General Awareness Questions

Bachendri Pal, an employee of Tata Iron and Steel Co. Ltd at Jamshedpur, became the first Indian and the fifth woman in the world to reach the summit of Mt. Everest on May 23, 1984.

The National Basketball Association (NBA) announced the launch of NBA Basketball School, a network of tuition-based basketball development programs around the world open to international male and female players ages 6-18 in Mumbai.

A team of researchers at IBM has created the world’s smallest magnet using a single atom which can store one bit of data on it.

There are six permanent members: China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan. Soon India and Pakistan will also join it.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Paytm founder Vijay Shekhar Sharma.

The concept of maintaining heightened protective posture only in those areas (or zones) that are contaminated, allowing personnel in uncontaminated areas to continue to operate in a reduced posture. Also called split-MOPP. Airbases or operating locations are divided into sectors allowing MOPP levels and alarm conditions to be adjusted based on the level of threat.

The installation commander decides to implement Split MOPP concept when and where ever necessary.

The Reserve Bank of India has imposed a penalty of Rs 5 crore on Karur Vysya Bank for non-compliance of its directives on Income Recognition and Asset Classification (IRAC).