Today’s GK Test Quiz

Gir Forest National Park is a wildlife sanctuary in Gujarat, western India. It was established to protect Asiatic lions, who frequent the fenced-off Devalia Safari Park, along with leopards and antelopes.

The Delhi–Lahore Bus, officially known as Sada-e-Sarhad, is a passenger bus service connecting the Indian capital of Delhi with the city of Lahore, Pakistan via the border transit post at Wagah.

It is the statement from the autobiography of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi “The Story of My Experiments with Truth”. It was written in weekly installments and published in his journal Navjivan from 1925 to 1929.

The olive ridley is a species of turtle in the family Cheloniidae. The species is the second-smallest and most abundant of all sea turtles found in the world.

The caste system in ancient India was used to establish separate classes of inhabitants based upon their social positions and employment functions in the community.

Non-conventional energy (also known as Renewable energy) sources are sources that are renewed by natural processes on a continual basis. Energy generated by using wind, solar, small hydro, tides, geothermal heat and biomass is known as non-conventional energy. Hydroelectric power is a renewable energy source. It uses the energy of running water, without reducing its quantity, to produce electricity.

Part II of the Constitution of India (Articles 5-11) deals with the Citizenship of India. Indian citizenship can be acquired in four ways according to the Citizenship Act, 1955 - birth, descent (Hereditary), registration, and naturalization.

On 26 November 1949, the Constituent Assembly of India adopted the Constitution of India, and it came into effect on 26 January 1950. The Government of India declared 26 November as Constitution Day on 19 November 2015 by a gazette notification.

On an occasion, Gandhi had explained that for him a true Ram Rajya means to ensure “equal rights to both prince and pauper”.

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Non-Plan Expenditure is money that's spent on sustaining the country like defence, postal deficit, subsidies, etc. and Plan Expenditure is the money that is spent on improving the country like the money spent on dams, roads, etc. The biggest items of Non-Plan Expenditure are interest payments and debt servicing, defence expenditure and subsidies.

The best way for a bank to avoid loss is to accept sound collateral. In lending agreements, collateral is a borrower's pledge of specific property to a lender, to secure repayment of a loan.

The fourth Five-Year Plan was from 1969 to 1974. It targeted achieving self-reliance through progressive movement and achieving stable growth. During the implementation of this plan, then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi called the slogan 'GARIBI HATAO'.

Producer surplus is the difference between how much a person would be willing to accept for given quantity of a good versus how much they can receive by selling the good at the market price. The difference or surplus amount is the benefit the producer receives for selling the good in the market.

The term “labour-intensive” refers to a process or industry that requires a large amount of labour to produce its goods or services. The degree of labour intensity is typically measured in proportion.

When Rays from a distant point source travel parallel to each other in a particular direction, it forms a parallel Light Beam. The sun-ray is an example of a parallel Beam of Light.

The sky appears blue to the human eye as the short waves of blue light are scattered more than the other colours in the spectrum, making the blue light more visible.

In a rechargeable cell, chemical energy is stored within the cell. Chemical energy is energy stored in the bonds of atoms and molecules. Batteries, biomass, petroleum, natural gas, and coal are examples of chemical energy.

The Thai Baht (THB) is the official currency of the Kingdom of Thailand.

Lord Ripon is rightly called the “Father of Local Self Government” in India. In 1882 the then Viceroy of India, Lord Ripon, passed a resolution of local self-government which lead the democratic forms of municipal governance in India.