Static GK is the largest part of General Studies in every state exam, and most of it is national. Indian polity, history and the national movement, geography of India, the Indian economy and general science appear in the syllabus of UPPSC PCS and PET, BPSC and BSSC, RPSC and RSSB, MPPSC and MPESB, HPSC and HSSC, and DSSSB and Delhi Police. The level changes from exam to exam. PET sets its subjects at NCERT secondary and senior secondary level, BSSC asks matric-level science, and RPSC sets the RAS Prelims at Bachelor's degree standard. This page brings together GK24's topic-wise GK notes tagged for state exams. Each note covers one topic in English and Hindi, as short facts and tables that can be revised in one sitting, and ends with multiple-choice questions and explanations. Start with Polity, History and Geography, then move to the Economy and Science. GK24 does not have state GK sections. As guidance, use these notes for the national part and prepare your state's history, geography, culture, economy and schemes from state board textbooks, the state budget and economic survey, and the commission's past papers. After each note, take its topic quiz and mark what you got wrong.
The name Chandigarh is derived from:
Chandi Mandir, a temple of the goddess Chandi, a form of Durga, stands near the city in what is now the Panchkula district of Haryana.
Read the full explanation →The Rock Garden of Chandigarh, made from industrial and urban waste, was created by:
A road inspector in the public works department, he began collecting discarded stones, broken crockery, bangles, tiles and electrical waste in the 1950s and built a secret garden of sculptures on land that was officially a forest buffer.
Read the full explanation →The Capitol Complex of Chandigarh was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in which year?
In that year the Capitol Complex was added to the World Heritage List as part of a transnational serial property titled The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier, an Outstanding Contribution to the Modern Movement, which brings together his buildings in several countries.
Read the full explanation →Chandigarh became a Union Territory on which date?
On that day the Punjab Reorganisation Act, 1966 came into force, Haryana was created as a separate state out of Punjab on a largely linguistic basis, parts of the hill areas went to Himachal Pradesh, and the capital city was constituted a Union Territory and made the joint capital of…
Read the full explanation →The master plan of Chandigarh was prepared by which architect?
The Swiss-French architect, whose real name was Charles-Edouard Jeanneret, took charge of the project after the first team broke up and gave the city its grid of sectors, its hierarchy of roads and the monumental buildings of the Capitol Complex.
Read the full explanation →Chandigarh serves as the capital of which two Indian states?
When Haryana was carved out of Punjab on 1 November 1966, the new state had no capital of its own, so the existing capital city was made a Union Territory and declared the joint capital of both states.
Read the full explanation →In February 2023, India's Unified Payments Interface was linked with the fast payment system of which country?
The linkage joined India's Unified Payments Interface with Singapore's PayNow, so that users of either system could send money across the border using a mobile number or a virtual payment address rather than full bank details.
Read the full explanation →India's own secure financial messaging backbone, used for RTGS, NEFT and inland letters of credit, is:
Developed by the Institute for Development and Research in Banking Technology at Hyderabad and built on the INFINET network of the banking sector, it carries the secure, standardised messages behind the Reserve Bank's Real Time Gross Settlement and National Electronic Funds Transfer, and is also used for inland letters of…
Read the full explanation →Under the Liberalised Remittance Scheme, how much may a resident individual remit abroad in a financial year?
The Liberalised Remittance Scheme allows a resident individual, including a minor, to remit up to that amount in a financial year for any permitted current account purpose such as travel, education, medical treatment, gifts and maintenance of relatives, and for permitted capital account purposes such as buying property or shares…
Read the full explanation →In July 2022 the Reserve Bank of India allowed the settlement of international trade in Indian rupees through which mechanism?
Under the arrangement, an authorised dealer bank in India opens such an account for the correspondent bank of a partner country.
Read the full explanation →Which SWIFT message type is used for a single customer credit transfer, the ordinary outward remittance?
The MT 1 category covers customer payments, and MT 103 is the standard instruction by which a bank asks its correspondent to pay a named beneficiary a stated amount, carrying the remitter's and beneficiary's details and the charges instruction.
Read the full explanation →A SWIFT Business Identifier Code or BIC consists of how many characters?
Under the standard ISO 9362 a BIC has four characters identifying the institution, two identifying the country on the ISO 3166 list, and two identifying the location, which makes eight.
Read the full explanation →In correspondent banking, a mirror account is:
The nostro account itself lies in the books of the foreign correspondent and is denominated in foreign currency.
Read the full explanation →A rupee account maintained with an Indian bank by a bank situated abroad is called:
Vostro means yours, and from the Indian bank's point of view the account is your account with us. Such accounts are held in Indian rupees, and the foreign bank uses them to make and receive payments in India.
Read the full explanation →A nostro account of an Indian bank is:
Nostro means ours, and the full sense is our account with you.
Read the full explanation →Which statement about SWIFT is correct?
SWIFT transmits standardised, secure messages such as an instruction to pay a beneficiary or to issue a letter of credit.
Read the full explanation →The headquarters of SWIFT is located in which country?
SWIFT is headquartered at La Hulpe, in the outskirts of Brussels, and it is therefore incorporated under Belgian law and supervised by a committee of central banks with the National Bank of Belgium as the lead overseer.
Read the full explanation →SWIFT, used by banks for cross-border messages, stands for:
The word Society is the key, because SWIFT is a cooperative society owned by its member financial institutions rather than a company or a public authority.
Read the full explanation →Under the ICC Incoterms, in a contract on CIF terms the seller bears the cost of:
CIF stands for cost, insurance and freight: the seller pays the cost of the goods, contracts and pays for the freight to the named destination port, and takes out marine insurance for the buyer's benefit.
Read the full explanation →After the large fraud detected at Punjab National Bank, which instrument did the Reserve Bank of India discontinue in March 2018 for trade credit on imports?
In March 2018 the Reserve Bank discontinued the issuance of letters of undertaking and letters of comfort for trade credit relating to imports into India.
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