Current Affairs and Gk -March Part-1 2013

Current Affairs and Gk -March 2013

Important current affairs and Gk questions of march 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.

1. Which among the following ministries have recently launched the Rajiv Rinn Yojana (RRY)?

[A]Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment
[B]Ministry of Rural Development
[C]Ministry of Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation (HUPA)
[D]Ministry of Panchayat Raj

Interest Subsidy Scheme for Housing the Urban Poor (ISHUP), the government has proposed for revamp and relaunch as Rajiv Rinn Yojana (RRY). The amount of

loan is proposed to be increased up to Rs. 5.00 lakhs for EWS and Rs.8.0 lakhs for LIG beneficiaries with an interest subsidy up to a maximum Rs. 5.0lakhs

for both categories of beneficiaries and with suitable modifications to address other concerns.

2. Tagore Award for Cultural Harmony for the year 2012 was conferred on ____________?

[A]Zakir Hussain
[B]Pandit Ravi Shankar
[C]Hariprasad Chaurasia
[D]Amjad Ali Khan

Rabindranath Tagore and an announcement to this effect was made by the then Finance Minister in his Budget Speech on 28th February, 2011. It is an

International Award with prize money of Rs. 1 Crore for promoting values of Cultural Harmony. The Jury constituted for the selection of Tagore Award for the

year 2012 under the Chairmanship of the Prime Minister of India selected Pandit Ravi Shankar, the Indian Sitar Maestro, to be the first recipient of the

Tagore Award in recognition of his outstanding contribution to Cultural Harmony and Universal Values.

3. Key Resolve 2013 is the joint military exercise of __:

[A]United States and Japan
[B]United States and South Korea
[C]Japan and Indonesia
[D]South Korea and Indonesia

2013, on the Korean Peninsula, despite North Korea declaring the armistice agreement to be invalid. More than 3,000 US personnel are participating along with

10,000 South Korean troops during the combined land, air and naval exercise, which is scheduled to conclude on 21 March. The exercise will also witness

participation from five UN Command states, Australia, Canada, Colombia, Denmark and the UK. North Korea has repeatedly called for cancellation of the US-ROK

annual joint exercises, arguing that they are a provocation and a prelude to an invasion, despite US maintaining that the drills are aimed at enhancing the

alliance’s operational readiness.

4. Ganesh Pyne, who recently passed was a well-known ________?

[A]Painter
[B]Singer
[C]Historian
[D]Writer

exhibited round the world – Paris, London, Washington and Germany. Described famously as ‘an artist’s artist, a philosopher’s philosopher and master

fantasist of them all’, Pyne had received several awards and accolades for his works. He was known for his small tempera paintings, rich in imagery and

symbols and acknowledged the influence of great painters like Abanindranath Tagore, Hals Rembrandt and Paul Klee. But it was his exposure to Walt Disney’s

cartoons and his own experience as a young animator in Calcutta that finally liberated him and helped him develop two important stylistic features –

distortion and exaggeration which he used to explore the deep recesses of his fantastical imagination to create uncanny images of disquieting creatures.

5. The world’s largest biogas plant was inaugurated in __________?

[A]Japan
[B]Finland
[C]Norway
[D]Australia

an existing coal-fired power plant in Vaasa, central Finland, the 140 MW biomass gasification factory is expected to cut coal use by up to 40 per cent.

Fuelled mainly with wood residue from Finland’s large forestry sector, the plant is expected to reduce carbon-dioxide emissions by 2,30,000 tonnes a year

while providing both heating and electricity for Vaasa’s approximately 61,000 residents.

6. Barauni Thermal Power Project is located in ___:

[A]Bihar
[B]Rajasthan
[C]Himachal Pradesh
[D]Madhya Pradesh

7. Recently, which among the following ministries has launched e-PPS scheme?

[A]Union Ministry for Finance
[B]Union Ministry for Corporate Affairs
[C]Union Ministry for Rural Development
[D]Union Ministry for Communications and IT

(e-PPS), developed by the Department of Electronics and Information Technology, through the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC). The e-PPS

system will initially operate on a pilot basis. The Electronic Project Proposal System (e-PPS) is a web-based system that encompasses the complete life-cycle

of funding of R&D projects, beginning with online submission of project proposals for funds, to monitoring and management of funded projects. E-PPS

replaces the existing manual system of project funding wherein the Project Investigators (PI) submit hard copies of R&D proposals, which are presented to

a Working Group and based on the recommendations of the Working Group the proposals are further processed in DeitY. It is a One-Go Dash-Board to see the

projects from initiation to completion. It reduces the total processing time of proposals and aids easy dissemination of project information.

8. Recently, who among the following was re-elected for a second term as IAEA chief?

[A]Naoto Kan
[B]Yukio Edano
[C]Yukiya Amano
[D]Catherine Ashton

international concerns about Iran’s development of a nuclear program.

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