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Polity
Economics
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World
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Sports
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Miscellaneous
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Section B: Miscellaneous
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Important Days
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Important Books
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Summits
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Non residential Indians can now cast their votes from abroad without being
physically present in their constituencies through e-postal ballot systems or proxy
voting.
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The representation of people act 2010, Section 20(A) stating that the NRI
should be physically present in their respective constituencies to vote was
repealed.
NITI Aayog
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The first meeting of the NITI Aayog was held on 9th February 2015.
Garg Commission
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The Garg commission under the head of Justice T P Garg submitted the
report on Sikhs massacre at Hondh Chillar Village in Rewari district of
Haryana in 1984.
A pass in 8th Std for contesting for the post of Sarpanch, with an
exception to the tribal areas for which it is a pass in 5th Std
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Through the above bill, Rajasthan state became the first state in India to
fix a minimum educational qualification for contesting in local panchayat
elections.
Rajasthan Assembly passed the Rajasthan Camel Bill 2015, which prohibits
slaughter of camel.
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Important Appointments
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The Rights of Transgender Persons Bill was passed in the Rajya Sabha
on 24th April 2015.
Tamil Nadu government has announced that the Birthday of APJ Abdul Kalam
that is October 15th will be observed as Youth Awakening day.
Important Appointments
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Santhara ritual
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Supreme Court of India lifted the stay order imposed by the Rajasthan
high court on the Santhara ritual of Jains.
Haryana became the second state to set minimum norms for contesting
in the panchayat polls, first state being Rajasthan.
An Educational degree
Toilet in home.
Namakku Name
o
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The government has invited the feedback for the proposed draft policy till
october 16, 2015.
Expert panel headed by B.S Baswan was appointed to review the civil
services exam pattern.
Madras High Court was established in the year 1862 (June 26).
The madurai bench of high court started functioning from 2004 onwards.
Citizen Portal
o
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o
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The madurai bench of high court started functioning from 2004 onwards.
Citizen Portal
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Amaravati
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The foundation stone for the New capital city of Andhra Pradesh was
laid by Prime Minister Narendra Modi .
Central government has planned declassify the files of Subash chandra Bose
from January 23, 2016 (Birthday of Nethaji).
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Sandeep Saxena
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NITI Aayog
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The Abbreviation for NITI Aayog is National Institution for Transforming India.
D K Mittal Committee
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Kamarajar Port Limited Located at Ennore has planned to expand its cargo
handling capacity to 100 million tonnes.
HRIDAY
o
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The Kanchipuram and Velankanni was also among the list of cities.
The government has allocated 500 crores for the project.
The central government sold 10% of its shares in Coal India Limited and
raised Rs.22,555 Crores.
The total disinvestment target for the current fiscal year 2014-2015 is Rs.
43,425 Crores.
India is the largest consumer of Gold in 2014 with 880 tonnes of gold.
o
RBI has now increased the forex remittance limit to 2.5 Lakh USD per
individual in a year
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The AAP Government in Delhi reduced the electricity tariff by 50% for the
household consumers upto 400 units per month.
The railway bugdet was separated from the general budget in the
year 1924 by the recommendation of the Acworth Committee.
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Tamil Nadu has planned to host the Global investor meet in May 2015 in
Chennai.
The interest rate in Selvamagal Semippu Thittam Scheme was increased from
9.1% to 9.2% which came to effect from April 1st 2015.
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The Reserve bank of India celebrated the 80th anniversary year which
was started on 1st April 1935.
Green Bond
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Green bond is like the normal bond with a difference that in these
Green bond the capital amount is raised to fund the green projects like
renewable projects, etc..,
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Recently the Yes Bank and Exim Bank issued these Green bond.
The first one to issue in India is the Yes Bank in rupee denomination.
Exim bank became the first to issue India's first green bond in dollar
denomination.
MUDRA Bank
o
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India
Flipkart has partnered with the Mumbai's Dabbawalas to deliver its goods.
Gujarat government launched the Industrial tourism and became the first state in
India to launch this.
IMF forecasts India's growth rate to reach 7.5% in 2015 and 2016 from the
present 7.2% in 2014.
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RBI extended the date for exchanging the Pre 2005 Rupee notes to December
31st 2015.
Assocham report
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Tamil Nadu tops with 15.2% of India's manufacturing sector jobs in the
year 2012-13.
Muhammad Yunus
o
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PMKSY Scheme
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Objective:
World bank released its first ever ranking of States on ease of doing
business in India.
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1 - Gujarat
2 - Andhra Pradesh
3 - Jharkhand
12 - Tamil Nadu.
VASTRA 2015
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SEBI + FMC
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India ranks 55th in the latest Global competitive index report 2015-16.
Last year, India was at the 71st position.
Switzerland tops the list with its consecutive first place for seven years.
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Recently the centre-state sharing ration has been changed from 65:35 to
50:50.
Vistusa
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No maximum Limit
Government will issue gold coins with Ashok Chakra Symbol and
additional security features.
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Pamban Bridge
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Agni-V
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Payload: 1100 kg
GAGAN
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National wide mobile Number Portability commences from May 3rd 2015.
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28 corroded old girders of Pamban bridge was replaced with new girders.
Solar Impulse 2
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IRNSS 1 - D
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Periscope App
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TRAI recommended the use of '112' as a single common number for emergency
services across the country as the similar to the US's 911 emergency number.
Messenger Spacecraft
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The Message Spacecraft ended its 11 year long journey after crashing
into the surface of the Mercury
Google has planned to set up its largest Asian Campus in Hyderabad at a cost
of about 1000 crore rupees.
Chandrayaan 2
o
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INS Vikrant
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Multi Object Tracking Radar was launched at the Satish Dhawan Space
centre at Sriharikota.
With this technology India joins the list with USA, Japan, Israel and
Canada.
Shubham Banerjee
o
He is now working with Microsoft to integrate the Braille printer with the
Windows.
The Atlas - Earth Platinum : The world's largest Book weighing 150 kg was put
on display at the library in Sydney (Australia).
The brightest galaxy which was discovered recently was named as CR7 after
Cristiano Ronaldo (Portuguese Football Player).
ClapShare
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A new app which helps the users to share their own books to anyone
using the app.
GSAT 6
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It has a 6 metre diameter antenna, which is the largest antenna that the
ISRO has ever made.
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Ranks 64th in India for availing e-resources and ranks 2nd in Tamil
Nadu.
BSNL increased the minimum broadband speed from 512 kbps to 2 Mbps
without any extra cost.
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On 24th Sept, 2015 the MOM (Mars Orbiter Mission) sent by ISRO
completed one year of orbiting around the Mars Planet.
o
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AbilityFest 2015
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The Indian National Centre for ocean Information Services (INCOIS) is located in
Hyderabad.
INS Kochi
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INS Kochi is the second series of the Indian Navy Kolkata class guided
missile destroyer ship first one being INS Kolkata (Launched in 2014).
INS Astradharini
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IAMAI - Mobile10X
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UTS App
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The cost of the LED bulbs will be recovered through monthly electricity
bills.
MVoter2015
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Xingzhe No 1
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BrahMos
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Speed:2.8 mach.
Varanasi
Range: 4000 Km
GSAT-15
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Bharatvani
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Hijab
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USA imposed new sanctions on North Korean Government officials and its
defense industries for a cyberattack on Sony.
Kolinda Grabar Kitarovic - was elected as the first women president of Croatia.
John F Kennady Airport (New york)
o
Miss universe
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MH370
(US).
Indian Prime minister Narendra Modi has planned to visit Srilanka in the
month of March 2015..
UNICEF '7'
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The number 7 was chosen as the name of the fund because it is the
jersey number of David Beckham(Manchester united).
SAARC Yatra
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Bangladesh is the first country in the yatra list and next to Pakistan.
The 7th BRICS Summit 2015 will be hosted by Russia in July 2015.
The 6th SCO (Shanghai Cooperation Organisation) summit 2015 will be hosted
by Russia in July 2015.
4. Germany
5. France
David pearce was a 15 year old school boy who won the coin design
competition conducted by the Royal Mint of Britain.
German Airwings Airbus A320 crashed in the French alps region during it
journey for the Barcelona(In France) to Duesseldorf(In Germany).
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Earthquake in Nepal
o
Operation Maitri
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UK Election 2015
o
Anthony Brutto, a 94 year old American graduated from West Virginia University
after a period of 75 years of enrolling.
43 people from Shia ismalis sect were killed in a gun attack in Karachi.
Kung Fu Yoga
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The train which derailed recently in USA during its journey from
Washington to New York
Sterile Mosquitoes
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In order to tackle the Dengue, more than half a million number of sterile
mosquitoes were released in the Guangzhou region of China.
Yanis Varoifakis
o
FIPIC 2015
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Indian Government removed Iran from the list of restricted visa nations.
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Ranil Wickremesinghe
o
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Reporter Alison Parker and Cameraman Adam Ward was shot dead
during a live Program.
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The head of the Lenin statue was unearthed in a forest in East Berlin
recently.
The first edition of the Exercise 2015 was held at Vishakapatnam port.
Mitra Shakti
o
Alexis Tsipras won the Greece Election thereby becoming the Prime
Minister for the second time.
G4 Summit 2015
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The annual summit of G20 - 2018 will be hosted by India in New Delhi.
G20 Upcoming Annual summits
2015 - Turkey
2016 - China
2017 - Germany
2018 - India
German Chancellor Angela Merkel Visited India for a 3 Day official tour.
o
A 10th Century durga idol which was gone missing from a temple in
Kashmir was returned to India.
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Germany refused to sign the MLAT agreement with India quoting its
provision for death penalty
CORPAT
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Indian film 'The Apu Triology' directed by Satyajit ranked 4th in the list
of top 100 Asian Cinema.
World bank revised the global poverty to 1.90 US Dollars from its
previous 1.25 US Dollars a day.
Exercise MALABAR
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The 2015 edition of Hand in hand exercise was held at the Kunming
Military Academy in Yunnan in China.
Hoesung Lee
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Hoesung Lee (South Korea) was elected as the head of the Intergovernmental Panel for climate change.
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Singapore airlines has planned to restart the world's longest (19 hour)
non stop flight service between US and singapore.
Marlon James (Jamaica) won the Man Booker Prize for the Year 2015
for his novel - 'A Brief History of Seven Killings'.
Don Gutoski - won the Wild life Photographer of the year 2015 competition.
Kamal Thapa - Deputy Prime minister of Nepal who visited India recently.
Robert Mugabe
o
The President of Zimbabwe, won the China's Confucius Peace prize (also
called as China's Nobel Peace Prize)
K P Sharma Oli
o
Bidhya Bhandari
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The African Union investigators team reported that they found the
evidences for cannibalism in South Sudan.
Russian Aeroplane A321 crashed during its journey from Egypt to Russia
over the Sinai Peninsula.
Leonardo Dicaprio
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Hollywood actor, who was named the United Nations messenger of peace
on climate change.
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Vivekananda Statue
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Russian fighter fet which was shot down by the Turkisk fighter jet F-16
near the Turkey-Syria Border.
The 35th edition of the national games began at the Greenfield statium
in Thiruvananthapuram (Kerala).
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Rojer Federar won the Dubai Open Tennis Title beating Novak Djokovic
in the Final.
K Srikanth (India) won the title by beating Victor Axelson in the final
match
Saina nehwal (Indian badminton player) moved to the world's number one spot
after reaching the final game in Indian open.
She is the first Indian women player to reach this and the Second indian
to do this.
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Martina Navratilova tops the most matches winning list with 1442
matches.
The opening ceremony of the IPL Season was held at Salt Lake stadium
in Kolkata.
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Carli Lloyd became the first women to score a hat trick goal in the
world cup final.
Micheal Clarke
o
Apurvi Chandela (India) won the silver medal in the Women 10m air rifle
final match.
Shane Watson
o
Floyd Mayweather
o
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S. Sriram
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US Open 2015
o
Mixed Doubles
Leander Paes (Ind) & Martina Hingis (Swiss) won the finals against
Bethanie Mattek Sands & Sam Querrey.
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Leander Paes also became the oldest man to win the mixed
doubles title.
Women's Doubles
Sania Mirza & Martina Hingis won the title against Casey
Dellacqua & Yaroslava Shevedova
Women's Singles
Men's singles
Flavia Pennetta (Italy) beat Roberta Vinci (Italy) in the final match
Novak Djokovic (Serbia) beat Roger Federer (Swiss) in the finals.
Jason Day - Australian golf player, who reached the World number one spot in
the international ranking recently.
Hawk Eye
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Pankaj Adwani (India) won the Championship title which was held at
Adelaide in Australia
The opening ceremony of the 2nd Edition of the ISL was held at
chennai.
Women's Doubles
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Pele
o
A B De Villiers
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The South African Cricketer, became the new brand Ambassador of MRF.
Women's doubles
Martina Hingis (Swiss) and Sania Mirza pair won the title.
Younis Khan
o
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Tamil Nadu tops the list with 15 tiger deaths followed by Madhya
Pradesh (14), Uttarkhand (8).
The 9th edition of this film festival is to be scheduled from 16th Jan
2014 in Pune.
Sofosbuvir
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Mild tremors were recorded in several places of Andhra Pradesh with magnitude
1.8 in Richter scale.
Vengurla-7
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Forest Owlet
Endangered species
Egyptian Vulture
Saker
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Earth Hour
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The main aim was to create awareness about global climate change.
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On that day all the lights will be switched off from 8.30 PM to 9.30 PM.
Sania Mirza was selected as the Brand ambassador for the World wide
Fund for the Earth hour Initiative.
Cyclone Pam
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Attacked the island nation Vanuatu which is located in the south pacific
region.
It is located in Karnataka
Recently the forest department started using the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
(UAV) in Bandipur tiger reserve to monitor the forest area.
UAV helps to monitor the unauthorized entry and detect the forest fires.
Mission Indradhanush
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Diphtheria
Polio
TB
Pertussis
Tetanus
Hepatitis B
Measles
Typhoon Maysak
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Silicosis
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It looks like crab and can also walk sideways and hence it is named
Crab spider.
Thane was declared the national Earth hour capital of India in 2015
National Green tribunal banned old Diesel Vehicles which are over 10 years old
in Delhi
Ecological Engineering
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This new technology helps the farmers to control the pests and also in
maintaining the biodiversity.
WHO released the status of Millennium development goals after the dead
line of 2015.
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Ngapang
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The local name of the fish in Manipur, which was recently discovered by
the ZSI as the new species of catfish.
It is in Telangana.
It was declared as a Tiger reserve in 2012.
Mision Indradhanush
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Diptheria
Pertussis(Whoophing Cough)
Tetanus
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Tuberculosis
Polio
Measles
Hapatitis B
Himalaya Diwas
o
Afghanistan and Pakistan are the two countries where the polio is still
endemic.
ICRISAT - International Crop Research Institute for the Semi Arid Tropics
has announced the Finger millet as its 6th mandate crop.
Sorghum
Pearl Millet
Chickpea
Pigeonpea
Groundnut
Finger Millet
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The NGRI conducted the research and reported that there is no evidence
for the existence of submerged volcano off the Puducherry coast.
Chennai's Elliots beach road (in Besant Nagar) will host Chennai's first
car free Zone day on 11th October between 6 AM and 9 AM.
Mission Indradhanush
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Harur Government Hospital has become the fourth hospital in Tamil Nadu to get
the accreditation from the Narional Accreditation Board of Hospitals and Health
care Providers.
Srivaikundam Dam
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The National Green Tribunal banned the sale of sand mined in the
desilting of the Srvaikundam Dam.
Ketoprofen
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Some Important Alien Plant Species in Tamil Nadu and their Scientific Names
1. Seemai Karuvelam [Prosopis Juliflora]
5. Mookuthuthi Poo or Star weed or white top or white cap or carrot weed
[Parthenium]
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Sishu Aloy
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Bihar govt planned to ban the sale of liquor from April 1, 2016.
Important Appointments
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Shailesh Nayak was appointed as the interim chairman of ISRO after the
retirement of K Radhakrishnan
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Operation Smile
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Awards
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Leela Samson (Bharathanatiyam Artist) - was given the title Natya Kala
Acharya.
104 persons were selected in total from various fields for Padma awards.
Among them,
o
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Ashok chakra
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Kailash Satyarthi
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Priya Pillai
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She explained about her work in the Mahan region in Madhya Pradesh.
Saudi Arabia's king Abdullah died and the kingship was passed to his brother
Salman.
Metro train services at Mantri Square station (In Bangalore) was stopped for 5
mins to rescue a Black Kite (a bird).
Pooja Thakur
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became the first women to lead the guard of honour for US president
Barrack Obama.
Vaibhav Shenoy
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Young artist from mangaluru was announced the winner of the national
level Stamp design competition organised by Indiapost to mark the
republic day with Clean India as the theme.
Fr Alexis Premkumar
o
A christian priest from Tamil nadu was released by the Taliban who was
abducted eight month ago in Afghanistan.
Important Days
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INS Sindhukosh
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It is a musical event.
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Paris in France will be the host city for the International Jazz Day April
2015.
Amber Fort
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it is Jaipur (Rajasthan).
Important Appoinments
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Important Days
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Awards:
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Santhi Ranganathan was given the Avvaiyar award for the year
2015.
Bharat Ratna
Kutram Kadidhal
Tamil film which won the national award for the best regional film
of 2014.
India's Daughter
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It is based on the 2012 Delhi Gang rape and some more incidents.
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The finial of the Humayun's tomb (in New Delhi) which was struck by the storm
(May 2014) was replaced by a new one.
Jeevan Dhara
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The Rajasthan Government opened the first state run Mother's milk bank
in India.
The Tiwa tribes of Assam celebrates the Sokra Misawa festival marking
the welcoming of the Spring.
Pesalam Vaanga
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Alan Turing
Vankadarath Saritha
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Rajendra Singh
Chuhrim Sherpa
Recently started climbing the Everest taking along with her the bat
and jerseys used by the Australian cricketer Philip Hughes.
Raja Rajeshwari
Ponniyin Selvan
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Kerala - KSRTC
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Important Days
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Awards
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Important Days
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Festival
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Awards
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Pramod Patil, ornithologist form pune was awarded Whitley Award for his
efforts on the conservation of the Great Indian busturd.
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Kazi Nazrul Islam Airport is India's First private Green field Airport.
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George Cross
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The George Cross which was awarded Posthumously to Naik Kirpa Ram
(Indian Soldier) in 1946 was stolen. It was traced and it will handed over
to his wife Brahmi Devi.
Ninad Bedekar
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B B King
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Natanam
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Sunil Nesarikar
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Chief fire officer in Mumbai fire department, died after sustaining injuries
while fighting with fire in a building.
Important Days
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The yoga demonstration at Rajpath also created another world record with
largest number of foreign nationals participating from 84 countries.
Ira Singhal - became the first physically challenged woman to top the
UPSC Civil services exam.
TK 0065
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Important Days
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August 29 - National Sports Day [Birth Day of Dyan Chand, former Indian
hockey Player]
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Hardik Patel - who led the agitation demanding reservation for patels in
Gujarat.
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Sasi Perumal - Social activist who died during the anti-liquor protest.
Kayyara Kinhanna Rai - Kannada poet and freedom fighter who died
recently.
Awards
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Poet Sella Ganapathy won the Bal Sahitya Puraskar Award for this year
from Sahitya Academy.
Zaina Erhaim of Syria won the Peter Mackler Award 2015 for courageous
journalism.
Sports Awards
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Sania Mirza
Bajrang (Wrestling)
P R Sreejish (Hockey)
M R Poovamma (Athletics)
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Sreejesh P R ( Hockey)
Dahihandi
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It is a sport in which human pyramids are formed and they try to break
the pot hanging above.
182
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Tree of Life
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An Artificial tree in Apollo hospital, which bears the name of the organ
donors.
Asphyxiation
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The highest number of cases under the UAPA act has been filed in the
state of Manipur in 2014.
Mann Ki Baat
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Important Days
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Hardik Patel - was in news for the launch of reverse dandi march.
N Gokula Krishnan - was elected as the member of Rajya Sabha
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Putarekulu
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Awards
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Goutam narayan - won the Harry Messal award for his role in the pigmy
hog conservation in north eastern states.
The Ministry of oil and petroleum made the usage of Suraksha hose mandatory
now for use of LPG Cylinders.
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About 200 megaliths graves were found on Nagarjunasagar reservoir bed by the
Archaelogy department.
Tower of Silence
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In Parsi religion, the body of the deceased person was kept exposed for
The Zoroastrians worship fire as god and hence they do not burn the
Kallikkatu Ithikasam
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Indian Roller
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Books:
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Jhulelal Chaliha
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SMS Emden
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Heli Tourism
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Important Days
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October 26 - October 31, 2015 - Vigilance awareness week for this year
2015.
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Important Books
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Puttamrajuvari Kanriga
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Awards
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Medicine
1. Tu Youyou - China
2. William C Campbell - Irish
3. Satoshi Omura - Japan
Tu Youyou
Physics
Chemistry
Economics
The Central Government has given the approval for a National War
Memorial and a National War Museum near the India Gate in New Delhi.
Important Days
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Awards
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Important Books
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My Stamp
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My Brick My Amaravati
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Jan 22, 2016 - Delhi government has planned to celebrate the Car free day.
Section B Miscellaneous
Tamil Nadu A Short Review
Nilgiris
Tanjavur
Nagapattinam
Dharmapuri (946)
Salem (954)
Krishnagiri (958)
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Kanyakumari
Chennai
Tutucorin
Polity
[ 1st President ]
[ 2nd President ]
[ 3rd President ]
India]
5. Mohammad Hidayatullah
India]
6. Varahagiri Venkata Giri
7. Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed
8. Basappa Danappa Jatti
President of India]
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[ Acting President of
[ Acting President of
[ 4th President ]
[ 5th President ]
[ Acting
[ 6th President ]
[ 7th President ]
[ 8th President ]
[ 9th President ]
13. K. R. Narayanan
[ 10th President ]
[ 11th President ]
[ 12th President ]
[ 13th President ]
2. Gulzarilal Nanda
3. Lal Bahadur Shastri
4. Gulzarilal Nanda
5. Indira Gandhi
6. Morarji Desai
7. Charan Singh
8. Indira Gandhi
9. Rajiv Gandhi
10. V. P. Singh
15. I. K. Gujral
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Important Days
February
March
April
May
June
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August
August 29 - National Sports Day [Birth Day of Dyan Chand, former Indian
hockey Player]
September
October
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October 31 - National Unity Day (Ekta Diwas) {Sardar Vallabhai Patel Birth
Anniversary}
October 26 - October 31, 2015 - Vigilance awareness week for this year 2015.
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November
December
Important Books
Summits
BIMSTEC
Upcoming in Nepal
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SAARC
BRICS
IBSA
G-20
2014 Australia
2015 Turkey
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