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May 14, 2015

[QandA] WhatsApp Group - Qtns by Mr. Vishwanathan




QUESTIONS ASKED IN WHATSAPP GROUP
[By Mr. Vishwanathan]


(01) What is GAGAN?
GAGAN: GPS Aided Geo Augmented Navigation
Developed jointly by ISRO and AAI
Purpose: to improve the accuracy of signals (particularly in Air traffic Management systems)

(02) What is SIMRAN?
SIMRAN: Satellite Imaging for Rail Navigation
Developed by: IIT-Kanpur
Purpose:  to provide the precise location of trains through interactive mode on mobile phones in order to save the railway gangamen who works in tracks

(03) What exactly is allocated in Spectrum allocation?
Frequency of Radio Waves to different Service Providers

(04) Number of nuclear sites in India
7 sites

(05) India’s rank in SPI-2015 (Social Progress Index)
Total countries surveyed: 133
India’s rank: 101 (lower than Nepal and Bangladesh; lower in BRICS group)
Top 3 are: Norway, Sweden and Switzerland

(06) Difference b/w HDI and SPI.
SPI: measures the well-being of a country by observing social and environmental factors rather than the economic factors
SPI is based on the writings of Amartya Sen, Douglass North and Jospeh Stiglitz
HDI: measures life expectancy, education and per capita income
HDI is developed by Amartya Sen and Mahbub ul Haq

(07) What is Munich Agreement, 1938?
Germany’s annexation of Czechoslovakia
Along the borders of Czech, mainly inhabited by German speakers, for which a new territorial designation "Sudetenland" was coined [Russia opposed it]

(08) Expansion of SAGAR gave by Narendra Modi in Mauritius
SAGAR: Security and Growth for All in the Region

(09) What is Panamax Vessels?
Terms for the size limits for ships traveling through the Panama Canal

(10) Headquarter of Zoological Survey of India
Kolkata

(11) Headquarter of Central Food Technology
Mysuru

(12) Headquarter of ASI’s Directorate of Epigraphy
Mysuru (Dravidian and Sanskrit) and Nagpur (Arabian and Persian)

(13) Who are the members of Cabinet Committee on Security?
Headed by Prime Minister
Members:
Ministry of Defence
Ministry of Finance
Ministry of Home Affairs
Ministry of External Affairs

(14) G20 Summit 2014 was held in
Brisbane (Australia); 2015 will be in Antalya (Turkey)

(15) EAS Summit 2014 was held in
Nay Pyi Taw (Myanmar); 2015 will be held in Malaysia
  

(16) What is ‘Jeevan Pramaan’?
Aadhar based Digital Life Certificate for Pensioners

(17) Out of the 9 e-visa designated airports, two are in Kerala. Name them
Kochi and Thiruvanathapuram

(18) What is Marshall Plan?
An American initiative; economic support to rebuild European economies after the end of World War II

(19) What is Operation Enduring Freedom?
Official name used by the government of the United States of America to describe the Global War on Terrorism.
Operation Enduring Freedom –
-          in Afghanistan (2014)
-          in Philippines (2002) (also called as Operation Freedom Eagle)
-          in Horn of Africa (2002)
-          in Kyrgyzstan (2001)

(20) If it is Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha for India, then for Pakistan it is
Senate (Upper House)
National Assembly (Lower House)

(21) Nodal Ministry for Nalanda University
Ministry of External Affairs

(22) In which state, one can see writers being taken in a procession?
Karnataka

(23) Name the committee established to reform Food Corporation of India?
Shanta Kumar Committee

(24) Indian State that leads in Tiger population is
Karnataka

(25) What is DTTI and PACE (connected with India-US)?
DTTI: Defence Trade and Technology Initiative
PACE: Partnership to Advance Clean Energy

(26) “US-India relationship the defining partnership of this century” – who said this?
Barack Obama

(27) Largest State in South India (both by area and Population)
By Area: Karnataka; TN at third [if Telangana added]
By Area: Andhra Pradesh; TN at third [original 2011 census]
By Population: TN [if Telangana added]
By Population: Andhra Pradesh; TN at second [original 2011 census]

(28) Presiding Officer of Lok Sabha is
Speaker

(29) TMT (Thirty Metre Telescope) to be located in
Hawaii, USA

(30) What is Project “Sandesh One”?
By Kerala Government; to develop women entrepreneurs
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