Category: Current Affairs

1. ‘Project Loon’ is a Ambitious project of ____, praised by PM Narendra Modi. ? (3) (1) Face Book (2) Yahoo (3) Google (4) Hotmail (5) TCS 2. The DRDO has recently announced the world highest terrestrial research and development centre, in ____ (1) (1) Ladakh (2) Shimla (3) Shillong (4) Aizwal (5) None of…

For many going abroad to work is everything and taking advantage of this scenario are 15,000 travel agents who run a racket in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana in which fake visas are provided. The number of gullible persons falling trap to such fake agents is on the rise and a probe by the Cyberabad police…

Directions (1-5): Match the following Nobel prize winners with their respective fields. E. A. Deaton                                                            (1) Medicine (5) Svetlana Alexievich            …

Andhra Pradesh and Telangana are working on action plans for smart cities based on three main principles of retrofitting, redevelopment and pan city components. Officials said these are the main factors in urban development projects, which if executed to perfection, can give more weightage to entries. All city wise plans will be evaluated in the…

1. Fourth bimonthly monetary policy statement 2015-16 was announced by RBI recently. Match the following policy rates according to it. (3) (a) Bank Rate                           (i) 21.50% (b) Repo Rate                            (ii) 7.75% (c) Reverse Repo Rate               (iii) 5.75% (d) SLR                                     (iv) 6.75% (1) a-i, b-ii, c-iii, d-iv (2) a-ii, b-iii, c-iv, d-i (3) a- ii, b-iv,…

Bihar’s people might have been unimpressed by his electoral campaign blitz, but the state’s new lawmakers are still nursing a Narendra Modi hangover.  The first debate in the 16th Bihar Assembly on Monday turned out to be more of an assessment of the Prime Minister – with the BJP members extolling his “virtues” and the Grand…

 Indian educational institutes occupy 16 places among top 200 universities in Times Higher Education BRICS and Emerging Economies rankings for 2016. At 16th place, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore is the only Indian institute to feature in the top 20. China, on the other hand, has five institutes among top 10 followed by two from…

The trip was sponsored by the Native American Institute at Southeastern. The theme of this year’s conference was “Building Education Nations through Traditional Foundations.” In keeping with this theme, Southeastern’s group submitted a workshop proposal and presented, “Teaching Space, Place, & Identity: Mapping and Counter-mapping Native America’’ — a workshop based on curriculum, instruction, and…

1. What was India’s rank in the Commonwealth Youth Games overall medal tally? (4) (1) Second (2) Third (3) Fourth (4) Fifth (5) None of these 2. Which of the following is the guided missile destroyer of Indian Navy? (2) (1) INS Shivalik (2) INS Ranvijay (3) INS Shakti (4) INS Sindhudurg (5) None of…

In Telangana, the Wakf Board has 33,929 properties under it, which include dargahs, graveyards, mosques, ashoorkhanas, chillas (flag posts), takias (sarcophagus), among others, all of which combine an area of 77,538.07 acres. However, the flipside is that over 75 per cent of these lands have been encroached upon. In Hyderabad, there are 542 dargahs, 513…

 Close on the heels of the Tata-Boeing joint venture, the next high-profile company that is set to invest in Telangana’s booming defence and aerospace manufacturing sector is Pune-based multi-national conglomerate Bharat Forge Limited. Telangana industries secretary Arvind Kumar revealed this on Friday while speaking at the curtain-raiser event of the second edition of Defence &…

1. Currently (September 2015), which of the following states have fixed minimum educational qualifications for those contesting panchayat polls? (4) (A) Rajasthan    (B) Madhya Pradesh     (C) Haryana (1) Only A (2) Only A & B (3) Only A & C (4) A, B & C (5) None of these 2. Inter Globe Aviation is…