Today’s GK Test Quiz

The river originates from the Kailash ranges of the Himalayas at an elevation of 5300 m. After flowing through Tibet it enters India through Arunachal Pradesh.

India is one of the few countries which has a forest policy since 1894. The first National Forest Policy in independent India came into effect in 1952.

More than 64% of India's electricity generation capacity comes from thermal power plants, further, 21% from renewable, 13% from hydro and 2% from nuclear.

Cosmic rays are high-energy protons and atomic nuclei that move through space at nearly the speed of light. They originate from the sun, from outside of the solar system in our own galaxy, and from distant galaxies. Parts of Kerala and Tamil Nadu are high background radiation areas (HBRA) because of the presence of large quantities of monazite in the soil.

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Gandhi regarded pure non-violence as the most powerful one. It was non-violence of the brave satyagrahi. According to Gandhi, one should be brave and not a coward. He should present his views, suggestions and thoughts without being violent. One should fight a war with the weapons of truth and non-violence.

The title “Priyadasi” is thought to have been used by the Mauryan Emperor Ashoka (269-233 BCE) in his inscriptions (the Edicts of Ashoka). Ashoka was referred to as “Beloved servant of the Gods” or Devanama Piyadassi in his inscriptions.

The part of the root involved in water absorption is zone of root hairs. Root hair found on roots causes an increase in the surface area of roots. This leads to the absorption of minerals and water that are dissolved in the absorbed water. Xylem is the tissue of vascular plants that transports water and nutrients from the roots of a plant to the tips of the leaves.

Zinc is the metal which presents in insulin. Insulin is a hormone that regulates the level of sugar (glucose) in the blood and that is produced by the beta cells of the islets of Langerhans in the pancreas. In humans, insulin is stored as a crystalline hexamer containing two zinc ions and one calcium ion. The chemical formula of insulin is C₂₅₇H₃₈₃N₆₅O₇₇S₆.

Arsenic, mercury, cadmium and fluoride are the main pollutants in the drinking water which are found in some parts of India.

Kumar Ram Narain Karthikeyan is a racing driver who was the first Formula One driver from India.

Article 12 to 35 of the Constitution of India deal with Fundamental Rights. These are inspired by the Constitution of United States of America.

The demand for a good or service depends on two factors: (1) its utility to satisfy a want or need, and (2) the consumer's ability to pay (Purchasing power) for the good or service.

NationCal Mineral Development Corporation (NMDC) is a Navratna Company. The Navratna Companies are Public Sector Enterprises (PSEs) that can invest up to ₹. 1000 crore or 15% of their net worth on a single project without seeking approval from the government. List of Navratna Companies: BEL, CCIL, EIL, HAL, MTNL, NALCO, NBCC, NMDC, NLCIL, OIL, PFC, RINL, REC and SCI.

A Consumer Price Index (CPI) is designed to measure the changes over time in general level of retail prices of selected goods and services that households purchase for the purpose of consumption. Such changes affect the real purchasing power of consumers' income and their welfare.

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.

A mixed economy combines the characteristics of capitalism and socialism. Essentially, a country with this kind of economy comprises public and private sectors, wherein private enterprises aim for profit maximisation, while the Government sector works towards the welfare of the citizens.

Sir Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web in 1989. The World Wide Web is an information system where documents and other web resources are identified by URL (Uniform Resource Locators), which may be interlinked by hyperlinks, and are accessible over the Internet.

Asteroids are rocky objects revolving around the sun that are too small to be called planets. The asteroid belt is a torus-shaped region in the Solar System, located roughly between the orbits of the planets Mars and Jupiter.

Roorkee Engineering College (I.I.T. Roorkee) is the earliest Engineering Educational Institution in India. It was established in 1847 AD in the British Empire. It was formerly known as the University of Roorkee and Thomason College of Civil Engineering.