Indian Geography

The first ever woman to cross the seven seas, Bula Choudhury is bestowed with both the Arjuna award and the Padma Shri.

Explanation: The Great Barrier Reef, off the coast of Queensland in northeastern Australia, is the largest living thing on Earth.

The Indian subcontinent was formerly part of Gondwana, a supercontinent formed during the late Neoproterozoic and early Paleozoic.

Palk Strait, inlet of the Bay of Bengal between southeastern India and northern Sri Lanka.

The international date line, established in 1884, passes through the mid-Pacific Ocean and roughly follows a 180 degrees longitude north-south line on the Earth.

The Himalayas are young fold mountains formed mainly by the collision of the Indian Plate with the Eurasian Plate. Their continuing uplift reflects active plate convergence.

The Aravalli Range is among the oldest surviving mountain systems on Earth, with rocks dating to the Precambrian era. It extends broadly across Rajasthan toward Haryana and Delhi; the Himalayas are geologically much younger.

The McMahon Line was drawn in the 1914 Simla Convention to define the boundary between Tibet and India's north-eastern frontier. India regards it as the basis of the eastern sector of the India–China boundary; China disputes it.

The Earth takes about 23 hours 56 minutes 4.09 seconds for one rotation relative to distant stars; this is the sidereal day. The approximately 24-hour solar day is longer because Earth also moves along its orbit.

Arunachal Pradesh has the longest international boundary among the Seven Sister states, bordering China, Bhutan and Myanmar. It also has the largest area among the Seven Sisters.

Harappa is in present-day Pakistan, in Punjab province. Kalibangan is in Rajasthan, Rangpur in Gujarat, and Ropar/Rupnagar in Punjab, India. Harappa is one of the type-sites of the Indus Civilization.

Nathu La in Sikkim is an important India–China border pass and was reopened for designated border trade in 2006. It historically formed part of the Silk Route.

Meghalaya does not share a border with Myanmar. India's four states bordering Myanmar are Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Manipur and Mizoram. Meghalaya instead borders Bangladesh.

Among the options, Assam has the lowest proportion of Scheduled Tribe population. This asks about percentage/concentration, not absolute tribal population.

The Fundamental Rights were substantially influenced by the U.S. Constitution’s Bill of Rights. In India they are mainly contained in Part III, Articles 12–35.

The Kyoto Protocol was adopted in 1997 under the UNFCCC and entered into force in 2005, establishing binding emission targets mainly for developed countries.

Gopal Krishna Gokhale represented the Moderate tradition of Congress politics and founded the Servants of India Society in 1905.

The Ganga-Brahmaputra-Meghna delta is the world’s largest delta system and lies mainly in Bangladesh and eastern India.

The first INC session was held at Bombay in 1885, with Womesh Chandra Bonnerjee as president.

DMK formed the government in Madras in 1967, an important milestone in the rise of regional parties in Indian electoral politics.