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1. Union Government has raised stake in state-owned IFCI Ltd to how much per cent?

a) 49%
b) 50%
c) 51%
d) 55%

Ans: - C

2. Who among the following has been appointed as chief election commissioner?

a) Sumit Mazumder
b) Mayilsamy Annadurai
c) Dr Nasim Zaidi
d) Harishankar Brahma

Ans: - C

3. Who among the following China's Olympic hurdles GOLD medallist retired his announcement?

a) Liu Xiang
b) Zhe Xiang
c) Xhe Xiang
d) Che Xiang

Ans: - A

4. Dronavalli Harika has won ................. in World Women’s chess championship.

a) Gold
b) Silver
c) Bronze
d) None of These

Ans: - C

5. Who among the following has been elected as the President of CII for the year 2015-16?

a) Sumit Mazumder
b) Ajay Shriram
c) Dr Nasim Zaidi
d) Harishankar Brahma

Ans: - A

6. Who among the following has been conferred with Sahitya Shiromani Samman of Uttar Pradesh?

a) Harishankar Brahma
b) Uday Pratap Singh
c) Gopaldas Neeraj
d) B & C
e) A & B

Ans: - D

7. Uday Pratap Singh and Gopaldas Neeraj has been conferred with Sahitya Shiromani Samman of which state?

a) Bihar
b) Madhya Pradesh
c)Uttar Pradesh
d) Chhattisgarh

Ans: - C

8. Which among the following city was awarded with the title of National Earth Hour Capital 2015?

a) Gangtok
b) Thane
c) Imphal
d) Siliguri.

Ans: - B

9. Who among the following was appointed as the Chairman of the Empowered Committee of State Finance Ministers on Goods and Services Tax?

a) Abdul Rahim
b) KM Mani
c) Bharat Hari Singhania
d) Deepak Kaul

Ans: - B

10. The Reserve Bank has notified government's decision to raise foreign direct investment limit in the insurance sector to..........per cent.

a) 49
b) 50
c) 51
d) 60

Ans: - A

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1. Bapu ..Mahatma Gandhi
2. Man of Peace ..Lal Bahadur Shastri
3. Punjab Kesari ..Lala Lajpat Rai
4. Iron Man of India ..Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
5. Gurudev ..Rabindranath Tagore
6. Chacha ..Jawaharlal Nehru
7. Magician of Hockey ..Dhyanchand
8. Quaid-i-Azam ..Md. Ali Jinnah
9. Sher-e-Kashmir ..Sheikh Abdullah
10. Lokmanya ..Bal Gangadhar Tilak
11. Desh Ratna ..Dr. RajendraPrasad
12. Netaji ..Subhash Chandra Bose
13. Sparrow ..Major General Rajinder Singh
14. Shaheed-e-Azam ..Bhagat Singh
15. Nightingale of India..Sarojini Naidu
16. Udanpari ..P.T. Usha
17. Tota-e-Hind ..Amir Khusro
18. Napoleon of India ..Samudragupta
19. Bangabandhu ..Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
20. Deshbandhu ..ChittaRanjan Das
21. Deenbandhu ..C.F. Andrews
22. Shakespeare of India..Mahakavi Kalidas
23. Machiavelli of India..Chanakya
24. Loknayak ..Jayaprakash Narayan
25. Jana Nayak ..Karpuri Thakur

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(1) Novak Djokovic won his fifth Australian Open title on 1 February 2015 defeating whom?

---Andy Murray

(2) Nation observed the death anniversary of the Father of the nation, Mahatma Gandhi, on 30 January 2015 as?

---Martyrs' Day

(3) Which Department was recently awarded GOLD in National Award on e-governance 2014-15?

--- Income Tax Department [Awarded for for TDS Reconciliation Analysis & Correction Enabling System (TRACES)]

(4) Krishna Chaudhary was on 30 January 2015 appointed as the Director General (DG) of?

--- Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP)

(5) Name the Union Minister of Communications & IT who on 30 January 2015 released a set of Commemorative Postage stamps on Swachh Bharat?

--- Ravi Shankar Prasad

(6) Union Govt. recently sold its 10% stake in which company, becoming the biggest ever share sale by any private or public sector company in India?

--Coal India Limited (CIL)

(7) Jayanthi Natarajan who quitted Congress Party on 30 January 2015 was the Union Minister of _____ in previous UPA government?

---Environment and Forest

(8) Anti-Leprosy Day was observed recently on?

--- 30 January

(9) Minister for Railways Shri Suresh Prabhakar Prabhu, recently flagged off four Express trains from Bengaluru remotely through which service of RailTel, a PSU of Railways?

--- Telepresence

(10) Reserve Bank on 30 January 2015 constituted a high-powered panel to re-examine and recommend appropriate set of businesses, size, conversion and licensing terms for the urban cooperative banking sector. Who is the chairman of the committee?

--- R Gandhi [He is the RBI deputy Governor]

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1. Sher Shah belonged to the Sur dynasty.

2. He established Sur dynasty at Delhi.

3. The period of reign of Sher Shah was 1540-1545 AD.

4. The original name of Sher Shah was Farid .

5. He was born in 1472 in Punjab.

6. His father was jagirdar.

7. He left his house in 1501 AD and went to Jaunpur and learnt Arabic , Persian literature and History.

8. He was appointed bu his father as the governor of his jagir in 1511 AD.

9. Due to differences between the son and father Farid left home for the second time in 1520 AD.

10. After the death of his father he took service of Bahar Khan Lohani in 1522.

11. He had the title of Sher Khan given by his master on killing a tiger.

12. He joined the camp of Babar in 1527 . Babar gave him Sasaram to rule .

13. After the death of Bahar Khan Lohani he got the possession of the Chunar fort as a deputy govermor of Bihar.

14. He was appointed as the deputy regent to Jalal khan, the minor son of Bahar Khan. When Jalal khan wanted to free from the control of Sher Khan he was defeated by Sher Khan at Surajgarh.

15. Sher Khan defeated the confederacy of Lohani Afghans in 1533.

16. Victory of Surajgarh made Sher Khan as uncrowned king of Bihar.

17. When Humayun was engaged in war with Bahadur Shah of Gujrat. Sher Khan conquered as far as Manghir.

18. Sher Khan captured Gaur,the capital of Muhammad Shah's kingdom in 1536 AD and became master of Bengal.

19. The Mughal emperor Humayun was alarmed by the expansion of Sher Khan and marched against him after the conquest of Gujrat.

20. Sher Khan defeated Humayun in battle of Chausa in 1539 AD.

21. In the battle of Kannauj in 1540 AD Sher Khan got complete victory over Humayun.

Humayun forced to flee to the court of persian emperor. Humayun lived life of fugitive for 15 years.

22.Sher Khan conqured Punjab,Sindh,Multan ,Raisena fort,Marwar,Jodhpur, Mount Abu and Chittor etc.

23. He suppressed a number of revolts.

24. Almost the entire North India came under his sway.

25. His last expedition was against Kalinga.

26. He was killed in an accident caused by explosion in 1545 AD.

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FATHER OF NATION.

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1. Afghanistan —Ahmad Shah Durrani

2. Argentina—Don José de San Martín

3. Australia— Sir Henry Parkes

4. Bahamas —Sir Lynden Pindling

5. Bangladesh— Sheikh Mujibur Rahman

6. Bolivia —Simón Bolívar

7. Brazil —Dom Pedro I andJosé Bonifácio de Andrada e Silva

8. Burma— Aung San

9. Cambodia— Norodom Sihanouk

10. Chile— Bernardo O'Higgins

11. Republic of China— Sun Yat-sen

12. Colombia —Simón Bolívar

13. Sweden— Gustav I of Sweden

14. Croatia— Ante Starčević

15. Cuba —Carlos Manuel de Céspedes

16. Dominican Republic— Juan Pablo Duarte

17. Ecuador— Simón Bolívar

18. Ghana— Kwame Nkrumah

19. Guyana— Cheddi Jagan

20. Haiti —Jean-Jacques Dessalines

21. India— Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

22. Indonesia —Sukarno

23. Iran —Cyrus the Great

24. Israel —Theodor Herzl

25. Italy —Victor Emmanuel II

26. Kenya —Jomo Kenyatta

27. Republic of Korea— Kim Gu

28. Kosovo —Ibrahim Rugova

29. Lithuania— Jonas Basanavičius

30. Macedonia— Krste Misirkov

31. Malaysia—Tunku Abdul Rahman

32. Mauritius —Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam

33. Mexico —Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla

34. Mongolia Genghis Khan

35. Namibia— Sam Nujoma

36. Netherlands— William the Silent

37. Norway— Einar Gerhardsen

38. Pakistan— Mohammad Ali Jinnah

39. Panama— Simón Bolívar

40. Peru —Don José de San Martín

41. Portugal —Dom Afonso Henriques

42. Russia —Peter I of Russia

43. Saudi Arabia— Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia

44. Scotland —Donald Dewar

45. Serbia —Dobrica Ćosić

46. Singapore— Lee Kuan Yew

47. Slovenia— Primož Trubar

48. South Africa— Nelson Mandela

49. Spain —Fernando el Católico

50. Sri Lanka— Don Stephen Senanayake

51. Suriname— Johan Ferrier

52. Tanzania —Julius Nyerere

53. Turkey— Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

54. United Arab Emirates— Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan

55. United States— George Washington

56. Uruguay— José Gervasio Artigas

57. Venezuela— Simón Bolívar

58. Vietnam —Ho Chi Minh

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CURRENT AFFAIRS 2014 AT A GLANCE :

❖ Latvia adopted the Euro currency on January
1, 2014 and became the 18th member of the
Eurozone.

❖ Corey Anderson of New Zealand scored the
fastest century in One Day International cricket
history on January 1, 2014. He scored a hundred in just 36 deliveries against the West Indies. He beat the previous record of 100 off 37 balls set by Shahid Afridi of Pakistan in 1996.

❖ Sheikh Hasina was sworn in on January 12,
2014 for the third time as Bangladesh's Prime
Minister. Her party is Awami League.

❖ India's first monorail service was started in
Mumbai on February 2, 2014.

❖ Cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar and eminent
scientist CNR Rao were conferred the Bharat
Ratna, the highest civilian award of India on
February 4, 2014. The award was announced on November 16, 2013.

❖ Harish Rawat was sworn in as the Chief
Minister of Uttarakhand on February 1, 2014.

❖ 'Chronicles of a Co**se Bearer' is a book
written by Cyrus Mistry, which won the DSC
Prize for South Asian Literature at the Jaipur Literary Festival 2014. This award in 2013 was won by Jeet Thayil for his novel 'Narcopolis'.

❖ Stanislas Wawrinka of Switzerland beat
Spain's Rafael Nadal to win the 2014 Australian
Open men's singles tennis title. Li Na of China
won the women's singles title by defeating
Dominika Cibulkova of Slovakia.

❖ The prestigious Padma Awards for 2014 were announced which includes Padma Vibhushan for two individuals, Padma Bhushan for 24 and Padma Shri for 101 people. Out of 127 awardees 27 are women. Padma Vibhushan awardees are Raghunath Mashelkar (Science & Engineering) and yoga guru B.K.S. Iyengar.

❖ Shinzo Abe became the first Japanese Prime
Minister to be the chief guest at India's 65th
Republic Day celebrations on January 26, 2014.

❖ Janet Yellen is the first woman ever to head
the United States central bank Federal Reserve.

❖ Sub-Inspector K. Prasad Babu was conferred
the Ashok Chakra posthumously on the 65th Republic Day by the President Pranab Mukherjee.

K. Prasad Babu was from Andhra Pradesh. Hewas given this award for an anti-Maoist
operation near Andhra Pradesh- Chhattisgarh
border. Ashok Chakra is India's highest
peacetime gallantry award.

❖ Matteo Renzi became the youngest Italian
Prime Minister in February 2014. He is 39 years
old.

❖ Sushil Koirala assumed office as the Prime
Minister of Nepal on February 11, 2014. He is
also the President of the Nepali Congress Party.

❖ N.Ramachandran was elected the new
President of the Indian Olympic Association
(IOA) in February 2014. He is also the World
Squash Federation President.

❖ Satya Nadella, an Indian American, was
appointed the Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft on February 4, 2014. He succeeded Steve Ballmer.

❖ Former Supreme Court judge Ashok Kumar
Mathur has been appointed the Chairman of the
7th Pay Commission.

❖ Eminent Gandhian and environmentalist
Chandi Prasad Bhatt was selected for the 2013
Gandhi Peace Prize. He is one of the pioneers of the Chipko movement. He was awarded the
Ramon Magsaysay Award in 1982.

❖ Famous Hindi writer Vishwanath Tripathi has
been selected for the prestigious Vyas Samman
for the year 2013 for his memoir 'Vyomkesh
Darvesh'. Vyas Samman is a literary award given by the K.K. Birla Foundation.

❖ Odia became the sixth language to get
classical language status after Sanskrit, Tamil,
Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam.

❖ The Expert Committee to Revise and
Strengthen the Monetary Policy Framework,
headed by RBI Deputy Governor Urjit Patel
suggested the central bank to adopt the new consumer price index for anchoring the monetary policy.

❖ Facebook announced its acquisition of
WhatsApp Inc. for $19 billion. WhatsApp was
founded in 2009 by Brian Acton and John Koum. It is an instant messaging app for smartphones.

❖ The Winter Olympics were held in Sochi,
Russia in February 2014. Russia topped the
medals table with13 gold, 11 silver and 9 bronze. It won a total of 33 medals. India did not win any medal. Next Winter Olympics will be held in Pyeongchang in South Korea in 2018.

❖ Michelle Bachelet was sworn in as the
President of Chile on March 11, 2014. She
already served as the President once from 2006
to 2010.

❖ The third edition of the Nuclear Security Summit (NSS) was held in The Hague, Netherlands in March 2014. The NSS aims to prevent nuclear terrorism by reducing the
amount of dangerous nuclear material in the world.

❖ Renowned Hindi author Govind Mishra was
selected for the Saraswati Samman for the year
2013 for his book "Dhool Paudho Par". He is the
second Hindi author to receive the honor after
the late Harivansh Rai Bachchan in 1991.

❖ ESPN cricinfo presented the Cricketer of the
Generation award to Sachin Tendulkar.

❖ The International Women of Courage Award
2014 was presented by the US first lady Michelle Obama to Laxmi, a Delhi acid attack survivor.

❖ Mortal remains of about 282 Indian soldiers of 1857 mutiny were exhumed from a well at Ajnala in Amritsar district of Punjab in March 2014.

❖ The Reserve Bank of India had extended the
deadline for Indian banks to meet capital
requirements under the Basel III norms by a year to March 31, 2019.

❖ Mizoram defeated Railways to win the 68th
Santosh Trophy Football championship in Siliguri in March 2014. It is the maiden Santosh Trophy title for Mizoram.

❖ Viswanathan Anand won the World Candidates chess tournament title at Khanty Mansisyk, Russia.

❖ Khushwant Singh, a renowned author, passed away on March 20, 2014. He authored books such as 'Train to Pakistan', 'With Malice towards One and All', 'The Sunset Club', 'Truth, Love and a Little Malice', etc.

❖ Eminent film lyricist Gulzar was chosen for the coveted Dadasaheb Phalke Award for 2013. This award is the highest film award in India

❖ The people of Crimea voted to become part of Russia in a referendum in March 2014. The leaders of Group of Eight (G8) countries suspended Russia from the group on the issue of annexation of Crimea by Russia. Crimea was separated from Ukraine.

❖ The third Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi
Sectoral, Technical and Economic Cooperation
(BIMSTEC) Summit was held in Nay Pyi Taw,
Myanmar in March 2014. India, Bangladesh,
Bhutan, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Myanmar and Thailand are the seven members of this group. Sumith Nakandala of Sri Lanka is the Secretary General. The Secretariat of BIMSTEC is established in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

❖ Assam is the first State in India to observe
Child Protection Day to secure the future of
children on March 4, 2014.

❖ The armies of Nepal and India held a joint
military exercise named Surya Kiran VI in Nepal.

❖ Admiral Robin K. Dhowan assumed office as
the Chief of Naval Staff on April 17, 2014. He
succeeded Admiral D.K. Joshi.

❖ R. Gandhi has been appointed as a Deputy
Governor of Reserve Bank of India. RBI has four
deputy governors.

❖ The 2014 Goldman Environmental Prize was
awarded to Ramesh Agrawal of Chhattisgarh.

❖ Koyal Rana won the Miss India 2014 crown.

❖ India - born poet Vijay Seshadri won the 2014
Pulitzer Prize in the poetry category for his
collection of poems "3 Sections".

❖ Ex-coal secretary P.C. Parakh released his
book titled "Crusader or Conspirator? Coalgate
and Other Truths".

❖ Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the Colombian
novelist, died on April 17, 2014. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982. His major
books include One Hundred Years of Solitude,
Autumn of the Patriarch, Chronicle of a Death
Foretold and Love in the Time of Cholera.

❖ Renowned cinematographer V.- K. Murthy
passed away. He won the Dadasaheb Phalke
Award for the year 2008. He shot India's first
cinemascope movie 'Kagaz ke Phool'.

❖ RBI gave approvals to IDFC Ltd and Bandhan
Financial Services Private Limited to start new
banks. IDFC is an infrastructure finance company based in Mumbai and Bandhan is a micro lender based in Kolkata.

❖ Sun Pharmaceuticals will buy Ranbaxy
Laboratories.

❖ Sri Lanka won the World Twenty 20 title for
the first time defeating India by six wickets in
Mirpur, Bangladesh in April 2014.

❖ Australian women cricket team won the
Women's World Twenty 20 Cup 2014 by defeating England in the final in Mirpur, Bangladesh. This is the third successive
Women's World Twenty20 title for Australia.

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SUTIRTHA BHATTACHARYA TOOK CHARGE AS CMD OF COAL INDIA LIMITED.

Sutirtha Bhattacharya took charge as CMD of Coal India Limited On 5 January 2015

Sutirtha Bhattacharya on 5 January 2015 took charge as Coal India Limited’s full-time Chairman and Managing Director (CMD). The post was vacant for over six month.

Prior to taking the charge of Coal India, Bhattacharya, a 1985 batch IAS officer of Andhra Pradesh cadre was the CMD of the state-owned Singareni Collieries Company.

Bhattacharya’s name was recommended for the CMD of Coal India Limited (CIL) by the Public Enterprises Services Board (PESB) on 19 November 2014. Later in November 2014, his named was cleared for the top post by the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet.

Coal India was without a full-time head since May 2014 when S Narsing Rao resigned from the post to join Telangana government. But it was being handled by additional secretary, coal, AK Dubey who was given the additional charge as CMD of CIL from 26 June 2014.

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25 DECEMBER 2014 CURRENT AFFAIRS

(1) Union Government observed Good Governance Day: Union Government observed 25 December 2014 as Good Governance Day. The day was observed to celebrate the 90th birth anniversary of Atal Bihari Vajpayee. Most of the Union Ministries marked the day with e-governance initiatives, launch of new programmes and websites. Some dedicated existing initiatives to the nation, while others released year-end reviews of their programmes. Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited his Varanasi Lok Sabha constituency, launching development activities and participating in the “Clean India” campaign.

(2) Japan parliament re-elected Abe as prime minister: Japan's parliament re-elected Shinzo Abe on 24 December 2014 to serve another term as prime minister after his party won a snap election earlier this month. Abe won 328 votes out of the 470 cast by lawmakers in a special session of the lower house. Since the ruling Liberal Democrats hold only two lower house seats, two other lawmakers also cast votes for Abe. Following a similar vote by the upper house, Abe will name his cabinet, replacing only his defense minister.

(3) India clinched gold in Under-16 Chess Olympiad: Top seeds India bagged the gold medal in the World Youth Under-16 Chess Olympiad at Gyor in Hungary in a tight contest recently. India beat Turkey 3.0-1.0 in the 10th and final round to clinch the title ahead of Russia and Iran at the FIDE tournament held at the University of West Hungary.

(4) Govt to introduce alfa-numeric code for jewellery soon: The central government is “actively considering” introduction of a nine-digit alphanumeric identity code for every jewellery item manufactured in India, to fix purity and traceability. The code is proposed to be encrypted on every ornament. The major aim is to protect consumers from being duped, through tracing of the origin, certifying and assaying of ornaments. At present, some organised retailers sell ornaments with the Bureau of Indian Standard (BIS) hallmark, at a premium to local jewellers.

(5) Commemorative postage stamp on Kuka Movement released: Government has released a commemorative postal stamp to highlight heroic deeds of those engaged in 1857 Kuka movement of the Namdhari Sikhs against the British rule. It was released by Union minister for Communication and Information Technology Ravi Shankar Prasad in New Delhi. This movement marked the first major anti British reaction and its new political order initiated in 1849 among the people in the Punjab in 1857.

(6) After 20 years government decided to print 1 rupee paper notes: Government is keen to start printing Rs. 1 notes after a gap of almost two decades. The Government has notified ‘Printing of One Rupee Currency Notes Rules, 2015’, which will come into effect from January 1, 2015. Due to higher cost and for freeing capacity to print higher denomination notes, printing Rs.1 note was discontinued in November 1994, followed by Rs. 2 in February 1995, and Rs.5 in November 1995. Since then, only coins have been issued for these denominations. However, old notes are still in circulation and remain legal tender. As before, the new one rupee note will have the signature of the Finance Secretary.

(7) Government launched 'Mission Indradhanush' for children vaccination: The government has launched 'Mission Indradhanush' that aims to cover all un-vaccinated or partially vaccinated children by the year 2020, against seven vaccine preventable diseases. The diseases that come under the mission launched by the Union Health Minister J.P. Nadda on 'Good Governance Day' are diphtheria, whooping cough, tetanus, polio, tuberculosis, measles and hepatitis B.

(8) Reliance Capital to open a new bank in India in association with Japan's Sumitomo Mitsui: Reliance Capital, the Anil Ambani-led financial company, has sold a 2.8 per cent stake to Japan's Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank for Rs 371 crore to bolster its ambition of owning a bank as and when RBI kicks off on-tap licensing. Getting Japan's fourth-largest bank as a partner would add heft to such a bid, whenever it's made.

(9) Amitabh Bachchan honoured with Yash Chopra Memorial Award: Megastar Amitabh Bachchan has been conferred with the second Yash Chopra Memorial Award. Bachchan, 72, delivered his career's blockbusters with the ace filmmaker right from his first collaboration in 'Deewar', 'Kabhi Kabhie', 'Trishul', 'Kaala Patthar'. 'Silsila', 'Mohabatein' to 'Veera Zaara' and 'Bunty Aur Babli'.

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1. Psychology Says, A person needs just three things to be truly happy in the world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.

2. Psychology Says, Shy people are more likely to express more and admit to things during late night text conversations.

3. The 3 C's of life: choices, chances and changes. You must make a choice to take a chance or your life will never change.

4. If you live in a household with two parents who are happy together you have no idea how fortunate you are .

5. Ladies: An intelligent man will open your mind, a handsome man will open your eyes, and a gentleman will open your heart.

6. Laughter helps increase memory and learning. Incorporating humor into education leads to higher test scores.

7. If someone truly loves you, they tend to hug you for at least 5 seconds or more.

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1. Women cry an average of 30 to 64 times a year, men cry an average of 6 times a year.

2. Drinking 2 cups of cold water on a empty stomach can boost metabolism by 30%.

3. When you look up at the blue sky and see little white dots flying around, you're actually seeing your own white blood cells.

4. Your immune system destroys at least one cell every day that would have become cancer if it lived.

5. The happier you are, the less sleep you require to function in everyday life. Sadness increases the urge to sleep more.

6. Bad handwriting? Keep this in mind: more intelligent people tend to think faster, and as a result their handwriting is more sloppy.

7. Dogs can see sadness in humans and often attempt to make their owners happy by initiating cuddling.

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• Narendra Kothari Appointed As new Chairman of NMDC (National Mineral Development Corporation Limited on 17 April.
• Admiral Robin K Dhowan on 17 April took over as the 22nd Chief of Indian Navy.
• State Bank of India (SBI) launched Tablet (Tab) Banking service for opening Savings Bank accounts.
• The Supreme Court of India, in a landmark judgment on 15th April 2014, created the “third gender” statusfor transgenders.
• India-born poet Vijay Seshadri has won the prestigious 2014 Pulitzer Prize.
• Arvind Mayaram has been appointedas the new Finance Secretary on 15 April.
• Baroda won the National Syed Mustaq Ali Cricket T20 Trophy title after defeated Uttar Pradesh in the final match by three runs on 14 April atWankhede Stadium in Mumbai.
• ‘ The Accidental Prime Minister: The Making and Unmaking of Manmohan Singh ‘ written by Dr. Sanjaya Baru.
• Veteran film lyricist and director Gulzar has been chosen for the Dadasaheb Phalke Award for the year 2013.
• Justice Rajendra Mal Lodha has been appointed as the next Chief Justice of India (CJI) .
• Ratan Tata, the former chairman of the Tata Group which is one of the largest employers in Britain, has been honoured by Queen Elizabeth with a GBE (Knight Grand Cross), one of the UK’s highest civilian awards.
• R Chandrasekaran Takes Over As NASSCOM chairman.
• Sachin Tendulkar Adorns Cover of Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack.
• Pulitzer Prize-winning Indian American novelist Jhumpa Lahiri’s “Lowland” has been shortlisted for the 2014 Baileys Prize, the UK’s only annual book award for fiction written by a woman.
• Ravi Chauhan was appointed as Managing Director for SAP India.
• Koyal Rana won the coveted Miss India 2014 crown at the 51st edition of the pageant.
• Indian Cricket Captain MS Dhoni has won United Kingdom’s 2014 Asian award for outstanding achievement in sports.
• Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL) received the Most Efficient Navratna Award for the year 2013.
• The government has appointed R Gandhi as deputy governor of Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on 3 April.
• Union Government appointed senior IPS officer D K Pathak as the new Director General of the Border Security Force (BSF).
• The seventh annual World Autism Awareness Day 2014 was celebrated across the world on 2 April 2014.

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FACTS ABOUT INDIAN CURRENCY

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* The first coins were minted (made) around 2500 years ago.
* Paper money was first used in China over 1000 years ago.
* The first "rupee” was first introduced by Sher Shah Suri. It was based on a ratio of 40 copper pieces (paisa) per rupee.
* Udaya K Dharmalingam is the designer of the Indian rupee Symbol, which was adopted by the Government of India in 2010.
* From 1953, Hindi was displayed prominently on the new notes.
* The Government of India took over the issue of bank notes in 1861 from the Private and Presidency Banks.
* The first series of coins with theIndian rupee symbol was launched on 8 July, 2011.
* The first 1000 Rs Note was introduced in 2000.
* The first 20 Rs and 5 Rs note was introduced in 2001.
* Decimalization started in 1957 and the rupee was divided into 100 Naye Paise.
* Total 15 Languages (Apart from English) are printed in Indian Rupee Note. They are Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Kashmiri, Konkani, Malayalam, Marathi, Nepali, Oriya, Panjabi, Sanskrit, Tamil, Telugu and Urdu.
* In India, the first paper bank note was published by Bank of Hindustan in 1770.
* The current Mahatma Gandhi series of bank notes stared from 1996 with new series of 10Rs notes.
* Indian coins are produced in 4 cities: Noida, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Kolkata. The coins produce from each city puts an identification mark under the year of issue. Coins produced in Noida have a dot mark, Mumbai have diamond mark, Hyderabad have star mark and coin produce from Kolkata have nothing beneath the year.
* Credit cards were first used in the United States in the 1920’s.

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