General Awareness Questions

The Indian Navy commissioned the highly   manoeuvrable   fast   attack craft  INS  Tihayu  at  the  Eastern Naval   Command   on   19   October 2016.  The  ship  was  commissioned at  Visakhapatnam  under  the  Naval Officer-in-Charge (Andhra Pradesh) and  would  be  deployed  for  coastal patrol  and  surveillance  operations along the Eastern Coast.

The growth scenario in India shows that the services sector has become the most dominant in the later part of its growth process. The share of services sector in GDP increased from 28.5 per cent in 1950-51 to 39.6 per cent in 1990-91 and then to 52.6 per cent in 2014-15 while the share of primary sector declined from 56.4 per cent in 1950-51 to 33.4 per cent in 1990-91 and then to only 19.0 per cent in 2014-15.

India has signed the USD 200 million loan agreement with World Bank for Assam Agribusiness and Rural Transformation project. The project will help the Assam government to facilitate agribusiness investments, increase agriculture productivity and market access, and enable small farm holders produce crops that are resilient to recurrent floods or droughts in the state.