Roland S Folger appointed as CEO and MD of Mercedes-Benz India
  

• Managing Director (MD) and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Mercedes-Benz India : Roland S Folger. 

• He will succeed Eberhard Kern, who will now head company’s operations in Europe.

• Currently, Roland S Folger is the President and CEO of Mercedes-Benz Malaysia. 

• He has been with Mercedes-Benz for over thirty years. 

•  Bronze medal at 6th Senior ART Gymnastics Asian Championships - Dipa Karmakar

         bronze medal at the 6th Senior ART Gymnastics Asian Championships at Hiroshima, Japan was won by Ace Indian gymnast Dipa Karmakar.

She stood at Third place with 14.725 points. She has also won the bronze in 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.

• First place : Yan Wang  with 14.988 points(China)
• Second place: Sae Miyakawa with  14.812 points(Japan)

• Railways to launch prepaid auto, cab service at 2 city stations on 3rd August,

• Indian Railways will soon launch prepaid taxi and autorickshaw services at  railway stations through its subsidiary Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC).

•  This announcement was made by The Centre in the Lok Sabha on Monday.

• The IRCTC will provide online cab booking facility for 26 stations across the country under a pilot project.

• It will also set up prepaid booths at these stations. Online bookings will be done through   the IRCTC website while booths will be set up in consultation with the traffic department.

• It will be a railway venture and closing the service will need an approval from the Union railway ministry.

Rural Development Minister launched ‘SAMANVAY’ for Gram Panchayats

• Rural Development Minister Chaudhary Birender Singh

•  on 4 August 2015 launched SAMANVAY, a compilation of all schemes of both Union and State governments for Gram Panchayats. 

• SAMANVAY was launched with an aim to help MPs in utilising relevant schemes in the planning and implementation of Saansad Adarsh Gram Yojana (SAGY). 

• It will also act as a database for mapped and compiled information on various gram panchayat activities through schemes undertaken by the Centre and State Governments.

• More than 1800 state schemes from across all states have been documented in SAMANVAY.

•  Besides, the Singh also launched 'Panchayat Darpan' magazine to monitor the progress of the    Saansad Adarsh Gram Yojana. It will act as a mirror of all the development activities in the village panchayats.

• Saansad Adarsh Gram Yojana was launched in October 2014 under which MPs are to develop three Adarsh Gram Panchayats by 2019. The objective of the programme is to create Model Villages.

Maharashtra government increased the retirement age of medical officers from 58 to 60

on 4 August 2015

• The decision to this effect was taken at a meeting of the state cabinet in Mumbai and will be implemented with retrospective effect from 31 May 2015.

• This means that the relaxation will be provided for all those who retired on 31 May 2015.

• The state government also decided to award special increments to officers holding post graduate diplomas and degrees to ensure availability of sufficient human resources to provide health services.

193 UN members reached agreement on sustainable development agenda

• The 193 member states of the United Nations on 2 August 2015 reached agreement on a new Sustainable Development Agenda for the next 15 years.

•  It calls for eradicating poverty and hunger, achieving gender equality, improving living standards and taking urgent action to combat climate change.

• UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said that the plan seeks to ensure peace and prosperity. 

• With this agreement, the document called "Transforming our World: The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development" will be adopted at a UN summit just before the annual meeting of world leaders at the General Assembly in September 2015. 

• The summit will be held between 25 and 27 September 2015 at United Nations Headquarters in New York. 

Roland S Folger appointed as CEO and MD of Mercedes-Benz India

Maths - HCF and LCM

1. The HCF of two number is 48 and their LCM is 1440. If the one number is 288 then other number        is
(1)  96 (2)  144 (3)  192 (4)  240 (5)  None of these


2. The least number which when divided by 25, 40 and 60 leaves the remainder 7 in each case, is
(1)  1207 (2)  607 (3)  609 (4)  593 (5) None of these


3. The LCM of two numbers is 495 and their HCF is 5. If the sum of the number is 100, then their
    difference is,    
(1)  10 (2)  46 (3)  20 (4)  90 (5)  None of these


4. Four bells ring at intervals 4, 6, 8 and 14 sec. They start ringing simultaneously at 12.00 o’clock.At     what time they will again ring simultaneously.    
(1)  12  hr 2 min 48 sec (2)  12 hr 3 min (3)  12 hr 3 min 20 sec  (4)  12 hr 3 min 44 sec (5)  None of these


5. The HCF and LCM of two numbers are 13 and 455 respectively. If one of the numbers lies                  between  75 and 125, then that number is
(1) 78 (2) 104   (3) 91 (4) 117    (5) None of these


6. The product of LCM and HCF of two numbers is 24. The difference of the two numbers is 2. The       numbers are
(1)  8 and 6 (2) 8 and 10 (3) 2 and 4 (4) 6 and 4 (5) None of these


7. The LCM of three different numbers is 120. Which of the following cannot be their HCF.
(1) 8  (2) 12  (3) 24  (4) 35  (5) None of these                                                  

                           
8. The LCM and HCF of the numbers 28 and 42 are in the ratio
(1)  6 : 1 (2)  2 : 3 (3)  3 : 2 (4)  7 : 2 (5) None of these


9. The ratio of two numbers is 3 : 4 and their HCF is 4. Their LCM is
(1) 12 (2) 16 (3) 24 (4) 48 (5) None of these


10. The Least multiple of 23, which when divided by 18, 21 and 24 leaves remainder 7, 10 and 13              respectively, is
(1) 3013 (2) 3024 (3) 3036 (4) 3006 (5) None of these


11. The greatest number of five digits when divided by 3, 5, 8, 12 leave 2 as remainder is,
(1) 99999 (2) 99958 (3) 99962 (4) 99960 (5)  None of these

12. The least multiple of 13 which on divided by 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 leaves remainder 2 in each case, is
(1) 2320 (2) 842 (3)  2522 (4) 840 (5) None of these


13. A milkman has 75 L milk in one cane and 45 L in another. The maximum capacity of container           which can measure milk of either container exact number of times is,
(1) 1 L (2) 5 L (3)  15 L (4) 25 L (5) None of these


14. Two number greater than 9 have HCF 9 and LCM 54. The sum of the number is
(1) 70 (2) 77 (3)  63 (4) 45 (5) None of these


15. Let the least number of six digits which when divided by 4, 6, 10, 15 leaves in each case same             remainder of 2, be N. The sum of digit in N is
(1) 3 (2) 5 (3) 4 (4) 6 (5) None of these


16. HCF and LCM of two numbers are 7 and 140 respectively. If the numbers are between 20 and 45       the sum of the numbers is,
(1) 70  (2) 77 (3) 63 (4) 36 (5) None of these


17. What is the least number of square tiles required to pare the floor of 1 room 15 m 17 cm long and       9 m 2 cm broad  ?
(1) 840 (2) 841 (3) 820 (4) 814 (5) None of these


18. The greatest number which on dividing by 989 and 1327 leaves reminder 5 and 7 respectively is,
(1) 8 (2) 16 (3) 24 (4) 32 (5) None of these


19. A mango seller bought some mango for Rs. 207.70 and sold some of them at cost price of Rs.
      107.20. Find the least number of mangoes still he had.
(1) 31 (2) 16 (3) 15 (4) Cannot be determined (5) None of these

20. Find the greatest number which divides 63,138 and 228 leaving in same remainder in each case.
(1) 12 (2) 15 (3) 19 (4) 20 (5) None of these



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