Static GK Previous Year Questions (PYQ) with Answers – Page 5

Bharatmala Pariyojana is the Union government's umbrella programme for developing national highways and road corridors.

The South Eastern Railway zone has its headquarters at Garden Reach in Kolkata. South Eastern Railway was formed in 1955 from the old Bengal Nagpur Railway, whose head office at Garden Reach it inherited.

The UN Security Council began with 6 non-permanent members and has had 10 since 1965, each elected for a two-year term.

The Peninsula Shield Force is the joint military force of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), set up in 1984 to deter and respond to attacks on its member states.

The Quad, or Quadrilateral Security Dialogue, has four members: India, the United States, Japan and Australia. France is a major Indo-Pacific partner of India with its island territories in the Indian Ocean, but it is not a member of the grouping.

The Belt and Road Initiative is China's plan, announced by President Xi Jinping in 2013, to build roads, railways, ports, pipelines and power links connecting China with Asia, Europe and Africa.

The territory was the eastern wing of Pakistan from 1947, and it became the independent country of Bangladesh after the war of 1971, which ended when Lieutenant General A. A. K. Niazi signed the Instrument of Surrender at Dhaka on 16 December 1971 before Lieutenant General Jagjit Singh Aurora.

The Charter of the United Nations establishes six principal organs: the General Assembly, in which every member state has one vote; the Security Council, which carries the primary responsibility for international peace and security; the Economic and Social Council; the Trusteeship Council; the International Court of Justice; and the Secretariat.

The Hawa Mahal at Jaipur was built in 1799 by Sawai Pratap Singh of the Kachhwaha house, and was designed by Lal Chand Ustad as a five storey screen of red and pink sandstone with hundreds of small jharokha windows.

Panchsheel is the name given to the five principles that guide India's conduct towards other countries. The five are mutual respect for each other's territorial integrity and sovereignty, mutual non-aggression, non-interference in each other's internal affairs, equality and mutual benefit, and peaceful coexistence.

The joint sitting of the two houses, provided for in Article 108 and summoned by the President to resolve a deadlock on an ordinary Bill, was taken from the Australian Constitution, along with the concurrent list and the freedom of trade and commerce between the units.

The Sino-Indian War was fought between 20 October and 21 November 1962, when China attacked across the Himalayan frontier. The fighting ran in two separate theatres, Aksai Chin in Ladakh in the west and the North East Frontier Agency, today Arunachal Pradesh, in the east.

The Quadrilateral Security Dialogue, or Quad, has four members — India, the United States, Japan and Australia — and Indonesia is not one of them.

NATO is the military alliance of European and North American states, formed by the North Atlantic Treaty signed at Washington on 4 April 1949 by twelve founding members, and its membership has grown in rounds since then.

Axis Bank, which began in 1994 as UTI Bank and was renamed in 2007, has its corporate office in Mumbai, the city that also holds the Reserve Bank of India, SEBI, the State Bank of India, the Central Bank of India, Union Bank of India, Bank of India and both…

Malabar 2020 was held in two phases in November 2020, the first in the Bay of Bengal off Visakhapatnam and the second in the Arabian Sea, and Australia joined India, Japan and the United States in it.

The committee on civil services reforms under P. C. Hota, a former Chairman of the Union Public Service Commission, was set up in 2004 and gave its report the same year.

The Asian Development Bank was founded in 1966 to lend for development in Asia and the Pacific and has its headquarters at Manila, the capital of the Philippines.

The Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry was set up in 1927 by G.D. Birla and Purshottamdas Thakurdas on the advice of Mahatma Gandhi, so that Indian business would have a voice of its own during the freedom struggle.

The Indian elephant, Elephas maximus indicus, was declared the National Heritage Animal in 2010 on the recommendation of the Elephant Task Force, so that its protection could be given the same weight as that of the tiger.