Highest,Biggest,Longest,Largest in India '''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' * Highest Award-Bharat Ratna * Highest Gallantry Award-Param Vir Chakra * Longest Tributary river of India-Yamuna * Largest Lake-Wular Lake, Kashmir * Largest Lake (Saline Water)-Chilka Lake, Orrisa * Largest Man-Made Lake-Govind Vallabh Pant Sagar (Rihand Dam) * Highest Lake-Devtal Lake, Gadhwal (Uttarakhand) * Highest Peak-Karkoram-2of K-2(8,611 meters) * Largest Populated City-Mumbai * Largest State(Area)-Rajasthan * Largest State(Population)-Uttar Pradesh * Highest rainfall-Cherrapunji (426 inches per annum) * State wise largest area under forest-Madhya Pradesh * Largest Delta-Sunderbans Delta * Longest River Bridge-Mahatma Gandhi Setu, Patna * Biggest Cave temple-Ellora * Longest Road-Grand Trunk Road * Longest Canal-Indira Gandhi Canal or Rajasthan Canal (Rajasthan) * Largest Museum-India Museum at Kolkata * Longest Dam-Hirakud Dam (Orrisa) * Highest Dam-Tehri Dam ( 260 meters , 850 ft ) * Largest District-Kutch district * Longest Highway NH-44 (NH-7) which turns from Varanasi to Kanyakumari * Smallest State (Population)-Sikkim * Smallest State (Area)-Goa * Largest State (Area)-Rajasthan * Largest State (Population)-Uttar Pradesh * Largest Cave Temple-Kailash Temple, Ellora (Maharastra) * Largest Port-Mumbai * Largest Church-Saint Cathedral (Goa) * Longest Beach-Marina Beach, Chennai * Highest Airport-Leh (Laddakh) * Largest River Island-Majuli (Brahmaputra River, Assam) Recent Awards & Honours ? Kailash Satyarthi selected for 2015 Harvard Humanitarian of the Year Award ? Filmmaker IV Sasi honoured with J.C. Daniel Award ? Dr Shanthi Ranganathan conferred with Avvaiyaar Award 2015 ? Jamaican writer Marlon James won the 2015 Man Booker Prize for Fiction ? AR Rahman to receive Hridaynath Mangeshkar Award ? The 2015 Nobel Prize in Economics awarded to Angus Deaton ? The Nobel Peace Prize to Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet for 2015 ? The Nobel Prize in Literature 2015 Belarusian author Svetlana Alexievich. ? The Nobel Prize in Physics to Takaaki Kajita and Arthur McDonald ? Sheila Watt-Cloutier wins 2015 Right Livelihood Award ? Winners of Safaigiri Awards 2015 ? Russian Activist Lyudmila Alekseyeva wins Vaclav Havel Human Rights Prize ? Dr. Jacob Tsimerman wins 2015 SASTRA Ramanujan Prize ? Indra Nooyi, Shobhana Bhartia presented with USIBC global leadership award ? Gaia Vince becomes the first woman to win the Top science book prize ? Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) gets SKOCH Awards ? 24th Vyaas Samman conferred on eminent Hindi writer Dr Kamal Kishore Goenka ? Urdu scholar Shamim Hanfi awarded Jnangarima Manad Alankaran award ? Afghan refugee teacher Aqeela Asifi awarded with 2015 Nansen Refugee Award by UNHCR ? Indian-AmericanSwetha Prabakaran selected for Champions of Change award in US ? Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina wins UN Award for Leadership on Climate Change ? DRDO scientist Dr G. Satheesh Reddy conferred with Silver Medal by Royal Aeronautical Society ? Gandhi Peace Prize 2014 conferred on ISRO ? Jhumpa Lahiri selected for 2014 National Humanities Medal ? Haryana Government wins Skoch Order-of-Merit ? India wins UNESCO Award for conserving Sree Vadakkunnathan Temple in Kerala ? Barcelona’s Lionel Messi wins UEFA Best Player in Europe award ? Mountaineer Jot Singh awarded Tenzing Norgay National Adventure award ? Syrian woman Journalist Zaina Erhaim wins 2015 Peter Mackler Award ? Tennis player Sania Mirza gets Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award ? Scientist Dr Modadugu Vijay Gupta to receive inaugural Sunhak Peace Prize ? Zia Haider Rahman’s debut novel wins James Tait Black prize 2015 ? Historian Babasaheb Purandare conferred with Maharashtra Bhushan Award 2015 ? Boxing Coach Swatantra Raj Singh recommended for Dronacharya award ? Sania Mirza became second Tennis player to be recommended for Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award ? Suhasini Haidar wins Prem Bhatia Award ? Complete list of athletes recommended for Arjuna Award 2015 ? Kerala government announces State film awards 2014 ? Raghavendra Gadagkar awarded with Germany’s Cross of Order of the Merit ? President of India presents Saraswati Samman to Dr. M Veerappa Moily ? Tourism Minister Shri. Dilip Parulekar bags ‘Best Innovated Tourism Minister’ for the year 2015 ? Zhanna Nemtsova awarded with Solidarity Prize 2015 of Poland ? Mathematician Dr. Amalendu Krishna wins 2015 Ramanujan Prize ? Hindi litterateur Kashinath Singh chosen for Bharat Bharti literary award 2014 ? McCann bags Incredible India ad campaign ? Tamil Nadu government instituted youth award in name of Dr APJ Abdul Kalam ? Sarbananda Sonowal presents Arjuna Award 2014 to cricketer R. Ashwin ? Whistleblower Sanjiv Chaturvedi, Anshu Gupta win Ramon Magsaysay award ? Jorge Sampaio, Helena Ndume awarded with inaugural Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela Prize ? BEL wins Dun and Bradstreet award ? Peter Higgs receives Copley Medal, world’s oldest scientific prize ? Ramachandra Guha receives Fukuoka Asian Culture Prize 2015 ? Naomi Klein wins 2015 American Book Award ? Kerala Tourism gets PATA Award for Muziris Heritage Project ? Indian-Americanwoman Sunita Viswanath honoured with Champion of Change ? Railway PSU – RailTel Bags 12th National Awards for Excellence in Cost Management 2014 ? Four Indian scientists receive William Harvey Award 2015 ? 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Observed Day Date The111e National Teachers Day September 5 Bi11hday of Sarvelli Radhakrishnan International Vult ure First Sa turday in September Awareness Day Sep 5 in 2015 International Literacy Day September 08 " literacy and sustainable societies" United Nations Day for September 12 South-South Cooperation World First Aid Day September 12 Hindi Divas September 14 Engineers Day September 15 " Engineering Challenges for Knowledge Era" International Day for t he September 16 "Ozone: All t hat is there Preserva tion of the Ozone bet v~een You and UV" Layer International day of Peace September 21 " Partnerships for Peace - Dignity for All" . World Alzheimer's Day September 21 " Ren)ember Me" International Day for t he September 26 Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons World Tourism Day September 27 "one billion tourists, one billion opportunit ies." World Rabies Day September 28 " End Rabies Together" World Heart Day September 29 "creating heart-healthy environments" Grand prix Winners- 2015 Lewis Hamllton-Her ecedH-Great Brllan ABC· BBC· RU o Austrah.an Grand Pr1x·Le~1s Hamilton o B1hra•n o Chinese o Belgium o British o Can.ad1.an o Russian o Italian o Japon Sebastian Vettel- Ferrarrl · Germany HH S o Hu1,garian o Malaysian Grand Prix o S•noapore N ico Rosberg- MercedH- Germany SAMO o S~n1sh Grand Pnl( o Austnan o Monaco G.K. 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Ronald 71 The first explorer to reach the South Pole was Amundson The person who is called the father of modern 72 G.Garibaldi Italy is 73 World literacy day is celebrated on 8th September 74 The founder of modern Germany is Bismarck The country known as the land of the midnight 75 Norway sun is 76 The place known as the Roof of the world is Tibet 77 The founder of the Chinese Republic was San Yat Sen The first Pakistani to receive the Nobel Prize 78 Abdul Salam was 79 The first woman Prime Minister of Britain was Margaret Thatcher 80 The first Secretary General of the UNO was Trygve Lie Frederick Auguste 81 The sculptor of the statue of Liberty was Bartholdi 82 The port of Banku is situated in Azerbaijan 83 John F Kennedy was assassinated by Lee Harry Oswald 84 The largest river in France is Lore The Queen of England who married her Catherine of 85 brother-in-law was Aragon The first negro to be awarded the Nobel Peace Ralph Johnson 86 Prize was Bunche The first British University to admit women for 87 London University degree courses was 88 The principal export of Jamaica is Sugar 89 New York is popularly known as the city of Skyscrapers 90 Madagascar is popularly known as the Island of Cloves The country known as the Land of White 91 Thailand Elephant is The country known as the Land of Morning 92 Korea Calm is The country known as the Land of 93 Bhutan Thunderbolts is Salto Angel Falls, 94 The highest waterfalls in the world is the Venezuela United States Library of 95 The largest library in the world is the Congress, Washington DC