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1. Recently Planning Commission of India was replaced by NITI Aayog. Which among the following true about Planning Commission

1. Planning Commission of India was established in accordance with article 39

2. Planning Commission was set up by a Resolution of the Government of India in March 1950

3. Jawaharlal Nehru was the first Chairman of the Planning Commission

4. It had a nominated Deputy chairman, who is given the rank of a full Cabinet Minister.

Select the correct answer using the codes given below:

(a) 1, 2 and 3 Only

(b) 2 and 4 Only

(c) 1 and 4 Only

(d) 1, 2, 3 and 4

D is the right answer.
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2. Which of the following are true about NITI Aayog?

1. It has the power to allocate funds to state governments

2. It reports to National Development Council

3. It has the power to impose policies

4. The number of full-time members could be fewer than Planning Commission

Select the correct answer using the codes given below:

(a) 1, 2 and 4 Only

(b) 2 and 4 Only

(c) 1,3 and 4 Only

(d) 4 Only

D is the right answer.

3. "Nothing like Anything" is the tagline of which Indian company?

a) Karbonn

b) Lava

c) Micromax

d) Motorola

Micromax is the right answer.
Indian handset maker, Micromax took over Korean electronics giant Samsung and became India’s biggest smartphone vendor and third largest in the world. This was revealed by a report released by research firm Canalys on 4 February 2015. Vineet Taneja is the CEO of Micromax

4. World Cancer Day is observed on

a) February 4

b) February 3

c) February 2

d) February 1

Feb 4 is the right answer
World Cancer Day is marked on February 4 to raise awareness of cancer and to encourage its prevention, detection, and treatment. World Cancer Day was founded by the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC) to support the goals of the World Cancer Declaration, written in 2008. The tagline for the WCD 2015 was Not beyond Us. The tagline signified that solutions do exist across the continuum of cancer, and that they are within our reach.

5. NASA’s first Earth satellite - Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP), designed to collect global observations of

a) Vital soil moisture

b) Rock formation

c) Shale gas

d) Olp depletion

Vital soil moisture is the right answer.
SMAP will produce global maps of soil moisture. Scientists will use these to help improve our understanding of how water and carbon (in its various forms) circulate.
Weather and climate studies will use SMAP data as well. The amount of water that evaporates from the land surface into the atmosphere depends on the soil moisture. Soil moisture information is key to understanding the flows of water and heat energy between the surface and atmosphere that impact weather and climate. Currently, we know little about soil moisture variability at either regional or global scales

6. Rudimentary economic planning, deriving the sovereign authority of the state was first initiated by which Indian leader?

a) Subhash Chandra Bose

b) Nehru

c) Mahathma Gandhi

d) B R Ambedkar

Subhash Chandra Bose is the right answer.
Rudimentary economic planning, deriving the sovereign authority of the state, first initiated in India in 1938 by Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose when he was the Congress president and drafted by Meghnad Saha.

7. A group of people called "B Team" is in news. Who are they?

a) Leaders of third world countries

b) A team selected against Indian A team for cricket

c) Global business leaders from some of the world’s largest companies

d) Greenpeace movement

C is the right answer.
Recently,Global business leaders from some of the world’s largest companies under the group ‘B Team’ called on governments and businesses to commit to bold action at this year’s UN climate negotiations in Paris.
The leaders include India’s Ratan Tata, Ariana Huffington, Sir Richard Branson, Unilever CEO Paul Polman, also the B Team leader, all of whom have set their sights on a global goal of net-zero greenhouse-gas (GHG) emissions by 2050. The latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) assessment said that achieving net-zero GHG emissions by 2100 will provide only a 66 per cent chance of limiting global warming to 2 degrees Celsius. The B Team said a 1-in-3 chance of failure is unacceptable, given the potential for catastrophic climate impacts. Acting decisively and immediately, with a clear target of net-zero GHG emissions by 2050, is the only way we can lower this risk and avoid ballooning costs, the B Team pointed out.

8. The process used to produce Ammonia is?

a) Contact Process

b) Chlor-Alkali Process

c) Haber Process

d) Creighton Process

Haber Process is the right answer.
The contact process is the current method of producing sulfuric acid in the high concentrations needed for industrial processes. The chloralkali process is an industrial process for the electrolysis of sodium chloride.

9. Marayur, a place in Kerala is best known for its?

a) Sandalwood

b) House boats

c) Silk Cultivation

d) Elephants

Sandalwood is the right answer.
The oil content and quality of Marayur sandalwood is said to be one of the best, leading to good demand from Ayurvedic medicine manufacturers and soap and cosmetic companies.

10. Nearly 20 governments across the world are in the process of building a global calculator meant for?

a) To monitor tsunami occurrence

b) To evaluate the depth of corruption in their countries

c) To calculate climate impact scenarios in their countries

d) To get a better picture on patents applied