The most important coal field in India is:
Answer: A
Jharia is India's most important coalfield.
It lies in Dhanbad district of Jharkhand and holds almost all the country's prime coking coal, which is why the steel plants depend on it. Underground fires have burned there since 1916 and have consumed a large part of the reserve.
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World Environment Day is observed on:
Answer: C
World Environment Day is observed on 5 June.
It was established by the United Nations in 1972, the year of the Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment, and has been marked since 1974. A different country hosts it each year.
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The McMahon Line lies between which of the following countries?
Answer: B
The McMahon Line lies between India and China.
It was drawn at the Simla Convention of 1914 by Sir Henry McMahon, along the Himalayan crest in the eastern sector. India regards it as the boundary; China does not accept it and claims Arunachal Pradesh, which is the origin of the dispute there.
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India is the seventh largest country in the world and occupies:
Answer: D
India occupies about 2.4 per cent of the world's land area.
Its 3.28 million sq km make it the seventh largest country, after Russia, Canada, the United States, China, Brazil and Australia - yet it supports about 17 per cent of the world's people.
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The imaginary line joining the land projecting towards the sea which is the landward limit of internal seawater is called:
Answer: A
This is the baseline.
Under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, waters landward of the baseline are internal waters, and the territorial sea of 12 nautical miles, the contiguous zone of 24 and the exclusive economic zone of 200 are all measured seaward from it.
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The Beas project, consisting of the Beas–Sutlej link and the Pong dam on the Beas, is a joint venture of
Answer: C
It is a joint venture of Punjab, Haryana and Rajasthan.
The Beas-Sutlej link diverts Beas water into the Sutlej above Bhakra, and the Pong dam at Talwara stores it. The three states share the cost and the water, as they do the Bhakra-Nangal project.
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The Nagarjunsagar Dam project is located on:
Answer: B
Nagarjunasagar is on the Krishna.
The dam, in Nalgonda district of Telangana, was completed in 1967 and is among the largest masonry dams in the world. It was built at the site of Nagarjunakonda, the ancient Buddhist centre, whose remains were moved to an island museum before the reservoir filled.
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River Damodar is a tributary of:
Answer: D
The Damodar is a tributary of the Hooghly.
It rises in the Chotanagpur plateau and joins the Hooghly below Kolkata. Its violent floods earned it the name Sorrow of Bengal, which the Damodar Valley Corporation's dams were built to control.
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CGWB stands for:
Answer: A
CGWB is the Central Ground Water Board.
Set up in 1970 under the Ministry of Jal Shakti, it surveys and monitors India's aquifers, assesses the annual replenishable groundwater resource, and regulates extraction in over-exploited blocks.
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Which planet is called watery planet?
Answer: B
The earth is called the watery planet.
About 71 per cent of its surface is covered by water, and it is the only body in the solar system where water is stable as a liquid at the surface. Seen from space it is predominantly blue, which is also why it is called the blue planet.
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