Do you know that.....1

1.The ex-officio chairman of the Planning Commission of India is the Prime Minister
2.The hill range between Narmada and Tapti river is Satpura.
3.The first linguistic state in India came into being in the year 1953 (Andhra Pradesh)
4.The violent and destructive tropical cyclones in China and Japan are known as Typhoons
5.The ‘Zero Hour’ is the hour after the question hour in the house in the parliamentary procedure.
6.Endoscope, used by doctors for examining the inside of a patient’s stomach, works on principle of total internal reflection.
7.The Uruguay Rounds of talks led to the formation of World Trade Organization
8.Himadri is the name of India’s first research station in the Arctic.
9.The greater part of the Earth’s surface has Semi-Arid climate.
10.Gopal Hari Deshmukh the famous nationalist leader was also called “Lokhitwadi”
11.C. Rajgopalachari was also known as the ‘Conscience keeper of Gandhiji’
12.The ‘National Girl Child Day’ is observed on January 24.
13.‘National Science Day’ is observed on February 28
14.Lord Canning was the Governor-General of India at the time of the 1857 Sepoy Mutiny
15.‘Ping Pong diplomacy’ is associated with USA and China
16.The first Municipal Corporation in India was set up at Madras
17.Targeted Public Distribution System (TPDS) was introduced in the year 1997 in India.
18.Education is included in the Concurrent list of the Indian Constitution
19.The Chairman and CEO of ITC limited is Y.C. Deveshwar
20.The Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan (RMSA) aims to enroll 100 % class 8 students to the secondary level by the end of 12th Five Year Plan in 2017
21.The base year for Consumer Price Index is now 2004-05 earlier it was 1980-81
22.The Bombay Stock Exchange uses the free-float Market Capitalisation Weighted method
23.National Association of Securities Dealers’ Automated Quotations (NASDAQ) is an electronic stock exchange in USA which was founded in 1971
24.The New York Stock Exchange is the World’s biggest stock exchange by market capitalization
25.The National Stock Exchange in Mumbai, is India’s biggest stock exchange by market capitalization