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Quiz: JIGYASA, Daily Current Affairs Quiz, May 14, 2017
- Question 1 of 10
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India’s budget hotel industry has sought to be treated on par with small food outlets and dhabas and taxed at the lower rate of _______________% under the upcoming Goods and Services Tax (GST) regime to be rolled out from July 1.
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India’s budget hotel industry has sought to be treated on par with small food outlets and dhabas and taxed at the lower rate of 5% under the upcoming Goods and Services Tax (GST) regime to be rolled out from July 1.
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India’s budget hotel industry has sought to be treated on par with small food outlets and dhabas and taxed at the lower rate of 5% under the upcoming Goods and Services Tax (GST) regime to be rolled out from July 1.
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Who is the current Cyber security chief in Prime Minister’s Office (PMO)?
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While no major incident of the worldwide ransomware attack has been reported from India so far, Gulshan Rai, the Cyber Security Chief in the PMO, said a better impact assessment would be possible only on Monday when offices open.
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While no major incident of the worldwide ransomware attack has been reported from India so far, Gulshan Rai, the Cyber Security Chief in the PMO, said a better impact assessment would be possible only on Monday when offices open.
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The Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana was launched in Assam by whom among the following?
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The Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana was launched in Assam by Union Minister of State for Petroleum and Natural Gas Dharmendra Pradhan.
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The Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana was launched in Assam by Union Minister of State for Petroleum and Natural Gas Dharmendra Pradhan.
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The ‘WannaCryptor 2.0’ has been in the news, it spreads using a flaw in which of the following systems?
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Virulent computer malware spreading across the globe since it has hit government departments, universities and companies in nearly 100 countries. The WannaCryptor 2.0 ‘ransomware’, aka WannaCry, spreads using a flaw in older Microsoft Windows systems, which was made public when documents and cyber tools of the U.S. National Security Agency were leaked online.
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Virulent computer malware spreading across the globe since it has hit government departments, universities and companies in nearly 100 countries. The WannaCryptor 2.0 ‘ransomware’, aka WannaCry, spreads using a flaw in older Microsoft Windows systems, which was made public when documents and cyber tools of the U.S. National Security Agency were leaked online.
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The Silk Road Economic Belt and the 21st-century Maritime Silk Road or also known as the Belt and Road Initiative, proposed by Chinese president Xi Jinping that focuses on connectivity and cooperation among countries primarily between which of the following countries?
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The Silk Road Economic Belt and the 21st-century Maritime Silk Road or also known as the Belt and Road Initiative, proposed by Chinese president Xi Jinping that focuses on connectivity and cooperation among countries primarily between the People’s Republic of China and the rest of Eurasia, which consists of two main components, the land-based “Silk Road Economic Belt” (SREB) and oceangoing “Maritime Silk Road” (MSR).
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The Silk Road Economic Belt and the 21st-century Maritime Silk Road or also known as the Belt and Road Initiative, proposed by Chinese president Xi Jinping that focuses on connectivity and cooperation among countries primarily between the People’s Republic of China and the rest of Eurasia, which consists of two main components, the land-based “Silk Road Economic Belt” (SREB) and oceangoing “Maritime Silk Road” (MSR).
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Indian scientists have unveiled home-grown gold standard. It is called
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India now has its own standard bar of gold that is 99.99% pure and can be used to verify the purity of gold sold in shops. Despite India being one of the largest markets for gold, goldsmiths so far depended on imported reference gold bars to check the purity of their biscuits, coins and jewellery. Called the Bharatiya Nirdeshak Dravya (BND 4201), the bar, weighing 20gm and with the dimensions of a ‘Parle-G’ biscuit (in the words of a scientists associated with its development), will mean that Indian jewellers will no longer need to import gold bars to check the purity of ornaments.
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India now has its own standard bar of gold that is 99.99% pure and can be used to verify the purity of gold sold in shops. Despite India being one of the largest markets for gold, goldsmiths so far depended on imported reference gold bars to check the purity of their biscuits, coins and jewellery. Called the Bharatiya Nirdeshak Dravya (BND 4201), the bar, weighing 20gm and with the dimensions of a ‘Parle-G’ biscuit (in the words of a scientists associated with its development), will mean that Indian jewellers will no longer need to import gold bars to check the purity of ornaments.
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Scientists at the Centre of Advanced Study in Crystallography and Biophysics, at the University of Madras, have succeeded in characterising such surface proteins of some pathogenic bacteria including which of the following bacteria/bacteria’s?
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Bacteria have specific surface proteins which are used for binding to host cells. Scientists at the Centre of Advanced Study in Crystallography and Biophysics, at the University of Madras, have succeeded in characterising such surface proteins of some pathogenic bacteria including Streptococcus agalactiae and Enterococcus faecium. Infection by both of these bacteria can have deadly effects on humans.
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Bacteria have specific surface proteins which are used for binding to host cells. Scientists at the Centre of Advanced Study in Crystallography and Biophysics, at the University of Madras, have succeeded in characterising such surface proteins of some pathogenic bacteria including Streptococcus agalactiae and Enterococcus faecium. Infection by both of these bacteria can have deadly effects on humans.
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Dogs are biggest predators of livestock in which of the following regions of India?
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Dogs are biggest predators of livestock in Trans-Himalayan regions. Dogs might be man’s best friends but they also turn out to be livestock’s biggest predators, at least in the Trans Himalayas. In the Upper Spiti landscape of the Trans-Himalayan region of India, of the 340 animals killed by predators in 2013 across 25 villages, free-ranging dogs (which move about freely in the landscape) were responsible for nearly 64% of livestock deaths, much more than snow leopards (that killed about 29%).
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Dogs are biggest predators of livestock in Trans-Himalayan regions. Dogs might be man’s best friends but they also turn out to be livestock’s biggest predators, at least in the Trans Himalayas. In the Upper Spiti landscape of the Trans-Himalayan region of India, of the 340 animals killed by predators in 2013 across 25 villages, free-ranging dogs (which move about freely in the landscape) were responsible for nearly 64% of livestock deaths, much more than snow leopards (that killed about 29%).
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Which space station has dropped the idea of putting astronauts aboard the first integrated flight of the Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft – Exploration Mission-1 (EM-1)?
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NASA has dropped the idea of putting astronauts aboard the first integrated flight of the Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft – Exploration Mission-1 (EM-1). This is the first in a broad series of exploration missions that plans to take humans to deep space, and eventually to Mars.
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NASA has dropped the idea of putting astronauts aboard the first integrated flight of the Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft – Exploration Mission-1 (EM-1). This is the first in a broad series of exploration missions that plans to take humans to deep space, and eventually to Mars.
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Who won the gold in the men’s 65kg wrestling final against Seongchul Lee of Korea in the Asian wrestling championship in May 2017?
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Bajrang Punia pinned the elusive gold for the host as he won the men’s 65kg final 6-2 against Seongchul Lee of Korea in the Asian wrestling championship
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Bajrang Punia pinned the elusive gold for the host as he won the men’s 65kg final 6-2 against Seongchul Lee of Korea in the Asian wrestling championship
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