Static GK Mixed Quiz: Set 57

The World Meteorological Organization has its headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. The WMO is a specialised agency of the United Nations for weather, climate, water resources and related sciences.

Bhagat Singh was born in 1907 at Banga in the Lyallpur district of undivided Punjab. Lyallpur was renamed Faisalabad after Partition and lies in the Punjab province of Pakistan, so the village of his birth is now in Pakistan.

The Government of India (Allocation of Business) Rules give all four subjects to the Department of Defence in the Ministry of Defence.

The Health Survey and Development Committee of 1946, chaired by Sir Joseph Bhore, examined the health services of the country and recommended, among much else, a national medical centre that would set the standard for teaching and research.

Koradi Thermal Power Station stands at Koradi, a few kilometres north of Nagpur city in Maharashtra. The plant is run by MAHAGENCO, the Maharashtra State Power Generation Company, and burns coal from the mines of the Vidarbha region.

This large hall on the western side of Tiananmen Square in Beijing is where the National People's Congress, China's legislature, holds its sessions, and where state ceremonies and receptions for visiting leaders are held.

Both statements repeat the Statute of the International Court of Justice. The Court, the principal judicial organ of the United Nations, sits at the Peace Palace in The Hague and has fifteen judges elected for nine-year terms, with one-third of the seats falling vacant every three years.

The Ainu are the indigenous people of Hokkaido, the northern island of Japan, and formerly of Sakhalin and the Kuril islands.

Kandla Port in the Kutch district of Gujarat was renamed Deendayal Port in 2017 after Pandit Deendayal Upadhyaya. Kandla was developed in the 1950s on the Gulf of Kutch to replace the trade that India lost when Karachi went to Pakistan at Partition.

The World Press Freedom Index has been brought out since 2002 by Reporters Without Borders, a non-governmental organisation based in Paris, which ranks countries on the conditions in which journalists work.

"Not Me But You" is the motto of the NSS, and it stands for selfless service to others. The National Service Scheme was launched on 24 September 1969, the birth centenary year of Mahatma Gandhi, with the aim of building the personality of students through community service.

Bose addressed Gandhi as the Father of the Nation in a radio broadcast made while he was leading the Azad Hind movement during the Second World War, and the phrase has stayed with Gandhi ever since.

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

Roentgen, a German physicist, noticed in 1895 that a screen in his darkened laboratory glowed while a covered discharge tube was running, and he named the unknown radiation X-rays.

The College of Military Engineering stands at Dapodi in Pune, Maharashtra, and is the main training institution of the Indian Army's Corps of Engineers.

ISRO was formed on 15 August 1969, taking over the work of the committee that had been running the programme.

UN peacekeeping missions are set up by resolutions of the Security Council, the organ that the UN Charter makes primarily responsible for international peace and security, so the power does not rest exclusively with the General Assembly and statement 1 is wrong.

The Kakrapar Atomic Power Station stands near Vyara in the Tapi district of Gujarat, on the bank of the Tapi river, and is run by the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited.

The ten non-permanent seats are shared by region as statement 1 says, but only five of them are filled each year, not six.

The UN Security Council began with 6 non-permanent members and has had 10 since 1965, each elected for a two-year term.