Delhi Previous Year GK Questions

Under the subsidiary treaty of 1801 the Nawab of Awadh surrendered about half his territory to the Company and agreed to keep a British force at his own cost, the step that reduced Awadh to dependence and led on to its annexation in 1856, one of the causes of the…

Kolleru is a large shallow freshwater lake lying between the deltas of the Krishna and the Godavari, fed by the Budameru and Tammileru streams; it is a natural flood balancing reservoir for the two deltas and an important wintering ground for pelicans and other water birds.

Tripitaka is a Pali and Sanskrit word in which pitaka means a basket, so the whole means three baskets, a name that came from the practice of keeping the palm leaf manuscripts of each collection in a separate basket.

The annual session of the Indian National Congress held at Madras in December 1927, presided over by Dr M. A. Ansari, resolved to boycott the Simon Commission at every stage and in every form, and the same session passed a resolution on complete independence.

Article 156 deals with the term of office of the Governor: clause (1) says that the Governor holds office during the pleasure of the President, clause (2) allows him to resign by writing addressed to the President, and clause (3) fixes his normal term at five years from the date…

The Regulating Act of 1773 changed the designation of the Governor of Bengal to Governor-General of Bengal and created an Executive Council of four members to assist him, and Warren Hastings, who had been Governor of Bengal since 1772, became the first holder of the new office.

The mainland of India extends from about 68 degrees 7 minutes east to about 97 degrees 25 minutes east, a longitudinal spread of roughly 29 degrees.

Charles Fourier and Saint-Simon were French thinkers of the early nineteenth century who, with Robert Owen in Britain, argued that competition should be replaced by cooperative and planned communities in which property is held in common.

In Einstein's special theory of 1905 the energy required to accelerate a body with mass rises without limit as its speed approaches that of light, so such a body can come close to but never reach the speed of light in vacuum, which is the same for every observer.

Coal, petroleum and natural gas were formed over millions of years from buried plant and animal remains, so once a seam or a field is worked out it is not replaced in any human timescale.

Cotton is a kharif crop, sown with the onset of the monsoon in June and July and picked from October onwards, because it needs warmth and rainfall during growth and dry weather at picking.

The Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research at Bombay was set up by the Reserve Bank of India as an advanced research and teaching centre in development economics and was inaugurated in 1987; it is a deemed university that works on energy, environment and macroeconomic policy.

Ram Mohan Roy founded the Brahmo Samaj at Calcutta in 1828, growing out of his earlier Atmiya Sabha and Brahmo Sabha; it preached worship of one formless God, rejected idol worship and caste rigidity, and campaigned against sati, which was banned in 1829.

Nokrek lies in the Garo Hills of Meghalaya and represents the North-East India biogeographic zone in the network of biosphere reserves; it is known for the wild citrus relative called the Indian wild orange and for the hoolock gibbon.

The three language formula, recommended by the Kothari Commission and adopted in the National Policy on Education, places the mother tongue or the regional language first, Hindi second and English third in Hindi-speaking states, while non-Hindi states teach the regional language, Hindi and English; in practice some states substitute another…

On-Line Transaction Processing is the mode in which a bank counter, a railway booking window or a payment gateway works: each transaction is processed the moment it is entered, so the response to the user is immediate, and every committed transaction is written at once, so the database always reflects…

India has a single integrated judiciary arranged in three levels: the Supreme Court at the apex, the High Courts at the level of the States, and the subordinate or district courts below them.

The Sixth Schedule, read with Article 244(2), covers the tribal areas of only four States, namely Assam, Meghalaya, Tripura and Mizoram.

The fourfold varna order of classical texts consists of Brahmin, Kshatriya, Vaishya and Shudra.

Nepal touches five Indian states, namely Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, West Bengal and Sikkim, which is the largest number of States for any neighbour of India.