General Affairs
Ban Ki-Moon Makes No Reference To Kashmir In Final UNGA Address
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UNITED NATIONS: UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today made no reference to Kashmir and the situation in the Valley in his last address despite Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's repeated calls to the world body to help resolve the Kashmir issue between India and Pakistan.
In his final address as the UN chief to the opening session of the General Debate in United Nations, Ban touched upon a plethora of global issues including the crisis in Syria, the Palestinian issue, the situation in Myanmar and Sri Lanka, the refugee and migrant movements.
He also addressed tensions in the Korean Peninsula and the Middle East, the South Sudan tensions, violent extremism and its impact on regions from Yemen, Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan to the Sahel and the Lake Chad Basin.
However, Ban did not make any mention of Kashmir or the tensions in the Valley, that have escalated in the recent months, even as Pakistan made repeated pleas to the UN to help resolve the dispute between India and Pakistan.
Kashmir will be the focal point of Mr Sharif's address to the General Assembly tomorrow. Tensions are particularly running high between India and Pakistan in the wake of the attack by heavily-armed terrorists from Pakistan-based JeM on an army base in Uri on Sunday that killed 18 soldiers.
Ban's office has repeatedly said that the UN chief's "good offices" are available to help resolve the Kashmir issue, only if both India and Pakistan request for it, a clear message that it is a bilateral issue and should be solved by the two countries.
Last month, Mr Sharif had written two letters to Ban asking him to intervene in the Kashmir issue. The letters were among the many that Islamabad had shot off to the UN, calling for the world body to take up the Kashmir issue.
However, in his long and final address to the world leaders, Ban did not make one reference to Kashmir while highlighting the issues on the UN agenda.
In his address, Ban referred to the Sustainable Development Goals, Paris Agreement on climate change, security threats by armed conflicts and its "tragic consequences" which are on brutal display from Yemen to Libya and Iraq, from Afghanistan to the Sahel and the Lake Chad Basin.
He also spoke about the conflict in Syria, which "is taking the greatest number of lives and sowing the widest instability".
Ban also touched upon the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, saying "replacing a two-state solution with a one-state construct would spell doom: denying Palestinians their freedom and rightful future, and pushing Israel further from its vision of a Jewish democracy towards greater global isolation".
"In Myanmar, the transition has entered a promising new phase. In Sri Lanka, post-war healing efforts have deepened. In both countries, true reconciliation rests on ensuring that all communities, minorities and majorities alike, are included in building a new union," he said.
In his final address as the UN chief to the opening session of the General Debate in United Nations, Ban touched upon a plethora of global issues including the crisis in Syria, the Palestinian issue, the situation in Myanmar and Sri Lanka, the refugee and migrant movements.
However, Ban did not make any mention of Kashmir or the tensions in the Valley, that have escalated in the recent months, even as Pakistan made repeated pleas to the UN to help resolve the dispute between India and Pakistan.
Kashmir will be the focal point of Mr Sharif's address to the General Assembly tomorrow. Tensions are particularly running high between India and Pakistan in the wake of the attack by heavily-armed terrorists from Pakistan-based JeM on an army base in Uri on Sunday that killed 18 soldiers.
Ban's office has repeatedly said that the UN chief's "good offices" are available to help resolve the Kashmir issue, only if both India and Pakistan request for it, a clear message that it is a bilateral issue and should be solved by the two countries.
Last month, Mr Sharif had written two letters to Ban asking him to intervene in the Kashmir issue. The letters were among the many that Islamabad had shot off to the UN, calling for the world body to take up the Kashmir issue.
However, in his long and final address to the world leaders, Ban did not make one reference to Kashmir while highlighting the issues on the UN agenda.
In his address, Ban referred to the Sustainable Development Goals, Paris Agreement on climate change, security threats by armed conflicts and its "tragic consequences" which are on brutal display from Yemen to Libya and Iraq, from Afghanistan to the Sahel and the Lake Chad Basin.
He also spoke about the conflict in Syria, which "is taking the greatest number of lives and sowing the widest instability".
Ban also touched upon the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, saying "replacing a two-state solution with a one-state construct would spell doom: denying Palestinians their freedom and rightful future, and pushing Israel further from its vision of a Jewish democracy towards greater global isolation".
"In Myanmar, the transition has entered a promising new phase. In Sri Lanka, post-war healing efforts have deepened. In both countries, true reconciliation rests on ensuring that all communities, minorities and majorities alike, are included in building a new union," he said.
Rahul Gandhi Blames Pakistan For Uri Terror Attack
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MATI, KANPUR: Rahul Gandhi today accused Pakistan of being responsible for the Uri terror attack while apportioning blame on the NDA government's "politics" for it.
"The first responsibility is on Pakistan and the government's politics," he told reporters referring to the attack on the brigade headquarters near the Line of Control in Uri in which 18 soldiers were killed.
The Congress vice president said while the UPA government spent nine years fighting terrorism and curbing it, the BJP-PDP alliance has "opened space" for terrorism in Jammu and Kashmir.
"The first responsibility is on Pakistan and the government's politics," he told reporters referring to the attack on the brigade headquarters near the Line of Control in Uri in which 18 soldiers were killed.
The Congress vice president said while the UPA government spent nine years fighting terrorism and curbing it, the BJP-PDP alliance has "opened space" for terrorism in Jammu and Kashmir.
Top Ministers, Amit Shah Meet For Strategy Session On Uri
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NEW DELHI: Senior ministers and top leaders of the BJP met today for a strategy session to formulate India's response to Sunday's terror attack in Uri, in which 18 soldiers have died.
The meet, in which Rajnath Singh, Arun Jaitley, Manohar Parrikar, Sushma Swaraj, Nitin Gadkari and BJP chief Amit Shah participated, comes a day ahead of the first meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Security.
The last strategy session on Uri took place on Monday, during which Prime Minister Narendra Modi and senior ministers had decided to diplomatically isolate Pakistan.
It had also been decided to present evidence of Pakistan's complicity in the attack at all international forums if need be.
Later in the day, at the UN Human Rights Council, India said the situation in Kashmir was the result of Pakistani meddling and demanded that the neighbouring country immediately dismantle its terror infrastructure and stop cross-border terrorism.
The meet, in which Rajnath Singh, Arun Jaitley, Manohar Parrikar, Sushma Swaraj, Nitin Gadkari and BJP chief Amit Shah participated, comes a day ahead of the first meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Security.
The last strategy session on Uri took place on Monday, during which Prime Minister Narendra Modi and senior ministers had decided to diplomatically isolate Pakistan.
It had also been decided to present evidence of Pakistan's complicity in the attack at all international forums if need be.
Later in the day, at the UN Human Rights Council, India said the situation in Kashmir was the result of Pakistani meddling and demanded that the neighbouring country immediately dismantle its terror infrastructure and stop cross-border terrorism.
Judges Don't Need Certificates From Anyone, Says Supreme Court
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NEW DELHI: Judges do not need certificates from anybody, the Supreme Court today said while rejecting a PIL seeking setting up of a "public body", independent of the executive and judiciary, to ensure fair appointment of judges in High Courts and the top court.
"We don't need a certificate from anyone on earth," a bench comprising justices Arun K Mishra and UU Lalit said.
The observation came when it was alleged that there has been nepotism in the appointment of judges in High Courts and the top court.
The bench disagreed with the plea of National Lawyers' Campaign for Judicial Transparency and Reforms that a body independent of executive and judiciary to select Judges to the higher judiciary was needed, as those talented amongst a vast majority of lawyers were never considered by the collegium for selection as Judges.
"We are dismissing it. We see no merit in this petition ...Your ideas may be good or bad, we are not commenting. But what all you are asking cannot be done without quashing certain constitutional provisions," the bench said.
When advocates Mathew J Nedumpara and AC Philip, appearing for the lawyers' body, referred to the ongoing vetting by the centre of the Memorandum of Procedure (MoP) to govern judges' appointments, the bench said "we will not comment on MoP. Can a proposed MoP be questioned? Let it be crystallised. Let it come out ...then we will see".
The bench said the setting up of such a body would amount to amending the Constitution which cannot be done by the top court.
The lawyers' body has contended that an independent judge selection body was needed to end the alleged control of the "elite section" over judiciary.
The selection of kith and kin of serving and former judges and senior advocates as Judges in higher judiciary should and must stop, the lawyers' body said in its plea.
The PIL has alleged that the "common deserving lawyers" are usually not considered for appointment as judges in the higher judiciary and only those close to the judges of the Supreme Court and High Courts or politicians or big industrial houses got chosen.
"We don't need a certificate from anyone on earth," a bench comprising justices Arun K Mishra and UU Lalit said.
The bench disagreed with the plea of National Lawyers' Campaign for Judicial Transparency and Reforms that a body independent of executive and judiciary to select Judges to the higher judiciary was needed, as those talented amongst a vast majority of lawyers were never considered by the collegium for selection as Judges.
"We are dismissing it. We see no merit in this petition ...Your ideas may be good or bad, we are not commenting. But what all you are asking cannot be done without quashing certain constitutional provisions," the bench said.
The bench said the setting up of such a body would amount to amending the Constitution which cannot be done by the top court.
The lawyers' body has contended that an independent judge selection body was needed to end the alleged control of the "elite section" over judiciary.
The selection of kith and kin of serving and former judges and senior advocates as Judges in higher judiciary should and must stop, the lawyers' body said in its plea.
The PIL has alleged that the "common deserving lawyers" are usually not considered for appointment as judges in the higher judiciary and only those close to the judges of the Supreme Court and High Courts or politicians or big industrial houses got chosen.
Indira Awaas Yojana Renamed After Prime Minister
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NEW DELHI: The flagship rural housing scheme Indira Awaas Yojana (IAY), started by former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, has been restructured and renamed as Pradhan Mantri Awaas Yojana (PMAY), which will be launched next month.
The IAY will be subsumed by the PMAY from April 1 next year. Under the new scheme, the government is aiming to construct one crore houses by 2019, according to sources.
However, officials in Rural Development Ministry gave no reason as to why the name of the scheme was changed.
Under IAY, the government has set a target of constructing 38 lakh houses by end of the current financial year (2015-16), out of which 10 lakh have been completed.
Launched by Rajiv Gandhi in 1985, IAY is a centrally sponsored scheme funded on a cost sharing basis between the Centre and states in the 60:40 ratio, except in case of north east states and Union Territories (UTs).
For north east states, the Centre funds 90 per cent of the cost and 100 per cent for the UTs.
Under the new modified PMAY scheme, the sharing pattern between the Centre and states is same, but the grant will be transferred directly into the bank account of beneficiaries, who have been selected on the basis of socio-economic caste census of 2011.
Those who are living in plains will receive a grant of Rs 1.2 lakh, with Rs 1.3 lakh for those living in hilly areas.
The IAY will be subsumed by the PMAY from April 1 next year. Under the new scheme, the government is aiming to construct one crore houses by 2019, according to sources.
However, officials in Rural Development Ministry gave no reason as to why the name of the scheme was changed.
Under IAY, the government has set a target of constructing 38 lakh houses by end of the current financial year (2015-16), out of which 10 lakh have been completed.
For north east states, the Centre funds 90 per cent of the cost and 100 per cent for the UTs.
Under the new modified PMAY scheme, the sharing pattern between the Centre and states is same, but the grant will be transferred directly into the bank account of beneficiaries, who have been selected on the basis of socio-economic caste census of 2011.
Those who are living in plains will receive a grant of Rs 1.2 lakh, with Rs 1.3 lakh for those living in hilly areas.
Business Affairs
Govt announces 3rd Smart Cities list, Varanasi makes the cut
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The government today made 27 new additions to the Smart Cities Mission. The fresh list includes Varanasi, the Lok Sabha constituency of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
The cumulative number of cities selected under the Smart City programme has gone up to 60, and a sum of Rs 1,44,742 crore is envisaged for financing of the smart city plan.
Eight prominent cities of pilgrim and tourism importance that have made to the third list are Ujjain, Tirupati, Agra, Nashik, Madurai, Thanjavur, and Ajmer, besides Varanasi. Vadodara, Nagpur, Amritsar, Gwalior and Thane are some of the other cities to be developed as smart cities in the future.
Announcing the cities that were selected in a competition among 63 cities, Minister of Urban Development M. Venkaiah Naidu today said: "The willingness and enthusiasm among cities to participate in more than one round of competition is a clear evidence of the urban renaissance set in motion. Competition-based selection has made the cities rediscover themselves as they are undertaking a thorough assessment of gaps in the present levels of infrastructure and service delivery, and come out with comprehensive, credible and actionable plans for area based development and technology-based pan-city solutions."
So far, the 60 cities selected by the ministry in three rounds cover 27 states and Union Territories. Only nine more states and UTs are still to get on board, including Uttarakhand and Jammu and Kashmir, the ministry said in a statement.
The 27 smart cities announced today are from 12 States including five from Maharashtra, four each from Tamil Nadu and Karnataka, three from Uttar Pradesh and two each from Punjab and Rajasthan. Nagaland and Sikkim have made it to the smart city list for the first time.
Stating that the Smart City Mission is running ahead of schedule, Naidu informed that the next round of competition to select the remaining 40 cities would begin in January next year.
The government today made 27 new additions to the Smart Cities Mission. The fresh list includes Varanasi, the Lok Sabha constituency of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
The cumulative number of cities selected under the Smart City programme has gone up to 60, and a sum of Rs 1,44,742 crore is envisaged for financing of the smart city plan.
Eight prominent cities of pilgrim and tourism importance that have made to the third list are Ujjain, Tirupati, Agra, Nashik, Madurai, Thanjavur, and Ajmer, besides Varanasi. Vadodara, Nagpur, Amritsar, Gwalior and Thane are some of the other cities to be developed as smart cities in the future.
Announcing the cities that were selected in a competition among 63 cities, Minister of Urban Development M. Venkaiah Naidu today said: "The willingness and enthusiasm among cities to participate in more than one round of competition is a clear evidence of the urban renaissance set in motion. Competition-based selection has made the cities rediscover themselves as they are undertaking a thorough assessment of gaps in the present levels of infrastructure and service delivery, and come out with comprehensive, credible and actionable plans for area based development and technology-based pan-city solutions."
So far, the 60 cities selected by the ministry in three rounds cover 27 states and Union Territories. Only nine more states and UTs are still to get on board, including Uttarakhand and Jammu and Kashmir, the ministry said in a statement.
The 27 smart cities announced today are from 12 States including five from Maharashtra, four each from Tamil Nadu and Karnataka, three from Uttar Pradesh and two each from Punjab and Rajasthan. Nagaland and Sikkim have made it to the smart city list for the first time.
Stating that the Smart City Mission is running ahead of schedule, Naidu informed that the next round of competition to select the remaining 40 cities would begin in January next year.
Flipkart, Snapdeal face Amazon challenge this festive season
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With the festive season round the corner, ecommerce firms are drawing big plans to lure customers and set their cash counters ringing.
Flipkart on Monday announced it would hold its Big Billion day sale from October 2. Its closest rivals Snapdeal andAmazon are yet to announce the sale schedule.
The Amazon India sale, too, is expected to start in the first week of October. We take a look at how the Indian arm of the US-based firm is gearing up for the big event.
Seller network
The firm boasts of 250 per cent (year on year) growth in seller network and reached 1.2 lakh sellers mark in the April-June quarter. Amazon has added 20,000 sellers in the last 1.5 months. The rise in the number of sellers has led to an increase in the number of listed products on Amazon India to 80 million, say media reports. Flipkart, its closest rival, has around 1 lakh sellers to gain traction in the market. Both lag behind Snapdeal, which has around 3 lakh sellers.
Emphasis on delivery
The firm recently announced expansion of its delivery network with addition of over 10,000 stores under its 'I Have Space' programme, taking the total to 12,500. The expansion will enable Amazon.in to efficiently manage deliveries across 22 states and union territories this festive season. Under the 'I Have Space' programme, Amazon India partners with local store owners across different cities to deliver products to customers within a 2-4 km radius of their store. Some of these stores also double up as pick-up points and receive deliveries on behalf of customers.
Incentives to sellers
The firm is holding events in India to impart training to sellers for the festive season. Incentives to sellers have been announced who display highly viewed products on their platforms. This will help the firm and sellers align their priorities to achieve revenue and sales target.
Amazon Seller Cafes
The online retailer is opening seller cafes across 24 cities and towns to offer on-ground help to merchants on its platform ahead of the festive season. The firm aims to make India its largest market after the US. The move will allow sellers to set up a new account for imaging or cataloguing help, or any other issues that they face.
Funding plans
Amazon's founder and CEO Jeff Bezos committed $3 billion in June 2016 for its Indian operations. A major portion of this expenditure is expected to be spent on the festive season sale. The company is expected to spend Rs 125-130 crore in marketing and advertising budget. In 2014, the firm had invested $2 billion in India operations.
With the festive season round the corner, ecommerce firms are drawing big plans to lure customers and set their cash counters ringing.
Flipkart on Monday announced it would hold its Big Billion day sale from October 2. Its closest rivals Snapdeal andAmazon are yet to announce the sale schedule.
The Amazon India sale, too, is expected to start in the first week of October. We take a look at how the Indian arm of the US-based firm is gearing up for the big event.
Seller network
The firm boasts of 250 per cent (year on year) growth in seller network and reached 1.2 lakh sellers mark in the April-June quarter. Amazon has added 20,000 sellers in the last 1.5 months. The rise in the number of sellers has led to an increase in the number of listed products on Amazon India to 80 million, say media reports. Flipkart, its closest rival, has around 1 lakh sellers to gain traction in the market. Both lag behind Snapdeal, which has around 3 lakh sellers.
Emphasis on delivery
The firm recently announced expansion of its delivery network with addition of over 10,000 stores under its 'I Have Space' programme, taking the total to 12,500. The expansion will enable Amazon.in to efficiently manage deliveries across 22 states and union territories this festive season. Under the 'I Have Space' programme, Amazon India partners with local store owners across different cities to deliver products to customers within a 2-4 km radius of their store. Some of these stores also double up as pick-up points and receive deliveries on behalf of customers.
Incentives to sellers
The firm is holding events in India to impart training to sellers for the festive season. Incentives to sellers have been announced who display highly viewed products on their platforms. This will help the firm and sellers align their priorities to achieve revenue and sales target.
The firm is holding events in India to impart training to sellers for the festive season. Incentives to sellers have been announced who display highly viewed products on their platforms. This will help the firm and sellers align their priorities to achieve revenue and sales target.
Amazon Seller Cafes
The online retailer is opening seller cafes across 24 cities and towns to offer on-ground help to merchants on its platform ahead of the festive season. The firm aims to make India its largest market after the US. The move will allow sellers to set up a new account for imaging or cataloguing help, or any other issues that they face.
Funding plans
The online retailer is opening seller cafes across 24 cities and towns to offer on-ground help to merchants on its platform ahead of the festive season. The firm aims to make India its largest market after the US. The move will allow sellers to set up a new account for imaging or cataloguing help, or any other issues that they face.
Funding plans
Amazon's founder and CEO Jeff Bezos committed $3 billion in June 2016 for its Indian operations. A major portion of this expenditure is expected to be spent on the festive season sale. The company is expected to spend Rs 125-130 crore in marketing and advertising budget. In 2014, the firm had invested $2 billion in India operations.
Airtel well prepared to face Jio challenge, says Sunil Mittal
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The telecom industry may have been shaken by Reliance Jio's entry but Bharti Airtel chief Sunil Mittal says the firm is well placed to take on the Mukesh Ambani company on all frontiers.
In an interview with The Economic Times, Mittal said Airtel will compete with Jio backed by its strong execution over the years, customer focus and spectrum footprint.
The Mukesh Ambani-backed telco launched its commercial operations on September 5, 2016.
On contentious issues such as points of interconnection (POIs) and mobile number portability, Mittal said they would be resolved in the next few weeks.
These issues can be solved through talks and Airtel is eager to settle them, Mittal told ET.
Airtel has never faced any issues with new operators in the past and will release POIs to Jio as required, without creating any hurdles.
On Reliance Jio's free voice and data tariffs, Mittal said he was not surprised. Going ahead, bundled tariff plans will be the norms of the industry with focus on protecting average revenue per user.
Reliance Jio has accused Bharti Airtel of providing less than one-fourth of the Interconnection points to complete calls. In reply, Sunil Mittal's firm hit back by saying the newcomer was in fact facing technical problems.
Reliance Jio Infocomm (RJIL) has said PoIs being provided to enable its users to complete call on existing operators network were "substantially less". It said two crore calls fail daily as the largest telecom operator dilly dallies on adequate points of interconnection.
The telecom industry may have been shaken by Reliance Jio's entry but Bharti Airtel chief Sunil Mittal says the firm is well placed to take on the Mukesh Ambani company on all frontiers.
In an interview with The Economic Times, Mittal said Airtel will compete with Jio backed by its strong execution over the years, customer focus and spectrum footprint.
The Mukesh Ambani-backed telco launched its commercial operations on September 5, 2016.
On contentious issues such as points of interconnection (POIs) and mobile number portability, Mittal said they would be resolved in the next few weeks.
These issues can be solved through talks and Airtel is eager to settle them, Mittal told ET.
Airtel has never faced any issues with new operators in the past and will release POIs to Jio as required, without creating any hurdles.
On Reliance Jio's free voice and data tariffs, Mittal said he was not surprised. Going ahead, bundled tariff plans will be the norms of the industry with focus on protecting average revenue per user.
Reliance Jio has accused Bharti Airtel of providing less than one-fourth of the Interconnection points to complete calls. In reply, Sunil Mittal's firm hit back by saying the newcomer was in fact facing technical problems.
Reliance Jio Infocomm (RJIL) has said PoIs being provided to enable its users to complete call on existing operators network were "substantially less". It said two crore calls fail daily as the largest telecom operator dilly dallies on adequate points of interconnection.
Sensex ends 111 points lower, Nifty slips below 8,800 ahead of US Fed, BoJ meetings
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Snapping four-session long losing streak, the S&P BSE Sensex on Monday settled the day 111 points lower, while the broader Nifty50 slipped below its key 8,800 level.
The headline indices fell as sentiment across the globe was cautious ahead of the outcomes of the Federal Reserve and the Bank of Japan's policy meetings later this week.
The 30-share index ended the day at 28,523, down 111.30 points, while broad-based 50-share index quoted 8,775, down 32.50 points.
The consensus is that the Fed will leave interest rates unchanged, but investors are looking for commentary and guidance for the next interest rate hike.
Meanwhile, the BoJ could make negative interest rates the primary focus of its monetary policy at the conclusion of its meeting on Wednesday.
MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan fell 0.2 per cent after major US indexes ended a choppy session nearly flat on Monday. "It's more of a global phenomenon which is affecting the market," said RK Gupta, managing director, Taurus Asset Management.
Hero MotoCorp was the top loser on both the benchmark indices and lost over 2 per cent on the BSE.
The Nifty Auto index was down 0.70 per cent after rising about 23 per cent this year as of Monday's close.
Jubilant FoodWorks's shares fell as much as 8.21 percent to their lowest in over seven months after the company on Monday approved the resignation of Ajay Kaul as CEO-cum-whole time director.
Snapping four-session long losing streak, the S&P BSE Sensex on Monday settled the day 111 points lower, while the broader Nifty50 slipped below its key 8,800 level.
The headline indices fell as sentiment across the globe was cautious ahead of the outcomes of the Federal Reserve and the Bank of Japan's policy meetings later this week.
The 30-share index ended the day at 28,523, down 111.30 points, while broad-based 50-share index quoted 8,775, down 32.50 points.
The consensus is that the Fed will leave interest rates unchanged, but investors are looking for commentary and guidance for the next interest rate hike.Meanwhile, the BoJ could make negative interest rates the primary focus of its monetary policy at the conclusion of its meeting on Wednesday.
MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan fell 0.2 per cent after major US indexes ended a choppy session nearly flat on Monday. "It's more of a global phenomenon which is affecting the market," said RK Gupta, managing director, Taurus Asset Management.
Hero MotoCorp was the top loser on both the benchmark indices and lost over 2 per cent on the BSE.
The Nifty Auto index was down 0.70 per cent after rising about 23 per cent this year as of Monday's close.
Jubilant FoodWorks's shares fell as much as 8.21 percent to their lowest in over seven months after the company on Monday approved the resignation of Ajay Kaul as CEO-cum-whole time director.
Adani buys Australian port operator from Glencore
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A unit of Adani Enterprises will buy the company that operates Australia's Abbot Point Coal Terminal from Glencore Plc for A$19.25 million dollars ($14.52 million), ending a legal wrangle over control of the port.
The statement from Adani and Glencore said Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone would purchase the port operator, Abbot Point BulkCoal Pty Ltd, pending regulatory approvals.
Adani Enterprises, India's biggest private sector coal trader, acquired the Abbot Point Coal Terminal port from the Queensland government in 2011, considering it a key part of its plan to ship coal from Australia to India and for other exports.
However, Glencore retained control of the actual operations of the port through its ownership of Abbot Point BulkCoal, sparking a legal dispute between the global miner and Adani that effectively will now end as the Indian company will assume full control of the port.
Adani Australia CEO Jeyakumar Janakaraj called the deal "a key milestone in our well advanced plans for Abbot Point," according to the joint statement by the two companies.
A unit of Adani Enterprises will buy the company that operates Australia's Abbot Point Coal Terminal from Glencore Plc for A$19.25 million dollars ($14.52 million), ending a legal wrangle over control of the port.
The statement from Adani and Glencore said Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone would purchase the port operator, Abbot Point BulkCoal Pty Ltd, pending regulatory approvals.
Adani Enterprises, India's biggest private sector coal trader, acquired the Abbot Point Coal Terminal port from the Queensland government in 2011, considering it a key part of its plan to ship coal from Australia to India and for other exports.
However, Glencore retained control of the actual operations of the port through its ownership of Abbot Point BulkCoal, sparking a legal dispute between the global miner and Adani that effectively will now end as the Indian company will assume full control of the port.
Adani Australia CEO Jeyakumar Janakaraj called the deal "a key milestone in our well advanced plans for Abbot Point," according to the joint statement by the two companies.
General Awareness
IBPS CLERKS & PO's GENERAL AWARENESS PRACTICE QUESTIONS
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1. India was ranked 67th at the 2016 Rio Olympics. Which is the other country that was also ranked 67th?
1) Bulgaria
2) Venezuela
3) Mexico
4) Lithuania
5) Mongolia
2. The 14th edition of Pravasi Bharatiya Divas will be held in January 2017 in?
1) New Delhi
2) Bengalore
3) Jaipur
4) Hyderabad
5) Mumbai
3. The 13th India-European Union Summit was held on March 30, 2016 in?
1) New Delhi
2) Mumbai
3) Brussels
4) London
5) Paris
4. The South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) Disaster Management Centre
will be established in which of the following countries?
1) Nepal
2) Bangladesh
3) Maldives
4) India
5) Sri Lanka
5. Who was awarded the 2016 Abel Prize for mathematics?
1) Artur Avila
2) Manjul Bhargava
3) Louis Nirenberg
4) John Nash
5) Sir Andrew Wiles
6. Which football team won the 2016 African Nations Championship held in Rwanda?
1) Democratic Republic of Congo
2) Mali
3) Ivory Coast
4) Niger
5) Nigeria
7. Which country will host the 2018
African Nations Championship
football tournament?
1) Ivory Coast
2) Sudan
3) Tunisia
4) South Africa
5) Kenya
8. The 12th South Asian Games in February 2016 were co-hosted by?
1) Kolkata and Guwahati
2) Guwahati and Shillong
3) Agartala and Shillong
4) Agartala and Itanagar
5) Kolkata and Agartala
9. The 13th edition of the South Asian Games will be held in 2018 in which of the following countries?
1) Bhutan
2) Bangladesh
3) Nepal
4) Sri Lanka
5) Maldives
10. LAMITYE 2016 is a joint military training exercise between Indian Army and the Army of:
1) Maldives
2) France
3) Sri Lanka
4) Seychelles
5) Japan
11. Swami Vivekananda International Airport is located in?
1) Ranchi, Jharkhand
2) Cuttack, Odisha
3) Rajkot, Gujarat
4) Ratnagiri, Maharashtra
5) Raipur, Chhattisgarh
12. The Banks Board Bureau (BBB) will select the heads of:
1) Regional Rural Banks
2) Public Sector Banks
3) Private Sector Banks
4) Payments Banks
5) Small Finance Banks
13. The "Kishore" scheme under the Pradhan Mantri MUDRA Yojana (PMMY) offers maximum loan of:
1) Rs. 50,000
2) Rs. 2 lakh
3) Rs. 5 lakh
4) Rs 10. lakh
5) None of these
14. Indradhanush is a seven pronged plan to revamp:
1) Cooperative Banks
2) Microfinance Institutions
3) Private Sector Banks
4) Public Sector Banks
5) None of these
15. Which of the following Central Universities celebrated its 100th year in 2016?
1) University of Allahabad
2) Aligarh Muslim University
3) Visva Bharati University
4) University of Delhi
5) Banaras Hindu University
16. Safra Catz visited India recently. She is the Chief Executive Officer of:
1) IBM
2) Intel
3) Oracle
4) Yahoo
5) Facebook
17. Indian Institute of Millets Research (IIMR) is a premier agricultural research institute located in:
1) Hyderabad
2) Cuttack
3) Bangalore
4) Chennai
5) Nagpur
18. The National Deworming Day is observed by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on:
1) March 5
2) March 10
3) February 5
4) January 25
5) February 10
19. Which of the following books is NOT written by Pranab Mukherjee?
1) The Turbulent Years: 1980- 1996
2) The Dramatic Decade: The Indira Gandhi Years
3) Thoughts and Reflections
4) Beyond Survival: Emerging Dimensions of Indian Economy
5) The Unseen Indira Gandhi
20. India participated for the first time in the Cobra Gold multilateral amphibious exercise hosted by:
1) China
2) Thailand
3) Pakistan
4) Philippines
5) Japan
21. "Setu Bharatam" is a central government program that aims at making all National Highways
railway level crossing free by the year:
1) 2019
2) 2020
3) 2021
4) 2022
5) 2025
22. The Mesabi Iron Range is the chief iron ore mining district in:
1) Brazil
2) USA
3) Australia
4) South Africa
5) Kenya
23. Who became the first civilian President of Myanmar after over 50 years of military rule on March 30, 2016?
1) Myint Swe
2) Henry Van Thio
3) Htin Kyaw
4) Thein Sein
5) None of these
24. Ahmed Aboul Gheit is the present Secretary General of the Arab League. He is former Foreign Minister of:
1) Morocco
2) Qatar
3) Tunisia
4) Egypt
5) Bahrain
25. Dominic Asquith is which country's High Commissioner to India?
1) Canada
2) New Zealand
3) Australia
4) Jamaica
5) UK
26. Tribhuvan International Airport is situated in:
1) Bangkok, Thailand
2) Colombo, Sri Lanka
3) Kathmandu, Nepal
4) Jakarta, Indonesia
5) Putrajaya, Malaysia
27. What is the currency of Mauritius?
1) Mauritius Riel
2) Mauritius Dollar
3) Mauritius Rupee
4) Mauritius Pound
5) None of these
28. Who has been appointed as the Chairperson of the 21st Law Commission?
1) Justice C.K. Prasad
2) Justice Cyriac Joseph
3) Justice N. Santosh Hegde
4) Justice Balbir Singh Chauhan
5) Justice Umesh Chandra Banerjee
29. Who won the 2016 Pritzker Architecture Prize?
1) Wang Shu, China
2) Alejandro Aravena, Chile
3) Peter Zumthor, Switzerland
4) Kazuyo Sejima, Japan
5) None of these
30. Global Risks Report is an annual study published by the:
1) World Bank
2) International Monetary Fund
3) World Economic Forum
4) World Trade Organization
5) None of these
31. Who was appointed as the Chairman of Central Administrative Tribunal in March 2016?
1) Justice Permod Kohli
2) Justice Arun Tandon
3) Justice A.K. Mittal
4) Justice Ajay Tewari
5) Justice Jaswant Singh
32. "The High Mountains of Portugal" is a 2016 novel written by:
1) David Mitchell
2) Yann Martel
3) Graham Swift
4) Jerry Pinto
5) None of these
33. Lloyd S. Shapley of USA passed away on March 12, 2016. He won the 2012 Nobel Prize in:
1) Physics
2) Chemistry
3) Economics
4) Medicine
5) Literature
34. Who has been appointed the first Chairman of the Banks Board Bureau?
1) H.N. Sinor
2) R. Gandhi
3) Anil Kahandelwal
4) Vinod Rai
5) None of these
35. Andrew Holness is the present Prime Minister of:
1) Antigua
2) Barbados
3) Dominica
4) Saint Lucia
5) Jamaica
36. In March 2016, Barack Obama became the first US President in 88 years to visit which of the following countries?
1) Japan
2) Argentina
3) North Korea
4) Cuba
5) Libya
37. Which country topped the World Happiness Index, according to the World Happiness Report 2016?
1) Denmark
2) Canada
3) Iceland
4) Switzerland
5) Norway
38. What is India's rank in the World Happiness Index 2016?
1) 117
2) 118
3) 116
4) 121
5) 130
39. Martin Crowe died on March 3, 2016 at the age of 53. He was the greatest batsman of?
1) West Indies
2) Australia
3) New Zealand
4) South Africa
5) None of these
40. The 4th World Congress of Biosphere Reserves was held in March 2016 in:
1) Chile, Santiago
2) Ankara, Turkey
3) Brisbane, Australia
4) Lima, Peru
5) Jakarta, Indonesia
ANSWERS
1) 5 2) 2 3) 3 4) 4 5) 5 6) 1 7) 5 8) 2 9) 3 10) 4
11) 5 12) 2 13) 3 14) 4 15) 5 16) 3 17) 1 18) 5 19) 5 20) 2
21) 1 22) 2 23) 3 24) 4 25) 5 26) 3 27) 3 28) 4 29) 2 30) 3
31) 1 32) 2 33) 3 34) 4 35) 5 36) 4 37) 1 38) 2 39) 3 40) 4
1. India was ranked 67th at the 2016 Rio Olympics. Which is the other country that was also ranked 67th?
1) Bulgaria
2) Venezuela
3) Mexico
4) Lithuania
5) Mongolia
2. The 14th edition of Pravasi Bharatiya Divas will be held in January 2017 in?
1) New Delhi
2) Bengalore
3) Jaipur
4) Hyderabad
5) Mumbai
3. The 13th India-European Union Summit was held on March 30, 2016 in?
1) New Delhi
2) Mumbai
3) Brussels
4) London
5) Paris
4. The South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) Disaster Management Centre
will be established in which of the following countries?
1) Nepal
2) Bangladesh
3) Maldives
4) India
5) Sri Lanka
5. Who was awarded the 2016 Abel Prize for mathematics?
1) Artur Avila
2) Manjul Bhargava
3) Louis Nirenberg
4) John Nash
5) Sir Andrew Wiles
6. Which football team won the 2016 African Nations Championship held in Rwanda?
1) Democratic Republic of Congo
2) Mali
3) Ivory Coast
4) Niger
5) Nigeria
7. Which country will host the 2018
African Nations Championship
football tournament?
1) Ivory Coast
2) Sudan
3) Tunisia
4) South Africa
5) Kenya
8. The 12th South Asian Games in February 2016 were co-hosted by?
1) Kolkata and Guwahati
2) Guwahati and Shillong
3) Agartala and Shillong
4) Agartala and Itanagar
5) Kolkata and Agartala
9. The 13th edition of the South Asian Games will be held in 2018 in which of the following countries?
1) Bhutan
2) Bangladesh
3) Nepal
4) Sri Lanka
5) Maldives
10. LAMITYE 2016 is a joint military training exercise between Indian Army and the Army of:
1) Maldives
2) France
3) Sri Lanka
4) Seychelles
5) Japan
11. Swami Vivekananda International Airport is located in?
1) Ranchi, Jharkhand
2) Cuttack, Odisha
3) Rajkot, Gujarat
4) Ratnagiri, Maharashtra
5) Raipur, Chhattisgarh
12. The Banks Board Bureau (BBB) will select the heads of:
1) Regional Rural Banks
2) Public Sector Banks
3) Private Sector Banks
4) Payments Banks
5) Small Finance Banks
13. The "Kishore" scheme under the Pradhan Mantri MUDRA Yojana (PMMY) offers maximum loan of:
1) Rs. 50,000
2) Rs. 2 lakh
3) Rs. 5 lakh
4) Rs 10. lakh
5) None of these
14. Indradhanush is a seven pronged plan to revamp:
1) Cooperative Banks
2) Microfinance Institutions
3) Private Sector Banks
4) Public Sector Banks
5) None of these
15. Which of the following Central Universities celebrated its 100th year in 2016?
1) University of Allahabad
2) Aligarh Muslim University
3) Visva Bharati University
4) University of Delhi
5) Banaras Hindu University
16. Safra Catz visited India recently. She is the Chief Executive Officer of:
1) IBM
2) Intel
3) Oracle
4) Yahoo
5) Facebook
17. Indian Institute of Millets Research (IIMR) is a premier agricultural research institute located in:
1) Hyderabad
2) Cuttack
3) Bangalore
4) Chennai
5) Nagpur
18. The National Deworming Day is observed by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on:
1) March 5
2) March 10
3) February 5
4) January 25
5) February 10
19. Which of the following books is NOT written by Pranab Mukherjee?
1) The Turbulent Years: 1980- 1996
2) The Dramatic Decade: The Indira Gandhi Years
3) Thoughts and Reflections
4) Beyond Survival: Emerging Dimensions of Indian Economy
5) The Unseen Indira Gandhi
20. India participated for the first time in the Cobra Gold multilateral amphibious exercise hosted by:
1) China
2) Thailand
3) Pakistan
4) Philippines
5) Japan
21. "Setu Bharatam" is a central government program that aims at making all National Highways
railway level crossing free by the year:
1) 2019
2) 2020
3) 2021
4) 2022
5) 2025
22. The Mesabi Iron Range is the chief iron ore mining district in:
1) Brazil
2) USA
3) Australia
4) South Africa
5) Kenya
23. Who became the first civilian President of Myanmar after over 50 years of military rule on March 30, 2016?
1) Myint Swe
2) Henry Van Thio
3) Htin Kyaw
4) Thein Sein
5) None of these
24. Ahmed Aboul Gheit is the present Secretary General of the Arab League. He is former Foreign Minister of:
1) Morocco
2) Qatar
3) Tunisia
4) Egypt
5) Bahrain
25. Dominic Asquith is which country's High Commissioner to India?
1) Canada
2) New Zealand
3) Australia
4) Jamaica
5) UK
26. Tribhuvan International Airport is situated in:
1) Bangkok, Thailand
2) Colombo, Sri Lanka
3) Kathmandu, Nepal
4) Jakarta, Indonesia
5) Putrajaya, Malaysia
27. What is the currency of Mauritius?
1) Mauritius Riel
2) Mauritius Dollar
3) Mauritius Rupee
4) Mauritius Pound
5) None of these
28. Who has been appointed as the Chairperson of the 21st Law Commission?
1) Justice C.K. Prasad
2) Justice Cyriac Joseph
3) Justice N. Santosh Hegde
4) Justice Balbir Singh Chauhan
5) Justice Umesh Chandra Banerjee
29. Who won the 2016 Pritzker Architecture Prize?
1) Wang Shu, China
2) Alejandro Aravena, Chile
3) Peter Zumthor, Switzerland
4) Kazuyo Sejima, Japan
5) None of these
30. Global Risks Report is an annual study published by the:
1) World Bank
2) International Monetary Fund
3) World Economic Forum
4) World Trade Organization
5) None of these
31. Who was appointed as the Chairman of Central Administrative Tribunal in March 2016?
1) Justice Permod Kohli
2) Justice Arun Tandon
3) Justice A.K. Mittal
4) Justice Ajay Tewari
5) Justice Jaswant Singh
32. "The High Mountains of Portugal" is a 2016 novel written by:
1) David Mitchell
2) Yann Martel
3) Graham Swift
4) Jerry Pinto
5) None of these
33. Lloyd S. Shapley of USA passed away on March 12, 2016. He won the 2012 Nobel Prize in:
1) Physics
2) Chemistry
3) Economics
4) Medicine
5) Literature
34. Who has been appointed the first Chairman of the Banks Board Bureau?
1) H.N. Sinor
2) R. Gandhi
3) Anil Kahandelwal
4) Vinod Rai
5) None of these
35. Andrew Holness is the present Prime Minister of:
1) Antigua
2) Barbados
3) Dominica
4) Saint Lucia
5) Jamaica
36. In March 2016, Barack Obama became the first US President in 88 years to visit which of the following countries?
1) Japan
2) Argentina
3) North Korea
4) Cuba
5) Libya
37. Which country topped the World Happiness Index, according to the World Happiness Report 2016?
1) Denmark
2) Canada
3) Iceland
4) Switzerland
5) Norway
38. What is India's rank in the World Happiness Index 2016?
1) 117
2) 118
3) 116
4) 121
5) 130
39. Martin Crowe died on March 3, 2016 at the age of 53. He was the greatest batsman of?
1) West Indies
2) Australia
3) New Zealand
4) South Africa
5) None of these
40. The 4th World Congress of Biosphere Reserves was held in March 2016 in:
1) Chile, Santiago
2) Ankara, Turkey
3) Brisbane, Australia
4) Lima, Peru
5) Jakarta, Indonesia
ANSWERS
1) 5 2) 2 3) 3 4) 4 5) 5 6) 1 7) 5 8) 2 9) 3 10) 4
11) 5 12) 2 13) 3 14) 4 15) 5 16) 3 17) 1 18) 5 19) 5 20) 2
21) 1 22) 2 23) 3 24) 4 25) 5 26) 3 27) 3 28) 4 29) 2 30) 3
31) 1 32) 2 33) 3 34) 4 35) 5 36) 4 37) 1 38) 2 39) 3 40) 4
1) Bulgaria
2) Venezuela
3) Mexico
4) Lithuania
5) Mongolia
2. The 14th edition of Pravasi Bharatiya Divas will be held in January 2017 in?
1) New Delhi
2) Bengalore
3) Jaipur
4) Hyderabad
5) Mumbai
3. The 13th India-European Union Summit was held on March 30, 2016 in?
1) New Delhi
2) Mumbai
3) Brussels
4) London
5) Paris
4. The South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) Disaster Management Centre
will be established in which of the following countries?
1) Nepal
2) Bangladesh
3) Maldives
4) India
5) Sri Lanka
5. Who was awarded the 2016 Abel Prize for mathematics?
1) Artur Avila
2) Manjul Bhargava
3) Louis Nirenberg
4) John Nash
5) Sir Andrew Wiles
6. Which football team won the 2016 African Nations Championship held in Rwanda?
1) Democratic Republic of Congo
2) Mali
3) Ivory Coast
4) Niger
5) Nigeria
7. Which country will host the 2018
African Nations Championship
football tournament?
1) Ivory Coast
2) Sudan
3) Tunisia
4) South Africa
5) Kenya
8. The 12th South Asian Games in February 2016 were co-hosted by?
1) Kolkata and Guwahati
2) Guwahati and Shillong
3) Agartala and Shillong
4) Agartala and Itanagar
5) Kolkata and Agartala
9. The 13th edition of the South Asian Games will be held in 2018 in which of the following countries?
1) Bhutan
2) Bangladesh
3) Nepal
4) Sri Lanka
5) Maldives
10. LAMITYE 2016 is a joint military training exercise between Indian Army and the Army of:
1) Maldives
2) France
3) Sri Lanka
4) Seychelles
5) Japan
11. Swami Vivekananda International Airport is located in?
1) Ranchi, Jharkhand
2) Cuttack, Odisha
3) Rajkot, Gujarat
4) Ratnagiri, Maharashtra
5) Raipur, Chhattisgarh
12. The Banks Board Bureau (BBB) will select the heads of:
1) Regional Rural Banks
2) Public Sector Banks
3) Private Sector Banks
4) Payments Banks
5) Small Finance Banks
13. The "Kishore" scheme under the Pradhan Mantri MUDRA Yojana (PMMY) offers maximum loan of:
1) Rs. 50,000
2) Rs. 2 lakh
3) Rs. 5 lakh
4) Rs 10. lakh
5) None of these
14. Indradhanush is a seven pronged plan to revamp:
1) Cooperative Banks
2) Microfinance Institutions
3) Private Sector Banks
4) Public Sector Banks
5) None of these
15. Which of the following Central Universities celebrated its 100th year in 2016?
1) University of Allahabad
2) Aligarh Muslim University
3) Visva Bharati University
4) University of Delhi
5) Banaras Hindu University
16. Safra Catz visited India recently. She is the Chief Executive Officer of:
1) IBM
2) Intel
3) Oracle
4) Yahoo
5) Facebook
17. Indian Institute of Millets Research (IIMR) is a premier agricultural research institute located in:
1) Hyderabad
2) Cuttack
3) Bangalore
4) Chennai
5) Nagpur
18. The National Deworming Day is observed by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on:
1) March 5
2) March 10
3) February 5
4) January 25
5) February 10
19. Which of the following books is NOT written by Pranab Mukherjee?
1) The Turbulent Years: 1980- 1996
2) The Dramatic Decade: The Indira Gandhi Years
3) Thoughts and Reflections
4) Beyond Survival: Emerging Dimensions of Indian Economy
5) The Unseen Indira Gandhi
20. India participated for the first time in the Cobra Gold multilateral amphibious exercise hosted by:
1) China
2) Thailand
3) Pakistan
4) Philippines
5) Japan
21. "Setu Bharatam" is a central government program that aims at making all National Highways
railway level crossing free by the year:
1) 2019
2) 2020
3) 2021
4) 2022
5) 2025
22. The Mesabi Iron Range is the chief iron ore mining district in:
1) Brazil
2) USA
3) Australia
4) South Africa
5) Kenya
23. Who became the first civilian President of Myanmar after over 50 years of military rule on March 30, 2016?
1) Myint Swe
2) Henry Van Thio
3) Htin Kyaw
4) Thein Sein
5) None of these
24. Ahmed Aboul Gheit is the present Secretary General of the Arab League. He is former Foreign Minister of:
1) Morocco
2) Qatar
3) Tunisia
4) Egypt
5) Bahrain
25. Dominic Asquith is which country's High Commissioner to India?
1) Canada
2) New Zealand
3) Australia
4) Jamaica
5) UK
26. Tribhuvan International Airport is situated in:
1) Bangkok, Thailand
2) Colombo, Sri Lanka
3) Kathmandu, Nepal
4) Jakarta, Indonesia
5) Putrajaya, Malaysia
27. What is the currency of Mauritius?
1) Mauritius Riel
2) Mauritius Dollar
3) Mauritius Rupee
4) Mauritius Pound
5) None of these
28. Who has been appointed as the Chairperson of the 21st Law Commission?
1) Justice C.K. Prasad
2) Justice Cyriac Joseph
3) Justice N. Santosh Hegde
4) Justice Balbir Singh Chauhan
5) Justice Umesh Chandra Banerjee
29. Who won the 2016 Pritzker Architecture Prize?
1) Wang Shu, China
2) Alejandro Aravena, Chile
3) Peter Zumthor, Switzerland
4) Kazuyo Sejima, Japan
5) None of these
30. Global Risks Report is an annual study published by the:
1) World Bank
2) International Monetary Fund
3) World Economic Forum
4) World Trade Organization
5) None of these
31. Who was appointed as the Chairman of Central Administrative Tribunal in March 2016?
1) Justice Permod Kohli
2) Justice Arun Tandon
3) Justice A.K. Mittal
4) Justice Ajay Tewari
5) Justice Jaswant Singh
32. "The High Mountains of Portugal" is a 2016 novel written by:
1) David Mitchell
2) Yann Martel
3) Graham Swift
4) Jerry Pinto
5) None of these
33. Lloyd S. Shapley of USA passed away on March 12, 2016. He won the 2012 Nobel Prize in:
1) Physics
2) Chemistry
3) Economics
4) Medicine
5) Literature
34. Who has been appointed the first Chairman of the Banks Board Bureau?
1) H.N. Sinor
2) R. Gandhi
3) Anil Kahandelwal
4) Vinod Rai
5) None of these
35. Andrew Holness is the present Prime Minister of:
1) Antigua
2) Barbados
3) Dominica
4) Saint Lucia
5) Jamaica
36. In March 2016, Barack Obama became the first US President in 88 years to visit which of the following countries?
1) Japan
2) Argentina
3) North Korea
4) Cuba
5) Libya
37. Which country topped the World Happiness Index, according to the World Happiness Report 2016?
1) Denmark
2) Canada
3) Iceland
4) Switzerland
5) Norway
38. What is India's rank in the World Happiness Index 2016?
1) 117
2) 118
3) 116
4) 121
5) 130
39. Martin Crowe died on March 3, 2016 at the age of 53. He was the greatest batsman of?
1) West Indies
2) Australia
3) New Zealand
4) South Africa
5) None of these
40. The 4th World Congress of Biosphere Reserves was held in March 2016 in:
1) Chile, Santiago
2) Ankara, Turkey
3) Brisbane, Australia
4) Lima, Peru
5) Jakarta, Indonesia
ANSWERS
1) 5 2) 2 3) 3 4) 4 5) 5 6) 1 7) 5 8) 2 9) 3 10) 4
11) 5 12) 2 13) 3 14) 4 15) 5 16) 3 17) 1 18) 5 19) 5 20) 2
21) 1 22) 2 23) 3 24) 4 25) 5 26) 3 27) 3 28) 4 29) 2 30) 3
31) 1 32) 2 33) 3 34) 4 35) 5 36) 4 37) 1 38) 2 39) 3 40) 4
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