[GKmojo] Topicwise File 2

1. Important dams and their locations

 Indira Sagar Dam: Narmada River, Madhya Pradesh

 Mettur Dam: Cauvery River, Tamil Nadu.

 Bisalpur Dam: Banas River, Rajasthan.

 Koyna Dam: Koyna River, Maharashtra.

 Maithon Dam: barakar river, Jharkhand.

 Rihand Dam: Rihand Dam, Uttar Pradesh.

 TungaBhadra Dam: Tungabhadra River, Karnataka.

 Bhavani Sagar Dam: Bhavani river, Tamil Nadu

 Krishna Raja Sagar dam: Cauvery river, Karnataka

 Hirakund Dam: Mahanadi River, Odissa

2. World Geography Points

1) Boundary lines
 Durand line: Pakistan and Afghanistan
 Radcliffe line: India and Pakistan
 Macmohan line: china and India
 38th parallel: North and South Korea
 49th parallel: USA and Canada
 Hindenburg Line: Germany and Poland
 Maginot line: France and Germany
 Oder–Neisse line : Germany and Poland

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2) Atmosphere layers in that order from earth
a. Troposphere
b. Stratosphere: ozone layer in it!!
c. Mesosphere or thermosphere
d. Ionosphere

You can remember these Layers by this short cut: TSMI

3) Mountains-Locations

 Andes: South America

 Rockies: North America
 Alps: Europe
 Alaska: USA
 Himalaya: Asia

4) Water resources in Oceans:

Pacific> Atlantic>Indian>arctic

5) Top 5 minerals in earth's crust

Oxygen>Silicon> Aluminium>Iron>Calcium

6) Top 4 gases in atmosphere

Nitrogen> Oxygen>Argon> CO2

7) Light year, Astronomical unit and Parsec are the units to

measure length.

8) Solar system
 Brightest star after sun: Sirius
 Planet with maximum satellites: Jupiter
 Red planet: Mars
 Blue planet: Earth
 Brightest planet: Venus
 Biggest planet: Jupiter

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9) Some more information
A. Atlantic Ocean between US and UK.
B. Largest land locked country: Kazakhstan
C. Africa has the most number of countries.
D. the Nile has been determined to be the longest river in the world
followed by the Amazon and the Yangtze.
E. The South China Sea disputes involves namely Brunei, China, Taiwan,
Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, and Vietnam.
F. the Red Sea is a seawater inlet of the Indian Ocean, lying between
Africa and Asia.
G. Canada has the largest coastline among all the countries in the World.

3. Highest Producing states

 Sugarcane: UP
 Jute: West Bengal
 Coffee, Gold, Silk: Karnataka
 Tea: Assam
 Rubber, Coconut: Kerala
 Cotton: Gujarat
 Ground Nut: Gujarat
 Saffron: Jammu & Kashmir

Question on above note:-

Q. Which state is the highest producer of Tea in India?

A. Meghalaya
B. Sikkim
C. Assam
D. West Bengal

Answer: Option C

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 4. Banking awareness
•First bank to introduce internet banking: ICICI bank

•First bank to introduce mutual fund: State Bank of India

•First bank to introduce credit card in India: Central Bank of India

•Which cards are known as plastic money– Credit Cards

•The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) is

known as– World Bank

•Minimum money transfer limit through RTGS: 2 Lakhs

Maximum money transfer limit through RTGS: No Limit

•Minimum & Maximum money transfer limit through NEFT: No Limit

•NABARD was established in- July, 1982

•Largest Public sector bank in India– SBI

•Largest Private sector bank in India– HDFC Bank

•Largest Foreign bank in India in terms of Number of branches–

Standard Chartered Bank

•First Indian bank to open branch outside India i.e. London in 1946:
Bank of India

•First Bank to introduce ATM in India: HSBC in 1987, Mumbai

• SBI has the maximum number of overseas branches.

•First bank established in India: Bank of Hindustan in 1770

•3 banks namely Bank of Bengal, Bank of Bombay and Bank of Madras in

1921 to form the Imperial bank of India which was converted as SBI.

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•First Indian bank got ISO: Canara Bank

•First India bank started solely with Indian capital investment is PNB.

•Founder of Punjab National Bank is Lala Lajpat Rai.

•RBI’s Too Big to fail list Banks: SBI, ICICI and HDFC

 1st Payment Bank In India: Airtel payment Bank

 Payment Banks can’t issues Credit cards and can’t give loans.

 RBI does the Open Market Operations

 Rs. 1 Rupee Note bears the signature of Finance Secretary

 Fiscal Policy is the work of Finance Ministry

All the best by GKmojo

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