CDS Previous Year GK Questions

Stupas grew up near towns and along trade routes, where traders and townspeople could visit and fund them. A stupa is a hemispherical mound built over relics of the Buddha or of revered monks.

The fund is administered from the PMO, with the Prime Minister as its chairman. The Prime Minister's National Relief Fund was set up in January 1948 by Jawaharlal Nehru to help people displaced from Pakistan after Partition.

All three statements describe the Right to Education as framed by Article 21A and the RTE Act, 2009.

The Silappadikaram sings the praise of the Kaveri, the life-giving river of the Chola country, in whose delta its story begins.

The Mahavamsa, the great Pali chronicle of Sri Lanka, gives a detailed account of Ashoka, his conversion to Buddhism and his missions abroad.

Unlike the President, the Governor of a state has no diplomatic or military powers. The Governor's powers are broadly similar to the President's in the executive, legislative and judicial fields, but defence and foreign affairs belong to the Union.

India's first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, made solidarity with the newly free nations of Asia and Africa a central pillar of India's foreign policy.

Capital deepening means the stock of capital grows faster than the labour force, so each worker has more machines and tools to work with.

Article 53 vests the executive power of the Union and the supreme command of the defence forces in the President, but it does not say the power is used only through subordinate officers.

The idea of farr-i izadi, a light emanating from God, was first developed by the twelfth-century Iranian Sufi thinker Shihabuddin Suhrawardi.

Article 151(1) says the CAG's reports relating to the accounts of the Union are submitted to the President, who causes them to be laid before each House of Parliament.

Classical economists held that the economy always tends back to full employment, so any unemployment is short-lived. The classical theory rests on Say's Law, that supply creates its own demand, so there can be no general overproduction.

Lakshmidhara, a minister of the Gahadavala king Govindachandra of Kanauj, compiled the Kritya-kalpataru, the first great nibandha or digest of Dharmashastra, epic and Puranic texts.

This massive stone platform in the royal enclosure at Hampi was where the Vijayanagara kings performed the rituals of the Mahanavami festival.

Under paragraph 15 of the Sixth Schedule, the Governor can annul or suspend any act or resolution of a District or Regional Council.

The Damanganga Reservoir Project is the main irrigation scheme of Dadra and Nagar Haveli, whose canal network of about 115 km of minor canals and distributaries serves the territory.

Gandhi founded the Phoenix Settlement near Durban, South Africa, in 1904. Gandhi set up the settlement after reading John Ruskin's Unto This Last, which convinced him that the life of labour, of the tiller and the craftsman, is the life worth living.

The Sixth Schedule says the accounts of the District and Regional Councils are audited in the manner the CAG thinks fit.

The Ten Degree Channel, which runs along this latitude, separates the Andaman group from the Nicobar group. The Ten Degree Channel lies between Little Andaman in the north and Car Nicobar in the south, and it is about 150 km wide.

The UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) has its headquarters in Bangkok, Thailand. ESCAP is one of the five regional commissions of the UN Economic and Social Council.