SSC CGL 2016: General Awareness Test – Day 17

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Some of the scholars in the Court of Kanishka were Parsva, Vasumitra, Asvaghosa, Nagarjuna, Charaka and Mathara. Charaka has been called the Court Physician of Kanishka

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The oldest name of Punjab is Sapta Sindhu.Sapta-Sindhu was referred to as Hapta-Hindu by Persians etc

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L.K. Advani wrote the book “A prisoner’s Scrapbook”. Lal Kishenchand Advani known as Lal Krishna Advani is an Indian politician. Diaries and notes of censure written in prison by the author during June 1975-January 1977.

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Muhammad Bin Tughlaq has been called, an unfortunate idealist • Due to shortage of money in the treasury. He is also known as Man of Ideas.

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Shivaji Bhonsle – (1630-80 A.D) is recognized as the “father of the Maratha nation.” Shivaji Bhosle, founder of the Maratha Empire

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Foreign Exchange Reserves in India is reported by the Reserve Bank of India.

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The Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act’ or Right to Education Act (RTE), is an Act of the Parliament of India enacted on 4 August 2009, which describes the modalities of the importance of free and compulsory education for children between 6 and 14 in India under Article 21A of the Indian Constitution.

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Modern Bangladesh emerged as an independent nation in 1971 after breaking away and achieving independence from Pakistan in the Bangladesh liberation war.

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Shri Thaawar Chand Gehlot, Union Minister of Social Justice & Empowerment, launched the schemes of ‘Venture Capital Fund for Scheduled Castes’ with initial capital of Rs. 200 crore.

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Jim Corbett National Park is the oldest national park in India and was established in 1936 as Hailey National Park to protect the endangered Bengal tiger.It is located in Uttarakhand

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India successfully launched a rocket which deposited a record 20 satellites in 26 minutes on June 22, 2016 from Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh.

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G. Jadhav was a Marathi literary critic from Maharashtra, India. For some years, he served as a professor of Marathi literature.

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According to a recent report, Patna – capital city of the Indian state of Bihar, now has the 20km free Wi-Fi zone, the longest across the globe.

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A web search engine is a software system that is designed to search for information on the World Wide Web.

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Functional finance is an economic theory proposed by Abba P. Lerner, based on effective demand principles and chartalism. It states that government should finance itself to meet explicit goals.

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A liminic eruption, also referred to as a lake overturn, is a rare type of natural disaster in which dissolved carbon dioxide (CO2) suddenly erupts from deep lake water, suffocating wildlife, livestock and humans.

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Farad is the SI unit of electrical capacitance, equal to the capacitance of a capacitor in which one coulomb of charge causes a potential difference of one volt.

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The stapes is the third bone of the three ossicles in the middle ear. The stapes is a stirrup-shaped bone, and the smallest in the human body.

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Ethylene glycol is an organic compound with the formula (CH₂OH)₂. It is mainly used for two purposes, as a raw material in the manufacture of polyester fibers and for antifreeze formulations

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Rayon fiber is a natural-based material made from the cellulose of wood pulp or cotton fiber