ANSWER: C
The latitude which passes through Sikkim passes through Rajasthan also. The 27 Degree latitude passes through Alwar in Rajasthan and also Gangtok of Sikkim.
ANSWER: D
Abi Gamin is a Himalayan mountain peak mostly situated in the Chamoli district of Uttarakhand.
Rangrik Rang is located in Kinnaur district.
Reo Purgyil, sometimes known as Leo Pargial and Leo Pargil, is a mountain peak at the southern end of the Zanskar Range in the Western Himalaya.
Mount Gya, is a mountain peak located at 6,795 m above sea level. It is exactly at the tri-junction of Tibet, Ladakh and Himachal Pradesh. ‘Gya’ meant many things including ‘Hundred’, ‘White’, ‘Long pointed Chinese beard’ etc.
ANSWER: B
Special drawing rights are supplementary foreign exchange reserve assets defined and maintained by the International Monetary Fund. SDRs are units of account for the IMF, and not a currency per se. They represent a claim to currency held by IMF member countries for which they may be exchanged.
ANSWER: C
The correct answer is the marginal productivity of labour is zero.
ANSWER: A
The Indian agriculture sector receives highest amount of credit from commercial banks. Initially it was limited but after 2007 this limit was increased and now the commercial bank’s share in credit given agriculture is around 60%.
Commercial banks have the highest share in the disbursement of credit to agriculture and allied activities. The commercial banks disburse around 60% credit followed by cooperative banks around 30% and RRB and others.
ANSWER: C
Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) also known as Mangalyaan Mission is the cynosure of many of the technological breakthroughs achieved by ISRO in the Space domain.
ANSWER: D
Global conflicts and power politics also have major roles to play in setting the prices of a commodity that, literally, runs modern civilisation. Still, perhaps the most important determinant of global rates is the fiscal break-even price of oil at the leading exporting bloc.
Oil producers and exporters largely depend on energy earnings to finance the broader economy, including directing subsidies to priorities in those countries. Hence, the fiscal break-even prices of oil nations are more critical to global energy rates than the realisation per barrel of oil by the listed big oil majors that must fund capital expenditure and pay dividends to equity holders.
ANSWER: D
Kisan Vikas Patra is a certificate scheme from the Indian post office. It doubles a one-time investment in a period of approximately 10 years & 4 months (124 months) if you purchase the certificate between 1 July 2021 and 30 September 2021. For instance, a Kisan Vikas Patra for Rs. 5000 will get you a corpus of Rs. 10,000 postmaturity. In this article, we will explore the features and potential of this scheme.
ANSWER: B
Neither a Hawk nor a Dove: An insider’s account of Pakistan’s foreign policy is a book written by Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri. The book is the first comprehensive account by a Pakistani Foreign minister who contributed in moving the peace process with India forward.
ANSWER: A
Shanta Kumar Committee on 21 January 2015 submitted its report on restructuring of Food Corporation of India (FCI) to the Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
The Prime Minister asked the Department of Food and Public Distribution to give its comments on the report so that the recommendations can be implemented in a time-bound manner.
Recommendations of the Shanta Kumar Committee
FCI procurement should focus on eastern belt, where farmers do not get minimum support price.
FCI should hand over procurement of wheat and rice to six States which include Punjab, Haryana, Andhra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Odisha.
Grain storage needs to be outsourced to private and government agencies like state-owned Central Warehousing Corporation (CWC), State Warehousing Corporations (SWCs) and private organisations.
Proposed uniform tax of minimum 3 percent and maximum 4 percent on wheat and rice and the same to be included in the minimum support price (MSP). In Punjab, this tax rate on wheat and rice as of now is 14.5 percent.
To strengthen distribution of foodgrains, there needs to be end-to-end computerisation and a vigilance committee needs to be set up. At present, the leakage in Public Distribution System is estimated at 13.7 percent.
Called for encouraging private investment in logistics in next two-three years and suggested bulk handling of foodgrains through grain trains.
ANSWER: D
The largest increase was recorded in the Western Ghats Landscape complex comprising Kerala, Karnataka, Goa and Tamil Nadu with 776 tigers (up from 402 in 2006).
The latest report on Status of Tigers in India, 2014 showed 30 percent increase in tiger population to 2226 from 1706 in 2010. India now has 70 per cent of the tiger population in the world. The report was released by National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA).
The largest increase was recorded in the Western Ghats Landscape complex comprising Kerala, Karnataka, Goa and Tamil Nadu with 776 tigers (up from 402 in 2006).
In 2006, the number of tigers in Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Karnataka were 76, 46 and 290 respectively. In 2014, the number of tiger increased to 229, 136 and 406 in Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Karnataka respectively.
ANSWER: C
India on 20 January 2015 signed an agreement on transfer of sentenced persons with Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.
Under the agreement, the two sides will exchange sentenced prisoners in each other’s jurisdiction. The agreement will mostly apply to Indian prisoners as there are very few Hong Kong residents in Indian prisons.
There are at present 93 Indians in Hong Kong jails. Only 17 of them are undergoing sentence for serious crimes like drug dealing while most of the remaining prisoners have been jailed for relatively minor offenses like immigration law violation.
The two sides have been engaged in discussions on this issue for a long time and it is only now that an agreement has been reached. The agreement will add to the existing framework of institutional cooperation between the two sides.
India has similar agreements on exchange of prisoners with several other countries but none with Mainland China.
ANSWER: B
ANSWER: B
The script of the earliest epigraphical rock inscriptions at Kanhiyara in Kangra Brahmi and Kharoshthi.
ANSWER: B
It was also conferred by the Mughal Emperor Jahangir upon the Rajput Rulers of the Hill States. The title is mentioned by the British as one of the principle titles used by “Mohammedan Princely States”.
ANSWER: C
The chiefs of Mandi and Suket are said to be from a common ancestor of the Chandravanshi line of Rajputs of Sena dynasty of Bengal and they claim their descent from the Pandavas of the Mahabharata.
ANSWER: D
Rajendra Sena of Spiti invaded Kullu and made it a tributary.
ANSWER: B
ANSWER: C
The Department of Information and Public Relations since its Inception in 1954 has passed through various stages and has done its best to equip itself with what was essentially required to meet the challenges of times and thus make its presence felt through the optimum use of its potential.
ANSWER: D
ANSWER: B
Beti Hai Anmol Yojana is for girls from below poverty line (BPL) families of Himachal Pradesh. Under the Beti Hai Anmol Yojana, all girls born after July 5, 2010, can get the benefits of studying up to 12th standard.
Under this scheme, the Himachal Pradesh government will deposit a scholarship of ₹ 10000 in the post office or in the daughter’s bank account at the time of the daughter’s birth. Financial assistance ranging from ₹ 300 to ₹ 1200 will be provided for books and uniforms from class I to class XII. Financial assistance of ₹ 5000 will be provided after class XII.
ANSWER: A
The festival was started in 1527 AD by Raja Ajbar Sen, the ruler of Mandi. However, Raja Suraj Sen gave to present form of cultural festival to the fair in 1705.
ANSWER: A
Tieun Dhar is located in Bilaspur District.
ANSWER: B
Shingni- Mingni is a herbal-medicinal Plant.
ANSWER: B
The idea of a natural skating rink was developed by an Irish military official named Blessington who lived in Shimla during the British Raj.
ANSWER: A
The peak is locally known as Yunam after the glaciers and lake located close to it, but officially it remains unmanned. The 6,113-metre peak stands looms over the lauhal and spiti.
ANSWER: D
The number of members in the H.P. Vidhan Sabha increase from 36 to 41 in 1954.
ANSWER: B
Hidimba Devi Temple, locally known as Dhungari Temple, also known variously as the Hadimba Temple, is located in Manāli, a hill station in the State of Himāchal Pradesh in north India. It is an ancient cave temple dedicated to Hidimbi Devi, wife of Bhima, a figure in the Indian epic Mahābhārata.
ANSWER: A
Sirmaur is the largest producer of the ginger in Himachal Pradesh with the highest area coverage of 1,500 hectares.
ANSWER: B
Una, Bilaspur, Solan, Mandi
ANSWER: C
ANSWER: C
Polwarth is a breed of sheep that was developed in Victoria (Australia)
The Corriedale is a New Zealand breed of sheep.
ANSWER: D
Kalibangan is a town located at the left or southern banks of the Ghaggar (Ghaggar-Hakra River) in Tehsil Pilibangān, between Suratgarh and Hanumangarh in Hanumangarh District, Rajasthan, India 205 km. from Bikaner. It is also identified as being established in the triangle of land at the confluence of Drishadvati and Sarasvati Rivers.
ANSWER: A
Nagasena was a Sarvastivadan Buddhist sage who lived around 150 BC. His answers to questions about Buddhism posed by Menander I, the Indo-Greek king of northwestern India, are recorded in the Milinda Pañha and the Sanskrit Nāgasenabhiksusūtra.
ANSWER: D
Vallabhi is an ancient city located in the Saurashtra peninsula of Gujarat, near Bhavnagar in western India. It is also known as Vallabhipura and was the capital of the Suryavanshi Maitraka Dynasty.
ANSWER: C
Mustaid Khan is the author of the Maasir-i-Alamgiri. Mustaid Khan, wrote the history of Aurangzeb in the early eighteenth century and had been closely associated with Aurangzeb.
ANSWER: D
Vesara Style (a hybrid of northern and southern style) were the temples belonging to the land between the Vindhyas and the River Krishna.
ANSWER: D
Shahuji, the son of Sambhaji, who had been captured at Satara along with his mother. Shahu had been treated well. He had been given the title of raja and the mansab of 7000/7000.
ANSWER: D
Warren Hastings was the 1st Governor-General of Bengal. This article will share details about Warren Hastings and measures taken by him during his tenure; such as revenue reforms, judicial reforms, the abolition of the dual system etc.
ANSWER: D
Sidhu Murmu and Kanhu Murmu were the leaders of the Santhal rebellion (1855–1856), the rebellion in present-day Jharkhand and Bengal (Purulia and Bankura) in eastern India against both the British colonial authority and the corrupt zamindari system.
ANSWER: B
(3) (1) (4) (2)
| List I | List II |
| A. Dadabhai Naoraji | 3. Poverty and Un-British Rule of India |
| B. Dayanand Saraswati | 1, Satyarth Prakash |
| C. Bal Gangadhar Tilak | 4. Gita Rahasya |
| D. Bankim Chandra Chatterjee | 2. Anand Math |
ANSWER: A
Sir Cyril Radcliffe
ANSWER: D
Ladang refers to Shifting cultivation. Shifting cultivation is an agricultural system in which areas of land are cultivated for a short time. Then they are left to grow back their natural vegetation, while the farmer moves to another area.
ANSWER: C
ANSWER: C
ANSWER: C
Bengali remains the second most spoken language while Marathi has replaced Telugu in third place.With just 24,821 persons listing it as their mother tongue, it was slotted below Bodo, Manipuri, Konkani and Dogri languages in terms of number of speakers.
ANSWER: D
The Great Salt Lake is the largest saltwater lake in the Western Hemisphere, and the eighth-largest terminal lake in the world. It lies in the northern part of the U.S. state of Utah, and has a substantial impact upon the local climate, particularly through lake-effect snow.
ANSWER: A
Jhelum, Chenab, Ravi, Satluj
ANSWER: D
Daman & Diu : Sex Ratio in Daman and Diu is 618 i.e. for each 1000 male, which is below national average of 940 as per census 2011. In 2001, the sex ratio of female was 710 per 1000 males in Daman and Div.
ANSWER: C
Diego Garcia, the southernmost island in the Chagos Archipelago and a part of the British Indian Ocean Territory, is centrally located in the Indian Ocean. It is a narrow atoll 39 miles long that nearly encloses a lagoon 13 miles long and up to 6 miles wide.
ANSWER: B
Rainfall decreases from the east to the west in Northern India because there is a decrease in the moisture of the winds. Consequently, states like Gujarat and Rajasthan in western India get very little rainfall.
ANSWER: B
The United States holds 254,197 million tons (MMst) of proven coal reserves as of 2015, ranking 1st in the world and accounting for about 22% of the world’s total coal reserves of 1,139,471 million tons (MMst). The United States has proven reserves equivalent to 347.7 times its annual consumption.
ANSWER: B
Bhimrao Ambedkar, chairman of the Drafting Committee of the Constitution of India, referred to Article 356 as a dead letter of the Constitution. Ambedkar replied, “I share the sentiments that such articles will never be called into operation and they would remain a dead letter’’.
ANSWER: B
ANSWER: B
Committee on subordinate legislation: In both the houses, the committee has 15 members. A Minister is not nominated to this Committee. The Committee scrutinizes and reports to the House whether the powers to make regulations, rules, and sub-rules, by-laws etc.
Committee on Government Assurances : The Committee on Government Assurances in Rajya Sabha is constituted under rule 212 A of the Rules of Procedure and Conduct of Business in Rajya Sabha. In order to constitute a meeting of the Committee, the quorum is five. The functions of the Committee are to scrutinise the assurances, promises, undertakings, etc.
ANSWER: C
| Nominator | Council of Ministers |
| Appointer | President of India |
| Term length | 6 years or up to 65 years of age (whichever is earlier) |
| Deputy | Election Commissioners of India Deputy Election Commissioners of India |
ANSWER: A
In December 1977, the Janata Government appointed a committee on Panchayati Raj institutions under the chairmanship of Ashoka Mehta. The committee submitted its report in August 1978 and made 132 recommendations to revive and strengthen the declining Panchayati Raj system in the country.
ANSWER: B
The right to education at elementary level has been made one of the Fundamental Rights under Article 21A by the 86th Constitutional amendment of 2002.
ANSWER: D
National Human Rights Commission or NHRC is a standalone entity of the Government of India with the mission of promoting and protecting human rights. It is a statutory body mentioned in the Constitution of India that was established in 1993 under the ‘Protection of Human Rights Act.’ This act was further amended in 2006.
ANSWER: B
ANSWER: C
ANSWER: C
ELEVENTH SCHEDULE
(Article 243G)
ANSWER: A
Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana (PMJDY), the biggest financial inclusion initiative in the world, was announced by the Hon’ble Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi on 15thAugust 2014 from the ramparts of the Red Fort and launched by him on 28th August 2014 across the country.
ANSWER: B
The United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), also known as the ‘Earth Summit‘, was held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Popularly known as the ‘Earth Summit’, the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) held on 3-14 June 1992, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, marked the twentieth anniversary of the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment held in Stockholm, Sweden, in 1972.
ANSWER: A
The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development was established in 1964 as an intergovernmental organization intended to promote the interests of developing states in world trade. UNCTAD is the part of the United Nations Secretariat dealing with trade, investment, and development issues.
ANSWER: A
The Securities and Exchange Board of India was established on April 12, 1992 in accordance with the provisions of the Securities and Exchange Board of India Act, 1992.
ANSWER: A
The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) is the regulatory body for securities and commodity market in India under the ownership of Ministry of Finance , Government of India. It was established on 12 April 1988 and given Statutory Powers on 30 January 1992 through the SEBI Act, 1992.
ANSWER: A
National Institute for Transforming India :
The NITI Aayog serves as the apex public policy think tank of the Government of India, and the nodal agency tasked with catalyzing economic development, and fostering cooperative federalism through the involvement of State Governments of India in the economic policy-making process using a bottom-up approach.
NITI AAYYOG on January 1, 2015 with emphasis on ‘Bottom –Up’ approach to envisage the vision of Maximum Governance, Minimum Government, echoing the spirit of ‘Cooperative Federalism’.
ANSWER: C
The 7th BRICS summit was the seventh annual diplomatic summit of the head of states or government of the BRICS member states. It was held in the Russian city of Ufa in Bashkortostan on 8–9 July 2015.
ANSWER: B
ANSWER: C
ANSWER: A
The first NSS round was started in October 1950 and was completed in March 1951. This round took a sample of 1883 villages. The survey provided information regarding various aspects of national economy in the rural sector of the whole of India, covering a total area of 790 million acres.
Option B
Biosphere Reserve (BR) is an international designation by United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) for representative parts of natural and cultural landscapes extending over large areas of terrestrial or coastal/marine ecosystems or a combination of both.
Biosphere Reserves tries to balance economic and social development and maintenance of associated cultural values along with the preservation of nature.
Biosphere Reserves are thus special environments for both people and nature and are living examples of how human beings and nature can co-exist while respecting each others’ needs.
ANSWER: C
India ratified it in 1994. The Biological Diversity Act, 2002 was enacted for giving effect to the provisions of the Convention. To implement the provisions of the Act, the government established the National Biodiversity Authority (NBA) in 2003.
ANSWER: A
Carbon dioxide, a byproduct of fossil fuel combustion, is the principal greenhouse gas contributing to global warming. However, other greenhouse gases including methane, nitrous oxide, and a number of industrial-process gases also are important contributors to climate change.
ANSWER: B
China is the world’s largest contributing country to CO2 emissions—a trend that has steadily risen over the years—now producing 10.06 billion metric tons of CO2.
ANSWER: D
ANSWER: C
As of 2019, the total forest cover in India is 712,249 Sq km (71.22 million hectares), which is 21.67 percent of the total geographical area.
ANSWER: D
Solar energy is the energy generated by the sun. It can be harnessed directly or indirectly for human use. Electricity consumption has been a key concern and thus solar power, solar batteries; solar cookers are definitely making an alternative to reduce the amount of electricity consumption as the Sun is a natural resource and is renewable. Sun is the natural nuclear reactor. No greenhouse gases are emitted in using solar energy which is of a great impact on the environment saving the ecosystem from harmful effects.
ANSWER: D
Tropical regions has the maximum biodiversity.
ANSWER:B
Fossil fuels: The global primary energy sources for stationary power generation and for transportation are fossil fuels. Currently fossil-based fuels like oil, coal and natural gas, provide approximately 85 % of all energy being used worldwide.
ANSWER: C
In 1994, the United Nations General Assembly proclaimed 16 September the International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer, commemorating the date of the signing, in 1987, of the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer.
ANSWER: B
The world’s highest ground based telescopic observatory is located at Leh in India.
ANSWER: B
Insulin is a protein chain or peptide hormone. There are 51 amino acids in an insulin molecule. It has a molecular weight of 5808 Da. Insulin is produced in the islets of Langerhans in the pancreas.
ANSWER: D
Lactic acid buildup occurs when there’s not enough oxygen in the muscles to break down glucose and glycogen. This is called anaerobic metabolism. There are two types of lactic acid: L-lactate and D-lactate. Most forms of lactic acidosis are caused by too much L-lactate.
ANSWER: A
Organic farming is a production system which avoids or largely excludes the use of synthetically compounded fertilizers, pesticides, growth regulators, genetically modified organisms and livestock food additives.Organic farming is one way to promote either self-sufficiency or food security.
ANSWER: B
Tuberculosis (TB) is a potentially serious infectious disease that mainly affects the lungs. The bacteria that cause tuberculosis are spread from person to person through tiny droplets released into the air via coughs and sneezes.
ANSWER: D
The name of this scale is simply Kelvin not degree Kelvin and its plural form is Kelvins. Kelvin is commonly used to measure very low and very high temperatures. So, the correct answer is 310 K.
ANSWER: B
The King Cobra displays a rather unusual behaviour for a snake, which amounts to nothing short of a miracle even though it is a natural phenomenon. The female snake, about 13 feet long, builds a nest to lay its eggs. In fact, the King Cobra is the only snake in the world that builds a nest.
ANSWER: B
German silver is the term used for a metal alloy that’s similar to silver in its appearance but isn’t made out of actual service. It is made out of Copper, Zinc, and Nickel and it’s getting its qualities from them.
ANSWER: B
The major uses of speciality aluminium oxides are in refractories, ceramics, polishing and abrasive applications. Large tonnages of aluminium hydroxide, from which alumina is derived, are used in the manufacture of zeolites, coating titania pigments, and as a fire retardant/smoke suppressant.
ANSWER: D
PC is commonly used for plastic lenses in eyewear, in medical devices, automotive components, protective gear, greenhouses, Digital Disks (CDs, DVDs, and Blu-ray), and exterior lighting fixtures.
ANSWER: D
Reflection, Refraction and Diffraction.
Reflection: When a wave meets a boundary, it can be reflected or transmitted. Reflection can be partial or complete. Reflection can also involve a phase flip (change of phase of 180 degrees.)
Refraction: Refraction occurs when a wave crosses a boundary from one medium to another. A wave entering a medium at an angle will change direction.
Diffraction: Diffraction refers to the “bending of waves around an edge” of an object. Diffraction depends on the size of the object relative to the wavelength of the wave.
ANSWER: D
Radio wave
Radio waves are a type of electromagnetic radiation with wavelengths in the electromagnetic spectrum longer than infrared radiation.
Radio waves are generated artificially by transmitters and received by radio receivers, using antennas.
ANSWER: C
The working principle of a washing machine is centrifugation. Centrifugation is a separation process that uses the action of centrifugal force to promote accelerated settling of particles in a solid-liquid mixture. The washing machine consists of a centrifuge for this purpose.
ANSWER: C
ANSWER: B
A simple machine is a mechanical device that changes the direction or magnitude of a force. In general, they can be defined as the simplest mechanisms that use mechanical advantage to multiply force. Thus, simple machine helps us in doing same amount of work with lesser force.
ANSWER: B
There is major problem in series combination of appliances that if one of them gets damaged or fused, then the whole circuit does not work and all the other appliances automatically gets switched off. Thus domestic electrical wiring is basically a parallel connection.
ANSWER: D
Zantac (ranitidine) is used to treat or relieve heartburn, acid indigestion, GERD and gastric ulcers. It belongs to a class of drugs called H2 blockers. The FDA issued a recall after Zantac made with ranitidine was found to contain the carcinogen NDMA. A reformulated Zantac, Zantac 360, is currently available with famotidine replacing ranitidine.
ANSWER: B
An antipyretic is a substance that reduces fever. Antipyretics cause the hypothalamus to override a prostaglandin-induced increase in temperature. The body then works to lower the temperature, which results in a reduction in fever.
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