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By Victor S. Fischer
  ✍️ 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...
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Geography One Liner⭐

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🍫Important & Expected Questions🍫



1. The first person to use the word geography was – Erastosthenes (276 – 194 BC)


2. The First presented the India on the world map – Tolmie


3. 10 latitude give the seperatio of – 111 kms


4. 10 Longitude is equal to – 4” (minutes)


5. The Closest capital to tropic cancer – Ranchi


6. Which are the 3 states capitals above to Tropic of Cancer – Jaipur, Aizwol, Agarthala


7. The atmosphere layer which reflects radio - waves is known as – Ionosphere


8. Which State is known as the name of Black Water? -Andaman and Nicobar


9. Which latitude divides India into two parts? – 23 ½


10. The largest delta in the world is – The delta of Ganga


11. The type of climate in India is – Monsoon


12. Most of the iron in India is found in – Dharwar Rocks


13. Ozone layer is found in – Stratosphere


14. “Ring of fire” refers to – Circum – Pacific Seismic belt


15. Willy is the tropical cyclone occurring in – Coast of North – west Australia


16. On which river, the Baglihar Hydro- powr project is located? – Chenab


17. The term Rugur refers to – Black cotton Soil


18. Which two peninsular rivers flow through troughs? – Narmad and Tapi


19. How much area does India cover of the total geographical area of the world? – 2.42 % 20. The length of the Indian coastline is 7516.6 km


India Area & Boundary


21. In India, of the total land mass:


 Plains Geography: 43.3%


 Plateaus: 27.7


 Hills: 18.6%


 Mountains Geography: 10.7%


22. Accounts for 2.4% of the total world area and roughly 16% of the world population.


23. Mainland India has a coastline of 6,100 km.


24. India stretches 3,214 km from North to South & 2,933 km from East to West.


25. Geography Area of India: 32,87,263 sq. km.


26. In the South, on the eastern side, the Gulf of Mannar & the Palk Strait separate India from Sri Lanka.


27. Total land neighbours countries of India: 7


(i) Pakistan


(ii) Afghanistan


(iii) China


(iv) Nepal


(v) Bhutan


(vi) Bangladesh &


(vii) Myanmar


28. India’s Islands include the - The Andaman and Nicobar Group


 Andamans is a group of 204 islands of which the largest is - Middle Andaman.


 The Andamans are believed to be extensions of mountains system in the - N.E. part of the country.


 Saddle Peak (737 m) in- N. Andaman is the highest peak.


 The Nicobars is a group of 19 islands of which the largest is Great Nicobar. Most of them are volcanic in nature


 Great Nicobar is the southernmost island and is only 147 km away from Sumatra island of Indonesia.


 Volcanic Islands: Barren and Narcondam Islands. Barren is in the process of eruption these days after lying dormant for 200 years. The Arabian Sea Group


 All the islands in the Arabian Sea (Total 25) are coral islands and are surrounded by Fringing Reefs (North :Lakshadweep, South: Minicoy)


29. Which line separates Andamans from Nicobars (Little Andaman from Car Nicobar) - Ten Degree Channel


30. Duncan Passage lies between - South Andaman and Little Andaman.


31. Nine Degree Channel separates - Kavaratti from Minicoy Island


32. Eight Degree Channel separates - Minicoy Island (India) from Maldives


India: Rivers


33. In India, the rivers can be divided into two main groups: - Himalayan Rivers & Peninsular Rivers


34. Himalayan Rivers consists of how many river system – Three (The Indus system, The Ganga system, The Brahmaputra system)


35. Peninsular Rivers consists of how many river system – Four (Mahanadi River, Godavari River, Krishna River, Cauvery River)


36. What is the total length of Indus system - 2880 km (709 km in India)


37. Indus system rises in - Rises in Tibet (China) near Mansarovar Lake


38. What is the total length of Ganga system - It is 2525 km long of which 1450 km is in Uttarakhand and UP, 445 km in Bihar and 520 km in West Bengal.


39. What are the different sources of Ganga river - Bhagirthi from Gaumukh, Alaknanda from Badrinath, Mandakini from Kedarnath (all from Uttarakhand).


40. In Bangladesh, Ganga is known by which name – Padma


41. The Brahmaputra system rises in - Tibet (from Chemayungdung glacier)


42. In Bangladesh, Brahmaputra is known by which name - Jamuna


43. Which is the longest peninsular river - Godavari River (1465 km)


44. Which are the three Gulfs in the Indian Territory – Gulf of Kuchch (west of Gujarat), Gulf of Cambay or Gulf of Khambat (Gujarat) and Gulf of Mannar (south east of Tamil Nadu)


45. The largest producer of wheat in India –Uttar Pradesh


46. The largest producer of sugarcane in India –Uttar Pradesh


47. The largest producer of groundnut in India – Gujarat


48. The largest producer of tea in India – Assam


49. The largest producer of coffee in India – Karnataka


50. The largest producer of jute in India -West Bengal


51. The largest producer of tobacco in India –Andhra Pradesh


52. The largest producer of bananas in India –Tamil Nadu


53. The largest producer of onion in India – Maharashtra


54. The largest producer of black pepper in India - Kerala


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