General Awareness Questions

BharatNet is a project of national importance to establish, by 2017, a highly scalable network infrastructure accessible on a non-discriminatory basis, to provide on demand, affordable broadband connectivity of 2 Mbps to 20 Mbps for all households and on demand capacity to all institutions, to realise the vision of Digital India, in partnershipwith States and the private sector. The entire project is being funded by Universal service Obligation Fund (USOF), which was set up for improving telecom services in rural and remote areas of the country. The objective is to facilitate the delivery of e-governance, e-health, e-education, e-banking, Internet and other services to the rural India.

The most number of countries are in the continent Africa. Eventhough, Asia is the biggest continent in its size, Africa is the continent with 54 countries whereas Asia have 48 countries.

Masala bonds are bonds issued outside India but denominated in Indian Rupees, rather than the local currency. Kerala Infrastructure Investment Fund Board have listed 21.5 billion rupees ($305 million) of Masala bonds on the London Stock Exchange.

BEML - Bharat Earth Movers Limited is the PSU which had received 'Top Challengers' and 'Best Mining Equipment Seller Award' recently for the year 2017 - 2018.