Static General Knowledge makes up the rest of the General Awareness section in RRB NTPC, and the notices name its topics: General Science and Life Science up to Class 10, History of India and the freedom struggle, Physical, Social and Economic Geography of India and the world, Indian Polity and Governance, Indian Economy, Art and Culture, Indian Literature, Monuments and Places, Flora and Fauna, Famous Personalities, the UN and other world organisations, environmental issues, Transport Systems in India, Important Government and Public Sector Organisations, Common Abbreviations, and Basics of Computers and Computer Applications. RRB frames these as short factual questions: the unit of a physical quantity, the year of a battle, the article of the Constitution, the river a city stands on, the full form of an abbreviation, the headquarters of an organisation. GK24's GK notes on this page cover each topic in English and Hindi, arranged the way the syllabus lists them, with the facts RRB tends to ask placed first. Work through one topic at a time, note the lists (national parks, dances, articles, schedules, awards), and pair each topic with its quiz on GK24 to check what has stayed with you.
The Indus Waters Treaty of 1960 allotted which rivers to India?
The Indus Waters Treaty was signed at Karachi in 1960 by Jawaharlal Nehru and President Ayub Khan, with the World Bank as the third party to the agreement.
Read the full explanation →By which treaty did Peshwa Baji Rao II accept the subsidiary alliance of the East India Company?
Signed in 1802, it bound Peshwa Baji Rao II to Lord Wellesley's subsidiary alliance after his defeat by the Holkars at Poona.
Read the full explanation →The Treaty of Salbai, signed in 1782, ended which war?
The Treaty of Salbai of 1782 closed the First Anglo-Maratha War, which had begun with the Company's attempt to place Raghunath Rao in power at Pune.
Read the full explanation →The Treaty of Allahabad of 1765 gave the English East India Company the diwani rights of which regions?
The Treaty of Allahabad was signed in 1765 by Robert Clive with the Mughal emperor Shah Alam II and Shuja-ud-Daula of Awadh after the Company's victory at the Battle of Buxar in 1764.
Read the full explanation →The cricketer called the Nawab of Najafgarh is
The opening batter came from Najafgarh on the outskirts of Delhi, and the title Nawab of Najafgarh was coined for him in play on the real royal title held by an earlier India captain; he is also called Multan ka Sultan for the triple century he scored at Multan.
Read the full explanation →In tennis, the title King of Clay is associated with which player?
The Spaniard's record on clay courts, above all at the French Open, earned him the name King of Clay, and he is also called Rafa.
Read the full explanation →The Indian woman cricketer known as the Chakda Express is
The fast bowler comes from Chakdaha in the Nadia district of West Bengal, and her nickname joins that town to her pace, in the manner of the Payyoli Express and the Rawalpindi Express.
Read the full explanation →Which Indian cricketer earned the nickname The Wall for his defensive batting?
The Karnataka batter was called The Wall for the long innings with which he held up an end for India in Test cricket, and Jammy within his team.
Read the full explanation →The footballer Pele was popularly known by which nickname?
Pele of Brazil, the only player to win three World Cups, was called Perola Negra, the Black Pearl, and also the King of Football.
Read the full explanation →The fast bowler known as the Rawalpindi Express is
The Pakistani fast bowler came from Rawalpindi and bowled some of the quickest deliveries ever recorded, which earned him the name Rawalpindi Express, built on the same pattern as the Payyoli Express and the Chakda Express.
Read the full explanation →Magnificent Mary is the nickname of which Indian sportsperson?
The boxer from Manipur, a multiple world amateur champion and an Olympic medallist from the London Games of 2012, was called Magnificent Mary by the international boxing federation, and the name has stayed with her.
Read the full explanation →Major Dhyan Chand, the legendary Indian hockey player, is popularly known as
Dhyan Chand played centre forward in the Indian teams that won Olympic gold in 1928, 1932 and 1936, and his control of the ball was so complete that opponents suspected the stick itself.
Read the full explanation →Who among the following is known as the Flying Sikh?
The sprinter won gold in the four hundred metres at the Asian Games and at the Commonwealth Games and finished fourth in the Olympic final at Rome in 1960, and the name was given to him in Pakistan after he beat the local champion there.
Read the full explanation →The athlete known as the Payyoli Express is
Payyoli is her village in the Kozhikode district of Kerala, and the word Express was added for the speed that made her Asia's leading woman sprinter in the nineteen-eighties; she is also called the Golden Girl of India.
Read the full explanation →Which Indian cricketer is known as the Haryana Hurricane?
The all-rounder from Chandigarh who played for Haryana was called the Haryana Hurricane for the pace of his bowling and the speed of his hitting, and he captained India to the World Cup of 1983.
Read the full explanation →India's second spaceport, meant for small satellite launch vehicles, is being built at Kulasekarapattinam in which state?
Kulasekarapattinam lies in the Thoothukudi district of Tamil Nadu, on the southern coast, and is being developed as a spaceport for small satellite launch vehicles.
Read the full explanation →The Indian Space Policy, which allows non-government entities to carry out end-to-end space activities, was approved in which year?
The Indian Space Policy was approved in 2023 and set out in writing the division of work that the reforms of 2020 had begun: private companies, called non-government entities, may carry out the whole range of space activities; ISRO is to concentrate on research and advanced missions; NSIL is to…
Read the full explanation →In which space activity is foreign direct investment allowed up to 100 per cent through the automatic route?
Under the policy amended in 2024, the manufacture of components, systems and sub-systems for satellites and for the ground and user segment is open to foreign direct investment up to 100 per cent through the automatic route, the most liberal of the three groups, because it is a manufacturing activity…
Read the full explanation →Under the foreign direct investment policy amended in 2024, foreign investment in satellite manufacturing and operation is allowed up to what level through the automatic route?
The amendment approved by the Union Cabinet in February 2024 divides space activities into three groups with different automatic-route ceilings.
Read the full explanation →Which body is the single window for authorising the space activities of private companies in India?
Under the reforms of 2020 and the Indian Space Policy of 2023, the Indian National Space Promotion and Authorisation Centre is the single-window autonomous body that authorises, promotes, hand-holds and supervises the space activities of non-government entities, and that permits them to use the facilities of the Department of Space.
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