Daily Current Affairs Update --- 11th & 12th February, 2017

                         

• The Pakistan Navy has kicked of its biannually-held multinational AMAN 2017 naval exercise in Karachi, Pakistan.
Theme of AMAN 2017 : “together for peace”


• India ranked low 43rd among the surveyed 45 nations in 2017 International Intellectual Property Index (IIPI).


• The 2-day UNESCO Natural Heritage Festival began at the Great Himalayan National Park in Sai Ropa, Himachal Pradesh.


• February 14 will be celebrated as 'Matru Pitru Diwas' (parents' day) at all schools in Chhattisgarh to teach "Indian culture" to students, the BJP government announced .


• Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) will carry a record 104 satellites in a single mission on February 15 from its space centre in Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh.


• India today successfully test-fired its Advanced Air Defence (AAD) interceptor missile dubbed as Ashwin from launching complex-IV of Dhamara Abdul Kalam defence base off Odisha coast.


• The government appointed senior IAS officer Ajay Tyagi as the Chairman of markets regulator, Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI).


• Renowned sand artist Sudarsan Pattnaik has set a Guinness World Record by building the world's tallest sand castle, which stood 48 feet and 8 inches tall.


• Former Argentine player Diego Maradona has been given an ambassadorial role by football governing body FIFA.


• NBA has become the world's first sports league to have its own eSports league, which will debut in 2018.


• The Union Government has planned to up a Defence Procurement Organisation (DPO) in a move to integrate and streamline the long and complex process of defence acquisitions. The committee would be headed by former Director of Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Lucknow, Dr. Pritam Singh. DPO will function under the Defence Ministry.


• The second edition of the Hunar Haat was inaugurated by the Union Minister of State for Minority Affairs (Independent Charge) and Parliamentary Affairs Shri Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi at New Delhi.


• GMR Hyderabad International Airport Ltd (GHIAL), which operates Rajiv Gandhi International Airport, has been honored with the Centre for Asia Pacific Aviation (CAPA) Chairman’s Order of Merit for its focus on environmental sustainability.


• Subir Dutta appointed as Ambassador of India to the Republic of Madagascar .


• The state government of Assam has decided to set up a Wild Sanctuary to grow Muga cocoon in an effort to give more exposure to Muga, Eri and Silk Products.


• World’s first Braille Atlas for visually impaired persons Launched by NATMO in New Delhi .


• Queen Elizabeth II will host a spectacular UK-India Year of Culture launch at Buckingham Palace .


• The 2nd edition of the International Spice Conference was began at Kovalam in Thiruvananthapuram district.
Theme of International Spice Conference 2017 : "21st Century Spic Industry-Disrupt or be Disrupted"


• The 16th Federal Convention elected Frank-Walter Steinmeier as the 12th President of the Federal Republic of Germany.


• The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur is starting India’s first inter-disciplinary School on Quality and Reliability (Q&R) in India.


• India has decided to conduct Conference with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) to share experiences and ideas from the member countries on preventing radicalization and promoting deradicalisation. The Conference may be held in October 2017.


• Indian off-spin specialist Ravichandran Ashwin became the fastest cricketer to take 250 wickets in Test matches. He achieved this feat in his 45th test match .


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Puzzles Que With Solution For SBI PO Pre 2017 ( Part 4 )

                     

1) Directions for questions : These questions are based on the following information.

A to H, eight members of a family sit around a circular table. The following information is known about them: There are three married couples in the family. E is third to the right of B, and exactly two persons sit between G and E. C is to the right of his grandson. F is the son-in-law of D and his daughter is A who sits to the left of her aunt E, who is opposite D. G and E are sisters-in-laws. H is unmarried, while F has no siblings. Each couple has at least one child.



2) Study the following information carefully to answer the given questions

Eight People – A, B, C, D, E, F, and G live in ten different floors of a building (but not necessarily in the same order). Two of the floors in the building is vacant. The lowermost floor of the building is numbered one, the one above that is numbered two, and so on till the topmost floor is numbered ten. Each one of them also likes different apps, namely WhatsApp, Wechat, IMO, Hike, Line, Viber, Google Allo and Telegram(but not necessarily in the same order).

The number of people living below F is same as the number of people living between F and H. F lives an odd numbered floor above the floor numbered four. The top most floor is vacant. Only one person lives between B and the one who likes Hike. Only three floors between D and the one who likes Line. The number of floors between the one who likes Google Allo and the one who likes Hike is two. The one who likes Viber lives immediately above G. Only three floors between G and A. The one who likes TELEGRAM lives immediately above the one who likes Whatsapp. C lives one of the odd numbered floors above the one who likes Line. The number of floors between F and the one who likes WECHAT is only one. Only one person lives between the one who likes TELEGRAM and the vacant floor. Only two people live between C and vacant floor. The number of floors between two vacant floors is five. The one who likes TELEGRAM and WECHAT not live in the floors numbered 8 and 7 respectively. The one who likes Hike app lives immediately below the floor in which C lives.



3) Study the following information carefully to answer the given questions

Seven students namely viz A, B, C, D, E, F and G of seven different colleges have Seminar in seven different months namely viz January, February, June, July, September, October and November on seven different days, namely viz Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday of the same week but necessarily in the same order. Each student stays in a hostel in different floor. The ground floor of the building is numbered 1, the one above that is numbered 2 and so on till the topmost floor is numbered 7.
There are four floors between the person who have seminar in November and January. G stayed on the second floor and has a seminar on Wednesday. The one who stayed on the first floor has a seminar on Saturday. B has a seminar on the day immediately before E. B does not have seminar on any of the days after G. The one who stayed on the seventh floor does not have a seminar on any of the days on or before Friday. There are three floors between the person who have seminar on July and September. The one who stayed on the third floor has a seminar on the day immediately after C. B does not have seminar in January. E does not stay on the fifth floor. The one who stays on sixth floor does not have a seminar on the day immediately before or after G. F does not have any seminar on Sunday and does not live in third floor. D does not have seminar on any one of the days before A. The top three floors occupied by the persons who have seminar on one of the months which has 31 days. A has seminar on one of the month which has less than 30 days.











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Ans) 1)

Ans) 2)


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Floor      Person     App.        
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10          ----           -----
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9            H          Google Allo
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8             B             IMO
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7             C             Viber
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6             G              Hike
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5              F             Line
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4              ------        -------
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3               E   Wechat
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2              A          Telegram
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1               D Whatsapp
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Ans) 3)



Floor Person   Month      Day
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7               D January     Sunday
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6               B October      Monday
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5              C  July              Thursday
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4               E June      Tuesday
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3               A February Friday
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2               G November Wednesday
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1                F September Saturday
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Tentative date of Examination: April 09, 2017

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Quadratic Equation Que For SBI PO Pre Exam 2017..

                     

Directions (Q. 1-5): Two equations (I) and (II) are given in each question. On the basis of these
equations you have to decide the relation between ‘x’ and ‘y’ and give answer.

(1) if x > y
 (2) if x < y
(3) if x ≥ y
(4) if x ≤ y
(5) if x = y or no relation can be established between ‘x’ and ‘y’.

1. I. 6x² - 19x + 15 = 0  II. 10y² - 29y + 21 = 0

2. I. 12x² + 11x - 56 = 0  II. 4y² - 15y + 14 = 0

3. I. 3x² + 13x + 12 = 0 II. y² + 9y + 20 = 0

4. I. 8x² - 15x + 7 = 0 II. 2y² - 7y + 6 = 0

5. I. 7x - 3y = 13 II. 5x + 4y = 40


Directions (Q. 6-10): In the following questions, two equations numbered I and II are given.
You have to solve both the equations and give answer


(1) if x > y
(2) if x < y
(3) if x ≥ y
(4) if x ≤ y
(5) if x = y or no relation can be established between x and y


6. I. 2x² - 11x + 15 = 0  II. 21y² - 23y + 6 = 0

7. I. 5x² - 16x + 11= 0   II. 5y² - 3y - 2 = 0

8. I. x² + 11x + 28 = 0   II. 2y2 + 13y + 20 = 0

9. I. 6x² + 29x + 35 = 0  II. 3y2 + 19y + 30 = 0

10. I. 2x + 5y = 6     II. 5x + 11y = 9







Answer:-


1. (3)
2. (4)
3. (1)
4. (2)
5. (2)
6. (1)
7. (3)
8. (4)
9. (1)
10. (2)


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Daily Current Affairs Update --- 10th February 2017

                 

• Today (10th February) is National Deworming Day.


• The 3-day National Women’s Parliament, which is being organised by Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly was began in the state capital region Amaravati.
Theme of National Women's Parliament 2017 - ‘Empowering Women — Strengthening Democracy’


• The central government has decided to "scale up" its programme of utilising the Head Post Offices (HPOs) as Post Office Passport Seva Kendra (POPSK) by opening 56 more such centres in various cities across the country.


• The 1st Amaravati Global Music and Dance Festival began at Amaravati (Andhra Pradesh).


• HRD Ministry has constituted a sub-committee of Central Advisory Board of Education (CABE) to look into issues of girl’s education.
Head of this Committee : Kadiyam Srihari (Deputy Chief Minister and Education Minister of Telangana)


• Virat Kohli has become the only player to score four double centuries in four consecutive Test series, hitting his career's fourth 200 against Bangladesh .


• Shawna Pandya To Become Third Indian-origin Woman To Fly In Space .



• Hemant Bhargava has appointed as Managing Director of state-owned Life Insurance Corporation (LIC) of India. He is at present LIC's zonal manager, Delhi.


• FIFA Under-17 World Cup India 2017, the official mascot of the tournament 'Kheleao' was unveiled at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in New Delhi


• A 33 member committee has been constituted under the chairmanship of Andhra Pradesh’s Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu for the speedy implementation of the Sagarmala Project in Andhra Pradesh.


• Shri Ananthkumar inaugurated the Orientation Programme for the district heads of National Yuva Cooperative Society (NYCS) in New Delhi to launch the Pradhan Mantri Bhartiya Janaushadhi Kendras (PMBJKs) in the country.


• 2017 BRICS association of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa to be held in Xiamen, China in September 2017. The summit will be held under the theme “BRICS: Stronger Partnership for a Brighter Future “


• Folk singer from Punjab Satinder Sartaaj (34) has been selected for the awareness project against human trafficking “Blue Heart Campaign” by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).


• Shri Vijay Goyal launched the Mission XI Million, the biggest school sport outreach programme, in New Delhi in the presence of President of AIFF Shri Praful Patel. The programme has been launched with an aim to make football a sport of choice in India and encourage children to play the football games on regular basis.


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Puzzles Que With Solution For SBI PO Pre 2017 ( Part 3 )

1) In a family, eight persons A, B, C, D, E, F, G and H are sitting around a circular table facing the centre but not necessarily in the same order. Their arrangement is as follows.

(i) D’s father is sitting second to the left of his nephew. B is the son of F, who is second to the right of her son.
(ii) D is the father of G and two persons sits between G and E. D’s wife is opposite E.
(iii) E’s brother B is the immediate neighbour of C’s son. B is the father of H. No male is adjacent to C.
(iv) F is the sister of C and C is not sitting second to the left of B.





2) Study the following information carefully to answer the given questions

Eight people Sneha, Savita, Soniya, Sarangi, Seeta, Sona, Samaira and Sajna went to an ice cream parlor to have ice cream of different flavors, vanilla, pista, strawberry, butterscotch, mint, mango, chocolate and orange. They all like different colours. There are four boys and four girls.

Sneha likes red and her brother likes pista ice cream. Sajna likes chocolate ice cream, and his friend like mango.

Seeta likes pista ice cream and neither he nor Soniya likes white, yellow, or black. Pink colour is liked by a girl and the boy who liked vanilla doesn’t like green colour. The one who likes blue, eats mint ice cream. Sarangi likes magenta.

Samaira doesn’t mango or orange ice cream, but likes Yellow. Savita doesn’t like white. None of the girls like mango ice cream and none of the boys like strawberry.

Also, the girl who likes orange ice cream doesn’t like magenta or red. Samaria’s brother Sona doesn’t like Mango ice cream and black colour. Soniya doesn’t like blue, and Sneha doesn’t like Butterscotch.




3)  Study the following information carefully to answer the given questions

6 people, an engineer, an IAS, IES, IFS, IPS, and IRS officers lives in a building that has 7 floors, numbered 1-7, where 1 is the lower most floor. They like different drinks, Sprite , Coca-Cola, Limca, Pepsi, 7-up and Tropicana.

The one who likes Coca-Cola doesn’t live immediate to the one who likes 7 up. Two people live above the IRS officer.

The IAS officer doesn’t like Tropicana. The one who likes sprite doesn’t live on the sixth floor. The IAS and IPS officers live on even numbers floors.

The IPS officer likes 7 up and lives below the IFS officer. There is one person between the ones who likes Coca-Cola and Limca.

The one who likes Tropicana lives on the fourth floor. Two people live between the IPS and IFS officers. The IES officer lives below the IRS officer.













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Daily Current Affairs Update --- 9th February 2017

• The Union Cabinet chaired by the Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi has approved 'Pradhan Mantri Gramin Digital Saksharta Abhiyan' (PMGDISHA) to make 6 crore rural households digitally literate.
The outlay for this project is Rs.2,351.38 crore to usher in digital literacy in rural India by March,.2019.


• Technology major Google has won a deal to set up its first city-wide Wi-Fi project called Google Station in Pune.


• The government of India has appointed three non-official directors (Ashok Gulati, Manish Sabharwal and Rajiv Kumar) on the Reserve Bank of India’s board for a period of four years.


• Model Bella Hadid has been appointed the accessories ambassador of Italian jewellery and luxury goods brand 'Bulgari'.


• Dr P Raghu Ram, President of Association of Breast Surgeons of India was awarded prestigious Dr B C Roy national award for outstanding service in the field of socio-medical relief for 2016.


• Maharashtra CM Devendra Fadnavis handed over the awards for Best Actor and Most Versatile Personality of the Year to Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh at the Bright Awards 2017.


• Salman Rushdie has announced his new novel titled 'The Golden House'.


• India defeated Nepal by 152 runs to clinch their 6th successive victory in the T20 World Cup for Blind.


• Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose’s driver and INA veteran ‘Colonel’ Nizamuddin has passed away in his native village of Dhakwa in Azamgarh after a prolonged illness.


• Gujarat has become the first state in India to establish Cashless system for distribution of food grain to the beneficiaries under NFSA (National Food Security Act).


• The Union Ministry of Commerce under Nirmala Sitharaman has approved the pilot Revenue Insurance Scheme for Plantation Crops (RISPC) to protect the growers of plantation crops from the twin risks.


• The Ministry of Railways launched the first phase of Station Redevelopment Programme on February 8, 2017 for commercial development of 23 stations across India. The total outlay of the project in the first phase is expected to be worth Rs 9,000 crore.


• The Union Ministry of Human Resource Development has constituted a sub-committee of Central Advisory Board of Education (CABE) under Chairmanship of Telangana’s Deputy Chief Minister Kadiyam Srihari to look into issues related to girls education .


• Mohit Ahlawat became the first batsman in the world to score a 300 in a T20 match. While the match had no official status and was only a local match played in Delhi.

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