General Awareness Questions

The process which wherein an Ecosystem may renew itself is known as Ecological Succession.

The time scale may be decades or a million of years after a mass extinction. 

It may be achieve over a period of time.

The C.M of Assam, Sarbananda Sonowal has recently launched the ‘Chief Minister’s Award’ to promote digital transaction in Assam.

The Chief Minister’s Award would be given to the best performing district of the state that adopts digital payment methods and also educate larger section of the society about the cashless transaction.

The winning district’s Deputy Commissioner would be presented a prize of Rs 50,000 at the end of financial year 2016-2017 after March 31, 2017.

• Two Indian companies, Tata SteelBSE and Wipro have been named in the list of world’s most ethical companies by American think tank Ethisphere Institute.

• Ethisphere honors those companies who recognize their role in society to influence and drive positive change in the business community and organizations around the world.

• In 2017, 124 honorees were spanning five continents, 19 countries, and 52 industry sectors.

• Wipro is one of the two information technology companies named in the list, the other being Xerox Corporation.

A Proprietorship is a group that has exclusive business rights and titles. A proprietorship is a business with a single owner and not registered as a corporation, partnership or limited liability company.

Bengaluru has became the second city in the country, and the first in south India, to have a full-fledged Metro rail in operation following the opening of a final 12-km section of the 42-km first phase of the Metro project. The first phase, comprising an 18-km east-west line and a 24-km north-south line, built at a cost of Rs 13,845 crore, was dedicated to the nation by President Pranab Mukherjee at an event in Bengaluru.

Sr. No             Minister                         Portfolio

 1.           Shri Narendra Modi         Prime Minister and also in-charge of:

                                                           – Ministry of Personnel
                                                            – Public Grievances and Pensions
                                                            – Department of Atomic Energy
                                                            – Department of Space

  All important policy issues and all other portfolios not allocated to any Minister.

  2.           Shri Raj Nath Singh         Minister of Home Affairs

  3.           Smt. Sushma Swaraj       Minister of External Affairs

  4.           Shri Arun Jaitley            -  Minister of Finance

                                                    – Minister of Corporate Affair

 5.           Shri Nitin Jairam Gadkari   – Minister of Road Transport & Highway

                                                      – Minister of shipping 

                                                      – Minister of Water Resources, River Development & Ganga Rejuvenation

 6.           Suresh Prabhu                     Minister of Commerce & Industry

 7.           D.V Sadananda Gowda        Minister of Statistics & Programme Implementation

 8.           Sushri Uma Bharati             Minister of Drinking Water & Sanitation

 9.           Nirmala Sitharaman            Minister of Defence

 10.         Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi          Minister of Minority Affairs

 11.         Shri Ramvilas Paswan         Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution

 12.         Maneka Sanjay Gandhi       Minister of Women & Child Development

 13.         Shri Ananth Kumar          – Minister of Chemicals & Fertilizers
                                                    – Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs

 14.         Shri. Ravi Shankar Prasad    – Minister of Law & Justice                                                                                                    – Minister of Electronics & Information Technology         

 15.         Shri Jagat Prakash Nadda      Minister of Health & Family Welfare

16.         Ashok Gajapathi Raju Pusapati     Minister of Civil Aviation

17.         Shri. Anant Geete                      Minister of Heavy Industries & Public Enterprises     

18.         Smt. Harsimrat Kaur Badal         Minister of Food Processing Industries

19.         Shri Narendra Singh Tomar         – Minister of Rural Development
                                                             – Minister of Panchayati Raj
                                                            – Minister of Drinking Water & Sanitation

20.         Shri Chaudhary Birender Singh      Minister of Steel

21.         Shri Jual Oram                              Minister of Tribal Affairs

22.         Shri Radha Mohan Singh                Minister of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare          

23.         Shri Thawar Chand Gehlot              Minister of Social Justice & Empowerment

24.         Smt. Smriti Irani                           – Minister of Textiles
                                                                – Minister of Information & Broadcasting            

25.         Dr Harsh Vardhan                         – Minister of Science & Technology
                                                                – Minister of Earth Sciences
                                                               – Minister of Environment, Forest & Climate Change

26.          Prakash Javadekar                        Human Resource Development

27.          Piyush Goyal                                 – Minister of Railways

                                                                – Minster of Coal

28.         Dharmendra Pradhan                     – Minister of Petroleum & Natural Gas

                                                               – Minister of Skill Development & Enterprise

First Generation  Vacuum Tubes (1940-1956)

The first computer systems used vacuum tubes for circuitry and magnetic drums for memory