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Q1. Consider the following statements regarding Skyroot Aerospace.
i) Vikram-1 rocket of Skyroot Aerospace will become India’s first private orbital mission.
ii) It is a multi stage launch vehicle with solid and liquid fuel based engines.
iii) It will launch satellites weighing up to 350 kg into low earth orbits.
iv) The rocket is made from carbon composites rather than metals and the engine is a 3-d printed indigenous one.
Which of the above statements is/are correct?
- Skyroot Aerospace is about to launch India’s first private orbital mission named Vikram-1, named after Vikram Sarabhai who is the father of India’s space programme. It is a multi stage launch vehicle with solid and liquid fuel based engines and will launch satellites weighing up to 350 kg into low earth orbits. The rocket is made from carbon composites rather than metals and the engine is a 3-d printed indigenous one.
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Q2. Which was the first Municipal Corporation in India to issue municipal bonds?
- The Bangalore Municipal Corporation was the first to issue municipal bonds in India in 1997. Many cities issued it later but due to low credit ratings, poor financial management and low investor confidence, the municipal bond market did not grow well. The launch of the Smart Cities Mission (2015) and Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation (AMRUT) tried to revive it but haven't been able to do it.
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Q3. Which of the following indices are not released by the NITI Aayog?
- NITI Aayog has strived to encourage healthy competition among the states through data-driven indexes and rankings. Some of them are Composite Water Management Index, State Energy and Climate Index and Fiscal Health Index. Climate Change Performance Index is not a part of it and is released by a consortium of Germanwatch, New Climate Institute, and Climate Action Network International.
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Q4. The C-295 aircraft is being made under Make-in-India initiative by Tata group in collaboration with which of the following?
- The C-295 aircraft is being made under Make-in-India initiative by Tata group in collaboration with Airbus and is part of the India–Spain strategic cooperation.
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Q5. Which of the following countries does not have direct access to the strait of Bab-el-Mandeb?
- Ethiopia is bounded to its east by countries like Djibouti, Eritrea and Somalia which prevents it from directly accessing the strait of Bab-el-Mandeb.