Zune5-4 Flashcards
(109 cards)
Bio-CNG plants ?
- Bio-CNG are purified form of biogas with 95% pure methane gas
- Similar to natural gas (97% methane)
- Natural gas is fossil whereas Bio-CNG is renewable ( resource which can be used repeatedly and replaced naturally )from agricultural and food waste
- First Bio-CNG plant inaugurated at Pune,MH
- India’s first indigenous Bio-CNG plant is located in Durgapura, Jaipur
Montreal Protocol ?
- to protect ozone layer
- India successfully phased out CFCs & Halons
- Recently GOI made plan to phase out HCFC-Hydrochloroflurocarbons (2017-23)
- HCFCs used in sectors-refrigeration, air conditioning & foam manufacturing
Scheme of Electoral bonds ?
- To cleanse political funding
- Nature of Promissory note & Interest free bearer instruments
- As of now, No proposal to make AADHAR mandatory
- Every party registered under RoPA 1951 and secured at least 1% votes in LS or State election will be allotted verified account by ECI
- Electoral bond transactions can be made only via this account
Sampoorna Bima Gram (SBG) yojana ?
- Ministry of Communications
- To expand client base of postal life Insurance (oldest Life insurer in country)
- Under scheme, Village will be identified in revenue district and made cover under at least one RPLI-Rural postal life insurance policy
Term LoU, SWIFT & CBS are associated with ?
- Banking
- LoU(Letter of Understanding), SWIFT(Society of Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication) & CBS(Core Banking System) recently in news related to PNB fraud
- LoU
1. Its guarantee that bank obliged to repay loan if actual borrower defaults
2. PNB officials issued LoU to foreign banks on behalf of PNB to sanction loan to Modi - SWIFT
1. System to send instant messages
2. Once Foreign bank receive SWIFT message It disburse loan to borrower
3. SWIFT transactions are regularly reviewed by not the same in PNB fraud - CBS
1. Centralized software to keep all records across branches and capable to raise alerts across all on any undue activity
Japanese Encephalitis (JE)
- Mosquito born viral infection of brain
- To all ages but children and elderly more at risk
- Efficacy of JE vaccine between 85-90%
Atal Bhujal Yojana ?
- To promote ground water recharge with help of local people
- Central fund and Loan by WB
Proposed Middle East to India Deepwater Pipeline (MEIDP)
- India & Iran
- Gas to India
Strategic Sea ports ?
- Duqm, Oman
1. North west edge of Indian Ocean and easy access to Red sea (Between Africa & Asia) through Gulf of Aden - Trincomalee, Sri Lanka
- Bandar Abbas, Iran
1. Part of INSTC project
Water bodies inside forest cover increased during last decade. Top 3 states ?
- Maharashtra
- Gujarat
- MP
Inter-Operable Criminal Justice System (ICJS) ?
- Aims to integrate CCTNS -(Crime & Criminal tracking network & systems) project with e-courts & e-prisons
- Ministry of Home Affairs
- Ministry of Road transport and Highways(MORTH) database for vehicle registrations has been linked with CCTNS
Unani System ?
- Unani Day celebrated on 11th Feb on birth anniversary of Hakim Ajmal Khan(physician & founder of Jamia Millia Islamia University)
- Unani system originated in Yunan-Ancient Greece and came to India from Arab and Iran
SOFIA
- Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy
- NASA &German Aerospace center
- Airborne observatory on Boeing 747SP and make observations that are impossible from highest ground based telescope
- Design to observe Infrared universe
- Also study black holes & centre of galaxies
Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya ?
- Ideal Swayamsewak of RSS
- Magazines
1. Rashtra Dharma (monthly)
2. Panchajanya (weekly)
3. Swadesh(daily) - Gave political philosophy “Integral Humanism”
1. primary concern to develop an indigenous development model that has human beings as its core focus
2. It seeks middle ground between capitalism and socialism, evaluating both systems on their respective merits, while being critical of their excesses - 100th birth anniversary in 2017
Blue flag programme of MoEFCC
- Certify clean beaches in India
- Criteria includes
1. not affected by industrial, waste water, sewage discharge
2. Algae vegetation & natural debris
3. Waste disposal bins must be available
4. Sanitation amenities like toilets
Recently WB released classified economies (4 groups - High Income, Upper middle Income, Lower middle Income and Low Income) of World ? In which India belongs ?
-Lower Middle Income group
India State of forest report (ISFR) 2017 ?
- Forest cover increased by 1% compared to 2015
- Maximum forest cover increased in Andhra Pradesh then Karnataka then Kerala
Which all initiatives are responsible for increasing the forest cover ?
- Green India Mission
- National Agro-Forestry Policy (NAFP)
- REDD plus policy of UN
1. Reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries, and role of conservation, sustainable management of forests - Joint Forest Management(JFM)
- National Afforestation Programme
- Funds under Compensatory Afforestation to states
Hague Code of Conduct (HCoC)
- Against Ballistic (Under gravity) Missile Proliferation
- India joined in 2017
- Needs to made annual declaration on satellite launch vehicles & ballistic missiles
eLISA project
- Evolved Laser Interferometry Space Antenna project
- ESA ambitious agenda “Cosmic Vision”
- Aims at setting up three spacecraft-mother & 2 daughters flying in triangular formation
- Probe massive black holes in terms of masses and their spin and measure gravitational waves in frequency range 0.1MHz-100MHz
Homeopathy ?
- To bring streamlining of medical system, NITI Aayog proposed scrapping two more institutions
1. Central Council of Homeopathy - CCH -apex body to monitor homeopathy education in India
2. Central Council of Indian Medicine CCIM - Based on Perception “Source which causes symptom will also cure it “
- Effective alternative to antibiotics
Bright light therapy
treatment of mood disorders
Proton therapy
beam therapy that uses proton for treatment of cancer
Anti-Retroviral Therapy (ART)
- Treatment of HIV infection
- Its combination of three or more anti-retroviral medicines to treat HIV