Current Affairs - 6 February 2015

Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba’s online financial service company Ant Financial Services Group (Ant Financial) acquired 25% stake in which Indian mobile commerce firm on 5 February 2015?

• Paytm

  Ant Financial acquired 25% stake in One97 Communications, which is the parent company of Paytm, to enter the Indian mCommerce space. Paytm is the largest mobile wallet service in India with around 23 million users. It started its services in 2010 and is valued around $2 billion recently. Paytm The deal represents Ant Financial’s first ever investment in an Indian company, and with this investment, Ant Financial, which also runs Alipay Wallet, will provide Paytm with strategic and technical support for its business. Alipay Wallet is the largest mobile payment service provider in China with over 190 million users. Paytm will use the funds to grow its mobile payment ecosystem and further boost its commerce user base.

The largest share sale by a private sector entity and the second largest fund-raising by selling shares in the secondary market in India took place on 5 February 2015 when a leading private bank raised Rs. 9,880 crore. Which bank is this?

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  HDFC Bank

  HDFC Bank sold its shares worth Rs. 9,880 crore in the secondary market on 5 February through a mix of qualified institutional placement (QIPs) and American Depository Shares (ADRs) to domestic and overseas investors. This was the largest share sale by a private sector entity and the second largest fund-raising by selling shares in the secondary market in India after the bumper Rs. 22,500-crore issue of Coal India Limited (CIL) on 30 January 2015. HDFC Bank is the largest bank in India by market capitalization.

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) on 3 February 2015 rejected the claims of genocide by Serbia and Croatia against each other during the Croatian war of secession from Yugoslavia. This genocide of 1991 was mainly associated with which Croatian town?

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  Vukovar

  The Croatian government had alleged that Serbia committed genocide in the town of Vukovar and elsewhere in 1991. The Croatian town of Vukovar was devastated when it was occupied by Serbs for three months in 1991. Tens of thousands of ethnic Croats were displaced, and about 260 Croat men were detained and killed. Serbia later filed a counter-claim over the expulsion of more than 200,000 Serbs from Croatia. The ICJ in its judgment dismissed both the Croatian claim and the Serbian counter-claim. The court felt that neither side had provided sufficient evidence to demonstrate the specific intent required for acts of genocide.

Which city on 5 February 2015 took the first step to become the first WiFi enabled metro city of India?

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  Kolkata

  West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on 5 February inaugurated the WiFi service in Park Street area of Kolkata. High speed 4G WiFi services were made available in places around Park Street as part of state govt.’s initiative to make Kolkata as India’s first metro city with high speed WiFi facility. The deadline of April 2015 has been set to cover all municipal wards of Kolkata and its adjoining areas. Reliance Jio, the telecommunication arm of Reliance Industries Limited (RIL), is has been roped in to provide the 4G WiFi services.

Which NASA spacecraft sent new pictures of dwarf planet Pluto that were released by the agency on 4 February 2015?

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  New Horizons

  The new images, taken with New Horizons’ telescopic Long-Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI), are the first acquired during the spacecraft’s 2015 approach to the Pluto system which culminates with a close flyby of Pluto and its moons on 14 July 2015. Over the next few months, LORRI will take hundreds of pictures of Pluto, against a starry backdrop, to refine the team’s estimates of New Horizons’ distance to Pluto. New Horizons took these photos more than 203 million km away from Pluto. These photos are the first new photos of dwarf planet since images of it were taken by NASA’s Hubble telescope several years ago. In these photos Pluto appears just as a dot along with its largest moon, Charon. The images come on the 109th birthday of Clyde Tombaugh who discovered the distant icy world in 1930. New Horizons was launched on January 19 2006 from Cape Canaveral (Florida) to study Pluto, its moons and one or two other Kuiper belt objects.

Dr. Gaur Hari Singhania, who passed away on 4 February 2015, was associated with which leading industrial house of the country?

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  JK Group

  Dr. Gaur Hari Singhania was the President of JK Group and was a Promoter Director of JK Cement Ltd since its inception in 1994. He held chairmanship in other group companies also including, Jaykay Enterprises Ltd, JK Cotton Ltd and JK Traders Ltd. He was also the founder chairman of the UP Stock Exchange (UPSE) at Kanpur.

COMPUTER AWARENESS PRACTICE MCQs FOR ALL BANK EXAMS

• 1. What is the responsibility of the logical unit in the CPU of a computer?
  a) Producing result
  b) Comparing numbers
  c) Controlling flow of information
  d) Performing mathematical operations
  e) Controlling flow of data
• 2. Abacus was the first ___
  a) Electronic computer
  b) Mechanical computer
  c) Electronic calculator
  d) Mechanical calculator
  e) Electronic chip
• 3. If in a computer, 16 bits are used to specify address in a RAM, the number of addresses will be ___
  a) 216
  b) 65,536
  c) 64K
  d) 128K
  e) 135K
• 4. Instructions and memory address are represented by ___
  a) Character code
  b) Binary code
  c) Binary word
  d) Parity bit
  e) Bite code
• 5. The terminal device that functions as a cash register, computer terminal and OCR reader is:
  a) Data collection terminal
  b) OCR register terminal
  c) Video Display terminal
  d) POS terminal
  e) None of the above
• 6. A set of flip flops integrated together is called ____
  a) Counter
  b) Adder
  c) Register
  d) Flip flop
  e) All of the above
• 7. People often call ______ as the brain of computer system.
  a) Control Unit
  b) Arithmetic Logic Unit
  c) Central Processing Unit
  d) Storage Unit
  e) Store data
• 8. Which of the following is used for manufacturing chips?
  a) Bus
  b) Control unit
  c) Semiconductors
  d) a and b only
  e) None of the above
• 9. The value of each bead in heaven is ___
  a) 1
  b) 3
  c) 5
  d) 7
  e) 8
• 10. The first computer introduced in Nepal was ___
  a) IBM 1400
  b) IBM 1401
  c) IBM 1402
  d) IBM 1406
  e) IBM 1405
• 11. Bluetooth is a type of radio wave information transmission system that is good for about:
  a) 30 feet
  b) 30 yards
  c) 30 miles
  d) 300 miles
  e) 3000 miles
• 12. The telephone is an example of a(n)____ signal.
  a) analog
  b) digital
  c) modulated
  d) demodulated
  e) compiler
• 13. Acredit card-sized expansion board that is inserted into portable computers that connects the modem
  to the telephone wall jack is:
  a) Internal modem
  b) External modem
  c) PC Card modem
  d) Wireless modem
  e) Wired modem
• 14. A modem that is contained within the system unit is called:
  a) External
  b) Internal
  c) Wireless
  d) Wi-Fi
  e) Bluetooth
• 15. A modem that doesn't need to be connected to a telephone line is the ___ modem.
  a) external
  b) internal
  c) wireless
  d) DSL
  e) NSL
• 16. Aspecial high-speed line used by large corporations to support digital communications is known as:
  a) satellite/air connection service lines
  b) cable modems
  c) digital subscriber lines
  d) T1, T2, T3 and T4 lines
  e) None of the above
• 17. An affordable technology that uses existing telephone lines to provide high-speed connections
  is called ________.
  a) ISDN
  b) microwave
  c) cable modem
  d) DSL
  e) ALU
• 18. The capacity of a communication channel is measured in ___
  a) Bandwidth
  b) Bit capacity
  c) Baud rate
  d) Data flow
  e) Store data
• 19. A relatively new technology that allows wireless connectivity:
  a) Bluetooth
  b) Black tooth
  c) Blue band
  d) Broadband
  e) Wi- fi
• 20. In MS-DOS 5.0, which is the number that acts as a code to uniquely identify the software product?
  a) MS
  b) DOS
  c) MS DOS
  d) 5.0
  e) 4.2.0
• 21. A page fault:
  a) Is an error in a specific page
  b) Occurs when a program accesses a page of memory
  c) Is an access to a page not currently in memory
  d) None of the above
  e) All of the above
• 22. The process of transferring data intended for a peripheral device into a disk or intermediate store so that it can be transferred to peripheral at a more convenient time or in bulk, is known as ___.
  a) Multiprogramming
  b) Spooling
  c) Caching
  d) Virtual programming
  e) Code programming
• 23. An instruction in a programming language that is replaced by a sequence of instructions prior to assembly or compiling:
  a) Procedure
  b) Macro
  c) Label
  d) Literal
  e) External
• 24. Banker's algorithm for resource allocation deals with:
  a) Deadlock prevention
  b) Deadlock avoidance
  c) Deadlock recovery
  d) Mutual exclusion
  e) Data recovery
• 25. The state of a process after it encounters an I/O instruction is _____.
  a) Ready
  b) Blocked/ Waiting
  c) Idle
  d) Running
  e) Compiling
• 26. The number of processes completed per unit time is known as__.
  a) Output
  b) Throughput
  c) Efficiency
  d) Capacity
  e) Input
• 27. Which of the following file name extension suggests that the file is Backup copy of another file?
  a) TXT
  b) COM
  c) BAS
  d) BAK
  e) BAT
• ANSWERS:
  1) b; 2) d; 3) b; 4) b; 5) d; 6) c; 7) c; 8) c; 9) c; 10) b
  11) a; 12) a; 13) c; 14) b; 15) c; 16) d; 17) d; 18) a; 19) a; 20) d;
  21) c; 22) b; 23) b; 24) b; 25) b; 26) b; 27) d.