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- Article 21A
- Inserted by the 86th Constitutional Amendment in 2002, it makes free and compulsory elementary education a fundamental right for children aged six to fourteen years.
- Five writs
- Habeas corpus, mandamus, prohibition, certiorari and quo warranto are issued by the Supreme Court under Article 32 and High Courts under Article 226 to protect fundamental rights.
- Article 22 safeguards
- A person arrested must be informed of the grounds, allowed to consult a lawyer, and produced before a magistrate within twenty-four hours, excluding travel time.
- Prisons Act, 1894
- The principal central law on prison administration in India; prisons are a State subject, so states frame their own rules under this Act and the Model Prison Manual.
- Jail Warder duties
- A warder maintains security in barracks, counts prisoners, guards gates, escorts inmates, searches for contraband, and reports incidents to the Head Warder and Jail Superintendent.
- Police custody vs judicial custody
- Police custody means the accused is with police for interrogation under remand; judicial custody means detention in jail under a magistrate's order.
- FIR essentials
- First information of a cognizable offence is recorded in writing, read over to the informant, signed, and entered in the station diary with a copy given free of cost.
- BNS, BNSS, BSA
- The Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita and Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam replaced the Indian Penal Code, CrPC and Evidence Act respectively.
- Fundamental Duties
- Listed in Article 51A and added by the 42nd Amendment in 1976, they are moral obligations of citizens such as respecting the Constitution and protecting public property.
- Standard Meridian of India
- India follows 82 degrees 30 minutes east longitude, passing near Mirzapur in Uttar Pradesh, as the reference for Indian Standard Time, which is UTC plus 5:30.
- Bharat Ratna
- India's highest civilian award, instituted in 1954, given for exceptional service in art, literature, science and public service; it is not a title.
- Chandrayaan-3
- India's lunar mission whose lander Vikram touched down near the moon's south pole in August 2023, making India the first country to land in that region.
- संधि के भेद
- स्वर संधि, व्यंजन संधि और विसर्ग संधि - तीन प्रकार की संधि होती है, जिसमें दो वर्णों के मेल से एक नया रूप बनता है।
- समास के छह भेद
- तत्पुरुष, कर्मधारय, द्विगु, द्वंद्व, बहुव्रीहि और अव्ययीभाव - ये समास के छह भेद हैं, जो शब्दों के संक्षिप्त रूप में प्रयोग होते हैं।
- नौ रस
- शृंगार, हास्य, करुण, रौद्र, वीर, भयानक, बीभत्स, अद्भुत और शांत - काव्य में मन के स्थायी भावों से उत्पन्न नौ रस माने जाते हैं।
- अनुप्रास अलंकार
- जब एक ही वर्ण की आवृत्ति क्रम से एक से अधिक बार होती है, तो अनुप्रास अलंकार होता है, जैसे 'चारु चंद्र की चंचल किरणें'।
- Successive percentage change
- Two successive changes of a percent and b percent give a net change of a + b + ab/100 percent; a rise then equal fall always gives a net loss.
- CI minus SI two years
- For two years the difference between compound and simple interest equals the principal multiplied by the square of the rate divided by ten thousand.
- Speed conversion
- To convert kilometres per hour into metres per second multiply by five-eighteenths; to convert metres per second into kilometres per hour multiply by eighteen-fifths.
- Time and work formula
- If A alone takes x days and B alone takes y days, working together they complete the job in xy divided by x plus y days.
- Clock hand angle
- The angle between the hour and minute hands equals the absolute value of thirty times the hour minus five and a half times the minutes.
- Ranking total formula
- If a person ranks nth from the left and mth from the right in a row, the total number of persons is n plus m minus one.
- Reverse alphabet value
- The reverse position of a letter equals twenty-seven minus its forward position, so A becomes 26, B becomes 25, and Z becomes 1.
- Syllogism validity rule
- A conclusion follows only if it is true in every possible Venn diagram consistent with the premises; one counterexample diagram is enough to reject it.
- Circular seating direction
- When people face the centre, a person's left is clockwise; when they face outward, a person's left is anticlockwise.
- Binary storage units
- One byte equals eight bits; one kilobyte is 1024 bytes, one megabyte is 1024 kilobytes, and one gigabyte is 1024 megabytes.
- RAM versus ROM
- RAM is volatile working memory that loses contents when power is off; ROM is non-volatile and holds firmware such as the boot instructions.
- Phishing
- A cyber attack using fake emails, messages or websites that impersonate a trusted entity to trick users into revealing passwords, OTPs or bank details.
- IT Act, 2000
- India's law on electronic commerce and cyber offences; it recognises electronic records and digital signatures and empowers CERT-In for cyber incident response.
- PST qualifying nature
- The Physical Standard Test checks height, chest and weight against category-wise limits; it is pass or fail and a shortfall leads to disqualification.
- Chest measurement rule
- Chest is recorded as unexpanded and expanded girth; the expansion must meet the minimum in the notification, commonly around five centimetres for male candidates.
- PET race distance
- A typical police PET requires male candidates to run about 4.8 kilometres and female candidates about 2.4 kilometres within a fixed time limit.