National deck 2 Flashcards
________ is being set up by the IT ministry to steer the national semiconductor mission
17 member advisory committee
What is the capital investment of the national semiconductor mission?
76000 crore
who is the chairperson and vice chairperson of the committee?
Minister of Information and technology Ashwini Vaishnaw
chairperson
Minister of State for Electronics and Information Technology Rajeev Chandrasekhar
vice-chairperson.
V K Saraswat, Principal scientific advisor to the government of India is also in the committee
Which are the major semiconductor manufacturing countries?
Taiwan, South Korea, U.S., Japan and, more recently, China
who is has been appionted as the first ever G20 summit(India) co-ordinator
Former Foreign secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla(retd on april 30)
became co-ordinator on may 1
Who is the G20 sherpa for G20 2023 India?
Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal
Which are the g 20 Nations?
Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, Japan, India, Indonesia, Italy, Mexico, Russia, South Africa, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, Turkey, the United Kingdom, the United States, and the European Union.
Where will the first underwater metro tunnel be constructed?
Kolkata under the Hooghly river to connect Howrah and Kolkata
To be ready by 2023
The metro tunnel will be a part of ____________?
The metro tunnel will be a part of east-west stretch(16.6KM)
How many metres will the metro of Kolkata travel underwater??
520 metres will be under the river bed
___________ meters under the river bed will the Kolakata under metro water tunnel be built?
33 meters connecting Kolkata to Howrah
The Kolkata east-west metro line ,which includes the Under water tunnel is being constructed by __________?
Kolkata Metro Rail Corporation (KMRCL)
which was the 1st Indian city to get Metro , when did it get it , how many lines does it have?
Kolkata, 1970’s(planned in 1920), it has two operational lines and four under construction.
33 operational stations
__________ of the 10 tallest mountains are in Nepal?
8 , Included Mt everest
When did Nepal adopt its constitution ?
In2015, which made it secular federal ,parliamentary ,republic divided into seven provinces
what is the national currency of Nepal, who is its PM and president ?
nepalese Rupee, PM-Sher Bahadur Deuba and president of Nepal Bidhya Devi Bhandari.
Pm modi and Pm of nepal jointly flagged off ___________ service between the countries?
first passenger train between India and Nepal
Which two places will the Indian-nepal passenger train service connect?
35 KM long cross-border railway link between Jaynagar in Bihar and Kurtha in Nepal
1st modern railway service in Nepal
Will operate DEMU
Which digital payment system did Nepal get?
RuPay
When was the first India-nepal railway service introduced , when was it decommissioned ? Why?
Jaynagar-Bijalpura in nepal , introduced in 1937 , suspended in 2001 after nepal floods
What is the border length between Nepal and India, which all states does it pass through?
Nepal border 1,850 km with five Indian states – Sikkim, West Bengal, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand.
When was the India-Nepal treaty of peace and friendship signed ?
1950, forms the base for India-Nepal relationships now
Which International organisation recently lauded PMGKAY?
IMF(1944)
What is the other name of Lakshadweep?
Laccadives , the name lakshadweep means “1 Lakh islands” in Malayalam
Lakshadweep is an archipelago of 36 islands in arabian Sea
