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 of the following countries is NOT a member of BIMSTEC?
BIMSTEC has seven members: Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Thailand, of which five are in South Asia and two in Southeast Asia.
Read the full explanation →BIMSTEC was founded in 1997 and its permanent Secretariat is located at:
The BIMSTEC Secretariat was opened at Dhaka in Bangladesh in 2014, seventeen years after the grouping was created by the Bangkok Declaration of 6 June 1997.
Read the full explanation →The Secretariat of ASEAN is located in which city?
The ASEAN Secretariat has been at Jakarta, the capital of Indonesia, since 1976, and it supports the summits, the ministerial councils and the three community pillars into which the grouping's work was organised in 2015.
Read the full explanation →ASEAN was established in 1967 by which declaration?
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations was created on 8 August 1967 by the Bangkok Declaration, also called the ASEAN Declaration, signed by the foreign ministers of Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand; 8 August is observed as ASEAN Day.
Read the full explanation →Which country was admitted to SAARC in 2007 as its eighth member?
SAARC began with seven members, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka, and Afghanistan was admitted as the eighth member at the fourteenth summit held in New Delhi in 2007, making it the only country to have joined the grouping after its founding.
Read the full explanation →The Secretariat of SAARC is located in which city?
The SAARC Secretariat was established at Kathmandu in Nepal on 16 January 1987 and is headed by a Secretary-General chosen from the member states in turn; it coordinates the work of the technical committees and the regional centres.
Read the full explanation →SAARC was established in which year, and at the summit held in which city?
The South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation came into being on 8 December 1985, when the heads of state and government of seven South Asian countries adopted its Charter at the first summit in Dhaka; the proposal had been made by President Ziaur Rahman of Bangladesh at the start of…
Read the full explanation →Where was the 17th SAARC (2011) Conference held?
The seventeenth SAARC summit was held in November 2011 at Addu City in the Maldives, the country's second largest urban area, on Addu Atoll in the far south of the chain, and its theme was building bridges.
Read the full explanation →The book Who Says Elephants Can't Dance? records the turnaround of which company?
Who Says Elephants Can't Dance? was written by Louis V. Gerstner Jr. and published in 2002.
Read the full explanation →The Z Factor: My Journey as the Wrong Man at the Right Time is the autobiography of:
The founder of the Essel group and of Zee, India's first privately owned Hindi satellite channel, told his story in The Z Factor, written with Pranjal Sharma.
Read the full explanation →The collection of speeches titled A Better India: A Better World was written by:
The founder of Infosys gathered his lectures and convocation addresses into A Better India: A Better World, published in 2009, on themes of fairness in business, the duties of the educated and what he called compassionate capitalism.
Read the full explanation →Made in Japan is the autobiography of a co-founder of which company?
Made in Japan was written by Akio Morita, who founded Sony with Masaru Ibuka, and it appeared in 1986.
Read the full explanation →Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead was written by:
Lean In was published in 2013 by Sheryl Sandberg, then Chief Operating Officer of Facebook, and argues that women hold themselves back at work in ways that can be named and corrected, from leaving before they leave to underestimating their own readiness for a role.
Read the full explanation →Stay Hungry Stay Foolish, which profiles twenty-five entrepreneurs who studied at IIM Ahmedabad, was written by:
Stay Hungry Stay Foolish appeared in 2008 and carries twenty-five profiles of entrepreneurs who had studied at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, grouped by whether they were born to business, were self-made or were driven by a cause.
Read the full explanation →The book Hit Refresh was written by which technology chief executive?
Hit Refresh was published in 2017 by Satya Nadella, who became Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft in 2014.
Read the full explanation →Shoe Dog is the memoir of the man who created which sportswear company?
Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike was written by Phil Knight and published in 2016.
Read the full explanation →The autobiography I Too Had a Dream, which tells the story of the Amul milk co-operative, was written by:
Kurien, the mechanical engineer who built the Amul co-operative at Anand in Gujarat and headed the National Dairy Development Board, told his story in I Too Had a Dream, written with Gouri Salvi and published in 2005; his earlier volume of lectures is An Unfinished Dream.
Read the full explanation →The book Imagining India: Ideas for the New Century was written by which business leader?
Nilekani, a co-founder of Infosys and the first Chairman of the Unique Identification Authority of India, published Imagining India: Ideas for the New Century in 2008; it argues that India's young population, its cities and its technology can be turned from problems into assets.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following is NOT taken into account in computing an individual's credit score?
A credit score is built only from credit behaviour reported by lenders, so income, the balance in a savings account, the deposits held with a bank, and matters such as caste or religion are not part of it; a lender looks at income separately when it assesses whether a borrower…
Read the full explanation →As directed by the Reserve Bank, how many free full credit reports must each credit information company give an individual in a calendar year?
The Reserve Bank has directed every credit information company to provide one free full credit report to an individual once in each calendar year, on request, so that a borrower can check the record and have an error corrected before applying for a loan.
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