Current Affairs and Gk -March Part-1 2013

Current Affairs and Gk -March 2013

17. The location of the proposed National Institute of Sports Sciences and Medicine (NISSM) is___:

[A]Chennai
[B]Kolkata
[C]New Delhi
[D]Hyderabad

National Institute of Sports Science and Medicine at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, New Delhi. The proposed NISSM would be leading institute in the country to

support high performance of sportspersons and integrate sciences and medicine into the training of elite sportspersons in the country as well as into the

teaching curriculum of sport coaching in the country.

18. The government has recently merged some schemes out of the three schemes given below.

[A]1 and 2
[B]1 and 3
[C]2 and 3
[D]1, 2 & 3

backward sections of society. The scheme extends life and disability cover to persons between the ages of 18 and 59 years living below and marginally above

the poverty line under 47 identified vocational/occupational groups, including ‘rural landless households’. It provides insurance cover of a sum of Rs.

30,000 on natural death, Rs. 75,000 on death due to accident, Rs. 37,500 for partial permanent disability due to accident, and Rs. 75,000 on death or total

permanent disability due to accident. The scheme also provides an add-on benefit of scholarship of Rs. 100 per month per child paid on half- yearly basis to

a maximum of two children per member studying in Classes 9 to 12 (including ITI courses).

19. As per the recently released Government data, which among the following States has the highest percentage households availing of banking services?

[A]West Bengal
[B]Himachal Pradesh
[C]Gujarat
[D]Karnataka

lowest followed by Bihar (44.4 per cent).

20. New START treaty is signed between which among the following countries?

[A]India and United States
[B]United States and China
[C]United States and Russia
[D]India and Russia

the Russian Federation with the formal name of Measures for the Further Reduction and Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms. It is expected to last at least

until 2021. New START replaced the Treaty of Moscow (SORT), which was due to expire in December 2012. In terms of name, it is a follow-up to the START I

treaty, which expired in December 2009, the proposed START II treaty, which never entered into force, and the START III treaty, for which negotiations were

never concluded.

21. Project Glass is a R&D program by which among the following companies to prototype and build augmented reality glasses or an augmented reality head-

mounted display (HMD)?

[A]Google
[B]Microsoft
[C]Samsung Electronics
[D]Research In Motion Limited

information currently available to most smartphone users, and allowing for interaction with the Internet via natural language voice commands, in a manner

similar to the iPhone application Siri. The Project Glass is powered by Google’s Android operating system.

22. The main application would be the hands free displaying of information currently available to most smartphone users, and allowing for interaction with

the Internet via natural language voice commands, in a manner similar to the iPhone application Siri. The Project Glass is powered by Google’s Android

operating system.

[A]Joseph Stiglitz
[B]Nicholas Stern
[C]Michael Bruno
[D]Kaushik Basu

senior vice president and chief economist of the World Bank, and is a former member, and Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers.[

23. Who among the following has recently won the first Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering?

[A]Sergey Brin
[B]Bill Gates
[C]Larry Page
[D]Tim Berners-Lee

recognition of his contribution to the development of the world wide web. He shares the prize with other internet pioneers Robert Kahn, Vinton Cerf, Louis

Pouzin and Marc Andreessen. The international prize has been described as the “Nobel Prize for Engineering”. Its aim is to acknowledge the field’s

contribution to the economy and society, and act as an inspiration for young people seeking a productive career.

24. Which among the following day is observed as the World Water Day?

[A]March 12
[B]March 16
[C]March 21
[D]March 22

the official ceremony of World Water Day 2013 taking place in The Hague, UN Water has recognized two projects that contribute to the fulfillment of

international commitments made on water and water-related issues this year. The UN Water “Water for Life” Best Practices Award was given to a project

implemented in the city of Kumamoto in Japan for the conservation of groundwater resources and to the “Safe Water and Sanitation for All” initiative in the

Republic of Moldova, aimed at improving coverage in rural areas of the country.

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