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.
The Ethereum platform, known for running smart contracts, was proposed by
Ethereum was described by Vitalik Buterin in a white paper of 2013 and the network went live in 2015.
Read the full explanation →Which consensus mechanism does the bitcoin network use?
In proof of work, the computers called miners compete to find a nonce that makes the hash of the proposed block meet a difficulty target.
Read the full explanation →What is the maximum number of bitcoins that can ever exist?
The bitcoin protocol fixes the total supply at twenty-one million coins. New coins enter circulation only as the reward paid to whoever adds a block, and that reward is halved every two hundred and ten thousand blocks, which works out to roughly every four years, so issuance falls geometrically towards…
Read the full explanation →Which cryptographic hash function does the bitcoin network use?
Bitcoin uses the SHA-256 hash function, part of the Secure Hash Algorithm family, which turns an input of any length into a fixed output of two hundred and fifty-six bits.
Read the full explanation →The 2008 white paper that introduced bitcoin was published under which name?
The paper titled Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System was circulated in 2008 under the name Satoshi Nakamoto, a pseudonym whose owner has never been established, and it set out how a chain of hashed blocks and proof of work could prevent double spending without any trusted third party.
Read the full explanation →Which statement about a state Legislative Council is correct?
Like the Rajya Sabha, a Legislative Council is a continuing body: it is not subject to dissolution, each member holds office for six years, and one-third of the members retire every second year, so the house is renewed in stages.
Read the full explanation →Under Article 170 of the Constitution, the Legislative Assembly of a state shall consist of not more than
Article 170 provides that the Legislative Assembly of a state shall consist of not more than five hundred and not fewer than sixty members chosen by direct election from territorial constituencies, with lower minimums permitted by law for small states such as Goa, Sikkim and Mizoram.
Read the full explanation →The union territory of Lakshadweep falls under the jurisdiction of which High Court?
The jurisdiction of the Kerala High Court, which sits at Kochi, extends over the state of Kerala and the union territory of Lakshadweep, whose capital is Kavaratti.
Read the full explanation →The High Court of Andhra Pradesh, created in 2019 when the earlier High Court was bifurcated, is located at
When the old High Court of Judicature at Hyderabad was bifurcated with effect from the first of January 2019, the Telangana High Court continued at Hyderabad and a separate High Court for Andhra Pradesh began functioning at Amaravati.
Read the full explanation →Nagpur holds a special position as
Under the Nagpur Pact of 1953, agreed when the Vidarbha region joined the new bilingual Bombay State and later Maharashtra, Nagpur was made the second capital of the state and at least one session of the legislature each year, the winter session, is held there.
Read the full explanation →The High Court of Madhya Pradesh has its principal seat at
The principal seat of the Madhya Pradesh High Court is at Jabalpur, with benches at Gwalior and Indore, while the capital of the state is Bhopal.
Read the full explanation →The Punjab and Haryana High Court is located at
Chandigarh is the capital of both Punjab and Haryana and is itself a union territory, and the common High Court for the two states and for the union territory sits there.
Read the full explanation →Under which Article may Parliament create or abolish a Legislative Council in a state?
It empowers Parliament by law to abolish an existing Legislative Council or to create one where none exists, but only if the Legislative Assembly of the state first passes a resolution supported by a majority of the total membership of the House and by not less than two-thirds of the…
Read the full explanation →Which of the following states does not have a Legislative Council?
West Bengal had a Legislative Council in the years after independence but abolished it in 1969, and its legislature has been unicameral since then, consisting of the Governor and the Legislative Assembly alone.
Read the full explanation →Which Article of the Constitution provides that there shall be a High Court for each state?
It states plainly that there shall be a High Court for each state, and the following articles complete the scheme: Article 215 makes every High Court a court of record, Article 216 leaves the number of judges to the President, Article 217 provides for their appointment, and Article 231 allows…
Read the full explanation →The High Court of Kerala is located at which city?
The Kerala High Court sits at Kochi, in the Ernakulam area, although the capital of the state is Thiruvananthapuram.
Read the full explanation →Which is the oldest High Court in India?
It was established in July 1862 under the Indian High Courts Act of 1861, which allowed the Crown to replace the old supreme courts and sadar courts of the Presidency towns with High Courts.
Read the full explanation →Under the Fugitive Economic Offenders Act, a person may be declared a fugitive economic offender where the scheduled offence involves an amount of at least
The Fugitive Economic Offenders Act of 2018 applies where a warrant of arrest has been issued for a scheduled offence involving a value of one hundred crore rupees or more and the person has left India to avoid prosecution, or refuses to return to face it.
Read the full explanation →The Financial Intelligence Unit India reports to which body?
The Financial Intelligence Unit India works under the Department of Revenue in the Ministry of Finance and reports to the Economic Intelligence Council, the apex body on economic offences, which is chaired by the Union Finance Minister.
Read the full explanation →The Financial Action Task Force, the global standard setter on money laundering, was established in which year?
The Financial Action Task Force was set up in 1989 at the summit of the Group of Seven industrial countries held in Paris, and its secretariat is housed at the headquarters of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development in Paris.
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