General Awareness Questions

Mass means the amount of matter in an object. Anything that has Mass and takes up Space is called Matter.

The Study of Matter and and how matter changes is called Chemistry.

Matter has some mass and occupies some space. Space occupied by an object is called its Volume.

The 7th BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) Health Ministers Meeting has started in Tianjin, China on July 6, 2017 with focus on international cooperation on the development of traditional medicine. From India, Jagat Prakash Nadda, Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare, has highlighted the achievements of India in the health sector and spoke on the theme – ‘Strengthen Health System and Achieve Health-Related SDGs in the meeting. In the 2-day meet, About 300 delegates, including health ministers of BRICS nations , international organizations, etc., are participating.

HDFC Bank retains No. 1 rank in BrandZ India Top 50 for third year running BRANDZ TOP 50 REPORT. The BrandZ Top 50 Most Valuable Indian Brands ranking shows locally grown Indian brands increased 32% in value over three years. Airtel came in at No. 2 followed by State Bank of India at No. 3. The highest ranked new entrant on the list is Reliance Jio, at No.11.

The BrandZ Top 50 Most Valuable Indian Brands report showed that the total value of India’s top brands has risen by 30% over the last three years. The top 50 brands are now worth $90.5 billion.

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*  The Gulf of Mexico, bordered by the United States, Mexico, and the island nation of Cuba, is the worlds largest gulf.

*  It has a coastline of about 5,000 kilometers (3,100 miles).

*  The Gulf of Mexico is connected to the Atlantic Ocean by the Straits of Florida, between Cuba and the U.S. state of Florida.

*  It is largely surrounded by the North American continent.

The world’s largest tropical rainforest Amazon rain forests are called "Lungs of the Earth". It is so called because it produces 20% of the Earth's oxygen, and is also a vast carbon sink, absorbs more than 1 billion tons of atmospheric carbon which is emitted by the burning of fossil fuels annually.

IPCC stands for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. It was established in 1988 by the World Meteorological Organization and the United Nations Environment Programme.

• IPCC, with respect to Chartered Accountancy, stands for Integrated Professional Competence Course. This is the second level of the CA course.