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 Param Vir Chakra, Maha Vir Chakra and Vir Chakra were instituted on
The three wartime awards were instituted on that date but were given effect from 15 August 1947, so that acts of bravery in the fighting in Kashmir could be recognised.
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Born in Switzerland to a Swiss father and a Hungarian mother, she married an officer of the Indian Army, took Indian citizenship and made a deep study of Indian languages and tradition, which she drew on for the design of the medal and its vajra motif.
Read the full explanation →Who was the first recipient of the Param Vir Chakra?
His company held off a much larger body of raiders and kept them from reaching the airfield, which allowed reinforcements to continue arriving in Kashmir.
Read the full explanation →Which is the highest peacetime gallantry award of India?
It is awarded for the most conspicuous bravery or an act of daring or self-sacrifice of the highest order away from the field of battle, and it may be given to civilians as well as to members of the armed forces.
Read the full explanation →Which is the highest wartime gallantry award of India?
It is given for the most conspicuous act of bravery or self-sacrifice in the presence of the enemy, on land, at sea or in the air, and its name means the wheel of the ultimate brave.
Read the full explanation →The division of the Jain order into Digambara and Shvetambara sects is traditionally linked to which pair of teachers?
During a long famine in Magadha, Bhadrabahu led a body of monks south to Shravanabelagola in Karnataka while Sthulabhadra stayed in the north and convened a council at Pataliputra.
Read the full explanation →In early Buddhist art, the wheel or dharmachakra is used to represent which event in the life of the Buddha?
Because early sculptors at Sanchi and Bharhut did not show the Buddha in human form, they used signs, and the wheel stands for the first sermon at Sarnath, which is itself called the turning of the wheel of law.
Read the full explanation →Who presided over the First Buddhist Council held at Rajgriha?
He presided over the First Buddhist Council, held at Rajgriha soon after the Mahaparinirvana in the reign of Ajatashatru, whose purpose was to settle the teaching before it could be distorted.
Read the full explanation →The earliest Jain canonical texts, the Angas, were compiled in which language?
Mahavira preached in the spoken tongue of Magadha, and the twelve Angas that preserve his teaching are in Ardhamagadhi. They were finally written down at the second Jain council held at Vallabhi in Gujarat under Devardhi Kshamashramana.
Read the full explanation →The Jain doctrine that reality can be viewed from many different standpoints is known as
It is the Jain teaching that every object has countless aspects and that no single judgement can capture the whole truth.
Read the full explanation →Which tree is associated with the enlightenment of Gautama Buddha at Bodh Gaya?
The Buddha attained enlightenment seated under a peepal tree at Bodh Gaya, and the tree is therefore called the Bodhi tree; in early Buddhist art, where the Buddha was never shown in human form, the tree itself stands for the enlightenment.
Read the full explanation →Mahavira attained kaivalya, or perfect knowledge, on the bank of which river?
After twelve years of severe austerity Mahavira attained kaivalya at the age of forty-two under a sal tree at Jrimbhikagrama, on the bank of the river Rijupalika, and from that moment was known as Jina and Kevalin.
Read the full explanation →The Abhidhamma Pitaka was compiled at which Buddhist council?
Held in the reign of Ashoka under the presidency of Moggaliputta Tissa, it purged the order of dissenters, added the Abhidhamma Pitaka, the philosophical third basket, to the canon, and decided to send missionaries to Sri Lanka and other lands.
Read the full explanation →Which vow did Mahavira add to the four vows already taught by Parshvanatha?
Parshvanatha had prescribed four restraints, and Mahavira added celibacy to them, so Jain monastic discipline rests on five great vows: ahimsa, satya, asteya, aparigraha and brahmacharya.
Read the full explanation →Who among the following was the twenty-third Tirthankara of Jainism?
He was the twenty-third Tirthankara, a prince of Varanasi and son of King Ashvasena, whose emblem is the serpent. He is placed about two hundred and fifty years before Mahavira and gave his followers four vows: non-violence, truth, non-stealing and non-possession.
Read the full explanation →The Fourth Buddhist Council was held under the patronage of which ruler?
The Fourth Buddhist Council met at Kundalvana in Kashmir in the first century CE under the Kushana king Kanishka, with Vasumitra presiding and Ashvaghosha assisting him.
Read the full explanation →Gautama Buddha delivered his first sermon at which of the following places?
After his enlightenment the Buddha walked to the deer park at Sarnath near Varanasi and taught the Four Noble Truths to the five ascetics who had earlier deserted him.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following statements about NITI Aayog is correct?
NITI Aayog advises the Union and the state governments, prepares strategy, monitors programmes and acts as a forum for the states, but no money passes through it; that is the sharpest difference from the Planning Commission it replaced.
Read the full explanation →The Atal Innovation Mission is an initiative of which body?
The mission promotes a culture of innovation and enterprise, chiefly through tinkering laboratories in schools and incubation centres in colleges and institutions, and it is run under NITI Aayog as part of its role as the government think tank.
Read the full explanation →Which was the last of the Five Year Plans in India?
It ran from 2012 to 2017 with the aim of faster, more inclusive and sustainable growth, and when it ended no thirteenth plan followed, because NITI Aayog had replaced the Planning Commission and put a long-term vision with a shorter action agenda in place of five year plans.
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