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Strait of Malacca waterway connecting the Andaman Sea (Indian Ocean) and the South China Sea (Pacific Ocean). It runs between the Indonesian island of Sumatra and peninsular Malaysia  to the east..
Which Union Ministry launched its new website on S3WaaS platform
(Secure, Scalable and Sugamya Website as a Service)?
[A] Ministry of Law and Justice
[B] Ministry of Communication
[C] Ministry of Information and Broadcasting
[D] Ministry of Women and Child Development
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πŸ‘β€πŸ—¨List of Revolutions in the various field in India

πŸ”²Black Revolution : Petroleum.
πŸ”²Production Blue Revolution : Fish.
πŸ”²Production Brown Revolution : Leather/non-conventional (India)/Cocoa production.
πŸ”²Golden Fibre Revolution : Jute Production.
πŸ”²Golden Revolution : Fruits/Overall Horticulture development/Honey Production.
πŸ”²Green Revolution : Food grains.
πŸ”²Grey Revolution : Fertilizer.
πŸ”²Pink Revolution : Onion production/ Pharmaceutical (India)/Prawn production.
πŸ”²Red Revolution : Meat and Tomato Production.
πŸ”²Round Revolution : Potato Silver.
πŸ”²Fiber Revolution : Cotton.
πŸ”²Silver Revolution : Egg/Poultry Production.
πŸ”²White Revolution (In India: Operation Flood) : Milk/Dairy production .
πŸ”²Yellow Revolution : Oil Seeds production .
πŸ”²Evergreen Revolution : Overall development of Agriculture.
πŸ”²Rainbow Revolution : agriculture, horticulture, forestry, sugarcane, fishery, poultry and animal husbandry.


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40. Which one of the following is the unit of measure of the thickness of the ozone layer of the atmosphere :- Dobson
41. 'Dobson' Unit is used for the measurement of :- Thickness of Ozone layer

MEASURING DEVICE AND SCALES

1. Which one of the following instrument is used for locating submerged objects in an ocean :- SONAR
2. SONAR is mostly used by :- Navigators
3. In SONAR, we use :- Ultrasonic waves
4. The apparatus used to measure intensity of sound is:- Audiometer
5. Which of the following is measured by 'Anemometer' :- Force of the wind
6. The velocity of wind is measured by:- Anemometer
7. Not correctly matched :- Tachometer – Pressure difference
8. Pyrometer is used to measure:- High temperature
9. Which one of the following devices is used to measure extremely high temperature:- Pyrometer
10. Which one of the following thermometers is known as Pyrometer:- Radiation thermometers
11. The thermometer which used to measure 2000Β°C temperature is:- Total radiation pyrometer
12. Which one of the following can be used to measure temperature above 1500Β°C :- Pyrometer
13. Pyrheliometer' is used for measuring :- Solar radiation
14. What is measured by manometer:- Pressure of gas
15. Correct
a. Ammeter - Electric current
b. Hygrometer - Relative humidity
c. Spring balance – weight
d. Barometer – pressure
16. Which one of the following pair is not correctly matched:- Ammeter: Measuring instrument for electric power @uppcs
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17. Which instrument is used to measure atmospheric pressure :- Barometer
18. The liquid/liquids used in the simple barometer is /are:- Mercury
19. The density of milk can be obtained by the use of:- Lactometer
20. The density of milk is measured by:- Lactometer
21. Relative humidity is measured by:- Hygrometer
22. Which instrument is used for measuring humidity in the air:- Hygrometer
23. Hygrometer is used to measure :- Humidity in atmosphere
24. Which of the following is correctly matched : - Thermoresistor - Electronic Thermometer
25. Electroencephalogram (EEG) is used in monitoring:- Brain
26. Stethoscope is an acoustic medical device used for listening to the action of someone's heart sound. Sphygmomanometer is used to measure blood pressure. Caratometer is an internationally acclaimed device for checking the purity of gold. Luxmeter is used to measure the intensity of light.
27. The name of the equipment used for measuring blood pressure is:- Sphygmomanometer
28. The apparatus used to measure the intensity of light is known as:- Luxmeter
29. Radar is used for:- Determining the presence and location of objects with radio waves
30. Which of the following quantities is measured on the Richter scale:- Intensity of an earthquake
31. Richter scale is used for measuring:- Amplitude of seismic waves
32. Which of the following is a seismometer device:- Seismograph
33. Which of the following instruments is used to record seismic waves:- Seismoscope
34. The intensity of earthquake is measured by:- Seismograph

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πŸ”‘General Science Ghatna Chakra English PointerπŸ”‘
🌹Physics🌹
Measurement/Unit
1. The unit of power is :- Watt
2. The unit of electric power is :- Watt
3. The unit of the force is :- Newton
4. The unit of work is :- Joule
5. Frequency is measured in :- hertz
6. Light year is the unit of :- Distance
7. A light year is the :- Distance travelled by light in one year
8. A parsec, a unit of distance used to measure the distance related to the stars in the sky, is equal to :- 3.25 light-years
9. PARSEC is the unit of :- Distance
10. Which unit of measurement is multiplied by 0.39 to convert it to inches :- Centimetre
11. How can the height of a person who is six feet tall, be expressed (approximately) in nanometre :- 183 x 10^7 nm
12. A nanometre is equal to :- 10^-7 cm
13. One Nanometre is equal to :- 10^-9m
14. Ampere is the unit of :- Electric current
15. Megawatt is the measuring unit of power which is :- Generated
16. Correct :- Physical quantities - Units β€’
πŸ‘‰Acceleration - m/s^2
πŸ‘‰Force – newton
πŸ‘‰Work done – joule
πŸ‘‰ Impulse – Newton second
17. Pascal is the unit of pressure or stress in the International System of Units (SI). Dyne is the unit of force in CGS system.
18. Correct
πŸ‘‰The SI unit of power is watt (W),
πŸ‘‰Knot is the unit of measuring of speed of a ship.
πŸ‘‰Nautical mile is a unit of distance used by navigators in the sea.
πŸ‘‰Calorie is a unit of measuring heat and energy.
19. Joule is the SI unit of work. Ampere, watt, volt and calorie are the units of current, power, electric potential and heat respectively.
20. How many watts are there in a horsepower :- 746
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21. Correctly matched:- Light year is not a unit of measuring time, but a unit of measuring distance.
22. Angstrom is a unit of :- wavelength
23. Match List-I(Quantity) with List- (Units) (correct) :
a. High speed - Mach
b. Wavelength - Angstrom
c. Pressure - Pascal
d. Energy - Joule
24. Joule' is related to energy in the same way as 'Pascal is related to:- Pressure
25. One micron is equal to :- 1/1000 mm
26. One micron represents a length of:- 10^-4 cm
27. Which one of the following is not correctly matched:- Celsius - Unit of heat
28. Which one of the following is not the unit of heat:- Watt
29. Which one of the following is not the unit of heat:- Centigrade
30. A distance of 1 km. Means: - 1000 m.
31. One pikogram is equal to:- 10-12gram
32. Pascal is a unit of measuring :- Pressure
33. What is the unit of pressure :- Newton/sq. Meter
34. What is the unit of atmospheric pressure :- Bar
35. 1 Kg/cm^2
pressure is equivalent to :- 1.0 bar
36. 1 barrel of oil oils is equals to which of the following :- 159 litre
37. The smallest unit of length is :- Fermimetre
38. Correct
β˜‘οΈCusec is a measure of flow rate of water and is abbreviation of 'cubic feet per second' (28.317 litres per second).
β˜‘οΈByte is unit of digital information in computing and Communications that consists of eight bits.
β˜‘οΈThe Richter magnitude scale (also Richter scale) assigns a magnitude number to quantify the energy released by an earthquake.
β˜‘οΈThe bar is a metric (but not S) unit of pressure exactly equal to 100,000 Pascal.
39. What is measured in cusec :- Flow of water @SecureIAS
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Clean Plant program

βœ…With the demand for foreign planting materials of fruits like apples, avocados and blueberries rising over the years, the Central government plans to set up 10 β€˜Clean Plant Centres’ 

βœ…Objective: To boost domestic production of the selected fruit crops

βœ…Services offered: disease diagnostic, therapeutics, multiplying of plants and generation of mother plants

βœ…Need for β€˜Clean plant program’: Currently, it is difficult to get disease-free and genuine planting materials for horticultural crops in India.

βœ…Also, the process of importing plants is very cumbersome, as the imported plants must be kept in quarantine for two years.

βœ…Nodal Ministry: Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare

βœ…Implementing agency: National Horticulture Board (NHB)

βœ…Funding: 100% be Central government

βœ…It will be set up under the β€˜Atmanirbhar Clean Plant Program’ (announced in Budget 2023-24)
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Asia's Longest Zozila Tunnel Project
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β€’ The work on the strategic 14.5 km long Zojila tunnel, an all-weather connection between the Kashmir valley and the Ladakh region - is going on at a rapid pace and over 40 per cent of the drilling has been completed,

β€’ It will pass under the Zojila Pass in the Himalayas between Ganderbal in Kashmir and Drass town in Kargil district of Ladakh.

β€’ Z-Morh Tunnel is a part of the Zojila tunnel project.

β€’ Z-Morh tunnel, which connects Gagangir with Sonamarg and provides all-weather connectivity to the resort in the Ganderbal district of central Kashmir, will be inaugurated in October this year.
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πŸ‘β€πŸ—¨ IMPORTANT FOLK PAINNTINGS

Warli - Maharashtra
Pattachitra - Odisha
Kalamkari - Andhra Pradesh
Kalighat - Calcutta
Kalamezhuthu - Kerala
Thangka - Sikkim
Pithora Painting - Gujurat
Thanjavur - Tami Nadu
Madhubani, Manjusha (Snake painting) - Bihar

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πŸ‘β€πŸ—¨Artificial Lakes in India

1. Bhojtal β€” MP
2. Gobind Sagar β€” HP (Bhakra Nagal)
3. Jaisamand Lake β€” Udaipur RJ | 2nd largest artificial in
Asia
4. Barapani Lake β€” Shillong
5. Bhimtal Lake β€” Uttarakhand
6. Hirakund Lake β€” OR
7. Rana Pratap Sagar β€” RJ | Chambal Valley project
8. Nagarjuna Sagar β€” TL
9. Kodaikanal β€” TN
10. GB Pant β€” UP
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πŸ‘β€πŸ—¨ Conventions and ProtocolsπŸ”»

πŸ”²Ramsar Convention- wetlands

πŸ”²Bonn Convention- On migratory birds

πŸ”²Vienna Convention- Ozone layer

πŸ”²Montreal Protocol- Ozone layer

πŸ”²Minamata Convention- Mercury

πŸ”²Geneva Protocol- Prohibition of the Use in War of Asphyxiating, Poisonous or other Gases, and of Bacteriological Methods of Warfare

πŸ”²Stockholm Convention- Persistant Organic pollutants(POP)

πŸ”²Rotterdam Convention- Prior Informed Consent Procedure for Certain hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides

πŸ”²Basel Convention- Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal
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πŸ‘β€πŸ—¨India’s Forex Reserve include

πŸ”²Foreign Currency Assets
πŸ”²Gold reserves
πŸ”²Special Drawing Rights
πŸ”²Reserve position with the International Monetary Fund (IMF)
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Q: Which of the following gases is primarily responsible for the greenhouse effect and global warming?

a) Carbon monoxide (CO)
b) Methane (CH4)
c) Nitrous oxide (N2O)
d) Oxygen (O2)

Answer: b) Methane (CH4)

Brief Fact: Methane is a potent greenhouse gas that contributes significantly to global warming. It is released through various human activities such as agriculture (livestock and rice cultivation), fossil fuel extraction and combustion, and waste management (landfills). Methane has a much higher warming potential compared to carbon dioxide (CO2) over a specific time frame. Its accumulation in the atmosphere traps heat and contributes to the greenhouse effect, leading to the warming of the Earth's surface and climate change. Efforts to reduce methane emissions are crucial in mitigating global warming and its impacts on the environment.
Q: Which of the following is not a major factor contributing to deforestation?

a) Expansion of agricultural land
b) Logging and timber extraction
c) Urbanization and infrastructure development
d) Afforestation and reforestation efforts
Answer: d) Afforestation and reforestation efforts

Brief Fact: Deforestation is primarily driven by the expansion of agricultural land, logging and timber extraction, and urbanization and infrastructure development. These activities lead to the clearing of forests, resulting in the loss of valuable ecosystems and biodiversity. Afforestation and reforestation efforts, on the other hand, involve planting trees and restoring forests, which help counteract deforestation to some extent. Such initiatives aim to increase forest cover and restore ecological balance. While afforestation and reforestation are essential for conservation efforts, they are not contributing factors to deforestation itself.
Q: Which of the following is a consequence of water degradation?

a) Increased water availability for human consumption
b) Improved aquatic biodiversity
c) Water pollution and contamination
d) Enhanced ecosystem resilience
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Answer: c) Water pollution and contamination

Brief Fact: Water degradation refers to the deterioration in the quality and availability of water resources. It is often caused by human activities such as industrial pollution, agricultural runoff, improper waste disposal, and over-extraction of groundwater. One of the significant consequences of water degradation is water pollution and contamination. Pollutants and contaminants can enter water bodies, making the water unsafe for human consumption and harming aquatic life. It poses risks to human health, disrupts ecosystems, and impacts biodiversity. Addressing water degradation requires sustainable water management practices, pollution control measures, and conservation efforts to ensure clean and accessible water sources for both humans and the environment.
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Q: Which of the following is a potential solution to combat desertification?

a) Increasing water-intensive agricultural practices
b) Implementing sustainable land management practices
c) Expanding urbanization and infrastructure development in desert areas
d) Encouraging deforestation in desert regions