General Knowledge

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“Bharat Ratna” awardee Nelson Mandela died on 5 December 2013.

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Shanta Rangaswamy won the BCCI Lifetime achievement award for Women at the BCCI Annual Awards held in Bengaluru in March 2017.

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Iris Mittenaere is a French model, television host, and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss Universe 2016.

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Nasira Sharma won the 2016 Sahitya Akademi Award for Hindi for his novel ‘Parijat’.

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Shankha Ghosh and Raghuveer Chaudhari won the Jnanpith Award 2016.

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Om Puri is the 2017 Asian Award recipient for the outstanding achievement in Cinema.

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Arjun Singh, who fought with a tiger in Uttarakhand to save his mother, was the recipient of Sanjay Chopra Award in 2016. He along with 24 other children were honoured with National Bravery Awards at Republic Day celebrations.

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Tamil Nadu has bagged the top spot as the country’s most popular tourist destination among foreign and domestic tourists in 2016.

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Thant known honorifically as U Thant was a Burmese diplomat and the third secretary – general of the United Nations from 1961 to 1971. He was the first recipient of Nehru Award.

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The Nobel Prize in Physics 1930 was awarded to Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman for his work on the scattering of light and for the discovery of the effect named after him.