General Awareness Questions

Estate Duty which was introduced in 1953, was withdrawn from March 1, 1985.

Hamburg, Germany, is located on the river Elbe at the point where it meets the Bille and Alster rivers. The canals, rivers and streams within the city are crossed by a total of 2,302 bridges-more than the cities of Vanice and Amsterdam combined.

Bengaluru becomes the first Indian city to get its very own logo

• Much like New York and Singapore, Bengaluru is set to get its own logo, becoming the first Indian city to do so.

The Indian Institute of Sciences (IISc)- Bengaluru has topped the list of best universities of country's official higher education rankings, recently announced by the HRD Ministry.

Yakshagana is a traditional Indian dance drama form developed in Karnataka state of India.

The Boston Marathon

Supreme Court collegium has selected senior advocate Indu Malhotra as the first woman lawyer to be directly appointed as a judge of the apex court.

Along with Malhotra, Uttarakhand High Court Chief Justice KM Joseph has also been promoted as a Supreme Court justice.

Malhotra holds the distinction of being only the second woman in Supreme Court’s history to be designated as a senior advocate in 2007.

In all, Malhotra is going to be the seventh woman judge since independence to make it to the Supreme Court.

At present, Justice R Banumathi is the lone woman judge in the apex court.

Someone who has consumed a lot of alcohol were not capable of giving true consent.