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Recipients of Dadasaheb Phalke Award

The Dadasaheb Phalke Award is an annual award given by the Ministry of Information & Broadcasting for lifetime contribution to Indian cinema. It was instituted in 1969, the birth centenary year of Dadasaheb Phalke, considered the father of Indian cinema.

Following is the list of award winners:

Name of Awardee			Year	Occupation/Field
D. Ramanaidu			2009	Producer
V. K. Murthy			2008	Cinematographer
Manna Dey			2007	Playback Singer
Tapan Sinha			2006	Director
Shyam Benegal			2005	Director
Adoor Gopalakrishnan			2004	Director
Mrinal Sen			2003	Director
Dev Anand			2002	Actor, Director, Producer
Yash Chopra			2001	Director, Producer
Asha Bhosle			2000	Playback Singer
Hrishikesh Mukherjee			1999	Director
B.R. Chopra			1998	Director, Producer
Pradeep			1997	Lyricist
Sivaji Ganesan			1996	Actor
Rajkumar			1995	Actor
Dilip Kumar			1994	Actor
Majrooh Sultanpuri			1993	Lyricist
Bhupen Hazarika			1992	Director
Bhalji Pendharkar			1991	Director, Producer, Screenwriter
Akkineni Nageswara Rao			1990	Actor
Lata Mangeshkar			1989	Playback Singer
Ashok Kumar			1988	Actor
Raj Kapoor			1987	Actor, Director
B. Nagi Reddy			1986	Producer
V. Shantaram			1985	Actor, Director, Producer
Satyajit Ray			1984	Director
Durga Khote			1983	Actress
L. V. Prasad			1982	Actor, Director, Producer
Naushad Ali			1981	Music Director
Paidi Jairaj			1980	Actor, Director
Sohrab Modi			1979	Actor, Director, Producer
Rai Chand Boral			1978	Music Director, Director
Nitin Bose			1977	Cinematographer, Director, Screenwriter
Kanan Devi			1976	Actress
Dhirendranath Ganguly			1975	Actor, Director
Bomireddi Narasimha Reddy			1974	Director
Ruby Myers (Sulochana)			1973	Actress
Pankaj Mullick			1972	Music Director
Prithviraj Kapoor			1971	Actor (Posthumous)
B. N. Sircar			1970	Producer
Devika Rani Chaudhuri Roerich			1969	Actress

Recipients of Jnanpith Award

The Jnanpith Award is the highest literary award in India. It is presented by the Bharatiya Jnanpith, a trust founded by the Sahu Jain family, the publishers of The Times of India newspaper. The Jnanpith Award is given to any Indian writer for his or her outstanding contribution in any of the 18 languages mentioned in the Eighth Schedule of the Constitution. It is given for outstanding contribution to creative writing in a specified period of 15 years but excluding the five years immediately preceding the year.

Following is the list of the Jnanpith Awardees, so far:

Laureates Awarded			Year	Language
Akhlaq Khan Shahryar			2008	Urdu
O. N. V. Kurup			2007	Malayalam
Satyavrat Shastri			2006	Sanskrit
Ravindra Kelekar			2006	Konkani
Kunwar Narain			2005	Hindi
Rahman Rahi			2004	Kashmiri
Vinda Karandikar			2003	Marathi
D. Jayakanthan			2002	Tamil
Rajendra Shah			2001	Gujarati
Indira Goswami			2000	Assamese
Nirmal Verma			1999	Hindi
Gurdial Singh			1999	Punjabi
Girish Karnad			1998	Kannada
Ali Sardar Jafri			1997	Urdu
Mahasveta Devi			1996	Bangla
M.T. Vasudevan Nair			1995	Malayalam
U.R. Anantha Murthy			1994	Kannada
Sitakant Mahapatra			1993	Oriya
Naresh Mehta			1992	Hindi
Subhash Mukhopadhyaya			1991	Bangla
V.K. Gokak			1990	Kannada
Qurratulain Hyder			1989	Urdu
C. Narayana Reddy			1988	Telugu
V.V.S. ‘Kusumagraj’			1987	Marathi
Satchidanand Rautroy			1986	Oriya
Pannalal Patel			1985	Gujarati
Thakazhi S. Pillai			1984	Malayalam
Masti V. Iyengar			1983	Kannada
Mahadevi Varma			1982	Hindi
Amrita Pritam			1981	Punjabi
S.K. Pottekkatt			1980	Malayalam,
B.K. Bhattacharya			1979	Assamese
S.H.V. Ajneya			1978	Hindi
K.S. Karanth			1977	Kannada
Ashapurna Devi			1976	Bangla
P.V. Akilandam			1975	Tamil
V.S. Khandekar			1974	Marathi
D.R. Bendre			1973	Kannada,
Gopinath Mohanty			1973	Oriya
Ramdhari Singh `Dinkar’			1972	Hindi
Bishnu Dey			1971	Bangla
V. Satyanarayana			1970	Telugu
Firaq Gorakhpuri			1969	Urdu
Sumitranandan Pant			1968	Hindi
Uma Shankar Joshi			1967	Gujarati
K.V. Puttappa			1967	Kannada
T.S. Bandyopadhyaya			1966	Bangla
G. Sankara Kurup			1965	Malayalam
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Name of Chief Guests at Republic Day of India

Chief Guests at Republic Day of India (26th January Parades): Since 1950, India has been hosting head of state or government of another country as the state guest of honour for Republic Day celebrations in New Delhi. Since 1955 parade is being presenting at Rajpath. The guest country is chosen after a deliberation of strategic, economic and political interests.

Following is the list of all Chief guest invited to attend Republic Day of India (26th January) since 1950 to 2011:

Year		Chief Guest Name		Country
1950		President Sukarno		Indonesia
1951
1952
1953
1954		King Jigme Dorji Wangchuck		Bhutan
1955		Governor General Malik Ghulam Muhammad (first guest for parade at Rajpath)		Pakistan
1956
1957
1958		Marshall Ye Jianying		People’s Republic of China
1959
1960		President Kliment Voroshilov		Soviet Union
1961		Queen Elizabeth II		United Kingdom
1962
1963		King Norodom Sihanouk		Cambodia
1964
1965		Food and Agriculture Minister Rana Abdul Hamid		Pakistan
1966
1967
1968		Prime Minister Alexei Kosygin and President Josip Broz Tito		Soviet Union Yugoslavia
1969		Prime Minister of Bulgaria Todor Zhivkov		Bulgaria
1970
1971		President Julius Nyerere		Tanzania
1972		Prime Minister Seewoosagur Ramgoolam		Mauritius
1973		President Mobutu Sese Seko		Zaire
1974		President Josip Broz Tito and Prime Minister Sirimavo Ratwatte Dias Bandaranaike		Yugoslavia Sri Lanka
1975		President Kenneth Kaunda		Zambia
1976		Prime Minister Jacques Chirac		France
1977		First Secretary Edward Gierek		Poland
1978		President Patrick Hillery		Ireland
1979		Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser		Australia
1980		President Valéry Giscard d’Estaing		France
1981		President Jose Lopez Portillo		Mexico
1982		King Juan Carlos I		Spain
1983		President Shehu Shagari		Nigeria
1984		King Jigme Singye Wangchuck		Bhutan
1985		President Raúl Alfonsín		Argentina
1986		Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou		Greece
1987		President Alan Garcia		Peru
1988		President Junius Jayewardene		Sri Lanka
1989		General Secretary Nguyen Van Linh		Vietnam
1990		Prime Minister Anerood Jugnauth		Mauritius
1991		President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom		Maldives
1992		President Mário Soares		Portugal
1993		Prime Minister John Major		United Kingdom
1994		Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong		Singapore
1995		President Nelson Mandela		South Africa
1996		President Dr. Fernando Henrique Cardoso		Brazil
1997		Prime Minister Basdeo Panday		Trinidad and Tobago
1998		President Jacques Chirac		France
1999		King Birendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev		Nepal
2000		President Olusegun Obasanjo		Nigeria
2001		President Abdelaziz Bouteflika		Algeria
2002		President Cassam Uteem		Mauritius
2003		President Mohammed Khatami		Iran
2004		President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva		Brazil
2005		King Jigme Singye Wangchuck		Bhutan
2006		King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz al-Saud		Saudi Arabia
2007		President Vladimir Putin		Russia
2008		President Nicolas Sarkozy		France
2009		President Nursultan Nazarbayev		Kazakhstan
2010		President Lee Myung Bak		Republic of Korea
2011		President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono		Indonesia
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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 19, 2010

OBJECTIVE GENERAL AWARENESS (INDIA) QUESTIONS

1. When was the first air-conditioned train introduced in India?
(a) 1936
(b) 1946
(c) 1969
(d) 1975
Ans. (a)

2. The first indigenously built missile boat is named as
(a) INS Mani
(b) INS Shilpi
(c) INS Vibhuti
(d) INS Vikrant
Ans. (c)

3. Next to Hindi, the language spoken by the largest number of people in the Indian sub-continent is
(a) Tamil
(b) Bengali
(c) Telugu
(d) Urdu
Ans. (b)

4. The first person to conduct heart transplantation in India
(a) Dr. P, K. K. Ayyangar
(b) Dr. R. Valiathan
(c) Dr. Venugopal
(d) Dr. R. Kesavan Nair
Ans. (c)

5. Who among the following was the first Chief of the Air staff?
(a) Sir Ronald Lvelaw Chapman
(b) H. Moolgavkar
(c) Sir Thomas Elmhurst
(d) Sir Gerald Gibbs
Ans. (c)

6. The rainiest place in India is
(a) Shimla
(b) Trivandrum
(c) Panchgani
(d) Siliguri
(e) Mawsynram

Ans. (e)

7. India’s first successful surface-to-surface missile is
(a) Agni
(b) Prithvi
(c) Akash
(d) Vayu
Ans. (c)

8. India’s first Gas Cracker Plant is at
(a) Hasan
(b) Hajira
(c) Pune
(d) Nagathane
Ans. (b)

9. Which of the following is the name of the first indigenously developed Indian Super Computer?
(a) Gati
(b) Dharam
(c) Shakti
(d) Param
Ans. (d)

10. The biggest port in India is
(a) Cochin
(b) Calcutta
(c) Bombay
(d) Vishakhapatnam
Ans. (d)

11. Who among the following was the first woman minister of a state?
(a) Vijayalaxmi Pandit
(b) Sarojini Naidu
(c) Rajkumari Amrit Kaur
(d) Indira Gandhi
Ans. (a)

12. Which of the following is the first Indian to go in space?
(a) Ramanujan
(b) Tenzing Norgay
(c) Dr. Homi Jahangir
(d) Rakesh Sharma
Ans. (d)

13. The biggest church in India is located at
(a) Delhi
(b) Madras
(c) Bombay
(d) Goa
Ans. (d)

14. India’s biggest nuclear research reactor is
(a) Apsara
(b) Cirus
(c) Dhruva
(d) Pumima
Ans. (c)

15. Who started the first newspaper in India?
(a) Dadabhai Naoroji
(b) Sir Syed Ahmed Khan
(c) Rabindranath Tagore
(d) James A. Hickory
Ans. (d)

16. India’s oldest planetarium is located at
(a) Bombay
(b) Calcutta
(c) Patna
(d) Ahmedabad
Ans. (b)

17. The deepest port of the country is
(a) Madras
(b) Kandla
(c) Bombay
(d) Vishakhapatnam
Ans. (d)

18. Who was the first Indian woman to swim across the English Channel?
(a) Shanta Rangaswami
(b) Arati Saha
(c) Santosh Yadav
(d) Kamaljit Sandhu
Ans. (b)

19. The birthday of which of the following leaders in India is observed as Children’s day?
(a) Smt. Indira Gandhi
(b) Mahatma Gandhi
(c) S. Radhakrishnan
(d) Jawaharlal Nehru
(e) Rajiv Gandhi
Ans. (c)

20. ‘Teacher’s Day’ is observed on which of the following dates?
(a) Nov 14
(b) Jan 30
(c) Sep 5
(d) Oct 2
Ans. (c)

21. The World Environment Day is celebrated on
(a) June 5
(b) April 7
(c) August 6
(d) June J 6
Ans. (a)

22. National Maritime Day falls on
(a) April 5
(b) June 5
(c) September 5
(d) October 5
Ans. (a)

23. Death anniversary day of Sri Rajiv Gandhi is observed as the
(a) Peace and Love Day
(b) Secularism Day
(c) Anti -Terrorism Day
(d) National Integration Day
Ans. (c)

24. ‘Madhubani’, a style of folk paintings, is popular in which of the following states in India?
(a) Madhya Pradesh
(b) Uttar Pradesh
(c) West Bengal
(d) Rajasthan
(e) None of these
Ans. (d)

25 Kathakali is a folk dance prevalent in which state?
(a) Orissa
(b) Manipur
(c) Karnataka
(d) Kerala
(e) Andhra Pradesh
Ans. (d)

26. Mohini Attam dance form developed originally in which of the following states?
(a) Karnataka
(b) Orissa
(c) Tamil Nadu
(d) Andhra Pradesh
(e) Kerala
Ans. (e)

27. The national song of India was composed by
(a) Iqbal
(b) Rabindranath Tagore
(c) Jai Shankar Prasad
(d) Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
Ans. (d)

28. ‘Natya – Shastra’ the main source of India classical dances was written by
(a) Bharat Muni
(b) Tandu Muni
(c) Narad Muni
(d) Abhinav Gupt
Ans. (a)

29. The ratio of width of our National flag to its length is
(a) 2: 4
(b) 3: 4
(c) 2: 3
(d) 3: 5
Ans. (c)

30. Which of the following places is famous for Chikankari work, which is a traditional art of embroidery?
(a) Hyderabad
(b) Jaipur
(c) Lucknow
(d) Mysore
Ans. (c)

31. People from which state celebrate their harvest festival around Makar Sakranti?
(a) Kerala
(b) Punjab
(c) Karnataka
(4) Tamil Nadu
(e) Andhra Pradesh
Ans. (c)

32. The dance encouraged and performed from the temple of Tanjore was
(a) Bharatnatyam
(b) Kathakali
(c) Odissi
(d) Mohiniattam
(e) Kathak
Ans. (a)

33. Which of the following Akademis is responsible for fostering the development of dance, drama and music in India?
(a) Lalit Kala Akademi
(b) Sahitya Akademi
(c) National School of Drama
(d) Sangeet Akademi
Ans. (d)

34. Match the following:
Folk Song Places
A. Heer Song 1. Bengal
B. Bhatiyali Song 2. Punjab
C. Garba Dance 3. U.P
D. Ras Dance 4. Gujarat
A B C D
(a) 1 2 3 4
(b) l 3 2 4
(c) 2 l 4 3
(d) 2 3 4 1
Ans. (c)

35. The headquarters of the Sahitya Akademi is at
(a) Bombay
(b) Madras
(c) New Delhi
(d) Calcutta
Ans. (c)

36. Goodiyattam is a
(a) dress prepared in Goa
(b) traditional dance of Kerala
(c) festival of Andhra Pradesh
(d) None of these
Ans. (b)

37. Kalchakra ceremony is associated with which of the following ceremonies?
(a) Hinduism
(b) Islam
(c) Jainism
(d) Buddhism
Ans. (d)

38. The Rath Yatra at Puri is celebrated in honour of which Hindu deity?
(a) Ram
(b) Shiva
(c) Vishnu
(d) Jagannath
Ans. (d)

39. Mohini Attam dance form developed originally in which of the following states?
(a) Tamil Nadu
(b) Kerala
(c) Orissa
(d) Karnataka
(e) Andhra Pradesh
Ans. (b)

40. Which of the following folk dance forms is associated with Gujarat?
(a) Garba
(b) Bhangra
(c) Nautanki
(d) Kathakali
(e) None of these
Ans. (a)

41. Rabindra Nath Tagore’s ‘Jana Gana Mana’ has been adopted as India’s National Anthem. How many stanzas of the said song were adopted?
(a) Only the first stanza
(b) First & second stanza
(c) First and fourth stanza
(d) The whole song
Ans. (a)

42. In which of the following festivals are boat races a special feature?
(a) Pongal
(b) Ranali Bihu
(c) Onam
(d) Navratri
Ans. (c)

43. The book of the Parsis is
(a) Torah
(b) Bible
(c) Gita
(d) Zend Avesta
Ans. (d)

44, India’s national animal and bird respectively are
(a) Deer and Parrot
(b) Lion and Cuckoo
(c) Elephant and Eagle
(d) Tiger and Peacock
Ans. (d)

45. World’s longest snake reticulated python is found in India in
(a) Lakshadweep
(b) Nagaland
(c) Mizoram
(d) Nicobar
Ans. (b)

44. India celebrates February 28 every year as ‘National Science Day’ because on this day
(a) in 1928 CV. Raman discovered what was later called the ‘Raman Effect’.
(b) first Indian Space craft was launched.
(c) Vikram Sarabhai was born.
(d) Nehru laid the foundation of science laboratories all over India
Ans. (a)

45. 26th January is India’s
(a) Independence Day
(b) Republic Day
(c) Revolution Day
(d) Parliament Day
Ans. (b)

46. 20th August is celebrated as
(a) No Tobacco Day
(b) Earth Day
(c) Sadbhavana Divas
(d) None of these
Ans. (c)

Facts About India

1. India is the seventh largest country in the world in terms of area.

2. Indian mainland extends between latitudes 8 degree 4' and 37 degree 6' north, longitudes 68 degree 7' and 97 degree 25' east and measures about 3,214 km from north to south between the extreme latitudes and about 2,933 km from east to west between the extreme longitudes.

3. India has land frontier of about 15,200 km. The total length of the coastline of the mainland, Lakshadweep Islands and Andaman and Nicobar Islands is 7,516.6 km.

4. Countries having common border with India are: Afghanistan, Pakistan, China, Bhutan, Nepal, Myanmar and Bangladesh. Sri Lanka is separated from India by a narrow channel of sea formed by the Palk Strait and the Gulf of Mannar.

5. Aravalli, Vindhya, Satpura, Maikala and Ajanta are prominent hill ranges that lie between the Peninsular India and the plains of Ganga.

6. The Eastern and Western Ghats meet at the southern part of the Indian Peninsula which is formed by the Nilgiri Hills. .

7. Ghagra, Gomti, Gandak, Kosi and Yamuna are the major Himalayan rivers that join the Ganga. Chambal, Betwa and Sone are major rivers flowing north from central India that join Yamuna/Ganga.

8. After Ganga, Godavari has the second largest basin covering 10 per cent of the area of India. Next to it is Krishna, followed by the Mahanadi basin.

9. The climate of India can be described as Tropical monsoon type.

10. India is in tenth position in the world and fourth in Asia in plant diversity.

11. Botanical Survey of India, (BSI), Kolkata is the nodal agency that is studying the flora of the country. BSI brings out an inventory of the endangered plants in the form of a publication titled "Red Data Book".

12. The Zoological Survey of India (ZSI), Kolkata and its 16 regional stations are responsible for surveying the faunal resources of India.

13. India has a great variety of fauna, numbering 89,451 species.

14. The design of the National Flag was adopted by the Constituent Assembly of India on July 22,1947.

15. The State emblem of India is an adaptation from the Sarnath Lion Capitol of Ashoka. Carved out of a single block of polished sandstone, the Capitol is crowned by the Wheel of the Law (Dizaram Chakra). There are four lions, standing back to back, mounted on an abacus with a frieze carrying sculptures in high relief of an elephant, a galloping horse, a bull and a lion, separated by intervening wheels over a bell-shaped lotus.

16. In the State emblem, adopted on January 26,1950, only three lions are visible. The bell-shaped lotus has been omitted. The words, Satyameva Jayate, from Mundaka Upanishad, meaning 'truth alone triumphs', are inscribed below the abacus in Devanagiri script.

17. The song Jana-gana-mana, composed by Rabindranath Tagore, was adopted in its Hindi version by the Constituent Assembly, as the National Anthem of India, on January 24, 1950. It was first sung on December 27, 1911, at the Calcutta session of Indian National Congress. The complete song consists of five stanzas. The first stanza contains the full version of the National Anthem.

18. The national calendar of India is based on the Saka Era, with Chaitra as its first month. A normal year of 365 days was adopted from March 22, 1957, along with the Gregorian Calendar for the following purposes: (1) Gazette of India; (2) news broadcast by All India Radio; (3) calendars issued by Government of India; and (4) Government communications addressed to the members of the public.

19. Agriculture sector of India contributes 25 per cent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and about 70 per cent of the population is dependent on it.

20. There are three main crop seasons in India, namely, kharif, rabi and summer.'

21. Major kharif crops are: rice, jowar, bajra, maize, cotton, sugarcane, soyabean, and groundnut.

22. Major rabi crops are: wheat, barley, gram, linseed, rapeseed, and mustard. Rice, maize and groundnut are grown in summer season also.

23. In Indian agriculture, oilseeds are next to food grains in area coverage, production and value. India is,one of the largest oilseeds growing countries, contributing about 15 per cent to the acreage under oilseeds in the world.

24. The Ministry of Agriculture, Government of India, set up a Technology Mission on Oilseeds in May 1986 with the objective to increase the production of oilseeds, reduce the import of edible oils and to achieve self-sufficiency in edible oils.

25. India is the third largest producer and consumer of fertilizers in the world, after China and USA. It contributes to 9.5 per cent of world production and 10.6 per cent of world consumption of NPK nutrients, but sustains one-sixth of the world population.

26. The National Biofertiliser Development Centre is located at Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh. Its six regional centres are located at .labalpur, Nagpur, Bangalore, Bhubaneshwar, Hissar and Imphal.

27. The Central Fertiliser Quality Control and Training Institute is located in Faridabad, Haryana. Its three regional centres are located at Mumbai, Chennai and Kalyani.

28. India accounts for about 10 per cent of the production of fruits in the world.

29. Mango is the most important fruit produced in India, covering about 39 per cent of the total area used for fruit production and accounting for 23 per cent of total fruit production of India.

30. India occupies first position in the total production of banana in the world.

31. India is next only to China in the area and production of vegetables. India contributes about 13 per cent of the world vegetable production and occupies first position in production of cauliflowers, second in onion and third in cabbage in the world.

32. India is the largest producer, processor, consumer and exporter of cashew nut in the world. India produces 45 per cent of the global production of cashew.

33. The Centrally-sponsored scheme of soil conservation in the catchments of River Valley Project (RVP) was started in the third Five-year Plan. Another scheme of FloodProne Rivers (FPR) was started in the sixth Plan. Both the schemes were clubbed during the ninth Plan and further subsumed under Macro Management Mode in November 2000.

34. The Locust Warning Organisation (LWO) is located in Jodhpur.

35. Seed sector in India consists of two national level corporations: National Seed Corporation (NSC) and State Farm Corporation of India (SFCI). The Seeds Act, 1966 provides for the legislative framework for regulation of quality of seeds sold in India.

36. The Department of Agriculture and Cooperation (DAC) launched a Central Sector Scheme during the ninth Plan to make available seeds for any contingent situation arising out of natural calamity.

37. Directorate of Marketing and Inspection (DMI) advises the Central and State governments on agricultural marketing policies and programmes. It is located in Faridabad, Haryana.

38. The National Institute of Agricultural Marketing (NIAM) is located in Jaipur.

39. Farm Machinery Training and Testing Institutes are located at Budni (Madhya Pradesh), Hissar (Haryana), Garladinne (Andhra Pradesh) and Biswanath Chariali (Assam).

40. India accounts for 57 per cent of the world's buffalo population and 15 per cent of the cattle population. India possesses 27 acknowledged indigenous breeds of cattle and 7 breeds of buffaloes.

41. The present availability of animal protein in an Indian diet is 10 gm per person per day, as against a world average of 25 gm.

42. India is the largest producer of milk in the world and ranks fifth in egg production.

43. Central Sheep Breeding Farm is located in Hissar.

44. Reishi or Ling Zhi is a medicinal mushroom which has been successfully grown in India.

45. For rehabilitation of calcareous soils Tamarix articulate, Acadia nilotica, Prosopis Juliflora, Eucalyptus tereticornis, Acacia tortills, Cassia siamea and Feronia limonia have been found promising for plantation with furrow planting methods in arid and semi-arid regions. Salvadora persica proved the ideal species for soil and water management in saline black soils.

46. Karzat 4, Indryani, Panvel 2, Palgarh 1 and 2 are names of various rice varieties sown in India.

47. Kankrej, Ponwar, Gangatiri and Kherigah are names of various cattle breeds in India.

48. Jalauni, Kheri, Mandya, Hassan and Mecheri are names of various sheep breeds of India.

49. C-ELISA is an indigenously developed kit for rinderpest which has been validated by the International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna.

50. Feedbase-2001 is a data base that provides information on feed resources and feed balance sheet.

51. Okara is a by-product of soymilk.

52. Vivekananda Parvatiya Krishi Anusandhan Sansthan is located in Almora, Uttaranchal.

53. The Lalit Kala Academy (National Academy of Fine Arts) is located in New Delhi. It has regional centres, called Rashtriya Lalit Kala Kendras, located at Lucknow, Kolkata, Chennai, Garhi(New Delhi) and Bhubaneswar.

54. Bharata Natyam is a dance form of Tamil Nadu. Kathakali is a dance form of Kerala. Kathak is a classical dance form revitalised as a result of Mughal influence on Indian culture. Manipuri is a dance form of Manipur, while Kuchipudi owes its origin to Andhra Pradesh. Odissi, once practised as temple dance, has its origins in Orissa.

55. Kathak Kendra, Delhi, and Jawaharlal Nehru Manipur Dance Academy, Imphal, are training institutes run by Sangeet Natak Academy, the National Academy of. Music, Dance and Drama. The Academy also supports training programmes in Chhau dance of Mayurbhanj and Seraikella, as also Koodiyattam of Kerala.

56. The National School of Drama (NSD) is one of the foremost theatre institutions in the world and the only one of its kind in India. It was set up by Sangeet Natak Academy in 1959 and in 1975 it became an autonomous organization.

57. The Theatre-in education Company (renamed as Sanskar Rang Toli was founded by NSD in 1989. Since 1998, NSD has organized National Theatre Festival for Children, christened Jashne Bachpan, every year.

58. The first-ever National Theatre Festival, christened Bharat Rang Mahotsav, was held in March-April, 1999 to commemorate the 50th year of India's Independence.

59. Sahitya Academy has its Head Office in New Delhi. Besides, it has four offices in Kolkata, Mumbai, Bangalore and Chennai. It also has four translation centres at Bangalore, Delhi, Ahmedabad and Kolkata, besides a project office at Vadodra for promotion of oral and tribal literature and an Archives of Indian literature. It also maintains a multilingual library at New Delhi, Bangalore and Kolkata, stocking books in over 25 languages.

60. The highest honour conferred by Sahitya Academy on a writer is by electing him/her its Fellow. The honour is limited to 21 at any given moment.

61. The Sahitya Academy holds a 'Festival of Letters' every year, usually in February.

62. The Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) functions as an attached office of the Department of Culture, Ministry of Tourism and Culture.

63. The National Museum was established on August 15, 1949 in the Durbar Hall of the Rashtrapati Bhawan.It was formally inaugurated on December 18, 1960 on its present premises.

64. The National Council of Science Museums is located in Kolkata.

65. The Allahabad Museum is famous for its collection of Bharhut, Bhumara and Jamsot sculptors and for the terracotta from Kausumbi, Bhita, Jhusi, Patliputra, Sarnath, Rajghat and Ahichhatra. The Museum also has paraphernalia and family heirlooms of Nehrus, including manuscripts of' An Autobiography' by J.L. Nehru.

66. The National Research Laboratory for Conservation of Cultural Property (NRLC) is located in Lucknow.

67. The National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA) was founded in 1954 to promote and develop contemporary Indian Art.

68. The National Archives of India (NAI), New Delhi, known until independence as Imperial Record Department, was originally established in Kolkata in March 1891. It is the official custodian of all non-current records of permanent / value to the government of India and its predecessor bodies. It has a regional office at Bhopal and three record centres at Bhubaneswar, ]aipur and Pondicherry.

69. Marine Archeology Centre has been established in the National Institute of Oceanography, Goa. Major exploration are being undertaken in the waters of ancient Dwarka, Poompuhar waters (Tamil Nadu) and around Lakshadweep.

70. National Library, Kolkata serves as a permanent repository of all reading and information material produced in India, as well.as printed material written by Indians and concerning India written by foreigners, wherever published and in whatever language.

71. Under the Delivery of Books and Newspapers (Public Libraries) Act, 1954, four libraries-National Library, Kolkata, Central Library, Mumbai, Connemara Public Library, Chennai, and Delhi Public Library, Delhi-are entitled to receive a copy of new books and magazines published in the counuy.

72. Khuda Bakhsh Oriental Public Library, Patna has a rich collection of over 20,000 'Arabic, Persian, Urdu, Turkish, Pali and Sanskrit manuscripts.

73. The Thanjavur Maharaja Serfoji's Saraswati Mahal (TMSSM) Library, Thanjavur is one of the few medieval libraries that exist in the world.

74. The Rampur Raza Library, housed in Hamid Manzil in the fort of Rampur, is a treasure house of Indo Islamic learning and art.

75. Asiatic Society in Kolkata was founded by Sir William Jones in 1784, with the objective of inquiring into the history, science, arts and literature of Asia.

76. The Central Institute of Higher Tibetan Studies is located in Varanasi. It was established with the objective of preservation of Tibetan culture and tradition, restoration of ancient Indian literature preserved in Tibetan language and to provide higher education in Buddhist studies.

77. The Central Institute of Buddhist Studies is located, in Leh.

78. The Sikkim Research Institute of Tibetology is located in Sikkim. It has done significant work in promoting research in CHHO (Tibetan for Dharma).

79. Anthropological Survey of India is located in Kolkata.

80. Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Sanghrahalaya (National Museum of Mankind) is located in Bhopal. It is dedicated to the depiction of an integrated story of humankind in global perspective, with special focus on India.

81. The Centre for Cultural Resources and Training (CCRT) has its headquarters in New Delhi and two regional Centres at Udaipur and Hyderabad.

82. With the aim of projecting in India cultural kinships transcending territorial boundaries, seven zonal cultural centres have been established at Patiala, Kolkata, Thanjavur, Udaipur, Allahabad, Dimapur and Nagpur.

83. Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA) is a premier national institute engaged in the pursuit of knowledge on arts and culture. It is also the nodal agency for the setting up of a national data bank on arts, humanities and cultural heritage.

84. Gandhi Smriti and Darshan Samiti has been set up primarily to maintain and look after the national memorial where Gandhiji was assassinated, now called Gandhi Smriti, and a permanent photo exhibition at Rajghat, called Gandhi Darshan.

85. The Central Statistical Organisation (CSO) is responsible for formulation and maintenance of statistical standards, work pertaining to national accounts, industrial statistics, consumer price indices, conduct of economic census and surveys and liaising with international agencies in statistical matters. It is located in New Delhi.

86. National income is defined as the sum of incomes accruing to factors of production, supplied by normal residents of the country before deduction of direct taxes. It is equal to net national product at factor-cost.

87. The National Sample Survey Organisation (NSSO) has been set up to conduct large scale surveys to meet the data needs of India as also for the estimation of national income and other aggregates. It has four divisions: (i) Survey Design and Research Division (SDRD), with headquarters in Kolkata; (ii) Field Operations Division (FOD) having its headquarters in Delhi; (iii) Data Processing Division (DPD) with headquarters in Kolkata; and (iv) Coordination and Publication Division (CPD), located in Delhi.

88. Summary results of NSSO surveys are published in the biannual technical journal Sarvekshana.

89. India has an Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) of 2.02 million sq km. The EEZ provides India with more than 60 per cent of its oil and gas production and fishing valued at $ 1.15 billion.

90. The Army War College, earlier known as College of Combat, is located in Mhow.

91. The Infantry School, Mhow is the largest and oldest military training centre of Indian Army. This institute also trains the National Shooting team, under the aegis of Army Marksmanship Unit (AMU).

92. The Institute of Defence Management is located in Secunderabad.

93. The Defence Services Staff College is located in Wellington. It imparts training to middle level officers (Major and equivalent) of Army, Air Force and Navy.

94. The High Altitude Warfare School (HAWS) is located in Gulmarg.

95. The National Defence College is located in Delhi. It is the only institute of India that imparts knowledge on all aspects of national security and strategy.

96. Mishra Dhatu Nigam Limited, located in Hyderabad, was incorporated with the primary objective of ushering in self-reliance in special metals and alloys for strategic sectors like Defence, Space and Atomic energy.

97. The 86th Constitution Amendment Act, 2002, makes elementary education a Fundamental Right for children in the age-group of 6-14 years.

98. The Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) scheme evolved I from the recommendations of the State Education Ministers' Conference held in October 1998. The main goals of SSA are: (a) All 6-14 age children complete five-year primary education by 2007; (b) Bridge all gender and social category gaps at primary stage by 2007 and at elementary education level by 2010; (c) Focus on elementary education of satisfactory quality with emphasis on education for life; and (d) Universal retention by 2010.

99. The National programme of Nutritional Support to Primary Education is commonly known as Mid Day Meal Scheme. It was launched in August 1995.

100. Operation Blackboard was launched in 1987 with the aim of improving human and physical resources available in primary schools of India.

101. Janshala Programme is a collaborative effort of the government of India, and five UN agencies-UNDP, UNESCO, ILO, UNICEF and UNFPA-to provide programme support to the ongoing efforts towards achieving Universal Elementary Education (UEE).

102. The National Council for Teacher Education was established by an Act of the Parliament in August 1995.

103. The University Grants Commission (UGC) serves as a coordinating body between the Union and State governments and the institutions of higher learning.

104. The National Literacy Mission (NLM) aims to attain a sustainable threshold level of 75 per cent literacy by 2007, by imparting functional literacy to non-literates in the age-group of 15-35 years.

105. The Central Institute of English and Foreign Languages is located in Hyderabad.

106. The International Standard Book Number (ISBN) system was introduced in India in 1985 by the Raja Ram Mohan Roy National Agency for ISBN. ISBN is a unique international publisher's identifier number.

107. Administering the Copyright Act, 1957 is the responsibility of the Union Ministry of Human Resource Development, Department of Secondary and Higher Education.

108. The Damodar Valley Corporation (DVC) was the first multipurpose river valley project to be undertaken after Independence. It was set up in July 1948.

109. The National Power Training Institute (NPTI) is located at Faridabad.

110. The Central Power Research Institute (CPRI) has its headquarters located at Bangalore. Other units are located at Bhopal, Hyderabad, Nagpur, Ghaziabad, Thiruvanthapuram and Raichur.

111. The Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE) is the nodal agency to promote efficient use of energy and its conservation in all sectors of economy of India.

112. Coal is the main source of energy in India and account for about 67 per cent of India's commercial requirement.

113. The coal reserves of India, as on January 1, 2003 were 2,40,748 million tonnes.

114. The Botanical Survey of India and the Zoological Survey of India both have their headquarters in Kolkata.

115. The Forest Survey of India has its headquarters in Dehradun and has four regional offices at Bangalore, Kolkata, Nagpur and Shimla.

116. Biosphere reserves are multi-purpose protected areas to preserve the genetic diversity in representative ecosystem. 13 Biosphere reserves have been set up in India. These are: Nilgiri, Nanda Devi, Nokrek, Great Nicobar, Gulf of Mannar, Manas, Sundebans, Similipal, Dibru, Daikhowa, Dehong Deband, Pachmarhi, Kanchunjunga and Agasthyamalai. Out of these, Nilgiri, Sunderbans and Gulf of Mannar have been recognized on World Network of Biosphere Reserves by UNESCO.

117. India is one of the 12 mega-biodiversity countries of the world.

118. The forest cover of India constitutes 20.55 per cent of its geographical area. Of this, dense forest constitutes 12.68 per cent and open forest 7.87 per cent. The mangrove cover occupies 0.14 per cent of geographical area. The total tree/forest cover is estimated as 81,472 sq km or about 2.48 per cent of the country.

119. G.B. Pant Institute of Himalayan Environment and Development is located at Kosi-Katarmal, Almora, Uttaranchal.

120. The Environmental Information System (ENVIS) network brings out a quarterly journal, Paryavaran Abstracts, which contains information about environmental research in the Indian context.

121. The ENVIS has been designated as National Focal Point (NFP) and Regional Service Centre (RSC) for South Asia sub-regional countries by INFOTERRA (a global information system on environment) of UN Environment Programme (UNEP).

122. The Department of Economic Affairs (DEA) consists of nine main divisions, namely, (i) Economic; (ii) Banking; (iii) Insurance; (iv) Budget; (v) Foreign Trade and Investment; (vi) External Finance; (vii) Capital market; (viii) Fund Bank; and (ix) Currency and Coinage.

123. All revenues received, loans raised and money received in repayment of loans by the Union government form the Consolidated Fund of India. No money can be withdrawn from this Fund except under the authority of an Act of Parliament.

124. The Indian Constitution provides for the establishment of a Consolidated Fund, a Public Account and a Contingency Fund for each State.

125. The first bank of limited liability, managed by Indians, was Oudh Commercial Bank. It was founded in 1881. Punjab National Bank was established in 1894.

126. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) was established under the Reserve Bank of India Act, 1934 on April 1, 1935 and nationalized on January 1,1949.

127. RBI is the sole authority for issue of currency notes in India, other than one-rupee coins and subsidiary coins and notes.

128. India ranks third in the world, after China and USA, in terms of production of coal.

129. The three important gold fields of India are: Kolar (Karnataka), Hutti in Raichur district (Karnataka) and Ramgiri in Anantapur district (Andhra Pradesh).

130. Mains reserves of Tungsten are located at Degana, Rajasthan.

131. The Mangampet deposits, occurring in Cuddapah district of Andhra Pradesh is the single largest deposit of Barytes in the world.

132. The main diamond-bearing areas in India are Panna belt in Madhya Pradesh, Munimadugu-Banganapalle conglomerate in Kurnool district, Wajrakarur Kimberlite pipe in Anantapur district and Krishna river basin in Andhra Pradesh.

133. Orissa is a major producer of Graphite in India.

134. Judges of the Supreme Court of India hold office until they attain the age of 65 years. Judges of the High Court hold office until they attain the age of 62 years.

135. The National Judicial Academy is located in Bhopal with its registered office in New Delhi.

136. V.V. Giri National Labour Institute, Noida, is an autonomous body under the Union Ministry of Labour. It is engaged in research pertaining to labour and training of labour administrators, trade unions, public sector managers and other government functionaries concerned with labour.

137. The first radio programme was broadcast in India in 1923 by the Radio Club of Bombay.

138. All India Radio (AIR) operates on motto Bahujana Hitaya; Bahujana Sukhya (to promote the happiness and welfare of the masses through information, education and entertainment.

139. Cyan Darshan is the educational channel run by Doordarshan.

140. Press Trust of India (PTI) is India's largest news agency.

141. United News of India (UNI) became the first agency in India to launch a full-fledged Hindi wire service Univarta in 1982. In early 1990s, it launched the first-ever wire service in Urdu.

142. The Press Council of India has been established under the Act of Parliament for the purpose of preserving the freedom of the press, and of maintaining and improving the standards of newspapers and news agencies in India.

143. India has one of the largest road networks in the world, aggregating to about 3.3 million kilometres.

144. Golden Quadrilateral comprises of National Highways connecting the four metro cities.

145. Shipping Corporation of India Limited (SCI) is the biggest shipping line of India.

146. Indian Institute of Maritime Studies (IIMS) is located in Mumbai.

147. India has 12 major ports and about 184 other ports.

148. Mumbai, Nhava Sheva, Kandla, Mormugao, New Mangalore and Cochin are the major ports on west coast.

149. Kolkata/Haldia, Para dip, Visakhapatnam, Chennai, Ennore and Tuticorin are major ports on the east coast.

150. Command Area Development (CAD) Programme was launched in 1974-75 with main objective of improving the utilization of created irrigation potential and optimizing agriculture production and productivity from irrigated lands on sustainable bases.

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News Papers/ Journals

News Papers/ Journals	Founder/Editors
Bengal Gazette (India's first news paper, 1780)	J. K. Hikki
Amrit Bazar Patrika	Shishir Kr. Ghosh & Motilal Ghosh
Keshri	Bal Gangadhar Tilak
Maharatta	Bal Gangadhar Tilak
Sudharak	G. K. Gokhle
Vande Mataram	Aurobindo Ghosh
Native Opinion	V. N. Mandalik
Kavivachan Sudha	Bhartendu Harishchandra
Rast Goftar (First News Paper in Gujrati)	Dadabhai Naoroji
New India	Bipin Chandra Pal
Statesman	Robert Knight
Hindu	Vir Raghavacharya & G. S. Aiyar
Sandhya	B. B. Upadhyaya
Vichar Lahiri	Krishna Shastri Chiplunkar
Hindu Patriot	Girish Chandra Ghosh
Som Prakash	Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar
Yugantar	Bhupendra Nath Datta & Barindra Kumar Ghosh
Bombay Chronicle	Firoze Shah Mehta
Hindustan	Madan Mohan Malviya
Mooknayak	B. R. Ambedkar
Comrade	Mohammed Ali
Tahzib-ul-Akhlaq	Sir Syyed Ahmed Khan
Al-Hilal	Abul Kalam Azad
Al-Balagh	Abul Kalam Azad
Independent	Motilal Nehru
Punjabi	Lala Lajpat Rai
New India	Annie Besant
Commonweal	Annie Besant
Pratap	Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi
Essays in Indian Economics	Mahadev Govind Ranade
Samvad Kaumudi (Bengali)	Ram Mohan Roy
Mirat-ul-Akhbar (First Persian News Paper)	Ram Mohan Roy
Indian Mirror	Devendra Nath Tagore
Nav Jeevan	M. K. Gandhi
Young India	M. K. Gandhi
Harijan	M. K. Gandhi
Prabudha Bharat	Swami Vivekananda
Udbodhana	Swami Vivekananda
Indian Socialist	Shyamji Krishna Verma
Talwar (in Berlin)	Birendra Nath Chattopadhyaye
Free Hinduatan	Tarak Nath Das
Hindustan Times	K. M. Pannikar
Kranti	Mirajkar, Joglekar, Ghate

State Birds of India

·                        West Bengal

·                        White-throated Kingfisher

·                        Halcyon smyrnensis

·                        Arunachal Pradesh and Kerala

·                        Great Hornbill

·                        Buceros bicornis

·                        Uttar Pradesh

·                        Sarus Crane

·                        Grus antigone

·                        Himachal Pradesh

·                        Western Tragopan or Western Horned Tragopan

·                        Scietific name: Tragopan melanocephalus

·                        Lakshadweep

·                        Sooty Tern

·                        Onychoprion fuscatus

·                        Punjab

·                        Northern Goshawk

·                        Accipiter gentilis

·                        Manipur and Mizoram

·                        Mrs Hume's Pheasant

·                        Syrmaticus humiae

·                        Orissa

·                        Indian Peacock

·                        Pavo cristatus

·                        Andhra Pradesh, Bihar and Karnataka

·                        Indian Roller

·                        Coracias benghalensis

·                        Rajasthan

·                        Indian Bustard

·                        Ardeotis nigriceps

·                        Chhattisgarh and Meghalaya

·                        Hill Myna

·                        Gracula religiosa

·                       

·                                                Uttaranchal

·                                                Himalayan Monal

·                                                Lophophorus impejanus

Maharashtra and Tripura

·                        Green Imperial Pigeon

·                        Ducula aenea

·                        Gujarat

·                        Greater Flamingo

·                        Phoenicopterus roseus

·                        Tamil Nadu

·                        Emerald Dove

·                        Chalcophaps indica

·                        Nagaland

·                        Blyth's Tragopan
Tragopan blythii

·                        Sikkim

·                        Blood Pheasant

·                        Ithaginis cruentus

·                        Jammu & Kashmir

·                        Black-necked Crane

·                        Grus nigricollis

·                        Goa

·                        Black-crested Bulbul

·                        Pcnonotus melanicterus

·                        Haryana

·                        Black Francolin
Francolinus francolinus

·                        Jharakhand

·                        Asian Koel

·                        Eudynamys scolopaceus

·                        Madhya Pradesh

·                        Asian Paradise-Flycatcher

·                        Terpsiphone paradisi

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List of Nobel laureates of India

Ronald Ross -Physiology
Ronald Ross, born in Almora, India, in 1857 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1902 for his work on malaria.

Rudyard Kipling -Literature
Rudyard Kipling, born in Mumbai, 1865, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1907. He remains the youngest-ever recipient and the first English-language writer to receive the Prize.

Rabindranath Tagore - Literature
Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) received traditional education in India before travelling to England for further study. He abandoned his formal education and returned home, founding a school, Santiniketan, where children received an education in consonance with Tagore's own ideas of communion with nature and emphasis on literature and the arts.

In time, Tagore's works, written originally in Bengali, were translated into English; the Geetanjali ("Tribute in verse"), a compendium of verses, named 'Song Offerings' in English was widely acclaimed for its literary genius. In 1913, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. He was the first person of non-Western heritage to be awarded a Nobel Prize.

In protest against the 1919 Jallianwala Bagh massacre, he resigned the knighthood that had been conferred upon him in 1915. Tagore holds the unique distinction of being the composer of the national anthems of two different countries, India and Bangladesh.

Abdus Salam -Physics
Abdus Salam (1926-1996), born in undivided Punjab and a citizen of Pakistan, and shared a Nobel Prize in Physics in 1979, with Steven Weinberg, for his work on electroweak unification, one of the important puzzles of modern theoretical physics. He was a visionary and an advocate of science in the third world. He founded the International Center for Theoretical Physics, in Trieste, Italy, which has nurtured world class physicists through workshops, fellowships and conferences.

Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman -Physics
Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman (1888–1970) was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for the year 1930. He had been knighted only the year before and worked extensively on acoustics and light. He was also deeply interested in the physiology of the human eye. A traditionally-dressed man, he headed an institute that is today named after him: the Raman Research Institute, Bangalore. His nephew, the astrophysicist Subramanyan Chandrasekhar, won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1983 as a United States citizen.

Hargobind Khorana -Physiology
Hargobind Khorana (born 1922), a person of Indian origin, shared the 1968 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on genes. He had left India in 1945 and became a naturalised United States citizen in the 1970s. He continues to head a laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the United States.

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar -Physics
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1983.

Mother Teresa -Peace
Mother Teresa (1910–1997) was born in Skopje, then a city in Ottoman Empire. She is of Albanian origin. She won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979. Toiling for years in the slums of Kolkata (Calcutta), her work centred on caring for the poor and suffering, among whom she herself died.

V.S. Naipaul -Literature
A British writer, V.S. Naipul (Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul) was born in 1932 into a family of north Indian descent living in Chaguanas, close to Port of Spain, on Trinidad. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2001. In awarding him the Prize, the Swedish Academy praised his work "for having united perceptive narrative and incorruptible scrutiny in works that compel us to see the presence of suppressed histories."

Amartya Sen -Economics
Amartya Sen (born 1933) was the first Indian to receive the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics, awarded to him in 1998 for his work on welfare economics. He has made several key contributions to research in this field, such as to the axiomatic theory of social choice; the definitions of welfare and poverty indexes; and the empirical studies of famine. All are linked by his interest in distributional issues and particularly in those most impoverishe. Whereas Kenneth Arrow's "impossibility theorem" suggested that it was not possible to aggregate individual choices into a satisfactory choice for society as a whole, Sen showed that societies could find ways to alleviate such a poor outcome.

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Wetlands in India

Ramsar Convention for the conservation and sustainable utilization of wetlands recognizing the fundamental ecological functions of wetlands and their economic, cultural, scientific, and recreational value and thus list of wetlands of international importance as defined. These wetlands are selected for on account of their international significance in terms of ecology, botany, zoology, limnology or hydrology.

Following are the Wetlands in India recognised as wetlands of international importance:

1.                     Ashtamudi Wetland, Kerala Since 19 -August -02)

2.                     Bhitarkanika Mangroves, Orissa Since 19 -August -02)

3.                     Bhoj Wetland, Madhya Pradesh Since 19 -August -02)

4.                     Chandertal Wetland, Himachal Pradesh Since August -11 -05)

5.                     Chilika Lake, Orissa Since 01 -October -81)

6.                     Deepor Beel, Assam Since 19 -August -02)

7.                     East Calcutta Wetlands, West Bengal Since 19 -August -02)

8.                     Harike Lake(Harike Wetland), Punjab Since 23 -March -90)

9.                     Hokera Wetland, Jammu and Kashmir Since 08 -November -05)

10.                 Kanjli Wetland, Punjab Since 22 -January -02)

11.                 Keoladeo National Park, Rajasthan Since 01 -October -81)

12.                 Kolleru Lake, Andhra Pradesh Since 19 -August -02)

13.                 Loktak Lake, Manipur Since 23 -March -90)

14.                 Point Calimere Wildlife and Bird Sanctuary, Tamil Nadu Since 19 -August -02)

15.                 Pong Dam Lake, Himachal Pradesh Since 19 -August -02)

16.                 Renuka Wetland, Himachal Pradesh Since August -11 -05)

17.                 Ropar Wetland, Punjab Since 22 -January -02)

18.                 Rudrasagar Lake, Tripura Since August -11 -05)

19.                 Sambhar Lake, Rajasthan Since 23 -March -90)

20.                 Sasthamkotta Lake, Kerala Since 19 -August -02)

21.                 Surinsar-Mansar Lakes, Jammu and Kashmir Since 02 -November -05)

22.                 Tsomoriri, Jammu and Kashmir Since 19 -August -02)

23.                 Upper Ganga River Since Brijghat to Narora Stretch), Uttar PradeshSince 08 -Novemver -05)

24.                 Vembanad-Kol Wetland, Kerala Since 19 -August -02)

25.                 Wular Lake, Jammu and Kashmir Since 23 -March -90)