Current affairs quiz 31/1/16

1.    Who on 29 January 2016 won the Australian Open women's doubles tennis title?
a)    Rishika Sunkara & Serena Williams
b)    Sania Mirza & Martina Hingis
c)    Rishika Sunkara & Martina Hingis
d)    Sania Mirza & Serena Williams

2.    The 61st National School Athletic championships kick started on 29 January 2016 at Olympian Rahman Stadium, at
a)    Kochi, Kerala
b)    Kozhikode, Kerala
c)    Indore, Madhya Pradesh
d)    Jamshedpur, Jharkhand

3.    The Union Cabinet on 27 January 2016 approved to increase Authorized Share Capital of the NSFDC from 1000 crore rupees to what amount for the development of Scheduled Caste?
a)    1700 crore rupees
b)    1100 crore rupees
c)    1200 crore rupees
d)    1500 crore rupees

4.    The Legislative Department in the Ministry of Law & Justice on 28 January 2016 constituted an expert committee to review the Specific Relief Act of
a)    1877
b)    1948
c)    1963
d)    1973

5.    Iran on 28 January 2016 signed two agreements covering new aircraft orders and a comprehensive civil aviation co-operation package with
a)    Airbus
b)    Boeing
c)    Raj Hamsa Ultralights
d)    Lockheed Martin‎

6.    Who on 28 January 2016 won the 2016 William E Colby Award for Best Military Book for Midnight’s Furies: The Deadly Legacy of India’s Partition?
a)    Nisid Hajari
b)    Douglas V. Mastriano
c)    Logan Beirne
d)    Michael Franzak

7.    Who on 28 January 2016 was appointed as the African Union’s High Representative for the peace fund?
a)    Alpha Oumar Konaré
b)    Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma
c)    Pierre Buyoya
d)    Donald Kaberuka

8.    The guitarist and songwriter Paul Kantner who died on 28 January 2016 was founder of which psychedelic rock band?
a)    Pink Floyd
b)    The Doors
c)    Jefferson Airplane
d)    Tame Impala

9.    Name the state that on 28 January 2016 announced a pay hike for about 85000 Gana Sikshaks and Sikshya Sahayaks of the state.
a)    Odisha
b)    Karnataka
c)    Assam
d)    Bihar

10.    Who on 28 January 2016 was appointed as the Chairman and Managing Director of NTPC Limited?
a)    Arup Roy Choudhury
b)    Gurpreet Singh
c)    Harpreet Singh
d)    Gurdeep Singh

11.    Who on 28 January 2016 won gold medal in 2000mts Open Single Scull in the 34th Senior National Rowing Championship?
a)    Gurpreet Kaur
b)    Navneet Kaur
c)    Jagjeet Singh
d)    Harpreet Kaur

12.    Name the Australian Olympic diving gold medalist who announced his retirement from the sport on 28 January 2016.
a)    Grant Nel
b)    Matthew Mitcham
c)    Ian Thorpe
d)    Jack Laugher

13.    Who won the 12th Sub-Junior National billiards championship title in the fourth week of January 2016?
a)    Ishika Shah
b)    Doyel Dey
c)    Anushi Seth
d)    Lahiri Sinapara

14.    Who was appointed as Lokayukta of Uttar Pradesh on 28 January 2016?
a)    Ranjan Gogoi
b)    Prafulla C Pant
c)    Sanjay Mishra
d)    Virendra Singh

15.    Ministry of Culture on 28 January 2016 released a commemorative coin of 150 rupees and a circulation coin of 10 rupees on
a)    Mahatma Gandhi
b)    Bal Gangadhar Tilak
c)    Lala Lajpat Rai
d)    Gopal Krishna Gokhale

Answers

1-(b)    6-(a)    11-(b)
2-(a)    7-(d)    12-(b)
3-(c)    8-(c)    13-(b)
4-(c)    9-(a)    14-(c)
5-(a)    10-(b)    15-(c)

Year what happened

1857 Mutiny against the British

1858 Government Of India Act

1861 Indian Councils Act

1885 Indian National Congress is founded by A.O. Hume

1892 Indian Councils Act

1905 Partition of Bengal announced

1906 Muslim League was founded at Dhaka(Bangladesh)

on 31st December1907 Seditious meeting act1908

Khudiram Bose was executed on 11th August1908

  on 22nd July1909 Minto-Morley Reforms of Indian Councils Act

1911 Delhi durbar held King George V And Queen Mary1911 Partition of Bengal is cancelled

1911 New Delhi established as the new capital of India

1912 A Bomb was thrown on Lord Hardinge on his state entry into Delhi

23rd December1913 The Ghadar Party was formed at San Francisco

on 1st November1914 Tilak was released from jail

on 16th June1914 Outbreak of the 1st World War

4th August1914 Komagatamaru ship reaches Budge Budge (Calcutta port)

Mahatma Gandhi arrived in India on 9th Jan1915

Gopal Krishna Gokhale died on 19th February.

1916 Tilak founded Indian Home Rule League with its headquarters at Poona on 28th April.

1916 Annie Besant started another Home Rule League on 25th September.

1917 Mahatma Gandhi launches the Champaran campaign in Bihar to focus attention on the grievances of indigo planters in April1917
in August.
An all-India hartal is called.
Launches Civil Disobedience Movement. The INC declared illegal.
INC suspends Civil Disobedience movement but authorizes Satyagraha by individuals.
Subhash Chandra Boss was elected Congress president on the 20th of February.
Muslim League boycotts it.

The Secretary of State for India, Montague, declares that the goal of the British government in India is introduction of Responsible Government on 20th August.

1918 Beginning of trade union movement in India.

1919 Rowlatt Bill introduced on Feb 16, 1919.

1919 The Jallianwala Bagh tragedy took place on 13th April in Amritsar.

1919 The House of Commons passes the Montague Chelmsford Reforms or the Government of India Act, 1919 on 5th December.

The new reforms under this Act came into operation in 1921.

1920 First meeting of the All India Trade Union Congress, (under Narain Malhar Joshi).

1920 The Indian National Congress (INC) adopts the Non-Co-operation Resolution in December.

Mahatma Gandhi suspends Non-Co-operation Movement on Feb 12 after the violent incidents at Chauri Chaura.

1921 Moplah rebellion on the Malabar coast

1923 Swaraj Party was formed by Motilal Nehru and others on 1st January.

1924 The Communist Party of India starts its activities at Kanpur.

1925 The Kakori Train Conspiracy case in August

1927 The British Prime Minister appoints Simon Commission to suggest future constitutional reformsin India.

1928 Simon Commission arrives in Bombay on Feb 3. 

Lala Lajpat Rai assaulted by police at Lahore.

1928 Nehru Report recommends principles for the new Constitution of India.

All parties conference considers the Nehru Report, Aug 28-31, 1928.

1928 Lala Lajpat Rai died on 17th November due to injuries.

1929 Sarda Act passed: prohibs marriage of girls below 14 and boys below 18 years of age.

1929 All Parties Muslim Conference formulates the ‘Fourteen Points’ under the leadership of Jinnah on 9th March.

1929 Bhagat Singh and Batukeshwari Dutt throw a bomb in the Central Legislative Assen on 8th April.

1929 Lord Irwin’s announced that the goal of British policy in India was the grant of the Dominion status on 31st October.

1929 The Lahore session of the INC adopts the goal of complete independence (poorna swarajya) for India; Jawaharlal Nehru hoists the tricolour on the banks of the Ravi at Lahore on 31st December.1930 First Independence Day observed on 26th January.

1930 The Working Committee of the INC meets at Sabarmati and passes the Civil Disobedience resolution on 14th February.1930 Mahatma Gandhi launches the Civil Disobedience movement with his epic Dandi Mar (Mar 12 to Apr 6).

First phase of the Civil Disobedience movement: Mar 12, 1930 to Mar 5, 1931.

1930 First Round Table Conference begins in London to consider the report of the Simon Commission on 30th November.

1931 On 5th March, the Gandhi lrwin pact was signed and the Civil Disobedience movement was suspended.

1931 Bhagat Singh, Sukh Dev and Rajguru were executed on 23rd March.

1931 Second Round Table Conference took place on 7th September.

1931 Gandhiji returns from London after the deadlock in llnd RTC

on 28th December

1932 Gandhiji was arrested and imprisoned without trial on 4th January.

1932 British Prime Minister Ramsay Macdonald announced the infamous “Communal Award” on 16th August.

1932 Gandhiji in jail, begins his epic “fast unto death” against the Communal Award on 20th September and ends the fast on 26th of the same month after the Poona Pact.

1932 The Third Round Table Conference begins in London (Nov 17 to Dec 24)

1933 Gandhiji released from prison as he begins fastfor self-purification

on 9th May

1934 Gandhiji withdraws from active politics and devotes himself to constructive programmes (1934-39).

1935 The Government of India Act 1935 was passed

on 4th August1937 Elections held in India under the Act of 1935 (Feb 1937).

The INC contests election and forms ministries in several provinces (Jul 1937)

1937 Wardha scheme of basic education

1938 Haripura session of INC was held on 19th February.

1939 Tripuri session of the INC was conducted from the 10th to the 12th of March.1939 Subhash Chandra Bose resigns as the president of the INC in April

1939 Second World War (Sep 1). Great Britain declares war on Germany on 3rd September; the Viceroy declares that India too is at war.

1939 Between 27th October to 5th November, the Congress ministries in the provinces resign in protest against the war policy of the British government.

1939 The Muslim League observes the resignation of the Congress ministries as ‘Deliverance Day’

on 22ndDecember.

1940 Lahore session of the Muslim League passes the Pakistan Resolution in March1940

Viceroy Linlithgow announces-August Offer on10th of August.

1940 Congress Working Committee rejects the ‘August Offer’ between 18th to the 22nd of August.

1940 Congress launches Individual Satyagraha movement on 17th October.

1941 Subhash Chandra Bose escapes from India on 17 January; arrives in Berlin (Mar 28).

1942 Churchill announces the Cripps Mission

on 11th of March1942 The INC meets in Bombay; adopts ‘Quit India’ resolution on 7th & 8th August.

1942 Gandhiji and other Congress leaders were arrested

on 9th August1942 Quit India movement begins on 11th of August;the Great Aug Uprising.

1942 Subhash Chandra Bose established the Indian National Army ‘Azad Hind Fauj’ on 1st September.

1943 Subhash Chandra Bose proclaims the formation of the Provisonal Government of Free India on 21st October.

1944 Wavell calls Simla Conference in a bid to form the Executive Council at Indian political leaders on 25th January.

1946 Mutiny of the Indian naval ratings in Bombay.

1946 Cabinet Mission arrives in New Delhi (Mar 14);British Prime Minister Attlee announces Cabinet Mission ro propose new solution to the Indian deadlock on 15th March; ; issues proposal (May 16).

1946 Jawaharlal Nehru takes over as Congress president on 6th July.

1946 Wavell invites Nehru to form an interim government on 6th August; Interim Government takes office (Sep 2).

1946 First session of the Constituent Assembly of India starts on 9th December. 

1947 On 20th February, British Prime Minister Attlee declares that the British government would leave India not later than Jun 1948.

1947 Lord Mountbatten, the last British Viceroy and Governor General of India, sworn in on 24th March1947 Mountbatten Plan was made on 3rd June for the partition of India and the announcement was made on June 4th 

All about Gandhi G

..

1. When did Gandhiji born?
Answer: in 1869 October 2

2. When did Gandhiji went to South Africa to practice law?
Answer: in 1893

3. Where did Gandhiji's first Satyagraha experimented?
Answer: South Africa in 1906, September to protest against the Asiatic Ordinance issued against the Indians in Transval

4. When was Gandhiji's first imprisonment?
Answer: 1908 at Johannesberg in South Africa

5. In which railway station where Gandhiji was humiliated and ousted ?
Answer: Peter Marits Burg Railway Station in SouthAfrica

6. When did Gandhiji started Tolstoy Farm (SouthAfrica)?
Answer: in 1910

7. Where did Gandhiji started the Phoenix Settlement ?
Answer: Durban in South Africa

8. What is the name of weakly started by Gandhiji in SouthAfrica?
Answer: Indian opinion (1904)

9. When did Gandhiji returned to India from South Africa ?
Answer: 9th January 1915.
January 9 is observed as Pravasi Bharatiya Divas

10. Where was Gandhiji’s first satyagraha in India?
Answer: It was for the right of Indigo workers in Champaran in 1917

11. Where was gandhiji’s first fast (Gandhiji’s second satyagraha in India)?
Answer: In Ahmadabad

12. Which causes Gandhiji to abandoned his title Kaiser-I-Hind?
Answer: Jallianwalabagh Massacre (1919)

13. Who started weeklies named Young India and Navjeevan?
Answer: Mahatma Gandhi

14. Which is the only Congress session presided over by Gandhiji?
Answer: Congress session at Belgaum in 1924

15. Who started All India Harijan Samaj in 1932?
Answer: Mahatma Gandhi

16. Where is Wardha Ashram situated?
Answer: In Maharashtra

17. When did Gandhiji started the weekly Harijan?
Answer: 1933

18. Gandhiji called Subhash Chandra Bose as _________?
Answer: Patriot

19. Who called Gandhiji as “Half naked Seditious Fakir”?
Answer: Winston Churchill

20. Who gave the name ‘Gurudev’ to Tagore?
Answer: Mahatma Gandhi

21. Who called Gandhiji as ‘Mahatma’?
Answer: Tagore

22. Who is political guru of Gandhiji ?
Answer: Gopal Krishna Gokhale

23. Who is considered as spiritual guru of Gandhiji?
Answer: Leo Tolstoy

24. When did Gandhiji assassinated?
Answer: 1948 January 30 by Nadhuram Vinayak Godse

25. What was called as 'Post Dated Cheque' by Gandhiji ?
Answer: Cripps's Mission (1942)

26. When did Gandhiji published 'Hind Swaraj' ?
Answer: In the year 1908

27. who gave Baba Amta the title 'Abhay Sadak' ?
Answer: Mahatma Gandhi

28. The period which is considered as 'Gandhian Era' in Indian Independence struggle ?
Answer: 1915 - 1948

29. Where was Gandhiji’s third satyagraha in India?
Answer: kheda satyagraha

30. What is the real name of Gandhi's Autobiography ?
Answer: Satya na prayogo

31. What is the period that referred in Gandhi's Autobiography ?
Answer: 1869 - 1921

32. When did Autobiography of Gandhiji first published ?
Answer: 1927 (in Navajeevan)

33. In which language Gandhiji wrote his Autobiography ?
Answer: Gujarati

34. Who translated Gandhi's autobiography into English ?
Answer: Mahadev Desai

35. Who founded Satyagrah Sabha ?
Answer: Mahatma Gandhi

36. Who was the secretary of Mahatma Gandhi after the demise of Mahadev Desai ?
Answer: Pyarelal

37. What is the real name of Mira Behn, the disciple of Gandhiji ?
Answer: Madeleine Slade

38. Who compared Gandhi's Dandi March to the legendary journey of Sri Rama to Lanka ?
Answer: Motilal Nehru

* Persons having nick name as Gandhi

39. Who is known as Frontier Gandhi ?
Answer: Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan

40. Who is known as Bihar Gandhi ?
Answer: Dr. Rajendra Prasad

41. Who is known as Modern Gandhi ?
Answer: Baba Amte

42. Who is known as Sri Lankan Gandhi ?
Answer: A.T. Ariyaratne

43. Who is known as American Gandhi ?
Answer: Martin Luther King

44. Who is known as Burmese Gandhi ?
Answer: General Aung San

45. Who is known as African Gandhi ?
Answer: Kenneth Kaunda

46. Who is known as South African Gandhi ?Nelson Madela

Solar system

All important Points about our Solar system

Today we will be covering a very important topic from the General Knowledge section that is – All important Points about our Solar system. The post is very helpful for the upcoming  Railway  and SSC Exam 2016.

The sun, eight planets, satellites some other celestial bodies known as asteroids and meteoroids form the solar system. We often call it a Solar Family with the sun as its head.The Sun is the center of solar system. It is huge and made of extremely hot gases. It provides the pulling force that binds the Solar System.The eight planets in the Solar System are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars Jupiter Saturn, Uranus & Neptune.All the planets of the Solar System move around the Sun in an elongated fixed path called orbits.The Sun consists of 70% hydrogen, 28% Helium & 2% other gases .Its temperature is about 60000 °c & it is about 150 Kms away from the earth.The Sun’s light takes about 8 mins to reach earth. There are many theories that describe the evolution of the solar system. The most important and popular ones areGaseous HypothesisNebular TheoryTidal HypothesisPlanetesimal HypothesisBinary- Sterr Hypothesis

The planets can be divided into two groups

a) Terrestrial Planets – Mercury, Venus earth & Mars

b) Jovian or Outer planets – Jupiter, Saturn Uranus, Neptune Pluto.

Stars:  Celestial bodies that are big hot & made of gases., have their own light and heat.

Constellation: Various patterns formed by different groups of stars are called constellation. Big bear is an example.

Satellite: Is a celestial body that moves around the planets.

Moon is the only satellite of the Earth. Its diameter is one quarter that of earth. It is about 3,84,4000 km away from the earth. It takes about 27 days to revolve around the earth and about the same time to rotate and its own axis. As a result only one side of the moon is visible to us on the earth .It does not have any favorable conditions like air or water for life.

Note: Neil Armstrong was the first man to land a moon’s surface, on July 29, 1969.

Asteroids: They are tiny bodies that move around the Sun., found between the orbits of Mars &Jupiter.

Meteoroids: These are small rock pieces that move around the Sun

Galaxy: It is a huge system of billions of stars and clouds of dust and gases. Millions of such galaxies make up the universe. Our solar system is a part of Milky Way Galaxy.

IMPORTANT FACTS

Largest-/ Biggest Planet          Jupiter

Smallest Planet                          Mercury

Satellites of Earth                      Moon

Nearest planet to the Sun        Mercury

Earth’s twin                                 Venus

Brightest Planet                          Venus

Brightest Star                              Ceres

Planets with rings around        Saturn

Red Planet                                   Mars

Blue Planet                                 Earth

Green Planet                               Neptune

Father of the Subjects:

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Father of Ayurveda: Charaka
Father of Biology: Aristotle
Father of Physics: Albert Einstein
Father of Statistics: Ronald Fisher
Father of Zoology: Aristotle
Father of History: Herodotus
Father of Microbiology: Louis Pasteur
Father of Botany: Theophrastus
Father of Algebra: Diophantus
Father of Blood groups: Landsteiner
Father of Electricity: Benjamin Franklin
Father of Trigonometry: Hipparchus
Father of Geometry: Euclid
Father of Modern Chemistry: Antoine Lavoisier
Father of Robotics: Nikola Tesla
Father of Electronics: Ray Tomlinson
Father of Internet: Vinton Cerf
Father of Economics: Adam Smith
Father of Video game: Thomas T. Goldsmith, Jr.
Father of Architecture: Imhotep
Father of Genetics: Gregor Johann Mendel
Father of Nanotechnology:Richard Smalley
Father of Robotics:;Al-Jazari
Father of C language: Dennis Ritchie
Father of World Wide Web: Tim Berners-Lee
Father of Search engine: Alan Emtage
Father of Periodic table: Dmitri Mendeleev
Father of Taxonomy: Carolus Linnaeus
Father of Surgery (early): Sushruta
Father of Mathematics: Archimedes
Father of Medicine: Hippocrates
Father of Homeopathy: Samuel Hahnemann
Father of Law: Cicero
Father of the American Constitution: James
Madison
Father of the Indian Constitution: Dr. B.R.
Ambedkar
Father of the Green Revolution: Norman Ernest
Borlaug
Father of the Green Revolution in India: M.S
Swaminathan...

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Rail special

1) When was the first underground railway (Metro Railway) started?
1984
2) Shatabdi Express train was started in
1988
3) At which of the following places Diesel Component Works is established?
Patiala
4) Which Zone is the largest in Indian Railways?
Eastern Railway
5) The railway station situated in the extreme south is
Kanyakumari
6) A platform surrounded by rail lines from all the four sides, is called
island platform
7) When was the nationalization of Indian Railways done?
1950
8) In which year Research, Design and Standard organization was established?
1957
9) Railway Staff College is situated at
Vadodara
10) Where is the Research, Design and Standard Organization situated?
Lucknow
11) Which is the following pairs of regional Railways and their headquarters not true?
Central railway – Bhopal
12) Between which of the destinations the first Indian train was started?
From Mumbai to Thane
13) When was the first train in Indian started?
1853
14) In which Governor-General’s reign railway lines in India was established?
Lord Dalhousie
15) station where the rail lines end, is called
terminal station
16) How much distance was traveled by first train of India?
34 km
17) what is the position of the Indian Railway in the world according to the length of rail lines?
Fourth
18) What is the length of North-Eastern Frontier Railway (NEFR)?
3700 Km
19) The headquarters of North-Eastern railway is situated at
Gorakhpur
20) When was the North-Eastern frontier Railway (NEFR) established?
15th Jan, 1958