1. In which year the Union and Railway budgets were merged ?

2017

2016

2018

2015

Answer: 2016

Explanation:

The Railway Budget was separately presented every year till 2016. Thereafter, on 21 September 2016 The Modi government approved the merger of the Rail and General budgets from next year, ending a 92-year-old practice of a separate railway budget.


2. The decisions given by the Supreme Court of India are to ____ ?

Any region of a state

All states and union teritorries except Jammu and Kashmir

Only district courts

All Indian courts

Answer: All Indian courts

Explanation:

According to the Article 141 of the Indian Constitution, all the courts within the territory of the country are obliged to follow the laws declared by the Supreme Court because it is the highest court in India and has the ultimate judicial authority to interpret the Constitution and decide questions of national law.


3. Who was the first Chief Justice of Independent India ?

B.K. Mukherjee

S.R. Das

M. Patanjali Sastri

Harilal J. Kania

Answer: Harilal J. Kania

Explanation:

Sir Harilal Jekisundas Kania was the first Chief Justice of India. He was the Chief Justice from 1950 to 1951.


4. Who presided over the 15th Finance Commission ?

Y.V Reddy

N.K Singh

Amitabh Kant

Urjit Patel

Answer: N.K Singh

Explanation:

The commission's 15th chairman is N. K. Singh, with its full-time members as Ajay Narayan Jha, Ashok Lahiri and Anoop Singh.


5. Which of the following is NOT a scheduled language of India ?

Rajasthani

Sindhi

Manipuri

Bodo

Answer: Rajasthani

Explanation:

At present, the Eighth Schedule of Indian Constitution contains 22 languages-Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Kashmiri, Konkani, Malayalam, Manipuri, Marathi, Nepali, Oriya, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Tamil, Telugu, Urdu, Bodo, Santhali, Maithili and Dogri.


6. What is the election called in a political parliamentary / assembly constituency to fill the vacancy arising during the tenure of the government ?

Bypolls

Council Elections

Mini Elections

Tri-Elections

Answer: Bypolls

Explanation:

A by-election, also spelled as bypoll in India, is an election used to fill a post in the office that has become vacant during general elections.


7. Ram Vilas Paswan is the president of which party ?

Bahujan Samaj Party

Republican Party of India

Samajwadi Party

Lok Janshakti Party

Answer: Lok Janshakti Party

Explanation:

Ram Vilas Paswan, Indian politician and government official who was a long-serving national parliamentarian and was the founder and longtime leader of the Lok Janshakti Party (LJP), a regional political party in Bihar state, eastern India.


8. In which year the first ever motion to remove a Supreme court justice signed , by 108 members of the Parliament ?

1984

1991

1978

1996

Answer: 1991

Explanation:

Veeraswami Ramaswami was a judge of the Supreme court of India and the first judge against whom removal proceedings were initiated in independent India.


9. As of January 2020, _____ has the maximum number of seats in the Rajya Sabha. ?

Tamil Nadu

Karnataka

Uttar Pradesh

Maharashtra

Answer: Uttar Pradesh

Explanation:

The Rajya Sabha (meaning the "Council of States") is the upper house of the Parliament of India. The state of Uttar Pradesh elects 31 members and they are indirectly elected by the state legislators of Uttar Pradesh. Members in the Rajya Sabha are elected for six years and 1/3 of members are retired after every two years


10. How many Lok Sabha constituencies are there in Rajasthan ?

28

20

25

30

Answer: 25

Explanation:

There are 25 Lok Sabha constituencies in Rajasthan.