General Knowledge Current :- Latest Who’s Who

General Knowledge Current :- Latest Who’s Who 

Union Government:        President:                                 Mr. Pranab Mukherjee

                                        Vice President:                        Mohammad Hamid Ansari

Council of Ministers:-    There are two types of Council of ministers, Cabinet minister & 

                                        Minister of states.

Cabinet minister:          Prime Minister:                                           Mr. Narender Modi

                                        Home Affairs                                              SR. Raj Nath Singh

                                        Defence                                                     Sh. Manohar Parrikar

                                        External Affairs ,Overseas Indian Affairs   Smt. Sushma Swaraj   

                                        Railways                                                    Sh. Suresh Prabhu

                                        Finance, Corporate Affairs,

                                        Information and Broadcasting                     Sh. Arun Jaitley

                                        Urban Development Housing

                                        and Urban Poverty Alleviation.

                                        Parliamentary Affairs                                   Sh. M. Venkaiah Naidu

                                        Road Transport and Highways

                                        and Shipping                                               Sh. Nitin Jairam Gadkari

                                        Law and Justice                                          Sh. D.V. Sadanand Gowda

                                        Water Resources , River

                                        Development and Ganga Rejuvenation      Sushri Uma Bharti

                                        Minority Affairs, Science  and                     Dr. Najma A. Heptulla

                                        Technology and Earth Science                  Dr. Harsh Vardhan

                                        Consumer Affairs , food and public

                                        Distribution                                                  Sh. Ram Vilas Paswan

                                        Micro Small and Medium Enterprises         Sh. Kalraj Mishar

                                        Women and Child Development                 Smt. Menka Sanjay Gandhi

                                        Chemical and Fertilizers                              Sh. Ananth Kumar

                                        Communication and Information

                                        Technology                                                   Sh. Ravi Shankar Prasad

                                         Health and Family Welfare                          Sh. Jagat Prakash Nadda

                                         Rural Development , Panchayati Raj  

                                         Drinking water and Sanitation                      Sh. Chaudhary Birender Singh

                                         Civil Aviation                                                 Sh. Ashok G.R. Pusapati

                                         Heavy Industry and Public enterprises        Sh. Ananth Geete

                                         Food Processing Industries                         Smt. Harsimrat Kaur Badal

                                         Mines , Steel                                                 Sh. Narendra Singh Tomar

                                         Tribal Affairs                                                 Sh. Jual Oram

                                         Agriculture                                                    Sh. Radha Mohan Singh

                                         Social Justice and Empowerment               Sh. Thaawar Chand Gehlot

                                         Human Resource Department                     Smt. Smriti Zubin Irani

                                               

                                                  

Minister of State           Statistic and Programme Implementation,

(Independent charge)  External Affairs,Overseas Indian Affairs       General V.K. Singh                 

                                        Planning , Defence                                        Sh. Inderjit Singh Rao

                                        Textiles                                                          Sh. Santosh Kumar Gangwar

                                        Ayush , Health and Family Welfare               Sh. Rajiv Pratap Rudy

                                        Petroleum and Natural Gas                           Sh. Dharmendra Pradhan

                                        Youth affairs and Sports                                Sh. Sarbananda Sonowal

                                        Environment forest and Climate

                                       Change                                                            Sh. Prakash Javadekar

                                       Power , Coal , New and Renewable

                                       Energy                                                             Sh. Piyush Goyal

                                       Development of North Eastern

                                       Region ,  Department of Space                      Sh. Jitendra Singh

                                       Commerce and Industry                                 Smt. Nirmala Sitaraman

                                       Culture , Tourism , Civil Aviation                    Sh. Mahesh Sharma

                                               

Minister of State       Minority , Parliamentary affairs                   Sh. Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi

                                    Drinking water and Sanitation                     Sh Ram Kripal Yadav

                                    Home Affairs                                               Sh. Haribhai Parthbhai Chaudhary  

                                    Water Resource , River

                                    Development and Ganga

                                    Rejuvenation                                                Sh. Sanawar Lal Jat

                                    Micro , Small and Medium Enterprises       Sh. G. M . Siddeshwara

                                    Railways                                                      Sh. Manoj Sinha

                                    Panchayati Raj                                            Sh. Nihal Chand

                                    HRD (Human Resource Development)      Sh. Upendra Kushwaha

                                    Road Transport and Shipping                      Sh. Radhakrishnan

                                    Home Affairs                                                Sh. Kiren Rijiju

                                    Social Justice and Empowerment               Sh. Krishan pal

                                    Agriculture                                                    Dr. Sanjeev Kumar Balyan

                                    Mines , Steel                                                Sh. Vishnu Dev Sai

                                    Science and Technology                             Sh. Y.S. Choudhary

                                    Finance                                                        Sh. Jayant Sinha

                                    Information and Broadcasting                     Col. Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore

                                    Urban Development , Housing

                                    and Urban Poverty Alleviation                      Sh. Babul Suprio Barat

                                    Food Processing Industries                        Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti

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General Knowledge - Abbreviation Part -2

General Knowledge - Abbreviation Part -2

C. I. A.                   :       Criminal Investigation Agency; Central Intelligence Agency.

C. I. D.                   :       Criminal Investigation Department.

C. I. R.                   :        Canada India Reactor. 

C. M. O.                :        Chief Medical Officer.

C. O.                     :        Commanding Officer.

C. S. I. R.              :        Council of Scientific and Industrial Research.

C.-in-C.                :        Commander-in-Chief.

C. R.                     :        Central Railway.

C. V. C.                :        Chief Vigilance Commissioner.

CV                        :        Curriculum vitae.

  D

D. C.                    :         Deputy Commissioner; Direct Current (electricity)

D. I. G.                 :         Deputy Inspector General.

D. L. O.               :          Dead Letter Office.(New name is R.L. O. Returned Letter office  )

D. N. A.               :         Deoxyribonucleic acid.

D. V. C.               :         Damodar Valley Corporation.

   E

ed.                       :         Edition; Editor; Edited by.

e. g.                     :         for example; example gratia.

esp.                     :         especially.

et al.                    :         and others.

etc.                     :          et cetera, and other similar things; so forth.

E. B. R. D.         :          European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.

E. C. M.             :          European Common Market.

ECG                  :          Electrocardiogram.

ECOSOC         :          Economic and Social Council (U.N.)

E. E. C.             :          European Economic Community.

E. M. F.             :          Electromotive Force.

E & O. E.          :          Errors and Omissions Excepted.

E. P. N. S.        :          Electroplated Nickel Silver.

E. R. D. A.        :          Energy Research & Development Administration.

E. S. C. A. P.   :          Economic & Social Commission for Asia & the Pacific.

E. S. I. S.          :          Employees State Insurance Scheme.

E. R. P.             :          European Recovery Programme.

  F

F                        :         Fahrenheit.

Fax                   :          Facsimile.

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General Knowledge - Geography

  General Knowledge  - Geography

Popular Nick Name of  Some Famous Personalities

Nick  Name                                    Famous Personalities

Andhra Kesari                                  T. Prakasam

Bapu                                                Mahatma Gandhi

Bard of Avon                                   William Shakespeare

Chachaji                                           Jawaharlal Nehru

Desh Bandhu                                   C. R. Das

Frontier Gandhi                                Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan

G. B. S.                                           George Bernard Shaw

Grand old man of India                     Dadabhai Naoroji

Grand old man of Britain                  Gladstone

Guru Dev                                         Rabindranath Tagore

Iron man of India                              Sardar Patel

Lok Nayak                                       Jayaprakash Narayan

Lal, Bal, Pal                                      Lala Lajpat Rai, Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Bipin Chandra Pal.

Lokmanya                                        Bal Gangadhar Tilak,

 Mahamana                                      Pt. Madan Mohan Malaviya

Maiden Queen                                 Queen Elizabeth I

Missile Man                                     A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

Man of Destiny                                 Napoleon Bonaparte

Netaji                                               Subhash Chandra Bose

Nightingale of India                          Sarojini Naidu

Panditji                                            Jawaharlal Nehru

Punjab Kesari                                  Lala Lajpat Rai

Shastri ji                                          Lal Bahadur Shastri

Wizard of the North                        Walter Scott   

        

Famous Books and Authors (Indian)

Books                                           Authors

Priya Pravasa                                 Hariaudh

Prithviraj Raso                              Chand Bardai

Kitani Nao Mein Kitni Bar           Agyeya

Kapal Kundala                            Chatterjee

Chidambara                                Sumitranandan Pant

Abhigyan Shakuntalam,               Kalidas

Meghdoot, Raghubansh

Kamayani                                  Jay Shanker Prasad

Arthashastra                               Kautilya

Glimpses of  World History        J.L.Nehru          

Hindu View of Life                     Dr. S. Radhakrishnan

Geetanjali, Gor, Dakghar           R. N. Tagore

Ram Charit Manas                    Tulsidas

Sur Sagar                                  Surdas

Devdas                                      Sharat Chandra Chatterjee

Geet Govind                              Jaya dev

Juhi Ki Kali                                Nirala

Meri Ekyavan Kavitayen           A.B. Vajpayee

Bharat Durdasha                       Bhartendu Harishchandra

Bharat – Bharati                       Maithilisharan Gupta

 Famous Books and Authors (Foreign)

As you Like It,Hamlet             

Julius Caesar,Othello,                Shakespeare

Merchant of Venice,                 

Romeo and Juliet.

Freedom and Social Choice       Amartya Sen

Long Walk to Freedom              Nelson Mandela

Moor’s Last Sigh,

Midnight’s Children                    Salman Rushdie

Mother                                       Maxim Gorky

Paradise Regained,                     John Milton

Paradise Lost.

The Everest Hotel                      Allan Shealy

Utopia                                       Thomas More

War and Peace                             Leo Tolstoy

Wealth of Nation                       Adam Smith

                                         

General Knowledge Abbreviation

General Knowledge Abbreviation

F. A. O.                  :               Food & Agriculture  Organisation (U. N. Agency).

F. B. I.                    :                Federal Bureau of  Investigation.

F. C. I.                    :               Fertilizer Corporation of India; Food Corporation of  India.

F. I. C. C. I.            :               Federation of Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

F. I. R.                    :               First Information Report.

F. M.                      :               Field Marshal.

   G

GATT                     :               General Agreement on Tariffs & Trade.

GDP                       :               Gross Domestic Product.

GMT                      :               Greenwich Mean Time.

G. P. O.                 :               General Post Office.

G. N. P.                 :               Gross National Product.

GSLV                    :               Geo-Synchronous Satellite  Launch Vehicle.

   H

H. A. L.                 :               Hindustan Aeronautics Limited.

H. A. S.                 :               Himachal Pradesh Administrative Service.

H. M. I   .              :               Himalayan Mountaineering Institute.

H. S. L.                 :               Hindustan Steel Limited.

HIV                       :               Human immunodeficiency virus.

H. U. D. C. O.       :               Housing & Urban  Development Corporation.

  

  I

I. A.                        :               Indian Airlines.

I. A. R. I.                                Indian Agriculture Research Institute.

I. A. S.                    :               Indian Administration  Service.

I. A. A.   S.             :               Indian Adult & Accounts Service.

I. A. F.                    :               Indian Air Force.

I. A. E. A.               :               International Atomic Energy Agency.

I. A. T. A.               :               International Air Transport   Association.

I.B.M.                    :               International Business Machines.

I.B.R.D                  :               International Bank Of  Reconstruction and  Development

I.C.A.O                  :               International civil aviation organization

I.C.A.R                  :               Indian council for  Agricultural research

I.C.B.M                     :                  Intercontinental Ballistic missile

I.C.M.R                 :               Indian council of medical research  

I.C.S                       :               Indian civil service

I.C.W.A                 :               Indian council of world  affair

I.D.A                      :               International Development Association   

I.D.B.I                    :               Industrial development bank of India

I.F.S                        :               Indian Foreign service

I.I.T                        :               Indian Institute of  Technology

I.L.O                       :               Indian Labour Organisation

I.M.F                      :               International Monetary Fund  

I.N                          :               Indian Navy

I.N.A                      :               Indian National army

I.N.S                       :               Indian Naval ship

INSAT                   :               Indian National satellite

INTEL SET            :               International  Telecommunication Satellite

INTERPOL            :               International Police

I.N.T.U.C               :               Indian National Trade Union Congress

I.O.L                       :               Indian oil corporation

I.P.C                       :               Indian Penal Code

I.R.R.S                   :               Indian Remote sensing  Satellite

I.Q                          :               Intelligent Quotient

I.R.C                      :               International Red Cross 

I.R.O                      :               International Refugee Organization

I.R.S                       :               Indian Revenue Services

I.R.T.S                   :               Indian Railway Traffic Services

ISRO                      :               Indian Space research Organization

I.S.T                       :               Indian Standard Time

I.T.I                        :               Industrial Training Institute

ITO                         :               Income Tax Officer

IGNOU                  :               Indira Gandhi National Open University.

IT                            :               Information Technology

IFS                          :               Indian Forest Service

IAS                         :               Indian Administration  Service

IPS                          :               Indian Police Service

ICJ                          :               Indian Court of Justice

IGF                         :               Indian Growth Fund

IIM                         :               Indian Institute of   management

ISB                         :               Indian School Of Business

IP                            :               Internet Protocol

ISC                         :               Indian School Certificate

   J

JAL                         :               Japan Air lines

JCO                        :               Junior Commissioned officer

J.P                           :               Justice of peace.