Static general knowledge is six of the seven lines of the General Studies Paper-I syllabus in the UPSC CSE notice: History of India and the Indian National Movement; Indian and World Geography; Indian Polity and Governance; Economic and Social Development; Environmental Ecology, Bio-diversity and Climate Change; and General Science. The Commission tests understanding rather than recall, through statements to be judged correct or incorrect, pairs to be matched and assertion-reason items, and it likes the edges of a topic: a lesser-known provision of the Constitution, a river's tributary, a species' conservation status, the mandate of a statutory body. This page holds GK24's topic-wise GK notes for UPSC, written as short facts and tables, in English and Hindi, with each note linked to the current affairs and previous-year questions on the same topic. Start with Polity and Modern History, which carry the most questions, then Geography, the Economy, Environment, Ancient and Medieval culture and Science. Read a note, solve its PYQs, take its quiz, and come back to it in your monthly revision. A candidate who knows these notes and reads the daily current affairs has covered the syllabus the notice prescribes for Paper-I.
Which State received the largest share of this Access and Benefit Sharing disbursal?
Rajasthan came second and Madhya Pradesh third, so options A and B describe the next two ranks rather than the top one.
Read the full explanation →How much money did the National Biodiversity Authority disburse to the State Biodiversity Boards under the Access and Benefit Sharing mechanism?
The exact figure of the distribution works out to one crore eighteen lakh sixty one thousand six hundred and fifty five rupees.
Read the full explanation →MAHASAGAR, the vision mentioned with this deployment, stands for which of the following?
The Ministry of Defence used this expansion while describing the purpose behind the training deployment, under which the Indian Navy builds capacity in partner countries and strengthens regional partnerships in the Indian Ocean.
Read the full explanation →Which ships formed the First Training Squadron during its Seychelles port call?
These three were the ships named by the Ministry of Defence as the vessels of the First Training Squadron that stayed at Port Victoria and then sailed out on completion of the visit.
Read the full explanation →The Indian Navy First Training Squadron completed a port call at Port Victoria, which is the main port of which country?
Port Victoria is the port where the ships of the First Training Squadron stayed during their training deployment, arriving on the twelfth of October and sailing out on the fifteenth.
Read the full explanation →Under which law has NPPA fixed the trade margin ceiling on these anti-cancer drugs?
This is the enabling provision cited by the regulator while capping the trade margin at thirty per cent of the Maximum Retail Price for the identified non-scheduled anti-cancer medicines.
Read the full explanation →From which date will the revised prices of the 137 anti-cancer drugs become effective?
Retailers, chemists, hospitals and medical institutions have to charge the reduced prices from that day and must display the revised rates at their counters, while hospitals must also show them on their websites.
Read the full explanation →NPPA has capped the trade margin on 137 non-scheduled anti-cancer drugs at what share of the Maximum Retail Price?
The National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority has rationalised the trade margin on the identified non-scheduled anti-cancer medicines and held it to thirty per cent of the Maximum Retail Price, using the power given by Paragraph 19 of the Drugs (Prices Control) Order of 2013.
Read the full explanation →Which one of the following tiger reserves of India has "Bhoorsingh the Barasingha" as its official mascot ?
In 2017 Kanha in Madhya Pradesh became the first tiger reserve in India to adopt an official mascot, a cartoon barasingha named Bhoorsingh.
Read the full explanation →Which one of the following Constitutional Amendments has enormously strengthened the powers of the Speaker/Chairman of the Houses of the Parliament/State Legislatures?
The 1985 amendment made the presiding officer of each House the authority who decides whether a member is disqualified for defection.
Read the full explanation →Which one of the following states of India has the largest area under dense evergreen forest cover ?
Its heavy rainfall, warm humid foothills and low population give it the largest stretch of dense evergreen forest among these states.
Read the full explanation →Which one of the following is NOT a correct feature of a Money Bill ?
A Money Bill cannot be sent to a joint committee, because the Rajya Sabha has only a recommendatory role in it.
Read the full explanation →Which one of the following statements with regard to the Preamble to the Constitution of India is not correct?
The Supreme Court has held the opposite: where the language of the Constitution is ambiguous, the Preamble is a valuable aid to interpreting it.
Read the full explanation →Consider the following statements :
1. Many of the world's largest mountain chains exist beneath the sea.
2. Some mountain chains are revealed as island arcs.
3. The mid-oceanic ridges form the longest mountain chains.
4. The mid-Atlantic ridge rises thirty-three metres above the floor of the Atlantic.
Which of the statements given above are correct ?
Statement 4 is wrong: the Mid-Atlantic Ridge rises thousands of metres above the ocean floor, not thirty-three metres. The ocean floor has relief as varied as the land.
Read the full explanation →Consider the following statements about the Rowlatt Act of 1919 :
1. It was passed by the Imperial Legislative Council.
2. Khilafat Committee was formed to oppose the Act.
3. While Gandhiji was arrested, the local leaders were allowed to continue the protest.
How many of the above statements is/are NOT correct ?
Statement 1 is correct, but statements 2 and 3 are not. The Rowlatt Act of March 1919, based on the Sedition Committee chaired by Justice S. A. T. Rowlatt, was passed by the Imperial Legislative Council even though every elected Indian member opposed it.
Read the full explanation →Which one of the following is the main method by which potholes are created in bedrocks by the flowing stream?
Potholes are drilled into a stream's rocky bed by pebbles and boulders that the swirling water grinds against the rock.
Read the full explanation →Which one of the following statements about 'personal liberty' is not correct?
In A. K. Gopalan vs. State of Madras (1950) the majority rejected 'due process of law' and read Article 21 narrowly, so the statement is wrong.
Read the full explanation →Consider the following statements :
1. The Great Northern Plains are formed by basins of three distinct river systems - the Indus, the Ganga and the Brahmaputra.
2. They are one of the most densely populated areas on Earth.
3. Between the Yamuna at Delhi and the Bay of Bengal, nearly 1600 km away, there is a drop of only 200 metres in elevation.
Which of the statements given above are correct?
All three statements correctly describe the Northern Plains of India. The Northern Plains were built from alluvium laid down by the Indus, the Ganga and the Brahmaputra and their tributaries, which together drain the Himalayas.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following types of mass movements are categorized as rapid movements?
1. Creep 2. Mudflow 3. Solifluction 4. Slump
Select the answer using the code given below.
Mudflow and slump happen quickly enough to be seen, while creep and solifluction are slow movements noticed only over long periods.
Read the full explanation →Sikkim became an Associate State of the Indian Union through
It created the special status of "associate state" for Sikkim, a step short of full statehood. Sikkim had been an Indian protectorate since 1950.
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