APPSC Prelims and Mains Notes, APPSC Test Series
PSC Notes Surds A surd is a square root which cannot be reduced to a rational number. For example, is not a surd. However is a surd. If you use a calculator, you will see that and we will need to round the answer correct to a few decimal places. This makes it less accurate. If it is left as , then the … Read more
Budgeting Budgeting is the process of estimating the availability of resources and then allocating them to various activities of an organization according to a pre-determined priority. In most cases, approval of a budget also means the approval to various spending units to utilize the allocated resources. Budgeting plays a criucial role in the socio-economic development … Read more
ANDHRA PRADESH Top priority to energy, water security: Naidu Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu expressed his wish to witness an integral development of the State in the next five years especially on the energy and water security fronts and focus on the construction of the capital city Amaravati. Power cuts have become … Read more
COORDINATION “The Harmonization of activities of different work groups and departments.” Coordination is the orderly arrangement of individual and group efforts to provide unity of action in the pursuit of a common goal. All these departments must function in an integrated manner so that the organisational goal can be duly … Read more
Andhra Pradesh Bio-Chest’ to augment MCT’s zero garbage initiative. To make better use of organic waste produced from vegetable markets in the temple city, the Municipal Corporation of Tirupati (MCT) has introduced two ‘on-site and in-vessel organic waste composters’ at the Rythu Bazaar and the Indira Priyadarshini Vegetable Market. The ‘Bio-Chest’ units, … Read more
Nasik Conspiracy Case Anant Kanhare & Ganesh Savarkar short dead collector Jackson of Nasik with the revolver sent by V.D. Savarkar Muzaffarpur Shooting 1908. Khudi Ram & Prafulla Chaki tried to bomb Kingsford, the District Judge of Muzaffarpur but instead his wife & daughter died. Khudiram a minor was hanged … Read more
In the sixth country B.C. North India was divided into sixteen kingdoms out of which Avanti, Vatsa, Kosala and Magadha rose into prominence by aggrandizing upon other weaker states.These four states involved themselves in internecine quarrel in which Magadha emerged as the most powerful state and acquired mastery in the political domain of … Read more
The atmospheric disturbances which involve a closed circulation about a low pressure centre, anticlockwise in the northern atmosphere and clockwise in the southern hemisphere are called cyclones. They fall into the following two broad categories: (a) Extra-tropical or Temperate and (b) tropical cyclones. (a) Temperate Cyclones Temperate cyclones are formed along a front … Read more
Discount The discount is referred to the reduction in the price of some commodity or service. It may anywhere appear in the distribution channel in the form of modifications in marked price (printed on the item) or in retail price (set by retailer usually by pasting a sticker on the item) or in list price (quoted for the buyer). The discount is provided … Read more
Ratio Introduction: Ratio is the relation which one quantity bears to another of the same kind. The ratio of two quantities a and b is the fraction a/b and we write it as a: b. In the ratio a: b, we call a as the first term or antecedent and b, the second term or consequent. … Read more