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INDEX
1. Who What Where ...................................................................................................................................................................................................... 2
2. Indian Ambassadors to various countries .............................................................................................................................................................. 5
3. Cyclones in India 2021 .............................................................................................................................................................................................. 6
4. Indian State of Forest Report 2021 ........................................................................................................................................................................... 6
5. Changed Name of Cities & Other............................................................................................................................................................................ 7
6. Major upcoming missions of ISRO .......................................................................................................................................................................... 8
7. Major Operations of India ........................................................................................................................................................................................ 8
8. National & International Appointments of India 2021-22.................................................................................................................................... 9
9. First in India and World ......................................................................................................................................................................................... 10
10. MoUs Signed In the Year : 2021-22 ...................................................................................................................................................................... 12
11. Committees & Commission ................................................................................................................................................................................. 12
12. International Summits and Conferences 2021-22 .............................................................................................................................................. 13
13. International Summits and Conferences 2019 ................................................................................................................................................... 15
14. New Education Policy, 2020 ................................................................................................................................................................................. 16
15. Indexes and reports released by the Indian Government ................................................................................................................................ 17
16. Economic Survey 2021-22 ..................................................................................................................................................................................... 18
17. Annual General Budget 2022-23 .......................................................................................................................................................................... 19
18. Central Government Scheme ............................................................................................................................................................................... 21
19. GI. Tags ................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 25
20. List of Reports & Indices of Different Organization ......................................................................................................................................... 28
21. Awards & Honours ............................................................................................................................................................................................... 30
22. International Summits, Conferences and it’s Venues ....................................................................................................................................... 39
23. List of Chief Ministers & Governors of Indian States ....................................................................................................................................... 41
24. Cabinet Ministers of India with their Portfolios & Constituencies ................................................................................................................. 42
25. Important Days and Themes ................................................................................................................................................................................ 45
26. Nobel Prize and India ........................................................................................................................................................................................... 51
27. Olympics Games .................................................................................................................................................................................................... 52
28. International Organizations ................................................................................................................................................................................. 54
29. Indian Military Exercises ...................................................................................................................................................................................... 56
30. India’s Global Indices Ranking ............................................................................................................................................................................ 57
31. Badminton & Tennis Winners .............................................................................................................................................................................. 58
32. Vyasa Samman Winner......................................................................................................................................................................................... 59
33. Saraswati Samman Winners List (1991-2021) .................................................................................................................................................... 59
34. Jnanpith Award ..................................................................................................................................................................................................... 60
35. Booker Prize Winner 2020 & 21 ........................................................................................................................................................................... 61
36. Sahitya Akademi Award 2021 ............................................................................................................................................................................. 63
37. Film Awards 2022 .................................................................................................................................................................................................. 63
38.List of Presidents and Prime Ministers of Important Countries In World ...................................................................................................... 64
39. List of Top companies and their CEOs in world ............................................................................................................................................... 65

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1. Who What Where

Constitutional Head Advisor (NSA) Padsalgikar; Rajinder Khanna
• President - Droupadi Murmu (15th) • Chief Economic Advisor - V Anantha Nageswaran
• Vice President - Jagdeep Dhankhar (14th) • Chief Scientific Adviser - Prof Ajay K Sood
• Prime Minister - Shri Narendra Modi (14th) Intelligence and Investigation Organizations Head
• Central Vigilance Commissioner, CVC – Suresh N Patel
Judicial Head • Director, CBI - Subodh Kumar Jaiswal
• Chief Justice, Supreme Court - Justice Uday Umesh Lalit (49th) • Chief Information - Yashvardhan
• Attorney General of India – Mukul Rohatagi (14th) Commissioner Kumar Sinha
• Solicitor General of India - Tushar Mehta • Head, Intelligence Bureau - Tapan Deka
• Chairperson, National - Adarsh Kumar Goyal (IB)
Green Tribunal • Head, Research and Analysis - Samant Goyal
Wing (RAW)
Parliamentary Head • DG National Investigation - Dinkar Gupta
• Speaker, Rajya Sabha - Jagdeep Dhankhar Agency (NIA)
• Deputy Speaker, Rajya Sabha - Harivansh Narayan Singh
• Chief, Enforcement Directorate - Sanjay Kumar
• Secretary General, Rajya Sabha - Pramod Chandra Mody (ED) Mishra
• Leader of Opposition, Rajya - Mallikarjun kharge
Sabha Paramilitary Forces Head
• Leader of the House, Rajya - Piyush Goyal • DG Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) - S. L. Thaosen
Sabha
• DG Border Security Force (BSF) - Pankaj Kumar Singh
• Speaker, Lok Sabha (17th) - Om Birla (17th)
• DG, Central Reserve Police Force - Kuldeep Singh
• Leader of Opposition, Lok - Vacant
(CRPF)
Sabha
• DG Central Industrial Security - Sheel Vardhan
• Secretary General, Lok Sabha - Utpal Kumar Singh
Force (CISF) Singh
• Director General, National - M.A. Ganapathy
Election Commission
Security Guard (NSG)
• Chief Election Commissioner - Rajiv Kumar (25th)
• Director, Special Protection - Arun Kumar Sinha
• Election Commissioners - Anup chandra Pandey,
Group (SPG)
Rajiv Kumar
• Director General, ITBP - Sanjay Arora
• Deputy Election - Chandrabhushan Kumar,
Commissioners R K Gupta • DG National Cadet Corps (NCC) - Gurbirpal Singh
• Director General, Indian Coast - V. S. Pathaniya
Comptroller and Auditor General Guard (ICG)
• Comptroller and – Girish Chandra Murmu • Director General, National - Atul Karwal
Auditor General (CAG) (14th) Disaster Relief Force (NDRF)
• Controller General of - Ms. Bharati Das • DG Railway Protection Force - Sanjay Chander
Accounts (CGA) Service (RPFS)
• Director General, Assam - Pradeep Chandran
Armed Forces Head Rifles (AR) Nair
• Supreme Commander - President, Droupadi Murmu
• Chief of Air Staff - V.R. Chaudhari (27th) Chairman and Secretary of Commissions
• Chief of Naval Staffs - R. Hari Kumar (25th) • Chairman, NITI Aayog - Prime Minister Narendra Modi
• Chief fo Army Staff - Manoj Pande (29th) • Deputy Chairman, NITI - Shri Suman Bery
• Chairman, Chief of Staff Committee (COSC)-M. M. Narwane Aayog
• DG Military Operations - Lt. Gen. B. S. Raju. • CEO, NITI Aayog - Parameswaran Iyer
Secretaries and Advisors • Chairman, UPSC - Manoj Soni
• Cabinet Secretary - Rajiv Gaba • Chairman, 21st Law - Balbir Singh Chouhan
• Principal Adviser, Prime - Amit Khare; Commission
Minister Tarun Kapoor • Chairperson, National – Rekha Sharma
• Principal Secretary, - PK Mishra Commission for Women
Prime Minister • Chairman, National – Bhagwan Lal Sahni
• Foreign Secretary - Vinay Mohan Kwatra (34th) Backward Classes
• Home Secretary - Ajay Kumar Bhalla Commission
• Finance Secretary - T.V. Somnathan • Chairman, Staff Selection - S. Kishor
• Defence Secretary - Ajay Kumar Commission
• Revenue Secretary - Tarun Bajaj • Chairman, 7th Pay - Ashok Kumar Mathur
• National Security Advisor - Ajit Doval Commission
(NSA) • Chairman, 14th Finance - Y.V. Reddy
• Deputy National Security - Vikarm Misri; Dattatray Commission

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• Chairman, 15th Finance - N.K. Singh • Director, Engineers India Limited - Vartika Shukla
Commission • Director, NALCO - Sridhar Patra
• Chairman, Competition - Ashok Kumar Gupta • Director, Oil India Limited (OIL) - Dr Ranjit Rath
Commission of India • Director, Bharat Electronics Limited - Anandi Ramalingam
• Chairman, National - Harsh Chaouhan (BEL)
Commission for ST • Director, Hindustan Aeronautics - R. Madhavan
• Chairman, National - Vijay Sampla Limited (HAL)
Commission for SC • Director, NMDC - Sumit Deb
• Chairman, National – Arun Kumar Mishra (8th) • Director, Rashtriya Ispat Nigam - Atul Bhatt
Human Rights Commission Limited (RINL)
• Chairman, National - Priyank Kanungo • Director, Shipping Corporation - Harjit Kaur Joshi
Commission for Protection of Child Rights of India
• Chairman, National - Iqbal Singh Lalpura • CD, Rural Electrification - Vivek Kumar
Commission for Minorities Corporation Dewangan
• Director, Neyveli Lignite - Suresh Chandra
Indian Boards / Committees/Authorities and Chairman Corporation Ltd. Suman
• Chairman & CEO, Railway Board - Vinay Kumar Tripathi
• Chairman, SEBI - Madhabi Puri Buch Head of Educational and Academic Institutions
• CEO, Central Board of Films - Ravindra Bhakar • Chairman, UGC - M Jagadesh Kumar
Certification • VC, IGNOU - Pro. Nageswara Rao
• Chairman, Mumbai Port Trust - Rajiv Jalota • VC, University of Delhi - Yogesh Singh
• Chairman, CBDT - Nitin Gupta • Vice Chancellor, JNU - Santishree Dhulipudi Pandit
• Chairman, Central Board of Indirect - Vivek Johri • Vice Chancellor, BHU - Sudhir K. Jain and
taxes and Customs (CBIC) Vijay Kumar Shukla
• Chairman, National Dairy - Meenesh Shah • Chancellor, Nalanda University - Dr. Vijay Bhatkar
Development Board • Vice Chancellor, Nalanda University - Sunaina Singh
• Chairman, Company Law Board - Mahesh Mittal Kumar • Vice Chancellor, Jamia Millia Islamia - Prof. Najma Akhtar
(CLB) • Director, NCERT - Prof. Dinesh Prasad Saklani
• Chairman, Petroleum and Natural - Tarun Kapoor • Chairman, CBSE - Nidhi Chibber
Gas Regulatory Board • President, Sahitya Akademi - Chandrashekhar
• Chairman, TRAI - P.D. Vaghela Kamber
• CEO, UIDAI - Saurabh Garg • Vice Chancellor, Sangeet - Aruna Sairam
• Registrar General & - Vivek Joshi Natak Akademi
Census Commissioner of India • President, Lalit Kala Akademi - Uttam Pachharne
• Chairman, Public Accounts Committee - Adhir Ranjan
Chaudhary Head of Press and Media
• Chairman, Estimates Committee - Girish Bapat • Chairman, Prasar Bharati Board - Vacant
• Chairman, National Highway - Alka Upadhyay • CEO, Prasar Bharati Board - Sh. Mayank Kumar Agrawal
Authority of India (NHAI) • Chairman, National School - Paresh Rawal
Head of Maharatna Companies (Total-11) of Drama
• Director, NTPC - Gurdeep Singh • Chairman, Film and Television - Shekhar Kapur
• First CMD, ONGC - Alka Mittal Institute of India
• CMD, ONGC - Shri Rajesh Kumar Srivastava • Director General, All India - N. Venudhar Reddy
• Director, SAIL - Soma Mandal Radio
• Director, GAIL – Sandeep Kumar Gupta • Chairman, Press Trust of - Aveek Sarkar
• Director, Indian Oil Corporation Ltd. - Mr. Govind Kottieth India (PTI)
Satish • Chairman, United News of - Sagar
• Director, Coal India Ltd. (CIL) - Pramod Agarwal India (UN) Mukhopadhyay
• Director, Bharat Petroleum - Arun Kumar • President, Indian Newspaper - Somesh Sharma
Corporation Limited Society (INS)
• Director, BHEL - Nalin Singhal
• Director, HPCL - Pushp Kumar Joshi Head of Scientific and Research Organizations
• Director, Power Grid Corporation - Kandikuppa Sreekant • Chairman, ISRO - S. Somnath
• Director, Power Finance Corporation - Ravinder Singh Dhillon • Chairman, Atomic Energy - Kamlesh Neelkanth Commission
(AEC) Vyas
Chairman & CMD of Public Sector Enterprises • Chairman, Atomic Energy - G Nageswara Rao
• Director, BSNL - P.K. Purwar Regulatory Board (AERB)
• Chairman, Airports Authority - Sanjeev Kumar • Director, Bhabha Atomic - Ajit Kumar Mohanty
of India (AAI) Research Center (BARC)
• Director, ITDC - Sambit Patra • Chairman, Defence Research and - Samir V Kamat
• Director, MTNL - Sunil Kumar Development Organization (DRDO)
• Director, NBCC - P.K. Gupta • Director General, Council of - Dr. N Kalaiselvi

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Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) • MD, LIC - B.C. Patnayak; Ipe Mini; Siddhartha Mohanty; Raj
• Director, Vikram Sarabhai - Dr. S. Unnikrishnan Kumar
Space Center Nair • Chairman, General Insurance - Devesh Srivastava
Corporation
Head of Sports Organizations • CMD, New India Assurance Company - Atul Sahai
• Chairman, ICC · - Greg Barclay (New Zealand) Limited
• CEO, ICC - Geoff Allardice • Director, Oriental Insurance Company - Sh. Anjan Dey
• President, Asian Cricket Council (ACC) – Jay Shah • CMD, United India Insurance Company - Satyajit Tripathy
• First Independent Woman - Indra Nooyi • Chairman, National Insurance Company - Suchitha Gupta
Director, ICC • MD & CEO, SBI General Insurance - PC Kandpal
• President, BCCI - Saurabh Ganguly
(39th) Head of Economic / Commercial Institutions
• CEO, BCCI - Hemang Amin • Secretary General, FICCI - Dilip Chinoy
• Head Coach, Indian Cricket Men Team - Rahul Dravid • President, FICCI - Sanjiv Mehata
• Head Coach, Indian Women's Cricket - Ramesh Powar • President, ASSOCHAM - Vineet Agarwal
Team • General Secretary, ASSOCHAM - Deepak Sood
• Director General, Sports Authority of India - Sandip Pradhan • President, Confederation of - Sanjiv Bajaj
• President, Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) - Brijbhushan Indian Industry (CII)
Sharan Singh • Chairman, IFFCO - Dileep Sangbani
• President, All India Tennis - Anil Jain • Chairperson, NASSCOM - Krishnan
Association (AITA) Ramanujam
• President, All India Football - Kalyan • President, NASSCOM - Debjani Ghosh
Federation (AIFF) Chaubey • CMD, Unit Trust of - Imtaiyazur Rahman
• President, Volleyball Federation - Achyuta Samant India (UTI)
of India • President, International - Ajaypal Singh Banga
• President, All India Chess Federation - Sanjay Kapoor Chamber of Commerce India
(AICF) • Chairman, National Stock - Girish Chandra
• President, Hockey India – Dilip Tirkey Exchange (NSE) Chaturvedi
• President, Athletic Federation of - Adil J Sumariwalla • CEO, Bombay Stock Exchange - Ashish Kumar Chauhan
India (AFI) (BSE)
• President, Boxing Federation - Ajay Singh
of India (BFI) Officials of Banks
• President, Indian Olympic Association - Adille J Central Bank
(IOA) Sumariwalla • Governor, Reserve Bank of India - Shaktikaat Das (25th)
• President, Archery Association of - Arjun Munda (RBI)
India (AAI) • Deputy Governor, Reserve Bank - T Rabi Shankar, M.
• President, International Olympic - Thomas Bach of India Rajeshwar Rao,
Committee (IOC) (Germany) Mahesh Kumar Jain,
• President, International Athletic Federation - Sebastian Coe (UK) Michael Devvrat Patra
• President, Badminton Association of India (BAI) -Hemant • Chief Financial Officer, RBI - Sudha Balakrishnan
Biswa Sarma
• President, FIFA - Gianni Infantino Heads of Public Banks/WBCs
(Italy-Switzerland) • State Bank of India (Chairman) - Dinesh Kumar Khara
• President, Indian Weightlifting - Sahdev Yadav • CFO, State Bank of India - Charanjit Singh Attra
Federation • MD, SBI - Swaminathan Janakiraman, Ashwini Kumar Tiwari,
• President, International Hockey – Saif Ahmed Challa Srinivasulu Setty, Alok Kumar Choudhary
Federation (FIH) (India) (MD & CEO) -
• President, World Squash Federation - Zenna Wooldridge • Bank of Baroda - Sanjeev Chadha
(WSF) (England) • Bank of India - Atanu Kumar Das
• President, International Golf - Annika Sorenstam • Bank of Maharashtra - A. S. Rajeev
Federation (IGF) (Sweden) • Canara Bank - Lingam Venkata Prabhakar
• President, International Boxing - Umar Kremlev • Central Bank of India - Matam Venkata Rao
Federation (AIBA) (Russia) (MD & CEO)
• President, Indian Paralympic - Deepa Malik • Indian Bank - Shanti Lal Jain
Committee (IPC) • Indian Overseas Bank - Partha Pratim Sengupta
• Punjab National Bank - Atul Kumar Goyal
Head of Insurance Institutions • Punjab & Sind Bank - Swarup Kumar Saha
• Chairman, Insurance Regulatory - Debasish • UCO Bank - Soma Shankara Prasad
and Development Authority of India (IRDAI) Panda • Union Bank of India - A. Manimekhalai
• Chairman, Life Insurance Corporation - M.R. Kumar
of India (LIC) Famous National Women

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• Soma Mandal - First woman chairperson, SAIL • Shalija Dhami - India's first woman flight commander
• Arya Rajendran - Youngest woman to become the mayor of the
country Famous International Women
• Rekha M. Menon - First woman chairperson, NASSCOM • Ngozi Okonjo lwela - WHO's first female Director
• Ayesha Aziz - India's youngest female pilot General
• Priyanka Mohite - First woman to scale Mount Annapurna • Samia Suluh Hassan - First female President of Tanzania
• Sirisha Bandla - Second woman of Indian origin to go into space • Lauren Hubbard - First transgender to participate in
(3rd : Indian - American) Olympics
• Srishti Goswami - CM for 1 day, Uttarakhand State • Priyanka Radhakrishnan - New Zealand's first Indian-origin
• Harpreet AD Singh - First woman CEO, Air Carrier minister
• Pooja Devi - First woman bus driver of Jammu-Kashmir • Noura Al-Matroushi - UAE's first female astronaut
• Kaja Kalas - Estonia's first female prime minister
• Bhawna Kant - First woman fighter pilot of the country to • Claire Connor - First female president, MCC
participate in the Republic Day Para – • Kamala Harris - First Woman Vice President, America
• Bhawna Kant - India's first female fighter pilot • Dr. Nigaar Johar - First Woman Lieutenant General,
• M. Veeralakshmi - India's first woman ambulance driver Pakistan
• Nupur Kulshreshtha - First woman DIG, Indian Coast Guard • GS Lakshmi - Ist woman to be inducted into
• Shivangi Singh - India's first female rafale fighter pilot International Panel of ICC Match
• Jyoti Sharma - First woman judge of the Indian Army Referees
• ShivangiJoshi - First woman pilot of the Navy • Jasmine Harris - Youngest woman to cross Atlantic Ocean
• Chandrani Murmu - Youngest MP • Martha Koom - First female Chief Justice of Kenya
• Indu Malhotra - First woman lawyer to become a judge • Ursula von der Leyen - First female President of European
Supreme Court Commission
• Minty Agarwal - First woman to receive Yudh Seva Medal • Tulsi Gabbard - First Hindu woman to contest USA Presidential
• Gauri Sawant - First transgender election ambassador election
• Hina Jaiswal - IAF's first woman flight engineer

2. Indian Ambassadors to various countries

Country Capital Ambassador /High Country Capital Ambassador /High
Commissioner Commissioner
Nigeria Abuja G Balasubramaniam Germany Berlin Parvathaneni Harish
Kyrgyz Bishkek Arun Kumar Chatterjee Malaysia Kuvalampur B. Nagabhushan Reddy
Barbados Bridgetown S. Balachandran Ireland Dublin Mr. Akhilesh Mishra
Macedonia Skopje Sanjay Rana Nauru Yaren Manpreet Vohra
Mexico Mexico City Pankaj Sharma Tanzania Dodoma Binaya Srikanth Pradhan
China Beijing Pradeep Kumar Rawat Poland Warsaw Nagma Mohamed Mallik
Cameroon Ounde Anindya Banerjee Djibouti Djibouti R. Chandramoul
Sudan Khartoum B.S. Mubarak Iraq Baghdad Prasant Pise
Guatemala Guatemala Manoj Kumar Mohapatra Zambia Lusaka Ashok Kumar
Ukraine Kiev Shri Harsh Kumar Jain Tunisia Tunis Ngulkham Jathom
Myanmar Ne- Pi- Taw Vinay Kumar Gangte
Cook Islands Reykjavik Muktesh Kumar Pardeshi Cuba Havana S. Janakiraman
Estonia Tallinn Ajnish Kumar New Guinea Port Moresbay Inbasekar Sundaramurthi
Switzerland Bern Sanjay Bhattacharya Serbia Belgrade Sanjeev Kohli
Hungary Budapest Partha Satpathy Iceland Reykjabik B. Shyam
Spain Madrid Dinesh K. Patnaik South Sudan Juba Vishnu Kumar Sharma
Russia Moscow Pavan Kapoor Chile Santiago Subrata Bhattacharjee
UAE Abu Dhabi Sanjay Sudhir Liberia Monrovia Pradeep Kumar Yadav
Brunei Begawan Alok Amitabh Dimri Belarus Minsk Alok Ranjan Jha
Darussalam
Lithuania Vilnius Nagma Mohamed
Libya Tripoli Ngulkham Jathom
Sent Vincent Kingstowni S. Balachandran
Dominican Santo Domingo Ramu Abbagni
Rep.
Paraguay Asuncion Yogeshwar Sangwan
Oman Muscat Amit Narang
Maldives Male Munu Mahawar

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3. Cyclones in India 2021

Name Origin of Name Description
• Yaas • The term in English means ‘Jasmine’ • At present time cyclone Yaas was hovering over the Bay of
• The name Yaas is given by Oman Bengal
• It is termed the ‘Severe Cyclonic Storm’
• It adversely affected the Odisha West Bengal coast
• Taukte • Got its name from Myanmar • Emerged from the Arabian sea
• It is named after a highly vocal lizard • It affected the southern part of Gujarat
named ‘Gecko’ • It is named the ‘Very Severe Cyclonic Storm’
• Nisarga • The term Nisarga means ‘Nature’ • It emerged from the Arabian Sea
• It got its name from Bangladesh • It hit Alibag in Mumbai
• It was the first cyclone that had hit Mumbai since 2009
• Amphan • The term Amphan means ‘Sky’ in English • Amphan had formed in the Bay of Bengal
• The term was given by Thailand • It severely affected West Bengal and Odisha
• Kyarr • Kyarr means ‘Tiger’ in English, the term • Kyarr emerged from the Arabian Sea
has a Burmese origin • It affected the western part of India
• The term is given by Myanmar
• Maha • Maha name was given by the country • Cyclone Maha moved parallely with the Indian coast
Oman • It affected Gujarat severely and caused landfall at various
places in Gujarat
• Vayu • The name Vayu was provided by India • Vayu originated from the Arabian sea
• The term is derived from a Sanskrit and • It caused severe cyclonic storms in Gujarat
Hindi word meaning ‘wind’
• Hikka • The name Hikka is given by the Maldives • Cyclone Hikka originated from the Arabian Sea
• Which means ‘Hiccup’ in English
• Fani • The term means ‘Mortal’ • It orginiated from the Indian Ocean greatly affected Odisha,
• The name was given by Bangladesh West Bengal, Andhra Pradesh, and East India
• BOB 03 • BOB03’s name came from the Bay of • The Indian Meteorological Department named it BOB 03.
Bengal • The BOB 03 affected the north Odisha-West Bengal coastline
• It got its name from India
• Bulbul • The name was given by Pakistan • Cyclone Bulbul came to west Bengal in 2019
• It caused severe floods and heavy rainfall

4. Indian State of Forest Report 2021

About India’s State of Forest Report 2021 • The report and the survey for the first time ever have included
State of Forests Report of India is prepared by Forest Survey of Gir Forest (only habitat of Asiatic Lions), Tiger Reserves, and
India (FSI) after the countrywide comprehensive research, data Tiger Corridors.
collection, and compilation. However, the report is not published • Of the total 32 tiger reserves, forest cover has shown a decadal
by FSI but rather by the Union Ministry of Environment, Forests, increase in 20 of them, while the rest of the 10 has shown
and Climate Change (MoEFCC). It is published after every two decreased forest cover.
years and the 2021 report is preceded by the 2019 report.
• Forest cover in tiger corridors has increased slightly but in the
case of tiger reserves a slight decrease in forest cover is
Key Features of India State of Forest Report, 2021
registered.
• The report is based upon the survey of three types of forests
• Following tiger reserves have experienced gain in forest
namely,
cover:
o Very Dense Forests (having canopy density more than
o Buxa Tiger Reserve (West Bengal)
70%)
o Indravati Tiger Reserve (Chhattisgarh)
o Moderately Dense Forests (having canopy density
o Anamalai Tiger Reserve (Tamil Nadu)
between 40% and 70%)
o Open Forests (having canopy density between 10% and • Following tiger reserves have experienced loss in forest cover:
40%)
o Kawal Tiger Reserve (Telangana)
o Bhadra Tiger Reserve (Karnataka)
• Where canopy density is less than 10%, the region is
o Sunderbans Tiger Reserve (West Bengal)
categorised as “scrubs” instead of “forests”, yet the area is still
surveyed.
• As for the percentage of total forest cover to area, the Pakke
Tiger Reserve of Arunachal Pradesh has shown the best
New Features of India State of Forest Report, 2021
record with as much as 97% forest cover.

Increase in Forest Cover/Tree Cover

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• Total forest cover in India has increased by 0.4% from 21.67% Fact: A tree cover is defined as a region of size smaller than one
to 21.71%, indicating a continued gain in greenery in India. hectare which is found outside the recorded forest area, this region
• Tree cover in India is recorded to have grown by 721 sq km. contains trees of varying size and canopy sizes and are scattered
• Following three states are best performers in terms of everywhere.
increasing forest cover:
Decrease in Forest Cover/Tree Cover
1. Telangana (3.07%)
Following states from the northeast zone of India have
2. Andhra Pradesh (2.22%)
experienced loss in forest cover:
3. Odisha (1.04%)
1. Arunachal Pradesh
• Area wise States with Highest Forest Cover/Area:
2. Manipur
o Madhya Pradesh continues to have the highest area
3. Meghalaya
under forest cover in India and is preceded by other
4. Mizoram
states such as Arunachal Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Odisha,
5. Nagaland
and Maharashtra.
• Percentage of Area wise States with Highest Forest Reduction in Natural Forests
Cover/Area: • The State of Forest Report 2021 of India has registered a
o Mizoram leads this category and is preceded by other reduction in area of “Moderately Dense Forests” which are
states such as Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Manipur, also called as “Natural Forests”. The trend is accompanied by
and Nagaland. a huge increase in area under “Open Forests” indicating forest
• Mangrove forests in India have shown an overall increase of degradation in India. It is also worth noting that “Scrub Area”
17 sq. km. has also shown significant increase which possibly means
• Bamboo forests in India have also registered a growth of complete degradation of Forests.
approximately 26% from 2019 to 2021. • Forest cover in the northeast Indian states has shown an
• Area under “Very Dense Forests” has shown an increase of overall decrease of approximately 1000 sq. kms.The reasons
approximately 500 sq. kms. attributed to this are believed to be natural calamities such as,
heavy rains, landslides, floods etc. as well as increased human
Forest Cover V/s Forest Area activities like shifting agriculture and new infrastructure
Any forested region which represents a legal status of the land in projects leading to cutting down of trees on a large scale.
the Government Records is called Forest Area, whereas the term • It is worth noting that around 8% of total Indian territory is
Forest Cover can be any non-government recognised land having represented by these 7 sisters yet they represent
forests in it. approximately 24% of total forest cover of India.

5. Changed Name of Cities & Other

RAILWAY STATION NAME CHANGE IN INDIA • Ekana stadium in Lucknow to Atal Bihari Vajpayee stadium.
• Allahabad’s name was changed in 2018 to Prayagraj.
Some of the important railways station name changed are as
follows: Important list of named changed recently in India.
• Faizabad Railway Station railway, station in Uttar Pradesh Old Name New Name
has been changed to Ayodhya Cantt. Faizabad Railway Station Ayodhya Cant
• Miyan ka Bada Railway station, Rajasthan name has Miyangani Mayaganj
changed to Mahesh Nagar railways station. Mirzapur Vidhya Dham
• Habibganj railway Station in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh is Aligarh Harigarh
changed in the name of Rani Kamlapati railway station. Bundelkhand Expressway Atal Path
• Manduadih railway station in Uttar Pradesh will now be Miyan ka Bada Railway Mahesh Nagar Railway Station
called Banaras railway station. station Rajasthan
Bogibeel bridge in Assam Atal Setu
• Kevadiya railway station in Gujarat name change to Ekta
Raja Bhoj metro station Bhopal metro station
railway station.
Habibganj railway Station in Rani kamlapati railway station
• Hubballi Railways Station, Karnataka which will have the Bhopal
largest platform of the world name also has been changed to Hubbali Railways Station, Siddharoodha Swamiji Station
Siddharoodha Swami Station. Karnataka
Ambala Bus Stand in Sushma Swaraj bus stand
Some of the recent name changed in the UP are listed below: Haryana
• Aligarh name has been changed to Harigarh. Aurangabad Sambhajinagar
• Ayodhya Bus Stop name has been changed to Ayodhya Ayodhya Bus Stop Ayodhya Dham
Dham. Hoshangabad city of Madhya Narmadapuram
• Hazratganj Chauraha, Lucknow name changed to Atal Pradesh
chowk in the name of Atal Bihari Vajpayee. Manduadih railway station Banaras railway station
• Ayodhya airport name changed to Maryada purshottam in uttar pradesh
Shriram Airport.

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Old Name New Name Old Name New Name
Jhansi Railway Station in Veerangana Laxmibai Railway Aurangabad Airport in Chhatrapati Sambhaji Maharaj
Uttar Pradesh Station Maharashtra Airport
Army sport institute stadium Nairaj Chopra stadium Ekana stadium in Lucknow Atal Bihari vajpayee stadium
Bareilly Airport Nath nagar airport Motera stadium in gujarat Narendra Modi Stadium
Naugarh railway station Siddharthnagar railway station Feroz Shah Kotla Stadium Arun Jaitley Stadium
Ayodhya airport Maryada purshottam Shriram Allahabad Prayagraj
Airport Muzaffarnagar Lakshminagar
Mohali International Hockey Balbir singh senior international Indian Agricultural research Shyama Prasad Mukherjee
stadium hockey stadium Institute (IARI), Jharkhand research Institute
Kevadiya railway station in Ekta railway station Kandla Port, Gujarat Deendayal Port
Gujarat Kolkata Port Trust Syama Prasad Mukherjee Port
Bhopal metro station Raja Bhoj metro station HRD Ministry Education Ministry
Kandla port Deendayal port
6. Major upcoming missions of ISRO
Missions Planned o It could be set for a launch date by the middle of 2023
• Venus Mission: with huge progress in incorporating design and testing.
o The Shukrayaan-1 could launch in December 2024 as an o It is the third Moon mission of the ISRO and successor of
orbiter headed towards neighbouring planet Venus. Chandrayaan-2 mission.
o This will be the Indian space agency’s first mission to o It involves various processes, including finalisation of
Venus, and is expected to have a mission life of 4 years. configuration, subsystems realisation, integration,
o During this time, multiple instruments will carry out spacecraft level detailed testing and a number of special
studies on the planet. tests to evaluate the system performance on earth.
o If it misses the 2024 deadline, then the next window for o Progress was hampered due to Covid-19 pandemic.
launch will be in mid-2026 when Venus and Earth • Gaganyaan
realign. This is important for spacecraft fuel efficiency o India’s first human spaceflight mission.
when visiting other planets. o It is expected in 2023.
o The Venus orbiter will be launched on the rockets made o The spacecraft is jointly made by ISRO and HAL.
by ISRO. o It will carry three Indian astronauts to low earth orbit (of
• DISHA (Disturbed and quiet-type System at High 2000 km or less) for a period of five to seven days.
Altitude): • Other Missions: XpoSat, IRNSS
o It is a twin-satellite system that will study Earth’s
aeronomy, the uppermost layer of Earth’s atmosphere. Significance
o It will involve twin satellites orbiting Earth at an altitude • These missions are critical for ISRO as it will demonstrate
of 450km. India's capabilities to make landings for further
• TRISHNA (Thermal infraRed Imaging Satellite for High interplanetary missions.
resolution Natural resource Assessment): • These missions will be the benchmark for temperature data at
o ISRO and CNES have completed the feasibility study to best resolution and repeatability globally.
realise the earth observation satellite mission with • These will be technology demonstration missions with
thermal infrared imager, TRISHNA. advanced indigenously developed technologies.
o It is meant for accurate mapping of land surface
temperatures. Challenges
o It will acquire imagery of Earth’s surface in the thermal • Constraints: ISRO has scientific, technological, infrastructure
infrared with a resolution and revisit frequency never and budgetary constraints in launching significantly more
seen before. satellites to meet civilian, commercial needs and military
o Expected launch: in 2024 requirements.
o India and France are working on their third joint satellite
• Deficit: ISRO has deficit issues both in technical capacity and
mission.
manpower placing constraints on its production strength.
o ISRO and French space agency CNES (Centre National
dEtudes Spatiales) have undertaken two joint missions • Foreign competition: Particularly for the launch of small
'Megha-Tropiques', which was launched in 2011, and satellites, which is an expanding market. The Elon Musk
'Saral-Altika' in 2013. owned SpaceX Falcon 9 is widely considered a serious
potential threat to ISRO’s workhorse the Polar Satellite
Launch Vehicle (PSLV).
• Chandrayaan-3:

7. Major Operations of India

Operation Key Points/ Objective Operation Key Points/ Objective
• Olivia • To save the Olive Ridley turtles of Odisha • Sard Hawa • To prevent incidents of infiltration by BSF
by the Indian Coast Guard in dense fog along the Western
International Border of Rajasthan

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Operation Key Points/ Objective Operation Key Points/ Objective
• Green • To cover 22 more agricultural products • Thirst • To stop the sale of unauthorized water
apart from tomatoes, onions and potatoes bottles in railway premises and trains by
• Samudra • For rapid shipment of Oxygen Containers RPF
Setu-II by the Navy • Samudra • To aid earthquake and tsunami hit
• Namaste • By the Indian Army to deal with Covid-19 Matri Indonesia
• Vanilla • Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster • Thunder • To stop black marketing of reserved
Relief Mission by the Navy tickets in Railways
• Sankalp • To assure the safety and security in the • Operation 25 • To capture the mastermind terrorist of
Gulf for maritime by the Indian Navy Pulwama Ghazi Rashid
• Bandar • Code of Balakot Strike
• Sudarshan • To strengthen anti-infiltration measures
(By BSF) along Pakistani border in Punjab and
Jammu

8. National & International Appointments of India 2021-22

National Appointments • Vinay Kumar Tripathi • Chairman and CEO,

Railway Board
• Pinaki Chandra Ghosh • India’s First Lokpal • V S Pathania • Director General, Indian
• Nrityagopal Das • President, Ram Coast Guard
Janmabhoomi Trust • M M Naravane • Chairman, Chiefs of Staff
• Ruchira Kamboj • Permanent Representative Committee
UN • Atul Dinkar Rane • CEO & MD, BrahMos
• Vishal V Sharma • Permanent Representative Aerospace
UNESCO • Vikram Misri; Dattatray • Deputy National Security
• R S Sharma • CEO, Ayushman Bharat Padsalgikar; Rajinder Advisor
Scheme Khanna
• Chintan Vaishnav • Director, Atal Innovation • G Ashok Kumar • DG, National Mission for
Mission Clean Ganga
• Ramesh Powar • Coach, Indian Women’s • Vijay P Sharma • Chairman, Agricultural
Cricket Team Costs and Price
• Nakul Chopra • CEO, BARC India Commission
• A G Tankappan • Chairman, Spices Board, • Amir Subhani • Chief Secretary, Bihar
Kochi • Atul Karwal • Director General, NDRF
• Abhay Kumar Singh • Joint Secretary, Ministry of • S Somnath • Chairman, ISRO
Cooperation • B.S. Raju • Deputy Chief of Army Staff
• Indu Malhotra • Lokpal, DDCA • Dilip Sanghani • Chairman, IFFCO
• Padmaja Chunduru • CEO, NSDL • Ananth Nageswaran • Chief Economic Advisor
• Ravi Kapoor • CEO, Sansad TV
• C K Ranganathan • President, AIMA
• P L Harnadh • Chairman, Paradip Port International Appointments 2021-22
Trust
• E R Sheikh • First DG, Ordinance • Pierre-Olivier • Chief Economist, IMF
Directorate Gourinchas
• Ritesh Chauhan • CEO, PM Fasal Bima • Padma Lakshmi • Goodwill Ambassador of UNDP
Yojana • Soumya • Chief Scientist of WHO
• Sajjan Jindal • Chairman, World Steel Swaminathan
Association • Anita Bhatia • Deputy Executive Director of
• Amit Rastogi • CMD, National Research UN Women
Development Corporation • Anshula Kant • CFO, World Bank
• Satya Narayan Pradhan • Director General, NCB • Suman Pawan • First Hindu woman judge,
• Ashok Bhushan • Chairman, NCLAT Bodani Pakistan
• Arun Chawla • Director General, FICCI • Joe Biden • President, America (46th)
• VVS Laxman • Head, National Cricket • Kamala Harris • Vice President, America
Academy • Michael Bloomberg • Climate Ambassador, United
• Saurabh Ganguly • President, Men’s Cricket Nations
Committee • Seif Ahmed • President, International Hockey
• Sambit Patra • Chairman, ITDC Federation
• Alka Upadhyay • Chairman, NHAI • Rebecca Grinspan • Secretary General, UNCTAD
• Spoorthi Priya • Grievance Officer, Facebook
• Sanjiv Mehta • President, FICCI
• Najib Mikati • Prime Minister, Lebanon

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• Min Aung Hleing • Prime Minister, Myanmar • Sabha Al Khalid Al • Prime Minister, Kuwait
• Nikol Pashinyan • Prime Minister, Armenia Sabah
• Hakainde Hichilema • President, Zambia • Petr Fiala • Prime Minister, Czech Republic
• Ismail Sabri Yaakob • Prime Minister, Malaysia • Magdalena Anderser • First female Prime Minister of
• Zoya Agarwal • Women’s Spokesperson at Sweden
United Nations for Generation • Prof Bimal Patel • Chairman, International Law
Equality Commission
• Kathy Hochul • New York’s first female • Adama Barrow • President, Gambia
governor • Gabriel Boric • Youngest President, Chile
• Alar Karis • President, Estonia • Catherine Russel • Chief, UNICEF
• Aziz Akhnouch • Prime Minister, Morocco • Karl Nehammer • Chancellor, Austria
• Rameez Raja • President, Pakistan Cricket • Olaf Scholz • Chancellor, Germany
Board • Mia Motley • Prime Minister, Barbados
• Sana Ramchandra • 1st Hindu woman civil servant, • Alikhan Smilov • Prime Minister, Kazakhstan
Gulwani Pakistan • Zhang Ming • Secretary General, SCO
• Najla Bouden • First female PM, Tunisia • Ayesha Malik • Pakistan’s 1st woman Supreme
Romdhane Court Judge
• Anita Anand • Defence Minister, Canada • Geeta Gopinath • 1st Deputy Managing Director,
• Geoff Allardyce • CEO, ICC IMF
• Abdullah Hamdok • Prime Minister, Sudan

9. First in India and World

First in the World • The first country to host the Greece
modern Olympics
• The first person to reach Mount Sherpa Tenzing, Edmund • The first city on which the atom Hiroshima (Japan)
Everest Hillary bomb was dropped
• The first person to reach North Robert Peary • The first person to land on the Neil Armstrong followed
Pole moon by Edwin E. Aldrin
• The first person to reach South Amundsen • The first shuttle to go in space Columbia
Pole • The first spacecraft to reach on Viking-I
• The first religion of the world Hinduism Mars
• The first country to print book China • The first woman Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher
• The first country to commence China in civil services of England
competitive examination • The first muslim Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto (Pakistan)
• The first President of the U.S.A. George Washington of a country
• The first Prime Minister of Robert Walpole • The first woman Prime Minister Mrs. S. Bandaranaike (Sri
Britain of a country Lanka)
• The first Governor General of Trigveli (Norway) • The first woman to climb Mrs. Junko Tabei (Japan)
the United Nations Mount Everest
• The first country to win football Uruguay • The first woman cosmonaut of Velentina Tereshkova
World cup the world (Russia)
• The first country to prepare a U.S.A. • The first woman President of Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
constitution the U.N. General Assembly
• The first Governor General of Mohd. Ali Jinnah • The first man to fly into space Yuri Gagarin (Russia)
Pakistan • The first batsman to score, three Mohd. Azharuddin
• The first country to host NAM Belgrade (Yugoslavia) test century in three successive tests on debut
summit • The first man to have climbed Nawang Gombu
• The first European to attack Alexander, The Great Mount Everest twice
India • The first U.S. President to Richard Nixon
• The first European to reach Marco Polo resign Presidency
China
• The first person to fly aeroplane Wright Brothers First In India
• The first person to sail round Magellan Male
the world • The first President of Indian Dr. Rajendra Prasad
• The first country to send man to U.S.A. Republic
the moon • The first Prime Minister of Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru
• The first country to launch Russia free India
Artificial satellite in the space • The first Indian to win Nobel Rabindranath Tagore
Prize

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• The first President of Indian W. C. Banerjee • The first person to receive Acharya Vinoba Bhave
National Congress Magsaysay Award
• The first Muslim President of Badruddin Tayyabji • The first person of Indian Hargovind Khurana
Indian National Congress origin to receive Nobel Prize
• The first Muslim President of Dr. Zakir Hussain in medicine
India • The first Chinese traveller to Fahein
• The first British Governor Lord William Bentinck visit India
General of India • The first person to receive Saifuddin Kitchlu
• The first British Viceroy of Lord Canning Stalin Prize
India • The first person to resign Shyama Prasad
from the central cabinet Mukherjee
• The first Governor General of Lord Mountbatten
free India • The first foreigner to receive Khan Abdul Ghaffar
Bharat Ratna Khan
• The first and the last Indian to C. Rajgopalachari
be Governor General of free • The first person to receive Amartya Sen
India Nobel Prize in Economics
• The first man who introduced James Hicky • The first Chief Justice of Justice Hiralal J. Kania
printing press in India Supreme Court
• The first Indian to join the Satyendra Nath Tagore
I.C.S. Female
• India’s first man in space Rakesh Sharma • The first lady to become Rita Faria
• The first Indian Commander- General Cariappa “Miss World”
in-Chief of India • The first woman judge in Mrs. Meera Sahib
Supreme Court Fatima Bibi
• The first Chief of the Army Gen. Maharaj Rajendra
Staff Singhji • The first woman Ambassador Miss C. B.
• The first Indian member of S. P. Sinha Muthamma
the Viceroy’s executive • The first woman Governor of Mrs. Sarojini Naidu
council a State in free India
• The first President of India Dr. Zakir Hussain • The first woman Prime Indira Gandhi
who died while in office Minister
• The first Prime Minister of Charan Singh • The first woman to climb Santosh Yadav
India who did not face the Mount Everest twice
parliament • The first woman President of Mrs. Annie Besant
• The first Field Marshal of S. H. F. Manekshaw the Indian National Congress
India • The first woman chief justice Mrs. Leela Seth
• The first Indian to get Nobel C. V. Raman of a High Court
prize in Physics
• The first woman pilot in Harita Kaur Dayal
• The first Indian to receive Dr. Radhakrishnan
Indian Air Force
Bharat Ratna award
• The first woman President of Mrs. Vijaya Laxmi
• The first Indian to cross Mihir Sen
the United Nations General Pandit
English channel
Assembly
• The first person to receive Sri Shankar Kurup
• The first woman Chief Mrs. Sucheta
Jnanpith award Kripalani
Minister of an Indian State
• The first Speaker of the Lok Ganesh Vasudeva
Mavalankar • The first woman chairman of Roze Millian Bethew
Sabha
Union Public Service
• The first Vice-President of Dr. Radhakrishnan
Commission
India
• The first woman Director Kanchan Chaudhary
• The first Education Minister Abul Kalam Azad
General of Police (DGP) Bhattacharya
• The first Home Minister of Sardar Vallabh Bhai
Patel • The first woman Lieutenant Puneeta Arora
India
General
• The first Indian Air Chief S. Mukherjee
Marshal
• The first woman Air Vice P. Bandopadhyaya
Marshal
• The first Indian Naval Chief Vice Admiral R. D.
Katari • The first woman chairperson Sushma Chawla
• The first judge of Dr. Nagendra Singh of Indian Airlines
International Court of Justice • The first woman I.P.S. Officer Mrs. Kiran Bedi
• The first person to receive Major Somnath Sharma • The first woman to receive Mother Teresa
Paramveer Chakra Nobel Prize
• The first person to reach Mt. Sherpa Anga Dorjee • The first woman to receive Mrs. Indira Gandhi
Everest without oxygen Bharat Ratna
• The first Chief Election Sukumar Sen • The first woman to receive Ashapurna Devi
Commissioner Jnanpith Award

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10. MoUs Signed In the Year : 2021-22

Related Field Related Month Related Field Related Month
Country/Institution Country/Institution
• To develop transmission Africa – 50 and January • To support efforts to India and Sri June 2021
project. power Grid 2022 expand solar energy Lanka
Corporation • To promote the NMPB and CSIR June 2021
• For modernization of HAL and BEL January cultivation and
light combat aircraft 2022 production of medicinal
Tejas. plants and herbs
• For Strengthening Teck STPI and HDFC January • For cooperation in the India and June 2021
Startup Ecosystem Bank 2022 field of mineral resources Argentina
• To procure AK-203 India and Russia December • For Up gradation of India and Asian June 2021
assault rifles 2021 Major District Roads of Development
• For 83 LCA Tejas MK1A HAL and BEL December Sikkim Bank
fighter jets 2021 • Agreement for migration India, UK and May 2021
• For Green Hydrogen BPCL and NTPC December and movement Northern Ireland
Production 2021 • For manufacturing of Shilpa Medicare May 2021
• To collaborate on IOCL and NTPC November Covid-19 Vaccine and Dr. Reddy
renewable energy 2021 Sputnik-V Laboratories
• Technical cooperation in IOCL and NTPC November • Global innovation India and United May 2021
Value Addition and 2021 Partnership (GIP) Kindom
Sustainability of the • For digital transforming Tribal Ministry April 2021
cotton Economy of Tribal schools and Microsoft
• To buy 56 transport India and October • To use modern Ministry of April 2021
aircraft Aircraft og C-295 Germany 2021 techniques to increase the Agriculture and
MW model. income of farmers Microsoft
• To rebuild 117 heritage India and Spain September • To prevent the entry of India and April 2021
sites damaged during 2021 plastic waste into the Germany
earthquake marine environment.
• For cooperation in the India and Nepal September • To achieve the target of Clean Max April 2021
field of disaster 2021 100% renewable energy Company and
management in India Facebook
• For greater mail India and Italy September • For India’s first manned ISRO (India) and April 2021
Connectivity Project 2021 space mission Gaganyaan CNES (Frances)
• To buy K-103 rifles India and Russia August Mission
2021 • For mutual India, UK and April 2021
• For cooperation in remote Brazil, Russia, August administrative assistance Northern Ireland
sensing satellite data India, china, 2021 in matters of customs
sharing South-Africa cooperation
• For cooperation in the India and US August • To promote joint Indian and South April 2021
field of geology 2021 production and export of Korea
• For cooperation in the India and Bhutan July 2021 military materials
field environment • For cooperation in the India and Japan March
• To implement ‘Swamitva Government of July 2021 filed of water resources 2021
Yojana’ in the state Assam and Survey • For the purchase of India and March
of India Brahmos missile and Philipines 2021
• For sustainable urban India and Japan July 2021 other defence equipment
development • Economics cooperation Indian and February
• For development of Ministry of ports June 2021 and partnership Mauritius 2021
‘National Maritime and Culture agreement (CECPA)
Heritage Complex’ at • Foe construction of Indian and February
Lothal, Gujrat ‘Shahtot dam’ Afghanistan 2021
• For cooperation in the India and the June 2021
field of mass media member countries
of SCO
11. Committees & Commission

Inquiry Committees and Chairmen • Committee to investing DTC bus purchase process – OP
• Committee constituted into security lapses during PM’s visit Aggarwal
to Punjab – Chairmans: Indu Malhotra/Sudhir K. Saxena • Committee for 125th Birth Anniversary of Netaji Subhas
• Committee to investing Lakhimpur Khen incident – Chandra Bose – Chairmen: PM Modi
Chairman : Pradeep Srivastva

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• Committee to celebrate 75th anniversary of Independence- • Suresh Mathur Committee – To review the regulatory
Chairman : PM Modi framework on micro insurance
• Committee for TRP calculation – Shashi Shekhar Vempati • Gautam Ray Committee – To make GST more simple
• Committee to improve urban planning education system – • Umesh Sinha Committee - To make re-evaluate the public
Chairman : Rajiv Kumar respective Act – 1951 by the Election Commission of India
• Expert Committee on Stressed Asset – Chairman : KV Kamath • Jasmin Shah Committee – To improve higher education by
• Committee to monitor stubble burning – Madan B. Lokur Delhi Government
• Chairman of the empowered panel set up for covid-19 vaccine • Sanjay Bhoosreddy Commission – To investigate Assistant
– R.S. Sharma Teacher recruitment exam by UP Govt.
• Ajay Bhalla Committee – To examine Chinese investments • C.K. Mishra Committee – To tackle industrial around the Taj
• National Sports Awards 2020 Selection Committee – Mahal
Chairmen Mukundakam Sharma • Dhingra Committee – To investigate the cases related to 1984
• Experts committee to study Covid – 19 impact on human right Sikh riots
– Chairman: Dr. K.S. Reddy
• Dr. B.S. Chauhan Committee – For Judicial inquiry into Vikas Other Committees/Commisison
dubey Case • Goiporia Committee - Banking Service Reformes
• National Education Policy 2020- Dr. K Kasturirangan • Sundar Rajan Committee - For improvement in mineral oil
• EGoM (Group of Minister) – To oversee the corporation of : • Rekhi Committee - Indirect Taxes
(Chairman : Rajnath Singh) Ordnance Factory Board • Wanchoo Committee - Direct Taxes
• SCL Das Committee – To probe Assam gas well tragedy of • Meera Seth Committee - Development of Handlooms
Assam Oil India Ltd. • Mahalanobis Committee - National Income
• Pranab Sen Committee – Preventing Political Interference in • Swaminathan Committee - Population Policy
Government Figures • Janakiraman Committee - Securities Scan
• K.V. Kamath Committee – To suggest financial parameter for • Mahajan Committee - Sugar Industry
resolution for stressed assests related to Covid-19 • Satyam Committee - Textile Policy
• Mihirshah Committee – For drafting the National water • Suresh Tendulkar Com. - Panchayat Raj
Policy • Sivaraman Committee - Establishment of NABARD
• Surjit Bhalla Committee – For Policy-making related to • Raja Chellaiya Committee - Tax Reforms
business commerce • Gyan Prakash Committee - Sugar Scam
• Kelkar Committee - Tax Structure Reforms
• Amitabh Kant – For Privatization of Railway
• Shri Krishan Commission - Rajiv Gandhi Assassination
• Kiren Rijjiju – For Privatization of railway 2020 and 2024
case
Olympics
• Thakkar Commission - Indira Gandhi Assassination
ccase casecasecase

12. International Summits and Conferences 2021-22

The list of important summits and conferences are given below: • Theme – BRICS Partnership for Global Stability, Shared
1. Association of Southeast Asian Nation (ASEAN) 2021 Security and Innovative Growth
• The 38th ASEAN Summit was scheduled to be conducted in Note :
April 2021 and the 39th in November 2021. The Summit was • 13th BRICS Summit : India [Host country] - 2021
hosted in Brunie, Bandar Seri Begawan under the leadership • 14th BRICS Summit : China [Host country] - 2022
of Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah. • 15th BRICS Summit : South Africa [Host country] - 2023
ASEAN Summit 2020 3. G-20 Leaders’ Summit 2021
• The 37th meeting started on 12th November 2020. • G-20 Leader Summit 2021 will be hosted in Italy, Rome
• It was a virtual meeting that was presided by Vietnam Prime under the leadership of Giuseppe Conte on 30-31st
Minister against the backdrop of COVID-19 pandemic. October 2021.
• Theme – Cohesive and Responsive ASEAN G-20 Leaders’ Summit 2020
Note : • G20 Leaders’ Summit 2020 was held virtually on 20th
• 38th and 39th meeting – Brunei [Host country] and 21st November 2020 and was presided by Saudi
• 40th and 41st meeting – Cambodia [Host country] Arabia.
• 42nd and 43rd meeting – Indonesia [Host country] • Theme: Realizing Opportunities of the 21st Century For
All
2. BRICS Summit 2020 • G20 Leaders’ Summit 2021 is scheduled to take place in
• It is the 12th BRICS Summit Italy.
• It was held virtually due to the outbreak of COVID-19 on Note :
17th November 2020. • 17th : 2022 : Bali, Indonesia
• It was scheduled to take place in July 2020 in Saint • 18th : 2023 : New Delhi, India
Petersburg (Russia.) • 19th : 2024 : Brazil
• 20th : 2025 : South Africa

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• The official theme of the APEC New Zealand 2021 is
4. G7 Summit 2021 "Join, Work, Grow. Together."
The 47th G7 summit is intended to be held during the summer Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit 2020
of 2021 in the United Kingdom. • It was held virtually on 21st November.
G7 Summit 2020 • It was chaired by the Malaysian Prime Minister.
• The G7 Summit 2020 was scheduled to take place in the • Theme – “Optimising Human Potential Towards a
US from 10th to 12th June 2020, however, due to the Resilient Future of Shared Prosperity: Pivot. Prioritise.
outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, it has been Progress”.
cancelled. Note :
Note : • The theme for 2022 APEC meetings is "Open. Connect.
48th : 2022 : Germany [Host country] Balance."
49th : 2023 : Japan [Host country] • Host country : Bangkok, Thailand [2022]
50th : 2024 : Italy [Host country] • 2023 – US [Host country]
• 2024 – Lima, Peru [Host country]
5. South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC • 2025 – South Korea [Host country]
Summit 2020)
• The last SAARC summit was held in 2014. Subsequent 10. BIMSTEC Summit 2020
SAARC summits have been cancelled. • The 5th BIMSTEC Summit that was scheduled to take
• On 24th September 2020, foreign ministers of SAARC place in December 2020 has been cancelled. It took place
countries met at an informal meeting on the sidelines of in 30 March 2022 in Colombo, Sri Lanka virtually.
United Nations General Assembly (UNGA.)
Note : 11. Nuclear Security Conference 2020
20th : 2022 : Pakistan [Host country] • It took place from 10th-14th February at Vienna, Austria.
6. India Science Congress 2021 12. OPEC Summit 2021
The 108th Indian Science Congress (ISC), which was • The latest summit – 179th OPEC Conference (2020) was
scheduled to be held in 2021 and then in 2022, was held virtually on 6th June 2020.
canceled twice due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The event
will be now held between January 3 and 7, 2023 in Pune. 13. NATO Summit 2019
Indian Science Congress 2020 • The latest meeting of NATO took place on 3rd and 4th
• It took place between 3rd and 7th January 2020 at December 2019 in United Kingdom (UK.)
Bengaluru (Karnataka.) • Theme – 70 Years of NATO.
• It was the 107th Indian Science Congress. NATO Summit 2021
• The theme was ‘Science & Technology: Rural • Brussels, Belgium
Development’ NATO Summit 2022
• 24 March : Belgium, Brussels
7. Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Summit 2021 • 29–30 June : Spain, Madrid
The SCO- Shanghai Cooperation Organization Summit 2021 NATO Summit 2023
was chaired by Tajikistan in Dushanbe. • Vilnius, Lithuania
Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Summit 2020
• The SCO Summit 2020 was held virtually on 10th 14. Earth Hour 2021
November 2020. • Earth Hour 2021 is scheduled to take place on March
• It was chaired by Russia. 27th, 2021.
• Theme – Reformed Multilateralism • Theme was “Climate Change to Save Earth”.
Note : Earth Hour 2020
• 2022 : Samarkand, Uzbekistan • It took place digitally on 28th March 2020.
• 2023 : New Delhi, India • The theme was, ‘Climate Action and Sustainable
Development.’
8. East Asia Summit 2021 Earth Hour 2022
16th East Asia Summit 2021 was hosted in Brunei, Bandar Seri • The Earth Hour 2022 theme will focus on 'Shape Our
Begawan under the leadership of Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah. Future.’
East Asia Summit 2020 • Earth Hour 2022 is being marked on March 26, 2022.
• The 15th East Asia Summit was held virtually on 14th
15. NAM Summit 2021
November 2020.
Azerbaijan will hold the NAM presidency for 3 years until the
• It was chaired by Vietnam Prime Minister. 19th summit. 18th Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement
Note : was held October 25 and 26, 2019 in Baku.
• 17th : 2022 : Cambodia NAM Summit 2020
• It was held online on 4th May 2020.
9. Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit 2021
• It was chaired by Azerbaijan’s President.
• 33rd Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit
2021 in November in New Zealand, Auckland. • Theme – “United against COVID-19”
NAM Summit 2023
• 19th summit - Uganda

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• COP 28 will take place in the United Arab Emirates.
16. CHOGM Summit 2022 (Commonwealth Heads of COP27 – UNFCCC (2022)
Government Meeting) • COP 27 was originally expected to take place in
• It was scheduled for 26th and 27th June 2020 but was November 2021, but was moved to 2022 due to the
cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic outbreak. The rescheduling of COP 26 from 2020 to 2021.
Summit cannot be held on 2021. • It is set to take place in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt.
• CHOGM Summit 2022 took place on 21st-23rd June 2022. COP26 – UNFCCC (2021)
Rwanda chairs the CHOGM Summit 2022. • COP26 – UNFCCC, scheduled to take place in November
Note : 2020 got postponed due to COVID-19 and took place in
• 27th : Samoa [Date to be announced] 2021.
• Organised by : United Kingdom and Italy
17. Indo-Africa Summit 2020 COP25 – UNFCCC (2020)
• It was a virtual summit that was held in February 2020. • The 25th COP to UNFCCC met on 2nd to 13th December
2019 in Madrid, Spain.
18. COP28 – UNFCCC (2023) • Chile presided over COP25.

13. International Summits and Conferences 2019

International Summits 2019 Name of
Aim/ Theme of summit
organization/ Summit held at
2019
Name of grouping
Aim/ Theme of summit
organization/ Summit held at Asia Pacific APEC Summit
2019 “Connecting People,
grouping Economic 2019 – Santiago,
Building the Future”
35th ASEAN Cooperation Chile
Association of
“Advancing Partnership Summit 2019 – 5th BIMSTEC
Southeast Asian
for sustainability.” Thailand, Summit 2019 –
Nation BIMSTEC –
Bangkok. Srilanka (to be
11th BRICS held)
Economic Growth for an
BRICS Summit 2019- Nuclear
Innovative Future’. “Towards New National 12th NSS 2019 –
Brasilia Security
Cyber Security Strategy” New Delhi
8 themes of G 20 Summit – Summit
“Global Economy”, 7th OPEC
“Trade and Investment”, ‘Petroleum – cooperation International
OPEC
“Innovation”, for a sustainable future’ Seminar –
14th G 20
“Environment and Vienna, Austria
G-20 Summit 2019 –
Energy”, “Employment”, NATO Summit
Osaka, Japan
“Women’s 2019 – United
empowerment”, kingdom,
NATO –
“Development” and London. (to be
“Health”. held in
“fighting income and 45th G7 Summit December 2019)
G-7 gender inequality and 2019 – Biarritz, Global earth
“Reduce, Reuse, Change
protecting biodiversity” France Earth Hour hour 2019-
the Way We Live”
19th SAARC Australia
South Asian Summit 2019 – “Upholding the Bandung
Association for canceled. 20th Principles to ensure 18th NAM
_
Regional SAARC Summit NAM Summit concerted and adequate summit 2019 was
Cooperation 2020 to be host in 2019 response to the challenges held in Caracas,
Islamabad of the contemporary Venezuela.
106th Indian world”.
Science Congress Delivering A Common CHOGM 2019
CHOGM
– Lovely Future: Connecting, Meeting –
Indian Science “Future India: Science and Summit
Professional Innovating, Transforming’ Rwanda
Congress Technology”
University, 4th Indo-Africa
Phagwara, Forum Summit
“India and Africa:
Punjab. Indo-Africa 2018 – New
Deepening the Security
19th SCO Summit Delhi. This
Shanghai Engagement”
summit 2019- Summit is held
Cooperation —
Kyrgyzstan in every 3 years
Organisation
capital, Bishkek COP 25th 2019-
14th East Asia COP Madrid, Spain
–
East Asia Summit 2019 – (UNFCCC) (to be held in
—
Summit Thailand, December)
Bangkok

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Name of Name of
Aim/ Theme of summit Aim/ Theme of summit
organization/ Summit held at organization/ Summit held at
2019 2019
grouping grouping
World 7th World Materials – IIT Madras,
‘Shaping Future
Government Government Society of India Chennai, India.
Governments’
Summit Summit- Dubai 3rd Asian
Regional Ministerial
Maritime Maritime Safety Conference on Tiger conservation New Delhi
Regional maritime safety
Summit Conference 2019 Tiger
– Mumbai Conservation
“Exploring the innate 12th High
HEMCE- High
inclusive potentials of Energy Materials
Energy
high energy materials” Conference 2019

14. New Education Policy, 2020

Recently, the Union Cabinet has approved the new National
Education Policy (NEP), 2020 with an aim to introduce several
changes in the Indian education system - from the school to
college level.
▪ The NEP 2020 aims at making “India a global knowledge
superpower”.
▪ The Cabinet has also approved the renaming of the
Ministry of Human Resource Development to the Ministry
of Education.
▪ The NEP cleared by the Cabinet is only the third major
revamp of the framework of education in India since
independence.
o The two earlier education policies were brought in
1968 and 1986.

Key Points o Assessment reforms with 360 degree Holistic Progress

▪ School Education: Card, tracking Student Progress for achieving Learning
o Universalization of education from preschool to Outcomes
secondary level with 100% Gross Enrolment Ratio o A new and comprehensive National Curriculum
(GER) in school education by 2030. Framework for Teacher Education (NCFTE) 2021, will
o To bring 2 crore out of school children back into the be formulated by the National Council for Teacher
mainstream through an open schooling system. Education (NCTE) in consultation with National
o The current 10+2 system to be replaced by a new Council of Educational Research and Training
5+3+3+4 curricular structure corresponding to ages 3-8, (NCERT).
8-11, 11-14, and 14-18 years respectively.
• By 2030, the minimum degree qualification for teaching will
• It will bring the uncovered age group of 3-6 years under be a 4-year integrated B.Ed. degree.
school curriculum, which has been recognized globally as the ▪ Higher Education
crucial stage for development of mental faculties of a child.
• It will also have 12 years of schooling with three years of
Anganwadi/ pre schooling.
o Class 10 and 12 board examinations to be made easier,
to test core competencies rather than memorised facts,
with all students allowed to take the exam twice.
o School governance is set to change, with a new
accreditation framework and an independent authority
to regulate both public and private schools.
o Emphasis on Foundational Literacy and Numeracy, no
rigid separation between academic streams,
extracurricular, vocational streams in schools.
o Vocational Education to start from Class 6 with
Internships.
o Teaching up to at least Grade 5 to be in mother o Gross Enrolment Ratio in higher education to be raised
tongue/regional language. No language will be imposed to 50% by 2035. Also, 3.5 crore seats to be added in higher
on any student. education.

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• The current Gross Enrolment Ratio (GER) in higher education technology to enhance learning, assessment, planning,
is 26.3%. administration.
o Holistic Undergraduate education with a flexible o National Assessment Centre- 'PARAKH' has been
curriculum can be of 3 or 4 years with multiple exit created to assess the students.
options and appropriate certification within this period. o It also paves the way for foreign universities to set up
o M.Phil courses will be discontinued and all the courses campuses in India.
at undergraduate, postgraduate and PhD level will now o It emphasizes setting up of Gender Inclusion Fund,
be interdisciplinary. Special Education Zones for disadvantaged regions and
o Academic Bank of Credits to be established to facilitate groups.
Transfer of Credits. o National Institute for Pali, Persian and Prakrit, Indian
o Multidisciplinary Education and Research Universities Institute of Translation and Interpretation to be set up.
(MERUs), at par with IITs, IIMs, to be set up as models o It also aims to increase the public investment in the
of best multidisciplinary education of global standards in Education sector to reach 6% of GDP at the earliest.
the country. o Currently, India spends around 4.6 % of its total GDP
o The National Research Foundation will be created as an on education.
apex body for fostering a strong research culture and
building research capacity across higher education. Education In India
o Higher Education Commission of India (HECI) will be ▪ Constitutional Provisions:
set up as a single umbrella body for the entire higher o Part IV of Indian Constitution, Article 45 and Article 39
education, excluding medical and legal education. (f) of Directive Principles of State Policy (DPSP), has a
Public and private higher education institutions will be provision for state-funded as well as equitable and
governed by the same set of norms for regulation, accessible education.
accreditation and academic standards. Also, HECI will o The 42nd Amendment to the Constitution in 1976 moved
be having four independent verticals namely, education from the State to the Concurrent List.
• The education policies by the Central government provides a
• National Higher Education Regulatory Council (NHERC) for broad direction and state governments are expected to follow
regulation, it. But it is not mandatory, for instance Tamil Nadu does not
• General Education Council (GEC) for standard setting, follow the three-language formula prescribed by the first
• Higher Education Grants Council (HEGC) for funding, education policy in 1968.
• National Accreditation Council (NAC) for accreditation. o The 86th Amendment in 2002 made education an
o Affiliation of colleges is to be phased out in 15 years and enforceable right under Article 21-A.
a stage-wise mechanism to be established for granting ▪ Related Laws:
graded autonomy to colleges. o Right To Education (RTE) Act, 2009 aims to provide
primary education to all children aged 6 to 14 years and
• Over a period of time, every college is expected to develop enforces education as a Fundamental Right.
into either an autonomous degree-granting College, or a
constituent college of a university. • It also mandates 25% reservation for disadvantaged sections
▪ Other Changes: of the society where disadvantaged groups
▪ Government Initiatives:
o Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan, Mid Day Meal Scheme,
Navodaya Vidyalayas (NVS schools), Kendriya
Vidyalayas (KV schools) and use of IT in education are a
result of the NEP of 1986.

Way Forward
▪ A New Education Policy aims to facilitate an inclusive,
participatory and holistic approach, which takes into
consideration field experiences, empirical research,
stakeholder feedback, as well as lessons learned from best
practices.
It is a progressive shift towards a more scientific approach to
education. The prescribed structure will help to cater the
o An autonomous body, the National Educational ability of the child – stages of cognitive development as well
Technology Forum (NETF), will be created to provide a as social and physical awareness. If implemented in its true
platform for the free exchange of ideas on the use of vision, the new structure can bring India at par with the
leading countries of the world.

15. Indexes and reports released by the Indian Government

NITI Aayog reports • Kerala with a score of- 75
Sustainable development goals index 2020-21 • Himachal Pradesh and Tamil Nadu with a score of -74
The top-performing states and UTs as per the report are:
• Andhra Pradesh, Goa, Karnataka and Uttarakhand scored- 72

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• Sikkim scored- 71 1 Mizoram 73.70 74.98
• Maharashtra with a Goal score of- 70 2 Manipur 57.78 60.59
3 Meghalaya 56.83 55.95
The worst-performing states and UTs include: 4 Goa 53.13 51.90
• Chhattisgarh, Nagaland and Odisha with a score of- 61 5 Sikkim 53.20 50.50
• Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh
at a score of- 60 Municipal performance index 2020-21
o Million+ category:
• Assam scored- 57
• Indore has emerged as the highest ranked
• Jharkhand scored- 56
municipality, followed by Surat and Bhopal.
• Bihar at-52 o Less than Million category:
• New Delhi Municipal Council topped, followed by
Important takeaways for all competitive exams:
Tirupati and Gandhinagar.
• NITI Aayog Formed: 1 January 2015.
• NITI Aayog Headquarters: New Delhi. Ease of living index 2020-21
• NITI Aayog Chairperson: Narendra Modi Million+ Category:
Top Performers:
NITI Aayog Health Index 2020-21 State-wise Rankings: Larger • Bengaluru followed by Pune and Ahmedabad.
States • Worst Performers:
Larger States • Amritsar, Guwahati, Bareilly, Dhanbad and Srinagar.
Rankings States Health Index • Less than Million Category:
Base Year Reference Year • Top Performers:
1 Kerala 77.53 74.65
• Shimla followed by Bhubaneshwar and Silvassa.
2 Andhra Pradesh 60.84 65.31
• Worst Performers:
3 Maharashtra 61.76 64.53
• Aligarh, Rampur, Namchi, Satna and Muzaffarpur.
4 Gujarat 62.61 63.72
5 Punjab 65.83 63.41 Swachh Bharat award 2020
Best state- Gujarat
NITI Aayog Health Index 2020-21 State-wise Rankings: Smaller Best district- Tirunelveh (Tamil Nadu)
States Best block – Kanch road, Ujjain, MP
Smaller States Best gram panchayat- Chinnaur, Salem
Rankings States Health Index
Base Year Reference Year

16. Economic Survey 2021-22

Economic survey: • The year ahead is poised for a pickup in private sector
• Economic Survey is an annual document of the Ministry of investment with the financial system in a good position to
Finance. It reviews the economic progress of the country and provide support for the economy’s revival.
issues in the last 12 months. • The projection was comparable with World Bank and Asian
• The survey provides information related to the performance Development Bank’s latest forecasts of real GDP growth of 8.7
of key developmental schemes launched by the government. per cent and 7.5 per cent respectively for 2022-23.
The document also explains the performance of major • As per IMF’s latest World Economic Outlook projections,
government policies and their impact. India’s real GDP is projected to grow at 9 per cent in 2021-22
• The Economic Survey discusses major fiscal developments, and 2022-23 and at 7.1 per cent in 2023-2024, which would
macroeconomic factors, inflation, and other economic factors. make India the fastest-growing major economy in the world
The document also highlights the impact of agriculture, for all 3years.
climate change, and employment on the economy of the • Agriculture and allied sectors are expected to grow by 3.9 per
country. cent; industry by 11.8 per cent and the services sector by 8.2
• The 1st Economic Survey was tabled in 1950-51. However, till per cent in 2021-22.
the year 1964, it was presented along with the budget. • On-demand side, consumption is estimated to grow by 7.0
• The theme of Economic Survey 2021-22 is the “Agile percent, Gross Fixed Capital Formation (GFCF) by 15 per
approach” cent, exports by 16.5 percent and imports by 29.4 percent in
2021-22.
State of the Economy: • Macroeconomic stability indicators suggest that the Indian
• Indian economy is estimated to grow by 9.2 per cent in real Economy is well placed to take on the challenges of 2022-23.
terms in 2021-22 (as per first advanced estimates) subsequent • During April-November 2021, Capex has grown by 13.5 per
to a contraction of 7.3 per cent in 2020-21. cent (YoY) with a focus on infrastructure-intensive sectors.
• GDP is projected to grow by 8- 8.5 per cent in real terms in • Foreign Exchange Reserves crossed US$ 600 billion in the
2022-23. first half of 2021-22 and touched the US $ 633.6 billion as of
December 31, 2021.

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• As of end-November 2021, India was the fourth-largest forex Added (GVA) of the country registering a growth of 3.6% in
reserves holder in the world after China, Japan and 2020-21 and 3.9% in 2021-22.
Switzerland. • India’s overall score on the NITI Aayog SDG India Index and
• India has become 3rd largest start-up ecosystem in the world Dashboard improved to 66 in 2020-21 from 60 in 2019-20 and
after US and China. The number of new recognized start- 57 in 2018-19.
ups increased to over 14000 in 2021-22 from 733 in 2016-17. • The number of Front Runners (scoring 65-99) increased to 22
• 44 Indian start-ups have achieved unicorn status in 2021 States and UTs in 2020-21 from 10 in 2019-20.
taking the overall tally of unicorns to 83, most of which are • In North-East India, 64 districts were Front Runners and 39
in the services sector. districts were Performers in the NITI Aayog North-Eastern
• Capital expenditure for the Indian railways has increased to Region District SDG Index 2021-22.
Rs. 155,181 crores in 2020-21 from an average annual of Rs. • India has the tenth largest forest area in the world.
45,980 crores during 2009-14 and it has been budgeted to
further increase to Rs. 215,058 crores in 2021-22 – a five times According to NFHS,
increase in comparison to the 2014 level. • Total Fertility Rate (TFR) came down to 2 in 2019-21 from 2.2
• The extent of road construction per day increased in 2015-16;
substantially in 2020-21 to 36.5 Kms per day from 28 Kms • Infant Mortality Rate (IMR), under-five mortality rate and
per day in 2019-20 – a rise of 30.4 per cent. institutional births have improved in 2019-21 over the year
2015-16.
The Agriculture sector experienced buoyant growth in past two
years, accounting for a sizeable 18.8% (2021-22) in Gross Value

17. Annual General Budget 2022-23

Here are some interesting facts on Union Budget: • Net FDI inflows amounted to US$ 24.7 billion
1- Derivation of the word Budget: The word Budget has been FDI for April−November 2021, 29.5 percent lower
derived from the French word 'Bougette' which means 'small bag'. than those for April−November 2020.
2- Introduction of the word Infrastructure: For the first 30 years, • CPI averaged at 5.2 percent in
the Budget didn't have the word infrastructure. It was introduced Inflation April−December 2021, driven primarily by
in the Budget in the 1900s. food inflation and high fuel prices.
3- First Union Budget of Colonial India: It was introduced on 7 • Merchandise exports expanded by 49.7
April 1860 by the East India Company to the British Crown. It was Merchandise percent to US$ 301.4 billion in
presented by a Scottish Economist and politician James Wilson. exports April−December 2021, exceeding the pre-
4- First Union Budget of Independent India: It was introduced pandemic levels.
on 26 November 1947. It was presented by the first Finance
Minister R.K. Shanmukham Chetty. However, it was a review of Significant Announcements under Different Sectors
the Indian economy and no new taxes were proposed. It is to be Sector Highlights
noted that almost 46% of the Budget or Rs. 92.74 crores were • PM Gati Shakti National Master Plan at a
allocated for the defence services department. cost of ₹20,000 crore
• 5G spectrum auctions to be conducted in
Union Budget 2022 focusses on 4 pillars: 2022
1. PM GatiShakti • Scheme for design-led manufacturing for
2. Inclusive Development 5G will be part of the production-linked
3. Productivity Enhancement & Investment, Sunrise Infrastructure
scheme
Opportunities, Energy Transition, and Climate Action • To award contracts to lay optical fibre in
4. Financing of Investments rural areas, completion in 2025
• To allocate additional 195 billion rupees for
Union Budget 2022-23: Top Economic Indicators
production-linked incentives towards solar
Economic
Analysis equipment manufacturing
Indicators
• Digital University will be established based
Growth • 9.2 percent expansion in GDP in FY22 on a networked hub model.
estimates • 8−8.5 percent projected GDP growth for FY23
Education • One Class, One TV channel will be
• The revised Fiscal Deficit in the current year expanded from 12 to 200 TV Channels to
is estimated at 6.9 percent of GDP. provide supplementary education in all
Deficit
• The Fiscal Deficit in 2022-23 is estimated at regional languages.
6.4 per cent of GDP. • National Digital Health Ecosystem to be
• The outlay for capital expenditure has been rolled out.
Capital stepped up sharply by 35.4 per cent from Rs • National Tele Mental Health program to be
expenditure 5.54 lakh crore in the current year to Rs 7.50 set up to focus on mental health.
lakh crore in 2022-23. Health
• 23 tele mental health centres of excellence.
• RBI kept the repo rate unchanged at 4 • Integrated benefits to women and children
Repo rate percent since May 2020; continues with an through Mission Shakti, Mission Vatsalya,
accommodative monetary policy stance. Saksham Anganwadi and Poshan 2.0.

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Sector Highlights Policy Analysis
• Domestic scheme introduced to reduce • To enhance the resolution process,
dependence on oilseed imports Amendments to including for cross-border insolvency.
• NABARD to facilitate funds with blended the Insolvency and • To establish a centre to reduce the
capital to finance startups for agriculture & Bankruptcy Code process of voluntary winding up of
rural enterprise. companies to six months
Agriculture • Chemical-free, natural farming to be • Launch of digital rupee using
promoted across the country. blockchain and other technologies in
• 2022 to be Year of Millet – support for post- FY22-23
harvest value addition for millet products Digital Rupee • Scheduled Commercial Banks to set up
• Using Kisan drones for crop assessment and 75 digital banking units
spraying of pesticides • Extend the core banking system to post
• Budget 2022-23 would give a push to self- offices
reliance in defence production as part of the • All virtual digital assets will be taxed at
Atma Nirbhar Bharat initiative. Tax on Virtual 30 per cent rate, while digital gifting
• The 68 per cent capital procurement budget Digital Assets will also be charged per the same rates
Defense in the sector was earmarked for domestic on the receiver’s end.
procurement. • A committee or task force to be set up
• encourage private industry to take up the for urban planning, augmenting the
design and development of military Committee to Animation, Visual Effects, Gaming, and
platforms and equipment. govern different Comic sector, and reviewing the
processes regulatory framework governing
• Long term capital gain surcharge to be
capped at 15% venture capital and private equity
investments
• Emergency credit line guarantee scheme for
small and medium-sized businesses to be • 5G spectrum auction proposed in FY22
Finance extended to March 2023 along with the launch of a design-led
manufacturing scheme (as part of the
• Public issue of Life Insurance Corporation
5G spectrum PLI Scheme);
expected shortly
• To amend bankruptcy code to speed up the
• Contracts to be awarded for laying
optical fibre in remote areas through
resolution process
Public-Private Partnership
• As part of the PM Gatishakti Masterplan,
2,000 kilometres of railway network will be
• Infrastructure status accorded to data
Data centres centres and energy storage systems to
brought under Kavach.
facilitate credit availability
Railways • Also, 400 new-generation Vande Bharat
Trains with better energy efficiency and • Issuance of sovereign green bonds
passenger riding experience will be which will help reduce carbon intensity
developed and manufactured during the Green Bonds • Set-up of government-backed funds for
next three years. climate action, tech-based and
agricultural initiatives
• Raising and Accelerating MSME
Performance (RAMP) programme will be • Battery swapping policy and
rolled out with a Rs 6,000 crore outlay interoperability standards to be
spread over 5 years for MSMEs. Battery swapping formulated
• The Emergency Credit Line Guarantee policy • Additional INR 195 billion to be
MSMEs
Scheme (ECLGS) that provided much allocated to PLI for manufacturing
needed additional credit to over 1.3 crore solar PV modules
MSMEs will be extended till March 2023
Emergency Credit
• The Emergency Credit Line Guarantee
with its guarantee cover expanded by Rs Scheme for MSMEs extended up to
Line Guarantee
50,000 crore to Rs 5 lakh crore. March 2023 with an additional
Scheme for
guarantee cover of INR 500 billion for
MSMEs
Union Budget 2022-23: Top Policy Highlights hospitality and related enterprises
Policy Analysis • Special Economic Zone Act to be
• Enhance multimodal connectivity replaced with new legislation to enable
through the expansion of roadways by the States’ partnership in the
Special Economic
25,000 km development of enterprise and service
Multimodal Zone Act
• Inclusion of 2,000 km of rail network hubs, optimally utilise the available
Connectivity infrastructure, and enhance export
under indigenous technology
competitiveness
• Develop eight ropeway projects and
100 cargo terminals • Production Linked Incentive (PLI)
Scheme of the Centre has the potential
International
• International Arbitration Centre to be
to create 60 lakh new jobs during the
set up; and foreign universities PLI scheme
Arbitration Centre next five years.
permitted to operate in GIFT City.
• A scheme for design-led manufacturing
will be launched to build a strong

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Policy Analysis
ecosystem for 5G as part of the PLI Union Budget 2022-23: Top Tax Highlights
scheme. Factor Analysis
• For facilitating domestic • No change to corporate or personal
Income tax
manufacturing, an additional allocation income tax rates
of Rs 19,500 crore for PLI scheme for
• Taxpayers now have a two-year
manufacturing of high efficiency (solar) Revised Income window to correct errors and file a
modules.
Tax return policy revised income tax return for the
• Schemes such as Mission Shakti, relevant assessment year
Mission Vatsalya, Saksham Anganwadi
and Poshan 2.0. • Tax holiday extended for start-ups
Empowerment of incorporated up to 31 March 2023
women • Allocation of Rs 60,000 crore will be
Tax holiday and for new manufacturing
made under ‘Har Ghar Nal Se Jal’
scheme to cover 3.8 crore households in
companies commencing operations
2022-23. by 31 March 2024
• PM GatiShakti National Master Plan • Retrospective amendment to deny
will encompass the seven engines for surcharge or cess the deduction of any surcharge or
economic transformation, seamless cess paid on income and profits
multimodal connectivity and logistics • Gains taxed at 30 percent; deduction
efficiency. allowed only for the cost of
o The seven engines include roads, acquisition;
railways, airports, ports, mass Virtual digital • Benefit of set-off and carry forward
transport, waterways, and logistics assets (VDA): of losses not available;
infrastructure.
• Deemed gift tax provisions to apply;
• To facilitate better movement of people
tax deduction at source (TDS) at 1
and goods, The National Highways
percent introduced.
Network will be expanded by 25,000
PM GatiShakti km in FY23 • Income-tax exemption expanded to,
• 400 new gen Vande Bharat trains to be inter alia, specified income of non-
manufactured in the next 3 years International resident from lease of a ship to IFSC
Financial Services units;
• Railways will develop new products
and logistic services for small farmers Centre (IFSC) • Income of a nonresident from the
and MSMEs transfer of specified derivative
• ‘One Station- One Product’ concept will instruments
be promoted to help local businesses Concessional tax
• Concessional tax regime on foreign-
and supply chains built on a hub and sourced dividends to be withdrawn
regime
spoke model from FY22
• 2,000 km of network to be brought • Cooperative societies pay 18.5%
under a new scheme, Kavach – for alternate minimum tax and
safety and capacity augmentation Alternate
companies pay 15%. From now on
minimum tax
the cooperatives too will have to pay
only 15%

18. Central Government Scheme

Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana - ▪ September 25, 2014
▪ August 28, 2014 ▪ Ministry of Commerce and Industry
▪ Ministry of Finance ▪ Aimed at increasing investments in multiple sectors like
▪ To bring in Financial Inclusivity among the people of India. production and manufacturing.

Pradhan Mantri Shram Yogi Maan-Dhan Yojana - Swachh Bharat Abhiyan-

▪ 15th February 2019 ▪ 2 October 2014
▪ Ministry of Labour and Employment ▪ Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs
▪ Helping the workers of the unorganized sector like auto
drivers, rag pickers, etc. National Bal Swachhta-
▪ A minimum assured pension of Rs 3000 per month would be ▪ 14 November 2014
given to the subscriber of this scheme. ▪ Ministry of Human Resource and Development
▪ Also, if the subscriber dies, the spouse of the subscriber would ▪ Children below the age of six and expecting and lactating
receive 50% of the pension amount. mothers are offered health benefits by the Government for
▪ Also, the scheme can be transferred in the name of the free of cost.
nominee after if the subscriber dies before the age of 60. ▪ Observed from 14th to 19th November. The campaign has
been planned out in the following way:
Make in India -

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➢ 14th November: Clean Schools/Surroundings/Play ▪ UMANG (Unified Smartphone Application for New-age
areas Governance) is a mobile application introduced by Prime
➢ 15th November: Clean Food Minister Narendra Modi to give citizens with secure access to
➢ 17th November: Clean Self, Personal Hygiene, Child a variety of government services on a single platform.
Safety UMANG is a significant component of the government's
➢ 18th November: Clean Drinking Water Digital India project, which aims to make all traditional
➢ 19th November: Clean Toilet offline government services available online 24 hours a day,
seven days a week through a single unified app.
Beti Bachao Beti Padhao-
▪ 22nd January 2015 Pilgrimage Rejuvenation And Spirituality Augmentation Drive
▪ Ministry of Women and Child Development (PRASAD Scheme)
▪ 2014-15
Atal Pension Yojna - ▪ Ministry of Tourism
▪ 9th May, 2015 ▪ To promote tourism and Develop cultural places.
▪ Ministry of Finance
▪ The scheme aims at providing a universal pension scheme for Atmanirbhar Bharat Abhiyan
the people who are working in the unorganized sector, and ▪ 12 May 2020
most of their payments are not recorded. These people ▪ Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs
include gardeners, drivers, servants, etc. ▪ Which means "self-reliant India scheme"

Digital India Mission National Digital Health Mission

▪ 1st July 2015 ▪ 15 August, 2020
▪ Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, Finance ▪ Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
Ministry ▪ The purpose is to establish an integrated healthcare system
that digitally connects practitioners and patients by providing
Startup India- them with real-time health records.
▪ January 16, 2016
▪ Government of India Pradhan Mantri Vaya Vandana Yojana
▪ To support various entrepreneurs who come up with • May 4, 2017
business ideas and are unable to convert those ideas into
reality due to the lack of funds. Pradhan Mantri Annadata Aay SanraksHan Abhiyan (PM
AASHA)
Gold Monetization Scheme- • September 2018
▪ 5th November 2015
▪ Ministry of Finance SATAT Scheme (Sustainable Alternative Towards Affordable
▪ Allows people to deposit gold in any form in a GMS account Transportation)
and receive income when the price of gold rises. • October 2018

PM CARES Fund -Prime Minister’s Citizen Assistance and DHRUV – PM Innovative Learning Programme
Relief in Emergency Situation Fund • October 10, 2019
▪ 27 March 2020
▪ Prime Minister Narendra Modi established a public charitable NIRVIK Scheme (Niryat Rin Vikas Yojana)
trust. This national trust was established with the goal of February 1, 2020
dealing with troubled and horrific situations like as COVID-
19 in the future. PM CARES was launched on March 28, 2020 National Technical Textiles Mission (NTTM)
• February 26, 2020
Arogya Setu
▪ 2 April 2020 SVAMITVA Scheme (Survey of Villages and Mapping with
▪ Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology Improvised Technology in Village Areas)
▪ Arogya Setu is a mobile app developed by the National • April 24, 2020
Informatics Centre as part of the Indian COVID–19" contact • Ministry of Panchayati Raj
tracing, syndromic mapping, and self-assessment" digital • It helps to map residential land ownership in the rural areas
service (MeitY).
using modern technology like the use of drones. The scheme
will ensure streamlined planning, revenue collection, and
Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (PM-JAY)
provide clarity over property rights in rural areas.
▪ 23 September 2018
▪ Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
Mission Sagar
▪ National health insurance scheme that intends to give free
• May 2020
healthcare to low-income earners in the country.
Prime Minister Street Vendor’s AtmaNirbhar Nidhi (PM
UMANG App
SVANidhi)
▪ November 2017
▪ Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology • June 1, 2020

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• Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs HRIDAY (National Heritage City Development and
Augmentation Yojana) scheme
Sahakar Mitra Scheme ▪ Launched: 21st January, 2015
• June 12, 2020 ▪ Objective: Conserving and preserving the heritage characters
of 12 cities: Amritsar, Varanasi, Gaya, Puri, Ajmer, Mathura,
Mission Karmayogi Dwarka, Badami, Velankanni, Kanchipuram, Warangal
• September 2, 2020 (Telangana) and Amaravati (Andhra Pradesh).

Ayushman Sahakar Scheme Kisan Vikas Patra

• October 19, 2020 ▪ Launched: 2014
▪ To provide attractive returns to money invested.
SERB-POWER Scheme (Promoting Opportunities for Women in
Exploratory Research) Mahatma Gandhi Pravasi Suraksha Yojana
• October 29, 2020 ▪ Launched: 2013

Mission COVID Suraksha MUDRA Bank Yojana

▪ Launched: 8th April, 2015
• November 29, 2020
▪ Regulate lending and borrowing activities in the microfinance
setup of India.
Startup India Seed Fund Scheme (SISFS)
• April 1, 2021
Namami Gange
▪ Launched: July, 2014
Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation
▪ Clean and protect the Ganga river in a comprehensive
(AMRUT)
manner.
• Launched: June, 2015
• Establish infrastructure that could ensure adequate robust National Policy for Skill Development and Entrepreneurship
sewerage networks and water supply for urban ▪ Launched: 2015
transformation
National Rurban Mission
Atal Innovation Mission and SETU in NITI AAYOG ▪ Launched: February, 2016
• Launched: February, 2016 ▪ Objective: To Spur, social, economic and infrastructure
• Entrepreneurship promotion through self-employment and development in rural areas.
talent utilization and to provide a platform where innovative
ideas are generated. National Sports Talent Search Scheme
▪ Launched: February 20,2015
DBT Scheme for Kerosene ▪ Objective: To find and nurture sports potential and make
▪ Launched: April, 2016 them excel at national and international sports competitions.
▪ To enable consumers to pay non-subsidized price of kerosene
at the time of purchase. Padhe Bharat Badhe Bharat
Deenadayal Upadhyaya Grameen Kaushalya Yojana ▪ Launched: 2014
▪ Launched: 25th September, 2014 ▪ Objective: To improve reading and writing skills of children
▪ To enhance the employability of rural youth. in classes 1 and 2.

Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Gram Jyoti Yojana (DDUGJY) Pandit Deendayal Upadhyay Shramev Jayate Karyakram
▪ Launched: 2015 ▪ Launched: 16th October, 2014
▪ To provide electrification to all villages. ▪ Objective: To create conductive environment for industrial
▪ {Replaced the Rajiv Gandhi Grameen Vidyutikaran Yojana development and doing business with ease and expand
(RGGVY)} government support to impart skill training for workers.

Ganga Gram Yojana Pradhan Mantri Gram Sinchai Yojana

▪ Launched: January, 2016 ▪ Launched: 1st July, 2015
▪ To develop the villages located along the main stem of river ▪ Objective: To irrigate fields of farmers across the country and
Ganga promote effective use of water. To attract investments in
Irrigation system and expand the cultivable land in the
Gram Uday Se Bharat Uday Abhiyan country.
▪ Launched: April, 2016
▪ To strengthen Panchayati Raj in villages and ensure social Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Yojana
▪ Launched: December 16, 2016
harmony in villages
▪ Objective: Welfare the poor people through effective
Indradhanush Scheme implementation of schemes.
▪ Launched: 25th December, 2014
Pradhan Mantri Jan Aushadhi Yojana
▪ To immunize unvaccinated children.
▪ Launched: 2015

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▪ Objective: Improve the quality of health care and make it
accessible across the country. Swadesh Darshan
▪ Launched: Jan, 2015
Pradhan Mantri Jeevan Jyoti Bima Yojana ▪ Objective: To accelerate domestic as well as international
▪ Launched: 9th May, 2015 tourism in India and to develop theme based tourist circuits
▪ Objective: Increase the number of insurances. in the country on the principles of high tourist value,
competitiveness and sustainability, in an integrated manner.
Pradhan Mantri Suraksha Bima Yojana
▪ Launched: 9th May, 2015 Sukanya Samridhi Yojana
▪ Objective: To increase insurance penetration level in the ▪ Launched: 22nd Jan, 2015
country. The insurance covers death or disablement of the ▪ Objective: To ensure bright future for girl children in India.
policy holder caused due to accident or accidental injuries. To provide financial security and independence to the girls
and help them with their education and marriage.
Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana
▪ Launched: January, 2016
▪ Objective: To boost farming sector in the country. Soil Health Card Scheme
▪ Launched: February, 2015
Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana ▪ Objective: Issue soil card to farmers to help them get good
▪ Launched: 2015 harvest by studying the quality of soil.
▪ Objective: To provide houses at affordable rates. To provide
interest subsidy of 6.5% on housing loan for 15 years and use Shyama Prasad Mukherji Rurban Mission
sustainable and eco-friendly technologies during ▪ Launched: September, 2015
construction process. ▪ Objective: To drive economic, social and infrastructure
development in rural areas.
Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana
▪ Launched: 1st May, 2016 Standup India Scheme
▪ Objective: To provide LPG connections to BPL households in ▪ Launched: 5th April, 2016
the country. To replace the unclean cooking fuels mostly used ▪ Objective: To promote entrepreneurship among people from
in rural India with clean and more efficient LPG. SC/ST and woman. To provide loan between Rs.10 lakh and
up to Rs.1 crore to entrepreneurs for setting up new
Rashtriya Avishkar Abhiyan enterprise.
▪ Launched: 9th July, 2015
▪ Objective: To leverage the potential for science, mathematics Seema Darshan
and technology learning in non-classroom settings. ▪ Launched: January, 2016
▪ Objective: To provide an opportunity to children to
Sansad Adarsh Gram Yojana experience the border environment and to foster patriotism
▪ Launched: 11th October, 2014 and nationalism among the students. To make students visit
▪ Objective: To develop social, cultural and infrastructures in border areas of our country and present them before our
villages. soldiers. To showcase the tradition and culture of our country
through traditional songs and dances.
Skill India
▪ Launched: 15th July, 2015 Special home for widows
▪ Objective: To create jobs for the youth of the country. ▪ Launched: March, 2016
▪ Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurs ▪ Objective: To provide homes to widows in Vrindavan.

Smart Cities Science and Technology of Yoga and Meditation (SATYAM)

▪ Launched: 2015 ▪ Launched: November, 2015
▪ Objective: To drive economic growth and improve the quality ▪ Objective: To strengthen research in areas of Yoga and
of life of people by enabling local development and Meditation.
harnessing technology as a means to create smart outcomes
for citizens. Rashtriya Gokul Mission
▪ December 16, 2014
Swachh Bharat Abhiyan ▪ Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare
▪ Launched: 2nd October, 2014
▪ Objective: To make India clean. To provide facilities to every Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana
family including toilets, solid and liquid waste disposal ▪ 2015
systems, village cleanliness, and safe and adequate drinking ▪ Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurs
water supply.
Pradhan Mantri Formalization of Micro Food Processing
Swachh Vidyalaya Abhiyan Enterprises Scheme
▪ Launched: 2014 ▪ June 29, 2020
▪ Objective: To provide toilets in all government schools. To ▪ Ministry of Food Processing Industries
provide separate toilets for boys and girls in all government
schools. Pradhan Mantri Matsya Sampada Yojana

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▪ September 10, 2020 ▪ To provide Rs. 6000 per annum in three installments to all the
▪ Department of Fisheries eligible farmers.

PM-KUSUM (Pradhan Mantri Kisan Urja Suraksha evam Har Ghar Jal
Utthaan Mahabhiyan) ▪ Launched- 5 July 2019
▪ February 19, 2019 (Approval Date) ▪ To provide tap water to every rural household by 2024.
▪ Ministry of New and Renewable Energy
Fit India Movement
National Infrastructure Pipeline Project ▪ Launched- 29 August 2019
▪ 2019 ▪ A nation-wide movement in India to encourage people to
▪ Improve the overall quality of life for all citizens. The NIP will remain healthy and fit.
fulfil all the crucial factors that will help India in achieving its
target of becoming a $5 trillion economy by the financial year One Nation One Ration Card
2025. ▪ Launched- 1 June 2020
▪ Poor migrant workers can buy subsidized rice and wheat
Sovereign Gold Bond Scheme from any ration shop in the country.
▪ Launched- 5 November 2015
▪ Substitutes for holding physical gold. Garib Kalyan Rojgar Abhiyaan
▪ Launched- 20 June 2020
Ujwal DISCOM Assurance Yojna (UDAY) ▪ To control the impact of COVID-19 on migrant workers.
▪ Launched- 20 November 2015 Initial Funding- Rs. 50000 Crores.
▪ Financial turnaround of Public Sector Power Distribution
Companies Creation and Harmonious Application of Modern Processes for
Ujala Yojna Increasing the Output and National Strength (MSME-
▪ Launched- 1 May 2015 Champions)
▪ To provide LED bulbs at a low price to reduce electricity ▪ Launched- 9 May 2020
consumption ▪ To help small businesses grow big by resolving their
grievances, supporting them in various aspects of the trade.
Pradhan Mantri Matri Vandana Yojana (PMMVY)
▪ Launched- 1 January 2017 PM DevINE (Prime Minister’s Development Initiative for
▪ To provide Rs. 5000 help for pregnant and lactating women North-East)
of 19 years of age or above for the first live birth. ▪ Proposed in Union Budget 2022
▪ {Replaced Indira Gandhi Matritva Sahayog Yojna} ▪ The scheme aims to fund infrastructure and need-based social
development, including one-of-a-kind ‘Bamboo Link Roads’
Ude Desh ka Aam Naagrik (UDAN) in Mizoram with an initial amount of Rs. 1500 Crore.
▪ Launched- 27 April 2017
▪ Making air travel affordable PM Cares for Children
▪ Launched- 29 May 2021
Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi Yojna ▪ All children who have lost both parents or surviving
▪ Launched- 24 February 2019 ▪ parent or legal guardian/adoptive parents due to Covid 19
will be supported under ‘PM-CARES for Children’ scheme.

19. GI. Tags

What is GI Tag? Geographical Indications are covered as a component of
A GI or Geographical Indication is a name or a sign given to intellectual property rights (IPRs) under the Paris Convention for
certain products that relate to a specific geographical location or the Protection of Industrial Property.
origins like a region, town or country. At the International level, GI is governed by the World Trade
Using Geographical Indications may be regarded as a certification Organisation’s (WTO’s) Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of
that the particular product is produced as per traditional methods, Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS).
has certain specific qualities, or has a particular reputation because In India, Geographical Indications registration is administered by
of its geographical origin. the Geographical Indications of Goods (Registration and
Geographical indications are typically used for wine and spirit Protection) Act, 1999 which came into force with effect from
drinks, foodstuffs, agricultural products, handicrafts, and September 2003.
industrial products. The first product in India to be accorded with GI tag was
GI Tag ensures that none other than those registered as authorized Darjeeling tea in the year 2004-05.
State Wise GI Tags
users are allowed to use the popular product name. In order to
The GI tags allotted to the handicraft, agricultural, food or
function as a GI, a sign must identify a product as originating in a manufactured products are listed down below state-wise:
given place.
State Wise GI Tags
Who accords and regulates Geographical Indications?

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The GI tags allotted to the handicraft, agricultural, food or Indian State GI Tags
manufactured products are listed down below state-wise: Chamba Rumal
Indian State GI Tags Kinnauri Shawl
Srikalahasthi Kalamkari Kullu ShawL (Logo)
Kondapalli Bommallu Kangra Paintings
Machilipatnam Kalamkari Himachali Kala Zeera
Budithi Bell & Brass Metal Craft Himachali Chulli Oil
Andhra Pradesh Leather Puppetry Kani Shawl
Uppada Jamdani Sarees Kashmir Pashmina
Venkatagiri Sarees Kashmir Paper Machie
Jammu &
Bobbili Veena Kashmir Walnut Wood Carving
Kashmir
Mangalagiri Sarees and Fabrics Khatamband
Andhra
Dharmavaram Handloom Pattu Sarees And Kashmiri Hand Knotted Carpet
Pradesh
Paavadas Saffron (Mongra, Lachha, Guchhi)
Udayagiri Wooden Cutlery Jharkhand Sohrai – Khovar Painting
Durgi Stone Carvings Mysore Silk
Etikoppaka Toys Bidriware
Allagadda Stone Carving Channapatna Toys & Dolls
Tirupati Laddu Mysore Rosewood Inlay
Bandar Laddu Kasuti Embroidery
Guntur Sannam Chilli Mysore Traditional Paintings
Araku Valley Arabica Coffee Ilkal Sarees
Arunachal Idu Mishmi Textiles Ganjifa Cards of Mysore
Pradesh Arunachal Orange Navalgund Durries
Muga Silk of Assam Karnataka Bronzeware
Muga Silk of Assam (Logo) Sandur Lambani Embroidery
Assam Karbi Anglong Ginger Kinhal Toys
Assam Joha Rice of Assam Udupi Sarees
Tezpur Litchi Mysore Silk (Logo)
Boka Chaul Coorg Orange
Kaji Nemu Mysore Betel leaf
Madhubani Paintings Nanjangud Banana
Karnataka
Applique (Khatwa) Work of Bihar Udupi Mallige
Sujini Embroidery Work of Bihar Mysore Mallige
Sikki Grass Products of Bihar Hadagali Mallige
Bhagalpur Silk Coorg Green Cardamom
Applique (Khatwa) Work of Bihar (Logo) Devanahalli Pomelo
Bihar Sikki Grass Products of Bihar (Logo) Appemidi Mango
Sujini Embroidery Work of Bihar(Logo) Kamalapur Red Banana
Bhagalpuri Zardalu Bangalore Blue Grapes
Katarni Rice Coorg Arabica Coffee
Maghai Paan Chikmagalur Arabica Coffee
Shahi Litchi of Bihar Bababudangiri Arabica Coffee
Silao Khaja Sirsi Supari
Bastar Dhokra Gulbarga Tur Dal
Chhattisgarh Bastar Wooden Craft Dharwad Pedha
Bastar Iron Craft Mysore Agarbathi
Khola Chilli Mysore Sandalwood Oil
Goa Mysore Sandal soap
Feni
Sankheda Furniture Tirur Betel Leaf (Tirur Vettila)
Agates of Cambay Alleppey Coir
Kutch Embroidery Navara Rice
Tangaliya Shawl Palakkadan Matta Rice
Surat Zari Craft Alleppey Green Cardamom
Kachchh Shawls Maddalam of Palakkad
Patan Patola Screw Pine Craft of Kerala
Gujarat Sankheda Furniture (Logo) Brass Broidered Coconut Shell Crafts of Kerala
Kutch Embroidery (Logo) Kerala Pokkali Rice
Agates of Cambay (Logo) Vazhakulam Pineapple
Jamnagari Bandhani Cannanore Home Furnishings
RajKot Patola Balaramapuram Sarees and Fine Cotton Fabrics
Pethapur Printing Blocks Kasaragod Sarees
Gir Kesar Mango Kuthampully Sarees
Bhalia Wheat Central Travancore Jaggery
Himachal Kullu Shawl Wayanad Jeerakasala Rice A
Pradesh Kangra Tea Wayanad Gandhakasala Rice

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Indian State GI Tags Indian State GI Tags
Payyannur Pavithra Ring Mizo Puanchei
Chendamangalam Dhoties & Set Mundu
Kaipad Rice
Chengalikodan Nendran Banana
Kuthampully Dhoties & Set Mundu
Maddalam of Palakkad (Logo) Naga Mircha
Brass Broidered Coconut Shell Craft of Kerala Nagaland Naga Tree Tomato
(Logo) Chakhesang Shawl
Screw Pine Craft of Kerala (Logo Kotpad Handloom fabric
Nilambur Teak Orissa Ikat
Wayanad Robusta Coffee Konark Stone carving
Marayoor Jaggery (Marayoor Sharkara) Orissa Pattachitra
Chanderi Sarees Pipli Applique Work
Leather Toys of Indore Khandua Saree and Fabrics
Bagh Prints of Madhya Pradesh Gopalpur Tussar Fabrics
Bell Metal Ware of Datia and Tikamgarh Ganjam Kewda Rooh
Maheshwar Sarees & Fabrics Ganjam Kewda Flower
Madhya Odisha
Bell Metal Ware of Datia and Tikamgarh Dhalapathar Parda & Fabrics
Pradesh Sambalpuri Bandha Saree & Fabrics
(Logo)
Leather Toys of Indore (Logo) Bomkai Saree & Fabrics
Ratlami Sev Habaspuri Saree & Fabrics
Bagh Prints of Madhya Pradesh (Logo) Berhampur Patta (Phoda Kumbha) Saree &
Jhabua Kadaknath Black Chicken Meat Joda
Orissa Pattachitra (Logo)
Solapur Chaddar
Kandhamal Haladi
Solapur Terry Towel
Odisha Rasagola
Puneri Pagadi
Nashik Valley Wine Kota Doria
Paithani Sarees and Fabrics Blue Pottery of Jaipur
Mahabaleshwar Strawberry Molela Clay Work
Nashik Grapes Kathputlis of Rajasthan
Kolhapur Jaggery Bikaneri Bhujia
Ajara Ghansal Rice Kota Doria (Logo)
Mangalwedha Jowar Rajasthan Bagru Hand Block Print
Sindhudurg & Ratnagiri Kokum Thewa Art Work
Waghya Ghevada Makrana Marble
Navapur Tur Dal Molela Clay Work of Rajasthan (Logo)
Vengurla Cashew Blue Pottery of Jaipur (Logo)
Lasalgaon Onion Kathputlis of Rajasthan (Logo)
Maharashtra Pokaran Pottery
Sangli Raisins
Beed Custard Apple Salem Fabric
Jalna Sweet Orange Kancheepuram Silk
Waigaon Turmeric Kancheepuram Silk
Purandar Fig Madurai Sungudi
Jalgaon Bharit Brinjal Coimbatore Wet Grinder
Solapur Pomegranate Thanjavur Paintings
Bhiwapur Chil Temple Jewellery of Nagercoil
Ambemohar Rice Thanjavur Art Plate
Dahanu Gholvad Chikoo East India Leather
Jalgaon Banana Salem Silk known as Salem Venpattu
Marathwada Kesar Mango Kovai Kora Cotton Sarees
Karvath Kati Sarees & Fabrics Arani Silk
Alphonso Swamimalai Bronze Icons
Tamil Nadu
Sangli Turmeric Eathamozhi Tall Coconut
Shaphee Lanphee Thanjavur Doll
Wangkhei Phee Nilgiri (Orthodox)
Manipur Moirang Phee Virupakshi Hill Banana
Kachai Lemon Sirumalai Hill Banana
Chak-Hao Madurai Malli
Khasi Mandarin Pattamadai Pai (“Pattamadai Mat”)
Meghalaya Nachiarkoil Kuthuvilakku (“Nachiarkoil
Memong Narang
Lamp”)
Mizo Chilli
Chettinad Kottan
Pawndum
Toda Embroidery
Mizoram Ngotekherh
Thanjavur Veenai
Hmaram
Thanjavur Art Plate (Logo)
Tawlhlohpuan

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Indian State GI Tags Indian State GI Tags
Swamimalai Bronze Icons (Logo) Farrukhabad Prints
Temple Jewellery of Nagercoil (Logo) Lucknow Zardozi
Mahabalipuram Stone Sculpture Banaras Brocades and Sarees (Logo)
Erode Manjal (Erode Turmeric) Kalanamak Rice
Thirubuvanam Silk Sarees Firozabad Glass
Kodaikanal Malai Poondu Kannauj Perfume
Palani Panchamirtham Kanpur Saddlery
Dindigul Locks Moradabad Metal Craft
Kandangi Saree Saharanpur Wood Craft
Srivilliputtur Palkova Meerut Scissors
Kovilpatti Kadalai Mittai Khurja Pottery
Thanjavur Pith Works Banaras Gulabi Meenakari Craft
Arumbavur Wood Carvings Varanasi Wooden Lacquerware & Toys
Mirzapur Handmade Dari
Nizamabad Black Pottery
Banaras Métal Repoussé Craft
Varanasi Glass beads
Ghazipur Wall Hanging
Varanasi Soft Stone Jali Work
Chunar Balua Patthar
Gorakhpur Terracotta
Darjeeling Tea (word & logo)
Nakshi Kantha
Tripura Tripura Queen Pineapple Santiniketan Leather Goods
Pochampally Ikat Malda Laxman Bhog Mango
Silver Filigree of Karimnagar Khirsapati (Himsagar) mangoes
Nirmal Toys and Craft Malda Fazli Mango
Nirmal Furniture Santipur Saree
Nirmal Paintings Baluchari Saree
Gadwal Sarees Dhaniakhali Saree
Hyderabad Haleem Joynagar Moa
Telangana West Bengal
Cheriyal Paintings Bardhaman Sitabhog
Siddipet Gollabhama Bardhaman Mihidana
Narayanpet Handloom Sarees Gobindobhog Rice
Pochampally Ikat (Logo) Tulaipanji Rice
Adilabad Dokra Banglar Rasogolla
Warangal Durries Bankura Panchmura Terracotta Craft
Telia Rumal Bengal Patachitra
Allahabad Surkha Guava Purulia Chhau Mask
Lucknow Chikan Craft Wooden Mask of Kushmandi
Malihabadi Dusseheri mango Madur kathi
Uttar Pradesh
Banaras Brocades and Sarees
Hand Made Carpet of Bhadohi
Agra Durrie

20. List of Reports & Indices of Different Organization

Publishing Publishing
Reports/Indices Reports/Indices
Organizations Organizations
Ease of doing Business Fiscal Monitor
World Development Report World Trade
World Trade Outlook Indicator
Global Economic Prospect(GEP) Report Organization
Easing of Living Index Global Information Technology Report
Universal Health Coverage Index Travel and Tourism Competitiveness
India Development Update World Bank Report
Remittance Report Global Competitiveness Report
International Debt Statistics Enabling Trade Report World Economic
Logistics Performance Index World Power Language Index Forum (WEF)
Migration and Development Brief Global Energy Architecture Performance
Human Capital Index Index Report
Global Financial Stability International
Global Environment Performance Index
World Economic Outlook Monetary Fund (IMF)

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Publishing Publishing
Reports/Indices Reports/Indices
Organizations Organizations
Inclusive Growth and Development Food and Agricultural
World State of Forest Report
report Organization (FAO)
Global Gender Gap Index World Health Statistics
Engaging Tomorrow Consumer Report Ambient Air Pollution Report
World Health
The Global Risk Report World Tuberculosis Report
Organization (WHO)
Outlook on Global Agenda Global Nutrition Report
Bank of International World Health Report
Global Financial System Report
Settlements (BIS) Safety Reports
International Civil
Financial Action Task Carbon Offsetting and Reduction
Global Money Laundering Report Aviation Organization
Force (FATF) Scheme for International Aviation
(ICAO)
Gender Parity Index United Nations (CORSIA)
Educational, Scientific World Intellectual
and Cultural World Intellectual Property Report Property Organization
Global education monitoring Report
Organization (WIPO)
(UNESCO) Nuclear Technology Review International Atomic
Report on Regular Resources United Nations Energy Agency
Technical Cooperation Report
The State of the World’s Children Children’s Emergency (IAEA)
Reports Fund (UNICEF) World Energy Outlook (WEO) International Energy
World Drug Report United Nations Office South Asia Energy Outlook Agency (IEA)
Global Report on Trafficking in Persons on Drugs and Crime International Union
World Wildlife Crime Report (UNODC) Red List for Conservation of
World Investment Report Nature (IUCN)
United Nations
The Trade & Development Report The Energy Report & Living Planet World Wide Fund for
Conference on Trade
The Least Developed Countries Report Report Nature (WWF)
and Development
The Information Economy Report Global Corruption Report Transparency
(UNCTAD)
The Technology and Innovation Report Corruption Perception Index International
United Nations Reporters Without
World Press Freedom Index
Industrial Borders
Industrial Development Report
Development Death Penalty Report Amnesty International
Organization(UNIDO) International Food
United Nations Office Global Hunger Index Report Policy Research
Global Assessment Report for Disaster Risk Institute (IFPRI)
Reduction (UNDRR) Global Pension Index Melbourne Mercer
United Nations AT Kearney
State of World Population Report Population (American Global
Global Retail Development Index
Fund(UNFPA) Management
World Economic situation and UN Department for Consulting Firm)
Prospectus Report Economic and Social Climate Change Performance Index German Watch
World’s Women Report Affairs (UN-DESA) US Chamber of
Intellectual Property Index
World Cities Report Commerce
UN-Habitat
Habitat Commitment Index Global Peace Index Institute of
United Nations Economics& Peace
Global Terrorism Index
University Institute (IEP)
World Disaster Risk Index for Environment and INSEAD , Adecco
Human group and the Human
Global Talent Competitiveness Index
Security(UNU-EHS) Capital Leadership of
UN – Sustainable Singapore
Development Social Progress
World Happiness Report Social Progress Index
Solutions Network Imperative
(SDSN) Quality Council of
Report Card of Swachh Bharat Mission
World Social Protection Report India
World of Work Report International Labour Central Pollution
National Air Quality Indices
World Employment and Social Outlook Organization Control Board (CPCB)
Global Wage Report Global Innovation Index INSEAD&WIPO
Gender Inequality Index United Nations India Innovation Index NITI Aayog, CII
Human Development Index Development Performance of Health Outcome Index NITI Aayog
Sustainable development Goals Programme (UNDP) Financial Stability report
Reserve Bank of India
Actions on Air Quality United Nations Interest Subvention Report
(RBI)
Global Environment Outlook Environment Monetary Policy Report (India)
Emission Gap Report Programme (UNEP) Internet and Mobile
The Rise of Environmental Crime Report UNEP& INTERPOL Internet Readiness Index Association of India
(IAMAI)

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Publishing Publishing
Reports/Indices Reports/Indices
Organizations Organizations
National Housing Organization of the
RESIDEX
Bank (NHB) World Oil Outlook Petroleum Exporting
Annual Survey of Education Report PRATHAM Countries (OPEC)
NITI Aayog and United Nations High
School Education Quality Index(SEQI)
Ministry of HRD The Global Report Commissioner of
The Council of Social Refugees (UNHCR)
India Social Development Report
Development United Nations
Asian Development Development
Asian Development Outlook Multidimensional Poverty Index
Bank (ADB) Programme (UNDP)
Actions on Air Quality UNEP and Oxford
Annual Cost of Living Survey Mercer

21. Awards & Honours

75th BAFTA Award 2022 2. Best Actor Suriya for Soorarai Pottru and
Category Winners Ajay Devgn for Tanhaji
3. Best Actress Aparna Balamurali for Soorarai
Best Film The Power of the Dog
Pottru
Best Director Jane Campion, The
4. Best Director Sachidanandan KR,
Power of the Dog Ayyappanum Koshiyum
Best Actress in Leading Role Joanna Scanlan, After 5. Best Cinematography Avijatrik
Love
Best Actor in Leading Role Will Smith, King Richard 6. Best film on Social Issues ‘Justice Delayed but Delivered &
Three Sisters
Best Supporting Actress Ariana DeBose, West
7. Best Feature Film in Toolsidas Junior
Side Story
Hindi
Best Supporting Actor Troy Kotsur, CODA NEXA International Indian Film Academy Awards (IIFA Award
EE Rising Star Award Lashana Lynch for 2022)
NEXA International Indian Film Academy Major Awards
OSCAR: 94th Academy Awards 2022 Best Picture Award Shershaah the biopic of Kargil martyr
Category Winners Captain Vikram Batra
Will Smith, “King Richard” Best Directions Award Vishnu Vardhan (Shershaah)
Best Actor in a Leading Role
Best Actor Award Vicky Kaushal (Sardar Udham)
Best Actress in a Leading Role Jessica Chastain (The Eyes of
Best Actress Award Kriti Sanon (Mimi)
Tammy Faye
Best Picture CODA
AWARDS AND HONORS 2022 [MONTH WISE]
Best International Feature Film Drive My Car
January 2022
Documentary Short Subject The Queen of Basketball
Awards Awardee
Best Directing Jane Campion (The Power of
QS-Wharton Reimagine Chennai-based Rhapsody
the Dog
Education Award 2021 Music Foundation
Indian Film Festival of Melbourne (IFFM) Awards 2022 former Prime Minister(PM) of
Netaji Award 2022
13th Indian Film Festival major awards list Japan , Shinzo Abe
1. Best Film 83 Global Private Banking Awards ‘Best Private Bank’ – HDFC
2. Best Actor Ranveer Singh (83) 2021 Bank
3. Best Actress Shefali Shah (Jalsa) Bharat Ratna Dr Ambedkar Hindi actress Harshaali
Shoojit Sircar (Sardar Udham) and Award 2022 Malhotra
4. Best Director
Aparna Sen (The Rapist) Delhi based Forensic Science
5. Best Series Mumbai Diaries 26/11 SKOCH Award 2021
Laboratory (FSL)
6. Best film from the
Joyland Former West Indies Captain
subcontinent Knighthood for sports
7. Best independent Clive Lloyd
Jaggi First-ever Guinness World India’s one of the top
film
8. Leadership in Record in Numerology numerologists : JC Chaudhry
Abhishek Bachchan
Cinema Award International Craft Award for Kerala Arts and Crafts Village
9. Lifetime 2021 Organization (KACV)
Kapil Dev
Achievement Award IBS Intelligence (IBSi) Global
FinTech Innovation Awards Axis Bank & CRMNEXT
68th National Film Awards
2021 for the “Best CRM Solution
68th National Film Awards
1. Best Feature Film Soorarai Pottru (Customer Relationship

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Management) System Four Parachute Battalions• 11 PARA

Implementation” (SPECIAL FORCE)

• 21 PARA (SPECIAL FORCE)

Uttar Pradesh in Best State
National Water Awards-2020 Presidential Colours or • 23 PARA
category
Nishan Award • 29 PARA
South Indian Bank (SIB) for
UiPath Automation Excellence This award presented by Chief of
Best Automation under ‘Crisis
Awards 2021 Army Staff General Manoj Mukund
for Business Continuity
Naravane on behalf of the President
India’s Sathyamangalam Tiger
of India Ram Nath Kovind.
TX2 award 2022 for doubling Reserve (STR) in Erode, Tamil
their tiger populations since Nadu, and Nepal’s Bardiya Sandeep Bakhshi, Managing
Business Standard Banker of
2010. National Park had Director(MD) and Chief Executive
the Year 2020-21
jointly won the award Officer (CEO) of ICICI Bank
Satish Adiga( Professor in International Cricket Council
New Zealand cricketer, Daryl
Dr Subhas Mukherjee Award Clinical Embryology at (ICC) Spirit of Cricket Award
Mitchell
2020 Kasturba Medical College 2021
(KMC) Veteran India hockey goalkeeper
The World Games Athlete of
Two startups namely Parattu Raveendran (PR) Sreejesh
the Year 2021
NIRAMAI Health (33) from Kerala
Global Women’s Health Tech Best State Tableau on 73rd
AnalytixPvt. Ltd.(NIRAMAI) Uttar Pradesh
Awards 2022 Republic Day parade 2022
and InnAccel Technologies
Pvt. Ltd.(InnAccel) ‘Voice of the Customer’
Mrs World 2022 Shaylyn Ford (USA) award by The Airports 18 Indian Airports
Council International (ACI)
Prime Minister’s Banner at the Maharashtra Directorate of the
Republic Day Camp(RDC) National Cadet Corps
March 2022
Award (NCC)
Awards Awardee
Most Popular World Leaders
PM Modi Sportstar of the Year (Male)
with 71% Rating Neeraj Chopra (Javelin)
Award
2022 Genesis Prize for the
Dr Albert Bourla (Chief Sportstar of the Year (Female)
Efforts in leading the Mirabai Chanu (Weightlifting)
Executive Officer(CEO) and Award
development of the COVID-19
Chairman of Pfizer)) BBC Indian Sportswoman of The Indian Weightlifter Mirabai
vaccine
Year (ISWOTY) 2021 Chanu
Children’s Word of the Year
“Anxiety” Former Indian International
2021 by Oxford University Sports Icon Award
cricket player Suresh Raina
Pritzker Architecture Prize 2022 Diebedo Francis Kere
February 2022
Boltzmann Medal2022 for
Awards Awardee
contribution in the field of Indian physicist Deepak Dhar
Most Dependable Public Associated Chambers of Commerce statistical physics
Sector in India award 2022 & Industry of India (ASSOCHAM) National Mission for Clean
Special Jury Award
Excellence in ‘Financial Ganga (NMCG)
Reporting’ for the year 2020- RailTel Corporation of India Ltd. Karolina Bielawska from
Miss World 2021
21 Poland
IBA 17th Annual Banking Mario Marcel Cullell (Mario
South Indian Bank (SIB),
Technology Conference and Marcel) [Governor of Banco
headquartered in Thrissur, Kerala. Governor of the year Award 2022
Awards 2021 Central de Chile (BCCh –
Hilal-e-Pakistan honour Central Bank of Chile)]
(second Highest Civilian ASSOCHAM Award’s for the
Co-founder of Microsoft and
Honour of Pakistan) for the Best MSME Bank of the Year (in Karnataka Bank Limited
philanthropist Bill Gates
efforts towards eradicating Private Category) award
polio in Pakistan Asian Bank of The Year 2021 Axis Bank
18th Late Madhavrao Limaye Union Minister of Road Transport National Award for Outstanding Jammu and Kashmir Bank
Award and Highways Nitin Gadkari Performance for FY 2020-21 (J&K Bank)
Digital Transformation Associated Chambers of
Karnataka Bank CtrlS, a DataCenter Company
Award (DX 2021Awards) Commerce and Industry
in Hyderabad, Telangana.
(ASSOCHAM) award

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GD (Ghanshyam Das) Birla Narayan Pradhan for his Public Regional Connectivity
Award for Scientific Research outstanding contribution in Administration Scheme (RCS)
2020
2022 the field of material sciences.
Celent Model IndusInd Bank Payments
Dennis Parnell Sullivan for his
Bank’ award System
contributions to topology in its Transformation
broadest sense, and in Entrepreneur Vivek Lall Global Leader
Abel Prize for 2022
particular its algebraic, Leadership in Defence and
geometric, and dynamical Awards 2022 Aviation Sector
aspects. Champions of the Sir David Attenborough Lifetime
Earth Award 2021 Achievement
John F. Kennedy Five Individuals To protect and
April 2022
Profile in Courage defend
Awards Awardee Field
Award 2022 democracy
Wisden’s 5 Cricketer Cricket
Commonwealth Kishore Kumar Das “Bidyanondo”
‘Cricketers of the 1. Rohit Sharma (India)
Point of Light an educational
Year’ in the 2022 2. Jasprit Bumrah (India)
award voluntary
3. Devon Conway (New
organisation
Zealand) 4. Ollie
Robinson (England)
5. Dane van Niekerk May 2022
(South Africa) Awards Awardee Field
World Sportsman Max Verstappen Sports V Shantaram Eminent Documentary Films
of the year 2022 Lifetime filmmaker and author
Laureus World Elaine Thompson-Herah Sports Achievement Award Sanjit Narwekar
Sportswoman of Order of the British Kishore Jayaraman
the year 2022 Empire (OBE) (President of Rolls-Royce
UN Award – e-Proposal System The role of Award for India and South Asia
World Summit on governments region)
the Information and all Immunization Radio Jockey Umar
Society Forum stakeholders in Champion Award Nisar (RJ Umar from
(WSIS) Prizes 2022 the promotion South Kashmir
– Champion of ICTs for Top 10 List 2022 of Lionel Messi Football
Project development the World’s Highest-
Stockholm Water Wilfried Brutsaert Environment Paid Athletes
Prize Laureate 2022 2022 Pulitzer Prizes Four Indians Journalism
Chameli Devi Jain Aarefa Johari Outstanding 1. Adnan Abidi
Award for 2021 Woman 2. Sanna Irshad Mattoo
Mediaperson 3. Amit Dave
‘Outstanding Indus Merchant pioneering 4. late Danish Siddiqui
Digital CX – SME Solutions innovation in 2022 International Geetanjali Shree for Novel
Payments’ award Digital Booker Prize novel Tomb of Sand
Customer Whitley Gold Award renowned
Experience 202 conservationist and
Saraswati Samman amdarash Mishra Poet and snow leopard expert
2021 Litterateur Charudutt Mishra
IBC Awards for Atal Tunnel William E. Colby American journalist
Excellence in Built Award 2022 Wesley Morgan for The
Environment 2021 reports “the Hardest
First Lata Narendra Modi Pharma & Place”
Deenanath Medical Device World Food Prize An American Climate
Mangeshkar 2022 agronomist and Crisis and
Award 2022 climatologist Cynthia Food
O.Henry Prize Amar Mitra Short Fiction Rosenzweig Production
EY Entrepreneur of Founder & CEO of Best Romain Rolland Bengali translation of the Novel
the Year 2021 India Nykaa beauty products – entrepreneurs Book Prize 2022 French novel
Falguni Nayar “Meursault,
The International Bhushan Kumar & Leprosy contreenquête” (The
Gandhi Award for Sahyog Kushtha Yagna awareness Meursault Investigation)
Leprosy 2021 Trust campaign Royal Gold Medal Indian Architect Architecture
2022 Malcom Prabhat Patnaik Developmental 2022 Balkrishna Vithaldas
Adiseshiah Award studies for an Doshi
outstanding Templeton Prize American Theoretical
economist 2022 physicist and author, Dr
Prime Minister’s UDAN (Ude Desh ka Excellence in Frank Wilczek
Award for Aam Nagrik), a flagship Public
Excellence in Administration

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2022 Wangari Cameroonian Activist Preserving Chairman of Happiest

Maathai Forest Cécile Ndjebet forests and Minds Technologies)
Champions Award improving Shiromani
the lives of Award (at NRI contribution in
Michelle Poonawalla
people World Summit the field of art
dependent on 2022)
forests Femina Miss Sini Shetty (from beauty pageant
First Aster Anna Qabale Duba (a India World 2022 Karnataka) or beauty contest
Guardians Global nurse from Marsabit, Fields medal
Nursing Award 2022 Kenya) 2022 (also known Ukrainian
Bangla Academy Mamata Banerjee Relentless as the Nobel Mathematician Maryna Mathmetics
Award literary Prize for Viazovska
pursuit mathematics)
Honorary Ajay Piramal To strengthen
‘Order of the Narayanan Kumar
Commander of the economic
Rising Sun’ Vice Chairman of
Order of The British relations between
award by Japan Sanmar Group
Empire (CBE) Japan and India
6 National Awards Karnataka Vikas Outstanding Mrs Universe Pallavi Singh ( from beauty pageant
Grameena (KVG) Bank achievement Divine Title India) or beauty contest
under Mother Teresa
enrollment of Memorial Award Dia Mirza (UNEP
Atal Pension ( by the National Goodwill Social Justice
Yojana (APY) Maharashtra Ambassador)
government)
June 2022 The National Academy
Awards Awardee Field Sardar Patel of Agricultural
Companion of Ahmed Salman …… Outstanding Research Management Agricultural
Honour (CH) Rushdie ICAR Institute (NAARM). Chairman Research
Award 2021 of NAARM Srinivasa
Women’s Prize Ruth Ozeki The Book of Form
Rao.
for Fiction 2022 & Emptiness
JC Daniel Award Malayalam filmmaker contribution film
UNESCO King Ministry of Information and
2022 KP Kumaran industry
Hamad Bin Isa Education (MoE) Communication
Al-Khalifa Prize Technology (ICT) Indian-Origin contribution in
Global Energy
in Education Professor Kaushik energy efficient
Prize 2022
Rajashekara technologies
Miss India Khushi Patel longest-running
Worldwide 2022 Indian pageant
awards outside August 2022
India Awards Awardee Field
THE Awards Shoolini University Education Miss Diva Universe Divita Rai Beauty Pageant
2022 (Karnataka)
Asia 2022 of Biotechnology (Outstanding
and Management Support for Liberty Medal 2022. Ukrainian President Humanitarian
Sciences Himachal Students category) Volodymyr Zelenskyy efforts
Pradesh UNESCO Peace Prize Former German effort to promote
2022 chancellor Angela peace
2022 Scripps Harini Logan ( an Education (Words
Merkel
National Spelling Indian origin Spelling
Lisbon Triennale Marina Tabassum contribution to
Bee person from San Competition)
Millennium bcp architectural and
Antonio, Texas, Lifetime spatial practice
USA Achievement Award
Golden Conch “Turn Your Body Best Documentary France’s highest Shashi Tharoor writings and
award to the Sun” a dutch Film civilian honour speeches
documentary film “Chevalier de la
directed by Aliona Legion d’Honneur”
Van der Horst US Heritage Wall of Indian professor, Personality and
L’OEil D’Or Shaunak Sen Documentary Fame Ramadhar Singh Social Psychology
Award 2022 (SPSP)
• An Indian Filmmaker from Delhi, Shaunak Sen’s ‘All That Miss India USA 2022 Indian origin Beauty Pageant
Breathes’ won the prestigious L’Oeil d’Or (Golden Eye) award teenager Aarya
2022 for the best documentary at the 75th Cannes Film Walvekar (Virginia)
Festival. Miss Teen India USA Tanvi Grover Beauty Pageant
‘dPal rNgam Duston’ Dalai Lama immense
• This film had earlier won the World Cinema Grand Jury award (Ladakh’s contribution to
Prize at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival highest civilian humanity
award)
July 2022 ‘President’s Colours Tamil Nadu Police Military, police
Awards Awardee Field honours decoration
CII Quality Ratna Ashok Soota (Founder leadership in • “President’s Colours” is the highest honour given to the military,
Awards 2021 and Executive Indian industry paramilitary and police forces of States and Union Territories.

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ABU – UNESCO Together for All India Radio(AIR) ‘s ‘Living

Awards and Honors 2021 [Month wise] Peace (T4P) Media Awards on the edge – The coastal lives’
December 2021 2021 and
Awards Awardee Doordarshan’s
70th Miss Universe India’s Harnaaz Tenzing Norgay National Priyanka Mohite
Sandhu Adventure Award 2020
BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2021 Emma Raducanu Lifetime Achievement Award Indian badminton player
‘Vaccine’ as 2021 Word of the Year By Merriam- 2021 in Badminton Prakash Padukone
Webster Prestigious Booker Prize 2021 South African author Damon
Time Magazine’s ‘Person of the Year’ Elon Musk Galgut
2021 • For the Novel ‘The Promise’
Royal Gold Medal 2022 Indian Architect JCB Prize for Literature 2021 M Mukundan
Balkrishna Doshi • novel ‘Delhi: A Soliloquy’,
‘Asom Baibhav’ 2021 award Ratan Tata Swasthya Nidhi Survey App The National Health Mission
SJFI Medal 2021 Sunil Manohar at 4th Digital Transformation (NHM), Jammu & Kashmir
Gavaskar Awards (J&K)
Britain’s Knight Bachelor Award / Lewis Hamilton Indira Gandhi Prize 2021 for Pratham , a civil society
Knighthood Peace, Disarmament organization (CSO)
UNESCO Asia Pacific Awards Delhi and Development
Ballon d’Or award or Golden Ball Award Lionel Messi Pharma & Medical Device Sascan Meditech Private
Bhutan’s highest civilian award Prime Minister of Startup India Grand Challenge Limited, a
India, Narendra 2021 Prize Kerala based startup
Modi
Dr M S Swaminathan Award V Praveen Rao October 2021
“Best Female Debut” honour at the 2021 Avani Lekhara Awards Awardee
Paralympic Sport Awards. American Director Martin
1st Satyajit Ray Lifetime
Jnanpith Award Nilmani Phookan & Scorsese & Hungarian
Achievement Award
Damodar Mauzo Director Istvan Szabo
Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay NIF (New Dinyar Patel Russian Opposition leader
India Foundation) Book Prize 2021 Sakharov Prize for Freedom of (PartyRussia of the Future),
2021 DST-ICTPIMU Ramanujan Prize Neena Gupta Thought lawyer and anticorruption
Golden Peacock Environment Steel Authority of activist Alexei Navalny
Management Award (GPEMA) 2021 India Limited Aryabhata Award [in the field
Dr G Satheesh Reddy
(SAIL) Astronautics ]
United Nation (UN) Women’s Award Divya Hegde WHO Director General’s
Henrietta Lacks
Most Effective Bank-Fintech Partnership Vayana Network &
award
Award Federal Bank Microsoft Chief Executive
‘Woman of the Year’ 2021 from World Anju Bobby George
C K Prahlad award Officer (CEO) Satya
Athletics
Nadella
Digital Innovation of the Year Award Jindal Global
UNESCO-ICM 2021 Martial
Kung Fu Nuns of Drukpa
University (JGU)
Arts Education Prize
Badminton World Federation (BWF) Viktor Axelsen, Tai Joseph A. Cushman Award Dr Rajiv Nigam
Male & Female Player of the Year Tzu Ying Lal Bahadur Shastri National
Dr Randeep Guleria
Women’s Tennis Association(WTA)’s Australia’s Award
Player of the Year Ashleigh Barty PETA (People for the Ethical
James Pangsang Kongkal
Treatment of Animals) India
Sangma
November 2021 2021
Awards Awardee Jeel Albena Association for
2021 UNHCR Nansen Refugee
Humanitarian
2021 KidsRights International Vihaan and Nav Agarwal Award
Development (JAAHD)
Children’s Peace Prize
2021 Earthshot Prize Vidyut Mohan
Associated Chambers of Karnataka Vikas
Legal Initiative for Forest
Commerce and Industry of Grameena Bank Right Livelihood Award
and Environment (LIFE
India (KVGB)
NatWest Group’s Earth
(ASSOCHAM) Award in Best Parambikulam Tiger
Guardian Award 2021 in the
Digital Financial Conservation Foundation
field of Conservation of Tigers
Services (PaTCoF)
and Biodiversity

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India Green Energy Award • Susanna Clarke

TVS Motor Company
2020 Women’s Prize for Fiction 2021 • For the Fantasy novel
2021 Peace Prize of the titled “Piranesi”
Tsitsi Dangarembga
German Book Trade SDG Progress Award Sheikh Hasina
Top Organization with 2021 Global Goalkeeper Award to
Innovative HR (Human Karnataka Bank • Phumzile Mlambo-
help achieve the UN Sustainable
Resource) Practices Award Ngcuka
Development Goals (SDG)
CIPS Excellence in Procurement
September, 2021 Awards 2021 Government
Awards Awardee • for Best Use of Digital eMarketplace (GeM)
Firdausi Qadri Technology
Ramon Magsaysay award 2021 • For the development 2021 IHA Blue Planet Prize
510 MW Teesta-V
• (Known as Asia’s Nobel Prize) of cheap oral vaccine • For Excellence in sustainable
Power Station
against cholera hydropower development
Behler Turtle Conservation
Award 2021 August 2021
Shailendra Singh
•( Known as ‘’Nobel Prize for Awards Awardee
Turtle Conservation”) Will Eisner Comic Industry Award
7th Yamin Hazarika Woman of Anand Radhakrishnan
Namita Gokhale 2021
Substance Award
Prof. C.R. Rao Centenary Gold Medal Jagdish Bhagwati & B. C.
2021 International Young Eco- award Rangarajan
Ayaan Shankta
Hero
Lokmanya Tilak National Award for
Binoy Kumar Saikia Cyrus Poonawalla
2021
Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize • From Jhorhat, Assam
(SSB) • For his pioneering • State Bank of India
Best performing banks for PSB
• Field – Science and Technology research in the field of • Bank of Baroda
Reforms EASE 3.0 based on the EASE
coal and energy • Union Bank of India
index
International Lifetime • All of the above
Achievement Award in Basant Kumar Misra
Ashoka Chakra ( Posthumously) Babu Ram
Neurosurgery
Sri Basava International Award by Sri Basavaliga
Association for Talent
POWERGRID Karnataka govt. Pattaddevaru
Development (ATD) 2021 best
Award Natwest Group Earth Heroes Award Satpura Tiger Reserve
• Ruskin Bond, Vinod
• Yashodhara Mishra
Kumar Shukla (Hindi)
Sahitya Akademi Award – 2020 • For her book
• Sirshendu
‘Samudrakula Ghara‘
Mukhopadhyay
(Bengali) Biju Patnaik Sports Award for
• Mundanat Leelavathy Lifetime Achievement in Promotion Kalu Charan Choudhury
(Malayalam) of Sports and Games
Sahitya Akademi Award for 8 • Dr. Bhalchandra Confederation of Indian Industry
NTPC
Eminent Writers Nemade (Marathi) (CII) Energy Leader Award-2021
• Dr Tejwant Singh Gill AI Gamechanger Award at the
(Punjabi) Xperience-AI Summit organised by Telangana
• Swami NASSCOM
Rambhadracharya Best Feature Film at the Indian Film
Soorarai Pottru
(Sanskrit) Festival of Melbourne 2021
• Indira Parthasarthy ◘ Indian Film Festival of Melbourne 2021 winners list
(Tamil) ● Best Feature Film – Soorarai Pottru
Confederation of Indian Industry ● Best Performance Male (Feature) – Suriya Sivakumar (Soorarai
Ramagundam Pottru)
(CII) Energy Leader Award-2021
International Crops ● Best Performance Female (Feature) – Vidya Balan (Sherni) &
Africa Food Prize 2021 in Food Research Institute for Honourable mention to Nimisha Sajayan (The Great Indian
Security the Semi-Arid Tropics Kitchen)
(ICRISAT) ● Best Director – Anurag Basu (Ludo) & Honorary Mention
DBS Prithvi Konanur (Pinki Elli?)
World’s Best Bank 2021
● Best Series – Mirzapur Season 2
● Best Actress in a Series – Samantha Akkineni (The Family Man
2)

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● Best Actor in a Series – Manoj Bajpayee (The Family Man 2) ♦ Singapore based DBS Bank
World’s Best Banks 2021 in
● Best Documentary Film – Shut Up Sona • Top 3 Best Bank in India – DBS >
India
● Diversity in Cinema Award – Pankaj Tripathi CSB > ICICI
♦ National Thermal Power
• India-assisted
Brunel Medal award by the London- Corporation(NTPC)
Mangdechhu
based Institution of Civil Engineers • Rank – 38 out of 50
Hydroelectric Project in ‘Great Place to Work’
(ICE). • NTPC recognized as ‘India’s Best
Butan
Employers among Nation-Builders
Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award has been renamed as – Major
2021’
Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award
Best Ship of the Eastern
Kerala government is planning to institute Padma-style awards. ♦ INS Sahyadri
Fleet
Ngaland has been conferred seven national awards on the first ♦ Dr. RS Sodhi (Rupinder Singh)
Van Dhan Annual Awards 2020-21. • MD of Gujarat Cooperative Milk
Maharashtra government has announced the Rajiv Gandhi award APO’s Asia Pacific Marketing Federation(GCMMF),
for the IT sector. Productivity Champion of AMUL
The Prime Minister’s Shram Awards (PMSA) 2018 were given to 2020 • R S Sodhi became the first Indian
69 workers of private, central and state employees. to receive this award in the past 20
years.
◘ This year the awards were given in 3 categories , Namely … Wins 2021 PEN Pinter ♦ Zimbabwean Novelist Tsitsi
• Shram Bhushan Awards – cash prize of Rs.1,00,000/- each Prize Dangarembga
• Shram Vir/Shram Veerangana Awards – cash prize of Rs. ♦ Former Indian Cricketer Vinoo
60,000/- each ICC Hall of Fame 2021
Mankad
• Shram Shree/Shram Devi Awards – cash prize of Rs.40,000/- ♦ K K Shailaja
each. • Teacher and Former Health
Minister of Kerala
June 2021 ‘Open Society Prize 2021’ • It is the Central European
Awards Awardee University’s (CEU) highest award.
♦ David Diop • Awarded for her commitment to
• 1st French Writer to Win the public health services.
Award. NSG Counter-IED &
International Booker Prize • Novel name – “Frere d’ame” ♦ Shailesh Ganpule from IIT
Counter-Terrorism
2021 • Novel name in English – “At Roorkee
Innovator Award 2021
Night All Blood Is Black” UNCCD’s 2021 Land for
• Translated by – Anna ♦ Familial Forestry
Life Award
Moschovakis ♦ Indian-American Sumita Mitra
The International Business ♦ Nitin Rakesh and Jerry Wind European Inventor Award
•for her work and invention in
Book Of The Year Award • His book name – Transformation 2021
nanotechnology in the dental field.
2021 in Times of Crisis. Japan’s Fukuoka Grand
Airports Council ♦ Journalist P Sainath
Prize 2021
International (ACI) Asia- World’s Top
♦ Delhi, Hyderabad Airports ♦ founder of Tata Group, Jamsetji
Pacific Green Airports Philanthropist of Last
Recognition 2021 Nusserwanji Tata
Century
♦ Union Health Minister Harsh
Vardhan May 2021
‘WHO Director-General
• For Efforts In Tobacco Control. Awards Awardee
Special Award’
• Mansukh L. Mandaviya is the
♦ Sportsman of the year title –
present Union Health Minister
Spanish Tennis Player Rafael
♦ SpiceHealth (Gurgaon based Spice 22nd Laureus World Sports Nadal
Healthcare Pvt. Ltd) Awards – 2021 ♦ Sportswomen of the year title –
Gold Stevie Award 2021
• for ‘Most Valuable Medical Japanese Tennis player Naomi
Innovation. Osaka
Fastest Female Climber to 11th Dada Saheb Phalke ♦ Best Film Jury Award – Jungle
Reach the Peak of Mount ♦ Hong Kong’s Tsang Yin-Hung Film Festival 2021 Cry
Everest
Order of The Rising Sun
Sustainable Development from The Consulate-General ♦ Shyamala Ganesh
Goals (SDG) Pioneer of the ♦ Sumant Sinha of Japan
Year by UNGC
International Invincible
♦ Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank
Gold Medal 2021

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♦ Andrea Meza of Mexico Wisden Almanck’s ODI ♦ Featured 3 Indian cricketers –

• 1st Runner-up Julia Gama – Cricketer of the Decade list • Kapil Dev
Brazil • Sachin Tendulkar
Miss Universe 2020 • 2nd Runner-up Janick Maceta del • Virat Kohli
Castillo – Peru UN’s National Innovative ♦ Won by Birla Cellulose Limited
• 3rd Runner-up Adeline Castelino and Sustainable Supply
– India Chain Award
World Record by climbing GD Birla Award for Scientific ♦ Indian Institute of Technology
♦ Nepali Mingma Tenji Sherpa
Mount Everest Twice Research (IIT), Kharagpur’s Professor Suman
2020 Millennium ♦ Prof Shankar Balasubramanian & Chakraborty
Technology Prize by TAF ♦ Prof David Klenerman UAE’s Top Civilian Award ♦ Indian Origin Businessman
1st Indian Women to ♦ Baljeet Kaur and Gunbala Yusuffali MA
Summit Mount Pumori Sharma ‘Knight of the Order of Arts ♦ Oscar-Winning Producer, Guneet
15th annual Sheikh Zayed ♦ Tahera Qutbuddin and Letters’, second-highest Monga
Book Award in 2021 • 1st Indian to Win the Award civilian French honour
Whitley Award 2021 for Chhattisgarh Veerni Awards Odisha Sprinter Dutee Chand
“Biodiversity Peace ♦ Y Nuklu Phom Indian Society for Training Hindustan Aeronautics Limited
Corridor” and Development(ISTD)’s (HAL)
1st woman of Asian heritage National Award for
won the World Food Prize ♦ Shakuntala Haraksingh Thilsted Innovative Training Practice
2021 2020 Association for ♦ Alfred VainoAho and Jeffrey
♦ Indian Renewable Energy Computing Machinery David Ullman
Green Urja Award 2021 Development Agency Limited (ACM) A.M. Turing Award The award is also referred to as the
(IREDA) Nobel Prize of Computing.
♦ Chintamani Nages Ramachandra The Global Winners of ICC ♦ Global winner – Argentina,
Energy Frontier Award 2020
Rao Development Awards for Brazil, Uganda, Vanuatu
India and Asian Geopolitics: 2020
♦ Shivshankar Menon
The Past, Present Nelson Mandela World ♦ Won by Rumana Sinha Sehgal
Europe’s Golden Shoe Humanitarian Award 2021
♦ Robert Lewandowski
Award E-Panchayat Puraskar 2021 ♦ Uttar Pradesh
♦ Shergaon Biodiversity
India Biodiversity Awards
Management Committee (BMC) March 2021
2021
of Arunachal Pradesh Awards / Honours Awardee
1st Indian To Win 2021 King Bhumibol World
♦ Dr D Nageshwar Reddy Indian Council of Agricultural
Rudolf V Schindler Award Soil Day 2020 Award by
Research (ICAR)
Dublin Literary Award 2021 FAO
♦ Valeria Luiselli
for ‘Lost Children Archive’ ♦ Niger’s President Mahamadou
Ibrahim Priz 2020
Etienne Glichitch Award by Issoufou
♦ Hockey India
FIH ♦Mohankrishna Bohara
♦ Shyamala Ganesh Bihari Puraskar 2020 •for his Book ‘Taslima: Sangharsh aur
Order of The Rising Sun
• 3rd Highest Order of Japan Sahitya
Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Baton of honour by
♦ Tyler Perry
Award at Oscar 2021 President Ram Nath Kiran Bedi
Kovind
April 2021 Global Women of Honoured to Tamilisai Soundararajan
Awards Awardee Excellence Award – 2021 (LG of Puducherry)
Saraswati Samman 2020 ♦ Marathi Writer Dr Sharankumar First Indian to Receive
Limbale UN’s 2020 Asia
Odisha Forest Officer, Sasmita Lenka,
For his 2018 Marathi novel titled Environmental
“Sanatan” Enforcement Award
Kalinga Ratna Samman 2021 Governor of Andhra Pradesh – CERAWeek Global
Biswabhusan Harichandan Energy and Environment Narendra Modi
51st Dadasaheb Phalke Film Star Rajinikanth Leadership Award
Award 2019 ♦ Topped by Elon Mask
Hurun Global Rich List
2021 Rathbones Folio ♦ American Author Carmen Maria ♦ Mukesh Ambani becomes 8th Richest
2021
Literary Prize • For the memoir ‘In the Dream in the World.
House’ TIME Magazine’s ♦ 5 Indian-origin personalities and 1
Annual List of 100 Indian Activis featured in this list

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◘ The 5 Indian origin personalities are ♦ Won by – Ministry of tribal

Award of Appreciation
… Affairs
• Vijaya Gadde (Chief Legal Officer of ♦ AR Rahman (Music Composer)
Twitter) Alert Being Icon Awards and Saidapet Hari Krishnan (Social
• Rishi Sunak (Britain’s Finance Activist)
Minister) 1st prize in Wildlife
• Apoorva Mehta (Founder & CEO of Photographer of the Year ♦Robert Irwin
Instacart) People’s Choice Award
• Shikha Gupta (Executive Director of SKOCH Chief Minister of
♦ Winner – YS Jagan Mohan Reddy
Nonprofit ‘Get Us PPE’) the Year Award
• Rohan Pavuluri (Founder of VLCC Femina Miss India ♦ Winner :- Manasa Varanasi
Nonprofit ‘Upsolve’) World 2020 (Telangana)
BBC Indian ♦ Union Bank of India
Sportswoman of the year ♦ Chess Player Koneru Humpy ‘Best Service Provider’ in • For ‘Excellence in Learning and
(BBC ISWOTY) 2020 HR and ‘Best Institution’ Development’ at the 29th Global
Only Asian to Win HRD Congress Awards
♦ Ranger Mahinder Giri of Rajaji Tiger
International Ranger Asia Environmental ♦ Awarded to Wildlife Crime
Reserve(RTR)
Award Enforcement Award 2020 Control Bureau (WCCB)
‘Role Model’ Award ♦ NTPC ‘CERA Week Global Energy
♦ Best domestic bank – Kotak and Environment Leadership ♦ Won by :- PM Narendra Modi
Mahindra Bank Award’
♦ ‘India’s Best Bank for SMEs – HDFC ♦ Won by 14 Individuals,
Bank organizations and corporates
Asiamoney Best Bank ♦ Best corporate and investment bank • For their outstanding
Award 2021 – Kotak Mahindra Bank performance in the field of animal
♦ Best international bank – DBS Bank Prani Mitra’ & ‘Jeevdaya’
welfare.
♦ Best digital bank – Axis Bank Awards
• Given in the field of Animal
♦ Best bank for Corporate social Welfare and Protection
responsibility(CSR) – RBL Bank • Conferred by Animal Welfare
♦ Hindi Writer Prof. Sharad Pagare Board of India
(Madhya Pradesh) Airports Council
Vyas Samman 2020 ♦ Kempegowda International
• For his historic novel titled International World’s ‘Voice
“Patliputru ki Samragi”. Airport Bengaluru
of the Customer’ award
Maharashtra Bhushan
♦ Legendary singer Asha Bhosle
Award January 2021
Pritzker Architecture ♦ Paris-based duo of Anne Lacaton and Awards / Honours Awardee
Prize 2021 Jean-Philippe Vassal 6th Digital India
Ram Nath Kovind
Awards(DIA) 2020
February 2021 ♦ Received by Vinod Kumar Yadav
Awards / Honours Awardee • Vinod Kumar Yadav former
International Anticorruption Eminent Engineer Award” Chairman & CEO, Railway Board
♦ Anjali Bharadwaj
Champions Award 2020 • The award was presented by The
♦ S. Theodore Baskaran Institution of Engineering and
Sanctuary Lifetime Service
• Instituted by the Sanctuary Technology (IET).
Award, 2020
Nature Foundation. Guard of Honour at ♦Received by General MM
♦ Winner – 4 Young Women Gyeryong, South Korea Naravane
• 1. Dr Shobhna Kapoor ♦ Presented by the Ministry of
• 2. Dr Antara Banerjee Health and Family Welfare.
• 3. Dr Sonu Gandhi ♦ This award given to the health
SERB Women Excellence
• 4. Dr Ritu Gupta• For their facilities with the highest standards
Award 2021
excellence in Science and of sanitation and hygiene. Under
Engineering. Category A
• SERB :- Science and Engineering Kayakalp Awards • JIPMER received the prize in
Research Board Central facilities category, hospitals
♦ Award goes to – Republic Day having more than thousand beds.
parade tableau of Uttar Pradesh Under Category B
Best Tableau Award •Theme of the UP tableau – • AIIMS Bhubaneswar has
“Ayodhya:The cultural heritage of received the best central
Uttar Pradesh” government hospital for

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cleanliness for the third French Novel was authored by

consecutive time. Tahar Ben Jelloun. And it was
• Rani Durgavati Hospital received translated by Dr Vengada
the award for the fourth time Soupraya Nayagar in Tamil.
consecutively. ♦ Won by Dr. Rajendra Kumar
♦32 children were awarded Bhandari & SEEDS
Pradhan Mantri Rashtriya Bal • SEEDS -> Sustainable
Puraskar. Environment and Ecological
Subhash Chandra Bose Development Society.
♦ The Government of India (GoI) Aapda Prabandhan Puraskar • The Government of India gives
Pradhan Mantri Rashtriya has been awarding Pradhan Mantri 2021 this award to individuals and
Bal Puraskar Rashtriya Bal Puraskar to children organisations in India to recognise
with outstanding abilities and and honour their contribution and
achievements in the fields of selfless services in the field of
innovation, art and culture, social disaster management.
service, academics, sports, and ♦ Won by Indian Mathematician
bravery. Nikhil Srivastava.
Michael And Sheila Held
Business Standard Banker of ♦ MD and CEO of Federal Bank, ♦ Other Two winner -> Adam W.
Prize 2021
the Year (2019-20) Shyam Srinivasan Marcus(American)and Daniel Alan
♦ Delhi won under Accessible Spielman(US)
election category ♦ For adopting the best &
National Best Electoral ♦ Meghalaya received the special sustainable practices for coal
Practices Awards 2020 award for its Information mining in India.
Technology(IT) applications in ♦ The award bagged by Three units
Elections. of Coal India Ltd (CIL) namely
♦ Introduced by the International Coal Minister’s Award 2020’ ◘ Northern Coalfields Ltd (NCL) in
Cricket Council (ICC) Madhya Pradesh
◘ To recognise and celebrate best ◘ Central Coalfields Ltd (CCL) in
performances throughout the year. Jharkhand
ICC Player of the Month’
★ Winner of the ICC Player of the ◘ Western Coalfields Ltd (WCL) in
Awards for Male & Female
Month Maharashtra
Cricketers.
✪ Men’s Player➻ Rishab Pant Nelson Mandela World ♦ Awarded to Philanthropist Ravi
(India) Humanitarian Award Gaikwad
✪ Women’s Player ➻ Shabnim ♦ Honoured to Union Education
Sahitya Gaurav Samman
Ismail (South Africa) Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal
2021
♦ Given at Apeejay Kolkata ‘Nishank’
Literary Festival 2021 ♦ IKEA India Pvt Ltd Wins
♦ Won by Novel named Ullasa 1st UN Women 2020 Asia- Women’s Empowerment Principles
Romain Rolland Book Prize Thirumanam Pacific Award Regional Awards under Gender-
2021 ♦ Ullasa Thirumanam is the Tamil inclusive Workplace Category.
translation of a French novel, ‘Le
mariage de plaisir
♦ ‘Le mariage de plaisir’, the

22. International Summits, Conferences and it’s Venues

Due to Covid-19 Pandemic on this year 2020, Many of the G 20 Summit:
Conferences/ Summits have been held Virtually. ▪ Established in 1999
BRICS Summit: ▪ Member Countries: Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada,
▪ Established in September 2006 China, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan,
▪ Member Countries: Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Mexico, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, South Korea,
Africa Turkey, United Kingdom, United States, European Union.
• 10thSummit 2018 – Johannesburg, South Africa Spain is a permanent guest invitee.
• 11th Summit 2019 – Brasilia, Brazil • 2018 – Argentina, Buenos Aires - 13th meeting
• 12th Summit 2020- (Video Conferencing due to Covid-19) • 2019 – Japan - 14th meeting
Saint Petersburg, Russia • 2020 –Virtual Summit hosted by Saudi Arabia due to Covid-
• 13th Summit 2021 – New Delhi, India (Video Conferencing) 19 - 15th meeting
• 14th Summit 2022 - China • 2021- Rome, Italy - 16th meeting
• 2022 – Indonesia - 17th meeting

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• 2023 – India - 18th meeting Zealand, Philippines, Russia, Singapore, South Korea,
• 2024 – Brazil - 19th meeting Thailand, United States, Vietnam
• 2025 – South Africa - 20th meeting • 13th - 2018 – Singapore
• 14th - 2019 – Bangkok, Thailand
G 7 Summit: • 15th - 2020- Vietnam (Virtual)
▪ Established on 1975 • 16th - 2021 – Brunei
▪ Member Countries: France, Germany, Italy, Japan, United • 17th – 2022 - Cambodia
Kingdom, United States, Canada
• 44th 2018 – Canada IBSA Summit:
• 45th 2019 – France ▪ Established in 2003
• 46th 2020 - Cancelled ▪ Member Countries: India, Brazil, South Africa
• 47th 2021 – United Kingdom • 1st Summit 2006- Brazil
• 48th 2022 – Germany • 6th Summit 2013 – India, New Delhi (Cancelled)
• 49th 2023 – Japan • 7th Summit 2017 – South Africa
• 50th 2024 - Italy
BIMSTEC Summit:
ADB Annual Meeting: ▪ BIMSTEC- Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-sectoral
• 51st - 2018 – Manila, Philippines Technical and Economic Cooperation
• 52nd - 2019 – Nadi, Fiji ▪ Member Countries: Bangladesh, India, Myanmar, Sri Lanka,
• 53rd - 2020- Virtual Thailand, Bhutan, Nepal
• 54th - 2021- Virtual • 4th Summit 2018- Kathmandu, Nepal
• 55th - 2022- Manila, Philippines • 5th Summit 2022– Colombo, Sri Lanka

NATO Summit: CHOGM Meeting:

▪ NATO – North Atlantic Treaty Organisation ▪ CHOGM- Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting
▪ Member Countries: 30 • CHOGM 2018 – London , UK
▪ Headquarters: Brussels, Belgium • CHOGM 2022- Rwanda
• 2018 – Brussels, Belgium • 27th - Samoa
• 2019- Watford, UK
• 2021 – Brussels, Belgium OPEC Summit:
• 2022 – 25 February - Virtual Summit ▪ OPEC- Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries
• 2022 – 24 March - Brussels, Belgium ▪ Headquarters - Vienna, Austria
• 2022 – 29–30 June – Madrid, Spain
APEC Summit:
• 2023 – Vilnius, Lithuania
▪ APEC- Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation
▪ Establishment – 1989
SAARC Summit:
▪ SAARC – South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation ▪ Headquarters- Singapore
▪ Established- 1985 ▪ Member Countries (21): Australia, Canada, Brunei, Chile,
▪ Member Countries: Afghanistan, Maldives, Bangladesh, China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, South Korea,
Bhutan, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, India, Nepal Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Philippines, Russia,
▪ Headquarters- Kathmandu, Nepal Singapore, Thailand, United States, Vietnam, Papua New
Guinea
• 18th - 2014- Kathmandu, Nepal
• 27th - 2019 – Santiago, Chile (cancelled)
• 19th - 2016 – Islamabad, Pakistan (Cancelled)
• 27th - 2020- Virtually hosted by Malaysia
• 20th – 2022 - Pakistan
• 28th - 2021- (Virtual) New Zealand
ASEAN Summit: • 29th - 2022- Thailand
▪ ASEAN – Association of Southeast Asian Nations • 30th - 2023- United States
▪ Established on 1967 • 31st - 2024- Lima, Peru
▪ Member Countries: Brunei, Philippines, Laos, Thailand, • 32nd - 2025- South Korea
Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia, Myanmar, Cambodia,
Singapore NAM Summit :
• 34th & 35th - 2019 – Bangkok, Thailand ▪ NAM- Non Aligned Movement
• 36th & 37th - 2020- Vietnam (Virtual) ▪ Establishment- 1961
• 38th & 39th - 2021 – Brunei ▪ Member Countries: 120
• 40th & 41st – 2022 – Cambodia • 18th - 2019 – Baku, Azerbaijan
• 42nd & 43rd - Indonesia • 19th – 2023 - Uganda

East Asia Summit (EAS): UN Climate Change Summit:

▪ Established on 2005 • COP24 Meeting 2018- Katowice, Poland
▪ Member Countries (18): Australia, Brunei, Cambodia, China, • COP25 Meeting 2019 –Madrid, Spain
India, Indonesia, Japan, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, New • COP26 Meeting 2021- Glasgow, UK
• 2022: COP 27, Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt

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• 2023: COP 28, United Arab Emirates • SCO Summit 2021- Dushanbe, Tajikistan
• SCO Summit 2022- Samarkand, Uzbekistan
SCO (Shanghai Cooperation Organisation): • SCO Summit 2023- New Delhi, India
▪ Headquarters : Beijing, China
▪ Member Countries: China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Summits with heads of governments
Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Pakistan, India • SCO Summit 2018 – Dushanbe, Tajikistan
• SCO Summit 2019 – Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Summits with heads of States :- • SCO Summit 2020- Video Conferencing Chaired by India
• SCO Summit 2018 – Qingdao, Shandong, China • SCO Summit 2021 - Kazakhstan
• SCO Summit 2019 – Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan • SCO Summit 2022 - China
• SCO Summit 2020- Video Conferencing Chaired by Russia

23. List of Chief Ministers & Governors of Indian States

Latest list of Capital, CM & Governor in this PDF (last updated on 24th June, 2022)

S.No. State Capital Chief Ministers Governor

1. Andhra Pradesh Amravati Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy Biswa Bhusan Harichandan
2. Arunachal Pradesh Itanagar Pema Khandu Brig. (Dr.) B. D. Mishra (Retd.)
3. Assam Dispur Himanta Biswa Sharma Jagdish Mukhi
4. Bihar Patna Nitish Kumar Phagu Chauhan
5. Chhattisgarh Raipur Bhupesh Baghel Anusuiya Uikey
6. Goa Panaji Pramod Sawant PS Sreedharan Pillai
7. Gujarat Gandhinagar Bhupendrabhai Patel Acharya Dev Vrat
8. Haryana Chandigarh Manohar Lal Khattar Bandaru Dattatraya
9. Himachal Pradesh Shimla Jairam Thakur Rajendra Arlekar
10. Jharkhand Ranchi Hemant Soren Ramesh Bais
11. Karnataka Bengaluru Basavaraj Bommai Thaawarchand Gehlot
12. Kerala Thiruvananthapuram Pinarayi Vijayan Arif Mohammed Khan
13. Madhya Pradesh Bhopal Shivraj Singh Chouhan Mangubhai Chhaganbhai Patel
14. Maharashtra Mumbai Eknath Shinde Bhagat Singh Koshyari
15. Manipur Imphal N. Biren Singh La. Ganesan
16. Meghalaya Shillong Conrad Sangma Satya Pal Malik
17. Mizoram Aizawl Pu Zoramthanga Kambhampati Haribabu
18. Nagaland Kohima Neiphiu Rio Jagdish Mukhi
19. Odisha Bhubaneshwar Naveen Patnaik Ganeshi Lal
20. Punjab Chandigarh Bhagwant Singh Mann Banwarilal Purohit
21. Rajasthan Jaipur Ashok Gehlot Kalraj Mishra
22. Sikkim Gangtok Prem Singh Tamang Ganga Prasad
23. Tamil Nadu Chennai M. K. Stalin R N Ravi
24. Telangana Hyderabad K Chandrasekhar Rao Tamilisai Soundararajan
25. Tripura Agartala Dr. Manik Saha Satyadev Narayan Arya
26. Uttar Pradesh Lucknow Yogi Aditya Nath Anandiben Patel
27. Uttarakhand Dehradun (W), Gairsain (S) Pushkar Singh Dhami Gurmit Singh
28. West Bengal Kolkata Mamata Banerjee La. Ganesan

S. No. Union Territory Capital Chief Minister Lt. Governor & Administrator
1. Andaman and Nicobar Island Port Blair Admiral D K Joshi (Lieutenant Governor)
2. Chandigarh Chandigarh Banwarilal Purohit (Administrator)
3. Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman Daman Praful Patel (Administrator)
and Diu
4. Delhi (NCT) Delhi Shri Arvind Vinai Kumar Saxena (Lieutenant Governor)
Kejriwal
5. Jammu and Kashmir (proposed from Srinagar-S*, Manoj Sinha (Lieutenant Governor)
31 October 2019) Jammu-W*
6. Lakshadweep Kavaratti Praful Patel (Administrator)
7. Puducherry Pondicherry N. Rangaswamy Tamilisai Soundararajan (Addl. Charge)
(Lieutenant Governor)
8. Ladakh (proposed from 31 October Leh, Kargil Radha Krishna Mathur (Lieutenant Governor)
2019)

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24. Cabinet Ministers of India with their Portfolios & Constituencies

Last updated on 19th September 2022

No Name Portfolio Constituency

1. Shri Narendra Modi Prime Minister, Ministry of Personnel, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh
Public Grievances and Pensions;
Department of Atomic Energy;
Department of Space;
All important policy issues; and All other
portfolios not allocated to any Minister
2. Shri Raj Nath Singh Minister of Defence Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh
3. Shri Amit Shah Minister of Home Affairs; and Gandhinagar, Gujarat
Minister of Cooperation
4. Shri Nitin Jairam Gadkari Minister of Road Transport and Nagpur. Maharashtra
Highways
5. Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman Minister of Finance; and Rajya Sabha MP,
Minister of Corporate Affairs Karnataka
6. Shri Narendra Singh Tomar Minister of Agriculture and Morena, Madhya
Farmers Welfare Pradesh
7. Dr. Subrahmanyam Minister of External Affairs Rajyasabha MP from
Jaishankar Gujarat
8. Shri Arjun Munda Minister of Tribal Affairs Khunti, Jharkhand

9. Smt. Smriti Zubin Irani Minister of Women and Child Amethi, Uttar Pradesh
Development
Ministry of Minority Affairs
10. Shri Piyush Goyal Minister of Commerce and Industry; Rajya Sabha MP, Maharashtra
Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and
Public Distribution; and Minister of
Textiles
11. Shri Dharmendra Pradhan Minister of Education; and Minister of Rajya Sabha MP, MadhayaPradesh
Skill Development and Entrepreneurship
12. Shri Pralhad Joshi Minister of Parliamentary Affairs; Dharwad, Karnataka
Minister of Coal; and Minister of Mines
13. Shri Narayan Tatu Rane Minister of Micro, Small and Medium Rajya Sabha MP,
Enterprises Maharashtra
14. Shri Sarbananda Sonowal Minister of Ports, Shipping and Majuli, Assam
Waterways; and Minister of AYUSH
16. Dr. Virendra Kumar Minister of Social Justice and Tikamgarh MP, Madhya Pradesh
Empowerment
17. Shri Giriraj Singh Minister of Rural Development; and Begusarai, Bihar
Minister of Panchayati Raj
18. Shri Jyotiraditya M. Scindia Minister of Civil Aviation; Rajya Sabha MP, Madhya Pradesh
Minister of Steel
20. Shri Ashwini Vaishnaw Minister of Railways; Minister of Rajya Sabha MP, Odisha
Communications; and Minister of
Electronics and Information Technology
21. Shri Pashu Pati Kumar Paras Minister of Food Processing Industries Hajipur, Bihar

22. Shri Gajendra Singh Minister of Jal Shakti Jodhpur, Rajasthan

Shekhawat
23. Shri Kiren Rijiju Minister of Law and Justice Arunachal Pradesh West,
Arunachal Pradesh
24. Shri Raj Kumar Singh Minister of Power; and Minister of New Arrah, Bihar
and Renewable Energy
25. Shri Hardeep Singh Puri Minister of Petroleum and Natural Rajayasabha MP, Uttar
Gas; and Minister of Housing and Urban Pradesh
Affairs
26. Shri Mansukh Mandaviya Minister of Health and Family Welfare; Rajayasabha MP, Gujarat
and Minister of Chemicals and Fertilizers

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27. Shri Bhupender Yadav Minister of Environment, Forest and Rajayasabha M , Rajasthan
Climate Change; and Minister of Labour
and Employment
28. Dr. Mahendra Nath Pandey Minister of Heavy Industries Chandauli, Uttar Pradesh
29. Shri ParshottamRupala Minister of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry Rajayasabha MP,
and Dairying Gujarat
30. Shri G. Kishan Reddy Minister of Culture; Minister of Tourism; Secunderabad, Telangana
and Minister of Development of North
Eastern Region
31. Shri Anurag Singh Thakur Minister of Information & Broadcasting; Hamirpur, Himachal Pradesh
and Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports
List of Ministers of State Independent Charge with their Portfolios & Constituencies
Name Portfolio Constituency

1. Rao Inderjit Singh Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Gurgaon, Haryana
Statistics and Programme Implementation; Minister of State
(Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Planning; and
Minister of State in the Ministry of Corporate Affairs
Dr. Jitendra Singh Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Udhampur, Jammu
2. Science and Technology; and Kashmir
Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of
Earth Sciences;
Minister of State in the Prime Minister’s Office; Minister of
State in the Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and
Pensions;
Minister of State in the Department of Atomic Energy; and
Minister of State in the Department of Space

Ministers of State with their Portfolios & Constituencies:

NO Name Portfolio Constituency

1. Shri Shripad Yesso Naik Minister of State in the Ministry of Ports, Shipping and North Goa, Goa
Waterways; and Minister of State in the Ministry of
Tourism
2. Shri Faggansingh Kulaste Minister of State in the Ministry of Steel; and Mandla, Madhya
Minister of State in the Ministry of Rural Development Pradesh

3. Shri Prahalad Singh Patel Minister of State in the Ministry of Jal Shakti; and Damoh, Madhya
Minister of State in the Ministry of Food Processing Pradesh
Industries
4. Shri Ashwini Kumar Choubey Minister of State in the Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Buxar, Bihar
Food and Public Distribution; and Minister of State in
the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change

5. Shri Arjun Ram Meghwal Minister of State in the Ministry of Parliamentary Bikaner, Rajasthan
Affairs; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Culture

6. General (Retd.) V. K. Singh Minister of State in the Ministry of Road Transport and Ghaziabad, Uttar
Highways; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Civil Pradesh
Aviation
7. Shri Krishan Pal Minister of State in the Ministry of Power; and Faridabad, Haryana
Minister of State in the Ministry of Heavy Industries
8. Shri Danve Raosaheb Dadarao Minister of State in the Ministry of Railways; Jalna, Maharashtra
Minister of State in the Ministry of Coal; and
Minister of State in the Ministry of Mines
9. Shri Ramdas Athawale Minister of State in the Ministry of Social Justice and Rajya Sabha Mp,
Empowerment Maharashtra

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10. Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti Minister of State in the Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Fatehpur, Uttar
Food and Public Distribution; and Minister of State in Pradesh
the Ministry of Rural Development

11. Dr. Sanjeev Kumar Balyan Minister of State in the Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Muzaffarnagar,
Husbandry and Dairying Uttar Pradesh

12. Shri Nityanand Rai Minister of State in the Ministry of Home Affairs Ujiarpur, Bihar

13. Shri Pankaj Chaowdhary Minister of State in the Ministry of Finance Maharajganj, Uttar
Pradesh
14. Smt. Anupriya Singh Patel Minister of State in the Ministry of Commerce and Mirzapur,Uttar
Industry Pradesh

15. Prof. S. P. Singh Baghel Minister of State in the Ministry of Law and Justice Agra ,Uttar Pradesh

16. Shri Rajeev Chandrasekhar Minister of State in the Ministry of Skill Development Rajya Sabha MP,
and Entrepreneurship; and Minister of State in the Karnataka
Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology

17. Sushri Shobha Minister of State in the Ministry of Agriculture and Udupi Chikmagalur,
Karandlaje Farmers Welfare Karnataka
18. Shri Bhanu Pratap Singh Minister of State in the Ministry of Micro, Small and Jalaun, Uttar
Verma Medium Enterprises Pradesh
19. Smt. Darshana Vikram Minister of State in the Ministry of Textiles; and Surat, Gujarat
Jardosh Minister of State in the Ministry of Railways
20. Shri V. Muraleedharan Minister of State in the Ministry of External Affairs; and Rajya Sabha Mp,
Minister of State in the Ministry of Maharashtra
Parliamentary Affairs

21. Smt. Meenakashi Lekhi Minister of State in the Ministry of External Affairs; and New Delhi ,NCT of
Minister of State in the Ministry of Delhi
Culture

22. Shri Som Parkash Minister of State in the Ministry of Commerce and Hoshiarpur, Punjab
Industry
23. Smt. Renuka Singh Saruta Minister of State in the Ministry of Tribal Affairs Surguja,
Chhattisgarh
24. Shri Rameswar Teli Minister of State in the Ministry of Petroleum and Dibrugarh, Assam
Natural Gas; and Minister of State in the Ministry of
Labour and Employment

25. Shri Kailash Choudhary Minister of State in the Ministry of Agriculture and Barmer, Rajasthan
Farmers Welfare
26. Smt. Annpurna Devi Minister of State in the Ministry of Education Kodarma, Jharkhand

27. Shri A. Narayanaswamy Minister of State in the Ministry of Social Justice and Chitradurga,
Empowerment Karnataka
28. Shri Kaushal Kishore Minister of State in the Ministry of Housing and Urban Mohanlalganj, Uttar
Affairs Pradesh
29. Shri Ajay Bhatt Minister of State in the Ministry of Defence; and Nainital-
Minister of State in the Ministry of Tourism Udhamsingh Nagar,
Uttarakhand
30. Shri B. L. Verma Minister of State in the Ministry of Development of Rajya Sabha MP,
North Eastern Region; and Minister of State in the Uttar Pradesh
Ministry of Cooperation

31. Shri Ajay Kumar Minister of State in the Ministry of Home Affairs Kheri, Uttar Pradesh
32. Shri Devusinh Chauhan Minister of State in the Ministry of Communications Kheda, Gujarat

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33. Shri Bhagwanth Khuba Minister of State in the Ministry of Bidar, Karnataka
New and Renewable Energy; and Minister of State in the
Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers

34. Shri Kapil Moreshwar Minister of State in the Ministry of Panchayati Raj Bhiwandi,
Patil Maharashtra

35. Sushri Pratima Bhoumik Minister of State in the Ministry of Social Justice and Tripura West,
Empowerment Tripura
36. Dr. Subhas Sarkar Minister of State in the Ministry of Education Bankura, West
Bengal
37. Dr. Bhagwat Kishanrao Minister of State in the Ministry of Finance Rajya Sabha MP,
Karad Maharashtra

38. Dr. Rajkumar Ranjan Singh Minister of State in the Ministry of External Affairs; and Inner Manipur,
Minister of State in the Ministry of Manipur
Education

39. Dr. Bharati Pravin Pawar Minister of State in the Ministry of Health and Family Dindori,
Welfare Maharashtra

40. Shri Bishweswar Tudu Minister of State in the Ministry of Tribal Affairs; and Mayurbhanj, Odisha
Minister of State in the Ministry of Jal Shakti

41. Shri Shantanu Thakur Minister of State in the Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Bangaon, West
Waterways Bengal

42. Dr. MunjaparaMahendrabhai Minister of State in the Ministry of Women and Child Surendranagar,
Development; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Gujarat
AYUSH
43. Shri John Barla Minister of State in the Ministry of Minority Affairs Alipurduars, West
Bengal
44. Dr. L. Murugan Minister of State in the Ministry of Fisheries, Animal
Husbandry and Dairying; and Minister of State in the
Ministry of Information and Broadcasting

45. Shri Nisith Pramanik Minister of State in the Ministry of Home Affairs; and Coochbehar, West
Minister of State in the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Bengal
Sports

25. Important Days and Themes

Date Event Theme
January 1 Global Family day, World peace day One Day Of Peace
January 4 World Braille Day
January 6 World War Orphans Day
January 9 Pravasi Bhartiya Diwas / NRI Day 2022 marks 17th Pravasi Bhartiya Diva
January 10 World Hindi Day, World Laughter Day
National Youth Day ( Birthday of Swami
January 12 It’s all in the mind
Vivekananda)
January 15 Indian Army Day 74th Indian Army Day
January 24 National Girl Child Day Digital Generation Our Generation
January 25 National Voters Day Making Election Inclusive, Accessible and Participative
Scaling up Custom Digital Transformation by Embracing a
January 26 International Customs Day
data culture and Building a Data ecosystem
January 26 Republic Day
International Day of commemoration in memory of
January 27 Memory, Dignity and Justice
the victims of the Holocaust
January 30 World Leprosy Day United for Dignity
January 30 National Martyr’s Day
February 1 Indian Coast Guard Day

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Date Event Theme

February 2 World Wetlands Day Wetland action for people and Nature
February 4 World Cancer Day Close the care gap
February 4 National Day of Srilanka Prosperous Motherland that Overcomes Challenges
International Day of Zero Tolerance to female genital
February 6 Accelerating Investment to End Female Genital Mutilation
mutilation
February 10 National Deworming Day Know about worms, their symptoms and Prevention
Pulses to empower youth in achieving sustainable
February 10 World Pulses Day
agrifood systems
February 12 Darwin Day
February 12 National Productivity Day Self Reliance through Productivity
February 12-18 National Productivity Week Self Reliance through Productivity
February 13 World Radio Day Radio and trust
February 20 World Day of Social Justice Achieving social justice through formal employment
Using technology for multilingual learning: challenges
February 21 International Mother Language Day
and opportunities
Our World: Our Equal Future : The Environment and
February 22 World Scout Day
Gender equality
February 24 Central Excise Day
February 27 World NGO Day; World Sustainable Energy Day
February 28 National Science Day Integrated approach in S&T for sustainable future
Civil Defence and management of displaced population in
March 1 World civil Defence Day face of diasters and crises; role of volunteer and the fight
against pandemics
March 1 Zero Discrimination Day Removes laws that harm, create laws that empower
March 3 National Defence Day Civil Defence and the first aider in every abode
March 3 World Wildlife Day Recovering key species for ecosystem restoration
March 3 World Hearing Day To hear for life, listen with care
March 4 National Security Day
March 8 International Women’s Day Gender equality today for a sustainable tomorrow
2nd Thursday
in March [10 World Kidney Day Kidney health for all
March 2022]
March 16 National Immunization Day Vaccines Work for All
March 15 World Consumer Rights Day Fair Digital Finance
March 16 National Vaccination Day Vaccines Work for All
March 18 National Ordnance Factories Day
March 18 Global Recycling Day Recycling fraternity
March 20 International Day of Happiness Keep Calm, Stay Wise and Be Kind
March 20 World Sparrow Day LOVE Sparrows
March 21 World Forestry Day/ International Day of Forests Forests and sustainable production and consumption
March 21 World Poetry Day We decide
International Day for the Elimination of Racial
March 21 VOICE FOR ACTION AGAINST RACISM
Discrimination
March 21 World Down Syndrome Day Inclusion Means
March 22 World Water Day Groundwater, making the invisible visible
March 23 World Meteorological Day Early warning and early action
March 24 World Tuberculosis Day Invest to end TB. Save Lives
March 24 International Day of Achievers
International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Stories of courage: Resistance to Slavery and Unity against
March 25
Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade Racism
Epilepsy Awareness Day also known as world
March 26
Purple Day
March 27 World Theatre Day Theatre and a culture of Peace
March 30 Earth Hour 2022 Shape our Future
April 1 Odisha Day

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Date Event Theme

April 01-07 Prevention of Blindness week
April 02 World Autism Awareness Day Inclusive Quality Education for All
April 02 International Children’s book Day Stories are wings that help you soar every day
International Day for Mine Awareness and
April 04 Safe Ground, safe Steps, Safe Home
Assistance in Mine Action
April 05 National Maritime Day Sustainable Shipping beyond Covid-19
International day of Sport for development and Securing a Sustainable and Peaceful Future for all: The
April 06
Peace Contribution of sport
April 07 World Health day Our Planet, Our Health
April 07-14 National Handloom Week Extending the income of weaver in India
April 10 World Homeopathy Day People’s choice for wellness
Remain at home amid corona virus, protect mother and
April 11 National Safe Motherhood Day
infant from corona virus
April 11 National Pet Day
Access for all: Partnership . Policy. Progress. Engaging
April 17 World Haemophilia Day your government, integrating inherited bleeding disorders
into national policy.’
April 18 World Heritage Day Heritage and Climate
April 19 World Liver Day Keep your liver healthy and disease free
April 21 Civil Services Day
April 22 Earth Day Invest in our planet
April 23 World Book and Copyright Day Read…so you never feel alone
April 24 National Panchayat Day
Harness innovation to reduce the malaria diseases burden
April 25 World Malaria Day
and save lives
April 26 World Intellectual Property Day IP and Youth Innovating for a better future
April 24 World Veterinary Day Strengthening Veterinary Resilience
” Participation And Social Dialogue In Creating A Positive
April 28 World Day for safety and Health at work
Safety And Health Culture”
April 29 International Dance Day
April 30 Ayushman Bharat Diwas
May 01 International Labour Day / May Day
First Thursday
World Password Day
of May
May 2 World Tuna (Fish) Day
May 3 World Press Freedom Day Journalism under digital siege
First Friday in
National Space Day Never ending and ever expanding
May
May 4 Coal Miners Day
May 4 International Firefighters Day
1st (Sunday) World Laughter Day
May 5 International Day of the Midwife Not yet decided
Raise awareness of weight discrimination, size bias and
May 6 International No Diet Day
fatphobia
May 7 World Athletics Day
First Tuesday
World Asthma Day Closing gaps in asthma care
of May
May 8 World Red Cross Day #BeHUMANKIND (Believe in the power of Kindness)
‘Be Aware.Share.Care: Working with the global
May 8 World Thalassaemia Day
community as one to improve thalassemia knowledge.’
Integrated approach in science and technology for
May 11 National Technology Day
sustainable future
“Nurses: A Voice to Lead – Invest in Nursing and respect
May 12 International Nurses Day
rights to secure global health”
May 15 International Day of Families Families and Urbanization
May 16 International Day of Light
May 16 National Dengue Day
May 17 World Hypertension Day Measure you blood pressure, control it, live longer
World Telecommunication and Information Society
May 17
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Date Event Theme

May 18 World AIDS Vaccine Day
May 18 International Museum Day The power of museums
‘Bee Engaged: Celebrating the diversity of bees and
May 20 World Bee Day
beekeeping systems’
May 21 National Anti- terrorism Day
May 22 International Day of Biological Diversity Building a shared future for all life
May 23 World Turtle Day “Shellebrate”
May 25 World Thyroid day It’s not you, it’s your thyroid
May 28 World Hunger Day
May 29 International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers “People. Peace. Progress. The Power of Partnerships.”
May 29 International Everest Day
May 29 World Digestive Health Day Obesity: an ongoing pandemic
May 31 World No Tobacco Day Tobacco: Threat to our environment
June 1 Global Day of Parents ‘Family Awareness’
Sustainability in the diary sector as well as environment,
June 1 World Milk Day
nutritional and socioeconomic empowerment
Appreciate the uniqueness, longevity and diversity of the
June 3 World Bicycle Day
bicycle
International Day of Innocent Children Victims of
June 4
Aggression
June 5 World Environment Day Only one earth
June 7 World Food Safety Day Safer food , better health
June 8 World Ocean Day “Revitalization: collective action for the ocean”
June 8 World Brain Tumor Day ‘Together We Are Stronger’
June 12 World Day Against Child Labour “Universal Social Protection to End Child Labour.”
June 13 International Albinism Awareness Day “United in making our voice heard”
“Donating blood is an act of solidarity. Join the effort and
June 14 World Blood Donor Day
save lives”
June 15 World Elder Abuse Awareness Day “Combatting Elder Abuse”.
June 15 Global Wind Day
Recovery and resilience through digital and financial
June 16 International Day of Family Remittances
inclusion.
June 17 World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought “Rising up from drought together”.
June 18 Autistic Pride Day 2019 Inclusion in work place
June 18 Sustainable Gastronomy Day
June 18 International Picnic Day
June 19 World Sickle Cell day
International Day for the Elimination of Sexual ‘Prevention as Protection: Enhancing structural and
June 19
Violence in Conflict operational prevention of conflict-related sexual violence.’
June 20 World Refugee Day Together we heal, learn and shine
June 21 International Day of Yoga “Yoga for humanity“.
June 21 World Music Day “Music on the intersections”.
Hydrography: Contributing to the United Nations Ocean
June 21 World Hydrography Day
decade
“Building back better from COVID-19: Enhancing
June 23 United Nations Public Service Day innovative partnerships to meet the Sustainable
Development Goals.”
June 23 World Olympic Day “Together For A Peaceful World.”
June 25 International Day of the Seafarer “Your voyage – then and now, share your adventure,”
June 25 World Vitiligo Day "Learning to Live With Vitiligo"
International Day of Drug Abuse and Illicit “Addressing drug challenges in health and humanitarian
June 26
Trafficking crises”
Resilience and Rebuilding: MSMEs for Sustainable
June 27 International MSME Day
Development
June 29 National Statistics Day ‘Data for Sustainable Development‘.
June 29 International Day of the Tropics
June 30 International Asteroid Day “small is beautiful.”
June 30 International Day of Parliamentarism
July 1 GST Day
July 1 International Joke Day

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Date Event Theme

July 1 National Doctor’s Day Family doctors on the front line
July 2 World Sports Journalist Day
July 2 World UFO Day
July 2 [first
Saturday of International Day of Cooperatives
July]
'A World of 8 billion: Towards a resilient future for all-
July 11 World Population Day Harnessing Opportunities and ensuring rights and choices
for all'.
July 12 World Malala Day
July 14 International Shark Awareness Day
July 15 World Youth Skills Day ‘Transforming youth skills for the future’.
July 17 World Day of International Justice Achieving Social Justice through formal Employment
July 18 International Nelson Mandela Day
July 22 National Flag Adoption Day
July 23 National Broadcasting Day
July 26 20th anniversary of Kargil Diwas
July 28 World hepatitis Day “Bringing hepatitis care closer to you”
July 28 World Nature Conservation Day “Cut Down on Plastic.”
“India launches Project Tiger to revive the tiger
July 29 International Tiger Day
population”
July 30 World Day against Trafficking in Persons “Use and abuse of technology”
August 1- 7 World Breastfeeding Week Step up for Breastfeeding - Educate and Support
First Sunday
International Friendship Day Sharing the human spirit through friendship
of August
August 7 National Handloom Day ”Handloom, an Indian legacy”
August 8 Quit India Movement Day
“The Role of Indigenous Women in the Preservation and
August 9 International Day of the World’s Indigenous People
Transmission of Traditional Knowledge”
August 10 World Biofuel Day “Biofuels towards a Carbon Neutral World”
August 12 International Youth Day It’s all in the mind
August 12 World Elephant Day
August 13 World Organ Donation Day let's pledge to donate organs and save lives
August 19 World Humanitarian Day The immediate human cost of the climate crisis
August 19 World Photography Day “Pandemic Lockdown through the lens”
“Harness innovation to reduce the malaria disease burden
August 20 World Mosquito Day
and save lives”
August 21 World Senior Citizens Day
August 29 National Sports Day ‘Meet The Champion’
September 2 Coconut Day Cultivate Coconut For A Happy Life and Future
September 3 Skyscraper Day
September 5 International Day of Charity
September 5 Teacher’s Day Teachers: leading in crisis, re imagining the future
September 8 International Literacy Day “Transforming Literacy Learning Spaces”
September 10 World Suicide Prevention Day “Creating hope Through Action”
September 11 Patriot Day
September 14 Hindi Diwas
Second
Saturday of World First Aid Day Lifelong first aid
September
September 15 Engineer’s Day not announced yet
“importance of media freedom to democracy, peace, and
September 15 International Day of Democracy
delivering on the Sustainable Development Goals”.
World Ozone Day or International Day for the
September 16 ‘Global Cooperation Protecting Life on Earth’
preservation of the Ozone Layer
September 21 International Day of Peace and Non- violence
September 21 World Alzheimer’s day
September 22 World Rose Day
September 23 International Day of Sign Languages We sign for human rights
September 26 World Contraception Day Contraception: it’s your life, it’s your responsibility

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Date Event Theme

last Thursday
World Maritime Day Sustainable Shipping beyond covid-19
of September
September 27 World Tourism Day Rural and community centric Tourism
September 28 World Rabies Day Rabies: Facts, not fear
September 29 World Heart Day Cardiovascular Health for everyone
September 30 International Translation Day Not yet decided
October 1 International Coffee Day
October 1 World Vegetarian Day
October 2 Gandhi Jayanthi
October 2 International Day of Non- violence
October 3 German Unity Day
October 3 World Nature Day
October 4 World Animal Welfare Day Recovering key species for ecosystem restoration
October 5 World Teachers Day
first Monday
World Habitat Day Accelerating urban action for a carbon- free world
of October
October 8 Indian Air Force Day
October 9 World Postal Day or World Post Office Day Innovate to recover
October 10 World mental Health Day
October 11 International Day of the Girl Child Digital generation
October 14 World Standards Day
October 15 World Students Day
October 16 World Food Day
Building forward together: Ending persistent poverty,
October 17 International Poverty Eradication day
Respecting all people and our planet
October 20 National Solidarity Day
October 24 United Nations Day Gender equality today for a sustainable tomorrow
October 24 World Development Information Day
October 30 World Thrift Day
October 31 National Integration Day
November 1 World Vegan Day
November 5 World Tsunami Awareness Day Not yet announced
November 7 Infant Protection Day
November 7 National Cancer Awareness day Close the care gap
November 9 National Legal Services Day
November 10 Transport Day People and goods on the move
November 12 World Pneumonia day
November 13 World Kindness day
Promoting the importance of diabetes education for both
November 14 World Diabetes day
health professionals and people living with diabetes
November 17 National Epilepsy Day 50 Million steps for epilepsy
November 19 International Men’s Day Importance of gender equality
November 19 World toilet Day Sanitation for all
November 20 Universal Children’s Day A better future for every child
November 19 Citizens Day
November 21 World Television Day
November 26 Indian Law Day
December 1 World AIDS Day End inequalities
December 2 National Pollution Control Raising awareness around pollution
December 4 Indian Navy Day Camaraderie- cohension- collaboration
December 5 World Soil Day Halt soil salinization, boost soil productivity
December 7 International Civil Aviation day Working together to ensure no country is left behind
December 9 International Anti -Corruption Day
December 10 Human Rights Day All human, all equal
December 11 UNICEF day
December 14 National Energy Conservation Day
December 18 World Minorities Rights Day
December 18 International Migrants Day Harnessing the potential of human mobility
December 19 Goa’s Liberation day
December 20 International Human Solidarity day

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Date Event Theme

December 22 National Mathematics Day
December 23 Kisan Divas- Farmers day in India
December 24 National Consumer rights day Fair digital finance
December 25 Christmas Day
December 25 India’s Good Governance Day

26. Nobel Prize and India

The Nobel Prizes are five separate prizes that, according to Alfred ▪ Physiology/Medicine – 1968
Nobel's will of 1895, are awarded to "those who, during the ▪ United States
preceding year, have conferred the greatest benefit to Mankind." ▪ “For their interpretation of the genetic code and its
Alfred Nobel was a Swedish chemist, engineer, and industrialist function in protein synthesis”
most famously known for the invention of dynamite. He died in ➢ Subrahmanyam Chandrasekhar
▪ Physics – 1983
1896. In his will, he bequeathed all of his "remaining realisable
▪ United States
assets" to be used to establish five prizes which became known as
▪ “For his theoretical studies of the physical processes
"Nobel Prizes." Nobel Prizes were first awarded in 1901.
of importance to the structure and evolution of the
Nobel Prizes are awarded in the fields of Physics, Chemistry, stars”
Physiology or Medicine, Literature, and Peace (Nobel ➢ Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
characterized the Peace Prize as "to the person who has done the ▪ Chemistry – 2009
most or best to advance fellowship among nations, the abolition ▪ United Kingdom, United States
or reduction of standing armies, and the establishment and ▪ “For Structure and function of the ribosome,
promotion of peace congresses"). In 1968, Sveriges Riksbank macromolecular crystallography”
(Sweden's central bank) funded the establishment of the Prize in ➢ Abhijit Banerjee
Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, to also be ▪ Economic Sciences – 2019 – with Esther Duflo and
administered by the Nobel Foundation. Nobel Prizes are widely Michael Kremer
regarded as the most prestigious awards available in their ▪ United States
▪ “For experimental approach to alleviating global
respective fields.
poverty”
The prize ceremonies take place annually. Each recipient (known
❖ Indian Residents at the time of being awarded & Non-Indian
as a "laureate") receives a gold medal, a diploma, and a monetary
Citizenship
award. In 2021, the Nobel Prize monetary award is 10,000,000 SEK. ➢ Ronald Ross
A prize may not be shared among more than three individuals, ▪ Physiology/Medicine – 1902
although the Nobel Peace Prize can be awarded to organizations ▪ United Kingdom
of more than three people. Although Nobel Prizes are not awarded ▪ “For his work on malaria”
posthumously, if a person is awarded a prize and dies before ➢ Rudyard Kipling
receiving it, the prize is presented. ▪ Literature – 1907
The Nobel Prizes, beginning in 1901, and the Nobel Memorial ▪ United Kingdom
Prize in Economic Sciences, beginning in 1969, have been awarded ▪ Wrote the Jungle Book getting inspiration from
603 times to 962 people and 25 organizations. Four individuals Pench National Park (Madhya Pradesh)
have received more than one Nobel Prize. ➢ Tenzing Gyatso (14th Dalai Lama)
▪ Peace – 2009
List of Indian Nobel Laureates
▪ Tibet
❖ Indian Citizenship
➢ Rabindranath Tagore
Nobel Prize 2021 Winners List
▪ Literature – 1913 – for Geetanjali • Nobel Prize Category : Physiology or Medicine
➢ C V Raman • Nobel Prize Winners : David Julius and Ardem
▪ Physics – 1930 Patapoutian
▪ “For his work on the scattering of light and for the • For their discoveries of receptors for temperature and
discovery of the effect named after him (Raman touch.
Effect)”
➢ Mother Teresa • Nobel Prize Category : Physics
▪ Peace – 1979 • Nobel Prize Winners : Syukuro Manabe, Klaus
➢ Amartya Sen Hasselmann and Giorgio Parisi
▪ Economic Sciences – 1998 • One half was awarded to Syukuro Manabe and Klaus
▪ Welfare Economics Hasselmann for the physical modelling of Earth's
➢ Kailash Satyarthi climate, quantifying variability and reliably predicting
▪ Peace – 2014 global warming while the other half was presented to
▪ His NGO “Bachpan Bachao Andolan” Giorgio Parisi for the discovery of the interplay of
❖ Born in India but different Citizenship disorder and fluctuations in physical systems from
➢ Har Gobind Khorana atomic to planetary scales.

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• Nobel Prize Winners : Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov

• Nobel Prize Category : Chemistry • For their efforts to safeguard freedom of expression,
• Nobel Prize Winners : Benjamin List and David W.C. which is a precondition for democracy and lasting peace.
MacMillan
• For the development of asymmetric organocatalysis. • Nobel Prize Category : Economic Sciences
• Nobel Prize Winners : David Card, Joshua D. Angrist and
• Nobel Prize Category : Literature Guido W. Imbens
• Nobel Prize Winners : Abdulrazak Gurnah • One half was presented to David Card for his empirical
• For his uncompromising and compassionate penetration contributions to labour economics while the other half
of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee in was presented to Joshua D. Angrist and Guido W.
the gulf between cultures and continents. Imbens for their methodological contributions to the
analysis of causal relationships.
• Nobel Prize Category : Peace

27. Olympics Games

About Olympics Games: Olympics are leading international • Originally scheduled to take place from 24 July to 9 August
sporting events featuring summer and winter sports competitions 2020, the event was postponed to 2021 in March 2020 as a
in which thousands of athletes from around the world participate result of the COVID-19 pandemic, the first such instance in the
in a variety of competitions. history of the Olympic Games (previous games had been
• The Olympic Games are considered the world's cancelled but not rescheduled).
foremost sports competition with more than 200 nations • The Summer Paralympics will be held between 24 August and
participating. 5 September 2021, 16 days after the completion of the
• The Olympic Games are normally held every four years, Olympics.
alternating between the Summer and Winter Olympics • The 2020 Games are the fourth Olympic Games to be held in
every two years in the four-year period. Japan, following the Tokyo 1964 (Summer), Sapporo 1972
• The modern Olympic Games was inspired by the (Winter), and Nagano 1998 (Winter) games.
ancient Olympic Games held in Olympia, Greece from • Tokyo is the first city in Asia to hold the Summer Games twice.
the 8th century BC to the 4th century AD. • The 2020 Games are the second of three consecutive Olympics
• Baron Pierre de Coubertin founded the International to be held in East Asia, following the 2018 Winter Olympics in
Olympic Committee (IOC) in 1894, leading to the first Pyeongchang, South Korea, and preceding the 2022 Winter
modern Games in Athens in 1896. The IOC is the Olympics in Beijing, China.
governing body of the Olympic Movement with the • The 2020 Games introduced new competitions and re-
Olympic Charter defining its structure and authority. introduced competitions that once were held but were
• As the decision-making body, the IOC is responsible for subsequently removed.
choosing the host city for each Games, and organises • New ones include 3x3 basketball, freestyle BMX and mixed
and funds the Games according to the Olympic Charter. gender team events in a number of existing sports, as well as
• There are several Olympic rituals and symbols, such as the return of madison cycling for men and an introduction of
the Olympic flag and torch, as well as the opening and the same event for women.
closing ceremonies. New IOC policies also allow the host organizing committee to add
• The first, second, and third-place finishers in each event new sports to the Olympic program for just one Games. The
receive Olympic medals: gold, silver, and bronze, disciplines added by the Japanese Olympic Committee are
Olympics Symbols: baseball, softball, karate, sport climbing, surfing, and
• The Olympic symbol, better known as the Olympic rings, skateboarding, the last four of which make their Olympic debuts.
consists of five intertwined rings and represents the unity of • The opening ceremony was held on 23 July 2021 in the
the five inhabited continents (Africa, The Americas (is Olympic Stadium in Tokyo. It included the traditional Parade
considered one continent), Asia, Europe, and Oceania). of Nations. Emperor Naruhito formally opened the Games,
• The coloured version of the rings –“blue, yellow, black, green, and at the end of the torch relay the Olympic cauldron was lit
and red” over a white field forms the Olympic flag. These by Japanese tennis player Naomi Osaka.
colours were chosen because every nation had at least one of
them on its national flag. SLOGAN :
2020 Summer Olympics (Tokyo Olympics 2020) • The slogan of the 2020 Summer Olympics torch relay is "Faster,
• The 2020 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the Higher, Stronger - Together".
XXXII Olympiad, and branded as Tokyo 2020, is an ongoing EMBLEM:
international multi-sport event being held from 23 July to 8 • The official emblems for the 2020 Olympics and Paralympics
August 2021 in Tokyo, Japan, with some preliminary events were designed by Asao Tokolo, who won a nationwide design
that began on 21 July. contest, it takes the form of a ring in an indigo-colored
• Tokyo was selected as the host city during the 125th IOC checkerboard pattern. The design is meant to "express a
Session in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on 7 September 2013. refined elegance and sophistication that exemplifies Japan".
• The design is meant to "express a refined elegance and

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sophistication that exemplifies Japan". "eternity".

• Someity the official mascot of the 2020 Summer Paralympics.
Someity is named after someiyoshino, a type of cherry blossom.
Someity's name also refers to the English phrase "so mighty".

FIRST EVER:
• Bermuda, the Philippines, and Qatar won their first-ever
Olympic gold medals.
• Burkina Faso, San Marino, and Turkmenistan won their first-
ever Olympic medals.
• San Marino became the smallest country to ever medal
• Kokona Hiraki at 12 years and 343 days, Kokona won the
silver medal in the women's park skateboarding with the best
score of 59.04. She also became the youngest Japanese Olympic
medallist ever.
• Momiji Nishiya at 13 years and 330 days, Nishiya won the
inaugural women's skateboarding street competition. She was
the youngest to win a gold medal in Tokyo and for Japan with
a score of 15.26 points on her fifth and final run for the gold
INDIA History of Olympics
• India has appeared in every edition of the Summer Olympics
since 1920, although it made its official debut at the 1900
Summer Olympics in Paris.
• In 1927, the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) was formed,
with Sir Dorabji Tata as its nding President and Dr A G
Noehren as Secretary. The same year as it was formed, 1927,
the Indian Olympic Association was officially recognized by
the International Olympic Committee
• The nation sent its largest-ever contingent of 124 competitors
in 18 sports to the 2020 Games.
• To date, the 2020 Summer Olympics are the most successful
Games for India since its first regular Olympics appearance in
1920, with Indian Olympians winning 7 medals (1 gold, 2
silver and 4 bronze).
• India's flag bearers for the opening ceremony of the Tokyo
2020 are Mary Kom and Manpreet Singh.
• India's flag bearers for the closing ceremony of the Tokyo 2020
is BajrangPunia.

Indian Medalists :
Indian Players Games Medals
Neeraj Chopra Athletics (Javelin Gold
Throw)
Bajrang Punia Wrestling 65 kg Bronze
Ravi Kumar Dahiya Wrestling 57 kg Silver
Men’s Hockey Team Hockey Bronze
Lovlina Borgohain Boxing 69 kg Bronze
PUSARLA V. Sindhu Badminton Bronze
(PV
• The checkered design resembles a pattern called Sindhu)
ichimatsumoyo. MIRABAI Chanu WeightLifting Silver
MASCOT: Saikhom
• The official mascot of the 2020 Summer Olympics is
Miraitowa, a figure with blue-checkered ichimatsumoyo
patterns inspired by the Games' official emblem.
• Created by Japanese artist Ryo Taniguchi.
• Miraitowa is named after the Japanese words for "future" and

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2024 Summer Olympics

• Host city : Paris, France
• Motto : Made for sharing
2028 Summer Olympics
• Host city : Los Angeles, California, United States
• Motto : Together we create the future
2032 Summer Olympics
• Host city : Brisbane, Australia
2022 Winter Olympics
• Host city : Beijing, China
• Motto : Together for a Shared Future
• Cauldron : Dinigeer Yilamujiang
Zhao Jiawen
• India’s Flag bearer (opening) : Arif Khan
• India’s Flag bearer (closing) : Volunteer
• Only one Competitor from India : Arif Khan (Alpine
skiing) and no medal
2026 Winter Olympics
• Host city : Milan and Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy
• Motto : Dreaming together

28. International Organizations

• United Nations Development Programme • United Nations Educational, Scientific and

UNDP
• HQ – New York City, USA UNESCO Cultural Organization
• United Nations Environment Programme • HQ – Paris, France
UNEP
• HQ – Nairobi, Kenya • United Nations Industrial Development
• United Nations Population Fund UNIDO Organization
UNFPA
• HQ – New York City, USA • HQ – Vienna, Austria
UN – Habitat • HQ – Nairobi, Kenya • United Nations World Tourism
• United Nations Children’s Fund UNWTO Organization
UNICEF • HQ – Madrid, Spain
• HQ – New York City, USA
• World Food Programme • Universal Postal Union
WFP UPU
• HQ – Rome, Italy • HQ – Bern, Switzerland
• Food and Agriculture Organization • World Health Organization
FAO WHO
• HQ – Rome, Italy • HQ – Geneva, Switzerland
• International Civil Aviation Organization • World Intellectual Property Organization
ICAO WIPO
• HQ – Montreal, Canada • HQ – Geneva, Switzerland
• International Air Transport Association • World Meteorological Organization
IATA WMO
• HQ – Montreal, Canada • HQ – Geneva, Switzerland
• International Fund for Agricultural UNAIDS • HQ – Geneva, Switzerland
IFAD Development • United Nations High Commissioner for
• HQ – Rome, Italy UNHCR Refugees
• International Labor Organization • HQ – Geneva, Switzerland
ILO • United Nations General Assembly
• HQ – Geneva, Switzerland
• International Monetary Fund UNGA • One of the six principal organs of the
IMF United Nations
• HQ – Washington, DC, USA
• International Maritime Organization • United Nations Security Council
IMO • One of the six principal organs of the UN
• HQ – London, United Kingdom UNSC
• International Telecommunication Union • 5 Permanent Members of UNSC – USA,
ITU UK, Russia, China and France
• HQ – Geneva, Switzerland
• United Nations Institute for Disarmament
UNIDIR
Research

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• HQ – Geneva, Switzerland • 7 members – Afghanistan, Bangladesh,

• United Nations Institute for Training and Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan
UNITAR Research and Sri Lanka
• HQ – Geneva, Switzerland • HQ – Kathmandu, Nepal
• United Nations Office for Project Services • Indian Ocean Rim Association
UNOPS IORA
• HQ – Copenhagen, Denmark • HQ – Ebene, Mauritius
• United Nations Relief and Works Agency • Brazil, Russia, India, China and South
UNRWA BRICS
• HQ – Amman, Jordan Africa
• United Nations System Staff College • Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral
UNSSC
• HQ – Turin, Italy Technical and Economic Cooperation
BIMSTEC
• United Nations University • Members – Bangladesh, Bhutan, India,
UNU
• HQ – Tokyo, Japan Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Thailand
UN Women • HQ – New York City, USA • Shanghai Cooperation Organisation
• Commission for the Comprehensive SCO
• HQ – Beijing, China
CTBTO Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization
• Brazil, Germany, India and Japan
• HQ – Vienna, Austria G4 Nations
• HQ – United Nations
• International Atomic Energy Agency
IAEA • Brazil, China, India, Mexico and South
• HQ – Vienna, Austria
Group of Five
• International Energy Agency Africa
IEA
• HQ – Paris, France • Group of Eight + Five
• International Renewable Energy Agency G8+5 • G8 Nations – Canada, France, Germany,
IRENA
• HQ – Masdar City, Abu Dhabi Italy, Japan, Russia, UK, US
• International Organization for Migration • Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan,
IOM Works Group of Seven
UK and US
• HQ – Geneva, Switzerland
• 19 countries and European Union
• Organisation for the Prohibition of G20
OPCW Chemical Weapons • India is a member of G20
• HQ – The Hague, Netherlands • 134 developing countries
Group of 77
• United Nations Framework Convention • HQ – United Nations
UNFCCC on Climate Change European • 27 member states that are located
• HQ – Bonn, Germany Union primarily in Europe
• World Trade Organization • Nuclear Suppliers Group
WTO
• HQ – Geneva, Switzerland
NSG • As of 2020, the NSG has 48 participating
• International Trade Centre
ITC governments
• HQ – Geneva, Switzerland
• United Nations Conference on Trade and • International Solar Alliance is an alliance
UNCTAD Development ISA of 121 countries
• HQ – Geneva, Switzerland • HQ – Gurugram, Haryana
• United Nations Office on Drugs and • African Union
UNODC Crime • 55 member states located on the continent
• HQ – Vienna, Austria AU
of Africa
• Organization for Economic Cooperation • HQ – Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
OECD and Development
Arctic Council • HQ – Tromso, Norway
• HQ – Paris, France
• International Atomic Energy Agency • The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) is
IAEA an organization of 15 states and
• HQ – Vienna, Austria CARICOM
• Organization of Petroleum Exporting dependencies throughout the Caribbean
OPEC Countries • HQ – Georgetown, Guyana
• HQ – Vienna, Austria • Common Market for Eastern and Southern
Commonwealth COMESA Africa
• HQ – Marlborough House, London, UK
of Nations • Secretariat – Lusaka, Zambia
Amnesty
• HQ – London, UK • European Free Trade Association
International EFTA
• North Atlantic Treaty Organization • Secretariat – Geneva
NATO • Organization of Arab Petroleum
• HQ – Brussels, Belgium
• Association of Southeast Asian Nations OAPEC Exporting Countries
ASEAN
• HQ – Jakarta, Indonesia • HQ – Kuwait
• Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation • United Nations Economic and Social
APEC
• HQ – Queenstown, Singapore ESCAO Commission for Asia and the Pacific
• South Asian Association for Regional • HQ – Bangkok, Thailand
SAARC
Cooperation
• Economic Community of West African
ECOWAS
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• HQ – Abuja, Nigeria Transparency

• HQ – Berlin, Germany
• International Chamber of Commerce International
ICC • Organization of Islamic Cooperation
• HQ – Paris, France OIC
• HQ – Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
• World Anti Doping Agency
WADA • World Wide Fund for Nature
• HQ – Montreal, Quebec, Canada WWF
• HQ – Vaud, Switzerland
• African Development Bank Group
ADB • World Economic Forum
• HQ – Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire WEF
• HQ – Cologny, Switzerland
• Asian Development Bank
ADB • International Union for Conservative of
• HQ – Manila, Philippines
IUCN Nature
• Bank of International Settlements
BIS • HQ – Gland, Switzerland
• HQ – Basel, Switzerland
• International Council on Monuments and
• European Central Bank
ECB ICOMOS Sites
• HQ – Frankfurt, Germany
• HQ – Charenton-le-Pont, Paris, France
• Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank
AIIB • International Fund for Agricultural
• HQ – Beijing, China
IFAD Development
• New Development Bank
NDB • HQ – Rome, Italy
• HQ – Shanghai, China
• International Court of Justice
• International Criminal Police Organization ICJ
Interpol/ICPO • HQ – The Hague, Netherlands
• HQ – Lyon, France

29. Indian Military Exercises

The Indian military exercises can be segregated into 3 categories: List of major multilateral exercises conducted by the military are
1. Domestic exercise given below:
2. Bilateral Exercise Multilateral No of Participating Countries
3. Multilateral exercise Exercise
RIMPAC 26
Domestic exercise – This exercise aims to improve internal MALABAR 3
engagements and there can be inter-services or intra-services COBRA-GOLD Asia – Pacific countries
depending on nature and its application. Samvedna South Asian Region Nations
List of military domestic exercises:
1. Gandiv Vijay Latest Important Military Exercises
2. Paschim Lehar The table given below mentions the latest editions of all the
3. Vayu Shakti important military exercises of India with other nations.
4. Vijay Prahar Exercise Name Country participated with
India
Bilateral exercise – These exercises are conducted between two Al Nagah-III Oman
countries.
Bold Kurukshetra Singapore
The following table provides you with a list of important Indian
Ekuverin Maldives
bilateral army exercises.
Exercise Name Participant Nations Garuda Shakti IV Indonesia
Sampriti India & Bangladesh Hand in Hand China
Mitra Shakti India & Sri Lanka Indra Russia
Maitree Exercise India & Thailand Khanjar V Kyrgyzstan
Vajra Prahar India & US
Lamitye Seychelles
Yudh Abhyas India & US
Nomadic Elephant India & Mongolia Maitree Thailand
Garuda Shakti India & Indonesia Mitra Shakti-VII Sri Lanka
Shakti Exercise India & France Multi-national 18 ASEAN Plus countries
Dharma Guardian India & Japan FTX/Exercise Force
Surya Kiran India & Nepal Eighteen
Hand in Hand India & China
Nomadic Elephant Mongolia
Exercise
SIMBEX India & Singapore Prabal Dostyk Kazakhstan
Shakti Exercise India & France Sampriti-IX Bangladesh
CORPAT India & Thailand Surya Kiran XIV Nepal
Multilateral exercise – These exercises are conducted by the Yudh Abhyas United States
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30. India’s Global Indices Ranking

India’s Global Rankings 2018-2021
Index International India’s Rank India’s Rank India’s Rank Country/Region’s
Organization in 2020-21 2019 in 2018 at Rank No.1 [Latest]
Global Competitive World Economic Paused 68th 58th Singapore
Index Forum (WEF)
Travel & Tourism World Economic 54th [2021] 46th 40th Japan [2021]
Competitiveness Index Forum (WEF)
Global Liveability The Economist Delhi at 112 Delhi at 118 Delhi at 112th Auckland, New Zealand [2021]
Index Intelligence Unit (EIU) Mumbai at Mumbai at Mumbai at Austrian capital Vienna [2022]
117 [Report of 119 117th
2022]
Child Well Being Index NGO World Vision N/A N/A N/A Kerala topped the charts in the
[National Index] India + IFMR LEAD child well-being index in 2022
Safe Cities Index The Economist New Delhi is Mumbai at N/A Copenhagen, the capital city of
Intelligence Unit (EIU) placed at 48th 45 Denmark [2021]
position. New Delhi at
Mumbai is at 52
50th place
Composite Water NITI Aayog N/A N/A N/A Gujarat continues to hold on to its
Management Index rank 1 among the Non-Himalayan
[National Index] States, while Himachal Pradesh
has been awarded rank 1 among
the North-Eastern Himalayan
States in 2019
State Rooftop Solar Ministry of New & N/A N/A N/A Karnataka was ranked 1st in 2019
Attractiveness Index Renewable Energy
[National Index] (MNRE)
Asia Power Index Lowy Institute 4th [2021] 4th 4th United States [2021]
Global Kids Right Kids Rights 113th [2020] 117th 116 Iceland [2021]
Index Foundation 112th [2021]
Index of Cancer The Economist 8th among 10 19th 20th Australia [2020]
Preparedness Intelligence Unit (EIU) Asia-Pacific
countries
World International Institute 43rd [2021] 43rd 58th Denmark [2022]
Competitiveness Index for Management 37th [2022]
Development (IMD)
Commitment to Oxfam 129th 147th 147th Denmark
Reducing Inequality
Index
Inclusive Internet The Economist 46th in 2020 47th N/A Sweden
Index Intelligence Unit (EIU) and 49th in
2021
Global Talent Adecco Group, 72nd [2020] 80th 81st Switzerland
Competitiveness Index INSEAD and Tata 88th [2021]
Communications
NITI Aayog AMFFRI National Institution Not Released N/A N/A Maharashtra topped the first-ever
Index [National Index] for Transforming India edition of the index in 2019
i.e. NITI Aayog
Global Innovation World Intellectual 48th in 2020 52nd 57th Switzerland
Index Property Organization and 46 in 2021
Health Index of India NITI Aayog N/A N/A N/A Kerala – Lager state;
[National Index] Mizoram – Smaller state;
Chandigarh – UT [2021]
Henley Passport Index International Air 84th in 2020 86th 81st Japan and Singapore [2022]
Transport Association and 90th in
(IATA) 2021;
85th – Q2
[2022]
Climate Vulnerability IITs, IISC, Bengaluru N/A N/A N/A Assam topped in 2019
Index and the Swiss
Development
Corporation

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QS World University Quacquarelli Symonds IIT Bombay 152nd 190th Position, Massachusetts Institute of
Ranking (QS) ranked 172 in Position, IIT IIT Bombay Technology (MIT), United States
2021 and 177 Bombay [2022]
in 2022
GlobaI Peace Index Institute for 135th in 2022 141 136 Iceland [2022]
Economics and Peace
(IEP)
World Press Freedom Reporters Without 142nd [2021] 140th 138th Norway [2022]
Index Borders 150th [2022]
GDPR Readiness Index CISCO N/A 6th N/A N/A
Corruption Perception Transparency 86th [2020] 78th 81th New Zealand, Finland & Denmark
Index International 85th [2021] [2021]
Bloomberg Innovation Bloomberg Business 50th 54th N/A South Korea
Index
Ease of Doing Business World Bank 63rd [2020] 77th 126 New Zealand

31. Badminton & Tennis Winners

Here's the complete list of Indian medallists at BWF World • The Grand Slam tournaments consist of the Australian
Championships- Open in mid-January, the French Open or Roland Garros
Prakash Padukone - bronze (1983) around late May, Wimbledon in June end, and the US
Jwala Gutta and Ashwini Ponnappa - bronze (2011) Open tennis at the end of August.
P V Sindhu - bronze (2013) • All the four Tennis Grand Slam tournaments are played
P V Sindhu - bronze (2014) over a period of 2 weeks.
Saina Nehwal - silver (2015) • Wimbledon Tennis is the oldest, founded in 1877, then
P V Sindhu - silver (2017)
comes the US Open in 1881 followed by the French Open
Saina Nehwal - bronze (2017)
in 1891, and the last is Australian Open in 1905.
P V Sindhu - silver (2018)
P V Sindhu - gold (2019) • The Australian tennis and US tournaments are played on
B Sai Praneeth - bronze (2019) hard courts, the French Open on clay courts, and
Lakshya Sen - bronze (2021) Wimbledon on grass courts.
Kidambi Srikanth - silver (2021) • The French Open tournaments were not considered a
Grand Slam before 1924 – 1925.
List of Winners of 2022 India Open (badminton): • Together, all four Majors in all three disciplines (singles,
Category Winners doubles, and mixed doubles) are called a “boxed set” of
Men’s Single Lakshya Sen (India) Grand Slam titles.
Women’s Single Busanan Ongbamrungphan (Thailand) • Winning all four majors during the course of a career is
Men’s Double Chirag Shetty and Satwiksairaj Rankiredd called a career Grand Slam.
y (India) • Winning the four majors in consecutive tournaments, but
Women’s Double Benyapa Aimsaard and Nuntakarn Aimsa not in the same year is called the non-calendar year Grand
ard (Thailand) Slam.
Mixed Double Terry Hee and Tan Wei Han (Singapore)
Grand Slam Winners 2021
Syed Modi International Winners The dates of the Grand Slam Tennis Tournaments 2021 are
mentioned in the table below.
Grand Slam Tennis Date of Tennis Grand Slams
Tournaments 2021
Australian Open 8th February – 21st February
2021
French Open 17th May – 6th June
Wimbledon 28th June – 11th July
US Open 30th August – 12th Sep 2021

Tennis Grand Slam Winners of the Grand Slam for Australian Open 2021
• The four annual tennis tournaments are collectively called Grand Slam Winners 2021
the Grand Slam, also known as majors. Australian Open Men’s Singles – Novak Djokovic
• The Grand Slam is operated by the ITF – the International Women’s Singles – Naomi Osaka
Tennis Federation. Winners of the Grand Slam Tennis for US Open 2021

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Grand Slam Winners 2021 Grand Slam Winners 2022:

2022 Australian Open
US Open Men’s Singles – Daniil Medvedev
Women’s Singles – Emma Raducanu • Men's singles : Rafael Nadal – Spain
• Women's singles : Ashleigh Barty - Australia
The Grand Slam Winners 2021 for French Open Tennis
Grand Slam Winners 2021 2022 French Open
French Open Men’s Singles – Novak Djokovic • Men's singles : Rafael Nadal – Spain
Women’s Singles – Barbora Krejcikova • Women's singles : Iga Świątek - Poland

The Grand Slam Winners 2021 for Wimbledon Open Tennis 2022 Wimbledon Open
Grand Slam Winners 2021 • Men's singles : Novak Djokovic – Serbia
• Women's singles : Elena Rybakina – Kazakhstan
Wimbledon Open Men’s Singles – Novak Djokovic
Women’s Singles – Ashley Barty
2022 US Open
• Men's singles : Carlos Alcaraz – Spain
• Women's singles : Iga Świątek - Poland

32. Vyasa Samman Winner

Year Awardee/winner Book/work
About Vyasa Samman: 2012 Narendra Kohli Na Bhooto Na
• The Vyasa Samman is a literary award in India awarded Bhavishyati
annually by KK Birla Foundation to an author/writer for 2011 Ramdarash Misra Aam ke Patte
outstanding contribution towards literature. 2010 Vishwanath Prasad Phir Bhi Kuch Rah
Tiwari Jayega
• The Vyasa Samman awarded for the outstanding work of
an Indian writer in the Hindi language. 2009 Amar Kanth Inhi Hathiyaron Se
2008 Mannu Bhandari Ek Kahani Yah Bhi
• The recognized work must be published in the last 10 years
and it must be in the Hindi language. 2007 The Selection Board
did not find anyone
• The prestigious award includes a cash prize of Rs. 2.5 lakh
suitable for the award.
along with a plaque and a citation.
2006 Parmanand Srivastava Kavita ka Arthaat
• This Samman first awarded in 1991. Ram Vilas Sharma
2005 Chandrakanta Katha Satisar
awarded the first Vyasa Samman for his work “Bharat ke
2004 Mridula Garg Kath Gulab
Pracheen bhasha Parivar aur Hindi” in 1991.
2003 Chitra Mudgal Anwan
Recently, Renowned Hindi writer Professor Sharad Pagare has
been selected for the prestigious Vyas Samman-2020 for his novel 2002 Kailash Vajpayee Prithvi Ka Krishna
Paksh
‘Patliputra ki Samragi’.
2001 Ramesh Chandra Shah criticism alochana ka
The list of awardees of Vyas Samman are : paksha
Year Awardee/winner Book/work 2000 Giriraj Kishore Pehla Girimitya
2021 Asgar Wazahat Mahabali 1999 Sri Lal Sukla Bisarampur Ka Sant
2020 Professor Sharad Patliputra Ki Samragi 1998 Govind Mishra Paanch Aanganon
Pagare wala Ghar
2019 Nasira Sharma Kagaz ki Nav (Paper 1997 Kedarnath Singh Uttar Kabir Tatha
boats) Anya Kavitaen
2018 Leeladhar Jagudi Jitne Log Utne Prem 1996 Ramswarup Hindi Sahitya aur
2017 Mamta Kalia Dukkham Sukkham Chaturvedi Samvedna ka Vikas
2016 Surinder Verma Kaatna Shami ka 1995 Shri Kunwar Narayan Koi Dusra Nahin
vriksha padma 1994 Dharamvir Bharati Sapna Abhi Bhi
pankhuri ki dhar se
1993 Girija Kumar Mathur Main Waqt ke Hoon
2015 Sunita Jain Kshama Samane
2014 Kamal Kishore Premchand ki 1992 Shiv Prasaad Singh Neela Chand
Goyenka Kahaniyo kaa kaal
1991 Ram Vilas Sharma Bharat ke Pracheen
kramanusar Adhyan
bhasha parivar aur
2013 Vishwanath Tripathi Vyomkesh Darvesh Hindi

33. Saraswati Samman Winners List (1991-2021)

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• The Saraswati Samman is an annual award for outstanding prose or poetry literacy works in any Indian language (22 languages)
listed in Schedule VII of the Constitution of India.
• The Saraswati Samman was instituted by the KK Birla foundation in 1991.
• Initially, this award consists of Rs. 10 Lakh, a citation, and a plaque. Now the prize money rises to Rs. 15 lakh.
• It is named after an Indian goddess of knowledge Maa Saraswati.
• For winners of Saraswati Samman, Candidates are selected from literary works published in the previous ten(10) years by a panel
that included scholars and former award winners.
• The first award was given toHarivansh Rai Bachchan for his four-volume autobiography, Kya Bhooloon Kya Yaad Karoon, Needa
Ka Nirman Phir, Basere Se Door, and Dashdwar se Sopan Tak.
Till now there are 30 awardees was awarded in Saraswati Samman for their work in different languages. Most Recently Marathi
writer “Sharankumar Limbale” awarded Saraswati Samman for 2020 for his Novel “Sanatan” in Marathi.

Saraswati Samman Winners List (1991-2021) are:-

Year Winners Name Work Language

2021 Ram Darash Mishra "Main to Yahan Hun" Hindi
(Poetry)
2020 Sharankumar Limbale “Sanatan” (Novel) Marathi
2019 Vasdev Mohi “Chequebook” (Short Story Series) Sindhi
2018 K Siva Reddy “Pakkaki Ottigilite” (Poetry) Telugu
2017 Sitanshu Yashaschandra “Vakhar”(Poetry collection) Gujarati
2016 Mahabaleshwar Sail “Hawthan”(Novel) Konkani
2015 Padma Sachdev “Chitt Chete”(Autobiography) Dogri
2014 Veerappa Moily “Ramayana Mahanveshanam” Kannada
(Poetry)
2013 Govind Mishra “Dhool Paudho Par”(Novel) Hindi
2012 Sugathakumari “Manalezhuthu”(Poetry collection) Malayalam
2011 A. A. Manavalan “Irama Kathaiyum Iramayakalum” Tamil
2010 S. L. Bhyrappa “Mandra” Kannada
2009 Surjit Paatar “Lafzan Di Dargah” Punjabi
2008 Lakshmi Nandan Bora “Kayakalpa”(Novel) Assamese
2007 Naiyer Masud “Taoos Chaman Ki Myna”(Short stories collection) Urdu
2006 Jagannath Prasad Das “Parikrama”(Poetry collection) Oriya
2005 K. Ayyappa Panicker “Ayyappa Panikarude Kritikal”(Poetry collection) Malayalam
2004 Sunil Gangopadhyay “Pratham Alo”(Novel) Bengali
2003 Govind Chandra Pande “Bhagirathi”(Poetry collection) Sanskrit
2002 Mahesh Elkunchwar “Yugant”(Play) Marathi
2001 Dalip Kaur Tiwana “Katha Kaho Urvashi”(Novel) Punjabi
2000 Manoj Das “Amruta Phala”(Novel) Oriya
1999 Indira Parthasarathy “Ramanujar”(Play) Tamil
1998 Shankha Ghosh “Gandharba Kabita Guccha”(Poetry collection) Bengali
1997 Manubhai Pancholi “Kurukshetra” Gujarati
1996 Shamsur Rahman Faruqi “She r e Shor Angez” Urdu
1995 Balamani Amma “Nivedyam”(Poetry collection) Malayalam
1994 Harbhajan Singh “Rukh Te Rishi”(Poetry collection) Punjabi
1993 Vijay Tendulkar “Kanyadaan”(Play) Marathi
1992 Ramakant Rath “Sri Radha”(Poetry) Odia
1991 Harivansh Rai Bachchan “Kya Bhooloon KyaYaad Karoon”, Hindi
“Needa Ka Nirman Phir”,
“Basere Se Door” and
“Dashdwar se Sopan Tak”.
(Autobiography in four volumes)

34. Jnanpith Award

Eminent Malayalam poet, Akkitham Achuthan Namboothiri has prestigious award have been writers in Indian languages. He was
been chosen for the 55th Jnanpith Award for his outstanding conferred the award by former diplomat and governor of West
contribution to the Malayalam language and Poetry. Bengal Gopalkrishna Gandhi, who also addressed him as a
In 2019, Amitav Ghosh is honored with the 54th Jnanpith Award ‘craftsman’.
for his contribution to English Literature and also became the 1st
English language writer in the list as all previous winners of the About Jnanpith Award

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Jnanpith Award is a literary award presented by the Bharatiya Year Jnanpith Award winners Language
Jnanpith organization to Indian writers every year. This was 1989 Qurratulain Hyder Urdu
instituted in 1961 and is given only to Indian writers who write in
Indian languages and English. 1990 Vinayaka Krishna Gokak Kannada
This article is about the Jnanpith Award and will also provide you 1991 Subhas Mukhopadhyay Bengali
with the list of Jnanpith Award winners from 1965 to 2021 and 1992 Naresh Mehta Hindi
other important information related to the same.
1993 Sitakant Mahapatra Oriya
List of Jnanpith Award – Jnanpith Award Recipients (1965-2022)
Jnanpith Award was given only for a single piece of work till 1982. 1994 U. R. Ananthamurthy Kannada
After 1982, the Jnanpith honour has been given for lifetime 1995 Dr. M. T. Vasudevan Nair Malayalam
contribution to Indian literature. 1996 Mahasweta Devi Bengali
The list of recipients of the Jnanpith Award is given below:
1997 Ali Sardar Jafri Urdu
Year Jnanpith Award winners Language 1998 Girish Karnad Kannada
1965 G. Sankara Kurup Malayalam 1999 Gurdial Singh Punjabi
1966 Tarashankar Bandopadhyaya Bengali 1999 Nirmal Verma Hindi
1967 Kuppali Venkatappagowda Puttappa Kannada 2000 Indira Goswami Assamese
1967 Umashankar Joshi Gujarati 2001 Rajendra Keshavlal Shah Gujarati
1968 Sumitranandan Pant Hindi 2002 D. Jayakanthan Tamil
1969 Firaq Gorakhpuri Urdu 2003 Vinda Karandikar Marathi
1970 Viswanatha Satyanarayana Telugu 2004 Rehman Rahi Kashmiri
1971 Bishnu Dey Bengali 2005 Kunwar Narayan Hindi
1972 Ramdhari Singh Dinkar Hindi 2006 Ravindra Kelekar Konkani
1973 Dattatreya Ramachandra Bendre Kannada 2006 Satya Vrat Shastri Sanskrit
1973 Gopinath Mohanty Oriya 2007 Dr. O. N. V. Kurup Malayalam
1974 Vishnu Sakharam Khandekar Marathi 2008 Akhlaq Mohammed Khan Urdu
1975 P. V. Akilan Tamil 2009 Amar Kant Hindi
1976 Ashapurna Devi Bengali 2009 Shrilal Shukla Hindi
1977 K. Shivaram Karanth Kannada 2010 Chandrashekhara Kambara Kannada
1978 Sachchidananda Hirananda Vatsyayan Hindi 2011 Pratibha Ray Oriya
‘Ajneya’ 2012 Ravauri Bharadwaja Telegu
1979 Birendra Kumar Bhattacharya Assamese 2013 Kedarnath Singh Hindi
1980 S. K. Pottekkatt Malayalam 2014 Bhalchandra Nemade Marathi
1981 Amrita Pritam Punjabi 2015 Dr. Raghuvir Chaudhari Gujarati
1982 Mahadevi Varma Hindi 2016 Shanka Ghosh Bengali
1983 Masti Venkatesh Iyengar Kannada 2017 Krishna Sobti Hindi
1984 Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai Malayalam 2018 Amitav Ghosh English
1985 Pannalal Patel Gujarati 2019 Akkitham Achuthan Namboothiri Malayalam
1986 Sachidananda Routray Oriya 2020 Nilmani Phookan Jr Assamese
1987 Vishnu Vaman Shirwadkar Marathi 2021 Damodar Mauzo Konkani
1988 Dr. C. Narayana Reddy Telugu ** The Jnanpith Award Winner 2022 will be updated as and when
it is announced.

35. Booker Prize Winner 2020 & 21

Booker Prize – Key facts
1. The Booker Prize for Fiction was formerly known as the What is the Booker Prize?
Booker–McConnell Prize (1969–2001) and the Man Booker The Booker Prize is a leading literary award in the English
Prize (2002–2019). It was first awarded in 1969. speaking world. The prize has brought recognition, reward and
2. Its aim was to stimulate the reading and discussion of readership to outstanding fiction for over 50 years. It is awarded
contemporary fiction annually to the best novel of the year written in English and
3. In 1970, Bernice Rubens became the first woman to win the published in the UK or Ireland.
Booker Prize, for The Elected Member. Booker Prize Winner 2020
4. The younger sibling of the Booker Prize is the International 1. The 2020 Booker Prize for Fiction was announced on
Booker Prize which is given for fiction in translation. 19 November 2020.

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2. The Booker Prize 2020 was awarded to Douglas Stuart What is the International Booker Prize?
for his debut novel, Shuggie Bain. The International Booker Prize (formerly known as the Man
3. Stuart is the second Scottish author to win the Booker Booker International Prize) is awarded annually for a single book,
Prize after it was awarded to James Kelman for How translated into English and published in the UK or Ireland. The
Late It Was, How Late in 1994. vital work of translators is celebrated.
The winner receives £50,000 as well as the £2,500 awarded to each
of the six shortlisted authors. Both the winner and the shortlisted International Booker Prize Winner 2020
authors are guaranteed a global readership plus a dramatic 1. 2020 International Booker prize winner is Marieke
increase in book sales. Lucas Rijneveld (Netherlands) for her work ‘The
The International Booker Prize Winner 2020 Discomfort of Evening’, translated from the Dutch by
International Booker Prize – Key facts Michele Hutchison (Faber & Faber)
1. The International Booker Prize was previously known as The The prize money of £50,000 for the International Booker prize is
Man Booker International Prize. It was established in 2005. divided equally between the author and translator. Each
2. The Booker prize is honoured for finest in fiction while the shortlisted author and translator also receives £1,000.
International Booker Prize is honoured for finest fiction
translated in English and published in the UK or Ireland. The Nominees for Shortlist Authors for International Booker
3. It honours fiction on a global basis to encourage more reading Prize 2020 are as follows-
of quality fiction from all over the world.

International Booker Prize Winners 2020 – Nominees for Shortlist

Author Title Publisher Translator
Shokoofeh Azar (Farsi-Iran) The Enlightenment of the Greengage Europa Anonymous
Tree Editions
Gabriela Cabezón Cámara (Spanish- The Adventures of China Iron Charco Press Iona Macintyre and Fiona
Argentina) Mackintosh
Daniel Kehlmann (Germany-German) Tyll Quercus Ross Benjamin
Fernanda Melchor (Spanish-Mexico) Hurricane Season Fitzcarraldo Sophie Hughes
Editions
Yoko Ogawa (Japanese-Japan) The Memory Police Harvill Secker Stephen Snyder
Marieke Lucas Rijneveld (Dutch- The Discomfort of Evening Faber & Faber Michele Hutchison
Netherlands)

List of Booker Prize Winners 2010 to 2021

The table below highlights the winners of the Booker Prize award for previous years from 2010 to 2021.
List of Booker Prize Winners [2021-2010]
Year Author Title/Work Publisher
2021 Damon Galgut The Promise Umuzi
2020 Douglas Stuart Shuggie Bain Grove Press, Picador
2019 Margaret Atwood The Testaments Vintage, Chatto & Windus
2019 Bernardine Evaristo Girl, Woman, Other Hamish Hamilton
2018 Anna Burns Milkman Faber & Faber
2017 George Saunders Lincoln in the Bardo Bloomsbury
2016 Paul Beatty The Sellout Oneworld Publications
2015 Marlon James A Brief History of Seven Killings Oneworld Publications
2014 Richard Flanagan The Narrow Road to the Deep North Chatto & Windus
2013 Eleanor Catton The Luminaries Granta
2012 Hilary Mantel Bring Up the Bodies Fourth Estate
2011 Julian Barnes The Sense of an Ending Jonathan Cape
2010 Howard Jacobson The Finkler Question Bloomsbury

List of International Booker Prize Winners [2022-2016]

This table highlights the previous year’s winners of the International Booker prize. It will give the name of the author, their work and,
translators (who translated in English) and publisher.
List of International Booker Prize Winners – [2016-2022]
Year Author Country Work Translator Language
2022 Geetanjali Shree India Tomb of Sand Daisy Rockwell Hindi

2021 David Diop France At Night All Blood Is Black Anna Moschovakis French
2020 Marieke Lucas Rijneveld Netherlands The Discomfort of Evening Michele Hutchison Dutch

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2019 Jokha al-Harthi Oman Celestial Bodies Marilyn Booth Arabic
2018 Olga Tokarczuk Poland Flights Jennifer Croft Polish
2017 David Grossman Israel A Horse Walks Into a Bar Jessica Cohen Hebrew
2016 Han Kang South Korea The Vegetarian Deborah Smith Korean

36. Sahitya Akademi Award 2021

On December 30, 2021, the Sahitya Akademi Award 2021 was • When two or more books are equally good, the total literary
given for literary works in 20 Indian languages. Namita Gokhale contribution and standing of the authors of the books will
received the award for her novel ‘Things to Leave Behind’ and be considered to decide the award.
Anuradha Sarma Pujari for her Assamese novel ‘Iyat Ekhan
Aaronya Asil’. Sahitya Akademi Award Winners 2021
Along with the Sahitya Akademi Awards, Yuva Puraskar and Bal The list of winners from each category of the Sahitya Akademi
Sahitya Puraskar for 2021 were also announced. Awards in Award winners 2021 is given below:
Gujarati, Maithili,- Manipuri & Urdu languages will be announced Language Title and Genre Name of the Author
at a later date. Iyat Ekhan Aaronya Asil Anuradha Sarma
Assamese
Sahitya Akademi Award 2022 has not been declared yet. (Novel) Pujari
• Sahitya Akademi Award is also known as the Sahitya Bengali
Mitjafar O Ananya Natale
Bratya Basu
Akademi Main Award. (Play)
• It was first conferred in 1955. Khora Sayao Arw
Bodo Mwdai Gahai
Himalay (Poetry)
• It is conferred annually on 24 writers for their
Namme Tunnel (Short
outstanding original literary works published in 24 Dogri Raj Rahi
Stories)
Indian languages recognised by the Akademi.
Things to Leave Behind
• The award is considered the most prestigious literary English Namita Gokhale
(Novel)
award in India. Hindi Samrat Ashok (Play) Daya Prakash Sinha
Sahitya Akademi Gandhi Kathana
Sahitya Akademi is India’s National Academy of Letters. Kannada D.S. Nagabhushana
(Biography)
The Government of India established the Sahitya Akademi on Wali Mohd. Aseer
Kashmiri Tawazun (Criticism)
12 March 1954. Kashtawari
Sahitya Akademi was set up by the Government but functions Hrudayaragangal
Malayalam George Onakkoor
as an autonomous organisation. (Autobiography)
On 7 January 1956, it was registered as a society under the Baluchya Awasthantarachi
Marathi Kiran Gurav
Societies Registration Act, 1860. Diary (Short Stories)
Sahitya Akademi has recognised English and Rajasthani Usha Anirudha (Epic Chhabilal
Nepali
apart from the 22 languages enumerated in the Indian Poetry) Upadhyaya
Constitution. Sarijaithiba Apera
Odia Hrushikesh Mallick
(Poetry)
General Rules and Eligibility Criteria for the Sahitya Akademi Sullan Da Salan (short
Punjabi Khalid Hussain
Award Stories)
Rajasthani Mugtee (Poetry) Meethesh Nirmohi
• The book must be a remarkable contribution to the language
Srijati Shankhnadam Kil, Vindeshwariprasad
and literature to which it belongs. Sanskrit
Kavita (Poetry) Mishr ‘Vinay’
• The literary work or book should be first published in any of Mane Rena Arhang (Short
the languages recognised by the Sahitya Akademi during the Santali Niranjan Hansda
Stories)
five years prior to the year, immediately preceding the year Sindhi Nena Nindakhra (Poetry) Arjun Chawla
of the award. Civappuk Kazuttu Tan
• The literary work should be written by an Indian and Tamil Oru Paccaip Paravai Ambai
published in India. (Short Stories)
• The book or literary work should not be a work of translation Telugu Vallankitaalam (Poetry) Gorati Venkanna
or an anthology of multiple authors Konkani Raktachandan (Poetry) Sanjiv Verenkar

37. Film Awards 2022

• Academy Awards hosts since Anne Hathaway and James Franco co-hosted the
The 94th Academy Awards returned to the Dolby Theater in 83rd instalment in 2011.
Hollywood as the top films from the last year were honoured Key points:
by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. The
show was hosted by Regina Hall, Amy Schumer and Wanda The 94th Academy Awards are honouring the films released
Sykes, the first time the award ceremony has had multiple between January 1 and December 31, 2021. The nominations

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were announced on February 8, by actors Tracee Ellis Ross and • Best Original Song: “No Time To Die” from “No Time to
Leslie Jordan. Die,” music and lyric by Billie Eilish and Finneas
O’Connell
Netflix’s The Power of the Dog leads the race with 12
• Best Production Design: Dune
nominations followed by sci-fi epic Dune, with 10 nods. Indian
documentary Writing With Fire is also nominated for Best • Best Film Editing: Dune
Documentary (Feature).
Golden Globe Awards
Awards will be presented across 23 categories, which are
determined based on voting by members of the Academy. The Golden Globe Awards 2022 ceremony was held to
recognise excellence in film, both American and international,
This time, there are two new categories- Oscars Fan Favorite and American television. This was the 79th edition of the
Award and Oscars Cheer Moment, which will be decided by annual event, which honored the best in American television,
fan voting, which was done online between February 14 and as well as film in 2021 as chosen by the Hollywood Foreign
March 3, 2022. Press Association. Two of the films namely The Power of the
Dog and the West Side Story, won the greatest number of
Check out the full list of winners:
awards with 3 each.
• Best Actor in a Leading Role: Will Smith, “King Richard”
Category Winners
• Best Actress in a Leading Role: Jessica Chastain (The Eyes Best Film (Drama) The Power of the Dog
of Tammy Faye) Best Film (Musical or Co West Side Story
• Best Picture: CODA medy)
• Best International Feature Film: Drive My Car Best Actor (Drama) Will Smith for King Richard as Ric
hard Williams
• Documentary Short Subject: The Queen of Basketball Best Actress (Drama) Nicole Kidman for Being the Ricar
• Best Directing: Jane Campion (The Power of the Dog) dos as Lucille Ball
• Best Actress in a Supporting Role: Ariana DeBose (West Best Actor (Musical or C Andrew Garfield for tick, tick… B
Side Story)’ omedy) OOM! as Jonathan Larson
Best Actress (Musical or Rachel Zegler for West Side Story
• Best Actor in a Supporting Role: Troy Kotsur (CODA)
Comedy) as María Vasquez
• Best Makeup & Hairstyling: The Eyes of Tammy Faye Best Supporting Actor Kodi Smit-McPhee for The Power
• Best Cinematography: Dune of the Dog as Peter Gordon
• Best Original Score: Hans Zimmer (Dune) Best Supporting Actress Ariana DeBose for West Side Story
• Best Visual Effects: Dune as Anita
Best Director Jane Campion for The Power of th
• Best Animated Feature Film: Encanto e Dog
• Best Animated Short Film: The Windshield Wiper Best Screenplay Kenneth Branagh for Belfast
• Best Costume Design: Cruella Best Original Score Hans Zimmer for Dune
• Best Original Screenplay: Kenneth Branagh (Belfast) Best Original Song “No Time to Die” (Billie Eilish and
Finneas O’Connell) – No Time to
• Best Adapted Screenplay: Sian Heder (Coda)
Die
• Best Live Action Short Film: The Long Goodbye Best Animated Feature Encanto
• Best Sound: Dune Best Non-English Film Drive My Car (Japan)
• Best Documentary Feature: “Summer of Soul (…Or, When
the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)”
38.List of Presidents and Prime Ministers of Important Countries In World
No Countries Head of state No Countries Head of state
1 Argentina President : Alberto Fernandez 12 Japan Prime Minister : Fumio Kishida
Prime Minister : Anthony Prime Minister : Ismail Sabri
2 13 Malaysia
Australia Yaakob
Albanese
President : Ibrahim Mohamed
3 Bhutan Prime minister: Lotay Tshering 14 Maldives
Solih
4 Brazil President: Jair Bolsonaro President : Prithvirajsing
5 Canada Prime Minister – Justin Trudeau Roopun
United 15 Mauritius
6 Prime Minister : Liz Truss
Kingdom Prime Minister : Pravind
President: Zoran Milanović Jugnauth
7 Croatia Prime Minister : Andrej New
16 Prime Minister : Jacinda Ardern
Plenković Zealand
8 France President: Emmanuel Macron 17 Myanmar President : Myint Swe
9 Germany Federal Chancellor : Olaf Scholz President : Bidhya Devi
10 Indonesia President : Joko Widodo 18 Nepal Bhandari
11 Israel Prime Minister – Yair Lapid

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No Countries Head of state No Countries Head of state

Prime Minister : Sher Bahadur
Deuba Prime Minister : Dinesh
19 Oman Sultan : Haitham Bin Tariq Gunawardena
President : Arif Alvi President : Volodymyr Zelensky
20 Pakistan 25 Ukraine
Prime Minister : Shehbaz Sharif Prime Minister : Denys Shmyhal
President : Vladimir Putin President :Abdul Hamid
26 Bangladesh
21 Russia
Prime Minister : Mikhail Prime Minister : Sheikh Hasina
Mishustin 27 Slovenia Prime Minister : Robert Golob
President : Halimah Yacob 28 Philippines President: Bongbong Marcos
29 Armenia President: Vahagn Khachaturyan
22 Singapore
Prime Minister : Lee Hsien 30 Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
Loong President: Sergio Mattarella
South 31 Italy
23 President : Cyril Ramaphosa Prime Minister : Mario Draghi
Africa
President : Ranil
24 Sri Lanka
Wickremesinghe
39. List of Top companies and their CEOs in world
No Company CEO No Company CEO
1 Apple Inc Timothy Donald Cook 35 Tata Group Natarajan Chandrasekaran
2 Accenture Julie Sweet 36 Tata Motors Guenter Butschek
3 Amul R.S. Sodhi 37 Yahoo Marissa Mayer
4 Adidas Kasper Rørsted 38 Yatra Dhruv Shringi
5 Adobe Shantanu Narayen 39 Yes Bank Prashant Kumar
6 Aditya Birla Group Kumar Mangalam Birla 40 Walmart Doug McMillon
7 Amazon Andy Jassy 41 Microsoft Satya Nadella
8 Ambuja Cements Neeraj Akhoury Corporation
9 Ashok Leyland Vipin Sondhi
10 Audi Markus Duesmann
11 Axis Bank Amitabh Chaudhry
12 Barclays Jes Staley
13 BharatBenz Satyakam Arya
14 Boeing Dave Calhoun
15 Bharti Airtel Gopal Vittal
16 Cognizant Brian Humphries
17 Capgemini Aiman Ezzat
18 Cipla Umang Vohra
19 Dell Michael S. Dell
20 EBay Jamie Iannone
21 Ericsson Borje Ekholm
22 Facebook Mark Zuckerberg
23 Flipkart Kalyan Krishnamurthy
24 Google and Alphabet Sundar Pichai
Inc
25 Hindustan Unilever Sanjiv Mehta
26 IBM Arvind Krishna
27 Intel Bob Swan
28 Kotak Mahindra Uday Kotak
Bank
29 Instagram Kevin Systrom
30 Muthoot Finance George Alexander Muthoot
31 Nestlé Ulf Mark Schneider
32 Oracle Safra Catz
33 PayTM Vijay Shekhar Sharma
34 Tata Consultancy Rajesh Gopinathan
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1. GEOGRAPHY ______________________________________ 3 1.39. Major Straits of the world _______________________ 42
1.1. List of National Parks in Indian (State Wise) _________ 3 1.40. List of Major Rivers of the World _________________ 42
1.2. List of Tiger Reserve in India (State Wise) ___________ 4 1.41. Landlocked Countries in the World_______________ 43
1.3. List of Wildlife Sanctuaries in India (State-wise) ______ 5 1.42. Important cities situated on the banks of river (World)
43
1.4. List of Biosphere Reserves in India _________________ 8
1.43. Distinctive Names of Countries & Towns (World) __ 43
1.5. UNESCO Protected Biosphere Reserve in India 2022 –
International Status __________________________________ 8 1.44. Largest producing countries of agricultural
commodities in world _______________________________ 44
1.6. List of Hydro, Thermal & Nuclear Power Plants in India
8 1.45. List of Minerals and their leading producing countries
44
1.7. List of Airports in India __________________________ 10
1.46. Important facts about Planets ____________________ 45
1.8. List of Major Sea Ports in India ____________________ 11
1.47. Environment related important International
1.9. List of Stadiums in India _________________________ 11
Agreements / Conferences __________________________ 45
1.10. List of Hill Ranges in India and its Location ________ 14
1.48. Wildlife Conservation efforts in India _____________ 45
1.11. List of UNESCO World Heritage Sites in India _____ 15 2. Physics ___________________________________________ 46
1.12. List of Ramsar Sites in India _____________________ 16 2.1. List Of Fathers Of Various Fields __________________ 46

1.13. List of Important Lakes in India __________________ 17 2.2. List of Fathers of Various Fields (India) ____________ 46

1.14. List of Important Forts & Palaces in India __________ 17 2.3. Inventions and Discoveries _______________________ 46

1.15. Famous Temples in India & its Location ___________ 18 2.4. List of Scientific Instruments and Their Uses ________ 47

1.16. Famous Tombs or Mausoleum in India ____________ 21 2.5. SI Units________________________________________ 48

1.17. Nuclear Powerplants of India ____________________ 21 2.6. Common and Chemical Names of Some Important
Chemical Compounds ______________________________ 48
1.18. List of Research & Educational Institutes in India ___ 22
2.7. Important Alloys _______________________________ 49
1.19. List of High Courts in India and its Location _______ 23
3. BIOLOGY ________________________________________ 49
1.20. Important Indian Cities Located in River Banks ____ 24 3.1. Scientific Names of Plants, Fruits And Vegetables ___ 49
1.21. List of Important Dams, Reservoirs and Rivers in India 3.2. Important Branches of Science ____________________ 49
24
3.3. Important Hormones and Their Functions __________ 50
1.22. List of Important Festivals in India _______________ 24
3.4. List of Diseases Caused by Bacteria, Virus, Fungi, and
1.23. List of Famous Indian Cities and their Nicknames __ 25 ProtozoaHuman Diseases ___________________________ 50
1.24. Cropping Patterns and Major Crops in India _______ 26 3.5. PLANT DISEASES ______________________________ 50
1.25. Mineral Distribution in India ____________________ 30 3.6. Important Medicinal Plants and Their Uses _________ 50
1.26. List of International Food Festivals _______________ 34 4. POLITY __________________________________________ 51

1.27. Important Boundary Lines around the World ______ 34 4.1. Sources of the Constitution _______________________ 51

1.28. International Organizations, Head and Headquarters 34 4.2. Important Articles of The Constitution _____________ 51

1.29. List of Country Capital and Currency _____________ 35 4.3. INDIAN NATIONAL CONGRESS SESSIONS ______ 53

1.30. Deserts of the World____________________________ 37 4.4. List of Countries and Their Parliament Names ______ 54

1.31. States and its formation years ____________________ 38 4.5. Distribution of Rajya Sabha Seats in Indian States and
Union Territories ___________________________________ 55
1.32. India and its Neighbouring Countries _____________ 38
4.6. Distribution of Lok Sabha Seats in Indian States and
1.33. Cremation Grounds of famous personalities of India 39 Union Territories ___________________________________ 56
1.34. Important Indian Cities & their Founders/Architects 39 4.7. List of Lok Sabha (House of the People) Speakers ____ 56
1.35. Indian Cities and their famous Industries __________ 40 5. ECONOMICS _____________________________________ 57

1.36. List of Important Gardens in India ________________ 40 5.1. New Rupee Denomination and Features ___________ 57

1.37. List of Indian Monuments and their Builders _______ 41 5.2. Banks Headquarters and Taglines _________________ 57

1.38. List of Indian Rivers and their Place of Origin ______ 41 5.3. Census in India _________________________________ 58

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5.4. Public Sector Companies and Headquarters _________ 59 8.4. Important Intelligence Agencies of The Worlds ______ 73
5.5. Symbols of Indian States and Union Territories ______ 60 8.5. Important Missiles of India _______________________ 74
5.6. Important Signs or Symbols and Their Meanings ____ 60 8.6. Indian Defence Training Institutions _______________ 75
9. ART AND CULTURE ______________________________ 75
5.7. List of Important Stock Exchange Around The World _ 61
9.1. Dance _________________________________________ 75
5.8. List of Central Banks of Different Countries _________ 61
9.2. Folk Dances Of India ____________________________ 77
5.9. CERTIFICATION MARKS IN INDIA ______________ 63
9.3. Indian Music ___________________________________ 78
5.10. Famous News Papers Names in the World _________ 63
9.4. Musical Instruments and Persons Associated _______ 80
5.11. List of Secretaries General of the United Nations ____ 64
9.5. Indian Paintings ________________________________ 80
5.12. NATIONAL EMBLEMS OF FAMOUS COUNTRIES 64
6. HISTORY _________________________________________ 65 9.6. Calendars In India ______________________________ 81
6.1. Revolutions in India _____________________________ 65 9.7. Arts And Cultural Institutions in India _____________ 82
6.2. Important Battles in History ______________________ 65 9.8. Temples In India ________________________________ 83
6.3. List of Presidents of India From 1950 To 2020________ 67 9.9. Indian Languages _______________________________ 84
6.4. List of Prime Ministers of India From 1947 To 2022 ___ 68 9.10. Awards - India ________________________________ 85
7. SPORTS __________________________________________ 69 10. MISCELLANEOUS _______________________________ 86
7.1. Sports Terminologies ____________________________ 69 10.1. Important Superlatives in India
(“Largest/Longest/Highest/Biggest/Smallest”) ________ 86
7.2. Sports Field Names ______________________________ 70
10.2. Books and Authors _____________________________ 87
7.3. FIFA World Cup: Winners, Runners-Up, Host Nations 70
10.3. List of Autobiographies of Famous Personalities ____ 90
7.4. List of Sports Events and Venues __________________ 71
10.4. Nicknames of Famous Personalities From India And
7.5. Number of Players in Various Sports _______________ 72
The World _________________________________________ 90
7.6. List of Countries and Their National Games _________ 72
10.5. Official Books/Documents of Major Countries _____ 92
8. DEFENCE _________________________________________ 72
10.6. Important Awards and Their Fields_______________ 92
8.1. List of Joint Military Exercises _____________________ 72
10.7. Indian Martial Arts _____________________________ 93
8.2. Defence Equipment _____________________________ 73
10.8. Ancient India Literary Works and Authors ________ 93
8.3. LIST OF HIGHEST CIVILIAN AWARDS OF MAJOR
COUNTRIES _______________________________________ 73 10.9. Modern Indian Literature _______________________ 94

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1. GEOGRAPHY
1.1. List of National Parks in Indian (State Wise)
Important Points: -
❖ Largest National Park: Hemis National Park, Ladakh
❖ Smallest National Park: South Button Island National Park, Andaman and Nicobar Islands

State/UT National parks • Kishtwar National Park

• Galathea National Park Jharkhand (1) • Betla National Park
• Mahatma Gandhi Marine (Wandoor) • Bandipur National Park
National Park • Anshi National Park
• Campbell Bay National Park Karnataka (5) • Bannerghata National Park
Andaman and • Mount Harriet National Park
Nicobar Islands • Kudremukh National Park
• Rani Jhansi Marine National Park • Nagarhole (Rajiv Gandhi) National Park
(9)
• Saddle peak National Park • Eravikulam National Park
• Middle Button Island National Park • Mathikettan Shola National Park
• North Button Island National Park • Periyar National Park
• South Button Island National Park Kerala (6)
• Silent Valley National Park
• Papikonda National Park • Anamudi Shola National Park
Andhra Pradesh
• Sri Venkateswara National Park • Pambadum Shola National Park
(3)
• Rajiv Gandhi National Park • Pench (Priyaradharshini) National Park
Arunachal • Mouling National Park • Bandhavgarh National Park
Pradesh (2) • Namdapha National Park • Kanha National Park
• Nameri National Park • Panna National Park
• Manas National Park Madhya Pradesh
• Sanjay National Park
• Dibru- Saikhowa National Park (9)
• Satpura National Park
Assam (7) • Kaziranga National Park • Madhav National Park
• Orang National Park • Van Vihar National Park
• Raimona National Park • Mandla Plant Fossils National Park
• Dihing Patkai National Park • Navegaon national Park
• Valmiki National Park • Sanjay Gandhi (Borivilli) National Park
• Vikramshila Gangetic Dolphin • Chandoli National Park
Bihar (1) Maharashtra (6)
Sanctuary • Gugamal National Park
• Kanwar Lake Bird Sanctuary • Tadoba National Park
• Indravati National Park • Pench National Park
Chhattisgarh (3) • Kanger Valley National Park • Sirohi National Park*
• Guru Ghasidas (Sanjay) National Park Manipur (1)
• Keibul Lamjao National Park
• Bhagwan Mahavir (Mollem) National • Nokrek National Park
Goa (1) Meghalaya (2)
Park • Balphakram National Park
• Gir Forest National Park • Murlen National Park
• Blackbuck National Park Mizoram (2) • Phawngpui Blue Mountain National
Gujarat (4) • Vansda National Park Park
• Marine National Park (Gulf of Kutch Nagaland (1) • Intanki National Park
National Park)
• Simlipal National Park
• Sultanpur National Park Odisha (2)
Haryana (2) • Bhitarkanika National Park
• Kalesar National Park • Harike Wetland
Punjab
• Pin Valley National Pak • Sariska National Park
• Simbalbara National Park • Ranthambore National Park
Himachal
• Inderkilla National Park • Mukundra Hills (Darrah) National Park
Pradesh (5)
• Khirganga National Park Rajasthan (5)
• Keoladeo Ghana National Park
• Great Himalayan National Park • Desert National Park
Jammu and • Dachigam National Park • Mount Abu Wildlife Sanctuary
Kashmir (3) • Salim Ali National Park • Khangchendzonga National Park
Sikkim (1)

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• Mudumalai National Park • Jim Corbett National Park
• Mukurthi National Park • Gangotri National Park
• Indira Gandhi (Anamalai) National Park • Govind Pashu Vihar
Tamil Nadu (5) Uttarakhand (6)
• Guindy National Park • Rajaji National Park
• Gulf of Mannar Marine National Park • Valley of Flowers National Park
• Palani Hills National Park* • Nanda Devi National Park
• Mahavir Harina Vanasthali National • Buxa National Park
Park • Neora Valley National Park
Telangana (3) • Kasu Brahmananda Reddy National • Gorumara National Park
West Bengal (6)
Park • Singalila National Park
• Mrugavani National Park • Jaldapara National Park
• Clouded Leopard National Park • Sunderbans National Park
Tripura (2)
• Bison ( Rajbari) National Park Ladakh (1) • Hemis National Park
Uttar Pradesh (1) • Dudhwa National Park
1.2. List of Tiger Reserve in India (State Wise)

Some Essential Information Kerala • Periyar

Special Name of the Location • Parambikulam
Features Tiger Reserve Madhya • Kanha
Largest/ Nagarjunsagar- State: Andhra Pradesh, Pradesh • Pench
Biggest tiger Srisailam Telangana
reserve in District: Kurnool, Guntur, • Bandhavgarh
India Prakasam, Mahbubnagar, • Panna
Nalgonda • Bori- Satpura
The smallest Bor State: Maharashtra • Sanjay- dubri
tiger reserve in District: Wardha • Ratapani
India
Maharashtra • Melghat
The first tiger Jim Corbett State: Uttarakhand
reserve in (ESTD 1936) District: Nainital • Tadoba- Andhari
India • Sahyadri
• Bor
The Central Government has given its approval for the creation
• Nawegaon- Nazgira
of a fifth tiger reserve in Tamil Nadu that will encompass the
Meghamalai and Srivilliputhur Grizzled Squirrel Wildlife Mizoram • Dampa
Sanctuaries. Odisha • Similipal
STATE TIGER RESERVE • Satkosia
Andhra • Nagarjunasagar Srisailam • Sunabeda
Pradesh
Rajasthan • Ranthambore
Arunachal • Namdapha
• Sariska
Pradesh • Kamlang Tiger Reserve
• Mukandra Hills
• Pakke
Tamilnadu • Kalakad- Mundanthurai
• Pakhui
• Anamalai
Assam • Manas
• Mudumalai
• Nameri
• Sathyamangalam
• Orang Tiger Reserve
• Meghamalai
• Kaziranga
Telangana • Nagarjunasagar Srisailam
Bihar • Valmiki
• Kawal
Chhattisgarh • Udanti- Sitanadi
• Amrabad
• Achanakmar
Uttar • Dudhwa
• Indravati Pradesh • Philibhit
Jharkhand • Palamau
• Amangarh (Buffer of Corbett Tiger Reserve)
Karnataka • Bhadra
• Katerniaghat
• Dandeli – Anshi
Uttarakhand • Corbett
• Bandipur
• Rajaji
• Nagarhole
West Bengal • Sunderbans
• Kudremukha
• Buxa
• Biligiriranga Hills

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1.3. List of Wildlife Sanctuaries in India (State-wise)

Important Points: - STATE WILDLIFE SANCTUARIES

Total Number of Wildlife Sanctuaries in India: 566 • Saman Bird Sanctuary
The maximum number of WLS is in Andaman and Nicobar: 96 • Sur Sarovar WLS
STATE WILDLIFE SANCTUARIES
• Vijai Sagar WLS
Jammu and • Karakoram WLS (Ladakh)
• Katarniaghat
Kashmir • Lachipora WLS
• Ranipur
• Limber WLS
Rajasthan • Kailadevi WLS
• Rajparian WLS
• Kesarbagh WLS
• Gulbarga WLS
• Mount Abu WLS
• Hirapora WLS
• Sariska WLS
• Trikuta WLS
• Sawai Man Singh WLS
• Ramnagar Rakha WLS
• Todgarh Raoli WLS
• Changthang Cold Desert WLS
• Jawahar Sagar WLS
Himachal • Kais WLS
• Bandh Baratha WLS
Pradesh • Kibber WLS
• Van Vihar WLS
• Kalatop- Khajjiar WLS
• Sitamata WLS
• Tundah WLS
• Bhensrodgarh WLS
• Shimla Water Catchment WLS
• Darrah WLS
• Dhauladar WLS
• Phulwari Ki Nal WLS
• Rakchham Chitkul( Sangla Valley) WLS
• Jamwa Ramgarh WLS
• Pong Dam Lake WLS
• Ramgarh Vishdhari WLS
• Renuka WLS
Gujarat • Gaga Great Indian Bustard WLS
• Shikari Devi WLS
• Gir WLS
• Chandratal WLS
• Girnar WLS
• Sech Tuan Nala Wildlife Sanctuary
• Lala Great Indian Bustard WLS
• Kugti Wildlife Sanctuary
• Marine( Gulf of Kachchh) WLS
• Nargu Wildlife Sanctuary
• Nal Sarovar Bird Santuary
Punjab • Abohar WLS
• Narayan Sarovar (chinkara) WLS
• Harike Lake WLS
• Porbandar Lake WLS
• Kathlaur Kushlian WLS
• Thol Lake WLS
• Nangal WLS
• Wild Ass WLS
• Jhajjar Bacholi WLS
• Kacchh Desert WLS
• Takhni- Rehampur WLS
• Mitiyala WLS
Uttarakhand • Askot Musk Deer WLS
• Purna WLS
• Nandhaur WLS
• Ratanmahal WLS
• Binsar WLS
• Rampara vidi WLS
• Kedarnath WLS
• Khijadiya Bird WLS
• Mussoorie WLS
• Barda WLS
• Govind Pashu Vihar WLS
• Shoolpaneshwar WLS
• Sonanadi WLS
• Balaram-Amji WLS
Uttar • Bakhira WLS
Madhya • Gandhi Sagar WLS
Pradesh • Chandraprabha WLS Pradesh • National Chambal WLS
• Dr. Bhimarao Ambedkar bird sanctuary
• Orcha WLS
• Hastinapur WLS
• Pachmarhi WLS
• Kaimur WLS
• Panna WLS
• Turtle WLS
• Pench WLS
• Pilibhit WLS
• Veerangna Durgawati WLS
• Jai Prakash Narayan Bird WLS
• Phen WLS
• Kishanpur WLS
• Bagdara WLS
• Okhala Bird Sanctuary
• Bori WLS
• Patna WLS
• Sanjay Dubri WLS
• Nawabganj Bird WLS
• Sardarpur WLS

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STATE WILDLIFE SANCTUARIES STATE WILDLIFE SANCTUARIES
• Ralamandal WLS • Jorepokhri Salamander WLS
• Karera WLS • Ballavpur WLS
• Narsinghgarh WLS • Senchal WLS
• Noradehi WLS • Haliday Island WLS
• Singhori WLS Maharashtra • Amba Barwa WLS
Bihar • Bhimbandh WLS • Bhimashankar WLS
• Gautam Buddha WLS • Great Indian Bustard WLS
• Valmiki WLS • Koyana WLS
• Kaimur WLS • Karanja Sohal Blackbuck WLS
• Udaipur WLS • Lonar WLS
• Pant( Rajgir) WLS • Mansingdeo WLS
• Kusheshwar Asthan Bird WLS • Nawegaon WLS
• Barela Jheel Salim Ali Bird Sanctuary • New Bor WLS
• Vikramsila Gangetic Dolphin WLS • New Nagzira WLS
• Kanwarjheel WLS • Thane Creek Flamingo WLS
Arunachal • Dibang WLS • Tungareshwar WLS
Pradesh • Mehao WLS • Umred- Kharngla WLS
• Kamlang WLS • Gangewadi New Great Indian Bustard WLS
• Tale Valley WLS • Andhari WLS
• Eagle Nest WLS • Naigaon Mayur Sanctuary
• Kane WLS • Phansad WLS
• Pakke( Pakhui) WLS Chhattisgarh • Achanakmar WLS
• Sessa Orchid WLS • Bhairamgarh WLS
• Itanagar WLS • Bhoramdev WLS
• Yordi-Rabe Supse WLS • PamedWild Buffalo WLS
Assam • Amchang WLS • Udanti Wild Buffalo WLS
• Barail WLS • Semarsot WLS
• Dihing Patkai WLS • Tamor Pingla WLS
• East Karbi Anglong WLS • Barnawapara WLS
• Marat Longri WLS • Sitanadi WLS
• Sonai Rupai WLS • Badalkohl WLS
• Porbitora WLS Odisha • Bhitarkanika WLS
• Hollongapar Gibbon WLS • Chilika WLS
• Lawkhowa WLS • Balukhand Konark WLS
• Chakrasila WLS • Debrigarh WLS
• Pani- Dihing Bird WLS • Gahirmatha ( Marine ) WLS
• Nambor Doigrung WLS • Similipal WLS
• Garampani WLS • Satkosia Gorge WLS
Jharkhand • Hazaribagh WLS • Kapilash WLS
• Koderma WLS • Kotagarh WLS
• Palamau WLS • Chandaka Dampara WLS
• Palkot WLS • Sunabeda WLS
• Udhwa Lake WLS • Baisipalli
• Lawalong WLS • Kuldiha
• Parasnath WLS Telangana • Manjeera crocodile WLS
• Mahuadanr Wolf WLS • Nagarjuna Sagar-Srisailam WLS
• Topchanchi WLS • Pakhal WLS
• Dalma WLS • Pranahita WLS (with Andhra Pradesh)
West Bengal • Raiganj WLS • Lanja Madugu Siwaram WLS
• Chintamani Kar Bird Sanctuary • Kinnersani WLS
• Buxa WLS • Eturnagaram WLS
• Lothian Island WLS • Kawal WLS
• West Sunderban WLS

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STATE WILDLIFE SANCTUARIES STATE WILDLIFE SANCTUARIES
Andhra • Coringa WLS • Chimmony WLS
Pradesh • Kolleru WLS • Peechi-Vazhani WLS
• Krishna WLS • Aralam WLS
• Kambalakonda WLS Tamil Nadu • Chitrangudi Bird WLS
• Rollapadu WLS • Gangaikondan Spotted deer WLS
• Pulicat Lake WLS • Indira Gandhi (Anamalai) WLS
• Nellapattu WLS • Kalakad WLS
• Nagarjuna Sagar-Srisailam WLS • Cauvery North WLS
• Sri Venkateswara WLS (with Telangana) • Kodaikanal WLS
• Sri Lankamalleswara WLS • Mudumalai WLS
• Gundla Brahmeswaram Wildlife Sanctuary • Mundanthurai WLS
• Papikonda Wildlife Sanctuary • Nellai WLS
• Koundinya Wildlife Sanctuary • Ossudu Lake Bird Sanctuary
• Lanjamadugu Wildlife Sanctuary • Point Calimere WLS
Karnataka • Attiveri WLS • Pulicat Lake WLS
• Bhimgad WLS • Sathyamangalam WLS
• Chincholi WLS • Srivilliputhur Grizzled Squirrel WLS
• Cauvery WLS • Vedanthangal WLS
• Brahmagiri WLS • Vellanadu (Black buck) WLS
• Ghataprabha Bird Sanctuary • Megamalai WLS
• Gudekote Sloth Bear WLS • Theerthangal WLS
• Malai Mahadeshwara WLS • Sakkarakotai WLS
• Ranebennur Blackbuck WLS • Vellode WLS
• Ramadevara betta Vulture WLS Sikkim • Barsey Rhododendron WLS
• Sharavathi valley WLS • Fambhong Lho WLS
• Someshwara WLS • Kitam Bird Sanctuary
• Talakaveri WLS • Kyongnosla Alpine WLs
• Jogimatti WLS • Pangolakha WLS
• Thimlapura WLS Manipur • Yangoupokpi-Lokchao WLS
• Yadahalli Chinkara WLS • Khongjaingamba Ching WLS
• Adichunchunagiri WLS Meghalaya • Baghmara Pitcher Plant WLS
• Rangayyanadurga Four-horned Antelope • Narpuh WLS
WLS • Nongkhyllem WLS
• Gudavi Bird WLS • Siju WLS
• Mookambika WLS Mizoram • Dampa WLS
• Nugu WLS • Khawanglung WLS
• Arabithittu WLS • Lengteng WLS
• Adichunchanagiri WLS • Tawi WLS
• Dandeli WLS • Thorangtlang WLS
• Pushpagiri WLS • Tokalo WLS
• Ranebennur Black Buck WLS Nagaland • Fakim WLS
• Shettihalli WLS • Puliebadze WLS
Kerala • Chinnar WLS • Rangapahar WLS
• Chulannur Peafowl WLS Haryana • Abubsehar WLS
• Idukki WLS • Bhindawas WLS
• Kottiyoor WLS • Kalesar WLS
• Kurinjimala WLS • Morni Hills WLS
• Malabar WLS • Nahar WLS
• Mangalavanam Bird Sanctuary • Khaparwas WLS
• Parambikulam WLS Goa • Bhagwan Mahavir (Mollem) WLS
• Periyar WLS • Bondla WLS
• Thattekad Bird WLS • Cotigaon WLS
• Wayanad WLS

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STATE WILDLIFE SANCTUARIES STATE WILDLIFE SANCTUARIES
• Netravali WLS Delhi • Asola Bhati (Indra Priyadarshini) WLS
• Madei WLS Tripura • Gumti Wildlife Sanctuary

1.4. List of Biosphere Reserves in India

Biosphere Reserve - Biosphere Reserves are Protected areas that are meant for conservation of natural plants and animals.
The Indian Government has established 18 biosphere reserves in India

Name State Cold Desert Biosphere Himachal Pradesh

Sundarbans Biosphere West Bengal Reserve
Reserve Dihang-Dibang Biosphere Arunachal Pradesh
Similipal Biosphere Reserve Odisha Reserve
Panchmarhi Biosphere Madhya Pradesh Dibru-Saikhowa Biosphere Assam
Reserve Reserve
Nokrek Biosphere Reserve Meghalaya Seshachalam Hills Biosphere Andhra Pradesh
Niligiri Biosphere Reserve Tamil Nadu, Kerela, Reserve
Karnataka Great Rann of Kutch Gujarat
Gulf of Mannar Biosphere Tamil Nadu Biosphere Reserve
Reserve Achanakmar-Amarkantak Madhya Pradesh &
Nanda devi Biosphere Uttarakhand Biosphere Reserve Chhattisgarh
Reserve Agasthyamala Biosphere Kerela & Tamil Nadu
Great Nicobar Biosphere Andaman & Nicobar Reserve
Reserve Islands Kanchenjunga Biosphere Sikkim
Manas Biosphere Reserve Assam Reserve
Panna Biosphere Reserve Madhya Pradesh

1.5. UNESCO Protected Biosphere Reserve in India 2022 – International Status

According to the UNESCO Man & Biosphere Programme List, 12 out of 18 Biosphere Reserves are a part of World Network of
Biosphere Reserves.

Sundarbans Biosphere Reserve West Bengal Great Nicobar Biosphere Andaman & Nicobar
Similipal Biosphere Reserve Odisha Reserve Islands
Panchmarhi Biosphere Reserve Madhya Pradesh Achanakmar-Amarkantak Madhya Pradesh &
Nokrek Biosphere Reserve Meghalaya Biosphere Reserve Chhattisgarh
Niligiri Biosphere Reserve Tamil Nadu, Kerela, Agasthyamala Biosphere Kerela & Tamil Nadu
Karnataka Reserve
Gulf of Mannar Biosphere Tamil Nadu Kanchenjunga Biosphere Sikkim
Reserve Reserve
Nanda devi Biosphere Reserve Uttarakhand Panna Biosphere Reserve Madhya Pradesh

1.6. List of Hydro, Thermal & Nuclear Power Plants in India

Nuclear Power Plant: Thermal Power Plant :

Tarapur Atomic Power Plant-1 (TAPS-1) is the first and the State Name
oldest Nuclear Power Station In India. • Simhadri Super Thermal Power Station
Asia's first nuclear reactor is the Apsara Research Reactor Andhra
• Rayalaseema Thermal power station
situated in Mumbai. Pradesh
• Dr. NarlaTatarao Thermal Power Station
State Name
• Bongaigon Thermal Power Station
Maharashtra • Tarapur Nuclear power plant
Assam • Lakwa Thermal power Station
Karnataka • Kaiga Nuclear Power Plant
• Namrup Thermal Power Station
• Kakrapar Nuclear Power Plant
Gujarat • Barauni Thermal Power station
• Mithi Virdi Nuclear Power plant*
Bihar • Kahalgaon Thermal Power Station
Rajasthan • Rawatbhata Nuclear Power Plant
• Muzaffarpur Thermal Power Plant
Uttar Pradesh • Narora Nuclear Power Plant
• Korba Super Thermal Power Plant
• Kudankullam Nuclear Power Plant
Tamil Nadu • Bhillai Expansion Power Plant
• Kalpakkam Nuclear Power Plant Chattisgarh
• Sipat Thermal Power Plant
Madhya Pradesh • Chutka Nuclear Power Plant*
• Jindal Mega Power Plant

Proposed nuclear power plant

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State Name State Name
• Dr Shyam Prakash Mukharjee Thermal • Anta Thermal Power Station
Power Plant • Barsingsar Lignite Power Plant
• Lanco Amarkantak • Rajwest Lignite Power Plant
• Indraprashta Power Station • Neyveli Thermal Power Station
Delhi • Rajghat Power Station • North Chennai Thermal Power Station
• Badarpur Thermal Power Plant Tamil Nadu • Ennore Thermal Power Station
• Gandhinagar Thermal Power Plant • Tuticorin Thermal Power Station
• Ukai Thermal Power Station • Mettur Thermal Power Station
• Kawas Thermal Power Station • Kothagudem Themal Power Station
• Jhanor- Gandhar Thermal Power Station Telangana • Ramagundam Thermal Power Station
• Kutch Lignite Thermal Power Station • Kaktiya Thermal Power Station
Gujarat • Mundra Thermal Power Plant • Rihand Thermal Power Station
• Sabarmathi Thermal Power Station • Tanda Thermal Power Plant
• Surat Lignite Thermal Power Station • Obra Thermal Power Station
• Sikka Thermal Power Station • Anpara Thermal Power Station
• Wanakbori Thermal Power Station • Auraiya Thermal Power Station
• Dhuruvan Thermal Power Plant • Harduaganj Thermal Power Station
Uttar
• Patratu Thermal Power Station • National Capital Thermal Power Plant
Pradesh
Jharkhand • Bokaro Thermal Power Station • Panki Thermal Power Plant
• Chandrapura Thermal Power Station • Parichha Thermal Power Station
• Rajiv Gandhi Thermal Power Plant • Rosa Thermal Power Station
• Faridabad Thermal Power Station • Feroz Gandhi Unchahar Thermal Power
Haryana
• Deenbandhu Chhotu Ram Thermal Power Plant
Station • Singrauli Super Thermal Power Station
• Udupi Thermal Power Plant • Durgapur Thermal Power Station
• Bellary Thermal Power Plant • Bakreswar Themal Power Station
Karnataka
• Raichur Super Thermal Power Station • Farakka Super Thermal Power Station
• JSW Vijayanagar TPS • Kolaghat Thermal Power Station
• Rajiv Gandhi Combined Cycle Power Plant West Bengal
Kerala • Mejia Thermal Power Station
• Brahmapuram Diesel Power Plant • Bakreswar Thermal Power Station
• Amarkantak Thermal Power Station • Bandel Thermal Power Station
• Sanjay Gandhi Thermal Power Station • Santaldih Thermal Power Station
Madhya
• Vindhyanchal Super Thermal Power Station
Pradesh
• Satpura Thermal Power Station
Hydroelectric Power Plants:
• Sant Singaji Thermal Power Plant
State Name
• Chandrapur Super Thermal Power Plant Kerala • Idukki Hydro-electric Plant
• Amravati Thermal Power Plant Maharashtra • Koyna Hydro Electric Power Plant
• Bhusawal Thermal Power Station • Hirakund Hydro Electric Power Plant
• Parli Thermal Power Station Odisha
• Balimela Hydro Electric Power Plant
Maharashtra • Khaperkheda Thermal Power Station
Uttarakhand • Tehri Hydro Electric Power Plant
• Nashik Thermal Power Station
• Nagarjuna Hydro Electric Power Plant
• Tirora Thermal Power Plant Andhra
• Srisailam Hydro Electric Power Plant
• Trombay Thermal Power Station Pradesh
• Machkund Hydro Electric Power Plant
• Dahanu Thermal Power Station
• Talcher Super Thermal Power Station • Nathpa Jhakri Hydro Electric Power Plant
Odisha Himachal • BhakraNangal Hydro Electric Power Plant
• Hirakud Captive Power Plant
• Guru Nanak Dev Thermal Power Station Pradesh • Dehar Hydro Electric Power Plant
Punjab • Baira- Siul Hydro Electric Power Plant
• Guru Hargobind Thermal Power Station
• Suratgarh Super Thermal Power Station Gujarat • Sardar Sarovar Hydro Electric Power Plant
• Chhabra Thermal Power Plant Madhya • Indirasagar Hydroelectric Power Plant
Rajasthan
• Giral Lignite Thermal Power Station Pradesh • Bansagar Hydro Electric Power Plant
• VS Lignite Power Plant Uttar
• Rihand Hydro Electric Power Plant
Pradesh

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State Name State Name
• Sharavathi Hydro Electric Power Plant Jammu and • Salal Hydro Electric Power Plant
Karnataka • Kalinadi Hydro Electric Power Plant Kashmir • Uri Hydro Electric Power Plant
• Shivanasamudra Hydro Electric Power Plant Jharkhand • Subarnarekha Hydro Electric Power Plant
• Teesta Hydro Electric Power Plant Manipur • Loktak Hydro Electric Power Plant
Sikkim
• Rangit Hydro Electric Power Plant

1.7. List of Airports in India

• Juhu Aerodrome, Mumbai is the First and oldest Airport in India founded in 1928
• Cochin International Airport, Kerala is the first international airport in India developed under PPP- Public-Private Partnership
Model.
• There are 34 operational International Airports in India.

State/UT Location Airport

Andaman and Nicobar Port blair Veer savarkar International Airport
• Vishakapatnam ✓ Vishakapatnam International Airport
• Hyderabad ✓ Begumpet Airport
Andhra Pradesh • Hyderabad ✓ Rajiv Gandhi International Airport
• Rajahmundry ✓ Rajahmundry International Airport
• Kadapa ✓ Kadapa Airport
• Daporijo ✓ Daporijo International Airport
Arunachal Pradesh • Tezu ✓ Tezu International Airport
• Pasighat ✓ Pasighat Airport
✓ Lokpriya Gopinath/ Guwahati International
• Guwahati
Airport
• Dubri
✓ Rupsi Airport
Assam • Dibrugarh
✓ Dibrugarh Airport
• Silchar
✓ Silchar Airport
• Tezpur
✓ Tezpur Airport
• Patna ✓ Lok Nayak Jayaprakash Airport
Bihar
• Gaya ✓ Gaya/Bodhgaya International Airport
• Delhi ✓ Indira Gandhi International Airport
New Delhi
• Delhi ✓ Safdarjung Airport
Chhattisgarh • Raipur ✓ Swami Vivekananda Airport
Goa • Dambolim ✓ Goa International Airport
• Ahmedabad ✓ Sardar Vallabhai patel International Airport
Gujarat
• Surat ✓ Surat International Airport
• Kangra ✓ Gaggal Airport
Himachal Pradesh
• Kullu ✓ Bhuntar Airport
Jammu & Kashmir • Srinagar ✓ Srinagar International Airport
• Jamsedpur ✓ Sonari Airport
Jharkhand • Ranchi ✓ Birsa Munda Airport
• Deoghar ✓ Atal Bihari Vajpayee Airport
• Bengaluru ✓ Kempegowda International Airport
• Hubbli ✓ Hubbli Airport
Karnataka • Mysore ✓ Mysore Airport
• Belgaum ✓ Belgaum Airport
• Mangalore ✓ Mangalore International Airport
• Thiruvananthapuram ✓ Trivandrum International Airport
• Kochi ✓ Cochin International Airport
Kerala
• Kozhikode ✓ Calicut International Airport
• Kannur ✓ Kannur International Airport
Lakshadweep • Agatti Agatti Aerodrome
• Bhopal ✓ Raja Bhoj Airport
Madhya Pradesh • Indore ✓ Devi Ahilyabai Holkar Airport
• Jabalpur ✓ Jabalpur Airport
• Mumbai ✓ Chhatrapathi Sivaji International Airport
Maharashtra • Nagpur ✓ Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar IA
• Nasik ✓ Gandhinagar Airport

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State/UT Location Airport
• Nasik ✓ Ozar Airport
• Pune ✓ Pune International Airport
• Mumbai ✓ Juhu Airport
• Kakadai ✓ Shirdi Airport
• Kolhapur ✓ Chatrapathi Rajaram Maharaj Airport
Manipur • Imphal ✓ Bir Tikendrajit International Airport
Meghalaya • Shillong ✓ Zaruki/ Umroi International Airport
Mizoram • Aizawl ✓ Lengpui Airport
Nagaland • Dimapur ✓ Dimapur Airport
• Bhubaneswar ✓ Biju Patnaik Airport
Odisha
• Jharsuguda ✓ Veer Surendra Sai Airport
Punjab • Amritsar ✓ Sri Guru Ram DassJee International Airport
• Jaipur ✓ Jaipur International Airport
Rajasthan • Udaipur ✓ Maharana Pratap Airport
• Kota ✓ Kota Airport
Sikkim • Pakyong ✓ Pakyong Airport
• Chennai ✓ Anna International Airport
• Coimbatore ✓ Civil Aerodrome
Tamilnadu • Madurai ✓ Madurai Airport
• Tuticorin ✓ Tuticorin Airport
• Thiruchirapalli ✓ Thiruchirapalli Airport
Telangana • Hyderabad • Rajiv Gandhi International Airport
• Lucknow ✓ Chaudhary Charan Singh Airport
Uttar Pradesh • Varanasi ✓ Lal BahadurSastri International Airport
• Ayodhya ✓ Maryada Purushottam Sri Ram Airport
• Dehradun ✓ Atal Bihari Vajpayee Airport
Uttarakhand
• Pantnagar ✓ Pantnagar Airport
• Kolkata ✓ Netaji Subash Chandra Bose IA
West Bengal
• Siliguri ✓ Bagdogra International Airport
Tripura • Agartala • Maharaja Bir Bikram Manikya Kishore Airport

1.8. List of Major Sea Ports in India

▪ Jawahar Lal Nehru Port Trust (JNPT) won the award of the Jawaharlal Nehru Port Maharashtra
‘Best Global Port in India’, the third time in a row in the Atal (Nhava Sheva)
Shastra Markenomy Award 2020. Kamarajar port or Ennore Chennai, Tamil Nadu
▪ India’s First corporatized port: Ennore Port Port
▪ Known as Tidal Port: Kandla Port Haldia Kolkata, West Bengal
▪ Largest Natural Port and harbour In India & The busiest Kochi Port or Cochin Port Kerala
port in India: Mumbai Port New Mangalore Port Mangalore, Karnataka
▪ Largest Artificial Port : Jawaharlal Nehru Port (Panambur Port)
Mormugao Port Panaji, Goa
Port Name State Panjim (Panaji) port Goa
Kandla (Deendayal Port Gujarat
Tuticorin (V.O Tuticorin, Tamil Nadu
Trust)
Chidambaram Port)
Paradip Jagatsinghpur, Odisha
Port Blair Port Andaman and Nicobar
Mumbai Maharashtra Islands
Visakapatnam Andhra Pradesh Vizag Port Visakhapatnam
Chennai Tamil Nadu

1.9. List of Stadiums in India

Cricket -
No. Stadium Name Location State
1 Dr Y.S Rajasekhara Reddy ACA- VDCA Cricket Vishakapatnam Andhra Pradesh
Stadium
2 YS Raja Reddy Stadium Kadapa
3 Indira Gandhi Stadium Vijayawada

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No. Stadium Name Location State
4 Indira Priyadarshini Stadium Vishakapatnam
5 Lal Bahadur Sasthri Stadium Hyderabad Telangana
6 Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium Hyderabad
7 Gymkhana Ground Secunderabad
8 Dr Bhupen Hazarika Cricket Stadium Guwahati Assam
9 Moin-ul – Haq Stadium Patna Bihar
10 Arun Jaitely stadium (Feroz Shah Kotla) Delhi New Delhi
11 Wankhede Stadium Mumbai Maharashtra
12 HPCA Stadium Dharamsala Himachal Pradesh
13 Eden Gardens Kolkatta West Bengal
14 M. A Chidambaram Stadium Chennai Tamilnadu
15 Bombay Gymkhana Ground Mumbai Maharashtra
16 Jsca Stadium Ranchi Jharkhand
17 Khanderi Cricket Stadium (Saurashtra Cricket Rajkot Gujarat
Association Stadium)
18 Subrata Roy Sahara Stadium Pune Maharashtra
19 Holkar stadium (Maharani Usharaje Trust Cricket Indore Madhya Pradesh
Ground)
20 Barkatullah Khan Stadium Jodhpur Rajasthan
21 CL Sport Complex Vadodara Gujarat
22 Maulana Azad Stadium Jammu & Kashmir
23 Roop Singh Stadium Gwalior Madhya Pradesh
24 Narendra Modi Stadium Karnavati (Ahmedabad) Gujarat
25 DY Patil Stadium Navi Mumbai Maharashtra
26 Veer Surendra Sai Stadium Sambalpur Odisha
27 DRIEMS ground Cuttack
28 KIIT Stadium Bhubaneswar
29 Barabati Stadium Cuttack
30 East Coast Railway Stadium Bhubaneswar
31 Dhruv Pandove Cricket Stadium Patiala Punjab
32 G.M.C Balayogi Athletic Stadium Hyderabad Telangana
33 Green Park Stadium Kanpur Uttar Pradesh
34 K.D Singh Babu Stadium Lucknow
35 Dr Akhilesh Das Stadium Lucknow
36 Eklavya Sports Stadium Agra
37 Greater Noida Cricket Stadium Greater Noida
38 Rajiv Gandhi International Cricket Stadium Dehradun Uttarakhand
39 Maharaja Bir Bikram College Stadium Agartala Tripura
40 Vidarbha Cricket Association Stadium Nagpur Maharashtra
41 Guru Gobind Singh Stadium Nanded
42 Narendra Modi stadium-Largest cricket stadium in the Ahmedabad Gujarat
world

Football :
No. Stadium Name Location State
1 Indira Gandhi Athletic Stadium Guwahati Assam
2 Satindra Mohan Dev Stadium Silchar
3 Patliputra Sports Complex Patna Bihar
4 Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium Delhi Delhi
5 Ambedkar Stadium Delhi
6 Fatorda Stadium Margao Goa
7 Tilak Maidan Stadium Vasco da Gama
8 Duler Stadium Mapusa
9 The Arena Karnavati (Ahmedabad) Gujarat
10 Tau Devi Lal Stadium Gurgaon Haryana
11 Bakhshi Stadium Srinagar Jammu and Kashmir
12 TRC Turf Ground Srinagar
13 JRD Tata Sports Complex Jamshedpur Jharkhand
14 Birsa Munda Football Stadium Ranchi

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No. Stadium Name Location State
15 Mangala Stadium Mangalore Karnataka
16 Sree Kanteerava Stadium Bangalore
17 Visvesvaraya Stadium Mandya
18 EMS Stadium Kozhikode Kerala
19 Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium Kochin
20 University Stadium Thiruvananthapuram
21 Lal Bahadur Shastri Stadium Kollam
22 Chandra sekharan Nair Stadium Thiruvananthapuram
23 Fort Maidan Palakkad
24 TT Nagar Stadium Bhopal Madhya Pradesh
25 Ravi Shankar Shukla Stadium Jabalpur
26 Dr. Rajendra Prasad Football Stadium Neemuch
27 Dadaji Kondadev Stadium Thane Maharashtra
28 B.P.T Ground Mumbai
29 Fr. Agnel Stadium Navi Mumbai
30 Cooperage Football Stadium Mumbai
31 Khuman Lampak Main Stadium Imphal Manipur
32 Lajwanti Stadium Hoshiarpur Punjab
33 Guru Gobind Singh Stadium Jalandhar
34 Guru Nanak Stadium Ludhiana
35 Baichung Stadium Namchi Sikkim
36 Paljor Stadium Gangtok
37 Jorethang Stadium Jorethang
38 Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium Chennai Tamilnadu
39 Dr. Sampurnanda Stadium Varanasi UttarPradesh
40 Salt Lake Stadium Kolkata West Bengal
41 Kalyani Stadium Kolkata
42 Mela Ground Kalimpong
43 Mohun Bagan Ground Kolkata
44 Rabindra Sarobar Stadium Kolkata
45 Mohammedan Sporting Ground Kolkata
46 Jadavpur Stadium Kolkata

Hockey:
No. Stadium Name Location State
1 Sector 42 Chandigarh Chandigarh
2 Rajnandgaon International Hockey Stadium Rajnandgaon Chattisgarh
3 Dhyan Chand National Stadium Delhi Delhi
4 Chaudhary Bansi Lal Stadium Rohtak Haryana
5 DilipTirkey Stadium Ranchi Jharkhand
6 Bangalore Hockey Stadium Bangalore Karnataka
7 Kollam International Hockey Stadium Kollam Kerala
8 Aishbagh Stadium Bhopal Madhya Pradesh
9 Mahindra Hockey Stadium Mumbai Maharashtra
10 PCMC Hockey Stadium Pimpri- Chinchwad
11 Kalinga Stadium Bhubaneswar Odisha
12 War Heroes Stadium Sangrur Punjab
13 International Hockey Stadium Ajitgarh
14 Surjit Hockey Stadium Jalandhar
15 Mayor Radhakrishnan Stadium Chennai Tamilnadu
16 Dhyan Chand Astroturf Stadium Lucknow Uttar Pradesh
17 Birsa Munda Hockey Stadium Ranchi Jharkhand
Others:
No. Stadium Name Purpose Location
1 Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium Sports & Games Guwahati, Assam
2 Indira Gandhi Arena Spots & Games Delhi
3 Talkatora Stadium Sports & Games
4 Chhatrasal Stadium Sports & Games
5 Dr Shyam Prasad Mukherjee Indoor Stadium Spots & Games Taleigao, Goa

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6 Mahabir Stadium Sports & Games Hisar, Haryana
7 BirsaMunda Athletics Stadium Athletics Ranchi, Jharkhand
8 Trivandrum International Stadium Sports & Games Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala
9 Kaloor International Stadium (Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium) Multipurpose Kochi, Kerala
10 Rajiv Gandhi Indoor Stadium Multipurpose Kochin, Kerala
11 Hawla Indoor Stadium Basketball Aizawl, Mizoram
12 Jawaharlal Nehru Indoor Stadium Gymnastics Cuttack, Odisha
13 Gandhi Ground Multipurpose Udaipur, Rajasthan
14 MGR Race course Stadium Multipurpose Madurai, Tamilnadu
15 Gachibowli Indoor stadium Sports & Games Hyderabad, Telangana
16 Buddh International Circuit Auto Racing Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh
17 K.D Singh Babu Stadium Multipurpose Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh
18 Netaji Indoor Stadium Multipurpose Kolkata, West Bengal

1.10. List of Hill Ranges in India and its Location

Hill Ranges: Chang La Ladakh India & Tibet
Hill Range States Aghil Pass Ladakh Ladakh to Xinjiang
Eastern Ghats Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, province of China
Odisha, West Bengal Fotu La Ladakh Srinagar to Leh
Western Ghats Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Karnataka, Goa, Karakoram Ladakh China & Pakistan
Maharashtra Pass
Nilgiri Hills Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Karnataka Burzil Pass Jammu & Srinagar & Gilgit
Aravallis Gujarat, Rajasthan, Haryana Kashmir
Cardamom Kerala and Tamil Nadu Banihal Pass Jammu & Jammu to Srinagar
Hills Kashmir
Anaimalai Hills Pir Panjal Pass Jammu & Kashmir Valley to
Palani Hills Tamil Nadu Kashmir Jammu
Vindhyas Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh Shipki La Himachal Simla with Tibet
Satpura Gujarat, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Pradesh
Chhattisgarh Baralacha La Himachal Lahul to Leh
Karakoram Ladakh Pradesh
Pir Panjal Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir Rohtang Pass Himachal Manali and Lahul
Garo Hills Meghalaya Pradesh
KhasiHills Lipu Lekh Pass Uttarakhand Uttarakhand to Tibet
Jaintia Hills Mana Pass Uttarakhand India & China
Seshachalam Andhra Pradesh Muling & Niti Uttarakhand Uttarakhand to Tibet
Hills Pass
Nallamala Hills Nathula Sikkim Sikkim and Tibet
Jelep la Sikkim Sikkim & Tibet
Highest Peaks: Bum La Pass Arunachal Arunachal to Tibet
Highest Peak Height (m) States Pradesh
Kanchendzonga 8586 Sikkim Dhipu Pass Arunachal India, China & Myanmar
Nanda Devi 7817 Uttarakhand Pradesh
Kamet 7756 Uttarakhand Dihang Pass Arunachal Arunachal Pradesh to
Saltoro Kangri 7742 Jammu and Kashmir Pradesh Myanmar
Saser Kangri 7672 Ladakh BhorGhat Maharashtra Mumbai and Pune
Kangto 7090 Arunachal Pradesh ThalGhat Maharashtra Nasik and Mumbai
Reo Purgyil 6816 Himachal Pradesh Pal Ghat Tamil Nadu Kerala with Tamil Nadu
Saramati 3841 Nagaland
Sandakphu 3636 West Bengal Mountain Ranges:
Khayang 3114 Manipur Major Himalayan Mountain Ranges are:
Anamudi 2695 Kerala
DoddaBetta 2636 Tamil Nadu Pir Panjal Range -
▪ Located in Himachal Pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir
Important Passes: ▪ Pir Panjal is the largest range of the lower Himalayas.
Name Location Connects ▪ Important passes in this range- Pir Panjal pass, Banihal pass
Khardung La Ladakh Leh & Nubra Valley
Zoji La Ladakh Ladakh to Kashmir Dhaula Dhar Range -
Pensi La Ladakh Suru Valley to Zanskar ▪ It is located in lesser Himalayas
Valley

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Zanskar Range - The highest peak in the Eastern Ghats Jindhagadha
▪ It is located in the state of Jammu and Kashmir and Peak
Uttarakhand. Mountains that divide Northern India Vindhyas
from Deccan Plateau
Ladakh Range -
▪ It is a part of Karakoram Mountain. Kanchenjunga is the third highest mountain in the world. First
Others: two highest mountains in the world
The highest mountain in India Kanchenjunga 1. Mount Everest- 8,848.86 mts
2. K2 also known as Godwin Austin- 8,611 mts
The highest peak of Aravalli Guru Sikhar
3. Kanchenjunga- 8,586 mts
Oldest Mountain range in India Aravallis
The highest peak in the Western Ghats Anamudi

1.11. List of UNESCO World Heritage Sites in India

Presently, there are 38 World Heritage Sites located in India. No. UNESCO Site Location Year of
India has the sixth-largest number of sites in the world. Nomination
No. UNESCO Site Location Year of 22 Mountain Railways of West Bengal 1999
Nomination India
1 Taj Mahal Agra, Uttar 1983 23 Mahabodhi Temple Bodh Gaya, 2001
Pradesh Complex Bihar
2 Agra Fort Uttar Pradesh 1983 24 Rock Shelters of Madhya 2003
3 Ajanta Caves Maharashtra 1983 Bhimbetka Pradesh
4 Ellora Caves Aurangabad, 1983 25 Champaner- Pavagadh Gujarat 2004
Maharashtra Archaeological Park
5 Monuments at Chennai, 1984 26 ChhatrapathiShivaji Mumbai, 2004
Mahabalipuram Tamil Nadu Terminus Maharashtra
6 Sun Temple Konark Odisha 1984 27 Red Fort Complex Delhi 2007
7 Kaziranga National Assam 1985 28 Jantar Mantar Jaipur, 2010
Park Rajasthan
8 Keoladeo National Rajasthan 1985 29 Western Ghats Kanyakumari, 2010
Park Tamil Nadu
9 Manas Wildlife Assam 1985 30 Hill Forts of Rajasthan Rajasthan 2013
Sanctuary 31 Rani- ki- Vav (the Patan, Gujarat 2014
10 Churches and Goa 1986 Queen’s Stepwell)
Convents of Goa 32 The Great Himalayan Himachal 2014
11 Fatehpur Sikri Agra, Uttar 1986 National Park Pradesh
Pradesh 33 Khangchendzonga Sikkim 2016
12 Group of Monuments Bellary, 1986 National Park
at Hampi Karnataka 34 The Architectural Work Chandigarh 2016
13 Khajuraho Group of Madhya 1986 of Le Corbusier, an
Monuments Pradesh Outstanding
14 Elephanta Caves Mumbai, 1987 Contribution to the
Maharashtra Modern Movement
15 Great Living Chola Tamil Nadu 1987 35 The archaeological site Nalanda, 2016
Temples of Nalanda Mahavihara Bihar
16 Group of Monuments Karnataka 1987 36 Historic City of Gujarat 2017
at Pattadakal Ahmadabad
17 Sundarban National West Bengal 1987 37 Victorian Gothic and Mumbai, 2018
Park Art Deco Ensembles of Maharashtra
18 Nanda Devi National Uttarakhand 1988 Mumbai
Park 38 Pink City Jaipur, 2019
19 Buddhist Monuments Madhya 1989 Rajasthan
at Sanchi Pradesh 39 Kakatiya Rudreshwara Telangana 2020
20 Humayun’s Tomb Delhi 1993 (Ramappa) Temple
21 Qutb Minar and its Delhi 1993 40 Dholavira: A Harappan Gujarat 2021
Monuments city

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1.12. List of Ramsar Sites in India

❖ 75 wetlands in India have international importance and are No. Ramsar Site Location
hence recognized as the Ramsar Sites in India. 31 Sambhar Lake Rajasthan
❖ On 2nd February 2021, India’s first Centre for Wetland 32 Sandi Bird Sanctuary Uttar Pradesh
Conservation and Management has been set up in Chennai. 33 SarsaiNawarJheel Uttar Pradesh
❖ The term was coined when the International Treaty for the 34 Sasthamkotta Lake Kerala
35 Sunderbans Wetland West Bengal
Conservation and Sustainable Use of Wetlands was signed
36 Surinsar- Mansar Lakes Jammu and
in a city of Iran called Ramsar in 1971.
Kashmir
❖ Tamil Nadu (14) has the most number of Ramsar Sites in
37 Sur Sarovar Uttar Pradesh
India. It has 8 Indian Wetlands. 38 Tsomoriri Jammu and
❖ Chilika Lake (Orissa) and Keoladeo National Park Kashmir
(Rajasthan) were recognized as the first Ramsar Sites of 39 Tso Kar Ladakh
India. 40 Vembanad Kol Wetland Kerala
❖ Sundarbans is the largest Ramsar Site in India. 41 Wular Lake Jammu and
❖ Renuka Wetland in Himachal Pradesh is the smallest Kashmir
wetland in India. 42 Upper Ganga River Uttar Pradesh
❖ The world’s First Ramsar site was identified in 1974, which 43 Haiderpur Wetland Uttar Pradesh
44 Sultanpur Natioanl Park Haryana
was the Cobourg Peninsula in Australia.
45 Bhindawas Wildlife Sancturar Haryana
❖ The United Kingdom has the world’s largest number of
46 Thol Lake Gujarat
Ramsar sites i.e. 175. Bolivia has the largest area with 148,000
47 Wadhvana Wetland Gujarat
square km under the Convention protection. 48 Bakhira Sanctuary Uttar Pradesh
49 Khijadiya Bird Sanctuary Gujarat
No. Ramsar Site Location 50 Karikili Bird Sanctuary Tamil Nadu
1 Asan Conservation Reserve Uttarakhand 51 Pallikaranai Marsh Reserve Forest Tamil Nadu
2 Ashtamudi Wetland Kerala 52 Pichavaram Mangrove Tamil Nadu
3 Beas Conservation Reserve Punjab 53 Pala wetland Mizoram
4 Bhitarkanika Mangroves Odisha 54 Sakhya Sagar Madhya
5 Bhoj Wetlands Madhya Pradesh
Pradesh 55 Koothankulam Bird Sanctuary Tamil Nadu
6 Chilika Lake Odisha 56 Gulf of Mannar Marine Biosphere Tamil Nadu
7 Chandra Taal Himachal Reserve
Pradesh 57 Vembannur Wetland Complex Tamil Nadu
8 DeeporBeel Assam 58 Vellode Bird Sanctuary Tamil Nadu
9 East Kolkata Wetlands West Bengal 59 Vedanthangal Bird Sanctuary Tamil Nadu
10 Harike Wetlands Punjab 60 Udhayamarthandapuram Bird Tamil Nadu
11 Hokera Wetland Jammu and Sanctuary
Kashmir 61 Satkosia Gorge Odisha
12 Kanjli Wetland Punjab 62 Nanda Lake Goa
13 Kanwar Taal Wetland Bihar 63 Ranganathittu Bird Sanctuary Karnataka
14 Keoladeo Ghana National Park Rajasthan 64 Sirpur Wetland Madhya
15 Kolleru Lake Andhra Pradesh
Pradesh 65 Hirakud Reservoir Odisha
16 Keshopur-Miani Community Reserve Punjab 66 Tampara Lake Odisha
17 Nalsarovar Bird Sanctuary Gujarat 67 Ansupa Lake Odisha
18 Loktak Lake Manipur 68 Yashwant Sagar Madhya
19 Lonar Lake Maharashtra Pradesh
20 Nangal Wildlife Sanctuary Punjab 69 Thane Creek Maharashtra
21 NandurMadhameshwar Maharashtra 70 Vaduvur Bird Sanctuary Tamil Nadu
22 Parvati Agra Bird Sanctuary Uttar Pradesh 71 Chitrangudi Bird Sanctuary Tamil Nadu
23 Nawabganj Bird Sanctuary Uttar Pradesh 72 Kanjirankulam Bird Sanctuary Tamil Nadu
24 Point Calimere Wildlife and Bird Tamil Nadu 73 Suchindram Theroor Wetland Tamil Nadu
Sanctuary Complex
25 Pong Dam Lake Himachal 74 Hygam Wetlands Conservation Jammu and
26 Renuka Lake Pradesh Reserve Kashmir
27 Ropar Wetland Punjab 75 Shallbugh Wetlands Conservation Jammu and
28 Rudrasagar Lake Tripura Reserve Kashmir
29 Saman Bird Sanctuary Uttar Pradesh
30 Samaspur Bird Sanctuary Uttar Pradesh

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1.13. List of Important Lakes in India No. Lake Name Location
• Vembanad Lake in Kerala is the longest lake in India. 41 Madiwala Lake Bengaluru, Karnataka
• Gurudongmar Lake in Sikkim is the highest lake in the 42 Lingambudhi Lake Mysore, Karnataka
43 Karanji Lake Mysore, Karnataka
world and India.
44 Pampa Sarovar Hampi, Karnataka
• Lonar Lake is a notified National Geo-heritage
45 Ashtamudi Lake Kollam, Kerala
Monument, saline, soda lake, located at Lonar in 46 Maanaanchira Lake Kozhikode, Kerala
Buldhana district, Maharashtra. 47 Paravur Kayal Kollam, Kerala
48 Punnamada Lake Alapuzzha, Kerala
No. Lake Name Location 49 Shasthamkotta Lake Kollam, Kerala
1 Kolleru Lake Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh 50 Vembanad Lake Kerala
2 Pulicat Lake Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh 51 Vellayani Lake Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala
3 Deepor Beel Kamrup, Assam 52 Bhojtal Lake Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh
4 Chandubi Lake Kamrup, Assam 53 Gorewada Lake Nagpur, Maharashtra
5 Haflong Lake Silchar, Assam 54 Pashan Lake Pune, Maharashtra
6 Son Beel Karimganj, Assam 55 Shivajisagar Lake Satara, Maharashtra
7 Kanwar Lake Begusarai, Bihar 56 Umiam Lake Shillong, Meghalaya
8 Hamirsar Lake Kutch, Gujarat 57 Loktak Lake Moirang, Manipur
9 Kankaria Lake Karnavati, Gujarat 58 Palak Dil Lake Saiha, Mizoram
10 Thol Lake Mehsana, Gujarat 59 Anshupa Lake Cuttack, Odisha
11 Nal Sarovar Karnavati, Gujarat 60 Chilka Lake Puri, Odisha
12 Lakhota Lake Jamnagar, Gujarat 61 Kanjia Lake Bhubaneswar, Odisha
13 Vastrapur Lake Karnavati, Gujarat 62 Kanjli Wetland Kapurthala, Punjab
14 Sursagar Lake Vadodara, Gujarat 63 Harike Wetland Ferozepur, Punjab
Lagaul- Spiti, Himachal 64 Ropar Wetland Rupnagar, Punjab
15 Dhankar Lake
Pradesh 65 Dhebar Lake Udaipur, Rajasthan
16 Brighu Lake Kullu, Himachal Pradesh 66 Pushkar Lake Ajmer, Rajasthan
17 Dashir Lake Keylong, Himachal Pradesh 67 Rajsamand Lake Rajsamand, Rajasthan
18 Khajjar Lake Chamba, Himachal Pradesh 68 Sambhar Salt Lake Jaipur, Rajasthan
19 Kareri Lake Kangra, Himachal Pradesh 69 Ramgarh Lake Jaipur, Rajasthan
Maharana Pratap 70 Mansagar Lake Jaipur, Rajasthan
20 Kangra, Himachal Pradesh
Sagar 71 Fateh Sagar Lake Udaipur, Rajasthan
21 Macchial lake Mandi, Himachal Pradesh 72 Rangsagar Lake Udaipur, Rajasthan
22 Nako Lake Kinnaur, Himachal Pradesh 73 Swaroopsagar Lake Udaipur, Rajasthan
23 Pandoh Lake Mandi, Himachal Pradesh 74 Tsongmo Sikkim
24 Prashar Lake Mandi, Himachal Pradesh 75 Chomalu Gangtok, Sikkim
Lahul and Spiti, Himachal 76 Hussain Sagar Hyderabad, Telangana
25 Suraj Taal
Pradesh
77 Osman Sagar Hyderabad, Telangana
26 Rewalsar Lake Mandi, Himachal Pradesh
78 Himayat Sagar Hyderabad, Telangana
27 Brahma Sarovar Thanesar, Haryana
79 Mir Alam Tank Hyderabad, Telangana
28 Surajkund Lake Faridabad, Haryana
Chembarambakkam
29 Tilyar Lake Rohtak , Haryana 80 Chennai, Tamil Nadu
Lake
30 Blue Bird Lake Hisar, Haryana 81 Puzhal Lake Chennai, Tamil Nadu
31 Dal Lake Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir 82 Sholavaram Lake Thiruvallur, Tamil Nadu
32 Tso Moriri Ladakh 83 Veeranam Lake Cuddalore, Tamil Nadu
Bandipora, Jammu and 84 Belasagar Lake Kulpahar, Uttar Pradesh
33 Wular Lake
Kashmir
85 Bhimtal Lake Nainital, Uttarakhand
Ganderbal, Jammu and
34 Manasbal Lake 86 Dodital Lake Uttarkashi, Uttarakhand
Kashmir
Rabindra Sarobar
35 Mansar Lake Jammu, Jammu and Kashmir 87 Kolkata, West Bengal
Lake
Anantnag, Jammu, and
36 Sheshnag Lake 88 Senchal Lake Darjeeling, West Bengal
Kashmir
East Calcutta
37 Bellandur Lake Bengaluru, Karnataka 89 Kolkata, West Bengal
Wetlands
38 Ulsoor Lake Bengaluru, Karnataka
90 Santragachhi Lake Howrah, West Bengal
39 Sankey Lake Bengaluru, Karnataka
40 Lalbagh Lake Bengaluru, Karnataka

1.14. List of Important Forts & Palaces in India

Forts in India: Himachal Pradesh Kangara Fort Kangara
State Fort Place Karnataka Sriranga-patnam Sriranga-patnam
New Delhi Red fort New Delhi Fort

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Kolkata Fort William West Bengal State Palace Location
Madhya Pradesh Gwalior Fort Gwalior Naukhanda Palace Aurangabad
Maharashtra Panhala Fort Kolhapur Manipur Kangla Palace Imphal
Sindhudurg Fort Sindhudurg Odisha Brundaban Palace Paralakhemundi,
Daulatabad Fort Aurangabad (Gajapati Palace) Gajapati District
Rajasthan Ranthambore Fort Sawai Madhopur Punjab Maharaja Ranjit Singh Amritstar
Meharangarh Fort Jodhpur Palace
Kumbhalgarh Fort Rajsamand Rajasthan Amber Palace (Amer Jaipur
Amber Fort Amber Town)
Junagarh Fort Bikaner City Palace Jaipur
Chittorgarh Fort Chittorgarh (Chandra Mahal and
Jaisalmer Fort Jaisalmer Mubarak Mahal
Tamil Nadu Gingee Fort Villupuram palaces)
Fort St. George Chennai Hawa Mahal Jaipur
Telangana Golconda Fort Hyderabad Jal Mahal (in Jaipur
Warangal Fort Warangal Mansagar Lake)
Uttar Pradesh Agra fort Agra Rambagh Palace Jaipur
Monsoon Palace Udaipur
Palaces in India: (Sajjan Garh Palace)
State Palace Location Lake Palace Udaipur
Assam Ahom Raja’s Palace Garhgaon Shiv Niwas Palace Udaipur
Bihar Anand Bagh Palace Darbhanga (Lake Pichola)
Navlakha Palace Rajnagar Island Palace ( Jag Udaipur
Nargona Palace Darbhanga Mandir)
Chhattisgarh Kawardha Palace Kawardha Lalgarh Palace Bikaner
Bastar Palace Jagdalpur Umaid Bhawan Palace Jodhpur
Kanker Palace Kanker Laxmi Vilas Palace Bharatpur
Gujarat Laxmi Vilas Palace Vadodara Udai Vilas Palace Bharatpur
Jammu & Amar Mahal Palace Jammu Tamil Nadu Padmanabhapuram Kanyakumari
Kashmir Palace
Mubarak Mandi Jammu
Palace Thirumalai Nayakkar Madurai
Palace
Leh Palace Leh, Namgyal Hill
Telangana Chowmahalla Palace Hyderabad
Karnataka Jagan Mohan Palace Mysore
King Kothi Palace Hyderabad
Mysore Palace Mysore
(Amba Vilas Palace) Falaknuma Palace Hyderabad
Kerala Shakthan Thampuran Thrissur Tripura Neer Mahal (Water Lake Rudrasagar,
Palace Palace) Melaghar
Kowdiar Palace Trivandrum Ujjayanta Palace Agartala
Bolgatty Palace Kochi Kunjaban Palace Agartala
Madhya Jai Vilas Palace Gwalior Uttar Pradesh Anand Bhawan Prayagraj
Pradesh (Allahabad)
Jahaz Mahal Mandu
West Bengal Hazarduari Palace Hazarduari,
Maharashtra Aga Khan Palace Pune
Murshidabad
Lal Mahal (Red Palace) Pune
Marble Palace Kolkata
Shalini Palace Kolhapur
Cooch Behar Palace Cooch Behar
Farah Bagh Palace Ahmednagar
(Victor Jubilee Palace)

1.15. Famous Temples in India & its Location

No. Temple Name Location No. Temple Name Location

1 Meenakshi Temple Madurai, Tamil Nadu Chidambaram, Tamil
7 Nataraja Temple
Ramanathaswamy Rameshwaram, Tamil Nadu
2
Temple Nadu Kanchipuram, Tamil
8 Kanchipuram Temples
Ranganathaswamy Tiruchirapalli, Tamil Nadu
3
Temple Nadu 9 Virupaksha Temple Hampi, Karnataka
4 Brihadeshwara Temple Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu 10 Vitthala Temple Hampi, Karnataka
Kanyakumari, Tamil 11 Gomateswara Temple Karnataka
5 Suchindram Temple
Nadu Lord Venkateswara Thirumala, Andhra
12
6 Airavateswara Temple Darasuram, Tamil Nadu Temple Pradesh
13 Kashi Vishwanath Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh

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No. Temple Name Location No. Temple Name Location
14 Somnath Temple Saurashtra, Gujarat Padmanabaswamy Thiruvananthapuram,
29
15 Dwarakadhish Temple Dwarka, Gujarat Temple Kerala
16 Shirdi Sai Baba Temple Shirdi, Maharashtra 30 SanchiStupa Raisen, Madhya Pradesh
17 Siddivinayak Temple Mumbai, Maharashtra Khajuraho, Madhya
31 Khajuraho Temple
Katra, Jammu and Pradesh
18 Vaishno Devi Temple
Kashmir 32 Mahabodhi Temple Bodh Gaya, Bihar
19 Amarnath Cave Temple Jammu and Kashmir 33 Kamakhya Temple Guwahati, Assam
20 Badrinath Temple Chamoli, Uttarakhand 34 Iskcon Temple Vrindavan, Uttar Pradesh
21 Yamunotri Temple Uttarkashi, Uttarakhand 35 Mukteshwara Temple Bhubaneswar, Odisha
22 Gangotri Temple Uttarkashi, Uttarakhand Neelkanth Mahadev Pauri Garhwal,
36
Garhwal area, Temple Uttarakhand
23 Kedarnath Temple
Uttarakhand 37 Akshardham Temple Delhi
24 Konark Sun Temple Konark, Odisha Shri Digambar Jain Lal
38 Delhi
25 Jagannath Temple Puri, Odisha Mandir
26 Lingaraja Temple Bhubaneswar, Odisha Shravanabelagola,
39 Gomateshwara Temple
27 Golden Temple Amritsar, Punjab Karnataka
28 Ranakpur Jain Temple Pali, Rajasthan Tirumala, Andhra
40 Tirupati Balaji Temple
Pradesh

1.16. Famous Tombs or Mausoleum in India

No. Name Location No. Name Location

1 Humayun’s Tomb Delhi 16 Gumbaz Srirangapatna, Karnataka
2 Akbar’s Tomb Agra, Uttar Pradesh 17 Ahmed Shah’s Tomb Ahmedabad, Gujarat
3 Tomb of Adham Khan Mehrauli, Delhi 18 Hazira Maqbara Vadodara, Gujarat
4 Gol Gumbaz Bijapur, Karnataka 19 Tomb of Tansen Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh
5 Mahabat Maqbara Junagadh, Gujarat 20 Lal Khan Tomb Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh
6 Bibi ka Maqbara Aurangabad, Maharashtra Tomb of Ibrahim Khan
21 Mahendragarh, Haryana
7 Qutb Shahi Tombs Hyderabad, Telangana Sur
8 Tomb of Safdar Jung Delhi 22 Lodi Gardens Tomb New Delhi
9 Sheikh Chilli’s Tomb Kurukshetra, Haryana Tombs of Battashewala
23 Delhi
Tomb of Mariam uz Complex
10 Sikandra, Uttar Pradesh
Zamani 24 Gulab Bari Faizabad, UP
11 Sher Shah’s Tomb Sasaram, Bihar 25 Chor Gumbad Mahendragarh, Haryana
12 Isa Khans Tomb Delhi Tomb of I’timad ud
26 Agra, UP
Alluri Sitarama Raju Vishakhapatnam, Andhra Daulah
13
Tomb Pradesh 27 Eklakhi Mausoleum Malda, West Bengal
14 Tomb of Sher Afghan West Bengal Kotla Mubarakpur
28 Delhi
15 Taj Mahal Agra, Uttar Pradesh Complex

1.17. Nuclear Powerplants of India

Department of Atomic Energy

R&D Organizations Public Sector Undertakings Industrial Facilities Aided Institutions
BARC Mumbai HWB Mumbai TIFR Mumbai
IGCAR Karpakkam NPCIL Mumbai NFC Hyderabad TMC Mumbai
RRCAT Indore IREL Mumbai BRIT Mumbai SINP Kolkata
VECC Kolkata UCIL Jaduguda IoP Bhubaneswar
AMD Hyderabad ECIL Hyderabad HRI Allahabad
GCNEP Jassour BHAVINI Kalpakkam NISER Bhubaneshwar
Khairi IMSc Chennai
IPR Ahmedabad
AEES Mumbai
HBNI Mumbai

❖ R&D Organisations ❖ The Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) is India's

➢ BARC - Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai premier nuclear research facility, headquartered in Trombay,
Mumbai, Maharashtra. Founded by Homi Jehangir Bhabha

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Atomic Energy Establishment, Trombay (AEET) in January ❖ The Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited
1954 as a multidisciplinary research program essential for (NPCIL) is an Indian public sector undertaking based
India's nuclear program. It operates under the Department in Mumbai, Maharashtra. It is wholly owned by the
of Atomic Energy (DAE), which is directly overseen by the Government of India and is responsible for the
Prime Minister of India. In 1966 after the death of Mr generation of electricity from nuclear power. NPCIL is
Bhabha, AEET was renamed as Bhabha Atomic Research administered by the Department of Atomic Energy
Centre (BARC). (DAE).
➢ IGCAR – Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research, ➢ BHAVINI – The Bharatiya Nabhikiya Vidyut Nigam
Kalpakkam Limited, Chennai
❖ Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research (IGCAR) is ➢ ECIL – Electronics Corporation of India Limited,
one of India's premier nuclear research centres. It is the Hyderabad
second-largest establishment of the Department of ➢ IREL – Indian Rare Earths Limited, Mumbai
Atomic Energy (DAE), next to Bhabha Atomic ➢ UCIL – Uranium Corporation of India, Singhbhum,
Research Centre (BARC), located at Kalpakkam, 80 km Jharkhand
south of Chennai, India.[1] It was established in 1971 as ❖ Industrial Facilities
an exclusive center dedicated to the pursuit of fast ➢ HWB – Heavy Water Board, Mumbai
reactor science and technology, due to the vision of Dr ➢ NFC – Nuclear Fuel Complex, Hyderabad
Vikram Sarabhai.[2] Originally, it was called as Reactor ➢ BRIT – Board of Radiation and Isotope Technology,
Research Centre (RRC). It was renamed as Indira Mumbai
Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research (IGCAR) by the ❖ Aided Institutions
then Prime Minister of India, Rajiv Gandhi in ➢ TIFR – Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai
December 1985. ➢ TMC – Tata Memorial Center, Mumbai
➢ RRCAT – Raja Ramanna Centre for Advanced ➢ SINP – Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata
Technology, Indore ➢ IoP – Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar
➢ VECC – Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Kolkata ➢ HRI – Harish – Chandra Research Institute, Prayagraj
➢ AMD – Atomic Minerals Directorate for Exploration ➢ NSIR – National Institute of Science Education and
and Research, Hyderabad Research
➢ GCNEP – Global Centre for Nuclear Energy ➢ IMSc – Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai
Partnership, Bahadurgarh, Haryana ➢ IPR – Institute of Plasma Research, Ahmedabad
❖ Public Sector Undertakings (PSUs) ➢ AEES – Atomic Energy Education Society, Mumbai
➢ NPCIL – Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited, ➢ HBNI – Homi Bhabha National Institute, Mumbai
Mumbai

1.18. List of Research & Educational Institutes in India

No. Research Institute Name Location No. Research Institute Name Location
1 Indian Agricultural Research New Delhi 12 Central Road Research New Delhi
Institute Institute
2 Central Sugarcane Research Coimbatore 13 Central Leather Research Chennai, Tamil Nadu
Institute Institute
3 Central Forest Research Dehradun, 14 Central Drug Research Lucknow, Uttar
Institute Uttarakhand Institute Pradesh
4 Indian Cancer Research Mumbai 15 National Institute of Virology Pune, Maharashtra
Institute 16 Central Building Research Roorkee, Uttarakhand
5 Indian Institute of Petroleum Dehradun Institute
6 Indian Meteorological New Delhi 17 Central Mining Research Dhanbad, Jharkhand
Observatory Institute
7 Indian Veterinary Research Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh 18 Central Electro-chemical Karaikudi, Tamil Nadu
Institute Research Institute
8 Central Rice Research Cuttack, Odisha 19 Central Coconut Research Chowki, Kerala
Institute Institute
9 Central Potato Research Shimla, Himachal 20 National Institute of Hyderabad, Telangana
Institute Pradesh Nutrition
10 Central Fuel Research Dhanbad, Jharkhand 21 National Tuberculosis Bengaluru, Karnataka
Institute Institute
11 National Sugar Research Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh 22 National Dairy Research Karnal, Haryana
Institute Institute

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No. Research Institute Name Location No. Research Institute Name Location
23 National Botanical Research Lucknow, Uttar 37 Indian Space Research Bangalore, Karnataka
Institute Pradesh Organization (ISRO)
24 Archaeological Survey of New Delhi 38 Indira Gandhi Centre for Tamil Nadu
India Atomic Research
25 Textile Research Institute Ahmadabad, Gujarat 39 Institute of Plasma Research Gujarat
26 All India Malaria Research New Delhi 40 National Botanical Research Uttar Pradesh
Institute Institute
27 Central Leprosy Training and Tamil Nadu 41 National Council for Cement Hyderabad, Telangana
Research Institute and Building Materials
28 National Institute of Goa 42 National Metallurgical Jharkhand
Oceanography Laboratory
29 Central Glass and Ceramic West Bengal 43 National Tuberculosis Karnataka
Research Institute Institute
30 Central Scientific Instruments Chandigarh 44 Seismic Research Centre Karnataka
Organization 45 Wool Research Association Maharashtra
31 National Geophysical Hyderabad, Telangana 46 Structural Engineering Tamil Nadu
Research Institute Research Centre
32 National Aeronautical Bengaluru, Karnataka 47 National Institute of Gujarat
Laboratory Occupational Health
33 Vallabhai Patel Chest New Delhi 48 National Environmental Maharashtra
Institute Engineering Research
34 High Altitude Research Jammu and Kashmir Institute
Laboratory 49 National Institute of New Delhi
35 Central Marine Research Tamil Nadu Communicable Diseases
Station 50 Uranium Corporation of Jharkhand
36 Council of Scientific and New Delhi India
Industrial Research

1.19. List of High Courts in India and its Location

High Court Territorial Jurisdiction Bench Chief Justice

1 Madras Tamil Nadu Pondicherry Madurai Munishwar Nath Bhandari
Maharashtra, Goa, Daman & Diu Aurangabad, Nagpur,
2 Bombay Dipankar Datta
Dadra& Nagar Haveli Panaji
West Bengal Andaman & Nicobar
3 Kolkata Port Blair, Jalpaiguri Prakash Shrivastava
Islands
4 Allahabad Uttar Pradesh Lucknow Rajesh Bindal
5 Patna Bihar Patna Sanjay Karol
6 Karnataka Karnataka Dharwad, Kalaburagi Alok Aradhe [acting]
7 Odisha Odisha Cuttack S. Muralidhar
8 Jammu & Kashmir Jammu & Kashmir Srinagar Pankaj Mithal
Assam Nagaland Mizoram Arunachal
9 Guwahati Aizawl, Itanagar, Kohima Rashmin Manharbhai Chhaya
Pradesh
10 Kerala Kerala Lakshadweep Ernakulam S. Manikumar
11 Andhra Pradesh Andhra Pradesh Amaravati Prashant Kumar Mishra
Manindra Mohan Shrivastava
12 Rajasthan Rajasthan Jaipur
[acting]
13 Gujarat Gujarat Karnavati (Ahmedabad) Aravind Kumar
14 Madhya Pradesh Madhya Pradesh Gwalior and Indore Ravi Malimath
15 Delhi Delhi Delhi Satish Chandra Sharma
16 Uttarakhand Uttarakhand Nainital Vipin Sanghi
17 Sikkim Sikkim Gangtok Biswanath Somadder
18 Chattisgarh Chattisgarh Bilaspur Arup Kumar Goswami
19 Jharkhand Jharkhand Ranchi Ravi Ranjan
20 Tripura Tripura Agartala Indrajit Mahanty
21 Meghalaya Meghalaya Shillong Sanjib Banerjee
22 Manipur Manipur Imphal P. V. Sanjay Kumar
23 Telangana Telangana Hyderabad Ujjal Bhuyan
24 Punjab & Haryana Punjab, Haryana and Chandigarh Chandigarh Ravi Shankar Jha
25 Himachal Pradesh Himachal Pradesh Shimla Amjad Ahtesham Sayed

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1.20. Important Indian Cities Located in River Banks

State City River State City River

Rajahmundry Godavari Mahad Savitri
Vijayawada Krishna Rourkela Brahmani
Kurnool Tungabadra Sambalpur Mahanadi
Andhra Pradesh
Nellore Pennar Cuttack Mahanadi
Odisha
Srikakulam Nagavali Banki Mahanadi
Amaravati Krishna Brahmapur Rushikulya
Dibrugarh Brahmaputra Chhatrapur Rushikulya
Assam
Guwahati Brahmaputra Punjab Ferozpur Sutlej
Bhagalpur Ganges Rajasthan Kota Chambal
Patna Ganges Hyderabad Musi
Telangana
Falgu Nizamabad Godavari
Gaya
(Neeranjana) Chennai Cooum, Adyar
Bihar
Hajipur Ganges Coimbatore Noyyal
Munger Ganges Madurai Vaigai
Jamalpur Ganges Thirichirapalli Kaveri
Purnia Koshi Tamil Nadu Erode Kaveri
Delhi New Delhi Yamuna Tirunelveli Thamirabarani
Daman Ganga Kanchipuram Vegavathi, Palar
Daman Daman
River Vennaru,
Thanjavur
Surat Tapti Vadavaaru
Karnavati Ganges,Yamuna,
Sabarmati Prayag (Allahabad)
Gujarat (Ahmedabad) Saraswati
Bharuch Narmada Agra Yamuna
Vadodara Vishwamitri Kanpur Ganges
Jammu and Ayodhya Saryu
Srinagar Jhelum
Kashmir Varanasi Ganges
Netravati, Jaunpur Gomti
Mangalore
Gurupara Etawah Yamuna
Hospet Tungabhadra Mathura Yamuna
Shimoga Tunga River Auraiya Yamuna
Karnataka Karwar Kali Uttar Pradesh
Kannauj Ganges
Bhadravati Bhadra Farrukhabad Ganges
Bagalkot Ghataprabha Fatehgarh Ganges
Bangalore Vrishabhavathi Gorakhpur Rapti
Honnavar Sharavathi Shuklaganj Ganges
Ujjain Shipra Lucknow Gomti
Gwalior Chambal Kanpur Cantonment Ganges
Madhya Pradesh
Jabalpur Narmada Chakeri Ganges
Ashta Parwati Mirzapur Ganges
Karjat Ulhas Budaun Sot
Maharashtra Pune Mula, Mutha Murshidabad Hooghly
Malegaon Girna River Uttarakhand Haridwar Ganges
Karad Krishna, Koyna Badrinath Alaknanda
Nashik Godavari West Bengal Kolkatta Hooghly
Nanded Godavari Sikkim Rangpo Teesta
Sangli Krishna

1.21. List of Important Dams, Reservoirs and Rivers in India

Highest Dam in India: Tehri Dam (Uttarakhand) State Dams/ Reservoir River
Longest Dam in India: Hirakud Dam (Odisha) Somasila Dam Penna
Oldest Dam in India: Kallanai Dam (Tamil Nadu) Nizamsagar Dam Manjira
Srisailam Krishna
State Dams/ Reservoir River Kalyani Dam Swarnamukhi
Andhra Pradesh Nagarjunasagar Krishna Veligallu Dam Papagni
Dam Ramagundam Godavari

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State Dams/ Reservoir River State Dams/ Reservoir River
Singur dam Manjira Hemavathi Hemavathi
Jalaput Dam Godavari Hidkal Ghataprabha
Tatipudi Gosthani Malaprabha Malaprabha
Reservoir Linganamakki Sharavathi
Gandipalem Pillaperu Supa Kalinadi (Kali)
Reservoir River
Gandikota Penna Tunga Bhadra Thunga Bhadra
Reservoir Kadra Kalinadi
Arunachal Dibang Dibang Krishnaraja Sagar Kaveri
Pradesh Ranganadi Ranganadi Basava Sagar Krishna
Bihar Nagi Dam Nagi River Dam
Chhattisgarh Dudhawa dam Mahanadi (Narayanpur)
Minimata Bango Hasdeo Kodasalli Dam Kali
(Hasdeo) Ghataprabha Ghataprabha
Gangreal Dam Mahanadi Reservoir
(R.S. Sagar) Hemavathi Hemavathi
Kutaghat Kharang Reservoir
Gujarat Sardar Sarovar Narmada Kerala Malampuzha Malampuzha
Dam Idukki Arch Dam Periyar
Ukai Dam Tapi Kulamavu Kaliyar
Dantiwada West Banas Cheruthoni Periyar river
Kandana Mahi Idamalayar Edamalayar/
Kamleshwar Hiran Periyar
Dharoi Sabarmathi Kakki Kakki
Dholidhaja Bhogavo Mullaiperiyar Periyar
Karjan dam Karjan Neyyar Dam Neyyar
Himachal Chamera Dam Ravi Parambikulam Parambikulam
Pradesh Maharana Pratap Beas Banasura Sagar Kabini
Sagar Dam Walayar Walayar
Pandoh Dam Beas Ladakh Dumkar Indus
Bhakra Nangal Sutlej Hydroelectric
Dam Dam
NathpaJakhri Sutlej Madhya Pradesh Bargi Narmada
Dam Bansagar Son
Koldam Sutlej Indira Sagar Dam Narmada
Gandhi Sagar Dam Chambal
Kishau Tons
Madikheda Dam Sindh River
Pong Dam Beas
Omkareshwar Narmada
Gobind Sagar Sutlej
Tawa Tawa
Reservoir
Rajghat Betwa
Maharana Pratap Pong Dam Lake
Sagar Reservoir Maharashtra Koyna Koyna
Jammu and Salal Dam Chenab Bhatsa Bhatsa & Chorna
Kashmir River
Uri Dam Jhelum
Isapur Dam Penganga
Baglihar Dam Chenab
Jayakwadi Godavari
Cholal Dam Cholal Choe
(Paithan)
Chutak Suru
Totladoh Pench
Hydroelectric
Plant Warna Warna
Nimoo Bazgo Indus Ujjani (Bhima) Bhima
Hydroelectric Yeldari Purna
Plant Mulshi Mula
Jharkhand Konar Dam Konar Panshet Ambi
Tenughat Damodar Girna Girna and
Maithon Barakar Godavari River
Panchet Damodar Radhanagiri Bhogawati
Chandil Subarnarekha Khadakwasla Mutha
Karnataka Lakhya Lakya Vaitarna Vaitarna
Almatti Krishna Odisha Indravati Indravati
Bhadra Bhadra Mandira Sankh
Hirakud Mahanadi

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State Dams/ Reservoir River State Dams/ Reservoir River
Muran Muran Shoolagiri Chinnar
Rengali Brahmni Chinnar
Kapur Kapur Reservoir
Upper Kolab Kolab Kullursandai Arjuna Nadi
Podagada Podagada Reservoir
Balimela Sileru Perunchani Paralayar
Reservoir Telangana Ramagundam Godavari
Punjab Siswan Dam Siswan Manair Manair
Ranjit Sagar Ranjit Sagar Dindi Reservoir Krishna
(Thein) Dam (Thein) NizamSagar Manjira
Bakhra Nangal Bakhra Nangal Singur Manjira
Dam Somasila Pennar
Damsal Dam Damsal SriramSagar Godavari
Rajasthan Jawahar Sagar Chambal Srisailam Krishna
Bisalpur Banas Uttar Pradesh Dhanraul Ghaghar
Jawai Jawai/ Luni Parichha Betwa
Mahai Bajaj Sagar Mahi Rihand Rihand
Dam Rajghat Betwa
Rana Pratap Chambal GovindBallabh Rihand
Sagar Dam Pant Sagar Dam
Tamilnadu Mettur Dam Cauveri Matatila Betwa
BhavaniSagar Bhavani Uttarakhand Tehri Bhagirathi
Kallanai Dam Kaveri Dhauliganga Dhauliganga
Lakhwar Yamuna
Aliyar Aliyar
Jamrani Gola
Amaravathi Amaravathi
Koteshwar Bhagirathi
Sholaiyar Sholaiyar
Ramganga Ramganga
Vaigai Vaigai
West Bengal Kangasabati Kangasabati,
Chittar Chittar
Kumari
Pechiparai Kodayar
Panchet Dam Damodar
Manimuthar Manimuthar
Durgapur Barrage Damodar
Farakka barrage Ganges

1.22. List of Important Festivals in India

State Festival State Festival

Sankranthi, Deepothsavam Tyagaraja Festival, Makara Sankranthi, Ugadi, Japan Habba,
Andhra Karnataka
Ugadi (New year), Rottela Panduga, Karaga, Kanakadasa Jayanthi.
Pradesh
Brahmotsavam Onam, Theyyam, Poorum, Nehru Trophy Boat
Kerala
Telangana Ugadi, Bathukamma, Kothakonda Jakara Race
Chhath, Sama Chakeva, Rajgir Dance festival, GudiPadva, Rishi Panchami, Ganesh
Bihar Maharashtra
Jivitputrika, Bihula, Madhushravani Chaturdi, Kala Ghoda Arts Festival
Haryana Surajkund Craft Mela, Baisakhi Festival Madhya Khajuraho Dance Festival, Malwa Utsav,
Bharat Rang Mahotsav, Qutub Festival, Pradesh Tansen Music Festival, Mandu Festival
Delhi
Sabrang Utsav, Siffcy, Jahan- e- Kusrau Rathyatra, Nuakhai, Dhanuyatra, Konark
Odisha
Bihu, Bohag Bihu, Kati Bihu (or Kangali Bihu) festival, International sand art festival.
Assam , Porag, Gaan- Ngai, Majuli festival, Dehing Punjab and Teej, Tikka, Holla Mohalla, Lohri, Guruprab,
Patkai Festival, Ambubasi festival. Haryana Baisakhi
Navaratri, Kite Festival, Modhera Dance Camel Festival, Baneshwar fair, Gangaru,
Gujarat
Festival, Saptak Music Festival, Holi Chaksu Fair, Teej, Pushkar Fair, Urs at Ajmer,
Rajasthan
Feast of Three Kings, Sunburn Festival, Desert festival, Mewar Festival, Gangaur
Goa Gokulastami, Feast of St Francis Xavier, Festival, Kolayat Fair
Fontainhas Festival of Art, Mando Festival Karachi Puja, Tripureshwari temple Festival,
Tripura
Himachal MinjarMela, Kullu Dussehra, Jwalamukhi Fair, Hornbill Festival, Lai Haraoba
Pradesh Losar Festival Pongal, Panguni Uthiram, Puthandu (Tamil
Accession Day, Sont, Galdan Namchot, Jeth Tamil Nādu new year), Thaipoosam, JanguraHabba,
Jammu and
Asthami, Mela at Hemis Gampa, Har Navami, VaikundaEkadasi
Kashmir
Chhari Festival, Tulip Festival

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State Festival ▪ East & West India : Bhogali Bihu, Wangala, Ka
Brahmotsav, Ram Navami, Ban Yatra, Sravana Pomblang Nongkrem, Nuakhai, Gudi Padwa, Nabanna
Uttar
Festival, Kans Ka Mela,Taj Mahotsav, Kumbh
Pradesh
Mela
Dushera, Gangasagar Mela, Poush Mela, Other festivals –
Ramakrishna Utsav, Vasant Panchami, Naba ▪ Tihar is one of the festivals of India that is dedicated to
West Bengal
Barsha, Nandikar National Theatre festival, certain animals, and things besides gods. They are
Kobita Utsav (Poetry festival) classified as a day for dogs (Kukur Tihar), a day for
Sikkim International Flower festival, Saga Dawa cows (Gai Tihar), etc.
Ladakh (UT) Sindhu Darshan Festival, Hemis Festival
▪ Snake Boat Races are held in Kerala and several dozens
Nagaland Metemneo Festival, Hornbill
of men race on a boat in Kerala’s waterways and canals.
Chhattisgarh Bastar Dussehra
Manipur Kut festival, Orange festival, Sangai Festival
Arunachal
Losar Festival New Year Festival -
Pradesh
• Ugadi / Chaitra Suddha Padyami: Andhra Pradesh
Jharkhand Tusu festival
and Karnataka
Mizoram Chapchar Kut Festival, Zo Festival
• Gudi Padva: Maharashtra
Meghalaya Cherry Blossom Festival
• Samvastsar Padvo: Goa
List of (Season-specific) Harvest Festivals in India – • Naba Barsha: West Bengal
▪ North India : Makar Sankranti, Baisakhi, Ladakh • Puthando: Tamil Nadu
harvest festival, Lohri, Basant Panchami • Vishu: Kerala
▪ South India: Onam, Pongal, Ugadi, Vishu

1.23. List of Famous Indian Cities and their Nicknames

State City • Nickname State City • Nickname

Guntur • City of Chillies • Science City of India
Vijayawada • The Place of Victory • Garden city of India
• Spiritual Capital of Bengaluru • Silicon Valley of
Tirupati India
Andhra Pradesh
• The City of destiny • Space City
Andhra
• The Jewel of the East Coorg • Scotland of India
Pradesh Visakhapatnam
Coast • The heritage city of
• Goa of the East Mysore
Karnataka
• City of Kaja • City of Palaces
Kakinada
• Pensioners Paradise • Green City
Rajahmundry • Cultural city • Cashew Capital of
• Gateway to North- the World
Guwahati • Prince of Arabian
east India Kollam
Assam Sea
Tezpur • The city of Blood
Dibrugarh • Tea city of India • Gateway of
Kerala Backwater
• The land of
Nalanda • Queen of Arabian
Bihar Knowledge
Kochi Sea
Bhagalpur • Silk City of India
• Gateway to Kerala
Bhilai • Steel Capital of India
Chhattisgarh Kozhikode • City of Spices
Korba • Power Hub of India Thrissur • Gold capital of India
Chandigarh Chandigarh • Beautiful City Indore • Mini Mumbai
Delhi New Delhi • City of Rallies Madhya
Bhopal • City of Lakes
• Millennium City of Pradesh
Gurgaon Ujjain • City of Temples
India
• Financial Capital of
Haryana Bhiwani • Mini Cuba
India
• City of Weavers Mumbai
Panipat • City of Seven Islands
• City of Handloom • City of Dreams
Jammu and Kashmir • Switzerland of India Pune • Queen of Deccan
Kashmir Sri Nagar • City of Lakes Maharashtra
Nagpur • City of Oranges
Dhanbad • Coal Capital of India • Wine Capital of India
Jharkhand • Steel City Nasik • Grape City of India
Jamshedpur
• Pittsburgh of India • California of India
• Rome of the East Kolhapur • City of Wrestlers
Karnataka Mangalore • Cradle of Indian Meghalaya Shillong • Scotland of the East
Banking

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State City • Nickname State City • Nickname
Nagaland Zunheboto • Land of Warriors • Athens of the East
Rourkela • Steel city of Odisha • City of Festivals
Odisha Cuttack • Silver City Madurai • Temple city
Bhubaneswar • Temple City of India • Sleepless City
Pondicherry Pondicherry • Paris of the East • City of Four
Junctions
Ludhiana • Manchester of Punjab
Punjab Nilgiri • Blue Mountain
Patiala • Royal City
• City of Pearls
• Blue City
Jodhpur • HITECH City
• Sun City Hyderabad
• City of Nizams
• Pink City
• City of Briyani
Jaipur • Paris of India Telangana
• City of Lakes
Rajasthan • City of Palaces
• City of Temples
• Venice of the East Warangal
• Second City of
Udaipur • White city Nizam
• City of Lakes
• City of Taj
Jaisalmer • Golden City of India Agra
• Petha Nagri
• Diamond City of • Leather City of India
Surat India Kanpur • Manchester of North
• Textile City of India India
• Cultural City of India • City of Prime
• SayajiNagari Prayagraj
Gujarat Ministers
Vadodara • Banyan City (Allahabad) • Sangam city
• World capital of • Abode of the God
Garba
• The City of Light
Karnavati • Boston of India Uttar • Spiritual Capital of
(Ahmedabad) • Manchester of India Pradesh India
• Detroit of India Varanasi • Oldest Living city on
• Auto Hub of India Earth
Chennai • Health Capital of • Holy City
India • City of Learning
• Gateway of South • The Golden City of
India India
• Manchester of South • City of Nawabs
Lucknow
Coimbatore
India • Constantinople of the
• Textile City of India East
• Pump City • Shiraz-e Hind
• Queen of Hill • Yoga capital of the
Ooty Rishikesh
Stations world
Tamil Nadu • Princess of Hill Uttarakhand • Queen of the
Kodaikanal Mussoorie
stations Mountains
• Leather city of South Nainital •
Vaniyambadi City of Lakes
India • City of Joy
• City of Paddy Fields • Heaven of the Aged
• Oxford City of South Kolkatta
Tirunelveli • Gateway of Eastern
India India
• Halwa City of India • Land of Black
• Rock Fort City West Bengal Asansol
Diamonds
• Tucker Trichy Purulia • Manbhum City
Thiruchirappalli • Energy Equipment Malda • Mango City
and fabrication
Durgapur • Ruhr of India
capital of India
Darjeeling • Queen of Hills

1.24. Cropping Patterns and Major Crops in India

Two-thirds of India’s population is engaged in agricultural Major crops can be classified into-
activities. It is a primary activity, which produces food grains ▪ Food crops- Rice, Wheat, Millets, Maize, and Pulses.
and raw materials for industries. India is geographically a vast ▪ Cash crops- Sugarcane, Oilseeds, Horticulture crops,
country so it has various food and non-food crops which are Tea, Coffee, Rubber, Cotton, and Jute.
cultivated in three main cropping seasons which are rabi, Kharif,
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No Cropping Time Crops States ▪ Macro Management Mode of Agriculture, National
Season Period Food Security Mission, and Rashtriya Krishi Vikas
1 Rabi Sown: Wheat, Punjab, Yojana are a few government initiatives to support
October- barley, Haryana,
wheat cultivation.
December peas, gram, Himachal
Harvested: mustard, Pradesh,
Millets (Nutri-Cereals)
April-June etc. Jammu and
▪ Temperature: Between 27-32°C
Kashmir,
Uttarakhand,
▪ Rainfall: Around 50-100 cm.
and Uttar ▪ Soil Type: Can be grown in inferior alluvial or loamy
Pradesh soil because they are less sensitive to soil deficiencies.
2 Kharif Sown: Rice, maize, Assam, West Jowar- Rain-fed crop grown in moist areas
June-July jowar, Bengal, with less or no irrigation.
Harvested: bajra, tur, coastal Bajra- Sandy soils and shallow black soil.
September- moong, regions of Ragi- Red, black, sandy, loamy, and shallow
October urad, Odisha,
black soils. (dry regions)
cotton, jute, Andhra
groundnut, Pradesh, ▪ Top Millets Producing States: Rajasthan > Karnataka >
soybean, Telangana, Maharashtra > Madhya Pradesh > Uttar Pradesh
etc. Tamil Nadu, Jowar: Maharashtra > Karnataka > Madhya
Kerala, and Pradesh > Tamil Nadu > Andhra Pradesh.
Maharashtra Bajra: Rajasthan > Uttar Pradesh > Gujarat >
3 Zaid Sown and Seasonal Most of the Madhya Pradesh > Haryana.
harvested: fruits, northern and
▪ These are also known as coarse grains, which have high
March-July vegetables, northwestern
nutritional value. Ragi is very rich in iron, calcium,
(between fodder states
Rabi and crops, etc. other micronutrients , and roughage.
Kharif) ▪ Jowar is the third most important food crop with respect
Major Food Crops to area and production.
Rice ▪ National Agricultural Insurance Scheme and Initiative
▪ Temperature: Between 22-32°C with high humidity. for Nutritional Security through Intensive Millets
▪ Rainfall: Around 150-300 cm. Promotion are examples of the government’s efforts to
▪ Soil Type: Deep clayey and loamy soil. support millet production.
▪ Top Rice Producing States: West Bengal > Punjab >
Uttar Pradesh > Andhra Pradesh > Bihar. Maize
▪ It is the staple food crop of the majority of Indian ▪ Temperature: Between 21-27°C
people. ▪ Rainfall: High rainfall.
▪ India is the second-largest producer of rice in the world ▪ Soil Type: Old alluvial soil.
after China. ▪ Top Maize Producing States: Karnataka > Maharashtra
▪ In states like Assam, West Bengal, and Odisha, three > Madhya Pradesh > Tamil Nadu > Telangana
crops of paddy are grown in a year. These are Aus, ▪ India is the seventh-largest producer worldwide.
Aman, and Boro. ▪ It is used both as food and fodder.
▪ National Food Security Mission, Hybrid Rice Seed ▪ The use of modern inputs such as High-Yielding Variety
Production, and Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojana are a few seeds, fertilizers, and irrigation have contributed to
government initiatives to support rice cultivation. the increasing production of maize.
▪ Technology Mission on Maize is one of the
Wheat government’s initiatives for mazie.
▪ Temperature: Between 10-15°C (Sowing time) and 21-
26°C (Ripening & Harvesting) with bright sunlight. Pulses
▪ Rainfall: Around 75-100 cm. ▪ Temperature: Between 20-27°C
▪ Soil Type: Well-drained fertile loamy and clayey loamy ▪ Rainfall: Around 25-60 cm.
(Ganga-Satluj plains and black soil region of the Deccan) ▪ Soil Type: Sandy-loamy soil.
▪ Top Wheat Producing States: Uttar Pradesh > Punjab > ▪ Top Pulses Producing States: Madhya Pradesh >
Madhya Pradesh > Haryana > Rajasthan. Rajasthan > Maharashtra > Uttar Pradesh > Karnataka.
▪ India is the second-largest producer after China. ▪ India is the largest producer as well as the consumer of
▪ This is the second most important cereal crop and the pulses in the world.
main food crop, in the north and north-western India. ▪ These are the major source of protein in a vegetarian
▪ The success of the Green Revolution contributed to the diet.
growth of Rabi crops, especially wheat.

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▪ Major pulses grown in India are tur (arhar), urad, o Horticulture is the branch of
moong, masur, peas and gram. agriculture concerned with the cultivation,
▪ Being leguminous crops, all these crops except arhar production, and sale of fruits, vegetables,
help in restoring soil fertility by fixing nitrogen from the flowers, herbs, and ornamental or exotic
air. Therefore, these are mostly grown in rotation with plants.
other crops.
▪ National Food Security Mission for Pulses, Pulses Fruits States
Development Scheme, and Technological Mission on Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh,
Pulses are a few of the government’s plans to support Mangoes Telangana, Uttar Pradesh, and West
Bengal
pulses production.
Oranges Nagpur and Cherrapunjee (Meghalaya)
Major Cash Crops Kerala, Mizoram, Maharashtra, and
Bananas
Sugarcane Tamil Nadu
▪ Temperature: Between 21-27°C with a hot and humid Litchi and Guava Uttar Pradesh and Bihar
climate. Pineapples Meghalaya
▪ Rainfall: Around 75-100 cm. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, and
▪ Soil Type: Deep rich loamy soil. Grapes
Maharashtra
▪ Top Sugarcane Producing States: Uttar Pradesh > Apples, Pears,
Jammu and Kashmir and Himachal
Maharashtra > Karnataka > Tamil Nadu > Bihar. Apricots, and
Pradesh
▪ India is the second-largest producer of sugarcane after Walnuts
Brazil. ▪ India is the second-largest producer of fruits and
▪ It can be grown on a variety of soils ranging from sandy vegetables and it produces both tropical and temperate
loam to clay loam given these soils should be well- fruits.
drained. ▪ India produces about 13 percent of the world’s
▪ It needs manual labour from sowing to harvesting. vegetables. It is an important producer of peas,
cauliflower, onions, cabbage, tomato, brinjal, and
▪ It is the main source of sugar, gur (jaggery), khandsari,
potato.
and molasses.
▪ Scheme for Extending Financial Assistance to Sugar ▪ Golden Revolution, Mission for Integrated
Development of Horticulture (MIDH) and Coordinated
Undertakings (SEFASU) and National Policy on
Horticulture Assessment and Management using geo-
Biofuels are two of the government initiatives to
informatics (Project CHAMAN) are government
support sugarcane production and the sugar industry.
initiatives to help the horticulture sector.
Oil Seeds
▪ Temperature: Between 15-30°C Plantation Crops
Tea
▪ Rainfall: Around 30-75 cm.
▪ Temperature: Between 20-30°C
▪ Soil Type: Loam to clayey loam and well-drained sandy
▪ Rainfall: Around 150-300 cm.
loams.
▪ Soil Type: Deep and fertile well-drained soil, rich in
▪ Top Oilseeds Producing States: Madhya Pradesh >
humus and organic matter.
Rajasthan > Gujarat > Maharashtra > Uttar Pradesh.
▪ Top Tea Producing States: Assam > West Bengal >
▪ The main oil seeds produced in India are groundnut,
Tamil Nadu.
mustard, coconut, sesamum (til), soybean, castor seeds,
▪ India is the second-largest producer of tea.
cotton seeds, linseed, and sunflower.
▪ It was introduced on the eastern hill slopes of India by
▪ Most of these are edible and used as cooking mediums.
the British.
However, some of these are also used as raw materials
▪ Slopes of eastern hills have humid climate and evenly
in the production of soap, cosmetics, and ointments.
distributed rainfall without water logging which are
▪ Yellow Revolution and Integrated Scheme on Oilseeds,
optimal conditions for terrace farming of tea.
Pulses, Oil Palm, and Maize (ISOPOM) are examples of
▪ Tea is a labour-intensive industry. It requires abundant,
government initiatives for oilseeds.
cheap, and skilled labour. Tea is processed within the
▪ Groundnut is a Kharif crop and accounts for about half
tea garden to retain its freshness.
of the major oilseeds produced in the country.
▪ Tea Development and Promotion Scheme, Wage
▪ Linseed and mustard are rabi crops.
Compensation Scheme, and Tea Boutiques are a few of
▪ Sesamum is a Kharif crop in the north and a rabi crop in
the government schemes for tea.
south India.
▪ Castor seed is grown both as rabi and Kharif crop. Coffee
▪ Horticulture Crops ▪ Temperature: Between 15-28°C

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▪ Rainfall: Around 150-250 cm. ▪ India is the largest producer of jute.
▪ Soil Type: Well-drained, deep friable loamy soil. ▪ It is known as golden fiber.
▪ Top Coffee Producing States: Karnataka > Kerala > Tamil ▪ It is used in making gunny bags, mats, ropes, yarn, carpets,
Nadu. and other artifacts.
▪ India is the seventh-largest producer. ▪ Due to its high cost, it is losing the market to synthetic fibers
▪ Coffee was initially brought from Yemen and introduced to and packing materials, particularly nylon.
the Baba Budan Hills. ▪ Golden Fibre Revolution and Technology Mission on Jute
▪ Hills with a well-defined shade canopy, comprising and Mesta are two of the government initiatives to boost jute
evergreen leguminous trees provide the optimal condition production in India.
for coffee cultivation which is why it is mainly concentrated
in the hilly regions. Changing Cropping Patterns of India
▪ Indian variety of coffee ‘Arabica’ is famous worldwide.
▪ A cropping pattern is a dynamic concept because it changes
over space and time. It can be defined as the proportion of
▪ Various Integrated Coffee Development Projects and
area under various crops at a point in time. Sometimes
schemes have been launched by the government to support
several crops are cultivated in combinations and rotations
coffee production.
over a period.
Rubber ▪ In India, the cropping pattern is determined by rainfall,
▪ Temperature: Above 25°C with a moist and humid climate. climate, temperature, soil type, technology, and socio-
▪ Rainfall: More than 200 cm. economic conditions of the farmers.
▪ Soil Type: Rich well-drained alluvial soil. ▪ These changes in the cropping pattern mainly occurred due
▪ Top Rubber Producing States: Kerala > Tamil Nadu > to an increase in the prices of crops. After independence, a
Karnataka. lot of changes had been recorded in the cropping pattern in
▪ It is an equatorial crop, but under special conditions, it India.
is also grown in tropical and sub-tropical areas. ▪ Green Revolution also led to changes in the cropping
▪ Rubber is an important industrial raw material. patterns. Rice was introduced to Punjab, Haryana, and Uttar
▪ Rubber Plantation Development Scheme and Rubber Group Pradesh.
Planting Scheme are examples of government-led initiatives ▪ Cultivation of food crops has become very remunerative and
for rubber. productive due to the introduction of new technologies in
Indian agriculture.
Fibre Crops ▪ Farmers are more intensively moving towards the
Cotton cultivation of cash/commercial crops such as oilseeds, fruits,
▪ Temperature: Between 21-30°C vegetables, spices, etc. from the traditional non-cash/non-
▪ Rainfall: Around 50-100cm. commercial crops such as cereals and pulses.
▪ Soil Type: Well-drained black cotton soil of Deccan Plateau. ▪ Farmers have changed their crop patterns to reap the
▪ Top Cotton Producing States: Gujarat > Maharashtra > benefits of economic expansion as well.
Telangana > Andhra Pradesh > Rajasthan. ▪ Climate change has affected the Indian monsoon due to
▪ India is believed to be the original home of the cotton which cropping patterns are also changing.
plant. Cotton is one of the main raw materials for the cotton ▪ Population explosion and urbanization have led to land
textile industry. conversion, boosting intensive farming, and have brought
▪ Cotton needs 210 frost-free days and bright sunshine for its changes in cropping patterns.
growth. ▪ At the beginning of the present century, nearly 83 percent of
▪ It is a Kharif crop and requires 6 to 8 months to mature. the total cultivable land of India was put under food
▪ Silver Fibre Revolution and Technology Mission on crops and the remaining 17 percent was put under non-food
Cotton are the government initiatives for increasing cotton crops. But in 1944-45, there was a change in the cropping
production in India. pattern in India, and the area under food crops came down
▪ Cotton has been genetically modified into BT Cotton to fight to 80 percent and the area under non-food crops
environmental stress and pest attacks. slightly increased to 20 percent.
▪ Among all the food crops, the largest increase in the
Jute
area since 1950- 51 has already been recorded by wheat
▪ Temperature: Between 25-35°C
cultivation which shows an increase of 132 percent by 1987-
▪ Rainfall: Around 150-250 cm
88. But in the case of both rice and pulses, the increase in the
▪ Soil Type: Well-drained alluvial soil
area has been restricted to only 23 percent; Coarse
▪ Top Jute Producing States: West Bengal > Bihar > Assam >
cereals have recorded an only a marginal increase of 11
Andhra Pradesh > Odisha.
percent by 1987-88.
▪ It is mainly concentrated in eastern India because of the rich
alluvial soil of the Ganga-Brahmaputra delta.

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1.25. Mineral Distribution in India

India is richly endowed with mineral resources. Explorations • Stretch around the states of Jharkhand, Odisha,
have found over 20,000 known mineral deposits and Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, and Andhra Pradesh.
recoverable reserves of more than 60 minerals.
11 states account for 90 % of the total number of operational 5. The Western Belt
mines (Andhra Pradesh, Orrisa, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, West • Constitutes non-ferrous metals
Bengal, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh,
Rajasthan, and Karnataka). • Spreads around the states of Maharashtra )oil
Mineral Belts in India resources and granaries near Mumbai coast), Gujarat
Overall, India is home to the following mineral reserves: and Rajasthan (sandstone, marble, granite, fullers,
• Metallic and non-metallic minerals: iron, chromite, gypsum, etc)
copper, mica, and manganese. • Both Gujarat and Rajasthan are rich in salt
• Energy reserves: coal, petroleum, thorium, and production.
uranium.
6. The South-western Belt
• Contains rich deposits of iron ore
• Located in the states of Goa (iron ore deposits), Kerala
(thorium, Mozart, and bauxite clay), and Karnataka.

Coal Industries in India

• Over 97% of the coal reserves surface along the river
basins of Godavari, Mahanadi, Son, and Damodar.
• Significant coal mining centers in India are Madhya
Pradesh (Singhrauli), Raniganj, Jharia, and Bokaro.
• Singareni collieries are the largest coal-producing firm
in India.

Coking Coal
Metallurgical coal or coking coal is a grade of coal that can be
used to produce good-quality coke. Coke is an essential fuel
and reactant in the blast furnace process for primary steel
making. The demand for metallurgical coal is highly coupled
with the steel demand. Primary steelmaking companies often
have a division that produces coal for coking, to ensure a stable
and low-cost supply.

1. Chota Nagpur Belt (Northeastern Plateau region)

• Kyanite reserves (100%)
• Iron ore (93%)
• Coal (84%)
• Chromite (70%)

2. The Himalayan Belt

• Generally poor in metallic minerals

3. The Indian Ocean

• Presence of Mineral oil and Natural gas in the
Arabian Sea and Bay of Bengal
• Contains poly-metallic nodules (around 4000 m deep
under the ocean)
• Comprises minerals like Phosphate, Manganese,
Barium, Silicon, Iron Aluminium, etc.

4. The Midland Belt

• Rich in Manganese, Bauxite, Copper, Graphite, Mica, Coking coal is required for the following reasons:
Lignite, marble, and Limestone. • To remove the oxide part from iron ore.

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• For the above process, blend the iron ore with carbon • Also found in basins of rivers Godavari, Krishna, and
dioxide. Kaveri
• For this reason, coking coal comprises a high carbon • There are 22 petroleum refineries in India.
density as compared to lignite. • Other major locations of petroleum deposits include
• This variety of coal is suitable for heating. the KG basin, Saurashtra shelf, Brahmaputra shelf,
and Bengal Bangladesh shelf.
Iron • Out of the 22 refineries, 17 are owned by the public
There are four types of iron ore:
sector.
1. Manganite: used in electronic industries (around 70%
of iron))
2. Hematite: India is the second-largest (after Russia)
producer of this ore
3. Limonite: Used in paint manufacturing industries
(around 50% of iron)
4. Siderite: Contains a mix of magnesium and
manganese

Natural Gas
• Exercises a wide usage in petrochemical industries as
a natural and compressed raw material.
• An environment-friendly resource with low trances of
carbon dioxide.
Iron Industries in India • Generally found around the Godavari-Krishna basin.
• Most of the iron reserves are found in the states of • A cross-country gas pipeline of around 1700 km runs
Maharashtra (Ratnagiri), Jharkhand (Harizabag and between Mumbai High and Bassein in the west and
Singbum), Chhattisgarh (Bailadila), Odisha, Goa, north India respectively.
Karnataka (Bellary and Chitradurga), Andhra
Pradesh, Telangana, and Tamil Nadu.
• Kudremukh mines (one of the largest worldwide) in
the Western Ghats export iron res to foreign nations.

Steel Industries in India

• Jharkhand → Jamshedpur (TISCO), Bokaro
• West Bengal → Durgapur, Burnpur
• Odisha → Rourkela
• Chhattisgarh → Bhilai
• Andhra Pradesh → Visakhapatnam
• Karnataka → Vishveshwarya
• Tamil Nadu → Salem

Petroleum • In 1984, The Gas Authority of India was set up to

• Extracted from Sedimentary rocks. monitor the sources of natural gas in the country.
• Digboi in Assam is a major petroleum-producing unit • Ethane, methane, propane, butane, and hydrogen
in India. sulfide are the key gaseous contributors to natural
• Major fields in Ankleshwar, Gujarat, Navagam, Lunej, gas.
Kosaniba, etc. • Propane and Butane find wide usage in LPG (liquid
Petroleum Gas)

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• Tight gas sands are present deep within the • Biogas is elementally composed of human and animal
sedimentary rocks waste, shrubs, and farm waste.
• TAPI (Turkmenistan- Afghanistan- Pakistan-India) is • Gobar gas is a famous source of biogas in India.
a natural gas pipeline stretching across these four • Biogas is a rich source of natural manure.
countries. • Overall, a very efficient source of events for domestic
• IPI (Iran- Pakistan- India) is another natural gas and agricultural uses.
pipeline covering these three nations
• The government of India has proposed to install new
natural gas pipelines between Iran and India and Manganese
Russia, Central Asia, and India.
• Odisha features at the heart of Manganese production
in India (Bonai, Sundargarh, Gangpur, Korput).
• Other Manganese-producing states are Karnataka
(Dharwad, Bellari, North Canara, Chitradurga,
Tumkur, etc.), Jharkhand (Chaibasa), Madhya
Pradesh (Bala Ghat), and Maharashtra (Nagpur,
Ratnagiri, and Bandra).
• Use to manufacture steel and ferromanganese alloy.
• To produce 1 kg of steel, around 10kg of manganese
needs to be processed
• Manganese plants are generally located far from steel
plants, adding to their disadvantage.

Nuclear Energy Resources in India

• Sources such as uranium and thorium comprise this
category.
• Dhaiwarrocks, Singbhum, Alwar, Jhunjhuru,
Bhandara, Kullu, etc are some famous districts that
contain these nuclear energy sources.
• Tamil Nadu is the key source of thorium in the
country.

Copper
• Copper deposits are mostly in the states of Jharkhand,
Rajasthan (Jhunjhunu and Alwar districts), Andhra
Pradesh (in Guntur),
• Karnataka (in Chitradurga and Hasan) and Madhya
Pradesh (Balghat mines).
• Despite the above, India imports most of the premium
quality copper (such as ballerina copper) from
• The Atomic Energy Commission (1948) regulates the
abroad.
production of uranium and thorium in the country.
• One ton of copper requires a total of 1400 KW of
• The major nuclear power plants in India are located in
energy.
Narora (Uttar Pradesh), Kalpakkam (Tamil Nadu),
• Power plants located at Lonavala and Hyderabad
Kota (Rajasthan) Kakrapar (Gujarat), and Kaiga
recycle scrap copper
(Karnataka).
• The overall yield of copper is low in India
Biogas • Copper smelting leads to air pollution due to the
• Rural areas feature as key consumers of biogas in the release of sulfur dioxide gas.
country.
Copper Refineries in India

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1. Hindustan Copper → Khetri, Jhunjhunu district,
Rajasthan
2. BALCO → Korba, Chhattisgarh
3. Hindalco (Birla) → Dahej, Bharuch district of Gujarat
4. Sterlite Industries → Tuticorin, Tamil Nadu

Mica
• Odisha (Koradarma is the largest manganese
producer in the world)Extracted
• Andhra Pradesh produces a substantial amount of
Mica in India.
• The districts of Jaipur, Udaipur, and Bhilwara are
some Mica-producing regions in Rajasthan.
• Karnataka and Kerala and West Bengal also produce
Mica in large amounts.
• Mica has excellent insulating and resistant properties Aluminum Industries in India
against high voltage. • UP → Hindalco (Birla)
• It can be beaten or spread into thin sheets for further • Odisha → Hirakund (Birla), Jharsuguda (Vedanta)
use. • Chhattisgarh → Korba (Vedanta)
• In Jharkhand, the mica belt is about 150 km long and • BALCO → Ratnagiri, Maharashtra
22 km wide. • NALCO → Koratpur, Odisha
• It stretches around the Hazaribagh plateau. • MALCO → Mettur, TN
• In Rajasthan, the mica extends around Jaipur and
Udaipur. Lead and Zinc
• These ores are produced and refined through the
processes of smelting and electrolysis.
Bauxite • Ores are mixed with water, oil, and chemicals for
• The leading producer of bauxite minerals in India is processing.
Odisha (34.9% of the country’s total production).
• India doesn’t have sufficient lead and zinc ores and
• Other Bauxite producing states are Gujarat therefore most of these minerals in India are imported
(Bhavnagar and Jamnagar), Madhya Pradesh, and from other countries.
Jharkhand (Lohardaga)
• Some of the lead belts in India are in Jharkhand
• Usually found in places with laterite rocks in hills and (Toondoo) and Andhra Pradesh (Visakhapatnam).
plateaus.
• Some of the zinc belts in India are in Rajasthan
• Other important locations of rich bauxite deposits are (Debari and Chanderia) and Kerala.
Amarkantak plateau, Lohradaga, Katni-Jabalpur,
Kolaba, Thane, Ratnagiri, etc.
• It is useful to manufacture aluminum.
• Generally found where there is a rich concentration of
laterite rocks.

Aluminium-Bauxite Refining
• Aluminum is abundant on this planet while bauxite
can be extracted from specific remote locations.
• Primarily, bauxite is crushed and blended with
caustic soda to remove its impurities.
• Further, the above blend is left for drying to remove
moisture (alumina is obtained from this mixture).
• This process of conversion also leads to weight loss.
• This subsequently reduces the transportation cost of
the final product.

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 Static GK-2: GEOGRAPHY - List of International Food Festivals
1.26. List of International Food Festivals

No. Festival Name Celebrated in No. Festival Name Celebrated in

1 Orange Festival Poland 10 Alba White Truffle
Alba, Italy
2 International Mango Festival
New Delhi, India
Festival 11 Baltic Herring Festival Helsinki, Finland
3 Pancake Festival Moscow, Russia 12 Chocolate Festival London, UK
4 Marine Lobster Festival Rockland USA 13 Tomato Festival Spain
5 Mistura Food Festival Lima, Peru 14 Monkey Buffet Festival Lopburi Province, Thailand
6 Melbourne Food & Wine 15 Potato Festival Sweden
Melbourne, Australia
Festival 16 Onion Eating Festival Spain
7 San Francisco Street Food 17 Vegetarian Festival Thailand
San Francisco, Australia
Festival 18 Ivrea Orange Festival Ivrea, Italy
8 Oktoberfest Munich, Germany 19 Abergavenny Food
Wales, UK
9 Chinchilla Melon Festival
Australia
Festival (Watermelon) 20 Grape Throwing Festival Mallorca, Spain

1.27. Important Boundary Lines around the World

▪ Line of Control- It divides Kashmir between India and ▪ 20th Parallel North- Libya and Sudan
Pakistan ▪ 22nd Parallel North- Egypt, and Sudan
▪ Durand Line- Boundaries of Pakistan and Afghanistan ▪ 24th Parallel- India and Pakistan
▪ Hindenburg Line- Germany and Poland ▪ 25th Parallel North- Mauritania and Mali
▪ Marginal Line- Russia and Finland Border ▪ 26th Parallel North- Western Sahara and Mauritania
▪ Medicine Line- Canada and the United States (49 Parallel ▪ 31st Parallel North- Iraq, and Iran
North) ▪ 33rd Parallel North- North Africa and parts of the Middle
▪ McMahon Line- India and China East and China
▪ Order- Neisse Line- Poland and Germany ▪ 35th Parallel North- US- it serves as a border b/w
▪ Siegfried Line- Germany and France Tennessee/ Mississippi, Tennessee/ Alabama, Tennessee/
▪ Radcliffe Line- India and Pakistan Georgia, North Carolina/ Georgia
▪ Mannerheim Line- Russia and Finland ▪ 36th Parallel North- Southernmost Boundary of the state of
▪ Maginot Line- France and Germany Missouri with the state of Arkansas
▪ Curzon Line- Poland and Russia ▪ 37th Parallel North- Southern boundary of the historic and
▪ Mason–Dixon line: Maryland and Pennsylvania/Delaware extralegal Territory of Jefferson
in Colonial America ▪ 38th Parallel North- North Korea and South Korea
▪ Blue Line- Israel and Lebanon ▪ 40th Parallel North- US - it serves as a border b/w Nebraska
▪ Purple Line- Israel and Syria and Kansas
▪ Green Line- Israel and Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria (Israel ▪ 41st Parallel North- US- it forms the border b/w Wyoming /
neighbors) Utah border, Wyoming/ Colorado, Nebraska, and Colorado
▪ Line of Actual control- India, and China on the Northern ▪ 42nd Parallel North- US- it serves as a border of New York
Border and Pennsylvania
▪ Military Demarcation Line or Armistice Line- North Korea ▪ 43rd Parallel North- US- it serves as a border b/w State
and South Korea Nebraska and the State of South Dakota
▪ 16th parallel North- Angola and Namibia ▪ 45th Parallel North- US- it forms the boundary b/w
▪ 17th Parallel- North Vietnam and South Vietnam Montana and Wyoming

1.28. International Organizations, Head and Headquarters

No. Organization Name Headquarters Head

1 Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) Beijing, China Jin Liqun
2 Asian Development Bank (ADB) Manila, Philippines Masatsugu Asakawa
3 New Development Bank Shanghai, China Marcos Trojyo
4 World Bank Washington D.C, US David Malpass
5 International Monetary Fund (IMF) Washington D.C, US Kristalina Georgieva
6 United Nations Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) New York, US Catherine M. Russell
7 United Nations Organization (UN) New York, US Antonio Guterres
8 United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) New York, US Dr. Natalia Kanem

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No. Organization Name Headquarters Head
United Nations Conference on Trade & Development
9 Geneva, Switzerland Rebeca Grynspan
(UNCTAD)
10 World Health Organization (WHO) Geneva, Switzerland Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
11 World Economic Forum (WEF) Geneva, Switzerland Klaus Schwab
12 International Labour Organization (ILO) Geneva, Switzerland Guy Ryder
13 World Trade Organization Geneva, Switzerland Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
14 World Intellectual Property Organization Geneva, Switzerland Daren Tang
15 World Meteorological Organization Geneva, Switzerland Gerhard Adrian
United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural
16 Paris, France Audrey Azoulay
Organization (UNESCO)
17 International Committee of Red Cross Geneva, Switzerland Peter Maurer
United Nations Industrial Development Organization
18 Vienna, Austria Gerd Müller
(UNIDO)
Organization for Economic Cooperation & Development
19 Paris, France Mathias Cormann
(OECD)
20 Amnesty International London, UK Dr. Agnes Callamard
21 International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Vienna, Austria Rafael Mariano Grossi
22 Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) Vienna, Austria Haitham Al-Ghais
23 International Maritime Organization London, UK Kitack Lim
24 Commonwealth of Nations London, UK Queen Elizabeth II
South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation
25 Kathmandu, Nepal Esala Weerakoon
(SAARC)
26 Association of South East Nations (ASEAN) Jakarta, Indonesia Lim Jock Hoi
27 North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Brussels, Belgium Jens Stolenberg
28 International Cricket Council (ICC) Dubai, UAE Greg Barclay
29 Food & Agricultural Organization (FAO) Rome, Italy Qu Dongyu
30 International Court of Justice Hague, Netherlands Joan E. Donoghue
The Federation International de Football Association
31 Zurich, Switzerland Gianni Infantino
(FIFA)
Lausanne,
32 International Olympic Committee Thomas Bach
Switzerland
33 World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF) Switzerland Pavan Sukhdev
34 Bank for International Settlements (BIS) Basel, Switzerland Agustín Carstens
35 World Anti-Doping Agency Montreal, Canada Witold Banka
Hastings, United
36 World Squash Federation Zena Wooldridge
Kingdom
37 Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers California, US Goran Marby
Montreal, Quebec,
38 International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) Salvatore Sciacchitano [president]
Canada
39 Inter-Parliamentary Union Geneva, Switzerland Duarte Pacheco
40 International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) Rome, Italy Gilbert F. Houngbo
Laussanne,
41 International Golf Federation Annika Sorenstam
Switzerland
42 International Telecommunication Union (ITU) Geneva, Switzerland Houlin Zhao
43 Universal Postal Union (UPU) Bern, Switzerland Masahiko Metoki
44 United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) Vienna, Austria Ghada Waly
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
45 Geneva, Switzerland Filippo Grandi
(UNHCR)
46 United Nations World Food Program (WFP) Rome, Italy David Beasley
47 The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Beijing, China Zhang Ming
David Beasley, Executive Director of the United Nations World Food Programme, receives the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to WFP in
2020.

1.29. List of Country Capital and Currency

Countries with Rupee/Rupiah as Currency - 5 Nepal Kathmandu Rupee
No. Country Capital Currency
6 Pakistan Islamabad Rupee
1 India New Delhi Rupee
7 Seychelles Victoria Rupee
2 Indonesia Jakarta Rupiah
Sri
3 Maldives Male Rufiyaa 8 Sri Lanka Jayawardenepura Rupee
4 Mauritius Port Louis Mauritian Rupee Kota

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Euro as Currency – Dinar/Dirham as Currency:

No. Country Capital No. County Capital Currency
1 Andorra Andorra la Vella 1 Algeria Algiers Dinar
2 Austria Vienna 2 Bahrain Manama Dinar
3 Belgium Brussels 3 Iraq Baghdad Denar
4 Cyprus Nicosia 4 Jordan Amman Dinar
5 Estonia Tallinn 5 Kuwait Kuwait City Dinar
6 Finland Helsinki 6 Libya Tripoli Dinar
7 France Paris 7 Macedonia Skopje Denar
8 Germany Berlin 8 Serbia Belgrade Dinar
9 Greece Athens 9 Tunisia Tunis Dinar
10 Ireland Reykjavik 10 UAE Abu Dhabi UAE Dirham
11 Italy Rome
12 Latvia Riga Dollar as Currency :
13 Lithuania Vilnius No. Country Capital
14 Luxembourg Luxembourg 1 Australia Canberra
15 Malta Valletta 2 Bahamas Nassau
16 Monaco Monaco 3 Barbados Bridgetown
17 Montenegro Podgorica 4 Bermuda Hamilton
18 Netherlands Amsterdam 5 Brunei Bandar Seri Begawan
19 Portugal Lisbon 6 Belize Belmopan
20 San Marino San Marino 7 Canada Ottawa
21 Slovakia Bratislava 8 Dominica Roseau
22 Slovenia Ljubljana 9 Fiji Suva
23 Spain Madrid 10 Guyana George town
24 Vatican City Vatican City 11 Grenada Saint George
12 Jamaica Kingston
Peso as Currency : 13 Liberia Monrovia
No. Country Capital 14 Namibia Windhoek
1 Argentina Buenos Aires 15 Nauru Yaren
2 Chile Santiago 16 New Zealand Wellington
3 Colombia Bogota 17 Palau Ngerulmud
4 Cuba Havana 18 Panama Panama City
Dominican 19 Singapore Singapore
5 Santo Domingo
Republic 20 Soloman Islands Honiara
6 Mexico Mexico City 21 Taiwan Taipei
7 Philippines Manila Trinidad and
22 Port of Spain
8 Uruguay Montevideo Tobago
23 Timor- Leste Dili
Pound as Currency: 24 Tuvalu Funafuti
No. Country Capital 25 United States Washington D.C
26 Zimbabwe Harare
1 Egypt Cairo
2 Lebanon Beirut Countries with different currencies :
No. Country Capital Currency
3 South Sudan Juba
1 Afghanistan Kabul Afghan Afghani
4 Sudan Khartoum 2 Albania Tirana Albanian Lek
5 Syria Damascus 3 Angola Luanda Angolan Kwanza
4 Bangladesh Dhaka Bangladeshi Taka
United
6 London 5 Belarus Minsk Belarusian Ruble
Kingdom
6 Bhutan Thimphu Bhutanese ngultrum
Rial/ Riyal as Currency: 7 Bolivia Sucre La Paz Bolivian Boliviano
8 Benin Porto-Novo West African CFA
No. Country Capital
Franc
1 Cambodia Phnom Penh 9 Brazil Brasilia Brazilian real
10 Bulgaria Sofia Bulgarian Lev
2 Oman Muscat
11 Burundi Bujumbura Burundian franc
3 Qatar Doha 12 China Beijing Renminbi
Saudi 13 Cape Verde Praia Cape Verdean escudo
4 Riyadh
Arabia

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No. Country Capital Currency No. Country Capital Currency
14 Cayman George Town Cayman Islands 42 Macedonia Skopje Macedonian denar
Islands Dollar 43 Mali Bamako West African CFA
15 Chad N’Djamena CFA Franc franc
16 Congo Brazzaville CFA Franc 44 Malawi Lilongwe Kwacha
17 Croatia Zagreb Croatian Kuna 45 Mongolia Ulaanbaatar Mongolian Togrog
18 Czech Prague Czech Koruna 46 Moldova Chisinau Moldovan leu
Republic 47 Mozambique Maputo Metical
19 Denmark Copenhagen Danish Krone 48 Myanmar Naypyidaw Burmese Kyat
20 Democratic Kinshasha Congolese Franc 49 Nicaragua Managua Nicaraguan Cordoba
Republic of 50 North Korea Pyongyang North Korean Won
Congo 51 Norway Oslo Norwegian Krone
21 Eritrea Asmara Tallero 52 Nigeria Abuja Nigerian Naira
22 Ethiopia Addis Ababa Ethiopian Birr 53 Paraguay Asuncion Paraguayan Guarani
23 Gabon Libreville CFA Franc 54 Peru Lima Sol
24 Gambia Banjul Gambian dalasi 55 Poland Warsaw Polish Zloty
25 Gautemala Gautemala Guatemalan quetzal 56 Romania Bucharest Romanian Leu
City 57 Russia Moscow Russian Ruble
26 Georgia Tbilisi Georgian Lari 58 Rwanda Kigali Rwandan Franc
27 Ghana Accra Ghanaian Cedi 59 Senegal Dakar CFA Franc
28 Guinea Conakry Guinean franc 60 Sierra Leone Freetown Sierra Leonean Leone
29 Hungary Budapest Hungarian forint 61 Somalia Mogadishu Somali Shilling
30 Haiti Port-au-Prince Haitian gourde 62 South Africa Capetown South African Rand
31 Iceland Reykjavik Icelandic Krona (Legislative)
32 Israel Jerusalem Israeli new shekel Bloemfontein
33 Iran Tehran Toman ( judicial)
34 Japan Tokyo Japanese Yen 63 South Korea Seoul South Korean Won
35 Kazakhstan Astana Kazakhstani Tenge 64 Tajikistan Dushanbe Tajikistani Somoni
36 Kenya Nairobi Kenyan Shilling 65 Tanzania Dodoma Tanzanian Shilling
37 Krygyzstan Bishkek KrygyzstaniSom 66 Thailand Bangkok Thai bhat
38 Laos Vientiane Lao Kip 67 Turkey Ankara Turkish Lira
39 Lesotho Maseru Lesotho Loti 68 Turkmenistan Ashgabat Turkmenistan Manat
40 Madagascar Antananarivo Malagasy Ariary 69 Uzbekistan Tashkent Uzbekistani Som
41 Malaysia Kuala Malaysian Ringgit 70 Venezuela Caracas Venezuelan Bolivar
Lumpur

1.30. Deserts of the World Asia :

• A land area that is barren and where little precipitation • Rub-al-Khali desert : Saudi Arabia, Oman, UAE, Yemen
occurs is known as desert. Any area that receives less than 10 • An-Nafud desert : Saudi Arabia
inches or 250 millimetres of precipitation is classified as a • Syrian desert : Syria, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Iraq
desert. • Dast-e-Lut & Dast-e-Kavir desert : East & North Iran.
• Desert plants : Xerophytes (Xero means dry) • Karakum desert : Turkmenistan
• Examples of xerophytes : Cactus, Casuarina, Opuntia, Date- • Kyzyl kum desert : Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan.
palm, Acacia, Zizyphus, Calotropis • Gobi desert : China & Mongolia
• Taklamakan desert : Xinjiang, China
African Deserts : • Negev desert : Isreal
• Sahara desert : Algeria, Chad, Egypt, Libya, Mali,
Mauritania, Morocco, Niger, Western Sahara, Sudan and Australia :
Tunisia. Bedouins are the nomadic herdsmen rearing here. • Great sandy desert
• Kalahari desert : Bushmen are the famous herdsmen. • Victoria desert
• Namib desert : Namibia. Cooled by cold Benguela current. • Gibson desert
• Somalian desert : Somalia • Simpson desert

South America : North America :

• Patagonia desert : Argentina • Mojave desert
• Atacama desert : Northern Chile. Cooled by cold Peruvian • Sonoran desert
current. • Chihuahuan desert
• Sechura desert : Peru • Great Basin dese
• Monte desert : Argentina

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 Static GK-2: GEOGRAPHY - States and its formation years
1.31. States and its formation years Nepal Bihar, Uttarakhand, UP, Sikkim and West
Bengal
State Formation years
Andhra Pradesh 1953 Pakistan Jammu and Kashmir, Ladakh, Punjab,
Gujarat 1960 Rajasthan and Gujarat
Maharashtra 1960 Sri Lanka An island nation in the Indian Ocean and
Kerala 1956 separated from peninsular India by the
Nagaland 1963 Palk Strait
Haryana 1966 Maldives An island nation in the Indian Ocean
Karnataka 1956
Himachal Pradesh 1971 Neighbouring Countries of India
Manipur, Tripura 1972 AFGHANISTAN
Meghalaya 1972 • Capital: Kabul
Sikkim 1975 • Currency: Afghan Afghani
Mizoram 1987
• India Afghanistan border Name: Durand Line
Arunachal Pradesh 1987
• Official languages: Dari and Pashto
Goa 1987
Uttarakhand 2000 • National Game: Buzkashi
Chhattisgarh 2000 • States/ Provinces: 34 Provinces
Jharkhand 2000 • Border Length with India: 106 kilometres
Telangana 2014 • Formal Name: Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan
• Independence Day: 19th August 1919
1.32. India and its Neighbouring Countries
• India is located latitudinally in the Northern Hemisphere and BANGLADESH
longitudinally in the Eastern Hemisphere.
• Capital: Dhaka
• India is the second-most populous country in the world and
• Currency: Bangladeshi taka
seventh-largest country in the world in terms ofarea.
• State/ Provinces: 8 Provinces
• India is called as Peninsula because it is surrounded by the
• National Game: Volleyball
Indian Ocean on the south, the Bay of Bengal onthe east, and
• Official languages: Bengali
the Arabian Sea on the west. In the north, India is attached to
• Formal Name: People's Republic of Bangladesh
landmass.
• President: Abdul Hamid
• India has 15,106.7 km. of land border and a coastline of 7,516.6
• Prime Minister: Sheikh Hasina
km including island territories(Lakshadweep Islands and
• Border Length with India: 4096 kilometres
Andaman and Nicobar Islands)
• India shares the longest border with Bangladesh
• India shares its land border with seven countries- Afghanistan
• National animal: Royal Bengal tiger
and Pakistan to the North-West, China,Bhutan and Nepal to
• India Bangladesh border Name: Radcliffe Line
the north, Myanmar to the Far East and Bangladesh to the
east.
BHUTAN
• India shares its maritime borders with Sri Lanka (from the • Capital:Thimphu
south-east) and Maldives (from the south-west) • Formal Name: Kingdom of Bhutan
• India has the third-largest international border in the world • Border Length with India: 699 km
after China and Russia
• Official Language: Dzongkha
• The list of Indian states/UTs that share the borders with
• Currency: Ngultrum
Neighbouring countries are given below:
• States/ Provinces: 20 States
• Prime Minister: Lotay Tshering
Neighbouring Bordering States/UTs
• Monarch: Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck
Country
• National Game: Archery
Afghanistan Ladakh
Bangladesh West Bengal, Meghalaya, Mizoram, CHINA
Tripura and Assam • Capital: Beijing
Bhutan West Bengal, Sikkim, Arunachal Pradesh • President: Xi Jinping
& Assam • Formal Name: People's Republic of China
China Ladakh, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, • Border Length with India: 3488 km
Sikkim and Arunachal Pradesh • Official Language: Mandarin
Myanmar Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Mizoram • Currency: Chinese Yuan
and Manipur • States/ Provinces: 26 Provinces
• National Game: Table Tennis

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• India Bangladesh border Name: McMahon Line EXTRA SHOTS
• Military control line between India and Pakistan: Line of
MYANMAR Control (LoC)
• Capital: Naypyidaw • Water Body Separating India From Srilanka : Palk Strait
• President: Myint Swe (Acting) • Shortest international border of India : India share Shortest
• Border Length with India: 1643 km border with Afghanistan
• Official Language: Burmese • Neighboring countries with water and land boundary
• Currency: Burmese Kyat :Bangladesh, Myanmar, Pakistan
• National Game: Caneball • India shares its borders with seven different countries;
• Formal Name: Republic of the Union of Myanmar Pakistan, China, Nepal, Afghanistan, Bhutan, Bangladesh
& Myanmar. These international borders are guarded by
NEPAL
different paramilitary forces.
• Capital: Kathmandu
• Formal Name: Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal International Border Guarded by
• Border Length with India: 1751 km Indo-Pakistan Border Border Security Force (BSF)
• Official Language: Nepali Indo-Bangladesh Border Border Security Force (BSF)
• Currency: Nepalese Rupee Indo-China Border Indo-Tibetan Border Police
• States/ Provinces: 7 Provinces (ITBP)
Indo-Nepal Border Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB)
• President: Bidhya Devi Bhandari
Indo-Bhutan Border Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB)
• Prime Minister: Sher Bahadur Deuba Indo-Myanmar Border Assam Rifles (AR)

PAKISTAN
1.33. Cremation Grounds of famous personalities
• Capital:Islamabad
• Formal Name: Islamic Republic of Pakistan
of India
• Border Length with India: 3323 km
Cremation Ground Famous person
• Official Language: Urdu, English Raj Ghat Mahatma Gandhi
• Currency: Pakistani Rupee Vijay Ghat Lal Bahadur Shastri
• States/ Provinces: 4 Provinces Shanti Van Jawahar Lal Nehru
• National Game: Field Hockey Shakti Sthal Indira Gandhi
• President: Arif Alvi Abhay Ghat Morarji Desai
Samata Sthal Jagjeevan Ram
• Prime Minister: Shehbaz sharif
Kishan Ghat Chaudhary Charan Singh
• India Pakistan border Name: Radcliffe Line
Veer Bhoomi Rajiv Gandhi
• Pakistan Independence Day : August 14, 1947 Ekta Sthal Giani Zail Singh, Chandra
Shekhar
SRI LANKA Uday Bhoomi K.R. Narayanan
• Capital: Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte (legislative),Colombo Karma Bhumi Dr.Shankar Dayal Sharma
(executive and judicial) Mahaprayan Ghat Dr. Rajendra Prasad
• Official Language: Sinhala, Tamil Sadaiv Atal Atal Bihari Vajpayee
• Currency: Sri Lankan Rupee
• States/ Provinces: 9 Statess 1.34. Important Indian Cities & their
• Formal Name: Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka Founders/Architects
• National game: Volleyball
• President: Ranil Wickremesinghe City State Founder/Architect
• Prime Minister: Dinesh Gunawardena 1 Agra Uttar Pradesh Sikandar Lodhi
2 Ahmedabad Gujarat Ahmed Shah I
• Sri Lanka independence day: February 4, 1948
3 Ajmer Rajasthan Ajayraja II
MALDIVES 4 Allahabad Uttar Pradesh Akbar
• Official Language: Dhivehi (Prayagraj)
5 Ambala Punjab Amba Rajput King
• Currency : Maldivian Rufiyaa
6 Amritsar Punjab Guru Ram Das
• Formal Name: Republic of Maldives
7 Bijapur Karnataka Yosuf Adil Shah
• President: Ibrahim Mohamed Solih (Vijayapura)
• National Game: Football 8 Bhopal Madhya Raja Bhoj
• Capital: Male Pradesh
9 Bhubaneswar Odisha Otto Konigsberger
10 Bengaluru Karnataka Kempe Gowda I
11 Chandigarh Chandigarh Le Corbusier

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12 Chennai Tamil Nadu Francis Day and 25 Dindigul Tamilnadu Locks
(Madras) Andrew Cogan 26 Firozabad Uttar Pradesh Glass refinery, Bangles
13 Daulatabad Maharashtra Muhammad bin 27 Guntur Andhra Tobacco
Tughluq Pradesh
14 Fatehpur Uttar Pradesh Akbar 28 Haldia West Bengal Chemical Fertilizer
Sikri 29 Hazira Gujarat Artificial Rayon
15 Gangaikonda Tamil Nadu Rajendra Chola I 30 Jalandhar Punjab Surgical Goods &
cholapuram Sports Articles
16 Hyderabad Telangana Muhammad Quli 31 Jabalpur Madhya Bidi Industry
Qutb Shah Pradesh
17 Hampi Karnataka Harihara I 32 Jharia Jharkhand Coal mines
17 Jaipur Rajasthan Sawai Jai Singh 33 Koyali Gujarat Petrochemical
18 Jodhpur Rajasthan Rao Jodha Industries
19 Kolkata West Bengal Job Charnok 34 Kolar Karnataka Gold Mining Center
20 Moradabad Uttar Pradesh Rustam Khan 35 Karnal Haryana Dairy Products
21 Mahabalipura Tamil Nadu Pallava king 36 kanpur Uttar Pradesh Leather
m Narasimhavarman 37 Kanchipuram Tamil Nadu Silk Clothes
I 38 Kollegal Karnataka Handloom silk saree
22 Pondicherry Pondicherry François Martin industry
23 Patna Bihar Ajatashatru 39 Lucknow Uttar Pradesh Embroidery work
(Pataliputra) 40 Ludhiana Punjab Hosiery
24 Srinagar Jammu & Pravarsena II 41 Mysore Karnataka Silk, Sandalwood oil
Kashmir 42 Nangal Panjab Fertilizers
25 Hisar Haryana Firozshah Tuglaq 43 Neyveli Tamil Nadu Lignite Industries
44 Nashik Maharashtra Security Printing Press
1.35. Indian Cities and their famous Industries 45 Panna Madhya Diamond Mining
Pradesh
No. City/Town State Industries 46 Perambur Tamilnadu Integral Coach Factory
47 Rourkela Odisha Steel Plant, Chemical
1 Ahmedabad Gujarat Cotton Textiles
Fertilizer
2 Agra Uttar Pradesh Leather, Marble,
48 Pimpri Maharashtra Pencillin Factory
Carpets, stoneware
(Pune)
3 Aligarh Uttar Pradesh Locks, Cutlery
49 Sivakasi Tamil Nadu Fireworks, Matches
4 Adoni Andhra Cotton textiles
50 Surat Gujarat Textiles, Diamond
Pradesh
51 Thumba Kerala Rocket Launching
5 Alwaye Kerala Rare earths factory
Station
6 Ambernath Maharashtra Machine Tools
52 Tuticorin Tamil Nadu Pearl fishing
Prototype Factory
53 Varanasi Uttar Pradesh Rail Engines,Sari
7 Ankleshwar Gujarat Oil fields
Industries, Handloom
(Petrochemical
54 Tiruppur Tamil Nadu Textiles and garments
industry)
8 Anand Gujarat Dairy products
55 Worli Maharastra Baby Food
(AMUL) 56 Moradabad Uttar Pradesh Brass works
9 Amritsar Punjab Printing Machines 57 Gadwal Telangana Gadwala sarees
10 Bangaluru Karnataka Telephones, Aircrafts,
toys, carpets 1.36. List of Important Gardens in India
11 Bareilly Uttar Pradesh Resin Industries, Match
Factory No Name of the Gardens Name of the location
12 Bokaro Jharkhand Steel Plant 1 Acharya Jagadish Chandra Howrah, West Bengal
13 Bhilai Chhattisgarh Steel Plant Bose Indian Botanic Garden
14 Burnpur West Bengal Steel Plant (officially called 'Indian
15 Batanagar West Bengal Shoes Botanic Garden, Howrah)
16 Bhagalpur Bihar Silk Industries 2 Auroville Botanical Gardens Auroville, Tamil Nadu
17 Chittaranjan West Bengal Locomotive 3 Balasinor Dinosaur Fossil Mahisagar, Gujarat
18 Churk Madhya Cement Park
Pradesh 4 Brindavan Garden Mysore, Karnataka
19 Cochin Kerala Ship-building 5 Victoria Memorial Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh
20 Coimbatore Tamil Nadu Cotton Industries Company Garden
21 Dhariwal Punjab Woolen mill 6 Chashme Shahi Srinagar, Jammu and
22 Durgapur West Bengal Steel Plant Kashmir,
23 Digboi Assam Petroleum 7 Chaubatia Garden Chaubatia, Uttrakhand
24 Darjeeling West Bengal Tea 8 Chambal Garden Kota, Rajasthan

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 Static GK-2: GEOGRAPHY - List of Indian Monuments and their Builders
9 Government Botanical Ooty, Tamil Nadu Monuments Place Builders
Garden Temple (Rajasthan)
10 Hanging Garden Mumbai, Maharashtra Khajuraho Madhya Chandellas
11 Jallianwala Bagh Amritsar, Punjab Temples Pradesh
12 Jawaharlal Nehru Botanical Gangtok, Sikkim Char- Minar Hyderabad Quli Qutub Shah
Garden (Telangana)
13 Jhansi Botanical Garden Jhansi, Uttar Pradesh Golconda Fort Hyderabad Qutub Shahi
14 Kalindi Kunj New Delhi (Telangana) rulers
15 Lalbagh Botanical Garden Bangalore, Karnataka Ajanta Caves Aurangabad Gupta rulers
16 Law garden Ahmedabad, Gujarat (Maharashtra)
17 Lloyd‘s Botanical Garden Darjeeling, West Bengal Ellora Caves Maharashtra Rashtrakuta
18 Lodi Garden New Delhi rulers
19 Malampuzha Garden Palakkad, Kerala Elephanta Caves Mumbai Rashtrakuta
20 Mehtab Bagh Agra, Uttar Pradesh (Maharashtra) rulers
21 Mughal garden New Delhi (Located in Vikramasila Bihar Dharma Pala
Rashtrapati Bhawan) Monastery
22 Nishat Bagh Srinagar, Jammu and Nalanda Bihar Kumargupta I
Kashmir, University
23 Pilikula Botanical Garden Mangalore, Karnataka Shalimar Garden Srinagar Jahangir
24 Pinjore Garden (Yadavindra Panchkula, Haryana (Jammu and
Gardens) Kashmir)
25 Rock Garden Darjeeling , West Bengal Sun Temple Konark Narsimhadeva I
26 Rock Garden of Chandigarh Chandigarh (Black pagoda) (Odisha)
27 Rao Jodha Desert Rock Park Jodhpur, Rajasthan Jagannath Temple Puri (Odisha) Anantvarman
28 Saharanpur Botanical Saharanpur, Uttar (white pagoda) Ganga
Garden Pradesh Shantiniketan West Bengal Rabindra Nath
29 Sajjan Niwas Garden (Gulab Udaipur, Rajasthan Tagore
Bagh) Gol Gumbaz Bijapur, Muhammad
30 Sarita Udyan Gandhinagar, Gujarat Karnataka Adil Shah
31 Shalimar Bagh (Shalimar Srinagar, Jammu and Lal Bagh Bangaluru Hyder Ali
Bagh is a Mughal garden ) Kashmir, (Karnataka)
32 Sim‘s Park Coonoor, Tamil Nadu Moti Masjid Delhi Fort, Aurangzeb
33 Indira Gandhi Memorial Srinagar, Jammu and Delhi
Tulip garden Kashmir Ferozshah Kotla Delhi Ferozshan
Tughlaq
Qutub Minar Delhi Qutubuddin
1.37. List of Indian Monuments and their Builders
Aibak
Monuments Place Builders
Red Fort Delhi Shahjahan
Agra Fort Agra Fort Akbar
Jama Masjid Delhi Shahjahan
Deewan-E- Khas Agra Fort, Agra Shahjahan
1.38. List of Indian Rivers and their Place of Origin
Shish Mahal Agra Shahjahan
River Place of Origin Fall into
Moti Masjid Agra Fort Shahjahan
Taj Mahal Agra Shahjahan Ganga Gangotri (Uttarakhand) Bay of Bengal
Fatehpur Sikri Sutlej Lake Rakshastal in Tibet Chenab
Jodha Bai Palace Indus Indus rises in Tibet, near Arabian Sea
Birbal Palace Agra Akbar Lake Mansarowar
Panch Mahal Jhelum Verinag Spring Chenab
Buland Darwaza Yamuna Yamunotri (Uttarakhand) Ganga
Rock cut temple Mamallapuram Mahendravarma Narmada Maikal Hills, Amarkantak Gulf of
(Tamil Nadu) n-I (MP) Khambat
Shore temple Mamallapuram Mahendravarma Tapti Satpura Range, Betul (MP) Gulf of
(Tamil Nadu) n-I Khambat
Brihadeshwara Tanjore (Tamil Rajaraja chola I Mahanadi Nagri Town Bay of Bengal
temple Nadu) (Chhattisgarh)
Gangaikondachol Gangaikonda Rajendra I Brahmaputra Chemayungdung (Tibet) Bay of Bengal
apuram cholapuram Sutlej Mt Kailash (Tibet) Chenab
(Tamil Nadu) Beas Rohtang Pass (Himachal Satluj
Hawa Mahal Jaipur Maharaja Pratap Pradesh)
(Rajasthan) Singh Godavari Nasik (Maharashtra) Bay of Bengal
Vijaya Stambha Chittorgarh Maharana Krishna Mahabaleshwar Bay of Bengal
(Rajasthan) Kumbha (Maharashtra)
Dilwara Jain Mount Abu Vimal Shah

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 Static GK-2: - Major Straits of the world
River Place of Origin Fall into River Place of Origin Fall into
Cauvery Brahmagiri Hills, Coorg Bay of Bengal Pennar Nandi Hills, Bay of Bengal
(Karnataka) Chickballapur
Sabarmati Udaipur, Aravalli Hills Arabian Sea (Karnataka)
(Rajasthan) Luni Pushkar, Aravalli Hills Rann of
Ravi Chamba (Himachal Chenab (Rajasthan) Kachchh
Pradesh) Chambal Janapav, Indore, Vindhyas Yamuna
Tungabhadra Koodli Krishna River (MP)

1.39. Major Straits of the world

Strait Joining water bodies Separates
Strait of Bab-el-Mandeb Red Sea to Gulf of Aden Yamen (Asia) from Djibouti & Eritrea (Africa)
Bass strait Pacific Ocean Tasmania from the Australian mainland
Bering Strait Bering Sea (Pacific Ocean) to Russia from Alaska
Chukchi Sea (Arctic Ocean)
Palk Strait Bay of Bengal to Gulf of Mannar India from Sri Lanka
Gibraltar Strait Atlantic Ocean to Mediterranean Sea Spain (Europe) from Morocco (Africa)
Malacca Strait The Pacific Ocean to the east Malaysia and Sumatra
with the Indian Ocean to the west
Sunda Strait Indian Ocean to Java Sea Islands of Java from Sumatra (Indonesia)
100 Channel Bay of Bengal to Andaman Sea Island of Little Andaman from Car Nicobar Island (of India)
90 Channel Indian Ocean Laccadive Islands of Kalpeni from Suheli Par, and Maliku
Atoll
Denmark strait Atlantic Ocean Iceland from Greenland
Florida Strait Gulf of Mexico to Atlantic Ocean Florida (USA) from Cuba
Korea Strait East China Sea and Sea of Japan Japan and South Korea
Hormuz strait Gulf of Oman to Persian Gulf UAE & Oman from Iran
North Channel Irish Sea & Atlantic Ocean Ireland-England
Davis Strait The Baffin Bay and the Labrador Sea Between Greenland and Canada
Jamaica Channel The Caribbean Sea and North Atlantic Jamaica and Hispaniola
Hudson strait Atlantic Ocean to Hudson Bay Baffin Island from Quebec

1.40. List of Major Rivers of the World

River Source Outflow Km
Nile Tributaries of Lake Victoria, Africa Mediterranean Sea 6690
Amazon Glacier-fed lakes, Peru Atlantic Ocean 6296
Mississippi-Missouri- Source of Red Rock, Gulf of Mexico 5970
Red Rock Montana
Chang Jiang Tibetan plateau, China China Sea 5,797
(Yangtze)
Ob Altai Mts.,Russia Gulf of Ob 5567
Huang He (Yellow) Eastern part of Kunlan Mts., West China Gulf of Chihli 4667
Yenisei Tannu-Ola Mts., western Tuva, Russia Arctic Ocean 4506
Parana Confluence of Paranaiba and Grande rivers Río de la Plata 4498
Irtish Altai Mts., Russia Ob River 4,438
Zaire (Congo) Confluence of Lualab and Luapula rivers, Congo Atlantic Ocean 4371
Heilong (Amur) Confluence of Shilka (Russia) and Argun (Manchuria) Tatar Strait 4352
rivers
Lena Baikal Mts., Russia Arctic Ocean 4268
Mackenzie Head of Finlay River, British Columbia, Canada Beaufort Sea (Arctic Ocean) 4241
Niger Guinea Gulf of Guinea 4184
Mekong Tibetan highlands South China Sea 4023
Mississippi Lake Itasca, Minnesota Gulf of Mexico 3779
Missouri Confluence of Jefferson, Gallatin, and Madison rivers, Mississippi River 3726
Montana
Volga Valdai plateau, Russia Caspian Sea 3687
Purus Peruvian Andes Amazon River 3207

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 Static GK-2: - Landlocked Countries in the World
River Source Outflow Km
Yukon Junction of Lewes and Pelly rivers, Yukon Territory, Bering Sea 3185
Canada
Brahmaputra Himalayas Ganges River 2897
Indus Himalayas Arabian Sea 2897
Danube Black Forest, Germany Black Sea 2842
Ural Southern Ural Mts., Russia Caspian Sea 2533
Ganges Himalayas Bay of Bengal 2506
Orange Lesotho Atlantic Ocean 2092
Don Tula, Russia Sea of Azov 1968
Tigris Taurus Mts., Turkey Shatt-al-Arab 1899

1.42. Important cities situated on the banks of river

1.41. Landlocked Countries in the World (World)
Country Name Location City Country River
Adelaide Australia Torrens
Africa (Locked by South
Lesotho Amsterdam Netherlands Amsel
Africa)
Alexandria Egypt Nile
Botswana, Burkina Faso, Chad, Ankara Turkey Kazil
Czech Republic, Ethiopia, Bangkok Thailand Chao Praya
Malawi, Mali, Niger,Rwanda, Africa Basra Iraq Elupharates and
South Sudan, Uganda, Zambia,
Tigris
Zimbabwe Baghdad Iraq Tigris
Vatican City Europe (Locked by Italy) Berlin Germany Spree
Bristol UK Avon
San Marino Europe (Locked by Italy)
Buenos Aires Argentina Laplata
Asia (Locked by Russia & Chittagong Bangladesh Maiyani
Mongolia
China) Canton China Si-Kiang
Asia (Locked by India & Cairo Egypt Nile
Bhutan Dublin Ireland Liffy
China)
Kabul Afghanistan Kabul
Asia (Locked by India &
Nepal Karachi Pakistan Indus
China)
Lahore Pakistan Ravi
Europe (Locked by Liverpool England Messey
Andorra
France & Spain) London England Thames
Europe (it is one of the Moscow Russia Moskva
double landlocked Montreal Canada St. Lawrence
Liechtenstein New Orelans U.S.A. Mississipi
countries between
Switzerland & Austria) New York U.S.A. Hudson
Ottawa Canada Ottawa
Europe (Locked by Paris France Seine
Moldova
Ukraine & Romania)
Perth Australia Swan
Africa (Locked by South Rome Italy Tiber
Swaziland Africa & Stalingrad Russia Volga
Mozambique) Sidney Australia Darling
Saint Luis U.S.A. Mississippi
Bolivia South America
Tokyo Japan Arakava
Afghanistan, Armenia, Washington U.S.A. Potomac
Azerbaijan, D.C.
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Asia Yangoon Myanmar Irawaddy
Tajikistan,Turkmenistan,
Uzbekistan, Laos 1.43. Distinctive Names of Countries & Towns
Austria, Belarus, Hungary, (World)
Kosovo, DISTINCTIVE NAMES COUNTRIES / TOWNS
Luxembourg, Macedonia, Europe Britain of the South New Zealand
Moldova, Serbia,Slovakia, The Battlefield of Europe Belgium
Switzerland City of the Golden Gate San Francisco
City of Magnificent Washington D.C.
Distances
City of Popes Rome

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 Static GK-2: - Largest producing countries of agricultural commodities in world
DISTINCTIVE NAMES COUNTRIES / TOWNS PRODUCT COUNTRY
City of Seven Hills Rome Tomato China
City of Skyscrapers New York Potato China
Cockpit of Europe Belgium Spinach China
Dark Continent Africa Almond United States
Dairy of Northern Europe Denmark Maize United States
Emerald Island Ireland Corn United States
Empire City New York Soybean United States
Eternal City Rome, Italy Apple China
Forbidden City Lhasa (Tibet) Avocado Mexico
Garden of England Kent (England) Banana India
Gate of Tears Babel-Mandab, Jerusalem Mango India
Granite City Aberdeen (Scotland) Papaya India
Gift of Nile Egypt Lemon India
Gibraltar of the Indian Aden Guava India
Ocean Okra India
Herring Pond Atlantic Ocean Pomegranate India
Hermit Kingdom Korea Jackfruit India
Land of Cakes Scotland Milk India
Land of the Golden Pagoda Myanmar (Burma) Jute India
Land of Kangaroos Australia Ginger India
Land of Lilies Canada Blueberry United States
Land of the Midnight Sun Norway Cocoa Ivory coast
Land of the Rising Sun Japan Olive Spain
Land of a Thousand Lakes Finland Coconut Indonesia
Land of Thunderbolt Bhutan Cinnamon Indonesia
Land of White Elephants Thailand Vanilla Indonesia
Lady of Snow Canada Cloves Indonesia
Playground of Europe Switzerland Avocado Mexico
Pearl of the Pacific Guayaquil Port (Ecuador) Cherry Turkey
Quaker City Philadelphia Fig Turkey
Queen of the Arabian Sea Kochi (India) Coffee Brazil
Roof of the World Pamir (Tibet) Sugar cane Brazil
The Sea of Mountains British Columbia Rubber Thailand
Sorrow of China River Hwang Ho Saffron Iran
Sugar Bowl of the World Cuba Wool Australia
Venice of the North Stockholm Black Pepper Vietnam
Yellow River Hwang Ho (China) Cashew nut Vietnam
The Imperial City Rome Dates Egypt
City of Arabian Nights Baghdad Cardamom Guatemala
The Modern Babylon London
1.45. List of Minerals and their leading producing
1.44. Largest producing countries of agricultural countries
commodities in world Minerals Largest Producers Second
PRODUCT COUNTRY Largest
Barley Russia Producers
Oat Russia Coal China India
Rice China Fluorite China Mexico
Wheat China Aluminium China Russia
Grapes China Bismuth China Mexico
Kiwifruit China Gold China Australia
Watermelon China Iron Ore China Australia
Cucumber China Tin China Indonesia
Tea China Zinc China Australia
Chestnut China Natural Gas United States Russia
Peanut China Petroleum United States Saudi Arabia
Egg China Uranium Kazakhstan Canada
Honey China Diamond Russia Botswana
Tobacco China Palladium Russia South Africa
Cotton China Bauxite Australia China
Silk China Lithium Australia Chile

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 Static GK-2: - Important facts about Planets
Titanium Australia South Africa Brightest planet Venus
Manganese South Africa China Closest star of solar system Proxima Centauri
Platinum South Africa Russia Coldest planet Neptune
Silver Mexico China Evening Star Venus
Nickel Philippines Russia Planet with maximum number Saturn
of satellites
1.46. Important facts about Planets Morning Star Venus
Biggest planet Jupiter Hottest planet Venus
Biggest satellite Ganymede (Jupiter) Fastest rotation in solar system Jupiter
Blue planet Earth Nearest planet to sun Mercury
Green planet Uranus
1.47. Environment related important International Agreements / Conferences
Convention Place/Year Remarks
Ramsar Convention Ramsar (1971) The convention on wetlands is called as Ramsar convention. It is an
intergovernmental treaty that provides a framework for the
conservation and wise use of wetlands and their resources
United Nations Conference on Stockholm,
the Human Environment Sweden (1972)
Convention on migratory Bonn(1973) It is a Convention on the Conservation of Migratory
species Species of Wild Animals.
Nairobi Declaration Nairobi (1982)
Vienna Convention for the Vienna(1985) It is a convention for the
Protection of the Ozone Layer Protection of Ozone Layer.
Montreal Protocol Montreal (1987) The Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer
is an international agreement made
in 1987.
Basel Convention Basel (1989 ) The Basel Convention regulates the transboundary movements of
hazardous wastes and other wastes and obliges its Parties to ensure
that such wastes are managed and disposed of in an
environmentally sound
manner.
Earth Summit / United Nations Rio de Janeiro
Conference on Environment (1992)
and
Development (UNCED)
Kyoto Protocol Kyoto (1997) The Kyoto Protocol is an
international agreement adopted in 1997 that aimed to reduce
carbon dioxide emissions and the presence of
greenhouse gases.
Nagoya Protocol Nagoya, Japan
(2010)
United Nations Conference on Rio de Janeiro
Sustainable Development (2012)
Paris Agreement (COP -21) Paris (2015) The Paris Agreement is a
legally binding internationaltreaty on climate change.

8 Project manipur thamin 1977

1.48. Wildlife Conservation efforts in India 9 Project Rhino 1987
No Project Year 10 Project vulture 2006
1 Hangul project 1970 11 Project snow Leopard 2009
2 Gir Lion project 1972 12 Great Indian bustard 2014
3 Project Tiger 1973 project
4 Project Elephant 1992
5 Red panda project 1996
6 Project Olive riddy turtles 1975
7 Crocodile breeding 1975
scheme

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 Static GK-2: Physics - List Of Fathers Of Various Fields

2. Physics
7 Father of the Indian Bhimrao Ramji
2.1. List Of Fathers Of Various Fields Constitution Ambedkar
No Field Father 8 Father of the Green M.S.Swaminathan
1 Father of Periodic Table Dmitri Mendeleev Revolution in India
2 Father of Vaccination Edward Jenner 9 Father of Blue Revolution in Arun Krishnan
3 Father of Nuclear Physics Ernest Rutherford India
4 Father of the Green Norman Borlaug 10 Father of the country's A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
Revolution missile programme
5 Father of Modern Nicolaus Copernicus 11 Father of silver revolution in Indira Gandhi
Astronomy India
6 Father of Economics Adam Smith 12 Father of Golden Revolution Nirpakh Tutej
7 Father of Classification Carl Linnaeus in India
8 Father of Evolution Charles Darwin 13 Father of yellow revolution Sam Pitroda
9 Father of Modern Physics Galileo Galilei in India
10 Father of Biology Aristotle 14 Father of red revolution in Vishal Tewari
11 Father of Genetics Gregor Mendel India
12 Father of Internet Vint Cerf 15 Father of Pink Revolution in Durgesh Patel
India
13 Father of Botany Theophrastus
16 Father of civil engineering Mokshagundam
14 Father of Modern Antoine Lavoisier
in India Visvesvaraya
Chemistry
17 Father of veterinary science Salihotra
15 Father of Blood groups Landsteiner
in India
16 Father of Blood Circulation William Harvey
18 Father of Paleobotany in Birbal Sahni
17 Father of Geometry Euclid
India
18 Father of Trigonometry Hipparchus
19 Father of Indian medicine Acharya Charak
19 Father of Geography Erithosthenus
20 Father of Indian Psychology MOP Iyengar
20 Father of Homeopathy Samuel Hahnemann
21 Father of Indian ecology Ramdeo Misra
21 Father of Ayurveda Acharya Charaka
22 Father of Computer Charles Babbage
23 Father of Computer Science George Boole and Alan 2.3. Inventions and Discoveries
Turing Invention/Discovery Inventor
24 Father of Numbers Pythagoras Adding machine Pascal
25 Father of political science Aristotle Aeroplane Wright brothers
26 Father of Sanskrit Grammar Panini Air Conditioner Willis Carrier
27 Father of Psychology Wilhelm Wundt Anemometer Leon Battista Alberti
28 Father of Bangladesh Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Air brake George Westinghouse
29 Father of Pakistan Muhammad Ali Jinnah Atom Bomb Julius Robert Oppenheimer
30 Father of Modern Tourism Thomas Cook Ball point pen John Loud
31 Father of American Football Walter Chauncey Camp Barometer Evangelista Torricelli
32 Father of Modern Olympic Baron de Coubertin Bicycle Macmillan
33 Father of mathematics Archimedes Blood group Karl Landsteiner
34 Father of Email Raymond Samuel Braille Louis Braille
Tomlinson Bacteria Leeuwenhoek
35 Father of Railways George Stephenson Calculating machine Blaise Pascal
36 Father of Modern Medicine Hippocrates Centigrade scale Andres Celsius
37 Father of Relativity Albert Einstein Computer Charles Babbage
Cement Joseph Aspdin
2.2. List of Fathers of Various Fields (India) Circulation of blood William Harvey
No Field Father Centigrade scale Anders Celsius
Diesel engine Rudolf Diesel
1 Father of the Nation Mohandas
Dynamite Alfred Nobel
Karamchand Gandhi
Dynamo Michael Faraday
2 Father of White Revolution Verghese Kurien
in India Electric tram Fyodor Pirotsky
3 Father of Modern India Raja Ram Mohan Roy Electric battery Alessandro Volta
4 Father of the Indian nuclear Homi J. Bhabha Electricity Benjamin Franklin
programme Electron J.J. Thomson
5 Father of the Indian space Vikram Sarabhai Electric generator Michael Faraday
program Electric lamp Edison
6 The Father of Modern Raja Ravi Varma Electric Iron Henry W. Seeley
Indian Art Fountain pen Lewis Edson Waterman
Fiber Optics Narinder Singh Kapany

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 Static GK-2: Physics - List of Scientific Instruments and Their Uses
Invention/Discovery Inventor Instrument Uses
Insulin Sir Frederick Grant Banting distant object
Jet engine Frank Whittle 8 Bolometer To measure heat Radiation
Lift or Elevator Elisha Otis 9 Callipers Measure diameter of thin cylinder
Lightning conductor Benjamin Franklin or wire
Machine gun Jordan Gatling 10 Calorimeter Measures quantities of heat
Magnifying Glass Roger Bacon 11 Cardiogram Traces movements of the heart
Mercury thermometer Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit and recorded on a
Microscope Zacharias Janssen Cardiograph
Neutron Chadwick 12 Colorimeter Compares Intensity of colours
Nuclear Reactor Enrico Fermi 13 Commutator Used in generators to reverse the
Paper clips Johan Vaaler direction of
Penicillin Alexander Fleming electric current
Piano Bartolomeo Cristofori 14 Crescograph Used to measure the growth of
Plague vaccine Waldemar Mordecai Haffkine plants
Polio vaccine Jonas Edward Salk 15 Cryometer Used to measure very low
Printing Press Johannes Gutenberg temperatures
Periodic Table Dmitri Mendeleev 16 Dynamometer Measures electrical power
Proton Rutherford Dynamo Converts mechanical energy to
Rabies vaccine Louis Pasteur electrical energy
Radio Guglielmo Marconi 17 Electroscope It detects presence of an electric
Radium Marie curie charge
Railway engine George Stephenson 18 Endoscope To examine internal parts of the
Raman effect C.V.Raman body
Radioactivity Henri Becquerel 19 Fathometer Measure depth of the ocean
Revolver Samuel Colt 21 Fluxmeter Measures magnetic flux
Richter Scale Charles Richter 22 Galvanometer Measures electric current
safety pin Walter Hunt 23 Hydrometer Instrument used for measuring
Sewing machine Elias Howe the relative density
Smallpox vaccine Edward Jenner of liquids
Watt Steam engine James watt 24 Hygrometer It measures humidity of air
Stethoscope René Laennec 25 Hydrophone Measures sound under water
Structure of DNA James Watson & Francis Crick 26 Kymograph A device which graphically
Stainless Steel Harry Brearley records motion or
Theory of Evolution Charles Darwin pressure (as of blood)
Telescope Hans Lippershey 27 Lactometer It determines the purity of milk
Telephone Alexander Graham Bell 28 Machmeter Determines the speed of an
Television John Logie Baird aircraft relative to the
Telegraph Samuel Morse speed of sound
Typewriter Christopher Scholes 29 Microscope To obtain a magnified view of
Vernier caliper Pierre Vernier small objects
Vulcanized rubber Charles Goodyear 30 Manometer It measures the pressure of gases.
Waterproof rubber Charles Macintosh 31 Photometer The instrument Compares the
World Wide Web Tim Berners Lee with Robert luminous intensity
Cailliau of the source of light.
X-rays Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen 32 Pyrometer Measure very high temperature
Xerox Machine Chester Carlson especially in furnaces and kilns
33 Odometer The instrument used for
2.4. List of Scientific Instruments and Their Uses measuring the distance
Instrument Uses traveled by a vehicle such as a
bicycle or car
1 Altimeter Measures altitude. It‘s used in
aircrafts 34 Ohmmeter The electrical instrument that
measures electrical
2 Ammeter Measures electric current
resistance
3 Anemometer Used for measuring wind speed
35 Periscope It is used to view object above the
and direction
sea level
4 Audiometer Measures Intensity of Sound
36 Phonograph It is a device for the mechanical
5 Barograph Continuous recording of
recording and
atmospheric pressure
reproduction of sound
6 Barometer Measures atmospheric pressure
37 Rain Gauge An apparatus for recording
7 Binoculars Optical instrument used for
rainfall at a particular
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 Static GK-2: Physics - SI Units
Instrument Uses 25 Inductance Henry
place. 26 Resistance Ohm
38 Salinometer It determines the salinity of 27 Impedance Ohm
solutions 28 Reactance Ohm
39 Sphygmometer It measures the blood pressure 29 Electrical conductance siemens
40 Stroboscope To view rapidly moving objects 30 Magnetic flux Weber
41 Seismograph The instrument used to detect and 31 Magnetic flux density Tesla
record 32 Heat Joule
earthquakes 33 Angle Radian
42 Spring Balance It is used to measures weight 34 Radioactivity Becquerel
43 Tachometer A tachometer is an instrument 35 Luminous flux Lumen
measuring the rotation speed of a 36 Momentum kilogram meter per
shaft or disk, as in a motor or second
other machine. An instrument 37 Torque Newton metre
used in measuring 38 Specific heat Joule per kilogram
speeds of aero planes and motor kelvin
boats
44 Telescope Used for magnified view of 2.6. Common and Chemical Names of Some
distant objects Important Chemical Compounds
45 Theodolite It measures horizontal and
Chemical Chemical Common names
vertical angles. Compounds formula
46 Spectrometer Properties of light
Calcium oxide Cao Quick lime
47 Voltmeter It measures the electric potential
Calcium Ca(OH)2 Slaked lime
difference
hydroxide
between two points.
Calcium carbonate CaCO3 Limestone
48 Viscometer It is used to measure the viscosity
Trichloro Methane CHCl3 Chloroform
of a fluid.
Sodium Borate Na2B4O7.10H Borax
49 Wattmeter The wattmeter is an instrument
2O
for measuring the
Calcium CaOCl2 Bleaching powder
electric power
Oxychloride
50 Wavemeter To measure the wavelength of a
sodium NaHCO3 Baking soda
radiowave
hydrogencarbonat
e
2.5. SI Units Sodium carbonate Na2CO3 Washing soda
No Quantity SI Unit Calcium sulphate CaSO4 Plaster of paris
hemihydrate .1/2H2O
1 Length Metre
calcium sulfate CaSO4 .2H2O Gypsum
2 Mass Kilogram
dihydrate
3 Time Second
Acetic acid CH3COOH Vinegar
4 Electric current Ampere
Silicon Oxide SiO2 Sand
5 Thermo dynamic Kelvin
temperature Methane CH4 Marsh Gas
6 Amount of substance Mole Nitrous oxide N2O Laughing Gas
7 Luminous intensity Candela Deuterium Oxide D2O Heavy water
8 Area Square metre Solid CO2 Dry ice
9 Volume Cubic metre Carbondixide
10 Velocity Metre/second Calcium CaCo3 Chalk
11 Acceleration Metre/second square Carbonate
12 Density Kilogram/metre Cube Sulphuric Acid H2SO4 Oil of vitriol
13 Work Joule Zinc sulphate ZnSO4 White Vitriol
14 Energy Joule Copper sulphate CuSO4.5H2O Blue Vitriol
15 Force Newton Sodium hydroxide NaOH Caustic Soda
16 Weight Newton Potassium K2CO3 Potash Ash
17 Pressure Pascal carbonate
18 Frequency Hertz Mercurous Hg2Cl2 Calomel
19 Power Watt chloride
20 Impulse Newton-second Sucrose C12H22O11 Sugar
21 Angular velocity Radian /second Silver nitrate AgNO3 Lunar caustic
22 Electric charge Coulomb Ethyl Alcohol C2 H5OH Alcohol
23 Electric potential(voltage) Volt Hydrochloric acid HCl Muriatic acid
24 Capacitance Farad Nitrous Oxide N2O Laughing Gas

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 Static GK-2: BIOLOGY - Important Alloys
Magnesium Mg(OH)2 Milk of magnesia • Branch of science dealing with Urinary system is called –
hydroxide Urology
• Study of Viruses is called – Virology
2.7. Important Alloys • Study of resistance of body against infection (immunity) is
Alloy Combinations called – Immunology
Solder Lead and Tin
• Study of Muscles is called – Myology
Brass Copper and zinc
• Study of development of Embryos is called – Embryology
Stainless steel Iron, Chromium and Nickel
Bronze Copper and Tin • Study of Insects is called – Entomology
Invar Iron and Nickel • Study of the Nervous system, its functions and its disorders
Constantan Copper and Nickel is called – Neurology
Gun metal Copper, tin and zinc • Branch of Biology dealing with the phenomena of Heredity
Sterling silver Silver and copper is called – Genetics
German silver Copper, zinc and Nickel • Study of causes of Diseases is called – Etiology
• Study of Ears and their diseases is called – Otology
• Study of Condition and Structure of Earth is called –
3. BIOLOGY Geology
• Study of Kidneys and its function is called – Nephrology
3.1. Scientific Names of Plants, Fruits And • Study of Birds is called – Ornithology
Vegetables • Study of Fossils is called – Paleontology
Common Name Scientific Name
• Study of Female Reproductive System is called –
Mango Mangiferaindica
Gynecology
Lemon Citrus Limonium
Bamboo Bamboosaaridinarifolia • Study of production of Three Dimensional Image using
Banyan Ficusbenghalensis Laser is called – Holography
Banana Musa paradisicum • Study of Snakes is called – Serpentology
Cucumber Cucumissativas • Production of Raw Silk by rearing of Silk Worms is called –
Guava Psidiumguajava Sericulture
Orange Citrus aurantium • Study of Algae is called –Phycology
Watermelon Citrulluslanatus
• Study of diseases, symptoms, cause and remedy is called –
Pineapple Ananascomosus
Pathology
Tomato Lycopersicanesculentum
Soybean Glycine Max • Study of Serum is called – Serology
Sandalwood Santalum album • The Breeding, Rearing, and Transplantation of Fish is called
Rice Oryza sativa – Pisciculture
Spinach Spinaciaoleracea • Study of Eyes and its diseases is called – Opthamology
Potato Solanumtubersum • Study of Heavenly bodies is called –Astronomy
Onion Allium cepa • Study of bacteria and the diseases caused by them is called –
Pepper Capsicum Annum
Bacteriology
Mustard Brassica Juncea
• Science dealing with the origin and development of
Neem Azadhirachtaindica
Drumstick Moringaoleifera mankind is called – Anthropology
Corn Zea Mays • Study of cells is called – Cytology
Carrot Daucascarota • Science dealing with the functions and the diseases of heart
Capsicum Capsicum fruitscence is called – Cardiology
Ginger Zingiberofficinale • Study of skin is called – Dermatology
Brinjal Solanummelongena • Study of Blood Vascular System is called – Angiology
Turmeric Curcuma longa
• Study of Fungi and fungus diseases is called – Mycology
Pea Pisumsativum
• Study of Tumors is called – Oncology
Coriander Coriandrumsativum
Carrot Daucuscarota • Study of Liver and its diseases is called – Hepatology
Rose Rosa • Study of fungi is called – Mycology
Sugarcane Saccharum • Study of skill worm breeding – Sericulture
Sunflower Helianthus annuus • Study of bodily diseases – Pathology
Tea Camellia sinensis • Study of poisons – Toxicology
Tulsi Ocimumtenuiflorum
3.2. Important Branches of Science
• Study of Bones is called – Osteology
• Study of Soils is called – Pedology

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 Static GK-2: BIOLOGY - Important Hormones and Their Functions
3.3. Important Hormones and Their Functions

S.No Hormone Endocrine Gland Functions

1 Growth hormone Pituitary gland Stimulates growth in all organs
2 Thyroxin Thyroid gland Regulates metabolism for body growth
3 Insulin Pancreas Regulates blood sugar level
4 Glucagon Pancreas Glucagon is a hormone that is involved in controlling blood sugar
(glucose) levels
5 Testosterone Testes Male sex hormone
6 Oestrogen Ovaries Development of female sex organs, regulates menstrual cycle, etc
7 Adrenaline Adrenal gland
8 Releasing Harmones Stimulates pituitary gland to release hormones
9 Prolactin Pituitary Promotes breast-milk production

3.4. List of Diseases Caused by Bacteria, Virus,

Fungi, and ProtozoaHuman Diseases 3.5. PLANT DISEASES
DISEASE CAUSED BY VIRUSES VIRAL DISEASES
• Chicken pox :It is caused by Varicella-zoster virus. • Mosaic disease of tobacco: It is caused by Tobocco mosaic virus
• Small Pox : It is caused by Variola virus. • Bunchy top of banana: This disease is caused by banana virus
• Common Cold : It is caused by Rhinovirus. BACTERIAL DISEASE
• AIDS (Acquired ImmunoDeficiency Syndrome) :It is caused by • Wilt of potato: It is caused by Pseudomonas solonacearum
Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV). bacteria
• Measles :It is caused by Measles virus. • Bacterial blight of rice: This disease caused by
• Mumps :It is caused by Mumps virus. Xanthomonasoryzae
• Rabies : It is caused by Rabies virus (Rhabdoviridae family). • Black arm of cotton: This disease caused by Xanthomonas
• Dengue fever :It is caused by Dengue virus bacteria
• Influenza: It is caused by H1N1 virus • Citrus canker: The factor of this disease is Xanthomonascitri
bacteria
DISEASE CAUSED BY BACTERIA FUNGAL DISEASE
• Whooping Cough: It is caused by a bacterium called Bordetella • Rust of wheat is a disease caused by fungi puccinia
pertussis. • Damping off of seedling is caused by fungus
• Diphtheria: It is caused by Coryne bacterium diphtheriae. pythiumdebaryanum Red root of sugarcane is caused by
• Cholera: It is caused by Vibrio cholerae. fungus colletorichumfalcatum
• Leprosy : It is caused by Mycobacterium leprae.
• Pneumonia: It is caused by Streptococcus pneumoniae.
• Tetanus : It is caused by Clostridium tetani. 3.6. Important Medicinal Plants and Their Uses
• Typhoid : It is caused by Salmonella typhi. India is known for its herbs and spices from ancient times. Some
• Tuberculosis : It is caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis. 2,000 plants have been described in Ayurveda and at least 500 are
• Plague : It is caused by Yersinia pestis in regular use. The World Conservation Union‘s Red List has
named 352 medicinal plants of which 52 are critically threatened
and 49 endangered.

DISEASE CAUSED BY PROTOZOAN The commonly used plants in India are:

• Malaria: It is spread by Anopheles mosquitoes. The Sarpagandha : Used to treat blood pressure; it is found only in
Plasmodium parasite that causes malaria Amoebic India.
dysentery: It is caused by Entamoebahistolytica.
• Sleeping sickness: It is caused by Trypanosomabrucei. Jamun : The juice from ripe fruit is used to prepare vinegar, which
is carminative and diuretic, and has digestive properties. The
• Kala-azar: It is caused by Leishmaniadonovani
powder of the seed is used for controlling diabetes.
DISEASE CAUSED BY FUNGI
Arjun : The fresh juice of leaves is a cure for earache. It is also used
• Ringworm: Three different genera of fungi namely
to regulate blood pressure.
Epidermophyton, Microsporum and Trichophyton cause
ringworm.
Babool : Leaves are used as a cure for eye sores. Its gum is used as
a tonic.
DISEASE CAUSED BY WORMS
• Tapeworm : They are intestinal parasites. It cannot live on its
Neem : Has high antibiotic and antibacterial properties.
own. It survives within the intestine of an animal including
human.
Tulsi : Is used to cure cough and cold.
• Filariasis : It is caused by thread.
• Pinworm : It is caused by small, thin, white roundworm called
Kachnar : Is used to cure asthma and ulcers. The buds and roots
Enterobius vermicularis.
are good for digestive problems.

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 Static GK-2: - Sources of the Constitution

Ashgandh: Stress Tolerance, Immunity, Joint Pains, Skin Sores Pippali: Asthma, Cough, Indigestion Varun: Kidney Stones,
Bladder Stones
Ashok: Menstrual Irregularities, Uterine Stimulant
Dalchini: Antibacterial, Antiseptic
Amla: Antioxidant, Antistress, Constipation, Fever
Aloe vera: Constipation, Digestive distress, Acne, Poor body
Elaichi: Nausea, Vomiting, Dry Cough immunity

Mandukparni: Sedative, Antibiotic, Detoxifier, Laxative

4. POLITY
Sources Features Borrowed
4.1. Sources of the Constitution Japanese • Procedure established by Law
Sources Features Borrowed Constitution
Government of • Judiciary Constitution of • Fundamental duties
India Act of 1935 • Public Service Commissions USSR(Russia) • The ideal of justice in the Preamble
• Federal Scheme 4.2. Important Articles of The Constitution
• Office of governor Articles Deals with
• Emergency provisions PART I THE UNION AND ITS TERRITORY
• Administrative details Article 1 Name and territory of the Union
Constitution of • Parliamentary government Article 2 Admission and establishment of the state.
Britain • Rule of Law Article 3 Formation of new states and alteration of
• Legislative procedure areas, boundaries or
• Single citizenship names of existing states
• Cabinet system PART II CITIZENSHIP
• Prerogative writs Article 5-11 Citizenship
• Parliamentary privileges and Article 5 Citizenship at the commencement of the
bicameralism Constitution
• Office of comptroller & auditor general Article 7 Rights of citizenship of certain migrants to
Constitution of • Fundamental rights Pakistan.
USA • Independence of judiciary Article 10 Continuance of the rights of citizenship
• Judicial review Article 11 Parliament to regulate the right of citizenship
• Impeachment of the president by law.
• Removal of Supreme Court and high PART III Fundamentals Rights
courtjudges Article 13 Laws inconsistent with or in derogation of
• Post of vice president the fundamental rights
Constitution of • Directive Principles of State Policy Article 14 Equality before law
Ireland • Nomination of members to Rajya Article 15 The State shall not discriminate against any
Sabha citizen on the ground of religion, race, caste,
• Method of election of president sex or place of birth
Constitution of • Federation with a strong Centre Article 16 Equality of opportunity in matters of public
Canada • Vesting of residuary powers in the employment
Centre Article 17 Abolition of untouchability
• Appointment of state governors by the Article 18 Abolition of titles
Centre Article 19 Protection of certain rights regarding
• Advisory jurisdiction of the Supreme freedom of speech, etc
Court. Article 20 Protection in respect of conviction for
Australian • Concurrent List offences
Constitution • Freedom of trade, commerce and inter Article 21 Protection of life and personal liberty
course Article 21 A Right to elementary education
• Joint sitting of the two Houses of Article 23 Prohibition of traffic human beings and
Parliament forced labor
Weimar • Suspension of Fundamental Rights Article 24 Prohibition of employment of children in
Constitution of during factories, Etc.
Germany • Emergency Article 25 Freedom of conscience and free profession,
French • Republic and the ideals of liberty, practice and propagation of religion
Constitution equality Article 26 Every religious denomination or any of its
• and fraternity in the Preamble section shall have the right to manage its
South African • Procedure for amendment of the religious affairs
Constitution Constitution Article 29 Any section of the citizens shall have the
• Election of members of Rajya Sabha right to conserve its distinct

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 Static GK-2: POLITY - Important Articles of The Constitution
Articles Deals with Articles Deals with
language, script or culture Article 108 Joint sitting of both houses in certain cases
Article 30 Right of minorities to establish and Article 109 Special procedure in respect of money bills
administer educational institutions Article 110 Definition of Money Bills
Article 31 C Saving of laws giving effect to certain Article 111 Assent to bills
directive principles Article 112 Annual financial statement (Budget)
Article 32 Remedies for enforcement of fundamental Article 116 Votes of account, votes of credit and
rights including writs exceptional grants
PART IV DIRECTIVE PRINCIPLES OF STATE Article 117 Special provisions as to financial bills
POLICY Article 123 Power of president to promulgate ordinances
Article 38 State to secure a social order for the during recess of Parliament
promotion of welfare of the people Article 124 Establishment and construction of supreme
Article 40 Organisation of village panchayats court
Article 41 Right to work, to education and to public Article 137 Review of judgments or orders by the
assistance in certain cases supreme court
Article 44 Uniform civil code for the citizens Article 141 Law declared by supreme court to be binding
Article 45 Provision for early childhood care and on all courts
education to children below the age of 6 years Article 143 Power of president to consult Supreme Court
Article 46 Promotion of educational and economic Article 148 Comptroller and auditor-General of India
interests of scheduled castes, scheduled Article 149 Duties and powers of the comptroller and
tribes and other weaker sections auditor-general
Article 48 Organization of agriculture and animal PART VI THE STATES
husbandry. Article 153 Governors of States.
Article 50 Separation of judiciary from executive Article 155 Appointment of governor
Article 51 Promotion of international peace and security Article 156 Term of office of Governor.
PART IV A Article 161 Power of governor to grant pardons, etc., and
Article 51 A Fundamental duties to suspend, remit or commute sentences in
PART V THE UNION certain cases
Article 52 The president of India Article 162 Extent of executive power of State.
Article 53 Executive power of the Union. Article 163 Council of ministers to aid and advise the
Article 54 Election of president governor
Article 59 Conditions of President's office Article 165 Advocate-General for the State.
Article 61 Procedure for impeachment of the president Article 167 Duties of chief minister with regard to the
Article 63 The vice president of India furnishing of information to governor, etc
Article 64 The vice president of India to be ex officio Article 169 Abolition or creation of legislative councils in
chairman of the council of states states
Article 66 Election of vice president Article 175 Right of Governor to address and send
Article 72 Pardoning powers of president. messages to the House or Houses.
Article 74 Council of ministers to aid and advise the Article 176 Special address by the Governor.
president Article 200 Assent to bills by governor (including
Article 76 Attorney-General for India reservation for President)
Article 78 Duties of Prime Minister as respects the Article 213 Power of governor to promulgate ordinances
furnishing of information to the President, during recess of the state legislature
etc. Article 214 High Courts for States.
Article 79 Constitution of parliament Article 222 Transfer of a Judge from one High Court to
Article 80 Composition of the Rajya Sabha another.
Article 81 Composition of the Lok Sabha Article 226 Power of high courts to issue certain writs
Article 83 Duration of houses of parliament Article 227 Power of superintendence over all courts by
Article 86 Right of president to address and sent the High Court.
messages to houses Article 228 Transfer of certain cases to High Court.
Article 87 Special address by the president Part VIII
Article 88 Rights of ministers and attorney general as Article 239 Administration of Union territories.
respects houses Article 241 High Courts for Union territories.
Article 93 The speaker and deputy speaker of the Lok Article Special provisions with respect to Delhi
Sabha 239AA
Article 98 Secretariat of parliament Article 239 to The Union Territories
Article 99 Oath of affirmation by members 242
Article 100 Voting in Houses, power of Houses to act Part IX
notwithstanding vacancies and quorum. Article 243 to The Panchayats
Article 107 Provisions as to introduction and passing of 243-0
bills Part IX-A

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 Static GK-2: POLITY - INDIAN NATIONAL CONGRESS SESSIONS
Articles Deals with Articles Deals with
Article 243-P The Municipalities Article 331 Representation of the Anglo-Indian
to 243-ZG Community in the House of the People.
Part IX-B The Cooperative Societies Article 335 Claims of scheduled castes and scheduled
Part X tribes to services and Posts
Article 244 Administration of Scheduled Areas and Article 338 National Commission for Scheduled Castes.
Tribal Areas. Article 338-A National Commission for Scheduled Tribes.
Part 11 Part 17
Article 248 Residuary powers of legislation. Article 343 Official language of the Union.
Article 249 Power of Parliament to legislate with respect Article 345 Official language or languages of a State.
to a matter in the Part 18
State List in the national interest Article 352 Proclamation of Emergency (National
Article 260 Jurisdiction of the Union in relation to Emergency)
territories outside India. Article 356 Provisions in case of failure of constitutional
Article 262 Adjudication of disputes relating to waters of machinery in states (President‘s Rule)
inter-state rivers or Article 357 Exercise of legislative powers under
river valleys Proclamation issued under article 356.
Article 263 Provisions with respect to an inter-state Article 360 Provisions as to financial emergency.
council Part 19
Part 12 Article 364 Special provisions as to major ports and
Article 265 Taxes not to be imposed save by authority of aerodromes
law Article 365 Effect of failure to comply with, or to give
Article 266 Consolidated Funds and public accounts of effect to, directions given by the Union
India and of the States. (President‘s Rule)
Article 267 Contingency Fund. Part 20
Article 275 Grants from the Union to certain states Article 368 Power of Parliament to amendment the
Article 280 Finance Commission Constitution
Article 300 Suits and proceedings Part 21
Article 300 A Right to property Article 369 Temporary power to Parliament to make
Part 13 laws with respect to certain matters in
Article 301 Freedom to trade, commerce, and intercourse the State List as if they were matters in the
Article 302 Power of Parliament to impose restrictions on Concurrent List.
trade, commerce, and intercourse. Article 370 Temporary provisions with respect to the
Article 304 Restrictions on trade, commerce and state of Jammu and Kashmir
intercourse among States. Article 371 Special provision with respect to the States of
Part 14 Maharashtra and Gujarat.
Article 311 Dismissal, removal or reduction in rank of Article 371-A Special provision with respect to the State of
persons employed in civil capacities under Nagaland.
the Union or a state Article 371-B Special provision with respect to the State of
Article 312 All-India Services Assam
Article 315 Public service commissions for the Union and Article 371-C Special provision with respect to the State of
for the states Manipur.
Article 320 Functions of Public service commissions Article 371-D Special provisions with respect to the State of
Part 14 A Andhra Pradesh.
Article 323 A Administrative tribunals Article 371-E Establishment of Central University in
Article 323 B Tribunals for other matters Andhra Pradesh.
Part 15 Article 371-F Special provisions with respect to the State of
Article 324 Superintendence, direction and control of Sikkim.
elections to be vested in Article 371-G Special provision with respect to the State of
an Election Commission Mizoram.
Article 326 Elections to the house of the people and to Article 371-H Special provision with respect to the State of
the legislative assemblies of states to Arunachal Pradesh.
be on the basis of adult suffrage Article 371-I Special provision with respect to the State of
Part 16 Goa.
Article 330 Reservation of seats for scheduled castes and Article 393 Constitution of India: Short title
scheduled tribes in the House of the People
4.3. INDIAN NATIONAL CONGRESS SESSIONS
• The Indian national congress was founded in 1885 on the advice of Allan Octavian Hume, a retired EnglishICS officer
• The first session of the congress was held at Bombay. Chaired by W.C.Bannerjee
• The first session of the Indian National Congress was held on 28 December 1885.

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• The list of Indian National Congress sessions with their Presidents

Year Place President Importance

1885 Bombay W C Bannerjee First session attended by 72 delegates
1886 Calcutta Dadabhai Naoroji
1887 Madras Syed Badruddin Tyabji First Muslim president
1888 Allahabad George Yule George Yule was the first English President of INC
1889 Bombay Sir William Wedderburn
1890 Calcutta Feroz Shah Mehta
1892 Allahabad W C Bonnerjee
1893 Lahore Dadabhai Naoroji
1895 Poona Surendranath Banerjee
1896 Calcutta Rahimtullah M. Sayani National song ‗Vande Mataram‘sung for the first time by
Rabindranath Tagore
1905 Benares Gopal Krishna Gokhale
1906 Calcutta Dadabhai Naoroji The word swaraj used first time
1907 Surat Rash Behari Ghosh Party splits into extremists and moderates
1911 Calcutta Bishan Narayan Dar ‗Jana Gana Mana‘ sung for the first time
1916 Lucknow Ambica Charan Mazumdar Lucknow Pact – joint session with the Muslim League
1917 Calcutta Annie Besant First woman president of the INC
1919 Amritsar Motilal Nehru Under the presidentship of Motilal Nehru, the Congress
condemned the Jallianwala Bagh massacre in the strongest of
terms.
1920 Calcutta Lala Lajpat Rai Gandhiji moved the Non- cooperation resolution
1922 Gaya C R Das
1924 Belgaum M K Gandhi Only session presided over by Mahatma Gandhi
1925 Kanpur Sarojini Naidu First Indian woman president
1927 Madras M.A.Ansari A resolution was passed which advocated the boycott of the
Simon Commission ―at every stage and in every form―.
1928 Calcutta Motilal Nehru All India Youth Congress
formed
1929 Lahore Jawaharlal Nehru • Passed the Resolution on ‗Poorna Swaraj.‘
• 26 January to be observed as ‗Poorna Swaraj Day‘
• Civil Disobedience movement for complete independence to
belaunched
1931 Karachi Vallabhbhai Patel • Gandhi-Irwin pact endorsed.
• Gandhi nominated to represent INC in the second-round
table conference.
• Adopted a resolution on Fundamental Rights and Duties
and provided an insight into what the economic policy of an
independent India
1934 Bombay Rajendra Prasad Amendment in the Constitution of Congress
1936 Lucknow Jawaharlal Nehru Push towards socialist ideas by Jawaharlal Nehru
1936 Faizpur Jawaharlal Nehru First Session to be held in a
(Maharashtra) village
1938 Haripura Subhas Chandra Bose National planning committee set up under Jawaharlal Nehru
1939 Tripuri Subhas Chandra Bose • Subhas Chandra Bose was re-elected but had to resign due
to protest by Gandhiji
• Rajendra Prasad was appointed in his place
• Subhash Chandra Bose formed Forward Bloc
1940 Ramgarh Abul Kalam Azad Civil Disobedience movement to be launched at appropriate
timeand circumstances.
1946 Meerut Acharya Kripalani Last session before independence
1948 Jaipur Pattabhi Sitaramayya First session after independence

No Country Parliament Name

4.4. List of Countries and Their Parliament Names 4 Andorra General Council
No Country Parliament Name 5 Angola National People‘s Assembly
1 Afghanistan Shora (National Assembly) 6 Argentina National Congress
2 Albania People‘s Assembly 7 Australia Federal Parliament
3 Algeria National People‘s Assembly 8 Austria National Assembly

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No Country Parliament Name No Country Parliament Name
9 Azerbaijan Melli Majlis (National Assembly) 66 New Zealand Parliament (House Of
10 Bahamas General Assembly Representative)
11 Bahrain Consultative Council 67 Norway The Storting
12 Bangladesh Jatia Parliament (Jatiya sansad) 68 Pakistan National Assembly & Senate
13 Belize National Assembly 69 Papua New National Parliament
14 Bhutan Tsogdu Guinea
15 Bolivia National Congress 70 Philippines The Congress
16 Botswana National Assembly 71 Poland Sejm
17 Brazil National Congress 72 Romania Great National Assembly
18 Britain Parliament 73 Russia The Federal Assembly (Duma &
19 Brunei National Assembly Federal Council)
20 Bulgaria Narodno Sabranie 74 Saudi Arabia Majlis ash-Shura
21 Cambodia National Assembly 75 Spain The Cortes Generales
22 China National People‘s Assembly 76 South Africa Parliament
23 Colombia Congress 77 Somalia People‘s Assembly
24 Croatia Sabor 78 Seychelles People‘s Assembly
25 Cuba National Assembly Of People‘s 79 Syria The People's Council
Power 80 Sweden Riksdag
26 Denmark Folketinget 81 Switzerland The Federal Assembly
27 Ecuador National Congress 82 Taiwan Yuan
28 East Timor National Parliament 83 Turkey Grand National Assembly
29 El Salvador Legislative Assembly 84 Uruguay General Assembly
30 Ethiopia Federal Council and House of 85 USA Congress
Representative 86 Uzbekistan Oliy Majlis(The Supreme Assembly)
31 Egypt People's Assembly 87 Vietnam National Assembly
32 Finland Eduskusta (Parliament) 88 Zambia National Assembly
33 France National Assembly 89 Zimbabwe Parliament
34 Germany Bundestag (Lower House) Bundesrat • International parliamentary day-30th June
(UpperHouse) • Inter parliamentary union
35 Guyana National Assembly • Established : 1889
36 Greece Chamber of Deputies • Headquarters: Geneva (Switzerland)
37 Hungary National Assembly
Slogan: ―For democracy. For everyone
38 Iceland Althing
39 India Parliament
40 Indonesia People‘s Consultative Assembly 4.5. Distribution of Rajya Sabha Seats in Indian
41 Iran Majlis States and Union Territories
42 Iraq National Assembly • The maximum strength of the Rajya Sabha is fixed at 250, out of
43 Ireland Oireachtas which, 238 are to be the representatives ofthe states and union
44 Israel The Knesset territories and 12 are nominated by the president
45 Italy Chamber of Deputies and Senate
46 Japan Diet • Presently the Rajya Sabha has 245 members. Of these, 229
47 Jordan National Assembly members represent the states, 4 members representthe union
48 Korea(North) Supreme People‘s Assembly territories and 12 members are nominated by the president
49 Korea(South) National Assembly
50 Kuwait National Assembly • The Rajya Sabha (first constituted in 1952) is a continuing
51 Labanon National Assembly chamber, it is a permanent body and not subject todissolution.
52 Laos People‘s Supreme Assembly However, one-third of its members retire every second year.
53 Lativa Saeima
• Members of Rajya Sabha are elected by the elected members of
54 Lesotho National Assembly And Senate
State Legislative Assemblies in accordancewith the system of
55 Libya General People‘s Congress
56 Lithuania Seimas proportional representation by means of single transferable vote
57 Luxembourg Chamber Of Deputies STATES
58 Madagascar National People‘s Assembly No States Rajya Sabha seats
59 Magnolia The State Great Khural 1 Andhra Pradesh 11
60 Maldives The People's Majlis 2 Arunachal Pradesh 1
61 Montenegro Federal Assembly 3 Assam 7
62 Mozambique People‘s Assembly 4 Bihar 16
63 Myanmar Pyithu Hluttaw 5 Chhattisgarh 5
64 Nepal Rashtriya Panchayat 6 Goa 1
65 Netherlands The States General (Staten-General) 7 Gujarat 11

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8 Haryana 5 Every Indian citizen who has crossed the age of 18 years is
9 Himachal Pradesh 3 eligible to vote
10 Jharkhand 6
STATES
11 Karnataka 12
No States Lok Sabha seats
12 Kerala 9
13 Madhya Pradesh 11 1 Andhra Pradesh 25
14 Maharashtra 19 2 Arunachal Pradesh 2
15 Manipur 1 3 Assam 14
4 Bihar 40
16 Meghalaya 1
17 Mizoram 1 5 Chhattisgarh 11
18 Nagaland 1 6 Goa 2
19 Odisha 10 7 Gujarat 26
20 Punjab 7 8 Haryana 10
21 Rajasthan 10 9 Himachal Pradesh 4
22 Sikkim 1 10 Jharkhand 14
23 Tamil Nadu 18 11 Karnataka 28
24 Telangana 7 12 Kerala 20
25 Tripura 1 13 Madhya Pradesh 29
26 Uttar Pradesh 31 14 Maharashtra 48
27 Uttarakhand 3 15 Manipur 2
16 Meghalaya 2
28 West Bengal 16
17 Mizoram 1
Union Territory 18 Nagaland 1
S.No Union Territory Rajya Sabha 19 Odisha 21
seats
20 Punjab 13
1 Jammu and Kashmir* 4
21 Rajasthan 25
2 NCT of Delhi 3 22 Sikkim 1
3 Puducherry 1 23 Tamil Nadu 39
24 Telangana 17
* Jammu and Kashmir is Union Territory from 31 October 25 Tripura 2
2019. 26 Uttar Pradesh 80
27 Uttarakhand 5
4.6. Distribution of Lok Sabha Seats in Indian States 28 West Bengal 42
and Union Territories
• The Lok Sabha seat allocation to the different states and UTs is Union Territory
done on the basis of the population of 1971. No Union seats Territory Lok Sabha
1 Andaman and Nicobar 1
• The maximum strength of the Lok Sabha is fixed at 552. Out of
Islands
this, 530 members are to be the representatives of the states, 20 2 Chandigarh 1
members are to be the representatives of the union territories 3 Dadra and Nagar Haveli and 2
and 2 members are to be nominated by the president from the Daman and Diu
Anglo-Indian community. 4 Jammu and Kashmir & 6 (J&K-5 ,
Ladakh* Ladakh-1)
• Presently the Lok Sabha has 545 members. Of these, 530 5 Lakshadweep 1
members represent the states, 13 members represent the union 6 NCT of Delhi 7
territories and 2 Anglo-Indian members are nominated by the 7 Puducherry 1
President * Jammu and Kashmir & Ladakh are Union Territories from 31
• Members of the Lok Sabha are directly elected by people. The October 2019
election is based on the principle of universal adult franchise.

4.7. List of Lok Sabha (House of the People) Speakers

No Lok Sabha Term Lok Sabha Remarks

Speakers
1 Ganesh Vasudev 15 May 1952 First • Shri GV.Mavalankar is the first Lok sabha speaker
Mavalankar -27 February 1956 of India.
2 M. A. Ayyangar 8 March 1956 First • MA Ayyangar was the first Deputy Speaker of the
-10 May 1957 Lok Sabha.
11 May 1957- Second
16 April 1962
3 Sardar Hukam 17 April 1962 Third • He was also governor of Rajasthan

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Singh -16 March 1967 • from 1967 to 1972.
4 Neelam Sanjiva 17 March 1967 4th • Neelam Sanjeeva Reddy was the sixth President of
Reddy -19 July 1969 India.
26 March 1977 6th • He was the first Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh.
- 13 July 1977
5 Gurdial Singh 8 August 1969 4th
Dhillon - 19 March 1971
22 March 1971 5th
-1 December 1975
6 Bali Ram Bhagat 15 January 1976 5th
-25 March 1977
7 K. S. Hegde 21 July 1977 6th
-21 January 1980
8 Balram Jakhar 22 January 1980 th
7
-15 January 1985
16 January 1985- th
8
18 December 1989
9 Rabi Ray 19 December 1989 th
9
-9 July 1991
10 Shivraj Patil 10 July 1991- th
10
22 May 1996
11 P. A. Sangma 23 May 1996 th
11
-23 March 1998
12 G. M. C. Balayogi 24 March 1998- th
12
19 October 1999
22 October 1999- th
13
3 March 2002
13 Manohar Joshi 10 May 2002- th
13
2 June 2004
14 Somnath Chatterjee 4 June 2004- th
14
30 May 2009
15 Meira Kumar 30 May 2009- th • First female Speaker of Lok Sabha
15
4 June 2014
16 Sumitra Mahajan 6 June 2014 th
16
-16 June 2019
17 Om Birla 18 June, 2019- th
17
incumbent

5. ECONOMICS
100 66*142 mm Lavender Rani ki vav
5.1. New Rupee Denomination and Features 50 66*135 mm
Fluorescent Hampi with
Blue chariot
Denominati Reverse Greenish
Dimension Colour 20 63*129 mm Ellora Caves
on Design yellow
2000 66*166 mm Magenta Mangalyaan Chocolate Konark Sun
10 63*123 mm
500 66*150 mm Stone Grey Red Fort Brown Temple
Bright
200 66*146 mm Sanchi Stupa
Yellow

5.2. Banks Headquarters and Taglines

Currently, there are a total of 34 banks functioning in India of which 12 are public sector banks and the rest 22 are private sector banks.

Private Banks:
Bank name Headquarters CEO/MD/HEAD Tagline
Axis Bank Mumbai Mr Amitabh Chaudhary Badhti Ka Naam Zindagi
Bandhan Bank Kolkatta Mr Chandra Shekhar Aapka Bhala, Sabki Bhalai
Ghosh
Catholic Syrian Bank Thrissur, Kerala Shri C.VR. Rajendran Support All the Way
City Union Bank Tamilnadu Dr. N Kamakodi Trust and Excellence since 1904
Dhanalaxmi Bank Thrissur, Kerala J K Shivan Tann Mann Dhan

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Development Credit Bank Mumbai Shri Murali N. Natarajan We value you
ECGC Bank Mumbai M Senthilnathan You Focus on Exports We Cover the Risks
Federal Bank Kerala Shri Shyam Srinivasan Your Perfect Banking Partner
HDFC Bank Mumbai Sasidhar Jagdishan We Understand Your World
ICICI Bank Mumbai Sandeep Bakshi Hum Hai Na, Khayal Apka
IDBI Bank Mumbai Rakesh Sharma Banking for All “Aao Sochein Bada”
IDFC First Bank Mumbai Mr. V Vaidhyanathan Always You First
IndusInd Bank Maharashtra Sumant Kathpalia We make You Feel Richer, We Care Dil Se
ING Vysya Bank Bangalore Uday Sareen Jiyo Easy
Jammu & Kashmir Bank Srinagar Baldev Prakash Serving to Empower
Karnataka Bank Mangaluru, Karnataka M.S Mahabaleshwara Your Family Bank across India
Karur Vysya Bank Karur, Tamilnadu Boddu Ramesh Babu A smart way to Bank
Kotak Mahindra Bank Mumbai Uday Kotak Let’s make money simple, Ab Kona Kona
Kotak
Lakshmi Vilas Bank Chennai, Tamilnadu S Sundar The Changing Face of Prosperity
Nainital bank Nainital, Uttarakhand Dinesh Pant Banking with Personal Touch
South Indian Bank Thrissur, Kerala Murali Ramakrishnan Experience Next Generation Banking
Tamilnadu Mercantile Thoothukudi, K.V Ramamoorthy
Bank Tamilnadu
Yes Bank Mumbai, Maharashtra Prashant Kumar Experience our Expertise

Public Sector Banks:

Bank Name Headquarters MD / CEO / Head Taglines
State Bank of India Mumbai, Dinesh Kumar Khara With You all the way, Pure Banking
Maharashtra (Chairman) Nothing Else, The Nation Bank on Us, The
Banker to Every Indian, A Bank of the
Common Man
Punjab National Bank (Anchor New Delhi Atul Kumar Goel The Name You Can Bank upon
Bank) + Oriental Bank of
Commerce+ United Bank of
India
Canara Bank (Anchor Bank) + Bengaluru, Karnataka Lingam Venkata Prabhakar Together we can
Syndicate Bank
Indian Bank (Anchor Bank) + Chennai, Tamilnadu Shri Shanti Lal Jain Your Own Bank
Allahabad Bank
Union Bank of India (Anchor Mumbai A. Manimekhalai Good People to Bank with
Bank) + Andhra Bank+
Corporation Bank
Bank of Baroda+ Dena Bank+ Vadodara, Gujarat Sanjiv Chadha India’s International Bank
Vijaya Bank
UCO Bank Kolkatta, West Bengal Shri Soma Sankara Prasad Honours your Trust
Indian Overseas Bank Chennai, Tamilnadu Partha Pratim Sengupta Good People to Grow with
Bank of India Mumbai Atanu Kumar Das Relationship Beyond Banking
Bank of Maharashtra Pune A. S. Rajeev One Family One Bank
Punjab & Sind Bank New Delhi Swarup Kumar Saha Where Service is a Way of Life
Central Bank of India Mumbai Matam Venkata Rao Central to you since 1911

All India Financial Institutions :

Financial Institutions Headquarter Head
EXIM Bank Mumbai Harsha Bangari
NABARD Mumbai Govinda Rajulu Chintala
NHB New Delhi Shri Sriram Kalyanaraman
SIDBI Lucknow Siva S Ramann

5.3. Census in India

Census: First Census in India :
Census is the process of collecting, compiling, analyzing, Census operations started in India long back during the period of
evaluating, publishing, and disseminating statistical data the Maurya dynasty. It was systematized during the years 1865 to
regarding the population of a country.

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1872, though it has been conducted uninterruptedly since the year Lowest child sex ratio in the
1881. state
Highest Literacy Rate in Kerala
Census 2011 in India : State Lakshadweep
Census 2011 was the 7th Census operation post India's Highest Literacy Rate in UT
Independence and 15th in total since it began in the year 1981. Lowest Literacy Rate in Bihar
The 2011 Census was conducted in two segments: State Dadra and Nagar Haveli
▪ Population enumeration Lowest Literacy Rate in UT
▪ Housing and house listing Highest Literacy Rate Serchhipp (Mizoram) 98.76%
Census 2011 Report : District Alirajpur (Madhya pradesh)
Population Total 1,210,854,977 Lowest Literacy Rate 37.20%
Males 623,724, 568 District
Females 586, 469, 294 High-Density State Delhi (11,320 per sq.km)
Literacy Total 74% Most Populated City Mumbai (Maharashtra)
Males 82. 10% Least Populated City Kapurthala ( Punjab)
Females 65. 46% Populated District Thane ( Maharashtra)
Density of Per sq.km 382 Least Populated District Dibang Valley( Arunachal
population Pradesh)
Sex ratio Per 1000 Males 940 females Most Populated Metro Mumbai (18,394,912)
Child sex ratio(up Per 1000 Males 914 females
to 6 years) Census 2021 :
▪ Census 2021 will be the 16th census of India and the 8th
▪ Census 2011 was released on 31st March 2011 by the Union census after the Independence of India.
Home secretary and RGI of India ▪ It will be conducted in 18 languages out of 22 scheduled
▪ Motto: Our Census, Our Future languages (under the 8th schedule) and English, while
▪ The increase in Population from 2001- to 2011 is 181 Million Census 2011 was conducted in 16 of the 22 scheduled
languages.
Highest populated state Uttar Pradesh 5.4. Public Sector Companies and Headquarters
Highest populated UT Delhi
Least populous state Sikkim No. PSU HQ ESTD
Least populous UT Lakshadweep Public Sector Companies (PSU) – Maharatnas
Highest urban Population in Maharashtra National Thermal Power
India (state& UT) 1 Delhi 1975
Corporation (NTPC)
Lowest urban Population in Lakshadweep Gas Authority Of India
India (state& UT) 2 Delhi 1984
Ltd (GAIL)
Highest Rural Population in Uttar Pradesh Steel Authority Of India
India (state& UT) 3 Delhi 1954
Ltd (SAIL)
Lowest Rural Population in Lakshadweep Bharat Heavy Electrical
India (state& UT) 4 Delhi 1964
Ltd (BHEL)
Highest sex ratio in the state Kerala (1,084) Bharat Petroleum
5 Mumbai 1952
Highest sex ratio in UT Pondicherry (1037) Corporation Ltd (BPCL)
Lowest sex ratio in the state Haryana (861) Indian Oil Corporation
6 Mumbai 1959
Lowest sex ratio in UT Daman and Diu (710) Ltd (IOCL)
District with the highest sex Mahe, Pondicherry (1147) Oil and Natural Gas
7 Delhi 1956
ratio Daman, Daman & Diu (591) Corporation (ONGC)
District with the lowest sex 8 Coal India Ltd (CIL) Kolkata 1975
ratio
Highest child sex ratio in the Mizoram
state Haryana
No. PSU Headquarter Establishment
Public Sector Companies (PSU) – Navratnas
1 Container Corporation Of India (CONCOR) Delhi 1989
2 Engineers India Ltd (EIL) Delhi 1965
3 Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd (MTNL) Delhi 1986
4 National Buildings Construction Corporation (NBCC) Delhi 1960
5 Power Finance Corporation (PFC) Delhi 1986
6 Rural Electrification Corporation (REC) Delhi 1969
7 Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd (PGCIL) Gurugram 1989
8 Shipping Corporation Of India (SCI) Mumbai 1961
9 Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd (HPCL) Mumbai 1974
10 Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL) Bengaluru 1940

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11 Bharat Electronics Ltd (BEL) Bengaluru 1954
12 National Aluminium Company (NALCO) Bhubaneswar 1981
13 National Minerals Development Corporation (NMDC) Hyderabad 1958
14 Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Ltd (RINL) Vishakhapatnam 1982
15 Neyveli Lignite Corporation Ltd (NLC) Neyveli, TN 1956
16 Oil India Ltd (OIL) Duliajam, Assam 1959

5.5. Symbols of Indian States and Union Territories

Symbols of Indian States –
No. State Animal Bird Tree Flower
1 Andhra Pradesh Black Buck Indian Roller Neem Water lilies
Arunachal
2 Mithun Great Hornbill Hollong Foxtail Orchid
Pradesh
One- Horned
3 Assam White-winged wood duck Hollong Foxtail Orchids
Rhinoceros
4 Bihar Gaur House Sparrow Peepal Kachnar
5 Chhattisgarh Wild Buffalo Hill Myna Sal Rhynchostylis gigantea
6 Goa Gaur Yellow- throated Bulbul Matti Jasmine(Plumeria rubra)
7 Gujarat Asiatic Lion Greater Flamingo Banyan Marigold
8 Haryana Blackbuck Black Francolin Peepal Lotus
Himachal
9 Snow Leopard Western Tragopan Deodar Rhododendron
Pradesh
10 Jharkhand Elephant Koel Sal Palash
11 Karnataka Elephant Indian Roller Sandal Lotus
12 Kerala Elephant Great Hornbill Coconut Golden Shower Tree
13 Madhya Pradesh Swamp Deer Asian Paradise Flycatcher Banyan Parrot Tree
14 Maharashtra Giant Squirrel Yellow-footed Green Pigeon Mango Jarul
15 Manipur Sangai Mrs. Hume’s Pheasant Toon Shirui Lily
16 Meghalaya Clouded Leopard Hill Myna Gamhar Lady Slipper Orchid
17 Mizoram Serow Mrs. Hume’s Pheasant Iron Wood Red Vanda
18 Nagaland Mithun Blyth’s Tragopan Alder Rhododendron
19 Odisha Sambar deer Indian Roller Banyan Ashoka
20 Punjab Blackbuck Northern Goshawk Sheesham Gladious
21 Rajasthan Chinkara & Camel Great Indian Bustard Khejri Rohira
22 Sikkim Red Panda Blood Pheasant Rhododendron Noble Orchid
23 Tamil Nadu Nilgiri Tahr Emerald Dove Palmyra Palm Kandhal
24 Telangana Spotted Deer (Chital) Indian Roller Jammi Tanner’s Cassia
25 Tripura Phayre’s Langur Green Imperial Pigeon Agar Nageshwar
26 Uttarakhand Musk Deer Himalayan Monal Burans Brahm Kamal
27 Uttar Pradesh Swamp Deer Sarus Crane Ashok Brahm Kamal
28 West Bengal Fishing Cat White-throated Kingfisher Devil’s tree Shephali

5.6. Important Signs or Symbols and Their Meanings

No Signs/ Symbols Meaning
No Signs/ Symbols Meaning 10 One Skull on two Sign of Danger
1 Pen/Lotus Symbol of Culture and bones crossing each
Civilization other diagonally
2 Red Cross Medical Aid and Hospital 11 The flag flown at half- Symbol of national mourning
3 Red Flag Revolution and also sign of mast
danger 12 Flag flown upside signal of distress
4 Black Flag Symbol of Protest down
5 White Flag Symbol of Truce 13 Yellow flag Flown on Vehicles or Ships
6 Pegion / Dove/Olive Symbol of Peace carrying patients suffering
Branch from infectious diseases
7 Wheel Symbol of Progress
8 Red Triangle Sign of Family Planning
9 A blindfolded woman Symbol of Justice
holding a balanced
scale

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5.7. List of Important Stock Exchange Around The World

No Name of the Stock Exchange Headquarters Remarks

1 National Stock Exchange Mumbai • Country: India
• Index: Nifty
• Founded:1992
2 BSE (Bombay Stock Exchange) Mumbai • Country: India
• Index: Sensex
• Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) is located in Dalal Street, Mumbai.
• Established in 1875
• It is Asia's oldest stock exchange.
3 New York Stock Exchange New York • Index: NYSE Composite
• Country: United States
• New York Stock Exchange is located in Wall Street, New York
• The New York Stock
• Exchange is the largest stock exchange in the World
• Nickname: "The Big Board"
4 Japan Exchange Group Tokyo • Country :Japan
• Index :Nikkei 225
5 London Stock Exchange Group London • Country :United Kingdom
• Index :FTSE 100
6 NASDAQ (National Association New York • Country : United States
of Securities Dealers Automated • Index : NASDAQ-100
Quotations) • It was the world's first electronic exchange.
7 Shanghai Stock Exchange Shanghai • Country :China
• Index : SSE Composite
8 Hong Kong Stock Exchange Hong Kong • Index : Hang Seng
9 Shenzhen Stock Exchange Shenzhen • Country : China
• Index : SSE Composite
10 Toronto Stock Exchange Toronto • Country :Canada
• Index : S&P/TSX Composite
11 Korea Exchange Seoul • Index :KOSPI
• Country : South Korea
12 JSE Limited Johannesburg • Country :South Africa
• Index :FTSE/JSE
• JSE Limited is the largest stock exchange in Africa
13 Euronext Amsterdam, • Economy: European Union
Brussels,
Dublin,
Lisbon,
London,
Milan,
Oslo and Paris.
14 Taiwan Stock Exchange Taipei • Country :Taiwan
• Index :TAIEX
15 SIX Swiss Exchange Zurich • Country :Switzerland
• Index :SMI
16 Singapore Exchange Limited Singapore • Country :Singapore
• Index :Straits Times Index (STI)

Extra Shots • Amsterdam Stock Exchange is the oldest stock exchange in

• The SEBI is the regulatory body for securities and the world. It was established in 1602
commodity market in India. It was established on 12 April • BSE Sensex is country's first equity index which launched
1988. on 2nd Jan 1986 with the Base Value of 100 as onyear 1978-
79

5.8. List of Central Banks of Different Countries

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No Country name Central Bank No Country name Central Bank
1 Afghanistan Bank of Afghanistan 54 Japan Bank of Japan
2 Albania Bank of Albania 55 Jordan Central Bank of Jordan
3 Algeria Bank of Algeria 56 Kazakhstan National Bank of Kazakhstan
4 Argentina Central Bank of Argentina 57 Kenya Central Bank of Kenya
5 Armenia Central Bank of Armenia 58 Korea Bank of Korea
6 Aruba Central Bank of Aruba 59 Kuwait Central Bank of Kuwait
7 Australia Reserve Bank of Australia National Bank of the Kyrgyz
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8 Austria Austrian National Bank Republic
9 Azerbaijan National Bank of Azerbaijan 61 Lebanon Central Bank of Lebanon
10 Bahamas Central Bank of The Bahamas 62 Libya Central Bank of Libya
11 Bahrain Central Bank of Bahrain 63 Lithuania Bank of Lithuania
12 Bangladesh Bangladesh Bank 64 Luxembourg Central Bank of Luxembourg
13 Barbados Central Bank of Barbados 65 Malaysia Central Bank of Malaysia
National Bank of the Republic of 66 Malawi Reserve Bank of Malawi
14 Belarus
Belarus 67 Malta Central Bank of Malta
15 Belgium National Bank of Belgium 68 Mauritius Bank of Mauritius
16 Belize Central Bank of Belize 69 Mexico Bank of Mexico
Royal Monetary Authority of 70 Moldova National Bank of Moldova
17 Bhutan
Bhutan 71 Mongolia Bank of Mongolia
18 Bolivia Central Bank of Bolivia 72 Mozambique Bank of Mozambique
19 Brazil Central Bank of Brazil 73 Namibia Bank of Namibia
20 Bulgaria Bulgarian National Bank 74 Nepal Nepal Rastra Bank
21 Cambodia National Bank of Cambodia 75 New Zealand Reserve Bank of New Zealand
Bank of Canada- Banque du 76 Nigeria Central Bank of Nigeria
22 Canada
Canada 77 Pakistan State Bank of Pakistan
Chad Bank of Central African States 78 Paraguay Central Bank of Paraguay
23 Chile Central Bank of Chile 79 Peru Central Reserve Bank of Peru
24 China The People‘s Bank of China 80 Philippines Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas
25 Colombia Bank of the Republic 81 Poland National Bank of Poland
26 Croatia Croatian National Bank 82 Portugal Bank of Portugal
27 Cuba Central Bank of Cuba 83 Qatar Qatar Central Bank
28 Cyprus Central Bank of Cyprus 84 Romania National Bank of Romania
Czech Central Bank of the Russian
29 Czech National Bank 85 Russia
Republic Federation
30 Denmark National Bank of Denmark 86 Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency
31 Ecuador Central Bank of Ecuador 87 Seychelles Central Bank of Seychelles
32 Egypt Central Bank of Egypt 88 Singapore Monetary Authority of Singapore
33 Estonia Bank of Estonia 89 Slovakia National Bank of Slovakia
34 Ethiopia National Bank of Ethiopia 90 Slovenia Bank of Slovenia
35 Fiji Reserve Bank of Fiji 91 South Africa South African Reserve Bank
36 Finland Bank of Finland 92 Spain Bank of Spain
37 France Bank of France 93 Sri Lanka Central Bank of Sri Lanka
38 Georgia National Bank of Georgia 94 South Korea Bank of Korea
39 Germany Deutsche Bundesbank 95 Switzerland Swiss National Bank
40 Ghana Bank of Ghana 96 Sweden Sveriges Riksbank
41 Greece Bank of Greece National Bank of the Republic of
97 Tajikistan
42 Guatemala Bank of Guatemala Tajikistan
43 Haiti Central Bank of Haiti 98 Tanzania Bank of Tanzania
44 Hong Kong Hong Kong Monetary Authority 99 Thailand Bank of Thailand
45 Hungary Magyar Nemzeti Bank Central Bank of the Republic of
100 Turkey
46 Iceland Central Bank of Iceland Turkey
47 India Reserve Bank of India 101 Tunisia Central Bank of Tunisia
48 Indonesia Bank Indonesia United Arab Central Bank of United Arab
102
Central Bank of the Islamic Emirates Emirates
49 Iran
Republic of Iran United
103 Bank of England
50 Iraq Central Bank of Iraq Kingdom
51 Israel Bank of Israel 104 United States Federal Reserve System
52 Italy Bank of Italy 105 Vietnam State Bank of Vietnam
53 Jamaica Bank of Jamaica 106 Zimbabwe Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe

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5.9. CERTIFICATION MARKS IN INDIA

No Certificatio Certifying agency Remarks

n
marks
1 AGMARK Directorate of Marketing • Products: Agricultural Products
andInspection, • AGMARK is a certification mark employed on agricultural products
Government ofIndia. in India, assuring that they conform to a set of standards
• The present AGMARK standards cover quality guidelines for 222
different commodities spanning a variety of pulses, cereals, essential
oils, vegetable oils, fruits and vegetables and semi-processed
products like vermicelli.
2 BIS Bureau of IndianStandards • Products: Gold and silver jewelry
hallmark • It certifies that the piece of jewelry conforms to a set of standards laid
by the Bureau of Indian Standards
• India is the second biggest market for gold and its jewelry.
• Hallmarked gold is available in purities of 958 (23 carats), 916 (22
carats), 875 (21 carats) ,750 (18 carats),708(17 carats ) and
• 585 (14 carats)
3 ISI mark Bureau of Indian • Products: Industrial products
Standards • The mark certifies that a product conforms to an Indian standard (IS)
developed by
• the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS)
4 Ecomark Bureau of Indian • Products: Eco-friendly products
Standard • This mark is issued by the BIS to products conforming to a set of
standards aimed at the least impact on the ecosystem
5 FPO Mark Ministry of Food • Products: All processed fruit products
Processing Industries, • The FPO mark is a certification
Government of India. • mark mandatory on all processed fruit products sold in India such as
packaged fruit beverages, fruit-jams, crushes and squashes, pickles,
dehydrated fruit products, and fruit extracts,
6 Non Central Pollution Control • The Non Polluting Vehicle mark is a mandatory certification mark
Polluting Board of India required on all new motor vehicles sold in India.
Vehicle • The mark certifies that the motor vehicle conforms to the relevant
Mark version of the Bharat Stage emission standards
7 India Agricultural and • India Organic certification mark for organically farmed food products
Organic Processed Food Products • The certification mark certifies that an organic food product conforms
Export Development to the National Standards for Organic Products established in 2000
Authority
(APEDA)
8 FSSAI • All food products
• FSSAI is responsible for protecting and promoting public health
through the regulation and supervision of food safety.
9 Vegetarian • The green dot symbol identifies lacto- vegetarian food, and the
and non- brown dot symbol identifies non-lacto-vegetarian food.
vegetarian • Packaged food and toothpaste products sold in India are required to
marks be labeled with a mandatory mark in order to be distinguished
between Lacto-vegetarian and non-Lacto-vegetarian.
10 Silk Mark Silk Mark Organisation of • Silk Mark is a certification mark in India for silk textiles
India • The mark certifies that the piece of textile which bears the mark is
made of pure natural silk
Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) is the National Standard Body of India.

5.10. Famous News Papers Names in the World

Newspapers Country Language Newspapers Country Language

USA Today USA English The Yomiuri Shimbun Japan Japanese
The New York Times USA English The Asahi Shimbun Japan Japanese
The Wall Street USA English The Mainichi Japan Japanese
Journal Newspapers
Washington Post USA English ABC Spain Spanish

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Newspapers Country Language Newspapers Country Language
The Times of India India English Khaleej Times Dubai, United English
The Hindu India English Arab Emirates
Hindustan Times India English Gulf news Dubai, United English
The Indian Express India English Arab Emirates
Malayala Manorama India Malayalam The Island Sri Lanka English
Dainik Bhaskar India Hindi The Financial Times Britain English
angzhou Daily China Chinese The Straits Times Singapore English
Daily Telegraph Britain English Arab news Saudi Arabia English
Daily Mirror Britain English Dina Thanthi India Tamil
The Guardian Britain English Dainik Bhaskar Bhopal, India Hindi
The Times Britain English El Mundo Spain Spanish

5.11. List of Secretaries General of the United Nations

No Secretary-General Country of origin Remarks
1 Trygve Lie Norway • Term of Office: 1946-1952
• First United Nations secretary-general
2 Dag Hammarskjold Sweden • Term of Office: 1953-1961
3 U Thant Myanmar • Term of Office: 1961-1971
4 Kurt Waldheim Austria • Term of Office: 1972-1981
5 Javier Perez de Cuellar Peru • Term of Office: 1982-1991
6 Boutros Boutros-Ghali Egypt • Term of Office: 1992-1996
• Boutros Boutros-Ghali was the UN first secretary general
from the African continent
7 Kofi Annan Ghana • Term of Office: 1997-2006
8 Ban Ki-moon South Korea • Term of Office: 2007-2016
9 Antonio Guterres Portugal • Term of Office: 2017- Present
• He served as prime minister of Portugal from 1995 to 2002,
during which time he was heavily involved in the
international effort to resolve the crisis in East Timor.
• 9th United Nations High Commissioner
• for Refugees (2005-2015)
Extra Shots
• The Secretary-General is appointed by the General Assembly, on the recommendation of the Security Council. The Secretary-
General's selection is therefore subject to the veto of any of the five permanentmembers of the Security Council.
• Term length-Five years (renewable)

United Nations
• The United Nations (UN) is an international organization established on 24 October 1945, which aims to maintain international
peace and security.
• The UN was established after World War II with the aim of preventing future wars, succeeding the ineffectiveLeague of Nations
• Headquarters: New York City
• Its Official Languages are Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish

5.12. NATIONAL EMBLEMS OF FAMOUS COUNTRIES

Country Emblem Country Emblem
India Lion Capital of Ashoka Spain Eagle
Pakistan Crescent and Star Japan Chrysanthemum
Bangladesh Water Lilly Canada Maple Leaf, Lily
Netherlands Lion Sri Lanka Lion
UK Rose Hong Kong Bauhinia
USA Bald eagle Iran Rose
Italy White Lilly Israel Candelabrum
Australia Kangaroo Turkey Crescent and Star
New Zealand Kiwi Syria Eagle
Germany Corn Flower Ivory Coast Elephant
Norway Lion Belgium Lion
France Lily Egypt Golden Eagle
Iran Rose Malaysia Tiger

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Philippines Philippine eagle Bhutan Thunder dragon known as Druk
Ecuador Andean condor Myanmar Chinthe

6. HISTORY
6.1. Revolutions in India
REVOLUTION FIELD PERSON ASSOCIATED WITH
Evergreen Revolution Agriculture Started in 11th Five Year Plan
Black Revolution Petroleum Production
Blue Revolution Fish Production Dr. Arun Krishnan
Brown Revolution Cocoa/ Leather / Non -Conventional Products
Grey Revolution Fertilizers
Golden Revolution Horticulture, Honey, Fruit Nirpakh Tutej
Golden Fibre Revolution Jute Production
Pink Revolution Onion and Prawn Production/ Pharmaceuticals Durgesh Patel
Red Revolution Meat and Tomato Production Vishal Tewari
Silver Revolution Egg / Poultry Production Indira Gandhi
Silver Fibre Revolution Cotton
Round Revolution Potato
White Revolution (Or Operation
Dairy and Milk Production Verghese Kurien
Flood)
Norman Borlong
Green Revolution Food Grains M.S Swaminathan
William Goud (UK)
Oil Seed Revolution (Especially Mustard and
Yellow Revolution Sam Pitroda
Sunflower)
Higher Production
Protein Revolution Coined By PM Modi and Arun Jaitley
(Technology-driven 2nd Green Revolution)

6.2. Important Battles in History

Battle of Venni : Battle of the Hydaspes

• Parties: Chola King Karikala & Pandya & Chera kings • Parties: Alexander against Porus
• Result: Chola King won • Result: Greek victory and the surrender of Porus
• Location: Thanjavur • Location: Banks of the Jhelum (Hydaspes to the Greeks),
• Year: Around 130 CE Punjab (Pakistan)
Battle of Koppam : • Year: 326 BCE
• Parties: Chalukya king Someshvara I & Chola kings Seleucid–Mauryan war
Rajadhiraja Chola & Rajendra Chola II • Parties: Chandragupta Maurya against Seleucus I
• Result: Strategic Chola victory; Tactical victory of the Nicator
Western Chalukyas • Result: Mauryan victory
• Location: Koppam • Location: Northwestern India (Indus River Valley)
• Year: Around 1054 CE • Year: Between 305 and 303 BCE
Battle of Maski : Battle of Pullalur :
• Parties: Rajendra Chola I defeated Jayasimha II • Parties: Chalukya king Pulakesin II against Pallava king
• Year: 1019- 1020 AD Mahendravarman I
• Result: Chalukya victory
Kalinga War : • Location: Pullalur or Pollilur, Kanchipuram, Tamil Nadu
• Parties: Maurya king Ashoka & Kalinga • Year: 618 – 619 CE
• Result: Mauryan victory
• Location: Kalinga First Battle of Tarain
• Year: 261 BC • Parties: Prithviraj Chauhan against Mohammed Ghori
Battle of the Ten Kings (Dāśarājñá Yuddhá) : • Result: Prithviraj Chauhan won
• Parties: Vedic Kingdoms of the Bharatas against the • Location: Taraori, Haryana
Trtsu-Bharata Sudas • Year: 1191 AD
• Result: Trtsu-Bharata victory Second Battle of Tarain
• Location: Near River Ravi (ancient Parushni river), • Parties: Prithviraj Chauhan against Mohammed Ghori
Punjab • Result: Ghori won
• Year: 14th century BCE • Location: Taraori, Haryana

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• Year: 1192 • Year: 14 January 1761 AD
Third Battle of Tarain : Battle of Talikota :
• Parties: Mamluk king Iltutmish of the Delhi Sultanate • Parties: Vijayanagara Empire (Aliya Rama Raya) against
and Tajuddin Yaldauj Deccan Sultanate alliance (Ahmednagar, Bijapur, Bidar,
• Result: Iltutmish won and Golconda)
• Location: Tarain • Result: Vijayanagara lost
• Year: 1215 • Location: Talikota, Karnataka
Battle of Diu : • Year: 23 January 1565
• Parties: Portuguese versus the combined forces of the Battle of Haldighati :
Sultan of Gujarat, the Zamorin of Calicut, the Mamluk • Parties: Maharana Pratap of Mewar against Akbar’s
Sultanate of Egypt with support from the Republic of forces led by Man Singh I
Venice and the Ottoman Empire • Result: Mughal victory
• Result: Portuguese victory • Location: Haldighati, Rajsamand District, Rajasthan
• Location: Arabian Sea, Port of Diu • Year: 18 June 1576
• Year: 3 February 1509 Battle of Goa :
Battle of Khatoli : • Parties: Portuguese Armada & Dutch
• Parties: Lodi dynasty under Ibrahim Lodi and the • Result: Portuguese won
Kingdom of Mewar under Rana Sanga • Location: Goa, Portuguese India
• Result: Mewar victory • Year: 1638 - 1639
• Location: India, Khatoli, Uttarakhand, Lakheri Battle of Samugarh :
• Year: 1518 • Parties: Dara Shikoh against Aurangzeb for the Mughal
Battle of Khanwa : throne
• Parties: Babur against Rana Sanga • Result: Aurangzeb won
• Result: Mughal victory • Location: Samugarh, near Agra
• Location: Khanwa, Rajasthan • Year: 29 May 1658
• Year: March 16, 1527 AD Battle of Karnal
• Parties: Nader Shah (Persian Empire) against
Battle of Chanderi or Siege of Chanderi: Muhammad Shah (Mughal Empire)
• Parties: Babur and Medini Rai (Rajputs) • Result: Persian victory
• Result: Mughal victory: Babur captured the Fortress of • Location: Karnal, Haryana
Chanderi • Year: 24 February 1739
• Location: Chanderi Battle of Colachel :
• Year: 20 January 1528 • Parties: Kingdom of Travancore against the Dutch East
Battle of Ghaghra : India Company
• Parties: Babur against Mahmud Lodi (Delhi Sultanate), • Result: Travancore victory
Nusrat Shah (Bengal Sultanate) • Location: Colachel, Travancore Kingdom (present
• Result: Mughal victory Kanyakumari District, Tamil Nadu)
• Location: Ghaghara River, Bihar • Year: 10 August 1741
• Year: May 6, 1529 First Carnatic War :
Battle of Chausa : • Parties: English and French forces in India
• Parties: Sher Shah Suri against Humayun • Location: Carnatic region, South India
• Result: Mughal loss • Year: 1746 – 1748
• Location: Chausa, Buxar, Bihar Second Carnatic War :
• Year: 26 June 1539 • Parties: French and British forces in India
Battle of Sammel : • Result: British forces won
• Parties : Sher Shah and Rajputs • Location: Carnatic (Southern India)
• Location : Sammel • Year: 1749 – 1754
• Year : 1544 AD Third Carnatic War :
First Battle of Panipat : • Parties: English and French forces in India
• Parties: Babar against Ibrahim Lodi • Result: British victory
• Result: Babar won • Location: Carnatic, South India
• Location: Panipat, Haryana • Year: 1757 – 1763
• Year: 21 April 1526 AD Battle of Plassey :
Second Battle of Panipat : • Parties: British East India Company against Siraj-Ud-
• Parties: Akbar against Hemu Daulah (Nawab of Bengal)
• Result: Mughal victory • Result: British victory, with Mir Jafar, crowned as the
• Location: Panipat, Haryana new Nawab of Bengal
• Year: 5 November 1556 AD • Location: Palasi, on the banks of Bhagirathi river near
Third Battle of Panipat Calcutta
• Parties: Maratha Empire and Durrani Empire • Year: 23 June 1757
(Afghanistan) Battle of Wandiwash (Part of the Third Carnatic War)
• Result: Afghan victory • Parties: English and French forces in India
• Location: Panipat, Haryana • Result: British victory

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• Location: Vandavasi, Tamil Nadu Third Anglo-Maratha War
• Year: 22 January 1761 AD • Parties: British against Marathas
Battle of Buxar • Result: British victory
• Parties: British against Mir Qasim (administering • Location: Maharashtra and neighboring areas
Bengal), Shuja-ud-Daulah (Nawab of Awadh), and Shah • Year: 1817 – 1819
Alam II (Mughal emperor) Battle of Porto Novo
• Result: British victory • Parties: British East India Company against Hyder Ali of
• Location: Buxar, Bihar Mysore
• Year: October 1764 AD • Result: British victory
First Anglo-Mysore War : • Location: Parangipettai (earlier called Porto Novo),
• Parties: British East India Company against Hyder Ali of Cuddalore District, Tamil Nadu
Mysore • Year: 1 July 1781 AD
• Result: Mysore victory First Anglo-Sikh War :
• Location: South India • Parties: British East India Company against the Sikh
• Year: 1767–1769 Empire
Second Anglo-Mysore War : • Result: British victory; Jammu and Kashmir annexed by
• Parties: British East India Company against Hyder Ali of the East India Company
Mysore • Location: Mudki, Punjab
• Result: Treaty of Mangalore, restoring the status quo • Year: 1845 – 1846
ante Bellum Second Anglo-Sikh War :
• Location: South India • Parties: British East India Company against the Sikh
• Year: 1780–1784 Empire
Third Anglo-Mysore War : • Result: British victory
• Parties: British East India Company against Tipu Sultan • Location: Punjab
of Mysore • Year: 1848 – 1849
• Result: British victory, Treaty of Seringapatam Battle of Sobraon (Part of the First Anglo-Sikh War)
• Location: South India • Parties: British against the Sikh Empire
• Year: 1790 – 1792 • Result: British victory
Fourth Anglo-Mysore War : • Location: Sobraon, Punjab
• Parties: British East India Company against Tipu Sultan • Year: 10 February 1846
of Mysore Battle of Imphal :
• Result: British victory, Mysore entered into a subsidiary • Parties: British against Imperial Japan, Provisional Govt.
alliance of Free India (Azad Hind)
• Location: Chiefly South India • Result: British victory
• Year: 1799 • Location: Imphal, Manipur
Battle of Pollilur (Part of the Second Anglo-Mysore War) : • Year: 1944
• Parties: British East India Company against Hyder Ali of 1st Anglo-Afghan War :
Mysore • Parties: British East India Company & Afghans
• Result: Both parties claimed victory • Result: Afghan victory: British withdrawal; Dost
• Location: Pollilur, Kanchipuram Mohammad Khan reinstalled to the throne;
• Year: 1781 AD • Location: Afghanistan
First Anglo-Maratha War : • Year: 1839 - 1842
• Parties: British against Marathas 2nd Anglo-Afghan War :
• Result: Maratha victory: Treaty of Salbai • Parties: British East India Company & Afghans
• Location: Pune • Result: British victory: Treaty of Gandamak;
• Year: 1775 – 1782 • Location: Afghanistan, Emirate of Afghanistan
Second Anglo-Maratha War : • Year: 1878 - 80
• Parties: British against Marathas 3rd Anglo-Afghan War :
• Result: British victory • Parties: British East India Company & Afghans
• Location: India • Result: Anglo-Afghan Treaty of 1919
• Year: 1803 – 1805 • Year: 1919
6.3. List of Presidents of India From 1950 To 2020

No Name Term of office Remarks

1 Dr Rajendra Prasad January 26, 1950 – May 13, •`
1962
2 Dr Sarvepalli May 13, 1962 – May 13, 1967 • Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan served as the second
Radhakrishnan President of India
• First Vice President of India
• First president from South India
3 Dr Zakir Hussain May 13, 1967 – May 03, 1969 • Zakir Husain Khan was served as the third President of
India

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No Name Term of office Remarks
• He was the first Muslim President of India.
• The first Indian president to die while in office
• Shortest serving president of India
4 Varahagiri Venkatagiri May 03, 1969 - July 20, 1969 •
(Acting)
5 Justice Mohammad July 20, 1969 – August 24, • 1. Justice Mohammad Hidayatullah was the only chief
Hidayatullah (Acting) 1969 justice of India served as the acting president of India
6 Varahagiri Venkata Giri August 24, 1969 - August 24, • Varahagiri Venkata Giri was the fourth president of
1974 India
• As president, V.V.Giri was the
• only person to be elected as an independent candidate
7 Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed August 24, 1974 - February • Fakhruddin Ali served as the fifth President of India
(1905-1977) 11, 1977 • He was the second President who died in the post of the
• President.
8 B.D. Jatti (Acting) February 11, 1977 - July 25, •
1977
9 Neelam Sanjiva Reddy July 25, 1977 - July 25, 1982 • Neelam Sanjiva Reddy was the sixth President of India
(1913-1996) • The only President of India who was elected unopposed
&
• Youngest president
10 Giani Zail Singh (1916- July 25, 1982 - July 25, 1987 • Giani Zail Singh was the seventh President of India
1994) • The first and only Sikh President of India
11 R. Venkataraman (1910- July 25, 1987 - July 25, 1992 • R. Venkataraman served as the eighth President of
2009) India and
• 7th Vice President of India
12 Dr Shankar Dayal Sharma July 25, 1992 - July 25, 1997 • Shankar Dayal Sharma was the ninth President of India
• Prior to his presidency, Sharma
• had been the eighth Vice President of India.
13 K.R. Narayanan July 25, 1997 - July 25, 2002 • K.R. Narayanan served as the 10th President of India
and 9th Vice President of India
• He was the first Dalit President of India
• He was the first President to
• vote in the Lok Sabha elections when in office
14 Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam July 25, 2002 - July 25, 2007 • Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam served as the 11th President of
India
• He is also known as ‗Missile Man of India‘.
• He was the first scientist who
• became the President of India
15 Smt. Pratibha Devisingh July 25, 2007 - July 25, 2012 • Pratibha Devisingh Patil served as the 12th President of
Patil India
• She is the first and only woman president of India
16 Shri Pranab Mukherjee July 25, 2012 - July 25, 2017 • Pranab Mukherjee served as the 13th President of
India.
17 Shri Ram Nath Kovind July 25, 2017 – July 25, 2022 • He is the 14th and current President of India
• He was the former Governor of Bihar

Extra Shots: • The President can resign from his office at any time by
• The President is the head of the Indian State addressing the resignation letter to the Vice-President.
• President is the nominal executive authority • When a vacancy occurs in the office of the President due to his
• He is the first citizen of India resignation, removal, death or otherwise, theVice-President acts
• The President holds office for a term of five years as the President until a new President is elected. In case the
• He is the supreme commander of the defence forces of India. office of Vice-President is vacant, the Chief Justice of India acts
• He appoints the Chief Justice and the judges of Supreme Court as the President.
and high courts
6.4. List of Prime Ministers of India From 1947 To 2022

No Name Term of office Remarks

1 Jawaharlal Nehru August 15, 1947 - May 27, 1964 • The first Prime Minister of independent India
• Longest-serving Prime minister of India

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No Name Term of office Remarks
2 Gulzari Lal Nanda May 27, 1964 - June 9, 1964 • First acting Prime minister of India
(Acting)
3 Lal Bahadur Shastri June 09, 1964 - January 11, 1966 • He led the country during the Indo- Pakistan War of
1965. His slogan "Jai Jawan, Jai Kisan” became very
popular during the war.
• Second Prime Minister of India
4 Gulzari Lal Nanda January 11, 1966 – January 24, 1966 •
(Acting)
5 Indira Gandhi January 24, 1966 – March 24, 1977 • First and only woman Prime Ministerof India
6 Morarji Desai March 24, 1977 - July 28, 1979 • The first non-congress prime minister of India
• He was the first Indian Prime Minister to resign
from office
7 Charan Singh July 28, 1979 - January14, 1980 • Charan Singh was the only Prime
• Minister of India who didn't face the Parliament
8 Indira Gandhi January 14, 1980 – October 31, 1984 •
9 Rajiv Gandhi October 31, 1984 - Dec 01, 1989 • Youngest prime minister of India
10 Vishwanath Pratap December 02, 1989 - Nov 10, 1990 • First prime minister to step down after a vote of the
Singh no-confidence motion
11 Chandra Shekhar November 10, 1990 – June 21, 1991 • Chandra Shekhar served as the eighth Prime
Minister of India
12 P.V. Narasimha Rao June 21, 1991 - May 16, 1996 • P.V. Narasimha Rao served as the 9th Prime
Minister of India
13 Atal Bihari Vajpayee May 16, 1996 - June 01, 1996 • Prime Minister for shortest tenure ( 13 days)
14 H.D. Deve Gowda June 01, 1996 - April 21, 1997 • First Prime Minister from south India
• 11th Prime Minister of India
15 I.K. Gujral April 21, 1997 - March 18, 1998 • 12th Prime Minister of India
16 Atal Bihari Vajpayee March 19, 1998 - May 22, 2004 • First Non-Congress Prime Minister to complete the
full term
17 Dr. Manmohan Singh May 22, 2004 - May 26, 2014 • First Sikh Prime Minister of India
• 13th Prime Minister of India
18 Narendra Modi May 26, 2014 – Incumbent • Narendra Modi (17 September 1950) is the first
Prime Minister of India to be born after the
Independence of India
• 14th and current Prime Minister

Extra Shots:
• The Prime Minister is appointed by the President, while the other ministers are appointed by the President onthe advice of the Prime
Minister
• Prime Minister is the head of the council of ministers.
• Prime Minister is the real executive authority
• Prime minister is the ex-officio chairman of the NITI Aayog, National Development Council, NationalIntegration Council, Inter-State
Council, and National Water Resources Council.
• Prime minister is the chief spokesman of the Union government. He announces government policies on the floor of the House.
• Morarji Desai, Charan Singh, V.P. Singh, P.V. Narasimha Rao, H.D. Deve Gowda and Narendra Modi—became Prime Ministers after being Chief
Ministers of their respective States

7. SPORTS
7.1. Sports Terminologies
Sports Terminology
Cricket LBW, Maiden over, Stumped, Hat-trick, Leg Bye, follow on, Googly, Gulley, SillyPoint, Duck, Run, Drive, no
ball, Cover point, Leg Spinner, Wicket Keeper, Pitch, Crease, Bowling, Leg-Break, Hit – Wicket, Bouncer, Stone-
Walling, Ashes, Hook, Late-Cut, Leg-Break, Yorker, Follow-On, Gulley.
Golf Bunker, Hole, Bogey, Put, Stymie, Caddie, Tee, Links, Putting the green
Football Baseline, Bick, Comer Defender, Dribble, Foul, Free-Kick, Goal, Hand-Ball, Hattrick, Head, Left-Out, Move, Off-
Side, Pass, Penalty, Penalty Kick, Rebound, Right-Out, Side back, Stopper, Throw-In, Drop Kick.
Kho-Kho Chaser, Foul, Out, Pole-By, Runner.
Kabaddi Bonus-Line, Corner, Cover, Raid, Tackle

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Hockey Bully, Hat-Trick, Short corner, Stroke, Striking Circle, Penalty corner, Under cutting, Scoop, Centre forward,
Carry, Dribble, Goal, Carried, Stick, Tie-Breaker, Sudden-Death.
Polo Bunder, Chukker, Mallet
Badminton Service, Deuce, Smash, Drop, Let, Game, Love, Double Fault, Feint, Layup.
Boxing Hook , Jab, Kidney Knock-Out, Punch, Uppercut, and Kidney Punch.
Shooting Plug ,Bag, Skeet, Bull's eye
Wrestling Freestyle, Illegal Hold, Near fall, Clamping
Volleyball Antennae, Attack-Hit, Block, Blocking, Deuce-Booster, Dribbling, Libero, Service, Service, Set-Up, Smash
Table Tennis Let, Service, Smash, Drop, Deuce and Spin
Chess Gambit, Checkmate, Stalemate, Check, Bishop and Castle.
Lawn Tennis Smash, Service, Back-hand-drive, Let, Advantage, Deuce, Double-Fault, and Drop- Shot.
Basketball Common-Foul, Dunk, Free-Throw, Front, Held-Ball, Layup, Over Head, Pivot,
Rebound, Steal, Technical-Foul, Traveling.
Baseball Diamond, Bunting ,Pitcher, Strike, Home Run, Put Out
Billiards Jigger, Break, Scratch, Cannons, Pot, Cue, In Baulk, Bolting, Baulk.
Shooting Skeet ,Bag, Plug, Bull's eye
Horse Racing Win, Protest, Punter, Jockey, and Place.

7.2. Sports Field Names

Sports Play Ground name Sports Play Ground name
Athletics Track Squash.
Cycling Velodrome Football Field
Cricket Pitch Hockey Field
Golf Course Ice Hockey Rink
Table Tennis Board Curling Rink
Baseball Diamond Boxing Ring
Swimming Pool Judo, Karate Mat
Polo Arena Basketball Court
Tennis, Badminton. Court Kabaddi Court
Handball, Volleyball, Court

7.3. FIFA World Cup: Winners, Runners-Up, Host Nations

FIFA World Cup – Men
Year Host Nation Winners Runners-up
1930 Uruguay Uruguay Argentina
1934 Italy Italy Czechoslovakia
1938 France Italy Hungary
1942 Cancelled due to World War II - -
1946 Cancelled due to World War II - -
1950 Brazil Uruguay Brazil
1954 Switzerland West Germany Hungary
1958 Sweden Brazil Sweden
1962 Chile Brazil Czechoslovakia
1966 England England West Germany
1970 Mexico Brazil Italy
1974 West Germany West Germany Netherlands
1978 Argentina Argentina Netherlands
1982 Spain Italy West Germany
1986 Mexico Argentina West Germany
1990 Italy West Germany Argentina
1994 USA Brazil Italy
1998 France France Brazil
2002 South Korea, Japan Brazil Germany
2006 Germany Italy France
2010 South Africa Spain Netherlands
2014 Brazil Germany Argentina

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2022 Qatar - -
2026 Canada, Mexico, USA - -
Extra Shots
• The FIFA World Cup is the most prestigious soccer competition in the world. Played every four years, theWorld Cup hosts the
top 32 national teams in a month long tournament.
• FIFA Headquarters: Zurich, Switzerland
• Brazil is the only national team to have played in all FIFA World Cup editions.
• Brazil has won the most titles of FIFA Men‘s World Cup. It has won the FIFA Men‘s World Cup 5 times(Sweden-1958, Chile-1962,
Mexico-1970, USA-1994 and South Korea/Japan-2002).

FIFA World Cup – Women Year Host Nation Winners Runners-up

Year Host Nation Winners Runners-up 2019 France USA Netherlands
1991 China USA Norway 2023 Australia and - -
1995 Sweden Norway Germany New
1999 USA USA China Zealand
2003 USA Germany Sweden Extra Shots
2007 China Germany Brazil • USA has won the most titles of FIFA Women’s World Cup.
2011 Germany Japan USA It has won the FIFA women’s World Cup 4 times
2015 Canada United States Japan • Japan was the first Asian team to win a FIFA World Cup
of America (Japan won the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup)

7.4. List of Sports Events and Venues

Olympics: • 2018 – Queensland , Australia
Summer: • 2022 – Birmingham , England
• 2016 - Rio De Janeiro, Brazil
• 2021 – Tokyo, Japan FIFA World Cup:
• 2024 – Paris, France • 2014 – Brazil
• 2028 – Los Angeles, USA • 2018 – Russia
• 2022 – Qatar
Winter: • 2026- Canada, Mexico, United States
• 2014 - Sochi, Russia
• 2018 - Pyeong Chang, South Korea FIFA U-17 World Cup: Men
• 2022 - Beijing, China • 2021 – Peru ( Cancelled due to Covid 19)
• 2026 – Milan & Cortina , Italy • 2023 – Peru

Paralympics: FIFA U-17 World Cup: Women

Summer • 2021 – India (Cancelled)
• 2016 – Rio De Janeiro, Brazil • 2022 – India
• 2021 – Tokyo, Japan
• 2024 – Paris, France ICC Cricket World Cup:
• 2015 – Australia & New Zealand
• 2028 – Los Angeles, USA
• 2019 – England & Wales
Winter • 2023 – India
• 2014 – Sochi, Russia
• 2018 – Pyeong Chang, South Korea ICC Women Cricket World Cup:
• 2013- Mumbai, India
• 2022 – Beijing, China
• 2017 – London, England
• 2026 – Milan & Cortina, Italy
• 2021 – New Zealand
Asian Games:
• 2014 – Incheon , South Korea ICC T-20 World Cup:
• 2016 – India
• 2018 – Jakarta &Plembang, Indonesia
• 2021- UAE & Oman
• 2022 – Hangzhou, China
• 2022 – Australia
• 2026 – Nagoya, Japan
ICC Women’s T- 20 World Cup:
Common wealth Games:
• 2018 – West Indies
• 2010 – New Delhi, India
• 2020 – Australia
• 2014 – Glasgow, Scotland, UK

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• 2023 – South Africa Men’s World Boxing Championship:
• 2017 – Hamburg, Germany
Women’s Hockey World Cup: • 2019 – Yekaterinburg, Russia
• 2014 – The Hague, Netherlands • 2021 – Belgrade, Serbia
• 2018 – London • 2023 - Tashkent, Uzbekistan
• 2022-Terrassa, Spain & Amstelveen, Netherlands
Women’s World Boxing Championship:
Men’s Hockey World Cup: • 2018 – New Delhi, India
• 2014 – The Hague, Netherlands • 2019 – Ulan-Ude, Russia
• 2018 –Bhubaneswar, Odisha
• 2023- Bhubaneswar & Rourkela, India Asia Cup:
• 2018 – UAE
IAAF World Championship in Athletics: • 2022 – Pakistan
• 2017 – London, UK • 2023 – Srilanka
• 2019 – Doha, Qatar
• 2022 – Eugene, United States
• 2023 – Budapest, Hungary

7.5. Number of Players in Various Sports

Country National Games / Sports
Sports Number of players Cuba Baseball
Badminton Single - 1 player & Double - 2 players Colombia Tejo
Baseball 9 England Cricket
Basketball 5 Estonia Basketball
Cricket 11 France Football
Chess 1 Hungary Water polo
Football (Soccer) 11 Haiti Football
Hockey 11 Iceland Handball
Kabaddi 7 India Field Hockey
Kho Kho 9 Indonesia Badminton
Volleyball 6 Israel Football
Water Polo 7 Italy Football
Netball 7 Iran Wrestling
Polo 4 Jamaica Cricket
Bridge 2 Japan Sumo Wrestling
Tennis Single - 1 player & Double - 2 players Mauritius Football
Table Tennis Single - 1 player & Double - 2 players Lithuania Basketball
Rugby football 15 Nepal Volleyball
New Zealand Rugby union
Pakistan Field Hockey
7.6. List of Countries and Their National Games Poland Football
Country National Games / Sports Philippines Arnis
Afghanistan Buzkashi Russia Bandy
Antigua And Barbuda Cricket Scotland Golf
Argentina Pato Sri Lanka Volleyball
Australia Cricket Turkey Oil Wrestling
Bangladesh Kabaddi United States Of Baseball
Barbados Cricket America
Bhutan Archery Venezuela Baseball
Brazil Football Slovenia Skiing
China Table Tennis

8. DEFENCE
8.1. List of Joint Military Exercises
NAME PARTICIPANTS ARMY NAME PARTICIPANTS ARMY
Paschim Leher Navy, IAF, Army, Navy, IAF, Army, MILAN Multilateral Navy
Coast Guard Coast Guard EX-SHAKTI India-France Army
CHIRU Russia-China-Iran Navy LAMITIYE India-Uzbekistan Army
Ex DUSTLIK India-Uzbekistan Army SLINEX India-Srilanka Navy

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NAME PARTICIPANTS ARMY NAME PARTICIPANTS ARMY
Dharma-Guardian Indo-Japan Army AUSINDEX India-Australia Navy
Konkan Shakti India-UK Navy SIMBEX India-Singapore Navy
Yudh Abhyas India-US Army KAZIND India-Kazakhstan Army
Sea Dragon Indo-Canada- Navy Zair-al-Bahr India-Qatar Navy
South Korea Al-Mohad-Al- India-Saudi Arabia Navy
EKUVERIN India-Maldives Army Hindi
CORPAT India Indonesia Navy SEACAT Exercise Indo-US Navy
DOSTI India-Maldives- Navy Zayed Talwar India-UAE Navy
Srilanka TTX Trilateral India-Srilanka- Navy
SITMAX India-Singapore- Navy Exercise Malidives
Thailand INDRA Exercise India-Russia Army
Ajeya Warrior India-UK Army PASSEX India-Russia Navy
Malabar Exercise India-US- Navy COP South-2022 US-Bangladesh Air Force
Australia-Japan Eastern Bridge Indo-Oman Air Force
JIMEX Indo-Japan Navy Exercise
Mitra Shakti India-Srilanka Army Cobra Warrior Multinational Air Force
Samudra Shakti Indo-Indonesia Navy
Surya Kiran Indo-Nepal Army
8.2. Defence Equipment
Equipment Type Developed By
Chinook Helicopter Boeing (American Company)
Apache Fighter Helicopter America
HELINA Anti-Tank Missile India
Barak-8 Surface to Air Missile DRDO & Israel
Rafale Fighter Aircraft France
S-400 Air Defence System Russia
INS Vela Scorpene Submarine France
Pinaka Rocket India
INS Kalavari Scorpene Submarine India
8.3. LIST OF HIGHEST CIVILIAN AWARDS OF MAJOR COUNTRIES
No Country Name of the Award No Country Name of the Award
1 Afghanistan The Amir Amanullah Khan Award 20 Mexico Order of the Aztec Eagle (Orden
2 Australia Order of Australia Mexicana del Aguila Azteca)
3 Bangladesh Bangladesh Freedom Honour 21 Nepal Nepal Ratna Man Padavi (Order of the
4 Bhutan Order of great victory of thunder Jewel of Nepal)
dragon 22 Norway The Order of St. Olav
5 China Order of brilliant jade 23 Netherlands Order of the Lion of the Netherlands
6 Denmark Order of Diana Brog 24 Pakistan Nishan-E-Pakistan
7 Egypt Order of the Nile 25 Palestine Grand Collar of the State Of Palestine
8 France Legion of honour 26 Poland The Golden Cross of Merit
9 Germany Order of Merit of the Federal Republic 27 Saudi Arabia Shah Abdul Aziz Medal
of Germany 28 USA Presidential Medal of Freedom
10 Greece Grand Cross of the Order of the 29 Vietnam The order of the Golden Star
Redeemer 30 Spain Order of Isabella the Catholic
11 Georgia The Order of National Hero 31 Sri Lanka Pride of Sri Lanka (Sri
12 Hungary Order of banner Lankabhimanya)
13 Indonesia Star of republic of Indonesia 32 Russia Order of the saint Andrew the apostle
14 India Bharat Ratna 33 Turkey Order of democracy
15 Israel President's Medal (Itur Nesi Medinat 34 Philippines Quezon service cross
Yisra'el) 35 United Arab order of zayed
16 Japan Order of Moulovenice sun Emirates
17 Kenya Order of the Golden Heart of Kenya 36 Chile The Order of Bernardo O'Higgins
18 Kuwait Mubarak-Al-kabir Medal 37 South Korea Grand Order of Mugunghwa
19 Mongolia Best worker award
8.4. Important Intelligence Agencies of The Worlds
No Intelligent Agency Country No Intelligent Agency Country
1 RAW (Research and Analysis Wing) India 3 (Mossad) Institute for Intelligence and Israel
2 CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) America Special Operations

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4 MI6(Military Intelligence Section 6 or United 13 Public Security Intelligence Agency Japan
Secret Intelligence Service) Kingdom (PSIA)
5 ISI (Inter-Services Intelligence) Pakistan 14 Brazilian Intelligence Agency (ABIN) Brazil
6 MSS (Ministry of State Security) China 15 Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) Russia
7 ASIS (Australian Secret Intelligence Australia (Formerly known asKGB)
Service) 16 Brazilian Intelligence Agency (ABIN) Brazil
8 DGSE (Directorate General for France 17 Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) Russia
External Security) (Formerly known as KGB)
9 BND (Bundesnachrichtendienst) Germany • Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) is the foreign intelligence
10 Canadian Security Intelligence Service Canada agency of India
(CSIS) • The Intelligence Bureau is the India's internal Intelligence
11 New Zealand Security Intelligence New Zealand
Agency of India
Service (NZSIS)
12 General Intelligence Presidency (GIP) Saudi Arabia

8.5. Important Missiles of India

• Defence Research and Development Organisation Name of Operati Remarks
(DRDO) is the R&D wing of Ministry of Defence. DRDO the onal
is responsible organisation for the military's research and Missile Range
Interim Test Range in
development.
Chandipur in 1989
• Integrated Guided Missile Development Programme
8 Agni-II 2,000– • Intermediate-range ballistic
(IGMDP) was started in 1983 and completed in March 3,000 missile
2012. IGMDP was sanctioned to develop Prithvi, Trishul, km • Surface-to-surface Missile
Akash, Nag and Agni Missiles. 9 Agni-III Up to • Intermediate-range ballistic
* LIST OF IMPORTANT INDIAN MISSILES 5000 km missile
• Surface-to-surface Missile
Name of Operati Remarks 10 Agni-IV 3,000 – • Intermediate-range ballistic
the onal 4,000 missile
Missile Range km • Surface-to-surface Missile
1 Trishul 9 km • Short-Range surface to air 11 Agni-V 5000 – • Intercontinental ballistic
missile 8000 missile
• Trishul flies at supersonic Km • Surface-to-surface Missile
speed • Nuclear capable missile
• It was first successfully test 12 Agni-VI 8,000– • Intercontinental ballistic
launched in year 1988 12,000 missile
2 Akash 30 km • Short -range surface-to-air km • Surface-to-surface Missile
missile • Under development
• It was first successfully test • Nuclear capable missile
launched in year 1990 13 Nag 4 km • 1. Anti-Tank Guided Missile
3 Barak 8 90 km • Barak 8 was jointly developed 14 Helina 7-10km • Helicopter-launched version
by Israel and India of the Nag anti-tank guided
• Long-Range surface to air missile
Missile for ship defence 15 Prithvi I 150 km • Short-Range Ballistic Missile
4 Barak 1 12 km • Short-Range surface to air • Surface-to-surface Missile
missile for ship defence 16 Prithvi II 350 km • Short-Range Ballistic Missile
• Barak 8 was jointly developed • Surface-to-surface Missile
by Israel and India 17 Dhanush 350 – • Short-Range Ballistic Missile
5 Astra 80-110 • Astra is an all-weather 600 km • Sea-to-Surface or Sea-to-Sea
km beyond-visual- range air-to- missile
air missile • Naval variant of Prithvi
• It is the first air-to-air missile missile
developed by India • It is capable of carrying both
6 MICA 500 m to • MICA is the multi-mission conventional as well as
80 km air-to-air missile system nuclear warheads
• Medium-range ballistic 18 Shaurya 750 to • Hypersonic surface-to-surface
missile 1,900 missile
7 Agni-I 700– • Medium-range ballistic km • Medium-Range Ballistic
1,250 missile Missile
km • Surface-to-surface Missile 19 BrahMos 300 km • Supersonic cruise missile
• Agni-I was first tested at the • It is the fastest supersonic

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Name of Operati Remarks • India's first nuclear submarine was INS Arihant
the onal • K. M. Cariappa was the first Indian Commander-in-Chief
Missile Range of the Indian Army.
cruise missile in the world
• Bathinda is the largest Cantonment (military area) in
• Can be launched from
submarine, ship, aircraft, or India
land • Former President Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam is known as the
• BrahMos was jointly "Missile Man of India"
developed by Russia and • Prithvi I was the first missile developed under
India Government of India's IGMDP
20 Nirbhay 1,000 • Nirbhay is a long range, all- • The K family of missiles named after Indian scientist and
km weather, subsonic cruise
former president A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, is a seriesof
21 Prahaar 150 km missile
• It is capable of carrying both submarine launched ballistic missiles
conventional as well as • Rafale fighter aircraft is being acquired from France
nuclear warheads • Main Battle Tank (MBT) Arjun Mark-I is designed and
• Short-Range Ballistic Missile developed by Defence Research and Development
• Organization (DRDO)
IMPORTANT ONE LINER (DEFENCE)
• Indian Army Day observed on January 15 BrahMos was jointly developed by Russia and India. The name
• Indian Air Force Day observed on October 8 BrahMos is formed from the names of tworivers, the
• Indian Navy Day observed on December 4 Brahmaputra of India and the Moskva of Russia
• The Indian Air Force was established on 8 October 1932
8.6. Indian Defence Training Institutions
Training Institutions Place Established Training Institutions Place Established
year year
Rashtriya Indian Military Dehradun 1922 College of Defence Secunderabad 1970
College (RIMC) Management
Army Cadet College Dehradun 1929 College of Combat/Army Mhow, Madhya 1971
Indian Military Academy Dehradun 1932 War Pradesh
National Defence Khadakwasla, 1941 College
Academy Pune Army School of Physical Pune 1978
High Altitude Warfare Gulmarg 1948 Training
School Army Air Defence College Gopalpur, 1989
National Defence College New Delhi 1960 Odisha
Officers Training Chennai 1963 Officers Training Gaya 2011
Academy Academy
Counter Insurgency and Vairengte, 1970 Indian National Defence Gurgaon, 2013
Jungle Warfare School Mizoram University Haryana

9. ART AND CULTURE

9.1. Dance
• Two main divisions of dance forms are classical and folk
• Literary sources, inscriptions, excavations and other chronicles provide extensive evidence on this art form

CLASSICAL DANCES OF INDIA

• The principle of Indian classical dance derive from the Natyashastra by Bharatamuni
• The Sangeet Natak Akademi and the Ministry of Culture confers classical status to eight Indian classicaldance forms

DANCES STATE
Bharatanatyam Tamil Nadu
Kathakali Kerala
Mohiniyattam Kerala
Odissi Orissa
Kuchipudi Andhra Pradesh

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Manipuri Manipur
Kathak North India
Sattriya Assam

BHARATANATYAM
• Bharatanatyam is a dance of Tamil Nadu in south India, which is earlier known as ‘daasi attam’
• Instruments used: Mridangam, flute, violin, veena, natuvangam
• Famous Bharatanatyam dancers: Mallika Sarabhai, Yamini Krishnamurthy , Alarmel Velli, PadmaSubrahmanyam, Rukmini
Devi Arundale , Mrinalini sarabhai, ,Kamala Narayan, Radha Sridhar, Tanjore Balasaraswati , Hema Malini , Narthaki Natara
, Meenakshi Srinivasan ,Ramali Bin Ibrahim , Bala Saraswati , Sonal Mansingh, Guru MK Saroja, Rama Vaidyanathan, C V
Chandra Shekhar, Ananda Shankar Jayant, Shanta and VP Dhananjayan , Geeta Chandran, Shobana Chandrakumar, B
Herambanathan, Mrinalini Vikram Sarabhai
KATHAKALI
• Kathakali is a dance of Kerala in south India.
• Instruments used: Chenda, madalam, chengila, idakka and shankhu
• Famous Kathakali dancers:Vazhenkada kunchu Nair, Kottakkal sivaraman, Kalamandalam Gopi, Kalamandalam nair,
Kalamandalam Vasu Pisharody , Mrinalini Sarabhai , Kalamandalam Rajan, Guru Keezhpadam Kumaran Nair, Vallathol
Narayana Menon, Mrinalini Vikram Sarabhai
MANIPURI
• Manipuri is an important classical dance form that has originated from state of Manipur in the north easternpart of India
• Instruments used: Pung, cymbals
• Famous Manipuri dancers: Guru Bipin Singh, Rajkumar Singhajit Singh, Darshana Jhaveri, Sohini Ray, Jhaveri Sisters,
Nirmala Mehta
ODISSI
• Odissi dance is the classical dance form of Odisha that has its origin in templesInstruments used: Mardala, Harmonium, Flute,
Sitar, Violin, Cymbals
• Famous Odissi dancers: KeluCharan mohapatra, Padmashree Pankaj, Prasad Das, Priyambada Hejmadi, Sanjukta panigrahi,
Minati Mishra, Kumkum Mohanty, Oopalie Oparajita, Sangeeta Das , Madhavi Mudgal , Sonal Mansingh , Ileana Citaristi ,
Kelucharan Mohapatra , Ramali Bin Ibrahim , Durga Charan Ranbir , Sujata Mohapatra , Geeta Mahalik, Guru Mayadhar
Raut , Guru Gangadhar Pradhan
KATHAK
• A classical dance indigenous to northern India, Kathak has developed under the influence of Hindu Muslimcultures
• The origin of this dance form is attributed to the travelling storytellers or kathakars of ancient IndiaInstruments used: Tabla,
sarangi or harmonium with manjira
• Famous Kathak dancers: Shambhu Maharaj, Sitara Devi, Birju Maharaj, Roshan Kumari, Saswati Sen, RohiniBhate, Shovana
Narayan , Lacchu Maharaj , Pandit Rajendra Gangani , Kumari Kamala, Manjusree Chatterjee , Kumudini Lakhia , Kalka
Prasad, Vidyagauri Adkar, Uma Sharma, Pandit Sunder Prasad
KUCHIPUDI
• Kuchipudi is the classical dance of Andhra Pradesh in south India.
• It originated in a village named Kuchipudi in the Indian state of Andhra PradeshThe dance is accompanied by song which is
usually Carnatic music
• Natya tarangini is a school for Kuchipudi Instruments used: Mridangam, violin, flute, tambura
• Famous Kuchipudi dancers: Vempati Chinna satyam, Uma Rama sarma, Shobha Naidu, Vyjayanthi kasha, Sreelakshmy
Govardhanan ,Vedantam Satyanarayana Sarma, Yamini Krishnamurthy , Gaddam Padmaja Reddy , Mallika Sarabhai, Shobha
Naidu, Deepika Reddy, Haleem Khan

MOHINIYATTAM
• Mohiniyattam is a classical solo dance form of Kerala that gets its name from 'Mohini', the celestial enchantress of the Hindu
mythology.
• Instruments used: Mridangam or Madhalam, Idakka, flute, veena, kuzhitalam
• Famous Mohiniyattam dancers: Kalamandalam kalyanikutty Amma, kalamandalam Hymavathy, Sunanda Nair, Gopika
varma, Neena Prasad, Kanak Rele, Kalamandalam Kshemavathy Pavithran , Jayaprabha Menon,

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SATTRIYA
• Sattriya is an Indian classical dance that has its origins in the Vaishnava monasteries(sattras) of AssomIn 2000 the Sangeet
Natak Academy recognized Sattriya as a classical dance
• Instruments used: Khols,Talas, flute
• Famous Sattriya dancers: Ghanakanta Bora, Ananda Mohan Bhagawati, Sharodi saikia, Bhabananda Baryan,Jatin Goswami,
Tankeswar Hazarika Borbayan

9.2. Folk Dances Of India

Folk dances performed on various occasions in India like festivals, wedding, arrival of seasons etc.
Indian State Folk Dances
Andhra Pradesh Vilasini Natyam, Andhra Natyam, Bhamakalpam, Veeranatyam,Dappu, Tappeta Gullu, Lambadi, Dhimsa,
Kolattam, Butta
Bommalu , Kuchipudi
Assam Bihu, Bichhua, Natpuja, Maharas, Kaligopal, Bagurumba, Naga
dance, Khel Gopal, Tabal Chongli, Canoe, Jhumura Hobjanai , Sattriya
Arunachal Aji Lamu, Chalo, Hiirii Khaniing, Popir, Ponung, Pasi Kongki,
Pradesh Rekham Pada, Roppi
Bihar Jata-Jatin, Bakho-Bakhain, Panwariya, Sama Chakwa, Bidesia.
Chhattisgarh Gaur Maria, Panthi, Raut Nacha, Pandwani, Vedamati, Kapalik,
Bharthari Charit, Chandaini
Goa Modni, Jhagor, Khol, Dakni,Shigmo,Ghode
Gujarat Garba, Dandiya Ras, Tippani Juriun, Bhavai.
Haryana Jhumar, Phag, Daph, Dhamal, Loor, Gugga, Khor, Gagor.
Himachal Jhora, Jhali, Chharhi, Dhaman, Chhapeli, Mahasu, Nati, Dangi
Pradesh
Jammu and Rauf, Hikat, Mandjas, Kud Dandi Nach, Damali, Dumhal
Kashmir
Jharkhand Bidesia, Danga, Karma,Sarahul,Sohrai,Alkap , Paika, Barao,
Jhitka.
Karnataka Yakshagana, Huttari, Suggi, Kunitha, Karga, Lambi., Pattadakal
Kerala Ottam Thulal, Kaikottikali. Tappatikkali , Elelakkaradi , Mohiniyattam
kathakali
Maharashtra Lavani, Nakata, Koli, Lezim, Gafa, Dahikala Dasavtar or Bohada., Waghya Murali
Madhya Pradesh Jawara, Matki, Aada, Khada Nach, Phulpati, Grida Dance,
Selalarki, Selabhadoni, Maanch., Khajuraho dance
Manipur Dol Cholam, Thang Ta, Lai Haraoba, Pung Cholom, Nat Rash,
Rakhal ,Raukhat
Meghalaya Ka Shad Suk Mynsiem, Baala, Nongkrem, Laho.
Mizoram Cheraw Dance, Khuallam, Chailam, Sawlakin, Chawnglaizawn,
Zangtalam, Par Lam, Tlanglam, Cherokan, Khanatm
Nagaland Chong, Khaiva, Lim Nuralim
Odisha Savari, Ghumara, Painka, Munari, Chhau., konark , Paika
West Bengal Kathi, Gambhira, Dhali, Jatra, Baul, Marasia, Mahal, Keertan
Punjab Bhangra, Giddha, Daff, Dhaman, Bhand, Naqual, kikli, Jhoomar.
Rajasthan Ghumar, Chakri, Ganagor, Jhulan Leela, Jhuma, Suisini, Ghapal,
Kalbeliya., Kalbelia
Sikkim Singhi Chham, Chu Faat ,Gayley-Yang Dance, Ghantu ,Kinchum –
Chu – Bomsa, Maarooni Dance ,Nyongri – Nyot ,Shelo, Sherpa Dance, Tamang Selo ,Yak Chham
Tamil Nadu Kummi, Kolattam, Kavadi, Karagam , Bharatanatyam
Tripura Bizu Dance,Cheraw,Dailo Nritya, Gajan, Galamuchamo, Garia Dance, Hai Hak Dance, Hozagiri, Jhum
Dance, Lebang
Boomani,Sangrai – Mog Dance,Wya Dance , Sangrai
Uttar Pradesh Nautanki, Raslila, Kajri, Jhora, Chappeli, Jaita., Kathak
Uttarakhand Garhwali, Kumayuni, Kajari, Jhora, Raslila, Chappeli
Lakshadweep Lava, Kolkali, Parichakali.

Bihu • There are three festivals in Bihu. Bhogali or Magh Bihu is

• The Bihu dance is a folk dance from the Indian State of celebrated in January, Rongali or Bohag Bihu in April and
Assam related to the festival of Bihu. Kongali or Kati Bihu in October
• The most colorful and important one is the spring festival
called Bohag Bihu which is celebrated in the month of April

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• This Joyous dance is performed by both men and women • It is based on mythological stories and Puranas
Dancers wear traditionally colourful Assamese clothing.
Krishnattam
Bhangra • Krishanattam is a dance oriented folk theatre of Kerala
• The Bhangra is a folk dance from the Indian State of Punjab • Krishnattam is a cycle of eight plays performed for eight
• Bhangra dance is conducted by Punjab farmers to celebrate consecutive days, presenting the story of lord Krishna
the coming of the harvest season.
Swang
Ghoomar • Swang is a folk dance drama of Rajasthan, Haryana, Uttar
• Ghoomar is a traditional women’s folk dance from the Pradesh and Malwa region of Madhya Pradesh The two
Indian State of Rajasthan important styles of Swang are from Rohtak and Haathras
• It is traditionally performed during auspicious occasions,
Diwali, Holi and on a bride's arrival at her marital home Nautanki
• Nautanki is a mass entertaining folk theatre popular in
Garba Haryana, Bihar Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Punjab etc.
• Garba is the popular form of folk dance from the Indian
State of Gujarat. It is performed for nine days during the Rasa Leela
festival of Navratri • Rasleela is a theatre form of Uttar Pradesh.
• It is popular in Uttar Pradesh and some other parts of north
Kummi India
• Kummi is the popular form of folk dance from the Indian
State of Tamil Nadu. Jatra
• Kummi is performed by women. The women stand in a • Jatra born and flourished in Bengal
circle and clapping their hands rhythmically • This Bengali folk theatre originated in west Bengal as a
result of the Bhakthi movement
Dandiya Raas
• 'Dandiya Raas' is a folk dance performed during the time of Bhaona
Navratri, with its origins in Gujarat • Bhaona a traditional religious theatre originated and thrived
• Bamboo dance in Assam
• Bamboo dance is tribal dance of Nagaland. This dance is
exclusively performed by girls Tamasha
• Tamasha is a traditional folk theatre form of Maharashtra. It
has evolved from the folk forms such as Gondhal, Jagran
Kolattam and Kirtan
• Kolattam is a folk dance originated in Tamil Nadu. This • Life of Lord Krishna is the major theme in most
dance form is popular throughout India. performances
• Kolattam performed by young girls with little stick held in
hand to celebrate the birthday of God Rama. Dashavatar

Ootam Tullal • Dashavatar is a popular theatre form of the Southern

• Ootam Thullal is a folk dance of Kerala. Konkan region of Maharastra and Northern Goa regions
• Kunchan Nambiar introduced it in the 18th century. Dashavatar is open air performance. Performers wear masks
is a feature of this theatrical form

FOLK THEATRE OF INDIA Therukoothu

Bhand Pather • Theukoothu is the most popular form of folk drama of
• Bhand Pather is a traditional street theatre of Indian state of Tamil Nadu.
Jammu and Kashmir It takes up mythological stories as
well as contemporary social issues as themes Bhavai
• This social drama incorporates acting, dance and music • Bhavai is a traditional theatre form of Indian state Gujarat
• Bhavai is usually performed to revere and worship goddess
Yakshagana Amba
• Yakshagana is the traditional folk theatre form of Indian
state of Karnataka.
9.3. Indian Music
• Music has always been an integral part of our culture sadja,rishabha,gandhara,madhyama,panchama,dhaivata,nis
hada, which are abbreviated assa,ri,ga,ma,pa,dha,ni
• Bharat muni defined music as Nritya, gayan and vadan
• The sruti is a theoretical interval of which the scale contains
• The origins of Indian classical music can be found from the
22
oldest Vedas. The Samveda, one of the fourvedas, describes
music at length. • Pillars of Indian music system are Swara,Raga,Taal
• The basic scale (grama) of Indian music heptatonic and it • Two main genres of Indian classical music are Hindustani
has seven notes or svara- and Carnatic

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9. Pandit Jasraj
Carnatic Music 10. Ustad Amir Khan
• Carnatic Music flourished under the patronage of 11. Abdul Rashid Khan
krishnadevaraya in vijayanagar, the capital city of 12. Lakshmi Shankar
Vijayanagara Empire
Regional Music in India
• The golden period of south Indian classical music was Folk music is an inevitable part of Indian culture. some of the
during the time of Tyagaraja, Muthuswami Dikshitar and folk music’s of India are
Syama Sastri.
Music States related to
Famous Carnatic Musicians
Rasiya Geet It is a popular folk music from Braj region of
1. Thyagaraja Uttar Pradesh
2. Syama Sastri Pankhida Pankhida originated in the villages of
3. Muthuswami Dikshitar Rajasthan
4. Chembai Vaidyanatha Bhagavatar Lotia Rajasthan
5. Semmangudi R srinivasa Iyer Pandwani Chhattisgarh
6. M S Subbulakshmi Mando Goa
7. M Balamurali Krishna Hori Uttar Pradesh and Bihar
8. DK Pattammal Sohar Uttar Pradesh
9. ML Vasanthakumari Chhakri Jammu & Kashmir
10. M S Subbulakshmi Laman Laman is an interesting style of Himachali
folk music originated in the kullu valley
Hindustani Music
region
• Hindustani is a classical music genre of northern India
Kajri Uttar Pradesh and Bihar
• Amir Khusrau a prolific musician is believed the khayal, Tappa Punjab
tarana and qawwali styles of music. He is often called the Teej songs Rajasthan
father of qawwali Bhakha Jammu
Famous Hindustani Musicians Daskathia Odhisa
Bihu geet Assam
1. Zakir Hussain Burrakatha Andhra Pradesh
2. Shubha Mudgal
Lavani Maharashtra
3. Girija Devi
Villu pattu Tamil Nadu
4. Begum Akhtar
Chai Hia Mizoram
5. Kishori Amonkar
Ammanaivari Tamil Nadu
6. Bade Ghulam Ali Khan
7. Mallikarjun Mansoor
8. Ravi Shankar

Musical Instruments and Persons Associated

Musical Person
Instrument
Santoor Pt Shiv Kumar Sharma, Bhajan Sopori
Flute Hari Prasad Chaurasia, Pannalal Ghosh, T.R.
Mahalingam
Tabla Zakir Hussain, Allah Rakha, Sabir Khan, Pt.
Kishan Maharaj, Pt. Jnan Prakash Ghosh,Sandeep Das , Pandit Nikhil Jyoti Ghosh, Kelucharan Mohapatra, Pandit
Swapan Chaudhuri, Anokhelal Mishra
Sarod Allauddin Khan, Ali Akbar Khan, Amjad AliKhan, Buddhadev Das Gupta, Sharan Rani,
Zarin S Sharma
Shehnai Bismillah Khan, Krishna Ram Chaudhary, Ali
Ahmad Hussain
Sitar Pt Ravi Shankar, Shahid Parvez Khan, Budhaditya Mukherjee, Anushka Shankar,Nikhil Banerjee, Vilayat Khan,
Mustaq Ali
Khan, Vilayat Khan
Sarangi Shakoor Khan, Pt Ram Narayan, Ramesh
Mishra, Sultan Khan, Ustad Binda Khan, Ustad Sabri Khan,
Violin Nagai R Muralidharan, M. Chandrasekharan, V.G. Jog , Lalgudi Jayaraman, R.P Shastri, Mohanan Chandrasekaran,
Lalgudi Gopala Iyer Jayaraman
Veena Sundaram Balachandrer, Ayyagari
Syamasundaram, Doraiswamy Iyengar
Rudra Veena Bahauddin Dagar ,Asad Ali Khan ,Asit Kumar
Banerjee
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Nadhaswaram Sheik Chinna Moulana
Ghatam Thetakudi Harihara Vinayakram, Vikku Vinayakaram
Mridangam Umalayapuram Sivaraman, Palghat Mani Iyer,
Pudukkottai Dakshinamurthy Pillai, Kelucharan Mohapatra, Rajna Swaminathan
kanjira Pudukkottai Dakshinamurthy Pillai
Mandolin U Srinivas
Guitar Braj Bhushan Kabra
Surbahar Annapurna Devi, Sajjad Hussain
Flute Hari Prasad Chaurasia, Pannalal Ghosh, TR
Mahalingam.
Pakhavaj Kelucharan Mohapatra , Pandit Bhawani Shankar

9.4. Musical Instruments and Persons Associated

Musical Instrument Person
Santoor Pt Shiv Kumar Sharma, Bhajan Sopori
Flute Hari Prasad Chaurasia, Pannalal Ghosh, T.R. Mahalingam
Tabla Zakir Hussain, Allah Rakha, Sabir Khan, Pt. Kishan Maharaj, Pt. Jnan
Prakash Ghosh, Sandeep Das
Sarod Allauddin Khan, Ali Akbar Khan, Amjad Ali Khan, Buddhadev Das
Gupta, Sharan Rani, Zarin S Sharma
Shehnai Bismillah Khan, Krishna Ram Chaudhary, Ali Ahmad Hussain
Sitar Pt Ravi Shankar, Shahid Parvez Khan, Budhaditya Mukherjee,
Anushka Shankar, Nikhil Banerjee, Vilayat Khan, Mustaq Ali Khan
Sarangi Shakoor Khan, Pt Ram Narayan, Ramesh Mishra, Sultan Khan, Ustad
Binda Khan
Violin N.R. Muralidharan, M. Chandrasekharan, V.G. Jog, Lalgudi
Jayaraman, R.P Shastri
Veena Sundaram Balachandrer, Ayyagari Syamasundaram, Doraiswamy Iyengar
Rudra Veena Bahauddin Dagar ,Asad Ali Khan ,Asit Kumar Banerjee
Mridangam Umalayapuram Sivaraman, Palghat Mani Iyer, Pudukkottai
Dakshinamurthy Pillai
kanjira Pudukkottai Dakshinamurthy Pillai
Mandolin U Srinivas
Guitar Braj Bhushan Kabra
Surbahar Annapurna Devi, Sajjad Hussain
Flute Hari Prasad Chaurasia, Pannalal Ghosh, TR Mahalingam.

9.5. Indian Paintings

• Indian Paintings can be broadly classified as the Murals & • Religious texts on Buddhism executed under the Palas of the
Miniatures eastern India as well as the Jain texts executed in western
India are the some of the earliest of miniature painting in
Mural Paintings
the country
• Indian Mural Paintings are paintings made on walls of
caves and palaces Major Themes: Hinduism, Buddhism and Folk paintings
Jainism • The folk and tribal arts of India are very ethnic and colorful
and vibrant enough to speak volumes about the country's
• Some of the earliest murals in India are found in the caves of
rich heritage
Ajanta, Ellora and Elephanta also on the Bagh caves and
Sittanvasal • Some of the most famous folk paintings of India are
discussed below
• Wall paintings found in the temples of Kailashnath Temple
of Kanchipuram in Tamil Nadu ,Brihadesvara Temple of Madhubani Painting
Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu and Buddhist viharas or
monasteries and chaitya or prayer halls in Ajanta in
Maharashtra. • It is practised in the Mithila region of Bihar.
Miniature paintings • Traditionally done by women
• Miniature paintings are characterized with small and • No space is left empty in Madhubani paintings. Gaps are
detailed paintings filled in with paintings of flowers, animals, birds and
• Miniature paintings are those executed on a very small scale geometric designs
on perishable material such as paper, cloth, etc., though this • Tribal motifs and bright earthy colours are other aspects
style had been perfected by artisans under the various rules, that make these paintings attractive The different style of
not many remain today. Prime examples are the Rajasthani Madhubani paintings are Bharni, Katchni, Tantrik, Godna
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and Kohbar Mahasundari Devi is the famous artist of the • Patna School of Painting (also Patna Qalaam, Patna Kalam,
Madhubani painting. or Company painting) is a style of Indian painting which
Patachitra existed in Bihar, India in the 18th and 19th centuries.
• Pattachitra is a disciplined ancient art genre from odhisa • Patna Kalam is an off-shoot of Mughal painting
• Paintings are based on the Balrama ,Subhadr, Lord
Jagannath, Dashavatara and the scenes related to the life
FAMOUS INDIAN ARTISTS AND THEIR PAINTINGS
Lord Krishna.
Painter/Artist Famous Work
Kalamkari Raja Ravi Varma Hamsa Damayanti, Shakuntala,
• The Indian style of Kalamkari painting flourished in Arjuna and
kalahasti and Machilipatnam in Andhra Pradesh Subhadra
• It is a type of hand-paints or block-printed cotton textile, Nihal Chand Bani Thani, Dipavalika
produced kalamkari sarees from parts of Andhra Pradesh Binod Behari Mukherjee Villagers
and Tamil Nadu Syed Haider Raza Saurashtra
Tyeb Mehta Mahishasura
Pithora Painting
Jamini Roy Mother and Child, Krishna and
• It is the folk painting of Rathvas and Bhilalas tribes of
Balarama,
Gujarati Kolam
Warrior King
• Kolam is a ritualistic design drawn at the threshold of Arpita Singh Wish Dream
households and temples It is drawn by women every day at Rabindranath Tagore Landscape, Dancing Woman,
dawn and dusk in South India Woman's Face,
• Kolam is a free-hand drawing with symmetrical and neat Head Study (Geometric)
geometrical patterns. Abanindranath Tagore Bharat Mata, Ganesh Janani
,Asoka’s Queen

Warli Paintings
• This folk paintings style belongs to the warli tribe of
Maharashtra warli is one of the oldest art forms of India
INDIAN MARTIAL ARTS
Kalighat paintings Martial Arts Originated from
Kalaripayattu Kerala
Silambam Tamil Nadu
• It originated in the vicinity of kalighat Kali Temple Thoda Himachal Pradesh
(Kolkata) Thang-ta and Sarit Sarak Manipur
• The themes for these paintings extend from mythological Cheibi Gadga Manipur
events to contemporary social issues Gatka Punjab
Lathi Punjab & Bengal
Thangka Paintings
Musti Yuddha Varanasi
Pari-Khanda Bihar
• It is a Tibetan folk painting Kathi Samu Andhra Pradesh
Karra Samu Andhra Pradesh
• In this art form, images of Buddha paintings are made on
Mukna Manipur
the cotton or silk cloths
Inbuan Wrestling Mizoram
Patna Kalam Mardani Khel Kolhapur, Maharashtra

9.6. Calendars In India

• In India, four types of calendars are followed • The Vikram Samvat has 12 months with each month
divided into two phases: Shukla paksha (15 days) – begins
1. Vikram Samvat
with new moon day and ends with full moon day Krishna
2. Saka Samvat paksha (15 days) – begins with full moon day and ends with
3. Hijri calendar new moon day

4. Gregorian calendar Saka Era

• The Saka Era was founded by Kanishka, the emperor of
Vikram Samvat (Hindu lunar calendar) Kushana Empire from the year 78 A.D. The Gazette of
• The Vikram Samvat is a historical calendar for the Hindus India uses this calendar along with the Gregorian Calendar
in India
• The Saka calendar used as the official calendar in the
• Vikram Samvat is an official calendar of Nepal and is country is the National Calendar of India
named after the king Vikramaditya of Ujjain. This is a
calendar based on the movement of the moon and has 365 • The Saka calendar consists of 365 days and 12 months which
days in a year. is similar to the structure of the Gregorian calendar.

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• The first month of the Saka Satvam is Chaitra which begins State Festivals
on March 22 which begins with March 21 during the leap Kerala Onam, Nishagandhi festival, vaikathashtami
year festival, Thrissur Pooram, Soorya Classical
Hijra calendar Dance Festival
• The Hijri calendar is an Islamic lunar calendar which Odisha Konark festival, International sand art festival,
consists of 12 lunar months and 355 days Nabakalebara festival.
Maharashtra Kalidas festival, Chikoo Utsav, Gudhi Padwa.,
• The first Islamic year began in 622 AD and is believed to Ellora Ajanta Dance Festival
mark the emigration of Prophet Muhammad from Mecca to Manipur Yaoshang, Chavang Kut, Porag
Medina Sikkim Saga Dawa, Losoong, Drupka Teshi, Bumchu.
• The first day of the year in Hijra calendar is observed on the Meghalaya Ahaia festival ,Nongkrem Dance Festival,
first day of Muharram, which is the first month in the Wangala Festival, Bob Dylan festival,
Islamic calendar. Mizoram ChapcharKut Festival
Nagaland Hornbill Festival, Moatsu festival.
• Muslims use this calendar to decide the days on which to
Telangana Ugadi, Bathukamma, Kothakonda Jatara,
observe Ramadan, to attend Hajj, and to celebrate other
Bonalu.
Islamic festivals
Tamil Nadu Pongal, Thaipoosam, Jallikattu,Panguni
Gregorian calendar Uthiram, Puthandu.
• Gregorian calendar was introduced in 1582 by Pope Uttar Kumbh Mela, Ram Leela, kans ka mela
Gregory XIII and is the most used calendar in the world Pradesh
Gregorian calendar spaces leap years to make the average West Bengal Durga Puja, Poush mela, Naba barsha
year 365.2425 days long, approximating the 365.2422-day Punjab Baisakhi, Lohri
tropical year that is determined by the Earth's revolution Rajasthan Kolayat Fair, Bundi Utsav, Desert festival,
around the Sun. Gangaur Festival, Matsya festival, Braj
• The Gregorian calendar was developed as a correction to the festival, Shekhawati festival.
Julian Calendar
New Year's Day in Different Regions of India
INDIAN FAIRS AND FESTIVALS Ugadi Telugu New Year
State Festivals
Baisakhi Punjabi New Year
Andhra Rottela panduga, Brahmotsavam, Ugadi or the
Puthandu Tamil New Year.
Pradesh Telugu New Year, Dasara, Sri Rama Navami
Bohag Bihu Assamese New Year.
Arunachal Solung festival, Losar Festival, Murung,
Pohela Boishakh Bengali New Year.
Pradesh Mopin festval, Reh festival, Choekhor Festival,
Bestu Varas Gujarati New Year.
Torgya Festival ,Talmadu Festival,
Vishu Malayalam New Year.
Assam Ambubasi festival, Bohag Bihu, Baishagu
Losoong Sikkimese New Year.
festival, Majuli festival, Pragjyoti dance
festival, Jonbeel Mela. Pana Sankranti Odisha New Year
Bihar Bihula, Chhath Puja, Madhushravani, Rajgir Bestu Varas Gujarati New Year
Dance festival, Sama Chakeva, Jivitputrika Navreh Kashmiri New Year
Gujarat Kite Festival, Holi, Modhera Dance Festival, Losar Arunachal Pradesh New Year
Saptak Music Festival, Kutch Mahotsava Gudi Padwa Gudi Padwa is the first day of
Goa Ghumot fest, Chikalkalo, Fontaihas Festival Chaitra month and
of Art, sunburn festival, Ladainha, Mando marked as the New year in
Festival Maharashtra.
Madhya Khajuraho festival, Malwa Utsav, Tansen Jude Sheetal Maithili New Year
Pradesh music festival It is celebrated by the Maithili’s in
Bihar, Jharkhand and even Nepal.
Haryana Baisakhi festival, Surajkund Craft Mela
Maithili New Year is usually
Jammu & Dosmuchey festival, Matho Narang, Gemis
celebrated on the
Kashmir Festival, Galdan Namchot, Tulip Festival
14th of April according to the
Jharkhand Sarhul, Dansi, Karma, Hal Punhya, Rohin,
Gregorian
Bandna
calendar.
Karnataka Pattadakal Dance festival, Gudi Padwa.

9.7. Arts And Cultural Institutions in India

Institutions Headquarters / Location Institutions Headquarters / Location
Anthropological Survey of Lalit Kala Academy 1954 New Delhi
Kolkata
India, 1945 National Archives of India,
New Delhi
Archaeological Survey of 1981
New Delhi
India, 1861 National School of Drama,
New Delhi
Asiatic Society, 1784 Kolkata 1959
Indira Gandhi National Sahitya Academy, 1954 New Delhi
New Delhi
Centre for Arts, 1985

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Institutions Headquarters / Location Institutions Headquarters / Location
Sangeet Natak Academy, Central Institute of
New Delhi Leh
1953 Buddhist Studies
Science city Kolkata Birla Industrial and Tech
Kolkata
Victoria Memorial Hall Kolkata Museum
Indian council for cultural Centre for Cultural
New Delhi New Delhi
relations Resources and Training
Indian institute of Islamic Indian National Trust for
New Delhi
studies Art and Cultural New Delhi
National book trust,1957 New Delhi Heritage,1984
National gallery of modern National Museum of India New Delhi
New Delhi
art The Mehrangarh Museum
Jodhpur
National handicrafts and Trust
New Delhi
handlooms Museum The Government Museum
Chandigarh
National Library of India Kolkata and Art Gallery

9.8. Temples In India

• Indian temples can be classified into two broad orders as
• Nagara (in North India)
• Dravida (in South India)
• Mandapa is the entrance to the temple.
• Shikhara is found in North Indian temples and Vimana is found in South Indian temples. Kalasha is the topmost point of the
temple and commonly seen in North Indian temples
• Mandapa is the entrance to the temple. Dances and such other entertainments are practiced here.
Famous Temple Location About temples
Amarnath Temple Jammu & Kashmir Lord shiva is primary deity
Vaishno Devi Temple Jammu & Kashmir
Golden temple Amritsar, Punjab Founded by fourth Sikh guru Guru Ram Das with the fifth Guru Arjan
Akshardham Temple New Delhi
Konark Sun Temple Konark, Odisha It also known as the Black Pagoda Temple was built by King
Narasimhadeva I and dedicated to Sun God Surya
Jagannath Temple Puri, Odisha Dedicated to Lord Jagannath, a form
of lord Maha Vishnu
Brihadeeswara Temple Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu Temple was built by Chola king Raja Raja Chola I Lord shiva is primary
deity
Siddhivinayak Temple Mumbai, Maharashtra Dedicated to Lord Ganesha
Somnath Temple Saurashtra, Gujarat Lord shiva is primary deity
Lingaraj Temple Bhubaneshwar, Odisha Dedicated to Lord Shiva. It is an example of the Kalinga Style of
Architecture. This style broadly
comes under the Nagara style.
Kamakhya Temple Guwahati, Assam
Shirdi Sai Baba Temple Shirdi, Maharashtra
Dilwara Temples Mount Abu, Rajasthan Jain temples
Khajuraho Temples Khajuraho, Madhya UNESCO World Heritage Site. The temples were patronized by Chandela
Pradesh kings.
Tirupati Balaji Temple Tirupati Balaji Temple Dedicated to Lord Vishnu
Virupaksha Temple Hampi, Karnataka The temple is dedicated to Lord Virupaksha, a form of Shiva
Meenakshi Temple Madurai, Tamil Nadu Temple is dedicated to Meenakshi, a form of Parvati, and her consort,
Sundareshwar, a form of Shiva
Ramanathaswamy Rameswaram, Tamil Dedicated to Lord Shiva
Temple Nadu
Padmanabhaswamy Thiruvananthapuram, Dedicated to Lord Vishnu
Temple Kerala
Dakshineswar Kali Kolkata, West Bengal
Temple
Gomateshwara Bahubali Shravanbela Gola,
Temple Karnataka
Nataraja Temple Chidambaram, Tamil Temple is dedicated to Natarajar (Shiva)

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Famous Temple Location About temples
Nadu
Sabarimala Temple Pathanamthitta, Kerala
Mahakaleshwar Temple Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh Dedicated to Lord Shiva
Kashi Vishwanath Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh Dedicated to Lord Shiva
Temple
Badrinath Temple Badrinath, Uttarakhand Dedicated to Lord Vishnu
Kedarnath Temple Kedarnath, Uttarakhand Dedicated to Lord Shiva
Kailasnath Temple Ellora, Maharashtra Build by Rashtrakuta King Krishna I
Shore temple Mahabalipuram The Shore Temple of Mamallapuram was built by Narasimhavarman II

9.9. Indian Languages

• The Eighth Schedule to the Constitution consists of 22 languages; originally, there were 14 languages in the 8th schedule.
• The further languages were added as later:
1. Sindhi by 21st amendment, 1967
2. Konkani, Manipuri and Nepali languages by 71st amendment, 1992
3. Bodo, Dogri, Santhali and Maithali by 92nd
• Amendment, 2004. The 22 official languages and related states are
1. ASSAMESE – Assam
2. BENGALI – West Bengal, Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Tripura, West Bengal
3. BODO – Assam
4. DOGRI – Jammu and Kashmir
5. GUJARATI – Daman and Diu, Gujarat ,Dadra and Nagar Haveli
6. HINDI – ,Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand ,Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Arunachal Pradesh, Bihar, Chandigarh,
Chhattisgarh, the national capital territory of Delhi, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh.
7. KANNADA – Karnataka
8. KASHMIRI – Jammu and Kashmir
9. KONKANI – Goa, Karnataka, Maharashtra
10. MAITHILI – Bihar
11. MALAYALAM – Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Lakshadweep, Kerala
12. MANIPURI – Manipur
13. MARATHI – Dadra & Nagar Haveli , Daman and Diu, Goa, Maharashtra
14. NEPALI – Sikkim, West Bengal
15. ODIYA – Odisha
16. PUNJABI – Chandigarh, Delhi, Haryana, Punjab
17. SANSKRIT – Only in scriptures. Not in usage.
18. SANTHALI – Santhal tribal of the Chota Nagpur Plateau (comprising the states of Orissa ,Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand)
19. SINDHI – Sindhi community
20. TAMIL – Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Pondicherry, Tamil Nadu.
21. TELUGU – Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana
22. URDU – Andhra Pradesh, Delhi, Jammu and Kashmir, Uttar Pradesh, Telangana
Classical Languages
• To determine the eligibility of language to be considered as a classical language the Government of India follows the following
criteria
1. High antiquity of its early texts/recorded history over a period of 1500-2000 years
2. A body of ancient literature/texts, which is considered a valuable heritage by generations of speakers
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4. The classical language and literature being distinct from modern, there may also be a discontinuity between the classical
language and its later forms or its offshoots.
• Tamil was the first Classical Language of India Current classical Languages are
1. Tamil (since 2004)
2. Sanskrit (since 2005)
3. Telugu (since 2008)
4. Kannada (Since 2008)
5. Malayalam (since 2013)
6. Odiya (since 2014)

Some important points about languages

• Tamil language was used in the literature of Sangam period
• Dravidian languages are Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, and Malayalam
• Konkani language recently included in the 8th Schedule of the Constitution, which is widely spoken in goa
• Tamil is the oldest Dravidian language
• Sahitya Academy promotes and develops literature in all the 22 languages of India
• The languages spoken in Sikkim are Nepali, Hindi, Lepcha, Bhutani
• The language spoken in Lakshadweep islands is Malayalam
• The oldest Indian Language is Tamil
• Official language of Nagaland is English
• The Indian language known as the 'Italian of the East' is Telugu
• The official language of the Supreme Court and High Court as prescribed by the Constitution of India is English
9.10. Awards - India
Civilian Rewards • The first recipient of the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award is
Viswanathan Anand
Bharat Ratna
• It is the highest civilian award of India. Instituted in 1954 Dhyan Chand Award
• The first recipients of the Bharat Ratna was C. • The award that is given to the veteran sportspersons of
Rajagopalachari, Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, and C. V. India for their lifetime achievement in their respective field
Raman of sport is named as the Dhyan Chand Award for Life Time
• The number of Bharat Ratna is restricted to a maximum of Achievement in Sports and Games
three nominees being awarded per year
Dronacharya Award
Padma Vibhushan • This award is given to coaches and sports teachers for
• The Padma Vibhushan is the second-highest civilian award producing great skilled teams and individual players in
of India, second only to the Bharat Ratna. Instituted in 1954 various sports
• Dronacharya awards were initiated in 1985
Padma Bhushan
• The Padma Bhushan is the third-highest civilian award of Arjuna Award
India, proceeded by the Bharat Ratna and the Padma • The Arjuna Awards are given by the Ministry of Youth
Vibhushan and followed by the Padma Shri. Instituted in Affairs and Sports, Government of India to recognize
1954 outstanding achievement in sports. Instituted in 1961

Padma Shri Literature Awards

• Padma Shri is the fourth highest civilian award in the • Jyanpith award
Republic of India • Saraswati Samman
• Moorti Devi Award
National Sports Awards • Bihari Puraskar
• Sahitya Academy Award
Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award (Previously known
as Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna) Gallantry awards
• The Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna is the highest honour • Param vir chakra.
bestowed to a sportsperson for his/her achievements in • Maha vir chakra.
India • Vir chakra.
• Ashoka chakra.

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• Kirti chakra. • Shaurya chakra.
10.MISCELLANEOUS
10.1. Important Superlatives in India (“Largest/Longest/Highest/Biggest/Smallest”)

No. Largest/Longest/Highest/ Biggest/ Results

Smallest
1 The longest Bridge Above Water Dhola Sadiya Bridge, Assam (9.15 km.)
2 The largest animal Fair Sonepur (Bihar)
3 The largest Auditorium Sri Shanmukhananda Hall (Mumbai)
4 The largest Lake(Freshwater) Wular Lake (J & K)
5 The largest Lake(Saltwater) Chilka Lake(Odisha)
6 The highest Dam Tehri dam
7 The largest Desert Thar (Rajasthan)
8 The largest cave Temple Kailash Nath Temple (Ellora, Maharashtra)
9 The largest Zoo Arignar Anna Zoological Park- Vandalur Zoo (1300 Acres)
10 The highest peak Kangchenjunga (8586m)
11 The longest Tunnel Chennai- Nasri tunnel (Udhampur district of J&K)
12 The largest Delta Sundarbans (W. Bengal)
13 The State with maximum forest area Madhya Pradesh
14 The longest Corridor Corridor of Ramanathaswamy Temple of Rameswaram (Tamil Nadu)
15 The highest Waterfall Jog Water Falls (Karnataka)
16 The longest Road Grand Trunk Road (Kolkatta to Delhi)
17 The highest Gateway Buland Darwaza, Fatehpur Sikri (U.P)
18 The longest River The Ganges (2640 km. long)
19 The largest museum Imperial museum or Indian Museum, Kolkatta
20 The largest Dome Gol Gumbaz, Bijapur (in Karnataka)
21 The Tallest Statue Statue of Unity, Narmada District of Gujarat (182m)
22 The largest Public sector Bank State Bank of India
23 The Biggest Cantilever Bridge Rabindra Setu or Howrah Bridge (Kolkatta)
24 The longest Canal Indira Gandhi Canal or Rajasthan Canal (Rajasthan)
25 The longest Railway platform Gorakhpur, UP
26 Highest Railway Station Ghum, West Bengal
27 Longest Electric Railway Line From Delhi to Kolkata via Patna
28 The Biggest Stadium Buddh International Circuit (Auto Racing), Yuva Bharti (Salt Lake) Stadium
Kolkatta (football)
29 The most popular city Mumbai (Maharashtra)
30 The Longest Passenger Train Route Dibrugarh to Kanyakumari
31 The Oldest Church St. Thomas Church at palayer, Thrissur (Kerela)
32 The longest National Highway N.H-44 (Srinagar to Kanyakumari)
33 The State with the longest Coast Line Gujarat
34 The Highest Lake Cholamu lake (north Sikim)
35 The largest Saline water Lake Sambhar lake, Rajasthan
36 The largest freshwater lake wular Lake
37 Largest Cave Amarnath(J & K)
38 The longest river in Southern India Godavari
39 The longest Dam Hirakud Dam (Orissa)
40 The highest Gallantry Award Ashok Chakra(Peacetime), Param Veer Chakra(Wartime)
41 The highest Award Bharat Ratna
42 The biggest Church Saint Cathedral at old Goa (goa)
43 The Southern Indian State with the Andhra Pradesh
Longest Coastal line
44 The Longest Sea Beach Marina Beach (Chennai)
45 The Highest Road Road at Khardungla, (in Leh –Manali Sector)
46 The largest artificial Lake Govind Sagar (BhakhraNangal)
47 The deepest River Valley Bhagirathi and Alaknanda
48 The largest River without Delta Narmada and Tapi
49 The biggest river Island Majuli Brahmputra river (Assam)
50 The largest Planetarium Birla Planetarium
51 The Highest Airport Leh Airport (Ladakh)
52 The largest state in the area Rajasthan (3,42,239 sq.km)

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Smallest
53 The smallest state in an area Goa (3,702sq.km)
54 Largest Cave Amarnath (J&K)
55 Longest Beach Marina Beach, Chennai
56 Largest Populated City Mumbai
57 Biggest Fort Red Fort, Delhi
58 First Complete Banking District Palakkad, Kerala
59 First IT District Palakkad, Kerala
60 Highest Airport Kushok Bakula Rimpochhe Airport, Leh airport in Ladakh
61 Largest Library National Library, Kolkatta
62 Largest Plateau Deccan Plateau
63 Highest Tower Qutab Minar at Delhi (88.4 meters high)
64 Largest District Kutch district
65 Largest Port Jawahar Lal Nehru Port, Mumbai
66 Highest Rainfall Cherrapunji (426 inches per annum) or Mawsynram
67 Biggest Mosque Jama Masjid at Delhi
68 Highest Battle Field Siachin Glacier

10.2. Books and Authors

List of Important Books Released in 2022

Book Name Author Name
Gandhi’s Assassin: The Making of Nathuram Godse and His Idea of India Dhirendra K. Jha
Mamata: Beyond 2021 Jayanta Ghosal
Ratan N. Tata: The Authorized Biography Dr. Thomas Matthew
Indomitable: A Working Woman’s Notes on Life, Work, and Leadership Arundhati Bhattacharya
Bose: The untold story of an inconvenient nationalist Chandrachur Ghose
The Legend of Birsa Munda Tuhin A Sinha and Ankita Verma
India’s Women Unsung Heroes Meenakshi Lekhi
A Little Book of India: Celebrating 75 Years of Independence Ruskin Bond
The $10 Trillion Dream Subhash Chandra Garg

List of Important Books Released in 2021

Book Name Authors Name
All You Need is Josh: Stories of Courage and Conviction in 21st Supriya Paul
century India
Languages of Truth: Essays 2003-2020 Salman Rushdie
All Roads Lead North: Nepal’s Turn To China Amish Raj Mulmi
1232km: The Long Journey Home Vinod Kapri
Skill It, Kill It Ronnie Screwvala
Home in the World Amartya Sen
Believe-What Life and Cricket Taught Me Suresh Raina
The Nutmeg’s Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis Amitav Ghosh
Monk in a Merc Ashok Pangariya
The 7 Sins of Being a Mother Tahira Kashyap Khurrana
Habba Khatoon Kajal Suri
What is Consciousness? Dr. Vipin Gupta
What is Para Consciousness? Dr. Vipin Gupta
Will Will Smith and Mark Manson
My Joys and Sorrows- as a Mother of a Special Child Krishna Saksena
It’s a Wonderful Life Ruskin Bond
Fiercely Female: The Dutee Chand Story Sundeep Mishra
Kashmiri Century: Portrait of a Society in Flux Khemlata Wakhlu
Policymaker’s Journal: From New Delhi to Washington DC Kaushik Basu
Climate Change Explained—For One and All Aakash Ranison
The Bench Meghan Markle
The elephant in the Womb Kalki Koechlin
Life in the Clock Tower Valley Shakoor Rather
1971: The Beginning of India’s Cricketing Greatness Borai Majumdar and Gautam Bhattacharya

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All-Time Favorites for Children Ruskin Bond
Sikkim: A History of Intrigue and Alliance Preet Mohan Singh Malik
Buddha in Gandhara Sunita Dwivedi
Nehru, Tibet, and China Avtar Singh Bhasin
India and Asian Geopolitics: The Past, Present Shivshankar Menon
Sach Kahun Toh Neena Gupta
Stargazing: The Players in my Life Ravi Shastri
Savarkar: A Contested Legacy (1924-1966) Vikram Sampath
Names of the Women Jeet Thayil
Suparipalana Dr Shailendra Joshi
Agriculture in India: Contemporary Challenges- in the context of Dr. Mohan Kanda
doubling farmers' income
Cinema Through Rasa: A Tryst with Masterpieces in the Light of Prachand Praveer
Rasa Siddhanta
Wisdom for Start-ups from Grownups: Discovering Corporate R Gopalakrishnan and R Narayanan
Ayurveda
Manohar Parrikar: Brilliant Mind, Simple Life Nitin Gokhale
Neelimarani- My Mother, My Hero Dr. Achyuta Samanta
Odisha Itihaas Utkal Keshari Harekrushna Mahtab
Akhtari: The Life and Music of Begum Akhtar Yatindra Mishra
India’s Power Elite: Class, Caste and a Cultural revolution Sanjay Baru
The Christmas Pig JK Rowling
Wanderers, Kings, Merchants: The Story of India through its Peggy Mohan
Languages
The Living Mountain: A Fable for Our Times Amitav Ghosh
Advantage India: The Story of Indian Tennis Anindya Dutta
The Mystery of the Parsee Lawyer: Arthur Conan Doyle, George Shrabani Basu
Edalji and the case of the foreigner in the English Village
Joe Biden: American Dreamer Evan Osnos
Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Power: 5 Battlegrounds Rajiv Malhotra
Dynasty to Democracy: The Untold Story of Smriti Irani’s Anant Vijay
Triumph
The Green Queens of India- A Nation’s Pride Prakash Javadekar
Karunanidhi: A Life AS Pannerselvan
Baanjh: Incomplete Lives of Complete Women Susmita Mukherjee
Hunchprose Ranjit Hoskote
Prince with a Paintbrush: The Story of Raja Ravi Varma Shobha Tharoor Srinivasan
My Life in Full: Work, Family and Our Future Indra Nooyi
Undertow Jahnavi Barua
Battle Ready for 21st Century Lt Gen AK Singh and Brig. Narendra Kumar
India’s Power Elite: Caste, Class, and Cultural Revolution Sanjaya Baru
The Pain-Free Mindset: 7 Steps to Taking Control and Dr. Deepak Ravindran
Overcoming Chronic Pain
Saving Us: A Climate Scientist’s Case for Hope and Healing in a Katharine Hayhoe
Dividend World
Bringing Governments and People Closer Dr. M Ramachandran
My Experiments with Silence Samir Soni
Escaped: True Stories of Indian Fugitives in London Danish Khan and Ruhi Khan
Names of the Women Jeet Thayil
Indians: A Brief History of a Civilization Namit Arora
From Incremental to Exponential Vivek Wadhwa, Ismail Amla and Alex Salkever
Wild and Wilful: Tale of 15 Iconic Indian Species Neha Sinha
Name Place Animal Things Daribha Lyndem
Yearbook Seth Rogen
Yes Man: The Untold Story of Rana Kapoor Pavan C. Lall
The Little Book of Encouragement Dalai Lama
Whereabouts Jhumpa Lahiri
1857- The Sword of Mastann Vineet Bajpai
Parliamentary Messenger in Rajasthan Dr. K N Bhandari

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Beautiful Things’ A Memoir Hunter Biden (Son of US President Joe Biden)
Platform Scale: For A Post-Pandemic World Sangeet Paul Choudary
By Many a Happy Accident: Recollections of a Life Former Vice President Mohammad Hamid Ansari
The Terrible, Horrible, Very Bad Good News Meghna Pant
Turn Around India: 2020- Surmounting Past Legacy RP Gupta
Unfinished Priyanka Chopra Jonas
Kamala’s Way: An American Life Dan Morain
Mapping Love Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari
Tipane Kashmirchi (Notes on Kashmir), Untold Stories Arun Karmarkar
ASOCA: A Sutra Irwin Allan Sealy
Sarasvati’s Gift Kavita Kane
The Epic Battle of Longewala Air Marshal Retd Bharat Kumar
Indian Economy’s Greatest Crisis: impact of Coronavirus and Arun Kumar
the Raod Ahead
Louiz Banks: A Symphony of Love Ashis Ghatak
Maverick Messiah: A Political Biography of N T Rama Rao Ramesh Kandula
Agriculture Acts 2020 Justice A K Rajan
They Found What/They Made What? Shweta Taneja
Dr. Darlie O Koshy ‘Runway to Skilled India
Leadership Lessons from 22 Yards Srikanth Ram
Because India Comes First Ram Madhav
Stories I Must Tell: The Journey of an Actor Kabir Bedi
The Lost Soul Olga Tokarczuk
#METOO Karan Puri
The Last Light of Glory Days: Stories from Nagaland Dr. Avinuo Kire
India: A Scamstar Born Every Minute Snigdha Poonam
Sabarimala Vijnaanakosham KS Vijayanath
Vahana Masterclass Alfredo Coveli
Right Under Our Nose R. Giridharan
India’s 71-Year Test: The Journey to Triumph in Australia R. Kaushik
Making of a General-A Himalayan Echo Lt. Gen. Konsam Himalay Singh
Gazing Eastwards: Of Buddhist Monks and Revolutionaries in Romila Thapar
China, 1957
Unscripted: Conversations on Life and Cinema Vidhu Vinod Chopra and Abhijat Joshi
The Commonwealth of Cricket Ramachandra Guha
Manohar Parrikar-Off the Record Waman Subha Prabhu
Abdul Kalam- Ninaivugalukku Maranamillai Dr APJM Nazema Maraikayar and Dr Y S Rajan
Flying Blind: India’s Quest for Global Leadership Mohamed Zeeshan
India 2030: The Rise of a Rajasic Nation Gautam Chikermane
The Law of Emergency Powers: Comparative Common Law Dr. Abhishek Singhvi and Prof. Khagesh Gautam
Perspectives
Soumitra Chatterjee: A Life in Cinema, Theatre, Poetry, and Arun Sengupta and Partha Mukherjee
Painting
Race With Me! Andre De Grasse and Robert Budd
After Lives, Gravel Heart and Paradise Abdulrazak Gurnah
Transformation in Times of Crisis Nitin Rakesh and Jerry Wind
The Startup Wife Tahmima Anam`
Policymaker’s Journal: From New Delhi to Washington, DC Kaushik Basu
Nathuram Godse: The True Story of Gandhi’s Assassin Dhaval Kulkarni
Lady Doctors: The Untold Stories of India’s First Women in Kavitha Rao
Medicine
India To The Rescue Sushant Singh
Operation Khukri Rajpal Punia
Pregnancy Bible Kareena Kapoor
The Ramayan of Shri Guru Gobind Singh Ji Baljit Kaur Tulsi
The Struggle Within A Memoir of the Emergency Ashok Chakravarti
The Long Game: How the Chinese Negotiate with India Vijay Gokhale
RSS: Building India Through SEWA Sudhanshu Mittal
The India Story Bimal Jalan

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Book Name Authors Name
Renegades: Born in the USA Barack Obama & Bruce Springsteen
An Ordinary Life: Portrait of an Indian Generation Ashok Lavasa
Why We Kneel, How We Rise Michael Holding
China Room Sunjeev Sahota
Mission Domination: An Unfinished Quest Boria Majumdar & Kushan Sarkar
Know Your Rights and Claim Them: A Guide for Youth Angelina Jolie
Back To The Roots Luke Coutinho & Tamannaah Bhatia
Human Rights and Terrorism in India Subramanian Swamy
INDIA vs the UK – the story of an unprecedented diplomatic Syed Akbaruddin
win
The Nutmeg’s Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis Amitav Ghosh
The Stars in My Sky Divya Dutta
Actually…I Met Them: A Memoir Gulzar
The Promise Damon Galgut
Pride, Prejudice, and Punditry Shashi Tharoor
Sunrise over Ayodhya Salman Khurshid
400 Days Chetan Bhagat
A biography of Dadabhai Naoroji Dinyar Patel
Yogi Adityanath: Religion, Politics, and Power: The untold story Sharad Pradhan and Atul Chandra
The Monk Who Transformed Uttar Pradesh: How Yogi Shantanu Gupta
Aditynath Changed UP Waala Bhaiya abuse to a Badge of
Honour
Things to leave behind Namita Gokhale
Delhi: A Soliloquy M Mukundan

10.3. List of Autobiographies of Famous Personalities

No Name of the book Author No Name of the book Author
1 An Autobiography (Toward Jawaharlal Nehru 23 Margaret Thatcher: The Margaret Thatcher
Freedom) Autobiography
2 A Shot at History Abhinav Bindra 24 Along Walk To Freedom Nelson Mandela
3 Wings Of Fire A.P.J. Abdul Kalam 25 My Life Bill Clinton
4 India Wins Freedom Abul Kalam Azad 26 Mein Kampf Adolf Hitler
5 The Race of My Life Milkha Singh 27 Freedom In Exile Dalai Lama
6 The Test of My Life Yuvraj Singh 28 I‘am Malala Malala Yousafzai
7 Playing It My Way Sachin Tendulkar 29 Unbreakable Mary Kom
8 ACE Against Odds Sania Mirza 30 Playing to win Saina Nehwal
9 The Tunnel of Time R. K. Laxman 31 Undisputed Truth Mike Tyson
10 My Country My Life Lal Krishna Advani 32 Golden Girl P.T. Usha
11 My Times: An Autobiography J. B. Kripalani 33 Mind Master Viswanathan Anand
12 One Life is Not Enough Natwar Singh 34 Sunny Days: An Sunil Gavaskar
13 Straight From the Heart Kapil Dev Autobiography
14 The Story of My Experiments Mahatma Gandhi 35 Moonwalk Michael Jackson
with Truth 36 The Greatest: My Own Story Muhammad Ali
15 Wandering in Many Worlds V. R. Krishna Iyer 37 Faster than Lightning: My Usain Bolt
16 The Autobiography of an Nirad C. Chaudhuri Autobiography
Unknown Indian 38 The Man Who Made The Dr Verghese Kurien
17 Matters of discretion Inder Kumar Gujral Elephant Dance
18 Truth, Love& a Little Malice Khushwant Singh 39 Majya Jalmachi Chittarkatha Shantabai Kamble
19 Becoming Michelle Obama 40 How I Became a Hindu Sita Ram Goel
20 Lessons Life taught me, Anupam Kher 41 En Sarithiram U. V. Swaminathan
unknowingly Iyer
21 Dreams from my father Barack Obama 42 Autobiography of a Yogi Paramahansa
22 Daughter of Destiny Benazir Bhutto Yogananda

10.4. Nicknames of Famous Personalities From India And The World

No Name of the Person Nicknames

1 Subhash Chandra Bose Netaji, Patriot of Patriots

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2 Vallabhbhai Patel Iron Man of India, Indian Bismarck, Sardar
3 Mahatma Gandhi Father of the Nation, Bapu, Mahatma
4 Dadabhai Naoroji Grand Old man of India
5 Raja Ram Mohan Roy Morning Star of India Renaissance
6 Dayanand Saraswati Martin Luther of India
7 Mother Teresa Mother
8 Valmiki Adi Kavi
9 Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan Frontier Gandhi, Badshah Khan
10 Nagarjuna Indian Einstein
11 Lal Bahadur Shastri Man of Peace
12 Jawaharlal Nehru Chacha, Pandit ji
13 Salim Ali Bird man of India
14 Dr. Rajendra Prasad Desh Ratna, Ajatshatru
15 Sarojini Naidu Nightingale of India
16 Lala Lajpat Rai Punjab Kesari
17 Bal Gangadhar Tilak Lokmanya
18 Bhagat Singh Prince of Martyrs
19 Hiuen Tsang Prince of Pilgrims
20 Rabindranath Tagore Vishwa Kavi, Kaviguru, Gurudev
21 Sankaracharya Sage of Kanchi
22 Chanakya Machiavelli of India
23 Dhyanchand Magician of Hockey
24 PT Usha Udanpari, Payyoli Express
25 Lata Mangeshkar Swar Kokila
26 Chandra Shekhar Young Turk
27 Kapil Dev Haryana Hurricane
28 Saurav Ganguly Prince of Kolkata
29 Sachin Tendulkar Master Blaster
30 Milkha Singh Flying Sikh
31 T Prakasam Andhra Kesari
32 Ashutosh Mukherji Bengal Kesari
32 Dr. Srikrishna Singh Bihar Kesari
33 Jainul Abdin Akbar of Kashmir
34 Shahjahan Prince of Builders
35 Sheikh Mujibut Rahman Banga bandhu
36 Dr. Anugrah Narayan Singh Bihar Vibhuti
37 C.Rajagopalachari Mango of Krishnagiri, Rajaji
38 CF Andrews Deen bandhu
39 Chitta Ranjan Das Desh bandhu
40 Yatindra Mohan Sengupta Deshpriya
41 Lord Rippon Father of the Local Self-Government
42 Tushar Kanti Ghosh Grand old man of Indian Journalism
43 MS Golvalkar Guruji
44 Jayaprakash Narayan Loknayak
45 Madan Mohan Malaviya Mahamanya, Prince of Beggars
46 Tipu Sultan Mysore Tiger
47 Samudra Gupta Napoleon of India
48 Amir Khushro Parrot of India
49 Muhammad bin Tughlaq Prince of Money Makers
50 Mahakavi Kalidas Shakespeare of India
51 Lord Buddha Enlightened One
52 Ho Chi Minh Uncle Ho
53 William Shakespeare Bard of Avon
54 Florence Nightingale Lady with the lamp
55 Queen Elizabeth I Maiden Queen
56 Adolf Hitler Fuehrer
57 Edmund Spencer Poet‘s Poet
58 Geoffery Chaucer Father of English Poetry
59 Chengiz Khan Scourage of God
60 Gen Ervin Rommel Desert Fox

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61 Pazhassi Raja Lion of Kerala/ Kerala Simham
62 Jyotirao Phule Mahatma Phule
63 B. R. Ambedkar Baba Saheb
64 Lala Lajpat Rai, Bal Gangadhar Lal, Bal, Pal
Tilak and Bipin Chandra Pal

10.5. Official Books/Documents of Major Countries

1. Blue Book: An official report of the British Government.
2. Green Book: Official Report or Publications of Italy and Iran (Persia)
3. Orange Book: Official publication of the Government of Netherlands
4. Yellow Book: Official Report or Publications of the Government of France.
5. Grey Book: Official reports of the Government of Japan and Belgium.
6. White Book: Official Report or publications of China, Germany and Portugal.
7. White Paper: Official Paper of the Government of Britain and India on a particular issue.
8. Joint paper: Joint report or publications of two or more Governments

10.6. Important Awards and Their Fields

Award Field
Nobel Prize • Achievements in the field of Physics, Chemistry, Peace, Economics,
• Medicine and Literature
Magsaysay Award • Outstanding contributions to Public service, Community Leadership,
• Journalism, Literature and Creative Arts and International Understanding
Oscar Awards • Film Industry
Bharat Ratna • Arts, Literature, Science and Public Service but the Government expanded the criteria to
include ― any field of human endeavor‖
• It is the highest civilian award of India. Instituted in 1954
• The first recipients of the Bharat Ratna was C. Rajagopalachari, Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan,
and C. V. Raman
• The number of Bharat Ratna is restricted to a maximum of three nominees being awarded
per year
Padma Awards • Padma Vibhushan
• The Padma Vibhushan is the second-highest civilian award of India, second only to the
Bharat Ratna. Instituted in 1954
•
• Padma Bhushan
• The Padma Bhushan is the third-highest civilian award of India, proceeded by the Bharat
Ratna and the Padma Vibhushan and followed by the Padma Shri. Instituted in 1954
• Padma Shri
• Padma Shri is the fourth highest civilian award in the Republic of India
Gallantry Awards: Paramvir chakra • India‘s highest award for bravery Second highest gallantry award Highest peace-time
Mahavir Chakra Ashok Chakra gallantry award Third highest gallantry award
Vir Chakra Shaurya chakra • For Bravery and gallant
Booker Prize • Literature
Moorti Devi Award • Literature
Jnanpith Award • Literature
Saraswati Samman • Literature
Arjuna Award • The Arjuna Awards are given by the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, Government of
India to recognize outstanding achievement in sports. Instituted in 1961
Bihari Puraskar • Literature
Dadasaheb Phalke Award • Cinema
Dronacharya Award • This award is given to coaches and sports teachers for producing great skilled teams and
individual players in various sports
• Dronacharya awards were initiated in 1985
Dhyan Chand Award • Lifetime achievement in Sports and games
Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna • The Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna is the highest honour bestowed to a sportsperson for
Award (Formerly known as Rajiv his/her achievements in India
Gandhi Khel Ratna Award) • The first recipient of the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award is Viswanathan Anand

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Aga Khan Award • Architecture
Pritzker Prize • Architecture
Kalinga Prize • Science
Shanti SwarupBhatnagar Prize • Science & Technology
Abel Prize • Mathematics
Grammy Award • Music
Green star Awards • Extraordinary efforts to respond to environmental disasters around the
• world
International Gandhi Peace Prize • Social, Economic and Political revolution through non- violence and
• Gandhian Philosophy
Lal Bahadur Shastri National Award • Public Administration, Management and Academics.
Pulitzer Prize • Achievements in newspaper and online journalism, Literature, and
• musical composition in the United states.
Sahitya Akademi Award • Books in Indian Languages and English
Manthan Award • e- Content and Creativity
FiFi Awards • Fragrance Industry‘s creative achievements
Sangeet- Natak Akademi Award • Music, Drama and Dance
Booker Prize • Awarded for Best original novel in the English Language
Vyas Samman • Hindi Literature
UNESCO peace prize • Contributions for International Peace
Right Livelihood Award • Environment and social Justice
UNESCO Human Rights Awards • Human Rights awareness
World Food Prize • Agriculture and Food Development
Stirling Prize • Architecture
Tansen Award • Music
Dhanvantri Award • Medical Sciences
Bowelay Award • Agriculture
Merlin • Magic
Juliet Curie Award • Peace
Kalidas Samman • Classical Music and Dance
BAFTA Awards • Television, Films, Video Games and Animation.

10.7. Indian Martial Arts No Authors Literary works

Kumarasambhava Meghaduta
Martial Arts Originated from Ritusambara
Kalaripayattu Kerala 2 Vishakhdutta Mudrarakṣhasa
Silambam Tamil Nadu 3 Shudraka Mrichchhakatika
Thoda Himachal Pradesh 4 Bhasa Svapnavasavadattam
Thang-ta and Sarit Sarak Manipur 5 Chanakya Arthashastra
Cheibi Gadga Manipur (Kautilya)
Gatka Punjab 6 Vatsyayana Kamasutra
Lathi Punjab & Bengal 7 Banabhatta Harshacharita Kadambari
Musti Yuddha Varanasi 8 Panini Ashtadhyayi
Pari-Khanda Bihar 9 Ved Vyas Mahabharata
Kathi Samu Andhra Pradesh 10 Valmiki Ramayana
Karra Samu Andhra Pradesh 11 Sri Harsha Nagananda Ratnavali
Mukna Manipur 12 Vishnu Sharma Panchatantra
Inbuan Wrestling Mizoram 13 Aryabhata Aryabhatiya
Mardani Khel Kolhapur, Maharashtra 14 Kalhana Rajtarangini
15 Somdeva Kathasaritsagara
16 Ashvaghosha Buddhacharita
10.8. Ancient India Literary Works and Authors 17 Bharata Muni Natyashastra
18 Kamandaka Nitisara
No Authors Literary works 19 Varahamihira Brihat Samhita Panchasiddhantika
20 Megasthenes Indica
1 Kalidas Abhijan Shakuntalam
21 Patanjli Mahabhasya
Vikramorvashi
Malvikaganimithram The epic 22 Jayadev Gita Govinda
poems Raghuvamsha 23 Virsena Navratna
24 Amara simha Amara kosh

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25 Tolkappiyar Tolkappiyam 27 Chithalai Manimekalai
26 Thulasi das Ramcharitmanas Chathanar
28 Ilango Adigal Silapathikaram

10.9. Modern Indian Literature

• English is a foreign language but since the British came to India the language has had a major impact onseveral fields—in
education, literary effort and as a medium of communication.
• Kashiprasad Ghosh is considered the First Indian poet worked in English
• Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol is an epic poem by Sri Aurobindo Ghose
• Major literary works and authors

No Authors Literary works

1 Dadabhai Naoroji • Poverty and Un-British Rule in India
• Poverty of India
2 Sri Aurobindo Ghose • The Life Divine.
• Savitri – A Legend and a Symbol.
• The Synthesis of Yoga.
• Powers Within
3 Rabindranath Tagore • Gitanjali
• Gora (Novel)
4 Mohandas Karamchand • My Experiments with the Truth
Gandhi • Hind Swaraj
5 Sarojini Naidu • The Golden Threshold
• The Bird of Time
• The Broken Wing
6 Jawaharlal Nehru • The Discovery of India
• Glimpses of World History
7 Mulk Raj Anand • Untouchable
• Coolie
• Two Leaves and a Bud
• The Village
• Across the Black Waters
• The Sword and the Sickle
• The Big Heart
• Seven Summers
• Private Life of an Indian Prince
8 R.K. Narayan • Malgudi Days
• Swami and Friends
• The Guide
• The Dark Room
• Waiting for the Mahatma
9 Raja Rao • The Cat and Shakespeare
• The Serpent and the Rope
• Kanthapura
10 Kamala Markandaya • Nectar in a Sieve
• Some Inner Fury
• A Silence of Desire
• Two Virgins
• A Handful of Rice
• Pleasure City
11 Manohar Malgaonkar • Distant Drum
• A Combat of Shadows
• The Princes
• A Bend in the Ganges
• The Devil‘s Wind
• Spy in Amber
12 Anita Desai • Clear Light of Day

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• The Accompanist
• Fire on the Mountain
• Games at Twilight
• The village by the sea
• In Custody
• cry the peacock
13 Nayantara Sehgal • Rich Like Us
• A time to be happy
14 Khushwant Singh • 1. Train to Pakistan
15 Bhabani Bhattacharya • So Many Hungers
• He Who Rides Tiger
• Music for Mohini
• shadow from Ladakh
16 Arundhati Roy • The God of Small Things
• The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
17 Salman Rushdie • Grimus
• Midnight‘s Children
• Shame
• The Satanic Verses
• Haroun and the Sea of Stories
• The Moor‘s Last Sigh
• The Ground Beneath Her Feet
• Shalimar the Clown
• The Enchantress of Florence
• Luka and the Fire of Life
• Two Years Eight Months and Twenty- Eight Nights.
• The Jaguar Smile
18 Vikram Seth • A Suitable Boy
• An Equal Music
• The Golden Gate
• A Suitable Girl
• The Humble Administrator's Garden
• Two Lives
19 Subhas Chandra Bose • 1. The Indian Struggle
20 Lala Lajpat Rai • 1. Unhappy India
21 B. R. Ambedkar • What Congress and Gandhi have done to
• the untouchables
22 Ram Mohan Roy • 1. The Precepts of Jesus
23 Rohinton Mistry • 1. A Fine Balance
24 Suketu Mehta • 1. Maximum City
25 Nirad C. Chaudhuri • The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian
• The Continent of Circe
• To Live or not to Live
26 Sunetra Gupta • 1. The Glassblower‘s Breath

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