Current Affairs-January 2013 Part-2
Current Affairs-January 2013
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89. Which among the following is located on the Coromandel Coast?
Pulicat Lake
90. . The bushfires are very useful and essential for reproduction in which among the following trees?
Eucalypt
91. Which among the following sports car has smashed the world record for acceleration after hitting nearly 300 kmph in just over 13 seconds?
Hennessey Venom GT
Supercar Hennessey Venom GT created the world’s fastest accelerating motor record by beating the previous record of 0-300 kmph in 14.53 seconds set by Koenigsegg Agera. The Texan-built supercar, powered by a 7-litre V8 engine developing a whopping 1,244bhp, showed the world that how quick it was when it hit nearly 300 kmph in just 13.63 seconds.
92. Anand Amritraj is a well known player of ___?
Tennis
The cream of Indian tennis, spanning about 60 years, will be presented Davis Cup Commitment awards instituted by the International Tennis Federation (ITF) as part of the centenary celebrations, this season. Ramanathan Krishnan, Jaidip Mookerjee, Premjit Lall, Vijay Amritraj, Anand Amritraj, Ramesh Krishnan, Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi figure in the ITF honours list among Indians in an overall compilation of 299 players from 80 countries. The criteria for selection was that a player should have competed in a minimum of 20 home or away ties, or 50 ties at any level including zonal competition in their career.
93. Who among the following is the current chairman of University Grants Commission (UGC)?
Ved Prakash
The Government of India has appointed professor Ved Prakash as the chairman of University Grants Commission on January 18, 2013. Prakash, a recipient of the US Fulbright post-doctoral fellowship, has held a number of important positions in national and international organization and has been the acting chairman of UGC for over 23 months. With his appointment as the chairman of the apex regulatory authority of the higher education in the country, he now has the unique distinction of serving UGC in all three key positions as secretary, vice-chairman and chairman. The position has been lying vacant since February 2011 after professor Sukhadeo Thorat completed his term as chairman.
94. The World Economic Forum held its annual meeting in Davos, which is located in _________?
Switzerland
The World Economic Forum (WEF) is a Swiss non-profit foundation, based in Cologny, Geneva. The Forum is best known for its annual meeting in Davos, a mountain resort in Graubünden, in the eastern Alps region of Switzerland.
95. Which of the following Indian Scientists have been conferred with China’s top science award for his important contributions in boosting China-India scientific cooperation?
CNR Rao
Recently, the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) gave its 2012 Award for International Scientific Cooperation to three scientists from India, Germany, and Russia. Rao, 79, founder of Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research ( JNCASR), Bangalore, shared the 2012 award with Herbert Jaeckle of Germany’s Max Planck Society and Russian space physicist GA Zherebtsov. The awards are given every year by the CAS, which is China’s top academic and research institution for natural sciences.
96. Who among the following is world’s oldest marathon runner?
Fauja Singh
Fauja Singh, a 101-year-old Sikh regarded as the world’s oldest marathon runner will quit after one final run at next month’s Hong Kong race. Indian-born British national Fauja Singh admitted age was finally catching up with him and he had decided not to compete after the Hong Kong Marathon on February 24, five weeks before his 102nd birthday on April 1.Singh, dubbed the ‘Turbaned Tornado’, took up running marathons at the ripe old age of 89 and has been credited with competing in eight 42-kilometre (26-mile) races in London, Toronto and New York. He finished his fifth London Marathon last year in a time of seven hours and 49 minutes and was honoured by being invited to carry the Olympic torch.
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