GATE Questions

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The Qatar Airways has launched the World’s longest scheduled commercial service to ply between Doha to Auckland. The inaugural service of Flight QR920 took off on February 5, 2017 from Doha and will take 16 hours and 20 minutes to travel 14,535 kilometers to reach Auckland in New Zealand.
This makes Qatar Airways to launch the World’s fastest and longest passenger service in terms of flying time. Prior to this, emirates launched the world’s longest non-stop scheduled commercial flight with a service from Dubai to Auckland, spanning 14,200 kilometres.

The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) elected Nilesh Shivji Vikamsey as president and Naveen N D Gupta as vice-president. They have been elected for the year 2017-18. Vikamsey, who served as vice-president, has been a member of the ICAI since 1985. Gupta has been a chartered accountant for more than 20 years.

The compound with the molecular formula P4O10 is called Phosphorus pentoxide or tetraphosphorous decoxide. It is an anhydride of the Phosphoric acid.

The act of formally approving something is known as Ratification.

A substance that cannot be decomposed (broken down) into simpler substances by ordinary chemical means.

Examples: gold, iron, carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen.

Material composed of only one kind of matter throughout (same atoms or same molecules).

Getting the value of an environment variable is done by using `getenv()’. Setting the value of an environment variable is done by using `putenv()’

The One-word substitute for That which cannot be corrected is Incorrigible.

The number of protons is equal to the number of electrons. That is the number of positive charges is equal to the number of negative charges.