General Awareness Questions

Telecom Secretary J S Deepak was on Wednesday named India’s next Ambassador to the World Trade Organisation (WTO) from June this year. A 1982 batch IAS officer from Uttar Pradesh, Deepak, who is at present attending the World Mobile Congress at Barcelona, has been shifted with “immediate effect” from the telecom ministry and has been made Officer on Special Duty in the commerce department.

Hamburg, Germany, is located on the river Elbe at the point where it meets the Bille and Alster rivers. The canals, rivers and streams within the city are crossed by a total of 2,302 bridges-more than the cities of Vanice and Amsterdam combined.

Sublimation is a process when a solid changes directly into gas instead changing into liquid first. Dry ice is an example of Sublimation process because it doesn't change into liquid CO2 and directly change into gaseous CO2 when heated.

Hence, Dry ice is an example of Sublimation process. 

West Bengal

Estate Duty which was introduced in 1953, was withdrawn from March 1, 1985.