Today’s GK Test Quiz

The Bhilai Steel Plant, located in the Indian state of Chhattisgarh, is India's first and main producer of steel rails, as well as a major producer of wide steel plates and other steel products. It was set up in collabouration with Soviet Union (Russia) in 1955.

Cultivators are agricultural Labourers. A person who worked in another person's land for wages in cash, kind or share was regarded as an agricultural labourer.

Kelps are large brown algae seaweeds that make up the order Laminariales. It grows in shallow saltwater near coastal areas around the world. It is a rich source of iodine, minerals, antioxidants, fiber, proteins, and healthy carbohydrates.

The atomic clock is based on transitions in Caesium. The caesium atomic clock is the most accurate type of clock yet developed. This device makes use of transitions between the spin states of the cesium nucleus and produces a frequency which is so regular that it has been adopted for establishing the time standard.

Sand dune covered eastern portion of the Great Indian (Thar) Desert in western Rajasthan. It the depositional features which are formed due to the deposition of sand particles carried by the wind.

Anthracite is the highest rank of coal. It contains a high percentage of fixed carbon and a low percentage of volatile matter. It is the most metamorphosed type of coal (but still represents low-grade metamorphism), in which the carbon content is between 86% and 98%.

River erosion is at the greatest where river's flow is fast. The outer bank has the greatest erosion because the water is flowing faster along the outer bank than the inner bank.

Coral reefs are often called the “tropical rainforests of the sea” for their astounding richness of life. It is an underwater ecosystem characterized by reef-building corals. Due to their structural complexity, corals are one of the most productive ecosystems on Earth, providing important services to mankind including fisheries, coastal protection, medicines, recreation, and tourism.

The troposphere is the lowest layer of Earth's atmosphere, and is also where nearly all weather conditions take place. It contains 75% of the atmosphere's mass and 99% of the total mass of water vapour and aerosols.

The Constitution of India recognises minorities on the basis of religion and language. Both Articles 29 and 30 guarantee certain rights to the minorities. Article 29 grants protection to both religious minorities as well as linguistic minorities. As per Articles 30, all minorities shall have the right to establish and administer educational institutions of their choice.

Under Article 356 of the Constitution of India, if a State fails to comply with the Directives of the Central Government, the President can declare the breakdown of constitutional machinery in the State and assume responsibility for the governance of the State.

Inventory is the accounting of items, component parts and raw materials a company uses in production or sells.

Per capita income or total income measures the average income earned per person in a given area in a specified year. It is calculated by dividing the area's total income by its total population. Per capita income is national income divided by population size.

Depository services are services in which the securities of investors are kept in an electronic form just as bank keeps all your cash in its account and provides all services related to the transaction of cash, similarly, we help you out in performing the service through a demat account.

Three Important Methods for Measuring National Income are - Income Method, Product/ Value Added Method and Expenditure Method.

Quasi-rent is the surplus which is received in a short period because of demand exceeding the supply by the man-made factors besides land.

For a long time, only British officers were appointed to all covenanted posts. Lord Dalhousie made it possible for the Indians to enter the Indian Civil Service through an Open Competitive examination. Satyendranath Tagore was the first Indian to join the Indian Civil Service.

Lord Ripon is known as the Father of Local Self Government in India. He was the first British viceroy to give wider rights and powers to local bodies.

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Civil disobedience is the active, professed refusal of a citizen to obey certain laws, demands, orders or commands of a Government. On 12 March 1930, Mahatma Gandhi begins a defiant march to the sea in protest of the British monopoly on salt, his boldest act of civil disobedience yet against British rule in India. Britain's Salt Acts prohibited Indians from collecting or selling salt, a staple in the Indian diet.