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- Article 324
- Article 324 of the Constitution vests the superintendence, direction and control of elections to Parliament, State legislatures and the offices of President and Vice-President in the Election Commission of India.
- Punjab Lok Sabha seats
- Punjab sends 13 members to the Lok Sabha and 7 to the Rajya Sabha, while the Punjab Vidhan Sabha has 117 elected members and its term is five years.
- RBI founding
- The Reserve Bank of India began operations on 1 April 1935 in Kolkata and was nationalised on 1 January 1949; its Monetary Policy Committee sets the repo rate.
- United Nations membership
- The United Nations was founded on 24 October 1945, is headquartered in New York, and has 193 member states; the International Court of Justice sits at The Hague.
- ਨੇ agent marker
- In Punjabi the particle ਨੇ follows the subject of a transitive verb in perfective tenses, as in ਰਾਮ ਨੇ ਪੱਤਰ ਲਿਖਿਆ, and it has no direct English equivalent.
- ਲਗਾਂ ਮਾਤ੍ਰਾਂ
- Gurmukhi vowel signs, called ਲਗਾਂ ਮਾਤ੍ਰਾਂ, include ਕੰਨਾ ਾ, ਸਿਹਾਰੀ ਿ, ਬਿਹਾਰੀ ੀ, ਔਂਕੜ ੁ, ਦੁਲੈਂਕੜ ੂ, ਲਾਂਵ ੇ, ਦੁਲਾਵ ੈ, ਹੋੜਾ ੋ and ਕਨੌੜਾ ੌ.
- ਸੰਧੀ
- ਸੰਧੀ is the joining of two sounds or words; Punjabi grammar recognises three main types - ਸਵਰ ਸੰਧੀ for vowels, ਵਿਅੰਜਨ ਸੰਧੀ for consonants and ਵਿਸਰਗ ਸੰਧੀ.
- ਪੰਜਾਬੀ ਵਾਕ ਦਾ ਕ੍ਰਮ
- Punjabi follows subject–object–verb order, places adjectives before nouns, and uses postpositions such as ਨੇ, ਨੂੰ, ਦਾ and ਵਿੱਚ after the noun they govern.
- Third conditional
- The third conditional uses if + past perfect in the if-clause and would have + past participle in the main clause, expressing an unreal past situation, as in If he had tried, he would have won.
- Either-or agreement rule
- With 'either … or' and 'neither … nor' the verb agrees with the subject nearer to it, as in Neither the boys nor the teacher was present.
- Present perfect passive
- The present perfect passive is formed with has/have been + past participle, as in The report has been submitted, where the active object becomes the passive subject.
- Article rule a/an
- Use 'a' before a consonant sound and 'an' before a vowel sound, judged by sound and not by letter, so 'an hour' and 'a university' are correct.
- Compound interest formula
- Under annual compounding the amount is A = P(1 + R/100)^n, where P is principal, R the annual rate percent and n the number of years; compound interest is A minus P.
- Percentage change
- Percentage change equals new value minus old value, divided by the old value, multiplied by 100; a positive result is an increase and a negative one a decrease.
- Average speed equal distances
- If equal distances are travelled at speeds a and b, the average speed is 2ab/(a+b), the harmonic mean, which is always less than the arithmetic mean (a+b)/2.
- Sum of first n naturals
- The sum of the first n natural numbers is n(n+1)/2, while the sum of the first n odd numbers equals n² and of the first n even numbers equals n(n+1).
- Clock hand angle formula
- The angle between the hour and minute hands is |30H − 5.5M| degrees, where H is the hour and M the minutes; the minute hand gains 5.5 degrees each minute.
- Odd days in a leap year
- A leap year has 366 days, that is 52 weeks and 2 odd days, so its dates shift by two weekdays; an ordinary year of 365 days has one odd day.
- Syllogism All A are B
- From 'All A are B' and 'All B are C' the valid conclusion is 'All A are C'; the reverse statement 'All B are A' does not follow.
- Maternal uncle relation
- The mother's brother is the maternal uncle and the father's brother is the paternal uncle, while a cousin is the child of one's uncle or aunt.
- RAM versus ROM
- RAM is volatile working memory that loses its contents when power is switched off, while ROM is non-volatile and permanently retains firmware such as the BIOS.
- Ctrl+Shift+Esc
- Pressing Ctrl+Shift+Esc in Windows opens Task Manager directly, showing running processes, CPU and memory performance, and startup applications.
- IP address
- An IP address is a unique numeric label assigned to a device on a network; IPv4 addresses are 32-bit and IPv6 addresses are 128-bit.
- One gigabyte equals
- One gigabyte equals 1024 megabytes, one megabyte equals 1024 kilobytes, and one kilobyte equals 1024 bytes when measured in binary units.
- Five rivers of Punjab
- Punjab is named after five rivers - Sutlej, Beas, Ravi, Chenab and Jhelum - but only the Sutlej and Beas now flow through Indian Punjab.
- Khalsa founded 1699
- Guru Gobind Singh founded the Khalsa on Baisakhi day in 1699 at Anandpur Sahib, administering Amrit to the first five Sikhs, known as the Panj Pyare.
- Punjab area and capital
- Punjab has an area of about 50,362 square kilometres, a capital at Chandigarh and 23 districts, and Punjabi is its official language.
- Bhangra and Giddha
- Bhangra is the vigorous male folk dance of Punjab performed to the beat of the dhol, while Giddha is a women's circle dance accompanied by boliyan.
- Jamabandi
- Jamabandi is the record of rights listing owners, cultivators and revenue shares for each khasra; a certified copy supplied to a landholder is called a fard.
- Khasra, Khata and Khewat
- Khasra is the number identifying a plot of land, khata is a group of plots held by one holder, and khewat is a group of khatas under the same proprietor.
- Mutation of land rights
- Mutation, called intkal or dakhil kharij, is the revenue entry recording a change of rights in land caused by sale, gift, inheritance or mortgage.
- Punjab Land Revenue Act 1887
- The Punjab Land Revenue Act, 1887 provides for preparing and maintaining the record of rights, the hierarchy of revenue officers, partition of holdings and recovery of land revenue.