Current Affairs and Gk -June 2013
Current Affairs and Gk -June 2013
Important current affairs and Gk questions of June 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.
[important]This questions are useful for any competitive exam like IAS, bank PO, SSC CGL, RAS, CDS, UPSC exams and all state related exams.[/important]
65. Which of the following country is all set to send a robot-astronaut to the space that can communicate with humans?
[A]Japan
[B]Russia
[C]USA
[D]China
Japan
Japan is all set to send a robot-astronaut named Kirobo to the space. Kirobo is about 34 cm and weigh about one kg. Kirobo is scheduled to be launched from the
Tanegashima Space Centre on August 4, 2013.
66. Recently, government approved levying of Rs 650 crore penalty, on which of the following telecommunication company for violating roaming norms?
[A]Idea
[B]Vodafone
[C]Bharti Airtel
[D]MTS
Bharti Airtel
67. Who among the following is the head of the Committee set up by SEBI, to unify Foreign Investment Norms?
[A]C B Dhave
[B]U K Sinha
[C]Sudhir Kulkarni
[D]K M Chandrashekar
K M Chandrashekar
Former cabinet secretary K M Chandrashekar is the head of committee set up by market regulator SEBI, to standardise and unify the rules regarding foreign
investments made under the various routes into the capital markets. SEBI in its recent board meeting accepted the recommendations of the committee which, inter alia include simplified and uniform entry norms for foreign investors by merging existing FIIs, Sub accounts and qualified foreign investors into a new investor
class to be termed as “Foreign Portfolio Investors”.
68. The campaign named “Start Searching India” has been launched by ____?
[A]Google
[B]Yahoo
[C]Rediff
[D]MSN
Google India has launched “Start Searching India” campaign. The objective is to help simplify the web for Indian users.
69. Which one of the following is the main objective of ROSHNI scheme, launched by ministry of Rural Development recently?
[A]To provide household facility to poor
[B]Provide training and employment to tribal youth in Naxal-affected districts
[C]Promotion of self-employment in Naxal-affected districts
[D]Empowerment of Women’s in rural area
Provide training and employment to tribal youth in Naxal-affected districts
Roshni is a new skill development scheme designed to offer employment to tribal youth in 24 Naxal-affected districts. The scheme is supposed to provide training
and employment to an anticipated 50000 youth in the 10-35 years age group, for a period of three years. As per the ministry 50 per cent of beneficiaries of the scheme will be women only.
70. . Which among the following companies has recently unveiled the world’s largest container ship?
[A]DSME
[B]Maersk Line
[C]STX group
[D]Hyundai heavy
Maersk Line
Denmark’s Maersk Line unveiled the world’s largest container ship “Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller”.
71. INDRA is a joint, bi-annual military exercise conducted by India and _____?
[A]USA
[B]Sri Lanka
[C]Russia
[D]China
Russia
INDRA is a joint, bi-annual military exercise conducted by India and Russia starting in 2003. The exercise is tasked with boosting cooperation and interoperability between the Russian and Indian navies. INRA 2013 military exercise is scheduled to take place in October 2013 at Mahajan field firing range of Rajasthan in India.
72. As of June 2013, which one of the following is the India’s super fast computer?
[A]iDataPlex
[B]PARAM Yuva-II
[C]SAGA
[D]EKA
iDataPlex
As of June 2013, India has 11 systems in the list of top 500 fastest supercomputers in the world. The Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM) supercomputer iDataPlex stands 36th in the list. Param Yuva-II, developed by the Centre for Development of Advance computing (C-DAC) has bagged the 69th position.
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