RRB NTPC 2022 Previous Year GK Questions with Answers

The English East India Company opened its first factory in Bengal at Hugli in 1651, after Mughal permission to trade in the province in return for a yearly payment.

The Tehri Dam stands on the Bhagirathi in the Tehri Garhwal district of Uttarakhand, just below the point where the Bhilangana joins the river.

The Monopolies and Restrictive Trade Practices Act was passed in 1969 and came into force on 1 June 1970. It followed the report of the Dutt Committee on industrial licensing, which found that economic power had gathered in a few business houses.

Article 234 of the Constitution says that appointments of persons other than district judges to the judicial service of a state are made by the Governor, following rules framed after consulting the State Public Service Commission and the High Court of that state.

Gamma rays sit at the far end of the electromagnetic spectrum, with the shortest wavelength and therefore the highest frequency and energy.

The fusion of a male gamete with a female gamete is called fertilisation, and the single cell it produces is the zygote.

Article 64 makes the Vice-President the ex officio Chairman of the Council of States, that is, the Rajya Sabha. "Ex officio" means by virtue of the office: nobody elects the Chairman separately.

Net National Product is simply Gross National Product minus depreciation, that is NNP = GNP − Depreciation.

The Fundamental Duties were written into the Constitution in 1976 by the 42nd Amendment, on the advice of the Swaran Singh Committee, and the idea was borrowed from the Constitution of the erstwhile Soviet Union.

HTTP stands for HyperText Transfer Protocol and it is the set of rules by which a browser asks a web server for a page and the server sends it back, which is how data on the World Wide Web is reached.

The peacock is a bird, and all birds, like mammals, have a heart of four chambers: two atria and two ventricles.

In the Union Budget, money coming to the government is split into revenue receipts and capital receipts, and the test is exactly this one.

European sailors called the Konark Sun temple the Black Pagoda because its dark stone tower stood out on the Odisha coast and served them as a landmark, in contrast to the whitewashed Jagannath temple at Puri, which they called the White Pagoda.

Zinc has atomic number 30, which means each of its atoms carries 30 protons in the nucleus.

In MS-Word 2016 the button marked 'Aa' in the Font group of the Home tab opens the Change Case menu, which rewrites the selected text without retyping it.

It states that the upthrust on a body dipped fully or partly in a fluid equals the weight of the fluid the body pushes aside.

India's first Industrial Policy Resolution was announced on 6 April 1948 by Shyama Prasad Mukherjee, the first Industry Minister.

Stagflation is a blend of the words stagnation and inflation: output stops growing, unemployment rises, and yet prices keep climbing.

Ratnavali is one of three Sanskrit plays attributed to Emperor Harshavardhana of Kannauj, who ruled from 606 to 647 CE; the other two are Priyadarshika and Nagananda.

The Preamble opens with the words WE, THE PEOPLE OF INDIA, which declare that the Constitution draws its authority from the people, not from any king, court or legislature.