CDS Previous Year GK Questions

CRISIL, CARE and ICRA are all credit rating agencies registered with SEBI, which regulates such agencies under its Credit Rating Agencies Regulations of 1999.

The All India Depressed Classes Association did not back Ambedkar's demand for a separate electorate; under M. C. Rajah it supported joint electorates with seats reserved for the depressed classes.

GST is levied by the Union and the States together on the same supply, and Article 246, which splits taxing powers between them through separate lists, did not allow such a concurrent tax.

In Vishaka and others versus State of Rajasthan, decided in 1997, the Supreme Court laid down binding guidelines to prevent and redress sexual harassment of women at work.

The Eka (unity) Movement began late in 1921 in the Hardoi, Bahraich, Sitapur and Barabanki districts of Awadh, first with Congress and Khilafat workers, and was then taken over and led by Madari Pasi, a peasant leader from a low caste.

Hot money is foreign capital that flows in quickly to earn short-term returns and can leave just as quickly, and in India this describes portfolio investment in shares and bonds.

Sampriti is the joint military exercise of the Indian Army and the Bangladesh Army, and the 2017 edition was one round of this long-running series.

In November 2018 the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion of the Commerce Ministry launched a common logo for GI-tagged products with the tagline "Invaluable Treasures of Incredible India".

Since independence, and especially since the reforms of 1991, the services sector has grown faster than the rest of the economy and now produces more than half of India's gross value added.

Both statements are true, but the repeal of the Stamp Act does not explain why the Coercive Acts ended hopes of reconciliation.

The Army Air Defence College is not in Pune; it stands at Gopalpur-on-Sea in the Ganjam district of Odisha, on the Bay of Bengal coast.

Tatra is not a missile at all: it is a make of heavy all-terrain trucks from the Czech Republic, used by the Indian Army to carry launchers, radars and other heavy loads.

"Brexit" joins "Britain" and "exit" and means the United Kingdom's departure from the European Union. In a referendum on 23 June 2016, about 52% of voters chose to leave the EU.

Till July 2018 Tendulkar was not yet in the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame; he was inducted a year later, in July 2019.

The weightlifter from Mizoram won India's first ever gold medal at the Youth Olympic Games, in the boys' 62 kg event at Buenos Aires in October 2018.

The Indian Army no longer has the rank of Second Lieutenant; an officer is now commissioned directly as a Lieutenant.

National Handloom Day falls on 7 August because the Swadeshi Movement was launched on that day in 1905.

Hambantota Port lies on the southern coast of Sri Lanka, close to the main shipping lanes of the Indian Ocean.

The Indian Army has no command by that name; the North-East falls under the Eastern Command, headquartered at Kolkata. The Army has seven commands.

Under Article 312, Parliament may by law create new All India Services common to the Union and the States.