RRB NTPC GK Questions 2026

Clive arranged after 1765 that the Company should hold the Diwani, the right to collect revenue, while the Nawab kept the Nizamat, the duty of administration and justice without the money to perform it; the result was a government in which nobody was answerable, and the famine of 1770 followed.

After Buxar the Mughal emperor Shah Alam II granted the Company the Diwani of these provinces, which gave it a legal title to their revenues and turned a trading body into a territorial power.

At Buxar on 22 October 1764 Hector Munro defeated this alliance of the deposed Nawab of Bengal, the reigning Mughal emperor and the Nawab of Awadh, and the Treaty of Allahabad of 1765 followed.

Clive commanded the forces of the East India Company at Plassey on 23 June 1757 and defeated Siraj-ud-Daulah, the Nawab of Bengal, a victory owed chiefly to the defection of the Nawab's commander Mir Jafar.

He served as Mughal governor of the Deccan and for a short time as wazir of the empire, and on withdrawing to the south in 1724 he ruled as Nizam-ul-Mulk Asaf Jah, founding the line of the Nizams of Hyderabad.

Saadat Khan, who held the title Burhan-ul-Mulk, was appointed governor of Awadh in 1722 and converted the governorship into a hereditary principality, keeping the outward forms of allegiance to the Mughal emperor while ruling independently.

Concluded in 1975 under the auspices of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, it was renamed the Asia-Pacific Trade Agreement in 2005 and its members are India, Bangladesh, China, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Laos and Mongolia.

SAFTA was signed at the twelfth SAARC summit held in Islamabad in January 2004 and came into force on 1 January 2006, replacing the earlier and far weaker South Asian Preferential Trading Arrangement of 1995.

Rules of origin test whether a product really originates with the partner, usually by requiring a change in its tariff classification there together with a minimum share of value added in that country.

Article 7.1 of TEPA commits the EFTA states to increase foreign direct investment in India by 50 billion US dollars in the first ten years and a further 50 billion in the following five years, a total of 100 billion over fifteen years, with the stated aim of generating one…

The India-Australia Economic Cooperation and Trade Agreement, abbreviated ECTA, was signed in April 2022 and came into force in December 2022 as an interim step towards a wider comprehensive agreement.

A customs union removes duties on trade among its members and, in addition, requires every member to levy the same tariff on goods coming from outside the union, which is the common external tariff.

At the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership summit held in Bangkok in November 2019, India announced that it would not join the agreement.

The India-UAE Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement was signed on 18 February 2022 and came into force on 1 May 2022, a gap of barely ten weeks that makes it one of the fastest agreements India has brought into operation.

The India-Mauritius Comprehensive Economic Cooperation and Partnership Agreement, or CECPA, took effect in 2021 and is the first trade agreement India concluded with any African country.

The European Free Trade Association has exactly four members today: Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland. Denmark was among the seven countries that set up EFTA in 1960, but it left to join the European Communities and is today a member of the European Union, not of EFTA.

TEPA was signed on 10 March 2024 in New Delhi with the four EFTA states, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland, and came into force on 1 October 2025.

India has no bilateral free trade agreement with Brazil. Its only preferential link with Brazil is through the limited India-MERCOSUR Preferential Trade Agreement, which covers a short list of products at reduced duty and is not a free trade agreement.

The distinction worth holding on to is between the largest overall contributor and the largest single payment.

The receipts of the National Biodiversity Authority come in under that Act read with the Access and Benefit Sharing Regulations, which require users of Indian biological resources to share benefits with the country and with the communities that conserve those resources.