Do you know the salary of Indian Cricketers?

Do you know the salary of Indian Cricketers?

Recently, BCCI has doubled the remuneration to be paid to the Indian cricketers in this year. BCCI has divided the contracted players into 4 categories i.e. A+, A, B and C. As per new contract, player of A+ grade will get Rs. 7 cr. per year, A grade player will get Rs. 5 cr. per year and B grade player will get Rs. 3 cr per year while C grade player will get Rs. 1 cr annually.

List of Famous Freedom Fighters from Uttar Pradesh

• List of Famous Freedom Fighters from Uttar Pradesh

The history of Uttar Pradesh has run concurrently with the history of the country during and after the British rule, but it is also well-known that the contribution of the people of the State in the Indian War of Independence had been significant. In this article, we are giving the list of Famous Freedom Fighters from Uttar Pradesh which is very useful for the competitive examinations like UPSC-prelims, SSC, State Services, NDA, CDS, and Railways etc.

List of Saints and Teachers of the Bhakti Movement

List of Saints and Teachers of the Bhakti Movement

The Bhakti Movement was the outcome of rigidity in religion and the objects of worship. The Bhakti Movement Saints and teachers belonged to various backgrounds, but mainly from the lower castes. They strongly preach the need for tolerance among humans and religions. It became popular just because this movement challenged the caste system and superiority of Brahamanas. In this article, we are giving the list of Saints and Teachers of the Bhakti Movement ,which is very useful for the competitive examinations like UPSC-prelims, SSC, State Services, NDA, CDS, and Railways etc.

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List of Famous Persian Historians of the Mughal Period

A new era of Persian literature was started because Mughals were great patrons of literature and laureates. During this period, many texts were translated into Persian from different languages. For Example: The Turki memoires of Babur was translated into Persian. In this article, we are giving the list of Famous Persian Historians of the Mughal Period, which is very useful for the competitive examinations like UPSC-prelims, SSC, State Services, NDA, CDS, and Railways etc.

List of Religious Cults and Movements of Medieval India

India is a birthplace of various religions, creeds and faiths. Religion has played an important role in the lives of the Indian people from the earliest time. The religious movement of Medieval India had tremendous impact on the literature and language of the country. In this article, we are giving the list of Religious Cults and Movements of Medieval India, which is very useful for the competitive examinations like UPSC-prelims, SSC, State Services, NDA, CDS, and Railways etc.



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Top 10 Earthquakes in the world and in India Gk

Top 10 Worst Earthquakes in India

An Earthquake is basically the vibration of Earth produced by the rapid release of energy. This energy radiates in all directions from the source, focus, in the form of waves. India is divided into five earthquake Zones (Seismic Zones) based on the intensities of earthquakes recorded on the Modified Mercalli Scale. In this article, we are giving list top 10 Worst Earthquakes in India which is very useful for the competitive examinations like UPSC-prelims, SSC, State Services, NDA, CDS, and Railways etc.

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Top 10 Deadliest Earthquakes in the World

An earthquake is the shaking of the surface of the Earth, resulting from the sudden release of energy in the Earth's lithosphere that creates seismic waves. It occurs due to the dynamic margins of tectonic plates. In this article, we are giving the top 10 Deadliest Earthquakes in the World for general awareness.

GK-First in Space-General Knowledge Questions and Answers

1 The first cosmonaut to spend about 17½ days in space endurance flight
* Adrin Nikolayev and Vitaly Sevastyanosov in soyuz-9 (June 1, 1970)

2 The first person in the world to land on the moon
* Neil A. Armstrong and Edwin E. Adrin Jr. of U.S.A. Armstrong was the first to set foot on the moon followed by Aldrin. July 21, 1969.

3 The first man to enter space
* Major Yuri Gagarin (Russian)

4 The first woman cosmonaut of the world
* Velentina Tereshkova

5 The first American astronaut to float in space
* Edward White

6 The first unmanned spaceship to have soft landed and lifted off from the moon to return to the earth
* Luna-16 (U.S.S.R.) September 21, 1970

7 The first manned space vehicle to land on the moon
* Lunar Exploration Module (LEM) nick-named ‘Eagle’

8 The first spaceship which carried three American astronauts to land two of them on the moon
* Apollo-11

9 The first country to send man to the moon
* U.S.A.

10 The first space-vehicle to orbit the moon
* Luna-10 (U.S.S.R.)

11 The first unmanned moon buggy to explore surface of the moon
* Lunakhod-1 (U.S.S.R.)

12 The first space rocket brought back to earth after orbiting the moon
* Zond-5

13 First crew transfer between the orbiting spaceships
* Soyuz T-15 with Mir Space Station

14 The first mission of a linking-up in space by manned spaceships of U.S.A. and Soviet Union
* Apollo-Soyuz Test Project Mission (ASTP) (launched on July 15 and linked up in space on July 17, 1975)

15 India’s first scientific satellite
* Aryabhatta

16 The first man to fly into space belonging to a country other than Russia or the U.S.A.
* Vladimir

17 Russia’s first spaceship with international crew on board.
* Remek (Czechoslovakia)

18 The first country to send nuclear powered space craft to explore Jupiter
* U.S.A.

19 The first Indian to go into space

* Rakesh Sharma

20 The first American astronaut to make two space flights
* Gordon Cooper (U.S.A.)

21 The first country to launch a cosmic space rocket towards moon
* U.S.S.R.

22 The first space rocket to hit the moon
* Lunik II

23 The first spaceship in the world to sample moon’s crust
* Surveyor-3 (U.S.A.)

24 The first space vehicle to soft land on moon
* Luna-9 (U.S.S.R.)

25 The first manned spaceship to perform the longest stay in space (11 days)
* Apollo-7 (U.S.A.)

26 The first manned spaceship to perform space flight round the moon
* Apollo-8 (U.S.A.)

27 The first American manned spaceship to perform crew transfer in space
* Apollo-9 (U.S.A.)

28 The first woman of Indian origin in space

* Kalpana Chawla

29 The first residents on the International Space Station
* Bill shepherd (U.S.A.), Yuri Gidzenko and Sergei Krikalev (Russia)

30 The first space tourist in the world
* Dennis Tito (U.S.A.)

31 The first European woman to international Space Station
* Claudie Haignere (French cosmonaut)

32 The first space tourist of S. Africa and second of the world
* Mark Shuttleworth (April 2002)

33 The first US space shuttle to explode while returning home killing all the astronauts
* Columbia (February 1, 2003)

34 China’s first man in space
* Yang Liwei

35 European Space Agency’s first moon probe craft
* SMART-I

36 America’s first Mission to Saturn
* Cassini Spacecraft (Reached Saturn’s orbit in July 2004)

37 First private, manned spacecraft
* Spaceship One (Launched on June 21, 2004)

38 First European space probe landing on the surface of the Saturnian Moon Titan
* Huygens (January 15, 2005)

39 India’s first Mapping Satellite
* CARTOSAT-I (Launched on May 5, 2005)

40 The first spacecraft to touch the surface of a comet
* NASA’s Deep Impact hit its comet target temple-I (July 4, 2005)

41 The first Japanese spacecraft to get down to an asteroid and collect samples from there
* Hayabusa (November 2005, Japan’s Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)

42 The first Probe Mission to planet Pluto
* New Horizons (U.S. launched on January 19, 2006)

43 The first space woman to stay for the longest ever Perivale of time in space
* Sunita Williams

44 The first lunar orbiter of China
* Chang’e-I (Lauched on October 24, 2007 from Xichang Satellite Launch Centre of South-Western Sichuan Province)

45 The first successful moon mission of India
* Chandrayan-I (October 22, 2008)

46 The US software pioneer who became the first person to travel twice to space as a tourist
* Charles Simonyi (March 26, 2009)

List of Longest, Largest, Highest, Tallest Places around the World and in India

Around the World: Longest around the World

S. No.	Type	Place
1.	Longest River	Nile
2.	Longest Railway	Trans-Siberian Railway
3.	Longest Road Tunnel	Laedal Tunnel, Norway (24.51 km long)
4.	Longest Railway Platform	Gorakhpur (Uttar Pradesh, India)
5.	Longest Ship Canal	Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal (1930 Km long)
6.	Longest River Dam	Hirakud Dam, Odisha, India
7.	Longest Mountain Range	Andes (South America, Length = 5500m)
8.	Longest Wall	Wall of China

Around the World: Largest around the World

S. No.	Type	Place
1.	Largest Continent	Asia
2.	Largest Delta	Ganges Delta (consists of Bangladesh and the state of West Bengal, India)
3.	Largest Desert	Sahara Desert (covers a surface area of 3.5 million square miles)
4.	Largest Island	Greenland
5.	Largest Dam	Three Gorges Dam (spans the Yangtze River in China)
6.	Largest Library	United State Library of Congress, Washington D.C.
7.	Largest Sea Bird	Albatross
8.	Largest city in population	Tokyo, Japan
9.	Largest Peninsula	Arabian Peninsula
10.	Largest Solar Plant	Kamuthi Solar Plant, Tamil Nadu, India

Around the World: Tallest, Smallest, Biggest around the World

S. No.	Type	Place
1.	Tallest Animal	Giraffe
2.	Tallest Building	Burj Khalifa (828 m)
3.	Tallest Monument	Gateway Arch (USA)
4.	Smallest Bird	Humming Bird
5.	Smallest Continent	Australia
6.	Smallest Planet	Mercury
7.	Biggest Country by Area	Russia
8.	Biggest Planet	Jupiter
9.	Biggest Ocean	Pacific Ocean
10.	Hottest Place	Death Valley, California, USA.
11.	Deepest Lake	Baikal (Siberia)
12.	Deepest Ocean	Pacific Ocean

Around the World: Highest around the World

S. No.	Type	Place
1.	Highest Mountain Peak	Mt. Everest
2.	Highest Mountain Range	Greater Himalayas
3.	Highest Plateau	Pamir Tibet (Roof of World)
4.	Highest Railway Station	Tanggula railway station
5.	Highest Lake	Lake Titicaca
6.	Highest Fall	Angel Falls (Venezuela, located on a tributary of the Rio Caroni)
7.	Metal with highest Melting and Boiling Point	Tungsten
8.	Higest Capital City	La Paz (Bolivia)

Inside India: Longest in India

S. No.	Type	Place
1.	Longest River	Ganges
2.	Longest Tributary	Yamuna
3.	State with the longest coastline	Gujarat (1214.7 km)
4.	Longest Dam	Hirakud (stands across the river Mahanadi)
5.	Longest Beach	Marina Beach, Chennai
6.	Longest Electric Railway Line	From Delhi to Kolkata via Patna
7.	Longest Road	Grand Trunk Road
8.	Longest Railway Platform	Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh
9.	Longest Canal	Indira Gandhi Canal

Inside India: Largest in India

S. No.	Type	Place
1.	Largest Museum	Indian Museum (found by Asiatic Society of Bengal, Kolkata)
2.	Largest Desert	Thar Desert (also known as the Great Indian Desert; forms a natural boundary between India and Pakistan)
3.	Largest State in terms of area	Rajasthan
4.	Largest forest state	Madhya Pradesh
5.	Largest Mosque	Jama Masjid
6.	Largest Port	Jawaharlal Nehru Port (also known as Nhava Sheva, located in Maharashtra, Mumbai)
7.	Largest river island	Majuli Island (located in Assam at Brahmaputra river)
8.	Largest Library	National Library of India (Kolkata)
9.	Largest Lake of Saline Water	Chilka Lake (Odisha)
10.	Largest Union Territory	Andaman and Nicobar Islands (8249 km2)

Inside India: Smallest, Highest in India

S. No.	Type	Place
1.	Smallest state by area	Goa (3702 km2)
2.	Smallest state by population	Sikkim
3.	Smallest Union Territory	Lakshwadeep (32 km2)
4.	Highest award	Bharat Ratna
5.	Highest Dam	Tehri Dam (located on Bhagirathi river in Uttarakhand, India)
6.	Highest Gallantry Award	Param Veer Chakra
7.	Highest Sports Award	Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna
8.	Highest Airport	Kushok Bakula Rimpochee Airport (Leh, J&K)
9.	Highest Waterfall	Jog Falls, Karnataka
10.	Rainiest Place	Mausinram (Meghalaya, India)