UPSC CAPF Previous Year GK Questions

All three treaties deal with hazardous chemicals and wastes, and they share a joint secretariat under UNEP. The Basel Convention (1989) controls the movement of hazardous wastes across borders and their disposal, mainly to stop rich countries dumping waste in poorer ones.

Mission Shakti was India's anti-satellite (ASAT) missile test, carried out by DRDO on 27 March 2019. In the test, a Ballistic Missile Defence interceptor launched from Dr A.P.J.

The coronary arteries carry oxygen-rich blood to the muscle of the heart wall itself. The heart pumps blood to the whole body, but its own thick muscle (the myocardium) needs a separate supply.

Natural selection needs variation among members of a species; without variation there is nothing for nature to select, so statement A is the incorrect one.

Phadke raised an armed band in Maharashtra in 1879 to overthrow British rule. Vasudeo Balwant Phadke was a clerk in the Military Finance Department at Pune.

In fact all the Mughal emperors gave grants for building and maintaining places of worship, so saying that not all of them did is incorrect.

Trade and commerce between States is Entry 42 of the Union List, so it is wrong to place it in the State List.

The Second Administrative Reforms Commission asked for the Official Secrets Act to be repealed, and the Right to Information Act was passed in 2005.

Apical meristems sit at the tips of roots and shoots, and their dividing cells make the plant grow in length.

In India the Indus river dolphin survives only in a short stretch of the Beas in Punjab, around the Harike wetland.

The councils could discuss the budget but could not vote on it or amend it. The Indian Councils Act, 1892 raised the number of additional members in the Imperial and Provincial Legislative Councils and introduced an indirect, nominated form of election through bodies such as municipalities, district boards and universities.

Sulh-i kul, Akbar's ideal of absolute peace, gave every faith freedom of expression and was put into practice through state policy.

Under Article 103 the President decides a question of disqualification of an MP, but must obtain the opinion of the Election Commission and act according to it, so there is no discretion.

Article 226(4) says expressly that the High Court's writ power shall not be in derogation of the power conferred on the Supreme Court by Article 32(2).

Xylem is made of more than one type of cell working together, which is what makes a tissue complex. Plant permanent tissues are of two kinds.

In April 2018 King Mswati III renamed Swaziland as the Kingdom of eSwatini, meaning land of the Swazis. eSwatini is a small landlocked kingdom in southern Africa, bordered by South Africa and Mozambique.

The Prarthana Samaj was a monotheistic Hindu reform body of Maharashtra, but it was influenced by the Brahmo Samaj, not the other way round.

An ecotone is the zone of transition where two different communities or ecosystems meet and blend. Examples of ecotones are the belt between forest and grassland, the mangrove zone between land and sea, an estuary where river water meets the ocean, and the margin between a lake and its shore.

He spoke these words in his final speech to the Constituent Assembly on 25 November 1949. Dr B. R. Ambedkar, chairman of the Drafting Committee, closed the debates on the draft Constitution with a speech warning about the gap between political and social democracy.

This is the famous habeas corpus case decided during the Emergency. During the Emergency of 1975 to 1977, the President suspended the right to move courts for the enforcement of Article 21.