Practice MCQ Questions and answers on Famous Personalities-GK

Jayanta Mahapatra is an Indian English poet. He is the first Indian poet to win a Sahitya Akademi award for English poetry. He is the author of poems such as Indian Summer and Hunger, which are regarded as classics in modern Indian English literature.

The first blueprint for computerization in the Banking Industry was drawn up in 1983-84. A Committee was set up in 1983 under the chairmanship of Dr. C. Rangarajan, the then Deputy Governor, Reserve Bank of India, to look into the modalities of drawing a phased plan of mechanization in the Banking Industry, covering the period 1985-89. The Committee submitted its report in 1984 and recommended the introduction of computerization at Branch, Regional, and Head Office levels of banks. The banking industry has since come a long way in computerizing their front and back-office operations as per the guidelines of Rangarajan Committee.
Against this background and the experience gained in the eighties, RBI set up in September 1988, another Committee, again the chairmanship of Dr. C. Rangarajan, Deputy Governer, to draw up a perspective plan of computerization for the banking industry for the five year’s period 1990-94 and also to consider other allied issues.

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Ustad Amjad Ali Khan (born 9 October 1945) is an Indian classical sarod player, best known for his clear and fast ekhara taans. Khan was born into a classical musical family and has performed internationally since the 1960s.

Terrorist and Disruptive Activities (Prevention) Act, commonly known as TADA, was an Indian anti-terrorism law which was in force between 1985 and 1995 under the background of the Punjab insurgency and was applied to whole of India. Sanjay Dutt, a noted film actor was held under TADA.

Shovana Narayan is a famous and recognized Indian Kathak dancer. She had dual career, in parallel, as a Kathak artist and a career officer with Indian Audit and Accounts Service. She performs in India and around the world, and has been awarded the Padma Shri. Her guru is Birju Maharaj.

Hariprasad Chaurasia (born 1 July 1938) is an Indian music director and classical flautist, who plays the bansuri, an Indian bamboo flute, in the Hindustani classical tradition.

Henry Graham Greene OM CH was an English writer and journalist regarded by many as one of the leading English novelists of the 20th century. Combining literary acclaim with widespread popularity, Greene acquired a reputation early in his lifetime as a major writer, both of serious Catholic novels, and of thrillers.

Verghese Kurien (26 November 1921 - 9 September 2012), known as the "Father of the White Revolution" in India, was a social entrepreneur whose "billion-litre idea", Operation Flood, made dairy farming India's largest self-sustaining industry and the largest rural employment sector providing a third of all rural income.

Madurai Shanmukhavadivu Subbulakshmi (16 September 1916 - 11 December 2004) was an Indian Carnatic singer from Madurai, Tamil Nadu.

Sushmita Sen was born into a Bengali Baidya Brahmin family in Hyderabad to Shubeer Sen, a former Indian Air Force Wing Commander, and Subhra Sen, a jewelry designer and owner of a Dubai-based store. She has two siblings, a sister named Neelam and a brother named Rajeev.