General Awareness Questions

BRAHMOS is a two-stage missile with a solid propellant booster engine as its first stage which brings it to supersonic speed and then gets separated.

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.

•SWIFT was founded in the 1970s, based on the ambitious and innovative vision of creating a global financial messaging service, and a common language for international financial messaging.

•The Uruguay Round was the 8th round of multilateral trade negotiations (MTN) conducted within the framework of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), spanning from 1986 to 1994 and embracing 123 countries as "contracting parties".

•The World Trade Organization (WTO) is an intergovernmental organization that regulates international trade. The WTO officially commenced on 1 January 1995 under the Marrakesh Agreement.

•Founded by the National Association of Securities Dealers, the NASDAQ began trading on February 8, 1971, as the world's first electronic stock market.