General Awareness Questions

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 1.           Shri Narendra Modi         Prime Minister and also in-charge of:

                                                           – Ministry of Personnel
                                                            – Public Grievances and Pensions
                                                            – Department of Atomic Energy
                                                            – Department of Space

  All important policy issues and all other portfolios not allocated to any Minister.

  2.           Shri Raj Nath Singh         Minister of Home Affairs

  3.           Smt. Sushma Swaraj       Minister of External Affairs

  4.           Shri Arun Jaitley            -  Minister of Finance

                                                    – Minister of Corporate Affair

 5.           Shri Nitin Jairam Gadkari   – Minister of Road Transport & Highway

                                                      – Minister of shipping 

                                                      – Minister of Water Resources, River Development & Ganga Rejuvenation

 6.           Suresh Prabhu                     Minister of Commerce & Industry

 7.           D.V Sadananda Gowda        Minister of Statistics & Programme Implementation

 8.           Sushri Uma Bharati             Minister of Drinking Water & Sanitation

 9.           Nirmala Sitharaman            Minister of Defence

 10.         Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi          Minister of Minority Affairs

 11.         Shri Ramvilas Paswan         Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution

 12.         Maneka Sanjay Gandhi       Minister of Women & Child Development

 13.         Shri Ananth Kumar          – Minister of Chemicals & Fertilizers
                                                    – Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs

 14.         Shri. Ravi Shankar Prasad    – Minister of Law & Justice                                                                                                    – Minister of Electronics & Information Technology         

 15.         Shri Jagat Prakash Nadda      Minister of Health & Family Welfare

16.         Ashok Gajapathi Raju Pusapati     Minister of Civil Aviation

17.         Shri. Anant Geete                      Minister of Heavy Industries & Public Enterprises     

18.         Smt. Harsimrat Kaur Badal         Minister of Food Processing Industries

19.         Shri Narendra Singh Tomar         – Minister of Rural Development
                                                             – Minister of Panchayati Raj
                                                            – Minister of Drinking Water & Sanitation

20.         Shri Chaudhary Birender Singh      Minister of Steel

21.         Shri Jual Oram                              Minister of Tribal Affairs

22.         Shri Radha Mohan Singh                Minister of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare          

23.         Shri Thawar Chand Gehlot              Minister of Social Justice & Empowerment

24.         Smt. Smriti Irani                           – Minister of Textiles
                                                                – Minister of Information & Broadcasting            

25.         Dr Harsh Vardhan                         – Minister of Science & Technology
                                                                – Minister of Earth Sciences
                                                               – Minister of Environment, Forest & Climate Change

26.          Prakash Javadekar                        Human Resource Development

27.          Piyush Goyal                                 – Minister of Railways

                                                                – Minster of Coal

28.         Dharmendra Pradhan                     – Minister of Petroleum & Natural Gas

                                                               – Minister of Skill Development & Enterprise

The first identification of Nipah virus as a cause of an outbreak of encephalitis was reported in 2001 in Meherpur district of Bangladesh. Since, then Outbreaks of the deadly Nipah virus has been recorded almost every year in selected districts of Bangladesh.

Drinking raw date palm sap and contact with a case were identified as the major risk factors for acquiring the disease.

Progeria is a rare genetic disordr which involves symptoms resembloing aspects of aging, manifested at a very early age.
The term is often used in reference to Hutchinson - gilford progeria syndrome(HGPS).

Lt. Gen. Sanjeev Kumar Shrivastava took over as the 25th Director General of the Border Roads (DGBR). He has replaced Lt. Gen. Suresh Sharma. Prior to it, he was holding the appointment of Director General Combat Engineers at Integrated Headquarters of Ministry of Defence(Army).

FDA - Food and Drug Administration publishes the food code, a model that assists food control jurisdictions at all levels of government by providing them with a scientifically sound technical and legal basis for regulating the retail and food service segment of the industry which includes restaurents, grocerry stores, ...

9th BRICS summit was held in Xiamen, China with the theme "BRICS: Stronger Partnership for a Brighter Future".

Russia is the Largest country of the World by Geographical Area.

Top 10 largest countries of the World :

1. Russia

2. Canada

3. United States of America

4. China

5. Brazil

6. Australia

7. India

8. Argentina

9. Kazakhstan

10. Algeria

When all 10 of the world's largest countries are taken together, they total 49% of the earth's entire 149 million square kilometres of land.