Current Affairs Questions & Answers - Nov 16, 2015

ANSWER: Hyderabad

Explanation:
The festival was held at Shilpa Kala Vedika in Hyderabad on Saturday. CFSI was started soon after independence to harness medium of cinema for children. The festival was graced by the presence of noted personalities from the film world, Tabu, Kareena Kapoor and Karishma Kapoor. Sand art by Hari Krishna and a illuminati on the Digital India initiative were also hosted during the festival.

ANSWER: Jharkhand

Explanation:
PM Narendra Modi wished people of Jharkhand on their Statehood Day i.e 15th November 2015.Jharkhand was formed by the CAA in the year 2000 dividing Bihar into two states. Jharkhand has an area of 79,710 square km and borders states such as Odisha, Chattisgarh and WB.

ANSWER: Bangladesh

Explanation:
The Standard Operating Procedure has been signed between India and Bangladesh for operationalising the coastal shipping agreement between the two nations formed in June 2015. SOP will pave the way to promote coastal shipping between India and its neighbour and facilitate bilateral trade between the two countries by bringing down the cost of transportation of EXIM cargo. The SOP includes provisions which stipulate that India and Bangladesh shall render same treatment to the other country's vessels as it would have done to its national vessels used in international sea transportation. The two sides have also formed an agreement regarding the use of vessels of River Sea Vessel (RSV) category for Indo-Bangladesh coastal shipping.

ANSWER: Australia

Explanation:
India has announced that procedures for civil nuclear agreement with Australia for supplying uranium from it had been completed following a meeting between PM Modi and counterpart Malcolm Turnbull on G-20 summit sidelines on 15th November 2015. Australia has close to one third of the recoverable uranium resources in the world and exports close to 7000 tonnes of it per year. India will now be the first nation to purchase uranium from Australia without signing the Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty.

ANSWER: Both of the above

Explanation:
Trains in India are all set to run on wind and solar energy. Railways has invested INR 160 crore to establish a wind power project in Dangri, Fatehgarh’s Jaisalmer district. Union rail ministry is set to lower diesel consumption and fuel expenses by running engines and trains on non conventional sources of energy. Within the next 5 years, rail ministry will set up a 1000 MW solar power project and numerous windmill units. For this purpose, IRCTC has set up the REMC or Railway Energy Management Company for this purpose.

ANSWER: 63

Explanation:
An exoplanet located 63 light years away has winds which have reached a velocity of 8690 km per hour which is 20 times faster than that recorded on Earth, as per the first ever weather map of this planet. Weather system on the planet outside Earth’s solar system has been measured and mapped. Wind speed recorded is 7 times the speed of sound. On exoplanet HD 189733b, researchers measured the velocities on the two sides and found a strong wind moving at over 8,690kmph blowing from its dayside to its night side. The wind velocity was measured through high resolution spectroscopy of the Sodium absorption featured in its atmosphere.

ANSWER: Blood brain barrier

Explanation:
Scientists have successfully breached the blood brain barrier in a non invasive manner to deliver cancer fighting drugs into the patient’s brain. Every person has a protective blood barrier lining blood vessels in the brain to restrict the passage of massive toxic substances from the bloodstream to the brain. Scientists can open the barrier in the patient’s brain to deliver chemotherapy directly to the brain tumour. MRI-guided focused low-intensity ultrasound waves were used to target blood vessels in the blood-brain barrierBBB) area near the tumour. Waves repeatedly compress and expand the micro-bubbles, loosening tight junctions of the cells comprising the BBB. Following the breach of the barrier, the chemotherapy flowed through and deposited into the targeted regions.

ANSWER: Both of the above

Explanation:
Imperial College London physicists have devised a rapid heating mechanism which can heat certain materials to to ten million degrees in much less than a million millionth of a second. The method, proposed for the first time, could be relevant to new avenues of research in thermonuclear fusion energy, where scientists are seeking to match the Sun's ability to produce clean energy. The heating is 100 times faster than current rates used in fusion experiments.

ANSWER: Nepal

Explanation:
Ongoing blockade has created many hurdles for the Himalayan nations. This doctrine is a set of principles to govern state relations. India has denied imposing the blockade. Nepal is currently trying to resolve issues emanating from the formation of the new Constitution and its consequent implementation.

ANSWER: Million Beats

Explanation:
Billion Beats launched by the House of Kalam is a digital initiative of the former president. It could not take off earlier due to administrative hurdles. This e-paper has been launched again to give shape to his vision 2020.