General Awareness Questions

Secondary pollutants include ozone, which is formed when hydrocarbons (HC) and nitrogen oxides (NOx) combine in the presence of sunlight.

Whereas Primary pollutant are those pollutants that are directly emitted from their sources, like CO2, CO, SO2 as these gases are directly emitted form burning of fossil fuels.

Acid rain, which is formed when sulfur dioxide or nitrogen oxides react with water, sulfuric acid etc.

Hence, Acidrain is a secondary air pollutant.

Indian Economist Rajiv Kumar is the Vice Chairman of NITI Aayog.

World Consumer Rights Day is being observed today (15 March 2017) which is an awareness day and theme for this year is 'Building a Digital World Consumers can trust'.

2020 summer Olymic games to be held in Tokyo, Japan.

Suzlon energy has its corporate headquarter in Pune, Maharashtra with the name of “One Earth”. Spread over 10 acres of land, the structure is completely powered by renewable energy. One Earth has been certified as the LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environment Design) Platinum building. Suzlon is largest wind turbine manufacturer in India and third largest in world.