Static GK Mixed Quiz: Set 54

The Chief of Defence Staff is the permanent chairman of the Chiefs of Staff Committee and the principal military adviser to the Defence Minister, but does not command the three Service Chiefs.

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born on 2 October 1869 at Porbandar, a coastal town of the Kathiawar region in present-day Gujarat, where his father Karamchand Gandhi served as the diwan of the princely state.

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

It was set up in November 1961, a few weeks before IIM Ahmedabad, with the help of the Sloan School of Management of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Ford Foundation and the Government of West Bengal, and it was the first management institute of its kind in the country.

Sadbhavana, meaning goodwill, is the Indian Army's civic action programme for people in remote and troubled areas. It began in the late 1990s in Jammu and Kashmir and was later taken to Ladakh and the North-East.

The Pentagon stands at Arlington in Virginia, across the Potomac river from Washington D.C., and houses the American defence department along with the headquarters of its armed services.

Nehru was born on 14 November 1889 and his daughter Indira Gandhi on 19 November 1917, both at Allahabad, now Prayagraj, in the family home that Motilal Nehru named Anand Bhavan.

The Sami are the indigenous people of the far north of Norway, Sweden and Finland and of the Kola peninsula in Russia, a region often called Lapland.

A black plate with yellow letters marks a vehicle registered for self-drive rental, which the customer drives without a hired driver.

Pravda, which means truth in Russian, was founded in 1912 and became the official newspaper of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, printing the party line on every question until the Soviet Union broke up; Izvestia, meaning news, was the paper of the Soviet government.

UN-Habitat has a General Assembly mandate for sustainable cities and shelter, and it works on poverty, water and sanitation, but its partners are not limited to governments.

The green pheasant, which is found only in Japan, was designated its national bird by the country's ornithological society, and the bird appears in Japanese folk tales as a companion of the boy hero Momotaro.

Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman was born in 1888 at Tiruchirappalli in present-day Tamil Nadu and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1930 for his work on the scattering of light, the discovery announced on 28 February 1928 that is remembered every year as National Science Day.

The Samruddhi Mahamarg, formally named after Balasaheb Thackeray, is an access-controlled expressway of about 701 kilometres built entirely within Maharashtra, joining Mumbai with Nagpur across the state and passing near several district headquarters of Marathwada and Vidarbha, which is why it is presented as a corridor of economic development rather…

Guru Gobind Singh was born in 1666 at Patna in Bihar, while his father Guru Tegh Bahadur was travelling in the east, and the gurdwara Takht Sri Patna Sahib marks the site.

The Ramsar Convention on Wetlands of International Importance was signed in 1971 at Ramsar, a city on the Caspian coast of Iran, and is the oldest of the modern global environmental treaties.

Birsa Munda was born in 1875 at Ulihatu in the Khunti district of present-day Jharkhand, then part of the Chotanagpur region of Bengal and later Bihar.

Gol Gumbaz at Bijapur, now also called Vijayapura, is the tomb of Muhammad Adil Shah of the Adil Shahi dynasty and carries one of the largest masonry domes in the world, raised over a square hall without any pillar inside.

Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu, later Mother Teresa, was born on 26 August 1910 at Skopje, then in the Ottoman Empire and today the capital of North Macedonia.

Lal Bahadur Shastri was born on 2 October 1904 at Mughalsarai in the Varanasi region of Uttar Pradesh, a town now named Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Nagar; he shares his birthday with Mahatma Gandhi, which is why both are remembered on 2 October.