ABBREVIATIONS COFEPOSA CARE CHOGM CSO CVRDE EPZ ESMA FEMA GATE HUDCO
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Conservation of Foreign Exchange and Prevention of Smuggling Act Co-operative for American Relief Everywhere Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting Central Statistical Organisation Combat Vehicles Research Development Establishment Export Processing Zone Essential Services Maintenance Act Foreign Exchange Management Act Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering Housing and Urban Development Corporation
SUPERLATIVES Largest delta Largest diamond Largest archipelago Smallest bird Largest library
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Largest sea bird Largest sea Hottest place Largest peninsula Largest museum
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Longest mountain range Deepest lake Largest gulf Largest desert Largest creature
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Sunderban The Cullinan Indonesia Humming Bird United States Library of Congress, Washington (more than 59,000,000 items) Albatross South China Sea Azizia (Libya, Africa 580c (1360F)) Arabia American Museum of Natural History, New York City Andes, South America - 8,800 km long Baikal (Siberia); Average depth 701 metre Gulf of Mexico Sahara (Africa) Blue Whale
PARLIAMENTS COUNTRY USA Sweden Russia Japan Denmark Israel China Iran Nepal Poland Afghanistan Norway Spain Switzerland
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Congress Riksdag Duma Diet Folketing knesset National Peoples Congress Majlis National Panchayat Sejm Shora Storting Crotes Federal Assembly
Branches of Science Eugenics
: is the study of ways in which the physical and mental characteristic of the human race may be improved. Modern elemination of genetic diseases. : The science dealing with the production, control and application of very low temperature. : It is the process of extracting metals from their ores. : The cure of disease by the internal and external use of water. : It is the method of treating diseases by sunlight. : It is the science of launching projectiles into space.
Cryogenics Metallurgy Hydropathy Heliotherapy Ballistics
Years 1885 1905 1906 1911 1911 1917 1919 1919 1924 1929 1930 1932 1937 1942 1945 1946 1948 1950
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Formation of Indian National Congress Partition of Bengal by Lord Curzon Muslim League was formed at Dacca Partition of Bengal was cancelled by Lord Hardinge India's Capital was Shifted from Calcutta to Delhi Gandhiji’s Champaran campaign launched Jallianwala Bagh Massacre Khilafat Movement Communist Party of India was formed Poorna Swaraj resolution at Lahore session Gandhiji’s Dandi March Third Round Table Conference Provincial Autonomy Quit India Movement Trial of INA at Red Fort British Cabinet Mission visited India Death of Mahatma Gandhi India becomes a Republic
Wildlife sanctuaries and national parks Hazaribagh Sivapuri National Park Kanha National Park Jim Corbet National Park Manas Sanctuary Ghana Bird Sanctuary Bandipur Sanctuary Dachigam Sanctuary Chandra Prabha Sanctuary Kaziranga Sanctuary Periyar Sanctuary Bharatpur Nagerhole Tadoba National Park Gir Lion Sanctuary
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Bihar Madhya Pradesh Madhya Pradesh Uttaranchal Assam Rajasthan Karnataka Kashmir Uttar Pradesh Assam Kerala Rajasthan Karnataka Maharashtra Gujarat
First in India Actress to win Padma Shri Award Bharat Ratna Award winner Miss World Field Marshal Elected President Cosmonaut Chief Justice of India Chief Election Commissioner Chairman of Rajya Sabha Woman to swim the English Channel Woman Jnanpith Award winner Woman IPS officer Woman Governor
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Nargis Dutt (1958). C. Rajagopalachari (1954). Reita Faria (1966). S.H.F.J. Manekshaw (1973). S. Radhakrishnan (1962-67). Rakesh Sharma (1984). Harilal J. Kania (1950-51). Sukumar Sen (1950-58). S.V. Krishnamoorthy (1952). Arati Saha (1959). Ashapurna Devi (1976). Kiran Bedi (1974). Sarojini Naidu (1947).
National Laboratories National Physical Laboratory National Institute of Oceanography National Environment Engineering Research Institute (NEERI) Indian Institute of Petroleum National Chemical Laboratory Central Road Research Institute Central Mining Research Station Central Drug Research Institute Central Building Research Institute Central Food Technological Research Institute Central Leather Research Institute National Aeronautical Laboratory
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New Delhi Panaji (Goa)
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Nagpur Dehra Dun (Uttaranchal) Pune New Delhi Dhanbad (Bihar) Lucknow (UP) Roorkee (UP)
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Mysore Chennai Bangalore
Sports Terms Scoop Baton Fault Punch Ashes Chinaman Off side Bull’s eye Deuce Scissors Volley
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Hockey Relay (Athletics) Badminton/Tennis Boxing Cricket Cricket Football/Hockey Shooting Tennis Wrestling Tennis
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COUNTRIES WITH CHANGED NAMES New Name
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Iraq Iran Zimbabwe Malaysia Ghana Surinam Myanmar Guyana
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Mesopotamia Persia Rhodesia Malaya Gold Coast Dutch Guiana Burma British Guiana
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Japan Taiwan India
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FIRST IN THE WORLD Woman to reach North Pole Test Tube Baby Woman Prime Minister of a country Woman President of a country Men on Mt. Everest without Oxygen
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Ann Bancroft Louise Joy Brown
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Sirimavo Bandaranaike (1960) Maria Estela Peron (Argentina)
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Reinhold Messner and Peter Habeler (1978)
Foreigner to get Bharat Ratna First Chinese pilgrim to visit India Englishman to receive Nobel Prize for Literature Pope to visit India Woman to climb Mount Everest Muslim invader of India
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Rudyard Kipling (1907) Pope Paul VI Junko Taibei Mohammad-bin-Qasim
Quotations A little knowledge is a dangerous thing Man is by nature a political animal Fools rush in where angels fear to tread A thing of beauty is a joy for ever ‘Just as I would not like to be a slave, so I would not like to be a master’ I came, I saw, I conquered Jai Jawan Jai Kisan Gharibi Hatawo Child is the father of man
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Alexander Pope Aristotle Alexander Pope John Keats
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Abraham Lincoln Julius Caesar Lal Bahadur Shastri Indira Gandhi Wordsworth
Pen names of Malayalam writers Kovilan Omcheri Sanjayan Cynic Nandanar Thikkodian Uroob Vilasini Mali Kakkanadan
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V.V. Ayyappan N. Narayana Pillai M.R. Nair M. Vasudevan P.C. Gopalan P. Kunjananthan P.C. Kuttikrishnan M.K. Menon V. Madhavan Nair George Vargheese
Important Years in World History 776 BC 4 BC AD 570 622 1215 1492 1688 1776 1789 1815 1848 1918 1948
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First Olympiad in Greece Birth of Jesus Christ Birth of Prophet Mohammed Beginning of Hijra Era Signing of Magna Carta Columbus discovered America Glorious Revolution in England American War of Independence French Revolution Battle of Waterloo Publication of Communist Manifesto First World War ended Myanmar and Sri Lanka achieved independence Nuclear Test Ban Treaty First artificial satellite was launched by Russia
Reforms and Events During British Period First Census Communal Award Doctrine of Lapse Dyarchy INA Trial Jallianwala Bagh Tragedy Permanent Settlement Quit India Sepoy Mutiny Subsidiary Alliance Cabinet Mission
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Ripon Wellington Dalhousie Chelmsford Wavell Chelmsford Cornwallis Linlithgow Canning Wellesley Wavell
Alternate names Bard of Avon Sultan of Beypore Man of Destiny The Birdman of India Andhra Kesari Lok Nayak Father of Medicine Lady with the Lamp Poet’s Poet Rajaji Deenabandhu Grand Old Man of India Father of History Father of Indian Industry Father of Modern Chemistry Father of Indian Renaissance Banga bandhu Tiger of the Snows Indian Napoleon Man of Blood and Iron Guruji Maid of Orleans Father of Biology Kerala Simham Lokmanya Nightingale of India
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William Shakespeare Vaikom Mohammed Basheer Napoleon Bonaparte SalimAli T. Prakasam Jayaprakash Narayan Hippocrates Florence Nightingale Edmund Spenser C. Rajagopalachari C.F. Andrews Dadabhai Naoroji Herodotus Jamshedji Tata Joseph Priestley Raja Ram Mohan Roy Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Tenzing Norgay Samudragupta Bismarck M.S. Golwalkar Joan of Arc Aristotle Pazhassy Raja Bal Gangadhar Tilak Sarojini Naidu
Diseases and affected body parts
PNEUMONIA MENINGITIS ECZEMA AIDS GOITRE JAUNDICE TRACHOMA TUBERCULOSIS MALARIA RHEUMATISM DIABETES ARTHRITIS CATARACT DIPHTHERIA TYPHOID PYORRHOEA
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LUNGS BRAIN AND SPINAL CORD SKIN IMMUNE SYSTEM THYROID GLAND LIVER EYES LUNGS SPLEEN JOINTS PANCREAS INFLAMMATION OF JOINTS EYES THROAT INTESTINE; WHOLE BODY GUMS
Historically important places Mount Blanc
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Yellow Sea Lumbini Kremlin Pearl Harbour
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It is the highest mountain peak in Europe in the Alps on the confines of Italy and France. It is a sea between China and Korea It is the birthplace of Buddha in Nepal. It is in Moscow. It is the headquarters of Russia. US naval base in Hawai Island. The Japanese attack of this brought them into the second world war. It is in Washington. It is the defence head-quarters of USA. It is in Italy, well known for its leaning tower It is on river Zambezi in Central Africa. It is 1,700 metres wide. It is in Lhasa, the capital of Tibet. Dalai Lama’s palace is situated here. It is in France, famous for the luxurious resorts and world-renowned car rally. 2,400 km long wall constructed by the Chinese Emperor Shih Hwang Ti.
Important Days April 23 May 8 May 11 June 5 September 16 September 27 October 1 October 16 October 30 December 1 December 10
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World Book Day Red Cross Day National Technology Day World Environment Day Ozone Day World Tourism Day Day of the Elderly World Food Day World Thrift Day World AIDS Day Human Rights Day
The first to visit India American President Russian Prime Minister
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British Prime Minister British Monarch Chinese Premier First Pope
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Geographical Epithets Bengal’s Sorrow Blue Mountains City of Sky Scrapers City of Seven Hills City of Dreaming Spires City of Palaces City of Golden Gate City of Magnificient Distances Cockpit of Europe China’s Sorrow Dark Continent Emerald Island Eternal City Forbidden City Garden City Gate of Tears Gateway of India Gift of Nile Granite City Holy Land Herring Pond Hermit Kingdom Island Continent Island of Cloves Island of Pearls Key to the Mediterranean Land of the Rising Sun Land of Golden Fleece Land of Midnight Sun Loneliest Island Land of Morning Calm Land of Thousand Lakes Land of the Thunderbolt Land of Maple Land of White Elephant Land of Cakes Never Never land Playground of Europe Pearl of the Antilles Pillars of Hercules Pearl of the Pacific Quaker City Queen of the Adriatic Roof of the World
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Damodar River Nilgiri Hills New York Rome Oxford Calcutta San Francisco Washington Belgium Hwang-Ho Africa Ireland Rome Lhasa (Tibet) Chicago Strait of Bab-el-Mandeb Mumbai Egypt Aberdeen Palestine Atlantic Ocean Korea Australia Zanzibar Bahrein (Persian Gulf) Gibraltar Japan Australia Norway Tristan De Gunha (Mid Atlantic) Korea Finland Bhutan Canada Thailand Scotland Vast Prairies of North Australia Switzerland Cuba Straits of Gibraltar Guyayaquil port of Equador Philadelphia Venice The Pamirs, Central Asia
