Static GK Mixed Quiz: Set 44

He commanded a company of 13 Kumaon at Rezang La in Ladakh in November 1962 and his men held the post against a far larger Chinese force; he was awarded the Param Vir Chakra posthumously.

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.

Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis founded the Indian Statistical Institute in 1931, devised the Mahalanobis distance and the method of large scale sample surveys, and shaped the Second Five Year Plan; National Statistics Day is observed on his birthday, 29 June.

Dayanand Saraswati founded the Arya Samaj at Bombay in 1875 with the call to go back to the Vedas; it opposed idol worship and caste by birth, supported widow remarriage and women education, and ran the shuddhi movement, and his book Satyarth Prakash states its doctrine.

On that date in 1999 the Army announced the successful conclusion of Operation Vijay, by which the intruders were cleared from the heights of the Kargil sector, supported by Operation Safed Sagar of the Air Force and Operation Talwar of the Navy.

Kisan Ghat on the Yamuna bank in Delhi is the samadhi of Chaudhary Charan Singh, who was Prime Minister of India and is remembered above all as a leader of the farmers, which is why his memorial is named after the kisan.

Sircar, a physician of Calcutta, founded the association in 1876 so that Indians could do original research in science rather than only learn it, and it was in its laboratory that C. V. Raman did the work that won the Nobel Prize.

The correct answer is A, Ahmad Shah I of Gujarat, who founded the city on the Sabarmati in 1411 and gave it his own name; the Jama Masjid, the Teen Darwaza and the Bhadra fort belong to his time.

On the night of 4 December 1971 Indian missile boats struck ships and fuel installations at Karachi harbour in an operation named Trident, and a follow-up raid on 8 December was named Operation Python.

In the system adopted in 2010, highways whose general alignment is east to west carry odd numbers, while those running north to south carry even numbers.

The Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research at Bombay was set up by the Reserve Bank of India as an advanced research and teaching centre in development economics and was inaugurated in 1987; it is a deemed university that works on energy, environment and macroeconomic policy.

The small southern African monarchy announced the change in 2018 on the fiftieth anniversary of its independence, the new name meaning the land of the Swazi in the Swati language, and it is now listed at the United Nations as the Kingdom of Eswatini.

The Nizam of Hyderabad refused to join either dominion, and after the breakdown of talks and the activity of the Razakar militia the Government of India launched a police action codenamed Operation Polo in September 1948, after which the state joined the Indian Union.

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 Swiss businessman Henry Dunant, moved by what he saw after the battle of Solferino, led the founding of the Red Cross at Geneva in 1863 and the drafting of the first Geneva Convention; he was awarded the first Nobel Peace Prize in 1901, and World Red Cross Day is…

The German psychologist William Stern gave the term Intelligence Quotient in 1912, proposing that a child's mental age be divided by the actual age to express intelligence as a single number.

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.

Mother Teresa founded the Missionaries of Charity at Calcutta in 1950 for the care of the destitute, the sick and the dying; she received the Bharat Ratna and the Nobel Peace Prize, and the order spread to many countries.

Baden-Powell, a British army officer, held the first experimental camp in 1907 and published Scouting for Boys, from which the movement grew; in India the Bharat Scouts and Guides was formed in 1950 by the merger of the earlier bodies.

Bhabha persuaded the Sir Dorabji Tata Trust to fund an institute for fundamental research in physics and mathematics, which began in 1945 at Bombay, and he went on to head the atomic energy programme, which is why he is called the father of the Indian nuclear programme.