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Name the Australian foreign minister who is on a visit to India to deal with the issue of attacks on Indians in Australia.

Name the Australian foreign minister who is on a visit to India to deal with the issue of attacks on Indians in Australia.

Name the Australian foreign minister who is on a visit to India to deal with the issue of attacks on Indians in Australia.
1. What is the name of the chief postmaster-general of Maharashtra and Goa who has been arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation for allegedly taking a bribe of Rs2 crore for issuing a no-objection certificate (NOC) to build a post office in neighbouring Thane district?
Baljeet Singh Soni
Manjit Singh Bali
Pratap Singh Dua
 
Manjit Singh Bali, an officer of the 1978 batch of the Indian Postal Services, is one of the most senior officers in the department of posts and telegraph across the country. The CBI said he demanded the bribe to issue an NOC for development of the land at Mira Bhayandar in Thane district.
2. Name the pilot of the Kiran MK-II plane, part of a naval aerobatics team participating in a display at the India Aviation Show, which crashed into a building in Hyderabad on March 3.
Shankar Singh
Salil Rao
Suresh Maurya
 
Commander Suresh Maurya was piloting the ill-fated Kiran MK-II aircraft of the Indian Navy’s Sagar Pawan aerobatics team when it crashed into a building in Hyderabad. Maurya, 39, had nearly 1,800 hours of flying experience.
3. Name the only man convicted in the 1985 bombing of Air India's jumbo jet Kanishka, which killed all 329 passengers and crew on board, who is set to face charges of perjury in the case.
Inderjit Singh Reyat
Ajaib Singh Bagri
Ripudaman Singh Malik
 
The bloodiest unsolved crime in Canadian history is back in the spotlight in a Vancouver court with the trial for perjury of Inderjit Singh Reyat, who is serving 20 years in prison for manslaughter for his part in two bombings. On June 23, 1985, a bomb went off in Air India's flight 182 from Montreal to New Delhi when the plane was flying over Ireland. All 329 passengers and crew were killed. The bomb was planted by Khalistani terrorists.
4. Name the 27-year-old woman scientist working with the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (Barc) who allegedly committed suicide at her quarters in the high-security Anushakti Nagar in eastern Mumbai.
Tital Pal
Sachu Nair
Lakshmi Iyer
 
Tital Pal, who worked in the radiochemistry and isotope group, hailed from Kolkata. She was found hanging with a dupatta tied to a window rod in her 14th floor house in Nilgiri Apartments.
5. Name the Australian foreign minister who is on a visit to India to deal with the issue of attacks on Indians in Australia.
Kim Beazley
Paul Keating
Stephen Smith
 
Stephen Francis Smith is Australia's foreign minister. He has been a Labour Party member of the Australian House of Representatives since March 1993. He represents the division of Perth in Western Australia.
6. Name the chief of Maharashtra's anti-terrorism squad (ATS) who has sought the help of autorickshaw drivers in Pune, asking them to share information about suspicious passengers who might be linked to last month's terror attack.
KP Raghuvanshi
Satyapal Singh
Swatanter Kumar
 
KP Raghuvanshi is an Indian Police Service officer of the 1980 batch. He was the first person to head the ATS when it was formed in 2004. In his first stint as ATS chief, Raghuvanshi handled important cases such as 2006 Nanded blasts, 2006 serial train blasts in Mumbai, and the 2006 Malegaon blasts. Hemant Karkare succeeded him as ATS chief in 2008. After Karkare’s death in the 26/11 attack, Raghuvanshi was again given charge of the ATS.
7. Name the senior inspector who was recently arrested in Mumbai after he was called in for questioning by a special investigation team (SIT) probing the fake encounter case of Ramnarayan Gupta.
Vinayak Shinde
Pradeep Suryavanshi
Ratnakar Kamble
 
Pradeep Suryavanshi was a member of the police team headed by senior inspector Pradeep Sharma, since dismissed, which allegedly killed Ramnarayan Gupta alias Lakhan Bhaiyya in a "staged" encounter on November 11, 2006, at Versova.
8. Name the top Jaish-e-Mohammed terrorist who has been arrested by the Bangladesh police and has reportedly admitted playing a key role in the hijack of Indian Airlines flight IC-814 to Kandahar in December 1999.
Nannu Mia
Sadek Hossain
Abu Naser Munshi
 
Nannu Mia was among the five operatives of the Pakistan-based extremist group Jaish-e-Mohammed who were captured in Bangaladesh by the elite Rapid Action Battalion (RAB). He has admitted having had a role in the hijack of the Indian Airlines plane on a flight to New Delhi from Kathmandu on December 24, 1999.
9. Name the top Maoist leader, who was arrested by the criminal investigation department (CID) of the West Bengal police on March 3, 2010.
Raj Kanojia
Telugu Dipak
Koteshwar Rao
 
Telugu Dipak is a mechanical engineer and was in charge of all the city units of the Communist Party of India, Maoist (CPI-M). Reddy was an explosives expert and very close to top Maoist leader Koteshwar Rao aka Kishenji. He was the key man behind the prolonged land war at Nandigram in East Midnapore district, which went on for the whole of 2007.
10. Who has been voted the most trusted politician in India, in a list complied by the magazine Reader's Digest
Manmohan Singh
Rahul Gandhi
LK Advani
 
The overall list of 100 most trusted public figures across India comprises public figures from varied professions and includes politicians, businessmen, film actors, sportspersons, and journalists. Manmohan Singh, ranked seventh overall, is, however, the first among politicians, followed by Rahul Gandhi at 29.



 

Compiled by Sushil Kotian

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