UPSC Civil Services GK Questions 2026

Such an orbit is near-polar, typically 600 to 900 kilometres high with an inclination of about 98 degrees, which makes it retrograde.

A geostationary satellite must match the rotation of the Earth with respect to the distant stars, and that rotation takes one sidereal day.

Only at this height does a satellite in a circular equatorial orbit take exactly one sidereal day to complete a revolution, which is the condition for appearing stationary above one point on the Earth.

With a population of 3,80,581 spread over 8,249 square kilometres, the territory recorded a density of only 46 persons per square kilometre at the 2011 Census, by far the lowest among the union territories, because most of its land is forest and most of its islands are uninhabited.

The Mahatma Gandhi Marine National Park, set up near Wandoor on the south-western coast of South Andaman, protects a stretch of coral reefs, mangroves and small islands along with the turtles, molluscs and reef fish that live there.

The union territory has no High Court of its own and comes under the jurisdiction of the Calcutta High Court, which holds a circuit bench in the territorial capital so that litigants do not have to travel to the mainland for every hearing.

Ross Island, which had been the administrative headquarters of the British in these islands before an earthquake damaged it, was renamed after Netaji in 2018 to honour his visit and his claim of the islands as free Indian soil.

During the Japanese occupation of the islands in the Second World War, Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose visited Port Blair and hoisted the tricolour there, claiming the islands as the first Indian territory freed from British rule.

The jail was built at Port Blair over those ten years in the shape of a wheel, with seven wings radiating from a central watchtower and a total of 693 cells.

The indigenous communities of this territory fall into two racial groups. The Great Andamanese, Onge, Jarawa and Sentinelese of the Andaman group are of Negrito descent and are among the oldest surviving human populations outside Africa.

The Government of India announced in September 2024 that the capital of the union territory would be renamed Sri Vijaya Puram, replacing a name that came from the colonial period.

Indira Point lies at the southern tip of Great Nicobar, the largest island of the Nicobar group, and marks the southernmost land point of the Republic of India, a little above six and three quarter degrees north.

Saddle Peak rises to 732 metres in North Andaman and is the highest point in the whole union territory. It gives its name to Saddle Peak National Park, which protects the tropical evergreen forest on its slopes.

The Ten Degree Channel runs along the ten degree north parallel and divides the Andaman group from the Nicobar group, with Little Andaman on its northern side and Car Nicobar on its southern side.

This small uninhabited island in the Andaman Sea, north-east of the territorial capital, carries the only confirmed active volcano in India and in the whole of South Asia.

The Central Repository of Information on Large Credits, usually shortened to CRILC, is a database maintained by the Reserve Bank in which banks report details of every borrower whose aggregate exposure, funded and non-funded together, is five crore rupees or more.

The systemic importance score of a bank is built from four indicators: size, interconnectedness, substitutability and complexity. Size carries the highest weight because the sheer scale of a bank's balance sheet decides how much damage its failure would do.

India applies Basel III with a stricter minimum: the capital to risk weighted assets ratio must be at least nine per cent, of which Common Equity Tier 1 must be at least 5.5 per cent and Tier 1 at least seven per cent.

The Board for Financial Supervision was constituted in November 1994 so that supervision of banks, select all-India financial institutions and non-banking financial companies would get undivided attention.

Withdrawal of PCA restrictions is considered when no parameter has breached a risk threshold across four continuous quarterly financial statements, and one of those four must be the audited annual financial statement.