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AC Static GK Capsule2016 Static GK Capsule Volume 3 Contents SUPERLATIVES (WORLD & INDIA) .........................................................................................................2 FIRST EVER(WORLD & INDIA) ................................................................................................................5 WORLD GEOGRAPHY .................................................................................................................................8 INDIA GEOGRAPHY ...................................................................................................................................13 INDIAN POLITY ...........................................................................................................................................31 INDIAN CULTURE ......................................................................................................................................37 SPORTS ..........................................................................................................................................................39 MISCELLANEOUS.......................................................................................................................................47 VERSION DETAILS ...................................................................................................................................100

SUPERLATIVES (WORLD & INDIA) Superlatives of World Longest/Largest/Bigg est/Smallest Biggest Bell Biggest Cinema House

Name & Location

Biggest city(area) Biggest Flower

Mount Isa, Australia Raffesia(Java)

Biggest Library

Library of the congress Washington British Museum, London Venus Sirius Davis Strait Baltic White Sea Canal Rotterdam, Netherland Vostok, Antarctica The Pacific

Biggest Museum Brightest Planet Brightest Star Broadest Strait Busiest Canal Busiest port Coldest Place Deepest & Biggest Ocean Deepest lake Driest Place

Longest/Largest/Biggest/ Smallest Largest Continent Largest Coral Formation

Great Bell, Moscow Roxy, New York

Largest Country(area) Largest Country(population) Largest Dam

Name & Location Asia The Great Barrier Reef, Australia Russia China Grand Coulee, USA

Largest Delta Largest Democracy Largest Desert Largest Diamond Largest Diamond Mine Largest Gulf Largest Island Largest lake(artificial)

Sundarbans, India India Sahara, Africa The Cullinan Kimbarley, South Africa Gulf of Mexico Greenland Lake volta, Ghana

Largest lake(fresh water) Largest lake(salt water )

Lake Superior, USA Caspian Sea

Farthest Planet Fastest Animal Fastest Bird

Baikal, Russia Atacama Desert, South Africa Neptune Cheetah Peregrine Falcon

Largest land animal Largest Mammal Largest Mosque

Highest Capital city Highest City

La Paz, Bolivia Wen Chuan, China

Largest Palace Largest Park

African Elephant Whale Masjid-al-Haram, Saudi Arabia Imperial Palace, China National Park, Greenland

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AC Static GK Capsule2016 Highest lake Highest Melting Point Highest Mountain Peak

Titicaca, Bolivia Tungsten Everest, Nepal

Largest Peninsula Largest Planet Largest Railway Platform

Highest Mountain Range Highest Plateau Highest Volcano Highest Waterfall

Himalayas

Largest River Basin

Arabia Jupiter Grand Central Terminal, New York Amazon Basin

Largest river by volume Largest Sea Largest Sea bird

Amazon Caspian Sea Albatross

Hottest Planet

Pamir, Tibet Ojes del Salado, Chile Salto Angel Falls, Venezuela Venus

Largest Stadium

Largest Archipelago Largest Asian Desert Largest Bay Largest Bird

Indonesia Gobi, Mongolia Hudson Bay, Canada Ostrich

Largest Church

Basilica of St. Peter, Rome(Vatican city) Tokyo, Japan

Largest Volcano Lightest Gas Lightest Metal Longest & Deepest Rail Tunnel Longest & Largest Canal Tunnel Narrowest Strait

Strahov Stadium, Prague, Czech Mauna Loa, Hawaii Hydrogen Lithium Seikan Tunnel, Japan

Largest City(population) Longest Animal Longest Corridor

Le Rove Tunnel, France Chaliks

Blue Whale Rameshwaram temple Corridor, India June 21 The Mahabharata Kangaroo Tortoise

Nearest Planet Rainiest place

Mercury Cherrapunji, India

Shortest Day Slowest animal Smallest Bird Smallest Continent

Dec 22 Snail Humming Bird Australia

Andes, South America

Smallest Planet

Mercury

Flying Scoutsman King Cobra

Tallest Animal Tallest Building

Giraffe Bhurj Khalifa, UAE Morocco

Longest Railway

Trans-Siberian Railway

Longest Railway Bridge Longest Railway Platform Longest River Longest River Dam

Lower Zambeji, Africa

Tallest Minaret Great Hassan Mosque Tallest Minaret(free standing) Tallest Statue

Gorakhpur, UP, India

Tallest Tower

Statue of Liberty, New York,USA Tokyo Sky Tree, Japan

Nile Hirakud Dam, Odisha, India Tartar Strait Laerdal, Norway

Wingless Bird Longest Wall

Kiwi Great wall of China

Longest wing spread bird Most Intelligent Animal

Albatross Chimpanzee

Longest Day Longest Epic Longest Jump animal Longest lifeSpan(animal) Longest Mountain Range Longest Non stop train Longest poisonous snake Longest port

Longest Strait Longest Tunnel(road)

Superlatives of India Longest/Largest/Highest etc Biggest Cave temple

Name & Location Ellora, Maharashtra 3|Page

Qutub Minar, India

AC Static GK Capsule2016 Biggest Hotel Biggest Mosque Biggest Stadium Deepest River Valley Fastest Train

Oberai- Sheraton, Mumbai Jama Masjid at Delhi Yuva Bharti (Salt Lake) Stadium, Kolkata Bhagirathi & Alaknanda, Uttarakhand Shatabadi Express running between New Delhi and Bhopal Highest Airport Leh, Laddakh Highest Award Bharat Ratna Highest Battle Field Siachin Glacier Highest Dam Tehri Dam, Uttarakhand Highest Gallantry Award Param Vir Chakra Highest Gateway Buland Darwaza at Fatehpur Highest Lake Devtal Lake, Gadhwal (Uttarakhand) Highest Peak Karkoram-2 or K-2 Highest Peak in the world is Mount Everest, Nepal Highest Railway Station Ghum (W. Bengal) Highest rainfall Mawsynram, Meghalaya Highest Road Road at Khardungla Highest Tower Kutab Minar at Delhi Highest Watefall Nohkalikai Falls in Shora, Meghalaya Largest Animal Fair Sonepur, Bihar Largest Auditorium Sri Shanmukhanand Hall, Mumbai Largest Cave Amarnath, J&K Largest Cave Temple Kailash Temple, Ellora Maharastra Largest Church Saint Cathedral,Goa Largest Delta Sunderbans Delta Largest Desert Thar, Rajasthan Largest District Kutch district, Gujarat Largest Dome Gol Gumbaz at Bijapur Largest Fresh Water Lake Kolleru Lake, Andhra Pradesh Largest Gurudwara Golden Temple Amritsar, Punjab Largest inland salt lake Sambhar lake Largest Lake Wular Lake, Kashmir Largest Lake (Saline Water) Chilka Lake, Orrisa Largest Man- Made Lake Govind Vallabh Pant Sagar (Rihand Dam) Largest Museum India Museum at Kolkata Largest Planetarium Birla Planetarium, Kolkata Largest Populated City Mumbai Largest Port Mumbai, Mahrashtra Largest Public Sector Bank State Bank of India Largest River Island Majuli, Assam Largest River without Delta Narmada and Tapti Largest State (Area) Rajasthan Largest State(Area) Rajasthan Largest State(Population) Uttar Pradesh Largest Zoo Zoological Garden at Alipur, Kolkata Longest Beach Marina Beach, Chennai Longest Canal Indira Gandhi Canal or Rajasthan Canal Longest Cantilever Span bridge Howrah Bridge, West Bengal Longest Dam Hirakud Dam, Odisha Longest Electric Railway Line From Delhi to Kolkata via Patna 4|Page

AC Static GK Capsule2016 Longest Highway Longest Platform Longest Railway Route Longest River Longest River Bridge Longest River in India Longest Road Longest Tributary river of India Longest Tunnel Oldest Church Smallest State (Area) Smallest State (Population) State wise largest area under forest State with longest coastline State with longest coastline of South India Tallest Statue

NH-7 from Varanasi to Kanyakumari Gorakhpur(UP) From Assam to Kanyakumari Ganga Mahatma Gandhi Setu, Patna The Ganges Grand Trunk Road Yamuna Jawahar tunnel, Jammu & Kashmir St. Thomas Church at Palayar, Trichur (Kerala) Goa Sikkim Madhya Pradesh Gujarat Andhra Pradesh Statue of Gomateshwar, Karnataka

FIRST EVER(WORLD & INDIA) First in the world First in First men to climb Mt. Everest First man to reach North Pole First man to reach South Pole First religion of the world First country to print books First country to issue paper currency First country to start Civil Services Competition First President of United States of America First prime Minister of great Britain First secretary general of United Nations First country to make education compulsory First country to win the world cup Football First country to make a constitution Pakistan’s fist Governor General First Summit of NAM was organized in First European to visit China First men to fly an aeroplane First person to sail around the world First country to send human to Moon First country to launch satellite into space First country to host the modern Olympic games First President of the Republic of China First city to be attacked with Atom bomb First Radio Telescope Satellite was launched into space by First Russian (Soviet) Prime Minister to

Name of the Person Sherpa Tenzing Norgay & Sir Edmund Hillary Robert Peary Ronald Amundsen Santosh Dharma China China China George Washington Robert Walpole Trigve Li Prussia Uruguay (1930) United States of America Mohammed Ali Jinnah Belgrade (former Yugoslavia) Marco Polo Wright Brothers Ferdinand Magellan United States of America Russia (former USSR) Greece Dr. Sun Yat-sen Heroshima (Japan) Japan V.I. Bulganin

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AC Static GK Capsule2016 visit India First University of the world First man to set foot on the Moon First man to go into space First Space Shuttle Launched First space ship landed on mars First woman Prime Minister of England First woman Prime Minister of any Muslim country First woman Prime Minister of a country First woman cosmonaut in space First woman to climb Mt. Everest First deaf and dumb to cross the Srait of Gibraltar First woman president of UN General assembly First European Invader of Indian soil First woman to reach the North pole First woman to reach Antartica First man to draw the map of earth First man to compile Encyclopaedia First eldest man to climb Mt. Event First Asian to win Wimbledon Trophy First man to win Nobel Prize for Literature First man to win Nobel Prize for Peace First man to win Nobel prize for Physics First man to win Nobel prize for Chemistry First man to win Nobel Prize Medicine (Medical Science) First man to win Nobel Prize Economics First woman President of a country First Space Tourist (Male) First Space Tourist (Female) World's longest hunger striker

Taxila University Nell Armstrong (U.S.A) Major Yuri Gagarin (USSR) Columbia Viking –I (July,1976) Margaret Thacher Benazir Bhutto (Pakistan) S. Bhandarnayake (Sri Lanka) Valentina Tereshkova (USSR) Junko Tabei (Japan ) Taranath Shenoy (India) Smt. Vijayalakshmi Pandit (1953) Alexander, The Great Ms. Fran Caroline Michaelson Anexemander Aspheosis (Athens) Richard Wass Arthur Ashe (U.S.A) Rene F.A. & Suilt Pradhom (France ) Jin F. Dunant (Switzerland) & Frederic Peiry (France) W.K. Roentgen (Germany) J.H. Wenthoff (Howlland) A.E. Wonn Behring (Germany) Ranger fish (Norway)& John Tinbergen (Howlland) Maria Estela Peron (Argentina) Dennis Tito Mrs. Anousheh Ansari Irom Chanu Sharmila

First In India First The first President of Indian Republic The first Prime Minister of free India The first Indian to win Nobel Prize The first President of Indian National Congress The first Muslim President of Indian National Congress The first Muslim President of India The first British Governor General of India The first British Governor General of Bengal The first British Viceroy of India The first Governor General of free India The first and the last Indian to be Governor General 6|Page

Persons Dr. Rajendra Prasad Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru Rabindranath Tagore W.C. Banerjee Badruddin Tayyabji Dr. Zakir Hussain Lord William Bentinck(1833-1835) Lord Warren Hasting(1774-1885) Lord Canning Lord Mountbatten C. Rajgopalachari

AC Static GK Capsule2016 The first man who introduced printing press in India James Hicky The first Indian to join the I.C.S India’s first man in Space The first Prime Minister of India who resigned The first Indian Commander-in-Chief of India The first Chief of Army Staff The first Indian Member of the Viceroy’s executive The first President of India who died while in office The first Muslim President of Indian Republic The first Prime Minister of India who did not face the The first Field Marshal of India The first Indian to get Nobel Prize in Physics The first Indian to receive Bharat Ratna award The first Indian to cross English Channel The first Person to receive Jnanpith award The firs Speaker of the Lok Sabha The first Vice-President of India The first Education Minister The first Home minister of India The first Indian Air Chief Marshal The first Indian Naval Chief The first Judge of International Court of Justice The first person to reach Mt. Everest without oxygen The first person to get Param Vir Chakra The first Chief Election Commissioner The first person to receive Magsaysay Award The first person of Indian origin to receive Nobel The first Chinese traveller to visit India The first person to receive Stalin Prize The first person to resign from the Central Cabinet The first person to receive Nobel Prize in Economics The first Chief Justice of Supreme Court The first Indian Pilot The first lady to become Miss World The first woman judge in Supreme Court The first woman Ambassador The first woman Governor of a state in free India The first woman Speaker of a State Assembly The first woman Prime Minister The first woman Minister in a Government The first woman to climb Mount Everest The first woman to climb Mount Everest twice The first woman President of Indian National The first woman pilot in Indian Air Force The first woman Graduates The first woman Airline Pilot The first woman Honours Graduate The first woman Olympic medal Winner The first woman Asian Games Gold Medal Winner The first woman Lawyer The first woman President of United Nations General 7|Page

Satyendra Nath Tagore Rakesh Sharma Morarji Desai General Cariappa Gen. Maharaj Rajendra Singhji S.P.Sinha Dr. Zakhir Hussain Dr. Zakhir Hussain Charan Singh S.H.F. Manekshaw C.V.Raman Dr. Radhakrishnan Mihir Sen Sri Shankar Kurup Ganesh Vasudeva Mavalankar Dr. Radhakrishnan Abdul Kalam Azad Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel S. Mukherjee Vice Admiral R.D. Katari Dr. Nagendra Singh Sherpa Anga Dorjee Major Somnath Sharma Sukumar Sen Acharya Vinoba Bhave Hargovind Khurana Fahein Saifuddin Kitchlu Shyama Prasad Mukherjee Amartya Sen Justice Hirala J. Kania J.R.D. Tata (1929) Rita Faria Mrs. Meera Sahib Fatima Bibi Miss C.B. Muthamma Mrs Sarojini Naidu Shanno Devi Mrs Indira Gandhi Rajkumari Amrit Kaur Bachhendri Pal Santosh Yadav Mrs Annie Besant Harita Kaur Dayal Kadambini Ganguly and Durba Banerjee Kamini Roy, 1886 Karnam Malleswari, 2000 Kamlijit Sandhu Cornelia Sorabjee Mrs Vijaya Laxmi Pandit

AC Static GK Capsule2016 The first woman Chief Minister of an Indian State The first woman Chairman of Union Public Service The first woman Director General of Police The first woman Judge The first woman Cheif Justice of High Court The first woman Judge in Supreme Court of India The first woman Lieutenant General The first woman Air Vice Marshal The first woman chairperson of Indian Airlines The first woman IPS officer The first and last Muslim woman ruler of India The first woman to receive Ashoka Chakra The first woman to receive Jnanpith Award The first woman to cross English Channel The first woman to receive Nobel Prize The first woman to receive Bharat Ratna The first woman to receive Jnanpith Award The first women head of Indian Cost Accounting First Wax statue of a Living Indian First Chinese pilgrim to Visit India First Exclusive internet magazine First Miss India to participate in Miss Universe First President of Indian National Congress First Muslim President of the Indian National First Judge in International Court of Justice First Graduate in Medicine India's First University India's First Open University India's First Lok Sabha Member to be elected with a First Indian to reach Antarctica First British to Visit India First Test tube baby of India First Post Office Opened in India

Mrs Sucheta Kripalani Roze Millian Bethew Kanchan Chaudhary Bhattacharya Anna Chandy (She became judge in a Mrs Leela Seth (Himachal Pradesh Kumari Justice M. Fathima Beevi Puneeta Arora P. Bandopadhyaya Sushma Chawla Mrs. Kiran Bedi Razia Sultan Nirja Bhanot Ashapurna Devi Aarti Saha Mother Teresa Mrs Indira Gandhi Ashpurna Devi Aruna Sethi Mahatma Gandhi at Madame Fa-hien Bharat Samachar Indrani Rehman W.C. Bannerjee, 1885 Badruddin Tayyabji Dr. Nagender Singh Soorjo Coomar Goodeve Chukerbutty Nalanda University Andhra Pradesh Open University P.V.Narasimha Rao Lt. Ram Charan Hawkins Indira (Baby Harsha) Kolkata(1727)

WORLD GEOGRAPHY List of Some Places with its Surname Surname Asia paris Africa in Miniature Bengal sarrow Blue mountains Britain of the East Britain of the South

Country/Place Lahore , Pakistan Cameroon River damodar , WB, India Nilagiri hills , India Japan New Zealand

Battle field of Europe Backbone of england Back bone of italy

Belgium Pennine Mountians Apenninine Mountians 8|Page

Surname City of roses City of smoke City of steel in india

Country/Place Chandigarh Osaka , Japan Jamshedpur

City of temples Costliest coast Coffee port of the world Dark continent Dead Heart of Africa Dairy of northern

Bhubaneswar Coast Rica Shantos ( Brazil) Africa Chad Denmark

AC Static GK Capsule2016 Big apple City of Cycles City of Eternal Springs City of Sky Scrappers City of Magnificent Distances City of Golden Gate City of Seven Hills Cockpit of Europe Concentration Camp of Africa Copper Country City of factories City of festivals City of dreaming spires City of golden temple City of magnificent distance City of palaces cock pit of europe City of pope City of City of City of City of

seven islands snow arbian nights motor cars

San Francisco (USA) Rome (Italy) Belgium Equatorial Guinea

europe Evergreen forest Eighth Continent Emerland island Empire city Eternal city City of Music Eye of greece Electronic city of india Forbidden city Friendly island

Western Ghats Madagascar Ireland Newyork Rome Varanasi Athens Banglore Lhasa (Tibet) Tonga

Zambia Knapur (U.P) Madurai , tamil nadu Oxford , england Amritsar , India Chennai

Front door of australia Garden city of england Garden city of world Garden city of india Garden of europe Garden of south india

Darwin Kent(Englans) Chicago , Usa Banglore Italy Thanjavur

Kolkatta , india Belguim Rome

Garden of gods Gate way of india Garden provice of south africa Gateway of tears George cross island Grnaite city Great white way

Colorado (USA) Mumbai Natal

Granery of india Gift of the Nile

Punjab Egypt

Granery of south india Granery of tamilnadu Granery of kerala Gribraltar of the indian ocean Golden state

Andhrpradesh Tanjavuur Palakkad Aden

Newyork Beijing Quito (Ecuador) New York (USA) Washinton DC

Golden penisula Hermit kingdom Herring pond Horn of africa

Mumbai Canada Baghdad, Iraq Detroit , Michigan (USA) Cairo Johannesburg , South Africa Thailand Korea Atlantic Ocean Somalia

Holy city

Jerusalem

The City that Never Sleeps Golden city

Jerusalem Malta Aberdeen (Scotland) Broadway ( Newyork)

California , Usa

International Organisations And Their Headquarters Organisations Amnesty International London Commonwealth of Nations APEC (Asia Pacific Economic Forum) ASEAN (Association of South East Asian Nations) FAO(Food and Agricultural Organization) IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) IBRD(International Bank for Reconstruction and ICAO(International Civil Aviation Org) ICJ (International Court of Justice) IDA(International Development Association) ILO(International Labour Org) IMF (International Monetary Fund) 9|Page

HQ London Singapore Jakarta Rome Vienna Washington Montreal The Hague Washington Geneva Washington DC

AC Static GK Capsule2016 IMCO(Inter-governmental Maritime Consultative org) IMO(International Maritime Organization) International Standards Org Interpol(International Criminal Police Organization) ITU(International Telecommunication) NATO(North Atlantic Treaty Organization) OECD (Org. for Economic Cooperation and Dev.) OPEC(Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries) OPCW( Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Organization of Islamic Cooperation SAARC(South Asian Association for Regional Coop.) Transparency International UNCTAD (United Nations Conference on Trade & UNDP(United Nations Development Programme) UNEP(United Nations Environmental Programme) UNESCO (United Nations Educational Scientific and UNHCR(United Nations High Commissioner) UNICEF(United Nations International Children’s UNIDO (United Nations Industrial Dev. Org) UNITAR(United Nations Institute for Training and UNO (United Nations Org) UPU(Universal Postal Union) WHO (World Health Org) WMO (World Meteorological Org) World Bank World Intellectual Property Org WTO(World Trade Org) – GATT

London London Geneva Lyon, France Geneva Brussels Paris Vienna The Hague Jedda Kathmandu Berlin Geneva New York Nairobi Paris Geneva New York Vienna New York New York Berne Geneva Geneva Washington DC Geneva Geneva

List of International Lines /boundaries Name of the lines/Boundaries Line of Actual Control Line of Control Durand LineHU Radcliffe Line Blue Line Purple Line Green Line Mason–Dixon line Curzon Line Military Demarcation Line(MDL) Armistice Line McMohan Line Maginot Line Mannar haime line Oder Nisse Line Hindenburg Line Sigfried Line 16 Parallel North 17th Parallel Line 20 ParallelLine 22 Parallel Line

Between Contries India & China on the Northern Border India and Pakistan Afghanistan and Pakistan. India and Pakistan (its includes Banladesh Line) Isreal & Lebanon Israel and Syria Israel and its neighbours (Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria) Maryland and Pennsylvania/Delaware in Colonial America Poland & Russia North Korea and South Korea. North Korea and South Korea. India & China France & Germany Russia & Finland Germany & Poland( aftermath of World War II) Poland & Germany(at the time of First World War) East France & Germany (at the time of second world war) Angola and Namibia North & South Vietnam Libya & Sudan Egypt & Sudan 10 | P a g e

AC Static GK Capsule2016 25 Parallel Line 26 Parallel Line 31 Parallel Line 35 Parallel Line 36 Parallel Line 38 Parallel Line 40 Parallel Line 41 Parallel Line

Mauritania & Mali Western Sahara & Mauritania Iraq & Iran US it serves as border b/w Tennessee/Mississippi, US it Forms forms the southernmost of the state of Missouri North & South Korea US it serves as border b/w Nebraska & Kansas US it forms the border b/w wyoming/utah border, Wyoming/colorado, US it serves as border of new york & Pennsylvania Border US it serves as border of b/w State Nebraska & state of south Dakota US it forms the boundary b/w Montana & wyoming USA & Canada

42 Parallel Line 43 Parallel Line 45 Parallel Line 49 Parallel Line

Some Important Monuments of the World Monuments Taj Mahal Eiffel Tower Stonehenge Saint Basil's Cathedral Leaning Tower of Pisa Statue of Liberty Borobudur Christ The Redeemer

Country India France United Kingdom Russia Italy United States of America Indonesia Brazil

Monuments Angkor Wat Chichen Itza Pyramid Parthanon Kremlin Opera House Imperial Palace Wailing Wall

Country Cambodia Mexico Egypt Greece Russia Australia Japan Jersalem

Rivers of Major World Cities Name of the Rivers Nile Amstel Tigris Chao Phraya Danube, Sava Spree, Havel Bogotá Senne Danube Río de la Plata Nile Hugli Barada Yamuna LIffey Saigon Pearl Liwung Dnieper Tagus

Name of the Cities Alexandria Amsterdam Baghdad Bangkok Belgrade Berlin Bogotá Brussels Budapest Buenos Aires Cairo Calcutta Damascus Delhi Dublin Ho Chi Minh City Hong Kong Jakarta Kiev Lisbon

Name of the Countries Egypt Netherlands Iraq Thailand Yugoslavia Germany Colombia Belgium Hungary Argentina Egypt India Syria India Ireland Vietnam

Name of the Rivers Rímac Thames Manzanares Yarra St. Lawrence Moskva Seine Moldau Tiber Neva Mapocho Tietê Han Huangpu Sumida Danube

Name of the Cities Lima London Madrid Melbourne Montreal Moscow Paris Prague Rome Saint Petersburg Santiago São Paulo Seoul Shanghai Tokyo Vienna

Name of the Countries Peru England Spain Australia Canada Russia France Czech Republic Italy Russia Chile Brazil South Korea China Japan Austria

China Indonesia Ukraine Portugal

Vistula Sava Limmat Sihl

Warsaw Zagreb Zürich

Poland Croatia Switzerland

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AC Static GK Capsule2016 Parliament of countries Country Afghanistan Andorra Albania Azerbaijan Algeria Angola Argentina Australia Brunei Botswana Britain Bulgaria Cambodia Congo Democratic Colombia Canada China Chile Comoros Costa Rice Crotia Cuba Czech Republic Denmark Ecuador El Salvador East Timor Ethiopia Egypt Fiji Islands France Finland Germany Guyana Greece Hungry Iceland India Indonesia Iran

Parliament Shora General Council People's Assembly Melli Majlis National People's Assembly National People's Assembly National Congress Federal Parliament National Assembly National Assembly Parliment (House of Common's and House of Lords) Narodno Subranie. National Assembly Rep. of National Legislative Council Congress Parliament National People's Assembly Chamber of Deputies and Senate Legislative Council and Senate Legislative Council and Senate Sabor National Assembly of People's Power Chamber of Deputies and Senate Folketing Natinal Congress Legislative Assembly Constituent Assembly Federal Council and House of Representative People's Assembly Senate & House of Representative National Assembly Eduskusta (Parliament) Bundestag (Lower House) and Bundesrat (Upper House) National Assembly Chamber of Deputies National Assembly Althing Sansad People's Consultative Assembly Majlis

Country Austria Bahamas Bahrain Bangladesh Belize Bhutan Bolivia Brazil Kuwait Laos Labanon

Parliament National Assembly General Assembly Consultative Council Jatiya Sansad National Assembly Tsogdu National Congress National Congress National Assembly People's Supreme Assembly National Assembly

Lesotho Lithuania Luxembourg

National Assembly and Senate Seimas Chamber of Deputies

Libya Malaysia Maldives Madagascar Mongolia Montenegro Mozambique Myanmar

General People's Congress Dewan Rakyat and Dewan Negara Majlis National People's Assembly Great People's Khural Federal Assembly People's Assembly Pyithu Hluttaw

Nepal

Rashtriya Panchayat

Netherlands New Zealand Oman Pakistan Paraguay

The Staten General Parliament (House of Representative) Monarchy National Assembly & Senate Senate & Chamber of Deputies

Philippines Papua New Guinea Poland Romania Russia

The Congress National Parliament

Serbia Senegal Seychelles South Africa Spain Sweden Saudi Arabia

Federal Assembly National Assembly National Assembly House of Assembly Cortes Riksdag Majlis Al Shura

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Sejm Great National Assembly Duma & Federal Council

AC Static GK Capsule2016 Iraq Israel Italy Japan Jordan Korea(North)

National Assembly Knesset Chamber of Deputies and Senate Diet National Assembly Supreme People's Assembly

Sudan Switzerland Syria Turkey USA Vietnam Venezuela Zambia

Korea(South) National Assembly

Majlis Watani Federal Assembly People's Council Grand National Assembly Congress National Assembly National Congress National Assembly

Important Food Festivals Around The World Name of the Festivals Alba White Truffle Festival Abergavenny Food Festival Baltic Herring Festival Chinchilla Melon Festival Chocolate Festival International Mango Festival Ivrea Orange Festival Maine Lobster Festival Maslenitsa Festival Melbourne Food & Wine Festival Mistura Food Festival Monkey Buffet Festival Oktoberfest Onion Eating Festival Orange Festival Pancake Festival Potato Festival San Francisco Street Food Festival Tomato Festival Vegetarian Festival

Name of the Countries Alba, Italy Wales, UK Helsinki, Finland Australia London, UK New Delhi, India Ivrea, Italy Rockland USA Moscow, Russia Melbourne, Australia Lima, Peru Lopburi Province, Thailand Munich, Germany Spain Poland Moscow, Russia Sweden San Francisco, USA Spain Thailand

INDIA GEOGRAPHY India’s World Heritage Sites Name of the Heritage sites Kaziranga Wild Life Sanctuary Manas Wild Life Sanctuary Mahabodhi Temple Complex at Bodh Humayun's Tomb Qutb Minar and its Monuments Red Fort Churches and Convents of Goa Champaner-Pavagadh Archaeological Group of Monuments at Hampi Group of Monuments at Pattadakal

State Assam Assam Bihar Delhi Delhi Delhi Goa Gujarat Karnataka Karnataka

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AC Static GK Capsule2016 Buddhist Monuments at Sanchi Rock Shelters of Bhimbetka Khajuraho Group of Monuments Ajanta Caves Ellora Caves Elephanta Caves Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus (formerly Konarak Sun Temple Keoladeo National Park Jantar Mantar, Jaipur Great Living Chola Temples Group of Monuments at Mahabalipuram Mountain Railways of India Agra Fort Fatehpur Sikri Taj Mahal Mountain Railways of India Nanda Devi and Valley of Flowers Sundarbans National Park Western Ghats Hill Forts of Rajasthan (Ranthambhore),

Madhya Pradesh Madhya Pradesh Madhya Pradesh Maharashtra Maharashtra Maharashtra Maharashtra Odisha Rajasthan Rajasthan Tamil Nadu Tamil Nadu Tamil Nadu Uttar Pradesh Uttar Pradesh Uttar Pradesh West Bengal Uttarakhand West Bengal Goa, Kerala, Maharashtra, Rajasthan

List of 25 cultural Heritage Sites Name of the Site Agra Fort Ajanta Caves Buddhist Monuments at Sanchi Champaner-Pavagadh Archaeological Park Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus (formerly Victoria Churches and Convents of Goa Elephanta Caves Ellora Cave Fatehpur Sikri Great Living Chola Temples Group of Monuments at Hampi Group of Monuments at Mahabalipuram Group of Monuments at Pattadakal Hill Forts of Rajasthan Humayun’s Tomb, Delhi Khajuraho Group of Monuments Mahabodhi Temple Complex at Bodh Gaya Mountain Railways of India Qutb Minar and its Monuments, Delhi Rani-ki-Vav (the Queen’s Stepwell) Red Fort Complex Rock Shelters of Bhimbetka Sun Temple, Konârak Taj Mahal The Jantar Mantar, Jaipur

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Location Uttar Pradesh Maharashtra Madhya Pradesh Gujarat Maharashtra Goa Maharashtra Maharashtra Uttar Pradesh Tamil Nadu Karnataka Tamil Nadu Karnataka Rajasthan Delhi Madhya Pradesh Bihar Darjeeling, West Bengal Delhi Gujarat Delhi Madhya Pradesh Orissa Uttar Pradesh Rajasthan

Year 1983 1983 1989 2004 2004 1986 1987 1983 1986 1987 1986 1984 1987 2013 1993 1986 2002 1999 1993 2014 2007 2003 1984 1983 2010

AC Static GK Capsule2016 List of Seven Natural Heritage Sites Name Of the Site Great Himalayan National Park Kaziranga National Park Keoladeo National Park Manas Wildlife Sanctuary Nanda Devi and Valley of Flowers Sundarbans National Park Western Ghats

Location Himachal Pradesh Assam Rajasthan Assam Uttarakhand West Bengal Covers Four states

Year 2014 1985 1985 1985 1988 1987 2012

List of Important Temples & Its Location Name of the Temple Kamakhya Temple Sukresvara temple Mahabalipuram Temple Meenakshi temple Brihadeeswarar Temple Kanchipuram Temple Srisailam Temple Tirupathi Temple Sree Padmanabhaswamy Temple Shabarimala ayyappa temple Gomateshwra Temple Virupaksha Temple Golden temple Somnath temple Siddhivinayak Temple Mahabodhi Temple Amarnath Temple Markandeshwar Temple Konark Sun Temple Birla Mandir

State Guwahati, Assam Assam Tamil Nadu Madurai, Tamil Nadu Tamil Nadu Tamil Nadu Andhra Pradesh Andhra Pradesh Kerala Kerala Karnataka Bangalore (Karnataka) Amritsar, Punjab Gujarat Maharashtra Gaya, Bihar Jammu & Kashmir Haryana Odisha Jaipur

Highest Mountain Peaks Statewise State Andhra Pradesh Arunachal Pradesh Assam Bihar Chhattisgarh Goa Gujarat Haryana Himachal Pradesh Jammu and Kashmir(claimed) Jammu and Jharkhand Karnataka

Peak Arma Konda Kangto (shared with Tibet) Unnamed peak near Laike Someshwar Fort Bailadila Range Sosogad Girnar Karoh Peak Reo Purgyil (shared withTibet) K2 Saltoro Kangri Parasnath Mullayanagiri 15 | P a g e

Range/Region Eastern Ghats Eastern Himalaya Dima Hasao District West Champaran District Dantewada District Western Ghats Junagadh District Morni Hills Western Himalaya Karakoram Karakoram Parasnath Hills Western Ghats

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Anamudi Dhupgarh Kalsubai Mount Iso (Tenipu) Shillong Peak Phawngpui Mount Saramati (Shared Deomali Unnamed point on the Naina Devi Guru Shikhar Kangchenjunga (Shared Doddabetta Laxmidevipalli Betalongchhip Amsot Peak Nanda Devi Sandakphu (Shared with Nepal)

Western Ghats Satpura Western Ghats Senapati District Khasi Hills Saiha District Naga Hills Eastern Ghats Rupnagar District Aravali Eastern Himalaya Nilgiri Hills Deccan Plateau Jampui Hills Shivalik Hills Garhwal Himalaya Eastern Himalaya

National Parks In India State

Andaman and Nicobar Islands Andhra Pradesh Arunachal Pradesh

Assam Bihar Chhattisgarh

Gujarat Haryana Himachal Pradesh Jammu and Kashmir Jharkhand

Name of the Park Campbell Bay National Park Galathea National Park Mahatma National Park Saddle Peak National Park South Button National Park Sri Venkateswara Park Namdapha National Park Namdapha Tiger Reserve Pakhui Tiger Reserve Kaziranga National Park Manas National Park Nameri National Park Valmiki National Park Kanger Ghati National Park Achanakmar Tiger Reserve Indravati Tiger Reserves Udanti & Sitanadi Tiger Reserve Blackbuck National Park Gir Forest National Park Marine Gulf of Kutch park Sultanpur National Park Great Himalayan National Park Pin Valley National Park Dachigam National Park Kishtwar National Park Salim Ali National Park Betla National Park Palamau Tiger Reserve Hazaribagh National Park Bandipur National Park 16 | P a g e

AC Static GK Capsule2016 Karnataka

Kerala

Madhya Pradesh

Maharashtra

Manipur Meghalaya Mizoram

Odisha

Punjab

Rajasthan

Sikkim Tamil Nadu

Kudremukh National Park Nagarhole Tiger Reserve Bhadra Tiger Reserve Anshi Dandeli Tiger Reserve Biligiri Ranganatha Swamy Temple Wildlife Sanctuary Bannerghatta National Park Eravikulam National Park Periyar National Park Parambikulam Tiger Reserve Silent Valley National Park Kanha National Park Madhav National Park Mandla Fossils National Park Pench National Park Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve Sanjay-Dubri Tiger Reserve Satpura National Park Chandoli National Park Melghat Tiger Reserve Pench Tiger Reserve Tadoba Andhari Tiger Project Sahyadri Tiger reserve Nagzira-Navegaon Tiger Reserve Bor Tiger Reserve Navegaon National Park Keibul Lamjao National Park Balphakram National Park Blue Mountain National Park Dampa Tiger Reserve Bhitarkanika National Park Nandankanan Zoological Park Satkosia Tiger Reserve Simlipal National Park Harike Wetland Desert National Park Keoladeo National Park Mount Abu Wildlife Sanctuary Ranthambore National Park Mukundara Hills Tiger Reserve Sariska Tiger Reserve Khangchendzonga Park Guindy National Park Gulf of Mannar National Park Mudumalai National Park Anamalai Tiger Reserve Kalakkad Mundanthurai Tiger Reserve Mudumalai Tiger Reserve Sathyamangalam Tiger Reserve Palani Hills National Park 17 | P a g e

AC Static GK Capsule2016 Telangana

Uttar Pradesh

Uttarakhand

West Bengal

Kasu bramanda Reddy National Park Kawal Tiger Reserve Nagarjunsagar Srisailam Tiger Reserve Mrugavani National Park Dudhwa National Park Pilibhit Tiger Reserve Jim Corbett National Park Nanda Devi National Park Rajaji National Park Valley of Flowers National Park Buxa Tiger Reserve Jaldapara National Park Neora Valley National Park Singalila National Park Sundarbans National Park

Atomic Power Plants Name of the Plant Kaiga atomic power plant Kakrapar atomic power plant Madras atomic power plant Narora atomic power plant Rajasthan atomic power plant Tarapur atomic power plant Kundankulam atomic power plant Gorakhpur atomic power plant Chutka atomic power plant Mahi Banswara atomic power plant Kaiga atomic power plant Kovvada atomic power plant Mithi virdhi atomic power plant

State Karnataka Gujarat Tamil Nadu Uttar Pradesh. Rajasthan Maharashtra Tamil Nadu Haryana Madhya Pradesh Rajasthan Karnataka Andhra Pradesh Gujarat.

Important Hydropower plant State ANDHRAPRADESH

GUJRAT

HIMACHAL PRADESH

Name of the Plant Nizam Sagar Dam-Manjira River Prakasam Barrage-Krishna River Srisailam Dam-Krishna River Ukai Dam Dharoi Dam-Banas River Dantiwada Dam-Sabarmati River Pandoh Dam-Beas River Bhakra Nangal Dam-Sutlej River Nathpa Dam-Sutlej River Gobind Sagar, Reservoir-Sutlej River Maharana Pratap Sagar Reservoir

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AC Static GK Capsule2016 JAMMU & KASHMIR

JHARKHAND

KARNATAKA

KERALA

MADHYA PRDESH

MAHARASTRA

ODSIHA

RAJASTHAN TAMILNADU

UTTARPRADESH

Salal Project-Chenab River Chutak Hydroelectric Project Dumkhar Hydroelectric Dam-Indus River Uri Hydroelectric Dam-Jhelum River Maithon Dam-Barakar Rive Chandil Dam-Subarnarekha River Panchet Dam-Damodar River Tunga Bhadra Dam-Tungabhadra and Krishna River Linganamakki dam-Sharavathi River Alamatti Dam-Krishna River Harangi Dam-Cauvery River Ghataprabha Reservoir-Ghataprabha River Banasura Sagar Dam-Chalakudy River Malampuzha Dam-Malampuzha River Idukki Dam-Periyar River Mullaperiyar Dam-Pennar River Neyyar Dam-Pennar River-Kerala. Barna Dam-Barna River Indirasagar Project-Narmada River Narmada Dam Project-Narmada River Gandhi Sagar Dam-Chambal River Tawa Reservoir-Tawa River Koyna Dam-Koyna River Bhatsa Dam-Bhatsa and Chorna rivers Wilson Dam-Pravara River Girna Dam-Girna and Godavari River Radhanagari Dam-Bhogawati River Jalaput Dam Balimela Reservoir-Sileru River Indravati Dam-Indravati River Hirakud Dam-Mahanadi River MBisalpur dam-banas river Vaigai Dam-Vaigai River Krishnagiri Reservoir Pechiparai Reservoir-River Kodayar Vidur Reservoir Perunchani Dam-Paralayar River Periyar Reservoir-Periyar River Stanley Reservoir-Kaveri River Mettur Dam-Kaveri River Bhavanisagar Reservoir-Bhavani River Parambikulam Reservoir-Parambikulam River Parichha Dam-Betwa River Rihand Project-Rihand River and Son River Govind Ballabh Pant Sagar Dam-Rihand River Tehri Dam-Bhagirathi River

List of Thermal Power Plant Name of the Plant Simhadri Super Thermal Power Plant Dr Narla Tatarao TPS

State Andhra Pradesh

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Bihar

Chhattisgarh

New Delhi Gujarat

Haryana

Jharkhand

Karnataka

Madhya Pradesh

AC Static GK Capsule2016 Sasan Ultra Mega Power Project Sant Singaji Thermal Power Plant Dada Dhuniwale Thermal Power Plant Sanjay Gandhi Thermal Power Station Satpura Thermal Power Station Amarkantak Thermal Power Station Chandrapur Super Thermal Power Station Tirora Thermal Power Station Amravati Thermal Power Plant Bhusawal Thermal Power Station Trombay Thermal Power Station Khaperkheda Thermal Power Station Parli Thermal Power Station Nashik Thermal Power Station Koradi Thermal Power Station Wardha Warora Power Plant Dahanu Thermal Power Station Paras Thermal Power Station CESC Chandrapur Thermal Power Station[17][18][19] Talcher Super Thermal Power Station Sterlite Jharsuguda Power Station Vedanta Jharsuguda Captive Power Plant Angul Thermal Power Station National Aluminium Company Captive Power Plant Kamalanga Thermal Power Plant Ib Thermal Power Station Talcher Thermal Power Station Hirakud Captive Power Plant Guru Gobind Singh Super Thermal Power Plant Guru Hargobind TP Guru Nanak Dev Thermal Plant Suratgarh Super Thermal Power Plant Kota Super Thermal Power Plant Raj West Lignite Power Plant Chhabra Thermal Power Plant Barsingsar Thermal Power Station Giral Lignite Power Plant VS Lignite Power Plant Neyveli Thermal Power Station II Vallur Thermal Power Station Tuticorin Thermal Power Station Neyveli Thermal Power Station I NTPL Thermal Power Station Mettur Thermal Power Station North Chennai Thermal Power Station Muthiara Thermal Power Station IL&FS Thermal Power Station Ennore Thermal Power Station Tutiorin (Pvt) Thermal Power Station Neyveli Zero Lignite Power Station NTPC Ramagundam 21 | P a g e Kothagudem Thermal Power Station Kakatiya Thermal Power Station

Maharashtra

Punjab

Rajasthan

Tamil Nadu

Telangana

AC Static GK Capsule2016 Ramagundam B Thermal Power Station Rihand Thermal Power Station Singrauli Super Thermal Power Station NTPC Dadri Anpara Thermal Power Station Obra Thermal Power Station Rosa Thermal Power Plant Feroj Gandhi Unchahar Thermal Power Plant Parichha Thermal Power Station Tanda Thermal Power Plant Harduaganj Thermal Power Station Panki Thermal Power Station Mejia Thermal Power Station Farakka Super Thermal Power Station Kolaghat Thermal Power Station Bakreshwar Thermal Power Station Durgapur Steel Thermal Power Station Budge Budge Thermal Power Plant Santaldih Thermal Power Station Durgapur Thermal Power Station Sagardighi Thermal Power Station Bandel Thermal Power Station Durgapur Thermal Power Station Titagarh Thermal Power Station CESC Southern Generating Station New Cossipore Generating Station Mejia Thermal Power Station Farakka Super Thermal Power Station Kolaghat Thermal Power Station Bakreshwar Thermal Power Station Durgapur Steel Thermal Power Station Budge Budge Thermal Power Plant Santaldih Thermal Power Station Durgapur Thermal Power Station Sagardighi Thermal Power Station Bandel Thermal Power Station Durgapur Thermal Power Station Titagarh Thermal Power Station CESC Southern Generating Station New Cossipore Generating Station

Uttar Pradesh

West Bengal

West Bengal

Important Lakes Name of the Lakes Wular Lake Loktak Lake Da mdama Lake Dal Lake

Notes Wular Lake is one of the largest fresh water lakes in Asia and the largest in India, is located in Jammu and Kashmir Loktak Lake is the largest freshwater lake in northeastern India, located in Manipur. Damdama Lake is one of the biggest natural lakes in Haryana. The Kashmir valley is blessed with exotic natural beauty of landscape and water bodies, out of them one of the best is Dal Lake 22 | P a g e

AC Static GK Capsule2016 Pichola Lake Gurudongmar Lake

Chilka Lake

Vembanad Lake Bhimtal Lake Upper lake Kolleru Lake and Pulicat Lake

Lake Pichola is an artificial fresh water lake situated in Udaipur city in Rajasthan. Gurudongmar Lake is one of the highest lakes in the world. This fresh water lake is located northeast of the Kangchenjunga range in Sikkim. Chilka Lake is the brackish water lake and is the largest coastal lake in India. The Chilka Lake in situated in Orissa and is Asia’s largest inland salt water lagoon. Vembanad Lake is India’s longest lake and is the largest lakes in the beautiful state land of God, Kerala The pride of Bhimtal is a beautiful lake which offers magnificent vistas for tourists. The lake is larger than Nainital lake, uttarnachal Upper lake is the largest artificial lake in Asia, situated in “City of Lakes” called Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh Two major lakes for number of migratory birds in India, AP

Major Sea Ports The nine coastal Indian states Gujarat, Maharashtra, Goa, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Orissa and West Bengal are home to all major and minor ports of India. Sea Ports in India Name of the Port State Kandla Port Gujarat Nhava Sheva Maharashtra Mumbai Port Maharashtra Marmagao port Goa Panambur Port Karnataka Cochin Port Kerala Port Blair Andaman Tuticorin Port Tamil Nadu Chennai Port Tamil Nadu Vizag Port Andhra Pradesh Paradip Port Orissa Haldia port West Bengal

Top 10 busiest and the largest Sea Ports Name of the Port Country Shanghai China Ningbo-Zhoushan China Singapore Singapore Rotterdam The Netherlands Tianjin China Guangzhou China Qingdao China Qinhuangdao Port China Busan South Korea Hong Kong China

International Airports in India State Andaman & Nicobar Islands Andhra Pradesh Assam Bihar Delhi Goa Gujarat

City Port Blair Visakhapatnam Guwahati Gaya New Delhi Goa/td Ahmedabad

Jammu & Kashmir Karnataka Karnataka Kerala

Srinagar Bengaluru Mangalore Kochi 23 | P a g e

Airport Name Veer Savarkar International Airport Visakhapatnam International Airport Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi International Gaya International Airport Indira Gandhi InternationalAirport Goa International Airport/Dabolim Airport Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport Srinagar Airport Kempegowda International Airport Mangalore International Airport Cochin International Airport

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Kozhikode Thiruvananthapura Bhopal Mumbai Nagpur Imphal Bhubaneswar Amritsar Jaipur Chennai Coimbatore Madurai Tiruchirapalli Hyderabad Lucknow Varanasi Kolkata

Calicut International Airport Trivandrum International Airport Raja Bhoj International Airport Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar International Tulihal International Airport Biju Patnaik International Airport Sri Guru Ram Dass Jee International Airport Jaipur International Airport Chennai International Airport Coimbatore International Airport Madurai Airport Tiruchirapalli International Airport Rajiv Gandhi International Airport Chaudhary Charan Singh International Lal Bahadur Shastri Airport Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International

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State Bank of Patiala Bank of Maharashtra Jammu&Kashmir Bank State Bank of Travancore Catholic Syrian Bank Dhanlaxmi Bank South Indian Bank Tamilnad Mercantile Bank Bank of Baroda

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List of Important Institutions in India Name of the Institute

Location Education

Central Hindi Institute Indian Institute of Science Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management Central Institute of English and Foreign Language Institute of Central Indian Language Commission of Scientific and Technical Words Terminology Indian Institute of Social Sciences and Research Institute of National Sanskrit Rashtriya Bal Bhavan Shri Lal Bahadur Shastri National Sanskrit Vidyapeeth Council of Indian Philosophy Research Indian Council of Higher Research National Sanskrit Vidyapeeth Environmental Institutes Rehabilitation Institute of Social Forestry and Ecology G. B. Pant Himdoya Environment and Development Institute Institute of Indian Plywood Industry and Research Institute of Lumbering Science and Technology Institute of Indian Forest Management Institute of Forest Research and Human Resource Development Institute of Forest Genetic Tree Breeding Indian Forest Research and Education Council Institute of National Science & Technology Arid Zone Research Institute Institute of Rainforest Indian Forest Survey Indian Botanical Survey 25 | P a g e

Agra, Uttar Pradesh Bengaluru, Karnataka Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh Hyderabad, Telegana Mysore, Karnataka New Delhi New Delhi New Delhi New Delhi New Delhi New Delhi and Lucknow Shimla, Himachal Pradesh Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh Almora, Uttarakhand Bengaluru, Karnataka Bengaluru, Karnataka Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh Chindwara, Madhya Pradesh Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu Dehradun, Uttarakhand Faridabad, Haryana Jodhpur, Rajasthan Jorhat, Assam Jorhat, Assam Kolkata, West Bengal

AC Static GK Capsule2016 Indian Anthropology Survey Central Pollution Control Board Central Museum Authority Forest Productive Centre Himalayan Forest Research Centre

Kolkata, West Bengal New Delhi New Delhi Ranchi, Jharkhand Shimla, Himachal Pradesh

Defence Institutes Electrical and Mechanical Engineering School Air Force Technical College Hindustan Aeronatic Limited Indian Air Force Training Centre Officers Training Academy Indian Military Academy Air Force Academy National Defence Academy Naval College of Engineering Directorate General N.C.C Directorate of National Cadet Core College of Military Engineering Institute of Armament Technology Defence Management Institute Military College of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering Art and Culture Allahabad Museum Indira Gandhi National Human Museum Nav Nalanda Mahabihar Kala Chitra Foundation Salarjanj Museum Jawahar Lal Nehru Manipur Dance Academy Asiatic Society Indian Anthropology Survey Indian Museum Maulana Abdul Kalam Azad Asian Studies Institute National Science Museum Parishad National Modern Art Technique National Library Raja Rammohan Rai Library Foundation Ram Krishan Mission Sanskrit Institute Victoria Memorial Hall Central Buddh Education Institute National Research Laboratory for Conservation of Cultural Heritage Institute of National Museum History for Art Conservation and Science Museum Indian National Archives Central Secretariat Library (1981) Cultural Institute and Training Centre (1979) Delhi Public Library Gandhian Recollection and Philosophy Recollection Indira Gandhi National Art Centre Lalit Kala Academy National Drama Vidyalaya National Museum 26 | P a g e

Baroda, Gujarat Bengaluru, Karnataka Bengaluru, Karnataka Chennai, Tamil Nadu Chennai, Tamil Nadu Dehradun, Uttarakhand Hyderabad, Telagana Kharagwasala, Pune Lonavala, Maharashtra New Delhi New Delhi Pune, Maharashtra Pune, Maharashtra Sikandrabad, Uttar Prdeash Sikandrabad, Uttar Prdeash Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh Bihar Chennai, Tamil Nadu Hyderabad, Telangana Imphal, Manipur Kolkata, West Bengal Kolkata, West Bengal Kolkata, West Bengal Kolkata, West Bengal Kolkata, West Bengal Kolkata, West Bengal Kolkata, West Bengal Kolkata, West Bengal Kolkata, West Bengal Kolkata, West Bengal Leh, J & K Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh New Delhi New Delhi New Delhi New Delhi New Delhi New Delhi New Delhi New Delhi New Delhi New Delhi

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New Delhi New Delhi New Delhi New Delhi Patna, Bihar Rampur, Uttar Pradesh Surat, Gujarat Varanasi, Uttar Prdeash Delhi Kolkata, West Bengal, Bengaluru, Karnataka Chennai, Tamil Nadu Jaipur, Rajasthan Kolkata, West Bengal New Delhi New Delhi New Delhi New Delhi Pune, Maharashtra Rasoyni ,Maharashtra Bhubaneswar,Orissa Chennai, Tamil Nadu Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh Gurgaon, Haryana Kolkata, West Bengal Mumbai, Maharashtra Nagpur, Maharashtra Pune- Pimpri, Maharashtra Thane, Maharashtra Trombay, Maharashtra Udaipur Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh Hyderabad, Telangana New Delhi Chandigarh and Shimla Chennai, Tamil Nadu Dhanbad, Jharkhand, Kolkata, West Bengal Nagpur, Maharashtra Noida, Uttar Pradesh Kolkata, West Bengal Mumbai, Maharashtra Mumbai, Maharashtra Mumbai, Maharashtra

AC Static GK Capsule2016 Directorate of Publications and Visual Publicity New Delhi Directorate of Regional Publicity New Delhi Institute of Indian Film and Television Pune, Maharashtra National Film Archieves Pune, West Bengal Institute of Science and Technology Science Expansion (Vigyan Prasar)New Delhi Institute for Plasma Research Ahmedabad, Gujarat Physical Research Laboratory Ahmedabad, Gujarat Indian Science Academy Allahabad, Gujarat Indian Astro physics Institute Bengaluru, Karnataka Jawahar Lal Nehru Developed Scientific Research Centre Bengaluru, Karnataka Indian Science Academy Bengaluru, Karnataka National Biological Science Centre Bengaluru, Karnataka Liquid Crystal Research Institute Bengaluru, Karnataka National Biology Centre Bengaluru, Karnataka Physics Institute Bhubaneshwar Life Science Institute Bhubaneshwar, Odisha Institute of Physics Bhubaneshwar, Odisha Indian Oceanic Technical Institute Chennai, Tamil NAdu Harish Chand Research Institute Chennai, Tamil Nadu Project Directorate, Integrated Coastal and Sea Coast Management Chennai, Tamil Nadu Institute of Mathematical Science Chennai, Tamil Nadu Sea- biotic Resources and Ecology Centre Cochin, Kerala Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology Dehradun, Uttarakhand Cosmic Rays Research Institute Gauribidanur, Karnataka National Antarctic and Ocean Research Centre Goa Indian National Oceanic Information Service Centre Hyderabad, Telegana Survey Training Institute Hyderabad, Telegana Director of Atomic Mineral Investigation and Research Hyderabad, Telegana Nuclear Fuel Campus Hyderabad, Telegana D. N. A. Finger Print and Centre Hyderabad, Telegana Biotic Resources and Continuous Development Centre Imphal, Manipur Indian Uranium Corporation Ltd. Jaduguda, Jharkhand Uranium Corporation of India Ltd. Jaduguda, Jharkhand Centre for Marine Living Resources and Ecology Kocchi, Kerala Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science Kolkata, West Bengal Indian Science Congress Association Kolkata, West Bengal Bose Institute Kolkata, West Bengal N. N. Bose National Fundamental Science Centre Kolkata, West Bengal Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre Kolkata, West Bengal Saha Nuclear Physics Institute Kolkata, West Bengal Birbal Sahani Institute of Paleo botany Lucknow, Uttarakhand Centre of National Mental Research Manesar, Haryana Indian Institute of Geomagnetism Mumbai, Maharashtra Heavy Water Board Mumbai, Maharashtra Bhabha Atomic Research Centre Mumbai, Maharashtra Deptt. of Atomic Energy Mumbai, Maharashtra Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Mumbai, Maharashtra Vishveshraiya National Technical Institute Nagpur, Maharashtra Aryabhatta Research Observatory Nainital Indian National Science Academy New Delhi 28 | P a g e

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New Delhi New Delhi New Delhi New Delhi New Delhi New Delhi New Delhi Pune, Maharashtra Pune, Maharashtra Pune, Maharashtra Surat, Gujarat Tiruvananthapuram, Kerala Udaipur, Rajasthan Bengaluru, Karnataka Chitranjan, West Bengal Furshatganj (U. P.) Goa Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh Kapurthala, Punjab Kolkata, West Bengal Kolkata., West Bengal Mumbai, Maharashtra Mumbai, Maharashtra Mumbai, Maharashtra Narainpur (Kolkata), WB New Delhi New Delhi New Delhi Noida, Uttar Pradesh Perambur, Kapurthala Varanasi, Uttar Prdeash Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh Kharagwasala ,Pune New Delhi New Delhi Roorkee,Uttarakhand Chennai, Tamil Nadu Cuttack, Odisha Dehradun, Uttarakhand Kolkata, West Bengal Mumbai, Maharashtra New Delhi New Delhi Sikandrabad,Uttar Pradesh Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh Perambur, Tamil Nadu

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New Delhi New Delhi

Communication High Level Telecommunication Training Centre Advance Level Telecommunication Training Centre National Telecommunication Finance and Management Academy Bharat Ratna Bhim Rao Ambedkar Telecommunication Training Institute Telecommunication Engineering Centre

Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh Hyderabad, Telegana Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh New Delhi

Defence Indian Coast Guard • • •

The Coast Guard is headquartered in the Capital, New Delhi.It has 3 Regional headquarters at Mumbai, Chennai and Port Blair. 1 District Headquarters in each of the nine coastal states and 2 in the Union territories of Andaman and Nicobar Islands and Lakshadweep Islands. 4 Coast Guard Stations, one each at Vadinar, Okha, Tuticorin and Mandapam.

The Indian Army is organised into seven commands Command Western command Eastern command Northern command Southern command Central command Army Training Command South Western Command

Headquarter Chandigarh Kolkata 56 APO Pune Lucknow Shimla Jaipur

Indian Air Force is organised into seven command Command Western command Central command Eastern command South western command Training command Maintenance command Southern command

Headquarter New Delhi Allahabad Shillong Jodhpur Bangaluru Nagpur Thiruvananthapuram

Indian Navy is organized into following command Command Eastern command Southern command Western command

Headquarter Vishakhapatnam Kochi Mumbai

Productions of crops in india highest as per states States Andhra Pradesh Arunachal Pradesh Assam Bihar Chhattisgarh Delhi Goa Gujarat Haryana Himachal Pradesh

Crops Vegetable Oil Production, Shrimp Shifting Cultivation, Fruits Tea, Silk Potato Paddy Wheat Cashewnuts Cotton ,Sugar Wheat And Rice Fruit & Vegetables 30 | P a g e

AC Static GK Capsule2016 Jammu And Kashmir Jharkhand Karnataka Kerala Madhya Pradesh Maharashtra Manipur Meghalaya Mizoram Nagaland Odisha Puducherry Punjab Rajasthan Sikkim Tamil Nadu Telangana Tripura Uttar Pradesh Uttarakhand West Bengal

Apples, Cardamom Lac Production Coffee(Chitmanglore), Silk Spices, Rubber, Ginger Pulses , Oil Seeds Cotton ,Sugarcane Horticulture,Jute Ginger Maize Oilseeds,Rice Coarse Cereals,Jute Coconut Cultivation Wheat , Cotton , Sugar,Millet Coarse Cereal,Pulses Maize, Millet, Wheat, Barley, Oranges, Tea And Cardamom Flowers ,Rice , Horticulture Fruits ,Cotton, Sugarcane, Mango And Tobacco Potato, Sugarcane, Mesta, Pulses And Jute Rice ,Wheat ,Maize , Potatoe, Oilseeds Basmati Rice, Wheat Soybeans, Groundnuts Jute ,Rice, Potato

INDIAN POLITY CONSTITUTION OF INDIA (Important Points) • Indian Constitution is the framework of duties and rules of different Indian governing bodies and its people. • After the independence of India in 1947, it took 2 years 11 months and 18 days to build the Indian constitution. • 26 November 1949 India adopted its constitution and it came into effect on 26 January 1950. • The day (26 January) is celebrated as the republic day in India. Because on that day Indian constitution came into effect and India became a sovereign, democratic republic country. • To commemorate the PurnaSwaraj declaration of independence of 1930, the date 26 January was chosen. • Indian constitution was drafted by the Constituent Assembly and Dr. BhimraoRamjiAmbedkar is called the father of Indian constitution. Constituent Assembly had 13 different committees. • Indian constitution is the longest written constitution. It contains 448 articles in 22 parts, 12 schedules and 118 amendments. Indian constitution was hand written and was both in Hindi and English. The original copies of the constitution are preserved in a secure way. • Many principles of Indian constitution were influenced from different countries constitution. Such as separation of powers among the majorbranches of government was adopted from the constitution of United States, directive principle of state policy was adapted from Ireland.

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AC Static GK Capsule2016 Important Articles Of Indian Constitution: Aticles Article 1 Article 14 Article 17 Article 18 Article 19

Article 21 Article 21A Article 22 Article 23 Article 24 Articles 25-28 Article 32 Article 36-51 Article 39A Article 40 Article 44 Article 45 Article 50 Article 51 Article 51(A) Article 74 Article 110 Article 112 Article 123 Article 262 Article 312 Article 315 Article 324 Article 352 Article 356 Article 368 Article 370

For Name and Territory of the Union. Relates to Right to Equality Abolishes the practice of untouchability Prohibits the state from conferring any title. Deals with six freedoms of Indian citizens namely, freedom of speech and expression (d) freedom of movement throughout the territory of India (e) freedom of residence and settlement in any part of India (d) Freedom of occupation Provides protection to life and liberty to all persons Right to elementary education. Affords protection against arbitrary arrest & detention Prohibits the traffic in human beings and beggars. (making a person work without wages or adequate compensation) Prohibits the employment of children below 14 years. Relates to Right to freedom of religion Right to Constitutional Remedies described as ‘‘The heart and soul of the Constitution’’ by Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Relates to Directive Principles of State Policy. Free legal aid Deals with the formation of Panchayats Uniform Civil Code for the Citizens. Free and compulsory education to all children below 14 years of age. Separation of Judiciary Promotion of International peace & security Relates to list of Fundamental Duties Council of Ministers to aid and advice the President Definition of Money Bills. Annual Financial Statement (Budget) Power of President to promulgate ordinances during recess of Parliament. Adjudication of disputes relating to waters of Inter All India Services Public Service Commissions for the Union and for the states. Relates to the Election Commission Gives provision regarding emergencies Proclamation of President’s Rule in the states. Amendment of the Constitution by the Parliament Special status to Jammu and Kashmir

The borrowed features of constitution from different countries Australia

Canada

Concurrent list Language of the preamble Provision regarding trade, commerce and intercourse Scheme of federation with a strong centre Distribution of powers between centre and the states and placing. Residuary Powers with the centre 32 | P a g e

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Japan U.K.

U.S.

USSR Germany

Concept of Directive Principles of States Policy(Ireland borrowed it from SPAIN) Method of election of President Nomination of members in the Rajya Sabha by the President Law on which the Supreme Court function Nominal of Head President Cabinet System of Ministers Post of PM Parliamentary Type of Govt. Bicameral Parliament Lower House more powerful Council of Ministers responsible to Lowe House Speaker in Lok Sabha Written Constitution Executive head of state known as President and his being the Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces Vice- President as the ex-officio Chairman of Rajya Sabha Fundamental Rights Supreme Court Provision of States Independence of Judiciary and judicial review Preamble Removal of Supreme court and High court Judges Fundamental Duties Five year Plan Suspension of Fundamental Rights during the emergency

Some Important Official Books Green Book White Book Blue Book Yellow Book Orange Book White Paper Grey Book Joint Paper

Official reports or publications of Italy & Iran. The official publications of Portugal, China & Germany. Any official report of the British government. The report or publication of the French government. Official report of the government of Netherlands. The authoritative recital of facts issued by the government stating its views on a Report of the government of Belgium and Japan. The joint report of two or more than two governments.

SECC 2011 is unique paperless census The last caste that happen in India is 1932 Total households in the country -- 24.39 crore The total households in villages -- 17.91 crore Households are considered as deprived in rural area -- 10.69 crore villages belong to SC/ST categories -- 21.53% or 3.86 crore Highest number of SC population -- Punjab (36.74%) Highest number of ST population --Mizoram(98.79) Highest mobile penetration state in rural areas—UttaraPradesh Lowest mobile Penetration state in rural areas—Chattisgarh How many rural household earn below 5000 rupees month--13.34 cr Many rural household earn 10000 and more--1.48 cr State has highest number of manual scavenger –Tripura 33 | P a g e

AC Static GK Capsule2016 State has zero manual scavenger –Delhi Rural households in the country pay income tax--4.58% Households in rural areas are landless -- 5.37 crore or 29.97% State landness household is higher – Kerala States with the lowest rates of landlessness -- J &K and Himachal Pradesh Families in villages that live in one room with ‘kaccha’ walls and roof - 2.37 crore or 13.25% House holds in rural areas has land line phone -- 17.85 lak or 1% House hold having mobile phone in village--12.24 cr or 68.35% illiterate number of people in rural areas--3.1 cr or 17.31% rural household having refrigerator --1.97 cr or 11.04% Rural household paying income tax in india-- 6% Rural people have considered deprived or poor--8.96 cr No adult member in household between age 18 and 59 in rural areas --65.15 lac or 3.64% Female headed house with no adult male between 16 and 59 in rural areas --- 68.96 lac or 3.85% Member with no other able bodied adult member ----7.16 lac or 040% Households with no literate adult above age 25 years in areas -- 4.21cr or 23.52% Rural household with one salaried member -- 2.50 cr Average size of a rural Indian household -- 4.93 Highest size of a rural Indian household -6.28 –UttarPradesh Lowest size of a rural Indian household --3.86 –Andhrapradesh How many percent of trans gender in rural population -- 0.1% Highest rural illiterate –Rajasthan Lowest rural illiterate –Kerala The percentage of Scheduled Caste (SC) households paying income tax -3.49% Scheduled Tribe (ST) tax-paying rural households --3.34% Manual casual labour in rural areas-9.16 cr Cultivation in rural areas--5.39cr (Religion)Census 2011 Total Population in 2011 is 121.09 crores  Hindu 96.63 crores (79.8%)  Muslim 17.22 crores (14.2%)  Christian 2.78 crores (2.3%)  Sikh 2.08 crores (1.7%)  Buddhist 0.84 crores (0.7%)  Jain 0.45 crores (0.4%),  Other Religions & Persuasions (ORP) 0.79 crores (0.7%)  Religion Not Stated 0.29 crores (0.2%). Population Census -2011  It has been conducted every 10 years, beginning in 1871.  Census 2011 were released in New Delhi on 31st March 2011  Union Home Secretary GK Pillai and RGI C Chandramouli.  Census 2011 was the 15th census of india & 7th census after Independece  The motto of census 2011 was “Our Census, Our future”.  Total estimated cost of the Census was INR2200 crore (US$350 million).  First census in 1872.  Present Registrar General & Census Commissioner – C.Chandra Mouli  Total Population – 1,210,569,573 (1.21 Billion)  India in 2nd rank in population with 17.64%. decadal growth & China is 1st rank with decadal growth 19% (over 1.35 billion)  World Population is 7 Billions  Increase in population during 2001 – 2011 is 181 Million 34 | P a g e

AC Static GK Capsule2016  Population – 1210.19 million [Males – 623.7 million (51.54%) Females – 586.46 million (48.46%) Top Populous of the Country 1. Uttar Pradesh--19, 98, 12,341 2. Maharashtra--11, 23, 74, 33 3. Bihar--10, 40, 99,452 4. West Bengal--9, 12, 76,115 5. Andhra Pradesh--8, 45, 80,777 Least Populous of the Country 1. Lakshadweep - 64,473 2. Daman and Diu - 2,43,247 3. Dadra and Nagar Haveli - 3,43,709 4. Andaman and Nicobar Islands - 3,80,581 5. Sikkim - 6,10,577 Population Highlight  Highest Populous UT-Delhi  Least Populous UT-Lakshadweep  Highest Populous state--Uttar Pradesh  Least populous state--Sikkim  Highest urban Population in india (state& UT)--Maharashtra – 4,11,00,980  Lowest urban Population in india (state& UT)--Lakshadweep – 26,967  Highest Rular Population in india (state& UT)--Uttar Pradesh – 13,16,58,339  Lowest Rular Population in india (state& UT)--Lakshadweep – 33,683  Sex Ratio (Females per 1000 Males) Sex ratio in India--943  Highest sex ratio in state--Kerala (1084)  Lowest sex ratio in state--Haryana (879)  Highest sex ratio in UT--Pondicherry (1037)  Lowest sex ratio in UT--Daman and Diu (618)  Child (0-6 years) sex ratio--914  Highest child (0-6) sex ratio in state--Mizoram (971)  Lowest child (0-6) sex ratio in state--Haryana (830)  Total Person Literacy Rate--74%  Males--82.14% ,Females--65.46%  Highest Literacy Rate in State--Kerala (94%)  Lowest Literacy Rate in State--Bihar (61.8%)  Hightest Literacy Rate in UT--Lakshadweep (91%)  Lowest Literacy Rate in UT--Dadra and Nagar Haveli (76.24%)

Union Budget 2016-17: • • • • • •

No change in personal Income Tax slabs 4-month compliance window for domestic black money holders; tax, interest on them at 45% Relief for tax payers who earn below Rs 5 lakh and Ceiling of rebate u/s 87A raised to Rs 5,000 from Rs 2,000. House rent deduction raised from Rs 20,000 to Rs 60,000. One-time dispute resolution scheme for retro tax cases,Penalty, interest waived, High level committee headed by revenue secretary to oversee creation of fresh liability using retro tax law. 35 | P a g e

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Corporate tax for new manufacturing units fixed at 25%. Clean energy cess increased from Rs 200/ton to 400/ton on coal, lignite and peat First home buyers to get additional deduction of Rs 50,000 oninterest for loan up to Rs 35 lakh; cost of house should not be more than Rs 50 lakh To achieve fiscal deficit of 3% of GDP by (2017-18) Fiscal deficit target 3.9% in 2015-16, 3.5% in 2016-17 Revenue deficit to be 2.8% in 2015-16 Current account deficit for 2015-16 at USD 14.4 billionor 1.4% of GDP Forex reserves at highest at USD 350 billion. Budget lists 9 transformative pillars including doubling farm income by 2022, infrastructure, investment, reforms Highest ever allocation of Rs 38,500 crore for MGNREGA Certain equipment for dialysis exempt from basic customsduty, Excise CVD Govt to circulate Model Shops and Establishment Bill,small retail shops may remain open for 7 days 100% rural electrification by May 1, 2018. Govt to pay EPF contribution of 8.33% of new employeesfor first 3 years. Start-ups to get 100% tax exemption for 3 years exceptMAT which will apply from April 20162019 To give statutory status to Aadhaar Programme. Infrastructure outlay at Rs 2.21 lakhcrore. Rs 35,984 crore earmarked for farmer welfare; to spend Rs86,500 crore on irrigation in 5 years Rs 20,000 crore irrigation fund to be set up under NABARD Rs 2,000 crore for LPG connection to poor; scheme for MPGconnection for women Stand Up Indiagets Rs 500 crore. Roads and highways allocation at Rs 55,000 crore, also NHAIcan issue tax free bonds.

Highlights of the Railway Budget 2016-17 Theme of the Budget: •Overcoming challenges – Reorganize, Restructure Rejuvenate Indian Railways: ‘Chalo, Milkar Kuch Naya Karen’ • Three pillars of the strategy:Nav Arjan – New revenues, Nav Manak – New norms, Nav Sanrachna – New Structures. Financial Performance • 2015-16- Savings of Rs. 8,720 crore neutralizing most of the revenue shortfall, expected OR 90%; • 2016-17- Targeted Operating Ratio or 92%, restrict growth of Ordinary Working Expenses by 11.6% after building in immediate impact of 7th PC, reductions planned in diesel and electricity consumption, • Revenue generation targeted at Rs. 1, 84,820 crore. Investments and Resources • Process bottlenecks overhauled including delegation of powers to functional levels; • Average capital expenditure over 2009-14 is Rs. 48,100 crore, average growth of 8% per annum. • 2015-16 investment would be close to double of the average of previous 5 years. • 2016-17 CAPEX pegged at Rs. 1.21 lakh crore; • Implementation through joint ventures with states, developing new frameworks for PPP, etc. • No hike in passenger fares. • Action has been initiated on 139 budget announcements made last year. • Eliminate all unmanned level crossings by 2020. 36 | P a g e

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Swacch Bharat: 17000 biotoilets and additional toilets in 475 stations before the close of this financial year. Increased quota for senior citizens and women travellers this year. Wifi at 100 stations this year and 400 stations next year. Enhanced capacity of e-ticketing system from 2,000 tickets/min to 7,200/min. Supporting 1.2 lakh concurrent users now, as opposed to 40,000 earlier. All major stations to be brought under CCTV surveillance in a phased manner. Deen Dayal coaches for long distance trains for unreserved passengers. These coaches will include potable water and higher number of mobile charging points. IRCTC to manage catering service in phased manner. Local cuisine of choice will be made available to passengers. Cleaning of toilets by requests through SMS. Children's menu, baby foods, baby boards to be made available for travelling mothers. GPS-based digital display in coaches for showing upcoming stations. Will open cancellation facility through 139 helpline number. Introduce bar-coded tickets on pilot basis to tackle menace of ticketless travel.

INDIAN CULTURE Festivals Of Indian States States Andhrapradesh Assam

Arunachal Pradesh Bihar Chandigarh Chhattisgarh Goa Gujarat Haryana Himachal Pradesh J&K Jharkhand Karnataka Kerala MadhyaPradesh Maharashtra Mizoram Nagaland Odisha Punjab Rajasthan Sikkim Tamil Nadu

Festivals Dasara Festival,Gangamma Jatara,Gowri Habba,Ugadi,Vaikunta Ekadashi Ali Ai Ligang,Ambubachi Mela,Baresahariya Bhaona,Bathow puja,Bihu,Bohag Bihu,Bihuwa dance,Brahmaputra Beach Festival,Bwisagu,Dehing Patkai festival,Jonbeel mela,Kaziranga Elephant Festival,Magh Bihu,Porag,Rongker Siang River festival,Ziro,Solung,Nyokum,Lossar,Dree,Boori Boot,Loku,Sanken,Reh,Myoko,Budhha Mahotsava,Choekhor,Tamladu,Mopin Chhath,Jivitputrika,Patliputra natya Mahotsav,Patna Sahib Mahotsav,Rajgir Mahostav,Sama Chakeva Baisakhi,Festival of gardens,Teej Bastar Dussehra,Bastar Lokotsav,Dadaria,Gaur Maria Dance,Madai ,Rajim Kumbh Shigmo,Bonderam,San joao,Panjim/Margao International Kite festival,Modhera,Kutch Mahotsava,Bhavnath Mahadev fair Saptak,Shamlaji,TarnetarVautha,Madhavrai Lohri,Basant Panchami,Gangore,Baisakhi,Teej,Nirjala Akadashi,Guggapir Dham,Kullu Dussehra,Mandi Shivaratri ,Sati pradha Hemis,Lohri,Vaishno devi Karma,Sohari,Sarhul,Chhath puja,Jityya Bhaiya Dooj Karaga,Dakkebali,Gowri Habba,Kanakadasa Jayanthi,Madikeri Dasara Mahamastakabhisheka,Mailara Jaatre ,Mysore Dasara Onam,Thiruvathira,Vishu Chethiyagiri vihara,Madai,Bahgoriya,Nimar utsav,Dhrupad samaroh nant chaturdashi,Bhau, beej,Gudi Padwa,Pola,Shayani Ekadashi,Vat purnima Chapchar Kut ,Mim Kut ,Pawl Kut Horn Bill,Nazu,Sekrenyi,Tuluni,Yemshe,Sankarni,Rengma Ngadah Chaiti,Dhanu,Kalahandi,Ghantapatua,Jagaddhagtri,Raja praba ,Ratha Maghi,Lohri,Basant,Holi,Vaisakhi,Rakhri,Teeyan - yatra(puri),Samba Dashami Baneshwar,Gangaur,Pushkar,Teej,Urs Saga Dawa,Lossong,Losar,Dasain,Tihar,Gutor cham Brihadeeswara Temple car festival,Jangura Habba Erwadi Santhanakkodu,Mattu 37 | P a g e

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pongal,Panguni Uthiram,Thaiusam,Thimithi Bathukamma,Bonalu,Sammakka Saarakka Jaathara,Peerla panduga Ker,Garia Puja Phool Dei,Harela and bhitauli,Olgia,Khatarua,Bat savitri,Janopunya,Chippla Jaat,Hilijatra Bhadu,Haldia Utsav,Jagaddhatri,Poush Mela

Folk Dances States AndhraPradesh Chhattisgarh Arunachal Pradesh HimachalPradesh Goa Assam West Bengal Keral Meghalaya Manipur Nagaland Orissa Maharashtra Karnataka Gujarat Punjab Rajasthan Mizoram Jammu&Kashmir TamilNadu Uttar Pradesh Bihar Haryana Jharkhand Uttarakhand

Folk Dances Kuchipudi(Classical),Ghantamardala,Ottam,Thedal,Mohioniattam,Kummi,Siddhi Madhuri,Chhadi. Goudi,Karma,Jhumar,Dagla,Pali,Tapali,Navrani.Diwari,Mundari. Mask Dance,War Dance. ,Jhali,Chharhi,Dhaman,Chhapeli,Mahasu,Nati,Dangi,Chamba,Thali,Jhainta,Daf, Sti Ck Dance. Mandi,Jhagor,Khol,Dakni. Bihu,Bichhua,Natpuja,Maharas,Kaligopal,Bagurumba,Naga Dance,Khel Gopal,Tabal Chongli,Canoe,Jhumura Hobjanai. Kathi,Gambhira,Dhali,Jatra,Baul,Marasia,Mahal,Keertan Kathakali(Classical),Ottam Thulal,Mohini Attam,Kaikottikali,Tappatikali,Kali Auttam. Laho,Baagla. Manipuri(Classical),Rakhal,Nat Rash,Maha Rash,Raukhat. Chong,Khaiva,Lim,Nuralim Odissi(Classical),Savari,Ghumara,Painka,Munari,Chhau,Chadya Dandanata. Lavani,Nakata,Koli,Lezim,Gafa,Dahikala,Dasavtar Or Bohada,Tamasha,Mauni,Powara,Gouricha. Yakshagan,Huttari,Suggi,Kunitha,Karga,Lambi. Garba,Dandiya Ras,Tippani Juriun,Bhavai. Bhangra,Giddha,Daff,Dhaman. Ghumar,Chakri,Ganagor,Jhulan Leela,Jhuma,Suisini,Ghapal,Panihari,Ginab Khanatm,Pakhupila,Cherokan. Rauf,Hikat,Mandjas,Kud Dandi Nach
Major Tribes of India Tribal Group Abors Adi,Aptanis Angami Badagas Baiga

State Arunachal Pradesh, Assam Arunachal Pradesh Nagaland Nilgiri (TN) Madhya Pradesh 38 | P a g e

AC Static GK Capsule2016 Bhils Bhot Bhotias Bhutias Chakma Chenchus Chutia Dangs Gaddis Garos Gonds Gujjars Irula Jarawas Jaintias Kanis Kancharis, Karbi Khas Khasis Khonds Kol Kotas Kuki Lepchas Lushais Murias Mikirs Mundas Nagas (Angami, Sema, Ao, Tangkul, Lahora) Oarons (also called Kurukh )

Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan, some in Gujarat and aharashtra Himachal Pradesh Garhwal and Kumaon regions of U. P. Sikkim Tripura Andhra Pradesh, Orissa Assam Gujarat Himachal Pradesh Meghalaya Madhya Pradesh. Also in Bihar, Orissa and A.P. Himachal Pradesh Tamil Nadu Little Andamans Meghalaya Kerala Assam Jaunsar-Babar area in U.P. Assam, Meghalaya Odisha Madhya Pradesh Nilgiri (Tamil Nadu) Manipur Sikkim Mizoram Bastar (Madhya Pradesh) Assam Bihar, Orissa, West Bengal Nagaland, some in Assam and NEFA region.

Onges Rabhas Rengma Santals Sema Sentinelese Shompens Tagin Todas Uralis Warlis Zeliang

Andaman and Nicobar islands Assam Nagaland Birbhum region in Bengal, Hazaribagh, Purnea in Bihar, Orissa Nagaland Sentinel Island, Andaman and Nicobar Andaman and Nicobar Arunachal Pradesh Nilgiri (Tamil Nadu) Kerala Maharashtra Nagaland

Bihar, Orissa and West Bengal.

SPORTS

Important Stadiums List Name of the stadium Assam Subrata Roy Sahara Stadium Barabati Stadium Barkatullah Khan Stadium

Location Pune, Maharashtra Cuttack, Orissa Jodhpur, Rajasthan 39 | P a g e

AC Static GK Capsule2016 Bhim Rao Ambedkar International Sports Stadium Birsa Munda Athletics Stadium Buddh International Circuit Greater Chand Astroturf Stadium Dadaji Kondadev Stadium Dhyan Chand National Dr Shyama Prasad Mukherjee Indoor Dr. Bhupen Hazarika Cricket Stadium Eden Gardens EMS Stadium Fatorda Stadium Feroz Shah Kotla G. M. C. Balayogi Athletic Stadium Green Park Stadium(Cricket) Guindy Race Course Hawla Indoor Stadium Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association Holkar Stadium Indira Gandhi Athletic Stadium Jawaharlal Nehru Indoor Stadium Cuttack Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium JRD Tata Sports Complex Jamshedpur Kanchenjunga Stadium Khuman Lampak Main Stadium Kishore Bharati Krirangan M. Chinnaswamy Stadium M.A.Chidambaram Stadium Mahalaxmi Racecourse Mangalagiri International Cricket Stadium Mayor Radhakrishnan Stadium MGR Race Course Stadium Salt Lake Stadium Sardar Patel Stadium Sector 42 Stadium Shaheed Veer Narayan Singh International Cricket Stadium Sree Kanteerava Stadium Sree Kanteerava Stadium Thyagaraj Sports Complex Wankhede Stadium

Faizabad, Uttar Pradesh Ranchi, Jharkhand Noida, UP Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh Maharashtra Stadium Delhi Dhyan Taleigao, Goa Guwahati, Kolkata, West Bengal Kohzikode, Kerala Margao, Goa Delhi Hyderabad, Telengana Kanpur, UP Chennai, Tamil Nadu Aizawl, Mizoram Dharmashala, Himachal Pradesh Indore,Madhya Pradesh Guwahati, Assam Odisha Kochi, Kerala Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh Siliguri, West Bengal Imphal, Manipur Kolkata, West Bengal Bengaluru, Karnataka Chennai, TN Mumbai, Maharashtra Vijaywada, Andhra Pradesh Chennai,Tamil Nadu Madurai, Tamil Nadu Kolkata, West Bengal Ahmedabad, Gujarat Chandigarh, Punjab Raipur, Chhatishgarh Bengaluru, Karnataka Bengaluru, Karnataka Delhi Mumbai, Maharashtra

Cricket Stadiums Name of the stadium Nehru Stadium Brerbon Stadium Roop Singh Stadium Wankhede Stadium Baramati stadium Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium Mohinul Haq Stadium 40 | P a g e

Location Indore / Pune Mumbai Gwalior Mumbai Cuttack New Delhi Patna

AC Static GK Capsule2016 Lal Bahadur Shastri Stadium Ferozeshah Kotla Stadium Chinnaswamy Stadium Motera Stadium Green Stadium Sardar Patel Stadium Gandhi Ground Stadium Chepauk Stadium and Chidmberm Motibag Stadium K.D. Singh Babu Stadium

Hyderabad New Delhi Bangalore Ahmedabad Kanpur Ahmedabad Amritsar Chennai Brudra Lucknow

Famous Sports Personalities Name of the Persons Lionel Messi Diego Maradona Sir Donald Bradman David Campese Jack Nicklaus Rod Laver Shane Warne Severiano Eddy Merckx Pele Ronaldhino Aryton Senna Emil Zatopek Ian Botham C.B.Fry David Beckham Lewis Hamilton Steve Davis W.G. Grace Haile Gebreselassie Kenenisa Bekele Abebe Bikila Paavo Nurmi Bernard Hinault Jacques Anquetil Serge Blanco Michael Schumacher Steffi Graf Andy Murray Bill Shankly Bobby Moore Chris Froome Chris Hoy Fred Perry Henry Cooper Mo Farah Nick Faldo

Countries Argentina Argentina Australia Australia Australia Australia Australia Ballesteros Belgium Brazil Brazil Brazilian Czechoslovakia England England England England England England Ethiopia Ethiopia Ethopia Finland France France France Germany Germany Great Britain Great Britain Great Britain Great Britain Great Britain Great Britain Great Britain Great Britain Great Britain 41 | P a g e

Sports Football Football Cricket Rugby Union Golf. Tennis. Cricket. Golf. Cycling. Football. Football. Motor Racing Athletics. Cricket. Cricket. Football. Motor Racing. Snooker. Cricket. Athletics. Athletics. Athletics. Athletics. Cycling. Cycling. Rugby Union. Motor Racing. Tennis. Tennis. Football. Football. Cycling. Cycling. Tennis. Boxing. Athletics. Golf.

AC Static GK Capsule2016 Paula Radcliffe Roger Bannister Sebastian Coe Sir Steve Redgrave Stirling Moss Dhyan Chand Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore Balbir Singh Sr Pullela Gopichand Vijay Kumar Yogeshwar Dutt Sachin Tendulkar Sushil Kumar Leslie Claudius Khashaba Dadasaheb Jadhav Vijender Singh Gagan Narang Kapil Dev Mahesh Bhupathi Leander Paes Saina Nehwal Jwala Gutta Rohan Bopanna Sania Mirza Don Bradman Sunil Gavaskar Prakash Padukone Sachin Tendulkar Fausto Coppi Usain Bolt Asbel Kiprop Tegla Laroupe Hicham El Guerrouj George Best Grete Waitz Imran Khan Manny Pacquiao Cristiano Ronaldo Eusebio Jose Mourinho Nadia Comaneci Jonathan Edwards Maria Sharapova Alex Ferguson Eric Liddell Rafael Nadal Seve Ballesteros Bjorn Borg Martina Hingis Roger Federer Johan Cruyff

Great Britain Great Britain Great Britain Great Britain Great Britain India India India India India India India India India India India India India India India India India India India India India India India Italy Jamaica Kenya Kenya Morocco Ireland Norway Pakistan Phillipines Portugal Portugal Portugal Romania Wales Russia Scotland Scottish Spain Spain Sweden Switzerland Switzerland Netherlands 42 | P a g e

Athletics. Athletics. Athletics. Rowing. Motor Racing. Hockey. Shooting Hockey. Bedminton. Shooting. Wrestling. Cricket. Wrestling. Hockey. Wrestling Boxing Shooting Cricket Tennis Tennis Bedminton Bedminton Tennis Tennis Cricket Cricket Bedminton Cricket Cycling Race Athletics Athletics Athletics Football. Athletics. Cricket. Boxing. Football. Football. Football. Gymnastics. Rugby Union. Tennis. Football. Athletics. Tennis. Golf. Tennis. Tennis. Tennis. Football.

AC Static GK Capsule2016 Serguei Bubka Tiger Woods Muhammad Ali Carl Lewis Billie Jean King Jackie Joyner Kersee Al Oerter Babe Didrikson Zaharias Babe Ruth Bo Jackson Bob Beamon Chris Evert Greg Lemond Jim Thorpe Jimmy Connors Joe Dimaggio John Mcenroe Kelly Slater Lance Armstrong Magic Johnson Mark Spitz Martina Navratilova Michael Johnson Michael Jordan Michael Phelps Gareth Bale Gareth Edwards Brian Lara Sir Viv Richards Sir Gary Sobers Monica Seles

Ukraine US US US US US US US US US US US US US US US US US US US US US US US US Wales Wales West Indies West Indies West Indies Yugoslavia / US

Athletics. Golf. Boxing Athletics Tennis Athletics. Athletics. Golf. Baseball. Baseball. Athletics. Tennis. Cycling. Swimming. Tennis. Basball. Tennis. Surfing. Cycling. Basketball. Swimming. Tennis. Athletics. Basketball. Swimming. Football. Rugby Union. Cricket. Cricket. Cricket. Tennis.

Cups And Trophies(Associated With Sports/Games) Sport Hockey

Football

Cricket

Cups and Trophies Aga Khan Cup, Begam Rasul Trophy (women's), Maharaja Ranjit Singh Gold Cup, Lady Ratan Tata Trophy (women's), Gurunanak Championship (women's), Dhyanchand Trophy, Nehru Trophy, Sindhia Gold Cup, Murugappa Gold Cup, Wellington Cup etc Beghum Hazarat Mahal Cup, BILT Cup, Bordoloi Trophy, Colombo Cup, Confederation Cup, DCM Trophy, Durand Cup, Rovers Cup, BC Rai Trophy (National Championship), FIFA World Cup, Jules Rimet Trophy, Kalinga Cup, Santosh Trophy (National Championship), IFA Shield, Scissor Cup, Subroto Mukherjee Cup, Sir Ashutosh Mukherjee Trophy, Todd Memorial Trophy, Vittal Trophy, etc. Anthony D' Mellow Trophy, Ashes, Asia Cup, Benson and Hedges Cup, Bose Trophy, Champions Trophy, Charminar Challenger Cup, CK Naidu Trophy, Cooch - Behar Trophy, Deodhar Trophy, Duleep Trophy, Gavaskar Border Trophy, GD Birla Trophy, Gillette Cup, Ghulam Ahmand Trophy, Hakumat Rai Trophy, ICC World Cup, Irani Trophy, Interface Cup, 43 | P a g e

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Table Tennis Badminton

Basketball

Bridge Polo Athletics Air Racing Billiards Boxing Golf

Chess Horse Racing Netball Rugby Football Shooting Volleyball Yatching

Jawaharlal Nehru Cup, Lomboard World Challenge Cup, Mc Dowells Challenge Cup, Merchant Cup, Moin-ud-Dowla Cup, Nat West Trophy, Prudential Cup (World Cup), Rani Jhansi Trophy, Ranji Trophy, Rohinton Baria Trophy, Rothmans Cup, Sahara Cup, Sharjah Cup, Sheesh Mahal Trophy, Sheffield Shield, Singer Cup, Sir Frank Worrel Trophy, Texaco Cup, Titan Cup, Vijay Hazare Trophy, Vijay Merchant Trophy, Vizzy Trophy, Wisden Trophy, Wills Trophy, World Series Cup. Berna Bellack Cup (men), Corbillion Cup (women), Jai Laxmi Cup (women), Rajkumari Challenge Cup (women junior), Ramanuja Trophy (men junior), Travancore Cup (women), Swathling Cup (men), etc Aggarwal Cup, Amrit Diwan Cup, Asia Cup, Australasia Cup, Chaddha Cup, European Cup, Harilela Cup, Ibrahim Rahimatollah Challenger Cup, Konica Cup, Narang Cup, SR Ruia Cup, Sophia Cup, Kitiakara Cup, Thomas Cup, Tunku Abdulrahman Cup, Uber Cup, World Cup, Yonex Cup etc Basalat Jha Trophy, BC Gupta Trophy, Federation Cup, SM Arjuna Trophy, Todd Memorial Trophy, William Jones Cup, Bangalore Blues Challenge Cup, Nehru Cup, Federation Cup etc. Basalat Jha Trophy, Holkar Trophy, Ruia Gold Cup, Singhania Trophy, etc Ezra Cup, Gold Cup, King's Cup, Prithi Cup, Schneider Cup etc. Charminar Trophy, Federation Cup etc Jawaharlal Challenge Trophy, King's Cup, Schneider Cup etc Arthur Walker Trophy, Thomas Cup etc Aspy Adjahia Trophy, Federation Cup, Val Baker Trophy etc. Canada Cup, Eisenhower Trophy, Muthiah Gold Cup, Nomura Trophy, President's Trophy, Prince of Wales Cup, Ryder Cup, Solheim Cup, Topolino Trophy, Walker Cup, World Cup etc Naidu Trophy, Khaitan Trophy, Limca Trophy, Lin Arec City Trophy, World Cup, etc Beresford Cup, Blue Raiband Cup, Derby, Grand National Cup etc. Anantrao Pawar Trophy, etc Bledisloe Cup, Calcutta Cup, Webb Ellis Trophy, etc North Wales Cup, Welsh Grand Pix etc Centennial Cup, Federation Cup, Indira Pradhan Trophy, Shivanthi Gold Cup, etc America Cup, etc

Sports Baseball Polo Kho Kho Kabaddi Hockey Football Cricket Netball Volleyball Baminton/Tennis Baseketball

Number of Players 9 4 12 7 11 11 11 7 6 1 or 2 5

Sports Polo, Football, Hockey Sketing, Boxing Golf Swimming Karate Table Tennis Baseball Cricket Athletics Shooting, Archery Cycling 44 | P a g e

Fields Field Ring Course Pool Mat Board Diamond Pitch Track Range Vellodrome

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13 or 15

Tennis, Badminton, Net Ball, Volley Ball, Squash, Kho-Kho, Kabaddi

Court

Sports Related Terms Name Athletics

Badminton

Baseball

Basketball

Billiards

Boxing

Chess

Terms Baton,Bell lap,Cross country,Decathlon,Discus throw,False start,Field,Foul,Hammer Throw,Heptathlon,High Jump,Hurdles,Javelin,Lane,Lap,Long Jump,Marathon,Middle distance,Pole vault,Photo Finish,relay,Record,Shot put,Sprint,Starting blocks,steeplechase,Track,Track and field,Triple jump Alley, Back Alley, Base Position, Baseline, Center Line, Center Position, Divorce Area, Forecourt, Long Service Line, Service Court, Short Service Line, Side Alley, T (TJunction), Tape, Test Mark, Tramline,Angle of Attack, Angle Of Return, Attack, Back and Front, “Bird On”, “Clear”, Deception, Defense, Diagonal, Doubles, First Serve, Footwork, Free Point, Front and Back, Game Point, Hand In, Hand Out ,”Help”, “Hit”, Level Doubles, Match Point, Mixed Doubles, Offense, Patty-Cakes, Placement, Rally, Receiving Side, Rotation, Second Serve, Serving Side, Setup, Side by Side, “Sides” Singles, Unforced Error, “Touch”, Toss, “Up”,Ace, Air-Shot, Attacking Clear, Kill, Backhand, Block, Carry, Clear, Closed Face, Cross Court, Cut (Slice), Dab, Danish Wipe, Defensive Clear, Double Hit, Drive, Drive Serve, Drop, Drop Serve, Flick, Flick Serve, Forehand, Hairpin, Halfcourt Shot, Holding a Shot, Jump Smash, Lift, Lob, Long Serve, Net Shot, Offensive Clear, Open Face, Pace, Passing Shot, Pop-Up, Push Shot, Round-The-Head, Serve, Short Serve, Smash, Slice (Cut), Sling, Spin Serve, Stroke, Throw, Toss Serve, Wood Shot,Backhand Grip, Backswing, Balk, Dead Bird, Fault, Feint, Flexible Wrist, Flight, Follow-Through, Foot Fault, Forward Swing, Frying Pan Grip, Hammer Grip, Home, Let, Locked Wrist, Love (Luv), Lunge, Match, On-Guard Stance, , Player, Poaching, Rush A Serve, Setting, Stance, Straight Games, Sweetspot, Thumb-Up Grip, Tipping, Turnover, Waist Balk,Battery,Bunt,Change-up,Cleanup,Count,Diamond,Double Play,Error,Fly ball,Foul Ball,Full Count,Ground ball,Hit and run,Hit for the cycle,Lead Runner,Load the bases, On-deck,Pinch hitter,Pinch runner,Pitch around,Pitch out,Position Player,power hitter,Relay,Reliever or relief pitcher,Runners at the corners,Scoring position,Strike Zone,walk, assist,alley-oop,backboard,,buzzerbeater,cherry-picking,double,fast break,field goal,full court press,key,pick and roll,posting up,run-and-gun,sixth man,triple threat,turnover,hops,beat,dime,bounce,bounce pass,wing,downtown,tripledouble,strongside and weakside,elbow,baseline,brick,power dribble,chickenwing,draft,lay up,MVP,no look pass,overhead pass,slam dunk, Angle Shot ,Backspin ,Bank Shot,Bed of Table,Break Shot,Bridge ,Call Shot, Chalk,Clean the Table,Cue Ball,Curve Shot ,Cushion ,Diamonds,Foot Spot ,Frozen Ball , Head Spot ,Hug the Rail ,Jump Shot ,Leave,Open Table,Rack ,Run the Table ,Scratch,Shaft,Sharking,Sights,Slate,Snooker,Solids,Stripes,Cannon,Baulk,long jenny,short jenny,frame,spider,short and long rest, in-off Knock out, Round, Ring Stoppage, Punch, Upper-cut, Kidney punch, Timing, Footwork, technical knockout,sucker punch,standing eight count,southpaw,rabbit punch,parry,neutral corner,lowblow,knockdown,jab,hook,holding,headbutt,fist,cross,counterpunch,clinch,bout,block,bare-knuckled Gambit, stalemate, move, resign, checkmate, international master, Grand master ,accept,active defense,advantage,attack,back rank,backward pawn,badbishop,berserker,castle long,castle short,centre break,check,checkmate,chessmen,cross-check,double attack,double check,draw,knight on the rim,master,mate,minor piece,rank, 45 | P a g e

AC Static GK Capsule2016 Toss, Run, Wicket, Pitch, Stump, Bails, Crease, Pavilion, Gloves, Wicket Keeper, Over, Maiden over, Follow On, Rubber, Ashes, Catch, Bowled, Stump out, Run out, L. B. W; Hit Wicket, Not out, No ball, Wide ball, Dead ball, Over Throw, Bye, Leg by, Cover drive, Late cut, Hook, Glance, Stroke, Shot, Pull, Sixer, Follow Through, Turn, Googley, Spin, Yorker, Bouncer, Hattrick, Round the wicket, Over the wicket, Seamer, Boundary line, Slip, Square leg, Runner, Cover, Gully, Long on, Silly point, Midwicket, Mid on, Forward short leg, Deep/mid-wicket, etc. Sprint, Time trial, Point race, Track Race,attack,blocking,bonk,breakaway,bridge the Cycling gap,criterium,drafting,drop,field sprint,gap,jump,kick,hammering,take a flyer,stage race,pull off,pull,pull thorough,nep-pro,hook Goal, Kick, Head, Penalty kick, Dribble, Off side, Hattrick, Foul, Left out, Right out, Football Stopper, Defender, Move, Side Back, Pass, Baseline, Rebound, Comer bick, back pass,attacker,free kick,goal line,goal kick,kick off,midfielder,yellow card,wingers,volley ace, albatross, double eagle, all square, approach putt, apron, ball mark, ballooning, beach, Golf birdie, blind shot, bogey, bunker, caddy, chip, Claw grip, condor, dogleg, dub, flag, FourBall, Mulligan, off the deck, peg, sand trap, tee shot ,bail out,birdie,caddie,chop shot,divt,duffer,jungle,par,sand wedge,snake, Gymnastics Aerial, Back Handspring, Back Somersault, Double Back, Double Twist, Flyaway, Front Hip Pullover, Front Pike Somersault, Front Split, Front Walkover, Gienger, Handstand, Hip Circle, Miller, Pike, Rudi, Straddle, Swedish Fall, Tsukahara, Tuck, Whip Back Centre, defender, forward, half, penalty-stroke, penalty corner, push-in, free-hit, striking Hockey circle goal, goal-line, touch-line, goalkeeper, offside, foul, stick, carry, dribble, tiebreaker, trapping, etc Mallet, bunker, chukker, handicap, goal, sixty yarder, etc. Polo Bag, bull’s eye, marksmanship, plug, skeet Shooting Swimming Add Up, Anchor, Approved Meet, Backstroke, Banner, Beep, Bonus Heat, Bottom, Breaststroke, Bullpen, Bulletin, Cap, Carpool, Cards, Check-In, Check-Out, Course, Dryland, False Start, Freestyle, Gun Lap, Heats, Jump, Lane Lines, Paddle, Parka, Pool, Pull Buoy, Relays, Split, Stroke, Yardage etc. Backhand, Backspin, Block, Chop, Closed, Dead ball, Doubles, Drive, Drop shot, Expedite Table rule, Forehand, Inverted, Let, Lob, Long pips, Loop, Match, Medium-long, Open, Penhold, Tennis Pips-in, Pips-out, Push, Receive, Seemiller, Serve, Set, Shake Hands, Short, Sidespin, Skunk, Smash, Topspin etc. smash, cross-court, passing shot,backhand, forehand,slice, topspin,serve, drop shot, lob, Tennis down-the-line, deuce, tie-breaker, set, game, grand slam, ace, volley, etc. Assist, Attack, Attack line, Back row attack, Block, Block assist, Campfire defense, Carry, Volleyball Center line violation, Chester, Coach kill, Cover the hitter, Cut shot, Deep dish, Dig, Facial, Fish, Floater, Friendly fire, Free ball, Heat, Husband-and-wife-play, Jedi defense, Just, Jump serve, Kill, Kong, Line shot, Lollipop, Mintonette, Monument valley, Net violation, Paint brush, Pancake, Pepper, Prince/Princess of whales, Quick set, Rainbow, Red card, Redwood, Roof, Screening, Service ace, Set, Shank, Side out, Six-pack, Sizzle the pits, Spike, Strong side, Stuff, Tandem, Tip, Tool, Trap set, Tuna, Whale, Yellow card etc. Bulking, shredded, Six pack, Feeling the Burn, Power Rack, Smith Machine, Muscle Weight Memory, Pump and Toners, Cardio Bunny, Plateau, Vascularity, Supersets, Drop Lifting Sets/Strip Sets, Periodization, Pyramiding, Standard Plates and Bars etc. Freestyle, Hal Nelson, Point, Heave, etc. Wrestling Cricket

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MISCELLANEOUS Inventions & Inventors Invention Adding Machine Airplane Automobile Ballpoint Pen Barometer Bicycle Blood Groups

Inventor Pascal Wright Brothers Ferdinand Verbiest C. Biro E.Tprricelli K.Macmillan Karl Landsteiner

Bohr Boyle Computer Cosmic Rays Dalton Diesel Engine Dynamite Dynamo Electric Light Bulb Electricity Electromagnetic Field Electric Iron Electromagnet Electromagnetic Theory Electron Gramophone Geometry Insulin

Electron Theory Boyle’s Law Charles Babbage R.A. Millikan Atomic Theory Rudolf Diesel Alfred Nobel Michael Faraday Thomas Edison Benjamin Franklin James Clerk Maxwell H.W.Seeley W.Sturgeon Heinrich Hertz J.J. Thomson Thomas Alva Edison Euclid Frederick Banting

Jet Engine Law of Gases Lift

Sir Frank Whittle Gay Lussac E.G.Otis

Invention Magnetic Tape Microphone Microscope Motion of Planets Motor Car(Petrol) Neon Lamp Newtons Law of Motion Penicillin Periodic Table Photon Principle of relativity Quantum Mechanics Radio Radium Raman Effect Refrigerator Structure of Atom Telegraph Telephone Telescope Television Theory of Atom Theory of Relativity Thermometer Transformer and Electric Motor Type Writer Watch X-rays

Inventor Fritz Pfluemer Charles Wheatstone Z.Janssen Johannes Kepler Karl Benz G.Claude Galileo Galilei and Isaac Newton Sir Alexander Fleming Dmitri Mendeleev Albert Einstein Galileo Galilei Max Born Marconi Marie Curie Sir C.V. Raman J.Harrison and A. Catlin Ernest Rutherford Pavel Schilling Alexander Graham Bell Galileo J.L. Baird John Dalton Albert Einstein Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit Michael Faraday C.Sholes A.L.Breguet Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen

List of Important awards and their fields Name of the Award Nobel prize Grammy Awards Man Booker prize Tansen Award Pulitzer Prize Lenin Peace Prize Ashok Chakra Dhanvantri Award Kalinga Lalit Kala Akademi Award Kalidas Samman Magsaysay

Field Peace, Literature, Economics, Physics, Chemistry, Medical science Music Authors of Novels Music Journalism and Literature Peace and Friendship Civilians Medical Sciences Science Arts Classical Music, Classical Dance and Arts Public Service, Leadership, Journalism, Literature 47 | P a g e

AC Static GK Capsule2016 Bowelay Award Sangeet - Natak Akademi Award Merlin Dhanwantri Shaurya Chakra Param Vir Chakra Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award Sahitya Akademi Award Bhatnagar Juliet Curie Award R.D. Birla Award Right Livelihood Award Abel Bhartiya Jnanpeeth Award Vyas Samman Bharat ratna Sahitya Akademi Award Oscar Awards BAFTA Awards Dada sahib Phalke Ekalavya Award Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Arjuna Award: Dhyan Chand Dronacharya Award Kolanka Cup Ekalavya Award

and creative arts and international understanding Agriculture Music, dance and Drama Magic Medical science Civilian or Military Personnel Military Science and Technology Literary Science Peace Medical sciences Field of environment and social justics Maths Literary Literature Art, Science, Public services, Sports Books in Indian Languages and Ebnglish Film Television, Films, Video Games and Animation Film Sports Sports Sports Sports Sports Sports Sports

Agricultural Revolutions Protein revoultion - higher productivity(Techonology driven 2nd green revolution)-coined by – Modi & Arun jaitely Green Revolution-Food grains Green revolution "word" COINED by " william s.goud" - UK White Revolution or Operation Flood-Milk production-"VARGHESE KURIEN " Yellow Revolution-Oil Seeds production-" Sam Pitroda Black Revolution-Petroleum Production Blue Revolution-Fish Production-"DR.ARUN KRISHNAN". Brown Revolution-Leather/non-conventional(India)/Cocoa production Golden Fiber Revolution-Jute Production Golden Revolution-Fruits/Horticulture development/Honey Production--"NIRPAKH TUTEJ" Grey Revolution-Fertilizer Pink Revolution-Onion production/Pharmaceutical (India)/Prawn production--"DURGESH PATEL" Father Of Induced Breeding -"PROF.HIRLAL CHAUDRI" Red Revolution - Meat & Tomato Production -"VISHAL TEWARI" Round Revolution-Potato Silver Fiber Revolution–Cotton Silver Revolution-Egg/Poultry Production-"INDIRA GANDHI" Evergreen Revolution-Overall development of Agriculture--Started in 11th plan (2007-2012) 48 | P a g e

AC Static GK Capsule2016 Father of Telecom revolution - sampitroda Father of poultry revolution - B.V.RAO

Fathers of Various Fields Name of the Father Father of Physics Father of Zoology Father of Law Father of Statistics Father of Modern Father of Biology Father of Homeopathy Father of History Father of Electricity Father of the Indian Father of Algebra Father of Geometry Father of Internet Father of Medicine Father of Robotics Father of Robotics Father of Microbiology

Name of the Field Albert Einstein Aristotle Cicero Ronald Fisher Antoine Lavoisier Aristotle Samuel Hahnemann Herodotus Benjamin Franklin Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Diophantus Euclid Vinton Cerf Hippocrates Al-Jazari Nikola Tesla Louis Pasteur

Name of the Father Father of Ayurveda Father of Botany Father of Blood groups Father of Video game Father of Trigonometry Father of Taxonomy Father of the Green Father of Mathematics Father of Electronics Father of Search engine Father of the Green Father of Economics Father of Nanotechnology Father of C language Father of Architecture Father of Surgery (early) Father of Periodic table

Name of the Field Charaka Theophrastus Landsteiner Thomas T. Goldsmith, Jr. Hipparchus Carolus Linnaeus Norman Ernest Borlaug Archimedes Ray Tomlinson Alan Emtage M.S Swaminathan Adam Smith Richard Smalley Dennis Ritchie Imhotep Sushruta Dmitri Mendelee

Some Famous Companies Companies Name Airbus Posco Boeing Fiat Nissan Toyta Honda BMW Audi Volkswagon Hyundai Ford Suzaki Renault Volvo Ashoka Leyland Samsung Hitachi LG Whirlpool Ericssion Nokia Motorola Vodaphone Barclays Bank Deutsche Bank Goldman Sachs

HQ France(Aircraft Manufacturer) South korea (Steel company) USA (Aircraft) Italy (Automobiles) Japan (Automobiles) Japan (Automobiles) Japan (Automobiles) Germany(Automobiles) Germany (Automobiles) Germany(Automobiles) South korea(Automobiles) USA(Automobiles) Japan(Automobiles) France(Automobiles) Sweedon(Automobiles) India South korea( Electronics and electrical) Japan ( Electrical Appliances) South Korea( Electronics and electrical) USA ( Electrical Appliances) Swedon (Telecom) Finland (Telecom) USA (Telecom) Uk,Britain (Telecom) UK (Finance) Germany(Finance) USA (Finance) 49 | P a g e

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Ireland (IT) India (IT) India (IT) India (IT) USA (Electronic Appliances) USA (IT Services) USA (IT Services) Japan (Electronic Appliances) USA (Hardware)

Important Days Date Jan 4 Jan 10

January Day Observed World Braille Day World Hindi Day

Date Feb 1 Feb 2

Jan 12

National Youth Day

Feb 6

Jan 15

Feb 10 Feb 13

World Radio Day

Feb 20

World Day of Social Justice

Feb 21

International Mother Language Day

Feb 22

World Thinking day

Jan 30 Jan 31

Indian Army Day Rashtriya Balika Diwas/National Girl Child Day World Leprosy Day National Tourism Day National Voter Day Indian Republic day International Customs Day International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust Martyrs’ Day World Leprosy Eradication Day

February Day Observed Indian Coast Guard Day World Wetlands Day International Day of Zero Tolerance to Female Genital Mutilation National Deworming Day

Feb 24 Feb 27

Central Excise Day International Polar Bear Day

Date Mar 1

March Day Observed Zero Discrimination Day

Jan 24 Jan 25 Jan 26 Jan 27

Mar 3

World Wildlife Day National Defence Day

Apr 4

Mar 4

National Security Day

Apr 6

Mar 8

International Women's Day Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) Raising Day, World Kidney Day World Consumer Rights Day World Contact Day National Ordinance Factories Day International Day of Happiness World Day of Theatre for Children and Young People World sparrow day

Apr 7

April Day Observed World Autism Awareness Day International Day for Mine Awareness and Assistance in Mine Action World Rat Day International Pillow Fight Day International Day of Sport for Development and Peace World Health Day

Apr 12

World Aviation and Cosmonautics Day

Apr 17

World Haemophilia Day

Apr 18

World Heritage Day

Apr 20

United Nations Chinese Language Day

Mar 10 Mar 15 Mar 18 Mar 20

Date Apr 2

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AC Static GK Capsule2016 International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination World Poetry Day Mar 21 International Day of Nowruz World Down Syndrome Day International Day of Forests Mar 22 World Water Day Mar 23 World Meteorological Day

Mar 24

Mar 25

Mar 27 Mar 21 -27

World Tuberculosis Day International Day for the Right to the Truth concerning Gross Human Rights Violations and for the Dignity of Victims International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade International Day of Solidarity with Detained and Missing Staff Members World Theatre Day World Drama day Week of Solidarity with the Peoples Struggling against Racism and Racial Discrimination

Apr 22

World Earth Day

Apr 23

World Book and Copyright Day World Day for Animals in Laboratories National Panchayati Day

Apr 24

Apr 25

World Malaria Day

Apr 26

World Intellectual Property Day

Apr 28 Apr 29

Date

May Day Observed

Date

May 1

International Labour Day

June 1

World Naked Gardening Day World Press Freedom Day May 3 World Laughter Day International Energy Day May 4 International Firefighters' Day International Midwives' Day May 5 World Asthma Day World Red Cross Day May 8 World Thalassaemia Day World Migratory Bird Day May 9 World Fair Trade Day May 10 Mother's Day May 11 National Technology Day May 12 International Nurses Day May 2

June 2

June Day Observed Global Day of Parents World Milk Day International Sex Workers Day

June 4

International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression

June 5

World Environment Day

June 7

Cancer Survivors Day

June 8

World Oceans Day

June 12

World Day Against Child Labour

June 13 June 14 June 15

International Albinism Awareness Day World Blood Donor Day World Elder Abuse Awareness Day World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought

May 15 International Day of Families World Telecommunication and May 17 Information Society Day World Hypertension Day World Day for Cultural Diversity for May 21 Dialogue and Development Anti Terrorism Day

World Day for Safety and Health at Work Day of Remembrance for all Victims of Chemical Warfare International Dance Day

June 17 International Criminal Court Day

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World Refugee Day

AC Static GK Capsule2016 International Day for Biological Diversity International Day to End Obstetric May 23 Fistula World Turtle Day May 22

June 26

International Day of Yoga World Music Day Public Service Day International Widows' Day International Olympic Day International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking

June 29

International Day in Support of Victims of Torture National Statistics Day

June 21 June 23

May 25 World Children’s Missing Day May 29 International Day of UN Peacekeepers May 31 World No-Tobacco Day

Date July 1 July 2 July 6

July Day Observed National Doctor's Day International Day of Cooperatives International Kissing Day

Date Aug 1 Aug 6 Aug 7

July 7

Global Forgiveness Day

Aug 9

July 11 July 12 July 15

World Population Day World Malala day World Youth Skills Day

Aug 12 Aug 14 Aug 15

July 17

International Justice Day

Aug 19

July 18

Nelson Mandela International Day

Aug 20 Aug 26

July 28

World Hepatitis Day World Nature conservation day

Aug 29

July 29

World Tiger Day

Aug 30

Date Sep 2

September Day Observed World Coconut Day

Sep 5 Sep 8 Sep 10 Sep 12 Sep 15

Date Oct 1

International Day of Charity National Teacher’s Day

Oct 2

International Literacy Day World First Aid Day United Nations Day for South-South Cooperation International Day of Democracy

Oct 3 Oct 4 Oct 5 Oct 8

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August Day Observed World Breastfeeding Day Hiroshima Day National Handloom Day International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples Nagasaki Peace Day Kranti Diwas (Quit India Movement Day) International Youth Day Pakistan Independence Day Indian Independence Day World Humanitarian Day World Photography Day World Mosquito Day Women's Equality Day International Day against Nuclear Tests National Sports Day Sanskrit Day International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances Small Industry Day

October Day Observed International Day of Older Persons International Day of Non-Violence World Farm Animals Day World Smile Day World Nature Day,World Habitat Day World Animal Day World Teachers’ Day, World Architecture Day National Air force Day

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Sep 16

Engineers Day International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer

World Sight Day Oct 9

Sep 18

Biosphere Day

Oct 10

Sep 21

International Day of Peace World Alzheimer's Day

Oct 11 Oct 12

Sep 22

World Car Free Day

Oct 13

Sep 25

World deaf day

Oct 14

Sep 26

International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons

Oct 15

Sep 27

World Tourism Day

Oct 16

World Deaf Day

Oct 20

Sep 28

World Rapies Day

Oct 22

Sep 29

World Heart Day,

Oct 24

World Maritime Day

Oct 30

Sep 30

International Translation Day

Oct 31

Date Nov 1

November Day Observed World Vegan Day

Date Dec 1

Nov 2

International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists

Dec 2

Nov 5

World Radiography day World Tsunami Awareness Day

Dec 3

Nov 6

International Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in War and Armed Conflict

Dec 4

Nov 8

World services day

Dec 5

Nov 9

Legal Service Day World Orphans Day (Second Monday of Nov)

Dec 7

Nov 10

World Science Day for Peace and Development

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World Post Day World Mental Health Day National Postal Day International Day of the Girl Child World Arthritis day International Day for Disaster Reduction World Calamity Control Day World Standards Day World Maths Day International Day of Rural Women Global Handwashing Day World White cane day World Food Day International Day for the Eradication of Poverty World Statistics Day World Osteoporosis Day World Energy Day United Nations Day World Thrift Day World Cities Day World Savings Day

December Day Observed World AIDS Day International Day for the Abolition of Slavery World Pollution Prevention Day World Computer literacy day International Day of Persons with Disabilities World Disabled Day Indian Navy Day International Volunteer Day for Economic and Social Development World Soil Day International Civil Aviation Day World Choral Day National Armed Forces Flag Day International Day of Commemoration and Dignity of the Victims of the Crime of Genocide and of the Prevention of this Crime

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Nov 20

Nov 21 Nov 25 Nov 26 Nov 29

World Pneumonia Day World Diabetes Day National Children's Day World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims International Day for Tolerance World Student day National Journalism day, World Philosophy Day World Adult day World Toilet Day World Citizen day National Integration Day - India (Indira Gandhi's birthday) Universal Children’s Day World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victim

International Anti-Corruption Day Human Rights Day International Mountain Day UNICEF Day

Dec 10 Dec 11

World Television Day World Hello Day International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women National Constitution Day International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People

Dec 14

National Energy Conservation Day

Dec 15

International Tea Day

Dec 17

International Day Against Violence Against Sex Workers

Dec 18

International Migrants Day

Dec 19

Goa’s Libration Day

Dec 20

International Human Solidarity Day

Dec 23

Kisan Divas (Ch. Charan Singh's Birth Anniversary) (Farmer's Day)

Dec 25

National Good Governance Day

Nov 5

World Tsunami Awareness Day

Country-Currency-Capital Country Afghanistan Albania Algeria Andorra Angola Antigua and Barbuda Argentina Armenia Australia Austria Azerbaijan The Bahamas Bahrain Bangladesh Barbados Belarus Belgium Belize Benin Bhutan Bolivia Bosnia and Herzegovina

Currency Afghani Lek Dinar Euro New Kwanza East Caribbean dollar Peso Dram Australian dollar Euro Manat Bahamian dollar Bahrain dinar Taka Barbados dollar Belorussian ruble Euro Belize dollar CFA Franc Ngultrum Boliviano Marka 54 | P a g e

Capital Kabul Tirane Algiers Andorra la Vella Luanda Saint John's Buenos Aires Yerevan Canberra Vienna Baku Nassau Manama Dhaka Bridgetown Minsk Brussels Belmopan Porto-Novo Thimphu La Paz (administrative); Sucre (judicial) Sarajevo

AC Static GK Capsule2016 Botswana Brazil Brunei Bulgaria Burkina Faso Burundi Cambodia Cameroon Canada Cape Verde Central African Republic Chad Chile China Colombia Comoros Congo, Republic of the CFA Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congolese Costa Rica Cote d'Ivoire

Pula Real Brunei dollar Lev CFA Franc Burundi franc Riel CFA Franc Canadian dollar Cape Verdean escudo CFA Franc CFA Franc Chilean Peso Yuan/Renminbi Colombian Peso Franc Franc Franc

Gaborone Brasilia Bandar Seri Begawan Sofia Ouagadougou Bujumbura Phnom Penh Yaounde Ottawa Praia Bangui N'Djamena Santiago Beijing Bogota Moroni Brazzaville Kinshasa

Colón CFA Franc

Croatia Cuba Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark Djibouti Dominica Dominican Republic East Timor (Timor-Leste) Ecuador Egypt El Salvador Equatorial Guinea Eritrea Estonia Ethiopia Fiji Finland France Gabon The Gambia Georgia Germany Ghana Greece Grenada Guatemala Guinea Guinea-Bissau Guyana

Kuna Cuban Peso Cyprus pound Koruna Krone Djibouti franc EastCaribbeandollar Dominican Peso U.S. dollar U.S. dollar Egyptian pound Colón; U.S. dollar CFA Franc Nakfa Kroon Birr Fiji dollar Euro (formerly markka) Euro (formerly French franc) CFA Franc Dalasi Lari Euro (formerlyDeutschemark) Cedi Euro (formerlydrachma) East Caribbean dollar Quetzal Guinean franc CFA Franc Guyanese dollar

San Jose Yamoussoukro (official); Abidjan (de facto) Zagreb Havana Nicosia Prague Copenhagen Djibouti Roseau Santo Domingo Dili Quito Cairo San Salvador Malabo Asmara Tallinn Addis Ababa Suva Helsinki Paris Libreville Banjul Tbilisi Berlin Accra Athens Saint George's Guatemala City Conakry Bissau Georgetown

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Gourde Lempira Forint Icelandic króna Rupee Rupiah Rial Iraqi Dinar Euro (formerly Irish pound Shekel Euro (formerly known as lira) Jamaican dollar Yen Jordanian dinar Tenge Kenya shilling Australian dollar Won Won Euro (German Mark prior to 2002) Kuwaiti dinar Som New Kip Lats Lebanese pound Loti Liberian dollar Libyan dinar Swiss franc Litas Euro (formerly Luxembourg Denar Ariary Kwacha Ringgit Rufiya CFA Franc Maltese lira U.S. Dollar Ouguiya Mauritian rupee Mexican peso U.S. Dollar Leu Euro Tugrik Euro Dirham Metical Kyat

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Port-au-Prince Tegucigalpa Budapest Reykjavik New Delhi Jakarta Tehran Baghdad Dublin Jerusalem Rome Kingston Tokyo Amman Astana Nairobi Tarawa Atoll Pyongyang Seoul Pristina Kuwait City Bishkek Vientiane Riga Beirut Maseru Monrovia Tripoli Vaduz Vilnius Luxembourg Skopje Antananarivo Lilongwe Kuala Lumpur Male Bamako Valletta Majuro Nouakchott Port Louis Mexico City Palikir Chisinau Monaco Ulaanbaatar Podgorica Rabat Maputo Rangoon (Yangon); Naypyidaw or Nay Pyi Taw (administrative)

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Namibian dollar Australian dollar

Nepal Netherlands New Zealand Nicaragua Niger Nigeria Norway Oman Pakistan Palau Panama Papua New Guinea Paraguay Peru Philippines Poland Portugal Qatar Romania Russia Rwanda Saint Kitts and Nevis Saint Lucia Saint Vincent and the Samoa San Marino Sao Tome and Principe Saudi Arabia Senegal Serbia Seychelles Sierra Leone Singapore Slovakia Slovenia Solomon Islands Somalia South Africa

Nepalese rupee Euro (formerly guilder) New Zealand dollar Gold cordoba CFA Franc Naira Norwegian krone Omani rial Pakistani rupee U.S. dollar balboa; U.S. dollar Kina Guaraní Nuevo sol (1991) Peso Zloty Euro (formerly escudo) Qatari riyal Leu Ruble Rwanda franc East Caribbean dollar East Caribbean dollar East Caribbean dollar Tala Euro Dobra Riyal CFA Franc Yugoslav new dinar Seychelles rupee Leone Singapore dollar Koruna Slovenian tolar Solomon Islands dollar Somali shilling Rand

South Sudan Spain Sri Lanka

Sudanese Pound Euro (formerly peseta) Sri Lanka rupee

Sudan Suriname Swaziland Sweden Switzerland Syria

Dinar Surinamese dollar Lilangeni Krona Swiss franc Syrian pound 57 | P a g e

Windhoek No official capital; government offices in Yaren District Kathmandu Amsterdam; The Hague Wellington Managua Niamey Abuja Oslo Muscat Islamabad Ngerulmud Panama City Port Moresby Asuncion Lima Manila Warsaw Lisbon Doha Bucharest Moscow Kigali Basseterre Castries Kingstown Apia San Marino Sao Tome Riyadh Dakar Belgrade Victoria Freetown Singapore Bratislava Ljubljana Honiara Mogadishu Pretoria (administrative); Cape Town (legislative); Bloemfontein (judiciary) Juba Madrid Colombo,Jayewardenepura Kotte (legislative) Khartoum Paramaribo Mbabane Stockholm Bern Damascus

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Taipei Dushanbe Dar es Salaam; Dodoma (legislative) Bangkok Lome Nuku'alofa Port-of-Spain Tunis Ankara Ashgabat Funafuti province Kampala Kyyiv Abu Dhabi London Washington D.C. Montevideo Tashkent Port-Vila Vatican City Caracas Hanoi Sanaa Lusaka Harare

List of Bird Sanctuaries in India Name

State

Atapaka Bird Sanctuary Nelapattu Bird Sanctuary Pulicat Lake Bird Sanctuary Sri Peninsula Narasimha Wildlife Sanctuary Uppalapadu Bird Sanctuary Najafgarh drain bird sanctuary Salim Ali Bird Sanctuary Gaga Wildlife Sanctuary Khijadiya Bird Sanctuary Kutch Bustard Sanctuary Nal Sarovar Bird Sanctuary Porbandar Bird Sanctuary Thol Lake Bhindawas Wildlife Sanctuary Khaparwas Wildlife Sanctuary Gamgul Attiveri Bird Sanctuary Bankapura Bankapura Peacock Sanctuary Bonal Bird Sanctuary Gudavi Bird Sanctuary Kaggaladu Kaggaladu Bird Sanctuary 58 | P a g e

Andhra Pradesh

Delhi Goa

Gujarat

Haryana Himachal Pradesh

Karnataka

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Kerala

Maharashtra Mizoram Odisha Rajasthan

Tamil Nadu

Uttar Pradesh

West Bengal

List of Wild Life Sanctuaries Andaman and Nicobar Islands

Andhra Pradesh

Spike Island Wildlife Sanctuary Lohabarrack Salt Water Crocodile Sanctuary Defence Island Wildlife Sanctuary Cinque Island Wildlife Sanctuary Flat Island Wildlife Sanctuary Barren Island Wildlife Sanctuary Nelapattu Bird Sanctuary Nagarjunsagar-Srisailam Tiger Reserve Gundla Brahmeswaram Wildlife Sanctuary Rollapadu Wildlife Sanctuary Papikonda Wildlife Sanctuary Sri Venkateswara National Park Pulicat Lake Bird Sanctuary Sri Lankamalleswara Wildlife Sanctuary Koundinya Wildlife Sanctuary Coringa Wildlife Sanctuary Krishna Wildlife Sanctuary 59 | P a g e

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Arunachal Pradesh

Assam

Bihar

Chhattisgarh

Goa Gujarat

Himachal Pradesh

Lanjamadugu Wildlife Sanctuary Kambalakonda Wildlife Sanctuary Pakhui Tiger Reserve Dibang Wildlife Sanctuary Kamlang Wildlife Sanctuary Mehao Wildlife Sanctuary Eaglenest Wildlife Sanctuary Itanagar Wildlife Sanctuary Sessa Orchid Sanctuary Kane Wildlife Sanctuary Talley Valley Wildlife Sanctuary Kaziranga National Park Bornadi Wildlife Sanctuary Garampani Wildlife Sanctuary Hoollongapar Gibbon Sanctuary Manas National Park Sonai Rupai Wildlife Sanctuary Nameri National Park Orang National Park Laokhowa Wildlife Sanctuary Pabha Wildlife Sanctuary Pobitora Wildlife Sanctuary Kaimur Wildlife Sanctuary Bhimbandh Wildlife Sanctuary Valmikinagar Wildlife Sanctuary Gautam Buddha Wildlife Sanctuary Chandra Prabha Sanctuary chanakmar Wildlife Sanctuary Bhairamgarh Wildlife Sanctuary Barnawapara Wildlife Sanctuary Udanti Wildlife Sanctuary Semarsot Wildlife Sanctuary Sitanadi Wildlife Sanctuary Tamor Pingla Wildlife Sanctuary Pamed Wildlife Sanctuary Badalkohl Wildlife Sanctuary Gomarda Reserve Forest Bondla Wildlife Sanctuary Salim Ali Bird Sanctuary Shoolpaneshwar Wildlife Sanctuary Balaram-Ambaji Wildlife Sanctuary Kutch Desert Wildlife Sanctuary Indian Wild Ass Sanctuary Gir Forest National Park Narayan Sarovar Sanctuary Marine National Park, Gulf of Kutch Barda Wildlife Sanctuary Thol Bird Sanctuary Rupi Bhabha Sanctuary Sechu Tuan Nala Wildlife Sanctuary Tundah Wildlife Sanctuary Kugti Wildlife Sanctuary Pong Dam Sanctuary 60 | P a g e

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Jharkhand Karnataka

Kerala

Madhya Pradesh

Nargu Wildlife Sanctuary Bandli Himachal Pradesh Gobind Sagar & Naina Devi Manali sanctuary Karakoram Wildlife Sanctuary Kanji Wildlife Sanctuary Hirpora Wildlife Sanctuary Changtang Wildlife Sanctuary Palamau Tiger Reserve Dalma Wildlife Sanctuary Mookambika Wildlife Sanctuary Nugu Wildlife Sanctuary Ghataprabha Bird Sanctuary Arabithittu Wildlife Sanctuary Adichunchanagiri Wildlife Sanctuary Bhadra Wildlife Sanctuary Bhimgad Wildlife Sanctuary Biligiriranga Swamy Temple Wildlife Sanctuary Brahmagiri Wildlife Sanctuary Cauvery Wildlife Sanctuary Dandeli Wildlife Sanctuary Gudavi Bird Sanctuary Mandagadde Bird Sanctuary Melukote Temple Wildlife Sanctuary Pushpagiri Wildlife Sanctuary Ranganthittu Bird Sanctuary Ranibennur Blackbuck Sanctuary Sharavathi Valley Wildlife Sanctuary Shettihalli Wildlife Sanctuary Someshwara Wildlife Sanctuary Talakaveri Wildlife Sanctuary Periyar National Park Parambikulam Wildlife Sanctuary Peechi-Vazhani Wildlife Sanctuary Chimmony Wildlife sanctuary Thattekkad Bird Sanctuary Malabar Wildlife Sanctuary Bori Wildlife Sanctuary Bagdara Wildlife Sanctuary Phen Sanctuary Ghatigaon Sanctuary Gandhi Sagar Sanctuary Karera Wildlife Sanctuary Ken Ghariyal Sanctuary Kheoni Sanctuary Narsinghgarh Wildlife Sanctuary Nauradehi Wildlife Sanctuary Kuno Wildlife Sanctuary Ratapani Tiger Reserve Snajay-Dubri Wildlife Sanctuary Singhori Wildlife Sanctuary Son Ghariyal Sanctuary 61 | P a g e

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Mizoram Odisha

Rajasthan

Sikkim

Tamil Nadu

Telangana

Tripura Uttar Pradesh

Sardarpur Sanctuary Tadoba Andhari Tiger Project Koyna Wildlife Sanctuary Radhanagari Wildlife Sanctuary Great Indian Bustard Sanctuary Chandoli National Park Gautala Autramghat Sanctuary Phansad Wildlife Sanctuary Dampa Tiger Reserve Badrama Sanctuary Baisipalli Wildlife Sanctuary Chilika Bird Sanctuary Nalbana Bird Sanctuary Debrigarh Wildlife Sanctuary Kuldiha Wildlife Sanctuary Satkosia Gorge Wildlife Sanctuary Simlipal National Park Sunabeda Wildlife Sanctuary Mount Abu Wildlife Sanctuary Darrah Wildlife Sanctuary Jaswant Sagar Wildlife Sanctuary Keladevi Wildlife Sanctuary Phulwari Wildlife Sanctuary Jamwa Ramgarh Wildlife Sanctuary Ramgarh Vishdhari Wildlife Sanctuary Sariska Tiger Reserve Sita Mata Wildlife Sanctuary Tal Chhapar Sanctuary Todgarh Rawali Wildlife Sanctuary Barsey Rhododendron Sanctuary Pangolakha Wildlife Sanctuary Kyongnosla Alpine Sanctuary Shingba Rhododendron Kalakkad Mundanthurai Tiger Reserve Mudumalai National Park Pulicat Lake Bird Sanctuary Sathyamangalam Wildlife Sanctuary Shenbagathoppu Grizzled Squirrel Wildlife Sanctuary Eturnagaram Wildlife Sanctuary Kawal Wildlife Sanctuary Kinnerasani Wildlife Sanctuary Manjira Wildlife Sanctuary Pakhal Wildlife Sanctuary Pocharam Forest & Wildlife Sanctuary Pranahita Wildlife Sanctuary Shivaram Wildlife Sanctuary Gumti Wildlife Sanctuary Asan Bradge Bird Watching Chandra Prabha Sanctuary Kaimoor Sanctuary Katarniaghat Wildlife Sanctuary Ranipur Sanctuary 62 | P a g e

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Uttarakhand

West Bengal

Name

List of Museums in India Location State

Anthropological Museum Samudrika (Naval Marine Museum) Bhagwan Mahavir Government Museum INS Kursura Victoria Jubilee Museum Visakha Museum(Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation Museum) Salar Jung Museum Birla Science Museum Nizam Museum AP State Archaeology Museum or Hyderabad Museum Jawaharlal Nehru Museum

Port Blair Delanipur Kadapa Visakhapatnam Vijayawada Visakhapatnam

Andaman and Nicobar Islands

Itanagar

Arunachal Pradesh

Assam State Museum, Mayong Central Museum and Emporium Srimanta Sankaradeva Kalakshetra Patna Museum Bihar Museum Gandhi Smriti Sangrahalaya Gaya Museum Maharaja Lakshmeshwar Singh Museum Chandra Shekhar Singh Museum Srikrishna Science Centre Bihar Police Museum Rajendra Smriti Sangrahalaya (Rajendra Memorial Museum) Government Museum and Art Gallery International Dolls Museum Museum of Evolution of Life Indian Air Force Museum Eternal Gandhi Multimedia Museum

Guwahati Mayong

Assam

Andhra Pradesh

Darushifa Hyderabad Hyderabad Hyderabad

Guwahati Patna Patna Bhitiharwa Gaya Darbhanga Jamui Patna Patna Patna Chandigarh Chandigarh Chandigarh Palam, Delhi New Delhi 63 | P a g e

Bihar

Chandigarh

New Delhi

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New Delhi New Delhi New Delhi New Delhi New Delhi New Delhi Delhi New Delhi New Delhi New Delhi Delhi Delhi Benaulim Panaji Panaji Vasco da Gama Vadodara Ahmedabad Ahmedabad Ahmedabad Ahmedabad Rajkot Porbandar Bhuj Vadodara Ahmedabad Ahmedabad Ahmedabad Ahmedabad Rajkot Kurukshetra University Dharamsala Saketi Kargil Jammu Ranchi Jharkhand Bangalore Bangalore Bangalore Bangalore Bangalore Mysore Mysore Mysore Mysore Shivamogga 64 | P a g e

Goa

Gujarat

Haryana Himachal Pradesh Jammu and Kashmir

Jharkhand Karnataka

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Ayikkara Nilambur Kollam

Kerala

Kayamkulam Kochi Thrissur Thrissur Thrissur Thrissur Kozhikode Thiruvananthapuram Thiruvananthapuram Kozhikode Ambalavayal Thrippunithura Bhopal Madhya Pradesh Bhopal Bhopal Indore Bhopal Dhubela Jabalpur Mumbai

Maharashtra

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Manipur Mizoram Odisha Punjab

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Sanghol Balongi Jaipur Jaipur Jaipur Ajmer Udaipur Bharatpur Alwar Jodhpur Jodhpur Jodhpur Gangtok Madurai Coimbatore Chennai Karur Cuddalore Pudukkottai Erode Chennai Tiruchirappalli Tiruchirappalli Mahbubnagar Hyderabad Hyderabad Darushifa Agartala Allahabad Kanpur Mathura Varanasi Jhansi Allahabad Kolkata

Rajasthan

Sikkim Tamil Nadu

Telangana

Tripura Uttar Pradesh

West Bengal

Kolkata Kolkata English Bazar Kalimpong Kolkata Kolkata Kolkata

State

Location

Important Palaces in India Palace Name

Assam Bihar

Gurugram Madhubani

Ahom Raja’s Palace Navlakha Palace 66 | P a g e

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Jammu & Kashmir Karnataka Kerala

Madhya Pradesh Maharashtra

Manipur Orissa Punjab Rajasthan

Tamilnadu Telengana Tripura West Bengal

Darbhanga Jagdalpur Kawardha Kanker Ladakh

Nargona Palace Bastar Palace Kawardha Palace Kanker Palace Leh Palace

Jammu Mysore Trivandrum Kochi Thrissur Gwalior Kolhapur Pune Pune Aurangabad Ahmednagar Imphal Gaja Pati Amrit Star Jaipur Jodhpur Udaipur

Mubarak Mandi Palace, Amar Mahal Palace Jagan Mohan Palace, Mysore Palace Kowdiar Palace Bolgatty Palace Shakthan Thampuran Palace Jai Vilas Shalini Palace Lal Mahal (Red Palace) Aga Khan Palace Naukhanda Palace Farah Bagh Palace Kangla Palace Brundaban Palace Maharaja Ranjit Singh Palace Rambagh Palace Umaid Bhawan Lake Palace, Monsoon Palce(Sajjan Garh Palace), Shiv Niwas Palace Bharatpur Laxmi Vilas Bikaner Lalgarh Palace Kanyakumari Padmanabhapuram Palace Hyderabad King Kothi Palace, Falaknuma Palace, Chowmahalla Palace Agartala Ujjayanta Palace, Kunjaban Palace Melaghar Neer Mahal(Water Palace) Kolkatta Marble Palace

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List of Countries Central Banks Central Bank Bank Of Afghanistan Bank Of Albania Bank Of Algeria National Bank Of Angola Central Bank Of Argentina Eastern Caribbean Central Bank Eastern Caribbean Central Bank Central Bank Of Armenia Central Bank Of Aruba Reserve Bank Of Australia European Central Bank Central Bank Of The Rep. Of Azerbaijan Central Bank Of The Bahamas Central Bank Of Bahrain Bangladesh Bank Central Bank Of Barbados National Bank Of The Rep. Of Belarus 67 | P a g e

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European Central Bank Central Bank Of Belize Central Bank Of West African States Bermuda Monetary Authority Royal Monetary Authority Of Bhutan Central Bank Of Bolivia Central Bank Of Bosnia & Herzegovina Bank Of Botswana Central Bank Of Brazil Bulgarian National Bank Central Bank Of West African States Bank Of The Rep. Of Burundi National Bank Of Cambodia Bank Of Central African States Bank Of Canada Cayman Islands Monetary Authority Bank Of Cape Verde Bank Of Central African States Bank Of Central African States Central Bank Of Chile People’s Bank Of China Central Bank Of Colombia Eastern Caribbean Central Bank Bank Of Central African States Central Bank Of Congo Central Bank Of Costa Rica Croatian National Bank Central Bank Of Cuba Central Bank Of Curacao And St. Maarten European Central Bank Czech National Bank National Bank Of Denmark Central Bank Of The Dominican Rep. Central Bank Of Ecuador Central Bank Of Egypt Central Reserve Bank Of El Salvador Bank Of Central African States European Central Bank National Bank Of Ethiopia Reserve Bank Of Fiji European Central Bank European Central Bank Bank Of Central African States Central Bank Of The Gambia National Bank Of Georgia European Central Bank Bank Of Ghana Henry European Central Bank Eastern Caribbean Central Bank Bank Of Guatemala Central Bank Of The Rep. Of Guinea 68 | P a g e

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Central Bank Of West African States Bank Of Guyana Bank Of The Republic Of Haiti Central Bank Of Honduras Hong Kong Monetary Authority Central Bank Of Hungary Central Bank Of Iceland Reserve Bank Of India Bank Indonesia Central Bank Of Islamic Rep. Of Iran Central Bank Of Iraq European Central Bank Bank Of Israel European Central Bank Central Bank Of West African States Bank Of Jamaica Bank Of Japan Central Bank Of Jordan National Bank Of Kazakhstan Central Bank Of Kenya Bank Of Korea Central Bank Of The Republic Of Kozovo Central Bank Of Kuwait National Bank Of The Kyrgyz Repl.Abdygulo Bank Of Latvia Bank Of The Lao Central Bank Of Lebanon Central Bank Of Lesotho Central Bank Of Liberia Central Bank Of Libya Bank Of Lithuania European Central Bank Monetary Authority Of Macao National Bank Of The Rep. Of Macedonia Central Bank Of Madagascar Reserve Bank Of Malawi Bank Negara Malaysia Maldives Monetary Authority Central Bank Of West African States European Central Bank Central Bank Of Mauritania Central Bank Of Mauritius Bank Of Mexico National Bank Of Moldova Bank Of Mongolia Central Bank Of Montenegro Eastern Caribbean Central Bank Bank Of Morocco Bank Of Mozambique Central Bank Of Myanmar Bank Of Namibia 69 | P a g e

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European Central Bank Reserve Bank Of New Zealand Central Bank Of Nicaragua Central Bank Of West African States Central Bank Of Nigeria Norges Bank Central Bank Of Oman State Bank Of Pakistan Palestine Monetary Authority Bank Of Papua New Guinea Central Bank Of Paraguay Central Reserve Bank Of Peru Bangko Sentral Ng Pilipinas National Bank Of Poland European Central Bank Qatar Central Bank National Bank Of Romania Bank Of Russia National Bank Of Rwanda Central Bank Of Samoa Eastern Caribbean Central Bank Central Bank Of The Republic Of San Marino Saudi Arabian Monetary Authority Central Bank Of West African States National Bank of Serbia Central Bank of Seychelles Bank of Sierra Leone Monetary Authority of Singapore European Central Bank European Central Bank Central Bank of Solomon Islands Central Bank of Somalia South African Reserve Bank Bank of Korea European Central Bank Central Bank of Sri Lanka Central Bank of Sudan Central Bank of Swaziland The Riksbank Stefan Swiss National Bank Central Bank of Syria Bank of Tanzania Central Bank of the Rep. of China National Bank of Tajikistan Bank of Thailand Central Bank of Togo National Reserve Bank of Tonga Central Bank of Trinidad and Tobago Central Bank of Tunisia Central Bank of Republic of Turkey Central Bank of Turkmenistan 70 | P a g e

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Central Bank of United Arab Emirates Bank of Uganda National Bank of Ukraine Bank of England Central Bank of Uruguay Federal Reserve Central Bank of the Rep. of Uzbekistan Reserve Bank of Vanuatu Central Bank of Venezuela State Bank of Vietnam Central Bank of Yemen Bank of Zambia Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe

List of Countries Stock Exchanges Country

Stock Exchange

Country

Stock Exchange

Argentina Australia Austria Bahrain Bangladesh Belgium Bosnia & Herzegovina Botswana Brazil Bulgaria Canada Chile China Colombia Costa Rica Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark

MERVAL S&P/ASX 200 WBI ALL SHARE DSE GENERAL BEL20 SASX10 BGSMDC BOVESPA SOFIX S&P/TSX IGPA SHCOMP IGBC CRSMBCT CROBEX GENERAL SE PX OMX COPENHAGEN ECU EGX30 OMX TALLIN HEX25 CAC 40 DAX 30 GGSECI ASE HIS BUX SE ICEX SENSEX JCI ISEQ

Malaysia Malta Mauritius Mexico Mongolia Montenegro Morocco Namibia Netherlands New Zealand Nigeria Norway Oman Pakistan Peru Philippines Poland Portugal Qatar

FTSE KLCI MSE SEMDEX IPC MSETOP MONEX20 MASI FTSE JSE AEX NZX 50 NSE 30 OSEAX MSM 30 KSE100 IGBVL PSEI WIG PSI20 QE GENERAL

Romania Russia Saudi Arabia Serbia Singapore Slovakia Slovenia South Africa South Korea Spain Sri Lanka Sweden Switzerland Tanzania

BET MICEX TASI BELEX15 STI SAX SBITOP FTSE/JSE KOSPI IBEX 35 CSE ALL SHARE OMX 30 SMI ALL SHARE DSEI

Ecuador Egypt Estonia Finland France Germany Ghana Greece Hong Kong Hungary Iceland India Indonesia Ireland

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TA-100 FTSE MIB STOCK OMX RIGA LSXC

Taiwan Thailand Tunisia Turkey United Arab Emirates

MSCI OMX VILNIUS LUXX

Macedonia

MBI 10

Ukraine United Kingdom United States Of America Venezuela Vietnam

TWSE SET50 TUNINDEX XU100 UAE ADX GENERAL PFTS FTSE 100 DOW JONES IBVC VN

List of Important Cricket Stadium in the World Australia

Melbourne Cricket Ground, Mebourne Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney The WACA, Perth The Gabba, Brisbane, Queensland Sher-e-Bangla Cricket Stadium, Mirpur, Dhaka The Lords, London Old Trafford, Manchester The Oval, Kensington Trent Bridge, Nottingham Birmingham, Warwickshire Headingley, Leeds Rose Bowl, Southampton Eden Park, Auckland Basin Reserve, Wellington Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore Karachi Cricket Stadium, Karachi The Wanderers, Johannesburg Newlands Cricket Ground, Cape Town Port Elizabeth (St George’s Oval), Port Elizabeth SuperSport Park (formerly Centurion Park), Centurion, Gauteng Galle International Stadium, Galle Queen’s Park Oval, Trinidad

Bangladesh England

New Zealand Pakistan

South Africa

Sri Lanka West Indies

List of Some Important Gardens in India Name of the Garden Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose Indian Botanic Garden Auroville Botanical Gardens, Brindhavan Garden Chambal Garden Chashme Shahi Company garden Hanging Garden Jallianwala Bagh

Name of the location Kolkata, West Bengal Auroville, Tamil Nadu Mysore, Karanataka Kota, Rajasthan Srinagar, J & K Allahabad , Uttar Pradesh Mumbai , Maharashtra Amristar, Punjab

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Gangtok, Sikkim Jhansi, Uttar Pradesh New Delhi Bangalore, Karnataka Ahmedabad, Gujarat Darjeeling, West Bengal New Delhi Palakkad, Kerala New Delhi Srinagar , J & K Mangalore, Karnataka Panchkula , Haryana Darjeeling Chandigarh Saharanpur, Uttar Pradesh Udaipur, Rajasthan Gandhinagar, Gujarat Srinagar, J & K Coonoor, Tamil nadu Howrah, West Bengal Srinagar, J & K

List of Important River Projects in India Project Bansagar Project Bargi Project Beas Project Bhadra Project Bhakhra Nangal Project

River Son Bargi Beas Bhadra Sutlej

Bheema Project Chambal Project Damodar Ghati Project Dulhasti Project Durga Barrage Project

Pawana Chambal Damodar Chinab Damodar

Farakka Project Gandak Project Ganga Sagar Project Ghatprabha Project Girna Project Hansdev Bango Project Hidkal Project Hirakud Project Idduki Project Indira Gandhi Canal Project Jawahar Sagar Project Jayakwadi Project Kakrapara Project Kangsawati Project Kol Dam Project Kosi Project Koyana Project Krishna Project Kunda Project

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Related State Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh Madhya Pradesh Haryana, Punjab, Rajasthan Karnataka Punjab,Himachal Pradesh ,Haryana, Rajsthan Maharashtra Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh Jharkhand, West Bengal Jammu & Kashmir West Bengal Jharkhand West Bengal Bihar, Uttar Pradesh Madhya Pradesh Karnataka Maharashtra Madhya Pradesh Karnataka Orissa Kerala Rajasthan, Punjab, Haryana Rajasthan Maharashtra Gujrat West Bengal Himachal Pradesh Bihar & Nepal Maharashtra Karnataka Tamilnadu

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Ganaga Ganaga Mahanadi Malprabha Vyas Betwa Mayurakshi Hasdeo Bango river Muchkund Krishna Koradi Narmada

Nathpa Jhakri Project Panam Project Panama Project Panchet Project

Sutlaj Panam Panama Damodar

Pong Project Poochampad Project Purna Project Rajasthan Canal Project Ramganga Project Rana Pratap Sagar Project Ranjeet Sagar Project Rihand Project Salal Project Sardar Sarovar Project

Beas Godawari Purna Sutlej, Vyas, Ravi Ramganga Chambal Ravi Rihand Chenab Narmada

Sarhind Project Sharawati Project Sharda Project Shivsamundram Project Sutlaj Project Tawa Project Tehri Dam Project Tilaiya Project Tulbul Project Tungbhadra Project Ukai Project Upper Penganga Project Uri Power Project Vyas Project

Sutlaj Sharawati Sharda, Gomti Kaveri Chinab Tawa Bhagirathi Barakar Chinab Tungbhadra Tapti Penanga Jhelum Vyas

Uttar Pradesh Uttar Pradesh Odisha Karnataka Himachal Pradesh Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh West Bengal Madhya Pradesh Odisha, Andhra Pradesh Andhra Pradesh Maharashtra Madhya Pradesh Gujarat Himachal Pradesh Gujarat Gujarat Jharkhand West Bengal Punjab Andhra Pradesh Maharashtra Rajasthan, Punjab, Haryana Uttar Pradesh Rajsthan Punjab Uttar Pradesh Jammu & Kashmir Madhya Pradesh Maharashtra Rajasthan Haryana Karnataka Uttar Pradesh Karnataka Jammu & Kashmir Madhya Pradesh Uttarakhand Jharkhand Jammu & Kashmir Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka Gujarat Maharashtra Jammu & Kashmir Rajasthan, Punjab. Haryana, Himachal Pradesh

Memorial Places of Famous Indian Leaders Name B.R. Ambedkar Chandra Shekhar Choudhary Charan Singh Devi Lal

Position Hold Political leader and Philosopher Prime Minister of India

Memorial Name Chaitya Bhoomi

Meaning

Location Dadar(Maharashtra)

Jannayak Sthal

Delhi

Prime Minister of India

Kisan Ghat

Deputy Prime Minister of

Sangharsh Sthal

Place of People’s leader Farmer’s Platform Place of

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Delhi Delhi

AC Static GK Capsule2016 Giani Zail Singh Gulzarilal Nanda I. K. Gujral Indira Gandhi Jag Jivan Ram

India President of India Acting Prime Minister of India Prime Minister of India

Ekta Sthal Narayan Ghat Smiriti Sthal Shakti Sthal Samta Sthal

Jawaharlal Nehru

Prime Minister of India Deputy Prime Minister of India Prime Minister of India

Krishna Kant Lal Bahadur Shastri

Vice President of India Prime Minister of India

Nigambhoot Ghat Vijay Ghat

Mahatma Gandhi Morarji Desai P. V. Narasimha Rao K.R. Narayanan Rajiv Gandhi Rajendra Prasad Shankar Dayal Sharma

Father of the Nation Prime Minister of India Prime Minister of India 10th President of India Prime Minister of India President of India President of India

Raj Ghat Abhay Ghat P.V. Ghat Ekta Sthal Veer Bhumi Mahaprayan Ghat Karma Bhumi

Shantivan

Struggle Place of Unity

Place of Remembrance Place of Power Place of Equality Garden of Peace

Delhi Ahmedabad(Gujarat) Delhi Delhi Delhi Delhi Delhi Delhi

Victory Platform Royal Steps

Karma Bhoomi Land of Brave Land of Duty

Delhi Ahmedabad(Gujarat) Delhi Delhi Delhi Patna(Bihar) Delhi

List of Important Indian Cities on Rivers Name of the River Alaknanda Bhadra Brahmani Brahmaputra Brahmaputra Chambal Chambal Cooum, Adyar Daman Ganga River Ganga Ganga, Yamuna and Saraswati Ganges Ganges Ganges Ganges Ganges Ganges Ganges Ganges Ganges Ganges Ganges Ganges Ghataprabha Girna River Godavari Godavari Godavari Godavari Gomti

Name of the City Badrinath Bhadravathi Rourkela Dibrugarh Guwahati Kota Gwalior Chennai Daman Mirzapur Allahabad Bhagalpur Haridwar Kanpur Patna Varanasi Farrukhabad Fatehgarh Kannauj Kanpur Cantonment Shuklaganj Chakeri Hajipur Bagalkot Malegaon Rajahmundry Nashik Nanded Nizamabad Jaunpur

Name of the River Kaveri Krishna Krishna Krishna, Koyna Mahanadi Mahanadi Mahanadi Meenachil Mula, Mutha Musi Narmada Narmada Netravati, Gurupura Noyyal Panchaganga Pennar Rapti Rushikulya Rushikulya Sabarmati Saryu Savitri Sharavathi Shipra Sutlej Tapi Thamirabarani Tunga River Tungabhadra Ulhas

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Name of the City Erode Vijayawada Sangli Karad Banki Cuttack Sambalpur Kottayam Pune Hyderabad Jabalpur Bharuch Mangalore Coimbatore Kolhapur Nellore Gorakhpur Brahmapur Chhatrapur Ahmedabad Ayodhya Mahad Honnavar Ujjain Ferozpur Surat Tirunelveli Shimoga Hospet Karjat

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Lucknow Kolkata Srinagar Karwar Tiruchirapalli Thiruchirapalli Etawah

Vaigai Vishwamitri Vrishabhavathi Yamuna Yamuna Yamuna Yamuna

Madurai Vadodara Bangalore Agra New Delhi Mathura Auraiya

Famous Sports Personalities in India

Arun Vishnu Abhishek Verma Atanu Das Bombayla Devi

Archery Players Chekrovolu Swuro Deepika Kumari Dola Banerjee Jayanta Talukdar Athletes Kavita Raut Kheta Ram Khushbir Kaur KM Beenamol Lalita Babar

Amit Kumar Saroha Anilda Thomas Anju Bobby George Ankit Sharma Annu Rani(Javeline Thrower) Ashwini Nachappa M. R. Poovamma Baljinder Singh Mandeep Kaur Dharambir Singh Manish Singh Rawat Dutee Chand Manpreet Kaur Gurmeet Singh Milkha Singh Inderjeet Singh Muhammad Anas Irfan Kolothum Thodi Neeraj Chopra Jinson Johnson Nirmala Sheoran Jyotirmoyee Sikdar Nitender Singh Rawat Kavita Ramdas OP Jaisha Badminton Players Anup Sridhar H S Prannoy Ajay Jayram Jwala Gutta Aparna Popat Kidambi Srikanth Ashwini Ponnappa Manu Attri Chetan Anand P. V. Sindhu Chirag Sen Parupalli Kashyap Dipankar Bhattacharya Basketball Players Anitha Pauldurai Geethu Anna Jose Divya Singh Prashanti Singh Body Builders Prashant Sulunkhe Mamota Devi Bobby Singh Ram Niwas Deepika Chowdhury Sangram Chougule Karauna Waghmare Shweta Rathore Billiards and snooker Aditya S. Mehta Ishika Shah Anushi Seth Michael Ferreira 76 | P a g e

Laxmirani Majhi Limba Ram Sandeep Kumar Tarundeep Rai P.T.Usha Ramkaran Singh Raut Deepa Mallick Renjith Maheshwary Sandeep Kumar Sapna Punia Seema Punia Antil Shiny Abraham Soma Biswas Srabani Nanda Sudha Singh Thonakal Gopi Tintu Luka Vikas Gowda

Prakash Padukone Pulella Gopichand Saina Nehwal Siril Verma Sumeet Reddy Valiyaveetil Diju

Satnam Singh Bhamara Shiba Maggon Yashmeen Manak Yatinder singh

Siddharth Parekh Sourav Kothari

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Pankaj Advani Rupesh Shah Rahul Boxing Players Mandeep Jangra Manoj Kumar Mary Kom Nikhat Zareen Shiva Thapa Cricket Players G.R. Vishwanath Gautam Gambhir Harbhajan Singh Irfan Pathan Javagal Srinath Kapil Dev Kiran More Madan Lal Mahender Singh Dhoni Manoj Prabhakar Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi Mithali Raj Mohammed Azharuddin Munaf Patel Murali Kartik Navjot Singh Sidhu Pranav Dhanawade Car Racer Gaurav Gill Jehan Daruvala Chess Players Koneru Humpy Krishnan Sasikiran Parimarjan Negi Pentala Harikrishna Praveen Mahadeo Thipsay Rucha Pujari Football Players Dr Talimeran Ao Inivalappil Mani Vijayan Jeje Lalpekhlua Golf Players Gagan Jeet Bhullar Gaurav Ghei Jeev Milkha SIngh Gymnastics Kshipra Joshi Mayank Srivastava Meenakshi Mitali Dogra 77 | P a g e

Varshaa Sanjeev Wilson Jones

Sonia Lather Vijender Singh Vikas Krishan Yadav

Rahul Dravid Ravichandran Ashwin Ravindra Jadeja Rohit Sharma RP Singh S. Srisanth Sachin Tendulkar Shikhar Dhawan Sourav Ganguly Sunil Gavaskar Syed Kirmani Virat Kohli Virender Sehwag Yuvraj Singh Zaheer Khan

Karun Chandhok Narain Karthikeyan Sandipan Chanda Subbaraman Vijayalakshmi Swapnil S Dhopade Tania Sachdev Viswanathan Anand

Pradip Kumar Banerjee Sunil Chhetri Udanta Singh Jyoti Randhawa Shiv Kapur SSP Chawrasia

Priti Das Rakesh K Patra Rohit Jaiswal Roma Dilip Jogalekar

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Paromita Das Partha Mondal Pooja Surve Praveen Sharma Judo Players Kalpana Devi L Sanatombi Devi Malaprabha Jadhav N Seema devi Navjot Chana Pincky Balhara Hockey Players in India Helen Mary Leslie Claudius Madhu Yadav Mamta Kharab Pargat Singh PR Sreejesh Rajpal Singh Kabbadi Players Mamatha Poojary Manjeet Chhillar Mohit Chhillar Lawn Tennis Players Ramanathan Krishnan Ramesh Krishnan Rohan Bopanna

Mountain Climbers Arjun Vajpai Harish Kapadia Arunima Sinha Krushnaa Patil Bachendri Pal Kushang Dorjee Sherpa Balwant Sandhu Malavath Purna Bhupesh Kumar Mohan Singh Kohli Rowing Players Bajrang Takhar Inderpal Singh Dattu Bapan Bhokanal Kasam Khan Devender Khandwal Manjit Singh Squash Players Anaka Alankamony Joshna Chinappa Anuroop B. S Kumar Kush Cyrus Poncha Mahesh Mangaonkar Dipika Pallikal Mamta Kharab Harinder Pal Sandhu Swimmers Bula Choudhury Niranjan Mukundan Khajan Singh Rehan Poncha Kutraleeswaran Sajan Prakash Masudur Rahman Baidya Saloni Dalal Mihir Sen Sandeep Sejwal Shooters 78 | P a g e

Shephali Moulick Vivek Mishra Vladimir Chertkov

Rajwinder Kaur Sachin Maan Shamsher Singh Yashpal Solanki

Saba Anjum Karim Sardar Singh Sreejesh Ravindran Suraj Lata Devi Surya Shekhar Ganguly SV Sunil Gurbaj Sigh Rahul Chaudhari Rakesh Kumar Rohit Kumar Sania Mirza Somdev Devvarman Vijay Amritraj

Premlata Agarwal Santosh Yadav Tashi and Nungshi Malik Tenzing Norgay

Paulose Pandari Kunnel Sandeep Kumar Sawarn Singh Virk Ritwik Bhattacharya Saurav Ghosal Savita Punia Siddharth Suchde

Sebastian Xavier Sharath Gayakwad Shika Tandon Shivani Kataria Virdhawal Khade

AC Static GK Capsule2016 Abhinav Bindra Anjali Bhagwat Chain Singh Gagan Narang Gurpeet Singh Jaspal Rana

Jeetu Rai Kynan Chenai Mairaj Ahmed Khan Manvanjit Singh Sandhu Pooja Ghatkar

Table Tennis Players Achanta Sharatha Kamal Mouma Das Chetan Baboor Poulomi Ghatak Manika Batra Sharath Kamal Achanta Weightlifting Players Geeta Rani Manpreet Kaur Harjeet Kaur Mohammed Asdullah Karnam Malleshwari N. Kunjarani Devi Katulu Ravi Kumar Ngangbam Soniya Chanu KM Rachna Pratima Kumari Komal Wakale Renubala Chanu Wrestling Players Amit Kumar Dahiya Hardeep Singh Aparna Bishnoi Khashaba Dadasaheb Babita Kumari Narsingh Yadav Bajrang Punia Neha Rathi Dalip Singh Rana Palwinder Singh Cheema Dara Singh Panne Lal Yadav Dharmendra Dalal Rajinder Kumar Geeta Phogat Rajneesh Dalal Gobar Goha Ravinder Khatri Gulam Ravinder Singh Wushu Players L Budhchandra Singh Sanathoi Devi Puja Tomer Surya Bhanu Pratap

Prakash Nanjappa Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore Samresh Jung Sanjeev Rajput Vijay Kumar

Soumyajit Ghosh Vishnu Vardhan

Saikhom Mirabai Chanu Sanjita Khumukcham Sivalingam Sathish Kumar Sudhir Kumar Yumnam Chanu

Ritu Phogat Sakshi Malik Sandeep Tomar Sunil Kumar Rana Sushil Kumar The Great Gama Vinesh Phogat Yogeshwar Dutt

Uchit Sharma

List of Important founders of Journals and News papers in Olden days Name of Journals/News Paper Al-Hilal Al-Balagh New India(Daily) Commonweal Vande Mataram Sandhya Mooknayak Bahishkrit Bhara Kesari Mahratta Darpan(Marathi) Kavivachan Sudha Kavi Vachan Sudha Yugantar New India(Weekly) Bande Mataram

Name of the Founder Abul Kalam Azad Abul Kalam Azad Annie Besant Annie Besant Aurobindo Ghosh B.B. Upadhyaya B.R. Ambedkar B.R. Ambedkar Bal Gangadhar Tilak Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Bal Shastri Jambhekar Bhartendu Harishchandra Bhartendu Harishchandra Bhupendranath Data and Barinder Kumar Ghosh Bipin Chandra Pal Bipin Chandra Pal and later edited by Sri Aurobindo 79 | P a g e

AC Static GK Capsule2016 Talwar(Berlin) Rast Goftar(Gujrati) Voice of India Indian Mirror The Tribune Bombay Chronicle Swadesamitran(Tamil) Sudharak Pratap Inquilab(Urdu) Hindu Patriot Hindoo Patriot India Gazettej Som Prakesh Bengal Gazette(Bengali) Hindustan Times Vichar Lahiri Punjabi Essays in Indian Economics Hindustan Nav Jeevan Indian Opinion Young India Harijan Kranti Comrade Independent Din Mitra Navyug(Magazine) Samvad Kaumudi Mirat-ul-Akbhar Kudi Arasu Statesman The Statesman Bombay Times Indian Socialist Tahzib-ul-Akhlaq Amrita Bazar Patrika Prabudha Bharat Udbodhana Free Hindustan(in Vancouver) Native Opinion Hindu

Birendra Nath Chattopadhyaya Dadabhai Naoroji Dadabhai Naoroji Devendra Nath Tagore Dyal Singh Majithia Firoze Shah Mehta G Subramaniya Aiyar G.K.Gokhale Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi Ghulam Hussain Girish Chandra Ghosh(later Harish Chandra Mukherji) Harish Chandra Mukherjee Henry Louis Vivian Derozio Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar J.K.Hikki K.M. Pannikar Krishnashastri Chiplunkar Lala Lajpat Rai M.G. Ranade M.M. Malviya Mahatma Ghandhi Mahatma Ghandhi Mahatma Ghandhi Mahatma Ghandhi Mirajkar, Joglekar, Ghate Mohammad Ali Motilal Nehru Mukundarao Patil Muzaffar Ahmed Ram Mohan Roy Ram Mohan Roy Ramaswamy Naiker Robert Knight Robert Knight Robert Knight & Thomas Bennnet Shyamji Krishna Verma Sir Syyed Ahmed Khan Sisir Kumar Ghosh and Motilal Ghosh Swami Vivekananda Swami Vivekananda Tarak Nath Das V.N. Mandalik Vir Raghavacharya and G.S. Aiyar

Nicknames of Famous Personalities Nicknames Adi Kavi Akbar of Kashmir Andhra Kesari Anna

Name of the Person Valmeeki Jainul Abdin T. Prakasam C.N. Annadurai 80 | P a g e

AC Static GK Capsule2016 Babuji Banga bandhu Bard of Avon Bengal Kesari Bengali Tiger,Punjab Kesari,Lal, Bal Bihar Kesari Bihar Vibhuti Bird man of India C. R. / Rajaji Chacha,Pandit ji Deen bandhu Desert Fox Desh bandhu Desh Ratna, Ajatshatru Deshpriya Enlightened One Father of English Poetry Father of Gujarat Father of Medicine Father of the Local Self-Government Father of the Nation,Bapu,Mahatma Frontier Gandhi, Badshah Khan Fuehrer Flying Sikh G.B.S Grand Old man of Britain Grand Old man of India Grand old man of Indian Journalism Grandfather of Indian Films Guruji Gurudev Haryana Hurricane Hockey Wizard II Duce Indian Machiavelli Iron Lady of India Indian Einstein Jana Nayak King Maker Kaviguru King Maker of Indian History Kuvempu Lady with the lamp Light of Asia Lion of Kashmir Lion of Maratha Li-Kwan Little Corporal,Man of Destiny Little Master Lokmanya

Jagjeevan Ram Sheikh Mujibut Rahman William Shakespeare Ashutosh Mukherji Lala Lajpat Rai, Bal Gangadhar Tilak and Bipin Chandra Pal Dr. Srikrishna Singh Dr. Anugrah Narayan Singh Salim Ali Chakravarti Rajagopalachari Jawaharlal Nehru C.F. Andrews Gen Ervin Rommel Chitta Ranjan Das Dr. Rajendra Prasad Yatindra Mohan Sengupta Lord Buddha Geoffery Chaucer Ravi Shankar Maharaj Hippocrates Lord Rippon Mahatma Gandhi Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan Adolf Hitler Milkha Singh George Bernard Shaw Willium E. Gladstone Dadabhai Naoroji Tushar Kanti Ghosh Dhundiraj Govind Phalke M.S. Golvalkar Rabindranath Tagore Kapil Dev Dhyan Chand Benito Mussolini Chanakya Indira Gandhi Nagarjuna Karpuri Thakur Earl of Warwick Rabindranath Tagore Sayyed Bandhu K.V. Puttappa Florence Nightinga Sreebuddha Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah Bal Gangadhar Tilak Pearl Buck Napoleon Bonaparte Sunil Gavaskar Bal Gangadhar Tilak

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AC Static GK Capsule2016 Loknayak Machiavelli of India Magician of Hockey Mahamana, Prince of Beggars Maid of Orleans Maiden Queen Man of Blood and Iron Man of Peace Martin Luther of India Man of Destiny Man of Iron Man of Peace Morning Star of India Renaissance Mother Mysore Tiger Napoleon of India Neta Ji, Patriot of Patriots Nightingale of India Parrot of India, Tota-e-hind Poet’s Poet Prince of Autobiography Prince of Builders Prince of Martyrs, Sahid-e-Azam Prince of Money Makers Prince of Pilgrims Payyoli Express Prince of Kolkata Punjab Kesari Quaid-i-Azam Rajashree Sage of Kanchi Scourage of God Saint of Sabarmati Saint of the Gutters Shakespeare of India Sher-e-Kashmir,Lion of Kashmir Sparrow Strong (Iron) Man of India Swar Kokila Tau The Little Master Tiger of Mysore Tota-e-Hind Udanpari Uncle Ho Vishwa Kavi,Kaviguru,Gurudev Young Turk

Jayaprakash Narayan Chanakya Dhyanchand Pt. Madan Mohan Malaviya Joan of Arc Queen Elizabeth I Otto Van Bismark Lal Bahadur Shastri Dayanand Saraswati Napolean Bonaparte Vallabhai Patel Lal Bahadur Shastri Raja Ram Mohan Roy Mother Teresa Tippu Sultan Samudra Gupta Subhash Chandra Bose Sarojini Naidu Amir Khushro Edmund Spencer Babur Shahjahan Bhagat Singh Muhammad bin Tughlaq Hiuen Tsang P. T. Usha Saurav Ganguly Lala Lajpat Rai Md. Ali Jinnah Purushottam Das Tandon Sankaracharya Chengiz khan Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi Mother Teresa Mahakavi Kalidas Sheikh Mohammed Abdullah Major General Rajinder Singh Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Lata Mangeshkar Chaudhury Devi Lal Sachin Tendulkar Tipu Sultan Amir Khushro P.T. Usha Ho Chi Minh Rabindranath Tagore Chandra Shekhar

List of Space Centres in the World Country Belgium

Name of the Space Centre Liege Space Center 82 | P a g e

AC Static GK Capsule2016 Canada Germany

France India

Italy Japan South Korea Netherlands Norway Philippines Pakistan Russia

United Kingdom

United States

Euro Space Center John H. Chapman Space Centre Telus World of Science, Edmonton European Space Operations Centre Hubble European Space Agency Information Centre European Astronaut Centre Toulouse Space Center Guiana Space Centre Cannes Mandelieu Space Center Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre Space Applications Centre Satish Dhawan Space Centre Broglio Space Centre Uchinoura Space Centre Tanegashima Space Centre Naro Space Center European Space Research and Technology Norwegian Space Centre Mabuhaysat Subic Space Center Mabuhaysat Zamboanga Space Center Sonmiani (space facility) Tilla Satellite Launch Center Babakin Space Centre Baikonur Cosmodrome Titov Main Test and Space Systems Control Centre Leicester Space Centre Surrey Space Centre Harwell Science and Innovation Campus Jodrell Bank Observatory Goddard Space Flight Center John C. Stennis Space Center Kennedy Space Center Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center and Space Center Houston Marshall Space Flight Center

List of Indian Missiles Missile Name

Orgin

Astra K-100

India Russia & India IAF

MICA Akash Barak 8 Trishul Prithvi Air Defence (PAD)

Type Air-to-air missiles Air-to-Air Missiles Medium Range air-to-air missile

Air-to-Air Missiles Surface-To-Air Missiles India Medium-range surface-to-air missile Isreal/India Long Range surface to air Missile India Short Range surface to air missile Defence Missile India Exo-atmospheric Anti-ballistic missile 83 | P a g e

Range

Speed

60 – 80 km 300–400 km

Mach 4 + Mach 3.3

30-35km

Mach 2.5 to 3.5 Mach 2

100 km 9km Altitude80km

Mach 5+

AC Static GK Capsule2016 Advanced Air Defence (AAD) Prithvi Defence Vehicle (PDV)

Sagarika (K-15)

Endoatmospheric Anti-ballistic missile India Exo-atmospheric Anti-ballistic missile Cruise Missiles India Subsonic cruise missile(Ship, submarine, aircraft and land) Russia & Supersonic cruise missile(Ship, India submarine, aircraft and land) India Hypersonic cruise missile(Ship, submarine, aircraft and land) Surface-to-surface missiles India Medium-range ballistic missile (MRBM) India Intermediate-range ballistic missile(IRBM) India Intermediate-range ballistic missile(IRBM) India Intermediate-range ballistic missile(IRBM) India Intercontinental ballistic missile(ICBM) India Short Range Ballistic Missile(Tactical) India Short Range Ballistic Missile(Tactical) India Short Range Ballistic Missile(Tactical) India Short Range Ballistic Missile(Tactical) India Medium-Range Ballistic Missile (MRBM) Submarine Launched Ballistic Missiles India Ballistic Missile

K-4

India

Ballistic Missile

K-5 Ashwin

India India

Nag Helina(HELIcopter launched NAg) Amogha-1

India India

Ballistic Missile Ballistic Missile Anti-Tank Missile Anti-Tank Guided Missile Anti-Tank Guided Missile

India

Anti-Tank Guided Missile

Nirbhay BrahMos BrahMos II

Agni-I Agni-II Agni-III Agni-IV Agni-V Prithvi I Prithvi II Dhanush Prahaar(Pragati) Shaurya

India

Altitude30km Altitude120km

Mach 4.5

1,000 -1500 km 290 km

Mach 0.8

300km

Mach 2.8 to 3 Mach Mach 7

700-1250 km

Mach 7.5

2,000–3,000 km 3,500 km – 5,000 km 3,000 – 4,000 km 5000 – 8000Km 150 km

Mach 12 5–6 km/s Mach 7 Mach 24

350 km 350 – 600 km 150 km

Mach 2.03

750 to 1,900 km

Mach 7.5

700 – 1900Km 3,500–5,000 km 6,000 km 150-200km

Mach 7+

4km 7-8km

230 m/s

Mach 7+

Mach 4.5

2.8 km

Government Schemes/Yojanas Scheme

Ministry

INSPIRE(Innovation in Science Pursuit for Inspired Research )

Department of Science and

Launch Year

Outlay/Limit/Target

Sector

The realization of Vision 2020 calls for action and a well designed innovation

Education

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AC Static GK Capsule2016 Programme

Technology (India) MoP

2009/2015

Annual cost reduction of consumer bills - Rs. 40,000 crore

Electrification

MoRD

2015/1985

Fund shared by Centre & State Gov 75:25

Housing, Rural

MoWCD

1975

MoRD

1978

Child Development Rural Development

Midday Meal Scheme

MoHRD

1995

Kishore Vaigyanik Protsahan Yojana

MoST

1999

Swarnajayanti Gram Swarozgar Yojana(SGSY) Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana

MoRD

1999

Benefits to under 6 years of age and their mothers. Merged with Swarnajayanti Gram Swarozgar Yojana (SGSY) in 1999 Fund allocation by Centre & State is 50:50 Supported under Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan Encouraging students to take up research careers in the areas of basic sciences, engineering and medicine Centre & State funded in the ratio 75:25

MoRD

2000

Rural Development

Antyodaya Anna Yojna

NDA government

2000

Sampoorna Grameen Rozgar Yojana(SGRY)

MoRD

2001

Shiksha Sahayog Yojana(SSY)

LIC

2001

Deendayal Disabled Rehabilitation Scheme Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalaya Janani Suraksha Yojana

MoSJE

2003

Funded by both centre and states in 60:40 19000 Cr in 2016-17 Green Colour Card To Provide 35 kilograms of rice and wheat at a highly subsidised cost of three rupees per kilogram of rice and two rupees per kilogram of wheat Rs.10, 000 crore , Centre & State funded in the ratio 75:25 Merging the provisions of Employment Assurance Scheme (EAS) and Jawahar Gram Samridhi Yojana (JGSY). Aam Admi Bima Yojana Scholarship Fund Set up by Gov Scholarship for 9th to 12th standard students To provide financial assistance to

MoHRD

2004

MoHFW

2005

Unnat Jyoti by Affordable LEDs for All (UJALA) or Bachat Lamp Yojana Pradhan Mantri Gramin Awaas Yojana (PMGAY) Or Indira Awaas Yojana Integrated Child Development Services Integrated Rural Development Program

infrastructure.

Health, Education Education

Rural Employment

Poverty alleviation Food

Rural Self Employment

Financial Service

Social Justice Education

Modified National Maternity Benefit Scheme (NMBS)

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Mother Care

AC Static GK Capsule2016 100% centrally sponsored scheme $20 billion over seven years.

Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JnNURM) Livestock Insurance Scheme

MoUD

2005

MoA

2005

Rajiv Gandhi Grameen Vidyutikaran Yojana Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act Gramin Bhandaran Yojana or Rural Godown Scheme (RGS) Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojana(RKVY) Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana(RSBY)

MoP

April 2005

MoRD

2006

MoA

2007

MoA

2007

MoHFW

2008

Indira Gandhi Matritva Sahyog Yojana Pradhan Mantri Adarsh Gram Yojana Swavalamban

MoWCD

2010

MoSJ&E

2010

MoF

2010

National Rural Livelihood Mission (NRLM) Rajiv Awas Yojana

MoRD

2011

To be replaced by Atal Pension Yojana $5.1 Billion

MhUPA

2013

Slum-free Indiaby 2022

2013

Modified Swarna Jayanti Shahari Rozgar Yojana (SJSRY) Rs 1,500 crore Age: 15-35 Years

National Urban MoHUPA Livelihood Mission(NULM) Deen Dayal Upadhyaya MoRD Grameen Kaushalya Yojna Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan MoF Yojana

Atal Pension Yojana (Swavalamban

Pension Fund Regulatory

2014

2014

2015, Kolkata

Urban Development

The premium of the insurance is subsidized to the tune of 50%. Replaced by Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Gram Jyoti Yojana Rs. 40,000 crore 150 days of work in drought-hit states

Agriculture

In 2014 It is merged with Integrated Scheme for Agricultural Marketing (ISAM) Rs. 25,000 Crore

Agriculture

IT-enabled and smart–cardbased cashless healthy insurance cover,up to Rs. 30,000/- per annum Merged into National Food Security Act, 2013 Rs. 422.00 crores.

Insurance

To provide 'universal and clear access to banking facilities' starting with basic Banking Accounts" with overdraft facility of Rs.5,000 (zero-balance bank account) Guinness World Records Recognises the Achievements made under PMJDY18,096,130 bank accounts opened Age – 60 Rs.1000-Rs.5000

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Rural Electrification Rural Wage Employment

Agriculture

Mother Care Rural Development Pension Poverty alleviation Urban Housing Skill Development Skill development Financial Inclustion

Pension

AC Static GK Capsule2016 Yojana)

and Development Authority (PFRDA) MoP

2015

756 billion (US$11 billion)

Rural Power Supply

MoC&IT

2015

1 Lakh Crore Programme : 9 Pillars

Namami Gange Programme

MoWR

2015

Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojna Pradhan Mantri Suraksha Bima Yojana

MoSD&E

2015

Rs.20000 crore for 5 years Ganga to be made open defecation-free by 2022. Rs. 120 billion

Digitally Empowered Nation Clean & Protect Ganga

MoF

2015

Pradhan Mantri Jeevan Jyoti Bima Yojana

MoF

2015

Heritage City Development and Augmentation Yojana(HRIDAY) Pradhan Mantri Sukanya Samriddhi Yojana (PMSSY)or Girl Child Prosperity Scheme Smart Cities Mission

MoUD

2015

MoWCD

2015

MoUD

2015

Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation (AMRUT) Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY) or Housing for All

MoUD

2015

MoHUPA

2015

Pradhan Mantri Kaushal

MoSD&E

2015

Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Gram Jyoti Yojana or Rajiv Gandhi Grameen Vidyutikaran Yojana (RGGVY) Digital India Programme

Accident insurance scheme with annual premium of RS.12 Age : 18 and 70 years Death or full disability Rs.2 lakh Partial Permanent disability Rs.1 lakh Accident insurance schemeannual premium of Rs.330 Age: 18 and 50 years Death due to any cause - Rs.2 lakh RS.500 Cr Target: March 2017 in 12 cities

Skill Development Insurance

Insurance

Urban Development

Age: Below 10 and Deadline – 18 Minimum : Rs.1000 Maximum: Rs.1,50,000 Rs. 98,000 crore Target: 100 cities by 2022(109 revised) First List:10 Second List: 13 Third List: 36 Rs 50,000 crore 500 cities

Women Empowerment

Rs. 2 trillion To build 2 crore houses by 2022 305 cities in 9 states Rs. 120 billion

Housing

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Urban Development

Urban Development

Skill

AC Static GK Capsule2016 Vikas Yojana(PMKVY) Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana(PMUY)

MoP&NG

2016

Pradhan Mantri MUDRA Yojana (PMMY)

Micro Units Development and Refinance Agency (MUDRA) Bank MoRD

2015

Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana (PMFBY)

MoA

2016

Pradhan Mantri Gram Sinchai Yojana (PMGSY) Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Yojanaye (PMGKY)

MoA

2015

Pradhan Mantri Jan Aushadhi Yojana (PMJAY) Swachh Bharat Abhiyan

MoCF

Sansad Adarsh Gram Yojana (SAGY)

2014

2015

2016

2014

Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao MoWCD Yojana

2015

Mission Indradhanush

MoHFW

2014

Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Gram Jyoti Yojana

MoP

2015

Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Grameen Kaushalya

MoRD

2014

To to train 1 crore Indian youth from 2016-20 Rs. 8000 crore 1 million LPG connections had been completed in Nov 2016 1.Shishu :-Loan up to Rs.50,000 2.Kishore :- Loan ranging from Rs.50,000 to Rs.5 lakh 3.Tarun :- Loan above Rs.5 lakh and below Rs.10 lakh

Development

For developing model villages through implementation of existing schemes Rs.17600 Cr Uniform premium of only 2 per cent to be paid by farmers for Kharif crops, and 1.5 per cent for Rabi crops Rs. 500 billion 1.Irrigation Project 2.Soil Health Card Implement the pro-poor welfare schemes in more effective way The scheme will start from December 17 and will run till March 31 High quality generic medicines are sold at low prices

Rural Development

Rs.620 billion To eradicate open defecation by 2019 Slogan: One step towards cleanliness To generate awareness and improve the efficiency of welfare services meant for women. Outlay: Rs.100Cr To immunize all children under the age of 2 years, as well as all pregnant women, against seven vaccine preventable diseases. Outlay: Rs.756 billion To provide continuous power supply to rural India Replaced Rajiv Gandhi Grameen Vidyutikaran Yojana (RGGVY) Outlay: Rs.1500 Cr Age: 15–35 years.

Cleanliness

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Social Welfare

Crop Insurance

Agriculture

Finance

Health

Women Welfare

Health

Electricity

Skill Development

AC Static GK Capsule2016 Yojana Pandit Deendayal Upadhyay Shramev Jayate Yojana

MoLE

2014

Swadesh Darshan Yojana MoT

2015

UJWAL Discom Assurance Yojana (UDAY)

2015

One Rank, One Pension(OROP) Pradhan Mantri Khanij Kshetra Kalyan Yojana (PMKKKY)

Rashtriya Gram Swaraj Abhiyan (RGSA) Or Rajiv Gandhi Panchayat Sashaktikaran Abhiyan (RGPSA) Digital Saksharta Abhiyan (DISHA) or National Digital Literacy Mission (NDLM) Scheme Unnat Bharat Abhiyan

MoP

2015 District Mineral Foundations (DMFs)

2015

MoF

2016

Department 2014 of Electronics & Information Technology (DeitY) MoHRD 2014

Pradhan Mantri Surakshit MoHFW Matritva Abhiyan Vidyanjali Yojana MoHRD

2016

Pradhan Mantri Yuva Yojana (PMYY)

MSDE

2016

UDAN (Udey Desh ka Aam Nagrik)

MoCA

2016

2016

To skill 1million rural youth for job by 2017 To create conducive environment for industrial development and doing business with ease Sub scheme: Shram Suvidha Portal Random Inspection Scheme Universal Account Number Apprentice Protsahan Yojana Revamped Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana To develop theme based tourist circuits(13) in the country. Financial turnaround and revival package for electricity distribution companies of India (DISCOMs) Outlay: Rs.1000Cr

Employment

Toursim Electricity

Pension

Outlay: Rs,6000Cr Welfare Companies will need to contribute 10 to 30% of royalty for welfare of people directly or indirectly affected by mining. Outlay: Rs. 655 crore Rural To help Panchayat Raj Development Institutions deliver Sustainable Development Goals. To impart IT training to 52.5 lakh persons, including Anganwadi and ASHA workers

Literacy

To connect institutions of higher education with local communities to address the development challenges through appropriate technologies. Free health checkup to pregnant women on 9th of every To boost the education sector by delivering Volunteer Teachers Rs.499.94Cr Age – below 30 To skill Enterprenuers The scheme will be rolled out from Jan 2017 for a period of

Rural Development

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Health Education

Skill Development Regional connectivity

AC Static GK Capsule2016

Pradhan Mantri Gram MoRTH Parivahan Yojana Pradhan Mantri Surakshit MoRTH Sadak Yojana(announced)

2000/2016

Lucky Grahak Yojana

Niti Aayog

2016

Digi-Dhan Vyapar Yojana

Niti Aayog

2016

2016

10 years Airfares will be capped at 2500 rupees for an hour’s flight. Villages connected with new roads Outlay: Rs.2000 Cr To eliminate dangerous sites where accidents occur more frequently by using the better design and road engineering. For Consumers Nov 8 to April 13, 2017

Transport Transport

Digital Payment

For Merchants Nov 8 to April 13, 2017

List Of Important Books & Authors In Olden Days Name of the Book 2014: The Election That Changed India 30 Women in Power

Name of the Author Rajdeep Sardesai

Name of the Book Kanthapura

Name of the Author Raja Rao

Kanyadaan

Vijay Tendulkar

Kapal Kundala

Bankim Chandra Chatterjee

A Bend in the river

Their Voices, Their Stories- Naina Lal Kidwai Garik Israelien, Brian May and David J Eicher V S Naipaul

Tavleen Singh

A Brush with Life

Satish Gujral

A Bunch of Old Letters A China Passage A Conceptual Encyclopaedia of Guru Granth Sahib A Dangerous place

Jawaharlal Nehru J.K. Galbraith S S Kohli

Kashmir A Tragedy of Errors Kashmir Diary: Psychology of Militancy Kashmir in the Crossfire Kashmir-A Tale of Shame Kashmir-Behind the Vale

Ajit Bhattacharjee

A Farewell to Arms A Foreign Policy for India A Haunted House A Himalayan Love Story

Ernest Hemingway I K Gujral Virginia Woolf Namita Gokhale

Kashmir-The Wounded Valley Katghare Main Kaya Kulp Kayakalp Kayar

A Man and A Motorcycle, How Hamid Karzai Came to Power A Midsummer Night’s Dream A Million Mutinies, Now A Nation Flawed-Lesson from Indian History

Bette Dam

Keepers of the Keys

William Shakespeare

Khushwantnama ‐The Lessons of My Life King of Dark Chamber Kiratarjuniya

50 years of man in space

D.P. Moynihan

V.S. Naipal P N Chopra

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Gen Arjun Ray Victoria Shaffield Hari Jaisingh M J Akbar

Ram Sharan Joshi Premchand Munshi Prem Chand Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai Milan Kundera

Khushwant singh Rabindra Nath Tagore Bharavi

AC Static GK Capsule2016 A Pair of Blue Eyes

Thomas Hardy

A Passage to India A Peep into the Past A Possible India A Prisoner’s Scrapbook A Psychoanalysis of the Prophets A Reveolutionary Life A Season of Ghosts

E.M. Forster Vasant Navrekar Partha Chatterjee L.K. Advani Abdulla Kamal

A Secular Agenda A Story of History A Suitable Boy A Tale of Two Cities A Village by the Sea A Week with Gandhi A Woman’s Life Acoession to Extinction Across Borders, Fifty-years of India’s Foreign Policy Adhe Adhure Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Adventures of Tom Saweyer Aesop’s Fables After the Dark Night Against the Tide Age of Reason

Minoo Masani Jean Paul Sartre

Agni Pariksha Agni Veena

Acharya Tulsi Kazi Nazrul Islam

Ain-i-Akbari Ajatshatru Akbar – The Aesthete Akbarnama Alice in Wonderland Amar Kosh An idealist View of Life

Abul Fazal Jai Shankar Prasad Dr. Indu Anand Abul Fazal Lewis Carroll Amar Singh Dr S Radhakrishnan Swett Marden Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay J N Dixit

An iron Will Anand Math Anatomy of a Flawed inheritance Anguish of Deprived Animal Farm Anna Karenina

Kitni Navon Main Kitni Bar Koraner Nari Kore Kagaz Kulliyat Kumar Sambhava Lady Chhatterley’s Lover

S H Vatsyayan

Tasleem Nasreen Pavan Choudary

Arun Shourie Arnold Toynbee Vikram Seth Charles Dickens Anita Desai Louis Fischer Guy de Maupassant D R Mankekar J N Dixit

Lajja Lal Bahadur Shastri: Lessons in Leadership Lal Bahadur Shastri Law, Lawyers & Judges Laws Versus Justice Le Contract Social Less Miserable Life Divine Life is Elsewhere Lipika Living History

Mohan Rakesh Arthur Conan Doyle

Living with Honour Lolita

Shiv Khera Vladimir Nobokov

Mark Twain

Long Walk to Freedom

Nelson Mandela

Aesop S M Ali

Lost Child Love and Longing in Bombay Love in A Blue Time Love, Truth and A Little Malice Lowland Madhushala

Mulk Raj Anand Vikram Chandra

Laxmi Sehgal Ruskin Bond

Lakshmidhar Mishra George Orwell Leo Tolstoy

Taslima Nasreen Amrita Pritam Ghalib Kalidas D.H. Lawrence

C P Srivastava H R Bhardwaj V R Krishna Iyer Jean Jacques Rousseau Victor Hugo Shri Aurobindo Milan Kundera Rabindranath Tagore Hillary Rodham Clinton

Hanif Khureshi Khushwant Singh

Magnificent Maharaja Mahabharata Mahatma Gandhi Making India Awesome Malati Madhav Malavikagnimitra Malti Madhav

Jhumpa Lahiri Harivansh Rai ‘Bachchan’ K Natwar Singh Maharshi Ved Vyas Girija Kumar Mathur Chetan Bhagat Bhavabhuti Kalidas Bhavbhuti

Malvikagnimitra Man and Superman

Kalidas G. B. Shaw

Manviya Sanskriti Ke Rachnatmak Aayam Many Worlds

Prof Raghuvansh

Mati Matal Meghdoot

Gopinath Mohanty Kalidas

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K P S Menon

AC Static GK Capsule2016 Arabian Nights Area of Darkness

Sir Richard Burton V S Naipaul

Arion and the Dolphin Around the World in eighty days Arthashastra As You Like It Ashtadhyayi Asia and Western Dominance Asian Drama Assassination of a Prime Minister Assassination of Rajiv Gandhi: An Inside Job?

Vikram Seth Jules Verne

Assignment Colombo

J N Dixit

Atoms of Hope

Mohan Sundara Rajan Dandi Kalidas Dr. Narendra Jadhav

Avanti Sundari Avigyan Sakuntalam Awakening India’s Social Conscience Baburnama Bachelor of Arts Backward Place Bal Gitayan Bandicoot Run Bang-i-Dara Beginning of the Beginning Bend in the Ganges Between the Lines Bewildered India-Identity, Pluralism, Discord Beyond Boundaries: A Memoire Beyond Doubt: A Dossier on Gandhi’s Assassination Beyond Modernisation, Beyond Self Bhagwat Gita Bharaitya Parampara Ke Mool Swar Bharal Aur Europe Bharat Bharati

Kautilya W. Shakespeare Panini K M Panikkar Gunnar Myrdal S Anandram Faraz Ahmad

Babur R. K. Narayan Ruth Prawer Jhabwala D.P. Maheshwari Manohar Malgonkar Mohammad lqbal

Mein Kampf Memoris of a Bystander: Life in Diplomacy Men Who Killed Gandhi Merchant of Venice

Manohar Malgonkar Shakespeare

Meri Rehen Meri Manzil Midnight’s Children Million Mutinies Now Missed Oppertunites: Indo-Pak War 1965 Mistaken identity Modernity Morality And The Mahatma Modi – Incredible emergence of a star (in Chinese language) Mondays on Dark Night of Moon Mookhajjiva Kanasugalu

Krishna Puri Salman Rushdie V S Naipaul Maj-Gen, Lakshman Singh Nayantara Sehgal Madhuri Santhanam Sondhi Tarun Vijay

Moor’s Last Sigh Mother Mrinalini

Salman Rushdie Maxim Gorky Bankim Chandra Charrerjee Shivaji Sawant Twinkle Khanna Arun Shourie

Mritunjaya Mrs Funny bones Mrs Gandhi’s Second Reign Mudra Rakshasa Mughal Maharajas And The Mahatma Munger through the Ages ‐ Late DP Yadav Murder in the Cathedral Muslim Law and the Constitution My country My Life My Days

Acharya Rajneesh Manohar Malgonkar Kuldeep Nayyar Rasheedud-din Khan Swaraj Paul

Adolf Hitler lqbal Akhund

Kirin Narayan K Shivram Karanth

Vishakha Datt K R N Swami

T.S. Eliot A M Bhattacharjea L.K.Advani R K Narayan M K Gandhi

Teesta Setalvad

My Experiment With Truth My India

Sisir Kumar Ghose

My Life and Times

V V Giri

Veda Vyas Govind Chandra Pande Nirmal Verma Maithili Sharan Gupta

My Music My Life My Music, My Love

Pt Ravi Shankar Ravi Shankar

My Own Boswell My Presidential Years

M Hidayatullah Ramaswamy Venkataraman

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S Nihal Singh

AC Static GK Capsule2016 Bisarjan Bitter Sweet Black Tornado: The Three Sieges of Mumbai 26/11 Blind Men of Hindoostanindo-Pak Nuclear War Bliss was it in that Dawn

R N Tagore Noel Coward Sandeep Unnithan

My Prison Diary My South Block Years My Struggles

J P Narayan J N Dixit E K Nayanar

Gen Krishnaswamy Sundarji Minoo Masani

My Truth

Indira Gandhi Mamata Banerjee

Borders & Boundaries: Women in India’s Partition Born Again on the Mountain Bostaan Bread, Beauty and Revolution Breaking the Silence

Ritu Menon & Kamla Bhasin Arunima Sinha

My Unforgettable Memories My Years with Rajiv and Sonia ‐ Naari

Harsha Vardhana Ali Sardar Jafri

Breakthrough Bride for the Sahib and Other Stories Bridge’s Book of Beauty Brishbikkha

Gen Moshe Dayan Khushwant Singh

Naganandan Nai Duniya Ko Salam & Pathor Ki Dewar Naivedyam (The Offering) Naked Triangle Naku Thanthi Natya Shastra Nehru Family and Sikhs

Bharat Muni Harbans Singh

Neither a Hawk nor a dove Netaji-Dead or Alive New Dimensions of India’s Foreign Policy Nice Guys Finish Second Nine Days’ Wonder Nineteen Eighty-four Nirbashita Narir Kabita Nisheeth

Khurshid M Kasuari Samar Guha Atal Behari Vajpayee

Niti-Sataka Non-Violence in Peace and War Not Just an Accountant Nuclear India

Bhartrihari M K Gandhi

Britain’s True History Broken Wings Bubble Buddha Charitam Bunch of Old Letters By God’s Decree Canterbury Tales Chemmeen Chidambara Chikaveera Rajendra Childe Harold China : Confucius in the Shadow China Passage

Sheikh Saadi Khwaja Ahmed Abbas Anees Jung

Mulk Raj Anand Bankim Chandra Chatterji Prem Bhatia Sarojini Naidu Mulk Raj Anand Ashvaghosha Jawaharlal Nehru Kapil Dev Chaucer Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai Sumitra Nandan Pant Masti Venkatesh lyengar Lord Byron Poonam Surie

Chittirappavai Comedy of Errors Communist Manifesto

John Kenneth Galbraith B N Mullick P V Akilandam Rabindranath Tagore Bhagwati Charan Verma P.V. Akhilandam Shakespeare Karl Marx

Complete Story of Indian

Pradeep Baijal

Chinese Betrayal Chithirappaavai Chitra Chitralekha

Nurturing Development

R.D.Pradhan Humayun Azad

N Balamani Amma Balwant Gargi D R Bendre

B K Nehru John Mansfield George Orwell Taslima Nasreen Uma Shankar Joshi

Vinod Rai G G Mirchandani and P KS Ismail Serageldin

Of Human Bondage Old Man and the Sea One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch One Life is Not Enough

Somerset Maugham Ernest Hemingway Alexander Solzhenitsyn

One World to Share One-eyed Uncle Operation Bluestar-the True Story Origin of species

Sridath Ramphal Laxmikant Mahapatra Lt-Gen K S Brar

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Natwar Singh

Charles Darwin

AC Static GK Capsule2016 Reforms: 2G, Power & Private Enterprise Confessions of a Lover Confidential Clerk Confrontation with Pakistan Conquest of Self Continent of Circle Count of Monte Cristo Court Dancer Crescent Moon Crescent Over Kashmir Crime and Punishment Crisis into Chaos

Mulk Raj Anand T.S. Eliot Gen B M Kaul

Othello Our Films, Their Films Our India

Shakespeare Satyajit Ray Minoo Masani

Mahatma Gandhi Nirad C Chaudhuri

Out of Dust Padmavati

Alexandre Dumas Rabindranath Tagore Rabindranath Tagore Anil Maheshwari Dostoevsky

Painter of Signs Pakistan Cut to Size

F D Karaka Malik Mohammed Jayasi R K Narayan D R Mankekar

Pakistan in the 20th Century Pakistan Papers Pakistan, The Gathering Storm Panchagram

Lawrence Ziring Mani Shankar Aiyer Behazir Bhutto

Crossing the Sacred LineWomen’s Crown and the Loincloth Cuckold Culture in the Vanity Bag

EMS Namboodiripad Abhilasha Kumari, Sabina Chaman Nahal Kiran Nagar Kar Nirad C Chaudhuri

Curtain Raisers

K Natwar Singh

Pather Panchali

Dark Room Dark Star: The Loneliness of Being Rajesh Khanna Das Kapital Dashkumar Charitam Daughter of the East

R K Narayan Gautam Chintamani

Peace has no Alternative Peter Pan

Karl Marx Dandi Benazir Bhutto

David Copperfield Day in Shadow

Charles Dickens Nayantara Sehgal

Pickwick Papers Pilgrim’s Progress Pilgrim’s Progress from this world to that which is to come Plans for Departure Playing It My Way

Days of My Yers

H P Nanda

Political Economy

Death of a City Death-The Supreme Friend Decline and Fall of Indira Gandhi Degeneration of India Democracy Redeemed Deserted Village Devadas

Portrait of India Post Office Prathma Pratishruti Prem Pachisi Price of Partition Pride and Prejudice Principia

Prem Chand Rafiq Zakaria Jane Austen Isaac Newton

Dharmashastra

Amrita Pritam Kakasaheb Kalelkar D R Mankekar and Kamala Mankekar T.N. Seshan V K Narsimhan Goldsmith Sarat Chandra Chatterjee Manu

Nayantara Sehgal Sachin Tendulkar and Boria Mazumder Sugata Bose & Ayesha Jalal Ved Mehta Rabindranath Tagore Ashapoorna Devi

Nayantara Sehgal

Diana, The True Story

A. Morton

Prison and Chocolate Cake Prison Diary

Paradise Lost Passage to England Past Forward Pather Panchali

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Tarashankar Bandopadhyaya John Milton Nirad C Chaudhuri G R Narayanan Bibhuti Bhushan Bandyopadhyaya Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyaya Mikhail Gorbachev J.M. Barrie Charles Dickens John Bunyan John Bunyan

Jayaprakash Narayan

AC Static GK Capsule2016 Discovery of India Distant Drums Distant Neighbours Divine Comedy

Jawaharlal Nehru Manohar Malgonkar Kuldip Nayar Dante

Divine Life

Swami Sivananda

Don’t Laugh-We are Police Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Bishan Lal Vohra R.L. Stevenson

Dr. Zhivago

Boris Pasternak

Profiles & Letters Public Issues Before Parliament Punjab, The Knights of Falsehood Quest for Conscience R.D. Burman: The Prince of Music Radharani

Dramatic Decade: The Indira Gandhi Years Dream in Hawaii

Pranab Mukherjee

Raghuvansha

Bankim Chandra Chatterjee Kalidasa

Rajtarangini

Kalhana

Ram Charit Manas

Tulsidas

Dynamics of Social Change

Bhabani Bhattacharya Bankim Chandra Chatterjee Chandra Shekhar

Ramayana

East of Eden East West

B N Mullick Salman Rushdie

Economic Planning of India Economics of the Third World Editor Unplugged: Media, Magnates, Netas and Me Education of Muslims Eight Lives

Ashok Mehta S K Ray

Ramayana Dharshanam Ramcharitmanas (105year-old Urdu copy ) Rangbhoomi Rang-e-Shairi

Maharishi Valmiki (in Sanskrit) K V Puttappa Shiv Brat Lal

End of an Era Ends and Means

C S Pandit Aldous Huxley

English August

Upamanyu Chatterjee I J Ahluwalia & M D Little Sri Aurbindo Ghosh Major H P S Ahluwalia Indira Gandhi Swett Marden Prof. Deepak Nayyar Maj H P S Ahluwalia Khan Abdul Wali Khan Madhu Tandon

Durgesh Nandini

Essay’s for Manmohan Singh Essays on Gita Eternal Himalayas Eternal India Every Man a King Faces and Places Faces to Everest Facts are Facts Faith & Fire: A Way Within Fall of a Sparrow

Vinod Mehta Professor JS Rajput Rajmohan Gandhi

Salim Ali

Prisoner’s Scrapbook Prithviraj Raso

L K Advani Chand Bardai K Natwar Singh Vijay Darda

Rationalised Roman for Kashmiri ‐ Dr R L Bhat Ratnavali Ravi Paar (Across the Ravi) Rediscovering Gandhi Reminiscences of the Nehru Age Return of the Aryans

K P S Gill Madhu Dandavate Khagesh Dev Burman

Prem Chand Raghupati Sahai ‘Firaq’ Gorakhpuri

Harsha Vardhan Gulzar Yogesh Chadha M O Mathai Bhagwan S Gidwani

Returning to the Source

Acharya Rajneesh

Revenue Stamp Rich Like Us

Amrita Pritam Nayantara Sehgal

Ritu Ka Pehla Phool Ritu Samhara River Sutra Road to Freedom

Vijendra Kalidas Gita Mehta K K Khullar

Robaiyat

Omar Khayyam

Robinson Crusoe

Daniel Defoe

Rugby Chapel

Mathew Arnold

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AC Static GK Capsule2016 Family Life

Far from the Madding Crowd Farewell to a Ghost Fasana-i-Azad Father and Sons

Akhil Sharma( winner of the Folio Prize 2015) Thomas Hardy

Rukh Te Rishi

Harbhajan Singh

Karan Singh Vijay Tendulkar Rafiq Zakaria

Final Test: Exit Sachin Tendulkar Five Point Someone Flames from the Ashes Flood of Fire Food for All Food, Nutrition and Poverty in India For Whom the Bell Tolls Forbidden Sea

Dilip D’Souza

Runs in Ruins — Sunil Gavaskar Sader-i-Riyasat Sakharam Binder Sardar Patel and Indian Muslims Satanic Verses

Chetan Bhagat P D Tandon Amitav Ghosh Uma Lele V K R V Rao

Satyartha Prakash Savitri Sceptred Flute Scholar Extraordinary Scope of Happiness

Swami Dayanand Aurobindo Ghosh Sarojini Naidu Nirad C Chaudhuri Vijayalakshmi Pandit

Ernest Hemingway Tara Ali Baig

Search for Home Search for Political Power

Forsyte Saga Fortynine Days Fragile Frontiers: The Secret History of Mumbai Terror Attacks Freedom at Midnight French Revolution Friends and Foes

John Galsworthy Amrita Pritam SK Rath

Sense of Time Seven Summers Shah Nama

Sasthi Brata Abhilasha & Sabina Kidwai S H Vatsyayan Mulk Raj Anand Firdausi

Dominique Lapierre Thomas Carlyle Sheikh Mujibur Rehman Ayub Khan S Chandrashekhar Vijaya Raja Scindia Savita Pande

Shahnama Shakuntalam Shape of Things to Come

Firdausi Kalidas H. G. Wells

Silas Marner Social Contract Sons and Lovers Sourav Ganguly: Cricket, Captaincy and Controversy Strictly Personal, Manmohan and Gursharan ‐ Daman Singh Sunny Days

George Eliot Rousseau Sursagar D. H. Lawrence Saptarshi Sarkar

Super Economies Tehriq-e-Mujahideen The Accidental Prime Minister

Raghav Bahl Dr Sadiq Hussain the making and unmaking of Manmohan Singh ‐ Sanjaya Baru J.K. Galbraith K Mohandas Lt Gen A A K

Friends, Not Masters From India to America From Rajpath to Lokpath Future of NPT

Manoj Das Ratan Nath Sarkar Ivan Turganev

Ganadevata

Tara Shankar Bandopadhyaya

Gardener

Rabindra Nath Tagore Winston Churchill Jaya Dev Rabindra Nath Tagore

Gathering Storm Geeta Govind Geetanjali

Ghasiram Kotwal Ghosts of Calcutta Gita Rahasya Gitanjali Glimpses of Indian Ocean

Vijay Tendulkar Sebastian Ortiz Bal Gangadhar Tilak Rabindra Nath Tagore Z A Quasim

The Affluent Society The Assassination The Betrayal of East Pakistan The Blind Assassin The Bubble 96 | P a g e

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Sunil Gavaskar

Margaret Atwood Mulk Raj Anand

AC Static GK Capsule2016 Glimpses of World History

Jawaharlal Nehru

Globalisation, Democratization and Distributive Justice Godrej: A Hundred Years Golden Gate Golden Threshold Gora

Dr. Mool Chand Sharma

Grammar of Politics Grapes of Wrath Great Depression of 1990

B K Karanjia Vikram Seth Sarojini Naidu Rabindra Nath Tagore Harold T.Laski John Steinbeck Ravi Batra

Great Tragedy Green Signals: Ecology, Growth, and Democracy in India The Guide

Z.A. Bhutto Jairam Ramesh

Gul-e-Naghma Gulistan Boston

Raghupati Sahai ‘Firaq’ Gorakhpuri Sheikh Saadi

Gulliver’s Travels Gulzari Lal Nanda: A Peep Gurusagaram Half Girlfriend

Jonathan Swift Promilla Kalhan O V Vijayan Chetan Bhagat

Hamlet

William Shakespeare

Harsha Charit Harvest

Heavy Weather Heir Apparent Henry Esmond

Bana Bhatt Majula Padmanabhan Ruth Prawer Jhabwala P G Wodehouse Dr Karan Singh Thackeray

Higher than Hope Himalayan Blunder

Fatima Meer Brig J P Dalvi

Hind Swaraj Hindi Sahitya Aur Samvedna Ka Vikas Hindu Civilisation Hindu View of Life

M K Gandhi R S Chaturvedi

Heat and Dust

R K Narayan

J M Barrie Dr S Radhakrishnan

The Calcutta Chromosome The Career & Legend of Vasco de Gama

Amitav Ghosh

The Castle The Chinese Betrayal The City of Joy The Class

Franz Kalka B N Mullick Dominique Lapierre Erich Byron

The Clown The Congress Splits The Courage to Act – A Memoir of a Crisis and Its Aftermath The Court Dancer The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Heinrich Boll R P Rao Ben S. Bernanke

The Defeat or Distant Drumbeats The Elephant Paradigm

Bhaskar Roy

The Emperor’s New Suit

Hans Chrishtian Anderson Arundhati Roy Mario Puzo Anita Desai Tarun Khanna

The God of Small Things The Godfather The Inheritance of Loss The Kumbh Mela: Mapping the Ephemeral Megacity The Lady of the Last Minstrel The Legacy of Nehru The Lives of Others

Sanjay Subramanyam

Rabindranath Tagore Edward Gibbon

Gurcharan Das

Sir Walter Scott K. Natwar Singh Neel Mukherjee

The Masters

C.P.Shaw

The Merchant of Venice The Moon and Six pence The Narrow Road to the Deep North The One Day Wonders The Other Side of Midnight The Otherness of Self The Tempest

William Shakespeare Somerset Maughan Richard Flanagan

The Vicar of Wakefield The Wrong Enemy

Oliver Goldsmith America in Afghanistan, 2001‐ 2014 ‐ Carlotta Gall

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Sunil Gavaskar Sidney Sheldon Feroz Varun Gandhi Shakespeare

AC Static GK Capsule2016 Hinduism History of Hindu Chemistry Hitopadesh

Nirad C Chaudhary Sir P C Ray R K Narayan

Three Musketeers Time Machine To the Brink and Back: India’s 1991 Story Tom Jones Tom Sawyer Trail of Jesus Transcendence: My Spiritual Experiences with Pramukh Swamiji Treasure Island

Alexander Dumas H.G. Wells Jairam Ramesh

House Divided Hunchback of Notre Dame Hungry Stones Hungry Stones

Pearl S. Buck Victor Hugo Rabindranath Tagore Rabindra Nath Tagore

Truth Always Prevails Two Year Eight Months and Twenty –Eight Night Unaccustomed Earth Unbelievable – Delhi to Islamabad Uncle Tom’s Cabin Unhappy India Universe Around Us Until Darkness

Sadruddin Hashwani Salman Rushdi

Promilla Kalhan Mandeep Rai Dr A P J Abdul Kalam Jaswant Singh Dr.Rajendra Prasad Prof Jagdish Bhagwati Chitra Subramaniam M V Kamath Rajni Palme Dutt Maulana Azad Kuldip Nayar B P Singh

Unto The Last Untold Story Urvashi Urvashi Utopia Utouchable

John Ruskin Gen B M Kaul Ramdhari Singh ‘Dinkar’ Ram Dhari Singh Dinkar Sir Thomas Moor Mulk Raj Anand

Uttar Ramcharita

Bhava Bhuti

Vanity Fair Vanity Fair Vendor of Sweets Venisamhara Village

Thackeray Thackeray R K Narayan Narayana Bhatt Mulk Raj Anand

Dr Bimal Jalan V S Naipaul

Village by the Sea Vinay Patrika

Anita Desai Tulsidas

Durga Dass

Virangana

Maithili Sharan Gupta

Shashi Tharoor

Vish Vriksha

Raghu Rai

Voice of Conscience

Bankim Chandra Chatterjee V V Giri

Maj-Gen, Pratap Narain M K Gandhi

Voice of Freedom

Nayantara Sehgal

Waiting for God

Thomas Becket

I am Malala ‐ Malala Yousufzai and Christina Lamb I am not an Island I Dare

K A Abbas Parmesh Dangwal

I follow the Mahatma I Muse; Therefore I am

K M Munshi V N Narayanan

Idle Hours Idols If I am Assassinated In the Light of the Black Sun n the Service of the People In the Shadow of Pines India 2020: A Vision for the New Millennium India at Risk India Divided India in Transition

R.K. Laxman Sunil Gavaskar Z.A. Bhutto Rohit Manchanda

India is for Sale India of Our Dreams India Today India Wins Freedom India, the Critial Years India’s Culture the State the Arts & Beyond India’s Economic Crisis India-A Wounded Civilisation India-From Curzon to Nehru and After India-From Midnight to the Millennium India-Independence Festival (1947-1997) Indian Arms Bazaar Indian Home Rule

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Henry Fielding Mark Twain John Masefield Abdul Kalam

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