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1
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Highest Peak of Western Ghats and its height.

A

Anamudi in Kerala with a height of 2695m.

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Rivers which eroded the Eastern Ghats.

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Mahadick Gaya Krishna Kaveri.

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3
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Eastern Ghats passes through which states.

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Orissa, Andra Pradesh, Karnataka, Telangana and Tamil Nadu.

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Highest peak and height of Eastern Ghats.

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Jindagada with an height of 1680m.

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5
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How many skeletons does an adult human body have?

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206
and 270 at the time of birth.

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6
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When did India-China war happened

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the Sino-Indian War of 1962,

the border clashes in Nathu La and Cho La in 1967, and the 1987 Sumdorong Chu standoff.

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7
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Number of Administrative Divisions & Districts in UTTAR pradesh
Lok Sabha seats
seats in Legislative assembly
seats in Legislative council

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Administrative Division - 18
District- 75
Ls - 80
RS - 31
MLA - 403
MLC - 100

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8
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first open girl education

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Bettune school of education, 1849, exclusive for upper class hindus by john elliot drinkwater bettune, ishwar chandra vidyasagar was its first secratary.

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9
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First women university

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1938, SNDT University by Dhondo Keshav Karve

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10
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Remairrage tax in Marathas

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Patdam Tax

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11
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What are Contigency Funds ?

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Corpus meant specifically for adverse situation. BMC sets aside 4% of its annual net income as contigency funds.

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12
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Administrative division below district ?

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Block (Tenhsil),
Muncipal Corporation (pop exceeding 1mill),
Muncipality,
City Council.

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13
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BMC:
1) First Citizen of Mumbai ?
2) Ceremonial head of BMC ?
3) Real head of BMC ?
4) Division of city by BMC ?

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1) Mayor of BMC
2) Mayor
3) Muncipal Commisioner
4) BMC has divided the city in 7 zones, which are futher divided into 24 wards and these wards are inturn divided into 227 civic electoral wards which is managed by a Corporater.

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14
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Origin of R Indus ?

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South-West Tibet near Mansarovar Lake.

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15
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What are Kaal Baisakhi ?

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Local heavy rains with heavy winds, heavy rains rarely carried by hail storms, are Kaal Baisakhi. Such winds occur in West Bengal.

As the number of recurrences increases, Kal baishaki will continue from March until the monsoon arrives in north-eastern India.

During these times, heavy thunderstorms occur in north-eastern states such as Orissa, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Assam and West Bengal.

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16
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Define Climate
(NCERT)

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Climate refers to the sum of the total weather conditions and variations over a large area for a long period of time (around 30 years).

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17
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Who gave the theory of evolution

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Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel

18
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Height of Mt Everest

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8848 M

19
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Number of lok sabha seats in Jharkhand
Number of State assembly seats in jharkhand
CM of JHnarkhand

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ls - 14
sas - 81
cm- Champai Soren

20
Q

Type of Divorces in Islam

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Talaq
Khula
Mubarat
Faskh

21
Q

Map used in daily life
map true to its size

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1 - Mercaters Map
2 - Gall-Peters

22
Q

India’s Interest in Myanmmar

A

Kaladan Multi-Modal Transit Transport Project

23
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Number of seats in Pakistan National Assembly
Researved

A

342, out of which on 266 direct elections are held and remaning seats are reserved for Women, Non-Muslims & tribals

24
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What is delimitation

A

the act or process of fixing limits or boundaries of territorial constituencies in a country or a province having a legislative body.

25
Q

Picking Election Commissioners

A

Earlier - Executive
SC’s Ruling - Committee ( CJI, PM, LOO, Union Minsiter)
Aftermath - Committee (PM, LOO & UM)

26
Q

PAK Army Chief

A

Asim Munir

27
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Rajya Sabha:
1] Article
2] Which house of the parliament is given more power by the constitution but only in name ?
3] Can it be adjourned ?
4] Minimum Age
5] Maximum seats and reserved seats
6] Term

A

1] 80
2] Rajya Sabha
3] NO
4] 30Years
5] MAX - 250, Current - 245, Reserved - 12(for scholars)
6] 6 Years

28
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From total of 552 seats in Lok Sabha, elections are held on 543 seats and 2 are reserved for Anglo-Indians,

5 seats are reserved in Lok SAbha for

A

POK

29
Q

Whale vomit

A

Ambergris

used for perfumes & Cologene

30
Q

Yoga Day

A

21 June

31
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First Railway University

First private railway station

First Private Train in India

No of railway zones & Division

Rail Development Authority

A

Gujrat

Habibganj/ Rani Kamlapati given to Bhansal Group for managing, building and operating the station for 8 years

Tejas Express’s ticketing, refunding in train services (like catering) is managed by IRCTC but, security, loco pilots, coaches, etc are still under IR

19 Zone’s and 70 Division’s under DRM

2018

32
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Shatabdi Express

A

Century
Birth centenary of Jawaharlal Nehru
Madhavrao Schindia
Fastest till vande bharat
1988
Rani kamlapati - New Delhi

33
Q

Bara Imam Bargah
1. By
2. Year
3. Purpose
Imam Bargah
1. By
2. Year
3. Purpose

A

Bara Imam Bargah
1. 1784
2. Asaf ud daulah
3. Azardari
4. Relied from famine 1789, Keynesion Model

Imam Bargah
1. Mohammed Ali Shah
2. 1838
3. Mousoleum

34
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Which Commission decides MSP

A

CACP
Commission for Agricultural Costs and Price.

35
Q

First Jute mill in India

A

Acland Mill(1855), in Rishra city of Hoogly District.

Minhaj Abbu

36
Q

Name all North-eastern states and their capital.

A

7

37
Q

Number of tiger reserve in India

A

55

38
Q

5 sons of Temujin
who and when was Bagdad sacked

A
  1. Jochi (Golden horde (russia&eastern europe))
  2. Chagtai
  3. Ogedei(Sucessor)
  4. Tului
  5. kulug Khan

Hulagu Khan(grandson) in 1258.

39
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Cases pending in the indian court (Civil & Criminal)

A

Around 5 crore cases are pending in the Indian court
4 crore in District/provincial courts
6o lakhs in High Court
Around 60k in Supreme court

According to NITI Aayog report it would take around 300 years to solve them

Reasons - Lack of Judges, Lack of Lawers, lack of Court, police(30per cent vacancy), 0.8 per cent of gdp on judiciary.

40
Q

Reservation

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Struggle for resources
Positive eqality & Negative Equality; Exploitative discrimination & Protective discrimination.
Kingdom of travancore - law- tax for certain low caste women for hiding their breast till 1924 - Nangeli cut of her breast.
Discrimination faced by dr ambedkar.

41
Q

Conscription

A

Forceful militry service

42
Q

Capital of
1. Venezuela
2. Columbia
3. Ecuador
4. Peru
5. Bolivia
6. Chile
7. Argentina

A
  1. Caracas
  2. Bogota
  3. Quitto
  4. Lima
  5. La paz
  6. Santiago
  7. Buenos Aires.

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