Today’s GK Test Quiz

NTPC Kawas is located at Aditya Nagar, Hazira in Surat district in the Indian state of Gujarat. The power plant is the gas-based combined cycle power plants of NTPC. Korba Super Thermal Power Plant is located in Chhattisgarh; Ramagundam in Telangana and Talcher in Odisha.

Most of the major rivers of the peninsula such as the Mahanadi, the Godavari, the Krishna and the Cauvery (Kaveri) flow eastwards and drain into the Bay of Bengal. West flowing rivers such as the Narmada, the Tapi drained into the Arabian Sea. Flowing into the Arabian Sea: Narmada, Tapi, Sindhu, Sabarmati, Mahi, Purna. Flowing into the Bay of Bengal: Brahmaputra, Yamuna, Ganga (with its main tributaries), Meghna, Mahanadi, Godavari, Krishna (and their main tributaries), Cauvery.

Dialectics is a discourse between two or more people holding different points of view about a subject but wishing to establish the truth through reasoned argumentation.

Molybdenum deficiency affects the activity of nitrate reductase. Without sufficient molybdenum plants accumulate nitrate in their leaves, but cannot use it to make proteins for normal growth. The plant becomes stunted and the leaves show symptoms of nitrogen deficiency, appearing pale green or yellowish-green in colour between the veins.

White phosphorus is a highly reactive clement. It is stored underwater for safekeeping to prevent it from catching fire spontaneously in the air. Red phosphorus is more stable than white phosphorus.

The equatorial circumference of Earth is about 40,075 km. However, the meridional circumference (from pole to pole) is about 40,008 km.

Election (Lok Sabha/Vidhan Sabha) petitions are filed in the High Court of the particular state in which the election was conducted.

The idea of the legislature as the custodian of national purse was for the first time mooted by the Government of India Act, 1909. It is considered as the custodian as it is the primary and most often the exclusive arbiter of federal fiscal affairs.

Social and Political rights possess the essential characteristics of human rights. Political rights encompass traditional human rights, such as life, liberty, and freedom of expression. Freedom of religion in India is a fundamental right guaranteed by Article 25-28 of the Constitution of India. The constitution of India does not expressly provide for socio-economic rights as the fundamental rights but they are a part of the Directive Principles of State Policy.

Economic and social planning is included in the Concurrent List under the Seventh Schedule of the Constitution of India.

Tripitaka is a traditional term used for various Buddhist scriptures. The three pitakas are Sutta Pitaka, Vinaya Pitaka and Abhidhamma Pitaka. The Upanishads are late Vedic Sanskrit texts of Hindu philosophy which form the foundations of Hinduism. Angas are 45 sacred Jain texts based on the tirthankara's discourse. The Aranyakas are part of the ancient Indian Vedas.

A parallel economy is the functioning of an unsanctioned sector in the economy whose objectives run in opposite to the objectives of official, sanctioned or legitimate sector. The term parallel economy is also referred as black economy, unaccounted economy, illegal economy, subterranean economy or unsanctioned economy. The existence of a parallel economy or Black Money makes the monetary policies less effective.

The economy is in equilibrium only when saving is equal to investment. If saving and investment are equal at a time, they will be soon brought into equilibrium by automatic changes in the rate of interest. Given the rate of investment, if saving increases, then the rate of interest will fall. With the decline in the rate of interest, investment demand will rise.

Overdraft is a financial instrument in which the money can be withdrawn from the current or savings account, even if the account balance goes below zero.

A Zagir was a type of feudal land grant in the Indian subcontinent at the foundation of its Jagirdar (Zamindar) system. The zagirdari system was a system that allotted Zagirs to Zagirdars or landlords in return for the services rendered by them to the Mughal Empire. The Zagirdar system was abolished by the Indian government in 1951.

The August Offer was made by Viceroy Linlithgow in 1940 promising the expansion of the Executive Council of the Viceroy of India to include more Indians, the establishment of an advisory war council, giving full weight to minority opinion, and the recognition of Indians' right to frame their own constitution.

Three Round table Conferences were held in London in 1930,1931,1932. B.R. Ambedkar and Tej Bahadur Sapru had attended all the Three Round Table Conferences. Gandhi Ji attended second Round table Conferences.

INSAT-1A was an Indian communications satellite, Launched in 1982. The Indian National Satellite System (INSAT) is a series of multipurpose geostationary satellites launched by ISRO to satisfy the telecommunications, broadcasting, meteorology, and search and rescue operations.

A full-wave rectifier rectifies both the half cycles of the AC input i.e., it conducts twice during a cycle. Hence, output frequency would be double to that of input frequency. Thus, the output frequency of a full-wave rectifier would be 2n.

The Radcliffe Line was the boundary demarcation line between the Indian and Pakistani portions of the Punjab and Bengal provinces of British India.