General Awareness Questions

Google has launched new online security campaign #SecurityCheckKiya in India to promote security awareness among general public. The purpose of the campaign is to protect young and first-time web users from account hijacking, safeguard Android devices from malicious apps and secure all their personal data if they lose their device.

Dry ice or Cardice is the solid form of Carbon dioxide.

1. It has an advantage of lower temperature than the water ice and doesn't leave any residue.

2. The reason why it is called as Dry ice is because unlike the normal ice, it won't melt into liquid form. It directly evaporates into the air as gas. That is Solid to gas form passing through liquid state is a phenomenon called as Sublimation.

3. The primary use of dry ice is as cooling agent.

M.Visweswariah is known as the Father of Indian Engineering.

Father of Indian Printing - James Hickey

Father of Indian Green Revolution - Dr. M.S. Swaminathan

Father of Indian Painting - Nandalal Bose.

Egypt is called as the gift of the Nile river. It is called so because the nile river served as means for transport, help in irrigation for farming, made soil fertile for growing crops. It made the Egyptian civilization possible. 

India ranks 131 in the 2016 Human Development Index (HDI) among the 188 countries. It scored 0.624 and was placed in medium human development category.

The index was unveiled recently as part of the Human Development Report (HDR) 2016 titled Human Development for Everyone published by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).