1. The
C. Rangarajan Committee on the proposed
food security bill in January 2011:
a. legal entitlement of subsidised foodgrains to the poor (below the poverty line).
b. The Committee estimated the subsidy bill at Rs. 83,000 crore for the entitled groups at 100 per cent lifting.
c. Price of subsidised foodgrains for the poor (BPL) be linked to inflation and indexed to the
Consumer Price Index in the coming years, and the price at which wheat and rice was to be
made available to the non-poor (APL) might be linked to the minimum support price (MSP).
d. Rejected NAC recommendation
2. The NAC, headed by Congress president Sonia Gandhi had recommended
a. 75 per cent coverage of the population in two phases, with 90 per cent rural and 50 per cent urban population included.
b. The Committee suggested 46 per cent of the rural population and 28 per cent of the urban population be entitled to 35 kg of rice at Rs. 3 a kg or wheat at Rs. 2 a kg per household a month.
3. Tendulkar Committee's poverty estimates: Rural poor = 41.8 % and urban poor =25.7 %.
4. Bharat Jyoti Award of the India International Friendship society to Agricultural Scientist K.V Raman
5. Nationalisation of bank
The Public sector banks are those where govt holdings are more than 50% while nationalised banks are those banks which were nationalised in 1969 and 1980. Thus all nationalised banks are public sector banks.
- 1955 : Nationalisation of State Bank of India.
- 1959 : Nationalisation of SBI subsidiaries.
- 1969 : Nationalisation of 14 major banks. Started by Indira Gandhi (1st Phase of Nationa.)
- 1980 : Nationalisation of seven banks with deposits over 200 crores.(2nd Phase)
6. Tejas: is a lightweight multirole jet figher developed by India.
a. Will replace MiG 21
b. Trials off Goa, speed = 1,350 km per hour (2nd supersonic fighter manufactured by HAL)
c. 1st supersonic figher was HAL Marut
d. SuperSonic speed = speed above speed of sound (Mach). speed of sound is 343.2 metres
per second (1,126 ft/s). This is 1,236 kilometres per hour (768 mph), or about one
kilometer in three seconds
7. Moncondo Blowout is related to Gulf Oil Spil by BP
8. Mandav Gadgil Committee : Western Ghat
B.N Srikrishna: Telangana
V K Shunglu: CWG probe
Tendulkar: poor in india
Sachar Committee: condition of muslims
Malegam Committee: Micro Financial Institution
9: Jaitpur Nuclear Power Plant: Maharashtra : French: Areva: Will be biggest in the world
10. Article 164: non MLA can remain minister for 6 months
12. Census of People with disability: Started in 2001
13 Infant Mortality Rate in India : 50/1000. Number of deaths of babies under one year of age per 1000 live births.
14 River Disputes:
Ravi-Beas dispute: Haryana, Rajasthan and Punjab
Krishna dispute: Maharashtra, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh
Cauvery dispute: Karnataka, TN, Pondicherry and Kerala
Madheyi Dispute: Karnatak, maharashtra and Goa
15. Kadar Tribes: Western Ghat
Athirappilly Dam on the Chalakudy River in Kerala have focused on elephant corridors and hornbill habitat, with only brief mentions of a Kadar village which would also be destroyed.
KuKi Tribes: Manipur
It is major lender for development in infrastructure in india
17. POSCO Project: India and South Korea
India's single largest FDI investment
In Jagatsinghpur in Orrisa
June 2005 | South Korea’s Pohang Steel Co (POSCO) signs memorandum with Orissa govt to set up Rs 51,000cr steel project, the biggest FDI in India.
18. Tropical Cyclone hitting queensland, Australia : Yasi
19. S Band: by IEEE standard for radio waves with frequencies that range from 2 to 4 GHz
It is part of the microwave band of the electromagnetic spectrum. The S band is used by weather radar, surface ship radar, and some communications satellites,
WiMAX (
Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access) is a
telecommunications protocol that provides fixed and mobile Internet access.
20. 3GPP Long Term Evolution (LTE), is the latest standard in the mobile network technology tree that produced the GSM/EDGE and UMTS/HSPA network technologies
21. The
South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (
SAARC) is an organization of
South Asian nations, founded in December 1985 and dedicated to economic, technological, social, and cultural development emphasizing collective self-reliance. Its seven founding members are
Bangladesh,
Bhutan,
India, the
Maldives,
Nepal,
Pakistan, and
Sri Lanka.
Afghanistan joined the organization in 2005. Meetings of heads of state are usually scheduled annually; meetings of foreign secretaries, twice annually. It is headquartered in Kathmandu, Nepal.
22. Raiganj Wildlife Sanctuary (also known as Kulik Bird Sanctuary) is situated near Raiganj in Uttar Dinajpur district of West Bengal.
23. South Sudan: newest country, Juba will be capital
24. China account for 97% of rare earth material production of the world
a. Produces 99 percent of the world's rare earth dysprosium which is used in smart phones
b. China plans to cut its quota for rare earth exports by 35%. It will impact the market since product are dependent on rare earth material which is imported from china.
25. India is the world's third largest coal consuming nation after China and the USA.
50% of electricity is produced from coal in india
