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 sabha and the samiti are described as the twin daughters of Prajapati in which text?
The phrase is quoted so often in examinations because it fixes both the names of the assemblies and the text they are described in.
Read the full explanation →In the Rigveda, which river is described as the naditama, the holiest of rivers?
The Rigveda praises it as the naditama, the best or holiest of rivers, and treats it as a goddess as well as a stream.
Read the full explanation →Which god is invoked in the largest number of hymns in the Rigveda?
He is the god of rain and of war, called Purandara, the breaker of forts, and the largest number of Rigvedic hymns is addressed to him, which matches a people whose life turned on rainfall and on cattle raids.
Read the full explanation →The Purusha Sukta, the hymn that first mentions the four varnas, occurs in which mandala of the Rigveda?
The Purusha Sukta describes the sacrifice of the cosmic being from whose parts the brahmana, kshatriya, vaishya and shudra are said to have come, and it is the first statement of the fourfold varna order.
Read the full explanation →The Battle of Ten Kings, the Dasarajna, was fought on the banks of which river?
The seventh mandala of the Rigveda describes how Sudas, the king of the Bharata tribe, defeated a confederacy of ten tribes on its banks, and the battle is the clearest political event recorded in the whole of Rigvedic literature.
Read the full explanation →Which Veda is considered the origin of Indian classical music?
Its verses are largely borrowed from the Rigveda but are arranged to be sung to fixed melodies during sacrifices, and those melodies are the earliest record of musical notation in India, which is why the Samaveda is called the root of Indian classical music.
Read the full explanation →Under MGNREGA, an unemployment allowance becomes payable if work is not provided within how many days of the demand?
The Act requires that employment be given within fifteen days of an application for work, and if the administration fails to do so, the state government becomes liable to pay an unemployment allowance to the applicant.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following is not an activity of the tertiary sector?
A mill turns sugarcane into sugar, that is, it changes the form of a natural product, and every such transformation belongs to the secondary or industrial sector.
Read the full explanation →Gross domestic product is the value of which of the following?
Gross domestic product is the money value of all final goods and services produced within the boundaries of a country during a year, counted sector by sector.
Read the full explanation →Operation Flood, launched in 1970, was associated with which product?
Operation Flood, launched in 1970 and led by Verghese Kurien, linked village dairy cooperatives to city markets and made India one of the world's great milk producers.
Read the full explanation →On what basis are the public sector and the private sector distinguished?
In the public sector the government owns the assets and provides the services, and the aim is public welfare rather than profit; in the private sector ownership rests with individuals or companies and profit is the motive.
Read the full explanation →The division of the economy into organised and unorganised sectors is based on what?
An enterprise belongs to the organised sector when it is registered with the government and follows labour laws, so that employment is regular and secure and workers get fixed hours, paid leave, provident fund and medical benefits.
Read the full explanation →Banking and insurance are activities of which sector?
Banking and insurance create no physical product; they support production and trade by providing credit, moving money and covering risk, and such support activities are the core of the tertiary or service sector.
Read the full explanation →Which sector employs the largest share of India's workforce?
Agriculture and its allied activities still give work to the largest number of Indians, even though the sector's contribution to national income is far smaller than that share of employment would suggest.
Read the full explanation →How many days of wage employment in a financial year does MGNREGA guarantee to a rural household?
The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, passed in 2005, guarantees one hundred days of wage employment in a financial year to every rural household whose adult members volunteer to do unskilled manual work.
Read the full explanation →Disguised unemployment is most commonly found in which sector in India?
On a small family holding every member of the household may work on the land even though the work needs far fewer hands; if some of them were withdrawn, total output would not fall.
Read the full explanation →Which sector of the economy is also known as the service sector?
It produces no goods at all; it provides services such as transport, storage, communication, trade, banking, insurance, education, health care and administration, which is why it is commonly called the service sector.
Read the full explanation →Mining is classified under which sector of the economy?
Mining takes a product straight out of nature without changing its form, exactly as farming, fishing and forestry do, and every activity of that kind is placed in the primary sector.
Read the full explanation →The standard meridian of India passes close to which town?
The meridian of 82 degrees 30 minutes east passes near this town, and its local time is kept as Indian Standard Time across the whole country.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following statements about meridians of longitude is correct?
Every meridian runs from the North Pole to the South Pole, so all meridians are semicircles of the same length and all of them converge at the two poles.
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