Static GK decides most of the score in RAS and CET. The RAS Prelims syllabus lists Indian History from ancient times to 2000, Geography of the World and India, the Indian Constitution, Political System and Governance, Economic Concepts and the Indian Economy, and Science and Technology. Beside each sits a Rajasthan head: the history, art, culture, literature, tradition and heritage of Rajasthan, the geography of Rajasthan, the political and administrative system of Rajasthan, and the economy of Rajasthan. The CET syllabus follows the same plan at a simpler level, with Public Health, Computer Knowledge, General Hindi and General English added. This page holds GK24's topic-wise GK notes for the national part, written as short facts and tables in English and Hindi: Polity articles and constitutional bodies, the freedom struggle, rivers, soils, climate and minerals of India, budget and banking terms, and school-level science. GK24 does not have a separate Rajasthan GK section. Prepare Rajasthan's dynasties, Praja Mandal movements, forts, paintings, folk deities, fairs, districts, rivers, minerals and schemes from state sources, and use RPSC and RSSB question papers to see how they are asked. Read a note, then test yourself with the quiz and previous-year questions on this site.
The Sabarmati River originates from which Indian State?
The Sabarmati rises in the Aravalli Range in the Udaipur district of Rajasthan, then flows south-west across Gujarat and empties into the Gulf of Khambhat in the Arabian Sea after a course of about 371 km.
Read the full explanation →Land Degradation Neutrality is a target under which Sustainable Development Goal?
Sustainable Development Goal 15 is Life on Land, and target 15.3 commits countries to combat desertification, restore degraded land and soil including land affected by desertification, drought and floods, and strive to achieve a land degradation neutral world.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following is NOT one of the three Rio Conventions?
The Ramsar Convention was signed at Ramsar in Iran in 1971 and came into force in 1975, two decades before the Earth Summit, and its secretariat sits at Gland in Switzerland; it therefore has no connection with Rio.
Read the full explanation →The secretariat of the UNCCD is located in which city?
The permanent secretariat of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification has been based at Bonn in Germany since 1999, in the same United Nations campus that hosts the secretariat of the UNFCCC, which is a useful memory link because both are Rio Conventions with their secretariats in the same…
Read the full explanation →The badland topography of the Chambal valley is the result of which type of erosion?
Running water in the Chambal basin of Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh has cut deep, steep-sided channels into soft alluvium, and when these channels multiply and widen the land becomes unfit for cultivation.
Read the full explanation →The ICAR institute that works on the reclamation of saline and alkaline soils is located at:
The ICAR-Central Soil Salinity Research Institute is at Karnal in Haryana and is the national institute for the reclamation of salt-affected soils, the use of poor quality water in irrigation, subsurface drainage in waterlogged land, and salt-tolerant crop varieties.
Read the full explanation →The Central Arid Zone Research Institute (CAZRI) is located in which city?
The Central Arid Zone Research Institute was set up at Jodhpur in Rajasthan in 1959 and works under the Indian Council of Agricultural Research.
Read the full explanation →The fourteenth Conference of the Parties (COP14) to the UNCCD, held in India in 2019, adopted which declaration?
India hosted the fourteenth Conference of the Parties to the UNCCD at Greater Noida near New Delhi in 2019, and the meeting closed with the New Delhi Declaration, in which the parties committed themselves to restoring degraded land and to working towards Land Degradation Neutrality.
Read the full explanation →Itai-itai disease is caused by soil and water contaminated with which heavy metal?
Itai-itai, which means ouch-ouch in Japanese, was first recorded in the Jinzu river basin of Japan, where mine waste put cadmium into irrigation water and then into rice grown in the contaminated soil.
Read the full explanation →World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought is observed on which date?
The day marks the anniversary of the adoption of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification at Paris on 17 June 1994, and the United Nations General Assembly declared it in the same year so that governments would review progress on land restoration annually.
Read the full explanation →The United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) was adopted in which year?
The United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification was adopted at Paris on 17 June 1994 and it entered into force in December 1996.
Read the full explanation →Which one is not the major technique of soil conservation?
The question asks for the odd one out, and the heavy use of chemical fertilisers damages soil rather than conserving it: it acidifies the soil, kills soil microorganisms, leaves salt residues, and the surplus nitrate and phosphate wash into water bodies and cause eutrophication.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following soil-conservation methods is generally implemented in the coastal and dry regions?
A shelter belt is a row or a block of trees and shrubs planted across the direction of the prevailing wind.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following compounds shows both Schottky as well as Frenkel defect?
Silver bromide is the standard example of an ionic crystal that carries both kinds of point defect at the same time.
Read the full explanation →In exercise of the power conferred by sub-Section (1) of Section 29 of the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act 2009, the Central Government authorise which institute to lay down the curriculum and evaluation procedure for elementary education?
Section 29(1) of the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act 2009 says the curriculum and the evaluation procedure for elementary education shall be laid down by an academic authority notified by the appropriate government, and the Central Government notified the National Council of Educational Research and Training…
Read the full explanation →Which one of the following countries was the last one to become a member of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC)?
SAARC was founded at Dhaka on 8 December 1985 by seven countries: Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.
Read the full explanation →Who among the following laid the foundation of the Chola Empire in the IX century A. D.?
Around 850 AD Vijayalaya, until then a feudatory of the Pallavas, seized Thanjavur from the Muttaraiyar chiefs and made it his capital, and that conquest marks the beginning of the imperial Chola line.
Read the full explanation →Let the focal length of an eye-piece be 2.5 cm. For a telescope of magnification 100, the focal length of the objective should be:
In an astronomical telescope set for normal adjustment, the magnifying power equals the focal length of the objective divided by the focal length of the eyepiece.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following measures of money supply is known as 'Broad money'?
The Reserve Bank of India publishes four measures of money supply, and M3 is the one called broad money, also known as aggregate monetary resources.
Read the full explanation →With the increase in the temperature of a liquid:
Heating a liquid makes its molecules move faster and sit a little further apart, so the attraction between them weakens, and both properties depend on that attraction.
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