Static GK Test: August 18, 2022 - Bank Exams MCQ

This year's theme "Use and abuse of technology" focuses on the role of technology as a tool that can both enable and impede human trafficking.

Tansen Samaroh or Tansen Sangeet Samaroh is celebrated every year in the month of December in Behat village of Gwalior district, Madhya Pradesh. The event is organized near the tomb of Tansen by the Academy of the department of culture, Government of Madhya Pradesh.

Kaziranga National Park is a national park in the Golaghat and Nagaon districts of the state of Assam, India. A world Heritage Site, the park hosts two-thirds of the world’s great one-horned rhinoceroses.

Glenmark Pharmaceuticals Ltd. is the winner of the India Pharma Innovation of the Year award.

The NSG was founded in response to the Indian nuclear test in May 1974 and first met in November 1975. The test demonstrated that certain non-weapons specific nuclear technology could be readily turned to weapons development. Nations already signatories of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty saw the need to further limit the export of nuclear equipment, materials or technology. Another benefit was that non-NPT and non-Zangger Committee nations, then specifically France, could be brought in.

With the efforts of the Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath's government in Uttar Pradesh, India's first 'Amrit Sarovar' has been made ready in the Gram Panchayat Patwai of Rampur.

• The European Union (EU) is a union that is made up of 27 nations in Europe. The union was established in 1993 during the Maastricht Treaty in the Netherlands.
• Brussels in Belgium is considered the capital is that it hosts several seats of the EU such as the European Commission, the European Council, and the Council of the European Union

In a report published by Sweden-based think-tank Stockholm International Peace Research Institute titled "Trends in World Military Expenditure Report 2021", India's military expenditure is the third highest in the world after the US and China.

Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel National Police Academy (SVPNPA) is the Indian national institute for training of Indian Police Service officers before they are sent to their respective state cadres to carry out their duties. The academy is in Hyderabad, Telangana, India.

• Vallabhbhai Patel was an Indian barrister and statesman, one of the leaders of the Indian National Congress and one of the founding fathers of the Republic of India.
• He is also known as the "Bismarck of India".