General Awareness Questions

India's banking behemoth -- the State Bank of India -- has set up the world's first-ever floating ATM on a boat in Kerala. The boat with the ATM on board will berth at jetties in Kerala's huge backwaters through which thousands of people travel daily.

• First Bank to introduce Credit Card in India - Central Bank of India

• First Bank to introduce ATM  -  HSBC, 1987

• First Bank to introduce Internet Banking - ICICI Bank

• First Bank to introduce Mutual Funds - State Bank of India

A semi-mechanised car park, the first of its kind in Jammu and Kashmir, was inaugurated by Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti who hoped the facility would ease traffic congestion in and around Lal Chowk. The multi-level car park, located near the old KMD bus stand on Maulana Azad Road, has been set up at a cost of Rs 27.15 crore and has a capacity to hold 288 vehicles.

Teams of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) of the United States and the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) would inspect the excavation being carried out at an archaeological site in Haryana’s Fatehabad district to verify claims of it being the oldest civilisation in the world. Archaeologists have recovered artefacts pre-dating the Harappan Civilisation from the site, located in village Kunal in Fatehabad district.

The common greenhouse gas containing only hydrogen and oxygen is H2O, this is water vapor.

The common greenhouse gases are water vapor, carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, and ozone.

The composition (chemical formula) of those gases are:

Water vapor: H2O
Carbon dioxide: CO2
Methane: CH4
Nitrous oxide: NO
Ozone: O3.

As you see the only one of those that contains only hydrogen and oxygen is H2O, water vapor.

PARAM 8000 was was the first supercomputer developed by Indian scientists launched on July 01, 1991 is considered India's first supercomputer.

• It was indigenously built in 1991 by Centre for Development of Advanced Computing and was replicated and installed at ICAD Moscow in 1991 under Russian collaboration.

 The UP government changed the name of Gorakhpur and Agra Airports as well as the name of the department of welfare of the differently abled.

 The Gorakhpur Airforce Station has been renamed as Mahayogi Goraknath Airport after the founder of the Nath monastic movement.

The Agra Airport will be renamed after Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyay airport. The Department of Disabled Welfare will now be known as 'Divyang Jan Vikas Empowerment'.