1. In 2013 (September, 2013), which country senate has approved the ban on beauty pageants for children below 16 years?

2. Which among the following State governments has decided to implement a new scheme known as 'Kanyadan' under which an incentive of Rs 11,000 per girl will be handed over to each of the beneficiary brides during the mass marriage ceremony to be organized by Red Cross Societies or any registered non- government organisation (NGO) in the state?

3. Which of the following IITs has designing rail coaches that will draw power from the sun for interior lighting and cooking?

4. In 2013, who among the following was re-elected for a second term as IAEA chief?

5. Which country is the largest producer of Greenhouse gases in the world?

6. The drug Bedaquiline, which is in 2013 in news is used to treat which one of the following disease?

7. In 2013, the construction of dam on Blue Nile River triggered the tension between which two countries?

8. The Kurubas are an ancient forest tribe indigenous to the __?

9. Which of the following committees has been constituted to prepare a roadmap for enhancing domestic production of oil and gas so as to reduce the nation's import dependency by 2030?

10. It was reported in Newspapers that Encephalitis has claimed many lives in Uttar Pradesh. Encephalitis is an acute inflammation of the ________?