Current Affairs and Gk -August 2013 part-1
Current Affairs and Gk -August 2013
Important current affairs and Gk questions of August month for IAS, RAS, SSC CGL, UPSC, BANK PO, UPSC,RPSC, Bank exams and all other exams.If you like the post kindly give rating.
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81. Apart from India, which of the following countries celebrate(s) Independence Day on August 15th?
[A]Only 1 & 4
[B]Only 1,2 & 3
[C]Only 1, 2 & 4
[D]Only 1, 3 & 4
Only 1, 3 & 4
15th August also marks the independence of the three other nations – South Korea won its independence from Japan on 15th August 1945, Bahrain from UK in 1971 and Republic of the Congo from France in 1960.
82. Pakistan
[A]National Onshore Wind Energy Authority
[B]National Offshore Wind Energy Authority
[C]National Oil and Wind Energy Authority
[D]Natural Oil and Wind Energy Authority
National Offshore Wind Energy Authority
A National Offshore Wind Energy Authority (NOWA) under the aegis of Ministry of New and Renewable Energy will be constituted that will acts as the nodal agency for Offshore Wind Projects in the country. NOWA will carry out resource assessment and surveys in the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) of the country and simultaneously enter into contract with project developers for development of offshore wind energy project in the territorial water. NOWA will be the single window agency and will coordinate with concerned ministry/department.
83. Bahrain
[A]Deepika Padukone, Shah Rukh Khan
[B]Aamir Khan, Juhi Chawla
[C]Aamir Khan, Deepika Padukone
[D]Akshay Kumar, Katrina Kaif
Aamir Khan, Deepika Padukone
Deepika Padukone and Aamir Khan are the brand ambassadors of the Indian Badminton League.
84. Republic of Congo
[A]Canada
[B]Russia
[C]Finland
[D]USA
Canada
The Arctic Council is a high-level intergovernmental forum that addresses issues faced by the Arctic governments and the indigenous people of the arctic. It has eight member countries and chairmanship of the Council rotates every two years. The current chair is Canada.
85. Recently (August, 2013), Rajya Sabha passed a bill to declare Lakhipur-Bhanga Stretch of the Barak River as National Waterway. This waterway is located in __?
[A]North India
[B]South India
[C]North East India
[D]Central India
North East India
Rajya Sabha passed a bill to declare the 121-km stretch of Barak River in Assam as National Waterway, a move aimed to unified development of waterways for shipping, navigation and transportation of cargo to the north-eastern region. The Barak stretch National Waterway would be country’s sixth National Waterway and benefits Assam, Nagaland, Mizoram, Manipur, Tripura and Arunachal Pradesh.
86. Which one of the following is the NASA’s frontier mission to the planet “Jupiter”?
[A]Juno
[B]Xylo
[C]Dragon
[D]Jup-X
Juno
Juno is a NASA new frontier mission to the planet Jupiter. Juno was launched from Cape Canaveral air force station on August 5, 2011.
87. Who among the following has been conferred Prime Minister “Shram Ratna” Award for the year 2012?
[A]Bijay Kishore Mishra
[B]Sanjay Kumar
[C]Subrata Kumar
[D]Muralidhar Wadekar
Subrata Kumar
Shram Ratna is the highest award among the Shram Awards and carries a cash award of 200000 rupees along with a Sanad. For the year 2012, the prestigious Shram Ratna award has been given to Subrata Kumar from Tata Steel Ltd., Jamshedpur.
88. Which of the following books were written by Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru?
[A]Only 1 & 4
[B]Only 1 & 2
[C]Only 1 & 3
[D]Only 2 & 3
Only 1 & 3
Discovery of India and Glimpses of World History were written by Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru among the above books.
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