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 law that governs the acquisition and loss of Indian citizenship is the Citizenship Act of which year?
The Constitution settles only who was a citizen on 26 January 1950, and Article 11 leaves the rest to Parliament, which enacted the Citizenship Act in 1955.
Read the full explanation →Which Articles of Indian Constitution are related to citizenship?
Part II of the Constitution runs from Article 5 to Article 11.
Read the full explanation →In which Part of the Constitution of India we find the provisions relating to citizenship?
Citizenship is dealt with in Part II of the Constitution, which contains Articles 5 to 11. These provisions settle who became a citizen of India at the commencement of the Constitution on 26 January 1950 and, through Article 11, leave all later law on citizenship to Parliament.
Read the full explanation →Who was the Viceroy of India when the Quit India Movement was launched in 1942?
Linlithgow was Viceroy from 1936 to 1944, so the Second World War, the resignation of the Congress ministries, the August Offer of 1940, the Cripps Mission of 1942 and the suppression of the Quit India Movement all fall in his tenure.
Read the full explanation →The Champaran Satyagraha of 1917 was launched by Gandhi in support of which group?
At Champaran in Bihar the peasants were compelled under the tinkathia system to grow indigo on a part of their holding for the European planters.
Read the full explanation →The resolution of Purna Swaraj, or complete independence, was adopted at which session of the Congress?
The Lahore session of December 1929, presided over by Jawaharlal Nehru, declared Purna Swaraj to be the goal of the Congress, authorised the launch of civil disobedience and called upon the people to observe 26 January 1930 as Independence Day, which is why that date was later chosen for the…
Read the full explanation →The Poona Pact of 1932 was signed between Mahatma Gandhi and
The Poona Pact was signed on 24 September 1932 while Gandhi was on a fast unto death in Yerwada jail against the separate electorates granted to the depressed classes by the Communal Award.
Read the full explanation →In which year was the Gandhi-Irwin Pact signed?
The Gandhi-Irwin Pact, also called the Delhi Pact, was signed on 5 March 1931 between Gandhi and the Viceroy Lord Irwin.
Read the full explanation →The Dandi March of 1930 started from which place?
Gandhi set out from the Sabarmati Ashram on 12 March 1930 with 78 chosen volunteers and walked about 385 kilometres in twenty four days to the coastal village of Dandi, where he picked up a lump of natural salt on 6 April 1930 and broke the salt law, opening the…
Read the full explanation →The Non-Cooperation Movement was withdrawn by Gandhi after which incident?
On 5 February 1922 a crowd at Chauri Chaura in Gorakhpur district of the United Provinces set fire to a police station and twenty two policemen died.
Read the full explanation →At which session was the Non-Cooperation Movement programme ratified by the Indian National Congress?
The programme of non-cooperation was first approved at the special session held in Calcutta in September 1920 and was ratified at the regular annual session at Nagpur in December 1920, which also changed the Congress constitution and made provincial committees on a linguistic basis.
Read the full explanation →With which of the following movements is Aruna Asaf Ali associated?
Aruna Asaf Ali hoisted the national flag at Gowalia Tank in Bombay on 9 August 1942, after the arrest of the senior leaders, and then went underground to direct the movement along with Jayaprakash Narayan and Ram Manohar Lohia, which earned her the name Heroine of the 1942 movement.
Read the full explanation →When did the Quit India Movement start?
The All India Congress Committee, meeting at Gowalia Tank in Bombay, passed the Quit India resolution on 8 August 1942, and Gandhi gave his Do or Die speech the same evening.
Read the full explanation →Who coined the slogan Quit India?
The socialist leader Yusuf Meherally, who had been Mayor of Bombay, coined the words Quit India, just as he had coined Simon Go Back in 1928, and the Congress adopted the phrase for its resolution of 8 August 1942.
Read the full explanation →The World Development Report is the flagship publication of which institution?
The World Development Report is the Bank's annual study, each edition devoted to one theme of development such as jobs, water, migration or the use of data, and the Bank also publishes the Global Economic Prospects.
Read the full explanation →The Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights, known as TRIPS, is administered by
TRIPS is one of the agreements that came out of the Uruguay Round and is administered by the WTO; it lays down minimum standards for patents, copyright, trademarks and geographical indications, and it is enforceable through the WTO dispute settlement system, which is what makes it different from earlier treaties.
Read the full explanation →Which is the highest decision-making body of the World Trade Organization?
It is composed of the trade ministers of all member countries, meets at least once every two years and may take decisions on any matter covered by the WTO agreements; the first conference was held at Singapore in 1996 and the one at Doha in 2001 launched the Doha Development…
Read the full explanation →Which of the following currencies is not included in the basket of the Special Drawing Right of the IMF?
The Special Drawing Right, created by the IMF in 1969 as a supplementary reserve asset, takes its value from a basket of five currencies only: the US dollar, the euro, the Chinese renminbi, the Japanese yen and the pound sterling.
Read the full explanation →Which arm of the World Bank Group is known as its soft loan window, giving interest free credits to the poorest countries?
The correct answer is C, the IDA, the International Development Association, founded in 1960 to lend to the poorest countries on concessional terms, that is interest free credits and grants with long repayment periods, which is why it is called the soft loan window of the World Bank.
Read the full explanation →The World Economic Outlook report is published by which organisation?
The World Economic Outlook is the IMF's survey of the world economy, carrying growth, inflation and current account projections for its member countries, and the Fund also publishes the Global Financial Stability Report and the Fiscal Monitor.
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