General Knowledge
1 June 2013 – Daily Current Affairs
1) Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad cleared a proposal to bana commonly used pain-killer 36 years after this drug was banned inthe US. What is the name of this drug, which is usually sold over the counter even though it is a prescription drug? – Analgin (Analgin is known to cause a severefall in the number of white blood cells and is banned in a large number of countries including not only developed ones such as theUS,Canada, Australia and New Zealand but alsoin Nepal, Vietnam, Morocco,Nigeria , the Philippines and Yemen. The Health Ministry also decided to ban anti-diabetic drug Pioglitazone, which is believed to increase risks of bladder cancer and heart failure over a long period)
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2) Basic trainer aircraft Pilatus, PC-7 Mk-II, wasinducted as a trainer aircraft of Indian Air Force (IAF) at the Air Force Academy (AFA) in Dundigal, Hyderabad on 31 May 2013. PC-7 Mk-II will replace the HJT-16 Kiran aircraft, which has been a reliable training aircraft for the IAF for ages. This new training aircraft has been procured from which country? – Switzerland (Firstformal flight of PC-7 Mk-II was also conducted at AFA on this day. The aircraft would be used for basic training of allIAF pilots, in addition to those of the Indian Navy and the Coast Guard)
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3) A seven-member Task Force was constituted on 31 May 2013 by the HRD Ministry, which will prepare a blue print for creating a special purpose vehicle to take forward theconcept of National Testing Agency (NTA). Who has been made Chairman of this task force? – Sanjay Govind Dhande , former Director of IIT, Kanpur (This task force will have representatives fromCBSE, UGC, NCERT, AICTE and from the Ministry. NTA is a proposed newagency which would be assigned the task of conducting NET (NationalEligibility Test ) and GATE (Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering). The rationale for setting up the NTA lies in ensuring that multiplicity of entrance examination leading
1) Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad cleared a proposal to bana commonly used pain-killer 36 years after this drug was banned inthe US. What is the name of this drug, which is usually sold over the counter even though it is a prescription drug? – Analgin (Analgin is known to cause a severefall in the number of white blood cells and is banned in a large number of countries including not only developed ones such as theUS,Canada, Australia and New Zealand but alsoin Nepal, Vietnam, Morocco,Nigeria , the Philippines and Yemen. The Health Ministry also decided to ban anti-diabetic drug Pioglitazone, which is believed to increase risks of bladder cancer and heart failure over a long period)
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2) Basic trainer aircraft Pilatus, PC-7 Mk-II, wasinducted as a trainer aircraft of Indian Air Force (IAF) at the Air Force Academy (AFA) in Dundigal, Hyderabad on 31 May 2013. PC-7 Mk-II will replace the HJT-16 Kiran aircraft, which has been a reliable training aircraft for the IAF for ages. This new training aircraft has been procured from which country? – Switzerland (Firstformal flight of PC-7 Mk-II was also conducted at AFA on this day. The aircraft would be used for basic training of allIAF pilots, in addition to those of the Indian Navy and the Coast Guard)
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3) A seven-member Task Force was constituted on 31 May 2013 by the HRD Ministry, which will prepare a blue print for creating a special purpose vehicle to take forward theconcept of National Testing Agency (NTA). Who has been made Chairman of this task force? – Sanjay Govind Dhande , former Director of IIT, Kanpur (This task force will have representatives fromCBSE, UGC, NCERT, AICTE and from the Ministry. NTA is a proposed newagency which would be assigned the task of conducting NET (NationalEligibility Test ) and GATE (Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering). The rationale for setting up the NTA lies in ensuring that multiplicity of entrance examination leading