General Awareness Questions

Snehlata Shrivastava, appointed as the first woman Secretary General of the Lok Sabha. The appointment was made by Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan. Ms. Shrivastava will replace Anoop Mishra, who retired on November 30, 2017. 

Ms. Shrivastava, a senior civil servant with 35 years of rich and varied administrative experience is a 1982 batch IAS officer from the Madhya Pradesh cadre.

Rama Devi holds the distinction of the being the first woman secretary general of the Rajya Sabha.

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.

Plants make their own food through the process of photosynthesis. Plants are self-sufficient. Green plants have the ability to prepare their own food and this is the reason why they are called autotrophs.

They make their own food through the process of photosynthesis using light energy to make sugars from carbon dioxide (C02) and water (H20). The chlorophyll which is present in the leaves is the main reason for the production of food in the plants and it is the reason for the greenery of the leaves too.

Full-service airline Jet Airways has announced a partnership with ride-hailing app Uber to book airport cabs through the Jet Airways app itself. The airline will partner Uber and facilitate travel from the airport once a passenger has booked a ticket on the Jet Airways app.

The Sahara is the biggest desert in the world.

It occupies the northern one third of the African continent.

Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, N Chandrababu Naidu has been selected for another prestigious award. The US India Business Council has selected the CM for award of ‘Transformative Chief Minister’ and Naidu would be receiving coveted award at second annual West Coast summit which to be held in California on May 8, 2017.