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- Question
DotBook: India's first Braille laptop created by the students from __________.
Options- A. IIT-Kharagpur
- B. IIT-Kanpur
- C. IIT-Madras
- D. IIT-Delhi
- Correct Answer
- IIT-Delhi
ExplanationPulkit Sapra, 26, from Delhi and Suman Muralikrishnan, 27, from Chennai, former students and researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi have created a laptop for visually-impaired called "DotBook". It is claimed to be the first in India, the laptop has an interface in form of dots or Braille instead of a visual one. Instead of a screen, the laptop displays embossed text in Braille through a touchpad and the users get to feel everything a website has by touching the pad. It is built in Linux and comes with 4 GB internal storage which is expandable up to 64 GB and it can be connected with mobile phones and other laptops to provide a visual display for sighted persons. They have launched two versions of the laptop, one with 20 cell version (Rs 40,000) and another 40-cell version (Rs 60,000) - each referring to the number of characters displayed in one line. The 20-Cell Braille Variant has Perkins Keys while the 40-Cell Braille Variant with QWERTY keyboard. - 1. As per the report of Gemalto's Breach Level Index, Which country placed second in the data breach?
Options- A. Singapore
- B. India
- C. China
- D. US Discuss
- 2. Department of Financial Services (DFS), Ministry of Finance and National Informatics Centre (NIC) launched a mobile app to guide a common people in locating a financial service. The app is named as;
Options- A. Credit Karma
- B. Harvest
- C. Jan Dhan Darshak
- D. Wally Lite Discuss
- 3. Which among the following plans to launch training programme for journalists in India?
Options- A. Google
- B. Facebook
- C. Twitter
- D. Microsoft Discuss
- 4. Smartworks a leading workspaces player, introduced a female AI robot in productivity mascot. It was named as;
Options- A. Anamika
- B. SmaMo
- C. Smart Mitri
- D. Anushka Discuss
- 5. The former Chief Minister of Delhi who passed on October 27, 2018 is _________ .
Options- A. N.D. Tiwari
- B. Sheila Dikshit
- C. Sahib Singh Verma
- D. Madan Lal Khurana Discuss
- 6. Negasso Gidada Solon passed away at the age of 75 in Germany. He was the former president of this country.
Options- A. Sudan
- B. Nigeria
- C. Kenya
- D. Ethiopia Discuss
- 7. What is the name of the book President of India received first copy?
Options- A. President's Lady Pranaber Preyosi
- B. Indradhanush Volume-II
- C. Rashtrapati Bhavan: From Raj to Swaraj
- D. Life at Rashtrapati Bhavan Discuss
- 8. Asia's first woman neurosurgeon who passed away at the age of 86 recently?
Options- A. TS Kanaka
- B. Dheera Ananthakrishnan
- C. Jayashree Srinivasan
- D. Aruna Ganju Discuss
- 9. Which Union minister Inaugurates the Integration of eSanad with CBSE's Academic Repository recently?
Options- A. Shri Nitin Gadkari
- B. Shri Suresh Prabhu
- C. Smt Sushma Swaraj
- D. Smt Smriti Irani Discuss
- 10. Name the Social entrepreneur from Tamil Nadu, who was ranked 45th in the Fortune magazine's 2019 list of the world's greatest leaders for inventing low cost pad making machine.
Options- A. Naveen Krishna
- B. Sandeep Ahuja
- C. Arunachalam Muruganantham
- D. Smita Ram Discuss
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Correct Answer: India
Explanation:
According to a report called Breach Level Index by digital security firm Gemalto, data breach incidences in India were the second highest globally. It is due to compromises in the Aadhaar database. India is second to the US which represents more than 57 per cent of global breaches. 945 data breaches led to 4.5 billion data records being compromised worldwide in the first half of 2018. Out of this, India accounted for over 1 billion data during the first six months of 2018.
Correct Answer: Jan Dhan Darshak
Explanation:
Department of Financial Services (DFS), Ministry of Finance and National Informatics Centre (NIC) have jointly developed a mobile app called Jan Dhan Darshak as a part of financial inclusion (FI) initiative. This app will act as a guide for the common people in locating a financial service touch point at a given location in the country. While over 5 lakh FI touch points (Bank branches, ATMs, Post Offices) have been mapped on this App, approx. 1.35 lakh Bank Mitras would be on-boarded by 01.12.2018. Phone number of bank branches are available in the app, with the facility of call button for integrated dialling.
Correct Answer: Google
Explanation:
Technology giant Google has recently announced the launch of a training programme for journalists with an aim to raise awareness against misinformation and providing new tools to the fourth estate against fake news. The Google News Initiative India Training Network will provide training to 8,000 journalists in English and six other Indian languages in the next one year. The network will select 200 journalists from cities across India, who will hone their skills in verification and training during five-day boot camps that will be organised for English and Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Bengali, Marathi and Kannada. The focus of the training will be fact-checking, online verification and digital hygiene for journalists, using a curriculum built by experts.
Correct Answer: Smart Mitri
Explanation:
Smartworks, a leading workspaces player, introduced 'Smart Mitri', a female AI robot, which will be Smartworks' in-house productivity mascot. It will play an influential role in handling the overall office management for the facility, ranging from the visitor system to being a counsellor eventually. Smartworks recently launched its flagship facility in Bengaluru. It is spread over 3 lakh sq ft with 6,000 seats. This facility is the firm's largest centre. With 20 locations across nine cities, the firm caters to more than 500 organizations across large enterprises, SMEs and startups. Some of the clients are Tata Communications, Microsoft, ArcelorMittal, Amazon, Carrier, Otis, Daikin, Lenovo, Bacardi and OLX.
Correct Answer: Madan Lal Khurana
Explanation:
Madan Lal Khurana, former Delhi Chief Minister, passed away on October 27, 2018 after a prolonged illness. He was 82. He belonged to the BJP (Bharatiya Janata Party) party. He was the chief minister of Delhi from 1993 to 1996. He was the governor of Rajasthan in 2004.
Correct Answer: Ethiopia
Explanation:
Former Ethiopian president Negasso Gidada Solon passed away at the age of 75 in Germany for an unspecified illness. He was born on 8th September 1943 in Dembidolo, Ethiopian Empire. He was the president between 1995 and 2001 and was the first head of state after Ethiopia adopted a new constitution transforming country into a federal state. In 2015, He was elected to parliament as an independent but then joined the opposition three years later.
Correct Answer: President's Lady Pranaber Preyosi
Explanation:
The President of India, Shri Pranab Mukherjee received the first copy of the book "President's Lady" (Pranaber Preyosi) on his wife Late Smt. Suvra Mukherjee from Vice President of India, Mohd. Hamid Ansari who formally released it at a function held at Rashtrapati Bhavan. The author of the book is Sangeeta Ghosh.
Correct Answer: TS Kanaka
Explanation:
Dr. TS Kanaka, the continent's first woman neurosurgeon, passed away after a brief illness at the age of 86. She was the third woman neurosurgeon in the whole world. Born on March 31, 1932, and raised in Chennai, she obtained her MBBS degree in December 1954, and Master of Surgery in Neurosurgery in March 1968.
Correct Answer: Smt Sushma Swaraj
Explanation:
External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj, Human Resource Department Minister Prakash Javadekar and IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad jointly inaugurated the integration of E-Sanad with Central Board Secondary Education's (CBSE) digital repository 'Parinam Manjusha' in New Delhi. It is an e-service for online verification and attestation of documents of Indian citizens. It is ntegrated with Non- Tax Receipt Portal (NTRP) for enabling cashless payment.
Correct Answer: Arunachalam Muruganantham
Explanation:
Arunachalam Muruganantham, inventor of a low-cost sanitary pad-making machine and grassroots mechanism has been featured in Fortune magazine's 2019 list of world's 100 greatest leaders.He is a social entrepreneur from Tamil Nadu.He ranked 45th in the list released by the American publication. The hero of the Oscar-winning documentary short "Period.End of Sentence" has been awarded a Padma Shri in 2016 and was named TIME magazines 2014 list of 100 Most Influential People in the World. Other top awardees : Bill and Melinda Gates - for the work of their charitable organisation Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Jacinda Ardern - for her response to Christchurch mosque shootings in February Robert Mueller - for his findings of the Donald Trump campaign's collusion with Russia.
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