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AC Static GK Capsule 2017

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Contents

SUPERLATIVES (WORLD & ) ...... 2 FIRST EVER(WORLD & INDIA) ...... 5 WORLD GEOGRAPHY ...... 9 INDIA GEOGRAPHY...... 14 INDIAN POLITY ...... 32 INDIAN CULTURE ...... 36 SPORTS ...... 39 MISCELLANEOUS ...... 46 VERSION DETAILS...... 109

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Superlatives of World

Longest/Largest/Bigg Name & Location Longest/Largest/Biggest/ Name & Location est/Smallest Smallest Biggest Bell Great Bell, Moscow Largest Continent Biggest Cinema House Roxy, New York Largest Coral Formation The Great Barrier Reef, Biggest city(area) Mount Isa, Australia Largest Country(area) Russia Biggest Flower Raffesia(Java) Largest Country(population) Biggest Library Library of the congress Largest Dam Grand Coulee, USA Washington Biggest Museum British Museum, Largest Delta , India Brightest Planet Venus Largest Democracy India Brightest Star Sirius Largest Desert Sahara, Broadest Strait Davis Strait Largest Diamond The Cullinan Busiest Canal Baltic White Sea Canal Largest Diamond Mine Kimbarley, South Africa Busiest port Rotterdam, Netherland Largest Gulf Gulf of Mexico Coldest Place Vostok, Antarctica Largest Island Greenland Deepest & Biggest The Pacific Largest (artificial) Lake volta, Ghana Ocean Deepest lake Baikal, Russia Largest lake(fresh water) Lake Superior, USA Driest Place Atacama Desert, South Largest lake(salt water ) Caspian Sea Africa Farthest Planet Neptune Largest land animal African Elephant Fastest Animal Cheetah Largest Mammal Whale Fastest Bird Peregrine Falcon Largest Mosque Masjid-al-Haram, Saudi Arabia Highest Capital city La Paz, Bolivia Largest Palace Imperial Palace, China Highest City Wen Chuan, China Largest Park National Park, Greenland

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Highest lake Titicaca, Bolivia Largest Peninsula Arabia Highest Melting Point Tungsten Largest Planet Jupiter Highest Mountain Peak Everest, Largest Railway Platform Grand Central Terminal, New York Highest Mountain Largest River Basin Amazon Basin Range Highest Plateau Pamir, Tibet Largest river by volume Amazon Highest Volcano Ojes del Salado, Chile Largest Sea Caspian Sea Highest Waterfall Salto Angel Falls, Largest Sea bird Albatross Venezuela Hottest Planet Venus Largest Stadium Strahov Stadium, Prague, Czech Largest Archipelago Largest Volcano Mauna Loa, Hawaii Largest Asian Desert Gobi, Lightest Gas Hydrogen Largest Bay Hudson Bay, Canada Lightest Metal Lithium Largest Bird Ostrich Longest & Deepest Rail Seikan Tunnel, Tunnel Largest Church Basilica of St. Peter, Longest & Largest Canal Le Rove Tunnel, France (Vatican city) Tunnel Largest Tokyo, Japan Narrowest Strait Chaliks City(population) Longest Animal Blue Whale Nearest Planet Mercury Longest Corridor Rameshwaram temple Rainiest place Cherrapunji, India Corridor, India Longest Day June 21 Shortest Day Dec 22 Longest Epic The Mahabharata Slowest animal Snail Longest Jump animal Kangaroo Smallest Bird Humming Bird Longest life- Tortoise Smallest Continent Australia Span(animal) Longest Mountain Andes, South America Smallest Planet Mercury Range Longest Non stop train Flying Scoutsman Tallest Animal Giraffe Longest poisonous Tallest Building Bhurj Khalifa, UAE snake Longest port Tallest Minaret Great Hassan Mosque Longest Railway Trans-Siberian Railway Tallest Minaret(free Qutub Minar, India standing) Longest Railway Lower Zambeji, Africa Tallest Statue Statue of Liberty, New Bridge York,USA Longest Railway Gorakhpur, UP, India Tallest Tower Tokyo Sky Tree, Japan Platform Longest River Nile Wingless Bird Kiwi Longest River Dam Hirakud Dam, , Longest Wall Great wall of China India Longest Strait Tartar Strait Longest wing spread bird Albatross Longest Tunnel(road) Laerdal, Norway Most Intelligent Animal Chimpanzee Largest solar farm China Longest elevated cycle China path Longest bullet train China Longest Flight Qatar Airways Largest Solar Morocco Largest Artificial Sun Germany

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Superlatives of India

Longest/Largest/Highest etc Name & Location Biggest Cave temple Ellora, Biggest Hotel Oberai- Sheraton, Biggest Mosque Jama Masjid at Biggest Stadium Yuva Bharti (Salt Lake) Stadium, Deepest River Valley Bhagirathi & Alaknanda, Fastest Train Shatabadi Express running between and Bhopal Highest Airport Leh, Laddakh Highest Award Highest Battle Field Siachin Highest Dam Tehri Dam, Uttarakhand Highest Gallantry Award Param Vir Chakra Highest Gateway Buland Darwaza at Fatehpur Highest Lake Devtal Lake, Gadhwal (Uttarakhand) Highest Peak Karkoram-2 or K-2 Highest Peak in the world is , Nepal Highest Railway Station Ghum (W. ) Highest rainfall Mawsynram, Highest Road Road at Khardungla Highest Tower Kutab Minar at Delhi Highest Watefall Nohkalikai Falls in Shora, Meghalaya Largest Animal Fair Sonepur, Largest Auditorium Sri Shanmukhanand Hall, Mumbai Largest Cave Amarnath, J&K Largest Cave Temple Kailash Temple, Ellora Maharastra Largest Church Saint Cathedral, Largest Delta Sunderbans Delta Largest Desert Thar, Largest District Kutch district, Largest Dome Gol Gumbaz at Bijapur Largest Fresh Water Lake , Largest Gurudwara , Largest inland salt lake Sambhar lake Largest Lake , Largest Lake (Saline Water) Chilka Lake, Orrisa Largest Man- Made Lake Govind Vallabh Pant Sagar (Rihand Dam) Largest Museum India Museum at Kolkata Largest Planetarium Birla Planetarium, Kolkata Largest Populated City Mumbai Largest Port Mumbai, Mahrashtra Largest Public Sector Bank State Bank of India Largest River Island Majuli, Largest River without Delta Narmada and Tapti Largest State (Area) Rajasthan Largest State(Area) Rajasthan Largest State(Population) Largest Zoo Zoological Garden at Alipur, Kolkata Longest Beach ,

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Longest Canal Indira Canal or Rajasthan Canal Longest Cantilever Span bridge Howrah Bridge, Longest Dam Hirakud Dam, Odisha Longest Electric Railway Line From Delhi to Kolkata via Patna Longest Highway NH-7 from to Longest Platform Gorakhpur(UP) Longest Railway Route From Assam to Kanyakumari Longest River Ganga Longest River Bridge Setu, Patna Longest River in India The Longest Road Grand Trunk Road Longest Tributary river of India Longest Tunnel Jawahar tunnel, Jammu & Kashmir Oldest Church St. Thomas Church at Palayar, Trichur () Smallest State (Area) Goa Smallest State (Population) State wise largest area under State with longest coastline Gujarat State with longest coastline of Andhra Pradesh South India Tallest Statue Statue of Gomateshwar, Longest Road Tunnel Cheneni-Nashiri, J & K Largest startup incubator Hubballi, Karnataka Largest WiFi service Maharashtra Tallest flag post Attari Border, Punjab Largest Floating Solar PV Plant Kerala

FIRST EVER(WORLD & INDIA)

First in the world

First in Name of the Person First men to climb Mt. Everest Sherpa & Sir First man to reach North Pole Robert Peary First man to reach South Pole Ronald Amundsen First religion of the world Santosh First country to print books China First country to issue paper currency China First country to start Civil Services China Competition First President of United States of America George Washington First prime Minister of great Britain Robert Walpole First secretary general of United Nations Trigve Li First country to make education compulsory Prussia First country to win the world cup Football Uruguay (1930) First country to make a constitution United States of America ’s fist Governor General Mohammed Ali Jinnah First Summit of NAM was organized in Belgrade (former Yugoslavia) First European to visit China Marco Polo First men to fly an aeroplane Wright Brothers First person to sail around the world Ferdinand Magellan 5 | Page

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First country to send human to Moon United States of America First country to launch satellite into space Russia (former USSR) First country to host the modern Olympic games First President of the Republic of China Dr. Sun Yat-sen First city to be attacked with Atom bomb Heroshima (Japan) First Radio Telescope Satellite was Japan launched into space by First Russian (Soviet) Prime Minister to V.I. Bulganin visit India First University of the world Taxila University First man to set foot on the Moon Nell Armstrong (U.S.A) First man to go into space Major Yuri Gagarin (USSR) First Space Shuttle Launched Columbia First space ship landed on mars Viking –I (July,1976) First woman Prime Minister of England Margaret Thacher First woman Prime Minister of any Muslim Benazir Bhutto (Pakistan) country First woman Prime Minister of a country S. Bhandarnayake (Sri Lanka) First woman cosmonaut in space Valentina Tereshkova (USSR) First woman to climb Mt. Everest Junko Tabei (Japan ) First deaf and dumb to cross the Srait of Taranath Shenoy (India) Gibraltar First woman president of UN General Smt. Vijayalakshmi (1953) assembly First European Invader of Indian soil Alexander, The Great First woman to reach the North pole Ms. Fran First woman to reach Antartica Caroline Michaelson First man to draw the map of earth Anexemander First man to compile Encyclopaedia Aspheosis () First eldest man to climb Mt. Event Richard Wass First Asian to win Wimbledon Trophy Arthur Ashe (U.S.A) First man to win Nobel Prize for Literature Rene F.A. & Suilt Pradhom (France ) First man to win Nobel Prize for Peace Jin F. Dunant (Switzerland) & Frederic Peiry (France) First man to win Nobel prize for Physics W.K. Roentgen (Germany) First man to win Nobel prize for Chemistry J.H. Wenthoff (Howlland) First man to win Nobel Prize Medicine A.E. Wonn Behring (Germany) (Medical Science) First man to win Nobel Prize Economics Ranger (Norway)& John Tinbergen (Howlland) First woman President of a country Maria Estela Peron () First Space Tourist (Male) Dennis Tito First Space Tourist (Female) Mrs. Anousheh Ansari World's longest hunger striker Irom Chanu Sharmila First country to switch off FM radio Norway First country to stop investing in fossil fuels Ireland First country to allow pharmacies to sell Uruguay marijuana

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First In India

First Persons The first President of Indian Republic Dr. The first Prime Minister of free India Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru The first Indian to win Nobel Prize The first President of W.C. Banerjee The first Muslim President of Indian National Badruddin Tayyabji Congress The first Muslim Dr. The first British Governor General of India Lord William Bentinck(1833-1835) The first British Governor General of Bengal Lord Warren Hasting(1774-1885) The first British Viceroy of India Lord Canning The first Governor General of free India Lord Mountbatten The first and the last Indian to be Governor General of C. Rajgopalachari

The first man who introduced printing press in India James Hicky The first Indian to join the I.C.S Satyendra Tagore India’s first man in Space Rakesh Sharma The first who resigned The first Indian Commander -in-Chief of India General Cariappa The first Chief of Army Staff Gen. Maharaj Rajendra Singhji The first Indian Member of the Viceroy’s executive S.P.Sinha The first President of India who died while in office Dr. Zakhir Hussain The first Muslim President of Indian Republic Dr. Zakhir Hussain The first Prime Minister of India who did not face the Charan The first Field Marshal of India S.H.F. Manekshaw The first Indian to get Nobel Prize in Physics C.V.Raman The first Indian to receive Bharat Ratna award Dr. Radhakrishnan The first Indian to cross English Channel The first Person to receive Jnanpith award Sri Shankar Kurup The firs Speaker of the Ganesh Vasudeva Mavalankar The first Vice-President of India Dr. Radhakrishnan The first Education Minister Abdul Kalam Azad The first Home minister of India Vallabh Bhai Patel The first Indian Air Chief Marshal S. Mukherjee The first Indian Naval Chief Vice Admiral R.D. Katari The first Judge of International Court of Justice Dr. The first person to reach Mt. Everest without oxygen Sherpa Anga Dorjee The first person to get Param Vir Chakra Major Somnath Sharma The first Chief Election Commissioner The first person to receive Magsaysay Award The first person of Indian origin to receive Nobel Hargovind Khurana The first Chinese traveller to visit India Fahein The first person to receive Stalin Prize Saifuddin Kitchlu The first person to resign from the Central Cabinet Prasad Mukherjee The first person to receive Nobel Prize in Economics Amartya Sen The first Chief Justice of Supreme Court Justice Hirala J. Kania The first Indian Pilot J.R.D. Tata (1929) The first lady to become Miss World Rita Faria

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The first woman judge in Supreme Court Mrs. Meera Sahib Fatima Bibi The first woman Ambassador Miss C.B. Muthamma The first woman Governor of a state in free India Mrs Sarojini Naidu The first woman Speaker of a State Assembly Shanno Devi The first woman Prime Minister Mrs The first woman Minister in a Government Rajkumari Amrit Kaur The first woman to climb Mount Everest Bachhendri Pal The first woman to climb Mount Everest twice The first woman President of Indian National Mrs Annie Besant The first woman pilot in Indian Air Force Harita Kaur Dayal The first woman Graduates and Chandramukhi The first woman Airline Pilot Durba Banerjee The first woman Honours Graduate , 1886 The first woman Olympic medal Winner , 2000 The first woman Medal Winner Kamlijit Sandhu The first woman Lawyer Cornelia Sorabjee The first woman President of United Nations General Mrs Vijaya Laxmi Pandit The first woman Chief Minister of an Indian State Mrs Sucheta Kripalani The first woman Chairman of Union Public Service Roze Millian Bethew The first woman Director General of Police Kanchan Chaudhary Bhattacharya Anna Chandy (She became judge in a The first woman Judge district court in 1937) Mrs Leela Seth ( High The first woman Cheif Justice of High Court Court) The first woman Judge in Supreme Court of India Kumari Justice M. Fathima Beevi The first woman Lieutenant General Puneeta Arora The first woman Air Vice Marshal P. Bandopadhyaya The first woman chairperson of Indian Airlines Sushma Chawla The first woman IPS officer Mrs. The first and last Muslim woman ruler of India Razia Sultan The first woman to receive Ashoka Chakra Nirja Bhanot The first woman to receive Jnanpith Award The first woman to cross English Channel Aarti Saha The first woman to receive Nobel Prize Mother Teresa The first woman to receive Bharat Ratna Mrs Indira Gandhi The first woman to receive Jnanpith Award Ashpurna Devi The first women head of Indian Cost Accounting Aruna Sethi Mahatma Gandhi at Madame Tussaud's in First Wax statue of a Living Indian 1939 First Chinese pilgrim to Visit India Fa-hien First Exclusive internet magazine Bharat Samachar First Miss India to participate in Miss Universe Indrani Rehman First President of Indian National Congress W.C. Bannerjee, 1885 First Muslim President of the Indian National Badruddin Tayyabji First Judge in International Court of Justice Dr. Nagender Singh First Graduate in Medicine Soorjo Coomar Goodeve Chukerbutty India's First University Nalanda University India's First Andhra Pradesh Open University India's First Lok Sabha Member to be elected with a P.V.Narasimha Rao First Indian to reach Antarctica Lt. Ram Charan First British to Visit India Hawkins

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First Test tube baby of India Indira (Baby Harsha) First Post Office Opened in India Kolkata(1727) First uterus transplant Doctors First state to send postal ballots via electronic mode Goa First cashless island Karang, First cashless Township GNFC township First smart tribal village Habbi, J & K First 24×7 helpline for Maharashtra First ship to go green INS Sarvekshak First floating elementary school Manipur First state to establishes cashless system for PDS Gujarat First Smart Police Andhra Pradesh First privately-run railway station Bhopal

WORLD GEOGRAPHY

List of Some Places with its Surname

Surname Country/Place Surname Country/Place Asia Lahore , Pakistan City of roses Africa in Miniature Cameroon City of smoke Osaka , Japan Bengal sarrow River damodar , WB, City of steel in india Jamshedpur India Blue mountains Nilagiri hills , India City of temples Bhubaneswar Britain of the East Japan Costliest coast Coast Rica Britain of the South New Zealand Coffee port of the Shantos ( Brazil) world Battle field of Belgium Dark continent Africa Backbone of england Pennine Mountians Dead Heart of Africa Chad Back bone of italy Apenninine Mountians Dairy of northern Denmark europe Big apple Newyork Evergreen forest Western City of Cycles Beijing Eighth Continent Madagascar City of Eternal Springs Quito (Ecuador) Emerland island Ireland City of Sky Scrappers New York (USA) Empire city Newyork City of Magnificent Washinton DC Eternal city Rome Distances City of Music Varanasi City of Golden Gate San Francisco (USA) Eye of greece Athens City of Seven Hills Rome (Italy) Electronic city of india Banglore Cockpit of Europe Belgium Forbidden city Lhasa (Tibet) Concentration Camp of Equatorial Guinea Friendly island Tonga Africa Copper Country Zambia Front door of australia Darwin City of factories Knapur (U.P) Garden city of england Kent(Englans) City of festivals , Garden city of world Chicago , Usa City of dreaming spires Oxford , england Garden city of india Banglore City of golden temple Amritsar , India Garden of europe Italy City of magnificent Chennai Garden of south india Thanjavur distance City of palaces Kolkatta , india Garden of gods Colorado (USA)

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cock pit of europe Belguim Gate way of india Mumbai City of pope Rome Garden provice of Natal south africa City of seven islands Mumbai Gateway of tears Jerusalem City of snow Canada George cross island Malta City of arbian nights Baghdad, Iraq Grnaite city Aberdeen (Scotland) City of motor cars Detroit , Michigan(USA) Great white way Broadway ( Newyork) The City that Never Sleeps Cairo Granery of india Punjab Golden city Johannesburg , South Gift of the Nile Egypt Africa Golden penisula Thailand Granery of south india Andhrpradesh Hermit kingdom Korea Granery of tamilnadu Tanjavuur Herring pond Atlantic Ocean Granery of kerala Palakkad Horn of africa Somalia Gribraltar of the indian Aden ocean Holy city Jerusalem Golden state California , Usa

International Organisations And Their Headquarters Organisations HQ Amnesty International London Commonwealth of Nations London APEC (Asia Pacific Economic Forum) Singapore ASEAN (Association of South East Asian Nations) FAO(Food and Agricultural Organization) Rome IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) Vienna IBRD(International Bank for Reconstruction and Washington ICAO(International Civil Aviation Org) Montreal ICJ (International Court of Justice) The Hague IDA(International Development Association) Washington ILO(International Labour Org) Geneva IMF (International Monetary Fund) Washington DC IMCO(Inter-governmental Maritime Consultative org) London IMO(International Maritime Organization) London International Standards Org Geneva Interpol(International Criminal Police Organization) Lyon, France ITU(International Telecommunication) Geneva NATO(North Atlantic Treaty Organization) OECD (Org. for Economic Cooperation and Dev.) Paris OPEC(Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries) Vienna OPCW( Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical The Hague Organization of Islamic Cooperation Jedda SAARC(South Asian Association for Regional Coop.) Kathmandu Transparency International UNCTAD (United Nations Conference on Trade & Geneva UNDP(United Nations Development Programme) New York UNEP(United Nations Environmental Programme) Nairobi UNESCO (United Nations Educational Scientific and Paris UNHCR(United Nations High Commissioner) Geneva UNICEF(United Nations International Children’s New York UNIDO (United Nations Industrial Dev. Org) Vienna UNITAR(United Nations Institute for Training and New York UNO (United Nations Org) New York 10 | Page

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UPU(Universal Postal Union) Berne WHO (World Health Org) Geneva WMO (World Meteorological Org) Geneva World Bank Washington DC World Intellectual Property Org Geneva WTO(World Trade Org) – GATT Geneva

List of International Lines /boundaries

Name of the lines/Boundaries Between Contries Line of Actual Control India & China on the Northern Border India and Pakistan Durand LineHU Afghanistan and Pakistan. Radcliffe Line India and Pakistan (its includes Banladesh Line) Blue Line Isreal & Lebanon Purple Line and Syria Green Line Israel and its neighbours (Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria) Mason–Dixon line Maryland and Pennsylvania/Delaware in Colonial America Curzon Line & Russia Military Demarcation Line(MDL) and . Armistice Line North Korea and South Korea. McMohan Line India & China Maginot Line France & Germany Mannar haime line Russia & Finland Oder Nisse Line Germany & Poland( aftermath of World War II) Hindenburg Line Poland & Germany(at the time of First World War) Sigfried Line East France & Germany (at the time of second world war) 16 Parallel North Angola and Namibia 17th Parallel Line North & South Vietnam 20 ParallelLine Libya & Sudan 22 Parallel Line Egypt & Sudan 25 Parallel Line Mauritania & Mali 26 Parallel Line Western Sahara & Mauritania 31 Parallel Line Iraq & 35 Parallel Line US it serves as border b/w Tennessee/Mississippi, 36 Parallel Line US it Forms forms the southernmost of the state of Missouri 38 Parallel Line North & South Korea 40 Parallel Line US it serves as border b/w Nebraska & Kansas 41 Parallel Line US it forms the border b/w wyoming/utah border, Wyoming/colorado, 42 Parallel Line US it serves as border of new york & Pennsylvania Border 43 Parallel Line US it serves as border of b/w State Nebraska & state of south Dakota 45 Parallel Line US it forms the boundary b/w Montana & wyoming 49 Parallel Line USA & Canada

Some Important Monuments of the World Monuments Country Monuments Country Taj Mahal India Angkor Wat Cambodia Eiffel Tower France Chichen Itza Mexico

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Stonehenge United Kingdom Pyramid Egypt Saint Basil's Cathedral Russia Parthanon Greece Leaning Tower of Pisa Italy Kremlin Russia Statue of Liberty United States of America Opera House Australia Borobudur Indonesia Imperial Palace Japan Christ The Redeemer Brazil Wailing Wall Jersalem

Rivers of Major World Cities

Name of the Name of the Name of the Name of the Name of the Name of the Rivers Cities Countries Rivers Cities Countries Nile Alexandria Egypt Rímac Lima Peru Amstel Amsterdam Netherlands Thames London England Tigris Baghdad Iraq Manzanares Madrid Spain Chao Phraya Thailand Yarra Melbourne Australia Danube, Sava Belgrade Yugoslavia St. Lawrence Montreal Canada Spree, Havel Berlin Germany Moskva Moscow Russia Bogotá Bogotá Colombia Seine Paris France Senne Brussels Belgium Moldau Prague Czech Republic Danube Hungary Tiber Rome Italy Río de la Plata Buenos Aires Argentina Neva Russia Nile Cairo Egypt Mapocho Santiago Chile Hugli Calcutta India Tietê São Paulo Brazil Barada Damascus Syria Han South Korea Yamuna Delhi India Huangpu Shanghai China LIffey Dublin Ireland Sumida Tokyo Japan Saigon Ho Chi Minh Vietnam Danube Vienna Austria City Pearl Hong Kong China Vistula Warsaw Poland Liwung Jakarta Indonesia Sava Zagreb Croatia Dnieper Kiev Ukraine Limmat Zürich Switzerland Tagus Portugal Sihl

Parliament of countries

Country Parliament Country Parliament Afghanistan Shora Austria National Assembly Andorra General Council Bahamas General Assembly Albania People's Assembly Bahrain Consultative Council Azerbaijan Melli Majlis Bangladesh Jatiya Sansad Algeria National People's Assembly Belize National Assembly Angola National People's Assembly Tsogdu Argentina National Congress Bolivia National Congress Australia Federal Parliament Brazil National Congress Brunei National Assembly Kuwait National Assembly Botswana National Assembly Laos People's Supreme Assembly Britain Parliment (House of Common's Labanon National Assembly and House of Lords) Bulgaria Narodno Subranie. Lesotho National Assembly and Senate Cambodia National Assembly Lithuania Seimas

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Congo Rep. of National Legislative Luxembourg Chamber of Deputies Democratic Council Colombia Congress Libya General People's Congress Canada Parliament Malaysia Dewan Rakyat and Dewan Negara China National People's Assembly Maldives Majlis Chile Chamber of Deputies and Senate Madagascar National People's Assembly Comoros Legislative Council and Senate Mongolia Great People's Khural Costa Rice Legislative Council and Senate Montenegro Federal Assembly Crotia Sabor Mozambique People's Assembly Cuba National Assembly of People's Myanmar Pyithu Hluttaw Power Czech Chamber of Deputies and Senate Nepal Rashtriya Panchayat Republic Denmark Folketing Netherlands The Staten General Ecuador Natinal Congress New Zealand Parliament (House of Representative) El Salvador Legislative Assembly Oman Monarchy East Timor Constituent Assembly Pakistan National Assembly & Senate Ethiopia Federal Council and House of Paraguay Senate & Chamber of Deputies Representative Egypt People's Assembly The Congress Fiji Islands Senate & House of Representative Papua New National Parliament Guinea France National Assembly Poland Sejm Finland Eduskusta (Parliament) Romania Great National Assembly Germany Bundestag (Lower House) and Russia Duma & Federal Council Bundesrat (Upper House) Guyana National Assembly Serbia Federal Assembly Greece Chamber of Deputies Senegal National Assembly Hungry National Assembly Seychelles National Assembly Iceland Althing South Africa House of Assembly India Sansad Spain Cortes Indonesia People's Consultative Assembly Sweden Riksdag Iran Majlis Saudi Arabia Majlis Al Shura Iraq National Assembly Sudan Majlis Watani Israel Knesset Switzerland Federal Assembly Italy Chamber of Deputies and Senate Syria People's Council Japan Diet Grand National Assembly Jordan National Assembly USA Congress Korea(North) Supreme People's Assembly Vietnam National Assembly Venezuela National Congress Korea(South) National Assembly Zambia National Assembly

Important Food Festivals Around The World

Name of the Festivals Name of the Countries Name of the Festivals Name of the Countries Alba White Truffle Alba, Italy Mistura Food Festival Lima, Peru Festival Abergavenny Food Wales, UK Monkey Buffet Lopburi Province, Festival Festival Thailand Baltic Herring Festival Helsinki, Finland Oktoberfest Munich, Germany Chinchilla Melon Australia Onion Eating Festival Spain

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Festival Chocolate Festival London, UK Orange Festival Poland International Mango New Delhi, India Pancake Festival Moscow, Russia Festival Ivrea Orange Festival Ivrea, Italy Potato Festival Sweden Maine Lobster Festival Rockland USA San Francisco Street San Francisco, USA Food Festival Maslenitsa Festival Moscow, Russia Tomato Festival Spain Melbourne Food & Melbourne, Australia Vegetarian Festival Thailand Wine Festival

INDIA GEOGRAPHY

India’s World Heritage Sites

Name of the Heritage sites State Kaziranga Wild Life Sanctuary Assam Manas Wild Life Sanctuary Assam Mahabodhi Temple Complex at Bodh Bihar Nalanda Bihar The Architectural Work Of LeCorbusier Chandigarh Humayun's Tomb Delhi Qutb Minar and its Monuments Delhi Red Fort Delhi Churches and Convents of Goa Goa Champaner-Pavagadh Archaeological Gujarat

Group of Monuments at Hampi Karnataka Group of Monuments at Pattadakal Karnataka Buddhist Monuments at Sanchi Madhya Pradesh Rock Shelters of Bhimbetka Madhya Pradesh Khajuraho Group of Monuments Madhya Pradesh

Ajanta Caves Maharashtra Maharashtra Maharashtra Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus (formerly Maharashtra Konarak Sun Temple Odisha Rajasthan Jantar Mantar, Rajasthan Khangchendzonga National Park Sikkim Great Living Chola Temples Tamil Nadu Group of Monuments at Mahabalipuram Tamil Nadu Mountain Railways of India Tamil Nadu Agra Fort Uttar Pradesh Fatehpur Sikri Uttar Pradesh Taj Mahal Uttar Pradesh Mountain Railways of India West Bengal and Valley of Flowers Uttarakhand West Bengal Goa, Kerala, Maharashtra, Hill Forts of Rajasthan (Ranthambhore), Rajasthan

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List of 25 cultural Heritage Sites

Name of the Site Location Year Agra Fort Uttar Pradesh 1983 Maharashtra 1983 Buddhist Monuments at Sanchi Madhya Pradesh 1989 Champaner-Pavagadh Archaeological Park Gujarat 2004 Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus (formerly Victoria Maharashtra 2004 Churches and Convents of Goa Goa 1986 Elephanta Caves Maharashtra 1987 Ellora Cave Maharashtra 1983 Fatehpur Sikri Uttar Pradesh 1986 Great Living Chola Temples Tamil Nadu 1987 Group of Monuments at Hampi Karnataka 1986 Group of Monuments at Mahabalipuram Tamil Nadu 1984 Group of Monuments at Pattadakal Karnataka 1987 Hill Forts of Rajasthan Rajasthan 2013 Humayun’s Tomb, Delhi Delhi 1993 Khajuraho Group of Monuments Madhya Pradesh 1986 Mahabodhi Temple Complex at Bodh Gaya Bihar 2002 Mountain Railways of India , West Bengal 1999 Qutb Minar and its Monuments, Delhi Delhi 1993 Rani-ki-Vav (the Queen’s ) Gujarat 2014 Red Fort Complex Delhi 2007 Rock Shelters of Bhimbetka Madhya Pradesh 2003 Sun Temple, Konârak Orissa 1984 Taj Mahal Uttar Pradesh 1983 The Jantar Mantar, Jaipur Rajasthan 2010

List of Seven Natural Heritage Sites

Name Of the Site Location Year Great Himalayan National Park Himachal Pradesh 2014 Assam 1985 Keoladeo National Park Rajasthan 1985 Manas Sanctuary Assam 1985 Nanda Devi and Valley of Flowers Uttarakhand 1988 Sundarbans National Park West Bengal 1987 Western Ghats Covers Four states 2012

List of Important Temples & Its Location

Name of the Temple State Kamakhya Temple , Assam Sukresvara temple Assam Mahabalipuram Temple Tamil Nadu Meenakshi temple Madurai, Tamil Nadu Brihadeeswarar Temple Tamil Nadu Kanchipuram Temple Tamil Nadu Srisailam Temple Andhra Pradesh 15 | Page

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Tirupathi Temple Andhra Pradesh Sree Padmanabhaswamy Temple Kerala Shabarimala ayyappa temple Kerala Gomateshwra Temple Karnataka Virupaksha Temple (Karnataka) Golden temple Amritsar, Punjab Somnath temple Gujarat Siddhivinayak Temple Maharashtra Mahabodhi Temple Gaya, Bihar Jammu & Kashmir Temple Konark Sun Temple Odisha Birla Mandir Jaipur

Highest Mountain Peaks Statewise State Peak Range/Region

Andhra Pradesh Arma Konda

Arunachal Pradesh (shared with Tibet)

Assam Unnamed peak near Laike Dima Hasao District

Bihar Someshwar Fort West Champaran District

Chhattisgarh Bailadila Range Dantewada District

Goa Sosogad Western Ghats

Gujarat Girnar Junagadh District

Haryana Hills

Himachal Pradesh Reo Purgyil (shared withTibet) Western Himalaya

Jammu and Kashmir(claimed) Karakoram

Jammu and Saltoro Kangri Karakoram

Jharkhand Parasnath Parasnath Hills

Karnataka Mullayanagiri Western Ghats

Kerala Western Ghats

Madhya Pradesh Dhupgarh Satpura

Maharashtra Kalsubai Western Ghats

Manipur Mount Iso (Tenipu) Senapati District

Meghalaya Peak

Mizoram Saiha District

Nagaland Mount Saramati (Shared

Odisha Eastern Ghats

Punjab Unnamed point on the Naina Devi Rupnagar District

Rajasthan Guru Shikhar Aravali

Sikkim (Shared Eastern Himalaya

Tamil Nadu Doddabetta Nilgiri Hills

Telangana Laxmidevipalli

Tripura Betalongchhip Jampui Hills

Uttar Pradesh Amsot Peak Shivalik Hills

Uttarakhand Nanda Devi Garhwal Himalaya

West Bengal (Shared with Nepal) Eastern Himalaya

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National Parks In India State Name of the Park Campbell Bay National Park Andaman and Nicobar Mahatma National Park Islands Saddle Peak National Park South Button National Park Andhra Pradesh Sri Venkateswara Park Namdapha Tiger Reserve Pakhui Tiger Reserve Kaziranga National Park Assam Bihar Kanger Ghati National Park Achanakmar Tiger Reserve Indravati Tiger Reserves Udanti & Sitanadi Tiger Reserve Blackbuck National Park Gujarat Gir Forest National Park Marine park Haryana Great Himalayan National Park Himachal Pradesh Jammu and Kashmir National Park Hazaribagh National Park Karnataka National Park Nagarhole Tiger Reserve Bhadra Tiger Reserve Anshi Dandeli Tiger Reserve Biligiri Ranganatha Swamy Temple Wildlife Sanctuary Bannerghatta National Park Kerala Parambikulam Tiger Reserve Silent Valley National Park Kanha National Park Madhya Pradesh Mandla Fossils National Park Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve Sanjay-Dubri Tiger Reserve Satpura National Park

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Chandoli National Park Maharashtra Melghat Tiger Reserve Pench Tiger Reserve

Tadoba Andhari Tiger Project Sahyadri Tiger reserve Nagzira-Navegaon Tiger Reserve Bor Tiger Reserve Navegaon National Park Manipur Keibul Lamjao National Park Meghalaya Blue Mountain National Park Bhitarkanika National Park Odisha Nandankanan Zoological Park Satkosia Tiger Reserve Punjab Harike Keoladeo National Park Rajasthan Mount Abu Wildlife Sanctuary Ranthambore National Park Mukundara Hills Tiger Reserve Sikkim Khangchendzonga Park National Park Tamil Nadu National Park

Kalakkad Mundanthurai Tiger Reserve Mudumalai Tiger Reserve Sathyamangalam Tiger Reserve Palani Hills National Park Kasu bramanda Reddy National Park Kawal Tiger Reserve Nagarjunsagar Srisailam Tiger Reserve Uttar Pradesh Pilibhit Tiger Reserve Jim Corbett National Park Uttarakhand Valley of Flowers National Park West Bengal Neora Valley National Park Sundarbans National Park

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Atomic Power Name of the Plant State Kaiga atomic power plant Karnataka Kakrapar atomic power plant Gujarat Madras atomic power plant Tamil Nadu Narora atomic power plant Uttar Pradesh. Rajasthan atomic power plant Rajasthan Tarapur atomic power plant Maharashtra Kundankulam atomic power plant Tamil Nadu Gorakhpur atomic power plant Haryana Chutka atomic power plant Madhya Pradesh Mahi Banswara atomic power plant Rajasthan Kaiga atomic power plant Karnataka Kovvada atomic power plant Andhra Pradesh Mithi virdhi atomic power plant Gujarat.

Important Hydropower plant

State Name of the Plant ANDHRAPRADESH Dam- Prakasam Barrage- Srisailam Dam-Krishna River GUJRAT - - HIMACHAL PRADESH - Bhakra Nangal Dam- River Nathpa Dam-Sutlej River , Reservoir-Sutlej River Reservoir JAMMU & KASHMIR Salal Project- Chutak Hydroelectric Project Dumkhar Hydroelectric Dam- Uri Hydroelectric Dam- JHARKHAND Maithon Dam-Barakar Rive Chandil Dam-Subarnarekha River Panchet Dam- KARNATAKA Tunga -Tungabhadra and Krishna River -Sharavathi River Alamatti Dam-Krishna River Harangi Dam-Cauvery River Ghataprabha Reservoir- KERALA -Chalakudy River Dam-Malampuzha River -Periyar River -Pennar River -Pennar River-Kerala. MADHYA PRDESH Barna Dam-Barna River Indirasagar Project- Narmada Dam Project-Narmada River Gandhi Sagar Dam- Tawa Reservoir-

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MAHARASTRA - Bhatsa Dam-Bhatsa and Chorna rivers Wilson Dam- Girna Dam-Girna and Radhanagari Dam-Bhogawati River ODSIHA Jalaput Dam Balimela Reservoir- Indravati Dam- Hirakud Dam- River

RAJASTHAN MBisalpur dam-banas river TAMILNADU Vaigai Dam-Vaigai River Krishnagiri Reservoir Pechiparai Reservoir-River Kodayar Vidur Reservoir Perunchani Dam-Paralayar River Periyar Reservoir-Periyar River Stanley Reservoir- River Mettur Dam-Kaveri River Bhavanisagar Reservoir-Bhavani River Parambikulam Reservoir-Parambikulam River UTTARPRADESH Parichha Dam- Rihand Project-Rihand River and Govind Ballabh Pant Sagar Dam-Rihand River Tehri Dam-

List of Thermal Power Plant

Name of the Plant State Simhadri Super Thermal Power Plant Andhra Pradesh Dr Narla Tatarao TPS Sri Damodaram Sanjeevaiah Thermal Power Station Pynampuram Power Station Thermal Power Station Simhapuri Thermal Power Station Hinduja Thermal Power Station Meenakshi Thermal Power Station Barh Super Thermal Power Station Bihar Kahalgaon Super Thermal Power Station Nabinagar Super Thermal Power Project Barauni Thermal Power Station Kanti Thermal Power Station Sipat Thermal Power Plant Chhattisgarh Korba Super Thermal Power Plant DB Thermal Project Ltd. Jindal Megha Power Plant Hasdeo Thermal Power Station Lanco Amarkantak Power Plant Dr Shyama Prasad Mukharjee Thermal Power Station KSK Mahanadi Power Bhilai Expansion Power Plant Bhawnendra Singh Deo Power Plant Badarpur Thermal Power Station New Delhi

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Rajghat Power Station Mundra Thermal Power Station Gujarat Mundra Ultra Mega Power Project Wanakbori Thermal Power Station Essar Power Gujarat Ltd. Gandhinagar Thermal Power Station Ukai Thermal Power Station Thermal Power Station Sabarmati Thermal Power Station Kutch Thermal Power Station Akrimota Thermal Power Station Sikka Thermal Power Station Dhuvaran Thermal Power Station Thermal Power Station Haryana Rajiv Gandhi Thermal Power Station Deenbandhu Chhotu Ram Thermal Power Station Thermal Power Station Amarkantak Thermal Power Station Chandrapura Thermal Power Station Jharkhand Koderma Thermal Power Station Patratu Thermal Power Station Bokaro Thermal Power Station Jojobera Thermal Power Plant Tenughat Thermal Power Station Raichur Thermal Power Station Karnataka Udupi Thermal Power Plant JSW Vijayanagar Power Station Bellary Thermal Power station Vindhyachal Super Thermal Power Station Madhya Pradesh Sasan Ultra Mega Power Project Sant Singaji Thermal Power Plant Dada Dhuniwale Thermal Power Plant Sanjay Gandhi Thermal Power Station Satpura Thermal Power Station Amarkantak Thermal Power Station Chandrapur Super Thermal Power Station Maharashtra Tirora Thermal Power Station Amravati Thermal Power Plant Bhusawal Thermal Power Station Trombay Thermal Power Station Khaperkheda Thermal Power Station Parli Thermal Power Station Nashik Thermal Power Station Koradi Thermal Power Station Wardha Warora Power Plant Dahanu Thermal Power Station Paras Thermal Power Station CESC Chandrapur Thermal Power Station Talcher Super Thermal Power Station Sterlite Jharsuguda Power Station Vedanta Jharsuguda Captive Power Plant

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Angul Thermal Power Station National Aluminium Company Captive Power Plant Kamalanga Thermal Power Plant Ib Thermal Power Station Talcher Thermal Power Station Hirakud Captive Power Plant Super Thermal Power Plant Punjab TP Dev Thermal Plant Suratgarh Super Thermal Power Plant Rajasthan Kota Super Thermal Power Plant Raj West Lignite Power Plant Chhabra Thermal Power Plant Barsingsar Thermal Power Station Giral Lignite Power Plant VS Lignite Power Plant Neyveli Thermal Power Station II Tamil Nadu Vallur Thermal Power Station Tuticorin Thermal Power Station Neyveli Thermal Power Station I NTPL Thermal Power Station Mettur Thermal Power Station Thermal Power Station Muthiara Thermal Power Station IL&FS Thermal Power Station Thermal Power Station Tutiorin (Pvt) Thermal Power Station Neyveli Zero Lignite Power Station NTPC Ramagundam Telangana Kothagudem Thermal Power Station Kakatiya Thermal Power Station Ramagundam B Thermal Power Station Rihand Thermal Power Station Uttar Pradesh Singrauli Super Thermal Power Station NTPC Dadri Anpara Thermal Power Station Obra Thermal Power Station Rosa Thermal Power Plant Feroj Gandhi Unchahar Thermal Power Plant Parichha Thermal Power Station Tanda Thermal Power Plant Harduaganj Thermal Power Station Panki Thermal Power Station Mejia Thermal Power Station West Bengal Farakka Super Thermal Power Station Kolaghat Thermal Power Station Bakreshwar Thermal Power Station Durgapur Steel Thermal Power Station Budge Budge Thermal Power Plant Santaldih Thermal Power Station Durgapur Thermal Power Station

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Sagardighi Thermal Power Station Bandel Thermal Power Station Durgapur Thermal Power Station Titagarh Thermal Power Station CESC Southern Generating Station New Cossipore Generating Station Mejia Thermal Power Station Farakka Super Thermal Power Station Kolaghat Thermal Power Station Bakreshwar Thermal Power Station Durgapur Steel Thermal Power Station Budge Budge Thermal Power Plant Santaldih Thermal Power Station Durgapur Thermal Power Station Sagardighi Thermal Power Station Bandel Thermal Power Station Durgapur Thermal Power Station Titagarh Thermal Power Station CESC Southern Generating Station New Cossipore Generating Station

Important

Name of the Lakes Notes Wular Lake Wular Lake is one of the largest fresh water lakes in Asia and the largest in India, is located in Jammu and Kashmir Loktak Lake is the largest freshwater lake in northeastern India, located in Manipur. Da mdama Lake is one of the biggest natural lakes in Haryana. The is blessed with exotic natural beauty of landscape and water bodies, out of them one of the best is Dal Lake Lake Pichola is an artificial fresh water lake situated in city in Rajasthan. Gurudongmar Lake is one of the highest lakes in the world. This fresh water lake is located northeast of the Kangchenjunga range in Sikkim. Chilka Lake Chilka Lake is the brackish water lake and is the largest coastal lake in India. The Chilka Lake in situated in Orissa and is Asia’s largest inland salt water lagoon. Lake Vembanad Lake is India’s longest lake and is the largest lakes in the beautiful state land of God, Kerala Bhimtal Lake The pride of Bhimtal is a beautiful lake which offers magnificent vistas for tourists. The lake is larger than Nainital lake, uttarnachal Upper lake Upper lake is the largest artificial lake in Asia, situated in “City of Lakes” called Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh Kolleru Lake and Lake Two major lakes for number of migratory birds in India, AP

Major Sea Ports

The nine coastal Indian states Gujarat, Maharashtra, Goa, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Orissa and West Bengal are home to all major and minor ports of India.

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Sea Ports in India Top 10 busiest and the largest Sea Ports Name of the Port State Name of the Port Country Kandla Port Gujarat Shanghai China Nhava Sheva Maharashtra Ningbo-Zhoushan China Mumbai Port Maharashtra Singapore Singapore Marmagao port Goa Rotterdam The Netherlands Panambur Port Karnataka Tianjin China Cochin Port Kerala Guangzhou China Port Blair Andaman Qingdao China Tuticorin Port Tamil Nadu Qinhuangdao Port China Tamil Nadu South Korea Vizag Port Andhra Pradesh Hong Kong China Paradip Port Orissa Haldia port West Bengal

International Airports in India

State City Airport Name Andaman & Nicobar Islands Port Blair Veer Savarkar International Airport Andhra Pradesh Visakhapatnam International Airport Andhra Pradesh Vijayawada International Airport Assam Guwahati Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi International Airport Bihar Gaya Gaya International Airport Delhi New Delhi Indira Gandhi InternationalAirport Goa Goa/td Goa International Airport/Dabolim Airport Gujarat Sardar International Airport Jammu & Kashmir Srinagar Airport Karnataka Bengaluru Kempegowda International Airport Karnataka Mangalore Mangalore International Airport Kerala Kochi Cochin International Airport Kerala Kozhikode Calicut International Airport Kerala Thiruvananthapura Trivandrum International Airport Madhya Pradesh Bhopal Raja Bhoj International Airport Maharashtra Mumbai Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport Maharashtra Nagpur Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar International Airport Manipur Tulihal International Airport Odisha Bhubaneswar International Airport Punjab Amritsar Sri Guru Ram Dass Jee International Airport Rajasthan Jaipur Jaipur International Airport Tamil Nadu Chennai Chennai International Airport Tamil Nadu Coimbatore Coimbatore International Airport Tamil Nadu Madurai Madurai Airport Tamil Nadu Tiruchirapalli Tiruchirapalli International Airport Telangana Rajiv Gandhi International Airport Uttar Pradesh Chaudhary Charan Singh International Uttar Pradesh Varanasi Lal Bahadur Shastri Airport West Bengal Kolkata Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International

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Banks Head Quarters & Taglines Bank Name HQ TAGLINE Canara Bank Bangalore Together we can. Vijaya Bank Bangalore A friend u can bank upon State Bank of Bengaluru Working for a better tomorrow. Chennai Your Tech Friendly Bank Chennai Good people to grow with Oriental Bank of ,Haryana Where every individual is committed State Bank of Hyderabad Hyderabad Modern.Innovative.Dependable Andhra Bank Hyderabad Where India Banks State Bank of Bikaner & Jaipur The Nation banks on us. Karur Vysya Bank Karur Smart way to Bank Lakshmi Vilas Bank Karur The changing face of prosperity Federal Bank Kerala Your perfect Banking Partner Ratnakar Bank Kolhapur, Maharashtra Bank Kolkata A tradition of trust. UCO Bank Kolkata Honours Your trust United bank of India Kolkata The bank that begins with u City Union Bank Kumbakonam Trust and Excellence since 1904 Corporation Bank Mangalore,Karnatak Prosperity for all Karnataka Bank Mangaluru, Your Family Bank across India Syndicate Bank Manipal,Karnataka Faithful and Friendly SBI Mumbai The banker to every Indian. Bank of India Mumbai Relationship beyond banking. Central Bank of India Mumbai Central to you since 1911. Dena Bank Mumbai Trusted Family Bank Union Bank of India Mumbai Good people to bank with IDBI Bank Mumbai Banking for all”AAo Sochein Bada” NABARD Mumbai Revitalizing rural India through urban support Exim Bank Mumbai Together towards Tomorrow. ECGC Mumbai You Focus on Exports.We cover the risks. Axis Bank Mumbai Badhti ka naam Zindagi ICICI Bank Mumbai Hum Hai Na, Apka YES Bank Mumbai Experience our expertise HDFC Bank Mumbai We understand your world IndusInd Bank Mumbai We make u feel richer Kotak Mahindra Bank Mumbai Lets make money simple Nainital Bank Nainital, Banking with personal touch Punjab & Sind Bank New Delhi Where service is a way of life Punjab National bank New Delhi The name you can bank upon Bharatiya Mahila Bank New Delhi Empowering Women, Empowering India State Bank of Patiala Patiala Blending Modernity with Tradition Bank of Maharashtra Pune One family One Bank. Jammu&Kashmir Bank Srinagar,J&K Serving to Empower State Bank of Travancore Thiruvananthapuram A long tradition of trust. Catholic Syrian Bank , Support all the way. Dhanlaxmi Bank Thrissur, Tann.Mann.Dhan South Indian Bank Thrissur, Experience next generation Banking Tamilnad Mercantile Bank Tuticorin Be a step ahead of life Bank of Baroda Vadodara,Gujarat India's International Bank.

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List of Important Institutions in India

Name of the Institute Location Education Central Institute Agra, Uttar Pradesh Indian Institute of Science Bengaluru, Karnataka Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh Central Institute of English and Foreign Language Hyderabad, Telegana Institute of Central Indian Language Mysore, Karnataka Commission of Scientific and Technical Words Terminology New Delhi Indian Institute of Social Sciences and Research New Delhi Institute of National Sanskrit New Delhi Rashtriya Bal Bhavan New Delhi Shri Lal Bahadur Shastri National Sanskrit Vidyapeeth New Delhi Council of Research New Delhi and Lucknow Indian Council of Higher Research Shimla, Himachal Pradesh National Sanskrit Vidyapeeth , Andhra Pradesh Environmental Institutes Rehabilitation Institute of Social Forestry and Ecology Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh G. B. Pant Himdoya Environment and Development Institute , Uttarakhand Institute of Indian Plywood Industry and Research Bengaluru, Karnataka Institute of Lumbering Science and Technology Bengaluru, Karnataka Institute of Indian Forest Management Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh Institute of Forest Research and Human Resource Development Chindwara, Madhya Pradesh Institute of Forest Genetic Tree Breeding Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu Indian Forest Research and Education Council Dehradun, Uttarakhand Institute of National Science & Technology Faridabad, Haryana Arid Zone Research Institute , Rajasthan Institute of Rainforest Jorhat, Assam Indian Forest Survey Jorhat, Assam Indian Botanical Survey Kolkata, West Bengal Indian Anthropology Survey Kolkata, West Bengal Central Control Board New Delhi Central Museum Authority New Delhi Forest Productive Centre , Jharkhand Himalayan Forest Research Centre Shimla, Himachal Pradesh Defence Institutes Electrical and Mechanical Engineering School Baroda, Gujarat Air Force Technical College Bengaluru, Karnataka Hindustan Aeronatic Limited Bengaluru, Karnataka Indian Air Force Training Centre Chennai, Tamil Nadu Officers Training Academy Chennai, Tamil Nadu Indian Military Academy Dehradun, Uttarakhand Air Force Academy Hyderabad, Telagana National Defence Academy Kharagwasala, Pune Naval College of Engineering Lonavala, Maharashtra Directorate General N.C.C New Delhi Directorate of National Cadet Core New Delhi College of Military Engineering Pune, Maharashtra Institute of Armament Technology Pune, Maharashtra

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Defence Management Institute Sikandrabad, Uttar Prdeash Military College of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering Sikandrabad, Uttar Prdeash Art and Culture Allahabad Museum Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh Indira Gandhi National Human Museum Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh Nav Nalanda Mahabihar Bihar Kala Chitra Foundation Chennai, Tamil Nadu Salarjanj Museum Hyderabad, Telangana Jawahar Lal Nehru Manipur Dance Academy Imphal, Manipur Asiatic Society Kolkata, West Bengal Indian Anthropology Survey Kolkata, West Bengal Indian Museum Kolkata, West Bengal Maulana Abdul Kalam Azad Asian Studies Institute Kolkata, West Bengal National Science Museum Parishad Kolkata, West Bengal National Modern Art Technique Kolkata, West Bengal National Library Kolkata, West Bengal Raja Rammohan Rai Library Foundation Kolkata, West Bengal Ram Krishan Mission Sanskrit Institute Kolkata, West Bengal Victoria Memorial Hall Kolkata, West Bengal Central Buddh Education Institute Leh, J & K National Research Laboratory for Conservation of Cultural Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh Heritage Institute of National Museum History for Art Conservation and New Delhi Science Museum Indian National Archives New Delhi Central Secretariat Library (1981) New Delhi Cultural Institute and Training Centre (1979) New Delhi Delhi Public Library New Delhi Gandhian Recollection and Philosophy Recollection New Delhi Indira Gandhi National Art Centre New Delhi Lalit Kala Academy New Delhi National Drama Vidyalaya New Delhi National Museum New Delhi National School of Drama New Delhi Nehru Memorial Museum and Library New Delhi Sahitya Academy New Delhi Sangeet Natak Academy New Delhi Khudabaksh Oriental Public Library Patna, Bihar Rampur Raja Library Rampur, Uttar Pradesh Institute of Indian Diamond Surat, Gujarat Central High Tibetean Educational Institute Varanasi, Uttar Prdeash Food and Civil Supply Indian Standard Bureau Delhi Indian Examination House Kolkata, West Bengal, Health and Family Welfare National Yunani Institute Bengaluru, Karnataka National Siddh Institute Chennai, Tamil Nadu National Ayurvedic Institute Jaipur, Rajasthan National Homeopathic Institute Kolkata, West Bengal Central Health Education Bureau New Delhi National Medical Science Academy New Delhi Morarji Desai National Yog Institute New Delhi 27 | Page

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National Ayurvedic Vidyapeeth New Delhi National Natural Medical Institute Pune, Maharashtra Hindustan Organic Chemicals Ltd. Rasoyni ,Maharashtra Industries National Aluminium Co. Ltd. Bhubaneswar,Orissa Plastic Engineering and Technology Institute(Sepate) Chennai, Tamil Nadu South India Textile Research Association Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu Cloth Research Institute Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh Pesticide Technology Institute Gurgaon, Haryana Indian Jute Industry Research Association Kolkata, West Bengal Silk and Art Silk Mills Research Association Mumbai, Maharashtra Indian Bureau of Mines Nagpur, Maharashtra Hindustan Antibiotic Ltd. Pune- Pimpri, Maharashtra Wool Research Institute , Maharashtra National Chemicals and Fertilizers Ltd. Trombay, Maharashtra Hindustan Zinc Ltd. Udaipur Law and Justice National Justice Academy Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh Sardar Ballabh Bhai Patel National Police Academy Hyderabad, Telangana Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Narain National Crime and Justice Institute New Delhi Labour Labour Bureau Institute Chandigarh and Shimla Central Education Media Institute Chennai, Tamil Nadu Director General of Mines Security Dhanbad, Jharkhand, Institute of Central government Training and Research Kolkata, West Bengal Central Labour Board Nagpur, Maharashtra V. V. Giri National Labour Institute Noida, Uttar Pradesh Mass Communication Satyajeet Ray Film and Television Institute Kolkata, West Bengal Film Department Mumbai, Maharashtra Indian Committee of Children Film Mumbai, Maharashtra Testimony Board of Central Movie Mumbai, Maharashtra Directorate of Publications and Visual Publicity New Delhi Directorate of Regional Publicity New Delhi Institute of Indian Film and Television Pune, Maharashtra National Film Archieves Pune, West Bengal Institute of Science and Technology Science Expansion (Vigyan Prasar)New Delhi Institute for Plasma Research Ahmedabad, Gujarat Physical Research Laboratory Ahmedabad, Gujarat Indian Science Academy Allahabad, Gujarat Indian Astro physics Institute Bengaluru, Karnataka Jawahar Lal Nehru Developed Scientific Research Centre Bengaluru, Karnataka Indian Science Academy Bengaluru, Karnataka National Biological Science Centre Bengaluru, Karnataka Liquid Crystal Research Institute Bengaluru, Karnataka National Biology Centre Bengaluru, Karnataka Physics Institute Bhubaneshwar Life Science Institute Bhubaneshwar, Odisha Institute of Physics Bhubaneshwar, Odisha Indian Oceanic Technical Institute Chennai, Tamil NAdu

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Harish Chand Research Institute Chennai, Tamil Nadu Project Directorate, Integrated Coastal and Sea Coast Management Chennai, Tamil Nadu Institute of Mathematical Science Chennai, Tamil Nadu Sea- biotic Resources and Ecology Centre Cochin, Kerala Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology Dehradun, Uttarakhand Cosmic Rays Research Institute Gauribidanur, Karnataka National Antarctic and Ocean Research Centre Goa Indian National Oceanic Information Service Centre Hyderabad, Telegana Survey Training Institute Hyderabad, Telegana Director of Atomic Mineral Investigation and Research Hyderabad, Telegana Nuclear Fuel Campus Hyderabad, Telegana D. N. A. Finger Print and Centre Hyderabad, Telegana Biotic Resources and Continuous Development Centre Imphal, Manipur Indian Uranium Corporation Ltd. Jaduguda, Jharkhand Uranium Corporation of India Ltd. Jaduguda, Jharkhand Centre for Marine Living Resources and Ecology Kocchi, Kerala Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science Kolkata, West Bengal Indian Science Congress Association Kolkata, West Bengal Bose Institute Kolkata, West Bengal N. N. Bose National Fundamental Science Centre Kolkata, West Bengal Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre Kolkata, West Bengal Saha Nuclear Physics Institute Kolkata, West Bengal Birbal Sahani Institute of Paleo botany Lucknow, Uttarakhand Centre of National Mental Research Manesar, Haryana Indian Institute of Geomagnetism Mumbai, Maharashtra Heavy Water Board Mumbai, Maharashtra Bhabha Atomic Research Centre Mumbai, Maharashtra Deptt. of Atomic Energy Mumbai, Maharashtra Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Mumbai, Maharashtra Vishveshraiya National Technical Institute Nagpur, Maharashtra Aryabhatta Research Observatory Nainital Indian National Science Academy New Delhi Indian National Engineering Academy New Delhi National Institute of Reservation New Delhi National Plant Genome Research Centre New Delhi National Earthquake Science Data Centre New Delhi Technology Information, Forecasting and Assessment Council New Delhi Shri Ram Institute of Chemical Research New Delhi Shri Ram Chennai Research Institute New Delhi Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology Pune, Maharashtra Centre of National Cell Science Pune, Maharashtra Agarkar Research Institute Pune, Maharashtra S. V. National Technical Institute Surat, Gujarat Sri Chitra Triunal Medical Science and Technical Institute Tiruvananthapuram, Kerala Hindustan Zinc Limited Udaipur, Rajasthan Transport Rail Wheel Factory Bengaluru, Karnataka Chitranjan Locomotive Works Chitranjan, West Bengal Indira Gandhi National Flying Academy Furshatganj (U. P.) National Water Sporting Institute Goa Indian Tourism and Travel Management Institute Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh

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Rail Coach Factory Kapurthala, Punjab Central Inland Water Transport Corporation Kolkata, West Bengal Marine Engineering and Research Institute Kolkata., West Bengal Marine Engineering and Research Institute Mumbai, Maharashtra Lal Bahadur Shastri Coastal Research and Higher Study Institute Mumbai, Maharashtra Maritime Training Institute Powai Mumbai, Maharashtra Fire Service Training School Narainpur (Kolkata), WB Civil Aviation Security Bureau Delhi New Delhi National Aviation Management and Research Institute New Delhi Fire Training Centre New Delhi Indian Inland Waterways Authority Noida, Uttar Pradesh , Kapurthala Diesel Locomotive Works Varanasi, Uttar Prdeash Hindustan Shipyard Limited Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh Water Resources Central Water and Electric Research Centre Kharagwasala ,Pune Central Soil and Material Research Centre New Delhi National Project Construction Corporation Ltd. New Delhi National Hydrology Institute Roorkee,Uttarakhand Welfare Multi- disabled Strengthen Institute Chennai, Tamil Nadu National Rehabilitation Training and Research Institute Cuttack, Odisha National Blind Institute Dehradun, Uttarakhand National Orthopedic Disabled Institute Kolkata, West Bengal Aliyawarjung National Hard of Hearing Institute Mumbai, Maharashtra Physically Disabled Institute New Delhi National Public Cooperation and Child Development Institute New Delhi National Mental Disabled Institute Sikandrabad,Uttar Pradesh Youth Work and Play Laxmibai National Physical Education Institute Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh Rajeev Gandhi National Youth Development Institute Perambur, Tamil Nadu Energy National Thermal PowerCorporation New Delhi Electric Finance Corporation Ltd New Delhi Communication High Level Telecommunication Training Centre Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh Advance Level Telecommunication Training Centre Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh National Telecommunication Finance and Management Academy Hyderabad, Telegana Bharat Ratna Bhim Rao Ambedkar Telecommunication Training , Madhya Pradesh Institute Telecommunication Engineering Centre New Delhi

Defence

Indian Coast Guard

• The Coast Guard is headquartered in the Capital, New Delhi.It has 3 Regional headquarters at Mumbai, Chennai and Port Blair. • 1 District Headquarters in each of the nine coastal states and 2 in the Union territories of Andaman and Nicobar Islands and Lakshadweep Islands. • 4 Coast Guard Stations, one each at Vadinar, Okha, Tuticorin and Mandapam. 30 | Page

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The is organised into seven commands Indian Air Force is organised into seven command

Command Headquarter Command Headquarter Western command Chandigarh Western command New Delhi Eastern command Kolkata Central command Allahabad Northern command 56 APO Eastern command Shillong Southern command Pune South western command Jodhpur Central command Lucknow Training command Bangaluru Army Training Command Shimla Maintenance command Nagpur South Western Command Jaipur Southern command Thiruvananthapuram

Indian Navy is organized into following command Command Headquarter Eastern command Vishakhapatnam Southern command Kochi Western command Mumbai

Productions of crops in india highest as per states

States Crops Andhra Pradesh Vegetable Oil Production, Shrimp Arunachal Pradesh Shifting Cultivation, Fruits Assam Tea, Silk Bihar Potato Chhattisgarh Paddy Delhi Goa Cashewnuts Gujarat Cotton ,Sugar Haryana Wheat And Rice Himachal Pradesh Fruit & Vegetables Jammu And Kashmir Apples, Cardamom Jharkhand Lac Production Karnataka Coffee(Chitmanglore), Silk Kerala Spices, Rubber, Ginger Madhya Pradesh Pulses , Oil Seeds Maharashtra Cotton ,Sugarcane Manipur Horticulture,Jute Meghalaya Ginger Mizoram Maize Oilseeds,Rice Odisha Coarse Cereals,Jute Puducherry Coconut Cultivation Punjab Wheat , Cotton , Sugar,Millet Rajasthan Coarse Cereal,Pulses Sikkim Maize, Millet, Wheat, Barley, Oranges, Tea And Cardamom Tamil Nadu Flowers ,Rice , Horticulture Telangana Fruits ,Cotton, Sugarcane, Mango And Tobacco Potato, Sugarcane, Mesta, Pulses And Jute Uttar Pradesh Rice ,Wheat ,Maize , Potatoe, Oilseeds

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Uttarakhand Basmati Rice, Wheat Soybeans, Groundnuts West Bengal Jute ,Rice, Potato

INDIAN POLITY

CONSTITUTION OF INDIA (Important Points) • Indian Constitution is the framework of duties and rules of different Indian governing bodies and its people. • After the independence of India in 1947, it took 2 years 11 months and 18 days to build the Indian constitution. • 26 November 1949 India adopted its constitution and it came into effect on 26 January 1950. • The day (26 January) is celebrated as the republic day in India. Because on that day Indian constitution came into effect and India became a sovereign, democratic republic country. • To commemorate the PurnaSwaraj declaration of independence of 1930, the date 26 January was chosen. • Indian constitution was drafted by the Constituent Assembly and Dr. BhimraoRamjiAmbedkar is called the father of Indian constitution. Constituent Assembly had 13 different committees. • Indian constitution is the longest written constitution. It contains 448 articles in 22 parts, 12 schedules and 118 amendments. Indian constitution was hand written and was both in Hindi and English. The original copies of the constitution are preserved in a secure way. • Many principles of Indian constitution were influenced from different countries constitution. Such as separation of powers among the majorbranches of government was adopted from the constitution of United States, directive principle of state policy was adapted from Ireland.

Important Articles Of Indian Constitution:

Aticles For Article 1 Name and Territory of the Union. Article 14 Relates to Right to Equality Article 17 Abolishes the practice of untouchability Article 18 Prohibits the state from conferring any title. Article 19 Deals with six freedoms of Indian citizens namely, freedom of speech and expression (d) freedom of movement throughout the territory of India (e) freedom of residence and settlement in any part of India (d) Freedom of occupation Article 21 Provides protection to life and liberty to all persons Article 21A Right to elementary education. Article 22 Affords protection against arbitrary arrest & detention Article 23 Prohibits the traffic in human beings and beggars. (making a person work without wages or adequate compensation) Article 24 Prohibits the employment of children below 14 years. Articles 25-28 Relates to Right to freedom of religion Article 32 Right to Constitutional Remedies described as ‘‘The heart and soul of the Constitution’’ by Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Article 36-51 Relates to Directive Principles of State Policy. Article 39A Free legal aid Article 40 Deals with the formation of Panchayats Article 44 Uniform Civil Code for the Citizens. 32 | Page

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Article 45 Free and compulsory education to all children below 14 years of age. Article 50 Separation of Judiciary Article 51 Promotion of International peace & security Article 51(A) Relates to list of Fundamental Duties Article 74 Council of Ministers to aid and advice the President Article 110 Definition of Money Bills. Article 112 Annual Financial Statement (Budget) Article 123 Power of President to promulgate ordinances during recess of Parliament. Article 262 Adjudication of disputes relating to waters of Inter Article 312 All India Services Article 315 Public Service Commissions for the Union and for the states. Article 324 Relates to the Election Commission Article 352 Gives provision regarding emergencies Article 356 Proclamation of President’s Rule in the states. Article 368 Amendment of the Constitution by the Parliament Article 370 Special status to Jammu and Kashmir

The borrowed features of constitution from different countries

Australia Concurrent list Language of the preamble Provision regarding trade, commerce and intercourse Canada Scheme of federation with a strong centre Distribution of powers between centre and the states and placing. Residuary Powers with the centre Ireland Concept of Directive Principles of States Policy(Ireland borrowed it from SPAIN) Method of election of President Nomination of members in the by the President Japan Law on which the Supreme Court function U.K. Nominal of Head President Cabinet System of Ministers Post of PM Parliamentary Type of Govt. Bicameral Parliament Lower House more powerful Council of Ministers responsible to Lowe House Speaker in Lok Sabha U.S. Written Constitution Executive head of state known as President and his being the Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces Vice- President as the ex-officio Chairman of Rajya Sabha Fundamental Rights Supreme Court Provision of States Independence of Judiciary and judicial review Preamble Removal of Supreme court and High court Judges USSR Fundamental Duties Five year Plan Germany Suspension of Fundamental Rights during 33 | Page

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Some Important Official Books

Green Book Official reports or publications of Italy & Iran. White Book The official publications of Portugal, China & Germany. Blue Book Any official report of the British government. Yellow Book The report or publication of the French government. Orange Book Official report of the government of Netherlands. White Paper The authoritative recital of facts issued by the government stating its views on a Grey Book Report of the government of Belgium and Japan. Joint Paper The joint report of two or more than two governments.

SECC 2011 is unique paperless census

The last caste that happen in India is 1932 Total households in the country -- 24.39 crore The total households in villages -- 17.91 crore Households are considered as deprived in rural area -- 10.69 crore villages belong to SC/ST categories -- 21.53% or 3.86 crore Highest number of SC population -- Punjab (36.74%) Highest number of ST population --Mizoram(98.79) Highest mobile penetration state in rural areas—UttaraPradesh Lowest mobile Penetration state in rural areas—Chattisgarh How many rural household earn below 5000 rupees month--13.34 cr Many rural household earn 10000 and more--1.48 cr State has highest number of manual scavenger –Tripura State has zero manual scavenger –Delhi Rural households in the country pay income tax--4.58% Households in rural areas are landless -- 5.37 crore or 29.97% State landness household is higher – Kerala States with the lowest rates of landlessness -- J &K and Himachal Pradesh Families in villages that live in one room with ‘kaccha’ walls and roof - 2.37 crore or 13.25% House holds in rural areas has land line phone -- 17.85 lak or 1% House hold having mobile phone in village--12.24 cr or 68.35% illiterate number of people in rural areas--3.1 cr or 17.31% rural household having refrigerator --1.97 cr or 11.04% Rural household paying income tax in india-- 6% Rural people have considered deprived or poor--8.96 cr No adult member in household between age 18 and 59 in rural areas --65.15 lac or 3.64% Female headed house with no adult male between 16 and 59 in rural areas --- 68.96 lac or 3.85% Member with no other able bodied adult member ----7.16 lac or 040% Households with no literate adult above age 25 years in areas -- 4.21cr or 23.52% Rural household with one salaried member -- 2.50 cr Average size of a rural Indian household -- 4.93 Highest size of a rural Indian household -6.28 –UttarPradesh Lowest size of a rural Indian household --3.86 –Andhrapradesh How many percent of trans gender in rural population -- 0.1% Highest rural illiterate –Rajasthan Lowest rural illiterate –Kerala The percentage of Scheduled Caste (SC) households paying income tax -3.49% Scheduled Tribe (ST) tax-paying rural households --3.34% Manual casual labour in rural areas-9.16 cr Cultivation in rural areas--5.39cr

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(Religion)Census 2011 Total Population in 2011 is 121.09 crores  Hindu 96.63 crores (79.8%)  Muslim 17.22 crores (14.2%)  Christian 2.78 crores (2.3%)  Sikh 2.08 crores (1.7%)  Buddhist 0.84 crores (0.7%)  Jain 0.45 crores (0.4%),  Other Religions & Persuasions (ORP) 0.79 crores (0.7%)  Religion Not Stated 0.29 crores (0.2%). Population Census -2011  It has been conducted every 10 years, beginning in 1871.  Census 2011 were released in New Delhi on 31st March 2011  Union Home Secretary GK Pillai and RGI C Chandramouli.  Census 2011 was the 15th census of india & 7th census after Independece  The motto of census 2011 was “Our Census, Our future”.  Total estimated cost of the Census was INR2200 crore (US$350 million).  First census in 1872.  Present Registrar General & Census Commissioner – C.Chandra Mouli  Total Population – 1,210,569,573 (1.21 Billion)  India in 2nd rank in population with 17.64%. decadal growth & China is 1st rank with decadal growth 19% (over 1.35 billion)  World Population is 7 Billions  Increase in population during 2001 – 2011 is 181 Million  Population – 1210.19 million [Males – 623.7 million (51.54%) Females – 586.46 million (48.46%)

Top Populous of the Country 1. Uttar Pradesh--19, 98, 12,341 2. Maharashtra--11, 23, 74, 33 3. Bihar--10, 40, 99,452 4. West Bengal--9, 12, 76,115 5. Andhra Pradesh--8, 45, 80,777

Least Populous of the Country 1. Lakshadweep - 64,473 2. Daman and Diu - 2,43,247 3. Dadra and Nagar - 3,43,709 4. Andaman and Nicobar Islands - 3,80,581 5. Sikkim - 6,10,577

Population Highlight  Highest Populous UT-Delhi  Least Populous UT-Lakshadweep  Highest Populous state--Uttar Pradesh  Least populous state--Sikkim  Highest urban Population in india (state& UT)--Maharashtra – 4,11,00,980  Lowest urban Population in india (state& UT)--Lakshadweep – 26,967  Highest Rular Population in india (state& UT)--Uttar Pradesh – 13,16,58,339  Lowest Rular Population in india (state& UT)--Lakshadweep – 33,683

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 Sex Ratio (Females per 1000 Males) Sex ratio in India --943  Highest sex ratio in state--Kerala (1084)  Lowest sex ratio in state--Haryana (879)  Highest sex ratio in UT-- (1037)  Lowest sex ratio in UT--Daman and Diu (618)  Child (0-6 years) sex ratio--914  Highest child (0-6) sex ratio in state--Mizoram (971)  Lowest child (0-6) sex ratio in state--Haryana (830)  Total Person Literacy Rate--74%  Males--82.14% ,Females--65.46%  Highest Literacy Rate in State--Kerala (94%)  Lowest Literacy Rate in State--Bihar (61.8%)  Hightest Literacy Rate in UT--Lakshadweep (91%)  Lowest Literacy Rate in UT-- (76.24%) INDIAN CULTURE Festivals Of Indian States

States Festivals Andhrapradesh Dasara Festival,Gangamma Jatara,Gowri Habba,,Vaikunta Ekadashi Assam ,,Baresahariya Bhaona,,,,Bihuwa dance,Brahmaputra Beach Festival,,Dehing festival,Jonbeel mela,Kaziranga Elephant Festival,,, Arunachal Siang River festival,,Solung,Nyokum,Lossar,Dree,Boori Pradesh Boot,Loku,Sanken,Reh,Myoko,Budhha Mahotsava,Choekhor,Tamladu,Mopin Bihar Chhath,Jivitputrika,Patliputra natya Mahotsav,Patna Sahib Mahotsav,Rajgir Mahostav,Sama Chakeva Chandigarh Baisakhi,Festival of gardens, Chhattisgarh Bastar Dussehra,Bastar Lokotsav,Dadaria, Maria Dance,Madai ,Rajim Kumbh Goa Shigmo,Bonderam,San joao,Panjim/Margao Gujarat International Kite festival,Modhera,Kutch Mahotsava,Bhavnath Mahadev fair Saptak,Shamlaji,TarnetarVautha,Madhavrai Haryana Lohri,Basant Panchami,Gangore,Baisakhi,Teej,Nirjala Akadashi,Guggapir Himachal Pradesh Dham,Kullu Dussehra,Mandi Shivaratri ,Sati pradha J & K Hemis,Lohri,Vaishno devi Jharkhand Karma,Sohari,Sarhul,Chhath puja,Jityya Bhaiya Dooj Karnataka Karaga,Dakkebali,Gowri Habba,Kanakadasa Jayanthi,Madikeri Dasara Mahamastakabhisheka,Mailara Jaatre , Kerala ,Thiruvathira, MadhyaPradesh Chethiyagiri vihara,Madai,Bahgoriya,Nimar utsav,Dhrupad samaroh Maharashtra nant chaturdashi,Bhau, beej,,Pola,Shayani Ekadashi,Vat purnima Mizoram Chapchar Kut ,Mim Kut ,Pawl Kut Nagaland Horn Bill,Nazu,Sekrenyi,Tuluni,Yemshe,Sankarni,Rengma Ngadah Odisha Chaiti,Dhanu,Kalahandi,Ghantapatua,Jagaddhagtri,Raja praba ,Ratha Punjab ,Lohri,Basant,Holi,,Rakhri,Teeyan - yatra(puri),Samba Dashami Rajasthan Baneshwar,,Pushkar,Teej,Urs Sikkim Saga Dawa,Lossong,,Dasain,Tihar,Gutor cham Tamil Nadu Brihadeeswara Temple car festival,Jangura Habba Erwadi Santhanakkodu,Mattu pongal,Panguni Uthiram,Thaiusam,Thimithi Telangana Bathukamma,Bonalu,Sammakka Saarakka Jaathara,Peerla panduga Tripura Ker,Garia Puja 36 | Page

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Uttarakhand Phool Dei,Harela and bhitauli,Olgia,Khatarua,Bat savitri,Janopunya,Chippla Jaat,Hilijatra WestBengal Bhadu,Haldia Utsav,Jagaddhatri,Poush Mela

Folk Dances

States Folk Dances AndhraPradesh Kuchipudi(Classical),Ghantamardala,Ottam,Thedal,Mohioniattam,Kummi,Siddhi Madhuri,Chhadi. Chhattisgarh Goudi,Karma,Jhumar,Dagla,Pali,Tapali,Navrani.Diwari,Mundari. Arunachal Mask Dance,War Dance. Pradesh HimachalPradesh ,Jhali,Chharhi,Dhaman,Chhapeli,Mahasu,Nati,Dangi,Chamba,Thali,Jhainta,Daf, Sti Ck Dance. Goa Mandi,Jhagor,Khol,Dakni. Assam Bihu,Bichhua,Natpuja,Maharas,Kaligopal,Bagurumba,Naga Dance,Khel Gopal,Tabal Chongli,Canoe,Jhumura Hobjanai. West Bengal Kathi,Gambhira,Dhali,Jatra,Baul,Marasia,Mahal,Keertan Keral Kathakali(Classical),Ottam Thulal,Mohini Attam,Kaikottikali,Tappatikali,Kali Auttam. Meghalaya Laho,Baagla. Manipur Manipuri(Classical),Rakhal,Nat Rash,Maha Rash,Raukhat. Nagaland Chong,Khaiva,Lim,Nuralim Orissa Odissi(Classical),Savari,Ghumara,Painka,Munari,Chhau,Chadya Dandanata. Maharashtra Lavani,Nakata,Koli,Lezim,Gafa,Dahikala,Dasavtar Or Bohada,Tamasha,Mauni,Powara,Gouricha. Karnataka Yakshagan,Huttari,Suggi,Kunitha,Karga,Lambi. Gujarat Garba,Dandiya Ras,Tippani Juriun,Bhavai. Punjab Bhangra,Giddha,Daff,Dhaman. Rajasthan Ghumar,Chakri,Ganagor,Jhulan Leela,Jhuma,Suisini,Ghapal,Panihari,Ginab Mizoram Khanatm,Pakhupila,Cherokan. Jammu&Kashmir Rauf,Hikat,Mandjas,Kud Dandi Nach

Major Tribes of India

Tribal Group State Abors Arunachal Pradesh, Assam Adi,Aptanis Arunachal Pradesh Angami Nagaland Badagas Nilgiri (TN) Baiga Madhya Pradesh Bhils Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan, some in Gujarat and aharashtra Bhot Himachal Pradesh Bhotias Garhwal and Kumaon regions of U. P.

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Bhutias Sikkim Chakma Tripura Chenchus Andhra Pradesh, Orissa Chutia Assam Dangs Gujarat Gaddis Himachal Pradesh Garos Meghalaya Gonds Madhya Pradesh. Also in Bihar, Orissa and A.P. Gujjars Himachal Pradesh Irula Tamil Nadu Jarawas Little Andamans Jaintias Meghalaya Kanis Kerala Kancharis, Karbi Assam Khas Jaunsar-Babar area in U.P. Khasis Assam, Meghalaya Khonds Odisha Kol Madhya Pradesh Kotas Nilgiri (Tamil Nadu) Kuki Manipur Lepchas Sikkim Lushais Mizoram Murias Bastar (Madhya Pradesh) Mikirs Assam Mundas Bihar, Orissa, West Bengal Nagas (Angami, Sema, Ao, Nagaland, some in Assam and NEFA region. Tangkul, Lahora) Oarons (also called Kurukh ) Bihar, Orissa and West Bengal. Onges Andaman and Nicobar islands Rabhas Assam Rengma Nagaland Santals Birbhum region in Bengal, Hazaribagh, Purnea in Bihar, Orissa Sema Nagaland Sentinelese Sentinel Island, Andaman and Nicobar Shompens Andaman and Nicobar Tagin Arunachal Pradesh Todas Nilgiri (Tamil Nadu) Uralis Kerala Warlis Maharashtra Zeliang Nagaland

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SPORTS Important Stadiums List

Name of the stadium Location Assam Subrata Roy Sahara Stadium Pune, Maharashtra Cuttack, Orissa Jodhpur, Rajasthan Bhim Rao Ambedkar International Sports Faizabad, Uttar Pradesh Stadium Birsa Munda Athletics Stadium Ranchi, Jharkhand Buddh International Circuit Greater Noida, UP Chand Astroturf Stadium Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh Dadaji Kondadev Stadium Maharashtra National Stadium Delhi Dhyan Dr Shyama Prasad Mukherjee Indoor Taleigao, Goa Dr. Stadium Guwahati, Kolkata, West Bengal EMS Stadium Kohzikode, Kerala Margao, Goa Feroz Kotla Delhi G. M. C. Balayogi Athletic Stadium Hyderabad, Telengana (Cricket) , UP Chennai, Tamil Nadu Hawla Indoor Stadium , Mizoram Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association Dharmashala, Himachal Pradesh ,Madhya Pradesh Indira Gandhi Athletic Stadium Guwahati, Assam Jawaharlal Nehru Indoor Stadium Cuttack Odisha Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium Kochi, Kerala JRD Tata Sports Complex Jamshedpur Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh Kanchenjunga Stadium , West Bengal Khuman Lampak Main Stadium Imphal, Manipur Kishore Bharati Krirangan Kolkata, West Bengal M. Chinnaswamy Stadium Bengaluru, Karnataka M.A.Chidambaram Stadium Chennai, TN Mahalaxmi Racecourse Mumbai, Maharashtra Mangalagiri International Cricket Stadium Vijaywada, Andhra Pradesh Mayor Radhakrishnan Stadium Chennai,Tamil Nadu MGR Race Course Stadium Madurai, Tamil Nadu Kolkata, West Bengal Sardar Patel Stadium Ahmedabad, Gujarat Sector 42 Stadium Chandigarh, Punjab Shaheed Veer Narayan Singh International Raipur, Chhatishgarh Cricket Stadium Bengaluru, Karnataka Sree Kanteerava Stadium Bengaluru, Karnataka Thyagaraj Sports Complex Delhi Mumbai, Maharashtra

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Cricket Stadiums Name of the stadium Location Nehru Stadium Indore / Pune Brerbon Stadium Mumbai Stadium Gwalior Wankhede Stadium Mumbai Baramati stadium Cuttack Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium New Delhi Mohinul Haq Stadium Patna Lal Bahadur Shastri Stadium Hyderabad Ferozeshah Kotla Stadium New Delhi Chinnaswamy Stadium Bangalore Motera Stadium Ahmedabad Green Stadium Kanpur Sardar Patel Stadium Ahmedabad Gandhi Ground Stadium Amritsar Stadium and Chidmberm Chennai Motibag Stadium Brudra K.D. Singh Babu Stadium Lucknow

Famous Sports Personalities

Name of the Persons Countries Sports Lionel Messi Argentina Football Diego Maradona Argentina Football Sir Donald Bradman Australia Cricket David Campese Australia Rugby Union Jack Nicklaus Australia Golf. Rod Laver Australia . Shane Warne Australia Cricket. Severiano Ballesteros Golf. Eddy Merckx Belgium Cycling. Pele Brazil Football. Ronaldhino Brazil Football. Aryton Senna Brazilian Motor Racing Emil Zatopek Czechoslovakia Athletics. Ian Botham England Cricket. C.B.Fry England Cricket. David Beckham England Football. Lewis Hamilton England Motor Racing. Steve Davis England . W.G. Grace England Cricket. Haile Gebreselassie Ethiopia Athletics. Ethiopia Athletics. Ethopia Athletics. Finland Athletics. Bernard Hinault France Cycling. Jacques Anquetil France Cycling. Serge Blanco France Rugby Union. Germany Motor Racing. Germany Tennis.

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Andy Murray Great Britain Tennis. Bill Shankly Great Britain Football. Bobby Moore Great Britain Football. Chris Froome Great Britain Cycling. Chris Hoy Great Britain Cycling. Fred Perry Great Britain Tennis. Henry Cooper Great Britain Boxing. Great Britain Athletics. Nick Faldo Great Britain Golf. Paula Radcliffe Great Britain Athletics. Roger Bannister Great Britain Athletics. Great Britain Athletics. Sir Steve Redgrave Great Britain Rowing. Stirling Moss Great Britain Motor Racing. Dhyan Chand India Hockey. Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore India Shooting Sr India Hockey. India Bedminton. Vijay Kumar India Shooting. India . India Cricket. India Wrestling. India Hockey. Khashaba Dadasaheb Jadhav India Wrestling India Boxing India Shooting India Cricket India Tennis India Tennis India Bedminton Jwala Gutta India Bedminton Rohan Bopanna India Tennis India Tennis India Cricket India Cricket India Bedminton Sachin Tendulkar India Cricket Fausto Coppi Italy Cycling Jamaica Race Athletics Tegla Laroupe Kenya Athletics Hicham El Guerrouj Morocco Athletics George Best Ireland Football. Norway Athletics. Imran Khan Pakistan Cricket. Manny Pacquiao Phillipines Boxing. Cristiano Ronaldo Portugal Football. Eusebio Portugal Football. Jose Mourinho Portugal Football. Nadia Comaneci Romania Gymnastics. Jonathan Edwards Wales Rugby Union.

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Maria Sharapova Russia Tennis. Alex Ferguson Scotland Football. Eric Liddell Scottish Athletics. Spain Tennis. Spain Golf. Bjorn Borg Sweden Tennis. Martina Hingis Switzerland Tennis. Switzerland Tennis. Johan Cruyff Netherlands Football. Serguei Bubka Ukraine Athletics. Tiger Woods US Golf. Muhammad Ali US Boxing US Athletics Billie Jean King US Tennis Jackie Joyner Kersee US Athletics. US Athletics. US Golf. Babe Ruth US Baseball. Bo Jackson US Baseball. Bob Beamon US Athletics. Chris Evert US Tennis. Greg Lemond US Cycling. Jim Thorpe US Swimming. Jimmy Connors US Tennis. Joe Dimaggio US Basball. John Mcenroe US Tennis. Kelly Slater US Surfing. US Cycling. Magic Johnson US Basketball. Mark Spitz US Swimming. US Tennis. Michael Johnson US Athletics. Michael Jordan US Basketball. Michael Phelps US Swimming. Gareth Bale Wales Football. Gareth Edwards Wales Rugby Union. Brian Lara West Indies Cricket. Sir Viv Richards West Indies Cricket. Sir Gary Sobers West Indies Cricket. Monica Seles Yugoslavia / Tennis. US

Cups And Trophies(Associated With Sports/Games)

Sport Cups and Trophies Hockey Aga Khan Cup, Begam Rasul Trophy (women's), Maharaja Gold Cup, Lady Trophy (women's), Gurunanak Championship (women's), Dhyanchand Trophy, Nehru Trophy, Sindhia Gold Cup, Murugappa Gold Cup, Wellington Cup etc Football Beghum Hazarat Mahal Cup, BILT Cup, Bordoloi Trophy, Colombo Cup, Confederation Cup, DCM Trophy, Durand Cup, Rovers Cup, BC Rai Trophy

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(National Championship), FIFA World Cup, Jules Rimet Trophy, Kalinga Cup, Santosh Trophy (National Championship), IFA Shield, Scissor Cup, Subroto Mukherjee Cup, Sir Trophy, Todd Memorial Trophy, Vittal Trophy, etc. Cricket Anthony D' Mellow Trophy, Ashes, Asia Cup, Benson and Hedges Cup, Bose Trophy, Champions Trophy, Charminar Challenger Cup, CK Naidu Trophy, Cooch - Behar Trophy, Deodhar Trophy, Duleep Trophy, Gavaskar - Border Trophy, GD Birla Trophy, Gillette Cup, Ghulam Ahmand Trophy, Hakumat Rai Trophy, ICC World Cup, Irani Trophy, Interface Cup, Jawaharlal Nehru Cup, Lomboard World Challenge Cup, Mc Dowells Challenge Cup, Merchant Cup, Moin-ud-Dowla Cup, Nat West Trophy, Prudential Cup (World Cup), Rani Jhansi Trophy, , , Rothmans Cup, Sahara Cup, Sharjah Cup, Sheesh Mahal Trophy, Sheffield Shield, Singer Cup, Sir Frank Worrel Trophy, Texaco Cup, Titan Cup, Trophy, Vijay Merchant Trophy, Vizzy Trophy, Wisden Trophy, , World Series Cup. Table Berna Bellack Cup (men), Corbillion Cup (women), Jai Laxmi Cup (women), Tennis Rajkumari Challenge Cup (women junior), Ramanuja Trophy (men junior), Travancore Cup (women), Swathling Cup (men), etc Badminton Aggarwal Cup, Amrit Diwan Cup, Asia Cup, Australasia Cup, Chaddha Cup, European Cup, Harilela Cup, Ibrahim Rahimatollah Challenger Cup, Konica Cup, Narang Cup, SR Ruia Cup, Sophia Cup, Kitiakara Cup, Thomas Cup, Tunku Abdulrahman Cup, Uber Cup, World Cup, Yonex Cup etc Basketball Basalat Jha Trophy, BC Gupta Trophy, , SM Arjuna Trophy, Todd Memorial Trophy, William Jones Cup, Bangalore Blues Challenge Cup, Nehru Cup, Federation Cup etc. Bridge Basalat Jha Trophy, Holkar Trophy, Ruia Gold Cup, Singhania Trophy, etc Polo Ezra Cup, Gold Cup, King's Cup, Prithi Cup, Schneider Cup etc. Athletics Charminar Trophy, Federation Cup etc Air Racing Jawaharlal Challenge Trophy, King's Cup, Schneider Cup etc Billiards Arthur Walker Trophy, Thomas Cup etc Boxing Aspy Adjahia Trophy, Federation Cup, Val Baker Trophy etc. Golf Canada Cup, Eisenhower Trophy, Muthiah Gold Cup, Nomura Trophy, President's Trophy, Prince of Wales Cup, Ryder Cup, Solheim Cup, Topolino Trophy, Walker Cup, World Cup etc Naidu Trophy, Khaitan Trophy, Limca Trophy, Lin Arec City Trophy, World Cup, etc Horse Beresford Cup, Blue Raiband Cup, Derby, Grand National Cup etc. Racing Netball Anantrao Pawar Trophy, etc Rugby Bledisloe Cup, Calcutta Cup, Webb Ellis Trophy, etc Football Shooting North Wales Cup, Welsh Grand Pix etc Centennial Cup, Federation Cup, Indira Pradhan Trophy, Shivanthi Gold Cup, etc Yatching America Cup, etc

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Kho Kho 12 Golf Course 7 Swimming Pool Hockey 11 Karate Mat Football 11 Table Tennis Board Cricket 11 Baseball Diamond Netball 7 Cricket Pitch Volleyball 6 Athletics Track Baminton/Tennis 1 or 2 Shooting, Archery Range Baseketball 5 Cycling Vellodrome Corquet 13 or 15 Tennis, Badminton, Net Ball, Court Volley Ball, Squash, Kho-Kho, Kabaddi

Sports Related Terms

Name Terms Athletics Baton,Bell lap,Cross country,,Discus throw,False start,Field,Foul,Hammer Throw,Heptathlon,High Jump,Hurdles,Javelin,Lane,Lap,Long Jump,Marathon,Middle distance,Pole vault,Photo Finish,relay,Record,Shot put,Sprint,Starting blocks,steeplechase,Track,,Triple jump Badminton Alley, Back Alley, Base Position, Baseline, Center Line, Center Position, Divorce Area, Forecourt, Long Service Line, Service Court, Short Service Line, Side Alley, T (T- Junction), Tape, Test Mark, Tramline,Angle of Attack, Angle Of Return, Attack, Back and Front, “Bird On”, “Clear”, Deception, Defense, Diagonal, Doubles, First Serve, Footwork, Free Point, Front and Back, Game Point, Hand In, Hand Out ,”Help”, “Hit”, Level Doubles, Match Point, Mixed Doubles, Offense, Patty-Cakes, Placement, Rally, Receiving Side, Rotation, Second Serve, Serving Side, Setup, Side by Side, “Sides” Singles, Unforced Error, “Touch”, Toss, “Up”,Ace, Air-Shot, Attacking Clear, Kill, Backhand, Block, Carry, Clear, Closed Face, Cross Court, Cut (Slice), Dab, Danish Wipe, Defensive Clear, Double Hit, Drive, Drive Serve, Drop, Drop Serve, Flick, Flick Serve, Forehand, Hairpin, Halfcourt Shot, Holding a Shot, Jump Smash, Lift, Lob, Long Serve, Net Shot, Offensive Clear, Open Face, Pace, Passing Shot, Pop-Up, Push Shot, Round-The-Head, Serve, Short Serve, Smash, Slice (Cut), Sling, Spin Serve, Stroke, Throw, Toss Serve, Wood Shot,Backhand Grip, Backswing, Balk, Dead Bird, Fault, Feint, Flexible Wrist, Flight, Follow-Through, Foot Fault, Forward Swing, Frying Pan Grip, Hammer Grip, Home, Let, Locked Wrist, Love (Luv), Lunge, Match, On-Guard Stance, , Player, Poaching, Rush A Serve, Setting, Stance, Straight Games, Sweetspot, Thumb-Up Grip, Tipping, Turnover, Waist Baseball Balk,Battery,Bunt,Change-up,Cleanup,Count,Diamond,Double Play,Error,Fly ball,Foul Ball,Full Count,Ground ball,Hit and run,Hit for the cycle,Lead Runner,Load the bases, On-deck,Pinch hitter,Pinch runner,Pitch around,Pitch out,Position Player,power hitter,Relay,Reliever or relief pitcher,Runners at the corners,Scoring position,Strike Zone,walk, Basketball assist,alley-oop,backboard,,buzzerbeater,cherry-picking,double,fast break,field goal,full - court press,key,pick and roll,posting up,run-and-gun,sixth man,triple threat,turnover,hops,beat,dime,bounce,bounce pass,wing,downtown,triple- double,strongside and weakside,elbow,baseline,brick,power dribble,chickenwing,draft,lay up,MVP,no look pass,overhead pass,slam dunk, Billiards Angle Shot ,Backspin ,Bank Shot,Bed of Table,Break Shot,Bridge ,Call Shot, Chalk,Clean the Table,Cue Ball,Curve Shot ,Cushion ,Diamonds,Foot Spot ,Frozen Ball , Head Spot ,Hug the Rail ,Jump Shot ,Leave,Open Table,Rack ,Run the Table ,Scratch,Shaft,Sharking,Sights,Slate,Snooker,Solids,Stripes,Cannon,Baulk,long jenny,short jenny,frame,spider,short and long rest, in-off 44 | Page

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Boxing Knock out, Round, Ring Stoppage, Punch, Upper-cut, Kidney punch, Timing, Footwork, technical knockout,sucker punch,standing eight count,southpaw,rabbit punch,parry,neutral corner,lowblow,knockdown,jab,hook,holding,head- butt,fist,cross,counterpunch,clinch,bout,block,bare-knuckled Chess Gambit, stalemate, move, resign, checkmate, international master, Grand master ,accept,active defense,advantage,attack,back rank,backward pawn,badbishop,berserker,castle long,castle short,centre break,check,checkmate,chessmen,cross-check,double attack,double check,draw,knight on the rim,master,mate,minor piece,rank, Cricket Toss, Run, , Pitch, Stump, Bails, Crease, Pavilion, Gloves, Wicket Keeper, Over, Maiden over, Follow On, Rubber, Ashes, Catch, Bowled, Stump out, , L. B. W; , , No ball, Wide ball, Dead ball, Over Throw, Bye, Leg by, Cover drive, Late cut, Hook, Glance, Stroke, Shot, Pull, Sixer, Follow Through, Turn, Googley, Spin, Yorker, Bouncer, Hattrick, Round the wicket, Over the wicket, Seamer, Boundary line, Slip, Square leg, Runner, Cover, Gully, Long on, Silly point, Midwicket, Mid on, Forward short leg, Deep/mid-wicket, etc. Cycling Sprint, Time trial, Point race, Track Race,attack,blocking,bonk,breakaway,bridge the gap,criterium,drafting,drop,field sprint,gap,jump,,hammering,take a flyer,stage race,pull off,pull,pull thorough,nep-pro,hook Football Goal, Kick, Head, Penalty kick, Dribble, Off side, Hattrick, Foul, Left out, Right out, Stopper, Defender, Move, Side Back, Pass, Baseline, Rebound, Comer bick, back pass,attacker,free kick,goal line,goal kick,kick off,midfielder,yellow card,wingers,volley Golf ace, albatross, double , all square, approach putt, apron, ball mark, ballooning, beach, birdie, blind shot, bogey, bunker, caddy, chip, Claw grip, condor, dogleg, dub, flag, Four- Ball, Mulligan, off the deck, peg, sand trap, tee shot ,bail out,birdie,caddie,chop shot,divt,duffer,jungle,par,sand wedge,snake, Gymnastics Aerial, Back Handspring, Back Somersault, Double Back, Double Twist, Flyaway, Front Hip Pullover, Front Pike Somersault, Front Split, Front Walkover, Gienger, Handstand, Hip Circle, Miller, Pike, Rudi, Straddle, Swedish Fall, Tsukahara, Tuck, Whip Back Hockey Centre, defender, forward, half, penalty-stroke, penalty corner, push-in, free-hit, striking circle goal, goal-line, touch-line, goalkeeper, offside, foul, stick, carry, dribble, tiebreaker, trapping, etc Polo Mallet, bunker, chukker, handicap, goal, sixty yarder, etc. Shooting Bag, bull’s eye, marksmanship, plug, skeet Swimming Add Up, Anchor, Approved Meet, Backstroke, Banner, Beep, Bonus Heat, Bottom, Breaststroke, Bullpen, Bulletin, Cap, Carpool, Cards, Check-In, Check-Out, Course, Dryland, False Start, Freestyle, Gun Lap, Heats, Jump, Lane Lines, Paddle, Parka, Pool, Pull Buoy, Relays, Split, Stroke, Yardage etc. Table Backhand, Backspin, Block, Chop, Closed, Dead ball, Doubles, Drive, Drop shot, Expedite Tennis rule, Forehand, Inverted, Let, Lob, Long pips, Loop, Match, Medium-long, Open, Penhold, Pips-in, Pips-out, Push, Receive, Seemiller, Serve, Set, Shake Hands, Short, Sidespin, Skunk, Smash, Topspin etc. Tennis smash, cross-court, passing shot,backhand, forehand,slice, topspin,serve, drop shot, lob, down-the-line, deuce, tie-breaker, set, game, grand slam, ace, volley, etc. Volleyball Assist, Attack, Attack line, Back row attack, Block, Block assist, Campfire defense, Carry, Center line violation, Chester, Coach kill, Cover the hitter, Cut shot, Deep dish, Dig, Facial, Fish, Floater, Friendly fire, Free ball, Heat, Husband-and-wife-play, Jedi defense, Just, Jump serve, Kill, Kong, Line shot, Lollipop, Mintonette, Monument valley, Net violation, Paint brush, Pancake, Pepper, Prince/Princess of whales, Quick set, Rainbow, Red card, Redwood, Roof, Screening, Service ace, Set, Shank, Side out, Six-pack, Sizzle the pits, Spike, Strong side, Stuff, Tandem, Tip, Tool, Trap set, Tuna, Whale, Yellow card etc. Weight Bulking, shredded, Six pack, Feeling the Burn, Power Rack, Smith Machine, Muscle 45 | Page

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Lifting Memory, Pump and Toners, Cardio Bunny, Plateau, Vascularity, Supersets, Drop Sets/Strip Sets, Periodization, Pyramiding, Standard Plates and Bars etc. Wrestling Freestyle, Hal Nelson, Point, Heave, etc.

MISCELLANEOUS Inventions & Inventors Invention Inventor Invention Inventor Adding Machine Pascal Magnetic Tape Fritz Pfluemer Airplane Wright Brothers Microphone Charles Wheatstone Automobile Ferdinand Verbiest Microscope Z.Janssen Ballpoint Pen C. Biro Motion of Planets Johannes Kepler Barometer E.Tprricelli Motor Car(Petrol) Karl Benz Bicycle K.Macmillan Neon Lamp G.Claude Blood Groups Karl Landsteiner Newtons Law of Galileo Galilei and Motion Isaac Newton Bohr Electron Theory Penicillin Sir Alexander Fleming Boyle Boyle’s Law Periodic Table Dmitri Mendeleev Computer Charles Babbage Photon Albert Einstein Cosmic Rays R.A. Millikan Principle of relativity Galileo Galilei Dalton Atomic Theory Quantum Mechanics Max Born Diesel Engine Rudolf Diesel Radio Marconi Dynamite Alfred Nobel Radium Marie Curie Dynamo Michael Faraday Raman Effect Sir C.V. Raman Electric Light Bulb Thomas Edison Refrigerator J.Harrison and A. Catlin Electricity Benjamin Franklin Structure of Atom Ernest Rutherford Electromagnetic Field James Clerk Maxwell Telegraph Pavel Schilling Electric Iron H.W.Seeley Telephone Alexander Graham Bell Electromagnet W.Sturgeon Telescope Galileo Electromagnetic Theory Heinrich Hertz Television J.L. Baird Electron J.J. Thomson Theory of Atom John Dalton Gramophone Thomas Alva Edison Theory of Relativity Albert Einstein Geometry Euclid Thermometer Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit Insulin Frederick Banting Transformer and Michael Faraday Electric Motor Jet Engine Sir Frank Whittle Type Writer C.Sholes Law of Gases Gay Lussac Watch A.L.Breguet Lift E.G.Otis X-rays Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen

List of Important awards and their fields

Name of the Award Field Nobel prize Peace, Literature, Economics, Physics, Chemistry, Medical science Grammy Awards Music Man Booker prize Authors of Novels Tansen Award Music Pulitzer Prize Journalism and Literature Lenin Peace Prize Peace and Friendship Ashok Chakra Civilians Dhanvantri Award Medical Sciences 46 | Page

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Kalinga Science Lalit Kala Akademi Award Arts Classical Music, Classical Dance and Arts Magsaysay Public Service, Leadership, Journalism, Literature and creative arts and international understanding Bowelay Award Agriculture Sangeet - Natak Akademi Music, dance and Drama Award Merlin Magic Dhanwantri Medical science Shaurya Chakra Civilian or Military Personnel Param Vir Chakra Military Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Science and Technology Award Award Literary Bhatnagar Science Juliet Curie Award Peace R.D. Birla Award Medical sciences Right Livelihood Award Field of environment and social justics Abel Maths Bhartiya Jnanpeeth Award Literary Vyas Samman Literature Bharat ratna Art, Science, Public services, Sports Sahitya Akademi Award Books in Indian Languages and Ebnglish Oscar Awards Film BAFTA Awards Television, Films, Video Games and Animation Dada sahib Phalke Film Ekalavya Award Sports Sports : Sports Dhyan Chand Sports Dronacharya Award Sports Kolanka Cup Sports Ekalavya Award Sports

Agricultural Revolutions Protein revoultion - higher productivity(Techonology driven 2nd green revolution)-coined by – Modi & Arun jaitely Green Revolution-Food grains Green revolution "word" COINED by " william s.goud" - UK White Revolution or Operation Flood-Milk production-"VARGHESE KURIEN " Yellow Revolution-Oil Seeds production-" Sam Pitroda Black Revolution-Petroleum Production Blue Revolution-Fish Production-"DR.ARUN KRISHNAN". Brown Revolution-Leather/non-conventional(India)/Cocoa production Golden Fiber Revolution-Jute Production Golden Revolution-Fruits/Horticulture development/Honey Production--"NIRPAKH TUTEJ" Grey Revolution-Fertilizer Pink Revolution-Onion production/Pharmaceutical (India)/Prawn production--"DURGESH PATEL" Father Of Induced Breeding -"PROF.HIRLAL CHAUDRI" Red Revolution - Meat & Tomato Production -"VISHAL TEWARI" 47 | Page

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Round Revolution-Potato Silver Fiber Revolution–Cotton Silver Revolution-Egg/Poultry Production-"INDIRA GANDHI" Evergreen Revolution-Overall development of Agriculture--Started in 11th plan (2007-2012) Father of Telecom revolution - sampitroda Father of poultry revolution - B.V.RAO Fathers of Various Fields Name of the Father Name of the Field Name of the Father Name of the Field Father of Physics Albert Einstein Father of Ayurveda Charaka Father of Zoology Aristotle Father of Botany Theophrastus Father of Law Cicero Father of Blood groups Landsteiner Father of Statistics Ronald Fisher Father of Video game Thomas T. Goldsmith, Jr. Father of Modern Antoine Lavoisier Father of Trigonometry Hipparchus Father of Biology Aristotle Father of Taxonomy Carolus Linnaeus Father of Homeopathy Samuel Hahnemann Father of the Green Norman Ernest Borlaug Father of History Herodotus Father of Mathematics Archimedes Father of Electricity Benjamin Franklin Father of Electronics Ray Tomlinson Father of the Indian Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Father of Search engine Alan Emtage Father of Algebra Diophantus Father of the Green M.S Swaminathan Father of Geometry Euclid Father of Economics Adam Smith Father of Internet Vinton Cerf Father of Nanotechnology Richard Smalley Father of Medicine Hippocrates Father of C language Dennis Ritchie Father of Robotics Al-Jazari Father of Architecture Imhotep Father of Robotics Nikola Tesla Father of Surgery (early) Sushruta Father of Microbiology Louis Pasteur Father of Periodic table Dmitri Mendelee

Some Famous Companies

Companies Name HQ Airbus France(Aircraft Manufacturer) Posco South korea (Steel company) Boeing USA (Aircraft) Fiat Italy (Automobiles) Nissan Japan (Automobiles) Toyta Japan (Automobiles) Honda Japan (Automobiles) BMW Germany(Automobiles) Audi Germany (Automobiles) Volkswagon Germany(Automobiles) Hyundai South korea(Automobiles) Ford USA(Automobiles) Suzaki Japan(Automobiles) Renault France(Automobiles) Volvo Sweedon(Automobiles) Ashoka Leyland India Samsung South korea( Electronics and electrical) Hitachi Japan ( Electrical Appliances) LG South Korea( Electronics and electrical) Whirlpool USA ( Electrical Appliances) Ericssion Swedon (Telecom) Nokia Finland (Telecom) Motorola USA (Telecom) 48 | Page

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Vodaphone Uk,Britain (Telecom) Barclays Bank UK (Finance) Deutsche Bank Germany(Finance) Goldman Sachs USA (Finance) Accenture Ireland (IT) Infosys India (IT) TCS India (IT) WIPRO India (IT) Apple USA (Electronic Appliances) Google USA (IT Services) Yahoo USA (IT Services) Sony Japan (Electronic Appliances) Intel USA (Hardware)

Important Days

January February Date Day Observed Date Day Observed Jan 4 World Braille Day Feb 1 Indian Coast Guard Day Jan 10 World Hindi Day Feb 2 World Day Jan 7 Pravasi Bharatiya Divas Feb 4 World Cancer Day International Day of Zero Tolerance to Jan 12 National Youth Day Feb 6 Female Genital Mutilation Jan 15 Indian Army Day Feb 10 National Deworming Day Rashtriya Balika Diwas/National Girl Jan 24 Feb 13 World Radio Day Child Day World Leprosy Day Jan 25 National Tourism Day Feb 20 World Day of Social Justice National Voter Day Indian Republic day International Customs Day Jan 26 Feb 21 International Mother Language Day International Environmental Education Day International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Jan 27 Feb 22 World Thinking day Holocaust International Outer Space Day International Reducing CO2 Emissions Jan 28 Feb 24 Central Excise Day Day Jan 29 World Leprosy Eradication Day Feb 27 International Polar Bear Day

March April Date Day Observed Date Day Observed Zero Discrimination Day Mar 1 Apr 2 World Autism Awareness Day World Civil Defence Day International Day for Mine Awareness World Wildlife Day Mar 3 Apr 4 and Assistance in Mine Action National Defence Day World Rat Day 49 | Page

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International Pillow Fight Day International Day of Sport for Mar 4 National Security Day Apr 6 Development and Peace Mar 8 International Women's Day Apr 7 World Health Day Mar 9 World Kidney Day Apr 8 International Romani Day Central Industrial Security Force Mar 10 Apr 12 World Aviation and Cosmonautics Day (CISF) Raising Day World Consumer Rights Day Mar 15 Apr 17 World Haemophilia Day World Contact Day World Heritage Day Mar 18 National Ordinance Factories Day Apr 18 International Day For Monuments and Sites International Day of Happiness World Day of Theatre for Children and Mar 20 Apr 20 United Nations Chinese Language Day Young People World sparrow day International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination World Poetry Day Mar 21 Apr 22 World Earth Day International Day of World Down Syndrome Day International Day of Forests Mar 22 World Water Day Apr 23 World Book and Copyright Day World Day for Animals in Laboratories Mar 23 World Meteorological Day Apr 24 National Panchayati Day World Tuberculosis Day International Day for the Right to the Mar 24 Truth concerning Gross Human Rights Apr 25 World Malaria Day Violations and for the Dignity of Victims International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade Mar 25 Apr 26 World Intellectual Property Day International Day of Solidarity with Detained and Missing Staff Members National Genocide Day World Theatre Day World Day for Safety and Health at Mar 27 Apr 28 World Drama day Work Day of Remembrance for all Victims of Week of Solidarity with the Peoples Mar 21 Chemical Warfare Struggling against Racism and Racial Apr 29 -27 International Dance Day Discrimination International Jazz Day

May June Date Day Observed Date Day Observed Global Day of Parents May 1 International Labour Day June 1 World Milk Day May 2 World Tuna Day June 2 International Sex Workers Day World Press Freedom Day International Day of Innocent Children May 3 World Laughter Day June 4 International Energy Day Victims of Aggression May 4 International Firefighters' Day June 5 World Environment Day May 5 International Midwives' Day June 7 Cancer Survivors Day 50 | Page

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World Asthma Day World Red Cross Day May 8 June 8 World Oceans Day World Thalassaemia Day May 10 World Migratory Bird Day June 12 World Day Against Child Labour May 11 National Technology Day June 13 International Albinism Awareness Day May 12 International Nurses Day June 14 World Blood Donor Day May 13 World Fair Trade Day June 15 World Elder Abuse Awareness Day World Day to Combat Desertification May 15 International Day of Families and Drought May 16 National Dengue Day June 17 World Telecommunication and May 17 Information Society Day International Criminal Court Day World Hypertension Day World AIDS Vaccine Day May 18 June 20 World Refugee Day International Museum Day World Day for Cultural Diversity for International Day of Yoga May 21 Dialogue and Development June 21 World Music Day Anti Terrorism Day International Day for Biological Public Service Day May 22 June 23 Diversity International Day to End Obstetric International Widows' Day May 23 Fistula International Olympic Day World Turtle Day International Day against Drug Abuse World Children’s Missing Day June 26 and Illicit Trafficking International Day in Support of Victims May 29 International Day of UN Peacekeepers of Torture May 31 World No-Tobacco Day June 29 National Statistics Day

July August Date Day Observed Date Day Observed National Doctor's Day July 1 Aug 1 World Breastfeeding Day International Day of Cooperatives July 6 International Kissing Day Aug 6 Hiroshima Day July 7 Global Day Aug 7 National Handloom Day International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples July 11 World Population Day Aug 9 Nagasaki Peace Day Kranti Diwas ( Day) July 12 World Malala day Aug 12 International Youth Day July 15 World Youth Skills Day Aug 14 Pakistan Independence Day July 17 International Justice Day Aug 15 Indian Independence Day World Humanitarian Day July 18 International Day Aug 19 World Photography Day Aug 20 World Mosquito Day World Hepatitis Day July 28 International Day for the World Nature conservation day Aug 23 Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition Aug 26 Women's Equality Day

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July 29 World Tiger Day International Day against Nuclear Tests Aug 29 National Sports Day Sanskrit Day International Day of the Victims of July 30 International Day of Friendship Aug 30 Enforced Disappearances Small Industry Day

September October Date Day Observed Date Day Observed Sep 2 World Coconut Day Oct 1 International Day of Older Persons International Day of Charity International Day of Non-Violence Sep 5 Oct 2 National Teacher’s Day World Farm Animals Day Sep 8 International Literacy Day Oct 3 World Nature Day,World Habitat Day World First Aid Day Sep 10 Oct 4 World Animal Day World Suicide Prevention Day United Nations Day for South-South World Teachers’ Day, World Sep 12 Oct 5 Cooperation Architecture Day International Day of Democracy Sep 15 Oct 8 National Air force Day Engineers Day International Day for the Sep 16 Oct 9 World Post Day Preservation of the Ozone Layer World Mental Health Day Sep 18 Biosphere Day Oct 10 National Postal Day International Day of Peace Oct 11 International Day of the Girl Child Sep 21 World Alzheimer's Day Oct 12 World Arthritis day International Day for Disaster Reduction Sep 22 World Car Free Day Oct 13 World Calamity Control Day World Thrombosis Day World Standards Day Sep 25 World deaf day Oct 14 World Maths Day International Day of Rural Women International Day for the Total Sep 26 Oct 15 Global Handwashing Day Elimination of Nuclear Weapons World White cane day Oct 16 World Food Day Sep 27 World Tourism Day International Day for the Eradication Oct 17 of Poverty World Statistics Day World Deaf Day Oct 20 World Osteoporosis Day Sep 28 World Rapies Day Oct 22 World Energy Day United Nations Day Oct 24 Sep 29 World Heart Day, World Development Information Day Oct 27 World Day for Audiovisual Heritage World Maritime Day Oct 30 World Thrift Day World Cities Day Sep 30 International Translation Day Oct 31 World Savings Day

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International Day for the Abolition International Day to End Impunity of Slavery Nov 2 Dec 2 for Crimes against Journalists World Pollution Prevention Day World Computer literacy day International Day of Persons with World Radiography day Nov 5 Dec 3 Disabilities World Tsunami Awareness Day World Disabled Day International Day for Preventing the Nov 6 Exploitation of the Environment in Dec 4 Day War and Armed Conflict International Volunteer Day for Nov 8 World services day Dec 5 Economic and Social Development World Soil Day Legal Service Day International Civil Aviation Day Nov 9 World Orphans Day (Second Dec 7 World Choral Day Monday of Nov) National Armed Forces Flag Day International Day of Commemoration and Dignity of the World Science Day for Peace and Nov 10 Dec 9 Victims of the Crime of Genocide Development and of the Prevention of this Crime International Anti-Corruption Day Nov 12 World Pneumonia Day Dec 10 Human Rights Day World Diabetes Day International Mountain Day Nov 14 Dec 11 National Children's Day UNICEF Day World Day of Remembrance for Nov 15 Dec 14 National Energy Conservation Day Road Traffic Victims Nov 16 International Day for Tolerance Dec 15 International Tea Day World Student day International Day Against Violence Nov 17 National Journalism day, World Dec 17 Against Sex Workers Philosophy Day Nov 18 World Adult day Dec 18 International Migrants Day World Toilet Day World Citizen day Nov 19 Dec 19 Goa’s Libration Day National Integration Day - India (Indira Gandhi's birthday) Universal Children’s Day Nov 20 World Day of Remembrance for Dec 20 International Human Solidarity Day Road Traffic Victim Kisan Divas (Ch. Charan Singh's World Television Day Nov 21 Dec 23 Birth Anniversary) World Hello Day (Farmer's Day) International Day for the Elimination Nov 25 Dec 25 National Good Governance Day of Violence against Women Nov 26 National Constitution Day

Nov 5 World Tsunami Awareness Day International Day of Solidarity with Nov 29 the Palestinian People

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Country-Currency -Capital

Country Currency Capital Afghanistan Afghani Kabul Albania Lek Tirane Algeria Dinar Algiers Andorra Euro Andorra la Vella Angola New Kwanza Luanda Antigua and Barbuda East Caribbean dollar Saint John's Argentina Peso Buenos Aires Armenia Dram Yerevan Australia Australian dollar Canberra Austria Euro Vienna Azerbaijan Manat Baku The Bahamas Bahamian dollar Nassau Bahrain Bahrain dinar Manama Bangladesh Taka Dhaka Barbados Barbados dollar Bridgetown Belarus Belorussian ruble Minsk Belgium Euro Brussels Belize Belize dollar Belmopan Benin CFA Franc Porto-Novo Bhutan Ngultrum Thimphu Bolivia Boliviano La Paz (administrative); Sucre (judicial) Bosnia and Herzegovina Marka Sarajevo Botswana Pula Gaborone Brazil Real Brasilia Brunei Brunei dollar Bandar Seri Begawan Bulgaria Lev Sofia Burkina Faso CFA Franc Ouagadougou Burundi Burundi franc Bujumbura Cambodia Riel Phnom Penh Cameroon CFA Franc Yaounde Canada Canadian dollar Ottawa Cape Verde Cape Verdean escudo Praia Central African Republic CFA Franc Bangui Chad CFA Franc N'Djamena Chile Chilean Peso Santiago China Yuan/Renminbi Beijing Colombia Colombian Peso Bogota Comoros Franc Moroni Congo, Republic of the CFA Franc Brazzaville Congo, Democratic Republic Franc Kinshasa of the Congolese Costa Rica Colón San Jose Cote d'Ivoire CFA Franc Yamoussoukro (official); Abidjan (de facto) Croatia Kuna Zagreb Cuba Cuban Peso Havana Cyprus Cyprus pound Nicosia Czech Republic Koruna Prague Denmark Krone Copenhagen 54 | Page

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Djibouti Djibouti franc Djibouti Dominica EastCaribbeandollar Roseau Dominican Republic Dominican Peso Santo Domingo East Timor (Timor-Leste) U.S. dollar Dili Ecuador U.S. dollar Quito Egypt Egyptian pound Cairo El Salvador Colón; U.S. dollar San Salvador Equatorial Guinea CFA Franc Malabo Eritrea Nakfa Asmara Estonia Kroon Tallinn Ethiopia Birr Addis Ababa Fiji Fiji dollar Suva Finland Euro (formerly markka) Helsinki France Euro (formerly French franc) Paris Gabon CFA Franc Libreville The Gambia Dalasi Banjul Lari Tbilisi Germany Euro (formerlyDeutschemark) Berlin Ghana Cedi Accra Greece Euro (formerlydrachma) Athens Grenada East Caribbean dollar Saint George's Guatemala Quetzal Guatemala City Guinea Guinean franc Conakry Guinea-Bissau CFA Franc Bissau Guyana Guyanese dollar Georgetown Haiti Gourde Port-au-Prince Honduras Lempira Tegucigalpa Hungary Forint Budapest Iceland Icelandic króna Reykjavik India Rupee New Delhi Indonesia Rupiah Jakarta Iran Rial Tehran Iraq Iraqi Dinar Baghdad Ireland Euro (formerly Irish pound Dublin Israel Shekel Jerusalem Italy Euro (formerly known as lira) Rome Jamaica Jamaican dollar Kingston Japan Yen Tokyo Jordan Jordanian dinar Amman Tenge Astana Kenya Kenya shilling Nairobi Kiribati Australian dollar Tarawa Atoll North Korea Won Pyongyang South Korea Won Seoul Kosovo Euro (German Mark prior to Pristina Kuwait Kuwaiti2002) dinar Kuwait City Som Laos New Kip Vientiane Latvia Lats Riga Lebanon Lebanese pound Beirut Lesotho Loti Maseru Liberia Liberian dollar Monrovia 55 | Page

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Libya Libyan dinar Tripoli Liechtenstein Swiss franc Vaduz Lithuania Litas Vilnius Luxembourg Euro (formerly Luxembourg Luxembourg Macedonia Denar Skopje Madagascar Ariary Antananarivo Malawi Kwacha Lilongwe Malaysia Ringgit Kuala Lumpur Maldives Rufiya Male Mali CFA Franc Bamako Malta Maltese lira Valletta Marshall Islands U.S. Dollar Majuro Mauritania Ouguiya Nouakchott Mauritius Mauritian rupee Port Louis Mexico Mexican peso Mexico City Micronesia, Federated States U.S. Dollar Palikir Moldova Leu Chisinau Euro Monaco Mongolia Tugrik Ulaanbaatar Montenegro Euro Podgorica Morocco Dirham Rabat Mozambique Metical Maputo Myanmar (Burma) Kyat Rangoon (Yangon); Naypyidaw or Nay Pyi Taw (administrative) Namibia Namibian dollar Windhoek Nauru Australian dollar No official capital; government offices in Yaren District Nepal Nepalese rupee Kathmandu Netherlands Euro (formerly guilder) Amsterdam; The Hague New Zealand New Zealand dollar Wellington Nicaragua Gold cordoba Managua Niger CFA Franc Niamey Nigeria Naira Abuja Norway Norwegian krone Oslo Oman Omani rial Muscat Pakistan Pakistani rupee Islamabad Palau U.S. dollar Ngerulmud Panama balboa; U.S. dollar Panama City Papua New Guinea Kina Port Moresby Paraguay Guaraní Asuncion Peru Nuevo sol (1991) Lima Philippines Peso Manila Poland Zloty Warsaw Portugal Euro (formerly escudo) Lisbon Qatar Qatari riyal Romania Leu Bucharest Russia Ruble Moscow Rwanda Rwanda franc Kigali Saint Kitts and Nevis East Caribbean dollar Basseterre Saint Lucia East Caribbean dollar Castries Saint Vincent and the East Caribbean dollar Kingstown Samoa Tala Apia 56 | Page

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San Marino Euro San Marino Sao Tome and Principe Dobra Sao Tome Saudi Arabia Riyal Riyadh Senegal CFA Franc Dakar Serbia Yugoslav new dinar Belgrade Seychelles Seychelles rupee Victoria Sierra Leone Leone Freetown Singapore Singapore dollar Singapore Slovakia Koruna Bratislava Slovenia Slovenian tolar Ljubljana Solomon Islands Solomon Islands dollar Honiara Somalia Somali shilling Mogadishu South Africa Rand Pretoria (administrative); Cape Town (legislative); Bloemfontein (judiciary) South Sudan Sudanese Pound Juba Spain Euro (formerly peseta) Madrid Sri Lanka Sri Lanka rupee Colombo,Jayewardenepura Kotte (legislative) Sudan Dinar Khartoum Suriname Surinamese dollar Paramaribo Swaziland Lilangeni Mbabane Sweden Krona Switzerland Swiss franc Bern Syria Syrian pound Damascus Taiwan Taiwan dollar Taipei Tajikistan Somoni Dushanbe Tanzania Tanzanian shilling Dar es Salaam; Dodoma (legislative) Thailand Baht Bangkok Togo CFA Franc Lome Tonga Pa'anga Nuku'alofa Trinidad and Tobago Trinidad and Tobago dollar Port-of-Spain Tunisia Tunisian dinar Tunis Turkey Turkish lira (YTL) Ankara Turkmenistan Manat Ashgabat Tuvalu Australian dollar Funafuti province Uganda Ugandan new shilling Kampala Ukraine Hryvna Kyyiv United Arab Emirates U.A.E. dirham Abu Dhabi United Kingdom Pound sterling London United States of America Dollar Washington D.C. Uruguay Uruguay peso Montevideo Uzbekistan Uzbekistani som Tashkent Vanuatu Vatu Port-Vila Vatican City (Holy See) Euro Vatican City Venezuela Bolivares Caracas Vietnam Dong Hanoi Yemen Rial Sanaa Zambia Kwacha Lusaka Zimbabwe Zimbabwean dollar Harare

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List of Bird Sanctuaries in India

Name State Atapaka Bird Sanctuary Bird Sanctuary Andhra Pradesh Sri Peninsula Narasimha Wildlife Sanctuary Uppalapadu Bird Sanctuary bird sanctuary Delhi Salim Ali Bird Sanctuary Goa Gaga Wildlife Sanctuary Khijadiya Bird Sanctuary Gujarat Nal Sarovar Bird Sanctuary Porbandar Bird Sanctuary Thol Lake Bhindawas Wildlife Sanctuary Haryana Khaparwas Wildlife Sanctuary Gamgul Himachal Pradesh Attiveri Bird Sanctuary Bankapura Bankapura Peacock Sanctuary Bonal Bird Sanctuary Gudavi Bird Sanctuary Karnataka Kaggaladu Kaggaladu Bird Sanctuary Magadi Bird Sanctuary Mandagadde Bird Sanctuary Puttenahalli Lake (Yelahanka) Ranganathittu Bird Sanctuary Mangalavanam Bird Sanctuary Kerala Mayani Bird Sanctuary Maharashtra Sanctuary Lengteng Wildlife Sanctuary Mizoram Odisha Keoladeo National Park Rajasthan Tal Chhapar Sanctuary Bharatpur Bird Sanctuary Chitrangudi Bird Sanctuary Kanjirankulam Bird Sanctuary Koothankulam Bird Sanctuary Suchindram Theroor Birds Sanctuary Udayamarthandapuram Bird Sanctuary Vedanthangal Bird Sanctuary Vellode Birds Sanctuary Tamil Nadu Vettangudi Bird Sanctuary Bakhira Sanctuary

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Lakh Bahosi Sanctuary Uttar Pradesh Patna Bird Sanctuary Saman Sanctuary Samaspur Sanctuary Sandi Bird Sanctuary Bird Sanctuary West Bengal Raiganj Wildlife Sanctuary List of Wild Life Sanctuaries Andaman and Nicobar Islands Spike Island Wildlife Sanctuary Lohabarrack Salt Water Crocodile Sanctuary Defence Island Wildlife Sanctuary Cinque Island Wildlife Sanctuary Flat Island Wildlife Sanctuary Barren Island Wildlife Sanctuary Andhra Pradesh Nelapattu Bird Sanctuary Nagarjunsagar-Srisailam Tiger Reserve Gundla Brahmeswaram Wildlife Sanctuary Rollapadu Wildlife Sanctuary Papikonda Wildlife Sanctuary Sri Venkateswara National Park Pulicat Lake Bird Sanctuary Sri Lankamalleswara Wildlife Sanctuary Koundinya Wildlife Sanctuary Coringa Wildlife Sanctuary Krishna Wildlife Sanctuary Lanjamadugu Wildlife Sanctuary Kambalakonda Wildlife Sanctuary Arunachal Pradesh Pakhui Tiger Reserve Dibang Wildlife Sanctuary Kamlang Wildlife Sanctuary Eaglenest Wildlife Sanctuary Wildlife Sanctuary Sessa Orchid Sanctuary Kane Wildlife Sanctuary Talley Valley Wildlife Sanctuary Assam Kaziranga National Park Bornadi Wildlife Sanctuary Garampani Wildlife Sanctuary Hoollongapar Gibbon Sanctuary Manas National Park Sonai Rupai Wildlife Sanctuary Nameri National Park Laokhowa Wildlife Sanctuary Pabha Wildlife Sanctuary Pobitora Wildlife Sanctuary Bihar Kaimur Wildlife Sanctuary Bhimbandh Wildlife Sanctuary Valmikinagar Wildlife Sanctuary Gautam Buddha Wildlife Sanctuary 59 | Page

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Chandra Prabha Sanctuary Chhattisgarh chanakmar Wildlife Sanctuary Bhairamgarh Wildlife Sanctuary Barnawapara Wildlife Sanctuary Udanti Wildlife Sanctuary Semarsot Wildlife Sanctuary Sitanadi Wildlife Sanctuary Tamor Pingla Wildlife Sanctuary Pamed Wildlife Sanctuary Badalkohl Wildlife Sanctuary Gomarda Reserve Forest Goa Bondla Wildlife Sanctuary Salim Ali Bird Sanctuary Gujarat Shoolpaneshwar Wildlife Sanctuary Balaram-Ambaji Wildlife Sanctuary Kutch Desert Wildlife Sanctuary Indian Wild Ass Sanctuary Gir Forest National Park Sanctuary Marine National Park, Gulf of Kutch Barda Wildlife Sanctuary Thol Bird Sanctuary Himachal Pradesh Rupi Bhabha Sanctuary Sechu Tuan Nala Wildlife Sanctuary Tundah Wildlife Sanctuary Kugti Wildlife Sanctuary Pong Dam Sanctuary Nargu Wildlife Sanctuary Bandli Himachal Pradesh Gobind Sagar & Naina Devi Manali sanctuary Jammu and Kashmir Karakoram Wildlife Sanctuary Kanji Wildlife Sanctuary Hirpora Wildlife Sanctuary Changtang Wildlife Sanctuary Jharkhand Palamau Tiger Reserve Karnataka Mookambika Wildlife Sanctuary Nugu Wildlife Sanctuary Ghataprabha Bird Sanctuary Arabithittu Wildlife Sanctuary Adichunchanagiri Wildlife Sanctuary Bhadra Wildlife Sanctuary Bhimgad Wildlife Sanctuary Biligiriranga Swamy Temple Wildlife Sanctuary Brahmagiri Wildlife Sanctuary Cauvery Wildlife Sanctuary Dandeli Wildlife Sanctuary Gudavi Bird Sanctuary Mandagadde Bird Sanctuary Melukote Temple Wildlife Sanctuary Pushpagiri Wildlife Sanctuary

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Ranganthittu Bird Sanctuary Ranibennur Blackbuck Sanctuary Sharavathi Valley Wildlife Sanctuary Shettihalli Wildlife Sanctuary Someshwara Wildlife Sanctuary Talakaveri Wildlife Sanctuary Kerala Periyar National Park Parambikulam Wildlife Sanctuary Peechi-Vazhani Wildlife Sanctuary Chimmony Wildlife sanctuary Thattekkad Bird Sanctuary Malabar Wildlife Sanctuary Madhya Pradesh Bori Wildlife Sanctuary Bagdara Wildlife Sanctuary Phen Sanctuary Ghatigaon Sanctuary Gandhi Sagar Sanctuary Karera Wildlife Sanctuary Ken Ghariyal Sanctuary Kheoni Sanctuary Narsinghgarh Wildlife Sanctuary Nauradehi Wildlife Sanctuary Kuno Wildlife Sanctuary Ratapani Tiger Reserve Snajay-Dubri Wildlife Sanctuary Singhori Wildlife Sanctuary Son Ghariyal Sanctuary Sardarpur Sanctuary Maharashtra Tadoba Andhari Tiger Project Koyna Wildlife Sanctuary Radhanagari Wildlife Sanctuary Great Indian Bustard Sanctuary Gautala Autramghat Sanctuary Phansad Wildlife Sanctuary Mizoram Dampa Tiger Reserve Odisha Badrama Sanctuary Baisipalli Wildlife Sanctuary Chilika Bird Sanctuary Nalbana Bird Sanctuary Debrigarh Wildlife Sanctuary Kuldiha Wildlife Sanctuary Satkosia Gorge Wildlife Sanctuary Simlipal National Park Sunabeda Wildlife Sanctuary Rajasthan Mount Abu Wildlife Sanctuary Darrah Wildlife Sanctuary Jaswant Sagar Wildlife Sanctuary Keladevi Wildlife Sanctuary Phulwari Wildlife Sanctuary Jamwa Ramgarh Wildlife Sanctuary Ramgarh Vishdhari Wildlife Sanctuary Sariska Tiger Reserve

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Sita Mata Wildlife Sanctuary Tal Chhapar Sanctuary Todgarh Rawali Wildlife Sanctuary Sikkim Barsey Sanctuary Pangolakha Wildlife Sanctuary Kyongnosla Alpine Sanctuary Shingba Rhododendron Tamil Nadu Kalakkad Mundanthurai Tiger Reserve Mudumalai National Park Pulicat Lake Bird Sanctuary Sathyamangalam Wildlife Sanctuary Shenbagathoppu Grizzled Squirrel Wildlife Sanctuary Telangana Eturnagaram Wildlife Sanctuary Kawal Wildlife Sanctuary Kinnerasani Wildlife Sanctuary Manjira Wildlife Sanctuary Pakhal Wildlife Sanctuary Pocharam Forest & Wildlife Sanctuary Pranahita Wildlife Sanctuary Shivaram Wildlife Sanctuary Tripura Gumti Wildlife Sanctuary Uttar Pradesh Asan Bradge Bird Watching Chandra Prabha Sanctuary Kaimoor Sanctuary Katarniaghat Wildlife Sanctuary Ranipur Sanctuary Sohagi Barwa Sanctuary Kishanpur Wildlife Sanctuary Hastinapur Sanctuary Okhla Bird Sanctuary Sandi Bird Sanctuary National Chambal Sanctuary Uttarakhand Askot Musk Deer Sanctuary Govind Pashu Vihar Wildlife Sanctuary Kedarnath Wild Life Sanctuary Sonanadi Wildlife Sanctuary West Bengal Singalila National Park Buxa Tiger Reserve Murti Wildlife

List of Museums in India Name Location State Anthropological Museum Port Blair Andaman and Nicobar Islands Samudrika (Naval Marine Museum) Delanipur Bhagwan Mahavir Government Museum Andhra Pradesh INS Kursura Visakhapatnam Victoria Jubilee Museum Vijayawada (Visakhapatnam Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation Museum) Salar Jung Museum Darushifa Birla Science Museum Hyderabad

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Nizam Museum Hyderabad AP State Archaeology Museum or Hyderabad Hyderabad Museum Jawaharlal Nehru Museum Itanagar Arunachal Pradesh

Assam State Museum, Guwahati Assam Mayong Central Museum and Mayong Emporium Srimanta Sankaradeva Kalakshetra Guwahati Patna Museum Patna Bihar Bihar Museum Patna Sangrahalaya Bhitiharwa Gaya Museum Gaya Maharaja Lakshmeshwar Singh Museum Darbhanga Chandra Shekhar Singh Museum Jamui Srikrishna Science Centre Patna Bihar Police Museum Patna Rajendra Smriti Sangrahalaya (Rajendra Patna Memorial Museum) Government Museum and Art Gallery Chandigarh Chandigarh International Dolls Museum Chandigarh Museum of Evolution of Life Chandigarh Indian Air Force Museum Palam, Delhi New Delhi Eternal Gandhi Multimedia Museum New Delhi New Delhi National Gallery of Modern Art New Delhi National Handicrafts and Handlooms New Delhi Museum National Museum New Delhi National Museum of Natural History New Delhi National Rail Museum New Delhi National Science Centre Delhi Nehru Memorial Museum & Library New Delhi Parliament Museum New Delhi Teen Murti Bhavan New Delhi Sanskriti Kendra Museum Delhi Shankar’s International Dolls Museum Delhi Goa Chitra Museum Benaulim Goa Goa Science Centre Panaji Goa State Museum Panaji Naval Aviation Museum Vasco da Gama Baroda Museum & Picture Gallery Vadodara Gujarat Calico Museum of Textiles Ahmedabad Gandhi Smarak Sangrahalaya Ahmedabad Gujarat Science City Ahmedabad Lalbhai Dalpatbhai Museum Ahmedabad Kaba Gandhi No Delo Kirti Mandir Porbandar Kutch Museum Bhuj

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Maharaja Fateh Singh Museum Vadodara Ahmedabad Sanskar Kendra Ahmedabad Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel National Ahmedabad Memorial Swaminarayan Museum Ahmedabad Watson Museum Rajkot Haryana University Library of Tibetan Works and Archives Dharamsala Himachal Pradesh Shivalik Fossil Park Saketi Munshi Aziz Bhat Museum of Central Kargil Jammu and Kashmir Asian and Kargil Trade Artifacts Dogra Art Museum Jammu Ranchi Science Centre Ranchi Jharkhand State Museum Jharkhand Government Museum Bangalore Karnataka Kempegowda Museum Bangalore Visvesvaraya Industrial and Bangalore Technological Museum HAL heritage and Aerospace Museum Bangalore Law Museum Bangalore Regional Museum of Natural History Mysore Mysore Jayachamarajendra Museum Mysore Mysore Rail Museum Mysore Government Museum(Shivappa Nayaka Shivamogga Palace) Ayikkara Kerala Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Police Kollam Museum Kayamkulam Indo-Portuguese Museum Kochi , Thrissur Thrissur Mural Art Museum Thrissur Archaeological Museum, Thrissur Thrissur Vaidyaratnam Ayurveda Museum Thrissur Indian Business Museum Kozhikode Kerala Soil Museum Thiruvananthapuram Thiruvananthapuram Pazhassi Raja Archaeological Museum Kozhikode Ambalavayal Hill Palace Thrippunithura Bharat Bhavan Bhopal Madhya Pradesh Regional Science Centre Bhopal Remember Bhopal Museum Bhopal Central Museum Indore Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Bhopal Sangrahalaya Maharaja Chhatrasal Museum Dhubela Rani Durgavati Museum Jabalpur 64 | Page

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Prince of Wales Museum (Chhatrapati Mumbai Maharashtra Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya) National Gallery of Modern Art Mumbai Nehru Planetarium Mumbai Nehru Science Center Mumbai Ballard Bunder Gatehouse Mumbai Bhau Daji Lad Museum Mumbai Cavalry Tank Museum Ahmednagar Coin Museum Nasik Cowasji Jehangir Hall Mumbai Darshan Museum Pune Joshi’s Museum of Miniature Railway Pune Mahatma Phule Museum Pune Mumbai Nagpur Central Museum Nagpur Raja Dinkar Kelkar Museum Pune Raman Science Centre Nagpur National Mumbai Shree Chhatrapati Shahu Museum Kolhapur Siddhagiri Gramjivan Museum (Kaneri Kolhapur Math), Kolhapur Manipur State Museum Imphal Manipur Sekta Archaeological Living Museum Imphal Mizoram State Museum Aizawl Mizoram Odisha State Museum Bhubaneswar Odisha Regional Museum of Natural History Bhubaneswar Netaji Subhas National Institute of Patiala Punjab Sports( National Institute of Sports) Sanghol Museum Sanghol Sikh Ajaibghar Balongi City Palace Museum Jaipur Rajasthan Albert Hall Museum Jaipur Archaeological Museum – Amer Jaipur Govt. Museum , Ajmer Bharatiya Lok Kala Museum, Udaipur Govt. Museum,Bharatpur Bharatpur Govt. Museum, Alwar Govt. Museum Jodhpur Museum Jodhpur Umaid Bhavan Palace Museum Jodhpur Namgyal Institute of Tibetology, Sikkim Gandhi Memorial Museum Madurai Tamil Nadu Gass Forest Museum Coimbatore Government Museum(Madras Museum) Chennai Government Museum Karur Government Museum Cuddalore Government Museum Pudukkottai Mahakavi Bharathi Memorial Library Erode Regional Railway Museum Chennai Railway Heritage Centre Tiruchirappalli Government Museum Tiruchirappalli Alampur Museum, Alampur Mahbubnagar Telangana 65 | Page

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AP State Archeology Hyderabad Museum(Hyderabad Museum) Birla Science Museum Hyderabad Salar Jung Museum Darushifa Tripura Government Museum Tripura Allahabad Museum Allahabad Uttar Pradesh Kanpur Sangrahalaya(Kanpur Museum) Kanpur Government Museum(Mathura museum) Mathura Sarnath Museum Varanasi Jhansi Museum Jhansi Anand Bhavan Allahabad Birla Industrial & Technological Kolkata West Bengal Museum Gurusaday Museum Kolkata Indian Museum Kolkata Malda Museum English Bazar Rabindra Museum National Museum Kolkata Netaji Museum Kolkata Victoria Memorial Hall Kolkata

Important Palaces in India State Location Palace Name Assam Gurugram Ahom Raja’s Palace Bihar Madhubani Navlakha Palace Darbhanga Nargona Palace Chhattisgarh Jagdalpur Bastar Palace Kawardha Kawardha Palace Kanker Kanker Palace Jammu & Leh Palace Kashmir Jammu Mubarak Mandi Palace, Amar Mahal Palace Karnataka Mysore Jagan Mohan Palace, Kerala Trivandrum Kochi Thrissur Shakthan Thampuran Palace Madhya Pradesh Gwalior Jai Vilas Maharashtra Kolhapur Shalini Palace Pune Lal Mahal (Red Palace) Pune Aurangabad Naukhanda Palace Ahmednagar Farah Bagh Palace Manipur Imphal Kangla Palace Orissa Gaja Pati Brundaban Palace Punjab Amrit Star Maharaja Ranjit Singh Palace Rajasthan Jaipur Rambagh Palace Jodhpur Umaid Bhawan Udaipur Lake Palace, Monsoon Palce(Sajjan Garh Palace), Shiv Niwas Palace Bharatpur Laxmi Vilas 66 | Page

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Bikaner Lalgarh Palace Tamilnadu Kanyakumari Padmanabhapuram Palace Telengana Hyderabad King Kothi Palace, Falaknuma Palace, Chowmahalla Palace Tripura Agartala Ujjayanta Palace, Kunjaban Palace Melaghar Neer Mahal(Water Palace) West Bengal Kolkatta Marble Palace

List of Countries Central Banks Country Central Bank Afghanistan Bank Of Afghanistan Albania Bank Of Albania Algeria Bank Of Algeria Angola National Bank Of Angola Argentina Central Bank Of Argentina Anguilla Eastern Caribbean Central Bank Antigua And Barbuda Eastern Caribbean Central Bank Armenia Central Bank Of Armenia Aruba Central Bank Of Aruba Australia Reserve Bank Of Australia Austria European Central Bank Azerbaijan Central Bank Of The Rep. Of Azerbaijan Bahamas Central Bank Of The Bahamas Bahrain Central Bank Of Bahrain Bangladesh Bangladesh Bank Barbados Central Bank Of Barbados Belarus National Bank Of The Rep. Of Belarus Belgium European Central Bank Belize Central Bank Of Belize Benin Central Bank Of West African States Bermuda Bermuda Monetary Authority Bhutan Royal Monetary Authority Of Bhutan Bolivia Central Bank Of Bolivia Bosnia & Herzegovina Central Bank Of Bosnia & Herzegovina Botswana Bank Of Botswana Brazil Central Bank Of Brazil Bulgaria Bulgarian National Bank Burkina Faso Central Bank Of West African States Burundi Bank Of The Rep. Of Burundi Cambodia National Bank Of Cambodia Cameroon Bank Of Central African States Canada Bank Of Canada Cayman Islands Cayman Islands Monetary Authority Cape Verde Bank Of Cape Verde Cen. African Republic Bank Of Central African States Chad Bank Of Central African States Chile Central Bank Of Chile China People’s Bank Of China Colombia Central Bank Of Colombia Commonwealth Of Dominica Eastern Caribbean Central Bank Congo Bank Of Central African States Congo Dem. Rep. Central Bank Of Congo

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Costa Rica Central Bank Of Costa Rica Croatia Croatian National Bank Cuba Central Bank Of Cuba Curacao & St. Maarten Central Bank Of Curacao And St. Maarten Cyprus European Central Bank Czech Republic Czech National Bank Denmark National Bank Of Denmark Dominican Repl. Central Bank Of The Dominican Rep. Ecuador Central Bank Of Ecuador Egypt Central Bank Of Egypt El Salvador Central Reserve Bank Of El Salvador Equatorial Guinea Bank Of Central African States Estonia European Central Bank Ethiopia National Bank Of Ethiopia Fiji Reserve Bank Of Fiji Finland European Central Bank France European Central Bank Gabon Bank Of Central African States Gambia Central Bank Of The Gambia Georgia National Bank Of Georgia Germany European Central Bank Ghana Bank Of Ghana Henry Greece European Central Bank Grenada Eastern Caribbean Central Bank Guatemala Bank Of Guatemala Guinea Central Bank Of The Rep. Of Guinea Guinea-Bisseau Central Bank Of West African States Guyana Bank Of Guyana Haiti Bank Of The Republic Of Haiti Honduras Central Bank Of Honduras Hong Kong Hong Kong Monetary Authority Hungary Central Bank Of Hungary Iceland Central Bank Of Iceland India Indonesia Bank Indonesia Iran Central Bank Of Islamic Rep. Of Iran Iraq Central Bank Of Iraq Ireland European Central Bank Israel Bank Of Israel Italy European Central Bank Ivory Coast Central Bank Of West African States Jamaica Bank Of Jamaica Japan Bank Of Japan Jordan Central Bank Of Jordan Kazakhstan National Bank Of Kazakhstan Kenya Central Bank Of Kenya Korea, Republic Of Bank Of Korea Kosovo Central Bank Of The Republic Of Kozovo Kuwait Central Bank Of Kuwait Kyrgyzstan National Bank Of The Kyrgyz Repl.Abdygulo Latvia Bank Of Latvia

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Laos_(Lao People’s Dem. Repl.) Bank Of The Lao Lebanon Central Bank Of Lebanon Lesotho Central Bank Of Lesotho Liberia Central Bank Of Liberia Libya Central Bank Of Libya Lithuania Bank Of Lithuania Luxembourg European Central Bank Macao Monetary Authority Of Macao Macedonia National Bank Of The Rep. Of Macedonia Madagascar Central Bank Of Madagascar Malawi Reserve Bank Of Malawi Malaysia Bank Negara Malaysia Maldives Maldives Monetary Authority Mali Central Bank Of West African States Malta European Central Bank Mauritania Central Bank Of Mauritania Mauritius Central Bank Of Mauritius Mexico Bank Of Mexico Moldova National Bank Of Moldova Mongolia Bank Of Mongolia Montenegro Central Bank Of Montenegro Montserrat Eastern Caribbean Central Bank Morocco Bank Of Morocco Mozambique Bank Of Mozambique Myanmar Central Bank Of Myanmar Namibia Bank Of Namibia Netherlands European Central Bank New Zealand Reserve Bank Of New Zealand Nicaragua Central Bank Of Nicaragua Niger Central Bank Of West African States Nigeria Central Bank Of Nigeria Norway Norges Bank Oman Central Bank Of Oman Pakistan State Bank Of Pakistan Palestine Palestine Monetary Authority Papua New Guinea Bank Of Papua New Guinea Paraguay Central Bank Of Paraguay Peru Central Reserve Bank Of Peru Philippines Bangko Sentral Ng Pilipinas Poland National Bank Of Poland Portugal European Central Bank Qatar Qatar Central Bank Romania National Bank Of Romania Russia Bank Of Russia Rwanda National Bank Of Rwanda Samoa Central Bank Of Samoa Saint Lucia Eastern Caribbean Central Bank San Marino Central Bank Of The Republic Of San Marino Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabian Monetary Authority Senegal Central Bank Of West African States Serbia National Bank of Serbia

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Seychelles Central Bank of Seychelles Sierra Leone Bank of Sierra Leone Singapore Monetary Authority of Singapore Slovakia European Central Bank Slovenia European Central Bank Solomon Islands Central Bank of Solomon Islands Somalia Central Bank of Somalia South Africa South African Reserve Bank South Korea Bank of Korea Spain European Central Bank Sri Lanka Central Bank of Sri Lanka Sudan Central Bank of Sudan Swaziland Central Bank of Swaziland Sweden The Riksbank Stefan Switzerland Swiss National Bank Syrian Arab Republic Central Bank of Syria Tanzania Bank of Tanzania Taiwan Central Bank of the Rep. of China Tajikistan National Bank of Tajikistan Thailand Bank of Thailand Togolese Republic Central Bank of Togo Tonga National Reserve Bank of Tonga Trinidad & Tobago Central Bank of Trinidad and Tobago Tunisia Central Bank of Tunisia Turkey Central Bank of Republic of Turkey Turkmenistan Central Bank of Turkmenistan United Arab Emirates Central Bank of United Arab Emirates Uganda Bank of Uganda Ukraine National Bank of Ukraine United Kingdom Bank of England Uruguay Central Bank of Uruguay United States Of America Federal Reserve Uzbekistan Central Bank of the Rep. of Uzbekistan Vanuatu Reserve Bank of Vanuatu Venezuela Central Bank of Venezuela Vietnam State Bank of Vietnam Yemen Central Bank of Yemen Zambia Bank of Zambia Zimbabwe Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe

List of Countries Stock Exchanges

Country Stock Exchange Country Stock Exchange Argentina MERVAL Malaysia FTSE KLCI Australia S&P/ASX 200 Malta MSE Austria WBI Mauritius SEMDEX Bahrain ALL SHARE Mexico IPC Bangladesh DSE GENERAL Mongolia MSETOP Belgium BEL20 Montenegro MONEX20 Bosnia & Herzegovina SASX10 Morocco MASI Botswana BGSMDC Namibia FTSE JSE 70 | Page

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Brazil BOVESPA Netherlands AEX Bulgaria SOFIX New Zealand NZX 50 Canada S&P/TSX Nigeria NSE 30 Chile IGPA Norway OSEAX China SHCOMP Oman MSM 30 Colombia IGBC Pakistan KSE100 Costa Rica CRSMBCT Peru IGBVL Croatia CROBEX Philippines PSEI Cyprus GENERAL Poland WIG Czech Republic SE PX Portugal PSI20 Denmark OMX Qatar QE GENERAL COPENHAGEN Ecuador ECU Romania BET Egypt EGX30 Russia MICEX Estonia OMX TALLIN Saudi Arabia TASI Finland HEX25 Serbia BELEX15 France CAC 40 Singapore STI Germany DAX 30 Slovakia SAX Ghana GGSECI Slovenia SBITOP Greece ASE South Africa FTSE/JSE Hong Kong HIS South Korea KOSPI Hungary BUX Spain IBEX 35 Iceland SE ICEX Sri Lanka CSE ALL SHARE India SENSEX Sweden OMX 30 Indonesia JCI Switzerland SMI Ireland ISEQ Tanzania ALL SHARE DSEI Israel TA-100 Taiwan TWSE Italy FTSE MIB Thailand SET50 Kuwait STOCK Tunisia TUNINDEX Latvia OMX RIGA Turkey XU100 Laos_(Lao People’s Dem. LSXC United Arab Emirates UAE ADX Repl.) GENERAL Lebanon MSCI Ukraine PFTS Lithuania OMX VILNIUS United Kingdom FTSE 100 Luxembourg LUXX United States Of DOW JONES America Macedonia MBI 10 Venezuela IBVC Vietnam VN

List of Important Cricket Stadium in the World

Australia Melbourne Cricket Ground, Mebourne Cricket Ground, Sydney The WACA, Perth , Brisbane, Queensland Bangladesh Sher-e-Bangla Cricket Stadium, Mirpur, Dhaka England The Lords, London Old Trafford, Manchester The Oval, Kensington Trent Bridge, Nottingham Birmingham, Warwickshire 71 | Page

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Headingley, Leeds Rose Bowl, Southampton New Zealand Eden Park, Auckland Basin Reserve, Wellington Pakistan Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore Cricket Stadium, Karachi The Wanderers, Johannesburg South Africa Newlands Cricket Ground, Cape Town Port Elizabeth (St George’s Oval), Port Elizabeth SuperSport Park (formerly Centurion Park), Centurion, Gauteng Sri Lanka Galle International Stadium, Galle West Indies Queen’s Park Oval, Trinidad

List of Some Important Gardens in India

Name of the Garden Name of the location Acharya Indian Botanic Garden Kolkata, West Bengal Auroville Botanical Gardens, Auroville, Tamil Nadu Brindhavan Garden Mysore, Karanataka Chambal Garden Kota, Rajasthan Srinagar, J & K Company garden Allahabad , Uttar Pradesh Hanging Garden Mumbai , Maharashtra Jallianwala Bagh Amristar, Punjab Jawaharlal Nehru Botanical Garden Gangtok, Sikkim Jhansi Botanical Garden Jhansi, Uttar Pradesh Kalindi Kunj New Delhi Lal Bagh Bangalore, Karnataka Law garden Ahmedabad, Gujarat Lloyd’s Botanical Garden Darjeeling, West Bengal Lodi Garden New Delhi Malampuzha Garden Palakkad, Kerala Mughal garden New Delhi Bagh Srinagar , J & K Pilikula Botanical Garden Mangalore, Karnataka Garden , Haryana Rock Garden Darjeeling Rock Garden of Chandigarh Chandigarh Saharanpur Botanical Garden, Saharanpur, Uttar Pradesh Sajjan Niwas Garden(Gulab Bagh) Udaipur, Rajasthan Sarita Udyan Gandhinagar, Gujarat Shalimar Bagh Srinagar, J & K Sim’s Park Coonoor, Tamil nadu The Royal Botanical Garden Howrah, West Bengal Tulip Garden Srinagar, J & K

List of Important River Projects in India

Project River Related State Bansagar Project Son Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh Bargi Project Bargi Madhya Pradesh Beas Project Beas Haryana, Punjab, Rajasthan 72 | Page

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Bhadra Project Bhadra Karnataka Bhakhra Nangal Project Sutlej Punjab,Himachal Pradesh ,Haryana, Rajsthan Bheema Project Pawana Maharashtra Chambal Project Chambal Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh Damodar Ghati Project Damodar Jharkhand, West Bengal Dulhasti Project Chinab Jammu & Kashmir Durga Barrage Project Damodar West Bengal Jharkhand Farakka Project Ganga, Bhagirathi West Bengal Gandak Project Gandaki Bihar, Uttar Pradesh Ganga Sagar Project Chambal Madhya Pradesh Ghatprabha Project Ghatprabha Karnataka Girna Project Girna Maharashtra Hansdev Bango Project Hansdev Madhya Pradesh Hidkal Project Ghatprabha Karnataka Hirakud Project Mahanadi Orissa Idduki Project Periyar Kerala Project Satlaj Rajasthan, Punjab, Haryana Jawahar Sagar Project Chambal Rajasthan Jayakwadi Project Godawari Maharashtra Kakrapara Project Tapti Gujrat Kangsawati Project Kangsawati West Bengal Kol Dam Project Sutlaj Himachal Pradesh Kosi Project Kosi Bihar & Nepal Koyana Project Koyana Maharashtra Krishna Project Krishna Karnataka Kunda Project Kunda Tamilnadu Let Bank Ghaghra Canal Ganaga Uttar Pradesh Madhya Ganaga Canal Ganaga Uttar Pradesh Mahanadi Delta Project Mahanadi Odisha Malprabha Project Malprabha Karnataka Mandi Project Vyas Himachal Pradesh Matatilla Project Betwa Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh Mayurakshi Project Mayurakshi West Bengal Minimato Bango Hasdeo Project Hasdeo Bango river Madhya Pradesh Muchkund Project Muchkund Odisha, Andhra Pradesh Nagarjunsagar Project Krishna Andhra Pradesh Nagpur Power Project Koradi Maharashtra Narmada Sagar Project Narmada Madhya Pradesh Gujarat Nathpa Jhakri Project Sutlaj Himachal Pradesh Panam Project Panam Gujarat Panama Project Panama Gujarat Panchet Project Damodar Jharkhand West Bengal Pong Project Beas Punjab Poochampad Project Godawari Andhra Pradesh Purna Project Purna Maharashtra Rajasthan Canal Project Sutlej, Vyas, Rajasthan, Punjab, Haryana Ramganga Project Ramganga Uttar Pradesh Rana Pratap Sagar Project Chambal Rajsthan Ranjeet Sagar Project Ravi Punjab Rihand Project Rihand Uttar Pradesh Salal Project Chenab Jammu & Kashmir Sardar Sarovar Project Narmada Madhya Pradesh

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Maharashtra Rajasthan Sarhind Project Sutlaj Haryana Sharawati Project Sharawati Karnataka Sharda Project Sharda, Gomti Uttar Pradesh Shivsamundram Project Kaveri Karnataka Sutlaj Project Chinab Jammu & Kashmir Tawa Project Tawa Madhya Pradesh Tehri Dam Project Bhagirathi Uttarakhand Tilaiya Project Barakar Jharkhand Tulbul Project Chinab Jammu & Kashmir Tungbhadra Project Tungbhadra Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka Ukai Project Tapti Gujarat Upper Penganga Project Penanga Maharashtra Uri Power Project Jhelum Jammu & Kashmir Vyas Project Vyas Rajasthan, Punjab. Haryana, Himachal Pradesh

Memorial Places of Famous Indian Leaders

Name Position Hold Memorial Name Meaning Location B.R. Ambedkar Political leader and Chaitya Bhoomi (Maharashtra) Philosopher Chandra Shekhar Prime Minister of India Jannayak Sthal Place of Delhi People’s leader Choudhary Charan Prime Minister of India Kisan Farmer’s Delhi Singh Platform Deputy Prime Minister of Sangharsh Sthal Place of Delhi India Struggle Giani President of India Ekta Sthal Place of Unity Delhi Acting Prime Minister of Narayan Ghat Ahmedabad(Gujarat) India I. K. Gujral Prime Minister of India Smiriti Sthal Place of Delhi Remembrance Indira Gandhi Prime Minister of India Shakti Sthal Place of Power Delhi Jag Jivan Ram Deputy Prime Minister of Samta Sthal Place of Delhi India Equality Jawaharlal Nehru Prime Minister of India Shantivan Garden of Delhi Peace Krishna Kant Nigambhoot Ghat Delhi Lal Bahadur Shastri Prime Minister of India Vijay Ghat Victory Delhi Platform Mahatma Gandhi Father of the Nation Raj Ghat Royal Steps Delhi Morarji Desai Prime Minister of India Abhay Ghat Ahmedabad(Gujarat) P. V. Narasimha Rao Prime Minister of India P.V. Ghat Delhi K.R. Narayanan 10th President of India Ekta Sthal Karma Bhoomi Delhi Rajiv Gandhi Prime Minister of India Veer Bhumi Land of Brave Delhi Rajendra Prasad President of India Mahaprayan Ghat Patna(Bihar) Shankar Dayal President of India Karma Bhumi Land of Duty Delhi Sharma

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List of Important Indian Cities on Rivers

Name of the River Name of the City Name of the River Name of the City Alaknanda Badrinath Kaveri Erode Bhadra Bhadravathi Krishna Vijayawada Brahmani Krishna Sangli Brahmaputra Dibrugarh Krishna, Koyna Karad Brahmaputra Guwahati Mahanadi Banki Chambal Kota Mahanadi Cuttack Chambal Gwalior Mahanadi Sambalpur Cooum, Adyar Chennai Meenachil Kottayam Daman Ganga River Daman Mula, Mutha Pune Ganga Mirzapur Musi Hyderabad Ganga, Yamuna and Saraswati Allahabad Narmada Jabalpur Ganges Bhagalpur Narmada Bharuch Ganges Haridwar Netravati, Gurupura Mangalore Ganges Kanpur Noyyal Coimbatore Ganges Patna Panchaganga Kolhapur Ganges Varanasi Pennar Ganges Farrukhabad Rapti Gorakhpur Ganges Fatehgarh Rushikulya Brahmapur Ganges Kannauj Rushikulya Chhatrapur Ganges Kanpur Cantonment Sabarmati Ahmedabad Ganges Saryu Ayodhya Ganges Savitri Mahad Ganges Hajipur Sharavathi Honnavar Ghataprabha Bagalkot Shipra Ujjain Sutlej Ferozpur Godavari Tapi Surat Godavari Nashik Thamirabarani Tirunelveli Godavari Nanded Shimoga Godavari Nizamabad Tungabhadra Hospet Gomti Jaunpur Ulhas Karjat Gomti Lucknow Vaigai Madurai Hugli Kolkata Vishwamitri Vadodara Jhelum Srinagar Vrishabhavathi Bangalore Kali Yamuna Agra Kaveri Tiruchirapalli Yamuna New Delhi Kaveri Thiruchirapalli Yamuna Mathura Yamuna Etawah Yamuna Auraiya

Famous Sports Personalities in India

Archery Players Arun Chekrovolu Swuro Laxmirani Majhi Abhishek Verma Atanu Das Dola Banerjee Sandeep Kumar Bombayla Devi Jayanta Talukdar Athletes Amit Kumar Saroha Kavita Raut P.T.Usha Anilda Thomas Kheta Ram Ramkaran Singh Khushbir Kaur Raut Deepa Mallick Ankit Sharma KM Beenamol Renjith Maheshwary

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Annu Rani(Javeline Lalita Babar Sandeep Kumar Thrower) Ashwini Nachappa M. R. Poovamma Sapna Punia Baljinder Singh Mandeep Kaur Seema Punia Antil Dharambir Singh Manish Singh Rawat Dutee Chand Manpreet Kaur Soma Biswas Gurmeet Singh Srabani Nanda Inderjeet Singh Muhammad Anas Irfan Kolothum Thodi Neeraj Chopra Thonakal Gopi Jinson Johnson Sheoran Nitender Singh Rawat Kavita Ramdas OP Jaisha Badminton Players Anup Sridhar H S Prannoy Prakash Padukone Ajay Jayram Jwala Gutta Pulella Gopichand Aparna Popat Kidambi Srikanth Saina Nehwal Ashwini Ponnappa Manu Attri Siril Verma P. V. Sindhu Sumeet Reddy Chirag Sen Parupalli Kashyap Valiyaveetil Diju Dipankar Bhattacharya Basketball Players Anitha Pauldurai Geethu Anna Jose Satnam Singh Bhamara Divya Singh Shiba Maggon Body Builders Prashant Sulunkhe Mamota Devi Yashmeen Manak Bobby Singh Ram Niwas Yatinder singh Deepika Chowdhury Sangram Chougule Karauna Waghmare Shweta Rathore Billiards and snooker Aditya S. Mehta Ishika Shah Siddharth Parekh Anushi Seth Sourav Kothari Ashok shandilya Pankaj Advani Varshaa Sanjeev Chitra Magimairaj Rupesh Shah Rahul Wilson Jones Boxing Players Ali Qamar Mandeep Jangra Sonia Lather Devendro Singh Vijender Singh Vikas Krishan Yadav Kavita Chahal Nikhat Zareen Laishram Sarita Devi Thapa Cricket Players G.R. Vishwanath Ravindra Jadeja Ajit Chandila RP Singh Kapil Dev S. Srisanth Sachin Tendulkar B.K. B.S. Chandrashekhar Mahender Singh Dhoni Sunil Gavaskar 76 | Page

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C.G. Borde Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi C.P.S. Chauhan D. N. Sardesai Mohammed Azharuddin Dinesh Kartik Murali Kartik E.A.S. Prasanna E.D. Solkar Pranav Dhanawade Car Racer Aditya Patel Gaurav Gill Karun Chandhok Armaan Ebrahim Jehan Daruvala Chess Players Baskaran Adhiban Subbaraman Vijayalakshmi Swapnil S Dhopade Hetul Shah Praveen Mahadeo Thipsay Humpy Koneru Rucha Pujari Football Players Aditi Chauhan Dr Talimeran Ao Pradip Kumar Banerjee Baichung Bhutia Inivalappil Mani Vijayan Debjit Majumder Jeje Lalpekhlua Udanta Singh Golf Players Aditya Mehta Gagan Jeet Bhullar Jyoti Randhawa Anirban Lahiri Gaurav Ghei Shiv Kapur Arjun Atwal SSP Chawrasia Aditi Ashok Gymnastics Kshipra Joshi Priti Das Akshata Shete Mayank Srivastava Rakesh K Patra Alok Ranjan Meenakshi Rohit Jaiswal Ashish Kumar Mitali Dogra Roma Dilip Jogalekar Ashok K Mishra Paromita Das Shephali Moulick Debjani Samanta Partha Mondal Mishra Diwja Asher Pooja Surve Vladimir Chertkov Joy Prakash Chakraborty Praveen Sharma Judo Players Avatar Singh Kalpana Devi Rajwinder Kaur Devender Pawaria L Sanatombi Devi Sachin Maan Dhanpriyari Devi Malaprabha Jadhav Shamsher Singh Garima Choudhary N Seema devi Solanki Harpreet Kaur Navjot Chana Jasleen Singh Pincky Balhara Hockey Players in India Ritu Rani Mary Saba Anjum Karim Leslie Claudius Sardar Singh Balbir Singh Sr Yadav Sreejesh Ravindran Mamta Kharab Suraj Lata Devi Dhyan Chand PR Sreejesh SV Sunil Gurbaj Sigh Kabbadi Players 77 | Page

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Abhilasha Mhatre Mamatha Poojary Rahul Chaudhari Manjeet Chhillar Rakesh Kumar Anup Kumar Mohit Chhillar Rohit Kumar Lawn Tennis Players Jaidip Mukerjea Sania Mirza Leander Paes Mahesh Bhupathi Rohan Bopanna Prarthana Thombare Mountain Climbers Premlata Agarwal Krushnaa Patil Santosh Yadav Kushang Dorjee Sherpa Tashi and Nungshi Malik Balwant Sandhu Tenzing Norgay Bhupesh Kumar Rowing Players Bajrang Takhar Inderpal Singh Paulose Pandari Kunnel Dattu Bapan Bhokanal Kasam Khan Sandeep Kumar Devender Khandwal Manjit Singh Sawarn Singh Virk Squash Players Anaka Alankamony Joshna Chinappa Ritwik Bhattacharya Anuroop B. S Kumar Kush Saurav Ghosal Cyrus Poncha Mahesh Mangaonkar Savita Punia Dipika Pallikal Mamta Kharab Siddharth Suchde Harinder Pal Sandhu Swimmers Niranjan Mukundan Sebastian Xavier Khajan Singh Rehan Poncha Sharath Gayakwad Kutraleeswaran Sajan Prakash Shika Tandon Masudur Rahman Baidya Saloni Dalal Shivani Kataria Mihir Sen Sandeep Sejwal Virdhawal Khade Shooters Jeetu Rai Prakash Nanjappa Kynan Chenai Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore Chain Singh Mairaj Ahmed Khan Samresh Jung Gagan Narang Manvanjit Singh Sandhu Sanjeev Rajput Gurpeet Singh Pooja Ghatkar Vijay Kumar Table Tennis Players Achanta Sharatha Kamal Soumyajit Ghosh Chetan Baboor Poulomi Ghatak Vishnu Vardhan Achanta Weightlifting Players Geeta Rani Manpreet Kaur Harjeet Kaur Mohammed Asdullah Sanjita Khumukcham Karnam Malleshwari N. Sivalingam Sathish Kumar Katulu Ravi Kumar Ngangbam Soniya Chanu Sudhir Kumar KM Rachna Kumari Yumnam Chanu Komal Wakale Renubala Chanu Wrestling Players Amit Kumar Dahiya Hardeep Singh Ritu Phogat Aparna Bishnoi Khashaba Dadasaheb

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Babita Kumari Sandeep Tomar Neha Rathi Sunil Kumar Rana Dalip Singh Rana Palwinder Singh Cheema Sushil Kumar Dara Singh Panne Lal Yadav The Great Gama Dalal Rajinder Kumar Geeta Phogat Dalal Yogeshwar Dutt Gobar Goha Ravinder Khatri Gulam Ravinder Singh Wushu Players L Budhchandra Singh Sanathoi Devi Uchit Sharma Puja Tomer Surya Bhanu Pratap

List of Important founders of Journals and News papers in Olden days

Name of Journals/News Paper Name of the Founder Al-Hilal Abul Kalam Azad Al-Balagh Abul Kalam Azad New India(Daily) Annie Besant Commonweal Annie Besant Vande Mataram Aurobindo Ghosh Sandhya B.B. Upadhyaya Mooknayak B.R. Ambedkar Bahishkrit Bhara B.R. Ambedkar Kesari Bal Gangadhar Tilak Mahratta Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Darpan(Marathi) Bal Shastri Jambhekar Kavivachan Sudha Bhartendu Kavi Vachan Sudha Bhartendu Harishchandra Yugantar Bhupendranath Data and Barinder Kumar Ghosh New India(Weekly) Bande Mataram Bipin Chandra Pal and later edited by Talwar(Berlin) Birendra Nath Chattopadhyaya Rast Goftar(Gujrati) Dadabhai Naoroji Voice of India Dadabhai Naoroji Indian Mirror Devendra Nath Tagore The Tribune Dyal Singh Majithia Bombay Chronicle Firoze Shah Mehta Swadesamitran(Tamil) G Subramaniya Aiyar Sudharak G.K.Gokhale Pratap Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi Inquilab() Ghulam Hussain Hindu Patriot Girish Chandra Ghosh(later Harish Chandra Mukherji) Harish Chandra Mukherjee India Gazettej Henry Louis Vivian Derozio Som Prakesh Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar Bengal Gazette(Bengali) J.K.Hikki K.M. Pannikar Vichar Lahiri Krishnashastri Chiplunkar Punjabi Lala Lajpat Rai Essays in Indian Economics M.G. Ranade Hindustan M.M. Malviya

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Nav Jeevan Mahatma Ghandhi Mahatma Ghandhi Mahatma Ghandhi Harijan Mahatma Ghandhi Kranti Mirajkar, Joglekar, Ghate Comrade Mohammad Ali Independent Motilal Nehru Din Mitra Mukundarao Patil Navyug(Magazine) Muzaffar Ahmed Samvad Kaumudi Roy Mirat-ul-Akbhar Kudi Arasu Ramaswamy Naiker Statesman Robert Knight The Statesman Robert Knight Bombay Times Robert Knight & Thomas Bennnet Indian Socialist Shyamji Krishna Verma Tahzib-ul-Akhlaq Sir Syyed Ahmed Khan Amrita Bazar Patrika Sisir Kumar Ghosh and Motilal Ghosh Prabudha Bharat Udbodhana Swami Vivekananda Free Hindustan(in Vancouver) Native Opinion V.N. Mandalik Hindu Vir Raghavacharya and G.S. Aiyar

Nicknames of Famous Personalities

Nicknames Name of the Person Adi Kavi Valmeeki Akbar of Kashmir Jainul Abdin Andhra Kesari T. Prakasam Anna C.N. Annadurai Babuji Jagjeevan Ram Banga bandhu Sheikh Mujibut Rahman Bard of Avon William Shakespeare Bengal Kesari Ashutosh Mukherji Bengali Tiger,Punjab Kesari,Lal, Bal Lala Lajpat Rai, Bal Gangadhar Tilak and Bipin Chandra Pal Bihar Kesari Dr. Srikrishna Singh Bihar Vibhuti Dr. Anugrah Narayan Singh Bird man of India Salim Ali C. R. / Rajaji Chakravarti Rajagopalachari Chacha,Pandit ji Jawaharlal Nehru Deen bandhu C.F. Andrews Desert Fox Gen Ervin Rommel Desh bandhu Chitta Ranjan Das Desh Ratna, Ajatshatru Dr. Rajendra Prasad Deshpriya Yatindra Mohan Sengupta Enlightened One Lord Buddha Father of English Poetry Geoffery Chaucer Father of Gujarat Maharaj

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Father of Medicine Hippocrates Father of the Local Self-Government Lord Rippon Father of the Nation,,Mahatma Mahatma Gandhi Frontier Gandhi, Badshah Khan Khan Fuehrer Adolf Hitler Flying Sikh Milkha Singh G.B.S George Bernard Shaw Grand Old man of Britain Willium E. Gladstone Grand Old man of India Dadabhai Naoroji Grand old man of Indian Journalism Grandfather of Indian Films Dhundiraj Govind Phalke Guruji M.S. Golvalkar Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore Haryana Hurricane Kapil Dev Hockey Wizard Dhyan Chand II Duce Benito Mussolini Indian Machiavelli Chanakya Iron Lady of India Indira Gandhi Indian Einstein Nagarjuna Jana Nayak Karpuri Thakur King Maker Earl of Warwick Kaviguru Rabindranath Tagore King Maker of Indian History Sayyed Bandhu K.V. Puttappa Lady with the lamp Florence Nightinga Light of Asia Sreebuddha of Kashmir Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah Lion of Maratha Bal Gangadhar Tilak Li-Kwan Pearl Buck Little Corporal,Man of Destiny Napoleon Bonaparte Little Master Sunil Gavaskar Lokmanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak Loknayak Machiavelli of India Chanakya Magician of Hockey Dhyanchand Mahamana, Prince of Beggars Pt. Maid of Orleans Joan of Arc Maiden Queen Queen Elizabeth I Man of Blood and Iron Otto Van Bismark Man of Peace Lal Bahadur Shastri Martin Luther of India Dayanand Saraswati Man of Destiny Napolean Bonaparte Man of Iron Vallabhai Patel Man of Peace Lal Bahadur Shastri Morning Star of India Renaissance Raja Ram Mohan Roy Mother Mother Teresa Mysore Tiger Tippu Sultan Napoleon of India Samudra Gupta Neta Ji, Patriot of Patriots Subhash Chandra Bose Nightingale of India Sarojini Naidu Parrot of India, Tota-e-hind Amir Khushro

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Poet’s Poet Edmund Spencer Prince of Autobiography Babur Prince of Builders Shahjahan Prince of Martyrs, Sahid-e-Azam Bhagat Singh Prince of Money Makers Muhammad bin Tughlaq Prince of Pilgrims Hiuen Tsang Payyoli Express P. T. Usha Prince of Kolkata Saurav Ganguly Punjab Kesari Lala Lajpat Rai Quaid-i-Azam Md. Ali Jinnah Rajashree Tandon Sage of Kanchi Sankaracharya Scourage of God Chengiz khan Saint of Sabarmati Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi Saint of the Gutters Mother Teresa Shakespeare of India Mahakavi Kalidas Sher-e-Kashmir,Lion of Kashmir Sheikh Mohammed Abdullah Sparrow Major General Rajinder Singh Strong (Iron) Man of India Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Swar Kokila Tau Chaudhury Devi Lal The Little Master Sachin Tendulkar Tiger of Mysore Tipu Sultan Tota-e-Hind Amir Khushro Udanpari P.T. Usha Uncle Ho Ho Chi Minh Vishwa Kavi,Kaviguru,Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore Young Turk Chandra Shekhar

List of Space Centres in the World Country Name of the Space Centre Belgium Liege Space Center Euro Space Center Canada John H. Chapman Space Centre Telus World of Science, Germany European Space Operations Centre Hubble European Space Agency Information Centre European Astronaut Centre France Toulouse Space Center Guiana Space Centre Cannes Mandelieu Space Center India Space Centre Space Applications Centre Space Centre Italy Broglio Space Centre Japan Uchinoura Space Centre Tanegashima Space Centre South Korea Naro Space Center Netherlands European Space Research and Technology Norway Norwegian Space Centre Philippines Mabuhaysat Subic Space Center Mabuhaysat Zamboanga Space Center

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Pakistan Sonmiani (space facility) Tilla Satellite Launch Center Russia Babakin Space Centre Baikonur Cosmodrome Titov Main Test and Space Systems Control Centre United Leicester Space Centre Kingdom Surrey Space Centre Harwell Science and Innovation Campus Jodrell Bank Observatory United States Goddard Space Flight Center John C. Stennis Space Center Kennedy Space Center Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center and Space Center Houston Marshall Space Flight Center

List of Indian Missiles

Missile Name Orgin Type Range Speed Air-to-air missiles Astra India Air-to-Air Missiles 60 – 80 km Mach 4 + K-100 Russia & Medium Range air-to-air missile 300–400 km Mach 3.3 India MICA IAF Air-to-Air Missiles Surface-To-Air Missiles Akash India Medium-range surface-to-air 30-35km Mach 2.5 missile to 3.5 Barak 8 Isreal/India Long Range surface to air Missile 100 km Mach 2 Trishul India Short Range surface to air missile 9km Defence Missile Prithvi Air Defence India Exo-atmospheric Anti-ballistic Altitude- Mach 5+ (PAD) missile 80km Advanced Air Defence India Endoatmospheric Anti-ballistic Altitude- Mach 4.5 (AAD) missile 30km Prithvi Defence Vehicle India Exo-atmospheric Anti-ballistic Altitude- (PDV) missile 120km Cruise Missiles Nirbhay India Subsonic cruise missile(Ship, 1,000 -1500 Mach 0.8 , aircraft and land) km Russia & Supersonic cruise missile(Ship, 290 km Mach 2.8 India submarine, aircraft and land) to 3 Mach BrahMos II India Hypersonic cruise missile(Ship, 300km Mach 7 submarine, aircraft and land) Surface-to-surface missiles Agni-I India Medium-range ballistic missile 700-1250 km Mach 7.5 (MRBM) Agni-II India Intermediate-range ballistic 2,000–3,000 Mach 12 missile(IRBM) km Agni-III India Intermediate-range ballistic 3,500 km – 5–6 km/s missile(IRBM) 5,000 km Agni-IV India Intermediate-range ballistic 3,000 – Mach 7 missile(IRBM) 4,000 km 83 | Page

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Agni-V India Intercontinental ballistic 5000 – Mach 24 missile(ICBM) 8000Km Prithvi I India Short Range Ballistic 150 km Missile(Tactical) Prithvi II India Short Range Ballistic 350 km Missile(Tactical) Dhanush India Short Range Ballistic 350 – 600 Missile(Tactical) km Prahaar(Pragati) India Short Range Ballistic 150 km Mach 2.03 Missile(Tactical) Shaurya India Medium-Range Ballistic Missile 750 to 1,900 Mach 7.5 (MRBM) km Submarine Launched Ballistic Missiles Sagarika (K-15) India Ballistic Missile 700 – Mach 7+ 1900Km K-4 India Ballistic Missile 3,500–5,000 Mach 7+ km K-5 India Ballistic Missile 6,000 km Ashwin India Ballistic Missile 150-200km Mach 4.5 Anti-Tank Missile Nag India Anti-Tank Guided Missile 4km 230 m/s Helina(HELIcopter India Anti-Tank Guided Missile 7-8km launched NAg) Amogha-1 India Anti-Tank Guided Missile 2.8 km

Government Schemes/Yojanas

Scheme Ministry Launch Outlay/Limit/Target Sector Year INSPIRE(Innovation in Department The realization of Vision 2020 Education Science Pursuit for of Science calls for action and a well Inspired Research ) and designed innovation Programme Technology infrastructure. (India) Unnat Jyoti by MoP 2009/2015 Annual cost reduction of Electrification Affordable LEDs for All consumer bills - Rs. 40,000 (UJALA) or Bachat crore Lamp Yojana Pradhan Mantri Gramin MoRD 2015/1985 Fund shared by Centre & State Housing, Awaas Yojana Gov 75:25 Rural (PMGAY) Or Indira Awaas Yojana Integrated Child MoWCD 1975 Benefits to under 6 years of age Child Development Services and their mothers. Development Integrated Rural MoRD 1978 Merged with Swarnajayanti Rural Development Program Gram Swarozgar Yojana Development (SGSY) in 1999 Fund allocation by Centre & State is 50:50 Midday Meal Scheme MoHRD 1995 Supported under Sarva Shiksha Health, Abhiyan Education 84 | Page

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Kishore Vaigyanik MoST 1999 Encouraging students to take Education Protsahan Yojana up research careers in the areas of basic sciences, engineering and medicine Swarnajayanti Gram MoRD 1999 Centre & State funded in the Rural Swarozgar ratio 75:25 Employment Yojana(SGSY) Pradhan Mantri Gram MoRD 2000 Funded by both centre and Rural Sadak Yojana states in 60:40 Development 19000 Cr in 2016-17 Antyodaya Anna Yojna NDA 2000 Green Colour Card Poverty government To Provide 35 kilograms of rice alleviation - and wheat at a highly Food subsidised cost of three rupees per kilogram of rice and two rupees per kilogram of wheat Sampoorna Grameen MoRD 2001 Rs.10, 000 crore , Centre & Rural Self Rozgar Yojana(SGRY) State funded in the ratio 75:25 Employment Merging the provisions of Employment Assurance Scheme (EAS) and Jawahar Gram Samridhi Yojana (JGSY). Shiksha Sahayog LIC 2001 Aam Admi Bima Yojana Financial Yojana(SSY) Scholarship Fund Set up by Service Gov Scholarship for 9th to 12th standard students Deendayal Disabled MoSJE 2003 To provide financial assistance Social Justice Rehabilitation Scheme to Balika MoHRD 2004 Education Vidyalaya Janani Suraksha Yojana MoHFW 2005 Modified National Maternity Mother Care Benefit Scheme (NMBS) 100% centrally sponsored scheme Jawaharlal Nehru MoUD 2005 $20 billion over seven years. Urban National Urban Renewal Development Mission (JnNURM) Livestock Insurance MoA 2005 The premium of the insurance Agriculture Scheme is subsidized to the tune of 50%. Rajiv Gandhi Grameen MoP April 2005 Replaced by Deen Dayal Rural Vidyutikaran Yojana Upadhyaya Gram Jyoti Yojana Electrification Mahatma Gandhi MoRD 2006 Rs. 40,000 crore Rural Wage National Rural 150 days of work in drought-hit Employment Employment Guarantee states Act Gramin Bhandaran MoA 2007 In 2014 It is merged with Agriculture Yojana or Rural Godown Integrated Scheme for Scheme (RGS) Agricultural Marketing (ISAM) Rashtriya Krishi Vikas MoA 2007 Rs. 25,000 Crore Agriculture Yojana(RKVY) 85 | Page

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Rashtriya Swasthya MoHFW 2008 IT-enabled and smart–card- Insurance Bima Yojana(RSBY) based cashless healthy insurance cover,up to Rs. 30,000/- per annum Indira Gandhi Matritva MoWCD 2010 Merged into National Food Mother Care Sahyog Yojana Security Act, 2013 Pradhan Mantri Adarsh MoSJ&E 2010 Rs. 422.00 crores. Rural Gram Yojana Development Swavalamban MoF 2010 To be replaced by Atal Pension Pension Yojana National Rural MoRD 2011 $5.1 Billion Poverty Livelihood alleviation Mission (NRLM) Rajiv Awas Yojana MhUPA 2013 Slum-free Indiaby 2022 Urban Housing National Urban MoHUPA 2013 Modified Swarna Jayanti Skill Livelihood Shahari Rozgar Yojana Development Mission(NULM) (SJSRY) Deen Dayal Upadhyaya MoRD 2014 Rs 1,500 crore Skill Grameen Kaushalya Age: 15-35 Years development Yojna Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan MoF 2014 To provide 'universal and clear Financial Yojana access to banking facilities' Inclustion starting with basic Banking Accounts" with overdraft facility of Rs.5,000 (zero-balance bank account) Guinness World Records Recognises the Achievements made under PMJDY- 18,096,130 bank accounts opened Atal Pension Pension Fund 2015, Age – 60 Pension Yojana (Swavalamban Regulatory Kolkata Rs.1000-Rs.5000 Yojana) and Development Authority (PFRDA) Deen Dayal Upadhyaya MoP 2015 756 billion (US$11 billion) Rural Power Gram Jyoti Yojana or Supply Rajiv Gandhi Grameen Vidyutikaran Yojana (RGGVY) Programme MoC&IT 2015 1 Lakh Crore Digitally Programme : 9 Pillars Empowered Nation Namami Gange MoWR 2015 Rs.20000 crore for 5 years Clean & Programme Ganga to be made open Protect Ganga defecation-free by 2022. Pradhan Mantri Kaushal MoSD&E 2015 Rs. 120 billion Skill Vikas Yojna Development Pradhan Mantri Suraksha MoF 2015 Accident insurance scheme Insurance Bima Yojana with annual premium of RS.12 86 | Page

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Age : 18 and 70 years Death or full disability Rs.2 lakh Partial Permanent disability Rs.1 lakh Pradhan Mantri Jeevan MoF 2015 Accident insurance Insurance Jyoti Bima Yojana schemeannual premium of Rs.330 Age: 18 and 50 years Death due to any cause - Rs.2 lakh Heritage City MoUD 2015 RS.500 Cr Urban Development and Target: March 2017 in 12 cities Development Augmentation Yojana(HRIDAY) Pradhan Mantri MoWCD 2015 Age: Below 10 and Deadline – Women Samriddhi Yojana 18 Empowerment (PMSSY)or Girl Child Minimum : Rs.1000 Prosperity Scheme Maximum: Rs.1,50,000 MoUD 2015 Rs. 98,000 crore Urban Target: 100 cities by 2022(109 Development revised) First List:10 Second List: 13 Third List: 36 Atal Mission for MoUD 2015 Rs 50,000 crore Urban Rejuvenation and Urban 500 cities Development Transformation (AMRUT) Pradhan Mantri Awas MoHUPA 2015 Rs. 2 trillion Housing Yojana (PMAY) or To build 2 crore houses by Housing for All 2022 305 cities in 9 states Pradhan Mantri Kaushal MoSD&E 2015 Rs. 120 billion Skill Vikas Yojana(PMKVY) To to train 1 crore Indian youth Development from 2016-20 Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala MoP&NG 2016 Rs. 8000 crore Social Yojana(PMUY) 1 million LPG connections had Welfare been completed in Nov 2016 Pradhan Mantri MUDRA Micro Units 2015 1.Shishu :-Loan up to Yojana (PMMY) Development Rs.50,000 and 2.Kishore :- Loan ranging from Refinance Rs.50,000 to Rs.5 lakh Agency 3.Tarun :- Loan above Rs.5 (MUDRA) lakh and below Rs.10 lakh Bank Sansad Adarsh Gram MoRD 2014 For developing model villages Rural Yojana (SAGY) through implementation of Development existing schemes Pradhan Mantri Fasal MoA 2016 Rs.17600 Cr Crop Bima Yojana (PMFBY) Uniform premium of only 2 per Insurance cent to be paid by farmers for Kharif crops, and 1.5 per cent 87 | Page

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for Rabi crops Pradhan Mantri Gram MoA 2015 Rs. 500 billion Agriculture Sinchai Yojana 1.Irrigation Project (PMGSY) 2.Soil Health Card Pradhan Mantri Garib 2015 Implement the pro-poor welfare Finance Kalyan Yojanaye schemes in more effective way (PMGKY) The scheme will start from December 17 and will run till March 31 Pradhan Mantri Jan MoCF 2016 High quality generic medicines Health Aushadhi Yojana are sold at low prices (PMJAY) Swachh Bharat Abhiyan 2014 Rs.620 billion Cleanliness To eradicate open defecation by 2019 Slogan: One step towards cleanliness Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao MoWCD 2015 To generate awareness and Women Yojana improve the efficiency of Welfare welfare services meant for women. Outlay: Rs.100Cr MoHFW 2014 To immunize all children under Health the age of 2 years, as well as all pregnant women, against seven vaccine preventable diseases. Deen Dayal Upadhyaya MoP 2015 Outlay: Rs.756 billion Electricity Gram Jyoti Yojana To provide continuous power supply to rural India Replaced Rajiv Gandhi Grameen Vidyutikaran Yojana (RGGVY) Deen Dayal Upadhyaya MoRD 2014 Outlay: Rs.1500 Cr Skill Grameen Kaushalya Age: 15–35 years. Development Yojana To skill 1million rural youth for job by 2017 Pandit Deendayal MoLE 2014 To create conducive Employment Upadhyay Shramev environment for industrial Jayate Yojana development and doing business with ease Sub scheme: Shram Suvidha Portal Random Inspection Scheme Universal Account Number Apprentice Protsahan Yojana Revamped Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana Swadesh Darshan Yojana MoT 2015 To develop theme based tourist Toursim circuits(13) in the country. UJWAL Discom MoP 2015 Financial turnaround and Electricity Assurance Yojana revival package for electricity (UDAY) distribution companies of India (DISCOMs) 88 | Page

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One Rank, One 2015 Outlay: Rs.1000Cr Pension Pension(OROP) Pradhan Mantri Khanij District 2015 Outlay: Rs,6000Cr Welfare Kshetra Kalyan Yojana Mineral Companies will need to (PMKKKY) Foundations contribute 10 to 30% of royalty (DMFs) for welfare of people directly or indirectly affected by mining. Rashtriya Gram MoF 2016 Outlay: Rs. 655 crore Rural Abhiyan (RGSA) To help Panchayat Raj Development Or Rajiv Gandhi Institutions deliver Sustainable Panchayat Sashaktikaran Development Goals. Abhiyan (RGPSA) Digital Saksharta Department 2014 To impart IT training to 52.5 Literacy Abhiyan (DISHA) or of Electronics lakh persons, including National Digital Literacy & Anganwadi and ASHA workers Mission Information (NDLM) Scheme Technology (DeitY) Unnat Bharat Abhiyan MoHRD 2014 To connect institutions of Rural higher education with local Development communities to address the development challenges through appropriate technologies. Pradhan Mantri Surakshit MoHFW 2016 Free health checkup to pregnant Health Matritva Abhiyan women on 9th of every Yojana MoHRD 2016 To boost the education sector Education by delivering Volunteer Teachers Pradhan Mantri Yuva MSDE 2016 Rs.499.94Cr Skill Yojana (PMYY) Age – below 30 Development To skill Enterprenuers UDAN (Udey Desh ka MoCA 2016 The scheme will be rolled out Regional Aam Nagrik) from Jan 2017 for a period of connectivity 10 years Airfares will be capped at 2500 rupees for an hour’s flight. Pradhan Mantri Gram MoRTH 2000/2016 Villages connected with new Transport Parivahan Yojana roads Pradhan Mantri Surakshit MoRTH 2016 Outlay: Rs.2000 Cr Transport Sadak To eliminate dangerous sites Yojana(announced) where accidents occur more frequently by using the better design and road engineering. Lucky Grahak Yojana Niti Aayog 2016 For Consumers Digital Nov 8 to April 13, 2017 Payment

Digi-Dhan Vyapar Niti Aayog 2016 For Merchants Yojana Nov 8 to April 13, 2017 Varishtha Pension Bima LIC 2017 To provide a guaranteed return Social Yojana of 8 per cent for 10 years Security

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Pravasi Kaushal Vikas External 2017 To skill Indian youth seeking Skill Yojana Affairs jobs abroad Development Ministry Rashtriya Vayoshri 2017 For providing Physical Aids Financial Yojana and Assisted-living Devices for Inclusion Senior citizens belonging to BPL category

List Of Important Books & Authors In Olden Days

Name of the Book Name of the Author Name of the Book Name of the Author 2014: The Election That Rajdeep Sardesai Kanthapura Changed India 30 Women in Power Their Voices, Their Kanyadaan Stories- Naina Lal Kidwai 50 years of man in space Garik Israelien, Brian Kapal Kundala Bankim Chandra May and David J Chatterjee Eicher A Bend in the river V S Naipaul Kashmir A Tragedy of Tavleen Singh Errors A Brush with Life Kashmir Diary: Gen Arjun Ray Psychology of Militancy A Bunch of Old Letters Jawaharlal Nehru Kashmir in the Crossfire Victoria Shaffield A China Passage J.K. Galbraith Kashmir-A Tale of Shame Hari Jaisingh A Conceptual S S Kohli Kashmir-Behind the Vale M J Akbar Encyclopaedia of A Dangerous place D.P. Moynihan Kashmir-The Wounded Ajit Bhattacharjee Valley A Farewell to Arms Ernest Hemingway Katghare Main Ram Sharan Joshi A Foreign Policy for India I K Gujral Kaya Kulp Premchand A Haunted House Virginia Woolf Kayakalp Munshi Prem Chand A Himalayan Love Story Namita Gokhale Kayar Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai A Man and A Motorcycle, Bette Dam Keepers of the Keys How Hamid Karzai Came to Power A Midsummer Night’s William Shakespeare Khushwantnama ‐The Dream Lessons of My Life A Million Mutinies, Now V.S. Naipal King of Dark Chamber Rabindra Nath Tagore A Nation Flawed-Lesson P N Chopra Kiratarjuniya Bharavi from Indian History A Pair of Blue Eyes Thomas Hardy Kitni Navon Main Kitni S H Vatsyayan Bar A Passage to India E.M. Forster Koraner Nari Taslima Nasreen A Peep into the Past Vasant Navrekar Kore Kagaz A Possible India Partha Chatterjee Kulliyat Ghalib A Prisoner’s Scrapbook L.K. Advani Kumar Sambhava Kalidas A Psychoanalysis of the Abdulla Kamal Lady Chhatterley’s Lover D.H. Lawrence Prophets A Reveolutionary Life Laxmi Sehgal Lajja Tasleem Nasreen 90 | Page

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A Season of Ghosts Lal Bahadur Shastri: Pavan Choudary Lessons in Leadership A Secular Agenda Arun Shourie Lal Bahadur Shastri C P Srivastava A Story of History Arnold Toynbee Law, Lawyers & Judges H R Bhardwaj A Suitable Boy Vikram Seth Laws Versus Justice V R Krishna Iyer A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens Le Contract Social Jean Jacques Rousseau A Village by the Sea Less Miserable Victor Hugo A Week with Gandhi Louis Fischer Life Divine Shri Aurobindo A Woman’s Life Guy de Maupassant Life is Elsewhere Milan Kundera Acoession to Extinction D R Mankekar Lipika Rabindranath Tagore Across Borders, Fifty-years J N Dixit Living History Hillary Rodham Clinton of India’s Foreign Policy Adhe Adhure Mohan Rakesh Living with Honour Shiv Khera Adventures of Sherlock Arthur Conan Doyle Lolita Vladimir Nobokov Holmes Adventures of Tom Mark Twain Long Walk to Freedom Nelson Mandela Saweyer Aesop’s Fables Aesop Lost Child After the Dark Night S M Ali Love and Longing in Vikram Chandra Bombay Against the Tide Minoo Love in A Blue Time Hanif Khureshi Age of Reason Jean Paul Sartre Love, Truth and A Little Khushwant Singh Malice Agni Pariksha Acharya Tulsi Lowland Jhumpa Lahiri Agni Veena Madhushala Harivansh Rai ‘Bachchan’ Ain-i-Akbari Abul Fazal Magnificent Maharaja K Ajatshatru Jai Shankar Prasad Mahabharata Maharshi Ved Vyas Akbar – The Aesthete Dr. Indu Anand Mahatma Gandhi Girija Kumar Mathur Akbarnama Abul Fazal Making India Awesome Chetan Bhagat Alice in Wonderland Lewis Carroll Malati Madhav Bhavabhuti Amar Kosh Amar Singh Malavikagnimitra Kalidas An idealist View of Life Dr S Malti Madhav Bhavbhuti Radhakrishnan An iron Will Swett Marden Malvikagnimitra Kalidas Anand Math Bankimchandra Man and Superman G. B. Shaw Chattopadhyay Anatomy of a Flawed J N Dixit Manviya Sanskriti Ke Prof Raghuvansh inheritance Rachnatmak Aayam Anguish of Deprived Lakshmidhar Many Worlds K P S Menon Mishra Animal Farm George Orwell Mati Matal Anna Karenina Meghdoot Kalidas Arabian Nights Sir Richard Burton Mein Kampf Adolf Hitler Area of Darkness V S Naipaul Memoris of a Bystander: lqbal Akhund Life in Diplomacy Arion and the Dolphin Vikram Seth Men Who Killed Gandhi Manohar Malgonkar Around the World in eighty Jules Verne Merchant of Venice Shakespeare days Arthashastra Kautilya Meri Rehen Meri Manzil Krishna Puri As You Like It W. Shakespeare Midnight’s Children Salman Rushdie Ashtadhyayi Panini Million Mutinies Now V S Naipaul 91 | Page

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Asia and Western K M Panikkar Missed Oppertunites: Maj-Gen, Lakshman Dominance Indo-Pak War 1965 Singh Asian Drama Gunnar Myrdal Mistaken identity Nayantara Sehgal Assassination of a Prime S Anandram Modernity Morality And Madhuri Santhanam Minister The Mahatma Sondhi Assassination of Rajiv Faraz Ahmad Modi – Incredible Tarun Vijay Gandhi: An Inside Job? emergence of a star (in Chinese language) Assignment Colombo J N Dixit Mondays on Dark Night of Kirin Narayan Moon Atoms of Hope Mohan Sundara Mookhajjiva Kanasugalu K Shivram Karanth Rajan Avanti Sundari Dandi Moor’s Last Sigh Salman Rushdie Avigyan Sakuntalam Kalidas Mother Maxim Gorky Awakening India’s Social Dr. Narendra Jadhav Mrinalini Bankim Chandra Conscience Charrerjee Baburnama Babur Mritunjaya Shivaji Sawant Bachelor of Arts R. K. Narayan Mrs Funny bones Twinkle Khanna Backward Place Ruth Prawer Mrs Gandhi’s Second Arun Shourie Jhabwala Reign Bal Gitayan D.P. Maheshwari Mudra Rakshasa Vishakha Datt Bandicoot Run Manohar Mughal Maharajas And K R N Swami Malgonkar The Mahatma Bang-i-Dara Mohammad lqbal Munger through the Ages ‐ Late DP Yadav Beginning of the Beginning Acharya Rajneesh Murder in the Cathedral T.S. Eliot Bend in the Ganges Manohar Muslim Law and the A M Bhattacharjea Malgonkar Constitution Between the Lines Kuldeep Nayyar My country My Life L.K.Advani Bewildered India-Identity, Rasheedud-din My Days R K Narayan Pluralism, Discord Khan Beyond Boundaries: A Swaraj Paul My Experiment With M K Gandhi Memoire Truth Beyond Doubt: A Dossier Teesta Setalvad My India S Nihal Singh on Gandhi’s Assassination Beyond Modernisation, Sisir Kumar Ghose My Life and Times V V Giri Beyond Self Bhagwat Gita Veda Vyas My Music My Life Pt Ravi Shankar Bharaitya Parampara Ke Govind Chandra My Music, My Love Ravi Shankar Mool Swar Pande Bharal Aur Europe My Own Boswell M Hidayatullah Bharat Bharati Maithili Sharan My Presidential Years Ramaswamy Gupta Venkataraman Bisarjan R N Tagore My Prison Diary J P Narayan Bitter Sweet Noel Coward My South Block Years J N Dixit Black Tornado: The Three Sandeep Unnithan My Struggles E K Nayanar Sieges of Mumbai 26/11 Blind Men of Hindoostan- Gen Krishnaswamy My Truth Indira Gandhi indo-Pak Nuclear War Sundarji Bliss was it in that Dawn Minoo Masani My Unforgettable Memories Borders & Boundaries: Ritu Menon & Kamla My Years with Rajiv and R.D.Pradhan

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Women in India’s Partition Bhasin Sonia ‐ Born Again on the Arunima Sinha Naari Humayun Azad Mountain Bostaan Sheikh Saadi Naganandan Harsha Vardhana Bread, Beauty and Khwaja Ahmed Nai Duniya Ko Salam & Ali Sardar Jafri Revolution Abbas Pathor Ki Dewar Breaking the Silence Anees Jung Naivedyam (The N Offering) Breakthrough Gen Moshe Dayan Naked Triangle Balwant Gargi Bride for the Sahib and Khushwant Singh Naku Thanthi D R Bendre Other Stories Bridge’s Book of Beauty Mulk Raj Anand Natya Shastra Bharat Muni Brishbikkha Bankim Chandra Nehru Family and Harbans Singh Chatterji Britain’s True History Prem Bhatia Neither a Hawk nor a dove Khurshid M Kasuari Broken Wings Sarojini Naidu Netaji-Dead or Alive Samar Guha Bubble Mulk Raj Anand New Dimensions of Atal Behari Vajpayee India’s Foreign Policy Buddha Charitam Ashvaghosha Guys Finish Second B K Nehru Bunch of Old Letters Jawaharlal Nehru Nine Days’ Wonder John Mansfield By God’s Decree Kapil Dev Nineteen Eighty-four George Orwell Canterbury Tales Chaucer Nirbashita Narir Kabita Taslima Nasreen Chemmeen Thakazhi Sivasankara Nisheeth Uma Shankar Joshi Pillai Chidambara Sumitra Nandan Pant Niti-Sataka Bhartrihari Chikaveera Rajendra Masti Venkatesh Non-Violence in Peace M K Gandhi lyengar and War Childe Harold Lord Byron Not Just an Accountant China : Confucius in the Poonam Surie Nuclear India G G Mirchandani and P Shadow K S China Passage John Kenneth Nurturing Development Ismail Serageldin Galbraith Chinese Betrayal B N Mullick Of Human Bondage Somerset Maugham Chithirappaavai P V Akilandam Old Man and the Sea Ernest Hemingway Chitra Rabindranath One Day in the Life of Alexander Solzhenitsyn Tagore Ivan Denisovitch Chitralekha Bhagwati Charan One Life is Not Enough Natwar Singh Verma Chittirappavai P.V. Akhilandam One World to Share Sridath Ramphal Comedy of Errors Shakespeare One-eyed Uncle Laxmikant Mahapatra Communist Manifesto Karl Marx Operation Bluestar-the Lt-Gen K S Brar True Story Complete Story of Indian Pradeep Baijal Origin of species Charles Darwin Reforms: 2G, Power & Private Enterprise Confessions of a Lover Mulk Raj Anand Othello Shakespeare Confidential Clerk T.S. Eliot Our Films, Their Films Confrontation with Gen B M Kaul Our India Minoo Masani Pakistan Conquest of Self Mahatma Gandhi Out of Dust F D Karaka Continent of Circle Nirad C Chaudhuri Malik Mohammed Jayasi

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Count of Monte Cristo Alexandre Dumas Painter of Signs R K Narayan Court Dancer Rabindranath Pakistan Cut to Size D R Mankekar Tagore Crescent Moon Rabindranath Pakistan in the 20th Lawrence Ziring Tagore Century Crescent Over Kashmir Anil Maheshwari Pakistan Papers Mani Shankar Aiyer Crime and Punishment Dostoevsky Pakistan, The Gathering Behazir Bhutto Storm Crisis into Chaos E M S Panchagram Tarashankar Namboodiripad Bandopadhyaya Crossing the Sacred Line- Abhilasha Kumari, Paradise Lost John Milton Women’s Sabina Crown and the Loincloth Passage to England Nirad C Chaudhuri Cuckold Kiran Nagar Kar Past Forward G R Narayanan Culture in the Vanity Bag Nirad C Chaudhuri Bibhuti Bhushan Bandyopadhyaya Curtain Raisers K Natwar Singh Pather Panchali Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyaya Dark Room R K Narayan Peace has no Alternative Mikhail Gorbachev Dark Star: The Loneliness Gautam Chintamani Peter Pan J.M. Barrie of Being Das Kapital Karl Marx Pickwick Papers Charles Dickens Dashkumar Charitam Dandi Pilgrim’s Progress John Bunyan Daughter of the East Benazir Bhutto Pilgrim’s Progress from John Bunyan this world to that which is to come David Copperfield Charles Dickens Plans for Departure Nayantara Sehgal Day in Shadow Nayantara Sehgal Playing It My Way Sachin Tendulkar and Boria Mazumder Days of My Yers H P Nanda Political Economy Sugata Bose & Ayesha Jalal Death of a City Amrita Pritam Portrait of India Ved Mehta Death-The Supreme Friend Kakasaheb Kalelkar Post Office Rabindranath Tagore Decline and Fall of Indira D R Mankekar and Prathma Pratishruti Ashapoorna Devi Gandhi Kamala Mankekar Degeneration of India T.N. Seshan Prem Pachisi Prem Chand Democracy Redeemed V K Narsimhan Price of Partition Deserted Village Goldsmith Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen Devadas Sarat Chandra Principia Isaac Newton Chatterjee Dharmashastra Manu Prison and Chocolate Nayantara Sehgal Cake Diana, The True Story A. Morton Prison Diary Jayaprakash Narayan Discovery of India Jawaharlal Nehru Prisoner’s Scrapbook L K Advani Distant Drums Manohar Prithviraj Raso Chand Bardai Malgonkar Distant Neighbours Profiles & Letters K Natwar Singh Divine Comedy Dante Public Issues Before Vijay Darda Parliament Divine Life Swami Sivananda Punjab, The Knights of K P S Gill Falsehood Don’t Laugh-We are Police Bishan Lal Vohra Quest for Conscience Madhu Dandavate

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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde R.L. Stevenson R.D. Burman: The Prince Khagesh Dev Burman of Music Dr. Zhivago Boris Pasternak Radharani Bankim Chandra Chatterjee Dramatic Decade: The Raghuvansha Kalidasa Indira Gandhi Years Dream in Hawaii Bhabani Rajtarangini Kalhana Bhattacharya Durgesh Nandini Bankim Chandra Ram Charit Manas Tulsidas Chatterjee Dynamics of Social Change Chandra Shekhar Ramayana Maharishi Valmiki (in Sanskrit) East of Eden B N Mullick Ramayana Dharshanam K V Puttappa East West Salman Rushdie Ramcharitmanas (105- Shiv Brat Lal year-old Urdu copy ) Economic Planning of India Ashok Mehta Rangbhoomi Prem Chand Economics of the Third S K Ray Rang-e-Shairi Raghupati Sahai ‘Firaq’ World Gorakhpuri Editor Unplugged: Media, Vinod Mehta Rationalised Roman for Magnates, Netas and Me Kashmiri ‐ Dr R L Bhat Education of Muslims Professor JS Rajput Ratnavali Harsha Vardhan Eight Lives Ravi Paar (Across the Gulzar Ravi) End of an Era C S Pandit Rediscovering Gandhi Yogesh Chadha Ends and Means Aldous Huxley Reminiscences of the M O Mathai Nehru Age English August Upamanyu Return of the Bhagwan S Gidwani Chatterjee Essay’s for Manmohan I J Ahluwalia & M D Returning to the Source Acharya Rajneesh Singh Little Essays on Gita Sri Aurbindo Ghosh Revenue Stamp Amrita Pritam Eternal Himalayas Major H P S Rich Like Us Nayantara Sehgal Ahluwalia Eternal India Indira Gandhi Ritu Ka Pehla Phool Vijendra Every Man a King Swett Marden Ritu Samhara Kalidas Faces and Places Prof. Deepak Nayyar River Sutra Gita Mehta Faces to Everest Maj H P S Road to Freedom K K Khullar Ahluwalia Facts are Facts Khan Abdul Wali Robaiyat Omar Khayyam Khan Faith & Fire: A Way Madhu Tandon Robinson Crusoe Daniel Defoe Within Fall of a Sparrow Salim Ali Rugby Chapel Mathew Arnold Family Life Akhil Sharma( winner Rukh Te Rishi Harbhajan Singh of the Folio Prize 2015) Far from the Madding Thomas Hardy Runs in Ruins — Sunil Crowd Gavaskar Farewell to a Ghost Sader-i-Riyasat Fasana-i-Azad Ratan Nath Sarkar Sakharam Binder Vijay Tendulkar Father and Sons Ivan Turganev Sardar Patel and Indian Rafiq Zakaria Muslims

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Final Test: Exit Sachin Dilip D’Souza Satanic Verses Salman Rushdie Tendulkar Five Point Someone Chetan Bhagat Satyartha Prakash Swami Dayanand Flames from the Ashes P D Tandon Savitri Aurobindo Ghosh Flood of Fire Amitav Ghosh Sceptred Flute Sarojini Naidu Food for All Uma Lele Scholar Extraordinary Nirad C Chaudhuri Food, Nutrition and Poverty V K R V Rao Scope of Happiness Vijayalakshmi Pandit in India For Whom the Bell Tolls Ernest Hemingway Search for Home Sasthi Brata Forbidden Sea Tara Ali Baig Search for Political Power Abhilasha & Sabina Kidwai Forsyte Saga John Galsworthy Sense of Time S H Vatsyayan Fortynine Days Amrita Pritam Seven Summers Mulk Raj Anand Fragile Frontiers: The SK Rath Shah Nama Firdausi Secret History of Mumbai Terror Attacks Freedom at Midnight Dominique Lapierre Shahnama Firdausi French Revolution Thomas Carlyle Shakuntalam Kalidas Friends and Foes Sheikh Mujibur Shape of Things to Come H. G. Wells Rehman Friends, Not Masters Ayub Khan Silas Marner George Eliot From India to America S Chandrashekhar Social Contract Rousseau Sursagar From Rajpath to Lokpath Vijaya Raja Scindia Sons and Lovers D. H. Lawrence Future of NPT Savita Pande Sourav Ganguly: Cricket, Saptarshi Sarkar Captaincy and Controversy Ganadevata Tara Shankar Strictly Personal, Bandopadhyaya Manmohan and Gursharan ‐ Daman Singh Gardener Rabindra Nath Sunny Days Sunil Gavaskar Tagore Gathering Storm Winston Churchill Super Economies Raghav Bahl Geeta Govind Jaya Dev Tehriq-e-Mujahideen Dr Sadiq Hussain Geetanjali Rabindra Nath Tagore The Accidental Prime the making and Minister unmaking of ‐ Sanjaya Baru Ghasiram Kotwal Vijay Tendulkar The Affluent Society J.K. Galbraith Ghosts of Calcutta Sebastian Ortiz The Assassination K Mohandas Gita Rahasya Bal Gangadhar The Betrayal of East Lt Gen A A K Tilak Pakistan Gitanjali Rabindra Nath The Blind Assassin Margaret Atwood Tagore Glimpses of Z A Quasim The Bubble Mulk Raj Anand Glimpses of World History Jawaharlal Nehru The Calcutta Amitav Ghosh Chromosome Globalisation, Dr. Mool Chand The Career & Legend of Sanjay Subramanyam Democratization and Sharma Vasco de Gama Distributive Justice Godrej: A Hundred Years B K Karanjia The Castle Franz Golden Gate Vikram Seth The Chinese Betrayal B N Mullick Golden Threshold Sarojini Naidu The City of Joy Dominique Lapierre Gora Rabindra Nath The Class Erich Byron

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Tagore Grammar of Politics Harold T.Laski The Clown Heinrich Boll Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck The Congress Splits R P Rao Great Depression of 1990 Ravi Batra The Courage to Act – A Ben S. Bernanke Memoir of a Crisis and Its Aftermath Great Tragedy Z.A. Bhutto The Court Dancer Rabindranath Tagore Green Signals: Ecology, Jairam Ramesh The Decline and Fall of Edward Gibbon Growth, and Democracy in the Roman Empire India The Guide R K Narayan The Defeat or Distant Bhaskar Roy Drumbeats Gul-e-Naghma Raghupati Sahai The Elephant Paradigm Gurcharan Das ‘Firaq’ Gorakhpuri Gulistan Boston Sheikh Saadi The Emperor’s New Suit Hans Chrishtian Anderson Gulliver’s Travels Jonathan Swift The God of Small Things Arundhati Roy Gulzari Lal Nanda: A Peep Promilla Kalhan The Godfather Mario Puzo Gurusagaram O V Vijayan The Inheritance of Loss Anita Desai Half Girlfriend Chetan Bhagat The Kumbh Mela: Tarun Khanna Mapping the Ephemeral Megacity Hamlet William Shakespeare The Lady of the Last Sir Walter Scott Minstrel Harsha Charit Bana Bhatt The Legacy of Nehru K. Natwar Singh Harvest Majula The Lives of Others Neel Mukherjee Padmanabhan Heat and Dust Ruth Prawer The Masters C.P.Shaw Jhabwala Heavy Weather P G Wodehouse The Merchant of Venice William Shakespeare Heir Apparent Dr Karan Singh The Moon and Six pence Somerset Maughan Henry Esmond Thackeray The Narrow Road to the Richard Flanagan Deep North Higher than Hope Fatima Meer The One Day Wonders Sunil Gavaskar Himalayan Blunder Brig J P Dalvi The Other Side of Sidney Sheldon Midnight Hind Swaraj M K Gandhi The Otherness of Self Feroz Varun Gandhi Hindi Sahitya Aur R S Chaturvedi The Tempest Shakespeare Samvedna Ka Vikas Hindu Civilisation J M Barrie The Vicar of Wakefield Oliver Goldsmith Hindu View of Life Dr S The Wrong Enemy America in Afghanistan, Radhakrishnan 2001‐ 2014 ‐ Carlotta Gall Nirad C Chaudhary Three Musketeers Alexander Dumas History of Hindu Chemistry Sir P C Ray Time Machine H.G. Wells Hitopadesh R K Narayan To the Brink and Back: Jairam Ramesh India’s 1991 Story House Divided Pearl S. Buck Tom Jones Henry Fielding Hunchback of Notre Dame Victor Hugo Tom Sawyer Mark Twain Hungry Stones Rabindranath Tagore Trail of Jesus John Masefield Hungry Stones Rabindra Nath Transcendence: My Abdul Kalam Tagore Spiritual Experiences with

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Pramukh Swamiji I am Malala ‐ Malala Treasure Island R.L. Stevenson Yousufzai and Christina Lamb I am not an Island K A Abbas Truth Always Prevails Sadruddin Hashwani I Dare Parmesh Dangwal Two Year Eight Months Salman Rushdi and Twenty –Eight Night I follow the Mahatma K M Munshi Unaccustomed Earth Jhumpa Lahiri I Muse; Therefore I am V N Narayanan Unbelievable – Delhi to Prof Bhim Singh Islamabad Idle Hours R.K. Laxman Uncle Tom’s Cabin Mrs. Haraiet Stowe Idols Sunil Gavaskar Unhappy India Lala Lajpat Rai If I am Assassinated Z.A. Bhutto Universe Around Us James Jeans In the Light of the Black Rohit Manchanda Until Darkness Parvin Ghaffari Sun n the Service of the People Promilla Kalhan Unto The Last In the Shadow of Pines Mandeep Rai Untold Story Gen B M Kaul India 2020: A Vision for the Dr A P J Abdul Urvashi Ramdhari Singh New Millennium Kalam ‘Dinkar’ India at Risk Jaswant Singh Urvashi Ram Dhari Singh Dinkar India Divided Dr.Rajendra Prasad Utopia Sir Thomas Moor India in Transition Prof Jagdish Utouchable Mulk Raj Anand Bhagwati India is for Sale Chitra Uttar Ramcharita Bhava Bhuti Subramaniam India of Our Dreams M V Kamath Vanity Fair Thackeray India Today Rajni Palme Dutt Vanity Fair Thackeray India Wins Freedom Maulana Azad Vendor of Sweets R K Narayan India, the Critial Years Kuldip Nayar Venisamhara Narayana Bhatt India’s Culture the State the B P Singh Village Mulk Raj Anand Arts & Beyond India’s Economic Crisis Dr Bimal Jalan Village by the Sea Anita Desai India-A Wounded V S Naipaul Vinay Patrika Tulsidas Civilisation India-From Curzon to Durga Dass Virangana Maithili Sharan Gupta Nehru and After India-From Midnight to the Shashi Tharoor Vish Vriksha Bankim Chandra Millennium Chatterjee India-Independence Festival Voice of Conscience V V Giri (1947-1997) Indian Arms Bazaar Maj-Gen, Pratap Voice of Freedom Nayantara Sehgal Narain Indian Home Rule M K Gandhi Waiting for God Thomas Becket Indian Muslims Prof Mohd Mujeeb Waiting for the Mahatma R K Narayan Indian Parliamentary Meira Kumar Walking With Giants ‐ G. Diplomacy- Speaker’s Ramachandran(former Perspective Finance Secretary ) Indian Philosophy Dr S Walls of Glass K A Abbas Radhakrishnan Indian War of V.D. Savarkar War and No Peace Over Maroof Raza Independence Kashmir Indira Gandhi’s Emergence Nayantara Sehgal War and peace Leo Tolstoy

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Union Budget 2017-18

Agenda: The Gist of 2017 Budget: “Transform, Energise and Clean India” This Union budget contains three major transformations • Presentation of Budget advanced to 1st February to enable the Ministries to operationalize all activities from the commencement of the financial year. • Merger of Railways Budget with General Budget to bring Railways to the centre stage of Government’s fiscal ambit.

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• Abolition of plan and non-plan classification of expenditure to facilitate a holistic view of allocations for sectors and ministries. Fiscal Status: • The total Budget expenditure allocated for 2017-18 is Rs. 21.47 lakh crores. • Fiscal deficit target set at 3.2% for 2017-18 and 3% for 2018-19. • Total resources transferred to States and Union Territories is Rs 4.11 lakh crore. Income Tax: • The tax net, income between Rs 2.5 lakh and Rs 5 lakh to be taxed at 5 % instead of the current 10% rate. • Besides Additional charge of 10% for individuals with income in the Rs.50 lakhs-Rs. 1 crore range. • 15% surcharges on income above 1 crore to continue. • No transaction above Rs 3 lakh will be permitted in Cash mode, subsequently it has been brought down to 2 Lakhs in the Finance Bill 2017. • Single Page Income Tax Return filing form for taxable income under Rs. 5 lakh. Agriculture Rs. 10 lakh crore Total Agriculture Credit to Farmers in 2017-18 Rs. 9000 crore Allocation under FasalBimaYojana for 2017-18 Rs. 20000 crore Long Term Irrigation Fund in NABARD created in 2016-17 Rs. 5000 crore Dedicated Micro Irrigation Fund to be created in NABARD Rs. 19000 Cr Digital transformation of Primary Agriculture Credit Societies (PACS) in the next 3 years by NABARD. Rs. 8000 crore Dairy Processing and Infrastructure Development Fund in NABARD Rs. 40,000 crore. NABARD fund Rs 5,000 crore A dedicated micro irrigation fund Rs 40,000 crore Irrigation corpus increased from Rs 20,000 crore to 40,000 crore Rural Population Rs 1,87,223 crore Total allocation for rural, agriculture and allied sectors Rs.48,000 crore MNREGA Rs.27,000 crore Pradhan Mantri Gram SadakYojana (PMGSY) Rs. 23000 crore Pradhan MantriAwaasYojana (Gramin) Rs. 4,814 crore DeendayalUpadhyaya Gram JyotiYojana Rs. 4,500 crore DeendayalAntyodayaYojana Infrastructure Rs. 3,96,135 crore Total Infrastructure Allocation Rs. 2,41,387 crore Allocation in Transportation Sector including rail, roads, shipping Rs. 1,31,000 crore Railway Sector Rs. 1 lakh crore Rashtriya Rail SanrakshaKosh will be created over a period of 5 years Rs. 64,900 crore Allocation for Highway Defence Rs. 2.74,114 crore Defence Sector-Allocation FINANCIALSECTOR Rs 2.44 lakh crore Pradhan Mantri Mudra Yojana Rs.20,000 crore National Housing Bank will refinance individual housing loans of about in 2017-18 Rs. 10,000 crores Recapitalisation of Banks for 2017-18 By March 2017. Banks have targeted to introduce additional 10 lakh new POS terminals

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By September 2017 Banks encouraged to introduce 20 lakh Aadhar based POS Budget Targets By 2025 Elimination of tuberculosis by 2025 targeted By March 2018. To achieve 100% rural electrification By 2020. Unmanned level crossings will be eliminated By 2019 All trains will have bio-toilets By 2019 To bring 1 crore households out of poverty

• Pradhan Mantri Kausha lKendras to be extended to more than 600 districts across the country. • Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB) will be abolished. • Two new All India Institutes of Medical Sciences to be set up in Jharkhand and Gujarat. • The holding period for considering the Capital Gain Tax of immovable property has been increased from 2 years to 3 years. • Minimum Alternate Tax (MAT) has been proposed to be carry forwarded for 15 years instead of 10 years. • In MSME sector for companies with turnover uptoRs. 50 crore the income tax will be reduced to 25%. • Basic customs duty on LNG reduced from 5% to 2.5

International Sports Organizations

Organization Headquarters Badminton World Federation (BWF) Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) Zurich, Switzerland Fédération internationale des échecs (FIDE) or World Chess Federation Athens, Greece International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) Monaco International Basketball Federation (FIBA) Mies, Switzerland International Boxing Association (AIBA) Lausanne, Switzerland International Canoe Federation (ICF) Lausanne, Switzerland International Cricket Council (ICC) Dubai, UAE International Cycling Union (UCI) Aigle, Switzerland International Equestrian Federation (FEI) Lausanne, Switzerland International Golf Federation (IGF) Lausanne, Switzerland International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) Lausanne, Switzerland International Handball Federation (IHF) Basel, Switzerland International Hockey Federation (FIH) Lausanne, Switzerland International Judo Federation Lausanne, Switzerland International Modern Pentathlon Union (UIPM) Monaco, Monaco International Olympic Committee Lausanne, Switzerland International Shooting Sports Federation (ISSF) Munich, Germany International Swimming Federation (FINA) Lausanne, Switzerland International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) Lausanne, Switzerland International Tennis Federation (ITF) London, Great Britain International Volleyball Federation (FIVB) Lausanne, Switzerland International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) Istvanmezei ut, Hungary United World Wrestling (UWW) Corsier-sur-Vevey, Switzerland World Archery Federation (FITA) Lausanne, Switzerland 101 | Page

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World Rowing Federation (FISA) Lausanne, Switzerland World Rugby Dublin, Ireland World Sailing Hampshire, Great Britain

Steel Plants in India Place State Bhilai Steel Plant Chattisgarh Rourkela Steel Plant Orissa Bokaro Steel Plant Jharkhand Durgapur Steel Plant West Bengal IISCO Steel Plant, Burnpur West Bengal Salem Steel Plant Tamilnadu Visvesvaraya Steel Plant, Karnataka Bhadravati Visakhapatnam Steel Plant Andhra Pradesh Tata Steel Ltd Jamshedpur, Jharkhand Essar Steel Hazira, Gujarat JSW Steel Vijayanagar, Karnataka Jindal Steel and Power Ltd Raigarh, Chhattisgarh Bhushan Steel Ltd Sahibabad (U.P.), Khopoli (Mah), Dhenkanal (Odisha)

Important Lakes in India • Largest fresh water lakes in Asia & India - Wular Lake, Kashmir • Largest artificial lake in Asia - Upper lake, Madhya Pradesh • Largest saline water lake in india - chika lake, Orissa • Longest lake in India - Vembanad,kerala • Highest Lake in india - Cholamu Lake,Sikkim

Name of the State Name of the Lake Andhra Pradesh Kolleru Lake Pulicat Lake Assam Chandubi Lake Chapanala Lake Haflong Lake Son Beel Lake Bihar Kanwar Lake Gujarat Sursagar Lake Thol Lake Himachal Pradesh Brighu Lake Dashair and Kareri and Kumarwah lake Macchial Lake 102 | Page

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Pandoh Lake Seruvalsar and Manimahesh Lake Haryana Beauty lake Current lake Jammu and Kashmir Dal Lake Tso Moriri Wular Lake Karnataka Agara Lake Bellandur Lake Byrasandra Lake Kempambudhi Lake Lalbagh Lake Madiwala Lake Puttenahalli Lake Sankey Lake Ulsoor Lake Dalavai Lake Devanoor Lake Lingambudhi Lake Honnamana Kere Kerala Kuttanad Lake Maanaanchira, Kozhikode Manakody Kayal , Thrissur city Paravur Kayal Punnamada Lake Shasthamkotta lake , Thrissur city , Thrissur Vembanad Lake Madhya Pradesh Bhoj Wetland

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Lower Lake Moti lake Sarang pani lake Shahpura lake Tawa Reservoir Upper Lake Maharashtra Gorewada Lake Khindsi Lake Mehrun Lake Pashan Lake Shivasagar lake Talao Pali Upvan Lake Venna Lake Meghalaya Umiam Lake Manipur Loktak Lake Mizoram Palak dïl Tam Dil Odisha Anshupa Lake Chilika Lake Kanjia lake Punjab Harike Lake Kanjli Lake Ropar Lake Rajasthan Jaisamand Lake Jal Mahal, Man Sagar lake Kaylana Lake Rajsamand Lake Ramgarh Lake Talwara Lake Rangsagar lake Uday sagar Lake Sikkim Gurudongmar Lake Lake Tsongmo Lake Cholamu Telangana Alwal Cheruvu Lake Durgam Cheruvu (Secret Lake) Himayat Sagar Hussain Sagar

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Osman Sagar Safilguda Lake Saroornagar Lake Shamirpet Lake Tamil Nadu Berijam Lake Kaliveli Lake Kaveripakkam Lake Kodaikanal Lake Ooty Lake Perumal Eri Red Hills Lake Sholavaram Lake Singanallur Lake Uttar Pradesh Amakhera Lake Barua Sagar Tal Belasagar Lake Bhadi Tal Chando Tal Lake Keetham Lake Nachan Tal Ramgarh Tal Lake Sheikha Jheel Uttarakhand Skeleton Lake ( Lake) Bhimtal Lake Dodital Nainital Lake Naukuchiatal Sat Tal West Bengal Debar Lake East Calcutta Wetlands Jore Pokhri Lake Rabindra Sarobar Rasikbil Santragachhi Lake Senchal Lake Important Musical Personalities in India

Musical Person Instrument Flute Hari Prasad Chaurasia, Ghatam T.H. Vinayakram, E.M. Subramaniam Guitar Braj Bhushan Kabra Mandolin U Srinivas Mohan Veena Pt. Vishwa Mohan Bhat (inventor of Mohan Veena) K.V. Prasad, S.V. Rajarao, Umalayapuram Sivaraman Pakhawaj Totaram Sharma Rudra Veena Asad Ali Khan Saarangi Shakoor Khan, Pt , Ramesh Mishra, 105 | Page

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Santoor Pt Shiv Kumar Sharma, Sopori , , , Buddhadev Das Gupta Shehnai , Krishna Ram Chaudhary, Ali Ahmad Hussain Sitar Pt Ravi Shankar, Khan, , Anushka Shankar Surbahaar Devi Zakir Hussain, Allah Rakha, Sabir Khan, Pt. , Pt. , Sandeep Das Veena Zia Mohiuddin Dagar, Ayyagari Syamasundaram, Violin M.S. Gopalakrishnan, Smt M. Rajam, N.R. Muralidharan, M. Chandrasekharan, V.G. , Vocalist S. Radhakrishna Srinivasa Iyer, M.S. Subbulakshmi, M. Balamuralikrishna, D. K. (Carnatic Pattammal, Ariyakudi Ramanuja Iyengar, S Pinakapani Music) Vocalist , Mallikarjun Bheemarayappa Mansur, , Pandit , (Hindustani , , , Rahim Fahimuddin Music) Dagar, Chhannu Lal Mishra, Ramakant Gundecha, Umakant Gundecha, Rajan and Sajan Mishra Archeological Sites in India Place Location Harappa Montgomery (Sahiwal) district of Punjab in Pakistan. Mohenjodaro Larkana district of Sind in Pakistan. Lothal Ahmedabad in Gujarat. Kalibangan Hanumangarh district of Rajasthan. Dholavira Kachchh district in Gujarat. Bhiranna in Haryana. Fatehabad district in Haryana. Adichchanallur Thoothukudi district in Tamilnadu. Jorwe Ahmednagar district in Maharashtra. Daimabad Ahmednagar district in Maharashtra. Shortugai Northern Afghanistan. Chanhudaro Mullan Sandh, Sindh in Pakistan. Amri Dadu, Sindh in Pakistan. Mehrgarh Balochistan in Pakistan Ganeriwala Punjab, Pakistan. district in Haryana. Attirampakkam district in Tamil Nadu

Foreign banks with branches in India

List of banks which are incorporated outside India and are operating branches in India Australian banks Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Commonwealth Bank of Australia National Australia Bank Westpac Banking Corporation Bahraini banks Bank of Bahrain and Kuwait Bangladeshi banks AB Bank Sonali Bank Belgian bank Antwerp Diamond Bank Canadian bank Bank of Nova Scotia Chinese bank Industrial & Commercial Bank of China

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French banks BNP Paribas Credit Agricole Societe Generale German banks Deutsche Bank Indonesian bank Bank Internasional Indonesia Japanese banks Mizuho Corporate Bank Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi Mauritian bank State Bank of Mauritius Dutch bank Rabobank Qatari bank Doha bank Russian banks Sberbank VTB Omani bank HSBC Bank Oman Singaporean banks DBS Bank United Overseas Bank South African bank FirstRand Bank South Korean banks Shinhan Bank Woori Bank Sri Lankan bank Bank of Ceylon Swiss banks Credit Suisse UBS AG Taiwanese bank Chinatrust Commercial Bank Thai bank Krung Thai Bank UAE banks Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank Mashreq Bank UK banks HSBC Barclays Bank Standard Chartered Bank Royal Bank of Scotland(RBS N.V) US banks American Express Bank of America Citibank P. Morgan Chase Bank

Foreign banks with representative offices in India

List of foreign banks with representative offices in India Austrian bank Raiffeisen Zentral bank Belgian bank KBC Bank Canadian banks Royal Bank of Canada Toronto Dominion Bank French banks Credit Industriel et Commercial Natixis German banks Commerzbank DZ Bank KfW Landesbank Baden-Württemberg Italian banks Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena Banca Popolare di Milano Banca Popolare di Vicenza 107 | Page

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Intesa Sanpaolo UBI Banca Malaysian bank CIMB Nepalese bank Everest Bank Norwegian bank DNB ASA Portuguese bank Caixa Geral de Depositos Russian banks Gazprom bank Promsvyaz bank Vnesheconom bank South Korean banks Industrial Bank of Korea Kookmin Bank Korea Exchange Bank Spanish Banks Banco de Sabadell Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria Caixabank Sri Lankan bank Hatton National Bank Swedish banks Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken Zurcher Kantonalbank Taiwanese banks Bank of Taiwan Mega International Commercial Bank Turkish bank Bank Asya UAE banks Emirates NBD First Gulf Bank UK bank Duncan Lawrie US banks Bank of New York Mellon Wells Fargo Bank Singapore Banks Development Bank of Singapore

Military, Army & Airforce Exercises

Exercises Name Country Anaconda India and Poland Ausindex India and Australia Balikatan or Shoulder-to- Shoulder USA and Philippines Cobra Gold US and Thailand Desert Eagle India and UAE Druzhba(Friendship) Russia and Pakistan Eager Lion USA and Jordan Foal Eagle South Korea and USA Garuda India and France Gurada Shakti India and Indonesia Hand In Hand India and China Indra India and Russia Indradhanush Or Rainbow India and UK India and Britain Lamitye India and Seychelles Maitree India and Thailand Malabar India, Japan and United States Mithra Shakti India and Sri Lanka. Naseem Al Bahr India and Oman

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Nomadic Elephant India and Mongolia Prabal Dostyk India and Kazhakhstan Rabal Dostyk India & Kazakhstan Sahyog– Hyeobleed India and South Korea Sahyog- Kaijin India and Japan Sagarmatha Friendship China & Nepal Sea China and Russia Shaheen (Eagle)5 Pakistan and China Shakti India and France Simbex India and Singapore Sino India Cooperation 2016 India and China Slinex India and Sri Lanka Surya Kiran India and Nepal TROPEX Inter-service military exercise of Varuna India and France Yudh Abhyas India and USA

VERSION DETAILS

Version 1: Gk capsule version 1 released on July 2016.

Version 2: Gk capsule version 2 released on 15th Nov 2016. The new hook points are 1.Longest Strait, Longest Railway, Longest Bridge, etc in the Superlatives of world(p.no:2), added new 3 Heritage sites of India in India’s World Heritage Sites(p no:13) and first worldTsunami Awareness Day – Nov 5(p no 54). 2. we included some new gk facts like Gardens in India, Memorial places of Famous Indian Personalities, Important River Projects, Founders of News paper in Olden day, Important Rivers on Indian Cities, Famous Indian Sports Personalities, Space Agency and Indian Missiles(from p.no 73)

Version 3: Gk capsule version 3 released on 24th Dec 2016. In this vesion we have included list of central government schemes and impotant books & authors (from p.no 85)

Version 4: Gk capsule version 4 released on 25th May 2017. In latest version we have updated the table with lastest facts on superlatives of world & India, First in world & India, Government schemes. Also we have added some new gk facts from page no 99.

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