January Month (2016) General awareness -Part 2

1. India has overtaken Thailand as World’s largest exporter of Rice for the year 2015 by exporting 10.23 million tonnes {1.023 Crore tonnes) of rice. Thailand ranked second by exporting 9.8 million tonnes of rice while Vietnam in third place with 6.4 million tonnes.

2.USA based software exporter Cognizant Technology solutions (CTS)  has acquired cloud based computing firm KBACE Technologies. With this acquisition, KBACE technologies 400 consultants and implementation experts will become part of Cognizant Technologies.

2. 31 OECD (Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development) members have signed corporate tax avoidance agreement in a bid to stem fiscal evasion by Multi National Companies

3. Astronomers have discovered largest known solar system in the form of gas giant located one trillion kilometers away from earth. This solar system has largest planet known as 2MASS J2126-8140.

4. India ranked 76^th out of 168 countries in the Corruption Perception Index for the year 2015 published by Transparency International. India has improved its rank which was in 85^thposition in the year 2014.

5. Top  5 countries  in Corruption Perception Index are

1.Denmark

2. Finland

3.Sweden

4. New Zealand, Netherlands

5.Norway

6. Marvin Minsky, pioneer of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has passed away on January 24^th 2016 in Boston (Age:88) , United States due to cerebral hemorrhage.

7. Three Indian Origin persons(PIO) have been awarded with “2016 Medal of the order of Australia” which is Australia’s highest civilian honor. They are Chennupati Jagadish for Physics, Jay Chandra medicine, Sanjeev Koshy for dentistry.

8. Third Edition of Yash Chopra Memorial Award has been awarded to Veteran Bollywood actress Rekha who is also Rajya Sabha MP.

9. American popular actor Abe Vigoda(94) has passed away on January 27^th . He is best known for roles in The Godfather, Barney Miller.

10. India celebrated its 67^th  Republic day on January 26^th for which France President Francois Hollande was the chief guest.

11.USA based software exporter Cognizant Technology solutions (CTS)  has acquired cloud based computing firm KBACE Technologies. With this acquisition, KBACE technologies 400 consultants and implementation experts will become part of Cognizant Technologies.

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