General Awareness Questions

Assassins (from Hashishin)

Andhra Pradesh's TDP - Telugu Desam Party, today i.e on 16th March 2018 quit the NDA government at the Centre a week after two of its ministers resigned from the Union cabinet over the issue of special status for Andhra Pradesh.

A conception of right and wrong is the definition of Ethics.

Ethics are societal norms adopted by a group which deals with the fundamental human relation ships.

NASA announced a Seven new system of Exoplanets, which are Earth-size, and could potentially hold life.These exoplanets are located outside of our solar system and orbit a star. NASA has named the system of planets after the ‘Transiting Planets and Planetesimals Small Telescope,’ which is located in Chile. This telescope first discovered three of the planets in this system in May 2016. Unlike Earth, which rotates on its axis, the planets are “tidally locked to the star.” This means that one side of the planet has only day, and one side has only night. It also means the weather conditions are unlike what we experience on Earth.

Light Year is related to Distance. It is the unit of Distance.

It is about 9.5 Trillion Kms or 5.9 Trillion miles.

• It is the distance that light travels in vaccum in one julian year i.e, 365.25 days.

There are 12 Indian origin persons in the "House of Commons".

• The House of Commons is the elected lower house of the bicameral parliaments of the United Kingdom. The UK public elects 650 Members of Parliament (MPs) to represent their interests and concerns in the House of Commons. MPs consider and propose new laws, and can scrutinise government policies by asking ministers questions about current issues either in the Commons Chamber or in Committees. 

For intra-State movement, the e-way bill will be rolled out in a phased manner beginning April

15 and will cover all the States by June 1. Businesses will continue to file summary sales return

GSTR-3B until June as the GST (Goods and Services Tax) Council has extended the present

system of return-filing by three months. Electronic way or e-way bill for movement of goods

between States would be implemented from April 1.

Mooring buoy are white with a blue horizontal band. They usually are placed in marinas and other areas where boats are allowed to anchor. These are the only buoys you may tie up to legally.