Author: Mentors4ias

Daily Quiz: 30th April 2019

1.Which of the following statements are true? 1. India’s strategic crude oil storages are currently located at Visakhapatnam, Mangaluru and Padur. 2. Combined with an existing storage capacity of, the new strategic petroleum reserve...

Art & Culture: Indian Architecture

Indus Civilization The earliest remains of Indian architecture are to be found in Harappa, Mohenjodaro, Ropar, Kalibangan, Lothal and Rangpur, belonging to a civilization known as the Indus valley culture or the Harappan culture....

Daily Quiz: 29th April 2019

1.Which of the following statements are true? 1. Khasi people are an indigenous ethnic group of Meghalaya in north-eastern India. 2. Their language, Khasi, is categorized as the northernmost Austroasiatic language. a) 1 only...

Daily Quiz: 27th April 2019

1.Which of the following statements are true? 1. In India, the Panchayati Raj now functions as a system of governance in which gram panchayats are the basic units of local administration. 2. It was...

Daily Quiz: 26th April 2019

1.Which of the following statements are true? 1. Banking Ombudsman is a quasi judicial authority functioning under India’s Banking Ombudsman Scheme 2006. 2. The Banking Ombudsman is a senior official appointed by the Ministry...

Daily Quiz: 25th April 2019

1. Report on income disparity’ is published by a) UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network b) Centre for financial inclusion c) World Bank d) Oxfam Ans: d Justification: Eighty two percent of the wealth generated...

Art & Culture: Buddhist Architecture

The earliest historical sculpture in India is of the Mauryan age in the 4th-3rd centuries B.C. It is a bold and massive style marked by a certain realism freely employing foreign elements from Achaemenid...

Daily Quiz: 24th April 2019

1.Which of the following statements are true? 1. Fiscal deficit is the difference between total revenue and expenditure. 2. Primary deficit can be arrived by deducting interest payment from fiscal deficit. a) 1 only...

Daily Quiz: 23rd April 2019

1.Which of the following statements are true? 1. GDP is the total domestic and foreign output claimed by residents of a country 2. GNP is the monetary value of all the finished goods and...

Medieval School of Sculpture

Introduction: Instead of the classical dignity, sobriety and simplicity, the sculpture is now more and more tending towards ornamentation, creating highly ornate art objects, with strange and unusual imaginary creatures, such as half human,...