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General Knowledge : India Gk
| `Mrinalini'was written by | Bankim chandra Chatterjee |
| `Sea Bird'project is located at | Karwar |
| A programme launched by Chandrababu Naidu,Chief minister of Andhra Pradesh, to clean the city of Hyderabad was named | Janmabhoomi |
| Agra was founded in the year | 1506 |
| Air Force Day is celebrated on | 8-Oct |
| Air India was formed in | 1946 |
| Ajanta caves are located near | Aurangabad |
| Ajmer was founded by | Raja Ajay Dev Chauhan |
| All India Institute of Medical Science is located at | New Delhi |
| Amaravathi is located on the bank of river | Krishna |
| Ankleshwar oil field is located in | Gujarat |
| Army day is celebrated on | 21st Century |
| Atomic Energy Commission is located at | Mumbai |
| Aurangzeb died in the year | 1707 |
| Baba Amte's real name is | Muralidhar Devidas Amte |
| Badrinath is located at | Uttar Pradesh |
| Bangalore city is also called the | Garden city |
| Before attaining statehood,Mizoram was one of the districts of | Assam |
| Bhagat Singh was hanged in the year | 1931 |
| Bhaskara-II was a famous | Mathematician |
| Bill Gates visited India in | Mar-97 |
| BSF stands for | Border Security Force |
| Buland Darwaza is located at | Fatehpur Sikri |
| Burma seperated from India in the year | 1937 |
| Calcutta is situated on the banks of river | Hoogli |
| Cement Research Institute of India is located at | Balabhgarh |
| Central Bureau of Investigation was formed in | 1963 |
| Central Research Institute is located at | Kasauli |
| Crude oil is found in south Gujarat at | Ankleshwar |
| Dal lake is located in | Jammu and Kashmir |
| Dr.Pramod Karan Sethi is famous for the | Jaipur foot |
| Dum Dum airport is located at | Calcutta |
| Elephanta Caves are located on an island near | Mumbai |
| Emperor Akbar's Revenue Minister was | Todarmal |
| Gandhiji was assassinated by | Nathuram Godse |
| Gandhiji was born on | 2nd October 1869 |
| Gandhiji's mother's name was | Putli Bai |
| Gateway of India is located at | Mumbai |
| Goa attained statehood on | ######## |
| Goa was liberated in the year | 1961 |
| Golconda Fort is located near | Hyderabad |
| Gujarat attained statehood on | 1-May-60 |
| Haryana attained statehood on | 1-Nov-66 |
| Hindustan Antibiotics Ltd,India's largest manufacturer of penicillin is located at | Pimpri |
| Humayu's tomb is located at | New Delhi |
| Hussain Sagar Lake is located at | Hyderabad |
| In 1983,Bharat Ratna was posthumously awarded to | Acharya Vinoba Bhave |
| In his last years,Ambedkar converted to | Buddhism |
| Indian Airlines was formed in | 1953 |
| Indian broadcasting was nationalised in | 1930 |
| Indian Military Academy is located at | Dehradun |
| India's first test tube baby was born in | Jun-86 |
| India's highest peak is the | Kanchenjunga |
| India's second Prime Minister was | Gulzarilal Nanda |
| Indira Gandhi airport is located at | Delhi |
| ITBP stands for | Indo-Tibetan Border Police |
| Jamnalal Bajaj Awards are given for | Constructive work |
| Jantar Mantar is an | Observatory |
| Jantar Mantar is located in | New Delhi |
| Jantar Mantar was constructed by | Maharaja Jai Singh II |
| Jawaharlal Nehru died in the year | 1964 |
| Jawaharlal Nehru's biography "With No Regrets"was written by | Krishan Hathisingh |
| Jawaharlal Nehru's mother's name was | Swaroop Rani |
| Jog falls is located at | Jog,Karnataka |
| Kerala attained statehood on | 1st November 1956 |
| Khajuraho temples are located at | Chattarput,M.P. |
| Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan died in the year | Frontier Gandhi |
| Khushwant Singh is a famous | Journalist |
| Kodaikanal, a famous holiday resort is located in | Tamilnadu |
| Koradi Thermal power Station is located at | Maharashtra |
| Lalit Kala Academy of India is situated at | New Delhi |
| Madhya Pradesh attained statehood on | Nov-56 |
| Madras state was renamed as Tamilnadu in the year | 1969 |
| Mahadevi Varma won the Jnanpith for her book titled | Yama |
| Mahatma Gandhi died in the year | 1948 |
| Manipur attained statehood on | 21st January 1972 |
| Meenambakkam airport is located at | Chennai |
| Meghalaya attained statehood on | 21st January 1972 |
| Meghalaya state was carved out of | Assam |
| Mihirsen,India's famous long distance swimmer,was by profession | An Advocate |
| Miss World 1997 contest was held at | Seychelles |
| Mizoram attained statehood on | 20th February 1987 |
| Mother Teresa died on | 5-Sep-97 |
| Mount Abu, a famous hill station is located at | Rajasthan |
| Mr.Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated on | 21-5-1991 |
| Mrs.Indira Gandhi was assassinated on | 31-10-1984 |
| Mughal Gardens is located at | New Delhi |
| NABARD was established in the year | 1982 |
| Nagaland attained statehood on | 1-Dec-63 |
| Nagarjuna Sagar dam is built across the River | Krishna |
| Nagoor,a place in Tamilnadu,is famous for | Famous muslim shrine |
| National Science day is celebrated on | 28th February |
| Navy day is celebrated on | 4th December |
| Neyveli Thermal Power Station is located in | Tamil Nadu |
| Orissa was earlier known as | Kalinga |
| Panipat is popularly known as | Weaver City |
| Pong dam is located in | Punjab |
| PTI stands for | Press Trust of India |
| Qutb-Minar is located at | New Delhi |
| Rabindranath Tagore died in the year | 1941 |
| Rabindranath Tagore give up his knighthood because of the tragic incident of | Jallianwala Bagh massacre |
| Rabindranath Tagore was born at | Jorasanko,Calcutta |
| Rail Coach Factory is located at | Kapurthala |
| Raja Ram Mohan Roy died in the year | 1833 |
| Rajasthan attained statehood in the year | 1958 |
| Rashtrapati Bhawan was built by | Edwin Lutyens |
| Reserve Bank of India was established in | 1935 |
| Sahar airport is located at | Mumbai |
| Satyajit Ray was awarded the Bharat Ratna in the year | 1992 |
| Satyartha Prakash'was written by | Swami Dayananda Saraswati |
| Sharda Act was enacted to prevent | Child Marriage |
| Sheik Abdulla was popularly known as | Sher-e-Kashmir |
| Singereni in Andhra Pradesh is famous for | Coal Mines |
| Sir C.V.Raman was born at | Thirunavannikaval |
| Space Applications Centre is located at | Ahmedabad |
| The 10th Vice-President of India is | Krishan Kant |
| The actual name of Mother Teresa was | Agnes Gonxha Bejaxhiu |
| The Bhakra dam is built across the River | Sutlej |
| The Bhopal Gas leak incident occured in | Dec-84 |
| The biggest museum in india is | Indian Museum,Calcutta |
| The biggest public sector bank in India is the | State Bank of India |
| The birth date of Jawaharlal Nehru is | 14th November 1889 |
| The capital city founded on the bank of river Gomathi is | Lucknow |
| The capital of Haryana is | Chandigarh |
| The capital of Madhya Pradesh is | Bhopal |
| The capital of Manipur is | Imphal |
| The capital of Meghalaya is | Shillong |
| The capital of Mizoram is | Aizawl |
| The capital of Nagaland is | Kohima |
| The capital of Orissa is | Bhubaneshwar |
| The capital of Rajasthan is | Jaipur |
| The capital of Sikkim is | Gangtok |
| The Carnatic volalist who won the Bharat Ratna Award was | M.S.Subbulakshmi |
| The Chairman of the Lok Sabha is the | Speaker |
| The Chief minister of a state who was awarded the Bharat Ratna was | M.G.Ramachandran |
| The city that is called the city of golden Temple is | Amritsar |
| The construction of India became effective on | 26-1-1950 |
| The construction of India was adopted on | 26-11-1949 |
| The earlier name of Assam was | Kamrup |
| The elder brother of famous sitarist Ravishankar is | Uday Shankar,dancer |
| The Environment protection Act came into effect in | 1986 |
| The Export-Import Bank of India is also known as | EXIM Bank |
| The fastest train in India is the | Shatabdi Express |
| The film actor who became the chiefminister of Andhra Pradesh was | N.T.Rama Rao |
| The first batsman to score a century in each of his first three tests is | Mohammed Azharuddin |
| The first Chief of Indian Navy was | R.D.Katari |
| The first Education Minister of free India was | Maulana Abul Kalam Azad |
| The first engineering college established in India is the | Thompson college,Roorkee |
| The first ever railway train travelled from | Bombay-Thane |
| The first General Elections were held in India in the year | 1952 |
| The first Indian Prime Minister to resign from office was | Morarji Desai |
| The first Indian state formed on linguistic basis after Independence was | Andhra Pradesh |
| The first Indian to win Oscar Award is | Bhanu Athaiya |
| The first Law Minister of Independent India was | Dr.B.R.Ambedkar |
| The first library established in India is the | William Carey library,Serampore |
| The first major steel plant established in India was | Tata Iron & Steel Co,Jamshedpur |
| The first medical college was established in India at | Calcutta |
| The first modern college in India is the | Fort William college,Calcutta |
| The first multipurpose project in India is | Damodar Valley |
| The first musician to get the Bharat Ratna | M.S.Subbulakshmi |
| The first oil well drilled in India was at | Naharpong in Assam |
| The first purely Indian bank is the | Punjab National Bank |
| The former name of Arunachal Pradesh was | NEFA |
| The Gandhi Sagar dam is constructed across the river | Chambal |
| The Gold mines located in Andhra Pradesh are | Ramagiri Gold Fields,Ananthapur district |
| The headquarters of Oil and Natural Gas Commission is located at | Dehradun |
| The highest airfield of India is the | Chushul airfield,Ladakh |
| The highest TV tower in India is located at | New Delhi |
| The Hindustan Ship Yard is located at | Vishakapatnam |
| The Homeguards were organised in India in the year | 1962 |
| The Indian Academy of Science is located at | Bangalore |
| The Indian Academy of Science was founded by | C.V.Raman |
| The Indian forests are divided into how many regions | Eight |
| The Indian freedom fighter who turned into a famous spiritualist was | Aurobindo Ghosh |
| The Indian Prime Minister who nationalised the banks was | Mrs.Indira Gandhi |
| The Indian Prime Minister who wrote the book `Nature Cure'was | Morarji Desai |
| The Indian state that tops in the production of cocoa is | Kerala |
| The Indian state which has maximum number of districts is | Uttar pradesh |
| The Indian state which is largest exporter of cashewnut is | Kerala |
| The industry for which Vishakapatnam is famous for is | Ship Building |
| The king who installed a `Chain of Justice' outside his place was | Jehangir |
| The largest cave temple in India is | Ellora |
| The largest dome in India is the | Gol Gumbaz,Bijapur |
| The largest Indian river flowing into the Arabian Sea is | Narmada |
| The largest lake of India is the | Wular lake,Kashmir |
| The largest opium growing state in India is | Uttar Pradesh |
| The largest post office in India is the | GPO,Mumbai |
| The largest prison in India is the | Tihar Central Jail,Delhi |
| The largest railway bridge in India is | Sone Bridge,Bihar |
| The largest refinery of India is the | IOC Refinery at Koyah,Gujarat |
| The largest state in India is | Madhya Pradesh |
| The largest Zoo of India is the | Zoological Garden,Calcutta |
| The leader whose death was announced in the Lok Sabha before his actual death was | Jayaprakash Narayan |
| The length of Indian coastline is | 7500 kms |
| The longest day in India is | 21st June |
| The longest railway platform in India measuring 836.63 mts. is located at | Kharagpur |
| The longest road in India is the | Grand Trunk Road |
| The main airport of Orissa is located at | Bhubaneshwar |
| The main attraction of Mount Abu are the | Dilwara Jain Temples |
| The main industry of Assam is | Tea Industry |
| The main occupation of Indians is | Agriculture |
| The Miss World 1996 Contest was held at | Bangalore |
| The Miss World 1997 title was won by | Diana Hayden |
| The most literate state in India is | Kerala |
| The most populated state of India is | Uttar Pradesh |
| The movie Raja Harishchandra was released in the year | 1913 |
| The name of the artificial harbour along the west coast India is | Kandla |
| The name of the mines in Rajasthas from where we get zinc is | Zawar |
| The name of the school started by Rabindranath Tagore was | Shanti Niketan |
| The national flower of India is | Lotus |
| The National Museum of Natural History is located at | New Delhi |
| The Navy Academy is located at | Cochin |
| The oldest english daily newspaper of India is | The Times of India |
| The oldest refinery in India is the | Digboi refinery |
| The oldest tree in India is the | Monus Serrata at Joshimutt |
| The only diamond producing area in India is | Panna Diamond Belt,M.P. |
| The only Indian metro railway system is at | Calcutta |
| The only Indian state where we find nickel ore is | Orissa |
| The only place in India where rock salt is found is in | Mandi,Himachal Pradesh |
| The pin code was introduced in India in the year | 1972 |
| The place in North East India which receives the highest annual rainfall is | Chirrapunji |
| The place where Indian Standard time coinsides with local time is | Allahabad |
| The postal department was set up in India in the year | 1854 |
| The president of the Indian National congress at its first session held in 1885 was | Womesh Chandra Banerji |
| The river that passes through the Thar desert is | Sindhu |
| The Samadhi of Gandhiji is known as | Rajghat |
| The Samadhi of Gandhiji is located on the bank of river | Yamuna |
| The samadhi of Indira Gandhi is known as | Shakti Sthal |
| The source of river Indus is | Mount Kailash,Tibet |
| The state which is the largest producer of iron ore in India is | Karnataka |
| The strength of Lok Sabha is | 545 members |
| The strength of Rajya Sabha is | 250 |
| The supreme commander of Army,Navy and Airforce is the | President |
| The Tower of Victory is located at | Chittoor |
| The Udaygiri caves were built by | Karavelu |
| Traveller Hawkins visited India in the year | 1608 AD |
| Vajpayee Government was sworn in for the second time on | 19 march, 1998 |
| VDIS was launched on | 1-Jul-97 |
| Victoria Memorial is located at | Calcutta |
| Who is known as the Father of Indian industry | Jamshedji Tata |
| Zakir Hussein died in the year | 1969 |
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