States PCS: Uttar Pradesh GK Questions for UPPSC Examinations

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A conversion device refers to a single piece of hardware that serves functions traditionally performed by multiple devices. A smartphone is a prime example of a convergence device. Besides serving its primary function as a communication tool, it combines the functions of a digital camera, a music player, a computer, a game console, a GPS, and even a television remote control.

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Logo is an educational programming language. The name was coined by Feurzeig. Logo is widely known for its use of turtle graphics, in which commands for movement and drawing produced line or vector graphics.

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Calcium is the most abundant metal in the human body. It is also the 5th most abundant metal in the earth’s crust.

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Nibble refers to the half of an eight-bit byte or four binary digits. Byte is a group of bits (8 bits) used to represent a character. A byte is considered as the basic unit of measuring memory size in computer.

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The Election Commission of India has recently renewed the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on electoral cooperation with its counterpart of Mauritius. The agreement between the commissions was in existence between April 2013 and April 2018.
The MoU was signed by Chief Election Commissioner of India, Sunil Arora and Electoral Commissioner of Mauritius, Mohammed Irfan Abdool Rahman, at the capital city of Mauritius, Port Louis.

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India’s former ambassador to the United States and Senior diplomat Harsh Vardhan Shringla recently assumed charge as the next Foreign Secretary of India.
He has succeeded Vijay Gokhale to take charge in the said post for a fixed two-year term. Harsh Vardhan Shringla is an Indian Foreign Service (IFS) officer of the 1984 batch. Shringla had successfully hosted the ‘Howdy Modi’ event in Houston, US in September 2019. He had also served as the Indian High Commissioner to Bangladesh, when he played an instrumental role in the historic India-Bangladesh Land Boundary Agreement 2015.

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‘Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana’ (PMKVY) is the flagship skill development scheme of the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship. It is implemented by the National Skill Development Corporation and aims to impart skills to one Crore persons of the country by 2020. It was launched in the year 2015, on the National skills day, July 15.
Recently, the Skill Development Ministry announced that over 73 lakh candidates undertook training under Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana. The Ministry had earlier announced that PMKVY-III will be launched this year, with enhanced initiatives.

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Shiv Chhatrapati Award is the highest sports award presented annually to the state players by the Government of Maharashtra. The State Government instituted the award during 1969–70.
Recently 48 sportspersons including 25 women athletes are selected to be conferred with the Shiv Chhatrapati Award for 2018-19. Five coaches will be presented with awards for best coach and Wrestling coach Pandharinath Pathare will receive the lifetime achievement award.

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Bollywood film-maker Zoya Akhter was presented the IIFTC Tourism Impact Award 2020, at the Asia’s largest film tourism event, 8th India International Film Tourism Conclave (IIFTC), held recently in Mumbai.
The Director was selected for her outstanding contribution to the world tourism through her films which were shot in Spain and Turkey.

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The United Nation has six official languages namely Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish. It celebrates special days for all the languages to celebrate multilingualism and promote the usage of all languages in the organisation.
Chinese was established as an official language of the UN in 1946. April 20 is celebrated as the Chinese Day. The date of the Chinese day is selected to honour and pay tribute to Cangjie, who is claimed to be the inventor of Chinese characters. The people of China celebrate the day of Guyu to commemorate Cangjei.