General awareness/studies Q & A - Sep 29, 2014

ANSWER: b. August Offer of 1940.

The demand for the Constituent Assembly was made for the first time in 1935 and this demand was accepted by the British in August Offer of 1940. The Constituent Assembly was finally set up by the Cabinet Mission Plan of 1946.

ANSWER: c. (i),(ii),(iii) only.

RBI controls the credit given by the commercial banks. Quantitative measures are the one in which it checks the amount or quantity of credit that is given by the banks. Bank Rate, CRR, SLR, Open Market Operations, Repo and Reverse Repo are the Quantitative measures.

ANSWER: b. B, C, A, D.

All four cities are the capital of various countries. Beijing is the northern most among the given followed by Tokyo then Dhaka and finally Bangkok.

ANSWER: b. Belgaum Session of 1924.

Mahatma Gandhi was President of Indian National Congress Session which was held in Belgaum. He presided INC session only once in life. He was released from jail due to ill health and as soon as he was released he presided the session.

ANSWER: a. Pilibhit Wildlife Sanctuary.

It is Pilibhit Wildlife Sanctuary which is notified as the Tiger Reserve from June 2014. Dudhwa is Tiger Reserve from the year 1987, Amangarh Tiger Reserve was notified in 2012. Valmiki National Park is in Bihar and not in Uttar Pradesh.

ANSWER: c. Uttar Pradesh.

Recently Uttar Pradesh State Government raised the retirement age of State Election Commissioner from 65 years or 5 years to 68 years or 6 years. They amended the UP State Election Commission Rules.

ANSWER: c. C, D, A, B.

Indian Association of Calcutta was started in 1875, Madras Mahajan Sabha in 1884, Bombay Presidency Association in 1885. These three organisations were merged together and later on Indian National Congress was started in 1885.

ANSWER: a. Simon Commission Report.

The First Round Table Conference was called to discuss about the Simon Commission report. It was boycotted by the Indian National Congress.

ANSWER: c. (i),(ii),(iv)

Union Territories are not joined with any states and they are given separate status because of its cultural uniqueness, strategic importance, political consideration etc. Here Lakshadweep is made Union Territory because of its Strategic importance.

ANSWER: b. (i),(iii),(iv)

If the tax burden falls on the same person on whom it is imposed then it is called as direct tax. The Direct taxes are Income tax, Corporate tax, Wealth Tax, Professional tax etc., Customs duty, excise duty comes under indirect tax.