Answer-(A) Admiral Sunil LanbaExplanation:
The information to be shared includes movement of commercial traffic as well as intelligence. The sharing of intelligence will not be much for conventional military purposes but to deal with non-traditional threats arising at sea.
India already has co-operative arrangements with several countries in region and this initiative will see that expanding further. India has signed white shipping agreements to share commercial shipping data with 12 countries and more are in the works.
2) India’s first Blackbuck conservation reserve to come up in ______.
(A) Uttar Pradesh
(B) Uttarkhand
(C) Bihar
(D) Himachal Pradesh
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Answer-(A) Uttar PradeshExplanation:
The Uttar Pradesh State Cabinet has approved Blackbuck Conservation Reserve in trans-Yamuna belt near Allahabad.
Indian Blackbuck (Antilope cervicapra) is an antelope and is the only living species of the genus Antilope.
It is considered to be the fastest animal in the world next to Cheetah.
The horns of the blackbuck are ringed with one to four spiral turns and the female is usually hornless.
It is found in Central- Western India (MP, Rajasthan, Gujarat, Punjab, Haryana, Maharashtra and Odisha) and Southern India (Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, and Tamil Nadu).
In this regard, state government has evoked Section 36 A (1) and (2) of the Wildlife Protection Act, 1972, to declare the conservation reserve.
Hunting of blackbuck is prohibited under Schedule I of the Wildlife Protection Act of 1972. It has been categorised least concerned in IUCN Red Data.
3) India was ranked _______ position out of 144 countries in Global Gender Gap Index 2017 released as part of World Economic Forum’s (WEF) Global Gender Gap Report 2017.
(A) 100th
(B) 108th
(C) 112th
(D) 130th
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Answer-(B) 108th Explanation:
India slipped by 21 places compared to 87th rank last year.
Countries are ranked based scores on scale ranging from 0 (lowest) to 1 (highest). It is released every year by WEF since 2006.
Iceland is most gender-equal country with score of 0.878. It is followed by Norway (2 rank), Finland (3), Rwanda (4) and Sweden (5), Nicaragua (6) and Slovenia (7), Ireland (8), New Zealand (9) and the Philippines (10).
4) The Union Ministry of Road Transport and Highways has issued notification to make ________ mandatory for all new four-wheelers from December 1, 2017.
(A) FASTag
(B) BHIM APP
(C) BS VI
(D) None
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Answer-(A) FASTagExplanation:
The notification explained that FASTag means an onboard unit (transponder) or any such device fitted on front windscreen on vehicle. It should be fixed on front windscreens by automobile manufacturers or authorised dealers.
The tag on windshield will be read by readers fitted in dedicated Electronic Toll Collection (ETC) lanes of toll plazas after vehicles passes through toll plazas. The user will receive SMS alerts for toll transactions, low balance and all other developments.
5) Etikoppaka toys get GI tag. It belong to which state?
(A) Karnataka
(B) Tamil Nadu
(C) Telangana
(D) Andhra Pradesh
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Answer-(D) Andhra PradeshExplanation:
The Geographical Indication Registry (GIR) has given Geographical Indication (GI) tag traditional Etikoppaka toys (Etikoppaka Bommalu) from Andhra Pradesh.
These traditional toys are made by artisans in Etikoppaka village located on banks of river Varaha in Visakhapatnam district of the state.
With this, Etikoppaka toys join elite products from Andhra Pradesh such as Kondapalli toys, Tirupati laddu, Bobbili Veena, Srikalahasthi Kalamkari, Uppada Jamdani sarees and Shadow puppets to have coveted GI tag.
Seven commodities were granted Geographical Indication (GI) this year by the Indian patent office.
It includes Banaganapalle mangoes (Andhra Pradesh), Tulaipanji rice (West Bengal), Pochampally Ikat (Telangana), Gobindobhog rice (West Bengal), Durgi stone carvings and Etikoppaka toys (Andhra Pradesh), and Chakshesang shawl (Nagaland). In 2016-17, as many as 33 items got GI registration.
6) Prime Minister Narendra Modi has inaugurated World Food India 2017 (WFI) on 3rd November 2017 at ________.
(A) Mumbai
(B) New Delhi
(C) Hyderabad
(D) Bhopal
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Answer-(B) New DelhiExplanation:
The three day event was organized by Ministry of Food Processing Industries.
The theme of WFI 2017 is ‘Transforming the Food Economy’.
Germany, Japan and Denmark are Partner Countries to World Food India.
7) Who was the winner of 2017 Jnanpith award?
(A) Bhalchandra Nemade, Marathi writter
(B) Raghuveer Chaudhari, Gujarathi writter
(C) Shankha Ghosh, Bengali writter
(D) Krishna Sobti, Hindi writer
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Answer-(D) Krishna Sobti, Hindi writerExplanation:
Eminent Hindi Litterateur Krishna Sobti (92) was awarded the 53rd Jnanpith Award for the year 2017 for her path-breaking contribution to Indian literature. She will be overall eight women to win this prestigious award.
Jnanpith Award is India’s highest literary honour. Its name has been taken from Sanskrit words Jnana and Pitha which means knowledge-seat.
It was instituted in 1961 by Bharatiya Jnanpith trust founded by the Sahu Shanti Prasad Jain family that owns the Times of India newspaper group.
8) The Union Ministry of Communications has launched Deen Dayal SPARSH Yojana to school children for _________.
(A) Philately (The collection and study of postage stamps)
(B) Numismatics (Coin collecting)
(C) Both A and B
(D) None of the above
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Answer-(A) Philately (The collection and study of postage stamps)
9) Which temple Tamil Nadu has won UNESCO Asia-Pacific award for cultural heritage conservation programme in the Awards of Merit category?
(A) Brihadeeswarar Temple at Thanjavur
(B) Sri Ranganathaswamy temple at Srirangam
(C) Meenakshi Amman Temple at Madurai
(D) Kapaleeshwarar Temple at Chennai
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Answer-(B) Sri Ranganathaswamy temple at SrirangamExplanation:
It is first temple from Tamil Nadu to grab the prestigious honour from the UN body.
The awards were launched in 2000 by UNESCO for cultural heritage conservation programme. They are given under four categories– Award of Excellence, Awards of Distinction, Awards of Merit and Award for New Design in Heritage Context.
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