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 Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) was established in which year?
TRAI was set up under the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India Act, 1997, to regulate telecom services, fix tariffs and protect the interests of consumers once private operators entered the field.
Read the full explanation →India's first mobile telephone call, from Kolkata to New Delhi, was made in which year?
The first mobile telephone call in India was made on 31 July 1995 between Kolkata and New Delhi, a year after the National Telecom Policy of 1994 opened mobile services to private operators.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following is NOT one of the three service categories defined for 5G?
The three categories actually defined are given in the other options.
Read the full explanation →The peak downlink data rate target set for 5G under IMT-2020 is:
Under IMT-2020 the peak downlink data rate for 5G is set at 20 gigabits a second, with 10 gigabits a second in the uplink; these are laboratory peaks under ideal conditions, not the speed a subscriber sees, and the separate target for the user experienced rate is 100 megabits a…
Read the full explanation →In 4G mobile networks, LTE stands for:
LTE is the radio technology through which 4G was delivered; the name was chosen because it was presented as the long-term evolution of the earlier 3G standards rather than a break with them.
Read the full explanation →Which ITU standard family corresponds to 5G?
The International Telecommunication Union names each generation of mobile telephony by a standard family, and 5G is IMT-2020, whose requirements include a peak downlink rate of 20 Gbps, a user experienced rate of 100 Mbps, one millisecond of air interface latency and a million connected devices in a square kilometre.
Read the full explanation →5G mobile services were commercially launched in India in which year?
Commercial 5G services began in India on 1 October 2022, when they were launched at the India Mobile Congress in New Delhi, following the spectrum auction held earlier that year in the 600 MHz, 700 MHz, 3300 MHz and 26 GHz bands among others.
Read the full explanation →The bronze sculpture Triumph of Labour on the Marina at Chennai was made by the first chairman of the Lalit Kala Akademi. Who was he?
Roy Choudhury, a pupil of Abanindranath Tagore who became the first Indian principal of the Government School of Art at Madras, modelled Triumph of Labour, the group of four men straining at a rock that stands on the Marina beach at Chennai, and also the Martyrs' Memorial outside the Patna…
Read the full explanation →Which Indian painter directed the short film Through the Eyes of a Painter, which won the Golden Bear for a short film at Berlin in 1967?
Maqbool Fida Husain, a founder member of the Progressive Artists' Group and often called the Picasso of India, made the short film Through the Eyes of a Painter, which took the Golden Bear for a short film at the Berlin festival in 1967; he later directed the feature Gaja Gamini.
Read the full explanation →The Cholamandal Artists' Village, founded in 1966 by K. C. S. Paniker, is located near which city?
Cholamandal Artists' Village was founded in 1966 on the coast south of Chennai by K. C. S. Paniker and other artists of the Madras art movement, and it is described as the first self-supporting artists' commune in India, where painters and sculptors lived together and sold batik and metalwork to…
Read the full explanation →The Lalit Kala Akademi, India's national academy of art, was established in which year?
The Lalit Kala Akademi, the national academy of art, was set up in 1954 at New Delhi, with the sculptor Devi Prasad Roy Choudhury as its first chairman; the National Gallery of Modern Art at Jaipur House in New Delhi dates from the same year.
Read the full explanation →Jamini Roy gave up academic oil painting for the flat figures and bold lines of which folk tradition?
Jamini Roy trained in the academic manner at the Government School of Art in Calcutta but abandoned it for the Kalighat pat, the cheap brush-drawn pictures sold to pilgrims near the Kalighat temple, and for Bengal scroll painting.
Read the full explanation →Which painter, born in Budapest and trained in Paris, painted Three Girls and Bride's Toilet?
Sher-Gil was born in Budapest in 1913 to a Sikh father and a Hungarian mother and trained at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, where Young Girls brought her early recognition at the Salon.
Read the full explanation →Which modern Indian painter built his later abstract work around the motif of the Bindu?
Raza, a founder member of the Progressive Artists' Group, moved to Paris, won the Prix de la critique there in 1956, and from the 1970s built his canvases around the Bindu, the black seed point from which, in his words, form and energy radiate, often combined with the triangle and…
Read the full explanation →The Progressive Artists' Group, founded by F. N. Souza, was set up in Bombay in which year?
The Progressive Artists' Group was founded in Bombay in 1947, the year of independence, by Francis Newton Souza, and its six members were Souza, M. F. Husain, S. H. Raza, K. H. Ara, H. A. Gade and the sculptor S. K. Bakre.
Read the full explanation →The sculpture Santhal Family (1938), regarded as the first modern public sculpture in India, was made by whom?
Baij worked at Kala Bhavana in Santiniketan and modelled Santhal Family in 1938 in cement and laterite in the open air, showing a Santhal couple with their child and dog moving house.
Read the full explanation →The borders and page decorations of the original manuscript of the Constitution of India were made by which artist and his students?
Nandalal Bose, who headed Kala Bhavana at Santiniketan, was asked to illuminate the handwritten Constitution, and he and his students painted the borders and the headings of its pages with scenes from Indian history, from the Indus seals to Gandhi's march.
Read the full explanation →The 1905 painting Bharat Mata, showing a four-armed figure in saffron, was painted by whom?
He painted Bharat Mata in 1905, during the Swadeshi movement that followed the partition of Bengal, showing the motherland as a calm four-armed figure in saffron robes holding a book, sheaves of paddy, a piece of white cloth and a rudraksha garland, the four gifts of learning, food, clothing and…
Read the full explanation →Raja Ravi Varma, celebrated for oil paintings on Puranic themes, was born at Kilimanoor in which princely state?
Raja Ravi Varma was born in 1848 at Kilimanoor, a palace in the princely state of Travancore in present-day Kerala, and he painted many portraits for the Travancore court.
Read the full explanation →In the United States Congress, the number of members of the Senate is
The Senate of the United States has two members from every state, and with fifty states that makes a hundred Senators, each elected for six years, with the Vice-President of the United States presiding over the house.
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