Sample GK Questions for CLAT 2023

In a path-breaking order, the Supreme Court on Wednesday put on hold the colonial-era penal law on sedition till an “appropriate” government forum re-examines it and directed the Centre and states to not register any fresh FIR invoking the offense. Besides lodging FIRs, ongoing probes, pending trials, and all proceedings under the sedition law across the country will also be held in abeyance. “This Court is cognizant of security interests and integrity of the State on one hand, and the civil liberties of citizens on the other. There is a requirement to balance both sets of considerations, which is a difficult exercise.”

1. Sedition falls under which section of the Indian Penal Code

a. Section 121
b. Section 121
c. Section 124
d. Section 124A

a. NV Ramana
b. DY Chandrachud
c. UU Lalit
d. KM Joseph

a. William Bentinck
b. Thomas Macauley
c. Matthew Arnold
d. Warren Hastings

a. 1860
b. 1948
c. 1956
d. 1889

The debate around the SilverLine, the proposed semi high-speed railway in Kerala, has reached a blind alley. If the project, funded partly by the State government, comes through, the 530-kilometre distance between Kerala’s l [ 1 ] and its northern-most district [ 2 ] could be covered in less than four hours. This journey takes at least 12 hours now. But many critics of the new railway question the very idea of high-speed travel in Kerala, arguing that there would not be enough riders.

The State Government, for its part, is yet to convince the people that the railway line can be a catalyst for a progressive transformation of Kerala’s economy. It may be useful for Kerala to go over the experience of Japan in building the world’s first ever high-speed rail line, called the Shinkansen. In the 1950s, there were serious doubts about its viability, in a country that had been devastated by the Second World War. However, ever since its inauguration in 1964, Shinkansen has been a powerful agent and a symbol of Japan’ s economic resurgence.

a) Kochi

b) Thiruvananthapuram

c) Kollam

d) Alapuzzha

a) Kasaragod

b) Kozhikode

c) Thrissur

d) Varkala

a) Sadanand Gowda

b) Piyush Goyal

c) Suresh Prabhu

d) Ashwini Vaishnaw

a) Pinarayi Vijayan

b) EK Nayanar

c) AK Antony

d) MK Stalin

a. Ease transport congestion between the northern and southern regions of the state
b. Improving travel times
c. Mitigating climate change
d. All of the above