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  ✍️ CRR Cash Reserve Ratio is the minimum fraction of total deposits of a bank’s customers that banks have to hold as reserves with the central bank. ✍️ SLR Statutory Liquidity Ratio is the ratio of liquid assets to the net demand and time liabilities. ✍️ LAF Liquid Adjustment Facility is a tool to allow banks to borrow money through repurchase agreements. It consists of repo and reverse repo operations. ✍️ MSF Marginal Standing Facility allows scheduled banks to borrow funds overnight from RBI against approved government securities. ✍️ MSS Market Stabilization Scheme is a monetary policy intervention by RBI to withdraw excess liquidity by selling government securities in the economy. ✍️ OMO Open Market Operations refers to the buying and selling of government securities in the open market so as to expand or contract the amount of money in the banking system. ✍️ REPO Repo...

General Awareness One Liner

🎀General Awareness One Liner🎀



1. With which does the power to extend or restrict the jurisdiction of the High Court rest?
With the Parliament



2. ‘Gobar gas’ contains mainly which gas? Methane



3. Which is the biggest Public Sector undertaking in the country? Railways



4. Which rocks is transformed into marble? Limestone



5. Which ‘Englishmen was fellow of Gandhiji in South Africa? Polak



6. By which number the quality of gasoline’ sample is determined? By its octane number



7. Due to bite of mad dog the disease hydrophobia is caused by which virus? Rabies virus



8. Who appoints the Chief Election Commissioner of India? President



9. What is the principal reason for the formation of metamorphic rocks? Extreme heat and pressure



10. Who said “I therefore want freedom immediately, this very night, before dawn if it can be had”?
Mahatma Gandhi



11. A temperature at which both the Fahrenheit and the centigrade scales have the same value?-40°



12. With which is the ‘Tennis court oath’ associated? French Revolution



13. Which is the tax that takes away a higher proportion of one’s income as the income rises?
Progressive tax



14. Where is the Sargasso sea located? North Atlantic Ocean



15. Who com merited that Cripps Mission was a postdated cheque on a crashing bank?Mahatma Gandhi



16. Medicine for epilepsy is obtain from which lichen? Parmelia



17. Up to howmuch age can the Members of the Union Public Service Commission function?
65 years



18. Which type of glass is used for making glass reinforced plastic? Quartz glass



19. Which is the greatest known ocean depth (which lies in the Pacific Ocean)? 11,033 m



20. At which one place did Mahatma Gandhi first start his Satyagraha in India? Champaran



21. With which country is “Orange’ Revolution” associated? Ukraine



22. With which field was Pandit Bhimsen Joshi associated? Music’s



23. What percentage of water is lost during transpiration? 99%



24. Which is the most populous city in the world? Tokyo



25. By which ruler was the practice of military governorship first introduced in India?
Greeks



26. Which country has the briefest Constitution in the world? USA



27. When temperature is gradually decreased, what is the specific heat of substance? Decreased



28. What is the mean of Invisible Export? Export Services



29. Which is the country with the highest density of population in Europe? Netherlands



30. Bhakt Tukaram was a contemporary of which Mughal emperor? Jahangir


31. Who was the first person to cross the Alps with army? Hannibal



32. What is the loss of water in the form of water drops called? Guttation



33. Who was made the Home Minister when Jawaharlal Nehru formed the Interim Government in 1946?Sardar Patel



34. Which foreign country is closest to Andarnan Islands? Myanmar



35. Who was called Zinda Pir (living saint) in Mughal India? Aurangzeb



36. Which metal is non toxic in nature? Gold



37. Which is the latest addition to the list of UNESCO’s world heritage sites in India?Red Fort



38. Which committee was assigned to recommend reforms in the insurance sector? Malhotra Committee



39. Which State shares boundaries with the maximum number of other States of India?
UP



40. The first railway line in India was opened in which year? 1853



41. What is Study of growth and development of embryo? Embryology



42. What is the minimum permissible age for employment in any factory or mine?14 years



43. Angular separation between two colours of the spectrum depends upon which thing? Angle of deviation



44. Which mountain range stretches from Gujarat in west to Delhi in the north? Aravallis



45. In which nomad man started settling? Neolithic Age



46. Where is the headquarter of International atomic Energy Agency is located? Vienna



47. The book ‘Diplomatic Encounter’ has been written by which author? Arundhati Roy



48. What is the Study of pulse and arterial blood pressure called? Sphygmology



49. The Himalayas are formed of parallel fold ranges of which the oldest range?The Great Himalayan 
Range



50. Rigveda is divided into 10 books. Which books are the oldest? Second and seventh



51. Who is competent to prescribe conditions as for acquiring Indian citizenship?Parliament



52. Which is the element that has the highest first ionization potential? Nitrogen



53. During which Plan did prices show a decline? First



54. Which state has the largest number of salt lakes in India? Rajasthan



55. Who was the last of the 24th Jain Tirthankaras? Mahavira



56. Who is the author of the book ‘The Rights of Man’? Thomas Paine



57. What is considered as the easily digestable source of protein? Soyabean



58. When the Vice-President acts as President he gets the emoluments of which post?President



59. Which port especially developed for exporting iron ore to Japan? Paradeep



60. Which site, where Ashokan pillars exist, has the bull capital? Rampurva


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