Static GK Capsule 2017

155 Pages·2017·2.32 MB·English

Static GK
Capsule
2017

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CONTENTS
Countries - Capital, Currency and Languages ....................................................................................... 2
International Organizations - Headquarters, Chiefs and Purpose ................................................ 15
Population Census 2011 - At a Glance ................................................................................................ 18
Thermal Power Plants/Stations in India ............................................................................................... 21
Dams in India .............................................................................................................................................. 23
Rivers in India ............................................................................................................................................. 29
Stadiums in India ....................................................................................................................................... 33
River Side Indian Cities ............................................................................................................................ 36
Wildlife Sanctuaries in India ................................................................................................................... 37
Heads of National Organisations .......................................................................................................... 43
Banks with Headquarters, CMDs & Tag Lines (PDF Version) ......................................................... 45
Small Finance Banks in India - At a Glance ......................................................................................... 48
Major Sea Ports in India .......................................................................................................................... 50
List of Airports in India ............................................................................................................................. 51
50 Famous Temples in India with Locations ....................................................................................... 56
Indian Classical & Folk Dances .............................................................................................................. 58
Important Tribal Dance ............................................................................................................................ 60
Constituency & Ministry of Cabinet Ministers .................................................................................... 62
List of International Boundary Lines between Countries ................................................................ 64
States of India - Capital, CM, Governor and Demographics .......................................................... 65
Famous Food Festival around the World ............................................................................................. 69
List of Nicknames of Indian Cities ......................................................................................................... 71
Longest, Largest, Tallest & Highest in World ..................................................................................... 76
Longest, Largest, Tallest & Highest in India ....................................................................................... 78
List of Stock Exchanges in the world. ................................................................................................... 79
Sports Trophies and Cups ....................................................................................................................... 80
Sports Tournaments and Awards .......................................................................................................... 83
Revolutions in World ................................................................................................................................. 88
National and International Awards ...................................................................................................... 89
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State-Wise List of Museums in India .................................................................................................... 91
Important Places In India ...................................................................................................................... 101
List of Lakes ............................................................................................................................................. 103
New Currency Notes In India 2017 ..................................................................................................... 104
List of Space Centers ............................................................................................................................. 108
National Symbols of India with Pictures ............................................................................................ 109
List of Waterfalls in World With Country & Area ............................................................................ 113
List of Waterfalls in India ...................................................................................................................... 116
Indian States Bordering Countries ...................................................................................................... 118
First Persons in India (PDF Version) .................................................................................................... 119
First in India (Women) ............................................................................................................................ 120
Reports published by International Organizations .......................................................................... 123
Books & Authors ...................................................................................................................................... 127
Famous Books on Indian Politics & Authors ...................................................................................... 133
List of UNESCO World Heritage sites in India .................................................................................. 141
Nuclear Power Plants in India List ....................................................................................................... 143
List of Satellites Launched by ISRO .................................................................................................... 144

COUNTRIES - CAPITAL, CURRENCY AND LANGUAGES
Head of
Country Name Capital Currency Official Language
Government
Dari Persian; Chief Executive –
Afghanistan Kabul Afghani
Pashto Abdullah Abdullah
Prime Minister –
Albania Tirane Lek Albanian
Edi Rama
Prime Minister –
Arabic; Tamazight;
Algeria Algiers Dinar Ahmed Ouyahia
French

Andorra Andorra la Vella Euro Catalan Antoni Martí
President – João
Angola Luanda New Kwanza Portuguese
Lourenço
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Antigua and East Caribbean Prime Minister –
Saint John's English
Barbuda dollar Gaston Browne
President –
Argentina Buenos Aires Peso Spanish
Mauricio Macri
Prime Minister –
Armenia Yerevan Dram Armenian
Karen Karapetyan
Prime Minister –
Australia Canberra Australian dollar English
Malcolm Turnbull
Euro (formerly Federal Chancellor
Austria Vienna German
schilling) – Christian Kern
Prime Minister –
Azerbaijan Baku Manat Azerbaijani
Artur Rasizade
Prime Minister –
The Bahamas Nassau Bahamian dollar English
Hubert Minnis
Prime Minister –
Bahrain Manama Bahrain dinar Arabic Prince Khalifa bin
Salman Al Khalifa
Prime Minister –
Bangladesh Dhaka Taka Bangla
Sheikh Hasina
Prime Minister –
Barbados Bridgetown Barbados dollar English
Freundel Stuart
Belarusian; Prime Minister –
Belarus Minsk Belorussian ruble
Russian Andrei Kobyakov
Euro (formerly Dutch; French; Prime Minister –
Belgium Brussels
Belgian franc) German Charles Michel
Prime Minister –
Belize Belmopan Belize dollar English
Dean Barrow
President – Patrice
Benin Porto-Novo CFA Franc French
Talon
Prime Minister –
Bhutan Thimphu Ngultrum Dzongkha
Tshering Tobgay
La Paz
Spanish; Quechua; President – Evo
Bolivia (administrative); Boliviano
Aymara Morales
Sucre (judicial)
Bosnia and Sarajevo Marka Bosnian; Croatian; Chairman of the
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Herzegovina Serbian Council of
Ministers – Denis
Zvizdić
President – Ian
Botswana Gaborone Pula English; Tswana
Khama
President – Michel
Brazil Brasilia Real Portuguese
Temer[ε ]
Sultan and Prime
Bandar Seri
Brunei Brunei dollar Malay Minister –
Begawan
Hassanal Bolkiah
Prime Minister –
Bulgaria Sofia Lev Bulgarian
Boyko Borisov
Prime Minister –
Burkina Faso Ouagadougou CFA Franc French
Paul Kaba Thieba
President – Pierre
Burundi Bujumbura Burundi franc Kirundi; French
Nkurunziza
Prime Minister –
Cambodia Phnom Penh Riel Khmer
Hun Sen
Prime Minister –
Cameroon Yaounde CFA Franc French; English
Philémon Yang
Prime Minister –
Canada Ottawa Canadian dollar English; French
Justin Trudeau
Prime Minister –
Cape Verdean
Cape Verde Praia Portuguese Ulisses Correia e
escudo
Silva
Central African Prime Minister –
Bangui CFA Franc Sango; French
Republic Simplice Sarandji
Prime Minister –
Chad N'Djamena CFA Franc French; Arabic Albert Pahimi
Padacké
President –
Chile Santiago Chilean Peso Spanish
Michelle Bachelet
Premier of the
China Beijing Yuan/Renminbi Mandarin State Council – Li
Keqiang
Colombia Bogota Colombian Peso Spanish President – Juan
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Manuel Santos
Comorian; Arabic; President – Azali
Comoros Moroni Franc
French Assoumani
Congo, Republic of Prime Minister –
Brazzaville CFA Franc French
the Bruno Tshibala
Congo,
Prime Minister –
Democratic Kinshasa Congolese franc French
Clément Mouamba
Republic of the
President – Luis
Costa Rica San Jose Colón Spanish
Guillermo Solís
Yamoussoukro
Incumbent
Cote d'Ivoire (official); Abidjan CFA Franc French
Amadou Gon
(de facto)
Prime Minister –
Croatia Zagreb Kuna Kuna
Andrej Plenković
Cuba Havana Cuban Peso Spanish Raúl Castro
President – Nicos
Cyprus Nicosia Cyprus pound Greek; Turkish
Anastasiades
Prime Minister –
Czech Republic Prague Koruna Czech; Slovak
Bohuslav Sobotka
Prime Minister –
Denmark Copenhagen Krone Danish Lars Løkke
Rasmussen
Prime Minister –
Djibouti Djibouti Djibouti franc Arabic; French Abdoulkader Kamil
Mohamed
East Caribbean English; French; Prime Minister –
Dominica Roseau
dollar Antillean Creole Roosevelt Skerrit
Dominican President – Danilo
Santo Domingo Dominican Peso Spanish
Republic Medina
Tetum;
East Timor (Timor- Prime Minister –
Dili U.S. dollar Portuguese;
Leste) Mari Alkatiri
Iindonesian
President – Lenín
Ecuador Quito U.S. dollar Spanish
Moreno
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Prime Minister –
Egypt Cairo Egyptian pound Arabic
Sherif Ismail
President –
El Salvador San Salvador Colón; U.S. dollar Spanish Salvador Sánchez
Cerén
Prime Minister –
Spanish; French;
Equatorial Guinea Malabo CFA Franc Francisco Pascual
Portuguese
Obama Asue
Arabic; Tigrinya; President – Isaias
Eritrea Asmara Nakfa
English Afwerki
Prime Minister –
Estonia Tallinn Kroon Estonian
Jüri Ratas
Prime Minister –
Ethiopia Addis Ababa Birr Amharic Hailemariam
Desalegn
Prime Minister –
English; Bau Fijian;
Fiji Suva Fiji dollar Frank
Hindi
Bainimarama
Euro (formerly Prime Minister –
Finland Helsinki Finnish; Swedish
markka) Juha Sipilä
Euro (formerly Prime Minister –
France Paris French
French franc) Édouard Philippe
Prime Minister –
Gabon Libreville CFA Franc French Emmanuel Issoze-
Ngondet
President – Adama
The Gambia Banjul Dalasi English
Barrow
Prime Minister –
Georgia Tbilisi Lari Georgian
Giorgi Kvirikashvili
Euro (formerly Chancellor –
Germany Berlin German
Deutsche mark) Angela Merkel
President – Nana
Ghana Accra Cedi English
Akufo-Addo
Euro (formerly Prime Minister –
Greece Athens Greek
drachma) Alexis Tsipras
Grenada Saint George's East Caribbean English; Patois Prime Minister –
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dollar Keith Mitchell
President – Jimmy
Guatemala Guatemala City Quetzal Spanish
Morales
Prime Minister –
Guinea Conakry Guinean franc French
Mamady Youla
Prime Minister –
Guinea-Bissau Bissau CFA Franc Portuguese Umaro Sissoco
Embaló
Prime Minister –
Guyana Georgetown Guyanese dollar English Moses
Nagamootoo
Haitian Creole; Prime Minister –
Haiti Port-au-Prince Gourde
French Jack Guy Lafontant
President – Juan
Honduras Tegucigalpa Lempira Spanish Orlando
Hernández
Prime Minister –
Hungary Budapest Forint Hungarian
Viktor Orbán
Prime Minister –
Iceland Reykjavik Icelandic króna Icelandic Bjarni
Benediktsson
Prime Minister –
India New Delhi Rupee Hindi; English
Narendra Modi
President – Joko
Indonesia Jakarta Rupiah Indonesian
Widodo
President – Hassan
Iran Tehran Rial Persian
Rouhani
Prime Minister –
Iraq Baghdad Iraqi Dinar Arabic; Kurdish
Haider al-Abadi
Euro (formerly Irish Taoiseach – Leo
Ireland Dublin English; Irish
pound [punt]) Varadkar
Prime Minister –
Israel Jerusalem* Shekel Hebrew; Arabic Benjamin
Netanyahu
President of the
Italy Rome Euro (formerly lira) Italian
Council of
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Ministers – Paolo
Gentiloni
Prime Minister –
Jamaica Kingston Jamaican dollar English
Andrew Holness
Prime Minister –
Japan Tokyo Yen Japanese
Shinzō Abe
Prime Minister –
Jordan Amman Jordanian dinar Arabic
Hani Al-Mulki
Prime Minister –
Kazakhstan Astana Tenge Kazakh; Russian Bakhytzhan
Sagintayev
President – Uhuru
Kenya Nairobi Kenya shilling Swahili; English
Kenyatta
President – Taneti
Kiribati Tarawa Atoll Australian dollar English; Gilbertese
Mamau
Premier of the
Korea, North Pyongyang Won Korean Cabinet – Pak
Pong-ju
Prime Minister –
Korea, South Seoul Won Korean
Lee Nak-yeon
Euro (German
Prime Minister –
Kosovo Pristina Mark prior to Albanian; Serbian
Ramush Haradinaj
2002)
Prime Minister –
Sheikh Jaber Al-
Kuwait Kuwait City Kuwaiti dinar Arabic; English
Mubarak Al-
Hamad Al-Sabah
Prime Minister –
Kyrgyzstan Bishkek Som Kyrgyz; Russian
Sapar Isakov
Prime Minister –
Laos Vientiane New Kip Lao (Laotian) Thongloun
Sisoulith
Prime Minister –
Latvia Riga Lats Latvian
Māris Kučinskis
President of the
Lebanon Beirut Lebanese pound Arabic; French
Council of
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Ministers – Saad
Hariri
Prime Minister –
Lesotho Maseru Maluti Sesotho; English
Tom Thabane
President – Ellen
Liberia Monrovia Liberian dollar English
Johnson Sirleaf
Prime Minister –
Libya Tripoli Libyan dinar Arabic
Fayez al-Sarraj
Liechtenstein Vaduz Swiss franc German Adrian Hasler
Prime Minister –
Lithuania Vilnius Litas Lithuanian
Saulius Skvernelis
Euro (formerly German; French; Prime Minister –
Luxembourg Luxembourg
Luxembourg franc) Luxembourgish Xavier Bettel
President of the
Macedonia Skopje Denar Macedonian Government –
Zoran Zaev
Prime Minister –
Malagasy; French;
Madagascar Antananarivo Malagasy franc Olivier Mahafaly
English
Solonandrasana
President – Peter
Malawi Lilongwe Kwacha English
Mutharika
Prime Minister –
Malaysia Kuala Lumpur Ringgit Malay
Najib Razak
President –
Maldives Male Rufiya Dhivehi
Abdulla Yameen
Prime Minister –
Mali Bamako CFA Franc French Abdoulaye Idrissa
Maïga
Prime Minister –
Malta Valletta Maltese lira Maltese; English
Joseph Muscat
Marshallese; President – Hilda
Marshall Islands Majuro U.S. Dollar
English Heine
Prime Minister –
Mauritania Nouakchott Ouguiya Arabic Yahya Ould
Hademine
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