Indian Women CEO's in Banking & Financial Sectors
Battle of Hydaspes 326 B.C.— Alexander the Great, defeated Porus, the Paurava king. Impressed by the valour of Porus, ultimately Alexander ...
Important Battles And Wars of India
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 Constitu...
MCQ on Indian Polity: Constitutional Development
City River State Agra Yamuna Uttar Pradesh Ahmedabad Sabarmati Gujarat Ayodhya Sarayu Uttar Pradesh Badrinath...
Frequently asked Riverside Cities of India
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State
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Agra
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Yamuna
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Uttar Pradesh
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Ahmedabad
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Sabarmati
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Gujarat
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Ayodhya
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Sarayu
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Uttar Pradesh
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Badrinath
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Ganga
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Uttarakhand
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Cuttack
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Mahanadi
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Orissa
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Delhi
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Yamuna
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Delhi
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Dibrugarh
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Brahmaputra
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Assam
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Haridwar
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Ganga
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Uttaranchal
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Hyderabad
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Musi
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Andhra Pradesh
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Jabalpur
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Narmada
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Madhya Pradesh
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Kanpur
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Ganga
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Uttar Pradesh
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Kolkata
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Hoogly
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West Bengal
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Kota
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Chambal
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Rajasthan
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Lucknow
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Gomti
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Uttar Pradesh
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Ludhiana
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Sutlej
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Punjab
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Nasik
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Godavari
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Maharashtra
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Pandharpur
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Bhima
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Maharashtra
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Patna
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Ganga
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Bihar
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Rajahmundry /
Rajamahendri
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Godavari
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Andhra Pradesh
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Sambalpur
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Mahanadi
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Orissa
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Srinagar
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Jhelum
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Jammu & Kashmir
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Surat
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Tapti
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Gujarat
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Tirucharapallil
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Kaveri / Cauveri
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Tamil Nadu
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Varanasi
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Ganga
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Uttar Pradesh
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Vijayawada
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Krishna
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Andhra Pradesh
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Frequently asked Riverside Cities of the World
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Amsterdam
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Amsel
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Netherlands
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Antwerp
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Schelde
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Belgium
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Baghdad
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Tigris
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Iraq
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Belgrade
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Danube
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Yugoslavia
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Berlin
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Spree
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Germany
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Bonn
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Rhine
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Germany
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Budapest
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Danube
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Hungary
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Cairo
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Nilew
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Egypt
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Glasgow
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Clyde
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Scotland
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Hamburg
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Elbe
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Germany
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Karachi
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Indus
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Pakistan
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Lahore
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Ravi
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Pakistan
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London
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Thames
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England
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Moscow
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Moskva
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Russia
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New
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Hudson
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USA
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Paris
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Seine
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France
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Quebuc
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St.Lawrence
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Canada
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Yangon
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Irrawaddy
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Myanmar
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Rome
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Tiber
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Italy
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Tokyo
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Sumida
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Japan
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Vienna
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Danube
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Austria
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Warsaw
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Vistula
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Poland
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Washington
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Potomac
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Douglas Engelbart Inventors and their Invention list is one of the common GK that are being frequently asked in various competitive ex...
List of Inventors and their Inventions
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Abhishikta S Shetty - Miss South India 2014 Amitabh Bachchan - India's Global Icon of the Year Amul (Milk Product Bran...
List of Awards in 2014 (Till April 2014)
- Abhishikta S Shetty - Miss South India 2014
- Amitabh Bachchan - India's Global Icon of the Year
- Amul (Milk Product Brand) - High Performance Brand Award 2013
- Anand Kumar - Ramanujan Mathematics Award 2014
- Anees Salim - The Hindu Prize for Best Fiction 2013
- Angela Merkel - Israel's highest civilian honour (the "Medal of Distinction")
- Arogya Swami Joseph Paulraj - 2014 Marconi Society Prize
- Assamese Film Ekhon Nedekha Nadir Xipaare (As River Flows) - Audience choice award in North Carolina film festival.
- Bharat Gupta - Youth Achievers Award
- Chandi Prasad Bhatt - Gandhi Peace Prize (2013)
- Cristiano Ronaldo - world's best soccer player for the 2012/2013 season (FIFA)
- Cyrus Mistry - DSC prize for South Asian literature
- Dr. Tej Vir Singh - UNWTO Ulysses Prize for Excellence 2013 in the Creation and Dissemination of Knowledge
- Gabriela Isler – Miss Universe 2013
- Govind Mishra - Sarawasti Samman (2013)
- Gulzar - Dadasaheb Phalke Award 2013
- Gyan Correa - Gollapudi Srinivas National Award 2013.
- ICICI Prudential Mutual Fund - Morningstar India‘s best fund house award in the debt
- Iwao Hakamada - WBC honorary Championship Belt
- Jeev Milkha Singh - Asian Tour‘s Player of the Decade
- Jhumpa Lahiri - Baileys Prize 2014(Shortlisted)
- Kathy Cross - First woman to be inducted in an ICC umpires' panel
- Kerala Tourism - United Nations Award
- Killa (a Marathi film) - Crystal Bear (Glasernen Bar)Award at the 64th Berlin International Film Festival.
- Koyal Rana - Miss India 2014
- Laxmi (an acid attack victim) - International Women of Courage Award, US
- Lewis Hamilton - Chinese F1 Grand Prix
- Madan Babu - Protein Science Young Investigator Award 2014
- Malala Yousafzai - Children’s Nobel Prize (Nominated)
- Meb Keflezighi - First US male athlete to win the Boston Marathon
- Meera Chandrasekhar - Robert Foster Cherry Award for Teaching 2014
- MS Dhoni - UK’s 2014 Asian Award
- Nadine Angerer - Best women's football player in the world (2013)
- Nirendranath Chakraborty - Sunil Gangopadhyay Memorial Award (2012)
- Pankaj Mishra - Windham Campbell Literature Prize 2014 (Non-Fiction)
- Pope Francis - Time Person of the year 2013
- Pranab Mukherjee - Award of Honor from Rotary International
- Prof C N R Rao - Bharat Ratna
- Queen Latifah - 2014 Matrix Award.
- Rajesh Gopakumar - 23rd G D Birla Award for scientific research (2013)
- Ratan Tata - Knight Grand Cross
- Richard Quest - UNWTO Award for Lifetime Achievement 2013
- Sachin Tendulkar - Bharat Ratna
- Sankha Ghosh - Sunil Gangopadhyay Memorial Award (2013)
- Shigeru Ban - Pritzker Architecture Prize 2014
- Shubhranshu Choudhary - Digital activism award
- Sikkim - National Tourism Award
- Sourav Ganguly - Honorary Doctor of Letters (D.Litt) degree by BESU
- Sriprakash KS - Asia Pacific Academy Award
- Stanislas Wawrinka - Monte Carlo Masters Title
- TCS - Top Employer in Europe
- Tomas Halik - Templeton Prize 2014
- Vishwanath Tripathi - Vyas Samman Awards (2013)
- Yushi (Taiwanese poet) - Thiruvalluvar award
1. A L Banerjee - New DGP (UP) 2. Aditi Khanna - First Woman President of Indian Journalists’ Association (IJA), London 3. Ajoy Misr...
New Appointments in 2014
1. A L Banerjee - New DGP (UP)
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
1283 by Pele (Brazilian footballer) ** Important A Leaf Turns Yellow The Sufis Of Awadh by Muzaff ar Ali An Agenda for India’s Growth :...
Important Books & Authors
- 1283 by Pele (Brazilian footballer) ** Important
- A Leaf Turns Yellow The Sufis Of Awadh by Muzaff ar Ali
- An Agenda for India’s Growth: Essays in Honour of P. Chidambaram edited by
- Sameer Kochhar, ** Important
- An Uncertain Glory India & Its Contradictions by Amartya Sen & Jean Dreze
- And The Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini
- An Ardent Patriot-Dinesh Goswami by Kumar Deepak Das
- Birth of Cinema authored by N. Gopal Krishna
- Breakpoint by Jeff Tejpal
- 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 th...
Ultimate MCQs on Rivers of India
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...
GK & Current Affairs Power Capsule 2 for Postal Assistant Exam, SBI PO ,CLAT 2014 & SSC CGL
(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 ...