CURRENT AFFAIRS & GK QUIZ - 40

CURRENT AFFAIRS & GK QUIZ - 40

1. Ritchie’s Archipelago form part of_______?

[A]Goa                        [B]Lakshadweep

[C]Andaman               [D]Daman and Diu

2."Animus in Consulendo Liber" is the motto of _?

[A]French Republic                             [B]NATO

[C]UNESCO                                      [D]CSTO

3. Recently, which among the following two countries agreed to resume talks on reopening the Kaesong industrial zone?

[A]North Korea and South Korea                   [B]Japan and China

[C]China and Russia                                        [D]North Korea and Japan

4. Recently (August, 2013), US International Trade Commission has imposed ban on importing and selling of which mobiles in the US market?

[A]Apple                                   [B]Samsung

[C]Nokia                                   [D]Blackberry

5. Recently, NASA astronomers have solved a 40 year mystery on the origin of the Magellanic Stream. Magellanic Stream is a long ribbon gas orbiting which of the following galaxies?

[A]Cigar                                  [B]CartWheel

[C]Milky Way                         [D]Andromeda

6. Recently, Jeff Bezos has agreed to purchase the American daily newspaper "The Washington Post" for $250 million in cash. Jeff Bezos is the CEO of __?

[A]Ebay                                [B]Amazon.com

[C]Yahoo                             [D]360Buy

7. Which among the following pairs of primitive tribes and places of their inhabitation not correctly matched?

[A]Hakki Pikki – Karnataka          [B]Gawada – Goa

[C]Gaddi – Himachal Pradesh       [D]Irulas – Kerala

8. Which of the following nations are considered triad nuclear powers?

(1).Russia                    (2).United States

(3).China                     (4).India

Choose the correct answers from the code given below:

[A]Only 1, 2 & 4                     [B]Only 1 & 2

[C]Only 2 & 4                         [D]Only 1, 2 & 3

9. According to TRAI Telecommunication Mobile Number Portability (Fifth Amendment) Regulations, 2013 how many corporate mobile numbers of service providers can be ported to another service provider through letter of authorization?

[A]Upto 50%                          [B]Upto 75%

[C]Upto 60%                           [D]Upto 100%

10. Which one of the following companies rolled out “ALZUMAb” world’s first novel anti-CD6 antibody to treat psoriasis?

[A]Biocon                               [B]Cipla

[C]Reddy’s                             [D]Ipca labs

             ANSWER

1	C	6	B
2	B	7	D
3	A	8	B
4	B	9	A
5	C	10	A

GSAT-7, INDIA'S FIRST MILITARY SATELLITE, LAUNCHED

GSAT-7, INDIA'S FIRST MILITARY SATELLITE, LAUNCHED

GSAT-7, India’s first full-fledged military communication spacecraft, meant for exclusive use by the Navy, was launched on Friday morning from Kourou in South America on a European Ariane 5 launcher.

India's advanced multi-band communication satellite, GSAT-7, was successfully launched at 0200 hrs IST today (August 30, 2013) by the Ariane-5 launch vehicle of Arianespace from Kourou, French Guiana. Ariane-5 precisely placed GSAT-7 into the intended Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit (GTO) after a flight of 34 minutes 25 seconds duration. 

As planned, ISRO's Master Control Facility (MCF) at Hassan in Karnataka started acquiring the signals five minutes prior to the separation of GSAT-7 from Ariane-5 launch vehicle. The solar panels of the satellite have been deployed and they are generating power. Initial checks have indicated normal health of the satellite.
The present orbit of the satellite will be raised to Geostationary Orbit of about 36,000 km altitude through three orbit raising manoeuvres by firing of GSAT-7's Liquid Apogee Motor (LAM). Preparations are underway for the first firing, planned in the early hours of August 31, 2013. The satellite will be placed in the Geostationary Orbit by Sep 04, 2013.

The satellite is expected to give a big boost to the country’s maritime security and intelligence gathering in a wide swath of the Indian Ocean region.

Built to the Navy’s multiple-band requirements as platform to safely link up its ships, submarines, aircraft and command from land in real time, it is ISRO’s latest communication satellite.

Until now the defence forces have used minuscule capacities on ISRO’s various INSAT/GSAT satellites.

It will be doubly empowered when its sibling, GSAT-7A, follows it in 2014-15 at the earliest; it is said to share some of the GSAT-7A resources with the Air Force and the Army.

For the Navy, this is part of a long-term modernisation plan involving the use of satellites and information technology.

In recent years successive Chiefs of Naval Staff have identified space-based communications as the core of the Navy’s futuristic network-centric operations.

To be placed over 74 degrees East longitude in the coming days, the 2,650-kg satellite is designed to enable communication in four frequency bands ranging from the lower UHF (ultra high frequency) to the higher Ku bands, along with the rare S band and the commonly used C band.

It provides a decent slice of 15 mHz of the premium S-band for MSS (mobile satellite services); the S-band is now the preserve of the military and strategic State users including All India Radio.

The UHF has never been used until now in an Indian communication satellite; this gives the user (Navy) a long sweep of intelligence network, or what it calls COMINT/ELINT, on moving non-land platforms like ships.

The Ku band allows high-density data transmission, including voice and video. A special ground infrastructure has also been put in place for GSAT-7.

CURRENT AFFAIRS & GK QUIZ - 39

CURRENT AFFAIRS & GK QUIZ - 39

1. In India, the Chit funds are governed / Regulated by ___?

[A]RBI                                               [B]Central Government

[C]State Governments                        [D]Local Bodies

2. Which among the following panels have recently recommended the pricing of natural gas by a complex methodology of arriving at an average of international gas hub prices?

[A]B K Chaturvedi Panel                  [B]C Rangrajan Panel

[C]Raghuram Rajan                          [D]Parliamentary Panel headed by Yashwant Sinha

3. As of April 2013, which among the following carriers has the largest market share in Domestic air passenger traffic ?

[A]IndiGo                               [B]SpiceJet

[C]Air India                            [D]Jet Airways

4. Approximately, what fraction of India's total exports is contributed by the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) sector ?

[A]20%                      [B]30%            [C]40%            [D]45%

5. Approximately, how many Foreign Institutional Investors are registered in India as of April 2013?

[A]1100                         [B]1300           [C]1700           [D]2200

6. Who among the following is heading the Standing Parliamentary Committee on Coal and Steel?

[A]Sharad Yadav                    [B]Kalyan Bannerjee

[C]Yashwant Sinha                 [D]Susheel Modi

7. Once a Budget has been presented in the Parliament, the government has to get all money bills related to the union budget passed within __?

[A]30 Days                         [B]60 Days

[C]75 Days                         [D]90 Days

8. The Chameli Devi Jain Award is given for an outstanding woman ____?

[A]Scientist                           [B]Reporter

[C]Player                              [D]Teacher

9. 100 years ago, the Hindustan Gadar Party was launched in which among the following cities in United States?

[A]Chicago                            [B]San Francisco

[C]Oregon City                      [D]New York

10. With reference to China, BeiDou is a ___?

[A]Search Engine                      [B]Navigation System

[C]Space Station                      [D]Ballistic Missile System

11. Which among the following companies is the first company to get listed in the newly launched MCX Stock Exchange (MCX-SX)?

[A]Pennar Industries Ltd                     [B]DPSC Ltd

[C]Dabur India Ltd                             [D]Apollo Tyres Ltd.

12. In which year Pakistan was granted Most Favoured Nation (MFB) status by India?

[A]1996           [B]1998           [C]1999           [D]2000

13. Recently, which among the following country joined the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) as its dialogue partner by signing an MoU?

[A]Turkey                            [B]Sri Lanka

[C]Singapore                        [D]Mauritius

14. Who among the following has been recently awarded "ISRO Young Scientist Award-2013"? 

[A]Jenita Mery Nongkynrih                [B]Sunitha Jain

[C]Sathish Kulkarni                            [D]Sudarshan Chandra

15. Which of the following IT company has made the World's smallest Film "A Boy and His Atom"? [A]Infosys                                   [B]Intel

[C]IBM                                      [D]HP

16. "World Press Freedom Day" is observed on___? 

[A]May 2^nd                               [B]May 3^rd

[C]May 4^th                               [D]May 5^th

17. Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury is the first woman speaker of_____ ?

[A]Pakistan                              [B]Sri Lanka

[C]Myanmar                            [D]Bangladesh

18. The movie "Kai Po Che" is based on which novel of Chetan Bhagat?

[A]Three Mistakes of My Life                          [B]Two States

[C]Revolution 20-20                                        [D]A Night at the call centre

19. Which of the following become the first southern US states to abolish death penalty?

[A]Virginia                              [B]Maryland

[C]Florida                               [D]Delaware

20. What is the name of world’s smallest flying robot developed by US Scientist?

[A]Robotic Fly                        [B]Robo Fly

[C]Small Fly                            [D]Robo kite

                              ANSWER

1	C	6	B	11	C	16	B
2	B	7	C	12	A	17	D
3	A	8	B	13	A	18	A
4	C	9	B	14	A	19	B
5	C	10	B	15	C	20	B

LIST OF FAMOUS BOOKS AND AUTHORS (PART - I)

LIST OF FAMOUS BOOKS AND AUTHORS

BOOK	AUTHOR
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