GK & Current Affairs: August 24, 2013

Rajasthan
State government of Rajasthan laid the foundation stone for the world’s biggest solar park at Bhandla of Jodhpur district. The solar park with generation capacity of 3000WM would be commissioned in phased manner. In its first phase the solar park will generate 1000 MW. It would be established in 10 thousand hectare land and Asian Development Bank will provide 3000 crore rupees loan for the for development of transition lines.

Shark, Skates and Rays
The term Elasmobranches is a collective name for the sharks, skates and rays. Elasmobranches have a skeleton made of cartilage, no swim bladders and rough skin made up of small dermal dentils. Elasmobranches are renowned for their highly tuned senses.

Insurance Penetration & Density
Insurance Density and Insurance Penetration are the two important indicators, which provide the level of development of insurance sector in an economy. Insurance penetration is defined as the ration of total premium collected to the Gross Domestic Product of an economy. The Insurance Density is defined as the ration of total premium to the total population in the country.

Sikkim
Sikkim is India’s Greenest State with a forest cover 47.3% of its total geographical area and is more than double the national average of 21%.

Egypt
The Society of Muslim Brothers is a translational Islamic political organization in Egypt. It was founded in Egypt in 1928, as a Pan-Islamic, religious, political and social movement by the Islamic scholar and school teacher Hassan al-Banna.

Thailand
Thailand is the world’s largest natural rubber producing country followed by Indonesia and Malaysia. India is the fourth largest natural rubber producing country in the world.

China
India and Chinese armies will resume their bilateral “Hand-in-Hand” counter terrorism exercise this November after a five year gap. The third Hand-in-Hand exercise will be held in China’s Chengdu Military Area Command, which controls Tibet and almost the entire disputed LAC, from November 4 to 14. The HiH exercise, the first two editions of which were held at Kunming (China) in 2007 and Belgaum in 2008.

Nishi Vasudeva
Nishi Vasudeva became the first woman to be selected as the head of the Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited. At present she is the Director, Marketing HPCL and will take over as the chairman and managing director of the company. She will replace Subir Roy Choudhury, who will retire on 28th February 2014.

Only 1, 2 & 3
The most important tributary of Krishna is the Tungabhadra River. Other tributaries include the Kudali River, Koyna, Bhima and Venna River.

Maharastra
A day after the death of anti superstition activist Dr Narendra Dadholkar, the Maharastra cabinet adopted the anti-black magic and superstition ordinance.

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