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ü Zero was
invented by Unknown Indian.
ü Nitrous
Oxide (N2O) is commonly known as Laughing gas.
ü National
environmental engineering institute was established in Nagpur in the year 1958.
ü WTO head Quarters Geneva, Switzerland. WTO
Director-General Roberto Azevedo.
ü TEMPLE TREES: This
is the official residence of the President of Sri Lanka.
ü MNP
(Mobile number Portability). MNP was first introduced in Haryana in the year
2010. On January 20, 2011 it was extended to the entire country.
ü The Wagah border
lies on the Grand Trunk road connecting Amritsar and Lahore.
ü The
towns of Baarle-Nassau in Netherlands and Baarle-Hertog in Belgium are so
deeply intertwined
that it is very common to find the white crosses the divide the 2 countries
running through a road, a restaurant or even a house.
ü The
citizens of Australia and New Zealand can work and live in either country
without restrictions.
ü India
shares open
border policy with Nepal.
ü The
smallest sea island ‘Market Island’
is shared by Sweden and Finland.
ü The
Berlin wall that separated East and West Germany epitomized as the Iron
Curtain, a boundary between the ‘Free World’ and the Communist World.
ü As per
Schengen agreement one does not require any special travel documents to cross
over to another European country.
ü International
Monitory Fund and International Bank for Reconstruction and Development or
World Bank, both put together is called Bretton Woods twins.
ü International
Monitory Fund and World Bank both Head quarters located in Washington
ü PLUTO lost the status of a planet.
ü Edmund
Hillary (New Zealand ) and
Tensing Norgay (Nepal )
called "Tiger
of the snows", became the first men to scale Mt.
ü Zaid or
Zayar is the term used for crop grown between the Rabi and Kharif crop.
ü India
ü Bhaskara-I was India
ü Geosynchronous
orbit (36,000
km) is an earth orbit made by an artificial satellite moving
west to east direction
ü The
National Museum of Natural History was set up in the year 1772 in Madrid
(Spain) is the first museum of its kind.
ü Karakoram
Highway connects Pakistan-occupied Kashmir with xianjing in China. This is 800
km long.
ü June 5th
World Environment day.
ü July 11th World
population day.
ü RBI
prints all currency notes except one rupee note and other coins.
ü One
rupee note printed and coins are minted by the Ministry of Finance.
ü Note:
The Ministry stopped printing the one rupee notes.
ü The
highest currency denomination at present in India is Rs. 1000/- notes.
ü The maximum
permissible denomination that RBI can issue Rs. 10,000/- notes.
ü The
“Punganur’ cow is the World’s smallest breed (type, variety) of cows. This cow
milk contains highest fat (8 percent) content and rich medicinal properties.
ü Normally
cow milk contains 3 to 3.5 percent fat.
ü Bengal
Gazette was the first major news paper started in India in
1780.
ü Liver is
the largest
gland in the human body.
ü In India
between 1872 to 1931 caste based census was conducted.
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ü After
independence government conducted the caste based census for the 1st time in 2011.
ü
MMTS -
for Multi Model Transport System.
ü
DHMU -
for Diesel Hydraulic Multiple Unit.
ü IED -
Improvised Explosive Devise
ü SaaS
(Software as a Service) is an application hosted on a remote server and
accessed through internet.
ü WIMAX (Worldwide
interoperability for Microwave access) is a telecommunication technology that
provides wireless data in various ways.
ü CLOUD COMPUTING is a
general term for anything that involves delivering hosted services through
internet.
ü Bing,
Wolframalpha, Kosmix, Cuil are the names of various search engines.
ü Orkut,
Face book, Twitter, My Space, LinkedIn are the names of various Social networks.
ü Sulphuric
Acid is the most important industrial chemical in the world. A most commonly
used strong acid.USA is the largest producer of the same.
ü Satyajit
ray and Latha Mangeshkar are the two persons who won both Bharat Ratna and Dada
Sahib Phalke awards.
ü Indian
institute of science is located in Bangalore.
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ü China
was the 1st country to introduce paper currency. Cowries
shells were used by the Chinese as a medium of exchange.
ü Assam
was called Kamrupa.
ü Paper
industry started in China in 1 AD.
ü 12th
FIVE YEAR PLAN
period April 1, 2012 to March 31, 2017.
ü
Kalapani and Susta is the dispute between India and
Nepal.
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