Daily Updates Mock Test 133

The real name of Gautama Buddha is Siddhartha. The Buddhist tradition regards Lumbini, in present-day Nepal to be the birthplace of the Buddha.

The Attorney General for India is the Indian government’s chief legal advisor, and is primary lawyer in the Supreme Court of India.

Abu Dhabi is the capital of the United Arab Emirates and is the largest Emirate taking up 80% of the country’s landmass.

An earthquake is the result of a sudden release of stored energy in the Earth’s crust that creates seismic waves. Earthquakes are accordingly measured with a seismometer, commonly known as a seismograph.

Open market operations, Bank rate policy and Selective credit controls are all instruments of Monetary policy.

Womesh Chandra Bannerji presided over the first session of the Indian National Congress held at Bombay in 1885 from 28 December to 31 December.

The Edicts of Ashoka are in total 33 inscriptions written on the Pillars, boulders and cave walls of Mauryan Period, during the reign of the Emperor Ashok that are dispersed throughout the Indian Sub-continent covering India, Pakistan and Nepal. Information related to life story of Ashoka, Internal Policy and Foreign policy was found in inscriptions.

The Sundarbans forest is about 10,000 sq km across India and Bangladesh, of which 40% lies in India, and is home to many rare and globally threatened wildlife species such as the estuarine crocodile, royal Bengal tiger, Water monitor lizard, Gangetic dolphin, and olive ridley turtle. The forest in India is divided into the Sundarbans Tiger Reserve and 24 Parganas (South) Forest Division, and together with the forest in Bangladesh is the only mangrove forest in the world where tigers are found.

Jupiter has 69 moons with known orbits, of which 60 have confirmed orbits and have thus received permanent designations; of these, 51 have been named.

The Ring of Fire is a string of volcanoes and sites of seismic activity, or earthquakes, around the edges of the Pacific Ocean. Roughly 90% of all earthquakes occur along the Ring of Fire, and the ring is dotted with 75% of all active volcanoes on Earth.

The Indian State of Sikkim share its border with three neighbouring countries Bhutan, China (Tibet) and Nepal.

Goods Traffic Earnings contributes the maximum earning in Indian Railways.

ARTICLE 1 – “India, that is Bharat, shall be a Union of States.”

The Indian National Congress which was established in 1885 was divided into two groups in the year 1907 session of Surat mainly into in extremists and moderates.

Jyotirao Govindrao Phule was an Indian social activist for the Dalit people, a thinker, anti-caste social reformer and writer from Maharashtra. Satyashodhak Samaj is a social reform society founded by Jyotirao Phule in Pune, India, on 24 September 1873. Its purpose was to liberate the Shudra and Untouchable castes from exploitation and oppression.

Plateau is very, rich in minerals. Large 3 deposits of minerals like coal, iron-ore, manganese, mica and bauxite are found in this area. Mineral oil is a colorless and odorless oil that’s made from petroleum as a by-product of the distillation of petroleum to produce gasoline.

Besides sharing of taxes between the Centre and the states, the Constitution provides for grants-in-aid to the states from the Central resources. There are two types of grants-in-aid, viz, statutory grants and discretionary grants .

Rajasthan is the largest state in India (in terms of area). It covers an area of 342, 239 square kilometres. This represents 10.4% of the whole India.In terms of area, Rajasthan is followed by Madhya Pradesh (308,245 square kilometres), Maharashtra (307,713 square kilometres), Uttar Pradesh (240,928 square kilometres).

Lord Hardinge, the Viceroy of India (1910- 1916), is remembered for the annulment of the Partition of Bengal in 1911. Lord Hardinge Held a durbar in December, 1911 to celebrate the coronation of King George V Capital Shifted from Calcutta to Delhi 1911.

The Union Budget of India, also referred to as the Annual Financial Statement in the Article 112 of the Constitution of India, is the annual budget of the Republic of India. The Government presents it on the first day of February so that it could be materialized before the commencement of new financial year in April.

At the state level, there is a Governor in whom the executive power of the State is vested by the Constitution. But the Governor acts as a nominal head, and the real executive powers are exercised by the Council of Ministers headed by the Chief Minister appointed by Governor.

A natural monopoly is a type of monopoly that exists due to the high fixed or start-up costs of conducting a business in a specific industry. Additionally, natural monopolies can arise in industries that require unique raw materials, technology or similar factors to operate.

Article 356, commonly known as President’s rule deals with “Failure of constitutional machinery in the State”.

“Land of Golden Pagoda” is a popular sobriquet or nickname of Myanmar.

The Gram sabha is a key factor in making the Gram Panchayat play its role and to be responsible. The Gram Sabha is a meeting of all adults who live in the area covered by the Panchayat. Anyone living in the area, who is an adult, that is 18 years old or more, is a member of Gram Sabha

The salaries and allowances of ministers are determined by Parliament from time to time. A minister gets the salary and allowances that are payable to a member of Parliament.

Article 80 of the Constitution lays down the maximum strength of Rajya Sabha as 250, out of which 12 members are nominated by the President and 238 are representatives of the States and of the two Union Territories.

Capitalism is an economic system based upon private ownership of the means of production and their operation for profit

Jawaharlal Nehru was the chairman of the union constitution committee of
constituent assembly.

After 24 hours the Earth has undergone a full rotation with respect to the Sun, and the same meridian again faces noon. Thus each hour the Earth rotates by 360/24 = 15 degrees. When at your location the time is 12 noon, 15° to the east the time is 1 p.m., for that is the meridian which faced the Sun an hour ago.

Charter acts are passed in 1773, 1793, 1813, 1833 and 1853. Charter act 1853 established a separate Governor-General’s legislative council which came to be known as the Indian (Central) Legislative Council. However, this was for the first time, that this charter act, unlike other charter acts, did not fix any limit for the continuance of the administration of the company in India. The act provided that the Indian territories will remain under the Governance of the company, until the parliament otherwise directed.

Neptune is the fourth largest planet .Neptune is the last of the planets in our solar system. It’s more than 30 times as far from the sun as Earth is. Neptune is very similar to Uranus. Its atmosphere is made of hydrogen, helium, and methane. The methane gives Neptune the same blue color as Uranus.

The modern economy is not characterized by self-sufficient village system.

The Cripps Mission in India. Sir Stafford Cripps visiting with Mohandas Gandhi in
India, March 1942. Sir Stafford Cripps was appointed the British ambassador to the
Soviet Union by Prime Minister Winston Churchill in 1940.

Suresh Tendulkar headed committee named as Suresh Tendulkar Committee to look into the people living under poverty line in India. A committee was formed by government of India in 2005, with Tendulkar as chairman to ‘report on methodology of estimation of poverty’.

He recommends persons who can be appointed as ministers by the president and he allocates and reshuffles various portfolios among the ministers. He presides over the meeting of council of ministers and influences its decisions. Prime Minister stands at the head of the council of ministers, the other ministers cannot function when the Prime Minister resigns or dies.

A larger money supply lowers market interest rates. Conversely, smaller money supplies tend to raise market interest rates.

In 1983, the Central government appointed a three-member Commission on Centre–state relations under the chairmanship of R S Sarkaria, a retired judge of the Supreme Court.26 The commission was asked to examine and review the working of existing arrangements between the Centre and states in all spheres and recommend appropriate changes and measures.

The Kandla Free Trade Zone is India’s first Export Processing Zone was set up in 1965.

Chuar Rebellion occurred in 1798-99 in Bankura / Midnapore districts of modern West Bengal. Munda rebellion took place in the region south of Ranchi in 1899-1900. Santhal Revolt took place in 1855. The Vellore mutiny on 10 July 1806 was the first instance of a large-scale and violent mutiny by Indian sepoys against the East India Company.

The Air (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act 1981 is amended in 1987 to include noise as an air pollutant.According to amendmemt “air pollutant” means any solid, liquid or gaseous substance (including noise) present in the atmosphere in such concentration as may be or tend to be injurious to human beings or other living creatures or plants or property or environment.

Foehn is a local wind of Switzerland. A foehn is a type of dry, warm, down-slope wind that occurs in the lee (downwind side) of a mountain range. It is a rain shadow wind that results from the subsequent adiabatic warming of air that has dropped most of its moisture on windward slopes (see orographic lift).

The Target Growth of Eighth Five Year plan is 5.6 % but the Actual Growth rate is 6.8%.

In Britain, The head of the state is either King or Queen of the royal family while in India, we elect head of the state or president after every 5 year. In Britain, PM should be member of lower house while in India, PM can be member of Lower house (Lok sabha) or upperhouse (Rajya sabha).

A commercial bank is a type of financial institution that accepts deposits; offers checking account services; makes business, personal and mortgage loans; and offers basic financial products like certificates of deposit (CDs) and savings accounts to individuals and small businesses. commercial bank area is the public sector most dominant in India.

Total area of around 26-27% lithosphere has the expansion of mountains.

Charter Act of 1853 marks the expansion of the Council of the Governor General for legislative purposes. The council of legislative purposes which had 6 members now was expanded to 12 members. These members are Governor General, commander in Chief, four members of the Governor General’s Council etc.

GVK Rao committee was appointed by Planning Commission in 1985. The committee come to Final conclusion that development process was gradually bureaucratised and divorced from the Panchayat Raj.

In late November 1928 the WPP of Bengal executive committee met with Philip Spratt and Muzaffar Ahmed. They decided to appoint Sohan Singh Josh of the Punjab Kirti Kisan Party to chair the All India Workers and Peasants Conference, to be held in Calcutta in December.

Government of India Act 1858 provided that India was to be governed directly and in the name of the crown. This act abolished the company rule, abolished the Court of directors and abolished the Board of control. The act provided the Crown will govern India directly through a Secretary of State for India, who was to exercise the powers which were being enjoyed by the Court of Directors and Board of control.