Answer-(A) All India Survey on Higher EducationExplanation:
Enrolment in Higher Education Increased By 8.2 Million.
2. Who will launch two missions ‘GOLD’ and ‘ICON’ later this year. They will team up to explore the ionosphere, located 96 km above Earth’s surface.
(A) ISRO
(B) NASA
(C) ESA
(D) JSA
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Answer-(B) NASAExplanation:
The Global-scale Observations of the Limb and Disk (GOLD) mission will be launched in January 2018 and Ionospheric Connection Explorer (ICON) will be launched later this year.
Ionosphere - It is located between 60 and 400 km above the mesopause.
It contains electrically charged particles known as ions, and hence, it is known as ionosphere. Radio waves transmitted from the earth are reflected back to the earth by this layer and is used for radio propagation to distant places on the Earth. In this layer temperature starts increasing with height.
3. Which Department under the Union Finance Ministry has launched an on-line chat service on its national website with a prominent icon stating ‘Live Chat Online- ask your query’?
(A) Customs and Excises
(B) Income Tax
(C) Road Transport
(D) None of the above
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Answer-(B) Income Tax
4. India’s first National Park for differently abled people inaugurated in _______.
(A) Hyderabad
(B) Chennai
(C) Mysore
(D) New Delhi
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Answer-(A) Hyderabad
5. Name the web portals that have been launched by Ministry of Women and Child Development to track missing and found children?
(A) ‘Track-the-Child’ and ‘Khoya-Paya’
(B) ‘TrackingChild’ and ‘Khoyaa-Payaa’
(C) ‘ChildTracking’ and ‘Khoya-Paya’
(D) ‘TrackChild’ and ‘Khoya-Paya’
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Answer-(D) ‘TrackChild’ and ‘Khoya-Paya’ Explanation:
‘TrackChild’ and ‘Khoya-Paya’ web portals have been launched by Ministry of Women and Child Development to track missing and found children.
The ‘TrackChild’ web portal has been launched in joint association with stakeholders like Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), Ministry of Railways, State Governments, Child Welfare Committees, Juvenile Justice Boards, National Legal Services Authority, etc.
The ‘Khoya-Paya’ has been developed as a citizen corner on the ‘TrackChild’ portal. Apart from these portals the Ministry of Women and Child Development also provides support for children in trouble through the dedicated toll free number – 1098.
Also, Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) has been created to trace missing children. It has been distributed to all the states and union territories.
6. Which Advertising Agency designed the Three-stroke Khelo India logo?
(A) Ogilvy India
(B) Propaganda India
(C) Havas Worldwide India
(D) Grey India
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Answer-(A) Ogilvy IndiaExplanation:
Union Minister of State (I/C) Youth Affairs and Sports Col Rajyavardhan Rathore launched Vibrant Khelo India logo at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in New Delhi.
Three-stroke Khelo India logo has been designed by Ogilvy India. The logo design has been crowd sourced. It bears the colours of the national flag.
The inaugural Khelo India School Games under the revamped Khelo India Programme will begin on January 31, 2018.
Khelo India School Games is being held in collaboration with the School Games Federation of India and National Sports Federation.
This event will serve as an avenue for identification of budding sporting talents in specific sports disciplines.
7. Who is the first person to fly in space shuttle and walk on the moon?
(A) Ricki-Lee Coulter
(B) Daniel Bedingfield
(C) Aryan Jonnes
(D) John Young
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Answer-(D) John YoungExplanation:
American astronaut John Young died due to complications from pneumonia in Houston, US. John Young flew the first space shuttle mission and walked on the moon. He was 87 years old.
He became the first human to fly in space six times. He flew the first manned Gemini mission in 1965. He became the first person to orbit the Moon alone for Apollo 10 in 1969.
8. Which city is hosting the Himalayan Hydro Expo 2018?
(A) Kathmandu
(B) Shimla
(C) Gangtok
(D) Itanagar
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Answer-(A) KathmanduExplanation:
The Himalayan Hydro Expo 2018 has started at Kathmandu in Nepal on January 5, 2018. President of Nepal Bidya Devi Bhandari inaugurated the exhibition.
The basic objective of Expo is to unleash massive hydro power potential of Nepal and bring all stakeholders under one roof. According to experts Nepal has approximately 40,000 MW of economically feasible hydro power potential and so far it has developed just around 600 MW.
The delegates from various countries including India, China, Austria, Czech Republic and Norway are participating in the expo. Seminars, discussions and competitions for engineering students will also be organised during three day event.
9. The 2018 Annual Conference of DGPs and IGPs has started in which state?
(A) UttarPradesh
(B) MadhyaPradesh
(C) Gujarat
(D) Assam
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Answer-(B) MadhyaPradeshExplanation:
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has attended the annual conference of DGPs and IGPs at the BSF Academy at Tekanpur in Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh on January 7, 2018.
Holding the Annual DGP Conference outside the national capital, is in line with Prime Minister’s vision that such conferences should be held across the country, and not just confined to Delhi.
Earlier, Prime Minister Modi had addressed the conference in Guwahati in 2014, Dhordo, Rann of Kutch, Gujarat in 2015 and National Police Academy, Hyderabad in 2016.
10. Which country has become the world’s first country to enforce equal pay for women and men?
(A) Finland
(B) France
(C) Iceland
(D) Sweden
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Answer-(C) IcelandExplanation:
Iceland has become the first country in the world to enforce equal pay for women and men.
The new law, which came into force on 1st January 2018, stated that companies and government agencies employing at least 25 people will have to obtain government certification of their equal-pay policies.
Companies will face fines if they can’t prove that men and women are receiving the same salary for the same job.
The new legislation was supported by Iceland’s centre-right government, as well as the opposition, in a parliament where nearly 50% of all members are women.
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