GK
1-Commission for Agricultural Costs and Prices (CACP) recommends Minimum Support Price.
2-The most important rabi pulse crop in India is Chickpea.
3-NPV (Nuclear Polyhedrosis Virus) is Bio pesticide.
4-Heavy Water is normally used by Nuclear Power generation plants.
5-Dhyanchand Award is given for excellence in the field of sports.
6-National Research Centre on Plant Biotechnology is situated at New Delhi.
7-One Acre is equal to 0.4047 hectare.
8-The full form of NMCEX is National Multi Commodity Ex – change.
9-SRI technology is practiced for the cultivation of Rice.
10-The first-ever robot spacecraft to probe planet Venus was named Magellan.
11-Yellow Fever is transmitted by Aedes mosquito.
12-First successful heart transplantation was done by C.N. Barnard.
13-The International Date Line is the 180° Longitude.
14-Baltora glacier is located in Karakoram ranges.
15-High Courts were established in Calcutta, Bombay and Madras in 1861.
16-In 1907 Lala Lajpat Rai was deported to Mandalay for organizing the agrarian movement in Punjab.
17-Jawahar Tunnel is located in the State of Jammu and Kashmir.
18-The National Institute of Water Sports is situated in Goa.
19-Rajiv Gandhi was the Prime Minister of India when the Anti- Defection Bill was passed.
20- H.S. Olcott and Annie Besant founded the Theosophical Society in India in 1879.
21- The language used in writing the scientific name of animals is Latin.
22-The narrow stretch of water connecting two seas is called Strait.
23-Mudumalai Wildlife Sanctuary is located in the State of Tamil Nadu.
24-Talwandi was the birth place of Guru Nanak.
25-J.B. Say propounded the market law.
26-Cholera bacillus was discovered by Robert Koch.
27-Anousheh Ansari is the first woman space tourist.
28-National Institute of Virology is situated in Pune.
29-A single tax that replaces State Taxes like surcharge, turnover tax, etc is called the Value Added Tax (VAT).
30-The temple of Konark was built by Narasimha of the Ganga Dynasty.