General Knowledge Questions

Deepak Parekh is the Chairman of Housing Development Finance Corporation, India's leading housing finance company.

List of all the National Parties in India and their established years are ::

• India National Congress - 1885

• Communist Party of India - 1925

• CPI (Marxist) - 1964

• Bharatiya Janata Party - 1980

• Bhahujan Samaj Party - 1984

• All India Trinamool Congress - 1998

• Nationalist Congress Party - 1999.

Every year November 7 is observed as National Cancer Awareness Day in India.

The Berlin Conference of 1884–85 was a meeting between European nations to create rules on how to peacefully divide Africa among them for colonization. The conference was convened by Portugal but led by Otto von Bismarck, chancellor of the newly united Germany. 

The 14 countries that attended included all the major European powers, as well as Russia, Turkey and the United States. The conference began with a dispute about the Congo River basin.Slavery was forbidden throughout Africa. The attendees agreed upon a principle of effective occupation by which rights over African colonies would be assessed.

Before the conference, about 80 percent of African territory was still in local hands. By 1902, European powers controlled 90 percent of Africa.

An equator is an imaginary line around the middle of a planet. An equator divides the planet into a Northern Hemisphere and a Southern Hemisphere. The Earth is widest at its Equator.

Equator passes through 13 countries, 3 continents and 3 water bodies.

The 3 continents are - Asia, Africa, South America.