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Arjuna Awards for 2023:

Ojas Pravin Deotale (archery),
Aditi Gopichand Swami (archery),
Murali Sreeshankar (athletics),
Parul Chaudhary (athletics),
Mohameed Hussamuddin (boxing),
R Vaishali (chess),
Mohammed Shami (cricket),
Anush Agarwalla (equestrian),
Divyakriti Singh (equestrian dressage), Diksha Dagar (golf),
Krishan Bahadur Pathak (hockey),
Sushila Chanu (hockey),
Pawan Kumar (kabaddi),
Ritu Negi (kabaddi),
Nasreen (kho-kho),
Pinki (lawn bowls),
Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar (shooting), Esha Singh (shooting),
Harinder Pal Singh Sandhu (squash), Ayhika Mukherjee (table tennis),
Sunil Kumar (wrestling),
Antim (wrestling),
Naorem Roshibina Devi (wushu),
Sheetal Devi (para archery),
Illuri Ajay Kumar Reddy (blind cricket), Prachi Yadav (para canoeing).

Nagaland got its second railway station after a gap of more than 119 years with the commissioning of a new facility at Shokhuvi. Dimapur Railway Station, in the heart of the commercial hub of the state, was inaugurated in 1903. Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio flagged off the Donyi Polo Express from Shokhuvi Railway Station during the day.

The rivalry between Jio and Airtel is growing day by day. Few days back, Jio had lodged a complaint with ASCI against Airtel’s false claim of “Officially India’s fastest network”. Yes, in its claim, the company said that Airtel’s ad of India’s fastest mobile network is false and misleading. The complaint also had a mention of Ookla, the company that awarded this title to Airtel on 24th of February, based on Speedtest results. According to Jio, the results were manipulated. Considering everything, ASCI has given its decision in favor of Jio.

As of now, ASCI has authenticated Jio’s stand. Yes, in an official letter, ASCI has asked Airtel to either modify or withdraw the ad by 11th of April 2017.

This matter was discussed with the FTCC i.e. Fast Track Complaints Committee on the 29th of March and the term “Officially” was found to be misleading, because the results weren’t based on any recognized authority or any government organization. The Advertising Standards Council of India has considered this representation to be “Misleading by ambiguity and implication”.

On the other hand, Bharti Airtel has disagreed to this decision and said,

“We do not agree with ASCI’s decision and will file an appeal as per guidelines. Our campaign is based on findings by Ookla – the globally recognised leader in mobile speed tests and also a benchmark for reputed global operators. We have shared all supporting facts with ASCI and strongly believe that our campaign is compliant with all guidelines. We will be happy to provide more details, if required, and hope ASCI will reconsider its decision.”

Even Ookla gave a statement which read,

“Ookla fully stands behind the accuracy and reliability of the methodology used to designate Airtel as ‘India’s Fastest Mobile Network’. The award designation was validated using the IP methodology described above for all Speedtest results during the last 6 months of 2016 (Q3 & Q4). When analyzing the data for all of 2016, Airtel was still the clear leader. When analyzing data for 2017 to date, Airtel is still the clear leader. It is worth noting that after correcting for the Android limitation, Airtel’s lead over Jio increases for all aforementioned date ranges.”

No More BS III Vehicles From April1! Welcome BS IV
The whole world is facing the problem of pollution at present and emissions from the vehicles play an important role in it; therefore, strict emission norms need to be enforced to keep a check.

However, India is far behind when it comes to implementing strict emission rules in comparison to the western countries but it seems that the difference will soon be filled as the Supreme Court has ordered that BS III vehicles won’t be sold and registered from April1.

BS means Bharat Stage and they are the emission standards set up by the Indian government in order to put a limit on the air pollutants which come out of the internal combustion engines used in vehicles. BS can be regarded as Indian version of European emission standards and their purpose is also to reduce the emission from vehicles.

India got its first emission norms in 1991 for petrol vehicles and in 1992 for diesel vehicles. BS III was implemented in NCR and some other cities in 2005-2006 for reducing emission levels. Most of the western countries implemented Euro III from year 2000 to 2005.

In 2010, BS III was implemented all over India and we were still behind the western countries, as they rolled out Euro 4 in January 2005, Euro 5 in September 2009 and Euro 6 by September 2014.

BS IV will be implemented in all the new vehicles by April 1, 2017, but auto manufacturers are not happy with this decision. Few of them have appreciated and welcomed it but the majority is displeased, as they didn’t get enough time to upgrade their technology and dispose their existing BS III products.

On Wednesday, the Supreme Court has made it clear that nothing is more important than the health of citizens, at least not the commercial interests. Mahindra and Mahindra has issued a statement in which it has said that it respects the decision given by SC but the ‘unexpected ruling will have a one-time material impact.’

This is what Tata Motors said,

“The Supreme Court order banning sale of all BS-III vehicles from April 1 is an unexpected and unprecedented move that will have a material impact on the entire automotive industry, OEMs’ and dealer networks and is a penalty to the entire automotive industry.”



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The problems that these manufacturers will face now are that they will need time and resources to upgrade/develop engines and changes have to be made at the factory level. Many of them are still working on implementing the BS IV technology in their factories while Toyota did it a year back.

The manufacturers have also put forward the need of cleaner fuels as without these, it will be impossible to implement the new technology. Many are of the opinion that the basics are not in place for implementing BS IV.

However, the environmental institutions and the environmentalists have appreciated the decision of SC and they feel that it will help in reducing pollution to a great extent.

Executive Director of Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), Anumita Roychowdhury, said,

“This is a significant step forward as this gives the message and the lesson that the automobile industry will have to walk the extra mile to address the expansive concern around public health and not weigh down the transition by taking a very narrow technical view.”

The importance of this decision increases further as India will skip BS V and will implement directly BS VI by the year 2020.

Undoubtedly, it will be a big issue for the automakers to handle but the Supreme Court’s decision is absolutely correct as nothing is more important than the health of people.

The country has been suspended from the powerful G8 grouping recently- Russia.

NASA's robotic luner explorer which was annihilated as planned recently- LADEE

World Tuberculosis day- 24 March

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27 MAY 2015
Ques. : 1 The Lok Sabha on 13 May cleared the changes in
Negotiable Instruments Act. The changes provide for filing of
cases of cheque bouncing only in places where
1) cheque is presented
2) cheque is issued
3) issuing bank’s headquarters is located
4) payee bank’s headquarters is located
5) None of these
Answer:- 1) cheque is presented
Ques. : 2 Which of the following is NOT correct with respect
to 19th Ceat Cricket Awards presented on 25 May?
1) International Lifetime Achievement Award – Sachin
Tendulkar
2) International Cricketer of the Year – Kumar Sangakkara
3) International Batsman of the Year – Hashim Amla
4) International Bowler of the Year – Rangana Herath
5) T20 Player of the Year – Dwayne Bravo
Answer:- 1) International Lifetime Achievement Award –
Sachin Tendulkar
Ques. : 3 Who among the following has won the Ceat Indian
Cricketer of the Year Award on 25 May?
1) Rohit Sharma
2) Ajinkya Rahane
3) Ravindra Jadeja
4) Suresh Raina
5) Virat Kohli
Answer:- 2) Ajinkya Rahane
Ques. : 4 Footballer Cristian Gomez died after collapsing
during a game for his club Atletico Parana on 24 May. He is
the second footballer from which of the following countries
to die on the field in May 2015 itself?
1) France
2) Spain
3) Argentina
4) Brazil
5) None of these
Answer:- 3) Argentina
Ques. : 5 Name the Indian-origin entrepreneur who has been
elected as the head of the Bureau of International Recycling.
It facilitates free and fair trade of recyclables in a sustainable
and competitive world economy.
1) Karan Bilimoria
2) Naina Lal Kidwai
3) Indra Nooyi
4) Ranjit Singh Baxi
5) None of these
Answer:- 4) Ranjit Singh Baxi
Ques. : 6 G Mohan Kumar has taken over as the new
________ Secretary recently.
1) Revenue
2) Finance
3) Defence
4) Cabinet
5) None of these
Answer:- 3) Defence
Ques. : 7 The govt has appointed Manoj Mishra as Chairman
and Managing Director of state-run
1) IFFCO
2) National Fertilizers
3) Rashtriya Chemicals and Fertilizers
4) Fertilizer Corporation of India
5) None of these
Answer:- 2) National Fertilizers
Ques. : 8 Mandeep Kaur Sandhu won two gold medals on 23
May at the Women's World Junior Boxing Championship in
Taipei. She is an Indian
1) pugilist
2) weightlifter
3) wrestler
4) shooter
5) None of these
Answer:- 1) pugilist
Ques. : 9 Who among the following is one of the Indian
women included in the world’s 100 most powerful women,
according to the Forbes’ 2015 list?
1) Shobhana Bhartia
2) Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
3) Chanda Kochhar
4) Arundhati Bhattacharya
5) All the above
Answer:- 5) All the above
Ques. : 10 The Forbes’ 2015 list of the world’s 100 most
powerful women has been topped by
1) Angela Merkel
2) Sheryl Sandberg
3) Dilma Rousseff
4) Mary Barra
5) Janet Yellen
Answer:- 1) Angela Merkel
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