General Awareness Questions

Light Year is related to Distance. It is the unit of Distance.

It is about 9.5 Trillion Kms or 5.9 Trillion miles.

• It is the distance that light travels in vaccum in one julian year i.e, 365.25 days.

The National Association of Software and Services Companies (Nasscom) appointed Raman Roy (Managing Director of Quatrro Global Services) as its chairman for 2017-2018.

 Rishad Premji (Chief Strategy Officer (CSO), Wipro Limited) has been appointed Vice Chairman. Raman Roy has replaced Mr. CP Gurnani.

BSF - Border Security Force

The motto of the organization BSF is "Duty unto Death."

India being number one in the Tiger population all over the world, Madhya Pradesh state has the highest number of tigers with 526 tigers and Karnataka is second with 524.

The study of volcanoes, lava, magma, and related geological, geophysical and geochemical phenomenas is called Volcanology.

NASA announced a Seven new system of Exoplanets, which are Earth-size, and could potentially hold life.These exoplanets are located outside of our solar system and orbit a star. NASA has named the system of planets after the ‘Transiting Planets and Planetesimals Small Telescope,’ which is located in Chile. This telescope first discovered three of the planets in this system in May 2016. Unlike Earth, which rotates on its axis, the planets are “tidally locked to the star.” This means that one side of the planet has only day, and one side has only night. It also means the weather conditions are unlike what we experience on Earth.