General Awareness- One Liners

 

1- The Watchkeeper is the unmanned aerial system (UAS) which has been developed by Thales for the British army

2-Hamid Ansari, the Vice President of India has released a book entitled ‘Public Issues Before Parliament’ written by Vijay J Darda

3-Amar Kant is the famous Hindi writer who received the 45th Jnanpith Award in 2009 and also won Sahitya Akademi Award for his novel, has died recently.

4-Maulana Azad Sehat Scheme has been launched by Ministry of Minority Affairs

5-India’s first Minority Cyber Village has been inaugurated in Alwar district of Rajasthan

6- Indira Gandhi Zoological Park, Visakhapatnam has been selected by Central Zoo Authority for creation of a conservation breeding center for the endangered wild dog ‘Dhole’.

7- The Airlander, the world’s largest aircraft, a 300 feet long monster which is part plane, airship and helicopter, capable of flying non-stop for three weeks without refueling, unveiled by Britain.

8-Gill Sukhdarshan Singh, a Sikh bus driver, has won a year-long legal battle with his employer to wear a turban at work in Finland.

9- Madan Babu, the Indian scientist who won the Protein Society’s Protein Science Young Investigator Award for 2014 at Cambridge.

10- Ranbaxy Laboratories, the Pharmaceutical company which is reeling under regulatory action from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (USFD(A), has recalled more than 64,000 bottles of Atorvastatin calcium tablets, a generic
version of cholesterol-lowering drug Lipitor.

11-Odisha is the country’s first state to enact a law for creation of a Lokayukta to probe corruption charges against public functionaries, including chief minister and other ministers.

12- N. N. Kumar has been appointed as the Chairman of the Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust (JNPT) by the Government of India.

13- Vietnam has banned its banks from handling Bitcoins

14- Abraham Pannikottue, the Indian-American engineer who has developed zero pressure tyres for the US military

15- Axis Bank ,the first Indian private sector bank which has set up a branch in China.

16-Yaduvendra Mathur has been appointed as the Chairman and Managing Director of the Export Import Bank of India (Exim Bank)

17- Nishi Vasudeva, the first woman who took over as the Chairman and Managing Director of Hindustan Petroleum Corporation (HPCL)

18- Dr. Verghese Kurien is related with White Revolution.

19-NTPC signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to develop Kajra thermal Power Project located in Bihar

20-SDR, which is also known as paper gold, is associated with International Monetary Fund (IMF)

21- Odisha is the third state of India where ICICI Bank has expanded its ‘Branch on Wheels’ network after Maharashtra and Chhattisgarh.

22- Bull Market- It is a market where the speculators buy shares or commodities in anticipation of rising prices

23-India’s first post office savings bank ATM facility has been inaugurated in Chennai.

24-Union Government and Asian Development Bank (AD(B) have signed an agreement for a 300 million US dollar loan to improve road connectivity along key corridors in the State of Chhattisgarh

25-The first Five Year Plan was based on Herold Domar model

 

 

General Awareness- One Liners

 

1-Name the portal which has been inaugurated by the Indian Railways with an aim to improve energy efficiency in Indian Railways.
Ans- RAILSAVER

2- State Bank of India has launched Boutique Financing, a financing scheme for women fashion boutique owners.

3-As per the data released by the International Comparison Program, hosted by the Development Data Group at the World Bank Group, India is the third largest economy of the world.

4-A Reserve Bank of India (RBI) panel has recommended to cut its holding in public sector banks to under 50 percent. The panel, is headed by P. J. Nayak.

5- Jammu and Kashmir is the first state of India which has declared all election booths as No Smoking Areas

6-Viom Networks, India’s largest independent telecommunications infrastructure company, is a joint venture of SREI Infrastructure and Tata Teleservices

7- The first telecom operator to hold pan-India unified license is Reliance Jio.

8-After several batches of fruits and vegetables were found to be contaminated by pests such as fruit flies, European Union member states has decided to ban the import of five types of fruits and vegetables from India.

9-The Reserve Bank of India adopted the Consumer Price Index (CPI) as the key measure of Inflation. It was adopted on the basis of recommendations of Urjit R Patel Committee.

10- The rank of India on the Social Progress Index (SPI) released by the US-based non-profit organisation Social Progress Imperative in out of 132 countries is 102th.

11- The new atomic clock NIST-F2 that has been launched by US Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to serve the new US civilian time and frequency.

12-Qatar based Doha Bank bank has announced to open its first branch at Nariman Point in Mumbai, India

13- Bank of India has become the first state-run lender to allow withdrawal of funds to individuals from its ATMs without an account in the bank.

14-Citibank is the largest foreign bank operating in India in terms of asset base.

15- Canara Bank public sector Bank has launched cricket player Shikhar Dhawan as its brand ambassador.

16-Tata Communications Payment Solutions Ltd. (TCPSL) has launched the white label Automated Teller Machines (ATMs) network recently under the brand name of Indicash.

17- Gujarat has been ranked number one in a list of India’s 20 largest states in terms of “economic freedom”.

18- Bank of India public sector bank has launched Instant Money Transfer (IMT) scheme that allows customers to withdraw cash without using either debt card or credit card.

19- ICICI Bank private sector bank has launched portable hand-held machines (or portable POS machines) to avoid inconvenience around entering secret PIN number for card transactions in hotels

20- State Bank of India (SBI) has launched its Twitter handle account.

21-Coal India limited (CIL) Maharatna PSUs has introduced a voluntary retirement scheme for non-technical female workers recently.

22- Nanodots is the name of newly developed smart phone battery called that can recharge a smart phone in just 30 seconds

23-Cheteshwar Pujara has been appointed as the brand ambassador of the Gujarat State Election Commission

24- China has announced to build the longest underwater tunnel of the World

25-India’s Golden Triangle is a tourist circuit which includes Delhi, Agra and Jaipur

General Awareness-One Liners

 

1-The first mountaineers to reach the top of Mountain Everest – Sherpa Tensing and Sir Edmund Hillary

2-The first person to fly from England to New Zealand – Jean Gardner Batten

3-The first Socialist to be elected to the House of Commons – James Keir Hardie

4-The first person to cross Africa from East to West – Verney L. Cameron

5-The first person to fly the English Channel from Calais to Dover – Loonies Bleriot

6-The first Women to fly the Atlantic – Amelia Earhart, June 1928

7-The first man walk on the moon – Neil Armstrong, July 1969

8-The first solo Atlantic flight – Charles Lindbergh, May 1927

9-The first woman to fly solo from England to Australia – Amy Johnson

10-The first person to take a successful photograph of the human face – John William Draper

11-The first person coupe to fly across the Atlantic – Sir John Akock and Sir A. Whitten Brown in 1919

12-The first person to fly in Great Britain – William Cody in 1908

13-Point in the orbit of Moon when it’s farthest from Earth — Apogee

14-Point on Earth’s surface vertically above the seismic focus — Epicenter

15-Shape of Earth can be best described as — Geoid

16-The earthquake in Gujarat occurred due to — dislocation along all Allahbund fault in Sindh, Pakistan

17-The equatorial bulge on Earth is due to — centrifugal force

18-IST is ahead of GMT by — 5 hrs 30 minutes

19-Earth’s magnetic north and south poles are located on — Prince of Wales Island in North Canada

20-Theory that considers Earth’s lithosphere as fractured along several faults — Tectonic Plate

 

General Awareness

 

1- Ashoka king belongs the Lion capitol at Sarnath.

2- Marie Curie scientist discovered the radioactive element radium.

3- Saturn is the second largest planet in the solar system.

4-Sports Coaches receive Dronacharya Award.

5-The motto of UNO is ‘It’s your world! ‘.

6-Albert Einsten was a famous Physicist

7-In 2013, the natural calamity known as Himalayan tsunami occur in Uttrakhand

8- Gorakhpur – Uttar Pradesh railway platform breaks the record of kharagpur as the longest railway
platform in the world.

9-The first secretary general of the united nations was Trygve Lie

10-‘One Family one Bank’ is the tagline of Bank of Maharashtra

11-England host the 2017 ICC Women World Cup

12-Mogao Caves, also known as “Caves of the Thousand Buddhas” are located in China

13-The time-gap between two sessions of parliament must not exceed 6 months

14-Conjunctivitis diseases is also known as ” Pink Eye”.

15-The sangai festival is organized in Manipur.

16- Article 370 ensures the special status to Jammu & Kashmir

17- Iqbal has initiated the slogan Inqlab Zindabad

18-Delhi was declared as the Capital of India in the year 1911

19- Gandhi’s first Satyagraha held at Champaran

20- Milkha Singh is called the Flying Sikh of India.

 

 

 

 

 

General Awareness-

 

1- According to Savills World Research, which is the World’s Cheapest Metropolitan City?

Ans-Mumbai

2-Bharathari is the is the author of Vakyapadiya and Satakatraya , a work on sanskrit grammar and sanskrit poetry.

3- India has conducted first ever census on Indian leopards.

4- Delhi Police has launched operation ‘Nirbheek’ to Create awareness of sexual offences among girl students.

5- The language which has been included to be taught in KendriyaVidyalayas as an additional foreign language is German .

6- Lata Mangeshkar was the winner of 1st Hridaynath Mangeshkar award.

7- What is Sirocco ? Ans- Local Wind

8-Charlie Hebdo magazine, is published from France

9- Oktoberfest is celebrated in Germany

10-. The Itaipu Dam, one of the largest hydropower plants in the world is located in Brazil

11-Ammu is the official mascot of the 35th National Games

12-China has launched successfully a new meteorological satellite called Fengyun-II 08

13- Indian Air Force has decided to induct women in Fighter Pilot.

14- Ruhr Industrial Region is in Germany

15-‘Two Years At Months and Twenty At Nights’ is a Salman Rushdie novel published in 2015.

16-West Bengal in India is the first to set up Dolphin Community Reserve to protect Gangetic river
Dolphins

17- Svetlana Alaxievich is the 14th woman to win Nobel Prize in the field of literature since it was
awarded in 1901

18- Blackbuck National Park is situated in Velavadar

19- 20th World Egg Day was celebrated in four cities of the country- Bhubaneswar, Lucknow, Mumbai and Vijaywada.

20- Atal Bihari Vajpayee,the former Prime minister of India has been awarded Bangladesh Liberation War Honor.