General awareness/studies Q & A - Dec 08, 2014

ANSWER: c. Harshavardhana

He made Kanauj as his seat of power. During his reign, administration became more feudal and decentralised.

ANSWER: c. Banabhatta

Banabhatta was the court poet of Harshavardhana. This work contains the conquests and other achievements of the king Harshavardhana.

ANSWER: b. Corporation tax

For all Indian companies, the tax rate is same, but it differs between a Indian company and Foreign company.

ANSWER: a. Home Ministry

Census is conducted once in 10 years and is conducted under the Census Act of 1948. It is conducted by the Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India.

ANSWER: b. Keynes

In the 1930s, keynes propounded the theory that unemployment is caused because of lack of effective demand and the problem can be addressed by increasing the effective demand.

ANSWER: b. 1938

The Indian National Congress set up the National Planning Committee. It underlined that the state should have control on all the key industries.

ANSWER: a. Self-reliance and poverty eradication

The 5th five year plan covered the period 1974 to 1979. It was modelled by the Planning Commission of India. Growth rate of 4.8 was achieved .

ANSWER: d. All the above

The meeting was on the global financial crisis. It proposed 5 reforms, other 2 being reinforcing international cooperation and reforming international financing institutions.