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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
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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.
Both were set up in the year 1945
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. Everest in 1953.
ü Zaid or Zayar is the term used for crop grown between the Rabi and Kharif crop.
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ü India’s first satellite Aryabhatta (1975) and second satellite Bhaskara-I (1979) both were
launched from Baikanour Comsodrome (USSR).
ü Bhaskara-I was India’s first earth observations satellite.
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.
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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.
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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.
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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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mohit goyal • 4 months ago
'punganur" breed in which country...???????
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Lakshmipathi Pathy • 2 months ago mohit goyal
india , andhrapradesh ,chittoor district , punganuru mandal
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bharath kumar • 5 months ago
thank u sir.....very useful to us.....
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