Test: India: Science and Technology- 1 - Class 5 MCQ

Digital India is the project which aims  to ensure that government services are available  to citizen electronically by reducing paper work.

The Colombia space shuttle met with an accident at the time of landing, in which Indian astronaut Kaplana Chawla died in February 2003.

Integration of financial markets or diversification's is not free of costs. The cost come in the form of certain risks.

• A currency risk denotes the risk of value of an investment in some other country's currency, coming down in teams of the domestic currency.
• Country risk is the risk of not being able to disinvest at will due to countries suddenly changing their attitude towards foreign investment, or due to some other factor like war, revolution etc.
• Transmission risk is the risk of markets going down together in times of a downturn in an economy or in case of any panic among investors.

Chandrayaan-1 was Indias first lunar probe. India launched the spacecraft using a PSLV-XLrocket, serial number C11, on 22 October 2008 from Satish Dhawan Space Center, Sriharikota, Nellore District Andhra Pradesh. 

The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on reclaiming the American Dream is the second book written by then-Senator Barack Obama.

Sirima Ratwatta Dias Bandaranaike was a Sri Lankan stateswoman and politician and the modern worlds first female head of government. She served as Prime Minister of Ceylon and Sri Lanka three times, 1960-65,1970-77,and 1994-2000, and was a long- time  leader of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party.

The Tamil Nadu Government has declared the decks to promulgate an ordinance to introduce reservations for Christrians and Muslims of backward caste denominations to the extent of 3.5 percent each from Sep 14, 2007.

In 2009, Gebisa Ejeta won the world food Prize  for his major contributions in the production of sorghum. Former U.S. Senators George McGovern and Robert Dole were selected to  receive the 2008 World Food Prize for  their inspired , collaborative leadership that has encouraged  a global commitment to school feeding  and enhanced  school attendance  and nutrition for millions of the worlds  poorest children ,especially girls.

Gunnar Myrdal was a Swedish economist, sociologist and politician. Gunnar Myrdal strongly opposed the Vietnam War. In Asian Drama, Myrdal predicted that land reform and pacification would fail in Vietnam and urged the United States to begin negotiations with North Vietnam.

Railway Budget 2007-08 declared Cleanliness Year-Special campaign to ensure cleanliness in station complexs, passengers trais, railway lines waiting rooms etc.