UNIQUE IAS ACADEMY-GENERAL AWARENESS-1 GENERAL AWARENESS Unique IAS Academy 1st Street Gandhipuram Coimbatore-12 IAS/IPS, TNPSC, BANKING, TET,etc., 0422 4204182, 9884267599, 9843167599 About india Indian states - capital - chief minister - governor Cabinet ministers Ministers of state (independent charge) Some important temples in india Indian folk dances Superlatives in india(largest/longest/highest in india) Airports in india ABOUT INDIA INDIAN STATES - CAPITAL - CHIEF MINISTER (CM) - GOVERNOR State / UT Capital Chief Minister Governor A. K. Singh Andaman Port Blair (Lieutenant and Nicobar Gov.) Andhra N. E. S. L. Hyderabad Pradesh Chandrababu Narasimhan 0422 4204182,9884267599,1st Street,Gandhipuram,Coimbatore. Page 1 UNIQUE IAS ACADEMY-GENERAL AWARENESS-1 Naidu Arunachal Jyoti Prasad Itanagar Nabam Tuki Pradesh Rajkhowa Padmanabha Assam Dispur Tarun Gogoi Acharya Ram Nath Bihar Patna Nitish Kumar Kovind Kaptan Singh Chandigarh Chandigarh Solanki Balram Das Chhattisgarh Raipur Raman Singh Tandon Dadra and Ashish Kundra Silvassa Nagar Haveli (Administrator) Daman and Ashish Kundra Daman Diu (Administrator) Arvind Delhi Najeeb Jung Kejriwal Laxmikant Goa Panaji Mridula Sinha Parsekar Anandiben Om Prakash Gujarat Gandhinagar Patel Kohli Manohar lal Kaptan Singh Haryana Chandigarh Khattar Solanki Himachal Virbhadra Acharya Dev Shimla Pradesh singh Vrat Mufti Jammu and Srinagar (Summer), Narinder Nath Mohammad Kashmir Jammu (Winter) Vohra Sayeed Draupadi Jharkhand Ranchi Raghuvar Das Murmu Karnataka Bengaluru Siddaramaiah Vajubhai Vala Oommen Kerala Thiruvananthapuram P. Sathasivam Chandy 0422 4204182,9884267599,1st Street,Gandhipuram,Coimbatore. Page 2 UNIQUE IAS ACADEMY-GENERAL AWARENESS-1 H. Rajesh Lakshadweep Kavaratti Prasad (administrator) Madhya Shivraj Singh Ram Naresh Bhopal Pradesh Chauhan Yadav Devendra C. Vidyasagar Maharashtra Mumbai Fadanvis Rao Okram Iboby Manipur Imphal Syed Ahmed Singh V. Meghalaya Shillong Mukul Sangma Shanmuganathan Mizoram Aizawl Lal Thanhawla Nirbhay Sharma Padmanabha Nagaland Kohima T.R. Zeliang Acharya Odisha Bhubaneshwar Naveen Patnaik S. C. Jamir Puducherry Pondicherry N.Rangaswamy A. K. Singh Prakash Singh Kaptan Singh Punjab Chandigarh Badal Solanki Vasundhara Rajasthan Jaipur Kalyan Singh Raje Pawan Kumar Shriniwas Sikkim Gangtok Chamling Dadasaheb Patil Tamil Nadu Chennai Jayalalithaa Konijeti Rosaiah K. E. S. L. Telangana Hyderabad Chandrashekra Narasimhan Rao Tripura Agartala Manik Sarkar Tathagata Roy Akhilesh Uttar Pradesh Lucknow Ram Naik Yadav Krishan Kant Uttarakhand Dehradun Harish Rawat Paul 0422 4204182,9884267599,1st Street,Gandhipuram,Coimbatore. Page 3 UNIQUE IAS ACADEMY-GENERAL AWARENESS-1 Mamata Keshari Nath West Bengal Kolkata Banerjee Tripathi Now here is the list of 7 Union Territories - Their Lieutanant Governors/ Administrators. Updated on 09.08.2015. Sr. No. Union Territory Name Position Andaman and Lieutenant 1 Nicobar Island A.K.Singh Governor Kaptan Singh 2 Chandigarh Solanki Administrator Dadra and Ashish 3 Nagar Haveli Kundra " Ashish 4 Daman and Diu Kundra " Chief Arvind Minister / Kejriwal / Lieutenant 5 Delhi Nazeeb Jung Governor H.Rajesh 6 Lakshadweep Prasad " Lieutenant 7 Puducherry A.K.Singh Governor Cabinet Ministers ● Narendra Modi – Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, Department of Atomic Energy, Department of Space, All important policy issues and all other portfolios not allocated to any Minister ● Rajnath Singh – Home Affairs ● Sushma Swaraj – External Affairs, Overseas Indian Affairs ● Arun Jaitley – Finance, Corporate (Additional charge – Affairs Information and Broadcasting) ● Manohar Parrikar – Defence ● M Venkaiah Naidu – Urban Development, Housing, Urban Poverty Alleviation, Parliamentary Affairs 0422 4204182,9884267599,1st Street,Gandhipuram,Coimbatore. Page 4 UNIQUE IAS ACADEMY-GENERAL AWARENESS-1 ● Nitin Gadkari – Road Transport and Highways, Shipping ● Suresh Prabhu – Railways ● Uma Bharati – Water resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation ● Dr Najma Heptulla – Minority Affairs ● Ramvilas Paswan – Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution ● Kalraj Mishra – Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises ● Maneka Gandhi – Women and Child Development ● Ananthkumar – Chemicals and Fertilizers ● Ravi Shankar Prasad – Communications and Information Technology ● Ashok Gajapathi Raju – Civil Aviation ● Anant Geete – Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises ● Harsimrat Kaur Badal – Food Processing Industries ● Narendra Singh Tomar – Mines, Steel, Labour and Employment ● Jual Oram – Tribal Affairs ● Radha Mohan Singh – Agriculture ● Thaawar Chand Gehlot – Social Justice and Empowerment ● Smriti Irani – Human Resource Development ● JP Nadda – Health and Family Welfare ● Birender Singh – Rural Development, Panchayati Raj, Drinking Water and Sanitation ● DV Sadananda Gowda – Law and Justice ● Dr Harsh Vardhan – Science and Technology Earth Sciences Ministers of State (Independent Charge) ● General VK Singh – Statistics and Programme Implementation (Independent Charge), External Affairs, Overseas Indian Affairs ● Inderjit Singh Rao – Planning (Independent Charge), Statistics and Programme Implementation (Independent Charge), Defence ● Santosh Gangwar – Textiles (Independent Charge), Parliamentary Affairs, Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation ● Shripad Naik – Culture (Independent Charge), Tourism (Independent Charge) ● Dharmendra Pradhan – Petroleum and Natural Gas (Independent Charge) ● Sarbananda Sonowal – Skill Development, Entrepreneurship, Youth Affairs and Sports (Independent Charge) ● Prakash Javadekar – Information and Broadcasting (Independent Charge), 0422 4204182,9884267599,1st Street,Gandhipuram,Coimbatore. Page 5 UNIQUE IAS ACADEMY-GENERAL AWARENESS-1 Environment, Forest and Climate Change (Independent Charge), Parliamentary Affairs ● Piyush Goyal – Power (Independent Charge), Coal (Independent Charge), New and Renewable Energy (Independent Charge) ● Dr Jitendra Singh – Science and Technology (Independent Charge), Earth Sciences (Independent Charge), Prime Minister Office, Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, Department of Atomic Energy, Department of Space ● Nirmala Sitharaman – Commerce and Industry (Independent Charge), Finance, Corporate Affairs ● Bandaru Dattatreya – Labour and Employment ● Rajiv Pratap Rudy – Skill Development and Entrepreneurship (Independent Charge), Parliamentary Affairs ● Mahesh Sharma – Culture (Independent Charge), Tourism (Independent Charge), Civil Aviation Ministers of State ● GM Siddeshwara – Civil Aviation ● Manoj Sinha – Railways ● Nihalchand – Chemicals and Fertilizers ● Upendra Kushwaha – Rural Development, Panchayati Raj, Drinking Water and Sanitation ● Pon Radhakrishnan – Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises ● Kiren Rijiju – Home Affairs ● Krishan Pal – Road Transport and Highways, Shipping ● Dr. Sanjeev Balyan – Agriculture, Food Processing Industries ● Mansukhbhai Dhanjibhai Vasava – Tribal Affairs ● Raosaheb Danve – Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution ● Vishnu Deo Sai – Mines, Steel, Labour and Employment ● Sudarshan Bhagat – Rural Development ● Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi – Minority Affairs, Parliamentary Affairs ● Ram Kripal Yadav – Drinking Water and Sanitation ● HP Chaudhary – Home Affairs ● Sanwar Lal Jat – Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation ● Mohanbhai Kalyanjibhai Kundariya – Agriculture ● Giriraj Singh – Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises ● Hansraj Gangaram Ahir – Chemicals and Fertilizers ● Dr Ramshankar Katheria – Human Resource Development 0422 4204182,9884267599,1st Street,Gandhipuram,Coimbatore. Page 6 UNIQUE IAS ACADEMY-GENERAL AWARENESS-1 ● Jayant Sinha – Finance ● YS Chowdary – Science and Technology, Earth Science ● Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore – Information and Broadcasting ● Babul Supriyo – Urban Development, Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation ● Niranjan Jyoti – Food Processing Industries ● Vijay Sampla – Social Justice and Empowerment - See more at: Some Important Temples in India Badrinath Temple Situated close to the Alaknanda River, the abode of Lord Badrinath is located in the Chamoli district, a small town of Badrinath (Uttarakhand). The Konark Sun Temple The Sun temple is situated in the small town of Konark, which is situated in the Puri district of Odisha. Brihadeeswara Temple Also known as Peruvudaiyar Kovil and RajaRajeswaram, this 11th century temple was built by the Chola emperor Raja Raja Chola I. Dedicated to Lord Shiva, Brihadeeswara temple is the largest temple in India that is situated at Thanjavur city of Tamil Nadu. Somnath Temple The temple is located in Prabhas Kshetra in Saurashtra (Gujarat). Prabhas Kshetra is also the region in which, it is believed that, Lord Krishna left his mortal body. Kedarnath Temple Situated in the Himalayan range of Garhwal area (Uttarakhand), Kedarnath temple is one of the most sacred Shiva temples in the world. Sanchi Stupa Sanchi is a village in the Raisen district of Madhya Pradesh, which is a home to several Buddhist structures built in between 3rd century BC to 12th century AD. Ramanathaswamy (Rameshwaram) Temple 0422 4204182,9884267599,1st Street,Gandhipuram,Coimbatore. Page 7 UNIQUE IAS ACADEMY-GENERAL AWARENESS-1 Rameshwaram (or Rameswaram) is a small island town in Tamil Nadu and is one of the four holiest pilgrimage places (Char Dhams) of the Hindus. Siddhivinayak Temple Located in Prabha Devi, Mumbai, Siddhivinayak Temple was built in the 18th century. Gangotri Temple The sacred origin of Ganga Maa (mother) is worshipped at Gangotri temple,