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1.India needs to raise its food grain production by almost 40% by 2025 from the present level to feed its huge population, which will grow to 1.3 billion by 2025.
2.Michael Steele is the first African American Chairman of the Republican Party
3.Margaret Court holds the record of winning most (24) Grand Slam womens singles titles
4.Killinocchi was the political and administrative capital of LTTE
5.The chairman of the News Corporation is Rupert Murdoch
6.The founder and the Executive Chairman of World Economic Forum is Klaus Schwab
7.The Worlds Human Rights day is observed on December 10
8.The year 2009 was the year of Astronomy as declared by United Nations
9.‘Omid’ was the first home made satellite launched successfully by Iran
10.The Dilwara temple is located in Rajasthan
11.India has the worlds second largest muslim population
12.The state with the maximum number of illegal immigrants is West Bengal
13.Kenya is the largest tea exporting nation in the world
14.Imagining India: Ideas for the New Century is the book written by Nandan Nilekani
15.Akio Morita was the co-founder of Sony Corporation
16.World’s population will be 7 billion by the end of 2012 and 9 billion by 2050
according to the revised estimates by the United Nations
17.The global economy shrank for the first time in 2008-09 since the World War II
18.RK Shanmukhan Chetty presented India’s first budget
19.Jawahar Lal Nehru was the first Prime Minister to present the budget when he held the Finance portfolio in 1958-59
20.CD Deshmuk was the first Indian Governor of RBI to have presented the interim budget for 1951-52
21.NRI industrialist Swaraj Paul is the first Asian to preside over the House of Lords after he became the Deputy Speaker for the house
22.Brazil has won the World Cup Football Championship a record five times
23.A loan with a low rate of interest is called soft loan
24.Indira Gandhi was the Prime Minister of India at the time of nationalization of banks in 1969
25.The 13th Finance Commission’s recommendations will be implemented for the period 2010-2015