General Knowledge Gk Important Points
- International Day of Charity was observed on September 5.
- Jamshedpur is known as the Pittsburg of India.
- The first woman Deputy chairperson Rajya Sabha- Violet Alva.
- The first Comptroller and Auditor General of India-V.Nakhari Rao.
- The oldest Bharat Ratna award winner-D .K.Karve.
- The most number of sites during 1857 Revolt was located in Uttar Pradesh.
- The Indian Council Act 1909 is commonly known as “The Minto -Morley Reforms”.
- The Venue where most number of INC Sessions held after independence in New Delhi.
- Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan was founded at Mumbai in 1938 by K.M.Munshi .
- Robert Clive is known as Babur of British India.
- Bal Gangadhar Tilak is popularly called as “Lokmanya” and “Maratha Kesari”.
- C Rajagopalachari is known as Vedaranyam Gandhi.
- Mahatma Gandhi Started weekly named Young India and Navjeevan.
- The first South Indian state implemented panchayatiraj was Andhra Pradesh.
- Vikramshila Gangetic Dolphin sanctuary is located in Bihar.
- Chtrakoot waterfalls is on the indravati river in Chhattisgarh.
- Asia only Naval aviation museum situated in Goa.
- Kakrapar Atomic Power Station is situated at Gujarat.
- Mobile number portability watch first launched in Haryana.
- Jwalamukhi temple is one of the most popular pilgrim centres in Himachal Pradesh.
- The first state in India to introduce Aadhar card to the Cattle – Jharkhand.
- Kolar and Hatti are the gold mines in Karnataka.
- Kerala is the first state to achieve complete scheduled tribe literary.
- Madhya Pradesh is the state which gives Kabir Samman Kalidas samman and tensen samman.
- Tadoba Tiger Reserve is located in Maharashtra.
- Talcher thermal power station is located in Odisha.
- Punjab is the first state to issue soil health cards to farmers.
- Sikkim first state in India that achieve 100% sanitation under Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan scheme .
- Vedanthangal bird sanctuary situated in Tamil Nadu.
- K Chandrasekhar Rao is the first Chief Minister of Telangana.
- Jolly Grant Airport is located in Uttarakhand.
- West Bengal state having a large number of mangroves in India.
- The Brahmaputra enters to India through Arunachal Pradesh.
- INA war Memorial in India is located at moirang In Manipur
- Umiam lake and umroi airport are in Meghalaya.
- Blue mountains National Park in Mizoram .
- Hornbill festival is the famous festival of Nagaland.
- Digboi is the oldest oil refinery in India which is in Assam.
- The north- estern stage decided to withdraw Armed Forces Special Powers Act is Tripura.
- B.N. Rao was the legal advisor of the constituent assembly.
- Renunciation, termination and deprivation are the three ways of losing Indian citizenship.
- Neelam Sanjeeva Reddy is the only person to be elected as president of India Unopposed.
- The first Vice Chairman of Planning Commission in India bus Gulzarilal Nanda.
- The Prime Minister Who introduced new economic reforms in India was P.V Narasimha Rao.
- Rashtra Mahila is the monthly publication of National Commission for Women.
- Supreme Court Judges retire upon attaining the age of 65 years.
- According to article 214 there shall be high court for each state.
- Sixty first amendment of 1989 reduces the voting age from 21 to 8 years.
- Maharashtra Was the first state in India to appointed Lokayukta.
- Right to Information Act was passed by the Indian Parliament on 15th June 2005.
- Manjeswaram is the smallest Legislative Assembly in Kerala.
- KK Usha was the first Malayali woman to become the chief justice in Kerala High Court.
- First cyber crime police station in Kerala is at Pattom Thiruvananthapuram.
- First polio free district in India was Pathanamthitta.
- Kerala only tribal grama panchayat in Edamalakkudi Idukki.
- Ernakulam is the first baby friendly district in Kerala.
- Villarvattom iis the only one Christian dynasty in Kerala situated in Thrissur district.
- Chittur Palakkad is the only place in Kerala where black soil is formed.
- The first ISO Certified police station in Kerala is Kozhikode Town Police Station.
- Wayanad Heritage Museum is located near Ambalavayal.
- Pzhassi Dam in Kannur district is constructed across valapattanam river.
- Kasaragod is the first bio district in Kerala.
- Sree Narayana Guru was the first Malayali to appear in the Indian postal stamp.
- “Pidiyari System’ Was introduced by kuriakose Elias Chavara.
- Vedadhikara niroopanam is the famous work of chattampi swamikal.
- Kalyanadayini Sabha was founded by Pandit K.P Kuruppan.
- Vakkom Abdul Khader moulavi was the founder of all Travancore Muslim mahajana Sabha.
- Swadeshabhimani Ramakrishna Pillai wrote Vrithantha Pathra pravachanam the first book on journalism in Malayalam language.
- SadhuJana paripalana Sangam was founded by Ayyankali at Veganoor.
- Vidya poshini Sabha was founded by sahodaran Ayyappan.
- In 1936 A.K Gopalan lead a Hungermarch from Kannur to Madras.
- Brahmananda sivayogi started a journal called Saragrahi.
- The real name of vagbhatananda was valerie Kunji Kannan
- Mannathu Padmanabhan is known as the madan Mohan Malaviya of Kerala.
- Vaikunda swamikal formed a religion called as Ayyavazhi.
- K.P Kesava Menon is known as the Grand old man of Kerala.