🟢 BRAND AMBASSADOR
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- 🔹 Brand Ambassador of Bengal - Sourav Ganguly.
- 🔸 Tourism Brand Ambassador of Tripura - Sourav Ganguly.
- 🔹 Brand Ambassador of Lay’s - Mahendra Singh Dhoni.
- 🔸 Brand Ambassador of SBI - Mahendra Singh Dhoni.
- 🔹 Brand Ambassador of Swaraj Tractors - Mahendra Singh Dhoni.
- 🔸 Global Brand Ambassador of RADO - Katrina Kaif.
- 🔹 Uniqlo India’s Brand Ambassador - Katrina Kaif.
- 🔸 Brand Ambassador of Bharat Petroleum Corporation - Neeraj Chopra.
- 🔹 Brand Ambassador of Mobil - Hrithik Roshan.
- 🔸 Brand Ambassador of PUMA - Mohammed Shami.
- 🔹 Brand Ambassador of Slice - Nayanthara.
- 🔸 Brand Ambassador of Women’s Fashion Brand W - Anushka Sharma.
- 🔹 UNICEF India's National Ambassador - Kareena Kapoor Khan.
- 🔸 UPI Safety Ambassador - Pankaj Tripathi.

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🟢 INTERNATIONAL AWARDS GIVEN TO PM MODI IN 2023/2024
         Abhash Sir SuperCA Part 9

• 🔶 PM Narendra Modi conferred with the "Order of St Andrew the Apostle" the Highest Civilian Honour
of Russia.
• 🔶 PM Shri Narendra Modi was conferred the "Order of the Druk Gyalpo" Bhutan’s Highest Civilian
Decoration.
• 🔶 PM Narendra Modi was conferred the Fiji's Highest Honour, the Companion of the "Order of Fiji".
• 🔶 PM Narendra Modi honoured with The Grand Companion of "Order of Logohu", the Highest Civilian Award of Papua New Guinea.
• 🔶 PM Narendra Modi was conferred the "Order of the Nile", the Highest Civilian Award of Egypt.
• 🔶 PM Narendra Modi was conferred "Legion of Honour" the Highest Civilian Honour of France.
• 🔶 PM Narendra Modi was conferred Grand Cross of the "Order of Honour" the Second Highest Civilian Honour of Greece.
• 🔶 PM Narendra Modi was conferred with Palauan tool ‘Ebakl’ by President of Republic of Palau.

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🟢 35th Goldman Environmental Prize 2024 (Green Nobel Prize)
Winners
         Abhash Sir SuperCA Part 10

• 🔶 Alok Shukla (India)
• 🔶 Andrea Vidaurre (USA)
• 🔶 Marcel Gomes (Brazil)
• 🔶 Murrawah Maroochy Johnson (Australia)
• 🔶 Nonhle Mbuthuma and Sinegugu Zukulu (S.Africa)
• 🔶 Teresa Vicente (Spain)

🟢WINGS INDIA 2024

🔶 Theme :- “Connecting India to the World in Amrit Kaal: Setting the Stage for India Civil Aviation @2047”
• 🔶 Best Airports of the Year - Bangalore and Delhi Airports
• 🔶 Best Airline of the Year - Vistara-Tata SIA Airlines Ltd

🟢WORD OF THE YEAR 2023
• 🔶 Merriam-Webster’s word of the year 2023 - "Authentic"
• 🔶 Collins Dictionary word of the year 2023 - "AI"
• 🔶 Cambridge Dictionary word of the year 2023 - "Hallucinate"

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🟢 SAHITYA AKADEMI AWARDS 2023 - 2024
         Abhash Sir SuperCA Part 11

🔶Poetry
- Vijay Verma (Dogri), Vinod Joshi (Gujarati), Manshoor Banihali (Kashmiri), Sorokkhaibam Gambhini   (Manipuri), Ashutosh Parida (Odia), Swarnjit Savi (Punjabi), Gaje Singh Rajpurohit (Rajasthani), Arun Ranjan Mishra (Sanskrit) and Vinod Asudani (Sindhi)

🔶Novel
- Swapnamay Chakrabarti (Bengali), Neelum Saran Gour (English), Sanjeev (Hindi), Krushnat Khot 
(Marathi), Rajasekaran (Devibharathi) (Tamil) and Sadiqua Nawab Saher (Urdu)

🔶 Short Stories
- Pranavjyoti Deka (Assamese), Nandeswar Daimari (Bodo), Prakash S. Parienkar (Konkani), Taraceen 
Baskey (Turia Chand Baskey) (Santali) and T. Patanjali Sastry (Telugu)

🔶 Essays
- Lakshmisha Tolpadi (Kannada), Basukinath Jha (Maithili) and Judhabir Rana (Nepali)

🔶 Literary Study
- E.V. Ramakrishnan

🟢 (Malayalam)SAHITYA AKADEMI YUVA PURASKAR 2024
🔶In English
• Homeless: Growing up Lesbian and Dyslexic In India (Memoir) by K Vaishali
🔶In Hindi
• Smritiyon Ke Beech Ghiri Hai Prithvi (Poetry) by Gaurav Pandey

🟢 SAHITYA AKADEMI BAL SAHITYA PURASKAR 2024
🔶In English
• The Blue Horse and Other Amazing Animals from Indian History (Historical Fiction) by Nandini 
Sengupta 
🔶 In Hindi
• 51 Baal Kahaniyan (Stories) by Devendra Kumar

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🟢 AWARDS FOR LITRATURE
         Abhash Sir SuperCA Part 12

🔸58th Jnanpith Award 2023: Jagadguru Swami Rambhadracharya (Sanskrit) and Shri Gulzar (Urdu).

🔹33rd Vyas Samman 2023: Pushpa Bharati for her memoir "Yaadein, Yaadein aur Yaadein" (2016).

🔸32nd Saraswati Samman 2022: Tamil writer Sivasankari for her memoir "Surya Vamsam".

🔹33rd Saraswati Samman 2023: Prabha Varma for his verse novel "Roudra Sathwikam".

🔸29th Devi Shankar Awasthi Award 2023: Nishant for his criticism book "Kavita Pathak Aalochna".

🔹International Booker Prize 2024: Jenny Erpenbeck and translator Michael Hofmann for "Kairos".

🔸Booker Prize 2023: Irish author Paul Lynch for "Prophet Song".

🔹9th Oxford Bookstore Book Cover Prize 2024: Bhavi Mehta for "The Book Beautiful" by Pradeep Sebastian.

🔸WOW World Literature Prize: Renowned Kannada poet Mamta G. Sagar.

🔹2023 JCB Prize for Literature: Tamil writer Perumal Murugan for "Fire Bird".

🔸Pen Pinter Prize 2024: Arundhati Roy for her “unflinching and unswerving” writings.

🔹British Academy Book Prize 2023: Nandini Das for "Courting India: England, Mughal India and the Origins of Empire".

🔸Dhahan Prize for Punjabi Literature: Deepti Babuta for her short story collection "Bhukh Eon Sah Laindi Hai".

🔹Tata Literature Live! Lifetime Achievement Award: Tamil writer C.S. Lakshmi.

🔸Kerala Jyothi Award 2023: Eminent writer T. Padmanabhan.

🔹Sahitya Akademi’s Premchand Fellowship: Bhutanese author Tshering Tashi.

🔸Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize: Sukrita Paul Kumar for "Salt & Pepper: Selected Poems".

🔹Dr. C. Narayana Reddy National Literary Award: Sivashankari.

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🟢 INDIA’S RANK IN VARIOUS REPORTS/INDEXES
         Abhash Sir SuperCA Part 13

• 🔶 Climate Change Performance Index 2023 (CCPI) - India (7th) 
• 🔶 World Best Countries Report 2023 - Switzerland (1st) & India (30th)
• 🔶 WEF's Travel and Tourism Development Index 2024 - US(1st) & India (39th)
• 🔶 WIPO's Global Innovation Index 2023 - Switzerland (1st) & India (40th)
• 🔶 Global Intellectual Property Index 2024 - US (1st) & India (42nd)
• 🔶 Ookla’s Speedtest Global Index - UAE (1st) & India (47th)
• 🔶 2023 World Digital Competitiveness Ranking (WDCR) - US (1st) & India (49th)
• 🔶 Digital Quality of Life Index - Denmark (1st) & India (52nd)
• 🔶 IMD's World Talent Ranking 2023 - Switzerland (1st) & India (56th)
• 🔶 WEF's Energy Transition Index 2024 - Sweden (1st) & India (63rd)
• 🔶 IMF's Artificial Intelligence Preparedness Index (AIPI) - Singapore (1st) & India (72nd)
• 🔶 Henley Passport Index - India (80th) 
• 🔶 Corruption Perceptions Index 2023 - Denmark (1st) & India (93rd)
• 🔶 Gender Inequality Index 2023/2024 - India (108th)
• 🔶 Global Hunger Index 2023 - India (111th)
• 🔶 18th IEP's Global Peace Index 2024 - Iceland (1st) & India (116th )
• 🔶 Inclusiveness Index - New Zealand (1st) & India (117th)
• 🔶 UN World Happiness Index 2024 - Finland (1st) & India (126th)
• 🔶 WEF's Global Gender Gap Index 2024 - Iceland (1st) & India (129th)
• 🔶 Human Development Index 2023/2024 - Switzerland (1st) & India (134th)
• 🔶 World Press Freedom Index 2024 - Norway (1st) & India (159th)
• 🔶 Environment Performance Index 2024 - Estonia (1st) & India (176th)

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🟢 SUMMITS/CONFERENCE/EVENTS
         Abhash Sir SuperCA Part 14

• 🔶 2024 BRICS Summit - Kazan
Theme :- "Strengthening of multilateralism for the purposes of just global development and security”
• 🔶 9th BRICS Parliamentary Forum - Johannesburg
🔷Theme :- "Harnessing Multilateralism and Parliamentary Diplomacy to deepen BRICS and Africa Partnership"
• 🔶 50th G7 summit - Italy
• 🔶 24th Summit of Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) - Astana (Kazakhstan)
• 🔶 78th Session of the United Nations General Assembly - New York City, USA
🔷 Theme - “Rebuilding trust and reigniting global solidarity: Accelerating action on the 2030 Agenda and its Sustainable Development Goals towards peace, prosperity, progress and sustainability for all".
• 🔶 54th Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum(WEF), also known as “Davos Summit 2024” - Swiss Alpine School, Davos in Switzerland
🔷Theme - “Rebuilding Trust".
• 🔶 1st WHO Traditional Medicine Global Summit 2023 - Gujarat
•🔶 World Climate Summit (COP 28) - Dubai
• 🔶 40th Coast Guard Commander Conference - New Delhi
• 🔶 United Nations (UN) Peacekeeping Ministerial Meeting - Accra Ghana
• 🔶 INTERPOL General Assembly 91st Meeting - Vienna
• 🔶 11th World Government Summit (WGS) - Dubai, United Arab Emirates 
🔷Theme :- Shaping Future Governments
• 🔶 World Health Summit 2023 - Berlin, Germany
🔷 Theme - "A Defining Year for Global Health Action."
• 🔶 AI Safety Summit 2023 - United Kingdom
🔷 Theme - "Al for Good."
• 🔶 26th World Energy Congress - Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
🔷Theme - "Redesigning energy for people and planet".
• 🔶 3rd World Hindu Congress 2023 - Thailand
🔷Theme :- Jayasya Aayatnam Dharmah, which translates to "Dharma, the Abode of Victory

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🎊 FESTIVALS / उत्सव / महोत्सव 2024
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🔸 Shigmotsav 2024 - Goa
🔹 Dol Jatra Festival - West Bengal
🔸 Gorsam Kora Festival - Arunachal Pradesh
🔹 Herath Festival - Jammu Kashmir
🔸 Chapcharkut Festival - Mizoram
🔹 Flower Festival 2024 - New Delhi
🔸 International Gita Festival 2024 - Colombo, Sri Lanka
🔹 Vaikasi Visagam 2024 - Tamil Nadu
🔸 Saga Dawa Festival - Sikkim
🔹 Matatheertha Aunsi Festival - Nepal
🔸 Thrissur Pooram - Kerala
🔹 Biscuit Jatra Festival - Nepal
🔸 Longte Yulo Festival - Arunachal Pradesh
🔹 Apricot Blossom Festival - Ladakh

🔸 शिगमोत्सव 2024 - गोवा
🔹 डोल जात्रा महोत्सव - पश्चिम बंगाल
🔸 गोरसम कोरा महोत्सव - अरुणाचल प्रदेश
🔹 हेराथ पर्व - जम्मू कश्मीर
🔸 चापचारकुट महोत्सव - मिजोरम
🔹 पुष्प महोत्सव 2024 - नई दिल्ली
🔸 अंतर्राष्ट्रीय गीता महोत्सव 2024 - कोलंबो, श्रीलंका
🔹 वैकासी विसागम 2024 - तमिलनाडु
🔸 सागा दावा महोत्सव - सिक्किम
🔹 मातातीर्थ औंसी उत्सव - नेपाल
🔸 त्रिशूर पूरम - केरल
🔹 बिस्किट जात्रा महोत्सव - नेपाल
🔸 लोंगटे यूलो त्यौहार - अरुणाचल प्रदेश
🔹 खुबानी खिलना महोत्सव - लद्दाख

🏵 LATEST FESTIVAL IN NEWS 2024

🪴 Festival Name ➖ State Name
🔹 Herath Festival ➖ J&K 
🔹 Khajuraho Dance Festival ➖ Madhya Pradesh 
🔹 Maru Mahotsav or Jaisalmer Desert Festival ➖ Rajasthan 
🔹 Kanchoth festival ➖ Jammu and Kashmir 
🔹 Torgya (Monpa tribal) ➖ Arunachal Pradesh 
🔹 Kachai Lemon Festival ➖ Manipur 
🔹 Losoong (Namsoong) ➖ Sikkim 
🔹 Losar Festival, Spituk Gustor ➖ Ladakh 

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🟢 SUMMITS/CONFERENCE/EVENTS
         Abhash Sir SuperCA Part 15

• 🔶 14th World Spice Congress - Navi Mumbai 
🔷Theme :- "VISION 2030: S-P-I-C-E-S"
• 🔶 2nd National Spice Conference
2023 - Hyderabad
🔷Theme :- Food Safe Spices: The Way Forward to a Stable & Sustainable Income
• 🔶 India Mobile Congress (IMC 2023) - New Delhi
🔷Theme - "Global Digital Innovation" 
• 🔶 India Smart Cities Conclave 2023 - Indore (MP)
• 🔶 Indian Space Conclave (ISC 2023) - Manekshaw Centre in New Delhi
🔷Theme - "Bhumandal se Brahaman Tak (From Earth to the Entire Universe)".
• 🔶 Bharat Tex 2024 (World’s largest Textile Event) - Bharat Mandapam & Yashobhoomi in New Delhi
• 🔶 9th India International Science Festival (IISF) 2023 - Faridabad
🔷Theme :- "Science and Technology Public Outreach in Amrit Kaal
• 🔶 10th Vibrant Gujarat Global Investors Summit - Gandhinagar 
Chief Guest - Czech Republic's PM Petr Fiala
• 🔶 1st Nuclear Energy Summit 2024 – Belgium
• 🔶 World Hydrogen Summit and Exhibition 2024 - Rotterdam, Netherlands
• 🔶 2nd edition of India, Australia, Indonesia Trilateral Maritime Security Workshop (TMSW) - Kochi, India 
🔷Theme - 'Indian Ocean Region: Collaborative Efforts to Enhance Regional Maritime Security'.
• 🔶 BRICS Foreign Meeting - Russian city of Nizhny Novgorod
• 🔶112th International Labour Conference - Geneva , Switzerland
• 🔶 77th World Health Assembly - Geneva, Switzerland 
🔷Theme of 2024 - “All for Health, Health for All”.
• 🔶 18th G20 Summit, 1 Day Conference - New Delhi 
🔷Theme :- "Transnational Grid Interconnections for One Sun, One World, One Grid (OSOWOG)"
• 🔶 7th Indian Ocean Conference - Perth, Australia 
🔷Theme :- Towards a Stable and Sustainable Indian Ocean
• 🔶 9th Raisina Dialogue - New Delhi
🔷Theme :- “Chaturanga: Conflict, Contest, Cooperate, Create”
• 🔶 13th Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization - Abu Dhabi, UAE
• 🔶 2nd Edition Naval Commanders Conference 2023 - New Delhi
• 🔶 27th World Investment Conference - New Delhi
🔷Theme - "Empowering Investors: IPAs Pioneering Future Growth."
• 🔶 “Sahkar Se Samriddhi” Conference - Gandhinagar, Gujarat.
🔷Theme for the 102nd International Cooperative Day is “Cooperatives Build a Better Future for All.”
• 🔶 The 3-day NATO summit - Washington DC

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🟢 SPORTS VENUES
         Abhash Sir SuperCA Part 16

• 🔶 Women’s Asia Cup 2024 - Sri Lanka
• 🔶 2026 FIFA World Cup Final - New York
• 🔶 Saudi Arabia to host FIFA World Cup 2034.
• 🔶 2027 World Test Championship Final - England
• 🔶 ICC U-19 Cricket World Cup 2024 - South Africa
• 🔶 Brazil to host FIFA Women’s World Cup 2027.
• 🔶 Australia and Uzbekistan host AFC Women’s Asian Cups.
• 🔶 India will host the BWF World Junior Championships 2025 at the National Centre of Excellence in
Guwahati.
• 🔶 ICC confirms venues of 2024 Men's T20 World Cup to be co-hosted by USA & West Indies.
• 🔶 South Africa host ICC U-19 Cricket World Cup 2024.
• 🔶 England to host 2027 World Test Championship Final.
• 🔶 Bangladesh to host 24th Asian Archery Championships in 2025.
• 🔶 China's Ningbo to host World Weightlifting Championships 2026.
• 🔶 India will host Junior Hockey World Cup in 2025.
• 🔶 UP to organize 2025 edition of MotoGP Bharat in Noida.
• 🔶 French Alps to Host 2030 Winter Olympics and Paralympic Games.
• 🔶 India to host T20 Asia Cup 2025, 2027 edition in ODI format in Bangladesh.

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🟢 INTERNATIONAL NEWS
         Abhash Sir SuperCA Part 17

• 🔶 On 1 January 2024, BRICS – the intergovernmental organisation comprising Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa – admitted four new members: Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran and the United Arab Emirates.
• 🔶 Sweden officially becomes 32nd member of NATO.
• 🔶 Chile , Panama , Spain , Paraguay & Malta becomes member of International Solar Alliance.
• 🔶 United Nations Declared 2024 as the International Year of Camelids.
• 🔶 United Nations General Assembly has declared 2025 the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology.
• 🔶 UNICEF in collaboration with India to launch "Green Rising" initiative at COP28 Summit in Dubai.
• 🔶Pakistan, Somalia, Denmark, Greece and Panama were elected as nonpermanent members of the UN
Security Council for a two-year term beginning 2025.
• 🔶 Financial Action Task Force (FATF) has removed offshore tax haven Cayman Islands from its 'grey list’.
• 🔶 Angkor Wat temple in Cambodia becomes 8th wonder of the world.
• 🔶 Bhutan Becomes 1st Country to Fully Sterilise its Entire Street Dogs Population.
• 🔶 China makes world's First high-speed carbon fiber train.
• 🔶 China has launched the world’s fastest internet network that can transmit data at a rate of 1.2 terabits per second.
• 🔶 Dubai to have world’s First Air taxi, agreements inked at World Government Summit 2024.
• 🔶 France is poised to become the First Country in the world to enshrine the Right to Abortion in its
Constitution.
• 🔶 Japan introduces new 3D Holographic Banknotes.
• 🔶 Kyrgyzstan Declares Snow Leopard As National Symbol.
• 🔶 Nepal climber Kami Rita Sherpa also known as 'Everest man' climbs Mt. Everest for 29th time.
• 🔶 Indian skydiver Shital Mahajan has jumped off a helicopter from a height of 21,500 ft in front of the
world's highest peak Mt Everest.
• 🔶 New Zealand set to scrap world's First law banning tobacco sale.
• 🔶New Zealand bans disposable E-Cigarettes and Vapes.
• 🔶 Nigeria the 1st Country Globally to Launch Men5CV Meningitis Vaccine Recommended by WHO.
• 🔶 PM Modi inaugurates grand BAPS Hindu temple in Abu Dhabi.
• 🔶 Saudi Arabia is preparing to introduce its First luxury train, named the Dream of the Desert.
• 🔶 Thailand announces Visa-Free Entry for Indians to boost tourism.
• 🔶 The Ibu volcano on Halmahera Island in the eastern Indonesian province of North Maluku erupted.
• 🔶 The Tallest statue of B.R. Ambedkar known as the "Statue of Equality" has unveiled in Maryland.
• 🔶 The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) has launched the new currency “Zimbabwe Gold (ZiG)” backed by gold and foreign currencies to replace its local currency Zimbabwe dollars (ZW$).
• 🔶 Venezuela becomes First Country to lose all Glaciers.

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🟢 BOOKS IN NEWS
         Abhash Sir SuperCA Part 18

• 🔶 Adventures of Ed-aMamma: Ed Finds a Home - Alia Bhatt
• 🔶 Breaking the Mould - Raghuram Rajan 
• 🔶 Irrfan: A life in Movies - Shubhra Gupta 
• 🔶 I Have the Streets: A Kutti Cricket Story - Autobiography of Ravichandran Ashwin co-authored with Sidharth Monga.
• 🔶 Knife - Salman Rushdie
• 🔶 Source Code: My Beginnings - Bill Gates
• 🔶The Book of Life: My Dance with Buddha for Success - Vivek Agnihotri 
• 🔶 The Conspiracy - Sri Lanka ex-President Gotabaya Rajapaksa
• 🔶 The Fire on the Ganges: Life Among the Dead in Banaras - Radhika Iyengar 
• 🔶 Viswasapoorvam - Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan released Autobiography of Islamic scholar and the resident of Kerala Muslim Jama-ath, A.P. Aboobacker Musliyar.
• 🔶 Welcome to Paradise - Twinkle Khanna
• 🔶 Zeba: An Accidental Superhero - Huma Qureshi

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⚙ METALS AND NON-METALS

◼️ Metal found in blood - Iron
◼️ Heaviest metal - Osmium
◼️ Hardest metal - Platinum
◼️ Non-metal liquid at room temperature - Bromine
◼️ Lightest metal - Lithium
◼️ Lightest element - Hydrogen
◼️ Filament used in electric bulbs - Tungsten (W)
◼️ Best conductor of heat - Silver
◼️ Can be easily cut with a knife - Sodium

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🟢 Award

- Olympic Order in gold – French President Emmanuel Macron
- Ramon Magsaysay Award 2024 – Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki
- Best Airport at the India Travel Awards – Rajiv Gandhi International Airport, Hyderabad
- Global Finance Central Banker - Report Cards 2024 – Shaktikanta Das (A+ grade); 2nd year
- Hilal-e-Imtiaz Award (Pakistan 2ndhighest civilian award) – Arshad Nadeem

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🟢 QUESTION RELATED TO BOOKS AND AUTHOR'S Conducted by TCS [RRB JE 2024]

1. In which year was 'Heirloom Treasures: The Cultural Tapestry of India' by Arunima Hoskote published? 2020

2. In which year was 'Indian Culture: A Compendium of Indian History, Culture and Heritage' published? 2021

3. In which year was 'Reflections on Mughal Art & Culture' published? 2021

4. Who is the author of 'Postcolonial Elements in Amitav Ghosh's The Shadow Lines,' published in 2018? Nivedhaa Nivi

5. Who is the author of 'Fiction as History: The Novel and the City in Modern North India,' published in 2019? Vasudha Dalmia

6. In which language was the classic Indian novel 'Chandrakanta' originally written? Hindi

7. Who is the author of 'The Great Indian Novel,' published in 2011? Shashi Tharoor

8. Who is the author of 'Segar: Autobiography with Paintings,' published in 2013? D Raja Segar

9. The author of the famous novel 'Midnight's Children' is: Salman Rushdie.

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🟢 QUESTION RELATED TO ART &  CULTURE Conducted by TCS [RRB JE 2024]

1.Quwwat-al-islam mosque is located in which of the following cities? - New Delhi

2.What is the name of the famous temple complex in Tamil Nadu, known for its Dravidian architecture and 1,000-pillar hall? - Meenakshi Temple

3.What is one of the main attractions of 'Mamallapuram' apart from the dance festival ? - Architectural beauty of temples

4.What is the primary function of 'viharas' in Buddhist architecture?
- To serve as residential places for Buddhist priests.

5.What architectural style is the Meenakshi Amman Temple known for? - Dravidian

6.One of the famous Kali temples in India, Kalighat, is located in which of the following Indian states? - West Bengal

7.At which of the following places is the tomb of Sher Shah located? -Sasaram

8.Which UNESCO World Heritage Site is a cave complex with stunning paintings and sculptures, located in Maharashtra? - Ajanta Caves

9.The Great Stupa at Sanchi is an important site in which religion? -Buddhism

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🟢8 February Daily current affairs

💠India sees a 47.3% rise in fruit and vegetable exports over the past five years.
💠Zomato renames itself as Eternal Ltd., while the Zomato app retains its name, reflecting business expansion.
💠Former world No. 1 and two-time Grand Slam champion Simona Halep announces retirement from professional tennis.
💠IIT Madras launches first-of-its-kind Cancer Genome Database to revolutionize cancer research in India.
💠NASA's SPHEREX space telescope to launch in February 2025 to map the universe in infrared.
💠The 38th Surajkund International Crafts Mela will be held from 7th to 23rd February 2025 in Faridabad, Haryana, highlighting India's rich handicrafts, handlooms, and cultural heritage, making it the world's largest crafts fair.
💠Panama ends its participation in China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).
💠6.25% new repo rate after the recent cut by RBI.
💠Jyotiraditya Scindia North East Investment Roadshow.
💠Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Government of India Delhi International Leather Expo (DILEX) 2025 is organized in collaboration.
💠NITI Aayog hosted the conclave on 'Towards Viksit
💠Bharat@2047: Strengthening Economy, National Security, Global Partnerships, and Law'.

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NITI Aayog (National Institution for Transforming India) {✍ Pihu Kaur}
- Founded: 1st January 2015
- Preceding: Planning Commission (15th March 1950)
- Headquarters: New Delhi
Chairperson: Narendra Modi
- Vice Chairperson: Suman K Bery
CEO: Parameswaran lyer
- Ministry: Comes under the Ministry of Commerce and Industry

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🟢 IMPORTANT NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS IN INDIA

1. Kaiga - Karnataka
2. Chutka - Madhya Pradesh
3. Gorakhpur - Haryana
4. Bhimpur - Madhya Pradesh
5. Mahi Banswara - Rajasthan
6. Haripur - West Bengal
7. Mithi Virdi (Viradi) - Gujarat
8. Kovvada - Andhra Pradesh
9. Jaitapur - Maharashtra
10. Kakrapar Atomic Power Station - Gujarat
11. Kalpakkam Atomic Power Station - Tamil Nadu
12. Narora Atomic Power Station - Uttar Pradesh
13. Kaiga Nuclear Power Plant - Karnataka
14. Tarapur Atomic Power Station - Maharashtra
15. Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant - Tamil Nadu

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🟢 ECONOMICS IMPORTANT YEARS (PYQ's)

- 1935: RBI established on April 1st.
- 1948: Introduction of Minimum Wages Act.
- 1949: Nationalisation of RBI.
- 1949: Passing of Banking Regulation Act.
- 1950: Establishment of Planning Commission.
- 1952: Setup of National Development Council.
- 1956: Passing of Khadi & Village Industries Commission Act.
- 1976: Regional Rural Banks Act enacted.
- 1982: Establishment of NABARD.
- 1986: Enactment of Consumer Protection Act.
- 2005: Passing of MGNREGA.
- 2015: Establishment of NITI Aayog.

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🛖 SOME IMPORTANT CAVES IN INDIA

• Elephanta caves - Maharashtra
• Borra caves - Vishakhapatnam
• Undavali caves - Andhra Pradesh
• Varaha caves - Tamil Nadu
• Mawsmai caves - Meghalaya
• Jogimara caves - Chhattisgarh
• Bagh caves - Madhya Pradesh
• Dungeshwari caves - Bihar
• Tabo caves - Himachal Pradesh
• Khandagiri caves - Odisha
• Pataleshwar caves - Pune
• Trichi caves - Madurai
• Koteshwar caves - Uttarakhand
• Barabar caves - Bihar
• Kutumsar caves - Chhattisgarh
• Udayagiri caves - Odisha
• Badami caves - Karnataka
• Bhimbetka caves - Madhya Pradesh
• Ajanta Ellora caves - Maharashtra
• Krem Liat Prah - Meghalaya (longest natural caves in India)

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