General Knowledge

WhatsApp started in which year? 2009

Explanation: As of January 2016, WhatsApp had a user base of up to 990 million, making it the most globally popular messaging application.
• HQ: Mountain View, California, United States
• Founder(s):Jan Koum, Brian Acton
• CEO: Jan Koum

Union Minister of Food Processing Industries Smt. Harsimrat Kaur Badal laid foundation stone of the first Mega Food Park in which village of Telangana? Lakkampally

Explanation: Ministry of Food Processing Industries has sanctioned 2 more Mega Food Parks to be set up in Khammam & Mahboobnagar districts of Telangana.
• The mega food park promoted by Smart Agro Food Park Pvt Ltd.
• Besides Mega Food Park, there will be 3 mini parks to set up at Medchal, Medak and Nalgonda districts of state and will linked with each other.

• The first credit card facility to be recognized worldwide was _______.Visa card

Explanation: Visa Card- A credit, debit or prepaid card branded by Visa Inc., a major payments technology company. Visa cards are available to individual and business consumers with excellent, good, poor or no credit. Each card has different terms that reflect the consumer’s credit worthiness.

Which of the following is a bank account opened by NRI to deposit income mainly generated from an Indian source? NRO

Explanation: Non-Resident Ordinary Account held to manage the income earned in India like rent, pension, dividend, interest, etc. It is opened either by the citizen of India, while temporarily shifting to abroad or by an NRI by transferring money from his home country or from his other NRO account. A normal bank account can also be redesignated to NRO account when the residential status of the account holder is changed to NRI. The account is mainly used to park money earned from Indian sources in India.

As per annual Global Talent Competitiveness Index (GTC), index of India is ________.89

Explanation: The top position was held by the Switzerland followed Singapore, Luxembourg, United States and Denmark.
• GTCI 2015-16 focuses on the highly topical issue of international mobility and its impact on talent competitiveness.

Who is the second most followed Indian on social media site Twitter? PM Narendra Modi

Explanation: Modi had over 17,382,784 followers while Khan was being followed by 17,362,505 Twitter members as on January 17. He now trails only superstar Amitabh Bachchan- close to 18.9 million followers.
• It is surprising to note that the number of followers of Modi’s account @narendramodi has consistently increased by about a million every two months.
• Active on Twitter since 2009, the most followed Indian politician.

Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) imposed a life time ban on = off-spinner bowler Ajit Chandila due to his involvement in the IPL spot-fixing scandal 2013. He belongs to _____.Haryana

Explanation: Ajit Chandila was found guilty of misconduct and corruption under the Articles 2.1.1, Article 2.1.2, Article 2.1.3, Article 2.1.4, Article 2.2.2, Article 2.2.3, and Article 2.4.1 of the BCCI Anti-Corruption Code.
• BCCI also decided to hand a five-year suspension on Mumbai batsman Hiken Shah for making a corrupt approach to a fellow player.

Which among the following has been elected to the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) executive board, representing the group of Asia-Pacific countries for the term 2016-2018? Nepal

Explanation: Nepal’s ambassador and permanent representative to the UN Durga Prasad Bhattarai has also been elected as vice-president to the bureau of the executive board.
• Nepal recently completed its terms as a member of the UN economic and social council (ECOSOC) for 2013-2015 and as vice-president from Asia-Pacific region at the executive board of UNDP/UNFPA/UNOPS for the year 2015.

Health insurance company Apollo Munich joined hands with which Bank for offering bank customers a paperless customized insurance policies? Axis

Explanation: This is the fourth bancassurance tie-up of Apollo Munich. Earlier, Apollo Hospitals Group firm Apollo Energy Company announced selling of its 3% stake in Apollo Munich Health Insurance Company to its German partner Munich Re for Rs. 163.5 crore.
• Apollo Munich Health Insurance CEO – Antony Jacob
• Axis bank CEO – Shikha Sharma

• Akash missile was successfully test fired from complex-3 of the Integrated Test Range (ITR) at Chandipuri in Odisha. It is ______.surface-to-air missile

Explanation: Akash was developed by the Defense Research and Development Organization (DRDO), Bharat Dynamics Limited (BDL) for Missile Systems, Ordnance Factories Board and Bharat Electronics (BEL) for other Systems in India.
• This missile capable of neutralizing aerial threats
• The main property of missile is its capability to neutralize multiple aerial targets coming from different directions at the same time.