28 August 2014 ======================================== 1) India’s national carrier offered air tickets at Rs. 100 (excluding fuel surcharge, taxes and fees) for five days beginning 27 August 2014 on the occasion of ‘Air India Day’. ‘Air India Day’ is being celebrated for the first time by Air India. ‘Air-India Day’ stands for what? – Air India’s amalgamation with erstwhile Indian Airlines into one airline as ‘Air India’ on 27 August 2007 Explanation : Rs. 100 tickets are being sold only through Air India website from 27-31 August for travel during 27 August to 30 September 2014. ………………………………………………………………………………………. 2) 19th Rajiv Gandhi National Quality Awards for the year 2012 were announced by Union Minister for Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution Ram Vilas Paswan on 26 August 2014. Which organisation has won the highest prize under this Award category? – Rail Wheel factory (Ministry of Railways), Bangalore Explanation : The award winners and recipients of commendation certificates were selected from a total of 63 applicants from various sectors following vigorous evaluation by a group of qualified and trained professionals from different spheres of intellectual activity. The awards, given annually, were instituted by the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) in the year 1991 with a view to encouraging Indian manufacturing and service organizations to strive for excellence and giving special recognition to those, who are considered to be the leaders of quality movement in India. ………………………………………………………………………………………. 3) What is the name of the U.S. citizen who came to limelight for being the first American jihadi to have died in Syria while fighting for Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), a terrorist outfit that has gained control of large parts of Syria and Iraq? – Douglas McAuthur McCain Explanation : According to the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, Douglas McCain died in a battle between rival extremist groups in the suburbs of Aleppo, the commercial capital and largest city of Syria. He reportedly converted from Christianity to Islam several years ago. While McCain is the first American jihadi to have died fighting for ISIL in Syria, he is not the only one. The US estimates say that there are about 100 American passport holders who are fighting for ISIS in Syria and Iraq. ………………………………………………………………………………………. 4) Ratan Tata, Tata Sons Chairman Emeritus, recently made personal investments in which online marketplace company? – Snapdeal Explanation : Snapdeal is the second largest online marketplace in India after Flipkart. The company has raised about $400 million since its inception and has invested about $100 million in logistics and operations to expand its presence in the $3 billion Indian e-Commerce market. Snapdeal currently houses over 5 million products across 500 diverse categories from over 50,000 sellers. Snapdeal claims that it had seen 600% growth year-on-year for the last two years. ………………………………………………………………………………………. 5) The USB Implementers Forum (UIF) has come up with the specifications for a new USB standard. This standard would make it sure that there’s a new universal port where it doesn’t matter which side faces upwards or which end of the cable is used. What is the name of this new upcoming USB standard? – USB 3.1 Explanation : USB stands for Universal Serial Bus, an industry standard developed in the mid-1990s that defines the cables, connectors and communications protocols used in a bus for connection, communication, and power supply between computers and electronic devices. The first USB standard was 1.0 which was introduced in January 1996. The USB 3.1 is will be an update of USB 3.0 which was released in November 2008. It will be backward compatible with USB 3.0 and USB 2.0. Using three power profiles of those defined in the USB Power Delivery Specification it lets devices with larger energy demands request higher currents and supply voltages from compliant hosts. USB 3.1 is compatible with up to 10Gbps data transfer rates. That means a full movie can be transferred in a single second, theoretically. ……………………………………………………………………………………….
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