Questions

The National Association of Software and Services Companies (Nasscom) appointed Raman Roy (Managing Director of Quatrro Global Services) as its chairman for 2017-2018.

 Rishad Premji (Chief Strategy Officer (CSO), Wipro Limited) has been appointed Vice Chairman. Raman Roy has replaced Mr. CP Gurnani.

An atom is composed of three subatomic particles. They are ::

1) Electron (-vely charged particle)

2) Proton (+vely charged particle)

3) Neutron (No charge particle)

Hence, Neutron is the subatomic particle which has no charge.

Economic resources are those goods and services that can be converted into valuable products for individual and business purposes.

There are four major types of economic resources:

1. land,

2. labor,

3. capital and

4. entrepreneurship.

Land and labor are natural and human resources, while capital means physical resources or money.

Entrepreneurship converts these resources into usable goods.

However, resources have finite values, and proper utilization depends on economic systems and economic decisions.

Helium has the lowest freezing point of all the elements. When coming to metals, mercury has the lowest freezing point of all the metals.

A battle was fought between Iran under the king Darius and the state of Greece in 490 B.C at Marathon near Athens. This battle is known as the 'Battle of Marathon' in World History.

The Sahara is the largest non-polar desert in the world. The Sahara is the largest hot desert and the third largest desert in the world after Antarctica and the Arctic.

The desert covers large sections of Algeria, Chad, Egypt, Libya, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Niger, Western Sahara, Sudan and Tunisia. It covers 9 million square kilometers (3,500,000 sq mi), amounting to 31% of Africa.

Its borders include the Mediterranean Sea to the north, the Atlantic Ocean to the west and the Red Sea to the east.