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Wednesday 13 September 2017

13.09.2017 Current Affairs Quiz


1) Venkaiah Naidu lays foundation for first Greenfield smart city project in_________.
(A) Ranchi
(B) Nagpur
(C) Ahmadabad
(D) Allahabad
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Answer-(A) Ranchi
Explanation:
  • The first and only greenfield smart city project, in Ranchi coming up on the HEC land.
  • The smart city is coming up on 656 acres of HEC land which would be fully wi-fi, carbon free, garbage free locality with modernised housing, traffic management system, education hub and equipped with facilities like round the clock power and water supplies.

  • 2) Ms.Sushma Swaraj attended Eastern Economic Forum in _________.
    (A) Moscow, Russia
    (B) St. Petersburg, Russia
    (C) Vladivostok, Russia
    (D) Sochi, Russia
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    Answer-(C) Vladivostok, Russia
    Explanation:
    From 6-7 September 2017.

    3) ____________ launched digital assistance robot-ELEKTRA.
    (A) Reliance Energy
    (B) Adani Power
    (C) L&T Power Limited
    (D) JSW Energy
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    Answer-(A) Reliance Energy
    Explanation:
  • It is powered by Artificial Intelligence.This robot comes into action whenever a customer logs in to Reliance Energy’s Facebook page or website.
  • During peak hours, consumers will get an immediate response to their queries from ELEKTRA without any waiting time.
  • It also prohibits human error and saves time.
  • ELEKTRA is serving 500 customers with 3,000 interactions per day and is very well appreciated for its prompt responses.

  • 4) Who has published first of its kind compendium titled "Fauna of Sundarban Biosphere Reserve in Indian Sundarbans"?
    (A) Botanical Survey Of India (BSI)
    (B) Zoological Survey of India (ZSI)
    (C) International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)
    (D) World Wide Fund for Nature (WFF)
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    Answer-(B) Zoological Survey of India (ZSI)
    Explanation:
  • It has consolidated and updated information of faunal diversity of Sundarbans.
  • Indian segment of Sundarbans is part of UNESCO World Heritage site.
  • ZSI headquarters located in Kolkata.

  • 5) _________ is the capital of Belarus.
    (A) Warsaw
    (B) Minsk
    (C) Riga
    (D) Vilnius
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    Answer-(B) Minsk
    Explanation:
  • It is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe bordered by Russia to the northeast, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the northwest.
  • At the invitation of the President of India, the President of the Republic of Belarus, H.E. Mr. A.G. Lukashenko, is paying a State visit to the Republic of India from 11-12 September 2017.

  • 6) India’s first advanced Homeopathy Virology lab inaugurated in ______.
    (A) Chennai
    (B) Nagpur
    (C) Ahmedabad
    (D) Kolkata
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    Answer-(D) Kolkata
    Explanation:
  • India’s first state of art virology laboratory was inaugurated at Dr. Anjali Chatterjee Regional Research Institute for Homoeopathy in Kolkata, West Bengal.
  • The lab will play important in developing new drugs and technologies in Homoeopathy to combat emerging challenges of viral diseases.
  • The laboratory is only one of its kind in India for conducting basic and fundamental research in Homoeopathy for viral diseases like influenza, dengue, chickunguniya, Japanese encephalitis and swine flu (H1N1).

  • 7) RBI released Rs 100 and Rs 5 coins to mark birth centenary of M.G. Ramachandran. In which year M.G. Ramachandran was honoured with Bharat Ratna?
    (A) 1987
    (B) 1988
    (C) 1989
    (D) 1990
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    Answer-(B) 1988

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