Important Places to Visit in INDIA

Monsoon holidays in India are surely a lifetime experience as the exotic locations leave you spellbound with its beauty. The hills and mountains get carpeted with lush greenery, the lakes overflow with sparkling water, the waterfall sceneries become heavenly to make you fall in love with Incredible India.

1) Lonavala, Maharashtra
2) Goa
3) Kodaikanal, Tamil Nadu
4) Andaman and Nicobar islands
5) Coorg, Karnataka
6) Munnar, Kerala
7) Ladakh, Jammu and Kashmir
8) Udaipur, Rajasthan
9) Spiti Valley
10) Shillong, Meghalaya 
11) Pondicherry 
12) Darjeeling - West Bengal 
13) Pushkar
14) Ranikhet - Uttarakhand
15) Wayanad
16) Mount Abu - Rajasthan
17) Jog Falls - Karnataka
18) Orchha - Madhya Pradesh
19) Kutch - Gujrat
20) Alibaug - Maharashtra
Note: there are many more places too but not listed here

List of First Person in India - GK UPDATES

First President of Independent India - Dr. Rajendra Prasad (1950 - 1962) 

·        First Vice-President of Independent India - Dr. S. Radhakrishnan (1952 – 1962)           

·        First Prime Minister of India - Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru (1947 – 1964)          

·        First Deputy Prime Minister of India - Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel (1947 – 1950)              

·        First President of Indian National Congress - W.C. Banerjee (1885)         

·        First Muslim President of India - Dr. Zakir Hussain (1967 – 1969)   

·        First British Governor General of India - Warren Hastings (1773 – 1785)  

·        First British Viceroy of India - Lord Canning (1858 - 1862)    

·        First Governor General of Independent India - Lord Mountbatten (1947-1948)               

·        First Indian Governor General of Independent India - C. Rajagopalachari (1948 – 1950)

·        First Indian to join Indian Civil Service - Satyendranath Tagore (1864)      

·        India's First Man in Space - Rakesh Sharma (1984)    

·        First President of India who died while in office - Dr. Zakir Hussain (1969)

·        First Prime Minister of India who did not face the Parliament - Charan Singh (1979 - 1980)    

·        First Prime Minister in India who resigned without completing the full term - Morarji Desai (1977 – 1979)  

·        First Education Minister of Independent India - Abdul Kalam Azad            

·        First Home Minister of Independent India - Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel                  

·        First Finance Minister of Independent India - R.K. Shanmukhan Chetty

·        First Railway Minister of Independent India - John Mathai                   

·        First Agriculture Minister of Independent India - P.S. Deshmukh               

·        First Speaker of the Lok Sabha - G.V. Mavalankar (1952 – 1956)             

·        First Chief Justice of India - Justice H.J. Kania (1950 – 1951)                           

·        First Indian to win Nobel Prize - Rabindranath Tagore (1913)                   

·        First Indian Scientist to get Nobel Prize in Physics - C.V. Raman (1930)  

·        First Indian recipient of Nobel Prize in Economics - Dr. Amartya Sen (1998)      

·        First Scientist Indian origin, to get Nobel prize in the field of Medical Science - Dr. Har Govind Khurana (1963)                                                         

·        First Indian recipient of Nobel Prize in Chemistry  - Venkatraman Ramakrishnan (2009)    

·        First Bharat Ratna Award Recipients - C. Rajagopalachari, C.V.Raman, S.Radhakrishnan (1954)             

·        First foreigner recipient of Bharat Ratna Award - Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan (1987) Pakistan    

·        First Jnanpeeth Award Recipient - Shankar Karup (1965) (Malayalam)     

·        First Indian to win Magsaysay Award - Vinoba Bhave (1958) 

·        First Oscar for Lifetime Achievement - Satyajit Ray (1992)                      

·        First Individual Olympic Gold Medal - Abhinav Bindra (2008)          

·        First Indian to win back to back medals in Olympics - Sushil Kumar (2008, 2012)

·        First Indian Pilot - J.R.D. Tata (1929)      

·        First Indian to swim across the English Channel - Mihir Sen (1958)

·        First Indian to climb Mount Everest - Nawang Gombu (1963)

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Important Bird Sanctuaries List

List of Important Bird Sanctuaries and their Location- Important Static GK Materialsfor IBPS PO/Clerk 2016:

Dear Readers, the List of Important Bird Sanctuaries and the places where it is located were given below, which was most expected GK Questions in IBPS PO/Clerk Exams. Candidates those who are preparing for those exams can use these materials for exam preparation.

LIST OF IMPORTANT BIRD SANCTUARIES IN THE WORLD:

Bird Sanctuary	Location	Country
Jurong Bird Park	Jurong	Singapore
Wooroonooran Important Bird Area	Queensland	Australia
Wajee Nature Park	Nyeri	Kenya
Port Davy Islands	Tasmania	Australia
Keep River Bird Area	Keep River	Australia
Zhalong Nature Reserve	Heilongjiang	China
Yalgoroup Bird Area	Swan Coast	Australia
Bird Nature Reserve of Lake Tisza	Tiszafured	Hungary
Aquaba Bird Observatory	Aquaba	Jordan
Harry Gibbons Migratory Bird Sanctuary	Nunavut	Canada
Skorpa Bird Sanctuary	Svalbard	Norway

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TNPSC Study Material - Geography Part 3

Geography Part 3

1.      “Spices and Tea” are the two important crops for the foreign exchange earns to India.

2.      ISRO Headquarters – Bangalore

3.      Bandipur Sanctuary – Karnataka

4.      “Methane” – Global Warming gas

5.      First Jute Spinning Mill was started at “Rishra”

6.      Total Area of Tamilnadu – 1,30,000 sq.km

7.      Narmada river rises near – “Amarkantak”

8.      “Haryana” – State has the largest area under forest

9.      Chandraprabha wild Sanctuary is located in “Uttar Pradesh”

10.  Bhopal records high amount of rainfall in june which belongs to the season of “South-West Monsoon”

11.  TamilNadu gets more rainfall during – North-East Monsoon Season

12.  “Rajasthan” states is major producer of copper

13.  “Bokaro” steel plant has been set up with the assistance of U.S.S.R

14.  Local supply of coal is not available to the iron and steel plant at “Bhadravathi”

15.  Points to Remember:

·         Magnetite and Haematite – Iron

·         Cuprite – Copper

·         Bauxite – Aluminium

·         Silver – Argentine

16.  Biggest Oil Refinery in India – Koyali

17.  The Enron power project is in – Maharastra

18.  Silvassa is the capital of the Union territory of “Dadra & Nagar Haveli”

19.  Maximum number of tribal population in India consists of “Gonds”

20.  The New railways coach factory has been set up in Punjab at “Kapurthala”

21.  Coal Mining large in

·         Madhya Pradesh

·         West Bengal

·         Jharkand

22.  Aravalli is fail to cause Orographic precipitation in Rajasthan because “they lie parallel to the direction of the wind”

23.  Aravalli Mountain range – Rajasthan

24.  Points to Remember :

·         High pressure – Trichirapalli boiler point

·         Alumina plant – Mettur

·         Copper smelting - Khetri

25.  Important Points to Remember :

·         Steel Industry – Salem

·         Sugar Industry – Mohanur

·         Paper Industry – Pugalur

·         Cement Industry – Ariyalur

26.  National physical Oceanographic Laboratory – Goa

27.  Now-a-days climatic accidents are attributed to “El nino”

28.  Holland Currency – “Deutch”

29.  Dances State Wise

·         Andra Pradesh – Kuchipudi

·         Tamil Nadu – Bharathanatyam

·         Kerala – Kathakali

·         Orissa – Odissi

30.  Kerala – “State Valley” Located

31.  13^th Oil Refinery in India – “Narimanam(Panagudi)”

32.  Best Natural Port in India – Mumbai

33.  “Parambikulam Aliyar Dam” – is a joint venture of Tamil Nadu and Kerala

34.  Kaziranga National Park – “Rhinoceros”

35.  760 Km long Konkan railways passes through

1.      Kerala

2.      Karnataka

3.      Goa

4.      Maharastra

36.  Koodankulam Nuclear Power Plant is created with assistance of “Russia”

37.  Indian Sub Continent has a huge land mass – “Gondwana Continent”

38.  In Indian State – Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Sikkim, West Bengal have a common border with “Bhutan” Country

39.  Cencus 2011 – Bihar – Lowest Literacy Rate

40.  Points to Remember :

Mumbai Port – Petroleum Products and Dry Cargo

Tidal Port – Kandla

New Manglore – Kudermukh iron ore

Cochin – Natural Harbour

41.  Kerala – Largest spice growing state in India

42.  Northern Western help in Cultivation of “Tea”

43.   River Wardha is the tributary of – Godavari

44.  World Largest dam – “ Hirakud Dam

45.  Largest Dam in India – Bhakra Nagar

46.  World Longest river – Nile

47.  Pearl Fishing – Tuticorin

48.  “Assam” states leads others in the production of tea

49.  Dehra Dun – Indian Institute of Petroleum

50.  Soil Exhaustion – checked by “Land Fallowing”