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G.K
First speaker- G. V. Mavalankar (also the father of Lok Sabha)
First LoP- YB Chavan
Computer mouse- Douglas Engelbart
CAT Computerised Axial Tomography
First Miss world from India- Reita Faria
First Country to allow euthanasia- Netherlands
First Country (Europe) to guarantee animal right- Germany
First Country to provide broadband connectivity as legal right- Finland
First Lokpal Bill 1962
First backward classes commission - Kaka Saheb Kalekar, 2nd BP Mandal
First Arabic writer to win Nobel prize- Naguid Maha Fouz
First Dada Saheb Phalke Award- Devika Rani
First Woman Governor of India- Sarojni Naidu
First Woman Chief Minister- Sucheta Kirplani
First Indian to get elected to British Parliament- Dadabhai Naroji
First Indian in the House of Lords- S.P. Sinha
First Female Prime Minister in World- Sirimavo Bandaranaike, Sri Lanka
Founding member of RTI- Aruna Roy
First-time absolute liability- Oleum Gas Leak
First English writer to win Noble Prize for literature- Rudyard Kipling
First Cyber police station- Banglore
The National Income was first calculated scientifically by- VKRV Rao
Youngest recipient of Bharat Ratna- Sachin Tendulkar
International Red Cross- Henry Dunant
Earth Hour- Henry Ridley
Discovery of Radium- Marie Curie
Mona Lisa painting- Louvre, Paris
Munchausen Syndrome- fear of being negatively evaluated by others or being embarrassed because of impulsive
acts
State with the longest coastline- Gujrat, Andhra Pradesh
Chapter 7 of UN gives it the power of enforcement action
International criminal court came into existence in 2002
Suez Canal opened in 1869
Duncan Passage- South and Little Andaman
NSS established in 1950

Civil Code common for all- Goa

Postage stamp- Dalhousie
Chairman is head of state in Myanmar
Diphtheria affects throat
Sphygmomanometer- Blood pressure
Unit of temperature in metric system- Kelvin

Ram Nath Kovind 14th president

VV Giri resigned from Vice President to Become president of India
Namo 14th Prime Minister

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Natya Shastra- Bharat Muni

Pope- Bergoglio
Diya mirza is UN Environment goodwill embassador
Press council of India- Statutory Body

Oldest high court Calcutta

Supreme Court of India in Delhi came into existence on 28 January 1950

49th Parallel- USA and Canada

38th Parallel- North and South Korea

Leaders of Various Countries

1. Prez Zimbabwe- Emmerson Mnangagwa

2. Prez Brazil- Michel Temer
3. PM Australia- Turnbull
4. Prez France- Emuel Macron
5. PM Malaysia- Mahathir Mohammad
6. PM Cambodia- Hun Sen
7. PM Thailand- Prayut Chan o Cha
8. Prez Phillipene- Rodrigo Duterte
9. PM Vietnam- Nguyen Juan Phuc
10. PM Singapore- Lee Hsein Loong
11. PM Laos- Thongloun Sisoulith
12. PM Mauritius- Pravind Kumar Jugnauth
13. Prez Indonesia- Joko Widodo
14. PM Canada- Justin Trudeau
15. President N Korea- Kim Jong Un
16. PM Netherland- Mark Rutte
17. Pres Paraguay- Mario Abdo Benitez (Newly elected not yet sworn in)
18.

Ecomark is issude by Bureau of Indian Standards

Latest entrant to maharatna is BPCL(Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd.) with tally reaching 8
Navratna are 16 in number
2226 tigers in India

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