Which continent is known as white continent?

Correct Answer: Angle of declination

Correct Answer: Harsh Vardhan

Explanation:

The Union Minister for Science & Technology Dr. Harsh Vardhan has launched a mobile app ?Celebrating Yoga? in New Delhi to connect people through Yoga for scientific healthy living. The mobile app has been developed by Department of Science & Technology on the occasion of International Yoga Day (IYD) 2017. The aim of the app is to popularize Yoga and encourage people to practice yoga for a scientifically healthy living.

Correct Answer: The gold prices in India are determined according to the international market in the following way: - The price of gold in USD is taken as a base price Depending on the value of indian rupee as compared to USD (eg- 1 USD= ?63), the price of gold is converted into rupees - The import duties on gold are added to obtain the final price of gold Gold is a global commodity In the international market, the price of gold is determined by the forces of demand and supply Higher demand leads to higher price and vice versa Higher supply leads to lower price and vice versa

Correct Answer: Gujarat

Explanation:

The 30th International Kite Festival (Uttarayan) will be held in Gujarat from January 8 to 13, 2017. Apart from this, three other international kite festivals will be held in different parts of India viz. Telangana International Kite Festival will be held in Hyderabad on January 14 and 15, the Delhi International Kite Festival from January 16 to 17 and the Belgaum International Kite Festival from January 18 to 22.

Correct Answer: Param 8000

Correct Answer: Karnataka

Correct Answer: Rings of the tree

Correct Answer: Kazakhstan

Correct Answer: Haryana

Explanation:

Teams of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) of the United States and the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) would inspect the excavation being carried out at an archaeological site in Haryana?s Fatehabad district to verify claims of it being the oldest civilisation in the world. Archaeologists have recovered artefacts pre-dating the Harappan Civilisation from the site, located in village Kunal in Fatehabad district.

Correct Answer: 37th

Explanation:

India has been ranked 37th out of 103 nations in the 2017 global Multi-dimensional Poverty Index (MPI), according to a new report by the Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative. The OPHI is an economic research centre at the Oxford University, led by Professor Sabina Alkire. The 2017 global MPI has covered 76% of the world?s population, living in 103 countries. The index measures the nature and intensity of poverty, based on the profile of overlapping deprivations each poor person experiences. It aggregates these into meaningful indexes that can be used to inform targeting and resource allocation and to design policies that tackle the interlinked dimensions of poverty together.