Answer-(B) VietnamExplanation:
This was also Mary Kom’s first international gold medal since 2014 Asian Games and her first medal in over year.
2) UNESCO is UN organisation headquarters located in _________.
(A) Vienna
(B) New York
(C) Paris
(D) Hamburg
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Answer-(C) ParisExplanation:
India was re-elected as member of executive board of United Nations educational, scientific and cultural organization (UNESCO).
Executive board is UNESCO’s top decision-making body. The election was held at 39th session of General Conference of UNESCO in Paris, France.
UNESCO’s General Conference consists of representatives of States Members of organisation. It meets every two years.
3) The social networking giant __________has rolled out Disaster Maps for India in a bid to help communities recover and rebuild faster in aftermath of natural disasters.
(A) Facebook
(B) Google
(C) Twitter
(D) Yahoo
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Answer-(A) FacebookExplanation:
It was launched at Facebook’s first Disaster Response Summit in India along with National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) to improve disaster response and disaster management in India.
4) Which state government launched ‘She Pad’ scheme for school girls?
(A) Uttar Pradesh
(B) Telangana
(C) Andhra Pradesh
(D) Kerala
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Answer-(D) KeralaExplanation:
Free sanitary napkins, storage spaces and environment friendly incinerators at all government-aided schools in Kerala will be provided as part of the project.
Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan said that, the ‘She Pad’ scheme will benefit the girls of classes 6 to 12 in Kerala and will be implemented in 300 schools in 114 panchayats this year.
5) Bandhan Express a passenger train between India and _______.
(A) Pakistan
(B) Bangladesh
(C) Nepal
(D) Myanmar
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Answer-(B) BangladeshExplanation:
‘Bandhan Express’ a passenger train between Kolkata and Bangladesh’s southwestern industrial city of Khulna was inaugurated on November 9, 2017.
'Bandhan Express' was jointly flagged off (through video conferencing) by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamta Banerjee and Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
'Bandhan Express' will cover 172 kms distance between Kolkata and Khulna in four hours. It will have two stoppages, one at Petrapole (on the India side) and other at Benapole (in Bangladesh).
It is the second Indo-Bangla train service after the Maitree Express, which runs between Dhaka and Kolkata.
The three leaders also inaugurated two bridges over the rivers Meghna and Titas in Bangladesh to provide an end-to-end immigration facility to ease Dhaka-Kolkata Maitree train services.
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