Static GK Previous Year Questions (PYQ) with Answers – Page 8

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

UNESCO named the Brazilian city the first ever World Capital of Architecture, for the year 2020. The title was created by UNESCO together with the International Union of Architects (UIA).

IMBEX stands for the India-Myanmar Bilateral Military Exercise, held between the two armies. The exercise began in 2017, and its focus has been training Myanmar army officers for United Nations peacekeeping duties, including drills on handling crowds, protecting civilians and running a peacekeeping camp.

The nine-square black granite platform with a diya at the centre, set in a lotus pattern, describes Sadaiv Atal, the memorial of former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee in New Delhi.

The Gujral Doctrine is a set of principles for India's relations with its immediate neighbours, put forward by I.K. Gujral in 1996 as External Affairs Minister and followed by him as Prime Minister in 1997-98.

CORAS, the Commando for Railway Security, is the special commando unit raised by the RPF of Indian Railways in 2019.

The Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action were adopted at the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women, held in Beijing in September 1995.

Multidimensional peacekeeping aims to stabilise a country after conflict and to consolidate the peace, while staying impartial between the parties.

. The 123 Agreement finalised in 2007 gave India advance consent to reprocess US-origin spent fuel at a new safeguarded facility.

AIIB has well over 80 members, but China, not India, is its largest shareholder, and many members are outside Asia.

Statements 1 and 3 swap the two conventions: the migrant-smuggling protocol belongs to UNTOC, and the asset-recovery chapter belongs to UNCAC.

Paul Allen founded Microsoft with his school friend Bill Gates in 1975. Allen and Gates started the company in Albuquerque, New Mexico, to write software for the early personal computer Altair 8800, and the name came from "microcomputer software".

This is the full form of SWAYAM, the Government of India's free online course platform. SWAYAM was launched in 2017 by the Ministry of Education (then the Ministry of Human Resource Development).

The country came into being in December 1971 at the end of the liberation war, in which the Indian armed forces entered the conflict after Pakistani air strikes codenamed Operation Chengiz Khan on 3 December and accepted the surrender at Dhaka on 16 December.

The New Development Bank was founded by the five BRICS countries, and Canada is not one of them. The founding members are Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa.

Fuehrer is the German word for leader, and Adolf Hitler took it as his title in Germany. Hitler led the Nazi Party, became Chancellor in January 1933, and after the death of President Hindenburg in 1934 merged the two offices and styled himself Fuehrer and Reich Chancellor.

The All India War Memorial in New Delhi is the monument known today as India Gate. It was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens in memory of the Indian soldiers who died in the First World War and in the Third Anglo-Afghan War.

The Bahai House of Worship, known the world over as the Lotus Temple, stands at Bahapur near Kalkaji in New Delhi.

Fires are grouped by what is burning, and Class D covers burning metals such as magnesium, sodium, potassium, titanium and aluminium powder.

The Statue of Unity stands on Sadhu Bet, an island in the Narmada near the Sardar Sarovar Dam in the Narmada district of Gujarat, and it shows Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, independent India's first Deputy Prime Minister and Home Minister, who brought the princely states into the Union.