General Knowledge Questions

The act of violating or misuse of what is regarded as sacred i.e, like the sanctity of the church is called Sacrilege.

1. Filing an RTI application with the Delhi government is now just a click away. Delhi became the second state to launch e-RTI portal that will enable citizens to file online Right to Information (RTI). Maharashtra is the first state to launch the online RTI platform.

2. The portal launched recently will enable citizens to file RTI and seek information related to 172 departments of the Delhi government including the office of the CM and his ministers.

3. The e-RTI portal, which has been designed by the National Informatics Centre (NIC), includes filling of application, payment of fees and getting replies online.

Phoenix India Research and Development Group launched the first bio-gas fuelled bus in Kolkata keeping a flat fare of just Rs 1.

While moving from left to right in periodic table basic character of oxide of elements will decrease.

  ∴→Increasing basic strengthAl2O3<MgO<Na2O 

and while descending in the group basic character of corresponding oxides increases. 

 ∴→Increasing basic strengthNa2O<K2O

∴ Correct Order is Al2O3 < MgO <Na2O <K2O

• The First Anglo-Afghan War also known as Disaster in Afghanistan was fought between British imperial India and The Emirate of Afghanistan from 1839 to 1842.

• A British-Indian force attacks Ghazni fort during the First Afghan War, 1839.