to score double century	Mithali Raj (August 2002 playing  against England)
41.	The first woman Air Vice-Marshal	P. Bandopadhyaya
42.	The first Indian to be appointed as United Nations Civilian Police Advisor	Ms. Kiran Bedi
43.	The first astronaut of Indian origin to perish aboard U.S. space shuttle in a tragic accident	Dr. Kalpana Chawla (Columbia space shuttle, Feb. I, 2003)
44.	The first woman to be appointed Deputy Governor of Reserve Bank of India	K. J. Udeshi (appointed on June 10, 2003)
45.	The first Indian girl to register a win in a Wimbledon tournament	Sania Mirza (2003)
46.	The first Indian lady to win a medal in World Athletic Championship	Anju Bobby George (Aug. 2003)
47.	The first woman Chairman and Managing Director of NABARD	Mrs. Ranjana Kumar
48.	The highest individual test scorer of India	Virendra Sehwag ( 309 runs in the  first test in Multan against Pakistan)
49.	The first Indian cricketer to make double centuries five times	Rahul Drgvid (playing test against Pakistan in Pakistan in. April 2004)
50.	The first Orissa woman to top I.A.S.	Smt. Roopa Misra (Indian Civil Services Exam., 2003)
51.	The first Sikh Prime Minister of India	Dr. Manmohan Singh
52.	The first woman Director General of Police of a State	Kanchan C. Bhattacharya (DGP Uttaranchal)
53.	The first woman to be appointed as the crime branch chief	MeeriJ Borwankar (took over as crime branch chief of Mumbai police)
54.	The first woman to reach the rank of Lt. General in the Indian army	Puneeta Arora (Commandant, Armed Forces Medical College, Pune)
55.	The first Indian to cross seven important seas by swimming	Bula Chaudhury
56.	The first woman to become Indian Air Force's first woman Air Marshal	Air Marshal Padma Bandhopadhyay
57.	The first youngest MP, at the age of 25 years	Dharmendra Yadav (Mainpuri : Samajwadi Party MP)
58.	India's first woman athlete to win WTA open Tennis title	Sania Mirza (Feb. 2005, Hyderabad)
59.	The first Indian to set a world record of ever having reached the highest of heights yet in a hot balloon	Vijaypath Singhania (Nov. 26, 2005. 69852 ft.)
60.	The first wonder child of Orissa only about 4 years and a half of age completes a race of 65 km.	Budhia (May 2006)
61.	The first woman Commissioner of Police of an Indian metro (Chennai Metro Police)	Letika Saran
62.	The first Indian to Ski to the North Pole	Ajeet Bajaj (April 26, 2006)
63.	The first sportsman ever to win Gold Medal in Shooting in the World Shooting Championship	Abhinav Bindra (July 24, 2006)
64.	The first person of Indian origin to win the Miss Great Britain title	Preeti Desai (2006)
65.	The first woman President of the Republic of India	Pratibha Patil