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Static GK Digest English 2018.PDF-12
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Static GK Digest
Dear Readers,
This Static GK Digest is a complete docket of important information of Static topics. The Static
GK Digest is important and relevant for all competitive exams like Banking, Insurance, SSC and
Govt. Exams.
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Mumbai,
29 Victorian Gothic and Art Deco Ensembles
Maharashtra
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Bakhira Sanctuary
Lakh Bahosi Sanctuary
Nawabganj Bird Sanctuary
Okhla Sanctuary
Uttar Pradesh
Patna Bird Sanctuary
Saman Sanctuary
Samaspur Sanctuary
Sandi Bird SanctuaryThasrana Bird Sanctuary
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Virupaksha Temple
19. Hampi, Karnataka Tungabhadra River
(Pampapathi temple)
Siddhivinayak Temple-
20. (Dedicated to Lord Mumbai, Maharashtra Bhima River
Ganesha)
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Padmanabhaswamy
28. Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala -
Temple
Kandariya Mahadeva
30. Madhya Pradesh -
Temple
Gomateshwara Bahubali
31. Hassan district, Karnataka -
Temple
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Telangana Nagarjuna Sagar Dam Krishna (Some Part of Dam also in Telangana)
Koteshwar Bhagirathi
1. Bharat Ratna: It is the highest civilian award given for outstanding prose or poetry
award of the India. The award was given for literary works in any 22 Indian languages.
outstanding achievements in the arts, 5. Vyas Samman (Literature): The award
literature, science and public services but the annually by the K.K. Birla Foundation in
government expanded the criteria to include recognition of the Hindi literary work published
"any field of human endeavour". The number in past 10 years.
of annual awards is restricted to a maximum of 6. Bihari Puraskar (Literature): It is Bihari
three in a particular year. Puraskar is a literary award instituted by K. K.
2. Nobel Prize: The Nobel Prize is widely Birla Foundation. The award is named after the
regarded as the most prestigious award famous Hindi poet Bihari and is awarded to an
available in the fields of literature, medicine, outstanding work published in Hindi or
physics, chemistry, peace, and economics. Rajasthani by a Rajasthani writer.
3. Saraswati Samman (Literature): The award 7. Moorti Devi Award (Literature): It is an
was instituted in 1991 by the K. K. Birla annual literary award in India presented by the
Foundation. It is an annual award given for Bharatiya Jnanpith organization for a work
outstanding prose or poetry literary works in which emphasizes Indian philosophy and
any 22 Indian languages. culture.
4. Jnanpith award (Literature): The award was 8. Booker Prize (Literature): It is an annual
instituted in 1961 and it is It is presented by award for the best original novel, written in the
the Bharatiya Jnanpith, a trust founded by the English language, and published in the UK
Sahu Jain family, the publishers of the literary award
newspaper The Times of India. It is an annual
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Hockey Bully, Hat-Trick, Short corner, Stroke, Striking Circle, Penalty corner, under cutting, Scoop,
Centre forward, Carry, Dribble, Goal, Carried.
Horse Racing Punter, Jockey, Place, Win, Protest.
Lawn Tennis Volley, Smash, Service, Back-hand-drive.
Rifle Shooting Bull's eyes.
Swimming Stroke.
Cabinet Ministers
Ministry of Commerce and Industry Suresh Prabhu Andhra Pradesh, Rajya Sabha
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Chaudhary Birender
Ministry of Steel Haryana, Rajya Sabha
Singh
Mukhtar Abbas
Ministry of Minority Affairs Jharkhand, Rajya Sabha
Naqvi
Santosh Kumar
Ministry of Labour and Employment
Gangwar
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Ministry of Culture, Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change Dr. Mahesh Sharma
Rajyavardhan Singh
Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports
Rathore
Alphons
Ministry of Tourism
Kannanthanam
Parliamentary Affairs, Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Arjun Ram
Rejuvenation Meghwal
Minister of State in the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology S.S. Ahluwalia
January
4th January World Braille Day
9th January Pravasi Bhartiya Divas (NRI Day)
10th January World Hindi Day
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3rd Sunday of
June World Father’s Day
20 Jun World Refugee Day
21 Jun World Music Day
International Yoga Day
International Olympic Day, United Nations Public Service Day, International Widows
23 Jun Day
International Day against Drug abuse and Illicit Trafficking, International Day in
26 Jun support of Victims of torture
July
01 Jul International Joke Day, World Doctor’s Day
26 Jul Kargil Vijay Diwas or Kargil Memorial Day or Kargil Victory Day
August
06 Aug Hiroshima Day, Anti Nuclear Day
09 Aug Nagasaki Day, International Day of the World’s Indigenous People, Quit India Day
12 Aug International Youth Day
14 Aug Pakistan’s Independence Day
15 Aug India’s Independence Day, International Mourning Day
19 Aug World Humanitarian Day, World Photography Day
National Sadbhavna Divas or Birthday of Rajiv gandhi, World Mosquito Day, Indain
20 Aug Akshay Urja Diwas
23 Aug International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and Its Abolition
29 Aug National Sports Day or Dhyanchand's Birthday
September
05 Sep National Teacher’s Day or Dr. Radhakrishanan's Birth Day, Sanskrit Day
08 Sep World Literacy Day
14 Sep Hindi Diwas or Hindi Day, World First Aid Day
15 Sep International Day of Democracy, International Engineer’s Day
16 Sep World Ozone Day
World Peace Day or International day for Peace an Nonviolence (UN), World
21 Sep Alzheimer’s Day
27 Sep World Tourism Day
28 Sep World Rabies Day
October
1st Monday of
October World Habitat Day
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International Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in War and
06 Nov Armed Conflict
10 Nov World Science day for Peace and Development, Public Transport Day
11 Nov National Education Day
12 Nov World Pneumonia Day, Public Service Broadcasting Day
14 Nov Children’s Day (India), World Diabetes Day
International Students Day, Gurunanak Dev's Birth Anniversary, National eplilepsy
17 Nov day
19 Nov World Toilet Day, International Men’s Day, National Integration Day
20 Nov Universal Children’s Day
26 Nov National Law Day or National constitution Day
30 Nov National Flag Day
December
01 Dec World AIDS Day
02 Dec World Computer Literacy Day, International Day for the Abolition of Slavery
03 Dec International Day of People with Disability or World Disability Day
04 Dec Indian Navy Day
07 Dec International Civil Aviation Day, Indian Armed Force Flag Day
09 Dec The International Anticorruption Day
10 Dec World Human Rights Day, International Children's Day of Broadcasting
11 Dec International Mountain Day, UNICEF Day
14 Dec National Energy Conservation Day (India)
16 Dec Vijay Diwas
18 Dec International Migrants Day, National Minority Rights Day
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(legislative);
Bloemfontein
(judiciary)
109. South Sudan Juba Sudanese Pound - -
110. Spain Madrid Euro - -
Maithripala Ranil
111. Sri Lanka Colombo Sri Lanka rupee
Sirisena Wickremesinghe
112. Sudan Khartoum Dinar - -
113. Sweden Stockholm Krona - -
114. Switzerland Bern Swiss franc - -
115. Syria Damascus Syrian pound - -
116. Taiwan Taipei Taiwan dollar - -
Dar es Salaam; - -
Tanzanian
117. Tanzania Dodoma
shilling
(legislative)
118. Thailand Bangkok baht - -
119. Tunisia Tunis Tunisian dinar - -
Turkish lira - -
120. Turkey Ankara
(YTL)
121. Turkmenistan Ashgabat Manat - -
Vaiaku village, - -
122. Tuvalu Funafuti Australian dollar
province
Ugandan new - -
123. Uganda Kampala
shilling
124. Ukraine Kyiv Hryvna - -
Khalifa bin Mohammed bin
125. United Arab
Abu Dhabi U.A.E. dirham Zayed Al Rashid Al
Emirates
Nahyan Maktoum
Queen- Theresa May
126. United Kingdom London Pound sterling
Elizabeth II
127. United States of Donald Trump -
Washington D.C. dollar
America
128. Uruguay Montevideo Uruguay peso - -
129. Uzbekistan Tashkent Uzbekistani sum - -
130. Vatican City Vatican City Euro - -
131. Venezuela Caracas Bolivar - -
132. Vietnam Hanoi Dong - -
133. Yemen Sanaa Rial - -
Emmerson -
134. Zimbabwe Harare -
Mnangagwa
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Current Chief
States Capital Minister Current governor
Hyderabad (Proposed Capital N. Chandrababu
Andhra Pradesh Amaravati) Naidu E. S. L. Narasimhan
Arunachal
Pradesh Itanagar Pema Khandu B. D. Mishra
Assam Dispur Sarbananda Sonowal Jagdish Mukhi
Bihar Patna Nitish Kumar Lalji Tandon
Chhattisgarh Raipur Raman Singh Anandiben Patel
Goa Panaji Manohar Parrikar Mridula Sinha
Gujarat Gandhinagar Vijay Rupani Om Prakash Kohli
Haryana Chandigarh Manohar Lal Khattar Satyadev Narayan Arya
Himachal Pradesh Shimla, Dharamsala (2nd capital) Jai Ram Thakur Acharya Dev Vrat
Jammu and Srinagar (summer), Jammu
Kashmir (winter) _____ Satya Pal Malik
Jharkhand Ranchi Raghubar Das Draupadi Murmu
Karnataka Bengaluru H.D. Kumaraswamy Vajubhai Vala
Kerala Thiruvananthapuram Pinarayi Vijayan P. Sathasivam
Shivraj Singh
Madhya Pradesh Bhopal Chouhan Anandiben Patel
Maharashtra Mumbai Devendra Fadnavis C. Vidyasagar Rao
Manipur Imphal N. Biren Singh Najma Heptulla
Meghalaya Shillong Conrad Sangma Tathagata Roy
Kummanam Rajasekharan
Mizoram Aizawl Lal Thanhawla
Nagaland Kohima Neiphiu Rio Padmanabha Acharya
Odisha Bhubaneswar Naveen Patnaik Ganeshi Lal
Punjab Chandigarh Amarinder Singh V. P. Singh Badnore
Rajasthan Jaipur Vasundhara Raje Kalyan Singh
Pawan Kumar
Sikkim Gangtok Chamling Ganga Prasad
Edappadi K.
Tamil Nadu Chennai Palaniswami Banwarilal Purohit
K. Chandrashekar E. S. L. Narasimhan (Additional
Telangana Hyderabad Rao Charge)
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City River
Agra, Uttar Pradesh Yamuna
Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh Confluence of Ganga, Yamuna and Saraswati
Ayodhya, Uttar Pradesh Saryu
Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh Ganges
Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh Ganges
Mathura, Uttar Pradesh Yamuna
Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh Gomti
Ahmedabad, Gujarat Sabarmati
Surat, Gujarat Tapi
Vadodara, Gujarat Vishwamitri, Mahi, Narmada
Bhagalpur, Bihar Ganges
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