Current Affairs Questions & Answers - Feb 16, 2016

ANSWER: All of the above

Explanation:
Department of Telecom has permitted sharing of active infrastructure such as transmission systems, feeder cable and antenna allowing TSP to attain lower costs and lead to faster rollout of networks. Earlier, only passive infrastructure such as towers were permitted to be shared. Active infrastructure will be restricted to antenna, feeder cable, radio access network, Node B and transmission system only.

ANSWER: Hike

Explanation:
India based Hike Messenger has indicated that Rajesh Rudraradhya has been appointed as vice president and head of engineering. He spent 15 years in Silicon Valley and has previously worked for HP and Google. He has also worked with Motorola. He will report to Hike CEO and Founder Kavin Bharti Mittal and help scale up engineering team and product development.

ANSWER: Nagaland is changing, But…

Explanation:
Film has received technical excellence award for best sound design at a Vigyan Prasar festival announced by DST. The director of this movie produced by the Nagaland State Forest Department in 2015 is Gurmeet Sapal. Film was made in technical partnership with New Delhi’s TERI.

ANSWER: Indian Initiative in Gravitational Wave Observations

Explanation:
Ever since the detection of gravitational waves since their prediction in 1916 by Albert Einstein, IndIGO has been in news. This Indian Initiative in Gravitational Wave Observation has been set up for providing India the ability to excel in gravitational wave astronomy. This is one of the largest scientific projects of independent India. The waves were detected using the facilities at the existing three LIGO detectors that are located in Livingston, Louisiana and Hanford, Washington of the USA. The prime project under IndIGO is the LIGO India or Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory India.

ANSWER: David Shulman

Explanation:
Education Minister N. Bennet announced that prize committee headed by professor Shaul Shaked had selected internationally renowned expert David Shulman as the winner of the Israel Prize this year. Shulman is also well versed in numerous Indian languages such as Tamil and Sanskrit. The 67 year old is also known for his leftist leanings. The Israel Prize has been given to the professor for his research into the literature and culture of southern India. Israel Prize is considered the highest honour of the country and it is presented on their Independence Day each year.

ANSWER: Ehud Olmert

Explanation:
Israeli former PM Ehud Olmert has started serving a 19 month prison sentence for bribery as well as justice obstruction. He is the first Israeli premier to be imprisoned and capping a years-long legal saga that forced him to resign in 2009 amid the last serious round of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks. Olmert was convicted in March 2014.

ANSWER: UK Sinha

Explanation:
UK Sinha will remain the SEBI chairman till March 2017 with the government on 15th February extending his term by a single year. Sinha’s current term was to end on February 17th. His extension was approved by the Cabinet Appointments Committee headed by Indian PM Narendra Modi. SEBI has implemented numerous capital market reforms during Sinha’s turn as SEBI Chairman.

ANSWER: Ranchi

Explanation:
In order to give an impetus to Food Processing Sector in Jharkhand, the first Mega Food Park in the State promoted by M/s. Jharkhand Mega Food Park Pvt. Ltd. at Village Getalsud, District Ranchi has been set up. It was inaugurated by Minister Harsmirat Kaur Badal who informed the Mega Food Park has been set up with the project cost of Rs. 114.73 crore in an area of 51.50 Acres. The park will have facilities of Multi Chamber Cold Storage, Dry Warehouse, Vegetable Dehydration Line, modern Quality Control& Testing Laboratory and other processing facilities for fruits & vegetables. It will provide direct and indirect employment to about 6000 people and benefit about 25,000-30,000 farmers within its catchment area.

ANSWER: Yogesh Kumar Tyagi

Explanation:
South Asian University professor Yogesh Kumar Tyagi has been appointed as the new Vice Chancellor of DU following his selection by Indian president Shri Pranab Mukherjee from a panel of 4 persons. Apart from law professor Tyagi, other names in the panel included JNU professor Rameshwar Nath Kaul Bamezai, former IIT professor and UPSC member Hemchand Gupta and Bidyut Chakraborty, a professor in the DU political science department.

ANSWER: Indian Institute of Millets Research.

Explanation:
Dr Villas A Tonapi has been appointed as the Director of Indian Institute of Millets Research/IIMR at Rajendranagar. Currently, he is Principal Scientist at Seed and Technology Centre of IIMR. He earlier served as the Head of the Division of Seed Science and Technology at IARI. Holding a PhD from Tamil Nadu Agriculture University and post doctorate from University of Queensland Australia, with over 50 published papers to his credit.

ANSWER: Lithuania

Explanation:
President of India, Shri Pranab Mukherjee has extended greetings and felicitations to Government and Republic of Lithuania on the eve of their national day on February 16, 2016. The President of the Republic of Lithuania is Her Excellency Ms. Dalia Grybauskaite. Recently, a statue of Mahatma Gandhi was unveiled in Lithuania. Both countries share close links.