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Sports                                                  Medieval History
   l Trophies and their sport                              l Monuments and their related emperor
         Trophy                    Sport
                                                                 Monument                 Emperor
      a. Ranji Trophy              Cricket
                                                              a. Agra Fort                Akbar
      b. Santosh Trophy            Football
                                                              b. Taj Mahal                Shahjahan
      c. Agha Khan Cup             Hockey
                                                              c. Purana Quila             Sher Shah
Miscellaneous                                              l Second battle of Panipat was fought between
   l Input device is used to enter data and instruc-          Akbar and Hemu.
      tions into a computer.
                                                        Modern History
   l In examination, Terabyte has largest storing
      space.                                               l The first Governor General of Bengal was War-
                                                              ren Hastings.
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Yottabyte has largest storing space. 1 YB = 10008 bytes
                                                        Warren Hastings was the first Governor of the Presi-
= 1024 bytes = 1000000000000000000000000 bytes =
                                                        dency of Fort William (Bengal), the head of the Su-
1000 zettabytes = 1 trillion terabytes.
                                                        preme Council of Bengal, and thereby the first de
   l ‘Van Mahotsav’ is associated with planting of      facto Governor-General of India from 1772 to 1785.
      trees.
                                                           l An important role in Gadar Movement was played
   l The Union Ministry of Human Resource Devel-              by Lala Hardayal.
      opment has launched a nationwide ‘Students for
      Soldiers: Vidya Veerta Abhiyan’ to display por-   Geography and Environment
      traits of Paramveer Chakra decorated soldiers in     l The equator is an imaginary line on Earth at 0
      education institutes.                                   degree latitude.
   l Folk dances and their related state                   l The Narmada River flows westwards and falls into
         Folk Dance                State                      Arabian Sea.
      a. Ghoomar                   Rajasthan                                  Success Tip
      b. Bihu                      Assam
                                                        Tapti is another River which flows westwards and
      c. Bhangra                   Punjab
                                                        falls into Arabian Sea.
      d. Lavani                    Maharashtra
                                                           l The imaginary lines encircling the earth horizon-
      e. Jat-Jatin                 Bihar
                                                              tally are called latitudes.
   l In the 64th National Awards, the Best Hindi Film
                                                           l All three latitudes i.e. equator, tropic of cancer
      for the year 2016 has been awarded to Hindi film
                                                              and tropic of Capricorn pass through Africa.
      Neerja.
                                                           l Nagpur is also known as ‘zero-mile centre’ of In-
                      Success Tip                             dia.
Neerja is a 2016 Indian Hindi-language biographical                           Success Tip
thriller film directed by Ram Madhvani and written
                                                        Zero Mile Stone is a monument locating the geo-
by Saiwyn Quadras and Sanyuktha Chawla Shaikh.
                                                        graphical centre of colonial India in the city of Nag-
   l The book ‘Hope in a challenged Democracy’ is       pur, Maharashtra. The Zero Mile Stone was erected
      authored by Dr. Ashwani Kumar.                    by the British who used this point to measure all the
   l India has signed a bilateral contract for develop- distances.
      ment and operations of Chabahar port with Iran.      l National Parks and their related animals
   l ‘Operation Pawan’ was a peace-keeping operation             National Park            Animal
      by India in its neighbouring country Sri Lanka.         a. Kanha                    Tiger
                                                              b. Kaziranga                Rhinoceros
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                                                              c. Gir                      Lion
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   l In Indus Valley Civilisation, Kalibangan is famous COMMON ERRORS IN ENGLISH
      for pottery.
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