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Saturday 9 November 2013

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

9 November 2013 – Daily Current Affairs 
2018-Hockey-World-Cup

1) On 7 November, 2013 which country was awarded the hosting of 2018 Men Hockey World Cup? – India (India was awarded the 2018 World Cup in an announcement by the International Hockey Federation (FIH). 2014 Women Hockey World Cup was awarded to England. Men World Cup is planned for planned between 1 to16 December, 2018 whereas Women World Cup between 7 to 21 July. India had hosted the 2010 Men Hockey World Cup)

2) Which noted institute of the country is expected to be re-named as the Institute of Governance Professionals of India (IGPI), as reported in the media reports of 8 November, 2013? - The Institute of Company Secretaries of India – ICSI (The ICSI aspiration of rebranding the profession as “governance professional’’ instead of “company secretaries” got impetus on 7 November, 2013 with Corporate Affairs Minister Sachin Pilot agreeing to pilot a Bill for this purpose in Parliament. This proposed re-christening of ICSI would be in line with the institute’s recent aspiration to elevate its members from being compliance officers to governance professionals. The name change is, however, subject to a new law getting enacted by Parliament)

3) What was the name given to the most powerful cyclone in three decades to batter the Philippines, which hit the country on 8 November, 2013 forcing hundreds of thousands to flee their homes, and cutting power and communication? – “Typhoon Haiyan” (This typhoon, with speeds over 250 kph, made landfall over Guiuan town in Eastern Samar province, 650 kilometres south-east of Manila. 4 persons died due to this typhoon)

Friday 8 November 2013

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.

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.

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)