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[B] Balaghat range
[C] Satpura range
[D] Western Ghats
Correct Answer: [D] Western Ghats
Explanation: The Western Ghats, which runs from north to south close to the western coast, forms the main water divide in Peninsular India. The major rivers of the Peninsula which flow into the Bay of Bengal include the Mahanadi, the Godavari, the Krishna and the Kaveri. The Narmada and the Tapi are the only long rivers which flow west and make estuaries.
[B] Tehri dam — Bhagirathi river
[C] Bisalpur — Banas river
[D] All of the above
Correct Answer: [D] All of the above
[B] Khasi Hills
[C] Jaintia Hills
[D] None of the above
Correct Answer: [B] Khasi Hills
[B] Krishna
[C] Cauvery
[D] Brahmaputra
Correct Answer: [D] Brahmaputra
[B] Ganga, Brahmaputra, Krishna, Godavari
[C] Ganga, Godavari, Krishna, Yamuna
[D] Ganga, Yamuna, Godavari, Mahanadi
Correct Answer: [C] Ganga, Godavari, Krishna, Yamuna
Explanation: Ten longest rivers of India-
Rivers | Length | Source |
1.Indus | 2900 km | Originates from Kailash ranges |
2.Brahmaputra | 2900 km | Originates from Kailash ranges |
3.Ganga | 2525 km | Originates from the Gangotri glacier |
4.Godavari | 1465 km | Originates near Nasik |
5.Krishna | 1400 km | Originates in the Western Ghats |
6.Yamuna | 1376 km | Originates from the Yamunotri glacier |
7.Narmada | 1312 km | Originates near Amarkantak |
8.Mahanadi | 851 km | Originates from Raipur district of Chhattisgarh |
9.Cauvery | 800 km | Brahmagiri Range of hills in the Western ghats |
10.Tapi | 724 km | Satpura Range |
[B] Chilka region
[C] Mansarovar lake
[D] Rann of Kutch
Correct Answer: [D] Rann of Kutch
[B] Hooghly
[C] Godavari
[D] Swarnarekha
Correct Answer: [A] Damodar
8. Arrange the following rivers according to their drainage basin in India from highest to lowest, using code:
1. Indus
2. Godavari
3. Krishna
4. Brahmaputra
[B] 4 – 2 – 3 – 1
[C] 2 – 4 – 3 – 1
[D] 4 – 3 – 2 – 1
Correct Answer: [A] 1 – 2 – 3 – 4
Explanation: Five biggest drainage basins of India are as follows
1. Ganga – 861404 km sq
2. Indus – 321284 km sq
3. Godavari – 312812 km sq
4. Krishna – 258948 km sq
5. Brahmaputra – 258008 km sq
[B] FEMA
[C] FENA
[D] FETA
Correct Answer: [B] FEMA
Explanation: In the budget of 1997-98, the government had proposed to replace FERA-1973, by FEMA (Foreign Exchange management act). FEMA was proposed by the both house of the parliament in Dec. 1999. After the approval of president, FEMA 1999 has come into force w.e.f. June, 2000. Under the FEMA, provisions related to foreign exchange have been modified and liberalized so as to simplify foreign trade. Government hopes that the FEMA will make favourable development in the foreign money market.
[B] Prohibited goods
[C] Unrecorded goods
[D] Goods through smuggling
Correct Answer: [A] Services
[B] Fiscal Deficit : Budgetary deficit plus market borrowing and other liabilities of the government.
[C] Primary Deficit : Fiscal deficit minus amount of interest paid by the government.
[D] All of the above
Correct Answer: [D] All of the above
[B] Corporate Tax
[C] Excise Duty
[D] Service Tax
Correct Answer: [B] Corporate Tax
Explanation: Goods and Services Tax (GST), is an indirect tax that will replace the entire taxes levy at Central and State level and it will unified into one national market across India.
Following are the duties and taxes, which will merge under GST (at Central Level): Central Excise Duty (including Additional Excise Duty), Service Tax, Additional Customs Duty, Central Surcharges and Cess.
Following are the duties and taxes, which will merge under GST (at State Level): Value Added Tax (VAT), Central Sales Tax, Octroi & Entry Tax, Purchase Tax, Luxury Tax, Taxes on lottery, betting and gambling, Entertainment Tax.
[B] Industrial Policy of 1948
[C] Industrial Policy of 1956
[D] Industrial Policy of 1977
Correct Answer: [B] Industrial Policy of 1948
Explanation:The Government of India brought out its first ever Industrial Policy Resolution 1948, so as to give organized direction to its industrialization.
Industrial Policy Resolution 1948 made a specific reference to the role of small-scale industries (with village and handicraft industries) in India’s economic development.
[B] Dividends and profits
[C] Interest receipts
[D] All of the above
Correct Answer: [D] All of the above
Explanation: Revenue Receipts – Any income that does not generate a liability is revenue. Revenue receipts two types –
Tax revenues: taxes and other duties levied by the Union, Taxes of Union Territories.
Non Tax revenues: interest and dividend on investments by the Govt, fees and other receipts for services rendered by the Govt, External Grants, Receipts of Union Territories
[B] Tobin Tax
[C] Pigovian Tax
[D] Ghetto Tax
Correct Answer: [B] Tobin Tax
Explanation: Tobin tax is a tax on international flow of short term capital. The tax is known after economist James Tobin who proposed it in1972 in the form a currency transaction tax.
[B] Mumbai
[C] Faridabad
[D] Gurugram
Current Affairs April 2019
Correct Answer: [D] Gurugram
[B] 2030
[C] 2020
[D] 2025
Current Affairs April 2019
Correct Answer: [B] 2030
[B] China
[C] Japan
[D] Singapore
Current Affairs April 2019
Correct Answer: [A] India
[B] Thailand
[C] India
[D] Bangladesh
Current Affairs April 2019
Correct Answer: [C] India
[B] 140
[C] 130
[D] 150
Current Affairs April 2019
Correct Answer: [B] 140