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The correct answer is Swami Vivekanand Airport.

Key Points

• Mana Airport at Raipur has been renamed Swami Vivekanand Airport.
• Swami Vivekananda International Airport formerly known as Raipur Airport (Mana Airport) is the major airport serving the state of Chhattisgarh, India.
• On 24 January 2012, the airport was renamed after Swami Vivekananda, as a tribute to the popular saint who spent a major part of his life in Raipur.
• It is the busiest airport in Central India and the busiest airport in Chhattisgarh. The airport is located at Mana between Raipur 15 km and Naya Raipur 10 km.
• Swami Vivekananda International Airport has a single runway and his new integrated terminal was inaugurated on 7 November 2012 by then President of India Pranab Mukherjee.

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The correct answer is 27.

Key Points

• The total number of districts in Chhattisgarh as of 1^st January 2012 is 27.
• At the time of separation from Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh originally had 16 districts.
• Two new districts Bijapur and Narayanpur were carved out on May 11, 2007, and nine new districts on Jan 1^st, 2012.
• On January 1, 2012, Chhattisgarh Government announced 9 New Districts (27 districts).
• These 9 districts have been named Sukma, Kondagaon, Balod, Bemetara, Baloda Bazar, Gariaband, Mungeli, Surajpur, and Balrampur.

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• As of October 2021, Chhattisgarh has a total of 32 administrative districts.
• Four new districts namely Manendragarh, Manpur-Mohla, Sakti, and Sarangarh-Bilaigarh were announced on 15^th August 2021.

The correct answer is Shri Manoj Das.

• Manoj Das was an eminent Indian author who wrote in Odia and English. He passed away at the age of 87 on April 27, 2021.
• He was awarded the Padma Shri in 2001.
• He also received the Padma Bhushan in 2020 for his contributions in the field of literature and education.
• He received the first Sri Aurobindo Puraskar for his research on the lesser-known facts of India’s freedom struggle led by Aurobindo.
• He was also honored with the Sahitya Akademi Award fellowship.

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List of Padma Shree awardees from Chhattisgarh

The correct answer is 3 months from the date of issue.

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• The validity period for cheques and bank drafts in India from 1" April 2012 is 3 months from the date of issue.
• As per RBI guidelines, with effect from April 1, 2012, the validity period of Cheques, Demand Drafts, Pay Orders, and Banker's Cheques will be reduced from 6 months to 3 months, from the date of issue of the instrument.
• When the period of validity ends, the check becomes Stale. Such cheques cannot be submitted to the bank for payment. And if they are submitted for payment, they will be dishonored by the bank.

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• A bank draft is a payment instrument that is issued by the bank at the request of the payer.
• A cheque is issued by an account holder of the bank ordering the bank to make a specific payment to the person specified, or to the bearer of the cheque.

The correct answer is 12%.

Key Points

• Union budget 2012-13 has increased the service tax rate from 10% to 12%.
• Service tax is a tax levied by the government on service providers on certain service transactions but is actually borne by the customers.
• It is categorized under Indirect Tax and came into existence under the Finance Act, 1994.
• Service tax was abolished with the rollout of GST on July 1, 2017, as the new tax subsumed service tax in addition to many other indirect taxes.

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• GST is known as the Goods and Services Tax.
• It is an indirect tax that has replaced many indirect taxes in India such as excise duty, VAT, services tax, etc.
• The main objective of the GST was to achieve the ideology of ‘One Nation, One Tax’.

The correct answer is 2012-17.

Key Points

• The period of the 12^th Five-year plan of India was 2012- 2017.
• The aim of the 12^th Five Year Plan is to achieve “faster, sustainable and more inclusive growth”.
• The target for growth rate in the 12^th Five-Year Plan was 8%.
• Planning Commis­sion was set up on 15 March 1950 and the plan era started from 1 April 1951 with the launch­ing of the First Five Year Plan (1951-56).

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• Planning Commission was replaced by a new institution – NITI AAYOG on January 1, 2015.
• The emphasis of NITI Aayog is on the ‘Bottom –Up’ approach to envisage the vision of Maximum Governance, Minimum Government, echoing the spirit of ‘Cooperative Federalism'.
• NITI Aayog is the premier policy think tank of the Government of India, providing directional and policy inputs.
• The chairperson of NITI Aayog is the Prime Minister of India.
• The present Vice-Chairperson of the NITI Aayog as of October 2021 is Dr. Rajiv Kumar.

The correct answer is From April 11^th to 14^th 2016 in New Delhi.

Key Points

• The Third Asian Ministerial Conference on Tiger Conservation 2016 was held from April 11^th to 14^th 2016 in New Delhi.
• This was the latest meeting in the Tx2 process to double wild tiger numbers by the year 2022.
• The Conference was hosted in New Delhi from the 11^th to 14^th April by the Global Tiger Forum (GTF).
• The previous two Asian Ministerial Conferences on Tiger Conservation were held in January 2010 in Hua Hin, Thailand, and in October 2012 in Thimphu, Bhutan.
• The Third Asia Ministerial Conference on Tiger Conservation (3AMC) marks the mid-point in the implementation of the twelve-year Global Tiger Recovery Program (GTRP). The GTRP was launched by heads of government at the St. Petersburg Tiger Summit in 2010.

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• It was hosted by the Global Tiger Forum (GTF) and National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) on behalf of the Government of India.
• The three-day conference was attended by high-level government representatives from all 13 tiger countries and resulted in a new resolution that guides the next six years of tiger conservation.
• The Conference was inaugurated with a speech by India Prime Minister Narendra Modi. It was also attended by Mr. Prakash Javadekar, Minister for Environment, Forest, and Climate Change of India.

The correct answer is 206.

• The adult human body has 206 bones in their body.
• A baby's body has about 300 bones at birth. These eventually fuse (grow together) to form the 206 bones.
• Bones are made up of calcium, phosphorus, sodium, and other minerals, as well as the protein collagen.
• Joints are the place where two bones meet or connect.

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• The human hand, including the wrist, contains 54 bones. There are 26 bones in the human foot.
• The femur, or thighbone, is the longest and strongest bone of the human skeleton.
• The stapes, in the middle ear, is the smallest and lightest bone of the human skeleton.
• Bones function as the skeleton of the human body, allowing body parts to move and protect organs from impact damage.
• They also produce red and white blood cells.

The correct answer is Generation.

Key Points

• In telecommunication, 'G' in 1G, 2G, 3G, and 4G stands for Generation.
• 1G, 2G, 3G, 4G, and 5G represent the five generations of mobile networks where 'G' stands for 'Generation' and the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 represent the generation number.
• Since the early 1980s, one sees a new generation of mobile networks almost every ten years.

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• A major jump in technology was when the wireless networks went from analog to digital.
• The first-generation (1G) – Systems are voice-oriented analog cellular and cordless telephones.
• The second-generation (2G) – Delivered digital signal and offered up to 250Kbps speed. Supports voice, text, and data services.
• The third-generation (3G) – At least 200Kbps up to 3Mbps speed.
• The fourth-generation (4G) – 4G delivers up to 100Mbps for mobile access, and up to 1Gbps for wireless access.

The correct answer is Printer.

Key Points

• A parallel port is most often used by a Printer.
• The parallel port is found on the back of the computer and is part of the motherboard.
• The parallel port is found on the back of IBM compatible computers and is a 25-pin (type DB-25) computer interface commonly used to connect printers to the computer.
• The parallel port interface is virtually non-existent because of the rise of Universal Serial Bus (USB) devices, along with network printing using Ethernet and Wi-Fi-connected printers.

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