Indian States & UTs Mixed Quiz: Set 39

It allows the President, if it appears to be in the public interest, to establish a council charged with inquiring into and advising on disputes between states, investigating subjects in which some or all states and the Union have a common interest, and making recommendations for better coordination of policy.

It allows Parliament by law to form a new state, increase or diminish the area of any state, alter its boundaries and change its name, by a simple majority; the Bill needs the President's recommendation, and the President must refer it to the legislature of the state affected for its…

The correct answer is B, Operation Vijay of December 1961, in which the Indian armed forces took Goa, Daman and Diu from Portugal, ending more than four centuries of Portuguese rule on the western coast.

The Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu (Merger of Union Territories) Act was passed in 2019 but was brought into force on Republic Day 2020, merging the two small Union Territories into one with its capital at Daman.

The correct answer is A, the States Reorganisation Act of 1956, which set up five Zonal Councils as standing forums where neighbouring states and the Centre could discuss matters of common concern, including border frictions, law and order and inter-state transport.

The pheran is a long, loose woollen gown reaching below the knees, worn by both men and women in the Kashmir valley through the cold months, often with a kangri, the earthen firepot, held beneath it.

The correct answer is B, the Daman Ganga, which rises in the Western Ghats, flows west through Dadra and Nagar Haveli and reaches the Arabian Sea at Daman, splitting the town into Nani Daman on the north bank and Moti Daman on the south; the Madhuban dam on this river…

The corridor runs through the northern districts of West Bengal around the town of Siliguri and is only about twenty kilometres wide at its narrowest, which is why it is nicknamed the Chicken's Neck.

The Kotia cluster lies in the hilly tract where the two states meet, and both run schools, ration shops and panchayat elections there on the strength of their own records, which is why the claim has stayed before the Supreme Court for decades.

Lakshadweep is made up of thirty-six islands, reefs and submerged banks, of which ten are inhabited: Kavaratti, Agatti, Amini, Kadmat, Kiltan, Chetlat, Bitra, Andrott, Kalpeni and Minicoy.

Silvassa is the chief town of that landlocked district and was the capital of the former Union Territory of Dadra and Nagar Haveli before the merger of 2020; it is also the industrial heart of the territory, with large estates for textiles, plastics, engineering and chemicals, and it holds the…

The state has many tribal languages and no single dominant tongue, so English, already the language of administration and of education through the churches and schools, was adopted as the official language; Arunachal Pradesh and Meghalaya have done the same, Meghalaya using Khasi and Garo as associate languages.

Mizoram's case rests on the inner line notified in 1875 under the Bengal Eastern Frontier Regulation, which it says marked out a wider belt for the Lushai Hills, while Assam relies on the boundary demarcated in 1933; the strip between the two lines is what both claim, and it is…

It is a common High Court exercising jurisdiction over the states of Punjab and Haryana and the Union Territory of Chandigarh, and its building in the Capitol Complex is one of Le Corbusier's three monumental works there.

Diu lies off the southern edge of the Kathiawar or Saurashtra peninsula of Gujarat and is joined to the mainland by bridges across a narrow creek; the Portuguese obtained it in 1535 by a treaty with Sultan Bahadur Shah of Gujarat and built the fort that still dominates the island.

The campaign had first been tested in Ernakulam, which became the first fully literate district in the country in 1990, and the model was later used by the National Literacy Mission elsewhere.

It divided the old Punjab, created Haryana, transferred the hill areas to Himachal Pradesh and made Chandigarh a union territory serving as the capital of both Punjab and Haryana, an arrangement that is itself the subject of long dispute along with the transfer of Hindi and Punjabi speaking villages.

The correct answer is B, the Bombay High Court, whose jurisdiction extends over Maharashtra, Goa and this Union Territory, with benches at Nagpur, Aurangabad and Panaji.

It was carved out of the Telugu-speaking districts of Madras after the death of Potti Sriramulu, who fasted for the demand, and its creation forced the government to set up the States Reorganisation Commission under Fazl Ali, whose report of 1955 led to the Act of 1956.

The correct answer is B, the Varli, the largest Scheduled Tribe of Dadra and Nagar Haveli, found also in the neighbouring districts of Maharashtra and Gujarat; their ritual wall art, called Warli painting, is done in white rice paste on a mud wall and builds human figures from two triangles…