Current Affairs & General Knowledge Test - 11

The Non-cooperation Movement started in 1920. The leader of the Non-cooperation Movement was Mahatma Gandhi.

The non-cooperation movement was a mass movement that involved participation from the nationalists as well as the public. 

The movement was to be nonviolent and to consist of Indians resigning their titles, boycotting government educational institutions, government service, foreign goods, and elections, and eventually, refusing to pay taxes. 

The non-cooperation movement was a mass movement that was launched by Gandhi in 1920. It was a peaceful and non-violent protest against the British government in India.

Transhumance is a type of pastoralism or nomadism, a seasonal movement of livestock between fixed summer and winter pastures.

• In montane regions, it implies movement between higher pastures in summer and lower valleys in winter.
• Herders have a permanent home, typically in valleys.

Claude Levi Strauss has given emphasis in his study on Alliance theory which discusses alliances or the relation between two families. The two families include the wife givers and the wife takes. Here he says that an incest taboo will determine who will be the wife giver and who will be the wive taker.

The Committee on Subordinate Legislation constituted in 1953 examines and reports to the House whether the powers to make rules, regulations, bye-laws, schemes, or other statutory instruments conferred by the Constitution or delegated by Parliament are being properly exercised.

In both the Houses, the committee consists of 15 members.

The Earth's atmosphere is like a blanket of air and consists of different gases like Nitrogen-78 %, Oxygen-21 %, Argon-0.93 %, Carbon dioxide-0.04 %.

Earth's atmosphere is composed of six layers and the mesosphere is one such layer-

• Mesosphere: This layer lies above the stratosphere and below the thermosphere and extends from 50 to 80 km above the earth's surface.
  • It is the middle layer of the atmosphere. Because of thin air, you would not breathe easily in this layer. 
  • Most of the meteors and rock are burned up in these layers before reaching the earth. 
  • This layer has more gases than the above layers i.e. exosphere and thermosphere which causes more friction and heat to burn up meteors.

From the above-mentioned points, it becomes clear that on entering the Mesosphere layer of the atmosphere from space do the meteorites burn up.

IIT Delhi secured the top position among Indian institutions in the QS World University Rankings: Sustainability 2025, ranking 171st globally.

Kaamya Karthikeyan, a 17-year-old from Mumbai, achieved the extraordinary feat of becoming the youngest female to complete the Seven Summits Challenge, conquering the highest peaks on all seven continents.

The World Economic Outlook Report released by the International Monetary Fund (IMF). IMF is an international financial institution, headquartered in Washington, D.C, USA.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is an organization of 190 countries, working to foster global monetary cooperation, secure financial stability, facilitate international trade, promote high employment and sustainable economic growth, and reduce poverty around the world.

The book ‘The problem of Rupee: Its origin and its solution’ was authored by Dr B.R Ambedkar in 1923. The book talks about the Indian economy, banking system and raises currency question in British India which led to the creation of the Reserve Bank of India.

Insulin gene is found in every body cell but is not expressed in all cells. It is nucleosome which consists of a core of eight histones. DNA is composed of nucleotides. Centriole is found in animal cells, which i produces aster during cell division.