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Q1. Who won the 2013 Wimbledon Women's singles title?

Ans. Marion Bartoli

Note: This is her maiden Grand Slam title. She is from France and defeated 23rd seed Sabine Lisicki of Germany in title clash in straight sets, 1-6, 4-6.

Q2. Who was on 29 June 2013 appointed as the next Chief Justice of India?

Ans. P. Sathasivam

Note: Sathasivam will be the 40th Chief Justice of India (CJI).

Q3. Which team won the FIFA Confederations Cup 2013 on 30 June 2013?

Ans. Brazil

Note: Brazil won 3-0 against FIFA World Cup holders Spain. On the Brazilian side, two goals were scored by Fred and one was scored by Neymar.

Q4. Who is designated as India's next Foreign Secretary on, 01 July 2013?

Ans. Sujata Singh

Note: She is the IFS officer of 1976 batch and will succeed Ranjan Mathai as Foreign Secretary, who is due to retire on 31 July 2013.

Q5. Who got the Best Actress award at 14th IIFA (International Indian Film Academy) awards 2013 held in Macau on 6th July 2013?

Ans. Vidya Balan

Note: For her portrayal of a pregnant woman in search of her husband in Kahaani.

Q6. Who got the Best Actor award at 14th IIFA (International Indian Film Academy) awards 2013 held in Macau on 6th July 2013?

Ans. Ranbir Kapoor

Note: For his performance as deaf-mute boy in Barfi.

Q7. Who was appointed as the President of Nasscom on 6 July 2013?Visit-http://currentaffairs4examz.blogspot.in/

Ans. R. Chandrasekhar

Note: He is the former Secretary Department of Telecommunications (DoT). Full form of Nasscom is- National Association of Software and ServicesCompanies.

Q8. Who was sworn in as the interim President of Egypt on 4 July 2013?

Ans. Adli Mansour.

Q9. Name the U.S. inventor who was known as the father of the computer mouse who died on 3 July 2013 at age of 88?

Ans. Douglas Engelbart

Q10. Who became the first ever Indian woman to receive Dubai Government's coveted Emirates Woman Award for business excellence in June 2013?

Ans. Vandana Gandhi

Note: Vandana Gandhi is Founder & CEO of British Orchard Nursery - Middle East's only ISO-certified Nursery Chain.

Q11. Which country will host 2016 World T20 and 2023 World Cup along with 2021 proposed World Test Championship?

Ans. India

Q12. Who took over as the Union Home Secretary on 30 June 2013?Visit-http://currentaffairs4examz.blogspot.in/

Ans. Anil Goswami

Note: He is a Jammu and Kashmir cadre IAS officer and succeeded Raj Kumar Singh who retired from Government service.

Q13. Which country became the 28th member of the European Union on 1 July 2013?

Ans. Croatia

Q14. Which Indian landmark was ranked among the top three landmarks in the world by TripAdvisor's 2013 Travellers Choice Attractions Awards?

Ans. Taj Mahal

Note: In 1983, it became a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The Taj Mahal attracts 2-4 million visitors annually, with more than 200,000 from overseas.

Q15. Name the first dedicated navigation satellite launched by India on 1 July 2013?

Ans. IRNSS-1A

Note: It was launched using Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV)-C22. Full form of IRNSS- Indian Regional Navigational Satellite System.

Q16. Who took over as Chief of Integrated Defence Staff to the Chairman Chiefs of Staff Committee (CISC) on 1 July 2013?

Ans. Lieutenant General Anil Chait

Q17. Who was on 1 July 2013 appointed as the 20th Lt Governor of Delhi?

Ans. Najeeb Jung

Note: He is presently the vice chancellor of Jamia Millia Islamia University.

Q18. Pranab Mukherjee signed which ordinance on 5 July 2013 which seeks to give legal rights to 67 per cent of the population for subsidised grains?

Ans. Food Security ordinance

Q19. Name the two countries that offered asylum to US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden, on 06 July 2013, who is waiting at a Moscow airport for some nation to offer him sanctuary?Visit- http://currentaffairs4examz.blogspot.in/

Ans. Venezuela and Nicaragua

Note: Edward Joseph Snowden is an American former technical contractor for the United States National Security Agency (NSA) and a former employee of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). He leaked details of top-secret US and British government mass surveillance programs such as PRISM to the press.

Q20. World soccer body FIFA on 3 July 2013 barred which country from holding any friendly football matches due to soaring violence?

Ans. Iraq

Q21. Which state was on 2 July 2013 declared as the first Smoke-free state of the country?

Ans. Himachal Pradesh

Note: The declaration was made in compliance to Section 4 of the Cigarettes and other Tobacco Products Act (COTPA) 2003.

Q22. Who was on 2 July 2013 appointed as Director General of Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS)?

Ans. Sunil Soni

Note: Sunil Soni is a 1981 batch IAS officer of Maharashtra cadre who at present is on compulsory wait in the Department of Financial Services under Ministry of Finance.

Q23. Who won the Asian Athletics Association's President Election?

Ans. Dahlan Jumaan Al-Hamad

Note: Suresh Kalmadi was also a contestant in the election but failed.

Q24. Which country was granted the Associate membership of the ICC recently?

Ans. Afghanistan

Q25. Name the Egypt’s first democratically elected President who was on 3 July 2013 ousted from his office in a military coup?

Ans. Mohamed Morsi

Q26. Name the company which launched the world's first smartphone with the Firefox operating system to compete with devices running Google Android and Apple IOS.

Ans. Spain's Telefonica

Q27. Identify the fast Bowler of New Zealand who has announced his retirement on 3 July 2013 from all forms of cricket?

Ans. Chris Martin

Q28. Thousands in India and across the world participated in the 78th birthday celebrations of His Holiness the Dalai Lama on 6th July 2013. Present Dalai Lama is...........th Dalai Lama?Visit- http://currentaffairs4examz.blogspot.in/

Ans. 14th

Q29. Uttar Pradesh government on 5 July 2013 issued a fresh notification for creation of a new district. Name the new district?

Ans. Amethi

Q30. Union Government of India on 1 July 2013 launched the National Cyber Security Policy 2013 at New Delhi. What was the aim of the policy?

Ans. To protect information and build capabilities to prevent cyber attacks.

Q31. President conferred National Youth Awards 2011-12 on 4 July 2013. In which year National Youth Awards was instituted?Visit- http://currentaffairs4examz.blogspot.in/

Ans. 1985.

Note: It is conferred on youths every year, who have excelled in youth developmental activities and social service.

Q32. The Telecom Commission of India on 2 July 2013 approved the enhancement of the Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) limit in the telecom sector from 74 percent to

.................percent.

Ans. 100

Q33. Statistics Day was celebrated across India on which date of June?

Ans. 29 June 2013

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Registered Letters can't be returned without proper reason: Madras High Court

The postman should make it clear as to whether the registered letter was served on the addressee or refused by the addressee or no addressee was found in the given address, the judge said.

CHENNAI: The Madras high court has frowned on mechanical return of registered letters as "unclaimed" by postmen, and said that in case they could not be delivered, proper reasons must be given.

Justice S Tamilvanan, underscoring the importance of a registered post in litigations and other matters, said that when people pay a fee and affix sufficient postal stamp, the postal authorities or postmen must discharge their duties in a responsible manner. The postman should make it clear as to whether the registered letter was served on the addressee or refused by the addressee or no addressee was found in the given address, the judge said.

Passing orders on a matrimonial litigation, wherein a Chennai-based woman wanted her divorce proceedings to be transferred from a Puducherry court to a Chennai court, the judge said the woman's notice sent by registered post had been returned undelivered with a simple endorsement "unclaimed." Slamming the practice, Justice Tamilvanan said the court was of the view that the reason for the non-delivery of the notice had not been properly explained to the person who sent it.

"The endorsement 'not claimed' is required to be made in a responsible manner by the postman or the official of the postal department, so as to convey proper reason and to bring out the fact as to under what circumstances the registered letter could not be served on the addressee by the postman," the judge said.

In case the registered letter is delivered to a person other than the addressee, the postman must obtain clear endorsement and explain the relationship of the signatory who received the letter on behalf of the addressee, Justice Tamilvanan said.

Return of registered letters with a comment "unclaimed" or with some other improper endorsement would cause inconvenience to the general public and the person seeking justice through court of law, the judge said, adding: "Service of notice by registered post plays a vital role in deciding several cases."

He then directed the chief post-master general of Tamil Nadu to give suitable instructions to all postal department officials to follow the guidelines laid down by the court in this case.

Source :The Times of India

Activists hopeful of a last-minute coup to save Telegraph

As the D-day for telegram services – July 15, gets closer, there are sections that hope they can pull off a last minute save.

Among the hopeful who are against the BSNL’s proposal to discontinue the 160-year-old service, is the Federation of Consumer and Service Organizations in Tiruchi.

The federation filed a public interest litigation (PIL) at the Madurai bench of the Madras High Court on Thursday, appealing for continuing telegram service in the larger interest of the society. Litigants and the police can communicate important messages with the proof of delivery only through the telegram, M. Sekaran, president of the federation, has said in the affidavit.

The telegraph service is also being used to send grievances to the Ministers and various Commissions, he added. The BSNL cannot perceive that all persons have access to mobile and internet facilities, the petitioner has argued. Rural tele-density (number of telephone connections per 100 individuals) is only 39.90 per cent, the petitioner has said, citing the annual report of 2012- 2013 of the Department of Telecommunications, Ministry of Communications and Information Technology.

The BSNL has taken into account only the urban tele-density in areas such as Delhi (220 per cent), Mumbai (159.57 per cent) and Kolkata (155.10 per cent).

Telegrams continue to be the means for poor and rural people to convey their message with proof, the petitioner has argued.

The PIL has raised question as to why the service should be scrapped on grounds of loss, when other services such as postcards and buses continue to be operated by the government, despite revenue loss.

Telegram charges have been increased almost seven times, since telegraph services were handed over from the Postal Department to BSNL in 1990. The move seems to be designed to discourage use of telegraph service, Mr. Sekaran said.

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The service could be returned to the postal department, which was handling the services since its inception.

Discontinuing telegraph services is against the right to ‘Freedom of Speech and Expression’ irrespective of the medium of communication.

Source : The Hindu

Fixing Hard Drive Errors in Windows

If you have lots of wealth like gold, platinum, emerald or diamonds in your possession, you will definitely try to keep them in a safe vault. You want their 100% safety and you don’t want to leave any chance for them to get damaged or stolen. In regards to personal computing, the hard drive of your computer can be compared with a humongous vault that contains a massive amount of information, data and programs. Most of the items you have left there are vital with respect to your computing needs – and some could be assets even more precious than expensive gems.

By every means, the hard drive of your computer is one of the most important devices attached to your PC. You need to ensure a inside your PC, capable of delivering top notch data storage and retrieval services when you need. Otherwise, your PC could easily become hard to drive!

In the older days, there used to be complex processes that needed to be performed on hard drives in order to maintain, check or repair them. MS DOS (Microsoft Disk Operating System) based utilities were widely used that only a techno savvy person was able to handle successfully. But now the situation is changing rapidly. As the new generation operating systems evolve tremendously in terms of simplifying user’s administrative and maintenance features, anyone with a basic technical know how could perform various computer maintenance and repair activities on hard drives that are very useful.

Hard Drive Error Types and How to Fix Them

Apart from mechanical or electronic flaws at hardware level, a hard drive could have three other types of errors at the systems level;

MBR (Master Boot Record) Fault and the Boot Fault
File System Fault
Bad Physical Sector Faults

MBR (Master Boot Record) Fault and the Boot Fault

An MBR is a little piece of information (a small file) stored in the 1^st sector of the hard drive that generally tells how many logical drives the hard drive has, their capacity and which logical drive should be used for the system to boot from. Logical drives are like drive letters C, D …G that we often see under “My Computer” and we use them to store files or programs. Actually a hard drive could have only one or more than one partition, but for better usability, hard drives are often partitioned more than once. And in that case, their logical drive names ranges from C, D, E and F to G or H.

Now this MBR thing is still a complicated issue but can be used to fix boot errors. I will cover this at the end, just after finishing off on the easy stuff. To fix the other two types of faults mentioned above, you may take the following steps.

File System Fault

Please note that if you have experienced hard drive failure then using some system tools such as Check Disc can reduce your chances of data recovery.

1. Go to your “Windows explorer” by right clicking on the Windows “Start button” and then selecting “Computer”.

2. Here you will see the list of all your logical drives like C, E, F and G.

3. Now let’s say for example you want to check your G drive for errors. Bring the mouse over on the G drive and right click and then select “properties ” at the bottom of the menu. This will launch the properties window for your G drive as shown below.

4. On this screen, you can also perform several other useful features in addition to fixing drive errors. For example, if your PC is shared by several users, you can limit drive space quotas for these users so that one user cannot fill up the entire hard drive. To enable quota system, you can hit “quota” on the top menu and then click “show quota settings”. Select “yes” when the Windows user account security will ask for confirmation to proceed. Now you will come on the quota management screen as shown in image 3. Select “enable quota management” and then select “limit disk space to” and then enter the value of maximum quota the user should be able to use in the drop down box. That should limit the quota to this new assigned value you just entered.

5. On the hard drive properties window, you can also perform several other functions using the “security” tab and the “sharing” tab. For example, if you want to limit a particular user not to be able to “modify” anything on your G drive, you can do that in the “security” screen. And if you are in a Local Area Network (LAN) and want to share the G drive with another user on the same network, you can do that in the “sharing” screen.

Now let’s go back to fixing hard drive problem.

1. Click on the “Tools” tab. You will reach the screen as shown in image 4. Hit “Check Now” on this screen. Select “Yes” confirming Windows that you want to proceed.

2. You will now reach the check disk screen for G drive as shown in image below. Here you can select both the options or just the 1^st one to start with. It is recommended to begin with the 1^st option as the system itself will prompt you to perform the bad sector scan after completion of the 1^st option if it sniffs any bad sectors in your hard drive.

Keep in mind that the bad sectors cannot be recovered all the time, but performing these operations will help the OS understand that there are bad sectors in your hard drive and it will be better prepared to accommodate them or rather stay away from them. Running the file system scan will fix all the file system related errors in your G drive.

Bad Physical Sector Faults

If bad sectors are detected after going for the 2^ndoption, it will be sensible to replace the hard drive with a new one and transfer all the data to the new one before it is too late. After fixing one logical drive G, now you can perform the same operation on other logical drives.

Physical Failure: Physical failure is the major cause of hard drive failure results in damaged inner equipment’s such as platter, head crash, spindle motor etc. But there is a good possibility that your data is still intact and accessible by some special recovery software. Most common reasons behind physical hard drive failure are due to bumping, jarring or dropping the computer while it is running.

Fixing Master Boot Record (MBR)

Coming back to MBR fault, this is often created by a boot sector virus making changes on the tiny MBR file that you have in your hard drive. When the MBR gets corrupt, often the system will wrongly show more logical drives than you actually have, or their names will be changed erratically.

For example, you know you have only drive C, D and E in your PC and suddenly you see there is an additional drive F out of nowhere, more likely you have an MBR virus! The MBR can be repaired by executing a command called “fixmbr” at the command prompt. To do this, you need to boot off the installation disk in your CD or DVD drive. When setup launches, go for the system recovery option and to command prompt. At the command prompt, type: BootRec.exe /fixmbr and hit enter. This should fix the MBR of your hard drive.

The BootRec.exe command is only for Windows Seven and Vista, for Windows XP, at the command prompt you just need to type: “fixmbr” command and hit enter. “fixboot” command can also be used for fixing boot initialization problem. Here is more detailed description of how to fix the MBR.

It is advisable not to try running these commands unless you have a real good reason to do so. Having a technical person right next to you is also not a bad idea if you don’t have sufficient PC maintenance knowledge.

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