General Awareness Questions

Belarus is a European country whose capital city is Minsk.

Om Prakash Rawat is the Chief Election Commissioner of India where Ashok Lavasa & Sunil Arora are the Election Commissioners of India. The Election Commission of India had announced Assembly elections for 5 states recently.

Supreme Court collegium has selected senior advocate Indu Malhotra as the first woman lawyer to be directly appointed as a judge of the apex court.

Along with Malhotra, Uttarakhand High Court Chief Justice KM Joseph has also been promoted as a Supreme Court justice.

Malhotra holds the distinction of being only the second woman in Supreme Court’s history to be designated as a senior advocate in 2007.

In all, Malhotra is going to be the seventh woman judge since independence to make it to the Supreme Court.

At present, Justice R Banumathi is the lone woman judge in the apex court.

The National Association of Software and Services Companies (Nasscom) appointed Raman Roy (Managing Director of Quatrro Global Services) as its chairman for 2017-2018.

 Rishad Premji (Chief Strategy Officer (CSO), Wipro Limited) has been appointed Vice Chairman. Raman Roy has replaced Mr. CP Gurnani.

The amount of money you’ll get for a given amount of your country’s currency is based on internationally determined exchange rates. Exchange rates can be either fixed or floating. Fixed exchange rates use a standard, such as gold or another precious metal, and each unit of currency corresponds to a fixed quantity of that standard that should (theoretically) exist.

The Dubai Mall, located in downtown Dubai, UAE, consists of four levels with a floor area of 548,127  (5.9 million ) and has 1,200 retail outlets and over 160 food and beverage outlets. Construction began in 2004, with the mall opening its doors on 4 November 2008. 

BSF - Border Security Force

The motto of the organization BSF is "Duty unto Death."