- Manu Smriti
- Yajnvalkya Smriti
- Narad Smriti
- Brihaspati Smriti
Explanation:
Manu Smriti (Pre-Gupta period) is the oldest Smriti.
White Phosphorous is represented by which among the following symbols?
- P1
- P2
- P3
- P4
Explanation:
The most important form of elemental phosphorus from the perspective of applications and chemical literature is white phosphorus. It consists of tetrahedral P4 molecules, in which each atom is bound to the other three atoms by a single bond. This P4 tetrahedron is also present in liquid and gaseous phosphorus up to the temperature of 800 °C when it starts decomposing to P2 molecules
- Northern Pakistan
- Eastern Persia
- Modern Turkey
- Afghanistan
Explanation:
Afghanistan will be the correct answer.
Buddhist monk Dhammapiya has elected as the new secretary general of the International Buddhist Confederation (IBC). He is from which Indian state?
- Manipur
- Arunachal Pradesh
- Sikkim
- Tripura
Explanation:
Buddhist monk Dhammapiya from Tripura has been elected as the new secretary general of the International Buddhist Confederation (IBC) in New Delhi. The IBC is a global Buddhist forum for preservation and development of heritage sites of the religion in India and other parts of the world.
During the reign of which among the following Mughal rulers, maximum number of books on classical music were written?
- Akbar
- Jahanagir
- Shahjahan
- Aurangzeb
- Javelin throw
- Shot put
- Long jump
- Sprint
Explanation:
Indian shot putter Manpreet Kaur has recently clinched Gold in the first leg of the at the 2017 Asian Grand Prix Meet in Jinhua, China. Manpreet came up with a best throw of 18.86 metre, which was nearly one meter more than her earlier national record of 17.96 metre that she had set in 2015. With the performance, Manpreet also qualified for the IAAF World Championships to be held in August 2017 in London, United Kingdom (UK).
Who has been appointed as the new CMD of Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI)?
- Manoj Mittal
- Mohammad Mustafa
- Ajay Kumar Kapur
- Kiran Sharma
Explanation:
Mohammad Mustafa, a 1995 batch IAS officer of Uttar Pradesh cadre, has been appointed as the new Chairman and Managing Director (CMD) of Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) for a period of 3 years. At present, he is the joint Secretary in Department of Financial Services. SIDBI is an independent financial institution aimed to aid the growth and development of micro, small and medium-scale enterprises (MSME) in India and is headquartered in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh.
- Nagpur,
- Allahabad,
- Surat,
- Calcutta
The 2nd Agri UDAAN, food and agribusiness accelerator program has launched from which city?
- New Delhi
- Lucknow
- Bhopal
- Jaipur
Explanation:
The Union Government has launched the 2nd AGRI-UDAAN programme in New Delhi on August 4, 2017 to promote innovation and entrepreneurship in agriculture. It will mentor startups and help them connect with potential investors. The program focuses on catalyzing scale-up stage food and agribusiness startups through rigorous mentoring, industry networking and investor pitching. The 6 month program is a unique platform for scale up stage innovators, entrepreneurs and startups in the Food and Agribusiness sectors. The applications will be available at www.aidea.naarm.org.in. Top 40 startups will be shortlisted and allowed to pitch in front of panel of evaluators during cohort finalization programme. Out of these about 8 to 12 startups will be selected for final cohort for capacity building workshop. The AGRI UDAAN has organised by NAARM, a-IDEA and IIM-A, CIIE in partnership wi
th Caspian Inpact Investment and supported by DST.
- Jawahar Lal Nehru
- Lala Lajpat Rai
- Dadabhai Naoroji
- Moti Lal Nehru