Random General Knowledge
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General Knowledge is required for many competitive exams. Here are some one-line notes on random subjects. Read and go through it.
1) Just right might mean bare dirt or some nice decayed mulch with enough sunlight.
2) On 26th January 1950, the Constitution of India came into effect.
3) Galvanising is the process in which articles made of steel or iron are dipped in molten zinc.
4) Non-magnetic stainless steel contains iron, chromium, and nickel.
5) Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.
6) Wings of a bee are designed to have pollen transported with them.
7) A Single point or dot on a computer screen or mobile screen is called a pixel.
8) Lionel Messi scored his 200th goal for Barcelona when he netted a penalty in the 24th minute of a Champions League match at Victoria Plzen before completing a second consecutive hat-trick.
9) Most owls build their nests in the hollows of trees or in barns or underground burrows.
10) Sloth bear is the noisiest bear when it comes to hunting, which it does mostly at night.
11) India occupies the greater part of South Asia.
12) The capital of India is New Delhi.
13) New Delhi was built in the 20th century just south of the historic hub of Old Delhi to serve as India’s administrative centre.
14) The government of India is a constitutional republic that represents a highly diverse population consisting of thousands of ethnic groups and likely hundreds of languages.
15) With roughly one-sixth of the world’s total population, India is the second most populous country, after China.
16) a highly sophisticated urbanized culture—the Indus civilization—dominated the northwestern part of the subcontinent from about 2600 to 2000 BCE.
17) India functioned as a virtually self-contained political and cultural arena, which gave rise to a distinctive tradition that was associated primarily with Hinduism or Hindutva.
18) When British rule came to an end in 1947, the subcontinent was partitioned along religious lines into two separate countries—India, with a majority of Hindus, and Pakistan, with a majority of Muslims.
19) the eastern portion of Pakistan later split off to form Bangladesh.
20) India has three of the most populous and cosmopolitan cities in the world —Mumbai (Bombay), Kolkata (Calcutta), and Delhi.
21) Three other Indian cities—Bengaluru (Bangalore), Chennai (Madras), and Hyderabad —are among the world’s fastest-growing high-technology centres.
22) India’s frontier, which is roughly one-third coastline, abuts six countries.
23) India is bounded to the northwest by Pakistan, to the north by Nepal, China, and Bhutan; and to the east by Myanmar (Burma).
24) Bangladesh to the east is surrounded by India to the north, east, and west.
25) The island country of Sri Lanka is situated some 40 miles (65 km) off the southeast coast of India across the Palk Strait and Gulf of Mannar.
26) The land of India—together with Bangladesh and most of Pakistan—forms a well-defined subcontinent, set off from the rest of Asia by the imposing northern mountain rampart of the Himalayas and by adjoining mountain ranges to the west and east.
27) In area, India ranks as the seventh largest country in the world.
28) India’s territory is surrounded by the Arabian Sea to the west and the Bay of Bengal to the east.
29) Cape Comorin, the southernmost point of the Indian mainland, marks the dividing line between Arabian Sea and the Bay of Bengal.
30) Indian territories Lakshadweep and Andaman and Nicobar Islands composed entirely of islands.
31) The union territory in the Arabian Sea made up of islands is known as Lakshadweep,
32) the union territory which lie between the Bay of Bengal and the Andaman Sea is known as Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
33) The Himalayas is the loftiest mountain system in the world.
34) Geologically Himalayas mountain arc is about 1,550 miles (2,500 km) long, stretching from the peak of Nanga Parbat (26,660 feet [8,126 metres]) in the Pakistani-administered portion of the Kashmir region to the Namcha Barwa peak in the Tibet Autonomous Region of China.
35) The Western Ghats, also called the Sahyadri, are a north-south chain of mountains or hills that mark the western edge of the Deccan plateau region.
36) Between the Aravallis and the Vindhya Range lies the fertile, basaltic Malwa Plateau.
37) More than 70 percent of India’s territory drains into the Bay of Bengal via the Ganges-Brahmaputra river system and a number of large and small peninsular rivers.
38) Wular Lake is the largest natural freshwater lake in India.
39) In India the wet season, called the southwest monsoon, occurs from about mid-June to early October, when winds from the Indian Ocean carry moisture-laden air across the subcontinent, causing heavy rainfall and often considerable flooding.
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