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Indian Cities and Places

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Knowledge of Indian cities and places is a crucial component of general awareness, testing a candidate on state capitals, historical landmarks, and regional nicknames. Questions often cover the locations of premier research institutes, corporate headquarters, and major transportation hubs. This hub provides practice questions to help candidates memorize geographical facts for upcoming competitive exams.

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Indian Cities and Places Questions

Multiple choice zoology diversity in living world botanical gardens, zoological parks and zoological museums museums and zoos tools of taxonomy

National Botanical Research Centre is located at

  1. Lucknow

  2. Calcutta

  3. Delhi

  4. Mumbai
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Explanation

National Botanical Research Centre ( or NBRI) is located in Lucknow. It is a research institute of CSIR (i.e. council of scientific and industrial research). It was set up by prof. Kailash Nath Kaul. NBRI works in the field of Taxonomy and Modern bIology.

The correct answer is A. 

Multiple choice social studies discovery of universe famous space scientists and astronauts space exploration space communications

Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) headquarter is located in ________.

  1. Delhi

  2. Hyderabad

  3. Shimla

  4. Bangalore
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Explanation

The Indian Space Research Organisation  is the space agency of the Government of India and has its headquarters in the city of Bengaluru .

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) operates through a countrywide network of centres.

  1.  Sensors and payloads are developed at the Space Applications Centre in Ahmedabad. 
  2. Satellites are designed, developed, assembled, and tested at the U R Rao Satellite Centre (formerly the ISRO Satellite Centre) in Bangalore. 
  3. Launch vehicles are developed at the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre in Thiruvananthapuram. 
  4. Launches take place at the Satish Dhawan Space Centre on Sriharikota Island, near Chennai. 
  5. The Master Control Facilities for geostationary satellite station keeping are located at Hassan and Bhopal. 
  6. Reception and processing facilities for remote-sensing data are at the National Remote Sensing Centre in Hyderabad.
 ISRO’s commercial arm is Antrix Corporation, which has its headquarters in Bangalore.

Multiple choice political science the non-aligned movement nam non-aligned movement non-aligned movement and west asia

Where was the another convention for Asian unity  held in 1949?

  1. New Delhi

  2. Calcutta

  3. Bengal

  4. Bombay
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Explanation

The Asian Relations Conference, which focused on Asian unity, was held in New Delhi in 1947, and subsequent efforts continued in the region, with New Delhi being the primary hub for these diplomatic meetings in 1949.

Multiple choice commercial studies biotechnology: general introduction introduction to genetic engineering and production of insulin use of efficient and eco-friendly technology genetics of the future

Central drug research institute is situated at

  1. Lucknow

  2. Madras

  3. Mumbai

  4. Delhi
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Explanation
Central Drug Research Institute (CDRI) is one of the first laboratories established after independence in the year 1951. It is a multidisciplinary institute that works on synthesis, screening, development studies and clinical studies among others. It has developed around 12 drugs of which, Arteether (Brand name=E-mal) active against falciparum malaria and Centchroman (Brand name=Sah, a birth control contraceptive pill are developed.
Multiple choice geography temperature process of heat transfer in the atmosphere temperature and insolation sun: the ultimate source

Which of the following place will never get the vertical rays of the sun?

  1. Srinagar

  2. Thiruvanthapuram

  3. Chennai

  4. Mumbai
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Explanation

The sun's vertical rays only fall between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn. Srinagar is located well north of the Tropic of Cancer, so it never receives vertical sun rays.

Multiple choice geography temperature process of heat transfer in the atmosphere temperature and insolation sun: the ultimate source

 which of the following cities can never have the sunshine directly overhead at noon?

  1. Bengaluru

  2. Mumbai

  3. Visakhapatnam

  4. Delhi
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Explanation

Delhi,

The Tropic of Cancer divides the Indian sub continent into two zones- the Temperate Zone and the Tropical Zone. The northern part of India which lies in the Temperate Zone experiences cold winter season and the hot weather season. The southern part of the country which lies in the Tropical zone experiences hot season with no clear cut winter season and the Sun shines vertically overhead at least twice during any part of the year. 
While Chennai lies in the southern zone or the Tropical zone, Delhi lies in the northern zone or the warm temperate zone. This is the reason that while we can see the mid-day sun exactly overhead twice a year at Chennai , one is not able to do so even once at Delhi .

Multiple choice history heritage management conservation and preservation of heritage sources of modern history introduction to medieval india

Where is the iron pillar situated?

  1. Delhi

  2. Mumbai

  3. Kolkata

  4. Rajasthan
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Explanation

The iron pillar at Mehrauli, Delhi, is a remarkable example of the skill of Indian crafts persons. It is made of iron, 7.2 m high and weighs over 3 tonnes. It was made about 1500 years ago. It has a inscription which mentions the term "chandra". Therefore, there is a dispute ether it belongs to the Mauryan king Chandragupta or the Gupta king Chandragupta II.