Answer is B

• Banks hold about 15 per cent of their deposits as cash to pay the depositors who might come to withdraw money from the bank on any given day.

Answer is C

• The power of the Supreme Court of India to decide disputes between the center and the states falls under its original jurisdiction. Original jurisdiction means the power to hear and determine a dispute in the first instance.

Answer is B

• The McMahon Line named after Sir Henry McMahon is the effective boundary between China and India.
• It runs from the eastern border of Bhutan along the crest of the Himalayas until it reaches the great bend in the Brahmaputra River where that river emerges from its Tibetan course into the Assam Valley.

Answer is C

• It is the guarantee given by the lender to the borrower.

Answer is Bakloh

What is the news?

• A joint exercise between the special forces of India and the USA began in Himachal Pradesh’s Bakloh in District Chamba.

Aim:

• The drill aims to improve inter-operability between the special forces of both the countries.

What is the edition and what is the name of Exercise?

• The 13th edition of the Indo-US Joint Special Forces exercise — Ex Vajra Prahar 2022, began at the Special Forces Training School in Bakloh today,” the Defense Ministry said in a statement.

Answer is C

What is the news?

• The Rajya Sabha on Thursday passed the Family Courts (Amendment) Bill, 2022 by voice vote.
• The Bill makes a provision to grant statutory cover to family courts set up in Himachal Pradesh and Nagaland.
• Lok Sabha the Bill last week passed.

Answer is A

• Uttar Pradesh, the leading producer of sugarcane in India, is being called the 'Sugar Bowl' of India.

Answer is D

Shilli Sanctuary in District Solan.

• First notified as a sanctuary in 1963 and later renotified on 27th March 1974.
• It is the smallest sanctuary of Himachal Pradesh with an area of 1,230 to 1,845 meters.