LIC AAO 2016: General Awareness Test – Day 3

Explanation: As of January 2016, WhatsApp had a user base of up to 990 million, making it the most globally popular messaging application.
• HQ: Mountain View, California, United States
• Founder(s):Jan Koum, Brian Acton
• CEO: Jan Koum

Explanation: Ministry of Food Processing Industries has sanctioned 2 more Mega Food Parks to be set up in Khammam & Mahboobnagar districts of Telangana.
• The mega food park promoted by Smart Agro Food Park Pvt Ltd.
• Besides Mega Food Park, there will be 3 mini parks to set up at Medchal, Medak and Nalgonda districts of state and will linked with each other.

Explanation: Visa Card- A credit, debit or prepaid card branded by Visa Inc., a major payments technology company. Visa cards are available to individual and business consumers with excellent, good, poor or no credit. Each card has different terms that reflect the consumer’s credit worthiness.

Explanation: Non-Resident Ordinary Account held to manage the income earned in India like rent, pension, dividend, interest, etc. It is opened either by the citizen of India, while temporarily shifting to abroad or by an NRI by transferring money from his home country or from his other NRO account. A normal bank account can also be redesignated to NRO account when the residential status of the account holder is changed to NRI. The account is mainly used to park money earned from Indian sources in India.

Explanation: The top position was held by the Switzerland followed Singapore, Luxembourg, United States and Denmark.
• GTCI 2015-16 focuses on the highly topical issue of international mobility and its impact on talent competitiveness.

Explanation: Modi had over 17,382,784 followers while Khan was being followed by 17,362,505 Twitter members as on January 17. He now trails only superstar Amitabh Bachchan- close to 18.9 million followers.
• It is surprising to note that the number of followers of Modi’s account @narendramodi has consistently increased by about a million every two months.
• Active on Twitter since 2009, the most followed Indian politician.

Explanation: Ajit Chandila was found guilty of misconduct and corruption under the Articles 2.1.1, Article 2.1.2, Article 2.1.3, Article 2.1.4, Article 2.2.2, Article 2.2.3, and Article 2.4.1 of the BCCI Anti-Corruption Code.
• BCCI also decided to hand a five-year suspension on Mumbai batsman Hiken Shah for making a corrupt approach to a fellow player.

Explanation: Nepal’s ambassador and permanent representative to the UN Durga Prasad Bhattarai has also been elected as vice-president to the bureau of the executive board.
• Nepal recently completed its terms as a member of the UN economic and social council (ECOSOC) for 2013-2015 and as vice-president from Asia-Pacific region at the executive board of UNDP/UNFPA/UNOPS for the year 2015.

Explanation: This is the fourth bancassurance tie-up of Apollo Munich. Earlier, Apollo Hospitals Group firm Apollo Energy Company announced selling of its 3% stake in Apollo Munich Health Insurance Company to its German partner Munich Re for Rs. 163.5 crore.
• Apollo Munich Health Insurance CEO – Antony Jacob
• Axis bank CEO – Shikha Sharma

Explanation: Akash was developed by the Defense Research and Development Organization (DRDO), Bharat Dynamics Limited (BDL) for Missile Systems, Ordnance Factories Board and Bharat Electronics (BEL) for other Systems in India.
• This missile capable of neutralizing aerial threats
• The main property of missile is its capability to neutralize multiple aerial targets coming from different directions at the same time.