PSC QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

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• Mount Abu
• xanthophyll
• ISRO's 101st space mission
• IRNSS-1A
• Vikram Seth
• Salman Rushdie
• Dadasaheb Phalke Award
• Yelena Isinbayeva
• Nicobar Islands declared as world biosphere reserve

Mount Abu Posted: 03 Dec 2013 12:43 AM PST Mount Abu     Mount Abu is a popular hill station in the Aravalli Range in Sirohi district of Rajasthan state in western India near the border with Gujarat

xanthophyll Posted: 03 Dec 2013 12:41 AM PST The color of an egg yolk is from the xanthophyll carotenoids lutein and zeaxanthin

ISRO's 101st space mission Posted: 03 Dec 2013 12:37 AM PST GSAT-10  GSAT-10 is an Indian communication satellite which was launched by Ariane-5ECA carrier rocket in September 2012 It was ISRO's 101st space mission

IRNSS-1A Posted: 03 Dec 2013 12:35 AM PST IRNSS-1A IRNSS-1A is the first navigational satellite in the Indian Regional Navigational Satellite System series of satellites  launched on 1 July 2013 The satellite was launched from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre

Vikram Seth Posted: 03 Dec 2013 12:32 AM PST Vikram Seth Vikram Seth is an Indian novelist and poet. He has written several novel and poetry books. He has received several awards including Padma Shri, Pravasi Bharatiya Samman, WH Smith Literary Award and Crossword Book Award Books

Salman Rushdie Posted: 03 Dec 2013 12:30 AM PST Salman Rushdie Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie is a British Indian novelist and essayist. His second novel, Midnight's Children, won the Booker Prize in 1981. His fourth novel, The Satanic Verses (1988), was the centre of a major controversy, provoking protests from Muslims in several countries, some violent

Dadasaheb Phalke Award Posted: 03 Dec 2013 12:24 AM PST Dadasaheb Phalke Award The Dadasaheb Phalke Award is India's highest award in cinema given annually by the Government of India for lifetime contribution to Indian cinema. first winner (1969)----------Devika Rani Chaudhuri Roeric    2011 -----------------------------------Soumitra Chatterjee 2012   --------------------------------------Pran

Yelena Isinbayeva Posted: 03 Dec 2013 12:20 AM PST Yelena Isinbayeva  (2013 ldc kollam question) Yelena Gadzhievna Isinbayeva is a Russian pole vaulter. She is a two-time Olympic gold medalist, a three-time World Champion, the current world record holder in the event, who is widely considered the greatest female pole-vaulter of all time  Yelena Isinbayeva receives the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2013 IAF World Athletics Gala

Nicobar Islands declared as world biosphere reserve Posted: 03 Dec 2013 12:16 AM PST Nicobar Islands declared as world biosphere reserve (2013 ldc kollam question )  The Unesco has designated India's Nicobar Islands as a world biosphere reserve under its Man and the Biosphere Programme.    Member countries establish such reserves and the world body recognizes them under the programme to promote sustainable development based on local community efforts and sound science. They are considered as sites of excellence, where new and optimal practices to manage nature and human activities are tested and demonstrated.

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