Static general knowledge is the larger part of every UPSC general studies paper. The notices name the same areas again and again: the history of India and the national movement, Indian and world geography, polity and the Constitution, the economy and social development, and general science with environment and ecology. The balance shifts from exam to exam. NDA puts about half of its General Knowledge part on Physics, Chemistry and General Science. CSE favours polity, modern history, environment and the economy. CAPF adds security and human rights, and CDS spreads its questions across polity, history, geography, the economy and school science.
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The Surajkund International Crafts Mela is held every year in which state?
The Surajkund International Crafts Mela is held every February at Surajkund in Faridabad district of Haryana, near the Delhi border.
Read the full explanation →In the Rath Yatra of Puri, which chariot carries Lord Jagannath?
In the Rath Yatra of Puri, three chariots are drawn from the Jagannath temple to the Gundicha temple in the month of Ashadha.
Read the full explanation →Chapchar Kut, the spring festival in which the Cheraw bamboo dance is performed, belongs to which state?
Chapchar Kut is the best known festival of Mizoram, celebrated in late February or March after the jhum fields have been cleared and before the sowing.
Read the full explanation →Who turned Ganesh Chaturthi into a large public festival in Maharashtra in 1893?
Ganesh Chaturthi in the month of Bhadrapada had long been a household worship in Maharashtra. In 1893 Tilak organised it as a community celebration with public pandals, processions and lectures, so that people of every caste could gather in one place at a time when political meetings were watched.
Read the full explanation →The snake boat race Vallamkali is associated with which festival?
Onam is the harvest festival of Kerala, celebrated in the Malayalam month of Chingam, and remembers the yearly return of the mythical king Mahabali to his people.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following festivals marks the Assamese new year?
Rongali Bihu, also called Bohag Bihu, falls in mid-April at the start of the Assamese month of Bohag and opens the new year and the sowing season.
Read the full explanation →The Hornbill Festival, called the festival of festivals, is celebrated every year in which state?
The Hornbill Festival is held at the Naga heritage village of Kisama near Kohima from 1 to 10 December, the state formation day being 1 December.
Read the full explanation →In March 2018, who released Rs. 1,000 and 10 commemorative coins on the occasion of the Nabakalebara festival at a function held in Puri, Odisha?
Commemorative coins are issued by the Government of India under the Coinage Act, and the set marking the Nabakalebara of the Jagannath temple was released at a function in Puri in March 2018 by the President.
Read the full explanation →In Leh, the first ever ice climbing festival was celebrated in ______ valley in January 2021.
The first ice climbing festival of Ladakh was held in the Nubra valley in January 2021, on the frozen waterfalls near the villages of the upper Nubra, as a way of building winter adventure tourism in a region that otherwise earns only in summer.
Read the full explanation →Bali Yatra, the voyage to Bali, is celebrated in which of the following states of India?
Bali Yatra is held on the bank of the Mahanadi at Cuttack on Kartik Purnima and remembers the days when merchants of Kalinga sailed to Bali, Java and Sumatra.
Read the full explanation →The Thrissur Pooram is a famous temple festival celebrated in which Indian state, known for its elaborate processions and fireworks displays?
Thrissur Pooram is held at the Vadakkunnathan temple in Thrissur during the Malayalam month of Medam, which falls in April and May.
Read the full explanation →UNESCO designates World Heritage Sites under a convention adopted in which year?
The Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage was adopted by the General Conference of UNESCO in 1972, and countries that join it nominate sites of outstanding universal value, which a committee then inscribes on the World Heritage List as cultural, natural or mixed sites.
Read the full explanation →UNESCO presents its literacy prizes, including the King Sejong Literacy Prize, on which day?
UNESCO presents the King Sejong Literacy Prize and the Confucius Prize for Literacy every year on 8 September, the day it observes as International Literacy Day, and the prizes reward governments, organisations and individuals whose programmes have spread reading and writing.
Read the full explanation →The Nansen Refugee Award is given by which United Nations body?
The award has been given since 1954 by the refugee agency of the United Nations to a person, group or organisation that has served refugees, displaced people or those without a state.
Read the full explanation →Which Indian Prime Minister was among the first recipients of the United Nations Population Award in 1983?
The United Nations Population Award was instituted by the General Assembly in 1981 and first presented in 1983, when Indira Gandhi of India was one of the two individual laureates, honoured for India's early work on population policy.
Read the full explanation →Champions of the Earth, the highest environmental honour of the United Nations, is awarded by:
Champions of the Earth was launched in 2005 by the United Nations Environment Programme, whose headquarters are at Nairobi in Kenya, and it recognises leaders from government, civil society and business whose work protects the environment, in categories such as policy leadership, entrepreneurial vision and science and innovation.
Read the full explanation →The United Nations Prize in the Field of Human Rights is awarded once in how many years?
The prize was instituted by the General Assembly in 1966 and first awarded in 1968, which was observed as the International Year for Human Rights and marked twenty years of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Read the full explanation →The UNESCO Madanjeet Singh Prize is given for the promotion of:
The prize was created in 1995, a year that marked both the fiftieth anniversary of the United Nations and the hundred and twenty fifth birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi, and it is named after Madanjeet Singh, the Indian artist, writer and diplomat who endowed it.
Read the full explanation →The UNESCO Guillermo Cano Prize is associated with which cause?
The UNESCO Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize was instituted in 1997 and honours a person or an organisation that has defended freedom of the press, often at great personal risk.
Read the full explanation →What does the abbreviation UNESCO stand for?
UNESCO is the specialised agency of the United Nations for education, the sciences, culture, communication and information, with its headquarters at Paris.
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