AUGUST 2013 Who among the following has been appointed as the 23rd Governor of Reserve Bank of India?

Dr Raghuram Ranjan Name the Indian Chess Player who has won Politiken Cup in Denmark? Parimanjan Negi The Great Himalayan National Park, which is under consideration to inscribe on t he World Heritage list, is located in which state? Himachal Pradesh The Great National Park is the newest addition to the India's Nat ional Parks, located in Kullu region in the State of Himachal Pradesh. The Great National Park is a habitat to more than 375 fauna species What is the upper age limit for remaining as President of India is?NO LIMIT mKRISHI, the platform which uses mobile technology to cater to the needs of the rural sector, has been launched by? TCS The Kurinji flower, a rare phenomenon, blossom once in twelve years, in the___ ? Nilgiri Hills Which one of the following will become the first e-court of the country, where p etitions filed via e-mails would be entertained? Bombay High Court Phubbing:Phubbing is the new term coined to highlight the anti-social phone use. Phubbing is defined as the act of snubbing someone in a social setting by looki ng at your phone instead of paying attention. Which one of the following countries, has largest postal network in the world? India What is the name of NASA next mission on Mars, which would be launched in Novemb er, 2013? MAVEN The Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) mission, set to launch in 2013, will explore the planet's upper atmosphere, ionosphere and interactions w ith the sun and solar wind. Green Card refers to an immigration process of becoming a permanent resident of wh ich country? nited States Green Card is the informal name for an ID card attesting to the per manent resident status of an immigrant in the United States. In which of the following states, Sasan Ultra Mega Power Project is located? Madhya Pradesh Sasan Ultra Mega Power Project is a 3,960 MW pit-head coal based power plant in Madhya Pradesh. The project is the first domestic coal-based Ultr a Mega Power Project awarded in the country by the Government of India. According to Forbes, who among the followings has topped the Forbes List of Top Paid Female Athlete? Maria Sharapova Tennis Superstar Maria Sharapova topped Forbes 2012 list of the highest paid female athletes for the ninth consecutive year In context to India's defence system, Pinaka is a____? Multiple Rocket Launcher Pinaka is a multiple rocket launcher developed by the D efence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) for the Indian Army. The sys tem has a maximum range of 39-40 km and can fire a salvo of 12 HE rockets in 44 seconds, neutralizing a target area of 3.9 km.

Uttar Pradesh As per the statistics of Census 2011, the maximum number of people living in rural areas in particular state is 15.5 crore in Uttar Pradesh, Mumba i tops the list having the maximum number of people living in urban areas at five crore. Bamboo Bamboo is also known as Green Gold. ONGC Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Ltd (ONGC) is the present top ranked profit -making Public Sector Undertakings. The Home Ministry has issued orders to extending Visa-on-Arrival facility to fou r more airports at Thiruvananthapuram, Kochi, Bangalore and Hyderabad with effec t from August 15. Currently, the VoA facility is operational at four internation al airports in Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata and Chennai. It is a type of petroleum with lower level of sulfur Sweet crude oil is a type o f petroleum. The New York Mercantile Exchange designates petroleum with less tha n 0.42% sulfur as sweet. Petroleum containing higher levels of sulfur is called sour crude oil. Sweet crude oil contains small amounts of hydrogen sulfide and c arbon dioxide. High quality, low-sulfur crude oil is commonly used for processin g into gasoline and is in high demand, particularly in highly industrialized nat ions. Uttar Pradesh Bharat Bharti Samman is the highest literary honour of the Uttar P radesh State. P V Sindhu P V Sindhu became the first Indian woman player to win an individual medal at the World Badminton Championship. By defeating former world No.1 Shixia n Wang in straight games, Sindhu assured India a bronze medal at the Tianhe Indo or Stadium in Guangzhou, China. This is the only third time and the first in wom en's singles that India will be bringing home a medal from the Worlds. Samsung The US International Trade Commission ordered a ban on the import and sa le of some Samsung electronics mobile devices after finding they infringed on tw o Apple Inc's patents. The ITC found Samsung guilty of infringing on two patents: one that covers touch-screen technology and one dealing with headphone jacks. Irulas Kerala The Irula tribes of Tamil Nadu occupy the lower slopes and forests at the base of Niligiri Hills. They constitute the second largest groups of tri bes after the Badagas and are similar to the Kurumbas in many ways. Milky Way Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Telescope have solved a 40-year mystery on the origin of the Magellanic Stream, a long ribbon of gas stretching nearly h alfway around our Milky Way galaxy. The Large and Small Magellanic clouds, two d warf galaxies orbiting the Milky Way, are at the head of the gaseous stream. Sin ce the stream's discovery by radio telescope in the early 1970s, astronomers have wondered whether the gas comes from one or both of the satellite galaxies. New H ubble observations reveal most of the gas was stripped from the small Magallanic Cloud about 2 billion years ago, and a second region of the stream originated m ore recently from the Large Magellanic Cloud. Upto 50% Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) issues the Telecommunicati on Mobile Portability (Fifth Amendment) regulations, 2013 for corporate mobiles numbers. As per the amendments Upto 50 corporate mobile numbers of a service pro vider can be ported to another service through letter of authorization from the authorized signatory of the corporate mobile numbers, in a single porting reques t. In nuclear engineering, a neutron moderator is a medium that reduces the speed o

f fast neutrons, thereby turning them into thermal neutrons capable of sustainin g a nuclear chain reaction involving uranium-235. Commonly used moderators inclu de light water, solid graphite and heavy water. Beryllium has also been used in some experimental types. The Prem Bhatia Memorial Awards is related to which of the following fields?Journa lism:Shalini Singh The first Cyber Forensic Laboratory (CFL) of India was established in Tripura on 11 August 2013. India's first Cyber Forensic Laboratory has been set up in Tripur a. The lab established at the Tripura high court will provide court case related information. From the CFL, automatic SMS alerts would go to both lawyers and th e litigant about the fate of the case. If any lawyer or the petitioner remains a bsent on the day of trial, the SMS alert would go the concern. Prithvi was the first missile to be developed under the Integrated Guided Missile Development Programme launched by Government of India in 1983 According to the norms, minimum land requirement to set up Multi-product SEZ's is? Government made the special economic zones attractive for the investors by notif ying relaxations in the minimum area requirements and easing the exist clause fo r developers. Multi-product SEZ's minimum land requirement has been cut to 500 hec tares from 1,000 hectares. Single products SEZ's minimum land requirement has been cut to 50 hectares from 100 hectares. The Rajiv Gandhi Udyami Mitra Yojana aims to provide financial assistance to which of the followings?Entrepreneurs Kakrapara-1 India's Kakrapar-1 reactor is the world's first reactor which uses thori um rather than depleted uranium to achieve power flattening across the reactor c ore. United States is the world's largest net oil importer. Chhattisgarh The Achanakmar Tiger Reserve is in Chhattisgarh. It was established in 1975, under the provision of Wildlife Protection Act of 1972. Achanakmar has been declared as Tiger Reserve under the project Tiger in 2009. Apart from India, which of the following countries celebrate(s) Independence Day on August 15th? South Korea,Bahrain,Republic of Congo Which of the following books were written by Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru? Discovery of India ,Glimpses of World History IISc, Bangalore Bangalore Headquartered Indian Institute of Science (IISc) has o nce again made the country proud. It is the only Indian Institute that has made it to the top 500 in the Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) which was released by the Center for World-Class Universities at Shangai Jiao Tong Univer sity. The 104-year old entity is ranked in the 301-400 category. IISc, which was ranked 45 in the world ranking for Chemistry last year, is on 3rd spot this tim e.