Current Affairs with Static Gk : 30January 2021 

1) On the occasion of National Girl Child Day, Madhya Pradesh chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan launched the 'PANKH Abhiyan' under the 'Beti Bachao Beti Padhao' scheme in order to aid in empowerment and growth of the girl child.

▪️Recent News - World's largest floating solar energy project in India is going to be constructed on Omkareshwar Dam on Narmada river.

▪️Madhya Pradesh 

CM - Shivraj Singh Chouhan

Governor -  Anandiben Patel

2) The Reserve Bank of India has constituted an inter-departmental group to explore the feasibility of introducing a rupee-backed digital currency to battle the rising costs of managing paper currency. This is RBI’s first take on the possible use of digital currency.

▪️Reserve Bank of India:- 

👉Headquarters:- Mumbai, Maharashtra, 

👉Established:- 1 April 1935

👉Governor:- Shaktikanta Das

3) The Beating Retreat ceremony which marks the culmination of the four-day long Republic Day celebrations, took place at the historic Vijay Chowk with as many as 26 performances by the bands by the Indian Army, Indian Navy, Indian Air Force and Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF).

👉For the very first time, a special new composition Swarnim Vijay was played which was composed to commemorate the 50 years of India's victory over Pakistan in the 1971 war. The composition was performed by Lieutenant Colonel Vimal Joshi and Havildar Jiwan Rasailycal.

4) Rebelo de Sousa, a center-right moderate and former leader of Portugal's Social Democratic Party, will serve a second and final 5-year term.

👉Portugal is in the top 3 of the 2020 Global Peace Index, the ranking of the safest countries in the world. Portugal is beaten only by Iceland and New Zealand on this list of the safest countries, and is ranked far higher than neighbouring countries such as Spain and France.

5) Bharti Airtel has become India's first telecom operator to successfully operate live fifth-generation (5G) service in Hyderabad city over a commercial network.

Recent News- Telecom company Bharti Airtel and National Small Industries Corporation (NSIC) have teamed up to drive the digital transformation of small businesses and Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) in India.

👉Bharti Airtel (Airtel) has appointed Pradipt Kapoor as Chief Information Officer (CIO).

6) The Union Cabinet gave ex-post facto approval to a memorandum of understanding (MoU) between India and Uzbekistanb for cooperation in the field of solar energy.

👉Uzbekistan is a Central Asian nation and former Soviet republic.

👉Capital- Tashkent

President - Shavkat Mirziyoyev

7) Ministry of Road Transport & Highways (MoRTH) and Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), Ministry of Defence signed a framework Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in New Delhi to strengthen collaboration in the field of technical exchange and co-operation on sustainable  geo-hazard management. 

👉The MoU was signed by Secretary MoRTH Shri Giridhar Aramane and Secretary DRDO Dr. Satieesh Reddy.

▪️Defence Research and Development Organisation( DRDO) :- 

👉 Founded - 1958

👉 HeadQuarter  - New Delhi

👉 Chairman - G. Satheesh Reddy

8) Uttarakhand Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat inaugurated the state’s first child-friendly police station in Dehradun. It is being described as a major reformative step taken by the police.

▪️Uttarakhand CM :- Trivendra Singh Rawat 

Governor :-  Baby Rani Maurya

👉Asan Conservation Reserve

👉Country's first moss garden 

👉Country's first Pollinator Park 

👉Integrated Model Agriculture Village Scheme

9) Meghalaya chief minister Conrad K Sangma inaugurated India’s longest road arch bridge, the Wahrew Bridge at Sohbar in East Khasi Hills district.

▪️Meghalaya :-

👉Governor - Satya Pal Malik

👉Umiam Lake 

👉Nartiang Durga Temple

👉Khasi, Garo and Jaintia hills

10) Union Minister for Finance and Corporate Affairs Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman inaugurated the Chennai Bench of National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT) through virtual mode .

▪️ Recent News :- Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman launched the 'Union Budget mobile app' for hassle-free access of Budget documents by members of Parliament (MPs) and general public.

▪️Ministry of Finance :-

Founded - 29 October 1946

Headquarters - New Delhi

Cabinet Minister - Nirmala Sitharaman

Weekly Current Affairs 21January to 29 January 2021

Weekly Current Affairs One-Liners | 21th January to 29th of January 2021

1)हाल ही में पर्यटकों के लिए विश्व का सबसे बड़ा सफेद मगरमच्छ पार्क' किस राज्य में खोला गया है?/Which state has the world's largest white crocodile park for tourists recently Has been opened in? 

A.उड़ीसा/Orissa

B.महाराष्ट्र/Maharashtra

C.बिहार/Bihar

D.आंध्र प्रदेश/Andhra Pradesh

2) हाल ही में गणतंत्र दिवस' का कौन सा संस्करण मनाया गया/Which version of 'Republic Day' was celebrated recently ?

A.72वां

B.74वां

C.71वां

D.85वां

3) हाल ही में किसने सतह से हवा में मार करने वाली 'आकाश-NG (न्यू जनरेशन)'मिसाइल का सफल परीक्षण किया है ?/Who has recently hit the surface-to-air 'Akash-NG (New Generation)' Has the missile been successfully tested? 

A.NASA

B.ISRO

C.DRDO

D.HAL

4)हाल ही में किस स्पेस एजंसी ने एक ही रॉकेट पर 143 उपग्रह लॉन्च' करके विश्व रिकॉर्ड बनाया है ?/Recently, the Space Agency launched 143 satellites on the same rocket. Set a world record? 

A.NASA

B.ISRO

C.DRDO

D.Space-X

5) हाल ही में 'पद्म पुरस्कारों' से कितने लोगों को सम्मानित किया गया है ?/How many people have been honored with the 'Padma Awards' recently? 

A.100

B.119

C.145

D.160

6) 'पुर्तगाल' के फिर से राष्ट्रपति कौन बने है ?/Who has become the President of 'Portugal' again? 

A.मार्सेलो रेबेलो डी सोसा/Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa

B.मैटे फ्रेडेएरिकस्न/Matte Frédéricsson

C.नाइब बुकेले/Naib Bukelle

D.अब्देलाज़िज़ डजेराद/Abdelaziz Djerad

7) 25 जनवरी 2021 को हिमाचल प्रदेश' का कौन सा स्थापना दिवस मनाया गया है?/Which establishment day of 'Himachal Pradesh' on 25 January 2021 Has been observed? 

A.49वां/49th

B.50वां/50th

C.51वां/51st

D.45वां/45th

8)ऑस्ट्रेलियन क्रिकेटर एसोसिएशन (ACA)' के नए अध्यक्ष कौन बने/Who became the new president of the Australian Cricketers Association (ACA) 

A.टॉड ग्रीनबर्ग/Todd Greenberg

B.स्टीव स्मिथ/Steve Smith

C.मोहम्मद सिराज/Mohammad Siraj

D.डेविड वॉर्नर/David Warner

9)'अमेरिका के पहले अश्वेत रक्षा मंत्री कौन बने है ?/Who became the first black defense minister of America? 

A.अवरील हेन्स/Avril Haynes

B.एंटनी ब्लींकेन/Antony Blinken

C.बेन्नी थॉमसन/Benny Thomson

D.लॉयड ऑस्टिन/Lloyd Austin

10)हाल ही में अमृतसर में जलियांवाला बाग शताब्दी स्मारक पार्क की आधारशिला किसने रखी/Recently who laid the foundation stone of Jallianwala Bagh Shatabdi Memorial Park in Amritsar? 

A. नरेंद्र मोदी/Narendra Modi

B. अमरिंदर सिंह/Amarinder Singh

C. सुखबीर सिंह बादल/Sukhbir Singh Badal

D. हरसिमरत कौर बादल/Harsimrat Kaur Badal

Current Affairs with Static Gk : 29 January 2021 

1) Indian mathematician Nikhil Srivastava, has been named winner of the prestigious 2021 Michael and Sheila Held Prize along with two others for solving long-standing questions on the Kadison–Singer problem and on Ramanujan graphs.

2) The South-East Central Railways (SECR) zone in Chhattisgarh breaks its own previous record by successfully operating the longest ever freight train by amalgamating five rakes of goods trains as one unit of around 3.5 km.

👉Named as 'Vasuki', it covered the distance of 224 km between the railway stations of Bhilai and Korba and took about seven hours.

3) The Gujarat Government inked an agreement with India’s largest ports operator, Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone Ltd (APSEZ), to set up India’s largest multi-modal logistics park.

Gujarat:-

CM :-  Vijay Ramniklal Rupani

👉Governor :- Acharya Devvrat

👉Wild Ass Sanctuary

👉Gir Forest National Park

👉Velavadar National Park

👉Marine National Park

4) The board of Sundaram Finance named Rajiv Lochan (director Strategy) as managing director with effect from April 1, while the current deputy managing director Harsha Viji, will assume the office of executive vice chairman.

5) IIT Roorkee has collaborated with the Minister of Road Transport & Highways, MoRTH to focus on research and development, teaching & training for the Development of Highway Infrastructure. The MoU has been signed by both the institute for the continuation of the MoRTH Professorial Chair at the Institute.

6) The expert committee will be headed by IRDAI Chairperson, Subhash Chandra Khuntia to examine the availability of health insurance products in the country.

▪️Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority:- 

Founded :- 1999

Headquarters :- Hyderabad

Chairperson :- Subhash Chandra Khuntia

7) The Ministry of Tribal Affairs (MoTA) has received the much-coveted SKOCH Challenger Award for the “Best Performance in eGovernance” due to implementation of policy initiatives through government programs.

👉 The award was received by the honorable Union Minister for Tribal Affairs, Shri Arjun Munda, at the Virtual 70th SKOCH Summit 2020 titled ‘Public Policy for Tribal and Marginalized,”

8) India and Japan signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to enhance cooperation in the field of Information and Communications Technology (ICT), including 5G standardisation.

▪️Japan :- 

Capital :- Tokyo

National language :- Japanese

Currency :- Japanese yen

Prime minister :- Yoshihide Suga

9) National Skill Development Corporation has joined hands with California State University, Long Beach (CSULB) to address the growing need for a digitally skilled workforce in India.

👉National Skill Development Corporation is a not-for-profit public limited company incorporated on July 31, 2008 under section 25 of the Companies Act, 1956. NSDC was set up by Ministry of Finance as Public Private Partnership model.

👉 CEO - Manish Kumar

👉Headquarters -  New Delhi, India

👉CFO(Chief Financial Officer) - Prakash Sharma

10) Gurugram-based Airtel Payments Bank has launched a safe mode of pay gateway called ‘Airtel Safe Pay’, to protect Airtel customers from the growing incidents of online payment frauds.

👉Bharti Airtel (Airtel) has appointed Pradipt Kapoor as Chief Information Officer (CIO).

11) Union Home Minister Amit Shah inaugurated the new four-lane Thaltej-Shilaj-Rancharda railway overbridge in Ahmedabad city of Gujarat.

▪️Ministry of Home Affairs :- 

👉Headquarters - New Delhi

👉Founded - 15 August 1947

👉Minister responsible

👉Minister of Home Affairs 👉Amit Shah

👉Minister of State for Home Affairs - G. Kishan Reddy, Nityanand Rai

  Basic Classification of matter - MCQ

1. Which technique is used to separate the substances from a mixture?

A. Chromatography

B. Racing Forging

C. Assembling

D. None of the above

Ans. A

2. In what way iodine can be separated from a mixture of potassium chloride and iodine?

A. Filtration

B. Sedimentation

C. Distillation

D. Sublimation

Ans. D

3. What is Boron?

A. Non metal

B. metal

C. Compound

D. Metalloid

Ans. D

4. Which of the following statements are correct about metals?

(a) Metals are lustrous.

(b) These are good conductors of heat and electricity.

(c) They can be converted into wire.

(d) They are malleable.

Choose the correct option:

A. Both (a) and (d)

B. Both (a) and (c)

C. Both (c) and (d)

D. All (a). (b), (c) and (d)

Ans. D

5. A mixture of salt and sugar is known as

A. Homogeneous mixture

B. Heterogeneous mixture

C. Mixture of Components

D. None of the above

Ans. B 

6. By which process can sea water be purified?

A. Evaporation

B. Fractional Distillation

C. Filtration

D. Distillation

Ans. D

7. Which technology is used to squeeze water from the soaked clothes in the washing machine?

A. Evaporation

B. Decantation

C. Centrifugation

D. Sedimentation

Ans. C

8. Due to which process dry raisins when kept in water swell up?

A. Osmosis

B. Sedimentation

C. Distillation

D. Decantation

Ans. A

9. Which of the following is a mixture?

A. Distilled water

B. Gasoline

C. Both A and B

D. Neither A nor B

Ans. B

10. Boyle's law relates to which state of matter?

A. Solid state

B. Liquid stage

C. Gaseous state

D. None of the above

Ans. C

MCQ - जीव, जंतुओं के विकास पर आधारित सामान्य ज्ञान

जीव, जंतुओं के विकास  पर आधारित सामान्य ज्ञान

पृथ्वी पर जीव, जंतुओं की कई प्रजातिया पाई जाती हैं . क्या आपने कभी सोच है कि इन जीवों मे विविधता कैसे और क्यों होती है ? कैसे इनक  विकास हुआ है. यह कहा से आए हैं इत्यादी. इस लेख के मध्यम से क्रम-विकास (evolution), इससे सब्बंधित सिद्धांत के बरे में प्रश्न और उत्तर के रूप में अध्ययन करते है.

क्रमिक विकास (Evolution) जीव, जंतुओं में परिवर्तनों का एक क्रम है जो लाखो वर्षों में होता आ रहा  है , जिसमे नई प्रजातिया का  उत्पादन होता आ रहा है. अर्थात जैविक आवादी के अनुवांशिक  लक्षणों के पीढी दर पीढी परिवर्तन को क्रमिक विकास  कहते है.यह जैविक विकास के रूप में भी जाना जाता है . 

1.प्राकृतिक चयन (natural selection) द्वारा  प्रजातिया के विकास के सिद्धांत को किसने दिया था ?

A. डार्विन

B. मेंडेल

C. डाल्टन

D.मार्गन

Ans. A

2. अनुवांशिक के पिता के रूप में किसे जाना जाता है ?

A. मेंडेल

B. डार्विन

C. डल्टन

D. मेरी क्यूरी

Ans. B

3.निम्नलिखित में से कौन सा स्रोत क्रमिक विकास के लिए प्रमाण प्रदान करते हैं ?

A. होमोलोगस ओगंस

B. एनालॉगस ओगंस 

C. जीवाश्म

D. उपरोक्त सबी

Ans. D

4. एक जीवाश्म पक्षी का नाम बताय जो एक पक्षी की तरह दिखता है लेकिन सरीसृप (reptile) के जैसी अन्य विशेषता होती हैं ?

A. डोडो (Dodo)

B. आलकतयोप्टे ररक्स (Archaeopteryx)

C. राजहंस (Flamingos)

D. माउस बर्ड (Mouse Bird)

Ans. B

5. मौजूदा प्रजातियों से नई प्रजातिया विकसित होने वाली प्रक्रिया को क्या कहा जाता है ?

A. होमोलोगस

B. एनालॉगस

C. प्रजातीकरण

D. आनुवंसिका  विनता

Ans. C

6. पृथ्वी पर जीवन की उत्पति का सिद्धांत किसके द्वारा प्रसतावित किया गया है ?

A. हाल्डेन

B. स्टेनली मिलर

C. हेरोल्ड सी. यूरे

D. लैमार्क

Ans. A