General Knowledge

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Lance Naik Hanumanthappa Koppad, who was buried alive under snow by deadly avalanche at Siachen Glacier, who later died in a hospital after he was miraculously rescued by army, was a soldier of Madras regiment.

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Ekkadu Srinivasan Lakshmi Narasimhan is an Indian former civil servant and politician who served as the first Governor of Telangana. He assumed office of the Governor of Andhra Pradesh in December 2009 and Governor of Telangana on 2 June 2014.

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Arjun Munda has the support of 45 MLAs in the 81-member Assembly.

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Anil Agarwal – Vedanta ResourcesGautam H. Singhania – Raymond Ltd.Sanjay Dalmia – Gujarat Heavy Chemicals Ltd.Venugopal Dhoot – Videocon Group

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John Keats dedicated this poem to the late poet Thomas Chatterton. The poem begins with the line “A thing of beauty is a joy for ever”.

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Mankombu Sambasivan Swaminathan is an Indian geneticist and administrator, known for his role in India’s Green Revolution. Swaminathan has been called the “Father of Green Revolution in India” for his role in introducing and further developing high-yielding varieties of wheat in India.

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Madhuri Dixit, also known by her married name Madhuri Dixit Nene, is an Indian actress, producer, and television personality. She is associated with Kathak dance.

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Shinzo Abe was the Prime Minister of Japan who visited India in the month of September.

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi has inaugurated the first-ever Persons of Indian Origin (PIO) Parliamentary Conference in the Pravasi Bharatiya Kendra (PBK) in Delhi on 9 January, 2018. Approx 124 Members of Parliament (MP) and 17 mayors from 23 countries will participate in this conference. The conference is a way of reaching out to the Indian community overseas by the Central government. The event will have two thematic sessions, the first one will have as special guest senior Congress leader and chairman of the parliamentary committee on external affairs, Shashi Tharoor. The session will be presided over by Deputy Chairman of the Rajya Sabha. The second session will have Parliamentary Affairs minister Ananth Kumar as a special guest which will be chaired by Deputy Speaker of the Lok Sabha.