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.
Which body issues the ISI mark in India?
The Bureau is India’s National Standards Body and it grants the ISI mark to manufactured goods that conform to the relevant Indian Standard.
Read the full explanation →In 2018 Havelock Island in the Andamans was renamed as
In 2018, on the seventy-fifth anniversary of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose hoisting the tricolour at Port Blair on 30 December 1943, three islands were renamed: Havelock became Swaraj Dweep, Neil became Shaheed Dweep and Ross Island became Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose Dweep.
Read the full explanation →The Andaman and Nicobar Islands fall under the jurisdiction of which High Court?
The correct answer is B, the Calcutta High Court, which exercises jurisdiction over the Andaman and Nicobar Islands and holds a circuit bench at the Territory’s capital.
Read the full explanation →Indira Point, the southernmost point of India, is located on which island?
Indira Point lies at the southern tip of Great Nicobar, the largest island of the Nicobar group, and is the southernmost point of the territory of India; it was formerly called Pygmalion Point and also Parsons Point, and its lighthouse subsided during the tsunami of 2004.
Read the full explanation →Auroville, the international township with the Matrimandir at its centre, was founded in 1968 near Puducherry by
She founded Auroville in 1968 as an international township where people of all countries could live in peace, and soil from many nations was placed in an urn at its inauguration; the Matrimandir is its meditation centre.
Read the full explanation →Which of these tribal groups of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands lives on North Sentinel Island?
The Sentinelese live on North Sentinel Island, have avoided contact with the outside world and are one of the particularly vulnerable tribal groups of the Territory, with the island closed to visitors by law.
Read the full explanation →Dadra and Nagar Haveli was merged with Daman and Diu into a single Union Territory on which date?
The Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu (Merger of Union Territories) Act, 2019 merged the two into one Union Territory with effect from 26 January 2020, with Daman as its headquarters and Silvassa as the headquarters of the Dadra and Nagar Haveli district.
Read the full explanation →Which Constitutional Amendment Act gave Delhi the status of National Capital Territory with a Legislative Assembly?
It inserted Article 239AA, renamed the Union Territory of Delhi as the National Capital Territory of Delhi and provided for a Legislative Assembly of seventy seats and a Council of Ministers of not more than ten per cent of the total members, that is seven.
Read the full explanation →Chandigarh, the first planned city of independent India, was chiefly designed by which architect?
The first plan for Chandigarh was prepared by Albert Mayer with Matthew Nowicki, and after Nowicki died in an air crash the work passed to the Swiss-French architect Le Corbusier, assisted by Pierre Jeanneret, Jane Drew and Maxwell Fry.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following districts of Puducherry lies within the State of Kerala?
Puducherry is made up of four non-contiguous districts, and Mahe is the one on the Malabar coast surrounded by Kerala.
Read the full explanation →Which is the capital of Lakshadweep, the smallest Union Territory of India by area?
Kavaratti is the capital and administrative headquarters of Lakshadweep, which is India’s smallest Union Territory by area and its only group of coral atolls.
Read the full explanation →The Ten Degree Channel separates which two groups of islands?
The Ten Degree Channel runs roughly along the tenth parallel of north latitude, between Little Andaman to its north and Car Nicobar to its south, and it is a busy shipping lane.
Read the full explanation →Which is the only active volcano in India?
Barren Island, in the Andaman Sea about one hundred and forty kilometres north-east of the capital of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, is the only active volcano in India and in South Asia, and it has erupted several times in recent decades.
Read the full explanation →Which Article of the Constitution provides that every Union Territory shall be administered by the President through an Administrator appointed by him?
It lays down the basic rule that a Union Territory is administered by the President acting through an Administrator appointed by him with such designation as the President may specify, which is why some Administrators are styled Lieutenant Governor.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following is the folk theatre form of the Kashmir valley?
Bhand Pather is the traditional satirical folk theatre of the Kashmir valley, performed by the Bhand community with music on the surnai and the dhol, and it mixes acting, dance and sharp social comment.
Read the full explanation →The Siachen glacier, on which Operation Meghdoot was launched in 1984, lies in which valley of Ladakh?
The Siachen glacier lies at the head of the Nubra valley in the eastern Karakoram and is the longest glacier of that range; the Nubra river issues from it and joins the Shyok, which joins the Indus.
Read the full explanation →Maharaja Hari Singh signed the Instrument of Accession of Jammu and Kashmir to India on
Maharaja Hari Singh, the last Dogra ruler of the princely State, signed the Instrument of Accession on 26 October 1947 after tribal raiders backed from across the border entered the State, and Indian troops were airlifted to Srinagar the next day.
Read the full explanation →India’s first Dark Sky Reserve, notified in 2022, is at which place in Ladakh?
Hanle in eastern Ladakh, within the Changthang Cold Desert Wildlife Sanctuary, already hosts the Indian Astronomical Observatory of the Indian Institute of Astrophysics, and the surrounding area was notified in 2022 as India’s first Dark Sky Reserve to keep artificial light from spoiling the night sky for astronomy and for…
Read the full explanation →Under the Indus Waters Treaty of 1960, which three rivers were allotted to Pakistan as the western rivers?
The treaty signed in 1960 with the World Bank as a party gave the three western rivers to Pakistan and the three eastern rivers, the Ravi, the Beas and the Sutlej, to India for unrestricted use.
Read the full explanation →The Shalimar Bagh at Srinagar was laid out by which Mughal ruler?
Jahangir laid out the Shalimar Bagh on the shore of the Dal lake in 1619 for Nur Jahan, and it is the largest of the Mughal gardens of Srinagar, built on terraces with a central water channel.
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