GK: Current Affairs

Aloha Friends,

Been a while since I Iast mailed you guys, lazing around during Diwali and all that. Well! I am back and since the general feedback is that people want a lot more of GK, I am starting off with a post on Current Affairs.

I will be putting up the answers tomorrow evening.

Happy Quizzing!

1. Last week the Trinamool Congress accused a journalist and two cameramen of trying to kill railway minister Mamata Banerjee. Which TV channel did they belong to? Ans. The news channel 24Ghanta

2. Who is India's Chief Information Commissioner? Ans. Wajahat Habibullah

3. This National park is spread over an area of 820.42 sq. km. in three Districts- Dehradun, Haridwar & Pauri Garhwal of Uttarakhand. It was created in 1983 by amalgamation of three existing sanctuaries. Name the sanctuary. Ans. Rajaji National Park - It was created by amalgamating Rajaji sanctuary (estd. 1948) Motichur sanctuary (estd. 1964) and Chilla sanctuary (estd. 1977). It is named after C. Rajgopalachari - The first and last Governor General of independent India. He was popularly known as "Rajaji".

4. There have been many reports in the past few days/weeks of disturbances along the border in Arunachal Pradesh. Simple question, who is the Chief Minister of the state? Ans. Dorjee Khandu

5. Why is Steward David Nozette in the news? Ans. He was a senior American space scientist arrested by the FBI in the US for allegedly spying for Israel. Meanwhile ISRO has said Nozette visited Bangalore and interacted with its scientists during work for the Chandrayan mission. He however had no access to critical ISRO establishments during the visits and there was no concern about loss of data.

And that is time up…

Ciao