Current Affairs on Technology

The foundation stone for the Third international Internet gateway was laid on 11 July 2015 in which state to create a hassle-free and potent Internet link for the northeastern states through Cox’s Bazar in Bangladesh?: Agartala

Explanation: After Mumbai and Chennai, Agartala will become the third international Internet gateway in India. This gateway will comprise of the optical fibre cable (OFC) link between Akhaura (near Agartala) and Cox’s Bazar (Bangladesh) and is expected to bring about a big change not only in the Internet and telecommunication connectivity in northeast India and also other parts of the country by getting additional Internet bandwidth. It is worth to mention that Akhaura is the second largest trading point and check post between India and Bangladesh after Petrapole-Benapole trade centre and check post along West Bengal.

Embroiled in Vyapam scandal, MP government on 10 July launched which Mobile App to digitize the process of  download the Application forms, aspirants' details, dates of various exams, question-answer banks, etc. along with allowing download of admit cards?: Vyapam App

 Explanation: The App has been developed under the 'Digital India' programme, under which Application forms, aspirants' details, dates of various exams, question-answer banks, etc. will be available on the App, along with download of admit cards. The admission test of PAHUT (Pre-Ayurvedic, Homoeopathic and Unani Test) will be held using this technique on August 30, 2015. It will be the first online test of Vyapam. As compared to last year, the Board is conducting double the number of exams -- totaling 31in 2015. It is worth to mention that in current Vyapam scandal, the opposition has alleged that 49 persons linked to the Vyapam scam, a massive admissions and recruitments scandal, have died under mysterious circumstances, a claim refuted by the state government.

Facebook Inc announced plans on 7 July 2015 to build a new data center in which location in U.S and its fourth in the United States and fifth overall?: Fort Worth, Texas

Explanation: Facebook will invest at least $500 million in the global data center and will employ at least 40 full-time employees. The center will also be powered entirely by renewable energy, Tom Furlong, Facebook`s vice president of infrastructure, wrote in a blog post. Facebook opened its first data center in Prineville, Oregon, in 2011. It has also built centers in Altoona, Iowa, Forest City, North Carolina and Lulea, Sweden.

Google Maps on 30 June 2015 added 12 Indian cities to provide what facility?: Real time traffic updates

Explanation: This traffic feature, available on both mobile and desktop versions of Google Maps. Google has added 12 Indian cities, including Kolkata, Lucknow, Indore, Bhopal, Ludhiana, Visakhapatnam, Nagpur, Kochi, Madurai, Thiruvananthapuram, Coimbatore and Surat to its mapping service to provide real-time traffic information, and will now covers 34 cities in India. Earlier this year, Google launched voice-guided navigation instructions in the Hindi and Indian accented English language on Google Maps for mobile, as well as the integration of Indian Railways schedule information within Google Transit.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 28 June 2015 urged the people to join the which initiative, saying it will give a new hope to combat the plummeting sex ratio in some parts of the country?: 'Selfie With Daughter'

Explanation: On 28 June 2015, the weekly programme of PM, in 'Mann Ki Baat', the Prime Minister shares his thoughts with the nation. The new initiative is launched with hash tag #SelfieWithDaughter. The Tag was alucnhed by the village Sarpanch of Haryana. The first edition of the Mann ki Baat programme was aired on October 3, 2014. 

Scripting space history, India on September 24 2014 successfully placed the low-cost Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) spacecraft in orbit around the Mars in its very first attempt, breaking into an elite club. From June 8 to 22, 2015, the MOM was in which phase snapping communication with the satellite?: "Blackout" Phase

Explanation: Blackout phase it state when communication with the satellite is snapped, as the sun had blocked Mars from the Earth. Mission on Mars satellite during this period went into an "autonomous mode". Isro had launched the spacecraft on its nine-month-long odyssey on a homegrown PSLV rocket from Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh on November 5, 2013 and it had escaped the earth's gravitational field on December 1, 2013.

For which Smartphone platform, Microsoft on 24 June 2015 release versions of its widely used Word, Excel and PowerPoint programs for smartphones apart from windows?: Google-backed Android software

Explanation: Microsoft has made this applications tailored for use on Android-powered tablets as well as on Apple iPhones or iPads. Thus Microsoft`s hope that having the applications on major mobile platforms will inspire more people to subscribe to its online Office 365 service. The apps, which hit shelves of Google`s online Play Store, build on a Microsoft strategy to make its applications accessible from a broad array of devices as services in the Internet cloud.