Basic GK Quiz 4

Servants of India Society was founded by Gopal Krishna Gokhale in 1905 to unite and train Indians of different ethnicities and religions in welfare work. It was the first secular organization in that country to devote itself to the underprivileged, rural and tribal people, emergency relief work, the increase of literacy, and other social causes.

The Indira Gandhi Canal is the longest canal of India. It starts from the Harike Barrage at Harike, a few km below the confluence of the Satluj and Beas rivers in Punjab and terminates in irrigation facilities in the Thar Desert in Rajasthan.

Arya Samaj is a monotheistic Indian Hindu reform movement that promotes values and practices based on the belief in the infallible authority of the Vedas. The samaj was founded by Dayanand Saraswati on 10 April 1875.

The full form of IRDA is Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority. IRDA is a regulatory body under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Finance, Government of India and is tasked with regulating and promoting the insurance and re-insurance industries in India.

The sex Ratio is females per thousand males. Kerala is the State with Highest Sex Ratio (1,058). The state with Lowest Sex Ratio is Haryana (861). UT with Highest Sex Ratio is Pondicherry (1001). UT with Lowest Sex Ratio is Daman and Diu (710).

Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest in the Solar System.

The Indian nationwide rail network is the fourth-longest in the world after the US (250,000km), China (100,000km) and Russia (85,500km). It is owned and operated by state-owned Indian Railways and includes an operating route length of more than 65,000km.

Sikh Guru Hargobind Singh called himself the 'Sachcha Badshah'. He was the sixth of ten Gurus of the Sikh religion. He had become Guru at the young age of eleven, after the execution of his father, Guru Arjan, by the Mughal emperor Jahangir.

'Operation Saiyam' (December 2010) was the Indian army's biggest operation to destroy deadly scraps at Indo-Pak Border in Punjab and Rajasthan.

Surat is a city located on the western part of India in the state of Gujarat. It is situated on the banks of the River Tapi and has about 6 km long coastal belt along the Arabian Sea.