General Awareness Questions

India's first Indian Institute of Skills will get in 3 locations viz. Mumbai, Kanpur and Ahmedabad in the country. Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship has approved the proposal to set up Indian Institute of Skills (IISs) on Not-for-profit Public Private Partnership (N-PPP) basis.

The reason behind these institutes is to promote further growth of the Indian Skills sector overall, new measures have been initiated by the Government of India to establish state of the art training institutions called Indian Institutes of Skill (IISs).

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The 828-metre (2,717 ft) tall Burj Khalifa in Dubai has been the tallest building since 2008.

Indian Navy 5th largest in world.

The Moscow Metro in Russia carries 8-9 million passengers each day. By comparison, the New york City Subway, USA carries 4.5 million people each day and the London underground , UK, carries just over 3 million.

Speed has been identified as a key risk factor in road traffic injuries, influencing both the risk of a road crash as well as the severity of the injuries that result from crashes.

Speeding is a factor in 30 % of all fatal accidents.

India being number one in the Tiger population all over the world, Madhya Pradesh state has the highest number of tigers with 526 tigers and Karnataka is second with 524.

The Indian Institute of Sciences (IISc)- Bengaluru has topped the list of best universities of country's official higher education rankings, recently announced by the HRD Ministry.