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

Salal Dam also known as Salal Hydroelectric Power Station, is a run-of-the-river hydropower project on the Chenab River.

Article 51 A lays down the following ten fundamental duties:-

• To abide by the Constitution and respect its ideals and institutions, the National Flag and National Anthem;
• to cherish and follow the noble ideals which inspired our national struggle for freedom;
• to uphold and protect the sovereignty, unity and integrity of India ; (d) to defend the country and render national service when called upon to so ;
• to promote harmony and the spirit of common brotherhood amongst all the people of India diversities ; to renounce practices derogatory to the dignity of women ;
• to value and preserve the right heritage of our composite culture ;
• to protect and improve the natural to have compassion for living creature ;
• to develop the scientific temper, humanism and the spirit of inquiry and reform
• to safeguard public property and to adjure violence ;
• to strive towards excellence in all spheres of individual and collective activity so that the nation constantly rises to higher levels of endeavour and achievements.

A member who is elected for a full term serves for a period of six years.

Article 40 of the constitution directs the state government to organize village panchayat.

P. V. Narasimha Rao (or PV as he was popularly known) has been widely praised for enabling the economic reforms that transformed the country in 1991.

• The National Payments Corporation of India is formed under the provisions of the Payment and Settlement Systems Act, 2007, for creating a robust Payment & Settlement Infrastructure in India.
• NPCI is an Umbrella organisation for operating retail payments and settlements systems in India. It is also registered under the provisions of Section 25 of Companies Act 1956 (now Section 8 of Companies Act 2013).
• The ten core promoter banks are State Bank of India, Punjab National Bank, Canara Bank, Bank of Baroda, Union Bank of India, Bank of India, ICICI Bank, HDFC Bank, Citibank N. A. and HSBC.

• Krem Liat Prah in Jaintia Hills is the longest cave in India.
• It is located in Meghalaya.
• It is listed among the longest caves in the world.
• “Krem Liat Prah” contains a huge passage called the "Aircraft Hangar."
• The length of this cave is about 30,957 meters (101,565 feet).

• The Sahitya Akademi was founded in March, 1954.
• It initially functioned under executive order, but was subsequently registered as a society under the Indian Societies Registration Act, 1860.
• It is an organisation to the promotion of literature in languages in country.
• The first international seminar was held in 1961, in New Delhi.
• It organises following programs- “Meet the Author” Program, Kavi Anuvadak, Sahitya Akademi Award, Yuva Puraskar, etc.

• "We Are Displaced: My Journey and Stories from Refugee Girls Around the World" is a 2019 book by Malala Yousafzai.
• The book was published by Little, Brown and Company in the US and Weidenfeld & Nicolson in the UK.
• The book follows Yousafzai's own experience being displaced in Pakistan and later forced to move to England, and tells stories from nine other displaced people around the world.
• This book was launched on 8th January 2019.

• 'Ballam Kali', is a traditional Boat Race sport, which is held during the Onam festival in Kerala.
• It is a paddle war canoes race and is conducted during the harvest season of Onam festival. Chundan Vallam is the most important event in this event of multi boat race.
• Vallam Kali is also known as the snake boat race and is a major tourist attraction. Other types of boats which do participate in various events in the race are churulan vallam, iruttukuthy vallam, odi vallam, veppu vallam etc.