ARMY RPF SSC GD Important Bits Online Exam

 3 zonal headquarters of Indian Railways is located in Kolkata.
 Southeastern railway headquarters in Kolkata.
 Eastern railway headquarters in Kolkata.
 Kolkata metro is headquarters in Kolkata.
 Kolkata metro became the zonal railway in 2010.
 Mumbai is headquartering of two railway zones.

 The Dongra people are Indo-Aryan ethnolinguistic people.
 They inhibit from the southern pir panjal region to the Punjab plains of India and nearby areas of Pakistan.
They speak the Dogri Language which was added in the 8th Schedule of the Constitution in 2001.
 Artistic features of Dongra people are as followso Kud is their ritual dance.
o Heren is a traditional theatre form.
o Jagarana is a dance performed by Dongra women during the Lohri festival.
o Karak is a narrative ballet sung by a community called ‘Jogies’.

 Birhor is the most underdeveloped tribe of India.
 The Birhor Tribe resides in Bihar, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh & Odisha.
 The Birhor people usually are forest dwellers and live a nomadic life.
o Their name itself implies jungle people and are short with a broad nose.
o They live a nomadic hunter-gatherer’s life and collect forest produce such as honey
or sell ropes made from jungle vines in local markets.
o Their racial characteristics are proto Austroloid and they speak the Birhor language.
o Members of the nomadic Birhor tribe claim that they are descendants of the Sun.
 About 15 percent of the land area in India is occupied by tribal communities.
 It is estimated that there are around 75 Primitive Tribal Groups in India.

 Changpas tribe is a semi-nomadic tribe that is found in high plateaus along the cold desert
of the Ladakh region.
 The tribes mainly work in the summer season and rest during the winter due to less availability of resources.
 The Changpa of Ladakh is high altitude pastoralists, raising mainly yaks and goats. They are
also found in Jammu and Kashmir.
 Among the Ladakh Changpa, those who are still nomadic are known as Phalpa, and they
take their herds from in the Hanley Valley to the village of Lato.
 Hanley is home to six isolated settlements, where the sedentary Changpa, the Fangpa resides.
 Despite their different lifestyles, both these groups intermarry.
 The Changpa speak Changskhat, a dialect of Tibetan, and practice Tibetan Buddhism

 Among the tribal people of Jharkhand, Bhagta Parab is best known as the worship of
Budha Baba.
 After worship in the evening, devotees take part in dynamic and vigorous Chhau dance with
lots of gymnastic actions and masks.
 Bhagoria is an important tribal festival of Madhya Pradesh.
 Nagoba Jatara is a Hindu tribal festival held in Adilabad district, Telangana.
 The Hornbill Festival is held every year in Nagaland.
 Lavani is a folk dance of Maharashtra.
 ‘Aadi Mahotsav’, a National Tribal Festival is being organised from 16th to 30th November
2018 in New Delhi by the Ministry of Tribal Affairs.

 Himalaya is the youngest fold mountain in the world.
o The word Himalaya means “abode of snow”.
o The Himalaya mountain range is also known as “water tower of Asia”.
o It is located between Tibetan plateau and Ganga plain.
o The Himalaya covers approximately 2,400 km.
o Passes through India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, China, Bhutan, and Nepal.
o Mount Everest is the highest point in Himalaya.
o The Indian Himalayan region is spread across 12 Indian States.
o The Himalaya protects India from winds and natural disasters from middle Asia.
 Aravalli is the oldest range of fold mountains in India.
 The Andes is the longest continental mountain range in the world.
 The Vindhya Range is a discontinuous chain of mountain ridges in India.

 Fold mountains are created where two or more of Earth’s tectonic plates are pushed together.
 Examples of fold mountains include the Himalayan Mountains in Asia, the Alps in Europe, the Andes in South America, and the Rockies in North America.
 Tropical Climate is experienced in the mountainous region of the Himalayas, Andes, and the
Alps.

 ‘Rohtang Pass’, a high mountain pass is situated in Himachal Pradesh.
 ‘Rohtang Pass’ is a high mountain pass on the eastern Pir Panjal Range of the Himalayas.

 Vallanadu Wildlife Sanctuary is located in Thoothukudi district of Tamil Nadu.
 Vallanadu Wildlife Sanctuary is a 16.41 km2 (6.34 sq m) black buck antelope sanctuary.

 It is a scrub forest where black buck, spotted deer, macaQuestions, jungle cat, mongoose,
and hares may be seen.

 Know about Himachal Pradesh:
o Capital: Shimla (Summers) & Dharamsala (Winters).
o Formed in: – Himachal Pradesh was conferred statehood on 25th January 1971. Languages: – Hindi (Official Language) & English (Additional official language)
– Pahari, Dogri, Mandeali, Kangri and Kinnauri.
o Regional festivals: Halda, Lohri, Baisakhi, Himachal Winter carnival, Kullu Dussehra,
Phulaich, Lossar, Sairi, Faguli.
o Geographical indications: Kullu shawl, Kangra Tea, Chamba Rumal, Kinnauri Shawl.
o World heritage sites: Great Himalayan National Park, Kalka-Shimla Railway under
Mountain Railways of India.

The Correct Answer is Option (1) i.e. 1-c, 2-a, 3-d, 4-b.
 Coorg is known as ‘Scotland of India’ because of its beautiful landscapes.
 The rich flora and fauna and icy chilly weather of the hill-station give Darjeeling the nickname of ‘Questionen of Hills’.
 Dhanbad is known as the ‘Coal Capital of India’ due to the vast number of coal fields and
strip-mines.
 Guntur is known as the ‘City of Chillies’ because of its globally renowned varieties of chillies.

 Kanpur:
o Kanpur is a major industrial town of Uttar Pradesh.
o It is also known as the industrial capital of the state.
o This town is situated on the south bank of river Ganga, located 80 km west of Lucknow, the state capital.
 Nagpur:
o Nagpur city is the winter capital of the state of Maharashtra.
o Nagpur is also famous as“Orange City”.
o Nagpur city was established by the prince of the Gond tribe “Bhakt Buland” in the
first half of the 18th century.
 Udaipur:
o Udaipur was founded in 1553 by Maharana Udai Singh II as the new capital of the
Mewar.
o Udaipur is known as ‘the city of lakes’

 It is located in the state of Kerala.
 Lord Curzon called this place as ‘Venice of the East’

 Jaisalmer is also known as the ‘Golden City’

 Jaisalmer is the largest district of Rajasthan which is spread over 38,401 sq. km. It shares
the 471 km long international border with Pakistan.

 The United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific is one of the
five regional commissions under the jurisdiction of the United Nations Economic and Social
Council.
 It was founded on 28 March 1947.
 It was established in order to increase economic activity in Asia and the Far East, as well as
to foster economic relations between the region and other areas of the world.
 The headquarters is in Bangkok, Thailand.

 BRICS(Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa) headquarter is located in Shanghai, China.
 BRICS Started in 2001 as BRIC, an acronym coined by Goldman Sachs for Brazil, Russia, India,
and China. South Africa was added in 2010.
 The BRICS Leaders’ Summit has convened annually.
 It is an annual summit between the supreme leaders of five nations.
 The Chairmanship of the forum is rotated annually among the members, in accordance with
the acronym B-R-I-C-S.
 President of BRICS:- Marcos Prado Troyjo.
 In 2019, Brazil held the rotating presidency of BRICS under the Motto ” Economic Growth
for an innovative future”.
 It’s an emerging investment market and global power bloc.
 BRICS accounts for about 40% of the world’s population and about 30% of the GDP, making
it a critical economic engine.
 The last BRICS Summit took place in Brazil from 13 to 14 November 2019.

 The World Health Organisation was established on April 7, 1948.
 Therefore April 7 is observed as World Health Day every year.
 Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus is the current Director-General of WHO.
 The World Health Assembly and the Executive Board are the governing bodies of WHO.
 WHO gets funding from its member nations which can be either compulsory or Voluntary.
 The countries which are members of UNO are the members of WHO also.

 The Headquarter of the Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) is in Rome.
 The FAO Headquarters is located in the city center of Rome, southeast of the Aventine hill,
near the Circo Massimo and Colosseum.
 The FAO building was designed in 1938 by Vittorio Cafiero.
 All entrances at FAO headquarters are available for disabled persons in wheelchairs.

 Accra is the capital and the most populous city of Ghana, with an estimated urban population of 2.27 million as of 2012. Ghana is a country located in West Africa.
 Ghanaian cedi is the currency of Ghana.
 Ghana or the Republic of Ghana is located along the Gulf of Guinea and the Atlantic Ocean.