Countries and its Parliament

Countries	Parliaments
Afghanistan	Shoora
Andorra	General Council
Albania	People’s Assembly
Azerbaijan	Melli Majlis
Algeria	National People’s Assembly
Angola	National People’s Assembly

Highest Mountain Peaks Statewise

State	Peak	Range/Region	Height (m)	Height (ft)
Andhra Pradesh	Arma Konda	Eastern Ghats	1,680	5,512
Arunachal Pradesh	Kangto (shared with Tibet)	Eastern Himalaya	7,090	23,261
Assam	Unnamed peak near Laike	Dima Hasao District	1,960

International Airports in India

State	City	Airport Name
Andaman and Nicobar Islands	Port Blair	Veer Savarkar International Airport
Andhra Pradesh	Visakhapatnam	Visakhapatnam International Airport
Assam	Guwahati	Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi International Airport
Bihar	Gaya	Gaya International Airport
Delhi	New Delhi	Indira Gandhi InternationalAirport

List of Space Centre and Space Agency in the World

SPACE CENTRES

Belgium	Liege Space Center
	Euro Space Center
Canada	John H. Chapman Space Centre
	Telus World of Science, Edmonton

List of Indian Missiles

Missile Name	Orgin	Type	Range	Speed
Air-to-air missiles
Astra	India	Air-to-Air Missiles	60 – 80 km	Mach 4 +
K-100	Russia & India	Medium Range air-to-air missile	300–400 km	Mach 3.3
MICA	IAF	Air-to-Air Missiles

Important List of Stadiums in India

Stadiums in India

No.	Stadiums Name	Location	Sports Name
1.	Wankhede Stadium	Mumbai, Maharashtra	Cricket
2.	HPCA Stadium	DHARAMSHALA, HIMACHAL PRADESH	Cricket
3.	Feroz Shah Kotla Ground	Delhi	Cricket
4.	M.A. Chidambaram Stadium	Chennai , Tamil Nadu	Cricket
5.	Eden Gardens	Kolkata , West Bengal	Cricket

International Airports in India

State	City	Airport Name
Andaman and Nicobar Islands	Port Blair	Veer Savarkar International Airport
Andhra Pradesh	Visakhapatnam	Visakhapatnam International Airport
Assam	Guwahati	Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi International Airport

List of Important River Projects in India

Project	River	Related State
Bansagar Project	Son	Bihar Uttar Pradesh Madhya Pradesh
Bargi Project	Bargi	Madhya Pradesh
Beas Project	Beas	Haryana Punjab Rajasthan

List of State Wise Lakes in India

Largest fresh water lakes in Asia & India – Wular Lake, kashmir

Largest artificial lake in Asia – Upper lake, Madhya Pradesh

Largest saline water lake in india – chika lake, orissa

Longest lake in India – Vembanad,kerala

Highest Lake in india – Cholamu Lake,Sikkim

Nicknames of Famous Personalities

Dear Readers & Aspirants,

We collected some important list of Nickname of Indian personalities and provide you in a table Format. We hope, it will help you in Competitive exams.

Nicknames	Name of the Person
Adi Kavi	Valmeeki
Akbar of Kashmir	Jainul Abdin

List of Cabinet Ministers with their Portfolio and Constituency

List of Cabinet Ministers with their Portfolio and Constituency – Updated on Nov  2016

Prime Minister Narendra Modi –  Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, Department of Atomic Energy, Department of Space, All important policy issues and All other portfolios not allocated to any Minister.

PM Modi’s Constituency: Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh

Cabinet Ministers:

August 2016 Current Affairs Study Material

August 2016 Current Affairs Study Material

INTERNATIONAL

China, ASEAN countries agree to form South China Sea framework

China and a grouping of Southeast Asian nations aim to finish by the middle of next year a framework for a code of conduct to ease tension in the disputed South China Sea. The agreement was reached between both sides during a meeting at Inner Mongolia in northern China held on August 15 and 16, 2016. The two sides also agreed to get the framework for the code of conduct done by mid-2017. They also approved guidelines for a China-ASEAN hotline for use during maritime emergencies. They also agreed that a pact on unplanned maritime encounters signed by countries in the region in 2014 is applied to the SCS.

Sept 2016 Current Affairs Study Material

Sept 2016 Current Affairs Study Material

INTERNATIONAL

China, Russia conduct joint naval exercises Joint Sea-2016 in South China Sea

China and Russia have carried out joint naval exercises dubbed as Joint Sea-2016 in the resource-rich South China Sea (SCS) off China’s southern Guangdong province. The exercises follow a spike in tensions after Permanent Court ofArbitration in The Hague rejected China’s claims in the SCS and slammed it for causing environmental damage there. The eight-day naval exercises (from September 13 to 19) were held in a non-disputed area in SCS off China’s southern Guangdong province. It had featured surface ships, missile destroyer, anti-submarine vessels, missile frigates, ship-based helicopters and conventional submarines among others from both navies.

Ganga River : In Detail

Ganga River

• Ganga River also known as Ganges is the second greatest river in the Indian subcontinent.
• In Uttrakhand Ganga is known as Bhagirathi.
• The Ganga is the most important river of India both from the point of view of its basin and cultural significance.
• The Ganga river system is the largest in India having a number of perennial and non-perennial rivers originating in the Himalayas in the north and the Peninsula in the south.

Indian Railway : In Detail

Indian Railway

The first train ran from Mumbai to Thane in 1853, covering a distance of 34 km. The first railway on Indian sub-continent ran over a distance of 21 miles from Bombay to Thane. The idea of a railway to connect Bombay with Thane, Kalyan and with the Thal and Bhore Ghats was first approached by Mr. George Clark, the Chief Engineer of the Bombay Government, during a visit to Bhandup in 1843.

Trick to Remember Cups associated with Cricket and other important tricks of GK

Trick to Remember Cups associated with Cricket:

Trick: 
Rothmans, a Sharjah Singer who lives in Sahara desert in Asia uses Gillette , wears Titan watch and likes to watch ICC World Cup with Ash and Jawaharlal Nehru.
          
               OR

Trick: 
RAJA'S  GIST'S

R- Rothmans Cup
A- Ashes Cup

भारत : प्रमुख 37 झीलें-राज्य ( Tricks)

भारत : प्रमुख  37  झीलें-राज्य ( Tricks)

 राज्य : जम्मू-कश्मीर
 Trick-  डव (साबुन का ब्रांड) ले आना बेशरम।
[ 1]  ड-डल झील
[ 2]  व-वुलर झील
ले- silent (KnowledgePhilic.com)
[3]  आ-अनंतनाग झील
[ 4]  ना-नागिन झील
[ 5]  बै-बेरीनाग झील

Trick to Remember Currency of different Countries

Trick to Remember The Countrieswhich uses
“Rupee” as their currency
“”Srilanka Ne India Se Pak Manga”””
$$$ The Countries which uses “Rupee”as their
currency ….

Difficult Words :4

Difficult Words :4

This is a list of Difficult Words: Address, Adherent, Admonish, Adroit, Adulation and Adulterate

Adherent (ad HEER unt) n: follower, supporter, believer

• The king's adherents threw a big birthday party for him, just to show how much they liked him.

• To adhere to something is to stick to it. Adherents are people who adhere to, or stick to, something or someone. 

Difficult Words : 3

Difficult Words : 3

Hello dear, for boosting your English we started a new strategy to build your vocab by learning difficult words.here is a list of Difficult Words: Acrid, Acrimonious, Acumen, Acute, Adage and Adamant

Acrimonious (AK ruh MOH nee us) adj: full of spite, bitter, nasty

• Vishnu and Disha's discussion turned acrimonious when Disha introduced the subject of Vishnu's perennial, incorrigible stupidity.

Difficult Words : 2

Difficult Words : 2
Abortive, Abridge, Absolute, Absolve, Abstinent and Abstract

This is a list of Difficult Words : Abortive, Abridge, Absolute, Absolve, Abstinent and Abstract

Abridge (uh BRIJ) v: to shorten, to condense
• The thoughtful editor had abridged the massive book by removing the boring parts.

Difficult Words : 1

Difficult Words : 1
Abnegate ,Abash, Abate, Abdicate, Aberration, Abhor & Abject

Hello dear, for boosting your english we started a new strategy to build your vocab by learning difficult words. This is a list of Difficult Words : Abnegate, Abash, Abate, Abdicate, Aberration, Abhor and Abject 

Abash (uh BASH) v: to make ashamed, to embarrass

• Mira felt abashed by her inability to remember her lines in the school chorus of Old McDonald Had a Farm.

English Phrasal Verbs 1

English Phrasal Verbs

Phrasal Verbs are idiomatic expressions, combining verbs and prepositions to make new verbs whose meaning is often not obvious from the dictionary definitions of the individual words. They are widely used in both written and spoken English, and new ones are formed all the time as they are a flexible way of creating new terms. 

A Phrasal Verb consists of a verb and a preposition or adverb that modifies or changes the meaning. Give up is such a verb that means stop doing something, which is very different from give. The word or words that modify a verb in this manner can also go under the name particle. 

Learn English Vocabulary 5

Learn English Vocabulary

A Funny Story for Learners of English

Here's a short, funny story for learning vocabulary. As a student of English, you should read this story at least three times. Difficult words are explained in bracket like this (...).

Let's start VOCAB STORY

A BANTER( A casual talk) between mother and son:

Learn English Vocabulary 4

Learn English Vocabulary

A Funny Story for Learners of English

Here's a short, funny story for learning vocabulary. As a student of English, you should read this story at least three times. Difficult words are explained in bracket like this (...).

Let's start VOCAB STORY

Once an emergency services office received an OUTRAGEOUS( very shocking or bad) call. The man was FLUSTERED ( nervous) and PANTING( to breathe hard).

Learn English Vocabulary 3

Learn English Vocabulary

A Funny Story for Learners of English

Here's a short, funny story for learning vocabulary. As a student of English, you should read this story at least three times. Difficult words are explained in bracket like this (...).

Let's start VOCAB STORY

( Beauty of English )

Once many POLYGLOT(someone who knows and uses many languages) and ERUDITE(very scholarly) speakers were participating in a conference on English language. They were debating over someINTRICATE and RECONDITE(both mean complex and difficult) matters. Most of it wereESOTERIC(known to very few) for other listeners.

Learn English Vocabulary 2

Learn English Vocabulary

A Funny Story for Learners of English

Here's a short, funny story for learning vocabulary. As a student of English, you should read this story at least three times. Difficult words are explained in bracket like this (...).

Let's start  VOCAB STORY

Once a CANTANKEROUS and TRUCULENT( Both mean quarrelsome) wife who was aREINCARNATION(Rebirth) of a  worrier was exercising her military skills on her HAPLESS ( unfortunate) Pati.

She had send him to fetch some salt from the kitchen. The hubby did a FINE TOOTH COMB( a very minute search to find something) search but couldn't find the salt.

Learn English Vocabulary 1

Learn English Vocabulary

A Funny Story for Learners of English

Here's a short, funny story for learning vocabulary. As a student of English, you should read this story at least three times. Difficult words are explained below.

A (1) slow-witted man (2)applied for the job of (3) deputy sheriff in a small town. During the interview, the sheriff asked him, "What is one plus one?".

The man answered (4) confidently, "Eleven".

Static GK -List of State, River and Dam

 State                                  River                                    Dam

Uttarakhand      -             Bhagirathi          -              Tehri Dam
Himachal Pradesh  -           Sutlej              -              Bhakra Dam
Kerala                    -           Periyar            -            Idukki arch Dam
Uttarakhand          -           Yamuna         -                  Lakhwar Dam
Gujarat                   -           Narmada      -             Sardar Sarover Dam
Telangna/Andhra Pradesh - Krishna        -               Srisailam Dam

Static GK- List of Famous Places - Famous Names, Cities and Aliases

Nickname of cities

City	State	Nickname(s)
Ahmedabad	Gujarat	Manchester of India[1]
Talcher	Odisha	Black Diamond
Bhiwandi	Maharashtra	Manchester of India and Godown hub of India