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Weekly Update – Current General Knowledge for Entrance Exams

July 13th, 2008Posted in General Knowledge

 

Are you preparing for a competitive exam like Bank Probationary Officer (PO) Recruitment, Bank Clerical, NDA, CDS, B. Ed., ETT etc. Here is a series of updates that we release every week just for you.

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G-8 Environment Ministers Meeting:
Held in Kobe, Japan May 24-26, 2008.
What is G-8?
Aim: Debt Relief to 36 poorest countries of the World.

Members: US, UK, Japan, Germany, France, Italy and Canada and Russia

NOTE: Formerly G7 (excluding Russia)

G-8 Summit

Held between July 7 and 9, 2008. The agenda was to control Climate Change, controlling price hike for food and petroleum. North Korea's Atomic Programme.

Agni - III Test Fired Successfully:

Type: Intermediate Ballistic Missile

On: May 07, 2008

Range: 3500 KM

Tested At: Wheeler Island (off the Orissa Coast)

NOTE:

Agni-I was short range ballistic missile. Range: 700- 800 KM

Agni-II was medium range ballistic missile. Range: 2,500 KM

Agni - V will be an ICBM (InterContinental Ballistic Missile). ICBM is a land-based or mobile rocket-propelled missile capable of delivering a nuclear warhead to a range greater than 5,500 KM

Prithvi - II Test Fired Successfully:

Type: Surface to Surface

On: May 23, 2008

Range: 350 KM

Tested At: Integrated Test Range, Chandipur, Balasore

Hatf - VIII Test Fired (Pakistan)

Type: Surface to Surface

Range: 350 KM

India Ranked 120th in Doing Business by World Bank's Report

Total Countries Ranked: 178

Pakistan:           76

Sri Lanka:         101

Bangladesh       : 107

Nepal               : 111

Bhutan             : 119

Indonesia to Withdraw from OPEC

  • Against the decision for a price hike in petroleum.
  • Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)
  • Headquarters: Vienna, Austria.
  • An international oil cartel originally formed in 1960.
  • Indonesia is the only SE Asian member of OPEC.
  • Other 12 members are: Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Iran, Iraq, Venezuela, Qatar, Libya, United Arab Emirates, Algeria, Nigeria, Ecuador and Gabon.

India's first Marine Conservation Reserve:

Will be located in Agatti Atoll in Lakshadweep.

Books:

Animal's People by Mr. Indra Sinha

Adjudged Best Book of the year by the Commonwealth Foundation for the year 2008

Midnights Children by Mr. Salman Rushdie

It has been awarded "Best of Booker" prize in 2008. It was awarded the Booker Prize in 1981.

People in News:

Ms. Tessy Thomas:

She became the first woman Scientist to lead the Agni Missile Project.

Mr. Min Bahadur:

He became the oldest person to climb Mount Everest at the age of 75.

Mr. B. S. Yedddyurappa

He became the 19th Chief Minister of Karnataka.

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