Zune5-4 Flashcards
Bio-CNG plants ?
- Bio-CNG are purified form of biogas with 95% pure methane gas
- Similar to natural gas (97% methane)
- Natural gas is fossil whereas Bio-CNG is renewable ( resource which can be used repeatedly and replaced naturally )from agricultural and food waste
- First Bio-CNG plant inaugurated at Pune,MH
- India’s first indigenous Bio-CNG plant is located in Durgapura, Jaipur
Montreal Protocol ?
- to protect ozone layer
- India successfully phased out CFCs & Halons
- Recently GOI made plan to phase out HCFC-Hydrochloroflurocarbons (2017-23)
- HCFCs used in sectors-refrigeration, air conditioning & foam manufacturing
Scheme of Electoral bonds ?
- To cleanse political funding
- Nature of Promissory note & Interest free bearer instruments
- As of now, No proposal to make AADHAR mandatory
- Every party registered under RoPA 1951 and secured at least 1% votes in LS or State election will be allotted verified account by ECI
- Electoral bond transactions can be made only via this account
Sampoorna Bima Gram (SBG) yojana ?
- Ministry of Communications
- To expand client base of postal life Insurance (oldest Life insurer in country)
- Under scheme, Village will be identified in revenue district and made cover under at least one RPLI-Rural postal life insurance policy
Term LoU, SWIFT & CBS are associated with ?
- Banking
- LoU(Letter of Understanding), SWIFT(Society of Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication) & CBS(Core Banking System) recently in news related to PNB fraud
- LoU
1. Its guarantee that bank obliged to repay loan if actual borrower defaults
2. PNB officials issued LoU to foreign banks on behalf of PNB to sanction loan to Modi - SWIFT
1. System to send instant messages
2. Once Foreign bank receive SWIFT message It disburse loan to borrower
3. SWIFT transactions are regularly reviewed by not the same in PNB fraud - CBS
1. Centralized software to keep all records across branches and capable to raise alerts across all on any undue activity
Japanese Encephalitis (JE)
- Mosquito born viral infection of brain
- To all ages but children and elderly more at risk
- Efficacy of JE vaccine between 85-90%
Atal Bhujal Yojana ?
- To promote ground water recharge with help of local people
- Central fund and Loan by WB
Proposed Middle East to India Deepwater Pipeline (MEIDP)
- India & Iran
- Gas to India
Strategic Sea ports ?
- Duqm, Oman
1. North west edge of Indian Ocean and easy access to Red sea (Between Africa & Asia) through Gulf of Aden - Trincomalee, Sri Lanka
- Bandar Abbas, Iran
1. Part of INSTC project
Water bodies inside forest cover increased during last decade. Top 3 states ?
- Maharashtra
- Gujarat
- MP
Inter-Operable Criminal Justice System (ICJS) ?
- Aims to integrate CCTNS -(Crime & Criminal tracking network & systems) project with e-courts & e-prisons
- Ministry of Home Affairs
- Ministry of Road transport and Highways(MORTH) database for vehicle registrations has been linked with CCTNS
Unani System ?
- Unani Day celebrated on 11th Feb on birth anniversary of Hakim Ajmal Khan(physician & founder of Jamia Millia Islamia University)
- Unani system originated in Yunan-Ancient Greece and came to India from Arab and Iran
SOFIA
- Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy
- NASA &German Aerospace center
- Airborne observatory on Boeing 747SP and make observations that are impossible from highest ground based telescope
- Design to observe Infrared universe
- Also study black holes & centre of galaxies
Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya ?
- Ideal Swayamsewak of RSS
- Magazines
1. Rashtra Dharma (monthly)
2. Panchajanya (weekly)
3. Swadesh(daily) - Gave political philosophy “Integral Humanism”
1. primary concern to develop an indigenous development model that has human beings as its core focus
2. It seeks middle ground between capitalism and socialism, evaluating both systems on their respective merits, while being critical of their excesses - 100th birth anniversary in 2017
Blue flag programme of MoEFCC
- Certify clean beaches in India
- Criteria includes
1. not affected by industrial, waste water, sewage discharge
2. Algae vegetation & natural debris
3. Waste disposal bins must be available
4. Sanitation amenities like toilets
Recently WB released classified economies (4 groups - High Income, Upper middle Income, Lower middle Income and Low Income) of World ? In which India belongs ?
-Lower Middle Income group
India State of forest report (ISFR) 2017 ?
- Forest cover increased by 1% compared to 2015
- Maximum forest cover increased in Andhra Pradesh then Karnataka then Kerala
Which all initiatives are responsible for increasing the forest cover ?
- Green India Mission
- National Agro-Forestry Policy (NAFP)
- REDD plus policy of UN
1. Reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries, and role of conservation, sustainable management of forests - Joint Forest Management(JFM)
- National Afforestation Programme
- Funds under Compensatory Afforestation to states
Hague Code of Conduct (HCoC)
- Against Ballistic (Under gravity) Missile Proliferation
- India joined in 2017
- Needs to made annual declaration on satellite launch vehicles & ballistic missiles
eLISA project
- Evolved Laser Interferometry Space Antenna project
- ESA ambitious agenda “Cosmic Vision”
- Aims at setting up three spacecraft-mother & 2 daughters flying in triangular formation
- Probe massive black holes in terms of masses and their spin and measure gravitational waves in frequency range 0.1MHz-100MHz
Homeopathy ?
- To bring streamlining of medical system, NITI Aayog proposed scrapping two more institutions
1. Central Council of Homeopathy - CCH -apex body to monitor homeopathy education in India
2. Central Council of Indian Medicine CCIM - Based on Perception “Source which causes symptom will also cure it “
- Effective alternative to antibiotics
Bright light therapy
treatment of mood disorders
Proton therapy
beam therapy that uses proton for treatment of cancer
Anti-Retroviral Therapy (ART)
- Treatment of HIV infection
- Its combination of three or more anti-retroviral medicines to treat HIV
Common Risk Mitigation Mechanism (CRMM)
- Under International Solar Alliance
- Aims to mitigate risks on investments on solar projects
- Facilitate private investment in solar assets
- Banks/Multilateral FIs can contribute to risk mitigation fund which will reduce capital costs
Jal Marg Vikas Project -JMVP
- Capacity Augmentation for navigation on NW-1
- WB approved loan as well as technical support
- Between Varanasi & Haldia
- NW-1 covers 4 states
1. UP
2. BH
3. JHK
4. WB
Progress MS-08 mission to International Space Station (ISS) ?
- Launched by Russia on Soyuz rocket
- It carries supplies such as dry cargo, propellant etc.
Name Some Operations carried out by Indian Armed forces ?
- Operation Insaniyat with Bangladesh
1. On Humanitarian grounds
2. 2017, Bangladesh suffering from large influx of refugees from Myanmar. Indian Air force provide raw materials like food, mosquito nets to affected people - Operation Meghdoot
1. 1984 to capture Siachen Glacier in J&K over Pak - Operation Cactus
1. 1988, Thrashed military coup in Maldives
Gramin Krishi Mausam Seva (GKMS)
- Ministry of Earth Science
- IMD provides crop specific advisories to farmers at district level twice a week
- Through Different channels of Media -Print/Visual/Radio/IT/SMS/IVRS
Indian State of Forest Report 2017 (ISFR), Order of forest types with coverage ?
Moderately dense forest > Open forest > Very dense forest
-Became concern as Dense being replaced by Moderate
Soil Health Card Scheme ?
- Soil cards to farmers in every three years
- dept of agriculture
- based on 12 parameters like N,P,K,Micro-nutrients,Macro-nutrients,pH and others
Unnat Bharat Abhiyan ?
- MHRD
- AIms to connect Higher education Institutions with local communities to address local problems through tech
“Student READY” and “ARYA”
- To promote agriculture as means of livelihood among rural youth
- Student READY(Rural Entrepreneurship Awareness Development Yojana)
1. ICAR - ARYA(Attracting & Retaining Youth in Agriculture)
1. ICAR
Name some Constructed/Under-constructed tunnels in India ?
- Silkyara Bend-Barkot Tunnel (UK)
1. Bi-directional
2. CCEA recently approved - Chennai-Nashri Tunnel (JK)
1. Longest Highway Tunnel in India - Sela Pass (Arunachal Pradesh)
1. High Altitude Mountain pass
2. Claimed by China
3. 2018 GOI approved construction of Sela pass tunnel
Third Generation Bio-Fuel ?
- Produced using specifically engineered crops such as Algae and require extensive downstream processing
1. higher photosynthesis and fast growth rate as compared to any terrestrial plant, algae have received significant interest - As of now No Third Generation Ethanol Bio-refinery in India
What are the different generations of Bio-fuels ?
- First Generation Bio-Fuel
1. Compete with food sources
2. Corn & Sugar Beet used for 1G Biofuel - Second Generation Bio-Fuel
1. From non-food resources such as wood & organic waste
2. First 2G Ethanol Bio-refinery inaugurated at Bathinda ,PB - Third Generation Bio-Fuel
1. No 3G Ethanol Bio-refinery in India - Fourth Generation Bio-Fuel
1. 3G Bio-fuels production process with decrease processing costs associated with biomass harvest when compared with traditional approach
2. initial investment is very high, which is major disadvantage
3. Till now No progress and still a concept
India State Forest Report 2017 (ISFR) Coverage ?
Tropical Dry Deciduous > Tropical Moist Deciduous > Tropical Semi-Evergreen > Himalayan Moist Temperate
Adaptation Fund
- Under Kyoto Protocol of UNFCCC
- WB as trustee of Adaptation Fund
- Managed by Adaptation Fund Board meeting thrice a year
Shompens ?
- Least known Particularly Vulnerable Tribal groups (PVTGs)
- Hunter gatherers with little bit horticulture & pig rearing
- Pandanus -Tropical fruit resembling woody pineapple is staple food of Shompens
- Voted first time in LS 2014
- Mairrage by capturing women from different groups is one of the customs
- Found in Great Nicobar Islands
INS Chakra
- Nuclear powered submarine
- Manufactured by Russia and taken on lease
INS Arihant
- Only Nuclear ballistic missile submarine
- Built Indigenous with Russia assistance
Which state launched “Bal Doctor “
Gujarat
- Look after children health under school health programme
- Will be equipped with stethoscope and medicines including ayurvedic ti dispense to their classmates
- One Bal doctor in each primary school
- Encourage students to wash hands before mid day meals and monitor weekly Iron & Folic Acid supplementation (WIFS) programme of NHM
NASAs Parker Solar Probe Mission ?
- First ever mission to touch sun i.e. lower solar corona
- Aims to determine structure & dynamics of magnetic fields at sources of solar winds
- To be launched in late 2018
Carbon Stocks ?
-Soil Organic Carbon (SOC) is the largest pool of carbon
-Soil Organic Carbon > Above Ground Biomass > Below Ground Biomass > Litter and dead wood
-Per Hectare carbon stock
A&N Is > Arunachal Pradesh > Sikkim > Karnataka
Forest Carbon Partnership Facility ?
- Helps developing countries in REDD+ efforts with financial & technical assistance
- WB
Majuli Islands ?
- India’s first island district & world biggest river island in Brahmputra
- Recently Ministry of Water Resources has launch scheme for its protection
1. Anti Erosion measures
2. By Brahmputra board - Ministry of DoNER
Cipla “Truvada”
-HIV
-Lower amount of virus circulating in blood
Recent trails showed that protect high risk uninfected people if take daily before & after exposure
-India approved Truvada sales
National Ganga river basin project
- WB funded
- At national/state level to monitor clean-up programme
- GOI set up internationally recognized institute called Ganga Knowledge Center for ope-rationalizing project
1. target research on basin scale and mapping with GIS
India State of forest Report 2017 (ISFR), Bamboo production ?
MP > MH >Arunachal Pradesh > Odisha
Activities in rapid increase in methane emissions ?
Fermentation in rice fields
Reduce methane emissions can be achieved by
Addition of sea weeds to cattle feed
National Security Council
-Headed by PM
-CEO -NSA
-NSC is 3-tiered organisation overseeing
1.political
2.economic
3.energy & security
Issues of strategic concern
WHO Pre-Qualified status vaccines developed in India
- Typbar TCV -Typhoid-Bharat Biotech,Hyderabad
- Rotavac - prevents Rotavirus-Bharat Biotech,Hyderabad - leading cause of severe diarrhea among children less than 5 years
Jaivik Bharat
-Ministry of Agriculture launched Food Safety & Standards(Organic foods) Regulations 2017
It has
1.Jaivik Bharat logo
2.Indian Organic Integrity Database portal
-Aims to verify authentic organic foods
Global Tiger Initiative -GTI
- Led by 13 tiger range countries
- WB, GEF (Global Environment Facility) are founding fathers
Kandhamal Haladi
- Golden yellow spice named after kandhamal district Odisha
- Medicinal value
- Odisha recently applied for GI Tag
National Programme for Organic Production- NPOP
- APEDA-Agricultural & Processed Foods export development authority, Ministry of Commerce
- Aims
1. facilitate certification
2. Boosts organic food exports
3. Development of organic farming & processing
India State of Forest Report (ISFR) 2017 vis a vis 2015
- Moderately dense - decline
- Very dense /Open - incline
Global Risks Report 2018
- Annual report published by WEF ahead meeting in Davos, Switzerland
- Raises concerns about economic impact of new technologies on environment
Official languages of UN
-6
1.Arabic
2.Chinese
3.English
4.French
5.Spanish
6.Russian
Recently Sushma pitched for HINDI
As per WHO, Which disease leading cause of infant deaths in India
Pneumonia
-Lung infection
Participatory Guarantee System for India (PGS-India)
- Ministry of Agriculture & family welfare
- Quality assurance for certification of organic products outside third party certification
- Organic foods needs to comply either NPOP (National programme for organic production -They use third party certification) or PGS-India
- Problem with PGS-INDIA
1. not recognised in developed markets like US & EU
2. Therefore Cannot be exported
3. To combat the problem, FSSAI with draft regulations for organic products to ensure they are actually organic
Pradhan Mantri Matru Vandana Yojana ?
- Ministry of Women & Child development
- Cash transfers to pregnant women &lactating mothers up to Rs 6000 except those with central/state/PSUs
- Implemented using platform of Anganwadi Service scheme
SRS Bulletin-Sample Registration System (SRS) by Census of India
- IMR declined to 34/1000 live births in 2016
- Highest IMR-MP
- Highest Increase in IMR-Arunachal Pradesh
Habitat III conference ?
- UN conference on Housing (Habitat)
- Bi-decennial i.e. 1976,1996,2016
- Country’s first National Urban Policy Framework aims to comply with commitments of Habitat III conference
Stree Swabhiman project
-Under Meity
-Access to affordable sanitary products to adolescent girls and women through CSCs
-Sanitary products manufacturing units being setup at CSCs across India particularly operated by women entrepreneurs
CSCs
-ICT enabled front end service delivery points at the village level for delivery of government and private services.
-Strategic part of Digital India programme.
Kala-azar
- Slow progressing indigenous disease caused by protozoan parasite “Leishmania”
- Sodium Stibogluconate (SSb) injection used for treatment of disease
- Spraying of DDT reduce incidence of this disease
- prevalent in Eastern India , Bangladesh & Nepal
- Miltefosine & Miltefosine liposomal amphotericin B - 2 mainline drugs currently.
Pradhan Mantri Surakshit Matritiva Abhiyan (PMSMA)
- Ministry of Health & Family welfare
- Ensure quality and comprehensive free antenatal checkups to pregnant women across India
- Does not involve cash based assistance
- Government as well as private doctors provide free antenatal checkups
- Launch in 2016 & recently in news for reaching 1 crore mark in check ups
Green Growth Equity Fund
-India & UK jointly formed GGEF
-Commitments to Green bond principles (GBP) 120 million each
GBP-Green Bond principles
1.voluntary process guidelines that recommend transparency and disclosure and promote integrity in the development of the Green Bond market by clarifying the approach for issuance of a Green Bond
2.Green Bonds enable capital-raising and investment for new and existing projects with environmental benefits
-Green Bonds enable capital-raising and investment for new and existing projects with environmental benefits
-Under National Investment & Infrastructure Fund (NIIF) for India & UK
N Gopalaswami Committee recently in news
- Former Chief Election Commissioner N Gopalaswami will head committee to select 20 institutes of higher education to be developed as world class institutes
- Aims to enhance quality of higher education institutes in India
MDR-TB
- Caused by Mycobacterium Tuberculosis
- Make person resistant to isoniazid(INH) and rifampicin drugs most commonly used for TB
- As per WHO,Highest Incidence of TB in India
KUSUM
- Kisan Urja Suraksha evam Utthan Mahabhiyan
- set up 28GW of solar power capacity through solar pumps for irrigation and sell surplus to DISCOMS
Saubhagya
- Pradhan Mantri Sahaj Bijli Har Ghar Yojana
- Universal electrification
Project Sunrise
-Prevention of AIDS in NE states
Ujala scheme
-Distributing LED bulbs
POSCO ACT 2012
- Protection of Children from Sexual offences Act
- 0-18 years
- Special courts for trials
Ravi-Beas River water dispute
- Punjab, Harayana & Rajasthan
- Ravi-Beas Water tribunal 1986 - Matter still prejudice
NIIF -National Investment & Infrastructure Fund
- India’s first sovereign wealth fund
1. NIIF first investment partnered with DP world (Dubai ports ) to create investment platform for logistics business in India - NIIFs is being operationalized by establishing three alternative investment funds (AIF) under SEBI regulations
- GOI contribution to AIFs under NIIF shall be 49 percent of total commitment
Color codes to classify industrial sectors based on pollution levels
- Based on Range of Pollution Index
- Environment ministry classified Industrial sectors into 4 categories
1. red - index 60 or above
2. orange - index 41-59
3. green - index 21-40
4. white - non polluting i.e. up to 20
Dhanush Ballistic missile
- Range 350 kms
- Payload capacity 500 kg & hitting both land & sea targets
- By DRDO under Integrated Guided Missile Development Programme(IGMDP)
GRIHA Council
- green rating for integrated habitat assessment
- Independent platform
- Founded by TERI (The Energy & Research institute, New Delhi) with support of MNRE(Ministry of new & renewable energy) along with experts
- Sustainable habitats i.e. green buildings & habitats in India
National Urban Housing Fund (NUHF) ?
- Under Building Materials & Technology Promotion Council (BMTPC), Autonomous body registered under Societies Registration Act 1860 under Ministry of Housing & Urban Affairs
- Aims to support Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana(Urban)
- provide assistance to
1. Beneficiary Linked Construction (BLC) i.e. subsidy for individual houses to LIGs
2. Affordable Housing in Partnership (AHP) with PPP model
3. In-situ Slum redevelopment (ISSR)
4. Credit Linked Subsidy scheme (CLSS) i.e. interest subvention to LIGs
Rashtriya Sanskriti Mahotsav (RSM) from 14th to 20th January 2018 under Ek Bharat Shrestha Bharat matrix
- Ek bharat shrestha Bharat launched to mark birth anniversary of sardar vallabhbhai patel
- Karnataka & UK are two states paired to promote unity in diversity during RSM 2018
- RSM 2018 held in Bengaluru
- Aims to promote unity in diversity
National Deworming Initiative
- To create mass awareness related to soil-transmitted helminth (STH) infections
- National deworming day on 10th feb
- Under MoHFW
- promote Albendazole tablets
- Every year , Single dose to 1-19 years on National deworming day through schools & Aanganwadis
Name diseases eradicated in india as per WHO
- Guinea worm
- Yaws
- Maternal & Neonatal tetanus
- Cattle plague or Rinderpest (Hits livestock)
BS-VI emission norms
- Amount of sulfur in both petrol & diesel limited to maximum 10 ppm
- GOI implemented BS6 norms in Delhi NCR from 1 April 2018 while ROI 1 April 2020
Prime Minister Employment Generation Programme (PMEGP)
- Under Ministry of Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises (MSMEs)
- Self employment in non-farm sector
- Credit link subsidy programme
- Above 18 years eligible
- General category - subsidy 25% rural areas & 15 % urban areas
- SC/ST/OBC/Minority/Women/Ex-servicemen/Disabled/NER/Hill & Border areas -Subsidy 35% in rural & 25% in urban areas
Which countries have been recently suspended from voting in UN General Assembly for 3rd time in 3 years ?
-Libya
-Venezuela
Both has lot of unpaid dues to world body
Floating treatment wetlands (FTWs)
- Green technology for storm water management
- It helps to clean & purify polluted water body
- It removes nutrients, nitrates and other containments
- Cleaning agents like hibiscus, tulsi, ashwagandha
- Neknampur Lake, Hyderabad recognized as Largest FTW in country
General Elections 2014
-Limit of expenditure for parliamentary constituency
Bigger states like UP, BH, AP,MP -Rs 70 lakhs
Smaller states like Sikkim , Arunachal Pradesh, Goa-Rs 54 lakhs
-Malkajgiri AP -largest constituency (29lakhs electors)
-Lakshadweep - smallest constituency (47000 electors)
Hung Parliament
- No political party or pre-poll alliance gets absolute majority
- President can use discretionary powers to appoint PM (Art75(1))
Mahamastakabhisheka of Bahubali Gomateshwara statue was celebrated on vindhyagiri hills in Shravanabelagola
- Mahamastakabhisheka is an important Jain festival once in 12 years
- Bahubali was not Tirthankaras . he meditated and became the first to achieve Siddha (Moksha)
Elephant Census 2017
- Decreased by 3000 from 2012
- Highest Popn - KN , Assam, KL
India’s first Defense Industrial Corridor project
-Chennai & Bengaluru
Kaksar dance
-Abuj Maria tribe of Bastar, CG
Janapada Nritya
-Folk dance of Karnataka
Siddi Dhamal
-Folk dance of Gujarat
National Super computing Mission
- DST &DeiTY
- IIT KGP to be the first academic institution to get super computing facility under National Super computing Mission
- Enhance research through High performance computing (HPC)
Millet’s production in India
- 2018 to be called “National Year of Millets”
- Decision based on request of Karnataka, leader in millets
- When grown under traditional methods, highly pest resistant crops
- Little water and can grow in poor soils without synthetic fertilizers
Special Leave petition
- ARt 136 SC with special power to grant special leave to appeal against order in any matter
- Against any judgement of HC/Tribunal
- Within 90 days from judgement
Transforming India by 2022 Scheme
-Rapidly transform backward districts of country lacking key developments - health, nutrition, education, agriculture, skill development, financial inclusion
Inclusive Development Index (IDI) report
- By WEF
- 11 dimensions in addition to GDP
- It has 3 pillars - Growth & development, Inclusion & Sustainability
Vajra Faculty Scheme
- Visiting Advanced Joint Research (VAJRA) Faculty Scheme
- Not centrally sponsored scheme but Central Plan Scheme and hence no state/UT wise allocation
- Residency period : Min -1 months/year & Max-3 months/year
- Under MoST
Nirbhay Missile
- Indigenous long range sub-sonic cruise missile
- 1000 kms & 300 KG
India BPO promotion Scheme (IBPS)
- Meity
- Under Digital India programme
- Promote BPO/ITES across country
- Provide Viability Gap funding ( grant one-time provided to support projects that are economically justified but fall short of financial viability) to eligible companies
Indian Green Bonds market development council
- Launched in 2016 as joint initiative of FICCI & Climate Bonds Initiative
- Public- private initiative
- Aims to build green finance capability and use of green bonds to meet national climate objectives
Super critical Carbon dioxide Brayton test loop facility
- Generate clean energy from future power plants including solar thermal
- Developed indigenous from IISc Bangalore
- It sets to offer efficient alternative to steam-based power plants
- Helps in reducing carbon footprint of power generation
National Policy for treatment of Rare diseases (NPRD)
- As per WHO, lifelong disease with prevalence of 1 or less per 1000 population is rare disease
- Aims to set corpus fund at centre & state level
- all genetic disorders are rare disease
- Children most affected, Almost 50%
Minamata convention
- Recently GOI approved ratification of it
- To protect human/environment from adverse effects of mercury
