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"City of Incas" is Machu Picchu .

The largest mammal is Blue Whale.

The role of sodium and potassium ions is to maintain the body osmotic pressure.

Niagara falls is located in  U.S.A.

Zebras are found in Africa.

The land-looked country is Zimbabwe.

The slow moving animal in land is snail.

The animal closest to the relation of cat is Civet.

Saffron is dried stigma.

Examples of fossil fuel is coal,oil and natural gas.

Gandhiji started sathiyagra moment in 1919.

Crop mainly grows in hills is sweet potato.

Prophet of New India is Raja Ram Mohan Roy.

The term Pitcher is associated with Basketball.

An insect catching plant is known as Nepenthes.

Goal Gumbaz is in Karnataka.

Jute is called as "Brown Paper".

Gas used in the manufacturing of vanaspathi ghee is Hydrogen.

Electric blubs are filled with Argon.

Britannia Industries Ltd. was founded in 1892 by Gupta Brothers. 7th G-20 Summit (2012) – Mexico

The Finance Commission of India came into existence on November 22, 195. It was established under Article 280 of the Indian Constitution by the President of
India.

The First Finance Commission was appointed by the President on November 20, 1951, which was chaired by Mr. K.C. Neogy.

The Thirteenth Finance Commission was set up in November 2007 and was headed by Vijay Kelkar.

The 14th Finance Commission is expected to be set up by September this year (2012)

The former Governor of the Reserve Bank of India, Yaga Venugopal Reddy, is set to head the 14th Finance Commission.

Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty, formally Treaty Banning Nuclear Weapons Tests in the Atmosphere, in Outer Space, and Under Water, treaty signed in Moscow on August 5, 1963.

India’s first “talking” Automated Teller Machine (ATM) for visually impaired was inaugurated in Ahmedabad (Gujarat).

The National Film Awards is the most prominent film award ceremony in India, and was established in 1954.

59th National Film Awards were presented on 3rd May 2012.

On May 16, 1960, Theodore H. Maiman operated the 1st functioning laser.

Motilal Chimanlal Setalvad was an eminent Indian jurist, who became the first and longest serving Attorney General for India (1950-1963). He also remained the Chairman of the First Law Commission of India (1955-1958).

The first Law Commission of independent India was established in 1955 for a three year term. Since then eighteen more Commissions have been established.

The Nineteenth and the current Law Commission was established on 1 September 2009 under the Chairmanship of a justice P. Venkatarama Reddy. Its tenure has been fixed till 31 August 2012.

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1)An and math was written by Bankim Chandra Chatterjee.
2)Ash a Rose Migiro is the first women deputy secretary general of united states.
3)A Call To Honour was written byjaswant Smith
4)Wedding Album was written by Garish Karnard.
5)New Foreign Secretary of India is S.Jaishankar.
6)"Fools rush in where angels fear to tread" was said by Alexander pope.
7)James bond  is a character created by Ian Fleming.
8)The Famous work of Leo Tolstoy is War and Peace.
9)Chetan Anand  is associated with Badminton.
10)Freud is associated with Psychoanalysis.
11)Dyne , stands for the unit of Energy.
12)In oxygen things burn brightly.
13)Bacteria were first seen, described and sketched by Pasteur.
14)Green colour of leaf is due to the presence of chlorophyll.
15)Radiant energy of sun results from nuclear fusion.
16)In visible spectrum the colour having the shortest wavelength is Violet.
17)An Indian river that does not form any delta is The Narmadha.
18)Asia's first underground Hydel Project is located in Himachal Pradesh.
19)If the lens in eye become opaque the disease is called Cataract.
20)The Manas Wild Life Sanctuary is located in the state of Assam.
21)Pituitary gland is present below the brain.
22)India's First National Cricket academy has be established in Bangalore.
23)LPG consist of mainly methane propane and butane.
24)Obra is famous for Thermal Power Station.
25)Rajghat dam is situated on river Betwa.
26)Soil is composed of Water+Air+Mineral.
27)Where is the SAARC Secretariat situated in Kathmandu.
28)The Muslim invader of India was Mohammed bin kazim.
29)Artificial immunity can be accursed from vaccination.
30)The Indian constitution is Rigid and flexible.
31)Grammy awards are given in the field of music.
32)Buddha delivered his first sermon at sarnath.
33)RBC are formed in the bone marrow.
34)The planning commission was setup in the year 1950.
35)vitamin A is necessary in our body for proper vision.
36)Iron can be extracted from Magnetite.
37)The chemical used in photographic film is silver bromide.
38)Suez canal was nationalized in the year 1956.
39)The term "Forth Estate "refers to Press.
40)Santosh trophy is associated with Football.

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Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg marries Priscilla Chan.

May 21 - Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated in 1991, is also observed as Anti Terrorism Day in India.

Deficiency of insulin causes Diabetes mellitus.

Controlled dose of insulin & sugar free diet are best preventive measures for diabetes mellitus.

The 2012 Nuclear Security Summit was a summit held at the COEX Convention & Exhibition Center in Seoul, South Korea, on March 26 & 27, 2012.

The 2010 Nuclear Security Summit was a summit held in Washington, D.C., on April 12 and 13, 2010.

Auxins were discovered by Went in 1928. He experimented with coleoptile tips of Avena (oats).
Gibberellins were discovered by Kurusowa.

A section of the nationalist leaders like C.R. Das and Motilal Nehru formed the Swarajya Party in 1922.

In 1940, at the Lahore session of the Muslim League, the demand for a separate nation of Pakistan was made.

Quit India Movement - 1942.

Physiography means the description of the physical relief features of a country.

Black Soil - is also known as Regur soil or Cotton soil.

'In vitro' culture means culturing the tissues outside the body of living organisms i.e. in the laboratory.

October 8 - Indian Air Force Day.

Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research (IGCAR) was set up at Kalpakkam (Tamil Nadu) in 1971 under the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE). Vijaya Lakshmi Nehru Pandit (18 August 1900 - 01 December 1990): In 1953, she became the 1st woman President of the United Nations General Assembly.

The Total number of protons in the nucleus of an atom is called the atomic number.

JJ Thomson's atom model is referred as the plum-pudding model.

High Altitude Research Laboratory - Gulmarg (Kashmir).

Uranium Corporation of India - Jaduguda (Jharkhand).

Tata Memorial Centre - Mumbai.

Aggregate fruit is developed from a single flower with multicarpellary, apocarpous, superior ovaries. Each free carpel develops into a fruitlet.

ISRO launched 'spy satellite' RISAT-1.

Karpechenko a Russian geneticist produced an intergeneric hybridization between radish and cabbage.

'Bangalore' known as the Electronic Capital of India.

Edward Jenner was the 1st one developed the vaccine.

The Legal Services Authorities Act was passed by the Parliament of India in 1987. By this Act the system of Lok Adalat came into practice.

The first hour of the day, when the Parliament is in session, is allotted for asking and answering questions. It is known as the "Question Hour".

Wipro was established in 1945 as a vegetable oil manufacturer in Amalner, Maharashtra. The company at that time was known as Western India Products Limited. Its main area of business was the production of Sunflower Vanaspati Oil, and later on, soaps and other consumer care products.

20% of the Earth's oxygen produced by the Amazon forest.

The amount of carbon in the human body is enough to fill 9000 'lead' pencils.

Tennis: Roger Federer beats Andy Dubai to win Dubai Open 2012.

Vladimir Putin claims victory in Russian elections.

India has won the first women's Kabaddi World Cup championship, beating Iran 25-19 in a thrilling game played in Patna, in the state of Bihar.

Kaziranga national park Jorhat - Assam. Bandipur national park, Mysore - Karnataka.
Tata Steel has topped a list of India's 50 most admired companies.

Vinton Cerf, who is recognized as one of "the fathers of the Internet".

Bharati is the name of an upcoming Antarctic research station commissioned by India and the station is scheduled to be operational by 2012.

Pedagogy is the study of being a teacher or the process of teaching. The term generally refers to strategies of instruction, or a style of instruction.

It is estimated that plastic containers can resist decomposition for 50,000 years.

Indians cross 3 million mark in US.

Lt General Rizwan Akhtar is Pakistan's new ISI Chief.

C. Rajagopalachari was the first & the last Indian Governor-General of free India.

Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel - First Deputy Prime Minister of India.

Acoustics: The study of sound and sound waves.
Theology: The study of religions.
Cardiology: A branch of medicine dealing with heart.

Akhilesh Yadav scripts history by becoming UP's youngest Chief Minister. Dr. Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen (APJ), Abdul Kalam worked in DRDO in 1958 and then joined ISRO in 1963.

ISRO's first Indian satellite - Aryabhatta.

February 22 - World Thinking Day.

In 1821, the French scientist Ampere showed that a current carrying conductor placed in a magnetic field experiences a mechanical force.

DPT - Diphtheria, Pertussis, Tetanus vaccine (Trible antigen). DT - Diphtheria, Tetanus (Dual antigen).

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In plants, the process of photosynthesis occurs in two phases, the photochemical (light) reaction and carbon assimilation (dark) reaction.

Hotmail was launched in 1996 by Sabeer Bhatia and Jack Smith and acquired by Microsoft in 1997.

Microsoft is renaming its vintage Hotmail email service as Outlook.com with new features.
Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) won their 1st Indian Premier League (IPL) title.

The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk was a peace treaty signed on March 3, 1918. The Indian Independence Act, passed by the British Parliament on 18 July 1947.

Mahmud Ghazni invaded Mathura in 1018.

RMS Lusitania was a British ocean liner, named after the ancient Roman province of Lusitania.

Kamalesh Sharma is the 5th and current Secretary General of the Commonwealth of Nations from 2008.

London Declaration - 28 April 1949.

Viswanathan Anand wins his 5th World Chess title. Anand has previously won the title in 2000, 2007, 2008 and 2010.

September 8 - International Literacy Day, recognized by the UN. September 11 - World First Aid Day. September 27 - World Tourism Day.

Country's fastest growing states in 2011-12: 1) Bihar - 13.1% 2) Delhi - 11.3% 3) Puducherry - 11.0% 4) Chhattisgarh - 10.8% 5) Goa - 10.7%.

The Chinese Revolution of 1911 ended the 267 years old Manchu rule and the Chinese Republic was established.

Hockey: India wins bronze at Sultan Azlan Shah Cup. March 27 - World Whisky Day.

The Portuguese were expelled from Goa, Daman and Diu in 1962. On May 30, 1987, Goa became a Union Territory.

The Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act is an act of the Parliament of India which was passed in 1985, and it came into effect from November 14,1985.

The Rajiv Awas Yojana (RAY), a new scheme announced by the President, focuses on slum dwellers and the urban poor.

Vice Admiral DK Joshi named new Navy chief after Admiral Nirmal Verma retires on August 31, 2012.

June 8 - World Ocean Day.

VS Sampath is the new Chief Election Commissioner. 62-year-old Sampath will take over as CEC after incumbent SY Quraishi demits office on June 10.

The medicine that deals with the structure, function, diagnosis & treatment of diseases of the stomach & intestine is called Gastroenterology.

Shillong is the capital of Meghalaya. Panaji is the capital of Goa.

The known SIV (Swine Influenza Virus) strains include influenza C and the subtypes of influenza A known as H1N1, H1N2, H2N1, H3N1, H3N2 and H2N3.

World Water Day has been observed on 22 March since 1993.
March 21 is observed as World Forestry Day.
March 23 - World Meteorological Day.

Soumitra Chatterjee got Dadasaheb Phalke award.

Bhagat Singh (born on: 28 Sept 1907) was hanged on 23 March 1931 at 7:30 pm in Lahore jail with his fellow comrades Rajguru and Sukhdev. HighMAT: High-performance Media Access Technology

Dheeran Chinnamalai (17 April 1756 to 31 July 1805). In July 2005, a
commemorative postage stamp on him was issued. Birth: Melapalayam, Erode. On November 10, 1997.

Apple introduced the Apple Online Store. On October 23, 2001, Apple introduced the iPod digital music player. Apple was established on April 1, 1976 by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne, to sell the Apple I personal computer kit.

The Bombay Natural History Society was started in 1883.

In 1952, Central Government of India Constituted the Indian Board for Wild Life. India (New Delhi) hosts 4th BRICS summit.

BRICS - Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa.

Project Elephant, a centrally sponsored scheme, was launched in February 1992. Project Tiger has been under implementation since 1973.

C.D. Deshmukh was the first Indian Governor of RBI to have presented the Interim Budget for 1951-52.

An Oscillograph is an instrument for measuring alternating or varying electric current in terms of current and voltage.

A rectifier is an electrical device that converts alternating current (AC) into direct current (DC).
Winds are caused by convection currents.

Sound needs a medium for propagation. It cannot travel through vacuum. NuSTAR - Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array.

Salim Ali - The eminent Ornithologist known as "the Birdman of India" 'Atithi Devo Bhavah' is a Social Awareness Campaign aimed at providing the inbound tourist a greater sense of being welcomed to the country.

The branch of science that deals with the characteristic features of fruit is called Pomology.
The colouring matter in turmeric is curcumin.

Origami - art of paper folding, which started in the 17th century AD. Akira Yoshizawa (Japan), the father of modern origami techniques.

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Cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) is a technique that temporarily takes over the function of the heart and lungs during surgery.

2012: Sania Mirza and Mahesh Bhupathi won their maiden French Open mixed doubles title.

June 14 - World Blood Donor Day. 2012: Maria Sharapova (Russia) wins French Open title.

Shehan Karunatilaka, author of 'Chinaman' wins the Commonwealth Book Prize for 2012.

Stan Wawrinka (Men's singles) - French Open Tennis 2015.

Serena Williams (Women's singles)- French Open Tennis 2015

Leander Paes and his Swiss partner Martina Hingis took the mixed doubles final in wimbledon tennis.

November 14 - World Diabetes Day.

The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) was established in 1918.

Headquarters of IUPAC is located in Zurich, Switzerland.

The International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP) was established in 1922 and the first General Assembly was held in 1923 in Paris.

The International Court of Justice consists of 15 judges chosen by the General Assembly and the Security Council of United Nations Organization. The 2012 G-20 Mexico Summit is the 7th meeting of the G-20 heads of govt. Held on June 18-19, 2012 in Los Cabos, Mexico.

The City of Madurai constituted under the Madurai City Municipal Corporation Act, 1971.
The Tamil Nadu Panchayats Act - 1994.

Saina Nehwal won her third Indonesian Open title 2012. Indian Registration Act - 1908

Powers- Of- Attorney Act - 1882 Indian Stamp Act - 1899

Urban Land (Ceiling and Regulation) Act - 1976.

UNICEF (United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund) was created by the United Nations General Assembly on December 11, 1946. Headquarters New York, USA.

The National research centre on plant Biotechnology was established at Dehradum in 1985.
Infosys Chief Mentor Narayana Murthy has been felicitated with the Global Leadership and Free Enterprise awards by the University of South Florida (USF) in recognition of his entrepreneurial spirit.

In 1912, Anna Jarvis trademarked the phrases "second Sunday in May" and "Mother's Day".

The first session of the Indian National Congress (INC) was held at Bombay (Mumbai) in 1885 under the Presidentship of Womesh Chandra Banerjee.

On Nov 15, 1995 the country's 1st elevated multi crore suburban railway scheme known as Mass Rapid Transit System (MRTS), was opened in Chennai.

April 18 - World Heritage Day.

The South Asian Association for Regional co-operation (SAARC) was launched with its 1st summit meet at Dacca (Bangladesh) on Dec 7, 1985.

The WiFi Technology was started in Chennai International Airport on August 21, 2005.

WiFi - Wireless Fidelity.
Tbs - Terabits per second.

RISAT-1 (launched on: April 26, 2012) project Director N Valarmathi, is the first woman to head a remote sensing satellite project.

The Rowlatt act was passed in 1919. It empowered the British Government to arrest anyone with out any warrant.

The maximum number of members of the Council of States (Rajya Sabha) is 250.

IMF (International Monetary Fund) opened an office in India in 1991.

CABE - Central Advisory Board for Education.

CAD - Computer Aided Design.

CAPES - Computer Aided Paperless Examination System.

Miss India World 2012 - Vanya Mishra
Miss India World 2013 - Navneet Kaur Dhillon
Miss India World 2014 -Loyal Rana
Miss India World 2015 - Aditi Arya

Miss India Earth 2012 - Prachi Mishra.
Miss India Earth 2013 - Sobhita Dhulipala

Miss India International 2012 - Rochelle Maria Rao.

In 1909 W. Healey established the 1st child guidance center, the Juvenile Psychopathic Institute (Chicago). Lachrymal glands secrete tears.

Steroid hormone is derived from Cholesterol.

Koyali Oil Refinery is located in Gujarat.

Nuclear submarine INS Chakra joins Indian Navy.

4th December is celebrated as Navy Day in India.

The Morvi dam failure was a dam-related flood disaster which occurred on Aug 11, 1979 in (Gujarat) India. Around 1800 to 15000 people were killed.

Shri Ashwin B. Pandya , Chairman - Central Water Commission.

Nagarhole National Park (also known as, Rajiv Gandhi National Park) is in Karnataka.

La Nina, which in Spanish means 'the girl', is a condition when surface temperatures in the south Pacific Ocean fall below normal.

Amartya Sen (born - 3 Nov 1933): Nobel Prize in Economics - 1998; Bharat Ratna - 1999; National Humanities Medal (American award) - 2011

Chemical name of laughing gas is Nitrous Oxide

Strait of Dover between England & France, which connects the North Sea with the English Channel

Chandigarh is the capital of the states of Punjab and Haryana.

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2012 is a leap year which is also the International year for Cooperatives,
International year for Sustainable Energy for All.
World Breastfeeding Week is celebrated every year from 1 to 7 August in more than 170 countries to encourage breastfeeding and improve the health of babies
around the world.
General Bikram Singh - New Chief of the Indian Army (25th), succeeding General VK Singh.
PSLV-C19 has successfully injected India's 1st indigenous Radar Imaging SATellite-1 (RISAT-1) into orbit. The total Cost of mission is about Rs. 500
crores.
The immediate cause for the outbreak of the 1st World War was the murder of the Austrian crown prince Francis Ferdinand & his wife at Serajevo.
Joint Russia-India Hypersonic BrahMos 2 missile to be ready by 2017. Pranab Mukherjee today (25-07-2012) took oath as the 13th President of India. Alan Isaac - New ICC (International Cricket Council) President. TFM in soaps stands for "Total Fatty Matter".
Vietnam was partitioned into North and South Vietnam in the year 1954, the dividing line being the 17th parallel.
May 2012: Goa topped the list of the states with highest per capita income in the country with a total per capita income of 1,92,652 rupees.
Vitamin B2 is manufactured by fermentative action of the bacterium Clostridium acetobutylicum.
Yeast is the best source of vitamin B complex.
World's largest sugar producing nations in 2011: 1) Brazil 2) India 3) China Hindustan Steel Private Limited was set up on January 19, 1954. B.G. Tilak formed the Home Rule League in Bombay (Mumbai) in 1916. Annie Besant also started a Home Rule League in Madras (Chennai) in 1916. Adolf Hitler kept Swastika as his party's emblem and his followers were known as Brown Shirts. He wrote a book called Mein Kampf (My struggle).
Kargil Vijay Diwas is celebrated on 26 July every year in honour of the Kargil War's Heroes. Kargil war was ended on 26 July 1999.
Operation Safed Sagar was the codename assigned to the Indian Air Force's strike to support the Ground troops during Operation Vijay.
Operation Meghdoot was the code-name for the Indian Armed Forces operation to capture the Siachen Glacier in the disputed Kashmir region.
London has hosted the Olympic Games on two occasions, in 1908 and 1948, and hosts the third in 2012 (27 July 2012 to 12 August 2012).
A spirometer is an apparatus for measuring the volume of air inspired and expired by the lungs.

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