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Zero was invented by Unknown Indian.

Nitrous Oxide (N2O) is commonly known as Laughing gas.

National environmental engineering institute was established in Nagpur in the year 1958.

WTO head Quarters Geneva, Switzerland. WTO Director-General Roberto Azevedo.

TEMPLE TREES: This is the official residence of the President of Sri Lanka.

MNP (Mobile number Portability). MNP was first introduced in Haryana in the year 2010.
On January 20, 2011 it was extended to the entire country.

The Wagah border lies on the Grand Trunk road connecting Amritsar and Lahore.

The towns of Baarle-Nassau in Netherlands and Baarle-Hertog in Belgium are so deeply

intertwined that it is very common to find the white crosses the divide the 2 countries
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running through a road, a restaurant or even a house.

The citizens of Australia and New Zealand can work and live in either country without
restrictions.

India shares open border policy with Nepal.

The smallest sea island Market Island is shared by Sweden and Finland.

The Berlin wall that separated East and West Germany epitomized as the Iron Curtain, a
boundary between the Free World and the Communist World.

As per Schengen agreement one does not require any special travel documents to cross
over to another European country.

International Monitory Fund and International Bank for Reconstruction and Development
or World Bank, both put together is called Bretton Woods twins.

International Monitory Fund and World Bank both Head quarters located in Washington.
Both were set up in the year 1945

PLUTO lost the status of a planet.

Edmund Hillary (New Zealand) and Tensing Norgay (Nepal) called "Tiger of the snows",
became the first men to scale Mt. Everest in 1953.

Zaid or Zayar is the term used for crop grown between the Rabi and Kharif crop.

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Indias first satellite Aryabhatta (1975) and second satellite Bhaskara-I (1979) both were
launched from Baikanour Comsodrome (USSR).

Bhaskara-I was Indias first earth observations satellite.

Geosynchronous orbit (36,000 km) is an earth orbit made by an artificial satellite moving
west to east direction
The National Museum of Natural History was set up in the year 1772 in Madrid (Spain) is
the first museum of its kind.

Karakoram Highway connects Pakistan-occupied Kashmir with xianjing in China. This is

800 km long.

June 5th World Environment day.

July 11th World population day.

RBI prints all currency notes except one rupee note and other coins.

One rupee note printed and coins are minted by the Ministry of Finance.

Note: The Ministry stopped printing the one rupee notes.

The highest currency denomination at present in India is Rs. 1000/- notes.

The maximum permissible denomination that RBI can issue Rs. 10,000/- notes.
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The Punganur cow is the Worlds smallest breed (type, variety) of cows. This cow milk
contains highest fat (8 percent) content and rich medicinal properties.

Normally cow milk contains 3 to 3.5 percent fat.

Bengal Gazette was the first major news paper started in India in 1780.

Liver is the largest gland in the human body.

In India between 1872 to 1931 caste based census was conducted.
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After independence government conducted the caste based census for the 1st time in
2011.

MMTS - for Multi Model Transport System.

DHMU - for Diesel Hydraulic Multiple Unit.

IED - Improvised Explosive Devise

SaaS (Software as a Service) is an application hosted on a remote server and accessed

through internet.

WIMAX (Worldwide interoperability for Microwave access) is a telecommunication

technology that provides wireless data in various ways.
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CLOUD COMPUTING is a general term for anything that involves delivering hosted
services through internet.

Bing, Wolframalpha, Kosmix, Cuil are the names of various search engines.

Orkut, Face book, Twitter, My Space, LinkedIn are the names of various Social
networks.

Sulphuric Acid is the most important industrial chemical in the world. A most commonly
used strong acid.USA is the largest producer of the same.

Satyajit ray and Latha Mangeshkar are the two persons who won both Bharat Ratna and
Dada Sahib Phalke awards.

Indian institute of science is located in Bangalore.

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China was the 1st country to introduce paper currency. Cowries shells were used by the
Chinese as a medium of exchange.

Assam was called Kamrupa.

Paper industry started in China in 1 AD.

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12th FIVE YEAR PLAN period April 1, 2012 to March 31, 2017.

Kalapani and Susta is the dispute between India and Nepal.

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mohit goyal

4 months ago

'punganur" breed in which country...???????

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Lakshmipathi Pathy

mohit goyal 2 months ago

india , andhrapradesh ,chittoor district , punganuru mandal

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bharath kumar

5 months ago

thank u sir.....very useful to us.....

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