The 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the South Korean author Han Kang “for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life”. It was announced by the Swedish Academy in Stockholm, Sweden, on 10 October 2024 and will be awarded onContinue Reading
The 2024 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun for the discovery of microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation. This year’s Nobel Prize honours two scientists for their discovery of a fundamental principle governing how gene activity is regulatedContinue Reading
The celestial bodies revolves around the Sun, which includes 8 planets, 180 satellites, comets, meteors and asteroids, together constitute the Solar System. Top 10 Planets with the Largest Number of Moons or Natural Satellites The list of top 10 Planets with the largest number of moons or natural satellitesContinue Reading
1. Genetic screening is (a) analysis of DNA to check the presence of a particular gene in a person (b) analysis of gene in a population (c) pedigree analysis (d) screening of infertility in parents Answer. A 2. Which of the following are the major factors responsible for the monsoonContinue Reading
Cirrus Aircraft, the US-based aviation company, has launched the world’s smallest and cheapest private jet ‘Vision Jet’ at Rs.12.6 Crore. The Jet can haul five adults up to 1,150 miles at 28,000 feet. It is the first Private Jet with a single engine and can be conveniently operated by aContinue Reading
Pushkalavati was capital of which of the following acient Kingdoms? Ans: Gandhara Pushkalavati was capital of ancient Kingdom of Gandhara. Its ruins are currently located in Charsadda, Pakistan, located in Peshawar valley in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province (formerly NWFP). Pushkalavati was home of the Sanskrit grammarian Panini. Which of theContinue Reading
India’s indigenously developed nuclear capable sub-sonic cruise missile ‘Nirbhay’, which can strike targets over 700 kms away, was on Friday test-fired from a test range at Chandipur near Balasore, Odisha. “The missile was test-fired from a mobile launcher positioned at launch pad 3 of the Integrated Test Range at aboutContinue Reading
Union Home Ministry on 17 October 2014 announced to rename 12 cities and towns of Karnataka. The proposal was made on 27 October 2006 to change the names of the 12 towns and cities in consonance with their pronunciation in Kannada language by the Karnataka Government. The State Revenue DepartmentContinue Reading
1. Who is the Chairperson of the 7th Pay Commission of India? (a) Sushil Bhardwaj (b) Ashok K. Mathur (c) Vijay Bhan (d) Ranjan Srivastava 2. Who among the following was a cultural theorist, teacher and writer of UK who died in February 2014? (a) George McGill (b) Lord MichaelContinue Reading
Nasa helped commercial companies transform access to low-Earth orbit and the International Space Station even as one of the agency’s venerable spacecraft was confirmed to have reached interstellar space, and engineers moved ahead on technologies that will help carry out the first astronaut mission to an asteroid and eventually Mars.Continue Reading