Which of the following is the oldest stock exchange in India?
- A.CSE
- B.NSE
- C.DSE
- D.BSE
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Explanation
The correct answer is D, BSE. The Bombay Stock Exchange is the oldest stock exchange in India and in Asia. It began in 1875 as the Native Share and Stock Brokers' Association, growing out of the meetings of brokers under a banyan tree near Horniman Circle in Mumbai, and it was the first Indian exchange to be recognised under the Securities Contracts (Regulation) Act, 1956. Its home on Dalal Street is the Phiroze Jeejeebhoy Towers, and its benchmark index is the Sensex, made up of 30 companies. A is wrong because the Calcutta Stock Exchange, though old, was set up in 1908. B is wrong because the National Stock Exchange started in 1992 on the advice of the Pherwani Committee and was the first in India to bring in fully electronic screen-based trading, with Nifty as its index. C is wrong because the Delhi Stock Exchange came up in 1947. Exam tip: BSE 1875 with Sensex 30, NSE 1992 with Nifty 50.
Practice Questions
View allAccording to the law of diminishing marginal utility, as the amount of a good consumed increases, the marginal utility of that good tends to
- A.improve
- B.diminish
- C.remain constant
- D.first diminish and then improve
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Each extra unit of a good gives a consumer less additional satisfaction than the unit before it, so marginal utility falls as consumption rises.
Read the full explanation →Consider the following statements about impact of tax : 1. A tax is shifted forward to consumers if the demand is inelastic relative to supply. 2. A tax is shifted backward to producers if the supply is relatively more inelastic than demand. Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
- A.1 only
- B.2 only
- C.Both 1 and 2
- D.Neither 1 nor 2
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The burden of a tax falls more heavily on whichever side of the market is less elastic, the side that cannot easily walk away.
Read the full explanation →UBI, as an alternative for subsidies in poverty alleviation, stands for
- A.Union Basic Income
- B.Undefined Basic Income
- C.Unconditional Basic Income
- D.Universal Basic Income
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UBI is the idea of paying every citizen a fixed sum of money regularly, without conditions, in place of a large number of separate subsidies and welfare schemes.
Read the full explanation →Who among the following is the Chairman of the Fourteenth Finance Commission?
- A.C. Rangarajan
- B.Vijay Kelkar
- C.Y. V. Reddy
- D.Rakesh Mohan
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The Fourteenth Finance Commission, set up in 2013 for the award period 2015-2020, was chaired by Y. V. Reddy, a former Governor of the Reserve Bank of India.
Read the full explanation →Why was constitutional amendment needed for introducing GST?
- A.States were not willing to agree with the Union for introduction of GST without amendment in the Constitution.
- B.GST was to be implemented on concurrent base and Article 246 was inadequate for such a case.
- C.The Empowered Committee of Finance Ministers had recommended for constitutional amendment.
- D.The GST Council had recommended for constitutional amendment so that its power enhances.
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GST is levied by the Union and the States together on the same supply, and Article 246, which splits taxing powers between them through separate lists, did not allow such a concurrent tax.
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