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 Indian states - capital - chief minister - 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. Pradesh Chandrababu Narasimhan

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Arunachal Jyoti Prasad Itanagar Nabam Tuki Pradesh Rajkhowa Padmanabha Tarun Gogoi Acharya Ram Nath Bihar Patna Nitish Kumar Kovind Kaptan Singh Chandigarh Solanki Balram Das Chhattisgarh Raipur Tandon Dadra and Ashish Kundra Silvassa Nagar Haveli (Administrator)

Daman and Ashish Kundra Daman Diu (Administrator) Arvind Kejriwal Laxmikant Panaji Parsekar Anandiben Om Prakash 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 Ranchi Raghuvar Das Murmu Bengaluru Oommen Kerala Thiruvananthapuram P. Sathasivam Chandy

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H. Rajesh Lakshadweep Kavaratti Prasad

(administrator) Madhya Shivraj Singh Ram Naresh Bhopal Pradesh Chauhan Yadav Devendra C. Vidyasagar Fadanvis Rao Okram Iboby Manipur Imphal Syed Ahmed Singh V. Meghalaya Shillong Mukul Sangma Shanmuganathan

Mizoram Aizawl 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 Raje Pawan Kumar Shriniwas Sikkim Gangtok Chamling Dadasaheb Patil

Tamil Nadu Chennai Jayalalithaa K. E. S. L. Hyderabad Chandrashekra Narasimhan Rao Tripura Agartala Manik Sarkar Tathagata Roy Akhilesh Uttar Pradesh Lucknow Yadav Uttarakhand Dehradun Harish Rawat Paul

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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. 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

● – Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, Department of Atomic Energy, , All important policy issues and all other portfolios not allocated to any Minister ● – Home Affairs ● – External Affairs, Overseas Indian Affairs ● – Finance, Corporate (Additional charge – Affairs Information and Broadcasting) ● Manohar Parrikar – Defence ● M – Urban Development, Housing, Urban Poverty Alleviation, Parliamentary Affairs

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● – Road Transport and Highways, Shipping ● – Railways ● Uma Bharati – Water resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation ● Dr – Minority Affairs ● Ramvilas Paswan – Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution ● – Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises ● – Women and Child Development ● Ananthkumar – Chemicals and Fertilizers ● – Communications and Information Technology ● – Civil Aviation ● – Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises ● – Food Processing Industries ● – Mines, Steel, Labour and Employment ● – Tribal Affairs ● – Agriculture ● Thaawar Chand Gehlot – Social Justice and Empowerment ● – 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 ● – Textiles (Independent Charge), Parliamentary Affairs, Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation ● – Culture (Independent Charge), Tourism (Independent Charge) ● – Petroleum and Natural Gas (Independent Charge) ● – Skill Development, Entrepreneurship, Youth Affairs and Sports (Independent Charge) ● – Information and Broadcasting (Independent Charge),

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Environment, Forest and Climate Change (Independent Charge), Parliamentary Affairs ● – 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 ● – Commerce and Industry (Independent Charge), Finance, Corporate Affairs ● – Labour and Employment ● – Skill Development and Entrepreneurship (Independent Charge), Parliamentary Affairs ● – Culture (Independent Charge), Tourism (Independent Charge), Civil Aviation

Ministers of State ● GM Siddeshwara – Civil Aviation ● – Railways ● – Chemicals and Fertilizers ● – Rural Development, Panchayati Raj, Drinking Water and Sanitation ● – Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises ● – Home Affairs ● Krishan Pal – Road Transport and Highways, Shipping ● Dr. – Agriculture, Food Processing Industries ● Mansukhbhai Dhanjibhai Vasava – Tribal Affairs ● – Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution ● Vishnu Deo Sai – Mines, Steel, Labour and Employment ● – Rural Development ● – Minority Affairs, Parliamentary Affairs ● – Drinking Water and Sanitation ● HP Chaudhary – Home Affairs ● – Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation ● Mohanbhai Kalyanjibhai Kundariya – Agriculture ● – Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises ● – Chemicals and Fertilizers ● Dr Ramshankar Katheria – Human Resource Development

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● – Finance ● YS Chowdary – Science and Technology, Earth Science ● Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore – Information and Broadcasting ● – Urban Development, Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation ● – Food Processing Industries ● – 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 , which is a home to several Buddhist structures built in between 3rd century BC to 12th century AD.

Ramanathaswamy (Rameshwaram) Temple

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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, which is situated in the Uttarkashi district of Uttarakhand.

Kashi Vishwanath Temple Located in the ancient and holy city of Varanasi (Uttar Pradesh)

Lord Jagannath Temple Built in the 12th century, Jagannath temple is situated in Puri (Orissa) and is popularly called Jagannath Puri.

Yamunotri Temple Yamunotri temple was built in the 19th century in the Uttarkashi district of Uttarakhand

Meenakshi Temple This architectural wonder is situated in Madurai (Tamil Nadu)

Amarnath Cave Temple The holy cave of Amarnath is located at an altitude of 3,888 meters in the state of Jammu and Kashmir.

Lingaraja Temple Lingaraja temple is one of the oldest and largest temples of the ‘Temple City of India’ – Orissa.

Tirupati Balaji Located in the hilly town of Tirumala (), the temple is also known as Tirumala Venkateshwara temple. Kanchipuram Temples

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‘The City of Thousand Temples’ – Kanchipuram (Tamil Nadu) is one of the seven sacred places in India wherein the people can attain Moksha, as per religion.

Khajuraho Temple Khajuraho is a town in the state of Madhya Pradesh

Virupaksha Temple Located in the village of Hampi, it is one of the most famous temples among the various other temples of Hampi. Shri Digambar Jain Lal Mandir is the oldest Jain temple in Delhi.

Gomateshwara Temple Situated in the Shravanabelagola town of Karnataka, Gomateshwara temple is dedicated to Lord Bahubali also known as Gomateshwara.

Ranakpur Temple Ranakpur is a village in the Pali district of Rajasthan and falls between Udaipur and Jodhpur.

Shirdi Sai Baba Temple The holy temple of Sai baba was built in 1922, in the Shirdi town of Maharashtra.

Sree Padmanabhaswamy Temple Thiruvananthapuram, the capital city of Kerala is the place where one of the 108 Divya Desams (sacred dwellings of Lord Vishnu) is situated in the form of Lord Padmanabhaswamy.

Dwarkadhish Temple The holy abode of Lord Krishna, Dwarkadhish temple is situated in the Dwarka city (Gujarat).

Laxminarayan Temple Inaugurated by Mahatma Gandhi in 1939, the temple was built by the industrialist Baldeo Das Birla in Delhi.

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Indian Folk Dances

States and their Folk Dances Jharkhand Chhanu, Sarahul, Jat-Jatin, Karma, Danga, Bidesia, Sohrai. Uttarakhand Gadhwali, Kumayuni, , Jhora, , Chappeli. Andra (Classical), Pradesh Ghantamardala, (Ottam Thedal, Mohiniattam, , Siddhi, Madhuri, Chhadi. Chhattisgarh Goudi, Karma, Jhumar, Dagla, Pali, Tapali, Navrani, Diwari, Mundari. Arunachal Mask dance (Mukhauta ), Pradesh War dance. Himachal Jhora, Jhali, Chharhi, Dhaman, Pradesh Chhapeli, Mahasu, , Dangi, Chamba, Thali, Jhainta, Daf, Stick dance etc. Goa Mandi, Jhagor, Khol, Dakni etc. Assam Bihu, Bichhua, Natpuja, Maharas, Kaligopal, Bagurumba, Naga dance, Khel Gopal, Tabal Chongli, Canoe, Jhumura Hobjanai etc. West Bengal Kathi, Gambhira, Dhali, Jatra, Baul, Marasia, Mahal, Keertan etc. Kerala (Classical), Ottam Thulal, Mohini-attam, Kaikottikali, Tappatikali, Kali Auttam. Meghalaya Laho, Baala etc. Manipur Manipuri (Classical), Rakhal, Nat Rash, Maha Rash, Raukhat etc. Nagaland Chong, Khaiva, Lim, Nuralim etc. Orissa (Classical), Savari, Ghumara, Painka, Munari, Chhau,

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Chadya Dandanata etc.

Maharashtra Lavani, Nakata, Koli, , Gafa, Dahikala Dasavtar or Bohada, Tamasha, Mauni, Powara, Gouricha etc. Karnataka Yakshagan, huttar, Suggi, Kunitha, Karga, Lambi Gujarat , Dandiya Ras, Juriun, Bhavai. Punjab Bhagra, , Daff, Dhaman etc. Rajasthan Ghumar, Chakri, Ganagor, Jhulan Leela, Jhuma, Suisini, Ghapal, Panihari, Ginad etc. Khanatm, Pakhupila, Cherokan etc. Jammu & Rauf, Hikat, Mandjas, kud Dandi Kashmir nach, Damali. Tamil Nadu Bharatnatyam, Kumi, Kolattam, Kavadi, Uttar Nautanki, Raslila, Kajri, Jhora, Pradesh Chappeli, Jaita. Bihar Jata-Jatin, Bakho-Bakhain, Panwariya, Sama-Chakwa, Bidesia, Jatra etc. Haryana Jhumar, Phag Dance, Daph, Dhamal, Loor, Gugga, Khor, Gagor etc.

Superlatives in India(Largest/Longest/Highest in India)

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The Longest River Mahatma Gandhi Setu Patna (5.575 Bridge km.) The Largest Lake Wular Lake (J & K) The Largest Dam Bhakra Dam, on Sutlej river (Punjab) The Largest Desert Thar (Rajasthan) The Largest cave Kailash Temple ( Ellora, temple Maharastra) The Largest mosque Jama Masjid (Delhi The Longest tunnel Jawahar Tunnel, Banihal Pass (J & K) The Largest Delta Sunderbans (W. Bengar) The State with Madhya Pradesh maximum forest area The Longest Corridor of Ramnathswami Temple Corridor at Rameswaram (Tamil Nadu) The highest Jog or Garsoppa (Karnataka) Waterfall The Longest Road Grand Trunk Road (Kolkata to Delhi) The highest Gate Buland Darwaza, Fatehpur Sikri( way U.P.) The Longest River The Ganga (2640 km. long) The Largest Indian Museum, Kolkata Museum The largest Dome Gol Gumbuz, Bijapur (in Karantaka) The tallest Statue Gomateswara (Karnataka) The largest Public State Bank of India Sector Bank The biggest canti Rabindra Setu or Howrah Bridge lever Bridge (Kolkata) The Longest Canal Canal or Rajasthan Canal (Rajasthan) The Longest Gorakhpur (U.P.)

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Railway Platform The biggest Yuva Bharti (Salt Lake) Stadium Stadium Kolkata The most populous Mumbai (Maharashtra) City The largest Sea Anna Indira Gandhi Bridge (Tamil Bridge Nadu) The longest Dibrugarh to Kanyakumari Passenger Train Route The Oldest Church St. Thomas Church at Palayar, Trichur (Kerala) The Longest NH-7 (Varanasi to Kanyakumari) National Highway The State with Gujarat Longest Coast Line The highest Lake Devtal Lake, Gadhwal (Uttarakhand) The largest Saline Chilka Lake (Orissa) Water Lake The Largest Fresh Kolleru Lake (Andhra Pradesh) Water Lake Largest Cave Amarnath (J & K) The Longest River Godawari of Southern India The Longest Dam Hirakud Dam (Orissa) The highest Param Vir Chakra Gallantry Award The highest Award Bharat Ratna The largest Golden Temple, Amritsar Gurudwara The longest Sea Marina Beach (Chennai) Beach The Highest Road Road at Khardungla, (in Leh-Manali Sector) The Largest Govind Sagar ( Bhakhra Nangal)

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Artificial Lake The Highest Batttle Siachen Glacier field and the Longest Glacier The Biggest River Bramhaputra river, (Assam) Island The Largest Birla Planetorium (Kolkata) Planetarium The Highest Leh Airport (Ladakh) Airports

Airports in India

AIRPORTS IN INDIA- PART 1 S.no Name of the Airport City Maharashtra 1. Chhatrapati Shivaji International Mumbai Airport 2. Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Nagpur International Airport Karnataka 1. Kamapagowada (Bengaluru) Bengaluru International Airport 2. Mangalore Airport Mangalore UTTAR PRADESH 1. Lal Bahadur Shastri International Varanasi Airport 2. Choudhary Charan Singh Lucknow International Airport 3. Amausi Airport Lucknow WEST BENGAL 1. Subhash Chandra Bose Airport Kolkata (DumDum Airport) 2. Bagdogra Airport Siliguri TAMIL NADU

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1. Chennai International Airport Chennai 2. Tiruchirapalli International Airport Tiruchirapalli 3. Anna (Meenambkam) International Chennai Airport KERALA 1. Trivendram International Airport Thiruvananthpuram 2. Calicut International Airport Kozhikode(Kerala) 3. Aranmula International Airport Pathanamthitta GUJARAT 1. Sardar Vallabh bhai Patel Ahmedabad International Airport

AIRPORTS IN INDIA- PART 2 S.no Name of the Airport City State/UT 1. Indira Gandhi Delhi International Airport 2. Guru Ramdasji Amritsar Punjab (Rajasansi) International Airport 3. Devi Ahiyabai Indore MP Holkar International Airport 4. Veer Savarkar Port Blair A&N International Airport 5. Rajeev Gandhi Hyderabad Telangana International Airport 6. Lokpriya Gopinath Assam

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Bordoloi International Airport 7. Loknayak Jai Patna Bihar Prakash Narayan International Airport 8. Goa International Goa Goa Airport 9. Raja Bhoj Bhopal MP International Airport 10. Gaya Airport Gaya Bihar 11. Tulihal Airport Imphal Manipur 12. Shillong Airport Shillong Meghalaya 13. Birsa Munda Ranchi Jharkhand Airport 14. Agatti Aerodrome Agatti Lakshadweep 15. Dabolim Airport - Goa 16. Swami Raipur Chhattisgarh Vivekananda Airport 17. Jolly Grant Airport Dehradun Uttrakhand 18. Dimapur Airport Dimapur Nagaland 19. Patnaik Airport Bhubaneswar Odisha 20. Pakyong Airport Gangtok Sikkim 21. Lengpui Airport Aizawl Mizoram

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