Q.3 What was ‘Word of the Year-2017’ according to the Oxford Dictionaries? (A) Youthquake (B) Youth (C) Passion (D) dictionary Ans . A Q.4 NASA launched the ‘OSIRIS-REx’ Mission to collect samples from which asteroid? (A) Asteroid Benn (B) (C) (D) Ans . A Q.5 In Bihar, UNESCO has declaredContinue Reading
The Raghuram Rajan panel report has made a case for ending the ‘special category’ criteria for providing additional assistance to poorer States, as it ranked Goa and Kerala as the economically most advanced States and Odisha and Bihar the least. The committee, headed by the then chief economic advisor RaghuramContinue Reading
Famous Writer and President of the Sahitya Akademi, Sunil Gangopadhyay Died President of the Sahitya Akademi and an eminent writer, Sunil Gangopadhyay died on 23 October 2012 due to heart attack at his residence in Kolkata. Gangopadhyay who died at the age of 78 is now survived by his wifeContinue Reading
1) ‘As You Like It’ was written by : (a) Bernard Shaw (b) George Orwell (c) Pearl S Buck (d) Shakespeare correct answer is (d) Shakespeare As You Like It is a pastoral comedy by William Shakespeare believed to have been written in 1599 or early 1600 and first publishedContinue Reading
The Current Affairs, Current GK, Sports News and Events; Appointments Sections have been updated on March 13, 2012. In GENERAL KNOWLEDGE section under sub-section GK at a Glance we have added Round-up of 2011 Current affairs (at a glance). Readers will find this useful as a Quick Revision Tool during their preparations forContinue Reading
World Math Day World Math Day is on March 7, 2012 Mathematics is the study of quantity, structure, space, and change. Mathematicians seek out patterns and formulate new conjectures. Mathematicians resolve the truth or falsity of conjectures by mathematical proof. The research required to solve mathematical problems can take yearsContinue Reading
Lok Pal Bill latest Happenings: Lok Pal panel meets, discusses revised version of corruption bill New Delhi: The joint drafting committee to prepare the Lok Pal Bill met for the first time on Saturday, a week after social activist Anna Hazare called off a hunger strike demanding the inclusion ofContinue Reading
Standard rate of excise duty held at 10 percent; no change in CENVAT rates. Personal income tax exemption limit raised to Rs 180,000 from Rs 160,000 for individual tax payers. For senior citizens, the qualifying age reduced to 60 years and exemption limit raised to Rs 2.50 lakh. Citizens overContinue Reading
Labour Statistics in India may be said to have originated when the first national population census was conducted in 1872. This census gave not only the count of number of persons, but also the number of gainfully employed. Since then every census has thrown useful data on workers in differentContinue Reading
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