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* Highest Award-Bharat Ratna
* Highest Gallantry Award-Param Vir Chakra
* Longest Tributary river of India-Yamuna
* Largest Lake-Wular Lake, Kashmir
* Largest Lake (Saline Water)-Chilka Lake, Orrisa
* Largest Man-Made Lake-Govind Vallabh Pant Sagar (Rihand Dam)
* Highest Lake-Devtal Lake, Gadhwal (Uttarakhand)
* Highest Peak-Karkoram-2of K-2(8,611 meters)
* Largest Populated City-Mumbai
* Largest State(Area)-Rajasthan
* Largest State(Population)-Uttar Pradesh
* Highest rainfall-Cherrapunji (426 inches per annum)
* State wise largest area under forest-Madhya Pradesh
* Largest Delta-Sunderbans Delta
* Longest River Bridge-Mahatma Gandhi Setu, Patna
* Biggest Cave temple-Ellora
* Longest Road-Grand Trunk Road
* Longest Canal-Indira Gandhi Canal or Rajasthan Canal (Rajasthan)
* Largest Museum-India Museum at Kolkata
* Longest Dam-Hirakud Dam (Orrisa)
* Highest Dam-Tehri Dam ( 260 meters , 850 ft )
* Largest District-Kutch district
* Longest Highway NH-44 (NH-7) which turns from Varanasi to Kanyakumari
* Smallest State (Population)-Sikkim
* Smallest State (Area)-Goa
* Largest State (Area)-Rajasthan
* Largest State (Population)-Uttar Pradesh
* Largest Cave Temple-Kailash Temple, Ellora (Maharastra)
* Largest Port-Mumbai
* Largest Church-Saint Cathedral (Goa)
* Longest Beach-Marina Beach, Chennai
* Highest Airport-Leh (Laddakh)
* Largest River Island-Majuli (Brahmaputra River, Assam)

Recent Awards & Honours

? Kailash Satyarthi selected for 2015 Harvard Humanitarian of the Year Award
? Filmmaker IV Sasi honoured with J.C. Daniel Award
? Dr Shanthi Ranganathan conferred with Avvaiyaar Award 2015
? Jamaican writer Marlon James won the 2015 Man Booker Prize for Fiction
? AR Rahman to receive Hridaynath Mangeshkar Award
? The 2015 Nobel Prize in Economics awarded to Angus Deaton
? The Nobel Peace Prize to Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet for 2015
? The Nobel Prize in Literature 2015 Belarusian author Svetlana Alexievich.
? The Nobel Prize in Physics to Takaaki Kajita and Arthur McDonald
? Sheila Watt-Cloutier wins 2015 Right Livelihood Award
? Winners of Safaigiri Awards 2015
? Russian Activist Lyudmila Alekseyeva wins Vaclav Havel Human Rights Prize
? Dr. Jacob Tsimerman wins 2015 SASTRA Ramanujan Prize
? Indra Nooyi, Shobhana Bhartia presented with USIBC global leadership award
? Gaia Vince becomes the first woman to win the Top science book prize
? Employees Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) gets SKOCH Awards
? 24th Vyaas Samman conferred on eminent Hindi writer Dr Kamal Kishore Goenka
? Urdu scholar Shamim Hanfi awarded Jnangarima Manad Alankaran award
? Afghan refugee teacher Aqeela Asifi awarded with 2015 Nansen Refugee Award by UNHCR
? Indian-AmericanSwetha Prabakaran selected for Champions of Change award in US
? Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina wins UN Award for Leadership on Climate Change
? DRDO scientist Dr G. Satheesh Reddy conferred with Silver Medal by Royal Aeronautical Society
? Gandhi Peace Prize 2014 conferred on ISRO
? Jhumpa Lahiri selected for 2014 National Humanities Medal
? Haryana Government wins Skoch Order-of-Merit
? India wins UNESCO Award for conserving Sree Vadakkunnathan Temple in Kerala
? Barcelonas Lionel Messi wins UEFA Best Player in Europe award
? Mountaineer Jot Singh awarded Tenzing Norgay National Adventure award
? Syrian woman Journalist Zaina Erhaim wins 2015 Peter Mackler Award
? Tennis player Sania Mirza gets Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award
? Scientist Dr Modadugu Vijay Gupta to receive inaugural Sunhak Peace Prize
? Zia Haider Rahmans debut novel wins James Tait Black prize 2015
? Historian Babasaheb Purandare conferred with Maharashtra Bhushan Award 2015
? Boxing Coach Swatantra Raj Singh recommended for Dronacharya award
? Sania Mirza became second Tennis player to be recommended for Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award
? Suhasini Haidar wins Prem Bhatia Award
? Complete list of athletes recommended for Arjuna Award 2015
? Kerala government announces State film awards 2014
? Raghavendra Gadagkar awarded with Germanys Cross of Order of the Merit
? President of India presents Saraswati Samman to Dr. M Veerappa Moily
? Tourism Minister Shri. Dilip Parulekar bags Best Innovated Tourism Minister for the year 2015
? Zhanna Nemtsova awarded with Solidarity Prize 2015 of Poland
? Mathematician Dr. Amalendu Krishna wins 2015 Ramanujan Prize
? Hindi litterateur Kashinath Singh chosen for Bharat Bharti literary award 2014
? McCann bags Incredible India ad campaign
? Tamil Nadu government instituted youth award in name of Dr APJ Abdul Kalam
? Sarbananda Sonowal presents Arjuna Award 2014 to cricketer R. Ashwin
? Whistleblower Sanjiv Chaturvedi, Anshu Gupta win Ramon Magsaysay award
? Jorge Sampaio, Helena Ndume awarded with inaugural Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela Prize
? BEL wins Dun and Bradstreet award
? Peter Higgs receives Copley Medal, worlds oldest scientific prize
? Ramachandra Guha receives Fukuoka Asian Culture Prize 2015

? Naomi Klein wins 2015 American Book Award

? Kerala Tourism gets PATA Award for Muziris Heritage Project
? Indian-Americanwoman Sunita Viswanath honoured with Champion of Change
? Railway PSU RailTel Bags 12th National Awards for Excellence in Cost Management 2014
? Four Indian scientists receive William Harvey Award 2015
? Krishnapatnam Port receives Golden Peacock award for environment management.

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Vitamin
A

Chemical Name
Retinol

Bl
B2

Thian1ine
Riboflavin

B3
BS

Niacin or Nicotinic
acid
Pantothenic acid

B6

Pyridoxine

Organ n1eats, cereals, corn.

Cyanocobala1nin
Ascorbic acid

Meat, fish.
Oranges, to1natoes, sweet and w hite
potatoes.
Direct sunli1:!11t, fish oils, el'.!!!S.
Vegetable oils, olives, to1natoes,
ahnonds, n1eat, eggs.
Soyabeans. green leafy vegetables,
dairy products, n1eat.

812

c
D

E
K

Calciferol
Tocophe rol
Phylloquinone or
Naphthoquinone

Food Sources
Milk, eggs, fish, butter, cheese and
liver.
Le!lunies, whole !lrain, nuts.
Egg. n1ilk, cheese, nuts, bread
uroducts.
Meat, fish, pea nuts, whole grain.
Eggs, liver, dairy products.

Deficiency Diseases
Night blindness. Skin dryness.
Beri-beri.
lnfla1n1nation of tongue, sores in the
corners of the n1outh.
skin disease, dia rrhoea, depression,
de111entia.
Fatigue, 1nuscle cra1np.
Pellagra
Anae1nia, kidney stones, nausea,
deuression.
oale skin, constioation, fatigue.
Scurvy, anaen1ia, ability to fight
infections decreases.
Rickets, osteo1nalacia.
Neurological proble1ns, problen1s of
reproductive syste1n.
Failure to clot blood.

Observed Day

Date

The111e

National Teachers Day

September 5

Bi11 hday of Sarvelli

Radhakrishnan

International Vult ure

Awareness Day
International Literacy Day

First Sa turday in September

Sep 5 i n 2015
September 08

United Nations Day for

South -South Cooperation
World First Aid Day
Hindi Divas
Engineers Day

September 12

September 15

" Engineeri ng Challenges fo r

Knowledge Era"

International Day for t he

September 16

Preserva tion of the Ozone

Layer
International day of Peace

"Ozone: All t hat is there

betv~een You and UV"

September 21

World Alz hei mer's Day

International Day for t he

September 21
September 26

" Partnershi ps f or Peace Dignity for All" .

" Ren)ember Me"

Total Eli minati on of Nuclear

Weapons
World Tou rism Day

September 27

" one billion tou rist s, one

billion opportunit ies."

World Rabies Day

World Heart Day

September 28
September 29

" End Rabies Together"

"creating heart-healthy
envi ronments"

" literacy and sustainable

societies"

September 12
September 14

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S.No.

QUESTION

ANSWER

01

The first Prime minister of Bangladesh was

Mujibur Rehman

02

The longest river in the world is the

Nile

03

The longest highway in the world is the

Trans-Canada

04
05
06
07
08
09
10

The longest highway in the world has a length

of
The highest mountain in the world is the
The country that accounts for nearly one third
of the total teak production of the world is
The biggest desert in the world is the
The largest coffee growing country in the
world is
The country also known as "country of Copper"
is
The name given to the border which separates
Pakistan and Afghanistan is

11

The river Volga flows out into the

12

The coldest place on the earth is

13

The country which ranks second in terms of

land area is

About 8000 km
Everest
Myanmar
Sahara desert
Brazil
Zambia
Durand line
Capsian sea
Verkoyansk in
Siberia
Canada

14

The largest Island in the Mediterranean sea is

Sicily

15

The river Jordan flows out into the

Dead sea

16

The biggest delta in the world is the

Sunderbans

17

The capital city that stands on the river Danube

is

Belgrade

18

The Japanese call their country as

Nippon

19

The length of the English channel is

564 kilometres

20

The world's oldest known city is

Damascus

21

The city which is also known as the City of

Canals is

Venice

22

The country in which river Wangchu flows is

Myanmar

23

The biggest island of the world is

Greenland

24
25
26
27

The city which is the biggest centre for

manufacture of automobiles in the world is
The country which is the largest producer of
manganese in the world is
The country which is the largest producer of
rubber in the world is
The country which is the largest producer of tin
in the world is

Detroit, USA
USA
Malaysia
Malaysia

28
29

The river which carries maximum quantity of water

into the sea is the
The city which was once called the `Forbidden
City' was

Mississippi
Peking

30

The country called the Land of Rising Sun is

Japan

31

Mount Everest was named after

Sir George Everest

32

The volcano Vesuvius is located in

Italy

33

The country known as the Sugar Bowl of the

world is

Cuba

34

The length of the Suez Canal is

35

The lowest point on earth is

36

The Gurkhas are the original inhabitants of

Nepal

37

The largest ocean of the world is the

Pacific ocean

38

The largest bell in the world is the

39

The biggest stadium in the world is the

40

The world's largest diamond producing country

is

162.5 kilometers
The coastal area of
Dead sea

Tsar Kolkol at
Kremlin, Moscow
Strahov Stadium,
Prague
South Africa

41

Australia was discovered by

42

The first Governor General of Pakistan is

43

Dublin is situated at the mouth of river

Liffey

44

The earlier name of New York city was

New Amsterdam

45

The Eifel tower was built by

Alexander Eiffel

46

The Red Cross was founded by

Jean Henri Durant

47

The country which has the greatest population

density is

James Cook
Mohammed Ali
Jinnah

Monaco

48

The national flower of Britain is

Rose

49

Niagara Falls was discovered by

Louis Hennepin

50

The national flower of Italy is

Lily

51

The national flower of China is

Narcissus

52

The permanent secretariat of the SAARC is

located at

Kathmandu

53

The gateway to the Gulf of Iran is

Strait of Hormuz

54

The first Industrial Revolution took place in

England

55

World Environment Day is observed on

5th June

56

The first Republican President of America was

Abraham Lincoln

57

The country famous for Samba dance is

Brazil

58

The name of Alexander's horse was

Beucephalus

59

Singapore was founded by

Sir Thomas
Stamford Raffles

60

The famous British one-eyed Admiral was

Nelson

61

The earlier name of Sri Lanka was

Ceylon

62

The UNO was formed in the year

1945

63

UNO stands for

64
65

The independence day of South Korea is

celebrated on
`Last Judgement' was the first painting of an
Italian painter named

United Nations
Organization
15th August
Michelangelo

66

Paradise Regained was written by

John Milton

67

The first President of Egypt was

Mohammed Nequib

68

The first man to reach North Pole was

Rear Peary

69

The most famous painting of Pablo Picasso was

Guermica

70
71
72

The primary producer of newsprint in the world

is
The first explorer to reach the South Pole was
The person who is called the father of modern
Italy is

Canada
Cap. Ronald
Amundson
G.Garibaldi

73

World literacy day is celebrated on

8th September

74

The founder of modern Germany is

Bismarck

75

The country known as the land of the midnight

sun is

Norway

76

The place known as the Roof of the world is

Tibet

77

The founder of the Chinese Republic was

San Yat Sen

78

The first Pakistani to receive the Nobel Prize

was

Abdul Salam

79

The first woman Prime Minister of Britain was

Margaret Thatcher

80

The first Secretary General of the UNO was

Trygve Lie

81

The sculptor of the statue of Liberty was

82

The port of Banku is situated in

Azerbaijan

83

John F Kennedy was assassinated by

Lee Harry Oswald

84

The largest river in France is

Lore

The Queen of England who married her

Catherine of

brother-in-law was

Aragon

The first negro to be awarded the Nobel Peace

Ralph Johnson

Prize was

Bunche

85
86
87

The first British University to admit women for

degree courses was

Frederick Auguste
Bartholdi

London University

88

The principal export of Jamaica is

Sugar

89

New York is popularly known as the city of

Skyscrapers

90
91
92
93
94

Madagascar is popularly known as the Island of

The country known as the Land of White
Elephant is
The country known as the Land of Morning
Calm is
The country known as the Land of
Thunderbolts is
The highest waterfalls in the world is the

Cloves
Thailand
Korea
Bhutan
Salto Angel Falls,
Venezuela
United States

95

The largest library in the world is the

Library of
Congress,
Washington DC