Tuesday, January 4, 2011

FAMOUS BOOKS AND AUTHORS

Books Authors
A Bend in the river V.S. Naipaul
A Brush with Life Satish Gujral
A Conceptual Encyclopaedia of Guru Granth Sahib S.S. Kohli
A Foreign Policy for India I.K. Gujral
A Fortune Teller Told Me Tiziano Terzani
A Gender Lens on Social Psychology Judith A Howard and Jocelyn A.Hollander
A General and His Army Georgy Vladimov
A Himalayan Love Story Namita Gokhale
A Last Leap South Vladimir Zhirinovsky
A Nation Flawed-Lesson from Indian History P.N. Chopra
A Peep into the Past Vasant Navrekar
A Possible India Partha Chatterjee
A Psychoanalysis of the Prophets Abdulla Kamal
A Reveolutionary Life Laxmi Sehgal
A Secular Agenda Arun Shourie
A Simple Path Lucinda Vardey
A Suitable Boy Vikram Seth
A Tale of Two Gardens Octavio Paz
A Tribute to People’s Princess: Diana Peter Donelli
A Tryst With Destiny Stanley Wolfer
Abbot Walter Scott
Absalom, Absalom William Faulkner
Absalom and Achitophel John Dryden
Acoession to Extinction D.R. Mankekar
Across Borders, Fifty-years of India’s Foreign Policy J.N. Dixit
Adam Bede George Eliot
Adhe Adhure Mohan Rakesh
Adonis P.B. Shelley
Adrain Mole-The Wilderness Years Sue Townsend
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain
Adventures of Robinson Crusoe Daniel Defoe
Adventures of Sally P.G. Wodehouse
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Adventures of Tom Sawyer Mark Twain
Adversary in the House lrving Stone
Advice and Consent Allen Drury
Aeneid Virgil
Affairs C.P.Snow
Affluent Society J.K.Galbraith
Afghanistan: Mullah, Marx and Mujahid R.H. Magnus & Eden Naby
Africa’s Challenge to America Chester Bowles
After All These Years Susan Issacs
After the Dark Night S.M. Ali
Against the Grain Boris Yeltsin
Age of Reason Jean Paul Sartre
Agni Pariksha Acharya Tulsi
Agni Veena Kazi Nazrul Islam
Agony and the Ecstasy Irving Stone
Ain-i-Akbari Abul Fazal
Airport Arthur Hailey
Ajatshatru Jai Shankar Prasad
Akbarnama Abul Fazal
Alaska Unbound James Michener
Alchemist Ben Johnson
Alexander Quartet Lawrence Durrel
Alexander the Great John Gunther
Alice in Wonderland Lewis Carroll
Alien Nation Peter Brimelow
All for Love John Dryden
All is Well that Ends Well William Shakespeare
All Quiet on the Western Front Erich Maria Remarque
All the King’s Men Robert Penn Warren
All the President’s Men Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward
All things Bright and Beautiful James Herroit
All Under Heaven Pearl S.Buck
Along the Road Aldous Huxley
Altered States Anita Brookner
Amar Kosh Amar Singh
Ambassador’s Journal J.K. Galbraith
Ambassador’s Report Chester Bowles
Amelia Henry Fielding
American Capitalism J.K. Galbraith
An American Dilemma Gunnar Myrdal
An American Tragedy Theodore Dreiser
An Apology for Idlers Robert Louis Stevenson
An Autobiography Jawaharlal Nehru
An Eye to China David Selbourne
An idealist View of Life Dr.S. Radhakrishnan
Anandmath Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
Anatomy of a Flawed inheritance J.N. Dixit
Ancient Evenings Norman Mailer
Ancient Mariner Samuel Taylor Coleridge
And Quiet Flows the Don Mikhali Sholokhov
And Through the Looking Glass Lewis Carroll
Androcles and the Lion George Bernard Shaw
Angry Letters Willem Doevenduin
Anguish of Deprived Lakshmidhar Mishra
Animal Farm George Orwell
Anna Karenina Count Leo Tolstoy
Another Life Derek Walcott
Answer to History Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
Antic Hay Aldous Huxley
Antony and Cleopatra William Shakespeare
Ape and Essence Aldous Huxley
Apple Cart George Bernad Shaw
Arabian Nights Sir Richard Burton
Area of Darkness V.S. Naipaul
Arion and the Dolphin Vikram Seth
Arms and the Man George Bernard Shaw
Around the World in Eighty Days Jules verne
Arrangement Elia Kazan
Arrival and Departure Arthur Koestler
Arrow in the Blue Arthur Koestler
Arrow of Good Joseph Conrad
Arrowsmith Sinclair Lewis
Arthashastra Kautilya
As I Lay Dying William Faulkner
As You Like It William Shakespeare
Ascent of the Everest Sir John Hunt
Ashtadhyayi Panini
Asia and Western Dominance K.M. Panikkar
Asian Drama Gunnar Myrdal
Aspects of the Novel E.M. Forster
Assassination of a Prime Minister S.Anandram
Assignment Colombo J.N. Dixit
Assignment India Christopher Thomas
Athenian Constitution Aristotle
Atoms of Hope Mohan Sundara Rajan
August 1914 Alexander Solzhenitsyn
August Coup Mikhali S. Gorbachev
Author’s Farce Henry Fielding
Autobiography of an Unknown Indian Nirad C. Chaudhuri
Autumn Leaves O.Pulla Reddi
Avanti Sundari Dandin
Babbit Sinclair Lewis
Baburnama Babur
Baby and Child Penelope Leach
Back to Methuselah G.B. Shaw
Backward Place Ruth Prawer Jhabwala
Bandicoot Run Manohar Malgonkar
Bang-i-Dara Mohammad lqbal
Bangla Desh-The Unifinished Revolution Lawrence Lifschultz
Banyan Tree Hugh Tinker
Beach Boy Ardesher Vakil
Beast and Man Murry Midgley
Beating the Street Peter Lynch
Beginning of the Beginning Acharya Rajneesh
Beloved Toni Morrison
Ben Hur Lewis Wallace
Bend in the Ganges Manohar Malgonkar
Bermuda Triangle Charles Berlitz
Berry Patches Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Best and the Brightest David Halberstan
Betrayal of Pearl Harbour James Rusbridger and Eric Nave
Between Hope and History Bill Clinton
Between Hope and History Bill Clinton
Between the Lines Kuldip Nayar
Bewildered India-Identity, Pluralism, Discord Rasheedud-din Khan
Beyond Boundaries: A Memoire Swaraj Paul
Beyond the Horizon Eugene O’Neill
Beyond Modernisation, Beyond Self Sisir Kumar Ghose
Beyond Peace Richard Nixon
Bhagwat Gita Veda Vyas
Bharal Aur Europe Nirmal Verma
Bharat Bharati Maithili Sharan Gupta
Bharaitya Parampara Ke Mool Swar Govind Chandra Pande
Big Fisherman Lloyd C. Douglas
Big Money P.G. Wodehouse
Bill the Conqueror P.G. Wodehouse
Billy Albert French
Biographia Literaria Samuel Taylor coleridge
Birds and Beasts Mark Twain
Birth and Death of The Sun George Gamow
Birth and Evolution of the soul Annie Besant
Birth of Europe Robert, S. Lopez
Bisarjan R.N. Tagore
Bitter Sweet Noel Coward
Black Arrow Robert Louis Stevenson
Black Diaspora Ronald Segal
Black Holes and Baby Universes Stephen Hawking
Black Sheep Honore de Balzac
Black Tulip Alexander Dumas
Bleak House Charles Dickens
Blind Ambitions John Dean
Blind Beauty Boris Pasternak
Blind Men of Hindoostan-indo-Pak Nuclear War Gen. Krishnaswamy Sundarji
Bliss was it in that Dawn Minoo Masani
Bloodline Sidney Sheldon
Blood Sport James Stewart
Blue Bird Maurice Macterlink
Bofors: The Ambassador’s Evidence B.M. Oza
Bone People Keri Hulme
Book of the Sword Sir Richard Burton
Borders & Boundaries: Women in India’s Partition Ritu Menon & Kamla Bhasin
Born Free Joy Adamson
Bostaan Sheikh Saadi
Bread, Beauty and Revolution Khwaja Ahmed Abbas
Breaking the Silence Anees Jung
Breakthrough Gen.Moshe Dayan
Bride for the Sahib and Other Stories Khushwant Singh
Bridge’s Book of Beauty Mulk Raj Anand
Bridges of Madison Country R.J. Waller
Brif History of Time Stephen Hawking
Brishbikkha Bankim Chandra Chatterji
Britain’s True History Prem Bhatia
Broken Wings Sarojini Naidu
Brothers Karamazhov Fyodor Dostoevski
Bubble Mulk Raj Anand
Buddha Charitam Ashvaghosha
Bunch of Old Letters Jawaharlal Nehru
Bureaucrazy M.K. Kaw
Butterfield 8 John O’Hara
By God’s Decree Kapil Dev
By Love Possessed James Gould Cozzens
Byzantium W.B. Yeats
Caesar and Cleopatra G.B. Shaw
Call the Briefing Martin Fitzwater
Cancer Ward Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Canterbury Tales G.Chaucer
Canvass of Life Sheila Gujral
Caravans James A. Michener
Cardinal Henry M. Robinson
Castle Franz Kafka
Catch-22 Joseph Heller
Catcher in the Rye J.D. Salinger
Centennial James Michener
Chance Joseph Conrad
Chandalika Rabindranath Tagore
Chemmeen Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai
Cherry Orchard Anton Chekhov
Chidambara Sumitranandan Pant
Chikaveera Rajendra Masti Venkatesh lyengar
Child Who Never Grew Pearl S. Buck
Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage George Byron
Childhood Maxim Gorky
Children of Gabelawi Naquib Mahfouz
Children of the Sun Maxim Gorky
China Passage J.K. Galbraith
China-Past and Present Pearl S. Buck
China’s Watergate Leo Goodstadt
Chinese Betrayal B.N. Mullick
Chitra Rabindranath Tagore
Choma’s Drum K. Shivaram Karanath
Christabel Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Christmas Tales Charles Dickens
Chronicle of a Death Foretold Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Chithirappaavai P.V. Akilandam
City of Joy Dominique Lapierre
City of Saints Sir Richard Burton
Class Erich Segal
Climate of Treason Andrew Boyle
Clockwork Orange Anthony Burgess
Clown Heinrich Boll
Cocktail Party T.S. Eliot
Colonel Sun Kingsley Amis
Comedy of Errors William Shakespeare
Common Sense Thomas Paine
Communist Manifesto Karl Marx
Confessions J.J.Rousseau
Confessions of a Lover Mulk Raj Anand
Comus John Milton
Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit S.T. Coleridge
Confessions of an English Opium Eater, Thomas De Quincy
Confidential Clerk T.S. Eliot
Confrontation with Pakistan Gen. B.M. Kaul
Conquest of Happiness Bertrand Russell
Conquest of Self Mahatma Gandhi
Conservationist Nadine Gordimer
Continent of Circle Nirad C.Chaudhuri
Coolie Mulk Raj Anand
Count of Monte Cristo Alexander Dumas
Coup John Updike
Court Dancer Rabindranath Tagore
Coverly Papers Joseph Addison
Cranford Mrs. Gaskell
Creation Gore Vidal
Crescent Moon Rabindranath Tagore
Crescent Over Kashmir Anil Maheshwari
Cricket on the Hearth Charles Dickens
Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoevsky
Crisis in India Ronald Segal
Crisis into Chaos E.M.S. Namboodiripad
Critical Mass William E. Burrows
Critique of Pure Reason Immanuel Kant
Crossing in River Caryl Phillips
Crossing the Sacred Line-Women’s
Search for Political Power
Abhilasha & Sabina Kidwai
Crossing the Threshold of Hope Pope John Paul II
Crown and the Loincloth Chaman Nahal
Crown of Wild Olive John Ruskin
Cry, My Beloved Country Alan Patan
Cuckold Kiran Nagar Kar
Culture and Anarchy Matthew Arnold
Culture in the Vanity Bag Nirad C. Chaudhuri
Curtain Raisers K. Natwar Singh
Damsel in Distress P.G. Wodehouse
Dancing with the Devil Rod Barker
Dangerous Plaqce Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Dangerous Summer Emest Hemingway
Dangling Man Saul Bellow
Daniel Deronda Geroge Eliot
Dark Room R.K. Narayan
Dark Debts Karen Hall
Dark Home Coming Eric Lustbader
Dark Side of Camelot Seymour Hersh
Darkness at Noon Arthur Koestler
Das Kapital Karl Marx
Dashkumar Charitam Dandi
Daughter of the East Benazir Bhutto
David Copperfield Charles Dickens
Day in Shadow Nayantara Sehgal
Day of the Jackal Frederick Forsyth
Days of Grace Arthur Ashe & Arnold Rampersad
Days of his Grace Eyvind Johnson
Days of My Yers H.P. Nanda
De Profundis Oscar Wilde
Dean’s December Saul Bellow
Death and After Annie Besant
Death Be Not Proud John Gunther
Death in the Castle Pearl S. Buck
Death in Venice Thomas Mann
Death of a City Amrita Pritam
Death of a Patriot R.E. Harrington
Death on the Nile Agatha Christie
Death of a President William Manchester
Death of a Salesman Arthur Miller
Death-The Supreme Friend Kakasaheb Kalelkar
Death Under sail C.P. Snow
Debacle Emile Zola
Decameron Giovannie Boccaccio
Decline and Fall of Indira Gandhi D.R. Mankekar and Kamala Mankekar
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Edward Gibbon
Decline of the West O’ Spengler
Democracy Means Bread and Freedom Piloo Mody
Democracy Redeemed V.K. Narsimhan
Descent of Man Charles Darwin
Deserted Village Oliver Goldsmith
Desperate Remedies Thomas Hardy
Detective Arthur Hailey
Devadas Sarat Chandra Chatterjee
Dharmashastra Manu
Dialogue with Death Arthur Koestler
Diana-Her Time Story in Her Own Words Andrew Martin
Diana-Princess of Wales : A Tribute Tim Graham
Diana-The Story So Far Julia Donelli
Diana-The True Story Andrew Morton
Diana Versus Charles James Whitaker
Die Blendung Elias Canetti
Dilemma of Our Time Harold Joseph Laski
Diplomacy Henry Kissinger
Diplomacy and Disillustion George Urbans
Diplomacy in Peace and War J.N. Kaul
Disappearing Acts Terry McMillan
Discovery of India Jawaharlal Nehru
Distant Drums Manohar Malgonkar
Distant Neighbours Kuldip Nayar
Divine Comedy A.Dante
Divine Life Swami Sivananda
Doctor Faustus Christopher Marlowe
Doctor’s Dilemma G.B.Shaw
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Robert Louis Stevensan
Dr. Zhivago Boris Pasternak
Doll’s House lbsen
Dolly-The Birth of a Clone Jina Kolata
Don Juan George Byron
Don Quixote Cervantes
Don’t Laugh-We are Police Bishan Lal Vohra
Double Betrayal Paula R. Newburg
Double Helix J.D. Watson
Double Tongue William Golding
Double Teeth U.B. Sinclair
Drogon’s Seed Pearl S. Buck
Dream in Hawaii Bhabani Bhattacharya
Dram of Fair to Middling Women Samuel Beckett
Dreams, Roses and Fire Eyvind Johnson
Drunkard Emile Zola
Durgesh Nandini Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
Dynamics of Social Change Chandra Shekhar
Earth Emile Zola
Earth in the Balance: Forging a New
Common Purpose
Al Gore
Earth Mother Pupul Jayakar
East of Eden B.N. Mullick
East West Salman Rushdie
East Wind Pearl S. Buck
Economic Planning of India Ashok Mehta
Economics of Peace and Laughter John K. Galbraith
Economics of the Third World S.K. Ray
Education of Public Man Hubert Humphrey
Edwina and Nehru Catherine Clement
Egmont J.W. Von Goethe
Eight Lives Rajmohan Gandhi
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard Thomas Gray
Emile J.J. Rousseau
Eminent Churchillians Andrew Roberts
Emma Jane Austen
Empire of the Soul: Some Journeys in India Paul William Roberts
Ends and Means Aldous Huxley
End of a Beautiful Era Joseph Brodsky
End of an Era C.S. Pandit
End of History and the Last Man Francis Fukuyama
End of the Chapter John Forsyte
Enemies Maxim Gorky
English August Upamanyu Chatterjee
Envoy to Nehru Escott Reid
Erewhon Samuel Butler
Escape John Forsyte
Eassay on Life Samuel Butler
Essays for Poor to the Rich John Kenneth Galbraith
Essays in Criticism Matthew Arnold
Essays On Gita Aurobindo Ghosh
Essays of Elia Charles Lamb
Estate Issac Bashevis Singer
Eternal Himalayas Major H.P.S.Ahluwalia
Eternal India Indira Gandhi
Eternity Anwar Shaikh
Ethics Aristotle
Europa Time Parks
Eugenie Grandet Honore de Balzac
Everlasting Man G.K. Chesterton
Executioner’s Song Norman Mailer
Exile and the Kingdom Albert Camus
Expanding Universe Arthur Stanley Eddington
Eye of the Storm Patrick White
Eyeless in Gaza Aldous Huxley
Faces to Everest Maj. H.P.S. Ahluwalia
Facts are Facts Khan Abdul Wali Khan
Fairie Queene Edmund Spencer
Faith & Fire: A Way Within Madhu Tandon
Fall of a Sparrow Salim Ali
Family Moskat Issac Bashevis Singer
Family Reunion T.S.Eliot
Famished Road Ben Okri
Far From the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy
Far Pavilions M.M.Kaye
Faraway Music Svetlana Allilueva
Farewell to the Trumpets James Morris
Farewell to a Ghost Manoj Das
Farewell to Arms Ernest Hemingway
Farm House George Orwell
Fasana-i-Azad Ratan Nath Sarkar
Fathers and Sons lvan Turgenev
Faust J.W. Von Goethe
Faustus Chirstopher Marlow
Fidelio L.Beethoven
Fiesta Ernest Hemingway
Fifth Column Ernest Hemingway
Fifth Horseman Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre
Final Days Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein
Final Passage Caryl Phillips
Finding a Voice-Asian Women in Britain Amrit Wilson
Fine Balance Rohinton Mistry
Fire Next Time James Baldwin
Fire Under the Snow: Testimony of a Tibetan Prisoner Palden Gyatso
First Circle Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Flags in the Dust William Faulkner
Flames from the Ashes P.D. Tandon
Flounder Gunder Grass
Follywood Flashback Bunny Reuben
Food, Nutrition and Poverty in India V.K.R.V. Rao
For the President’s Eyes Only Christopher Andrew
For Whom the Bell Tolls Emest Hemingway
Forbidden Sea Tara Ali Baig
Forsyte Saga John Galsworthy
Fortynine Days Amrita Pritam
Franklin’s Tale Geoffrey Chaucer
Fraternity John Forsyte
Free Man’s Worship Bertrand Russell
Freedom at Midnight Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre
French Revolution Thomas Carlyle
Freedom Behind Bars Sheikh Mohd. Abdullah
Freedom from Fear Aung San Suu Kyi
French Leave P.G. Wodehouse
Friend Samuel Tayelor Coleridge
Friends and Foes Sheikh Mujibur Rehman
Friends, Not Masters Ayub Khan
From Hero to Eternity James Jones
From india to America S.Chandrashekhar
From Raj to Rajiv Mark Tully and Zaheer Masani
From Rajpath to Lokpath Vijaya Raja Scindia
Frozen Assets P.G. Wodehouse
Full Moon P.G.Wodehouse
Future of NPT Savita Pande
Gambler Fyodor Dostoevsky
Ganadevata Tara Shankar Bandopadhyaya
Gandhi and Stalin Louis Fisher
Gardener Rabindra Nath Tagore
Garrick Year Margaret Drabble
Gathering Storm Winston Churchill
Geeta Govind Jaya Dev
Ghasiram Kotwal Vijay Tendulkar
Ghosts in the Machine Arthur Koestler
Girl in Blue P.G. Wodehouse
Girl On the Boat P.G. Wodehouse
Gita Rahasya Bal Gangadhar Tilak
Gitanjali Rabindra Nath Tagore
Gladiators Arthur Koestler
Glimpses of Indian Ocean Z.A. Quasim
Glimpses of World History Jawaharlal Nehru
Go Down Moses William Faulkner
Goa Asif Currimbhoy
God and the Bible Mattew Arnold
Godan Munshi Prem Chand
Godfather Mario Puzo
Godrej: A Hundred Years B.K. Karanjia
Gold Bat P.G. Wodehouse
Golden Borough James Frazer
Golden Gate Vikram Seth
Golden Threshold Sarojini Naidu
Gone Away Dom Moraes
Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell
Good Earth Pearl S.Buck
Goodbye, Mr Chips James Hilton
Gora Rabindra Nath Tagore
Grace Notes Bernard Mac Lavarto
Grammar of Politics Harold Joseph Laski
Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck
Grapes and the Wind Pablo Neruda
Great Challenge Louis Fischer
Great Depression of 1990 Ravi Batra
Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald
Great lllusion Norman Angell
Great Tragedy Z.A. Bhutto
Grey Eminence Aldous Huxley
Grub Street Henry Fielding
Guide R.K. Narayan
Guide for the Perplexed E.F. Schumacher
Gul-e-Naghma Raghupati Sahai ‘Firaq’ Gorakhpuri
Gulag Archipelago Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Gulistan Boston Sheikh Saadi
Gulliver’s Travels Jonathan Swift
Gulzari Lal Nanda: A Peep
in the Service of the People
Promilla Kalhan
Gurusagaram O.V. Vijayan
Gypsy(poem) Pushkin
Hamlet William Shakespeare
Hard Times Charles Dickens
Harsha Charita Bana Bhatt
Hamsters C.P. Snow
Handful of Dust Evelyn Waugh
Happy Death Albert Camus
Harlot High and Low Honore de Balzac
Harvest Majula Padmanabhan
Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad
Heavem Has No Favourites Eric Maria Remarque
Heat and Dust Ruth Prawer Jhabwala
Heavy Weather P.G. Wodehouse
Henderson the Rain King Saul Bellow
Heritage Anthony West
Hero of Our Times Richard Hough
Heroes and Hero worship Thomas Carlyle
Henry Esmond Thackeray
Heir Apparent Dr. Karan Singh
Higher than Hope Fatima Meer
Himalayan Blunder Brig J.P. Dalvi
Hindu View of Life Dr. S.Radhakrishnan
History of Hindu Chemistry Sir.P.C. Ray
Hitopadesh R.K.Narayan
Hindi Sahitya Aur Samvedna Ka Vikas R.S. Chaturvedi
Hind Swaraj M.K.Gandhi
Hindu Civilisation J.M. Barrie
Hinduism Nirad C.Choudhury
His Excellency Emile Zola
History of the English Speaking Peoples Sir Winston Churchil
Home Comings C.P. Snow
Honest Thief and Other Stories Fyodor Dostoevsky
Hornet’s Nest Patricia Cornwell
Hot Water P.G. Wodehouse
Hound of the Baskervillese Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
House for Mr. Biswas V.S. Naipaul
House of the Dead Fyodor Dostoevsky
House of Spirits Isabel Allende
House Divided Pearl S. Buck
How Late It Was, How Late James Kelman
Human Factor Graham Greene
Human Knowledge Bertrand Russell
Humboldt’s Gift Saul Bellow
Humour Ben Johnson
Hunchback of Notre Dame Victor Hugo
Hungry Stones Rabindra Nath Tagore
I am not an Island K.A Abbas
I Dare Parmesh Dangwal
I follow the Mahatma K.M. Munshi
Idylls of the King Tennyson
I Muse; Therefore I am V.N.Narayanan
Idiot Fyodor Dostoevsky
Idols Sunil Gavaskar
If I am Assassinated Z.A. Bhutto
Imperial Woman Pearl S. Buck
Importance of Being Earnest Oscar Wilde
In Afghanistan’s Shadow Salig S. Harrison
In Confidence Anatolyu Dobrynin
In Evil Hour Gabriel Garcia Marquez
In Light of India Octavio Paz
In Retrospect-The Tragedy
and Lessons of Vietnam
Robert S. McNamara
In Search of Gandhi Richard Attenborough
In Search of Identity Anwar el-Sadat
In the Afternoon of Time Dr.Rupert Snell
In the Bluest Eye Toni Morrison
In the Light of the Black Sun Rohit Manchanda
In the Shadow of Pines Mandeep Rai
India 2020: A Vision for the New Millennium Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam & Dr. Y.S. Rajan
India-A Wounded Civilisation V.S. Naipaul
India discovered John Keay
India-Facing the Twenty-First Century Barbara Crossette
India-From Curzon to Nehru and After Durga Dass
India-From Midnight to the Millennium Shashi Tharoor
India-Independence Festival (1947-1997) Raghu Rai
India in Transition PRof.Jagdish Bhagwati
India is for Sale Chitra Subramaniam
India of Our Dreams M.V. Kamath
India Remembered Percival & Margaret Spear
India Today Rajni Palme Dutt
India We Left Hymphry Trevelyan
Indian Home Rule M.K. Gandhi
Indian Philosophy Dr.S.Radhakrishnan
India’s China War Neville Maxwell
India’s Culture the State the Arts & Beyond B.P. Singh
India’s Economic Crisis Dr. Bimal Jalan
India’s Economic Reforms and Development
Essay’s for Manmohan Singh
I.J.Ahluwalia & I.M.D. Little
India’s Rise to Power in the Twentieth
Century & Beyond
Sandy Gordon
Indian Arms Bazaar Maj-Gen, Pratap Narain
Indian Mansions Sarah Tiloston
India Changes Taya Zinkin
India Divided Rajendra Prasad
India Wins Freedom Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
Indian Muslims Prof. Mohd.Mujeeb
India, the Critial Years Kuldip Nayar
Indo-Pakistan Conflict Russen Brines
Indica Megasthenes
Indira Gandhi’s Emergence and Style Nayantara Sehgal
Indira’s India S.Nihal Singh
Inferno Alighieri Dante
Inner Circle Jonathan First
Innocence of Father Brown G.K.Chesterton
Inside the CBI Joginder Singh
Inside the Third Reich Albert Spencer
Insider P.V. Narasimha Rao
In Memoriam Tennyson
Inside Asia John Gunther
Inside Europe John Gunther
Inside Africa John Gun ther
Insulted and the injured Fyodor Dostoevsky
Intelligence Services Dr. Bhashyam Kasturi
Interpreters Wole Soyinka
Intimacy Jean Paul Sartre
Intruder in the Dust William Faulkner
Invisible Man H.G. Wells
Iron in the Soul Jean Paul Sartre
Ironhand J.W. Von Goethe
Is Paris Burning Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre
Isabella John Keats
Islamic Bomb Stev Weissman & Herbert Krousney
Island inthe Streams Ernest Hemingway
It is Always Possible Kiran Bedi
Ivanov Anton Chekhov
Ivanhoe Sir Walter Scott
Jack and Jackle-Portrait of an American Marriage Chirstopher Anderson
Jai Somnath K.M. Munshi
Jaguar Smile Salman Rushdie
Jajar, Churashir Maa Mahashweta Devi
Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte
Jankijeevanam Prof. Rajendra Mishra
Jawaharlal Nehru-A Communicator
& Democratic Leader
A.K. Damodran
Jawaharlal Nehru, Rebel and Statesman B.R. Nanda
Jazz Toni Morrison
Jean Christopher Romain Rolland
Jesus Rediscovered Malcolm Muggeridge
Jewel Danielle Steel
Jhoota Sach Yashpal
Jobs for Millions V.V. Giri
Joke Milan Kundra
Judge’s Miscellany M. Hidayatullah
Julius Caesar William Shakespeare
Jurassic Park Michael Crichton
Jungle Book Rudyard Kipling
Junglee Girl Ginu Kamani
Kadambari Bana Bhatt
Kamadhenu Kubernath Ray
Kamasutra Vatsyayan
Kagaz Te Kanwas Amrita Pritam
Kamayani Jai Shankar Pandit
Kaleidoscope of India Tomoji Muto
Kali Aandhi Kamleshwar
Kanthapura Raja Rao
Kanyadaan Vijay Tendulkar
Kapal Kundala Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
Kashmir-A Tale of Shame Hari Jaisingh
Kashmir-Behind the Vale M.J.Akbar
Kashmir Diary: Psychology of Militancy Gen.Arjun Ray
Kashmir-The Wounded Valley Ajit Bhattacharjee
Kashmir in the Crossfire Victoria Shaffield
Kashmir A Tragedy of Errors Tavleen Singh
Katghare Main Ram Sharan Joshi
Kayakalp Munshi Prem Chand
Kayar Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai
Keepers of the Keys Milan Kundera
Kenilworth Sir Walter Scott
Killer Angels Michael Shaara
Kissinger Years T.N. Kaul
Kidnapped R.L. Stevenson
King of Dark Chamber Rabindra Nath Tagore
Kiratarjuniya Bharavi
Kim Rudyard Kipling
King Lear Shakespeare
Kipps H.G.Wells
Kitni Navon Main Kitni Bar S.H.Vatsyayan
Koraner Nari Taslima Nasreen
Kore Kagaz Amrita Pritam
Kubla Khan S.T. Coleridge
Kulliyat Ghalib
Kumar Sambhava Kalidas
La Divine Comedia A. Dante
La Peste Albert Camus
Lady of the Lake Sir Walter Scott
Lady with the Lapdog Anton Chekhov
Lady Chatterly’s Lover D.H.Lawrence
Lajja Taslima Nasreen
Lal Bahadur Shastri C.P. Srivastava
Last Analysis Saul Bellow
Last Burden Upamanyu, Chatterjee
Last Maharaja Jean Louis Nou & Jacques Pouchepadass
Last Orders Graham Swift
Last Days of Pompeii Edward George Lytton
Last Phase Pyare Lal
Last Things C.P. Snow
Law, Lawyers & Judges H.R. Bhardwaj
Laws Versus Justice V.R. Krishna lyer
Leaders Richard Nixon
Leaves of Grass Walt Whitman
Lead Kindly Light Cardinal Newman
Le Contract Social (The Social Contract) J.J. Rousseau
Les Miserables Victor Hugo
Legacy of a Divided Nation Prof. Mushirul Hasan
Latter from Peking Peral S. Buck
Letters From the Field Margaret Mead
Leviathan Thomas Hobbes
Liberty or Death Patrick French
Life and Death of Mr. Badman John Bunyan
Light That Failed Rudyard Kipling
Like Water for Chocolate Laura Esquivel
Life Divine Aurobindo Ghosh
Life is Elsewhere Milan Kundera
Life of Samuel Johnson James Boswell
Lines of Fate Mark Kharitonov
Lipika Rabindranath Tagore
Living Room Graham Greene
Long Shadow inside Stalin’s Family Svetlana Allilyuyeva
Long Walk to Freedom Nelson Mandela
Look Back in Anger John Osborne
Lord Jim Joseph Conrad
Lord of the Files William Golding
Lost Child Mulk Raj Anand
Lost Honour John Dean
Lost lllusion Honore de Balzac
Lotus Eaters A.Tennyson
Love and Longing in Bombay Vikram Chandra
Love in A Blue Time Hanif Khureshi
Lolita V.Nabokov
Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner Allan Sillitoe
Long Day’s Journey into Night Eugene O’Neill
Love, Truth and A Little Malice Khushwant Singh
Lycidas John Milton
Macbeth William Shakespeare
Magic Mountain Thomas Mann
Mahabharata Vyasa
Malati Madhav Bhavabhuti
Magic Fishbone Charles Dickens
Magnificent Maharaja K.Natwar Singh
Mahatma Gandhi Girija Kumar Mathur
Major Barbara George Bernard Shaw
Making of a Midsummer Night’s Dream David Selbourne
Malavikagnimitra Kalidas
Main Street Sinclair Lewis
Man, The Unknown Lewis Carroll
Man and Superman G.B. Shaw
Man for Moscow G.Lynne
Man of Property John Galsworthy
Man, Beast and Virtue Luigi Pirandello
Man eaters of Kumaon Jim Corbett
Marriage and Morals Bertrand Russell
Managing of the Future Peter, F. Drucker
Mama Terry McMillan
Man for All Seasons Robert Bolt
Man of Destiny George Bernard Shaw
Mandarin Simon de Beauvoir
Mankind and Mother Earth Arnold Toynbee
Mansfield Park Jane Austen
Manviya Sanskriti Ke Rachnatmak Aayam Prof. Raghuvansh
Many Worlds K.P.S. Menon
Masters C.P. Snow
Mati Matal Gopinath Mohanty
Maurice E.M. Forster
Mayor of Casterbridge Thomas Hardy
Meghdoot Kalidas
Mein Kampf Adolf Hitler
Memoris of the Second World War Churchill
Memoris of a Bystander: Life in Diplomacy lqbal Akhund
Momories of Hope Charles de Gaulle
Men Who Kepl the Secrets Thomas Powers
Men Who Killed Gandhi Manohar Malgonkar
Meri Rehen Meri Manzil Krishna Puri
Middle March George Eliot
Middle Ground Margaret Drabble
Midnight’s Children Salman Rushdie
Midsummer Night’s Dream William Shakespeare
Mill on the Floss George Eliot
Million Mutinies Now V.S. Naipaul
Mirror of the Sea Joseph Conrad
Miser Moliere
Missed Oppertunites: Indo-Pak War 1965 Maj-Gen, Lakshman Singh
Mistaken identity Nayantara Sehgal
Moby Dick Herman Melville
Modern Painters John Ruskin
Mother India Katherine Mayo
Mod Classics Joseph Conrad
Modern South Asia: History, Culture,
Political Economy
Sugata Bose & Ayesha Jalal
Modernity Morality And The Mahatma Madhuri Santhanam Sondhi
Mondays on Dark Night of Moon Kirin Narayan
Mookhajjiva Kanasugalu K. Shivram Karanth
Moon and Six Pence W. Somerset Maugham
Moonlight Sonata L.Beethoven
Moonwalk Michael Jackson
Moor’s Last Sigh Salman Rushdie
Mother Maxim Gorky
Mountbatten and Independent India Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre
Mountbatten and the Partition of India Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre
Mrinalini Bankim Chandra Charrerjee
Mritunjaya Shivaji Sawant
Mrs. De Winter Susah Hill
Mrs. Gandhi’s Second Reign Arun Shourie
Much Ado About Nothing Shakespeare
Mudra rakshasa Vishakhadatta
Murder in the Cathedral T.S. Eliot
Mughal Maharajas And The Mahatma K.R.N. Swami
Murder on the Orient Express Agatha Christie
Murky Business Honore de Balzac
Murder of Aziz Khan Zulfikar Ghose
Muslim Law and the Constitution A.M. Bhattacharjea
My Days R.K. Narayan
My Early Life M.K. Gandhi
My Experiment With Truth M.K. Gandhi
My Life and Times V.V.Giri
My Own Boswell M.Hidayatullah
My Father, Deng Xiaoping Xiao Rong
My India S. Nihal Singh
My Music, My Love Ravi Shankar
My Presidential Years Ramaswamy Venkataraman
My Truth Indira Gandhi
Mysterious Universe James Jeans
My Several Worlds Pearl S. Buck
My Son’s Father Dom Moraes
My South Block Years J.N. Dixit
My Struggles E.K. Nayanar
Myths of sisyphus Albert Camus
My Prison Diary J.P Narayan
Naari Humayun Azad
Nana Emile Zola
Naganandan Harsha Vardhana
Naku Thanthi D.R. Bendre
Nai Duniya Ko Salam & Pathor Ki Dewar Ali Sardar Jafri
Naivedyam (The Offering) N. Balamani Amma
Naked Came the Stranger Penelope Ashe
Nacked Face Sydney Sheldon
Naked Triangle Balwant Gargi
Napoleon of Notting Hill G.K. Chesterton
Nature and the Language Politics of India Robert D.King
Nehru Family and Sikhs Harbans Singh
Nelson Mandela: A Biography Martin Meredith
Netaji-Dead or Alive Samar Guha
Never At Home Dom Moraes
New Dimensions of Peace Chester Bowles
New Dimensions of India’s Foreign Policy Atal Behari Vajpayee
Nice Guys Finish Second B.K. Nehru
Nicholas Nickelby Charles Dickens
Night Manager John le Carre
Nile Basin Sir Richard Burton
Nine Days Wonder John Mansfield
Nisheeth Uma Shankar Joshi
Niti-Sataka Bhartrihari
Nineteen Eighty-Four George Orwell
1999-Victory Without War Richard Nixon
Nirbashita Narir Kabita Taslima Nasreen
Non-Violence in Peace and War M.K. Gandhi
North Seamus Heanev
Northanger Abbey Jane Austen
Nothing Like The Sun Anthony Burgess
No Full stops in India Mark Tully
Nuclear India G.G. Mirchandani and P.K.S. Namboodari
Nurturing Development Ismail Serageldin
Nursery Alice Lewis Carroll
O’Jerusalem Larry Collins and Dominique Lepierre
Occasion for Loving Nadine Gordimer
Odessa File Frederick Forsyth
Odakkuzal G.Shankara Kurup
Odyssey Homer
Of Human Bondage W.Somerset Maugham
Oh, Le Beaux Jours Samuel Beckett
Old Curiosity Shop Charles Dickens
Old Goriot Honore de Balzac
Old Man and the Sea Ernest Hemingway
Old Path: white Clouds Thich Nht Hanh
Oliver’s Story Erich Segal
Oliver Twist Erich Segal
Oliver Twist Charles Dickens
Omeros Derek Walcott
On History Eric Hobswan
One Day in the Life of lvan Denisovich Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
One-eyed Uncle Laxmikant Mahapatra
One World to Share Sridath Ramphal
One the Threshold of Hope Pope john Paul
One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel Garcia Marquez
One Upmanship Stephen Potter
One World and India Arnold Toynbee
One World Wendell Wilkie
Only One Year Svetlana
Operation Bluestar-the True Story Lt-Gen.K.S. Brar
Operation Shylock Philip Roth
Origin of Species Charles Darwin
Oru Desathinte Katha S.K. Pottekatt
Other Side of Midnight Sydney Sheldon
Othello Shakespeare
Our Films, Their Films Satyajit Ray
Our India Minoo Masani
Out of Dust F.D. Karaka
Paddy Clarke Ha, Ha, Ha Reddy Doyle
Padmavati Malik Mohammed Jayasi
Painted Veil W. Somerset Maugham
Painter of Signs R.K. Narayan
Pair of Blue Eyes Thomas Hardy
Pakistan in the 20th Century
Political History
Lawrence Ziring
Pakistan Crisis David Loshak
Pakistan Papers Mani Shankar Aiyer
Pakistan-The Gathering Storm Benazir Bhutto
Panchagram Tarashankar Bandopadhyaya
Panchtantra Vishnu Sharma
Paradise Lost John Milton
Pakistan Cut to Size D.R. Mankekar
Paradiso Alighieri Dante
Paradise Regained John Milton
Passage to England Nirad C. Chaudhuri
Passage to India E.M. Forster
Past and Present Thomas Carlyle

Past Forward G.R. Narayanan
Pather Panchali Bibhuti Bhushan Bandyopadhyaya
Path to Power Margaret Thatcher
Patriot Pearl S. Buck
Pavilion of Women Pearl S. Buck
Peculiar Music Emily Bronte
Peter Pan J.M. Barrie
Personal of Democracy P.C. Alexander
Personal Adventure Theodore H. White
Persuasion Jane Austen
Pickwick Papers Charles Dickens
Pilgrim’s Progress John Bunyan
Pillow Problems and the Tangled Tale Lewis Carroll
Pinjar Amrita Pritam
Plague Albert Camus
Plans for Departure Nayantara Sehgal
Pleading Guilty Scott Turow
Poison Belt Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Politics Aristotle
Portrait of India Ved Mehta
Possessed Albert Camus
Post Office Rabindranath Tagore
Power and Glory Graham Greene
Power of Movement in Plants Charles Darwin
Power That Be David Halberstan
Prathama Pratishruti Ashapurna Devi
Prem Pachisi Prem Chand
Prelude William Wordsworth
Premonitions P.N. Haksar
Preparing for the Twentieth Century Paul Kennedy
Price of Partition Rafiq Zakaria
Price of Power-Kissinger in the Nixon White House Seymour M. Hersh
Princess in Love Ann Pasternak
Prison and Chocolate Cake Nayantara Sehgal
Prison Diary Jayaprakash Narayan
Prisoner of Zenda Anthony Hope
Prisoner’s Scrapbook L.K. Advani
Primary Colors Anonymous
Prince Machiavelli
Prithviraj Raso Chand Bardai
Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen
Principia Isaac Newton
Professor Charlotte Bronte
Profiles & Letters K. Natwar Singh
Promises to Keep Chester Bowles
Punjab, The Knights of Falsehood K.P.S. Gill
Purgatory Alighieri Dante
Pyramids of Sacrifice Peter L.Berger
Pygmation G.B. Shaw
Quarantene Jim Crass
Quest for Conscience Madhu Dandavate
R Documents Irving Wallace
Rabbit, Run John Updike
Radharani Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
Rage of Angels Sydney Sheldon
Ragtime E.L. Doctorow
Raghuvamsa Kalidas
Rajtarangini Kalhana
Ram Charit Manas Tulsidas
Ramayana Maharishi Valmiki (in Sanskrit)
Ramayana Dharshanam K.V. Puttappa
Rangbhoomi Prem Chand
Rains Came Louis Bromefield
Rain King Saul Bellow
Rainbow Pearl S. Buck
Raj : The Making & Unmaking of British India Lawrence James
Rang-e-Shairi Raghupati Sahai ‘Firaq’ Gorakhpuri
Rape of the Lock Alexander Pope
Rape of Nanking: An undeniable
History of Photographs
Shi Young
Rape of Bangladesh Anthony Mascarenhas
Rare Glimpses of the Raj Pran Nevile
Ratnavali Harsha Vardhan
Ravi Paar (Across the Ravi) Gulzar
Razor’s Edge Somerset Maugham
Rebel Albert Camus
Rebirth Leonid Brezhnev
Red and Black Stendhal
Red Star Over China Edgar Snow
Red Wheel Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Rediscovering Gandhi Yogesh Chadha
Reflections on the Frence Revolution Edmund Burke
Red Badge of Courage Stephen Crane
Remembering Babylon David Malouf
Reminiscences Thomas Carlyle
Reminiscences Thomas Carlyle
Reminiscences of the Nehru Age M.O. Mathai
Rendezvous with Rama Arthur C. Clark
Reprieve Jean Paul Sartre
Republic Plato
Rescue Joseph Conrad
Resurrection Leo Tolstoy
Return of the Aryans Bhagwan S. Gidwani
Return of the Native Thomas Hardy
Returning to the Source Acharya Rajneesh
Revenue Stamp Amrita Pritam
Rich Like Us Nayantara Sehgal
Riding the Storm Harold MacMillan
Rights the Man Thomas Paina
Rise and Fall of the Great Powers Paul Kennedy
Ritu Ka Pehla Phool Vijendra
Ritu Samhara Kalidas
Rivals R.B. Sheridan
River Sutra Gita Mehta
Road to Folly Leslie Ford
Road to Freedom K.K. Khullar
Robe Lloyd C. Douglas
Robinson Crusoe Daniel Defoe
Romeo and Juliet William Shakespeare
Room at the Top John Braine Roots
Rubaiyat-i-Omar Khayyam Edward Fitzgerald
Rukh Te Rishi Harbhajan Singh
Sader-i-Riyasat Karan Singh
Sardar Patel and Indian Muslims Rafiq Zakaria
Sakharam Binder Vijay Tendulkar
Saket Maithili Sharan Gupta
Satyartha Prakash Swami Dayanand
Smaler’s Planet Saul Bellow
Sanctuary William Faulkner
Sands of Time Sidney Sheldon
Santa Evita Tomas Eloymartinez
Satanic Verses Salman Rushdie
Savitri Aurobindo Ghosh
Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne
Scarlet Pimpernel Baroness Orczy
Scenes from a Writer’s Life Ruskin Bond
Sceptred Flute Sarojini Naidu
Schindlr’s List Thomas Keneally
Scholar Extraordinary Nirad C. Chaudhuri
School for Scandal R.B. Sheridan
Scope of Happiness Vijayalakshmi Pandit
Search for Home Sasthi Brata
Second World War Winston Churchill
Secret Agent Joseph Conrad
Sense of Time S.H. Vatsyayan
Sesame and Lilies John Ruskin
Seven Lamps of Architecture John Ruskin
Seven Summers Mulk Raj Anand
Tale of a Tub Jonathan Swift
Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens
Tales from Shakespeare Charles Lamb
Tales of Sherlock Holmes Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Talisman Sir Walter Scott
Tamas Bhisham Sahni
Tar Baby Toni Morrison
Tarkash Javed Akhtar
Tarzan of the Apes Edgar Rice Burroughs
Tehriq-e-Mujahideen Dr. Sadiq Hussain
Temple Tiger Jim Corbett
Tess of D’Urbervilles Thomas Hardy
Thank You, Jeeves P.G. Wodehouse
The Age of Extremes Eric Holsbawm
The Assassination K. Mohandas
The Agenda-Indide the Clinton White House Bob Woodward
The Agony and Ecstasy Irving Stone
The Best and the Brightest David Malberstam
The Beach Tree Pearl S. Buck
The Betrayal of East Pakistan Lt. Gen. A.A.K. Niazi
The Calcutta Chromosome Amitav Ghosh
The Career & Legend of Vasco de Gama Sanjay Subramanyam
The Commitments Roddy Doyle
The Cardinal Henry Morton Robinson
The Changing World of Executive Peter Drucker
The Chinese Betrayal B.N. Mullick
The Congress Splits R.P. Rao
The Dark Side of Camelot Seymore Hersh
The Defeat or Distant Drumbeats Bhaskar Roy
The Diplomatic Bag John Ure
Ugly Duckling H.C. Anderson
Ulysses James Joyce
Uncle Tom’s Cabin Mrs.Hariet Stowe
Unconsoled Kazuo Ishiguro
Under Western Eye Joseph Conrad
Unhappy India Lala Lajpat Rai
Universe Around Us James Jeans
Until Darkness Parvin Ghaffari
Utouchable Mulk Raj Anand
Upturned Soil Mikhail Sholokov
Urvashi Ramdhari Singh ‘Dinkar’
Uttar Ramcharita Bhava Bhuti
Utopia Thomas More
Unto This Last John Ruskin
Untold Story Gen.B.M.Kaul
Valley of Dolls Jacqueline Susanne
Vanity Fair Thackeray
Vendor of Sweets R.K.Narayan
Venisamhara Narayana Bhatt
Very Old Bones William Kennedy
Victim Saul Bellow
Victory Joseph Conrad
Video Nights in Kathmandu Pico Lyer
View from Delhi Chester Bowles
View from the UN U Thant
Vikram and the Vampire Sir Richard Burton
Village by the Sea Anita Desai
Village Mulk Raj Anand
Vinay Patrika Tulsidas
Virangana Maithili Sharan Gupta
Virginians William Thackeray
Vish Vriksha Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
Voice of Conscience V.V. Giri
Voice of Freedom Nayantara Sehgal
Voice of the Voiceless Rutsh Harring
Waiting for Godot Samuel Becket
Waiting for the Mahatma R.K. Narayan
Waiting to Exhale Terry McMillan
Wake up India Annie Besant
Walls of Glass K.A. Abbas
War and Peace Tolstoy
War and No Peace Over Kashmir Maroof Raza
War Minus the Shooting Mike Marquesee
War of Indian Independence Vir Savarkar
War of the Worlds H.G.Wells
Waste Land T.S. Eliot
Way of the World William Congreve
We, Indians Khushwant Singh
We, the People N.A. Palkhivala
Wealth of Nations Adam Smith
Week with Gandhi Louis Fischer
West Wind Pearl S. Buck
Westward Ho Charles Kingsley
Where the Grass is Greener David M. Smith
While England Sleeps David Leavitt
Whispers of the Desert Fatima Bhutto
White House Years Henry Kissinger
Widening Divide Rafiq Zakaria
Wild Ass’s Skin Honore de Balzac
Wings of fire, an Autobiography Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam & A. Tiwari
Winston Churchill Clive Ponting
Witness to History Prem Bhatia
Without Fear or Favour Neelam Sanjiva Reddy
Witness to an Era Frank Moraes
Woman’s Life Guy de Maupassant
Women and Men in My Life Khushwant Singh
Wonder That Was India A.L. Basham
World According to Garp John Irving
World Within Words Stephen Spender
Worthy it is Odysseus Elytis
Worshipping False Gods Arun Shourie
Wreck Rabindra Nath Tagore
Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte
Yajnaseni Dr. Pratibha Roy
Yama Mahadevi Verma
Yashodhara Maithili Sharan Gupta
Yayati V.S. Khandekar
Year of the Upheaval Henry Kissinger
Year of the Vulture Amita Malik
Years of Pilgrimage Dr.Raja Ramanna
Yesterday and Today K.P.S. Menon
Zool: The Final Odyssey Arthur C. Clarke
Zhivago,Dr. Boris Pasternak
Zlata’s Diary-A Child’s Zlata Filipovic Life in Sarajero
Zulfi, My Friend Piloo Mody
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto & Pakistan Rafi Raza

Sunday, December 26, 2010

Nobel PrizeS

Nobel Prize Winner - 2010

Winner's NameFieldCountryWork
Konstantin Novoselov
Andre Geim
PhysicsRussiaFor groundbreaking experiments regarding the two-dimensional material graphene.
Liu XiaoboPeaceChinaThe Nobel Peace Prize 2010 was awarded to Liu Xiaobo "for his long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights in China".
Mario Vargas LlosaLiteraturePeruFor his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt, and defeat.
Robert G. EdwardsMedicineUKFor the development of in vitro fertilization.
Richard F. Heck
Ei-ichi Negishi
Akira Suzuki
ChemistryUSA
USA
Japan
For palladium-catalyzed cross couplings in organic synthesis.
Peter A. Diamond
Dale T. Mortensen
Christopher A. Pissarides
EconomicsUSA
USA
UK
For their analysis of markets with search frictions.


Nobel Prize Winner - 2009

Winner's NameFieldCountryWork
Elizabeth Blackburn
Carol Greider
Jack Szostak
MedicineUSAFor the discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase.
Charles K. Kao
Willard S. Boyle
George E. Smith
PhysicsUSAFor groundbreaking achievements concerning the transmission of light in fibers for optical communication. And the invention of an imaging semiconductor circuit – the CCD sensor.
V. Ramakrishnan
Thomas A. Steitz
Ada E. Yonath
ChemistryUK
USA
Israel
For studies of the structure and function of the ribosome
Barack ObamaPeaceUSAFor his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples.
Herta MüllerLiteratureGermanyFor the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose, depicts the landscape of the dispossessed.
Elinor Ostrom
Oliver E. Williamson
EconomicsUSAFor her analysis of economic governance, especially the commons.
For his analysis of economic governance, especially the boundaries of the firm.


Nobel Prize Winner - 2008

Winner's NameFieldCountryWork
Martti APeaceFinlandWho has worked to end conflicts in troubled spots around the world for more than three decades.
Paul KrugmanEconomicsUSAFor his analysis of trade patterns and location of economic activity.
Jean-Marie Gustave Le ClézioLiteratureFranceWhose work reflects a seemingly insatiable restlessness and sense of wonder about other places and other cultures.
Harald zur Hausen
Francoise Barre-Sinoussi
Luc Montagnier
MedicineGermany
France
France
His discovery led to the development of two vaccines against cervical cancer, the second most common cancer among women.
The viral discovery has also led to an understanding of the natural history of H.I.V. infection in people, which ultimately leads to AIDS and death unless treated.
Yoichiro Nambu
Makoto Kobayashi
Toshihide Maskawa
PhysicsUSA
Japan
Japan
For their work exploring the hidden symmetries among elementary particles that are the deepest constituents of nature.
Osamu Shimomura
Martin Chalfie
Roger Y. Tsien
ChemistryJapan
USA
USA
For taking the ability of some jellyfish to glow green and transforming it into a ubiquitous tool of molecular biology to watch the dance of living cells and the proteins within them.


Nobel Prize Winner - 2007

Winner's NameFieldCountryWork
Al Gore
R. K. Pachuri
PeaceUSA
India
For their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change.
Leonid Hurwicz
Eric S. Maskin
Roger B. Myerson
EconomicsUSAFor their work in mechanism design theory, a branch of economics that looks at the design of institutions in situations where markets do not work properly.
Doris LessingLiteratureUKWhose deeply autobiographical writing has swept across continents and reflects her engagement with the social and political issues of her time.
Gerhard ErtlChemistryGermanyWhose studies of chemical reactions on solid surfaces have affected agriculture, manufacturing and environmental science.
Mario R. Capecchi
Oliver Smithies
Martin J. Evans
MedicineUSA
USA
UK
For developing the immensely powerful “knockout” technology that allows scientists to create animal models of human disease in mice.
Albert Fert
Peter Grünberg
PhysicsFrance
Germany
They have discovered how to manipulate the magnetic and electrical properties of thin layers of atoms to store vast amounts of data on tiny disks, making iPods and other wonders of modern life possible.

Wednesday, December 22, 2010

UNO OBJECTIVE QUESTIONS

SET-1

1. In which year UN General Assembly established a 11- member council for South- West Africa to administer the territory till independence :
(A) 1967
(B) 1965
(C) 1964
(D) 1968

2. Which is the first specialised agency of the UN :
(A) UNCTAD
(B) ILO
(C) UNESCO
(D) UNDP

3. Which Article of the UN Charter describe the basic procedure to make a member of the UN Trusteeship Council:
(A) 84
(B) 83
(C) 86
(D) 89

4. Who are the members of the Trusteeship Council :
(A) US, China
(B) France
(C) Russian Federation and UK
(D) All the above
5. When UN Peacekeeping forces were awarded Noble Prize :
(A) 1978
(B) 1988
(C) 1998
(D) 2005

6. How many vote does each member of the Trusteeship Council possess :
(A) One
(B) Two
(C) Three
(D) Four

7. Which is the original trust territory under the Trusteeship System :
(A) Western Samva
(B) Rwanda-Urundi
(C) Minonesia
(D) Somaliland
8. Which UN body shall exercise all functions of the UN relating to strategic areas, including the approval of the terms of the trusteeship agreements and also their alteration or amendment :
(A) UN General Assembly
(B) Security Council
(C) UN body
(D) Developed countries
9. In the subject of independence of which country, UN General Assembly took initiative and secured independence from South Africa :
(A) India (B) Ethiopia
(C) Namibia
(D) None of the above
10. Which date is observed every year by the UN on the subject of Namibia day :
(A) 15th August
(B) 18th August
(C) 25th August
(D) 26th August
11. After efforts by the UN for Namibia's independence, which was the date when Namibia became an independent country :
(A) 21st March, 1990
(B) 28th March, 1990
(C) 26th March, 1990
(D) 29th March, 1990
12. Which is not a correct statement :
(A) Peacekeeping operations are established by the Security Council.
(B) Peacekeepers are identified only by a United Nations red helmet
(C) UN has no military forces of its own.
(D) Peacekeepers wear their country's uniform.
13. Who is the ‘Chief Administrative Officer’ of the UN Secretariate :
(A) Special Secretary
(B) Secretary-in-Charge
(C) Secretary General
(D) Dy. Secretary General
14. What is the term of the Secretary General of the UN:
(A) 6 years
(B) 5 years
(C) 4 years
(D) 3 years

15. In which year, International Civil Service Advisory Board was established for the UN :
(A) 1968
(B) 1967
(C) 1948
(D) 1949

16. When did the UN General Assembly adopt the statute of the International Civil Service Commission :
(A) December, 1974
(B) December, 1976
(C) December, 1979
(D) December, 1978
17. What functions are performed by the UN Secretary General:
(A) The Secretary-General is the chief administrative officer of the Organization.
(B) The Secretary-General acts in the capacity of the chief administrative officer of the organization in all meetings of the General Assembly, the Security Council, The Economic and Social Council and of the Trusteeship Council.
(C) Secretary-General makes annual report to the UN General Assembly in the work of the Organization. The Secretary-General may bring to the notice of the Security Council any matter which in his opinion threatens the maintenance of international peace and security.
(D) All the above
18. What is the general nature of the specialised agencies of the UN :
(A) Most of the states are the members of these specialized agencies.
(B) All the specialised agencies have been brought in relationship with the UN through special agreements.
(C) Each specialised agency has a Constitution or Charter of its own which describes the duties, functions, constitution, etc. of the organisation.
(D) All the above
19. When was the international Labour Organization established :
(A) 1919
(B) 1920
(C) 1921
(D) 1923

20. In 1919, International Labour Organization became an autonomous partner of which Organization :
(A) UN
(B) Developed Nations
(C) League of Nations
(D) None of the above
21. Where is the head office of the International Labour Organization situated :
(A) Paris
(B) Geneva
(C) Moscow
(D) London

22. When ILO was brought into relationship with the UN through a special agreement:
(A) 1945
(B) 1968
(C) 1969
(D) 1946

23. Which of the following supervised the entire election process that led to the independence of Namibia :
(A) United Nations
(B) European Union
(C) ASEAN
(D) Common Wealth
24. What is the kind of state representation in the general assembly of the International Labour Organization :
(A) Two representatives of the state government
(B) One each representative of the workers and employees
(C) (A) and (B)
(D) None of the above
25. Which is recently created UN institution as part of the Human Rights Machinery :
(A) High Commissioner for Human Rights
(B) Commission on Human Rights
(C) Human Rights Council
(D) Human Rights Institute

Answers :
1.(A) 2.(B) 3.(C) 4.(D) 5.(B)
6.(A) 7.(C) 8.(B) 9.(C) 10.(D)
11.(A) 12.(B) 13.(C) 14.(B) 15.(D)
16.(A) 17.(D) 18.(D) 19.(A) 20.(C)
21.(B) 22.(D) 23.(A) 24.(C) 25.(C)

SET-2

United Nations

1. When was Southern Common Market founded :
(A) January 1992
(B) March 1991
(C) October 1989
(D) September 1997

2. Which is the headquarters of Southern Common Market :
(A) Uruguay
(B) Peru
(C) Trinidad
(D) Tobago

3. When was Association of Caribbean States formed :
(A) 24th July, 1998
(B) 24th July, 1994
(C) 24th July, 1999
(D) 24th July, 1995

4. When did Caribbean Community come into force :
(A) 1st August, 1973
(B) 1st August, 1971
(C) 1st August, 1972
(D) 1st August, 1967

5. Which is the official language of Caribbean Community
(A) English
(B) Hindi
(C) Japanese
(D) None of the above

6. When was Caribbean Development Bank establish :
(A) 1968
(B) 1967
(C) 1969
(D) 1965

7. How many members of regional members are there in the Caribbean Development Bank :
(A) 15
(B) 16
(C) 14
(D) 11

8. Which are the non-regional countries of Caribbean Development Bank :
(A) Canada, China and Germany
(B) Italy and U.K.
(C) (A) and (B)
(D) None of the above

9. Where is the headquarters of Caribbean Development Bank:
(A) Barbados
(B) Guyana
(C) Trinidad
(D) Tobago

10. Where is the headquarters of ‘Agency for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and Caribbean :
(A) Mexico
(B) El Salvador
(C) Grenada
(D) Guatemala

11. When was ‘Eastern Caribbean Central Bank’ established :
(A) 1981
(B) 1983
(C) 1984
(D) 1991

12. Which is the official language of Eastern Caribbean Central Bank :
(A) English
(B) Arabaic
(C) Japanese
(D) All the above

13. Where is the headquarters of Eastern Caribbean Central Bank :
(A) St. Kitts and Nevis
(B) St. Lucia
(C) St. Vincent
(D) None of the above

14. When was the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States founded :
(A) 1988
(B) 1987
(C) 1981
(D) 1991

15. When was Asian Development Bank established :
(A) 1966
(B) 1967
(C) 1968
(D) 1965

16. What is the official language of the Asian Development Bank :
(A) English
(B) German
(C) Italian
(D) Arabic

17. Where is the headquarters of Asian Development Bank :
(A) Denmark
(B) China
(C) Philippines
(D) Nepal

18. When was Economic Co-operation Organisation established :
(A) 1885
(B) 1981
(C) 1984
(D) 1980

19. Which are the countries who set-up the Economic Co-operation Organisation :
(A) Iran
(B) Pakistan
(C) Turkey
(D) All the above

20. Where is the headquarters of the Economic Co-operation Organisation :
(A) Republic of Iran
(B) Pakistan
(C) Turkey
(D) Afghanistan

21. When was Colombo Plan founded :
(A) 1949
(B) 1948
(C) 1950
(D) 1951

22. Which countries are the provisional members of the Colombo Plan :
(A) Mongolia
(B) Vietnam
(C) (A) and (B)
(D) None of the above

23. Where is the headquarters of Colombo Plan :
(A) Srilanka
(B) Singapore
(C) Thailand
(D) Myanmar

24. When was Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation formed:
(A) 1949
(B) 1989
(C) 1987
(D) 1983

25. Which is the official language of Asia Pacific Economic Co-operation :
(A) English
(B) Urdu
(C) German
(D) French

Answers :
1.(B) 2.(A) 3.(B) 4.(A) 5.(A)
6.(C) 7.(B) 8.(C) 9.(A) 10.(A)
11.(B) 12.(A) 13.(A) 14.(C) 15.(A)
16.(A) 17.(C) 18.(A) 19.(D) 20.(A)
21.(C) 22.(C) 23.(A) 24.(B) 25.(A)

SET-3

United Nations

1. Which of the following is not an original member of the UN:
(A) Pakistan
(B) India
(C) Poland
(D) Cuba

2. Who is the Secretary General of the UN :
(A) Kofi Annan
(B) Ban Ki Moon
(C) Philippe Couveeur
(D) None of the above

3. When did UN General Assembly adopt the Universal Declaration of Human Rights:
(A) 15th December, 1948
(B) 10th December, 1948
(C) 30th December, 1948
(D) 25th December, 1948

4. Which articles of the UN Charter mention the Universal Declaration of Human Rights :
(A) 1 to 25
(B) 1 to 26
(C) 1 to 30
(D) 1 to 35

5. When UN General Assembly adopted ‘Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty’ on 26th March, 2002 how many states had signed the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty :
(A) 165
(B) 164
(C) 168
(D) 169
6. What does Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) prohibit :
(A) Nuclear weapon test explosion
(B) Any other nuclear explosion anywhere in the world
(C) (A) and (B)
(D) None of the above

7. How many numbers of organisations are under UN :
(A) 26
(B) 28
(C) 25
(D) 24

8. How many members are there in the Executive Board which govern UN Development Programme :
(A) 38
(B) 39
(C) 35
(D) 36

9. Which is the UN agency associated with children's work :
(A) UNICEF
(B) UNDP
(C) UNFPA
(D) None of the above

10. When was UN Children's Fund establish :
(A) 1948
(B) 1949
(C) 1946
(D) 1947

11. When was UN Population Fund establish :
(A) 1970
(B) 1969
(C) 1971
(D) 1972

12. In 2000, UN population fund provided assistance to how many developing countries :
(A) 142
(B) 145
(C) 148
(D) 147

13. What is the function of the UN Population Fund for developing nation :
(A) Special emphasis on in- creasing the quality of reproductive health service
(B) Ending the gender discrimination and violence, formulation of effective population policies
(C) Reducing the spread of HIV/AIDS
(D) All the above

14. What are the main areas of work by the UN Population Fund :
(A) To help and ensure universal access to reproductive health
(B) Caring form the environment
(C) Sexual Health
(D) All the above

15. When was UN Environment Programme establish :
(A) 1972
(B) 1979
(C) 1978
(D) 1976

16. When was the UN International Drug Control Programme establish :
(A) 1997
(B) 1993
(C) 1991
(D) 1992

17. Where is UN International Drug Control Programme headquarters located :
(A) Vienna
(B) Tokyo
(C) London
(D) Switzerland

18. Where is the UN International Crime and Justice Research Institute located :
(A) New Delhi
(B) Rome
(C) Turin
(D) None of the above

19. Where is the head-office of UN High Commissioner for Refugees :
(A) Rome
(B) London
(C) Geneva
(D) Stockholm

20. Which are the autonomous institutions for training and research within the UN :
(A) UN Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR), UN Institute for Disarmament Research (UNDIR)
(B) UN Research Institute for Social Development, UN International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women
(C) UN University, University for Peace
(D) All the above

21. Which UN Organization is called as the World Bank :
(A) International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD)
(B) International Banking System
(C) International Banking Management System
(D) All the above

22. Where is the headquarters of International Bank for Reconstruction and Development :
(A) New York
(B) Washington
(C) Texas
(D) All the above

23. Where is the headquarters of International Finance Corporation :
(A) New Delhi
(B) Tokyo
(C) London
(D) Washington

24. Which UN Organization provide facilities for conciliation and arbitration of disputes between government and foreign investor :
(A) Multilateral investment guarantee agency
(B) International finance corporation
(C) International centre for settlement of investment disputes
(D) None of the above

25. Where is the headquarters of International Civil Aviation Organization :
(A) Canada
(B) Lebanon
(C) Brazil
(D) None of the above

Answers :
1.(A) 2.(B) 3.(B) 4.(A) 5.(C)
6.(B) 7.(D) 8.(A) 9.(A) 10.(C)
11.(B) 12.(D) 13.(D) 14.(A) 15.(A)
16.(A) 17.(A) 18.(C) 19.(C) 20.(A)
21.(A) 22.(B) 23.(C) 24.(C) 25.(A)

SET-4

United Nations

1. United Nations entities having primary role in providing protection and assistance in humanitarian cribes :
(A) World Food Programme
(B) UNDP
(C) UNICEF
(D) All the above

2. Which of the following pair is not correct?
(A) Partial Test-Ban Treaty — 1963
(B) Antarctic Treaty — 1965
(C) NPT — 1968
(D) CTBT — 1996

3. When did International Criminal Police Organisation come into existence :
(A) 1914
(B) 1918
(C) 1917
(D) 1915

4. Which of the following UN organ can impose embargoes and sanctions or authorize the use of force :
(A) General Assembly
(B) International Court of Justice
(C) Secretary General
(D) Security Council

5. What is the official language of INTERPOL :
(A) English, Arabic
(B) French
(C) Spanish
(D) All the above

6. When did INTERPOL obtain observer status by the UN General Assembly :
(A) 15th Oct, 1996
(B) 15th Oct, 1998
(C) 15th Oct, 1997
(D) 15th Oct, 1999

7. Where is the headquarters of INTERPOL :
(A) U.S.A.
(B) U.K
(C) France
(D) Germany

8. When was International Mobile Satellite Organisation set-up :
(A) 1978
(B) 1979
(C) 1977
(D) 1988

9. Where is the headquarters of the International Mobile Satellite Organisation :
(A) U.K.
(B) U.S.A.
(C) Spain
(D) Netherlands

10. When was International Telecommunication Satellite Organisation founded :
(A) 1969
(B) 1964
(C) 1965
(D) 1962

11. Which of the following day is designated as the International Day of Peace :
(A) 1 January
(B) 31 December
(C) 21 September
(D) 15 August

12. Where is the headquarters of International Telecommuni- cation Satellite Organisation :
(A) Washington D.C.
(B) London
(C) Geneva
(D) Sweden

13. When was World Tourism Organisation established :
(A) 1921
(B) 1923
(C) 1925
(D) 1929

14. Where the University for Peace is established?
(A) Kenya
(B) Fiji
(C) Switzerland
(D) Costa Rica

15. Where is the headquarters of the World Tourism Organisation:
(A) Spain
(B) U.K.
(C) U.S.A.
(D) India

16. When was International Air Transport Association founded:
(A) 1949
(B) 1945
(C) 1947
(D) 1948

17. Where is the headquarters of International Air Transport Association :
(A) Canada
(B) Singapore
(C) France
(D) None of the above

18. Where is the headquarters of International Road Federation:
(A) Netherlands
(B) Spain
(C) France
(D) Switzerland

19. Where is the headquarters of International Confederation of Free Trade Union :
(A) Belgium
(B) Denmark
(C) Zambia
(D) Namibia

20. When was the World Federation of Trade Union founded :
(A) 1949
(B) 1945
(C) 1946
(D) 1942

21. Where are the regional offices of World Federation of Trade Unions :
(A) New Delhi, Havana
(B) Daka, Damascus
(C) Moscow
(D) All the above

22. Where is the headquarters of the World Federation of Trade Union :
(A) Czech Republic
(B) Russia
(C) U.K.
(D) U.S.A.

23. When was European Trade Union Confederation established :
(A) 1974
(B) 1973
(C) 1971
(D) 1978

24. Where is the headquarters of European Trade Union Confederation :
(A) Italy
(B) Democratic Republic of the Congo
(C) Belgium
(D) Albania

25. When was World Confederation of Labour founded :
(A) 1920
(B) 1921
(C) 1923
(D) 1924

Answers :
1.(D) 2.(B) 3.(A) 4.(C) 5.(D)
6.(A) 7.(C) 8.(B) 9.(A) 10.(B)
11.(C) 12.(A) 13.(C) 14.(D) 15.(A)
16.(B) 17.(A) 18.(D) 19.(A) 20.(B)
21.(D) 22.(A) 23.(B) 24.(C) 25.(A)

SET-5

United Nations

1. Which members in the Security Council were conferred upon the veto power:
(A) China, Russia
(B) America, Britain
(C) France
(D) All the above

2. In which country's matter, Security Council has made significant contributions for the cause of world peace :
(A) Korea (1948), Indonesia (1949)
(B) Indo-Pak conflicts (1949, 1965 and 1971), Congo (1960-61)
(C) Cyprus (1964), Arab-Israeli conflict 1973, Palestine
(D) All the above

3. Which UN organ separately elects the judges of International Court of Justice:
(A) UN General Assembly
(B) UN Security Council
(C) (A) and (B)
(D) None of the above

4. To which UN organ, does the Security Council send its annual report :
(A) General Assembly
(B) General Council
(C) Special Council
(D) All the above

5. How many permanent members are required to give their affirmative vote on important decisions taken by the Security Council :
(A) 4
(B) 5
(C) 3
(D) 2

6. The United Nations Secretarial consists of :
(A) Commissions and Committees
(B) Specialised agencies and related organisations
(C) Secretaries and Secretary General
(D) Departments and Offices
7. Which permanent member of the Security Council used double veto on the question of Greece, Czechoslovakia and Spain :
(A) USA
(B) USSR
(C) Britain
(D) None of the above

8. Who can challenge the decision of the President of the Security Council :
(A) Developed countries
(B) Developing countries
(C) Permanent members of Security Council
(D) None of the above
9. In which subject, Security Council's recommendation is necessary for UN General Assembly decision :
(A) Admitting a new state of the UN
(B) The suspension and expulsion of UN members
(C) Appointment of Secretary General
(D) All the above
10. What is the present strength of members in the Economic and Social Council of the UN body :
(A) 53
(B) 54
(C) 55
(D) 56

11. Before 31st August, 1965, how many members were in the Economic and Social Council:
(A) 18
(B) 17
(C) 16
(D) 13

12. How many votes are entitled for members of the UN Economic and Social Council:
(A) Two votes
(B) Three votes
(C) One vote
(D) Five votes
13. Which UN organization may make or initiate studies and forward reports with respect to economic, social, cultural, educational, health and other related matters to the UN General Assembly :
(A) ILO
(B) IMF
(C) Security Council
(D) Economic and Social Council
14. How many Regional Commissions are established by the UN Economic and Social Council :
(A) 2
(B) 3
(C) 5
(D) 1

15. Which are the regional Commissions of the UN Economic and Social Council:
(A) Economic Commission for Europe, Economic Commission for Asia and Pacific
(B) Economic Commission for Africa
(C) Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean
(D) All the above
16. In which year did UN establish the UN Conference on Trade and Development :
(A) 1964
(B) 1963
(C) 1969
(D) 1967

17. Which of the following is UN Programme and not special agency :
(A) UNEP
(B) UNESCO
(C) WHO
(D) ILO

18. Which of the following is UN special agency and not programme :
(A) UNDP
(B) UNIFEM
(C) IBRD
(D) UNFPA

19. Which of the following is a World Bank group of five institutions :
(A) IMF
(B) IDA
(C) ILO
(D) ITU

20. Which of the following established as the Bretton Woods Conference in 1944 :
(A) IMF
(B) ILO
(C) WHO
(D) UNDP

21. When was the first restructured substantive session of the Economic and Social Council held :
(A) 29 April to 31 July 1992
(B) 27 April to 30 July 1992
(C) 27 June to 31 July 1992
(D) None of the above
22. In the UN, how many territories were placed under the trusteeship system :
(A) 11
(B) 12
(C) 13
(D)15

23. Which Article of the UN Charter established the International Trusteeship System :
(A) 78
(B) 79
(C) 75
(D) 74
24. Which are the territories placed under the Trusteeship System :
(A) New Geneva and Nauru (Australia), Rwanda- Urundi (Belgium)
(B) Cameroon and Togoland (France), Someell (Italy), Western Samva (New Zealand)
(C) Cameroon, Togoland and Tanzania, (UK), Pacific Islands Trust Territory (US)
(D) All the above
25. In which year, UN General Assembly terminated South Africa's mandate over Namibia:
(A) 1968
(B) 1966
(C) 1969
(D) 1965

Answers :
1.(D) 2.(D) 3.(C) 4.(A) 5.(B)
6.(D) 7.(B) 8.(C) 9.(D) 10.(B)
11.(A) 12.(C) 13.(D) 14.(C) 15.(D)
16.(A) 17.(A) 18.(C) 19.(B) 20.(A)
21.(C) 22.(A) 23.(C) 24.(D) 25.(B)

SET-6

United Nations

1. When was International Organisation for Migration formed :
(A) Takoyo in 1994
(B) London in 1995
(C) Brusselos in 1951
(D) None of the above

2. What is the official language of International Organisation for Migration :
(A) English
(B) French
(C) (A) and (B)
(D) None of the above

3. Which of the following pair is not correct?
(A) World Population Day — 11 July
(B) World Food Day — 20 June
(C) International Youth Day — 12 August
(D) International Day of Peace — 21 September

4. When was International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) established :
(A) New Delhi in February, 1996
(B) London in February, 1817
(C) Hague in February, 1896
(D) Geneva in February, 1863

5. Where is the headquarters of International Committee of the Red Cross :
(A) Switzerland
(B) South Africa
(C) United Kingdom
(D) U.S.A.

6. How many members are there in the International Committee of the Red Cross:
(A) 189
(B) 188
(C) 190
(D) 195

7. When did Antarctic Treaty come into force :
(A) 25th July, 1961
(B) 28th July, 1968
(C) 23th June, 1961
(D) None of the above

8. How many countries are Represented in the Antarctic Treaty :
(A) 35
(B) 34
(C) 37
(D) 39

9. When was Amnesty International founded :
(A) 1965
(B) 1961
(C) 1968
(D) 1975

10. Where is the headquarters of Amnesty International :
(A) London
(B) Tokyo
(C) New Delhi
(D) Paris

11. When did Amnesty Inter- national get the Nobel Peace Prize :
(A) 1978
(B) 1977
(C) 1975
(D) 1974

12. Which of the following pair is not correct :
(A) World Conference against Racism — Durban
(B) World Summit for Sustainable Development — Johannesburg
(C) World Food Summit — Havana
(D) World Education Forum — Dakar

13. Which of the following pair is not correct :
(A) Human Development Report — UNCTAD
(B) World Health Report — WHO
(C) World Development Report — World Bank
(D) World Economic Outlook — IMF

14. What is the main responsibility of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons :
(A) Maintain Chemical Weapons Warheads
(B) Implementation of the Chemical Weapons Convention
(C) (A) and (B)
(D) None of the above

15. When was Inter Parliamentary Union (IPU) founded :
(A) 1889
(B) 1876
(C) 1887
(D) 1888

16. Who found Amnesty International :
(A) Peter Shon
(B) Peter Max
(C) Peter Benson
(D) All the above

17. Who founded Inter Parliamentary Union :
(A) Willian Randal Cremer
(B) Foredrick Passy
(C) (A) and (B)
(D) None of the above

18. Which of the following pair is not correct : (A) SAARC — New Delhi
(B) ASEAN — Jakarta
(C) International Committee of the Red Cross — Geneva
(D) INTERPOL — Leon

19. Where is the headquarters of Inter Parliamentary Union :
(A) Sweden
(B) U.K.
(C) U.S.A.
(D) Switzerland

20. When was Organisation of the Islamic Conference founded :
(A) 1964
(B) 1968
(C) 1967
(D) 1965

21. Which of the following pair is not correct :
(A) Statue of the International Court of Justice — 70 Articles
(B) Original Members of the UN — 50 Articles
(C) UN Charter — 111 Articles
(D) Universal Declaration of Human Rights — 30 Articles

22. When was Islamic Development Bank formed :
(A) August, 1974
(C) August, 1978
(B) August, 1979
(D) August, 1975

23. Where is the headquarters of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference :
(A) Morocco
(B) Saudi Arabia
(C) Kuwait
(D) Niger

24. Which is the Official Language of Islamic Development Bank:
(A) Arabic
(B) English
(C) French
(D) All the above

25. Where is the headquarters of Islamic Development Bank :
(A) Saudi Arabia
(B) Sweden
(C) Switzerland
(D) None of the above

Answers :
1.(C) 2.(C) 3.(B) 4.(D) 5.(A)
6.(B) 7.(C) 8.(D) 9.(B) 10.(A)
11.(B) 12.(C) 13.(A) 14.(C) 15.(A)
16.(C) 17.(B) 18.(A) 19.(D) 20.(A)
21.(B) 22.(A) 23.(B) 24.(D) 25.(A)

SET-7

United Nations

1. Where is the headquarters of World Confederation of Labour:
(A) Chad
(B) Canada
(C) Belgium
(D) Cameroon

2. Where is the headquarters of International Organisation of the Francophonie :
(A) Togo
(B) Mali
(C) Romania
(D) France

3. When was International Organisation for Standardisation established :
(A) 1947
(B) 1949
(C) 1948
(D) 1945

4. Where is the headquarters of the International Organisation for Standardisation :
(A) U.S.A.
(B) U.K.
(C) Switzerland
(D) Senegal

5. In which year, International Organisation for Standardisation published the First Standard with the Title ‘Standard Reference Tem- perature for Industrial length measurement’ :
(A) 1951
(B) 1952
(C) 1954
(D) 1958

6. Where is the headquarters of Worldwide Fund for Nature:
(A) Lebanon
(B) Benin
(C) Switzerland
(D) Haiti

7. When was International Olympic Committee founded :
(A) 1894
(B) 1895
(C) 1888
(D) 1887

8. When was International Union against Cancer founded:
(A) 1934
(B) 1933
(C) 1939
(D) 1938

9. When was Inter American Development Bank established :
(A) 1959
(B) 1958
(C) 1957
(D) 1951

10. In order to help accelerate Economic and Social Development of which country Inter-American Development Bank was formed :
(A) Latin America
(B) Caribbean
(C) (A) and (B)
(D) None of the above

11. How many member countries are there in the Inter-American Development Bank :
(A) 45
(B) 43
(C) 46
(D) 48

12. Which is the official language of Inter-American Development Bank :
(A) English and French
(B) Portuguese
(C) Spanish
(D) All the above

13. Where is the headquarters of Inter-American Development Bank :
(A) U.S.A.
(B) Spain
(C) Venezuela
(D) Uruguay

14. When was Secretariate for Central American Economic Integration established :
(A) 1953
(B) 1952
(C) 1951
(D) 1954

15. Where is the headquarters of Central American Common Market.
(A) Guatemala
(B) Venezuela
(C) Honduras
(D) Colombia

16. When was Central American Bank for Economic Integration founded :
(A) 1962
(B) 1960
(C) 1961
(D) 1964

17. Which is the official language of Central American Bank for Economic Integration :
(A) Hindi
(B) Spanish
(C) English
(D) (B) and (C)

18. Where is the headquarters of the Central American Bank for Economic Integration :
(A) Honduras
(B) Costa Rica
(C) Mexico
(D) China

19. Which is the official language of Latin American Integration Association :
(A) Portuguese
(B) Spanish
(C) (A) and (B)
(D) None of the above

20. In which year Latin American Economic System was established :
(A) 1975
(B) 1978
(C) 1979
(D) 1974

21. Which is the official language of Latin American Economic System :
(A) English and French
(B) Portuguese
(C) Spanish
(D) All the above

22. Where is the headquarters of Latin American Economic System :
(A) Panama
(B) Venezuela
(C) Paraguay
(D) Peru

23. In which year was Latin American Reserve Fund established :
(A) 1990
(B) 1989
(C) 1991
(D) 1982

24. Which is the official language of Latin American Reserve Fund :
(A) Spanish
(B) Portuguese
(C) English
(D) French

25. Which is the official language of the Andean Community :
(A) English
(B) German
(C) Spanish
(D) None of the above

Answers :
1.(C) 2.(D) 3.(A) 4.(C) 5.(A)
6.(C) 7.(A) 8.(B) 9.(A) 10.(C)
11.(C) 12.(D) 13.(A) 14.(B) 15.(A)
16.(B) 17.(D) 18.(A) 19.(C) 20.(A)
21.(D) 22.(B) 23.(C) 24.(A) 25.(C)

SET-8

United Nations

1. What are the principal functions of the International Labour Organization :
(A) The formulation of International Standards in the form of International labour conventions and recommendations
(B) Formulation of labour union in every country
(C) Formulation of labour law in every country
(D) None of the above
2. Division for public Administration and Development Management is related with :
(A) Common Wealth
(B) UNO
(C) ASEAN
(D) SAARC
3. What is the programme and budget set out for strategic objectives of the International Labour Organization :
(A) to promote and realise fundamental principles and rights at work
(B) To create greater opportunities for women and men to secure decent employment and income
(C) To enhance the coverage and effectiveness of social protection for all, to strengthen tripartism and social dialogue
(D) All the above
4. Which new Convention was adopted by the 87th International Labour Organization in June 1999 :
(A) Banning the worst forms of child labour
(B) Banning the labour union in regional level
(C) Banning the labour union in International level
(D) promote labour efficiency in physical work
5. How many members of countries of Industrial importance hold permanent seats on the governing body of the International Labour Organization :
(A) 5
(B) 10
(C) 6
(D) 8

6. Which are the countries of industrial importance holding permanent seats on the governing body of the International Labour Ogranisation :
(A) Brazil, China, Germany and France
(B) India, Italy and Japan
(C) Russia, UK and USA
(D) All the above
7. How many member countries are elected after every three years in the International Labour Organisation :
(A) 18
(B) 17
(C) 16
(D) 15

8. In which year has the UN established the International Maritime Organisation :
(A) 1969
(B) 1979
(C) 1959
(D) 1989

9. Which of the following report is published every year by the World Bank :
(A) World Development Report
(B) Human Development Report
(C) World Trade Development Report
(D) International Finance and Development Report
10. Official languages of the UN are :
(A) Chinese, English, French and Urdu
(B) Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish
(C) English, French, Spanish, Russian and Urdu
(D) Hindi, English, Spanish and Arabic
11. What are the main functions of International Maritime Organization :
(A) To facilitate co-operation among governments on technical matters effecting merchant shipping
(B) Safety of sea
(C) To prevent and control marine pollution caused by ships, to facilitate international maritime traffic
(D) All the above
12. Which became one of the last original 51 member of the UN:
(A) Italy
(B) Germany
(C) Poland
(D) India
13. Which of the following was awarded Noble Peace Prize?
(A) Kofi Annan
(B) U Thant
(C) Ban ki Moon
(D) Javier Perez de Cueller
14. What are the aims of International Monetary Fund:
(A) To promote international monetary co-operation
(B) The expansion of international trade and exchange rate stability
(C) To assist in the removal of exchange restricting and the establishment of a multilateral system of payment
(D) All the above
15. The second world conference on Human Rights was held in :
(A) Vienna
(B) Geneva
(C) New York
(D) Havana

16. India's Dr. Homi Jahangir Bhabhas has has been the President of the :
(A) UNDEP
(B) UNESCO
(C) ILO
(D) IAEA

17. Which countries have the largest quotas of capital resources in the International Monetary Fund :
(A) USA and Germany
(B) Japan and France
(C) UK
(D) All the above
18. How many members are of the International Law Commission?
(A) 64
(B) 54
(C) 44
(D) 34

19. How many executive directions are there in the Board of Governors in the International Monetary Fund:
(A) 23
(B) 24
(C) 28
(D) 29

20. Where is the headquarters of the International Monetary Fund :
(A) Paris
(B) Geneva
(C) Washington
(D) New York
21. Which nation has the eligibility to become President of the World Bank :
(A) Japan National
(B) USSR National
(C) India National
(D) US National
22. The members of the International Law Commission are elected by :
(A) Security Council
(B) General Assembly
(C) International Court of Justice
(D) Human Rights Council
23. When was the International Telecommunications Union established :
(A) 1864
(B) 1865
(C) 1869
(D) 1876

24. When did International Telecommunications Union become a Specialized Agency of the UN :
(A) 1948
(B) 1946
(C) 1947
(D) 1945

25. What are the main functions of the International Tele- communication Union :
(A) To maintain and extend international co-operation for the improvement and rational use of telecommunication of all kinds.
(B) Promote and offer technical assistance to developing countries in the field of telecommunications.
(C) To promote the development of technical facilities and their most efficient operation to improve the efficiency of telecommunications service.
(D) All the above

Answers :
1.(A) 2.(B) 3.(D) 4.(A) 5.(B)
6.(D) 7.(A) 8.(C) 9.(A) 10.(B)
11.(D) 12.(C) 13.(A) 14.(D) 15.(A)
16.(D) 17.(D) 18.(D) 19.(B) 20.(C)
21.(D) 22.(B) 23.(B) 24.(C) 25.(D)

SET-9

United Nations

1. In which year did World Intellectual Property Organization become a UN Specialised Agency :
(A) 1975
(B) 1974
(C) 1976
(D) 1979

2. What are the aims of World Intellectual Property Organization :
(A) To promote the protection of intellectual property throughout the world through co-operation among member states
(B) To ensure administrative co-operation among various intellectual property created by the Paris and Berne Convention
(C) (A) and (B)
(D) None of the above

3. Where is the headquarters of World Intellectual Property Organization :
(A) Geneva
(B) Colombo
(C) New Delhi
(D) Paris

4. What is the official language of the World Intellectual Property Organization :
(A) Arabic, Chinese
(B) English, French
(C) Russian, Spanish
(D) All the above

5. In which year World Meteorological Organization was recognized as a specialized agency of the UN:
(A) 1958
(B) 1956
(C) 1951
(D) 1955

6. 14th Non-aligned Summit was organised in 2006 as :
(A) Jakarta
(B) Cairo
(C) Kathmandu
(D) Havana

7. What are the functions of World Meteorological Organi- zation:
(A) To facilitate worldwide co-operation in the establishment of networks of stations for the making of meteorological observations as well as hydrological or other geophysical observations
(B) To promote standardization of meteorological and related observations and ensure the uniform publication of observations and statistics
(C) To promote activities in operational hydrology and to further enhance co-operation between meteorological and the hydrological services
(D) All the above

8. When was International Atomic Energy Agency statute approved by the UN :
(A) 26th October, 1956
(B) 26th October, 1955
(C) 26th October, 1954
(D) 26th October, 1953

9. What are the functions of International Atomic Energy Agency :
(A) To accelerate and enlarge the contribution of atomic energy to peace, health and prosperity throughout the world
(B) To ensure that assistance provided by it or at its request or under its supervision or control is not used in such a way as no further any military purpose
(C) (A) and (B)
(D) None of the above

10. Where is the headquarters of International Atomic Energy Agency :
(A) Sydney
(B) Vienna
(C) Capetown
(D) New Delhi

11. When did International Seabed Authority come into existence:
(A) 16th November, 1994
(B) 8th November, 1994
(C) 10th November, 1994
(D) 6th November, 1994

12. Where is the headquarters of International Seabed Authority:
(A) Jamaica
(B) South Africa
(C) Cuba
(D) India

13. When did World Trade Organization come into force:
(A) 2nd January, 1948
(B) 1st January, 1995
(C) 12th January, 1948
(D) 15th January, 1946

14. What is the number of member states in the World Trade Organization :
(A) 144
(B) 148
(C) 150
(D) 146

15. Where is the headquarters of World Trade Organization :
(A) New Delhi
(B) New York
(C) Geneva
(D) None of the above

16. Who have the largest share of world trade :
(A) European Union, USA
(B) Japan
(C) Canada
(D) All the above

17. When was International Criminal Court established by the UN :
(A) 11th April 2002
(B) 18th June — 19th August 1998
(C) 20th July — 20th October 1998
(D) None of the above

18. Where is the International Criminal Court establish :
(A) New Delhi
(B) Rome
(C) Paris
(D) The Hague

19. Where is the headquarters of World Meteorological Organization :
(A) Geneva
(B) Paris
(C) London
(D) New Delhi

20. On which subjects, individuals get accused by the International Criminal Court:
(A) Genocide
(B) War-crime
(C) Crime against individual
(D) All the above

21. What are the ad-hoc bodies of the UN General Assembly:
(A) Special Committee on Peace Keeping Operation, Human Rights Committee, Committee on the Peaceful Use of Outer Space
(B) Conciliation Commission for Palestine, Conference on Disarmament, International Law Commission, Scientific Committee on the effects of Atomic Radiation
(C) Special Committee on the Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independent Countries and Peoples Commission on International Trade Law
(D) All the above

22. When did Russian Federation take over the seat of the former USSR as a permanent member of the Security Council:
(A) December, 1991
(B) December, 1992
(C) December, 1993
(D) December, 1994

23. What are the standing Committees of the Security Council :
(A) The Committee of Experts on Rules of Procedure
(B) The Committee on the Admission of New Members
(C) (A) and (B)
(D) None of the above

24. Which of the following pair is not correct :
(A) Kiribati, Naura, Tonga — 1988
(B) Tuvalu, Serbia, Montenegr — 1989
(C) Palau — 1995
(D) Switzerland, Timor Loste — 2002

25. Which of the following pair is not correct :
(A) India — 1947
(B) Pakistan — 1947
(C) Poland — 1945
(D) Switzerland — 2002

Answers :
1.(B) 2.(C) 3.(A) 4.(D) 5.(C)
6.(D) 7.(D) 8.(A) 9.(C) 10.(B)
11.(A) 12.(A) 13.(B) 14.(D) 15.(C)
16.(D) 17.(A) 18.(D) 19.(A) 20.(D)
21.(D) 22.(A) 23.(C) 24.(C) 25.(A)

SET-10

United Nations

1. Where is the headquarters of the International Fund for Agriculture Development :
(A) Sweden
(B) UK
(C) USA
(D) Rome

2. When did African Union come into existence :
(A) 27th May, 2002
(B) 26th May, 2001
(C) 26th May, 1999
(D) 28th May, 1996

3. Which African Organization was dissolved, when African Union was formed :
(A) Organization of African Country
(B) Organization of African Nation
(C) Organization of African Unity
(D) None of the above

4. What are the aims of the African Union :
(A) Unity of the 53 African member states politically, socially and economically
(B) Modelled on European Union
(C) (A) and (B)
(D) None of the above

5. What is the official language of the African Union :
(A) African languages
(B) Arabics, Portuguese
(C) English, French
(D) All the above

6. Where is the headquarters of the African Union :
(A) Addis Ababa (Ethiopia)
(B) Burundi
(C) Cameroon
(D) Congo

7. What is the aim of African Development Bank :
(A) Promote developing countries' economy
(B) Promote economic and social development in the African region
(C) Promote economic zone of African union
(D) All the above

8. How many regional members of African Development Bank are there :
(A) 54
(B) 55
(C) 53
(D) 58

9. How many non-regional members are there in the African Development Bank :
(A) 24
(B) 23
(C) 25
(D) 27

10. What is the official language of African Development Bank:
(A) English
(B) French
(C) (A) and (B)
(D) None of the above

11. Where is the headquarters of African Development Bank :
(A) Abidjan (Cote d' Ivoire)
(B) Niger
(C) Namibia
(D) Nigeria

12. When was Bank of Central African States formed :
(A) 1974
(B) 1978
(C) 1973
(D) 1979

13. Which is the official language of Bank of Central Arican States :
(A) English
(B) Hindi
(C) German
(D) French

14. What are the original member states in Bank of Central African States :
(A) 5
(B) 4
(C) 3
(D) 2

15. Who are the original members of Bank of Central African States :
(A) Cameroon and Central African Republic
(B) Chad and Republic of the Congo
(C) Gabon
(D) All the above

16. Which European country is the guarantor of Bank of Central African States :
(A) UK
(B) France
(C) Germany
(D) Switzerland

17. Which European country provide its currency for Bank of Central African States :
(A) France
(B) UK
(C) Netherlands
(D) Germany

18. When did East African Development Bank come into force :
(A) 1967
(B) 1980
(C) 1982
(D) 1983

19. Through which treaty was East African Development Bank originally establish : (A) Treaty for East African Co-operation, 1967
(B) Treaty for African Co-operation, 1965
(C) Treaty for African Unity, 1968
(D) None of the above

20. Which African countries are the members of the East African Development Bank :
(A) Kenya
(B) Tanzania
(C) Uganda
(D) All the above

21. Where is the headquarters of East African Development Bank :
(A) Uganda
(B) South Africa
(C) Zambia
(D) Zimbabwe

22. Which is the official language of East African Development Bank :
(A) German
(B) English
(C) French
(D) Portuguese

23. When was West African Development Bank formed :
(A) November, 1978
(B) November, 1979
(C) November, 1973
(D) November, 1976

24. Which is the official language of West African Development Bank :
(A) Arabic
(B) French
(C) Portuguese
(D) English

25. When was Central Bank of West African States formed :
(A) 1964
(B) 1963
(C) 1962
(D) 1965

Answers :
1.(D) 2.(B) 3.(B) 4.(C) 5.(D)
6.(A) 7.(B) 8.(C) 9.(C) 10.(C)
11.(A) 12.(C) 13.(D) 14.(A) 15.(D)
16.(B) 17.(A) 18.(A) 19.(A) 20.(D)
21.(A) 22.(B) 23.(C) 24.(B) 25.(C)

SET-11

United Nations

1. Where is the headquarters of the International Tele-communications Union :
(A) Geneva
(B) New Delhi
(C) New York
(D) London

2. Which of the following pair is not correct?
(A) World Summit for Children — New York
(B) World Food Summit — Rome
(C) World Conference in Human Rights — Geneva
(D) World Summit for Social Development — Copenhagen
3. When was the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) constitution signed in London :
(A) 4th November, 1948
(B) 16th November, 1949
(C) 16th November, 1945
(D) 16th November, 1942
4. How many countries were in the UNESCO when its constitution was signed in London on 16th November, 1945 :
(A) 37
(B) 38
(C) 32
(D) 35

5. Established by the General Assembly in 1966, UNIDO became a UN specialised agency in :
(A) 1980
(B) 1985
(C) 1990
(D) 1995
6. In what way UNESCO's primary objectives contribute to peace and security in the world :
(A) Education, Science
(B) Communication culture and justice
(C) Rule of law, human rights and fundamental freedoms
(D) All the above
7. What is the main work regarding education by the UNESCO :
(A) To provide basic education for all, expand access to basic education
(B) Improve the quality of basic education
(C) Education for the 21st century
(D) All the above

8. Which of the following pair is not correct :
(A) IAEA — New Delhi
(B) WTO — Geneva
(C) UPU — Berne
(D) IMF — Washington
9. Where is the headquarters of the UNESCO :
(A) New Delhi
(B) London
(C) Paris
(D) New York

10. In which country UNESCO Science Co-operation Office has been set-up :
(A) Cairo, Jakarta
(B) Nairobi, New Delhi
(C) Montevideo, Venice
(D) All the above
11. How many member countries are there in the Executive Board of UNESCO :
(A) 68
(B) 58
(C) 28
(D) 88

12. What are the UNESCO's focus areas in the cultural field :
(A) The link between culture and development
(B) Action to conserve and protect the world cultural inheritance
(C) By assisting member states in studying and preserving both physical and the non-physical heritage of their societies
(D) All the above
13. Whose part is the International Bureau of Education :
(A) UNESCO
(B) UNIDO
(C) IMF
(D) None of the above

14. When did UN General Assembly establish UN Industrial Development Organization :
(A) 1968
(B) 1966
(C) 1967
(D) 1965
15. What are the aims of the UN Industrial Development Organization :
(A) Helps developing countries on the issue of fight against marginalization and poverty
(B) Helps developing countries
(C) Mobilizes knowledge, skills, information and technology to promote productive employment, a competitive economy and sound environment
(D) All the above
16. Where is the headquarters of the UN Industrial Development Organization :
(A) Vienna, Austria
(B) New Delhi
(C) Washington DC
(D) None of the above
17. When was the Universal Postal Union (UPU) establish:
(A) 1889
(B) 1874
(C) 1886
(D) 1885
18. Where is the headquarters of the Universal Postal Union :
(A) Switzerland
(B) UK
(C) Iran
(D) India

19. When did World Health Organization (WHO) come into force:
(A) 6th April, 1948
(B) 7th April, 1948
(C) 10th April, 1948
(D) 26th April, 1948

20. What are the functions of the World Health Organization :
(A) To assist government to strengthen their health services
(B) To assist advance work to eradicate diseases
(C) To promote maternal and child health
(D) All the above

21. Where is the headquarters of World Health Organization :
(A) Geneva, Switzerland
(B) London, UK
(C) New Delhi, India
(D) None of the above

22. When is World Health Day observed every year :
(A) 8th April
(B) 10th April
(C) 7th April
(D) 9th April

23. When does World Health Organization organise ‘World Aids Day’ :
(A) 1st December
(B) 2nd December
(C) 10th December
(D) 15th December

24. Which of the following awarded Noble Peace Prize for three times?
(A) Human Rights Council
(B) World Bank
(C) International Committee of the Red Cross
(D) UN Peacekeeping forces

25. Where is the headquarters of Pan American Health Organization :
(A) Washington DC
(B) Ottawa
(C) New York
(D) Mexico

Answers :
1.(A) 2.(C) 3.(C) 4.(A) 5.(B)
6.(D) 7.(D) 8.(A) 9.(C) 10.(D)
11.(B) 12.(D) 13.(A) 14.(B) 15.(D)
16.(A) 17.(B) 18.(A) 19.(B) 20.(D)
21.(A) 22.(C) 23.(A) 24.(C) 25.(D)


SET-12

United Nations

1. Which is the official language of Central Bank of West African Bank:
(A) French
(B) Arabic
(C) English
(D) Hindi

2. Where is the headquarters of Central Bank of West African States :
(A) Avenue Abdoulaye Fediga
(B) Dakar
(C) Senegal
(D) All the above

3. In which year, African Export and Import Bank came into existence :
(A) 1978
(B) 1979
(C) 1976
(D) 1974
4. What is the official language of African Export and Import Bank :
(A) English, French
(B) Arabic
(C) Portuguese
(D) All the above

5. Where is the headquarters of African Export and Import Bank :
(A) Egypt
(B) Senegal
(C) Dauber
(D) None of the above

6. When did Economic Community of Central African States came into existence :
(A) 1984
(B) 1983
(C) 1982
(D) 1981

7. In which year, Economic Community of West African States came into existence :
(A) 1975
(B) 1978
(C) 1979
(D) 1974

8. Which is the official language of Economic Community of West African States :
(A) English
(B) French
(C) Portuguese
(D) All the above

9. When was West African Monetary and Economic Union found :
(A) 1991
(B) 1994
(C) 1992
(D) 1995

10. When was ‘Common Market for Eastern and Southern African (COMESA) formed :
(A) 1995
(B) 1994
(C) 1992
(D) 1991

11. How many member states are in `Common Market' for Eastern and Southern Africa:
(A) 21
(B) 28
(C) 20
(D) 26

12. Which is the official language of the `Common Market' for Eastern and Southern Africa:
(A) English
(B) French
(C) Portuguese
(D) All the above

13. How many member countries were founder of the Southern African Development Community :
(A) 9
(B) 8
(C) 7
(D) 6

14. Which of the following pair is not correct?
(A) World Press Freedom Day — 3 May
(B) World Day for Water — 11 July
(C) World Environment Day — 5 June
(D) World Refugee Day — 20 June

15. Which is the official language of Southern African Development Community :
(A) English, French
(B) Portuguese
(C) German
(D) (A) and (B)

16. When was Lake Chad Basin Commission founded :
(A) 22nd May, 1964
(B) 24th May, 1964
(C) 28th May, 1964
(D) 29th May, 1964

17. When was Niger Basin Authority established :
(A) 1983
(B) 1981
(C) 1980
(D) 1982

18. Which of the following pair is not correct?
(A) World Post Day — 9 October
(B) World Health Day — 7 April
(C) World Teacher's Day — 5 September
(D) World Book and Copyright Day — 23 April

19. When was East African Community formed :
(A) 30th November, 1999
(B) 30th November, 1998
(C) 30th November, 1996
(D) 30th November, 1995

20. Who are the members of East Arican Community :
(A) Kenya
(B) Uganda
(C) Tanzania
(D) All the above

21. When was Inter-Governmental Authority on Development come into existence :
(A) 21st March, 1995
(B) 21st March, 1996
(C) 25th March, 1998
(D) 28th March, 1997

22. When was World Council of Churches formally constituted:
(A) 23rd August, 1945
(B) 23rd August, 1944
(C) 23rd August, 1948
(D) None of the above

23. Where is the head-office of the World Council of Churches :
(A) Switzerland
(B) Germany
(C) France
(D) Italy

24. When did Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organisation come into existence :
(A) 1991
(B) 1992
(C) 1993
(D) 1994

25. How many countries are represented in Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organisation :
(A) 54
(B) 53
(C) 58
(D) 59

Answers :
1.(A) 2.(D) 3.(A) 4.(D) 5.(A)
6.(B) 7.(A) 8.(D) 9.(B) 10.(B)
11.(C) 12.(D) 13.(B) 14.(B) 15.(D)
16.(A) 17.(C) 18.(C) 19.(A) 20.(D)
21.(B) 22.(C) 23.(A) 24.(A) 25.(B)

Monday, December 20, 2010

BOOKS & AUTHORS RELATED QUESTIONS


1. Who is the author of "The Kalam effect: My years with the president"?
(a) P.M.Nayar (b) Sonia Gandhi
(c) L.K.Adwani (d) Arun Shaurie
ANS (a)

2. Who is the author of the book "Superstar India : From Incredible to Unstopable"?
(a) L.K.Adwani (b) Arundhati Roy
(c) Shobha De (d) Vikram Seth
ANS (c)

3. The Sanskrit poet called as the Indian Shakespeare?
(a) Kalidasa (b) Thulasidas (c) Sudraka (d) Kautilya
ANS (a)

4. Mulk Raj Anand is the author of
(a) The Post Office (b) Gora
(c) India Wins Freedom (d) Coolie
ANS (Try Yourself)

5. Who is the author of the book ’My other two daughters’?
(a) Lalu Prasad Yadav (b) Surjit Singh Barnala
(c) E.M. Forster (d) Paul Kennedy
ANS (b)

6. Who is known as the Father of Detective Story
(a) Arthur Conan Doyle (b) Bram Stoker
(c) Edgar Allen Poe (d) None of the above
ANS (c)

7. Man-The Maker of His Own Destiny’ “ book was written by
(a) V.S. Naipaul (b) Mahatma Gandhi
(c) Guenter Grass (d) Swami Vivekananda
ANS (d)

8. Find out the odd one
(a) Louis Fischer (b) Ibsen(c) William Shakespeare (d) Sherlock HolmesANS (d) Others are writers. Sherlock Holmes is a character 9.One among the following is not written by Kalidasa
(a) Saakunthalam (b) Raghu Vamsam
(c) Rith Samharam (d) Kaavyadooth
ANS (d)

10. ’Sonia, a Biography’ was written by
(a) Sonia Gandhi (b) Arundhathi Roy
(c) Rasheed Kidvai (d) V.K. Madhavan Kutty
ANS (c)

11. One among the following is not a Harry Potter story
(a) Chamber of secrets
(b) The philosopher’s stone
(c) Half blood prince (d) Naked Truth
ANS (d)

12. Jules Verne, a French science fiction writer wrote a book, which carried a more or less accurate prediction of the launching of Apollo-8. Which is the book
(a) From the Earth to the moon
(b) All under Heaven
(c) A Midsummer Night’s Dream
(d) Past and Present
ANS (a)

13. Who is the author of "A Passage to England"?
(a) E.M. Forster (b) Nirad C. Chaudhari
(c) G.B. Shaw (d) Winston Churchill
ANS (b)

14. "Does IT matter" is a book written by
(a) Bill Gates (b) N. R. Narayanan (c) Nicholas Carr
(d) Thomas D. Harris (e) None of these
ANS (c)

15. ’Beyond time’ is the book written by
(a) Namita Gokhale (b) Ruskin Bond
(c) William Balrymple (d) Josef Korbel
(e) None of these
ANS (e)

16. The famous book ’Anandmath’ has been authorised by
(a) Rabindranath Tagore
(b) Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyaya
(c) Sarojini Naidu
(d) Sri Aurobindo
ANS (b)

17.Who wrote a book describing the theory of economic drain of India during British rule?
(a) Dadabhai Naoroji (b) Lala Lajpat Rai
(c) Mahatma Gandhi (d) Jawaharlal Nehru
ANS (a)

18. The author of the book ’Waiting for Godot’ is:
(a) Ruth Harring (b) Susan Sontag
(c) Samuel Beckett (d) Ben Jonson
ANS (c) Waiting for the Mahatma - R. K. Narayanan
Waiting to Exhale - Terry Mc Millan

19. "The Vedas contain all the truth", was interpreted by:
(a) Swami Vivekananda (b) Swami Dayanand
(c) Swami Shraddhanand (d) S. Radhakrishnan
ANS (b)

20. Sirr-i-Akbar was the Persian translation of fifty-two Upanishads by which son of shah Jahan?
ANS - Dara Shikoh

21.In "The Travels of Gulliver", what is the first things two Lilliputians discuss when they meet in the morning?
ANS - The health of the sun

22."The man who knew infinity" is the biography of
(a) Rene Descartes (b) Stephen Hawking
(c) Albert Einstein (d) S. Ramanujan
ANS (d)

23.What was the original name of ’Alice in Wonderland’ when Lewis Carroll first showed it to novelist Henry Kingsley in 1863?
ANS - Alice’s Adventures Underground

24. The author of the book "Waiting for the Mahatma" is
(a) R.K Narayan (b) N.A Palkhiwala
(c) Amrita Pritam (d) M. Malgonkar
ANS (a)

25. Under the patronage of which ruler of the Javanese house of Mataram, was the epic poem ’Arjuna vivaha’ written?
ANS - King Airlangga

26. To whom, in his own words, did Rudyard Kipling dedicate his collection, ’Plain Tales From the Hills’?
ANS - To the wittiest woman in India

27. ’Beyond the Last Blue Mountain’ is R.M Lala’s biography of which Indian?
ANS - J. R. D. Tata

28. Which of Agatha Christie’s books was the first to be serialised in the Evening News under the title ’Anna the Adventure’?
ANS - The Man In The Brown Suit

29. Who has authored the book A Brief History of Time?
(a) Carl Sagan (b) Issac Asimov
(c) John Gribbin (d) Stephen Hawking
ANS (d)

30. The book ’Living with Honour’ is written by
(a) Arundhati Roy (b) Shiv Khera
(c) Pramod Batra (d) Vikram Seth
ANS (b)

31. The book ’Cricket My Style’ is written by
(a) Sunil Gavaskar (b) Sachin Tendulkar
(c) Kapil Dev (d) Mohinder Amarnath
ANS (c)

32. Who wrote the book ’The Book of Indian Birds’
ANS - Dr. Salim Ali

33. ’Economic History of India’ was written by
ANS - R. C. Dutt

34.The oldest of the vedic literature is
(a) Sama Veda (b) Yajur Veda
(c) Rig Veda (d) Atharva Veda
ANS (c)

35. ’Leelavathi’ the famous sanskrit grantha is a book on
ANS - Mathematics

36. Who is the author of ˜An Equal Musicâ (1999)
ANS - Vikram Seth

37. Who wrote the poem ˜Passage to India in 1871
ANS - Walt Whitman (American Poet)

38. Who is the author of the book ˜The Canterbury Tales
ANS - Geoffrey Chaucer

39. Who is the author of the book ˜Anna Karenin
ANS - Leo Tolstoy

40.Who is the author of the book ˜The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
ANS - Mark Twain

41. Who is the author of the book ˜The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes?
ANS - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

42.Who is the author of the book ˜The Comedy of Errors?
ANS - William Shakespeare

43. Who is the author of the book ˜Animal Farm
ANS - George Orwell

44. Who is the author of the book ˜The Rime of the Ancient Mariner?
ANS - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

45. Who is the author of the book, ˜Through the Looking-Glass?
ANS - Lewis Carroll

46. Who is the author of the book, ˜Allâs Well That Ends Wellâ?
ANS - William Shakespeare

47. Who is the author of the book ˜Akbar-nama
ANS - Abul Fazl

48. Who is the author of the book ˜The Adventures of Huckleberry Finnâ?
ANS - Mark Twain

49. Who is the author of the book ˜Antony and Cleopatraâ?
ANS - William Shakespeare

50. Who is the author of the book , Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica (Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, 1687)
ANS - Sir Isaac

51. Who is the author of the book "Jyoti Punj"?
(a) L.K.Adwani (b) Atal Bihari Vajpeyi
(c) Narendra Modi (d) Vikram Seth
ANS (c)

52. Who is the author of the book "Jyoti Punj"?
(a) L.K.Adwani (b) Sushma Swaraj
(c) Narendra Modi (d) Jaswant Singh
ANS (c)