MCQ 58

*General Awareness

® ‘Jatak Seva’ is the software developed to diagnose
the defects of newborn babies.

® Adarsh Kumar Goel has been appointed the new
chairperson of the National Green Tribunal (NGT).

® The Numaligarh Refinery Ltd (NRL) in Assam has
become the first oil public sector undertaking (PSU)
to adopt an online legal compliance system by intro-
ducing ‘Legatrix’.

® The former naval chief who passed away recently is JG Nadkarni.

® The Airports Authority of India (AAI) will set up a state-
of-the-art Civil Aviation Research Organisation
(CARO) at Begumpet Airport, Hyderabad.

® Former Malaysian Prime Minister Najeeb Rasaq was
arrested in connection with corruption charges.

® Supreme court issued guidelines for the appointment
of Director General of Police. The minimum tenure
for DGP will be two years.

®Baba Kalyani will head the group to study the Spe-
cial Economic Zones (SEZ) Policy of India.

® Uday Kumar Varma, the former Information and
Broadcasting secretary, has been appointed as new
member of the Broadcasting Content Complaints
Council (BCCC), a self-regulatory body for general
entertainment channels.

® The 2018 Asian games is scheduled to be held from
18 August to 2 September 2018 in the Indonesian
cities of Jakarta and Palembang. This is the first time
Asian Games are being co-hosted in two cities.

® The motto of 2018 Asian Games is “Energy of Asia”.

® The mascots of 2018 Asian Games are Bhin Bhin,
Kaka, and Atung.

® India became the sixth largest economy in the world
by replacing France to 7th rank.

® USA is the largest economy in the world. The next
ranks are secured by China, Japan and Germany.
Britain has fifth rank.