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Project Elephant was launched in which year?
Project Elephant was launched in February 1992 as a centrally sponsored scheme to help the states protect elephants, their habitats and their corridors, to reduce conflict between elephants and human beings and to improve the welfare of captive elephants.
Read the full explanation →The National Tiger Conservation Authority was given statutory status by amending which law?
The amending Act of 2006 inserted a new chapter into it, creating the National Tiger Conservation Authority and providing for tiger reserves with a critical tiger habitat and a buffer, as well as for the Wildlife Crime Control Bureau.
Read the full explanation →Project Tiger was launched from which national park?
It is the oldest national park of India, and the project was formally launched there on 1 April 1973.
Read the full explanation →Project Tiger was launched in which year?
Project Tiger began on 1 April 1973 as a centrally sponsored scheme with nine tiger reserves, in the same year in which the tiger replaced the lion as the national animal of India.
Read the full explanation →The last ruler of the Nanda dynasty, who was overthrown by Chandragupta Maurya, was
He was the last of the Nanda kings of Magadha and ruled when Alexander invaded the Punjab; Greek writers describe the vast army of the Gangaridai and Prasii that waited beyond the Beas.
Read the full explanation →Shravasti was the capital of which mahajanapada?
Shravasti was the capital of Kosala in eastern Uttar Pradesh, and Ayodhya and Saketa were its other important towns. Its king Prasenajit was a contemporary of the Buddha, who spent many rainy seasons at the Jetavana monastery in Shravasti, which is why the town appears so often in Buddhist literature.
Read the full explanation →The war engines rathamusala and mahashilakantaka are associated with the campaigns of which ruler?
Buddhist and Jain traditions credit him with two engines used in the long war against the Vajji confederacy: the rathamusala, a chariot fitted with a swinging mace that cut down men as it was driven through them, and the mahashilakantaka, a catapult that hurled heavy stones.
Read the full explanation →The founder of the Nanda dynasty of Magadha was
He founded the Nanda dynasty and the Puranas describe him as a ruler of humble birth who destroyed all the Kshatriya houses, calling him Ekarat, the sole sovereign.
Read the full explanation →Which mahajanapada was a gana-sangha with its centre at Vaishali?
The Vajji confederacy had its centre at Vaishali in north Bihar and was the best known gana-sangha, a state governed not by a single king but by an assembly of the heads of ruling families.
Read the full explanation →The First Buddhist Council was held at Rajgriha under the patronage of which ruler?
The First Buddhist Council met at Rajgriha soon after the death of the Buddha, with Ajatashatru of the Haryanka dynasty as its patron and Mahakassapa presiding, and it settled the Vinaya Pitaka and the Sutta Pitaka as recited by Upali and Ananda.
Read the full explanation →Bimbisara, a contemporary of the Buddha, belonged to which dynasty?
Bimbisara was the first great ruler of the Haryanka line of Magadha, traditionally dated from about 544 BCE, with his capital at Girivraja, also called Rajgriha.
Read the full explanation →Ujjain was the capital of which mahajanapada?
Avanti covered the Malwa region and had two capitals: Ujjain in its northern half and Mahishmati on the Narmada in its southern half.
Read the full explanation →Which one of the following mahajanapadas was situated south of the Vindhyas?
Of the sixteen mahajanapadas only Assaka lay in the Deccan, on the banks of the Godavari, with its capital at Potana, also written Potali.
Read the full explanation →The list of sixteen mahajanapadas of the sixth century BCE is found in which of the following texts?
It is a text of the Sutta Pitaka of the Buddhist canon and it names the sixteen great states of the age of the Buddha, from Magadha and Kosala in the east to Gandhara and Kamboja in the north-west.
Read the full explanation →Under the Minimum Reserve System followed in India since 1957, the Reserve Bank must maintain a minimum reserve of
Under the Minimum Reserve System, adopted in 1957 in place of the earlier proportional reserve system, the Reserve Bank has to hold assets worth at least two hundred crore rupees against the notes it issues, of which gold must account for one hundred and fifteen crore and the remaining eighty-five…
Read the full explanation →The Imperial Bank of India was converted into which bank in 1955?
The Imperial Bank of India had itself been created in 1921 by merging the three presidency banks, the Bank of Bengal of 1806, the Bank of Bombay of 1840 and the Bank of Madras of 1843.
Read the full explanation →The cash reserve ratio refers to the portion of a bank's deposits that must be
The cash reserve ratio is the share of a bank's net demand and time liabilities that it must maintain as cash balances with the Reserve Bank.
Read the full explanation →NABARD, the apex institution for rural and agricultural credit in India, was established in which year?
The National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development was set up on 12 July 1982 on the recommendation of the committee headed by B. Sivaraman, and it took over the agricultural credit functions until then performed by the Reserve Bank and the refinance work of the Agricultural Refinance and Development…
Read the full explanation →The Reserve Bank of India was nationalised in which year?
The Reserve Bank began in 1935 as a shareholders' bank with privately held capital.
Read the full explanation →In India, the one rupee note is issued by
The one rupee note and all coins are issued by the Government of India through the Ministry of Finance, and the one rupee note carries the signature of the Finance Secretary rather than that of the Governor of the Reserve Bank.
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