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General Introduction To India

📆 March 26, 2025

Total Questions: 49

31. What is the name of the southern tip of India? [C.P.O.S.I. 5.06.2016 (Shift-I)]

Correct Answer: (b) Indira Point
Solution:Indira Point is the name of India's Southern Tip. Indira Point is a village located in the Nicobar district in Great Nicobur located in Andaman and Nicobar Islands in India. It is located in the Great Nicobar tehsil. It is the location of the southernmost post of India's territory.

32. If Guhar Moti is in the East, Siachen Glacier is in the North, then what is in the South? [C.P.O. S.I .5.06.2016 (Shift-I)]

Correct Answer: (d) Indira Point
Solution:GiuharMoti is situated in the east, Siachen Glacier is situated in the north and Indira Point is situated in the south.

33. What is the Palk Strait? [S.S.C. Online CHSL (T-I) 15.10.2020 (Shift-II)]

Correct Answer: (b) It is a water body that separates India and Sri Lanka.
Solution:"The Palk Strait is a strait that hes between the Tamil Nadu state of India and the island nation of Se Lanka. It connects the Palk Bay in the northeast and then the Bay of Bengal) with the Gulf of Mannar it the south. The strait is 40 to 85 miles (64 to 140 kmj wide. Several rivers flow into it, including the Vaigai River of Tamil Nadu. The strait is named after Rober Palk, who was a governor of Madras Presidency (1755-1763) during the British period.

34. Gulf of Mannar separates India with which of its neighbouring countries? [S.S.C. Online MTS (T-I) 3.10.2017 (Shift-I)]

Correct Answer: (a) Sri Lanka
Solution:"The Palk Strait is a strait that hes between the Tamil Nadu state of India and the island nation of Se Lanka. It connects the Palk Bay in the northeast and then the Bay of Bengal) with the Gulf of Mannar it the south. The strait is 40 to 85 miles (64 to 140 kmj wide. Several rivers flow into it, including the Vaigai River of Tamil Nadu. The strait is named after Rober Palk, who was a governor of Madras Presidency (1755-1763) during the British period.

35. Palk Strait separates India from which country? [S.S.C. Online MTS (T-I) 16.09.2017 (Shift-III)]

Correct Answer: (d) Sri Lanka
Solution:"The Palk Strait is a strait that hes between the Tamil Nadu state of India and the island nation of Se Lanka. It connects the Palk Bay in the northeast and then the Bay of Bengal) with the Gulf of Mannar it the south. The strait is 40 to 85 miles (64 to 140 kmj wide. Several rivers flow into it, including the Vaigai River of Tamil Nadu. The strait is named after Rober Palk, who was a governor of Madras Presidency (1755-1763) during the British period.

36. Which of the following countries is separated from India by a narrow waterway (channel) of the sea formed by the Palk Strait and the Gulf of Mannar? [S.S.C. JE Mechanical Exam 27.10.2020 (Shift-II), S.S.C. Online Graduate Level (T-1) 30.08.2016 (Shift-II)]

Correct Answer: (d) Sri Lanka
Solution:Sri Lanka is separated from India by a narrow strait of sea formed by the Paik Strait and the Gulf of Mannar. Ram Setu is situated in the Palk Strait. The Palk Strait connects the Bay of Bengal and the Gulf of Mannar. Therefore, the water treaty between the Indian state of Tamil Nadu and the northern part of the country of Sri Lanka is called the Palk Strait.

37. Identify the country, which Palk Strait has separated from India. [S.S.C. JE Electrical Exam 28.10.2020 (Shift-I)]

Correct Answer: (b) Sri Lanka
Solution:The Palk Strait separates India from Sri Lanka. Other water treaties of the world are as follows Strait of Gibraltar-between Morocco and Spain. Suez Canal Berween the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea.

38. Which longitude has been selected as the Standard Meridian of India? [S.S.C. Online CGL (T-I) 23.08.2021 (Shift-II)]

Correct Answer: (c) 82°-30E
Solution:In India, the longitude of 82°30E is treated as the standard meridian and the nearby time at this meridian is considered as the standard time for the entire nation. It is considered as the Indian Standard Time (IST).

39. On which date is India likely to experience the shortest day? [S.S.C. Online Graduate Level (T-I) 6.09.2016 (Shift-II)]

Correct Answer: (a) December 22
Solution:The shortest day in India is on 22 December. The position of India is in Northern hemisphere of the earth. In the Northern Hemisphere, the winter solstice, i,e, 20/21 December is the shortest day of year and longest day is on 20/21 June

40. Which geographical division of India is the oldest? [S.S.C. Online CHSL (T-I) 7.03.2018 (Shift-II)]

Correct Answer: (c) Peninsular plateau
Solution:The "peninsular platcas" is the oldest geographical division in India. A Peninsular plateau was formed due to the "breaking and drifting of Gondwana land. It is composed of old crystalline, igneous and metamorphuc rocks. A peninsular plateau is roughly triangular in shape and covers sixteen lakh square kilometres in size.
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