EIGHT RECENT SUCCESSFUL MISSION LAUNCH BY ISRO IN 2012 AND 2013

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has over many years been known to come up with cost-effective space missions. Its knack for frugal engineering and adaptive technology has made the ISRO stand out in the world. 

With the Mars mission catching the global eye, we take a look at eight recent (2012 and 2013) successful missions and launches by the ISRO:

Mars Orbiter Mission

Mars Orbiter Mission is India's first interplanetary mission to planet Mars with an orbiter craft designed to orbit Mars in an elliptical orbit. The Mission is primarily technological mission considering the critical mission operations and stringent requirements on propulsion and other bus systems of spacecraft.

India on November 5 embarked on its maiden Mars odyssey with its polar rocket carrying Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) successfully lifting off in its first-ever inter-planetary expedition in a bid to join a select band of nations.  It is expected to reach the red planet's orbit by September 24, 2014 and go around in an elliptical orbit (periapsis of 366 km and apo-apsis of 80,000 km). The Mars Orbiter has five scientific instruments - Lyman Alpha Photometer (LAP), Methane Sensor for Mars (MSM), Mars Exospheric Neutral Composition Analyser (MENCA), Mars Colour Camera (MCC) and Thermal Infrared Imaging Spectrometer (TIS). The Mars mission is aimed at establishing the country's capability to reach the red planet and focus on looking for the presence of methane, an indicator of life in Mars

Mission Objectives

One of the main objectives of the first Indian mission to Mars is to develop the technologies required for design, planning, management and operations of an interplanetary mission. 

Following are the major objectives of the mission: 

A. Technological Objectives:

Design and realisation of a Mars orbiter with a capability to survive and perform Earth bound manoeuvres, cruise phase of 300 days, Mars orbit insertion / capture, and on-orbit phase around Mars.

Deep space communication, navigation, mission planning and management.

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Some Important Question for UPSC Exams

Q 1. What is the full form of “CORE” in Core banking Solution?
A. Centralized Online Realtime Exchange.
Q 2. Which is the most safest card among Visa card , Master card
and Maestro Card?
A. Maestro Card
Q 3. Which bank launched the Rupay card for the first time?
A. Bank of India
Q 4. What is the currency name of IMF?
A. SDR (Special Drawing Rights)
Q 5. Expand FATF and what does it mean?
A. FATF: Financial Action Task Force, it is used to put a hold on
money supply to terrorist.
Q 6. What is the initial capital requirement of any Public sector
company to register in SEBI?
A. Five Lacs
Q 7. What is the full form of FII?
A. Foreign Institutional Investor.
Q 8. What is Term Money?
A. Money which is borrowed from one bank to another for more
than 15 days.

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8 November 2013 – Daily Current Affairs (HINDI AND ENGLISH)

8 November 2013 – Daily Current Affairs

Olympic-Flame-in-Space-Sochi

1) A Soyuz rocket carrying the Olympic flame successfully blasted off on 7 November, 2013 from Russian-operated Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan ahead of the 2014 Winter Games. The torch will make its way to the International Space Station (ISS) before being taken into space, making it the Olympic flame’s first spacewalk in history. The 2014 Winter Games are to be held at – Sochi, Japan (The Olympic torch has flown into space once before in 1996 aboard the U.S. space shuttle Atlantis for the Atlanta Summer Olympics but will be taken outside the spacecraft for the first time in history)

2) The Minister of Railways Mallikarjun Kharge on 6 November, 2013 flagged off the Dual Cab 4500 HP Freight Diesel locomotive from Diesel Locomotive Works (DLW), Varanasi. What is the name given to this locomotive, which is the first dual cab diesel electric freight locomotive to be built by Indian Railways? – Vijay (The dual cabs of Vijay have full width front and are air conditioned. The AC unit is designed to heat up the cab during winters while cooling it during summers, thus maintaining a comfortable ambience for efficient working. The loco also has TFT screen based integrated driver display. This feature which is similar to the one used in the aero planes allows the operating parameters to be displayed on a single screen)

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7 November 2013 – Daily Current Affairs

7 November 2013 – Daily Current Affairs

Bill de Blasio

1) Who was elected as the new mayor of New York on 5 November, 2013 and will become the first Democrat leader to lead the city in two decades? – Bill De Blasio (Blasio was elected as the 109th Mayor of New York city in a landslide victory over Joseph J. Lhota. He will replace Michael Bloomberg)

2) The joint army training exercise of Indian and Chinese Armies named “Hand in Hand” started on 6 November, 2013 in China. This joint-exercise is being held at which place of China? – Chengdu (“Hand in Hand” will be a ten day joint army exercise. The joint training exercise is one of the major bilateral defence cooperation between the two countries and is third in the series which started in 2007. The first was held at Kuming, China in December 2007 while the second was held at Belgaum, India in Nov 2008)

3) India’s largest commercial bank State Bank of India (SBI) on 6 November, 2013 hiked both its base rate and benchmark prime lending rate (PLR) by 20 basis points. What is the new base rate and PLR of SBI? – Base rate 10% and PLR 14.75% (Base rate is the rate below which banks cannot lend. After this hike by SBI, the other state-owned banks are also expected to go in for a base rate hike. With the Reserve Bank of India increasing the repo rate by 25 basis points each in two successive monetary policy review events, it was widely anticipated that the public sector banks would follow suit through lending rate hikes)

4) Soon after ISRO placed its Mars orbiter “Mangalyaan” into Earth’s orbit on 5 November, 2013 following a historic successful launch by PSLV C-25 rocket, ISRO’s Telemetry, Tracking and Command Network (ISTRAC) became the nerve centre of all communication related to this mission. ISTRAC is situated at? – Byalalu, near Bangalore (ISTRAC will now be the nerve centre of the mission and will communicate with the spacecraft, correct its course and command it throughout the life of the spacecraft)

5) What is the name of the former Foreign Minister of Israel who was acquitted in a corruption trial on 6 November, 2013 and is expected to return to the Foreign Ministry soon? – Avigdor Lieberman (Lieberman stepped down as foreign minister after being indicted in December 2012, but retained the chairmanship of the powerful foreign affairs and defence committee in the Israeli parliament, the Knesset. He is known as one of the dominant forces in Israeli politics and a man who has raised diplomatic hackles in countless western capitals)

6) Which city has the largest number of active Internet users in India according to the latest data released on Internet penetration in India recently? – Mumbai (Mumbai had around 12 million active Internet users in 2013. Mumbai is followed by Delhi with 8.1 million and Hyderabad with 4.7 million Internet users. Kolkata witnessed the highest growth in the number of Internet users in a year among the top eight cities of the country and number of Internet users stood at 4.4 million in 2013 as compared to 3.0 million in 2012. On the other hand Ahmedabad witnessed the lowest growth with total number of Internet users in 2013 at 2.8 million as against 2.3 million in 2012)

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SBI Clerk Recruitment Notification 2013 (76 Posts)

SBI Clerk Recruitment Notification 2013 (76 Posts)

State bank of India invites application from eligible candidates for recruitment in the clerical cadre post of Pharmacists, Control Room Operator and Armourer.

Armourer: 12 Posts
Control Room Operators (CROs): 36 Posts
Pharmacists: 28 Posts
Age Limit: 18-28 Years (Age relexation as per rules).

Educational Qualification:
Armourer: Minimum class 10+2 examination Pass or equivalent or armed forces certificate equivalent to 10+ 2.
Control Room Operators: Minimum Class 10+2 examination Pass or equivalent with 60% marks or Armed Forces Special Certificate equivalent to Class 10+2 or a Graduate Degree from a recognized university.

Pharmacists: SSC or its equivalent examination Pass and minimum Diploma in Pharmacy from recognized university or Board.
Application Fee:

For SC/ST/PWD/EXS: Rs. 50/- (Intimation Charges only).
For All others: Rs. 200/- (App. fees plus Intimation charges).

Important Dates:
Start Date of On-line Registration: 08/11/2013
Close Date of On-line Registration: 22/11/2013
Last Date of Payment of Fees - Online : 08/11/2013 – 22/11/2013
Last Date of Payment of Fees - Offline : 11/11/2013 – 26/11/2013
Last Date of Hard Copy of the Application Fee: 03/12/2013
Tentative Date of Examination: 29/12/2013

How to Apply: Eligible candidates have to send the completely filled application online and take a print out of the application which should reach to the mentioned address along with the mandatory certificates before or on 03/12/2013.

State Bank of India,
Central Recruitment And Promotion Department,
3rd Floor, Atlanta Building,
Plot No. 209, BBR, Block No.III,
Nariman Point, Mumbai-400 021.

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