Odisha Police SI flashcards

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Odisha Capital and High Court

Bhubaneswar is the capital of Odisha; the Orissa High Court, established in 1948, sits at Cuttack and is the state's highest judicial body.

KALIA Scheme

Krushak Assistance for Livelihood and Income Augmentation is an Odisha government scheme providing income support and livelihood assistance to small and marginal farmers.

Newton's Second Law

The acceleration of an object is directly proportional to the net force and inversely proportional to its mass, expressed as F = ma.

Ohm's Law

At constant temperature, the current through a conductor is directly proportional to the potential difference across it, giving V = IR.

Hathigumpha Inscription

A rock-cut inscription at Udayagiri near Bhubaneswar recording the achievements of King Kharavela of the Mahameghavahana dynasty in the first century BCE.

Paika Rebellion 1817

An armed uprising of Odia militia (paikas) in Khurda led by Bakshi Jagabandhu against British revenue policies, regarded as an early anti-colonial revolt.

Chilika Lake

Asia's largest brackish-water lagoon, located on the Odisha coast in Puri, Khordha, and Ganjam districts, famous for migratory birds and Irrawaddy dolphins.

Hirakud Dam

A dam across the Mahanadi near Sambalpur in Odisha, one of the longest earthen dams in the world, built for flood control, irrigation, and hydropower.

Fundamental Rights

Rights guaranteed in Part III of the Indian Constitution, Articles 12 to 35, enforceable through writs in the Supreme Court and High Courts.

Article 324

The constitutional article that establishes the Election Commission of India and vests it with superintendence, direction, and control of elections.

Repo Rate

The rate at which the Reserve Bank of India lends short-term funds to commercial banks against government securities, used as a monetary policy tool.

Fiscal Deficit

The gap between total government expenditure and total receipts excluding borrowings, indicating the amount the government must borrow.

Odd Days in a Century

A normal century has 5 odd days and a 400-year cycle has 0 odd days, a rule used to calculate the day of the week for a date.

Syllogism Venn Method

A reasoning technique that draws circles for each term and checks whether a conclusion holds in every possible diagram satisfying the premises.

Compound Interest Formula

CI = P(1 + R/100)^T − P, where P is principal, R the annual rate percent, and T the time in years.

Work Together Formula

If A finishes a job in x days and B in y days, working together they complete it in xy/(x + y) days.

Subject-Verb Agreement Rule

A singular subject takes a singular verb; phrases such as 'one of the boys' take a singular verb because the subject is 'one'.

Past Perfect Tense

Used for the earlier of two past actions, formed with had plus the past participle, as in 'He had left before I arrived'.

Odia Classical Language Status

Odia was declared a classical language of India in 2014, recognised for its ancient literary tradition and the antiquity of its inscriptions.

Odia Sandhi

The phonological joining of two words in Odia, classified as swara sandhi, byanjana sandhi, and bisarga sandhi, changing the combined form.

Volatile vs Non-Volatile Memory

RAM is volatile and loses its contents when power is removed, while ROM is non-volatile and retains data permanently.

DNS

The Domain Name System translates human-readable domain names such as example.com into numerical IP addresses used by network devices.

Fosbury Flop

A high-jump technique in which the athlete crosses the bar backwards, arching the back and clearing it head-first over the shoulder.

Shot Put Foul

A throw is invalid if the athlete steps out of the front half of the circle or the implement lands outside the marked sector.

Odisha State Animal and Bird

The sambar deer is the state animal and the Indian roller (blue jay) is the state bird of Odisha, a common general-knowledge question.

Photosynthesis Equation

Six carbon dioxide molecules plus six water molecules, using light energy and chlorophyll, produce one glucose molecule and six oxygen molecules.

Utkal Sammilani

An organisation founded in 1903 to press for the unification of Odia-speaking areas into a single administrative province, achieved in 1936.

Deomali Peak

The highest peak in Odisha, located in the Koraput district within the Eastern Ghats, rising to about 1,672 metres.

Money Bill Definition

A bill dealing only with taxation, borrowing, or the Consolidated Fund, defined in Article 110 and introduced only in the Lok Sabha.

GST Council

A constitutional body under Article 279A, chaired by the Union Finance Minister, that recommends GST rates and rules to Parliament and states.

Clock Hand Angle Formula

The angle between the hands is |30H − 5.5M| degrees, where H is the hour and M the minute, used to solve clock problems.

Odia Conjunct Consonants

Yuktakshyara are combined consonant forms such as kshya, jnya, tra, and sri, formed when two consonants join without an intervening vowel.