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Showing posts with label GK. Show all posts

Maximum gap between two sessions of Parliament in India is 6 months

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Article 85 only requires that there should not be a gap of more than six months between two sessions of Parliament. It also says that th...

Assam shares International border with Bhutan and Bangladesh

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At one time Assam had extensive international borders with China/Tibet and Burma, modern Assam's international borders are limited to t...

Sherpa are a Tibetic ethnic group

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Sherpa are  a Tibetic ethnic group native to the most mountainous regions of Nepal, China, Bhutan and India, the Himalayas. 

The kharif crops are rice, maize, sorghum, pearl millet/bajra, finger

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The kharif crops include  rice ,  maize ,  sorghum ,  pearl millet / bajra ,  finger  millet/ragi  ( cereals ),  arhar  (pulses),  soyabea...

Mahatma Gandhi setu is built over Gnaga, 2nd longest river bridge in India

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Mahatma Gandhi Setu  (also called  Gandhi Setu  or  Ganga Setu ) is a  bridge  over the river  Ganges  connecting  Patna  in the south to ...

Ist and Gst time difference is 1 Hour and 30 minutes

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Indian Standard Time is 1 hour and 30 minutes ahead of Gulf Standard Time

Dachigam Sanctuary location is Jammu and Kashmir and famous for Kashmir stag

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Near Harwan Mughal Garden, Dachigam Road, Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir. Dachigam National Park is located 22 kilometers from Sri...

Diego Garcia is located in Indian Ocean

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Diego Garcia , the southernmost island in the Chagos Archipelago and a part of the British Indian Ocean Territory, is centrally  located in...

Ajanta caves location is in Aurangabad district of Maharashtra State

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The Ajanta Caves are 29 (approximately) rock-cut Buddhist cave monuments which date from the 2nd century BCE to about 480 CE in  Aurangabad...

The Phulaguri uprising in Nowgaon district in the year 1861

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The uprising in the Phulaguri area of middle Assam in October 1861 AD  was the first ever peasant movement in the context of Indian freedom...

Chinese pilgrim Fahien visited India in 4th Century

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      Faxian  (also known as  Fa-Hien  and  Fa-hsien ) was a Chinese Buddhist monk who travelled by foot from China to India, visiting man...

Narasingha Rao Prime Minister period was 1991-1996

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Pamulaparti Venkata  Narasimha Rao  (28 June 1921 – 23 December 2004) was an Indian lawyer and politician who served as the 9th  Prime Mini...

The Minimum no. of State Legislative assembly is 60

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The Legislative Assembly consists of not more than 500 members and not fewer than 60.  Puducherry  has 30 members.  Mizoram  and  Goa have ...

Indian state with maximum international borders

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These  states  are Sikkim, West Bengal and Arunachal Pradesh

Landlocked country is a sovereign country entirely closed by land

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A  landlocked state  or  landlocked country  is a  sovereign state  entirely enclosed by land, or whose only  coastlines  lie on  closed s...

Assam Association was replaced by Provincial congress organization in 1921

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     At Jorhat on 18th April, 1921 with Chobilal Upadhyay in the chair.In a subsequent resolution , at the initiative of leaders like Chob...

Who from Assam joined Dandi March - Nabin Chandra Bordoloi

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Nabin Chandra Bordoloi from Assam joined Dandi March.

Capital of India shifted from Calcutta to Delhi by George V in 1911

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On 12 December 1911, during the  Delhi  Durbar, George V, then Emperor of  India , along with Queen Mary, his Consort, made the announcemen...

The first railway line was opened in India was between Bombay's Bori Bunder station and Thane on 16 April 1853

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The country's  first  passenger  train , which ran between Bombay's Bori Bunder station and Thane on 16 April 1853, was dedicated b...

Amir Khusru was a member of Jalaluddin Firuz Khilji Court

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Amir Khusrow was a Sufi mystic and a spiritual   disciple of Nizamuddin Auliya . He lived for 72 years, out of which 60 years he lived in t...