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For RBI Gr B | NABARD Gr A | SEBI Gr A | RBI Assistant | NABARD Assistant

2018 - 19

General Awareness (GA)

15th and 16th

October, 2018

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Future Policy Award

▪ Sikkim has been awarded UN Food and Agriculture Organisation’s (FAO)Future Policy Gold Award (Gold Prize) for its achievement in becoming theworld’s first totally organic agriculture state.

▪Within 1.24 million tonnes of organic production in the country around80000 million is supplied by Sikkim alone.

▪ Sikkim became the first fully organic state of India in 2016.

▪ The prizes, nicknamed the “Oscar for best policies”, honour exceptionalpolicies adopted by political leaders who have decided to act, no longeraccepting widespread hunger, poverty or environmental degradation.

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BepiColombo▪ BepiColombo is a joint mission between European Space Agency and

the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), executed under ESA leadership.

▪ It will be Europe’s first mission to mercury.

▪ It will set off in 2018 on a journey to the smallest and least explored terrestrial planet in our Solar System.

▪When it arrives at Mercury in late 2025, it will endure temperatures in excess of 350 °C and gather data during its 1 year nominal mission, with a possible 1-year extension

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BepiColombo

▪ The mission comprises two spacecrafts: the Mercury Planetary Orbiter(MPO) and the Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter (MMO).

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Mount Etna

▪ The southeast flank of Mount Etna in Sicily is sliding towards the sea at arate of several centimetres a year.

▪ It’s likely caused by gravity pulling on Etna’s lower underwater slopes, farfrom the summit.

▪Mount Etna is the largest active volcano in Europe.

▪ Located near the east coast of the island of Sicily in Italy, Mount Etna is10,900 feet (3,329 meters) tall.

▪ In June 2013, it was added to the list of UNESCO World Heritage Sites.

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Professor Abhay Ashtekar

▪ Indian American Professor Abhay Ashtekar has been conferred withprestigious Einstein Prize for numerous and seminal contributions to generalrelativity, including the theory of black holes, canonical quantum gravity, andquantum cosmology.

▪ The Einstein Prize is a biennial prize awarded by the American PhysicalSociety.

▪ The first Einstein prize was awarded jointly to Peter Bergmann and JohnWheeler, who introduced general relativity to American universities bycreating research groups.

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Professor Abhay Ashtekar

❑The recipients are chosen for their outstanding accomplishments in the field of gravitational physics.

❑The prize carries an award of $10,000.

❑It is given by the American Physical Society.

❑It also includes an allowance for the recipient to travel to a meeting of the Society to receive the award and deliver a lecture. It is awarded biennially in odd-numbered years.

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CoA relaxes domicile rule

▪ Supreme Court-appointed Committee of Administrators (CoA) hasrelaxed the one-year rule for wards of government employees to beconsidered local players.

▪ Henceforth, children of government employees on transfer areeligible to play as local players on submission of the parent’s transferorder and the Aadhaar card of the player with the new address.

▪ The CoA has taken the decision without consulting the BCCI technicalcommittee.

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Annapurna Devi: An Unheard Melody

▪ Legendary musician Annapurna Devi passed away at 91, leaving behind a richlegacy.

▪ She belonged to the Maihar Gharana.

▪ The Maihar gharana is a gharana or school of Hindustani classical music, astyle of Indian classical music originating in the northern parts of the Indiansubcontinent. The school was formed by Allaudin Khan in the princelystate of Maihar, now lying in the state of Madhya Pradesh, and hence thename. Allauddin Khan learnt music from Wazir Khan, an exponent of theSenia gharana. The Maihar gharana is therefore sometimes referred to as theMaihar-Senia gharana.

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Pakistan seeks largest loan package from IMF

▪ Ustad Allauddin Khan’s daughter, Ustad Ali Akbar Khan’s sister and Pt RaviShankar’s first wife, she chose to remain away from the limelight.

▪ Her real name was Roshanara Khan.

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Q1.___________ is the Indian American Professor who has beenconferred with prestigious Einstein Prize

a. Abhay Ashtekar

b. Ajay Ashtekar

c. Tushar Mehta

d. Trishali Mehta

e.None of the above

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Q2. Which is the real name of the legendary musician AnnapurnaDevi who passed away recently?

a. Alam Ara

b. Roshan Ara

c. Roshan Jahana

d. Alam Jahana

e. None

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Q3. BepiColombo will be Europe’s first mission to which planet?

a. Mars

b. Venus

c. Mercury

d. Jupiter

e. None

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Q4. Who is considered to be the founder of Maihar Gharana?

a. Allauddin Khilji

b. Jalaluddin Khilji

c. Jalaluddin Khan

d. Allauddin Khan

e. None of the above

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Q5. Which organization gives the Einstein award ?

a. American Physics Society

b. American Particle Society

c. American Particulate Society

d. American Plate Society

e. American Physical Society

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Thank You! Happy Learning!

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