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1.Recently BILI was in news.What is BILI?

[A]. Bilateral Liquidity Assessment.
[B]. New Scheme against delhi pollution.
[C[. Instrument of NASA.
[D]. New gene in mamals.

[shc_shortcode class=”shc_mybox”]ANSWER: Instrument of NASAThe Bio-Indicator Lidar Instrument, or BILI is a fluorescence-based lidar, a type of remote-sensing instrument similar to radar in principle and operation.Instead of using radio waves, however, lidar instruments use light to detect and ultimately analyse the composition of particles in the atmosphere.Although NASA has used fluorescence instruments to detect chemicals in Earth’s atmosphere as part of its climate-studies research, the agency so far hasn’t employed the technique in planetary studies.It is a sensing technique that the US military currently uses to remotely monitor the air to detect potentially life-threatening chemicals, toxins, and pathogens.The beauty of BILI is its ability to detect in real-time small levels of complex organic materials from a distance of several hundred metersTherefore, it could autonomously search for bio-signatures in plumes above recurring slopes – areas not easily traversed by a rover carrying a variety of in-situ instruments for detailed chemical and biological analysis.This can be used to detect signatures of life on Mars.[/shc_shortcode]

 

2.“Festival of India” will be organised by which of the following countries?

[A]Ghana

[B]Mauritius

[C]Zambia

[D]Kenya

[shc_shortcode class=”shc_mybox”]Answer: Ghana .The “Festival of India” will be organised by Ghana from January 25 to March 16, 2017. The activities of the Festival include amalgamation of Indian classical dances, Sufi & Folk Music, and Saptarang – confluence of seven classical dance forms culminating in Vande Matram. To complete the experience, a Food Festival, Yoga and Meditation, Film Festival will also be organised during the Festival. The Festival events are being showcased in four cities of Accra, Kumasi, Cape Coast, Takoradi in Ghana.[/shc_shortcode]

3.What is Frankenfixation?

[A]. Use of genetic modification to fix nitrogen and carbon dioxide into the soil
[B]. New technique to harvest organs from dead
[C]. New process to preserve and recuperate damaged organs
[D]. Use of genetic modification to fix carbon dioxide into the soil

[shc_shortcode class=”shc_mybox”]ANSWER: Use of genetic modification to fix carbon dioxide into the soil. Frankenfixation refers to the use of genetic modification to fix carbon dioxide into the soil.It derives from term popularised by critics of genetically modified foods, ‘Frankenfoods’.The U.S. Department of Energy’s Joint Genome Institute recently oversaw an effort to piece together an artificial metabolism from the bits and pieces of biosynthetic pathways that were once scattered across the three kingdoms of life.What they found was a novel pathway based on a new CO2-fixing enzyme that is nearly 20 times faster than the most prevalent enzyme in nature responsible for capturing CO2 in plants by using sunlight as energy.Were such pathways to be perfected, new species of plants, trees or entirely new organisms, could be grown that are specifically designed to take in carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and hold off the looming crisis of rising global temperatures.[/shc_shortcode]

 

4. IRV2020 is associated with ;

[A]. Universal healthcare
[B]. E-Governance
[C]. Rhinoceros
[D]. Vaccination

[shc_shortcode class=”shc_mybox”]ANSWER:Rhinoceros.Indian Rhino Vision 2020 programme (IRV2020), a collaborative effort between various organisations, including the International Rhino Foundation, Assam’s Forest Department,Bodoland Territorial Council, WWF-India, and The US Fish and Wildlife Service.IRV2020 hopes to raise the number of rhinos in Assam to 3,000 by 2020.It aims to spread them over seven of the state’s protected areas: Kaziranga, Pobitora, Orang national park, Manas national park, Laokhowa wildlife sanctuary, Burachapori wildlife sanctuary and Dibru Saikhowa wildlife sanctuary.[/shc_shortcode]

4.India’s first international stock exchange “India International Exchange” has been launched in which city?

[A]Gandhinagar

[B]Mumbai

[C]Pune

[D]New Delhi

[shc_shortcode class=”shc_mybox”]Answer:Gandhinagar.India’s first international stock exchange “India International Exchange” has been set up by the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) at the Gujarat International Finance Tec (GIFT) city in Gandhinagar, Gujarat, which is recently inaugurated by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi.The new international exchange will provide electronic trading platform for companies that are going multinational. The domestic companies can now raise capital in foreign currency by issuing foreign currency dominated bonds and to trade in such securities. The new stock exchange will trade in all the products like the other exchanges in the world such as Singapore, Hong Kong, London, New York in currency, equities, commodities derivatives. Every day, this exchange at GIFT City will start trading activities at 4 am, when the exchanges in Japan open, and will stop only at 2 am the next day, when the exchanges in USA close.[/shc_shortcode]

 

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