Current Affairs Questions and answers - Aug 13, 2014

ANSWER: Shri Arun Jaitley, Dr. Karan Singh and Shri Sharad Yadav, for the years 2010, 2011 and 2012 respectively at a function organized by the Indian Parliamentary Group.

ANSWER: Shri Thambi Durai. He has become the first person to hold the same post twice as he was Deputy Speaker in 8th Lok Sabha.

ANSWER: Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission (JNNSM) Program. The US has filed a WTO dispute case under the Dispute Settlement Mechanism, aggrieved by the Domestic Content Requirement Condition on procurement of solar cells and modules under Batch I and Batch II of Phase I and Batch I of Phase II of the JNNSM program.

ANSWER: Ambernath, Mumbai. The production capacity of this plant will be 2 lakh liters per day, raising the total production (of the four plants) to 6.1 lakh litres of Packaged Drinking Water (PDW) daily. Till now, already existing three Rail Neer plants used to cater to the Northern, Eastern and Southern parts of our country.

ANSWER: Centre for Railway Information Systems (CRIS). One of the best features of the new app is “spot your train” which provides information such as its current position, expected time of arrival and departure at a particular station, train schedule, train between two stations, information on cancelled/diverted/rescheduled trains, and trains expected to arrive and depart from a particular station in the next 2 or 4 hours.

ANSWER: It is a contact-less smart card i.e; no need to swipe or insert into a slot. This is a pan India smart card to enable passengers to pay for tickets for long distance reserved, unreserved, and suburban journeys as a pilot project. It can be used a nominated UTS counters and Automatic Ticket Vending Machines (ATVMs) and nominated PRS counters for reserved tickets.

ANSWER: The e-diversion system will help customers in a big way by eliminating the long process of surrendering of documents at the originating station, adding payment of freight for the same consignment and long claims process. Some of the salient features are: Authorized access only, Customer friendly, No double payment, No penalty, Prompt settlement of claims, Transparency.

ANSWER: In Freight train movement, the need for an on-line system for Registration of rakes and wagons will be finally met with the launch of the e-Demand module of the Freight Operations Information System (FOIS). With the release of this module, customers can sit in the convenience of their homes or offices and register their freight demands.

ANSWER: Next Generation E-Ticketing, Freight E-Demand System, Freight E-Diversion System and Go India Smart Card.

ANSWER: National Judicial Commission Bill, 2014.

ANSWER: Bimal Jalan.

ANSWER: 30 Judges including Chief Justice of India.

ANSWER: Manjul Bhargava.

ANSWER: 6.8%. This happened due to a controversial sales tax increase by the Japan government.