Static GK Mixed Quiz: Set 47

Both are core ILO conventions aimed at ending child labour. Convention 138, the Minimum Age Convention of 1973, requires countries to set a minimum age for admission to employment, generally not below the age of finishing compulsory schooling.

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.

Naseem-Al-Bahr, Arabic for "sea breeze", is the bilateral naval exercise between the Indian Navy and the Royal Navy of Oman.

The correct answer is C, Sarnath, near Varanasi, where the Buddha preached to his first five disciples in the deer park; the event is called the Dharmachakrapravartana, the turning of the wheel of law, and it is from the Sarnath lion capital that India took its state emblem.

The correct answer is B, Pavapuri, in Nalanda district of Bihar, where a marble temple stands in a lotus tank at the spot held to be the place of his nirvana; Diwali is observed by Jains as the anniversary of that event.

Phule founded the Satyashodhak Samaj, the society of truth seekers, at Pune in 1873 to work against caste oppression and priestly domination; he and Savitribai Phule had already opened schools for girls and for the depressed classes.

The line declares that truth alone triumphs, and it was chosen as the motto of the Republic and inscribed in the Devanagari script on the abacus of the State Emblem of India.

Aurangzeb died in 1707 in the Deccan and was buried at Khuldabad, a small town near Aurangabad, beside the shrine of his spiritual guide Sheikh Zainuddin.

Charles-Louis Havas opened Agence Havas in Paris in 1835 to translate and sell foreign news, which makes it the first news agency in the world; the business was reorganised in 1944 and has been known since then as Agence France-Presse.

Article 53 of the Constitution vests the supreme command of the defence forces of the Union in the President, and the exercise of that command is regulated by law; commissions to officers are granted in the President's name.

The Shimla Agreement was signed on 2 July 1972, after the war of 1971 and the creation of Bangladesh. It committed both countries to settle differences bilaterally and by peaceful means, and it turned the ceasefire line in Jammu and Kashmir into the Line of Control.

The programme covers port modernisation and new port development, port connectivity, port linked industrialisation and coastal community development, and it is run by the Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways.

Nomadic Elephant is the bilateral army exercise held by India and Mongolia. The exercise began in 2004 and is held by turns in India and Mongolia, the venue alternating between the two countries.

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 phrase is drawn from the eleventh chapter of the Bhagavad Gita, where the cosmic form touches the sky, and it suits an air arm exactly; it appears on the Air Force crest below the Himalayan eagle.

As acting Governor-General, Charles Metcalfe repealed the Licensing Regulations of 1823 through the Press Act of 1835, often called the Metcalfe Act, and freed Indian newspapers from the need for a licence; for this he is called the Liberator of the Indian Press.

Paul Julius Reuter, who had earlier worked for Havas in Paris and had used carrier pigeons to carry stock prices between Aachen and Brussels, moved to London and founded his telegraph news office there in 1851, close to the Stock Exchange.

The twenty-year Treaty of Peace, Friendship and Cooperation was signed in August 1971 by Foreign Minister Swaran Singh and his Soviet counterpart Andrei Gromyko, months before the war that created Bangladesh.

Sam No Varunah is a Sanskrit prayer from the Taittiriya Upanishad that Varuna, the lord of the waters, be auspicious unto us, which is the natural choice for a sea service, and it is written on the naval crest under the anchor.

Xinhua, whose name means new China, was set up in 1931 as the Red China News Agency, took its present name in 1937 and works from Beijing as the state news agency of the People's Republic of China.