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ü NOTA:
None of the above
ü FMD:
Foot and Mouth Disease. This is an air borne disease. It is an infectious viral
disease that affects the animals.
ü Kyaunggon
was the old name of Rangoon
ü Times
Square: It is located in New York. It is nickname as ‘Crossroads of the World’.
ü Dainik
Jagaran is the news paper with the highest readership in the country and
followed by Dainik Bhasker
ü BMI:
Body Mass Index. If BMI exceeds 27.5 kg/m2 then people are
considered to be obese. If BMI is equal to or greater than 35 kg/m2
it is morbid obesity. The BMI is calculated by dividing the person’s weight in
kilograms with the square of height in meters. BMI = weight (in kgs) divided by
Height2 (m2).
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ü IVRS:
Interactive Voice response System.
ü SMS:
Short Messaging Service
ü PAN
means Permanent Account Number.
ü The
Madam Tussauds Museum is located in London. The wax models of historical and
Royal figures, film stars, sport stars etc are displayed.
ü Escape velocity
of earth 11.2 km per second.
ü Green
Cars are those cars that run with CNG (Compressed Natural Gas), LPG (liquefied
Petroleum Gas) and with electric engine.
ü Highest
numbers of air ports are present in USA (15079).
ü Sir
Robert Cheese Brow (1837 – 1933) is the inventor of Vaseline Petroleum gelly.
ü The life
expectancy is lowest in Swaziland (32 years). Here more than 61 percent of the
people die of AIDS every year.
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ü BBC:
British Broadcasting Corporation. This is the world’s largest public
broadcasting service.
ü In Radar
system, Radio waves are used to locate the existence of an object.
ü As on
November 12, 2013, three Chief Ministers are the members of the State Legislative
Council (Upper House). They are Nitish Kumar (Bihar), Akilesh Yadav (Uttar
Pradesh) and Prithviraj Chouhan (Maharashtra).
ü Sun
Temple: This is located in Konark, Odisha. This is also known as Black Pagoda
because of the black tint of the stone. The temple was built during the reign
of King Narsimha Dev (1234 – 64).
ü Aruna:
This is the name of the charioteer of the Sun God.
ü “Smiling Buddha” is the code name
of the India’s 1st nuclear programme conducted in 1974 in Pokhran
(Rajasthan).
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ü “Operation Shakti” is the name of
Pokhran-II conducted by India May 11 and May 13, 1998.
ü Lion was the National animal of India up to
1972.
ü Since
1972, National animal is Tiger.
NATIONAL SYMBOLS:
ü National Animal: The magnificent tiger, (Panthera Tigris).
ü National Bird: The Indian peacock (Peafowl), (Pavo Cristatus).
ü National Flower: Lotus (Nelumbo Nucipera Gaertn).
ü National Tree: The Banyan tree (Ficus benghalensis).
ü National Fruit: Mango (Manigifera Indica).
ü National River: Ganges
ü National Aquatic
Animal: Gangetic Dolphin
ü National Reptile: King Cobra (Ophiophagus hanna)
ü National Heritage
Animal: Elephant (Elephas Maximus
indicus)
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ü The
tenure of a service Chief (Army, Air Force and Navy) is 3 years or till the age
of 62 years whichever is earlier.
ü Air Force One (Rajdoot, Rajhans &
Rajkamal) fleet. This is modeled on US Presidents Air Force One. Indian
President traveled on Rajdoot to Assam.
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ü Bass Strait separates Tasmania from the South
of the Australian mainland.
ü The
right of suffrage (Voting) for Lok sabha and assemblies is mentioned under Article 326
of the Indian Constitution. In the original Constitution the minimum age to
vote was 21 and through 61st amendment in the year 1989 it
was reduced to 18 years.
ü Yuri
Gagarin (USSR) was the first Cosmonaut to go into space in the year
1961 in a space craft called Vostok-1.
ü Valentina
Tereshkova (USSR) is the first woman to go into space in the year 1963.
She travelled through Vostok-6.
ü Neil Armstrong (US) along with Edwin Aldrin
was the first
to land on Moon on July 20, 1969. They travelled through Apollo-11(Eagle)
landed on sea of Tranquility on Moon.
ü Rakesh
Sharma was the first Indian to go into space in the year
1984. He went in a space craft called Soyuz T-11.
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ü Kalpana
Chawla died
in the crash of space shuttle Columbia STS-107 on February 1, 2003.
ü India's
1st meteorological satellite METSAT renamed as Kalpana-1.
ü The
Sankranti festival is the festival of the Sun god who is regarded as the symbol of
divinity and wisdom.
ü The
Sankranti marks the Sun’s transition from Dhanur rasi (Sagittarius) to Makara
rasi (Capricorn). This also means that the Suns is on its northwards journey or
Uttarayan bringing it closer to the northern hemisphere.
ü The
Sankranti festival is called Pongal in Tamil Nadu, Lohri (Punjab), Bhogali Bihu
(Assam).
ü Central
Hindu College at Banaras was founded by Dr Annie Besant in the year 1898. It
was developed into Banaras Hindu University by Pandit Madan Mohan
Malaviya.
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