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RAPID GK SERIES 59

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">1. The World Red Cross Day is observed on<br />
2. This National Leader has composed the National Patriotic Song ‘Vande Mataram’<br />
3. This American Nobel Laureate Leader (1964) who fought for the Black People in the non-violent way<br />
4. The National Game of Spain is<br />
5. This Personality was the First Deputy Prime Minister of India<br />
6. Akbar established Mansab System in the year<br />
7. Article 14 to 18 in the Constitution of India cover<br />
8. The Protection of Civil Rights in India was passed in this year<br />
9. The Raghavan Committee is associated with this<br />
10. The Tourism Phrase ‘Paradise Unexplored’ is associated with this Indian Part<br />
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<strong>ANSWERS</strong><br />
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1. 8th October<br />
2. Bankim Chandra Chatterjee<br />
3. Jr  Martin Luther King<br />
4. Bull Fighting<br />
5. Sardar Vallabhai Patel<br />
6. 1565<br />
7. Right to Equality<br />
8. 1955<br />
9. Anti-ragging Measures<br />
10. North East India</div>

RAPID GK SERIES 59

1. The World Red Cross Day is observed on 2. This National Leader has composed the National Patriotic Song ‘Vande Mataram’ 3. This America...

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India, US discuss ways to expand their strategic partnership

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div id="6080" style="display: block;">                                          <ul><li style="text-align: justify;">Strengthening their military ties  further, India and the US have discussed ways of expanding their growing  strategic partnership and cooperation at the 12th Defence Policy Group  meeting held in New Delhi.  </li>
</ul><ul style="text-align: justify;"><li>The meeting was co-chaired by Defence Secretary Shashi Kant Sharma  and US Acting Under Secretary of Defence for Policy Jim Miller. Miller  also called on Defence Minister A K Antony and Navy chief Admiral Nirmal  Verma to discuss bilateral defence issues. He also held meetings with  National Security Advisor </li>
</ul><ul style="text-align: justify;"><li>Shivshankar Menon and Foreign Secretary Ranjan Mathai addressing a  range of regional and global issues. In a statement, Miller said, the US  sees India as a partner in advancing stability and security in the  region and globally. He said, the US looks forward to continuing to  strengthen its partnership on defence and security with India. </li>
</ul><ul style="text-align: justify;"><li>The next meeting of the Defence Policy Group will be held in the US next year. </li>
</ul><ul style="text-align: justify;"><li>India and the US have enhanced their cooperation in defence and have  held a series of exercises involving their defence forces in the last  decade. India has also emerged as one of the major importers of US  defence equipment and has spent close to 10 billion US Dollar in  procuring systems such as C-130J Hercules and C-17 Globemaster transport  aircraft, P-8I maritime surveillance aircraft for the Navy.  </li>
</ul><ul><li style="text-align: justify;">It is also in negotiations with the US  Government for the procurement of 145 ultra light howitzers and Javelin  anti-tank guided missiles.</li>
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India, US discuss ways to expand their strategic partnership

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Over 25 agri activities included in new MGNREGA

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div id="6082" style="display: block;">                                          <ul><li style="text-align: justify;">More than 25 agriculture and allied  activities have been included in the new version of Mahatma Gandhi  National Rural Employment Gaurantee Act, MGNREGA, which will be  implemented from 1 st of April this year. </li>
</ul><ul style="text-align: justify;"><li>Minister of Rural Development Jairam Ramesh said that new version of  MGNREGA will lead to better farm output. Rebutting the claims that  MGNREGA is leading to fall in agricultural productivity, he said, on the  contrary the studies done by independent bodies suggest the rural job  scheme has led to better farm output.  </li>
</ul><ul><li style="text-align: justify;">After recieving a report on revised  Operational Guidelines for MGNREGA, Mr. Ramesh said the new guidelines  will also respond to demands of the states for location specific  flexibility in permissible works as valuable suggestions from the states  are incorporated in the guidelines. The Report was prepared by a  committee headed by Planning Commission member Mihir Shah.</li>
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Over 25 agri activities included in new MGNREGA

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India seeks 5 million tons more crude from Saudi Arabia

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div id="6084" style="display: block;">                                          <ul><li style="text-align: justify;">India on Feb 23 sought 5 million tons  of more crude oil from Saudi Arabia next fiscal as its refiners look at  replacing at least 10 per cent crude oil imported from Iran. </li>
</ul><ul style="text-align: justify;"><li>Minister of state for petroleum and Natural Gas R P N Singh said he  sought 5 million tons of more crude oil from Saudi Arabia in 2012-13. </li>
</ul><ul style="text-align: justify;"><li>India currently buys 27 million tons of crude oil per annum from  Saudi Arabia while its annual imports from Iran is about 17 million  tons.  </li>
</ul><ul style="text-align: justify;"><li>The Saudi Minister said his country has a spare production capacity  of 2.5 million barrels per day beyond current output of 9.8 million  barrels a day.  </li>
</ul><ul><li style="text-align: justify;">India also sought more LPG from Saudi Arabia to meet growing energy needs.</li>
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India seeks 5 million tons more crude from Saudi Arabia

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Delhi Metro installs AEDs to handle cardiac arrests

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div id="6086" style="display: block;">                                          <ul><li style="text-align: justify;">The Delhi Metro installed Automated  External Defibrillators (AEDs) at two stations to provide emergency  treatment if a passenger suffers a cardiac arrest. </li>
</ul><ul style="text-align: justify;"><li>The AED is a portable electronic device that automatically diagnoses  a potentially life-threatening cardiac arrest in a patient. The medical  equipment treats patients through defibrillation -the application of  electrical shock to allow the heart to re-establish an effective rhythm. </li>
</ul><ul style="text-align: justify;"><li>To start with, the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) along with  Opto Circuits (India) Ltd, a manufacturer of medical equipment and  interventional devices, has installed AEDs at the two biggest  interchange stations - Central Secretariat and Kashmere Gate.This will  be followed by training for a group of DMRC staff. </li>
</ul><ul style="text-align: justify;"><li>The AED`s have already been installed at all the six stations on the Delhi Airport Metro Express line. </li>
</ul><ul style="text-align: justify;"><li>As per medical experts, an estimated 40 million Indians suffer from  at least one cardiovascular disease or disorder, making them susceptible  to sudden cardiac arrest (SCA). </li>
</ul><ul><li style="text-align: justify;">"If cardiac arrest patients are not  attended to immediately, they can lead to irreversible brain damage  within three to five minutes. Defibrillation systems such as AEDs enable  the detection and identification of life-threatening arrhythmias and  when appropriate, deliver a shock to restore the normal heartbeat,"  Vanita Arora, senior consultant cardio electro physiologist, Max  hospital added.</li>
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Delhi Metro installs AEDs to handle cardiac arrests

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India concerned over piracy menace from Somalia

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div id="6087" style="display: block;">                                          <ul><li style="text-align: justify;">India on Feb 23 pledged to help Somalia  in its economic development as New Delhi underlined the need for  stability in the war-torn nation which has become a breeding ground for  pirates.  </li>
</ul><ul style="text-align: justify;"><li>Minister of State for External Affairs E Ahamed said India desired  stability in the Horn of Africa state which has been hit by protracted  crisis.  </li>
</ul><ul style="text-align: justify;"><li>He said piracy was the "most obvious example of the lack" of  stability there, and hoped the Conference will reflect India's concerns  on the issue.  </li>
</ul><ul style="text-align: justify;"><li>Indians constitute 7 per cent of all the world's seafarers and a  manifestation of the Somali predicament has been the tremendous human  cost that these seafarers pay.  </li>
</ul><ul><li style="text-align: justify;">The conference is being attended by  British Prime Minister David Cameron, US Secretary of State Hillary  Clinton and UN chief Ban Ki-moon among officials from about 50 countries  and organisations to discuss a roadmap for Somalia. </li>
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India concerned over piracy menace from Somalia

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National competition policy will lower prices: Minister

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div id="6088" style="display: block;">                                          <ul><li style="text-align: justify;">A National Competition Policy will be  ready by March 31 with several positive benefits for the country's  economy, including lowering of food prices, says Corporate Affairs  Minister Veerappa Moily. </li>
</ul><ul style="text-align: justify;"><li>"It has lots of benefits, because all the monopolies and  anti-competitive forces will have to be dismantled," Moily said, after a  Corporate & Investor Meet. </li>
</ul><ul style="text-align: justify;"><li>He said monetary policy alone would not be able to rein in inflation. </li>
</ul><ul style="text-align: justify;"><li>"The National Competition Policy, by targeting cartelization, will  go a long way in moderating prices, especially the food prices," Moily  said, referring to the US, where such a policy had resulted a cut of  petroleum products prices. </li>
</ul><ul><li style="text-align: justify;">"The forthcoming National Competition  Policy is an instrument capable of triggering second-generation of  economic reforms," Moily said.</li>
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National competition policy will lower prices: Minister

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CERN to re-run Einstein tests in May after cable

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><ul><li style="text-align: justify;">Physicists are to run new tests in May  after the CERN research institute said that its startling findings  appearing to show that one of Einstein's fundamental theories was wrong  could have been caused by a loose cable.  </li>
</ul><ul style="text-align: justify;"><li>The CERN lab near Geneva appeared to contradict Albert Einstein's  1905 Special Theory of Relativity last year when they reported that  sub-atomic particles called neutrinos could travel fractionally faster  than light.  </li>
</ul><ul style="text-align: justify;"><li>Einstein's theory, which underpins the current view of how the  universe works, says that nothing can travel faster than light, and  doing so would be like traveling back in time. </li>
</ul><ul style="text-align: justify;"><li>CERN said two possible effects had been identified that could have  an influence on its neutrino timing measurement during its OPERA  experiment. "New measurements with short pulsed beams are scheduled for  May," it said in a statement.<br />
</li>
</ul><ul style="text-align: justify;"><li>One effect concerned an oscillator used to provide the time stamps  for GPS (Global Positioning System) synchronizations, which could have  led scientists to overestimate the neutrino's time of flight.<br />
</li>
</ul><ul style="text-align: justify;"><li>However, the other effect appeared to be more significant in the faster-than-light finding of the original OPERA experiment.<br />
</li>
</ul><ul style="text-align: justify;"><li>The second concerns the optical fiber connector that brings the  external GPS signal to the OPERA master clock, which may not have been  functioning correctly when the measurements were taken. If this is the  case, it could have led to an underestimate of the time of flight of the  neutrinos.<br />
</li>
</ul><ul style="text-align: justify;"><li>The faster-than-light finding was recorded when 15,000 neutrino  beams were pumped over three years from CERN to an underground Italian  laboratory at Gran Sasso near Rome.<br />
</li>
</ul><ul style="text-align: justify;"><li>Physicists on the experiment said when they reported it last  September that they had checked and rechecked over many months anything  that could have produced a misreading before announcing what they had  found. </li>
</ul><ul style="text-align: justify;"><li><span>Edward Blucher, chairman of the Department of Physics at the  University of Chicago, said the original finding would have been  breathtaking if it had been true. As it was, the research inspired many  spirited discussions, if few believers. </span></li>
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CERN to re-run Einstein tests in May after cable

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