General Knowledge Questions

The Union Minister for Science & Technology Dr. Harsh Vardhan has launched a mobile app “Celebrating Yoga” in New Delhi to connect people through Yoga for scientific healthy living. The mobile app has been developed by Department of Science & Technology on the occasion of International Yoga Day (IYD) 2017. The aim of the app is to popularize Yoga and encourage people to practice yoga for a scientifically healthy living.

A team of scientists led by Abhay Mudholkar, from CSIR-National Institute of Oceanography (CSIR-NIO) in Goa on February 17, 2017 informed that India’s only live volcano, the barren island volcano in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands has started erupting smoke and lava again. The Barren Island volcano last erupted in 1991 after lying dormant for 150 years. Again the volcano has started showing sporadic activity in small intervals of 5-10 minutes. As per the scientists, during the day only ash clouds were observed, but after sunset red lava foundations were erupting from the crater into the atmosphere and hot lava streamed down the slopes.

Mango Cup is associated with Cricket game. The MANGO CUP is a Triangular Cricket limited overs tournament between the Manglorean CatholicAssociation of Sydney (MCAS), Australian Residents Anglo Indian Association (ARAIA) and GoanOverseas Association-NSW (GOA).

Hence, the tournament is named from both (Man) from Manglorean CatholicAssociation of Sydney and (go) from GoanOverseas Association-NSW.

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