The largest cantilever bridge of India is Howrah Bridge >The Himalayan Mountaineering Institute is located in Darjeeling >The headquarter of European Court of Justice (ECJ) are situated at Luxembourg >The host of first Olympics in 1896 was Athens, Greece >The headquarter of all the following international organization are based at Vienna, excepted United Nations Development Programme >The member of SEATO (South-East Asia Treaty Organisation) are Australia, France, New Zealand, Philippines, Thailand, UK and USA >The main crop of Meghalaya is rice >The major minerals found in Uttar Pradesh are limestone and dolomite >The headquarter of International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) are situated at Vienna >The first recipient of Bharat Ratna award in 1954 was C. Rajagopalachari >The credit of developing the polio vaccine goes to Jones Salk >The first NAM (Non-Aligned Movement) conference was held at Belgrade (Yugoslavia) >The command from a superior officer or a judge to a subordinate right given to a person to act in the name of another, is Mandate >The common terms used in shooting are bed, ballsege, marksmanship, plug >The buoyancy depends on the mass of the liquid displaced >The country’s first indigenously built missile boat was INS Vibhuti >The first launch of the missile ‘Trishul’ was made in September, 1995 >The corresponding Gregorian date of the saka month, Bhadra is August 23 >The branch of science that studies cells is called cytology >The first foreigner to receive Bharat Ratna was Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan >The first General Elections in India took place in 1952 >The electron was first identified by J. J. Thompson >The first attempt in printing was made in England by William Caxton >The dance performed by women to invoke rain in Bihar is Jata Jatin >The department of Atomic Energy was established in 1956 >The exhaled air contains a mixture of carbon dioxide, nitrogen and oxygen in which nitrogen has the highest percentage >The credit of inventing the television goes to Baird >The first man-made satellite, Sputnik I was launched by the former USSR in 1957 >The first rice straw power plant has been set up at Jalkheri, Punjab >The first Afro-Asian Games were held in Hyderabad >Study of earthquakes is known as seismology >Penicillin was invented by A. Fleming >Raja Rammohan Roy advocated widow remarriage and woman’s education >Raja Rammohan Roy was the founder of the Brahmo Samaj >Small amounts of iodine are necessary in our diet to A: compensate for underactive the thyroid gland
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