Static GK GK Questions with Answers – Page 11

The correct answer is B, Zoroastrianism, the faith founded by Zoroaster in ancient Persia and followed in India by the Parsis, whose place of worship is the fire temple or agiary and whose scripture is the Zend Avesta.

The correct answer is C, Sarnath, near Varanasi, where the Buddha preached to his first five disciples in the deer park; the event is called the Dharmachakrapravartana, the turning of the wheel of law, and it is from the Sarnath lion capital that India took its state emblem.

The Tripitaka, meaning three baskets, is the Buddhist canon written in Pali and divided into the Vinaya Pitaka on monastic discipline, the Sutta Pitaka of the Buddha's discourses and the Abhidhamma Pitaka of philosophical analysis.

India hosted the seventh summit of the Non-Aligned Movement at New Delhi in 1983, with Prime Minister Indira Gandhi taking over as chairperson of the movement for the following term.

The twenty-year Treaty of Peace, Friendship and Cooperation was signed in August 1971 by Foreign Minister Swaran Singh and his Soviet counterpart Andrei Gromyko, months before the war that created Bangladesh.

The Shimla Agreement was signed on 2 July 1972, after the war of 1971 and the creation of Bangladesh. It committed both countries to settle differences bilaterally and by peaceful means, and it turned the ceasefire line in Jammu and Kashmir into the Line of Control.

India, which had been an observer since 2005, was admitted as a full member of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation at the Astana summit in Kazakhstan in 2017, along with Pakistan.

SAGAR was announced in 2015 and sets out India's role in the Indian Ocean: maritime security and surveillance, capacity building and training for neighbouring navies and coast guards, cooperation on the blue economy and sustainable use of ocean resources, and first response during cyclones, tsunamis and other disasters.

BIMSTEC, the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation, was created by the Bangkok Declaration of 6 June 1997, first as BIST-EC and then widened as more members joined; its seven members bridge South Asia and South East Asia, and its permanent secretariat is at Dhaka.

The Gujral Doctrine was set out by Inder Kumar Gujral in 1996, when he was Minister of External Affairs and later Prime Minister.

The Look East Policy was launched in 1991 under Prime Minister P. V. Narasimha Rao, when the collapse of the Soviet Union removed India's closest partner and economic liberalisation created a reason to seek markets in South East Asia.

The Tashkent Declaration was signed on 10 January 1966 by Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri and President Ayub Khan of Pakistan to settle the war of 1965, with Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin as host and mediator at Tashkent, then in the Soviet Union.

Article 51, among the Directive Principles of State Policy in Part IV, asks the State to promote international peace and security, to maintain just and honourable relations between nations, to foster respect for international law and treaty obligations, and to encourage the settlement of international disputes by arbitration.

The first summit of the Non-Aligned Movement met at Belgrade, then the capital of Yugoslavia, in 1961, with Josip Broz Tito as host and Jawaharlal Nehru, Gamal Abdel Nasser, Sukarno and Kwame Nkrumah among the leading figures.

The five principles of Panchsheel appear in the preamble to the Agreement on Trade and Intercourse between the Tibet region of China and India, signed on 29 April 1954 by Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai.

The OSCE has 57 participating states and works as a forum for dialogue on early warning, conflict prevention, crisis management and post-conflict rehabilitation, but it is neither a military body nor a maker of binding law.

Mekong-Ganga Cooperation brings together India and the five Mekong basin countries: Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam. The grouping was launched at Vientiane in Laos in 2000.

A Wing Commander of the Indian Air Force holds the same rank as a Lieutenant Colonel in the Army and a Commander in the Navy.

Operation Sadbhavna is the Indian Army's goodwill and civic action programme for people in remote and disturbed areas. The Army began it in the late 1990s in Jammu and Kashmir and later took it to Ladakh and parts of the North-East.

All three statements are correct: the WTO replaced GATT, the IAEA inspects nuclear sites worldwide, and Amnesty International is a non-governmental organisation.