Current Affairs-December 2012 Part-1
111. Which among the following countries has so far, withdrawn from the Kyoto Protocol?
Canada
The Kyoto Protocol, the only legally binding agreement on climate change, entered its second and final phase, beginning from 2013 to 2020. The iconic protocol requires only the industrialised countries to take on legally-binding emission reduction targets. Many countries — Japan, Russia and New Zealand — refused to sign on to the second commitment period. Belarus is understood to have indicated that it will withdraw, and Ukraine and Kazakhstan might do the same. Canada has withdrawn from Protocol.
112. How many Indian Citizens have won Nobel Prize for Literature so far__?
One
Rabindranath Tagore only. Rudyard Kipling was a foreign citizen born in India.
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113. “Oportunidades” is one of the most intensively investigated cash transfer of subsidy programmes in the world. This programme is being implemented in ___?
Mexico
The most intensively investigated cash transfer programmes are Oportunidades (Mexico), Social Protection Network (Nicaragua), Bolsa Escola and Peti (Brazil), Family Assignment Program (PRAF, Honduras), Chile Solidario (Chile) and Programme of Advancement Through Health and Education (Jamaica).
114. India’s current account deficit in 2012-13 is likely to be around 4% of GDP. Which among the following is one of the factors that contributes in widening of this deficit?
Huge import of Gold
115. Which among the following IT major is collaborating with CSIR to launch cloud-enabled eHealth centres to bring diagnostic services to the doorsteps of people living in remote areas?
Hewlett Packard
The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) and IT major Hewlett Packard announced the development of a system that would provide affordable healthcare to the rural poor and simultaneously facilitate better medicines for various ailments. The system is based on a combination of the latest in IT, cloud computing, and standard shipping containers, which have become unusable for normal freight movement. While the containers would be used for setting up basic health centres in remote areas at a much faster pace and at much lesser cost than a conventional brick and mortar centre, cloud computing would help scientists working in distant laboratories access physiological data required to make new medicines for different ailments. The system would also feature a telemedicine studio, a laboratory and a pharmacy. A pilot project of the system has been tried at a village in Kaithal district of Haryana in partnership with O.P. Jindal Gramin Jan Kalyan Sansthan, an NGO for rural welfare run by the Jindal group.
116. The first National Museum of Indian Cinema will come up in ____________?
Mumbai
The Government has decided to set up a National Museum of Indian Cinemas in Mumbai. The work on setting up the Museum is in progress. The Museum will be a repository of valuable information concerning Indian Cinemas. It will have interesting details for cinema goers, film makers, film students, enthusiasts and critics. The museum will have interactive galleries and two cinema theatres with seating capacities of 155 and 210 each. It will also have an amphitheatre with a seating capacity of 400 and studios to demonstrate various stages of film production and shooting to the visitors.
117. In the context of telecom sector in India, consider the following statements:
None of them
India, today, is the second largest telecom market in the world as a whole. The New Telecom Policy-2012 envisages 70 percent rural penetration by 2017 and 100 percent by 2020.
118. Who among the following is the head of a committee formed by SEBI to frame a single set of guidelines for all types of foreign investors?
K. M. Chandrashekhar
Market regulator SEBI said it has appointed a committee under ex-Cabinet secretary K M Chandrashekhar to frame a single set of guidelines for all types of foreign investors. The committee will suggest ways to simplify the investment process for all overseas entities like foreign institutional investors, foreign venture capital investors (FVCIs), qualified financial/institutional investors (QFIs), and NRIs, among others, and also to strengthen surveillance over them.
119. The newly proposed “Cabinet Committee on Investment” would monitor and speedup the proposals for investment of more than ____?
Rs. 1000 Crore
The National Investment Board will be now known as Cabinet Committee on Investment and it will be headed by the prime minister to speed up clearances of projects of over Rs. 1,000 crore.
120.Recently, the European Union countries have reached a landmark agreement whereby, the European Central Bank will be made the top banking supervisor of the bloc. Where is located European Central Bank ?
Frankfurt
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