Very important current Gk questions series #15 Part-1
Current Affairs-March 2013 Part-1
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61. Who among the following is known as “Father of Pentium Chip”?
Vinod Dham
Vinod Dham is known as “Father of Pentium Chip” or “Father of Pentium” for the role in the development of highly successful Pentium Processors from Intel. Vinod Dham is also one of the co-inventors of the Flash memory.
62. Who among the following is known as “The father of India’s communication revolution“?
Sam Pitroda
Satyanarayan Gangaram Pitroda. He is well known as Dr Sam Pitroda and “The father of India’s communication revolution“. He is Currently Advisor to the Prime Minister of India on Public Information Infrastructure & Innovations. He is founder and CEO of company named C-SAM, Inc.
63. Also sometimes known as ‘Father of fiber optics‘, which among the following Indian personalities has been honoured by the Fortune magazine as one of the seven ‘Unsung Heroes‘?
Narinder Singh Kapany
Narinder Singh Kapany is best known as ‘Father of fiber optics‘. Mr. Narendra has done is graduation from Agra University, India and further study and Ph.D. from London. Fortune Magazine honoured him as a one of the seven ‘Unsung Heroes‘. Also note that in west, Charles K. Kao is known as Godfather of Broadband”, “Father of Fiber Optics” or “Father of Fiber Optic Communications”. Kao is 2009 Nobel Prize Winner.
64. Who among the following is appointed as the Mission Director for the ambitious Direct Benefits Transfer (DBT) scheme?
Sindhushree Khullar
Planning Commission secretary Sindhushree Khullar was appointed as Mission Director for the UPA government’s ambitious Direct Benefits Transfer (DBT) scheme. Khullar will be the Mission Director for the DBT Scheme, in addition to her present charge. Under the scheme, termed as UPA’s vote-catcher for general election 2014, the government provides welfare subsidies to beneficiaries by transferring the money directly into their bank accounts.
65. Who among the following is the head of the 16-member committee set by the SEBI to suggest new rules for dealing with insider trading?
N K Sodhi
Securities and Exchange Board of India – SEBI has set up a 16-member committee to suggest new rules for dealing with insider trading. SEBI has said that world over, the regulatory focus is shifting towards containing the rising menace of insider trading effectively and hence SEBI is seeking a review of the extant Insider Trading Regulatory regime in India. Although several amendments have been introduced to SEBI (Prohibition of Insider Trading) Regulations, 1992; the new guidelines will help in replacing the nearly two-decade old set of norms. The committee headed by Presiding officer of the Securities Appellate Tribunal, N K Sodhi, will include SEBI officials, executives from companies, legal experts and journalists.
66. Hugo Chavez, who recently passed away was the President of ___________?
Venezuela
Hugo Chavez, who rose from poverty in a dirt-floor adobe house to unrivalled influence in Venezuela as its president, consolidating power and wielding the country’s oil reserves as a tool for his Socialist-inspired change has died recently due to cancer. For years, he succeeded in curbing U.S. influence. He breathed life into Cuba, the hemisphere’s only Communist nation, with economic assistance; its revolutionary leader, Fidel Castro, was not only an ally but also an inspiration. Chavez forged a Bolivarian alliance with some of Latin America’s energy-exporting nations, like Ecuador and Bolivia, and applauded when they expelled U.S. ambassadors, as he had done. He asserted greater state control over Venezuela’s economy by nationalizing dozens of foreign-owned assets, including oil projects controlled by Exxon Mobil and other large U.S. corporations.
67. Which among the following is the first in India to receive Rs.25 lakh as carbon credits from the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)?
Okhla composting plant
The Okhla composting plant of the South Delhi Municipal Corporation has received carbon credits and Rs.25 lakh from the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) for helping the environment. The plant uses 200 tonnes of municipal waste to produce manure that can be used in parks and gardens. The plant operates under Public Private Partnership with IL&FS and is the first plant in the country to receive such credits. Since 2007, the plant has converted two lakh tonnes of municipal waste into manure through ‘aerobic composting technology’.
68. Who among the following will become the second president in Africa to be indicted by the ICC – after Sudan’s Omar al-Bashir?
Uhuru Kenyatta
The people of Kenya have elected Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta as their president and William Ruto as the deputy president. This was the first election under a new constitution and also the first presidential election after the 2007 post-election violence. Unlike his late father, Mzee Jomo Kenyatta, Uhuru does not carry a fly-whisk as a mark of authority, instead he carries the heavy indictment by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for crimes against humanity committed after the previous elections, in 2007. He will become the second president in Africa to be indicted by the ICC – after Sudan’s Omar al-Bashir.
69. Recently, the President of India, Pranab Mukherjee has released the Commemorative Postage Stamp on Sahir Ludhianvi. Sahir Ludhianvi was a well-known ____________?
Urdu poet
Commemorating the birth anniversary of legendary poet and lyricist late Sahir Ludhianvi, the President of India Pranab Mukherjee released a commemorative postage stamp on 8 March. He was recognized as the poet of the young because of his writings on love and beauty. He wrote with great sensitivity on the values and social concerns of the contemporary period. Ludhianvi was a popular Urdu poet and Hindi lyricist, who worked extensively in Hindi films. He won the Filmfare Award twice, in 1964 and 1977, and in 1971 was awarded the Padma Shri.
70. . Which among the following countries is the 1st largest ‘spam spewing nation’ in world?
United States
India has ranked third on the list of the countries distributing spam across the world, after US and China. While the US was the single highest-ranking country in the study, Asia topped the list of continents with 36.6 per cent of the world’s spam accounted for. In the latter half of 2012, India had been leading the way but has now fallen back to third, with China leapfrogging into second place after a spell in the lower half of the list, statistics from SophosLabs revealed. US is still firmly on the top, distributing more spam than any other country in the world, clocking in at a “respectable” 18.3 per cent of junk email sent.
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71. The 2013, SAARC literature festival was hosted by__:
Agra
Recently, a three-day SAARC festival of literature began in Agra with a call for concerted efforts to raise eco-consciousness and resist predatory policies that devour nature and its components. The theme of this year’s festival is “Environment and Literature”. The festival is being attended by delegates from Pakistan, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Sri Lanka, Maldives, Nepal and India.
72. Recently, which among the following countries was in news for a current designing of world’s largest magnet, weighing 50,000 tonnes?
India
The world’s largest magnet, weighing 50,000 tonnes, is being designed at the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (Barc) at Trombay. It will be several times bigger than the one in the Compact Muan Solenoid detector at CERN in Geneva. The magnet will play a major role in the Rs 1,500-crore India-based Neutrino Observatory coming up 4,300 ft below a cave in a mountain not far from Madurai, Tamil Nadu.
73. The Katchatheevu island belongs to which among the following countries?
Sri Lanka
Katchatheevu is a controversial uninhabited island belonging to Sri Lanka. This island is given to Sri Lanka by India in 1974 on a conditional basis. It has a Catholic shrine and has been declared as a sacred area by the government of Sri Lanka.
74. Who among the following is the current chairman of the Goods and Services Tax ( GST) Network (As of March 2013)?
Navin Kumar
Chief Secretary of Bihar, Navin Kumar, as the Chairman of the special purpose vehicle ( SPV) for the GST Network ( GSTN). GSTN is considered to be pre- requisite for the new indirect tax regime. This network will help in setting up information technology infrastructure and services to various stakeholders, including the Centre and the States. Last April, the Cabinet approved setting up the SPV with an equity capital of Rs 10 crore. Chairman of the Empowered Committee of States’ Finance Ministers Sushil Kumar Modi said that Kumar had been appointed for three years. He was selected by a panel consisting of Finance Minister P. Chidambaram and Unique ID Authority Chairman Nandan Nilekani besides Modi.
75. The nodal agency for estimating the number of percentage of people living below poverty line is__:
Planning Commission
Planning Commission is the nodal agency for estimating the number of percentage of people living below poverty line, which it defines on the basis of monthly per capita consumption. According to the Planning Commission, about 30 per cent of people in India were below the poverty line in 2009-10 that was based on the monthly per capita consumption expenditure (MPCE) of Rs 673 for rural areas and Rs 860 for urban areas.
76. A recently released report by Tata Strategic Management Group, keeps which among the following states on highest place in the Female Security Index (FSI)?
Gujarat
Tata Strategic Management Group (Tata Strategic), the largest Indian-owned management consulting firm, who published the 2013 edition of Well Being Index (WBI) and Female Security Index (FSI) for India said that, more than well being, the socio-cultural aspects of the entire region has an impact on female security. Interestingly Gujarat along with southern and north-eastern states has emerged to be most secured state for women as it ranks high on the Female Security Index (FSI). Hyderabad and Delhi were the lowest-ranked amongst the urban agglomerations while Chennai and Bengaluru were at the top on this scale and Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Punjab, Delhi and Rajasthan had the lowest FSI ranking.
77. The Pan-STARRS, which is recently in news is a __________?
Comet
A recently discovered comet made its closest-ever approach to Earth recently, as it buzzed past within 160 million kilometres of our planet. The comet, which passed through the inner solar system this month, is known officially as comet C/2011 L4 (PANSTARRS). It was discovered in June 2011 by astronomers using the Panoramic Survey Telescope & Rapid Response System, or Pan-STARRS telescope, in Hawaii.
78. Who among the following is the head of the six-member committee constituted by the union government to prepare a blueprint for the proposed women’s bank?
M.B.N. Rao
The Centre has constituted a six-member committee to prepare a blueprint for the proposed women’s bank. The committee will be headed by M.B.N. Rao, ex-CMD of Canara Bank. It includes M.D. Mallya, ex-CMD of Bank of Baroda, Jayshree Vyas, MD Sewa, Arundhati Bhattacharya, MD & CEO of SBI Caps, Usha Ananthasubramaniam, Executive Director, Punjab National Bank, and K. Ramakrishnan, Chief Executive, Indian Banks’ Association.
79. Recently, which among the following State government has announce a new scheme called Kanyasri Prakalpa, to encourage girls towards higher education?
West Bengal
The West Bengal Government announced sops to encourage girls towards higher education. Announcing a special scheme for girls, Kanyasri Prakalpa, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said the State Government would provide Rs 500 a year as scholarship to girls belonging to families with an annual income of Rs 50,000. This apart the Government would also provide aid of Rs 25,000 to the girl when she became 18 years under this scheme. The Chief Minister also announced that the State has readied a bill for reservation in higher education.
80. . The Nachiarkoil brass lamp, which recently obtained geographical indication (GI) tag is available in ____________?
Tamil Nadu
Traditional brass lamps from Nachiarkoil in Thanjavur district obtained the geographical indication (GI) tag. The traditional Nachiarkoil brass lamps are known as Nachiarkoil Kuthuvilakku. The production of the ornamental lamp is mainly done by local artisans who have domicile in and around Nachiarkoil, a town in Kumbakonam taluk. The craftsmanship is not found anywhere else. The lamps made for temples are artistically used in South India. The lamp usually consists of four parts—base (Keezhbagam), stem (kandam), oil container (Thanguli) and the apex or Prabhai. The Thanguli or oil container consists of V-shaped spouts to hold the wicks. These four parts are joined together with the help of screw threads. The lamps are suspended from the ceiling and richly decorated and always excellent in workmanship and design.
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