General Awareness Questions

A greenhouse gas is a gas in an atmosphere that absorbs and emits radiant energy within the thermal infrared range. This process is the fundamental cause of the greenhouse effect. 

Carbon dioxide is a main greenhouse gas, found in car exhaust pipes.
Methane and nitrous oxide is another type of greenhouse gas.

Oxygen is the only clean gas out there because we need it to survive. Therefore, the only gas that is not a greenhouse gas is Oxygen.

Rocket specialist K. Sivan has been appointed as new Chairman of India's space agency ISRO for a three-year term. He replaces current ISRO Chairman A.S. Kiran Kumar, whose term ends January 14, 2018.

• He is currently Director of Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre in Trivandrum.

• His expertise gave ISRO ability to send 104 satellites in a single mission.

Bengaluru has became the second city in the country, and the first in south India, to have a full-fledged Metro rail in operation following the opening of a final 12-km section of the 42-km first phase of the Metro project. The first phase, comprising an 18-km east-west line and a 24-km north-south line, built at a cost of Rs 13,845 crore, was dedicated to the nation by President Pranab Mukherjee at an event in Bengaluru.