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Which company received top honors at the 2017 Frost & Sullivan India Digital Transformation Awards  ?

A) Spice Communications B) Reliance Communications
C) Brocade Communications D) Tata Communications
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) Tata Communications

Explanation:

At 2017 Frost & Sullivan India Digital Transformation Awards. Tata Communications received top honors at the 2017 Frost & Sullivan India Digital Transformation Awards, with four awards in the Enterprise Telecom Services category and one award in the Enterprise Infrastructure category. T ata Communications took centerstage at the awards ceremony and received four Service Provider of the Year awards for: (1) Enterprise Data (2) Hosted Contact Center (3) Enterprise Telecom – Large Enterprise Segment, and (4) Third Party Datacenter. It also won New Product/Service Innovation Award for IoT – a new award category this year.

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Q:

One of the ingredients of the paste on the side of a match box is 

A) Phosphorus pentaoxide B) Phosphorus trichloride
C) Phosphorus trisulphide D) Phosphorus trioxide
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) Phosphorus trisulphide

Explanation:

The paste applied to the side of a match box is a mixture of phosphorus trisulphide, glass powder (or sand) to cause friction and glue (binding material)

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Rickets is caused due to the deficiency of

A) Carotene B) Cyanocobalamine
C) Thiamine D) Calciferol
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) Calciferol

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President Pranab Mukherjee inaugurated the biggest river festival of India in 2017, Namami Brahmaputra, in which of the following states ?

A) Arunachal Pradesh B) Assam
C) Orissa D) Tripura
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) Assam

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Who amongst the following is the author of the book " Development as Freedom" ?

A) M.S. Swaminathan B) C. Rangarajan
C) Y.V. Reddy D) Amartya Sen
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) Amartya Sen

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The Governament of India has decided to declare which of the following rivers as ' national River '

A) Ganga B) Yamuna
C) Kaveri D) None of these
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) Ganga

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The earth revolves around the Sun in an elliptical path and the sun is located at one focus of the ellipse. Imagine a situation in which the earth goes around the Sun on a circular path. Which one among the following would result in under that situation ?

A) It would not make any difference B) Difference between seasons will be reduced
C) The earth would become very hot D) The earth would become very cold
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) Difference between seasons will be reduced

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What is the name given to the Indegeneously - developed multi - barrel rocket system?

A) Trishul B) Agni
C) Pinaka D) Arjun
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) Pinaka

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