General Awareness for various competitive examinations

 

General Awareness for various competitive examinations

 

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The subject General Awareness plays an important role in various competitive examinations conducted by various organizations.

General Awareness One-Liners help a lot.

 

The subject General Awareness/ General Knowledge or GK plays an important role in various competitive examinations conducted by various organizations.

General Awareness bits help a lot.

 

Some of General Awareness-One Liners are as follows

National Symbols of India

 

National Flag is the Tricolor(Tiranga)

National Emblem is the Lion Capital of Ashoka at Sarnath

National Anthem is Jana Gana Mana

National Tree of India Banyan

 

National Animal is Tiger

National Song is Vande Mataram

National Bird is Peacock

National Fruit is Mango

National Flower is Lotus

Motto of Indians is Satyameva Jayate

Some Religions of India

 

Religion with Place of Worship and the holy Religious Books

Hinduism- Temple- Gita, Vedas

Islam- Mosque- Quran

Sikhism- Gurdwara-Guru Granth Sahib

 

Christianity- Church- Bible

Jainism- Temples- Agama, Kalpa Sutra, Tattvartha,

Buddhism-Temples- Tripitaka

National Days of India

 

Days with Date

 

Republic Day is on 26TH January

Martyr’s Day is on 30th January, 23rd March

Independence Day is on 15th August

Teachers Day is on 5th September

Gandhi Jayanti is on 2nd October

Children’s Day is on 14th November

National Education Day is on 11th November

 

Events- first time in India

 

First post office in India was opened in Bombay in 1764

First postage stamps of India was introduced in 1852 at a district of scinde.

First Telephone service in India was introduced in 1882, in Kolkata, Chennai & Mumbai cities

First Census of India was brought in 1872

The first train ran in India on 16 April 1853 between Mumbai and Thane

First Cinema of India-Silent movie- Raja Harishchandra released in 1913, by Dadasaheb Phalke,

Aryabhata, India’s First Satellite was launched by the Soviet Union on 19 April 1975

First-time television was started in Delhi on 15 September 1959

 

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