Who among the following was the first president of Constituent Assembly?
- Dr. Rajendra Prasad
- Sachidanand Sinha
- Jawahar Lal Nehru
- B R Ambedkar
With reference to United Nations, the decision that major countries should have veto power, was taken at which of the following conferences?
- Teheran conference
- Dumbarton oaks
- Yalta Conference
- Moscow Conference
Explanation:
The decision that major countries should have veto power was taken at Dumbarton oaks.
- Sardar Vallabhai patel
- Rajinder Singh
- Nelson Mandela
- Porus
The ryotwari system which was instituted in some parts of British India, was one of the two main systems used to collect revenues from the cultivators of agricultural land. It was originally introduced by________?
- Akbar
- Shershah Suri
- Jahanagir
- Humayun
Basumati, the oldest Bengali Daily paper was edited by ___:
- Anand Mohan Bose
- Surya Sen
- Barinder Kumar Ghosh
- V. D. Savarkar
Explanation:
Barinder Kumar Ghosh was born at Norwood near London on 5th January in 1880.He was a younger brother of Aurobindo Ghosh. In 1906, to spread the revolutionary ideas and to provide fervor to Swadeshi movement ,he started a Bengali weekly-“the jugantar”. In 1907, he started the Maniktala group with Bagha Jatin and a few young revolutionary activists for the collection of arms and ammunitions and manufacturing explosives.He was sentenced to death by the trial known as Alipore Bomb Case. Later the sentence was commuted to life imprisonment and was sent to the Cellular Jail in Andaman in 1909. In 1920, Barindra Kumar Ghose was released. In 1933 Barindra Kumar Ghose launched English weekly, The Dawn of India. He was also associated with The Statesman newspaper and earned the title as a columnist. In 1950, he became the editor of the Bengali daily Dainik Basumati.
Who is the president of the All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB)?
- Qari Muhammad Tayyib
- Arif Mohammad Khan
- Syed Mohammad Rabe Hasani
- Kalbe Sadiq
Explanation:
Recently, the All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) is in news because it will constitute a committee to advise the method and process for undertaking large scale community reform program within the Islamic Shariah. A resolution was passed in this connection in the one-day meeting of the Board’s executive body held in Bhopal on September 11, 2017. The committee will also look into the Supreme Court’s verdict on the triple Talaq. The Board reiterated that Talaq-e-biddat or triple Talaq in one-sitting, is sinful but valid. It claimed that it has taken steps to discourage this practice through community reform programmes for a long time. The AIMPLB is a non-government organisation that focuses primarily to defend the Sharia laws from any law or legislation that they consider infringes on it. Syed Mohammad Rabe Hasani is the president of the AIMPLB.
Curzon Wyllie, who was murdered by Madan Lal Dhingra in London, was___?
- Secretary of State for India
- Adviser to the Secretary of State of India
- Law Member
- Governor of Bengal
Explanation:
Madan Lal Dhingra was a great revolutionary from Punjab,associated with the Indian Home Rule Society, The Abhinav Bharat Society and the Indian House in London. On July 1, 1909 he shot dead Curzon Wyllie an adviser to the secretary of state of India, and Cowas Lolcaca at the meeting of the Indian National Association in London to avenge the atrocities committed by the British in India.
- Leander Paes
- Milkha Singh
- Sachin Tendulkar
- Mary Kom
Explanation:
Milkha Singh, also known as The Flying Sikh, has been honoured with the 2017 Maruti Suzuki Living Legend of the Year award at the 6th edition of ‘Maruti Suzuki Sportsperson of the Year’ Charity Gala Awards on July 6, 2017 at ITC Grand Central in, Mumbai, Maharashtra. However, Milkha could not attend the function. Beside this, Rio Olympics silver medallist P V Sindhu was bestowed with the Sportsperson of the Year award while Indian cricketer KL Rahul was presented with Gamechanger of the year award. The 2017 Lifetime Achievement Award was bestowed to Abhinav Bindra. The Coach of
the Year award 2017 was given to Pullela Gopichand for mentoring a host of shuttlers like Sindhu, Saina Nehwal, Kidambi Srikanth, B Sai Praneeth, HS Prannoy, and many others to do well on the international circuit over the last few years.
Which among the following key is used for checking grammar and spelling?
- F3
- F5
- F7
- F9
- Mahmud Ghaznavi
- Al Junayd
- Muhammad bin Qasim
- Al-Hakam
Explanation:
A Rajput confederacy of Gurjara Pratihara King Nagabhatta-I and his feudatories such as Chauhans and Guhilots was able to check and revert back Arab Invader Al Junayd, in the Battle of Rajasthan.