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In the USA there is  One official language.

(c) Election Commission

The principal language of Lakshadweep is Malayalam

The first citizen of India is the  President of India 

A plan for the division of India into two Independent States was presented in June, 1947 by Lord Mountbatten

The power to abolish or create Legislative Councils in the States rests with the  Union Parliament

The correct option: (d) I, II and III

(b) Union Home Minister

The correct option: (d) only 6

(c) He was the first and last Indian Governor General of India after independence

(d) Uttarakhand

(d) Prime Minister of India

(b) Ministry of Home Affairs

The correct option: (a) 1 only

(a) Ministry of Agriculture

June 25, 1975 was significant date in the history of the nation because Emergency was declared on this date

In Home Affairs Ministries, the census organisation has been functioning on a permanent footing since.

58th Amendment provided for an authoritative version of the Constitution in Hindi.

At present (2009), only six States have Legislative Councils. Find the odd one out Kerala

43rd Amendment restored the power of judicial review to the Supreme Court and High Courts after it was curtailed by the 42nd Amendment.

The correct option: (c) I, II, IV, III

Of all the Amendments in the Indian Constitution, the most Comprehensive and Controversial Amendment was 42nd.

The correct option: (c) 52nd

(b) Fundamental Rights could not be amended or abridged

(c) Either House of Parliament

(b) Ministry of Home Affairs

The correct option:(c) I and II 

The National Commission for Women was created by an Act passed by the Parliament.

(c) Constitution (Ninety-second Amendment) Act

The correct answer is ​the University of Calcutta.

• In 1917, the University of Calcutta appointed Michael Sadler to improve its conditions.
• The report was submitted in 1919.
• It made the following recommendations:

1. All teaching staff must be organized.
2. A separate residential and teaching university must be started at Dhaka.
3. More universities must be open and the older ones must be residential and teaching universities. 
4. Colleges must develop new centers to grow into a university
5. All universities must be freed from government interference.
6. Academic councils must be established.
7. Syndicate and senate must be formed to be implemented to improvise the administration of the university
8. Full-time salaried vice-chancellor must be appointed.
9. Teaching and teaching work must be linked with researches must be organized under various departments.
10. Boards of studies must be formed, along with facilities and statutory bodies.
11. Honors courses must be commenced.
12. Tutorial work must be organized.
13. Provision must be made for rendering instruction in engineering, agriculture, law, medicine, and technology
14. A coordinating agency and inter-university must be started.

• Michael Sadler was a British educationist.
• He served in the universities of Machester and Leeds.
• He was also a champion of the English public school system.

The correct answer is the Babri Masjid Demolition case.

• The Liberhan Commission (Liberhan Ayodhya Commission of Inquiry) was a long-running inquiry commissioned by the Government of India to investigate the destruction of the disputed structure Babri Masjid in Ayodhya in 1992.
• It was led by retired High Court Judge M. S. Liberhan, it was formed on 16 December 1992.
• The commission was originally mandated to submit its report within three months.
• Extensions were given 48 times, and after a delay of 17 years, the one-man commission submitted the report to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on 30 June 2009.

• Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was assassinated at 9:29 a.m. on 31 October 1984 at her residence in New Delhi.
  • She was killed by her bodyguards.
  • The Justice Thakkar Commission of Inquiry (headed by Justice Manharlal Pranlal Thakkar), was set up to probe Gandhi's assassination.
  • The Thakkar Report stated that the needle of suspicion pointed at R. K. Dhawan for complicity in the conspiracy.
• The Kothari Commission was appointed by the Government of India to overhaul the Indian Education sector.
  • Kothari Commission was formed on 14 July 1964.
  • It was formed under the Chairmanship of Daulat Singh Kothari. He was the then chairman of the University Grants Commission (UGC).
  • The Report was submitted by the Kothari Commission on 29th June 1966 to M.C.Chagla, the then minister of education.
• Sarkaria Commission was set up in 1983 by the central government of India.
  • The Sarkaria Commission was to examine the central-state relationship on various portfolios and suggest changes within the framework of the Constitution of India.
  • The Commission was headed by Justice Ranjit Singh Sarkaria a retired judge of the Supreme Court of India.

The correct option: (d) II and III

(c) The power under Article 368 to amend the Constitution cannot be so exercised as to alter the basic structure or the essential features of the Constitution

(d) I, II, III and IV

States have no right to secede from the federation.

(d) Government of India Act, 1935

For Administrative Reforms reforms was a Commission set up under the Chairmanship of Veerappa Moily by the Government of India.

The correct option: (a) 3 2 1 4

(b) Justice S.K. Dhar

The Portuguese possessions Goa, Daman and Diu were liberated in 1961.

National Capital Territory of Delhi as been constituted by 69th Amendment.

(d) First general elections to the Lok Sabha were held

The State is completely detached from religious affiliations

Kurnool was the Capital of Andhra State when it was made a separate State in the year 1953.

President of India administers the oath of office to the VicePresident of India

Gulzari Lal Nanda acted as the Prime Minister of India immediately on the death of Jawaharlal Nehru.

(b) Chief Justice of India

 The oath of office to the President is administered by the Chief Justice of India

When the office of Chief Justice of a High Court Calls vacant his duties will be performed by one of the other Judges of the Court as may be appointed for the purpose by the President

(d) members of both Houses of Parliament