Current Affairs and Gk -May 2013
Current Affairs and Gk -May 2013
Important current affairs and Gk questions of May 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]
9. 100 years ago, the Hindustan Gadar Party was launched in which among the following cities in United States?
[A]Chicago
[B]San Francisco
[C]Oregon City
[D]New York
San Francisco
To mark the centenary of the Gadar movement, the Indian Government is planning to fund the conversion of the Gadar Memorial in San Francisco into a museum and library. The Hindustan Gadar Party, when founded in 1913, begun its operation from 436 Hill Street of the northern Californian city. It came to be known as ‘Yugantar Ashram’ and it was from here that the freedom fighters were active from 1913 to 1917. From this place they published a weekly magazine called Gadar to propagate the cause of Indian independence.
10. . With reference to China, BeiDou is a ___?
[A]Search Engine
[B]Navigation System
[C]Space Station
[D]Ballistic Missile System
Navigation System
China’s home grown navigation system ‘BeiDou’ will be achieving full-scale global coverage by around 2020. With the aid of a constellation of 35 satellites, the BeiDou navigation system will pose a stiff challenge to America’s Global Positioning System (GPS). China started to build up its own space—based Positioning, Navigation and Timing system in 2000 by launching the first satellite for an experimental version of the BeiDou.
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