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1. Which of the following are true about NITI Aayog?
1. Prime Minister of India is the Chairperson of NITI Aayog
2. Governing Council comprising the Chief Ministers of all the States and Lieutenant Governors of Union Territories
3. It has Full-time organizational framework consisting mainly of Vice-Chairperson and CEO
4. Experts, specialists and practitioners with relevant domain knowledge as special invitees nominated by the Prime 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.
The various members of NITI Aayog are:
Chairperson: Prime Minister Narendra Modi
CEO: Sindhushree Khullar
Vice Chairperson: Arvind Panagariya
Ex-Officio Members: Rajnath Singh, Arun Jaitley, Suresh Prabhu and Radha Mohan Singh
Special Invitees: Nitin Gadkari, Smriti Zubin Irani and Thawar Chand Gehlot
Full-time Members: Bibek Debroy & V. K. Saraswat
Governing Council: All Chief Ministers and Lieutenant Governors of Union Territories
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. Akodara village of Sabarkantha District in Gujarat was formally dedicated as a digital village by the Prime Minister. Which bank supported it?
a) ICICI Bank
b) HDFC Bank
c) Axis Bank
d) SBI
ICICI is the right answer.
Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi dedicated digital village Akodara through digital inauguration in Mumbai. Akodara village is part of Sabarkantha district of north Gujarat. It has been developed as digital village by ICICI bank.
4. Geo-synchronous Earth orbit (GEO) has an altitude of
a) 36000 Km
b) 3600 Km
c) 3000 Km
d) 16000 Km
36000 Km is the right answer.
The GSLV(Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle) is designed mainly to deliver the communication-satellites to the highly elliptical Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit (GTO). The satellite in GTO is further raised to its final destination, viz., Geo-synchronous Earth orbit (GEO) of about 36000 Km altitude. Due to their geo-synchronous nature, the satellites in these orbits appear to remain permanently fixed in the same position in the sky, as viewed from a particular location on Earth, thus avoiding the need of a tracking ground antenna and hence are useful for the communication applications.
5. PSLV (Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle) carries remote sensing satellites. They are
a) Sun-synchronous
b) Earth-synchronous
c) Moon-synchronous
d) Mars-synchronous
Sun-synchronous is the right answer.
PSLV is designed mainly to deliver the “earth-observation” or “remote-sensing” satellites with lift-off mass of up to about 1750 Kg to Sun-Synchronous circular polar orbits of 600-900 Km altitude.
The remote sensing satellites orbit the earth from pole-to-pole. An orbit is called sun-synchronous when the angle between the line joining the centre of the Earth and the satellite and the Sun is constant throughout the orbit. Due to their sun-synchronism nature, these orbits are also referred to as “Low Earth Orbit (LEO)” which enables the on-board camera to take images of the earth under the same sun-illumination conditions during each of the repeated visits, the satellite makes over the same area on ground thus making the satellite useful for earth resources monitoring.
6. In the great war of Kalinga in 260BC Ashoka forewore violence and accepted Buddhism. In modern India, major portion of Kalinga is in which state?
a) Karnataka
b) Jarhkand
c) Bihar
d) Odisha
Odisha is the right answer.
The Kalinga Waru was fought between the Mauryan Empire with Ashoka the Great and the ruler of the state of Kalinga, a feudal republic located on the coast of the present-day Indian state of Odisha and northern parts of Andhra Pradesh. It is said that in the aftermath of the Battle of Kalinga the Daya River at Bhubaneswar running next to the battle field turned red with the blood of the slain; more than 150,000 Kalinga warriors and about 100,000 of Ashoka's own warriors were among those slain. Following the conquest of Kalinga, Ashoka ended the military expansion of the empire, and led the empire through more than 40 years of relative peace, harmony and prosperity.
7. Yellow light is a combination of which all primary colours?
a) Red and Blue
b) Red and Green
c) Green and Blue
d) Red,Green and Blue
Red and Green is the right answer.
Additive mixing of red and green light produces shades of yellow, orange, or brown. Mixing green and blue produces shades of cyan, and mixing red and blue produces shades of purple, including magenta.
8.Recently, which among the following became the latest country to join Euro currency zone?
a) Denmark
b) Sweden
c) Lithuania
d) Poland
Lithuania is the right answer.
The euro is the official currency of the eurozone, which consists of 19 of the 28 member states of the European Union: Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, and Spain. Recently Lithuania has become the 19th member of euro.
9. The Chandyan village, where the remnants of late Harappan period house have been discovered recently is in?
a) Karnataka
b) Jarhkand
c) Bihar
d) Utter Pradesh
Utter Pradesh is the right answer.
The village is in Baghpat district, Uttar Pradesh, in the surrounding plains of the Hindon river. The early Harappan phase lasted from 3300 BCE to 2600 BCE, the mature phase from 2600 BCE to 1900 BCE and the late phase from 1900 BCE to 1600 BCE.
10. Rohingya Muslims,which are living in apartheid-like conditions belongs to which country?
a) India
b) Myanmar
c) Srilanka
d) Bangladesh
Myanmar is the right answer.
Most of Myanmar's 1.1 million Rohingya Muslims live in apartheid-like conditions in the west of the predominantly Buddhist country. Many in Myanmar consider them illegal immigrants even though they have lived in the area for generations. Recently, the prospect of the Rohingya being allowed to vote has alarmed nationalist monks and politicians who have threatened to hold mass protests next week to pressure parliament to reverse its decision.
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