General Awareness-One Liner-Sept 20, 2017 1- First World Conference on Tourism for Development held in Beijing 2-MDR stands for Merchant Discount Rate 3- ‘Wealth of Nation’ book Author is Adam Smith Adam Smith 4-Dada Sahab Phalke 2016 awardee is Manoj Kumar 5- NRI DAY is celebrated on January 9 6-VERIZON has acquired YAHOO for $4.83bn … Read more
General Awareness- One-Liner- September 19, 2017 1-Reduction is gaining of an Electron 2-‘Back to Vedas’ slogan is propagated by Dayanand Saraswati 3-Metal used in a bulb is Tungsten. 4-Bob Dylan– He got Literature 2016 Noble Price 5- Synapse-It is a structure that permits a neuron (or nerve cell) to pass an electrical or chemical signal … Read more
History- Important One Liner-Sept 18, 2017 1-Aryabhatta wrote the famous book ‘Surya Siddhanta’. 2-The galaxy of scholars in the court of Chandragupta Vikramaditya are Amar Singh, Brahmagupta, Varahmihira, Dhanvantri, Aryabhatta, and Kalidasa. 3-Ujjain was the second capital of Chandragupta Vikramaditya 4-Ibrahim Lodi was defeated by Babar in the First Panipat war 5-The treaty of … Read more
General Awareness -One Liner- Sept 17, 2017 1-ASBA- Application Supported by Blocked Amount 2-USSD –Unstructured Supplementary Service Data 3-Kishtwar national park is in Kashmir 4-Brahadeeswara temple is at Thanjavur, Tamilnadu 5-22nd ASIAN games hosted by Odisha 6-G20 summit held in Hamburg, Germany 7-Mahabodhi Vihara Temple is in Bihar 8-July 28 -World hepatitis day 9-UPI … Read more
History- Well known poets- patrons- their contributions Well Known Poet/ Author Patron Contribution 1- Kalidasa Chandragupta II Meghdoota, Kumarasambhava , Raghuvamsa, Ritusambara. His plays are Abhijan Shakuntalam, Vikramorvashi and Malvikaganimithram. 2- Ashvaghosa Kanishka Buddhacharitra (a biography of Buddha), Saundarananda 3- Dandin Narsimhavarman Kavyadarsa, Dasakumaracarita 4- Magha King Varmalata Sishupalavadha (about the killing of Shishupal) 5- Thiruvalluvar … Read more
General Awareness- Important Points 1-OBOR– One Belt One Road, it is a development strategy proposed by China. 2-Bharathi Sharma has been conferred with France’s highest civilian award of the National Order of the Legion of Honor in June 2017. 3-In GCC Groups/organizations all current member states are monarchies. 4-Ulaanbaatar Cup is related to Boxing. 5-Naina … Read more
Chemistry- Common Substances & their Chemical Names 1- Epsom salt magnesium sulfate heptahydrate MgSO4.7 H2O 2- graphite carbon C 3- marble calcium carbonate CaCO3 4- oil of vitriol sulfuric acid H2SO4 5- baking soda sodium hydrogen carbonate sodium bicarbonate NaHCO3 6- Borax sodium tetraborate decahydrate Na2B4O7.10 H2O 7- laughing gas … Read more
General Awareness- General Science 1-Cytology- Branch of biology dealing with structure and function of cells. 2-Endocrinology- The study of glands. 3-Embryology- It deals with the development of embryos. 4-Epistemology- Study of the nature of knowledge. 5- Ethology-The study of mental and physical differences in mankind. 6-Eschatology-The study of death and destiny. 7-Etymology- Study of the origin … Read more
Chemistry- One Liners-Sept 12, 2017 1-The chemical used as a fixer in photography is sodium thiosulphate 2-The alcohol used in power alcohol is ethyl alcohol 3-The alloy of aluminium used for making magnet is alnico 4- Pyrex glass is heat resistant 5-Periodic table was given by Mendeleev 6-Synthetic fibre Rayon is known as artificial silk … Read more
General Awareness-One Liner Census of India 2011-Some Important Information 1-India’s population has increased by more than 181 million during the decade 2001-2011. 2-The population of India is at 1210.2 million according to 2011 census. It is almost equal to the combined population of some countries like U.S.A., Indonesia, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Brazil, and Japan … Read more