30 July Flashcards

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Golden rice is genetically modified to fulfill the deficiency of

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Vitamin A

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2
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Consider the following statements about Nitrogen dioxide:

1) Nitrogen dioxide is only formed by burning fossil fuels like Coal Oil and Gas
2) is chemical formula is NO2
3) NO2 another animal x interact water at Oxygen and other chemicals in the atmosphere to form acid rain

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2nd and 3rd statement are correct

Recently the United Nations reported that the Nitrogen dioxide levels in New Delhi has fell by more than 70%

In China the levels of fell by 40% in Belgium it fell by 20% between 19 to 40% in USA.

The nitrogen oxides reduce the air quality. Depletes Ozone Layer the stratospheric ozone by combining with Ammonia by particulate matter.

Nitrogen dioxide is naturally found in the atmosphere by lightning and summer produced by plant soil and water

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3
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Who had design Chandni Chowk

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Jahanara Begum

Recently 450 metres of Chandni Chauk was renovated

Chandni Chowk the Bazaar was designed by jahanara Begum the eldest daughter of Shah Jahan and Mumtaz Mahal.

The original market was divided into four parts Urdu Bazar Johri Bazar Ashrafi Bazar and fatehpuri Bazar.

The most striking aspect of Chandni Chauk was the glittering reflection of the Moon in the tributary of the river

Elaborate Royal processions passing through Chandni Chowk was also a common sight in those Times.

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Sri Sri Joy Kali Matar it is located in

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Bangladesh

It was built approximately 300 years back in the early 18 Century by Shri Dayaram Roy. He was an influential Diwan of Queen bahani of natore and the founder of Dighapatia royal family.

The Government of India provided a grant assistance of tekan 97 lakh for the reconstruction of historical Temple under its high impact community development project scheme

The high Commissioner of India to Bangladesh inaugurated the reconstructed Shri Shri Joy Kali Mata temple at natore in Bangladesh

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5
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Consider the following statements about Lyfas;

1) it is an Android application in which when any person keep the index finger on the real phone camera of a mobile phone for 5 minutes it captures the capillary pulse and blood volume change
2) the Technologies focus on Population screening monitoring of quarantined individuals and surveillance at the community level

A

Both statements are correct
The department of Science and Technology has selected acculi Labs a Bangalore based startup to develop a covid risk assessment profile called lyfas covid score under the centre for augmenting war with covid-19 health crisis Kavach initiative

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Which of the following services are a part of Mausam mobile app

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Current weather nowcast City forecast warnings radar products.

The Mausam mobile app for India Meteorological Department is designed to communicate the weather information and forecasts to the general public in a lucid manner without technical jargons.

It has been launched by minister for earth sciences

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Consider the following statements about near field communication:

1) it is a contactless Communication Technology based on a radio frequency field using a base frequency of 13.5 check megahertz
2) NFC technology is perfectly designed to exchange data between two devices through simple touch gesture

A

Both statements are correct

Indian Railways Catering and Tourism Corporation and SBI Cards together launched a new co-branded contactless credit card on rupee platform

The new rupay credit card is equipped with NFC technology with which users can expedite the transactions at the POS machines by just tapping the card on the Machines

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Consider the following statements about Bureau of Indian Standards;

1) it is a statutory body is tablet under article 246 of the constitution
2) it comes under Ministry of Consumer Affairs Food and Public Distribution
3) it is headquartered in New Delhi

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Second and third are correct

It is a statutory body established in 1987 under the b i s Act 1986

BGS is a national standard body of India for achieving harmonious development of the activities of standardization certification marking and quality certification of goods.

It is replaced by the Indian Standard institution

Union Consumer Affairs Minister launch the Bureau of Indian Standards mobile App
BIS Care today.

He also launched three portals on standardization conformity assessment it and training of eBIS

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Consider the following statements about prepack:

1) it is an agreement for the resolution of the death of a distressed company through an agreement between secured creditors and investors instead of a public building process.
2) the system of insolvency resolution is very famous in UK a and other European countries

A

Both statements are correct
In the case of repacks the incumbent management retains control of the company until A final agreement is reached

The Ministry of Corporate Affairs has set up a committee to look into the possibility of including pre packs under the current in solvency Regime to offer faster in solvency resolution under the insolvency and bankruptcy code IBC.

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Rojgar Bazaar in online portal for job seekers and employers has been launched

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Delhi

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11
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The prime ministers of India and the prime minister of of Mauritius will jointly inaugurated the news Supreme Court Building of Mauritius on

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30th July 2020

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12
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Name the Indian climate activist who has become a member of Antonio guterress new youth advisory group on climate change

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Archana Soren

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13
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Which of the following ministry changed their name to Ministry of Education

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Ministry of human resource and development

National education policy 2020 has been accepted and it will replace the national education policy of 1986

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14
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Recently Indian Railways handed over the specifically modified 10 Railway Broad gauge locomotive to which

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Bangladesh

Bangladesh railway minister Mohammed Noorul Islam Sujan

Minister of Foreign Affairs Abul Kalam Abdul Momin

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15
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Cricketer Kazi Anik Islam gets two year ban for doping violation he is from he is from which country

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Bangladesh

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16
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P achyutrao passed away due to covid-19 he was related to which field

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Child activist

Founder of Balala hakkula Sangam in 1984

17
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Who is back the Premier League Golden boot award for 2019 to 2020

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Jamie vardy 23 goals

Jamie is the first Leicester City player to clean this award and is the only 2nd Englishman to take round in the last 20 years after Harry Kane

Leicester City Football Club is an English Professional football club based in Leicester in the East midlands. The club competes in the Premier League the top division of England football league system

18
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Recently IMF grants 4.3 billion dollars South Africa the largest grant given to fight with covid-19 who is the MD of IMF

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Kristalina georgieva

19
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Who has been conferred with lifetime excellence award by the Ministry of earth sciences

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Ashok Sahani

National Award for atmospheric Science and Technology doctor s Suresh Babu

National Award for jio Science and Technology N V chalapathi Rao

National Award for ocean technology Doctor M A atmanand

Young research award dr indraa Shekhar Sen

20
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Stuart Broad becomes the seventh bowler to take 500 test wickets

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Highest number of test wickets muthaiya Muralidharan 800 wickets
Anil Kumble 619 wickets

21
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India Gate 5 multi level combat Jets Rafale landed at Ambala Air Force base

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India’s first solar ferry Aditya wins to Staff prove award for excellence in electric boards and boating

This feery has been adjudged as the world best electric broad in the category of these design for paid service passengers.

Belongs to Kerala state water transport department it has been plying on viakkom- Thavanakkadav route in Allapuzha district of Kerala.

22
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Roads in Uttar Pradesh has been named after after Lalji Tandon

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Chowk Chauraha will now be called as Lalji Tandon Chauraha and Lucknow Hardoi Road military known as Chandan mark

23
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Champions portal has been launched by which ministry

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Ministry of m s m e

24
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Who has been appointed as the new personal secretary to the president Ram Nath kovind

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P Praveen Siddharth

25
Q

Recently which of the following country has launched hope mission to Mars from Japan Tanegashima Space Centre

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UAE

26
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Marudhar Pune city has been launched by which of the following ministry

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MHRD

27
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Vini Mahajan has become the first women chief secretary of which state

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Punjab