Indian States & UTs GK Questions with Answers – Page 8

Chandigarh is the capital of both Punjab and Haryana and is itself a union territory, and the common High Court for the two states and for the union territory sits there.

It empowers Parliament by law to abolish an existing Legislative Council or to create one where none exists, but only if the Legislative Assembly of the state first passes a resolution supported by a majority of the total membership of the House and by not less than two-thirds of the…

West Bengal had a Legislative Council in the years after independence but abolished it in 1969, and its legislature has been unicameral since then, consisting of the Governor and the Legislative Assembly alone.

It states plainly that there shall be a High Court for each state, and the following articles complete the scheme: Article 215 makes every High Court a court of record, Article 216 leaves the number of judges to the President, Article 217 provides for their appointment, and Article 231 allows…

The Kerala High Court sits at Kochi, in the Ernakulam area, although the capital of the state is Thiruvananthapuram.

It was established in July 1862 under the Indian High Courts Act of 1861, which allowed the Crown to replace the old supreme courts and sadar courts of the Presidency towns with High Courts.

In 2018, on the seventy-fifth anniversary of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose hoisting the tricolour at Port Blair on 30 December 1943, three islands were renamed: Havelock became Swaraj Dweep, Neil became Shaheed Dweep and Ross Island became Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose Dweep.

The correct answer is B, the Calcutta High Court, which exercises jurisdiction over the Andaman and Nicobar Islands and holds a circuit bench at the Territory’s capital.

Indira Point lies at the southern tip of Great Nicobar, the largest island of the Nicobar group, and is the southernmost point of the territory of India; it was formerly called Pygmalion Point and also Parsons Point, and its lighthouse subsided during the tsunami of 2004.

She founded Auroville in 1968 as an international township where people of all countries could live in peace, and soil from many nations was placed in an urn at its inauguration; the Matrimandir is its meditation centre.

The Sentinelese live on North Sentinel Island, have avoided contact with the outside world and are one of the particularly vulnerable tribal groups of the Territory, with the island closed to visitors by law.

The Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu (Merger of Union Territories) Act, 2019 merged the two into one Union Territory with effect from 26 January 2020, with Daman as its headquarters and Silvassa as the headquarters of the Dadra and Nagar Haveli district.

It inserted Article 239AA, renamed the Union Territory of Delhi as the National Capital Territory of Delhi and provided for a Legislative Assembly of seventy seats and a Council of Ministers of not more than ten per cent of the total members, that is seven.

The first plan for Chandigarh was prepared by Albert Mayer with Matthew Nowicki, and after Nowicki died in an air crash the work passed to the Swiss-French architect Le Corbusier, assisted by Pierre Jeanneret, Jane Drew and Maxwell Fry.

Puducherry is made up of four non-contiguous districts, and Mahe is the one on the Malabar coast surrounded by Kerala.

Kavaratti is the capital and administrative headquarters of Lakshadweep, which is India’s smallest Union Territory by area and its only group of coral atolls.

The Ten Degree Channel runs roughly along the tenth parallel of north latitude, between Little Andaman to its north and Car Nicobar to its south, and it is a busy shipping lane.

Barren Island, in the Andaman Sea about one hundred and forty kilometres north-east of the capital of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, is the only active volcano in India and in South Asia, and it has erupted several times in recent decades.

It lays down the basic rule that a Union Territory is administered by the President acting through an Administrator appointed by him with such designation as the President may specify, which is why some Administrators are styled Lieutenant Governor.

Bhand Pather is the traditional satirical folk theatre of the Kashmir valley, performed by the Bhand community with music on the surnai and the dhol, and it mixes acting, dance and sharp social comment.