Static GK GK Questions with Answers – Page 2

It places Group Captain below Wing Commander, but in the Indian Air Force a Wing Commander ranks below a Group Captain.

The Southern Naval Command has its headquarters at Kochi in Kerala, and it is the Navy's training command.

India's first Indigenous Aircraft Carrier, IAC-1, was built at Cochin Shipyard and commissioned into the Navy as INS Vikrant on 2 September 2022.

The OTA trains officers only for the Indian Army, so it is a single-service institution, not an inter-services one. The Officers Training Academy at Chennai trains short service commission officers, men and women, for the Army; a second OTA works at Gaya.

Surya Kiran is the annual joint military exercise of the Indian Army and the Nepali Army. The exercise began in 2011 and is held every year, alternately in India and Nepal.

The CHOGM in Malta was held in November 2015, not 2016, and no CHOGM took place in 2016. The Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting is normally held every two years.

INS Viraat was an aircraft carrier of the Indian Navy and was decommissioned in March 2017. Viraat began life as the British carrier HMS Hermes, which served in the Falklands War.

SPARSH stands for Scholarship for Promotion of Aptitude and Research in Stamps as a Hobby. The scheme was launched by the Department of Posts under the Ministry of Communications in 2017.

CAATSA stands for Countering America's Adversaries Through Sanctions Act, a US federal law of 2017. The US Congress passed CAATSA in July 2017 and President Donald Trump signed it in August 2017.

The two chambers of the new Parliament House take their interior themes from India's national symbols. The Lok Sabha chamber is designed on the theme of the peacock, the national bird, and the Rajya Sabha chamber on the theme of the lotus, the national flower.

The National Water Academy is at Khadakwasla, near Pune in Maharashtra. The Academy is run by the Central Water Commission under the Ministry of Jal Shakti.

Antrix is the commercial arm of ISRO, and ISRO works under the Department of Space. Antrix Corporation Limited was set up in Bengaluru in September 1992 as a government company wholly owned by the Government of India.

DTTI is an India–US forum launched in 2012 to deepen defence trade and to develop and produce defence technology together.

T-55, T-72 and T-90 are Soviet and Russian-designed main battle tanks, while T-155 is not a tank at all; the name belongs to a 155 mm self-propelled howitzer made in Turkey.

This statement is not correct, because SAARC has nine observers, of which China is only one. SAARC was founded at its first summit in Dhaka on 8 December 1985 by seven countries: Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.

Larsen & Toubro's Armoured Systems Complex at Hazira, near Surat in Gujarat, is India's first private sector unit for making howitzers.

In May 2016 India signed agreements with Iran to develop the port of Chabahar, along with a trilateral transit pact with Iran and Afghanistan.

India joined the MTCR as its 35th member on 27 June 2016. The MTCR was set up in 1987 by the G7 countries as an informal group that limits the spread of missiles and unmanned aerial vehicles able to carry weapons of mass destruction.

The Eastern Railway zone of Indian Railways has its headquarters at Fairlie Place in Kolkata. Eastern Railway was formed in 1952 out of the East Indian Railway, one of the oldest railway companies in India, whose first train in the east ran from Howrah to Hooghly in 1854.

Dr. Bindeshwar Pathak founded the Sulabh movement in 1970 in Bihar to end manual scavenging and bring low-cost toilets to India.