Battle of Hydaspes 326 B.C.—Alexander the Great, defeated Porus, the Paurava king. Impressed by the valour of Porus, ultimately Alexander returned his kingdom to him. 

Battle of Kalinga 261 B.C.—Ashoka defeated the king of Kalinga. Ashoka embraced Buddhism and preached it during the rest of his life after this war. 

First Battle of Tarain or Thaneswar A.D. 1191  Prithvi Raj Chauhan defeated Mohammed Ghori. Second Battle of Tarain A.D. 1192—Mohammed Ghori defeated Prithvi Raj Chauhan. Ghori’s victory paved the way for the establishment of Muslim rule in India. 

First Battle of Panipat 1526—Babur defeated Ibrahim Lodhi. This laid the foundation of the Mughal rule in India. 

Battle of Khanwah 1527— Babar defeated Rana Sanga of Mewar. This battle resulted in the defeat of the powerful Rajput confederacy. 

Second Battle of Panipat 1556—Bairam Khan (Akbar’s General) defeated Hemu (the Hindu General and right-hand man of Mohd. Adil Shah). It also ended the Afghan Rule and Mughal Rule began instead. 

1- Which of the following exercised the most profound influence in framing the Indian Constitution?

A.British Constitution B.US Constitution C.Irish Constitution D.The Government of India Act, 1935 E.None of these

Answer  -  D (The Government of India Act, 1935)

2- The first attempt to introduce a representative and popular element in the governance of India was made through:

A.Indian Council Act, 1861 B.Indian Council Act, 1892 C.Indian Council Act, 1909 D.Government of India Act, 1919 E.None of these

Answer  -  A (Indian Council Act, 1861)

3- Which of the following acts introduced communal electorate in India?

A.Indian Council Act, 1861 B.Indian Council Act, 1892 C.Indian Council Act, 1909 D.Government of India Act, 1919 E.None of these

Answer  -  C (Indian Council Act, 1909)

4- By virtue of which Act, Dyarchy was introduced in India?

A.Indian Council Act, 1909 B.Government of India Act, 1919 C.Government of India Act, 1935 D.Indian Independence Act, 1947 E.None of these

Answer  -  B (Government of India Act, 1919)

5- The instrument of instructions contained in the Government of Indian Act, 1935 has been incorporated in the Constitution of India in the year 1950 as:

A.Fundamental Rights B.Directive Principle of State Policy C.Fundamental Duties D.Emergency Provisions E.None of these

Answer  -  D (Emergency Provisions)

City	River	State
Agra	Yamuna	Uttar Pradesh
Ahmedabad	Sabarmati	Gujarat
Ayodhya	Sarayu	Uttar Pradesh
Badrinath	Ganga	Uttarakhand
Cuttack	Mahanadi	Orissa
Delhi	Yamuna	Delhi
Dibrugarh	Brahmaputra	Assam
Haridwar	Ganga	Uttaranchal
Hyderabad	Musi	Andhra Pradesh
Jabalpur	Narmada	Madhya Pradesh
Kanpur	Ganga	Uttar Pradesh
Kolkata	Hoogly	West Bengal
Kota	Chambal	Rajasthan
Lucknow	Gomti	Uttar Pradesh
Ludhiana	Sutlej	Punjab
Nasik	Godavari	Maharashtra
Pandharpur	Bhima	Maharashtra
Patna	Ganga	Bihar
Rajahmundry /  Rajamahendri	Godavari	Andhra Pradesh
Sambalpur	Mahanadi	Orissa
Srinagar	Jhelum	Jammu & Kashmir
Surat	Tapti	Gujarat
Tirucharapallil	Kaveri / Cauveri	Tamil Nadu
Varanasi	Ganga	Uttar Pradesh
Vijayawada	Krishna	Andhra Pradesh

City	River	Country
Amsterdam	Amsel	Netherlands
Antwerp	Schelde	Belgium
Baghdad	Tigris	Iraq
Belgrade	Danube	Yugoslavia
Berlin	Spree	Germany
Bonn	Rhine	Germany
Budapest	Danube	Hungary
Cairo	Nilew	Egypt
Glasgow	Clyde	Scotland
Hamburg	Elbe	Germany
Karachi	Indus	Pakistan
Lahore	Ravi	Pakistan
London	Thames	England
Moscow	Moskva	Russia
New York	Hudson	USA
Paris	Seine	France
Quebuc	St.Lawrence	Canada
Yangon	Irrawaddy	Myanmar
Rome	Tiber	Italy
Tokyo	Sumida	Japan
Vienna	Danube	Austria
Warsaw	Vistula	Poland
Washington	Potomac	USA

Douglas Engelbart

Inventors and their Invention list is one of the common GK that are being frequently asked in various competitive exams. We have tried to give the most comprehensive list ever for the list of inventions. The most important from current affairs perspective is the name of Douglas Engelbart, the inventor of Mouse who died on July 2, 2013. He has also been a pioneer in Hypertext,Groupware,Interactive computing. 

The  List of Inventors and their Inventions are given below

1.     Abhishikta S Shetty  - Miss South India 2014
2.     Amitabh Bachchan - India's Global Icon of the Year
3.     Amul (Milk Product Brand) - High Performance Brand Award 2013
4.     Anand Kumar - Ramanujan Mathematics Award 2014
5.     Anees Salim - The Hindu Prize for Best Fiction 2013
6.     Angela Merkel - Israel's highest civilian honour (the "Medal of Distinction")
7.     Arogya Swami Joseph Paulraj - 2014 Marconi Society Prize
8.     Assamese Film Ekhon Nedekha Nadir Xipaare (As River Flows) - Audience choice award in North Carolina film festival.
9.     Bharat Gupta - Youth Achievers Award
10.     Chandi Prasad Bhatt - Gandhi Peace Prize (2013)
11.     Cristiano Ronaldo - world's best soccer player for the 2012/2013 season (FIFA)
12.     Cyrus Mistry - DSC prize for South Asian literature
13.     Dr. Tej Vir Singh - UNWTO Ulysses Prize for Excellence 2013 in the Creation and Dissemination of Knowledge
14.     Gabriela Isler – Miss Universe 2013
15.     Govind Mishra - Sarawasti Samman (2013)
16.     Gulzar - Dadasaheb Phalke Award 2013
17.     Gyan Correa - Gollapudi Srinivas National Award 2013.
18.     ICICI Prudential Mutual Fund - Morningstar India‘s best fund house award in the debt
19.     Iwao Hakamada - WBC honorary Championship Belt
20.     Jeev Milkha Singh - Asian Tour‘s Player of the Decade
21.     Jhumpa Lahiri - Baileys Prize 2014(Shortlisted)
22.     Kathy Cross - First woman to be inducted in an ICC umpires' panel
23.     Kerala Tourism - United Nations Award
24.     Killa (a Marathi film) - Crystal Bear (Glasernen Bar)Award at the 64th Berlin International Film Festival.
25.     Koyal Rana - Miss India 2014
26.     Laxmi (an acid attack victim) - International Women of Courage Award, US
27.     Lewis Hamilton - Chinese F1 Grand Prix
28.     Madan Babu - Protein Science Young Investigator Award 2014
29.     Malala Yousafzai - Children’s Nobel Prize (Nominated)
30.     Meb Keflezighi - First US male athlete to win the Boston Marathon 
31.     Meera Chandrasekhar - Robert Foster Cherry Award for Teaching 2014
32.     MS Dhoni - UK’s 2014 Asian Award
33.     Nadine Angerer - Best women's football player in the world (2013)
34.     Nirendranath Chakraborty - Sunil Gangopadhyay Memorial Award (2012)
35.     Pankaj Mishra - Windham Campbell Literature Prize 2014 (Non-Fiction)
36.     Pope Francis - Time Person of the year 2013
37.     Pranab Mukherjee - Award of Honor from Rotary International
38.     Prof C N R Rao - Bharat Ratna
39.     Queen Latifah - 2014 Matrix Award.
40.     Rajesh Gopakumar - 23rd G D Birla Award for scientific research (2013)
41.     Ratan Tata - Knight Grand Cross
42.     Richard Quest - UNWTO Award for Lifetime Achievement 2013
43.     Sachin Tendulkar - Bharat Ratna
44.     Sankha Ghosh - Sunil Gangopadhyay Memorial Award (2013)
45.     Shigeru Ban - Pritzker Architecture Prize 2014
46.     Shubhranshu Choudhary - Digital activism award
47.     Sikkim - National Tourism Award
48.     Sourav Ganguly - Honorary Doctor of Letters (D.Litt) degree by BESU
49.     Sriprakash KS - Asia Pacific Academy Award
50.     Stanislas Wawrinka - Monte Carlo Masters Title
51.     TCS - Top Employer in Europe
52.     Tomas Halik -  Templeton Prize 2014
53.     Vishwanath Tripathi - Vyas Samman Awards (2013)
54.     Yushi (Taiwanese poet) -  Thiruvalluvar award

1. A L Banerjee - New DGP (UP)

1. A L Banerjee - New DGP (UP)

2. Aditi Khanna - First Woman President of Indian Journalists’ Association (IJA), London
3. Ajoy Misra - MD & CEO, Tata Global Beverages Limited
4. Akhilesh Das Gupta - President (Re-Elected), Badminton Association of India (BAI)
5. Akhilesh Gupta - President of Indian Meteorological Society
6. Amitabh Kant - Secretary, Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion
7. Arvind Mayaram - New Finance Secretary
8. Arseniy Yatsenyuk - Interim Prime Minister of Ukraine
9. Arun Kumar Gupta - CMD, Shipping Corporation of India (SCI)
10. Ashraf Jehan - First female judge, Pakistan’s National Sharia Court

1. 1283 by Pele (Brazilian footballer) ** Important
2. A Leaf Turns Yellow The Sufis Of Awadh by Muzaff ar Ali
3. An Agenda for India’s Growth: Essays in Honour of P. Chidambaram edited by
4. Sameer Kochhar, ** Important
5. An Uncertain Glory India & Its Contradictions by Amartya Sen & Jean Dreze
6. And The Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini
7. An Ardent Patriot-Dinesh Goswami by Kumar Deepak Das
8. Birth of Cinema authored by N. Gopal Krishna
9. Breakpoint by Jeff Tejpal
10. Boomtown by Aditya Mukherjee

1- Of which rivers system does the Koyna river form a part?
A.The Cauvery 
B.The Krishna 
C.The Godavari 
D.The Mahanadi 
E.None of these
Answer  -  B (The Krishna)

2- The Jog waterfalls are on the river:
A.Tunga bhadra 
B.Sharavathi 
C.Koyna 
D.Netravathi 
E.None of these
Answer  -  B (Sharavathi)

3- Some of the rivers of peninsular India are non perennial mainly because:
A.Rainfall is seasonal 
B.Rainfall is low 
C.Rainfall varies from year to year 
D.Water is derived to tanks E.None of these
Answer  -  A (Rainfall is seasonal)

4- Which is the largest of the peninsular rivers?
A.Godavari 
B.Mahanadi 
C.Krishna 
D.Cauvery 
E.None of these
Answer  -  A (Godavari)

5- The Narmada and Tapti rivers of the peninsular India flow westwards:
A.Along old river courses 
B.Along valleys carved by erosion 
C.Along through bounded by faults 
D.Along joints E.None of these
Answer  -  C (Along through bounded by faults)

1. A rare pair of juvenile Egyptian Vultures was recently found at Koonthakulam bird sanctuary. The Koonthakulam bird sanctuary is situated in which state?
(a) Kerala (b) Karnataka
(c) Tamil Nadu (d) Andhra Pradesh

2. Which city will host the prestigious Commonwealth Youth Parliament in October 2014?
(a) New Delhi (b) Hyderabad
(c) Kolkata (d) Bhopal

3.Ethiopia recently diverted the flow of which river to construct the Great Ethiopian Renaissance Dam?
(a) Blue Nile (b) Zaire
(c) Limpopo (d) Niger

4. Which company recently bagged a six-year contract from the Department of Posts (DoP) to equip India Post with modern technologies and systems?
(a) Tata Consultancy Services (b) Infosys
(c) HCL Enterprise (d) NIIT

5. Who won two silver medals in the World Cup Stage I archery meet at Shanghai in 2013 from India?
(a) Trisha Deb (b) Deepika Kumari
(c) Gagandeep Kaur (d) P. Lily Chanu

No.	Acronyms	Agency	Headquarters	Head	Established	Comment
1	FAO	Food and Agriculture Organization	Italy	José Graziano da Silva	1945
2	IAEA	International Atomic Energy Agency	Austria	Yukiya Amano	1957	Associated agency
3	ICAO	International Civil Aviation Organization	Montreal, Canada	Raymond Benjamin	1947
4	IFAD	International Fund for Agricultural Development	Rome, Italy	Kanayo F. Nwanze	1977
5	ILO	International Labour Organization	Geneva, Switzerland	Guy Rider	1919	Originally part of League of Nations
6	IMO	International Maritime Organization	London, United Kingdom	Koji Sekimizu	1948
7	IMF	International Monetary Fund	Washington, D.C., USA	Christine Lagarde	1945
8	ITU	International Telecommunication Union	Geneva, Switzerland	Hamadoun Touré	1865
9	UNESCO	United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization	Paris, France	Irina Bokova	1946
10	UPU	Universal Postal Union	Berne, Switzerland	Edouard Dayan	1947
11	WB	World Bank	Washington, D.C, USA	Jim Yong Kim	1945
12	WIPO	World Intellectual Property Organization	Geneva, Switzerland	Francis Gurry	1974
13	WMO	World Meteorological Organization	Geneva, Switzerland	Alexander Bedritsky	1950
14	UNWTO	World Tourism Organization	Madrid, Spain	Taleb Rifai	1974
15	UNODC	United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime	Vienna, Austria	Yuri Fedotov	1997
16	UND I O	United Nations Data and Information Organization	Kampala, Uganda	Louis R. Rutinduka	2013

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