Telangana High Court Junior Assistant flashcards

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Telangana Formation Day

Telangana became the 29th state of India on 2 June 2014 under the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act, 2014, with Hyderabad as its capital.

Number of Telangana districts

Telangana currently has 33 districts, created through the 2016 reorganisation and the 2019 addition of Mulugu and Narayanpet districts.

Article 324

Article 324 of the Constitution vests the superintendence, direction and control of elections in the Election Commission of India.

NITI Aayog

NITI Aayog is the national policy think tank formed in 2015, replacing the Planning Commission, to promote cooperative federalism and development planning.

Subject-verb agreement rule

A verb agrees with its subject in number and person; collective nouns take a singular verb when acting as one unit and a plural verb when members act individually.

Present perfect tense

The present perfect uses has or have plus the past participle to describe a past action that has present relevance or continues to the present.

Active to passive voice

In passive voice the object becomes the subject, the verb becomes be plus past participle, and the doer follows 'by' when mentioned.

One-word substitution: ubiquitous

Ubiquitous means present everywhere at the same time; it is a common one-word substitution tested in objective English sections.

Compound interest formula

Compound interest equals P times the quantity one plus R over 100 raised to T, minus P, where P is principal, R the annual rate and T the time in years.

Average speed for equal distances

When equal distances are covered at speeds u and v, the average speed for the whole journey is 2uv divided by the sum of u and v.

Work done together

If A alone finishes work in a days and B alone in b days, working together they finish it in ab divided by a plus b days.

Alligation rule

Alligation gives the ratio of cheaper to dearer quantity as dearer price minus mean price, to mean price minus cheaper price.

nCr formula

The number of combinations of n items taken r at a time equals n factorial divided by r factorial times n minus r factorial.

Syllogism validity test

A conclusion is valid in syllogism only if it is true in every possible Venn diagram consistent with the given premises.

Clock hands angle

The angle between the hour and minute hands equals the absolute value of 30 times the hour minus 5.5 times the minutes.

Circular arrangement count

The number of ways to arrange n distinct objects around a circle is n minus one factorial, since rotations are treated as identical.

Opposite letter coding

Opposite letter coding pairs letters equidistant from the alphabet ends, such as A with Z, B with Y, and C with X.

CPU components

The central processing unit consists of the arithmetic logic unit, the control unit and registers, and executes program instructions.

Absolute cell reference

An absolute reference such as $A$1 keeps the row and column fixed when a formula is copied to another cell.

Mail merge

Mail merge in a word processor combines a main document with a data source to produce personalised copies such as letters or labels.

Excel #DIV/0! error

The #DIV/0! error appears when a formula divides a number by zero or by an empty cell reference.

Article 226

Article 226 empowers a High Court to issue writs including habeas corpus, mandamus, certiorari, prohibition and quo warranto for enforcing rights.

Article 141

Article 141 states that the law declared by the Supreme Court is binding on all courts within the territory of India.

High Court judge retirement

A judge of a High Court is appointed by the President and retires on attaining the age of 62 years.

Audi alteram partem

Audi alteram partem is a Latin maxim meaning hear the other side, a core principle of natural justice in administrative and judicial proceedings.

Res judicata

Res judicata means a matter already adjudicated by a competent court cannot be re-litigated between the same parties.

District Collector

The District Collector heads district administration in Telangana, handling revenue, law and order coordination, and implementation of government schemes.

FIR under BNSS

An FIR is the first information report of a cognizable offence recorded by police, governed by Section 173 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023.

Lok Adalat

Lok Adalat is a people's court that settles disputes by conciliation; its award is final and binding and no appeal lies against it.

Telangana High Court seat

The High Court for the State of Telangana sits at Hyderabad and was established separately in 2019 after the earlier common High Court was split.

Ctrl+Z shortcut

Ctrl+Z is the standard keyboard shortcut to undo the last action in most Windows applications, including word processors and spreadsheets.

Firewall function

A firewall monitors and filters incoming and outgoing network traffic using defined security rules to block unauthorised access.