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.
Siam is the former name of which country?
The kingdom was called Siam until 1939, when it took the name Thailand, understood as the land of the free, a name that fits the fact that it is the one country of South-East Asia never ruled by a European power.
Read the full explanation →Erythropoietin, better known as EPO, is prohibited in sport because it
Erythropoietin is a hormone that signals the bone marrow to make red blood cells; when it is injected, the blood carries more oxygen to the muscles and endurance rises, which is why it has been the drug of choice in cycling and distance events and why it is banned at…
Read the full explanation →Which sprinter was stripped of the 100 metres gold medal of the 1988 Seoul Olympics after testing positive for the anabolic steroid stanozolol?
The case is treated as the moment doping became a public issue and is the usual example in questions on the subject.
Read the full explanation →What is the slogan of the World Anti-Doping Agency?
The phrase has been WADA's slogan since its early years and appears on its campaigns, its outreach programmes at major Games and its education material for athletes.
Read the full explanation →The National Dope Testing Laboratory of India is located at
The National Dope Testing Laboratory, which analyses the samples that NADA collects, functions at New Delhi under the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, and its standing as a testing laboratory rests on accreditation by WADA.
Read the full explanation →In anti-doping rules, what is a Therapeutic Use Exemption (TUE)?
An athlete who genuinely needs a medicine that appears on the Prohibited List, such as an inhaler for asthma or insulin for diabetes, applies in advance to a panel of doctors, which may grant a Therapeutic Use Exemption limited to that substance, dose and period.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following classes of substances is prohibited only in competition?
The Prohibited List divides substances into those banned at all times, those banned only in competition and those banned only in particular sports.
Read the full explanation →The International Convention against Doping in Sport, the treaty by which governments bind themselves to the World Anti-Doping Code, was adopted in 2005 under the auspices of
Because WADA is a private foundation, governments needed an instrument of international law through which they could commit themselves to the Code, and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization provided it by adopting the International Convention against Doping in Sport in 2005.
Read the full explanation →The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has its seat in which city?
CAS was established in 1984 at the initiative of the International Olympic Committee, whose own headquarters is in the same city, and it also keeps branch offices at Sydney and New York besides sitting in ad hoc divisions at the Olympic Games.
Read the full explanation →India's National Anti-Doping Agency (NADA) works under which ministry?
NADA was set up on 24 November 2005 as a registered society under that ministry, and it plans and carries out sample collection, manages results and runs education programmes so that sport in India is practised without doping.
Read the full explanation →In which year was the World Anti-Doping Agency established?
WADA was created on 10 November 1999, a year after the Festina affair of the 1998 Tour de France, in which a team car carrying banned drugs exposed how organised doping had become and pushed the Olympic movement and governments to build a joint agency.
Read the full explanation →Where is the headquarters of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA)?
WADA began work in 1999 from Lausanne and then moved its headquarters to Montreal, where the agency has remained; Lausanne continues as its European office.
Read the full explanation →Which state was the first in India to make rooftop rainwater harvesting compulsory in buildings?
Faced with a steep fall in the water table around Chennai, the state amended its building rules in 2003 to require a rainwater harvesting structure in buildings, and it is cited as the first state in the country to make such harvesting compulsory.
Read the full explanation →The National Water Mission is one of the eight missions under which of the following?
The plan, released in 2008, set up eight national missions, among them the National Solar Mission, the National Mission for Enhanced Energy Efficiency, the National Water Mission, the National Mission for Sustaining the Himalayan Ecosystem, the National Mission for a Green India, the National Mission for Sustainable Agriculture, the National…
Read the full explanation →Mission Amrit Sarovar, launched in 2022, aims to develop or rejuvenate how many ponds in every district?
Mission Amrit Sarovar was launched on 24 April 2022, National Panchayati Raj Day, as part of the celebration of seventy-five years of independence, and the number 75 in the target of seventy-five ponds in every district of the country comes from that anniversary.
Read the full explanation →Atal Bhujal Yojana, the scheme for community-led groundwater management in water-stressed blocks, is assisted by
Atal Bhujal Yojana, launched in 2019 under the Ministry of Jal Shakti, is a central sector scheme part funded by the World Bank.
Read the full explanation →The Ministry of Jal Shakti was formed in 2019 by merging which two ministries?
In 2019 the Ministry of Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation was merged with the Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation to create a single Ministry of Jal Shakti, so that irrigation, river basins, groundwater, drinking water supply and sanitation would be handled by one ministry.
Read the full explanation →The surangam, a horizontal tunnel driven into a hill to tap seepage water, is found mainly in
A surangam is a tunnel about two metres high cut nearly level into the side of a laterite hill until it meets a seepage zone; the water that oozes out of the rock trickles along the floor of the tunnel and is collected in a pit outside, so the structure…
Read the full explanation →Zing, a small tank built to collect water from melting glaciers, is a traditional harvesting structure of
In the cold desert of Ladakh there is very little rain, so the water that matters is glacier melt.
Read the full explanation →In the traditional ahar-pyne system of south Bihar, what is a pyne?
In the old Magadh region of south Bihar the land slopes gently and the soil holds water poorly, so farmers cut long channels, the pynes, from the flood flow of rivers such as the Phalgu, Sakri and Morhar and led the water across the fields.
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