Current Affairs December 1-15, 2018

National Physical Laboratory, the measurement standards laboratory, which has been entrusted with the official time keeping devices in the country is at:

‘3C 273’, was recently in news. What is it?

What is the theme of the 2018 World AIDS Day (WAD)?

Which country will chair the Kimberley Process (KP) from January 2019?

Which of the following cities is the venue of the UN Climate Summit (COP24)?

The 2nd Russia-India-China 'RIC' Trilateral Summit has recently held in which of the following cities?

What is the theme of the 2018 International Day of Persons with Disabilities?

The “rakhi with khaki” initiative of which police station of Chhattisgarh holds the Guinness World Records?

Who has been sworn-in as the new President of Mexico?

‘World Development Report (WDR) 2019’ is released by

The Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) is a triennial international survey which aims to evaluate education systems worldwide by testing the skills and knowledge of 15-year-old students. It is conducted by

Consider the following statements

1. ‘Digital Sky Platform’ is an online IT platform developed for handling Unmanned Aerial Operator’s Permit (UAOP) and Unique Identification Numbers (UIN) applications, permission to fly drones in India.
2. UIN is unique identification number issued by DGCA for a particular Remotely Piloted Aerial Systems (RPAS) except for Nano-drones

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Which of the following authorities are involved in aspects of operation of civil remotely piloted aircraft system?

1. Ministry of Home Affairs
2. Ministry of Defence
3. Indian Air Force

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Consider the following statements with respect to ‘Heart Attack Rewind’

1. It is launched by World Health Organisation (WHO)
2. It promotes the elimination of industrially produced trans-fat in the food supply.

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Consider the following statements with respect to ‘GenBank’

1. It is an open access, annotated collection of all publicly available nucleotide sequences and their protein translations.
2. It is produced and maintained by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) as part of the International Nucleotide Sequence Database Collaboration (INSDC).

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‘Waziristan Accord’ is concerned with which of the following countries?

Consider the following statements with respect to ‘PARIVESH’

1. It is under the aegis of Ministry of Health and Family Welfare

2. It is a Single-Window Integrated Environmental Management System

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‘Hebbagodi Lake’ was recently in news. Where is it located?

The nation-wide ‘Soil Health Card Scheme’ aims at

1. Expanding the cultivable area under irrigation.
2. Enabling the banks to assess the quantum of loans to be granted to farmers on the basis of soil quality.
3. Checking the overuse of fertilizers in farmlands.

Which of the above statements is/are correct?

Consider the following statements with respect to ‘ExseedSAT1’

1. It is an open radio transponder that works on ham radio frequencies

2. It is a CubeSat

3. It was launched in space through the Falcon 9 rocket of SpaceX

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Exercise ‘Hand-in-Hand’ is a bilateral exercise between India and

Consider the following statements with respect to ‘Project Sashakt’

1. It was proposed by a panel led by PNB chairman Sunil Mehta

2. It seeks to address the bad loans problem in India’s banking sector

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Consider the following statements with respect to ‘SPYDER’

1. It is a surface-to-air missile
2. It is an acquired missile system from Israel
3. It has a strike range of about 15 km in low altitude

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Consider the following statements with respect to ‘Igla-S missile system’

1. It is Russian man-portable air defence systems (MANPADS) technology

2. It is designed for use against visible aerial targets at short range

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‘INDRA NAVY’ is a bilateral maritime exercise between Indian Navy and  

‘Chang'e 4’ is a lunar exploration mission that aims to achieve the first soft-landing on the far side of the Moon. It is launched by

Consider the following statements with respect to ‘VISIONS-2 mission’

1. It aims to explore how the Earth’s atmosphere is slowly leaking in to space
2. It is a joint mission by ISRO and NASA

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Which of the following countries is not a member of ‘Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC)’?

‘Noney’ was in recently in news. Where is it located?

Who has been honoured with the 2018 Men’s Ballon d’Or award?

Consider the following statements with respect to ‘Chiller Star Labelling Program’

1. It has been formulated by Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE)
2. It envisages providing rating in terms of its energy performance

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PRAAPTI App and web portal is associated with

Which one of the following is a purpose of ‘UDAY’, a scheme of the Government?

Consider the following statements about Pradhan Mantri Sahaj Bijli Har Ghar Yojana –“Saubhagya”

1. Poor households identified using Socio Economic and Caste Census (SECC) 2011 would be provided with free electricity

2. Rural Electrification Corporation Limited (REC) is the nodal agency for the operationalisation of the scheme

3. Deendayal Upadhyaya Gram Jyoti Yojana (DDUGJY) and Integrated Power Development Scheme (IPDS) have been subsumed under the ‘Saubhagya’ scheme

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Consider the following statements with respect to ‘Integrated Power Development Scheme (IPDS)’

1. It focuses on Strengthening of sub-transmission and distribution network in the urban areas
2. It focuses on Metering of distribution transformers /feeders / consumers in the urban areas.

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Consider the following statements with respect to ‘Shram Suvidha Portal’

1. It is developed by the Ministry of Labour & Employment
2. It was developed to bring transparency and accountability in enforcement of labour laws and ease complexity of compliance

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Consider the following statements with respect to ‘Pradhan Mantri Rojgar Protsahan Yojana (PMRPY)’

1. It incentivises employers for generation of new employment, where Government of India will be paying the full employer's contribution towards EPF & EPS both

2. It is targeted for employees earning wages less than Rs 5,000/- per month

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The ‘HELP’ and ‘OLAP’ Policy is associated with

Consider the following statements with respect to ‘Advanced Motor Fuels (AMF)’

1. It is one of the International Energy Agency’s (IEA) transportation related Technology Collaboration Programmes
2. It provides an international platform for co-operation to promote cleaner and more energy efficient fuels and vehicle technologies

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Consider the following statements about ‘Annavitran Portal’

1. It has been implemented to display electronic transactions made through ePoS devices for distribution of subsidized foodgrains to beneficiaries.
2. It is under the Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution

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