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Which Article of the Constitution empowers Parliament to admit into the Union, or establish, new States?
Article 2 provides that Parliament may by law admit into the Union, or establish, new States on such terms and conditions as it thinks fit.
Read the full explanation →Article 1 of the Constitution of India describes India as a
Article 1 says that India, that is Bharat, shall be a Union of States, and the Drafting Committee chose that phrase with care.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following is NOT possible by a law of Parliament under Article 3 of the Constitution?
Article 3 deals only with territory that is already part of India.
Read the full explanation →The memoir Bandi Jivan, widely read by young revolutionaries, was written by
Sanyal, a founder of the Hindustan Republican Association and the author of its manifesto The Revolutionary, wrote Bandi Jivan, an account of prison life and revolutionary faith that circulated widely among the youth of the 1920s. Option A is wrong because Ram Prasad Bismil is remembered for his autobiography written…
Read the full explanation →The Chittagong Armoury Raid of 18 April 1930 was led by
A schoolteacher known as Masterda, Surya Sen led the Indian Republican Army in a raid on the armoury at Chittagong in April 1930, hoisted the national flag and declared a provisional government before the group took to the hills.
Read the full explanation →Who threw a bomb in the Central Legislative Assembly on 8 April 1929 and courted arrest?
The two threw low-intensity bombs into the empty benches of the Central Legislative Assembly on 8 April 1929 while the Public Safety Bill and the Trade Disputes Bill were being pushed through, shouted slogans, threw leaflets and refused to escape, so that the trial could be used to explain their…
Read the full explanation →The Hindustan Socialist Republican Association was formed in 1928 at a meeting held at
Revolutionaries from the United Provinces, Punjab and elsewhere met at the ruins of Feroz Shah Kotla in September 1928 and reorganised the Hindustan Republican Association as the Hindustan Socialist Republican Association, adding socialism to its aim of independence; Chandra Shekhar Azad became its commander in chief.
Read the full explanation →Madan Lal Dhingra is remembered for shooting, in London in 1909,
Sir William Hutt Curzon Wyllie was a political aide to the Secretary of State for India, and Madan Lal Dhingra, who belonged to the India House circle of Shyamji Krishna Varma, shot him at a meeting in London in 1909 and was hanged the same year.
Read the full explanation →The Kakori action of 9 August 1925, in which a train carrying government money was looted, was carried out by
The HRA had been founded at Kanpur in 1924 by Sachindra Nath Sanyal, Jogesh Chandra Chatterjee and Ram Prasad Bismil, and it needed money for arms, so its members stopped a train near Kakori in the United Provinces and took the government treasury it carried.
Read the full explanation →Khudiram Bose and Prafulla Chaki threw a bomb at Muzaffarpur in 1908 intending to kill
Kingsford had passed harsh sentences on young Swadeshi workers as a magistrate at Calcutta and had been transferred to Muzaffarpur.
Read the full explanation →In 1904, who organised Abhinav Bharat as a secret society of revolutionaries?
Savarkar had founded a youth body called Mitra Mela at Nasik in 1899 and converted it into the Abhinav Bharat Society in 1904, which spread in Maharashtra and later had branches in London through India House.
Read the full explanation →The Anushilan Samiti was active in which part of the Indian subcontinent in the 20th century?
The Anushilan Samiti, founded in 1902, was the largest revolutionary organisation of Bengal, and its Dhaka branch under Pulin Behari Das was the most tightly organised.
Read the full explanation →In which year a bomb was thrown at Viceroy Hardinge while he was making his state entry into Delhi?
A bomb was thrown at Lord Hardinge during his ceremonial entry into Delhi in December 1912, when the capital was being shifted from Calcutta.
Read the full explanation →Who among the following established the Ghadar party?
The Ghadar Party was founded in 1913 at San Francisco by Indian emigrants, mainly Punjabi workers and farmers on the Pacific coast of North America.
Read the full explanation →In August 1907, Madam Bhikaji Cama became the first person to hoist Indian flag on foreign soil in:
Bhikaji Cama unfurled a flag of Indian independence at the International Socialist Congress held at Stuttgart in Germany in 1907, and appealed to the delegates to support the Indian cause.
Read the full explanation →The headquarters of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries is at
OPEC was founded in 1960 at a conference in Baghdad by Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Venezuela, and its secretariat was first at Geneva before moving to Vienna in 1965, where it remains.
Read the full explanation →The secretariat of SAARC is located at
The South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation was founded in 1985 at Dhaka, where its charter was signed, and its permanent secretariat was set up at Kathmandu in Nepal in 1987.
Read the full explanation →The International Monetary Fund and the World Bank were created at the conference held in 1944 at
The United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference met at Bretton Woods in New Hampshire in the United States in July 1944 and agreed to set up the International Monetary Fund and the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, which is why the two are called the Bretton Woods twins; both…
Read the full explanation →The World Trade Organization came into existence in
The WTO began on 1 January 1995 as the outcome of the Uruguay Round, and it replaced the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade as a permanent organisation with a dispute settlement system.
Read the full explanation →The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development has its headquarters at
The OECD was established in 1961 as the successor of the Organisation for European Economic Co-operation, which had been created to administer aid under the Marshall Plan, and it works from Paris as a forum of mostly high-income countries that sets standards and publishes comparative statistics.
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