General Knowledge Questions

Tehri dam is located on the river Bhagirathi.

• It is a multi-purpose rock and earth-fill embankment dam on the Bhagirathi River near Tehri in Uttarakhand, India.

• It is the primary dam of the THDC India Ltd. and the Tehri hydroelectric complex.

India has been placed in the second spot in the renewable energy country attractiveness index by EY. The UK accountancy firm noted the fast pace of growth in Indian renewable energy in the past three years. Over 10 gigawatt (Gw) of solar power was added between 2015 and 2017 and wind energy capacity grew to 5.4 Gw in 2017-18. This growth is in the context of the government’s ambitious targets — 175 Gw of renewables by 2022, with 40 per cent installed capacity from renewables by 2030 — and the dramatic price falls in photovoltaic technology.

The two most widely recognized tools used to influence a Nation's Economic activity are Monetary policy and Fiscal policy.

• Monetary policy is primarily concerned with the management of interest rates and the total supply of money in circulation and is generally carried out by central banks

• Fiscal policy is the collective term for the taxing and spending actions of governments.