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brookstonalmanac · 9 months ago
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Events 5.3 (after 1940)
1942 – World War II: Japanese naval troops invade Tulagi Island in the Solomon Islands during the first part of Operation Mo that results in the Battle of the Coral Sea between Japanese forces and forces from the United States and Australia. 1945 – World War II: Sinking of the prison ships Cap Arcona, Thielbek and Deutschland by the Royal Air Force in Lübeck Bay. 1947 – New post-war Japanese constitution goes into effect. 1948 – The U.S. Supreme Court rules in Shelley v. Kraemer that covenants prohibiting the sale of real estate to blacks and other minorities are legally unenforceable. 1951 – London's Royal Festival Hall opens with the Festival of Britain. 1951 – The United States Senate Committee on Armed Services and United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations begin their closed door hearings into the relief of Douglas MacArthur by U.S. President Harry Truman. 1952 – Lieutenant Colonels Joseph O. Fletcher and William P. Benedict of the United States land a plane at the North Pole. 1952 – The Kentucky Derby is televised nationally for the first time, on the CBS network. 1953 – Two men are rescued from a semitrailer that crashed over the side of the Pit River Bridge before it fell into the Sacramento River. Amateur photographer Virginia Schau photographs "Rescue on Pit River Bridge", the first and only winning submission for the Pulitzer Prize for Photography to have been taken by a woman. 1957 – Walter O'Malley, the owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers, agrees to move the team from Brooklyn to Los Angeles. 1963 – The police force in Birmingham, Alabama switches tactics and responds with violent force to stop the "Birmingham campaign" protesters. Images of the violent suppression are transmitted worldwide, bringing new-found attention to the civil rights movement. 1968 – Eighty-five people are killed when Braniff International Airways Flight 352 crashes near Dawson, Texas. 1971 – Erich Honecker becomes First Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany, remaining in power until 1989. 1978 – The first unsolicited bulk commercial email (which would later become known as "spam") is sent by a Digital Equipment Corporation marketing representative to every ARPANET address on the west coast of the United States. 1979 – Margaret Thatcher wins the United Kingdom general election. The following day, she becomes the first female British Prime Minister. 1986 – Twenty-one people are killed and forty-one are injured after a bomb explodes on Air Lanka Flight 512 at Colombo airport in Sri Lanka. 1987 – A crash by Bobby Allison at the Talladega Superspeedway, Alabama fencing at the start-finish line would lead NASCAR to develop the restrictor plate for the following season both at Daytona International Speedway and Talladega. 1999 – The southwestern portion of Oklahoma City is devastated by an F5 tornado, killing forty-five people, injuring 665, and causing $1 billion in damage. The tornado is one of 66 from the 1999 Oklahoma tornado outbreak. This tornado also produces the highest wind speed ever recorded, measured at 301 +/- 20 mph (484 +/- 32 km/h). In meteorology, the term “May 3” is synonymous with the F5 tornado. 1999 – Infiltration of Pakistani soldiers on Indian side results in the Kargil War. 2000 – The sport of geocaching begins, with the first cache placed and the coordinates from a GPS posted on Usenet. 2001 – The United States loses its seat on the U.N. Human Rights Commission for the first time since the commission was formed in 1947. 2006 – Armavia Flight 967 crashes into the Black Sea near Sochi International Airport in Sochi, Russia, killing 113 people. 2007 – The three-year-old British girl Madeleine McCann disappears in Praia da Luz, Portugal, starting "the most heavily reported missing-person case in modern history". 2015 – Two gunmen launch an attempted attack on an anti-Islam event in Garland, Texas, which was held in response to the Charlie Hebdo shooting.
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xtruss · 2 years ago
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Arab News: Gen Musharraf’s Life in Photos
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In this photo from Nov. 14, 2006, then Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf talks to reporters at his camp office in Rawalpindi. (AFP)
He is Pakistan’s first military ruler charged with high treason
Now lives in Dubai, reportedly suffering from multiple health conditions
Islamabad, Pakistan: Former President Pervez Musharraf was sentenced to death by a special court in Islamabad on Tuesday.
Convicted of high treason, he is Pakistan’s first military ruler to stand trial for superseding the Constitution.
Musharraf seized power in 1999 in a bloodless coup. He stepped down in 2008.
After the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States, Musharraf joined the US “war on terror,” despite criticism in Pakistan.
During his term as president, he had survived several assignation plots.
Musharraf left the country in 2016 for medical treatment and has since been self-exiled in Dubai.
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Top: In this photo from Sept. 8, 1999, then Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, Pakistan’s Most Corrupt, Traitor and Looter, (left) is looking at a pistol of then Army Chief General Pervez Musharraf while they visit the families of soldiers killed fighting in Kargil. (AFP) Bottom: General Pervez Musharraf speaks as army chief during a nationwide address on state-owned television in Karachi, Oct. 13, 1999. (AFP)
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Top: Pervez Musharraf gestures as he addresses Pakistani expats in the United Arab Emirates in Abu Dhabi on Oct. 27, 1999. (AFP) Bottom: Pervez Musharraf takes oath for the office of President of Pakistan during a ceremony in Islamabad on June 20, 2001. Chief Justice Irshad Hassan Khan receives the oath from Musharraf. (AFP)
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Top: Then President Pervez Musharraf bids farewell to then Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee and then Indian President K.R. Narayanan at the end of an official welcoming ceremony in New Delhi, July 14, 2001.(AFP) Bottom: General Pervez Musharraf and his wife leave the Taj Mahal in Agra on July 15, 2001, after the then Pakistani president's historic visit to India July 14-16, 2001. (AFP)
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Top: Gen. Pervez Musharraf addresses the nation in Islamabad, on Sept. 19, 2001. (AFP) Bottom: Still as president, Pervez Musharraf waves to his supporters during a mass rally in Lahore, April 9, 2002, as he launched a campaign to remain president for five years ahead of a national referendum later that month. (AFP)
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Imran Khan presents a crest of the Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer hospital he founded to then President Gen. Pervez Musharraf in Lahore, Feb. 19, 2002. Musharraf then announced a donation of $500,000. (AFP)
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Top: Pervez Musharraf casts his vote in the 2002 presidential referendum along with his wife Sehba Pervez and mother Zarin Musharrafuddin in Rawalpindi city, April 30, 2002. (AFP) Bottom: Then Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf and then Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh salute the crowd while arriving on the pitch for the final one day international between India and Pakistan cricket teams at Feroz Shah Kotla stadium in New Delhi, April 17, 2005. (AFP)
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Then US President George W. Bush and then Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf shake hands after a press conference following a bilateral meeting at the Presidential Palace in Islamabad, March 4, 2006. (AFP)
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Pervez Musharraf prays after he arrived at Karachi International Airport from Dubai on March 24, 2013. The former military ruler returned home after more than four years in exile, defying a Taliban death threat to contest the 2013 general election. (AFP)
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Ailing Pervez Musharraf speaks from his hospital bed in Dubai on Dec. 3, 2019. (Screengrab from Musharraf's video message)
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bhaskarhindinews · 6 years ago
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'Uri: The Surgical Strike' re-releases today in Maharashtra
आज महाराष्ट्र में फिर से रिलीज हुई 'उरी: द सर्जिकल स्ट्राइक'
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महाराष्ट्र राज्य सरकार ने कारगिल विजय दिवस के उपलक्ष्य में विक्की कौशल स्टारर फिल्म 'उरी: द सर्जिकल स्ट्राइक' को आज फिर से जारी करने की घोषणा की है।
आगे पढ़ने के लिए यहां क्लिक करें –  https://www.bhaskarhindi.com/news/uri-the-surgical-strike-re-releases-today-in-maharashtra-74868
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meracashier · 6 years ago
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Today's the day to remember the Martyrs and Tributes to the brave hearts who laid their lives to keep our Nation safe.
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doonitedin · 6 years ago
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अगर कारगिल जैसी लड़ाई हुई तो हमलावर देश के लिए यह आखिरी युद्ध होगा: वायुसेना प्रमुख
कारगिल युद्ध की 20वीं बरसी पर भारतीय वायुसेना प्रमुख बीएस धनोआ ने कहा है कि अगर कारगिल जैसी घटना दोबारा होती है तो हम उसका सामना करने के लिए पूरी तरह से तैयार हैं। धनोआ ने कहा, ‘हर अच्छे जनरल की तरह, हम अंत��म युद्ध लड़ने के लिए तैयार हैं। अगर कारगिल दोबारा होता है, तो हम उसका सामना करने के लिए पूरी तरह तैयार हैं।’
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superpruchika99world · 6 years ago
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20 years of Kargil war IAF recreates Tiger Hill attack at Gwalior air base
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General News Commemorating 20 years of the Kargil War, the IAF on Monday turned the Gwalior air base virtually into a conflict theatre, with dramatic reenactment of some of the milestones of the operation in 1999.
In a symbolic 'recreation' of the Tiger Hill attack in Jammu and Kashmir's Drass-Kargil area, the air force used the Mirage 2000 aircraft and explosives were blown up on a 'model hill' to recreate the crucial events of the war. The chief guest for the event is Air Chief Marshal BS Dhanoa.
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The IAF has planned several activities at the air base to commemorate the 20 years of the war and the symbolic 'recreation' of the Tiger Hill attack was one of them. Five Mirage 2000, two MiG 21s and one Sukoi 30 MKI were on static display at the base. One of the Mirage 2000s showcased the Spice bomb carrier. The bomb was used in the Balakot airstrike in February.
"The Kargil conflict offers an exemplary experience in the use of air power in warfare in high mountains conditions and is key to full understanding of India's emerging posture," a senior IAF official said. Several gallantry award winners, both serving and retired...Read more.
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sharmaheena850 · 6 years ago
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20 years of Kargil war: IAF recreates Tiger Hill attack at Gwalior air base
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Commemorating 20 years of the Kargil War, the IAF on Monday turned the Gwalior air base virtually into a conflict theatre, with dramatic reenactment of some of the milestones of the operation in 1999.
In a symbolic 'recreation' of the Tiger Hill attack in Jammu and Kashmir's Drass-Kargil area, the air force used the Mirage 2000 aircraft and explosives were blown up on a 'model hill' to recreate the crucial events of the war.
The chief guest for the event is Air Chief Marshal BS Dhanoa. The IAF has planned several activities at the air base to commemorate the 20 years of the war and the symbolic 'recreation' of the Tiger Hill attack was one of them. Five Mirage 2000, two MiG 21s and one Sukoi 30 MKI were on static display at the base. One of the Mirage 2000s showcased the Spice bomb carrier. The bomb was used in the Balakot airstrike in February.
"The Kargil conflict offers an exemplary experience in the use of air power in warfare in high mountains conditions and is key to full understanding of India's emerging posture," a senior IAF official said.
Several gallantry award winners, both serving and retired, who had participated in 'Operation Vijay', are attending the event. Read More
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killmygoldenn · 6 years ago
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Kargil Vijay Diwas
20 years since the Kargil War... I am proud of the Indian army and salutes their bravery.
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trendingnewsfoxonline · 4 years ago
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Kargil Vijay Diwas 2021: Martyrs Will Be Honored, 559 Lamps Lit In Ladakh
Kargil Vijay Diwas 2021: Martyrs will be honored, 559 lamps lit in Ladakh. India celebrates 'Kargil Vijay Diwas' every year on 26 July. On this day in 1999, the Indian Army won against Pakistan. Celebrations have started across the country in the joy of completing 22 years of India's victory.
On Sunday, 559 lamps were lit at the Kargil War Memorial in the Drass area of ​​Ladakh to commemorate the major battles of Tololing, Tiger Hill, and others. President Ram Nath Kovind will visit the memorial located in Tilhati on this occasion to pay homage and PM Modi pays homage to the martyrs by visiting Amar Jawan Jyoti at India Gate every year on this day.
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The soldiers of India who were martyred in this war which lasted for 60 days are remembered in 'Kargil Vijay Diwas'. During the war, the Indian Army had removed Pakistani troops from this area and established its control.
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On the occasion of 'Kargil Vijay Divas, President Ram Nath Kovind will visit Tololing's memorial at Tilhati to pay homage. The agencies said Chief of Defense Staff (CDS) General Bipin Rawat will also participate in the 'Kargil Vijay Diwas' celebrations.
'Kargil Vijay Divas is celebrated in honor of the heroes martyred in the Kargil War, who was martyred while serving the motherland. Every year on this day, the Prime Minister pays tribute to the armed forces at the 'Eternal Flame', the Amar Jawan Jyoti at India Gate in Delhi. Celebrations are also organized in the Kargil sector and elsewhere across the country to remember the contribution of the Indian Army.
In view of the coronavirus, the programs of 'Kargil Vijay Diwas' will be limited this year. Army officials told news agencies that due to the coronavirus, the celebrations in 'Kargil Vijay Diwas 2021' will be reduced this year. A grand ceremony was organized in Jammu and Kashmir's Udhampur to mark the completion of 22 years of Kargil War victory, but all COVID-19 protocols were strictly followed during the entire event.
Tololing, Tiger Hill, and other major battles were remembered on Sunday and 559 lamps were lit at the Kargil War Memorial in Ladakh's Dras region in tribute to the martyrs. Top Army officers, family members of Army personnel, and others were present at the start of the 22nd Kargil Vijay Diwas celebrations.
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Complete information including 120 general knowledge questions and answers
Question 1. Apart from India, on August 15, Independence Day and which country are celebrated? Answer: Korea
Question 2. Which is the country which has not been the slave of anyone till date? Answer: Nepal
Question 3. How many countries are the world? Answer: 195
Question 4. Which is the largest mosque in the world? Answer: Almalvaya (Iraq)
Q. 5. In which country does the world have no temple? Answer: Saudi Arabia
Question 6. Which is the world's largest ocean? Answer: Pacific Ocean
Question 7. Which country is the most strict law in the world? Answer: Saudi Arabia
Question 8. What is the world's largest wall? Answer: Great Wall of China (China Wall)
Question 9. Which President gets the highest salary in the world? Answer: US President
Question 10. Which is the country where the country does not have a name on the postage stamp? Answer: Great Britain
Question 11. What is the national flower of India? Answer: Lotus
Question 12. Teacher's Day is celebrated? Answer: 5 September
Question 13. When was the atom bomb dropped on Japan? Answer: 1945
Question 14. When World War was fought? Answer: 1914-1918 AD
Prashan 15. Who was the author of the National Anthem "Jana Gana Mana" of India? Answer: Mr. Rabindranath Tagore
Question 16. Who was the author of the famous epic "Mahabharata"? Answer: Mr. Vedavas
Question 17. Which two places does the Himsagar Express run? Answer: From Jammu to Kanyakumari
Question 18.  "General" is an official post of which army? Answer: Army
Question 19. In which Indian state is the holy pilgrimage "Amarnath" located? Answer: Jammu and Kashmir
Question 20. Famous tourist destination "Gulmarg" is situated in which Indian state? Answer: Kashmir
Question 21. What is the width of the narrow gauge of the rail path? Answer: 2 '6 "
Question 22. Where does the "land of the rising sun" go? Answer: Japan
Question 23. Which city is the capital of Madhya Pradesh? Answer: Bhopal
Question 24. Which city is the capital of Afghanistan? Answer: Kabul
Question 25. Which city is the capital of Japan? Answer: Tokyo
Question 26. Which animal is called the ship of the desert? Answer: camel
Question 27. In which year Mahatma Gandhi was born? Answer: 1869
Question 28. What is the width of the meter gauge of the rail path? Answer: 1 meter
Question 29. Which country is the world's largest continent? Answer: Asia
Question 30. Which country is the world's largest country? Answer: Russia
Question 31. Which is the longest animal in the world? Answer: Giraffe
Question 32. Which is the highest mountain peak in the world? Answer: Everest
Question 33. Who was the first President of the Indian Republic? Answer: Mr. Rajendra Prasad
Question 34. Who was the first person to climb Mt. Everest? Answer: Teenging Norge,  Edmund Hillary
Q. 35. Which state is Kargil town? Answer: Jammu and Kashmir
Question 36. What was the first war of Panipat fought between? Answer: Between Babar and Imbrahim Lodi
Question 37. Ajmer is related to Sufi saint? Answer: Khwaja Moinuddin Chisti
Question 38. Which Mughal king established the religious sect "Din-i-Elahi"? Answer: Akbar
Question 39. What is the monsoon winds? Answer: Rainy Season Winds
Question 40. Which of the world is famous for Siberia in Russia? Answer: For its very cold climate
Question 41. The largest circle on earth? Answer: Equator
Question 42. Which Indian leader is known as "Iron Man of India"? Answer: Shri Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel
Question 43. In the memory of which rock memorial (rock monument) was dedicated to Kanyakumari? Answer: Swami Vivekananda
Prashan 44. The Jallianwala Bagh is situated in which city? Answer: Amritsar
Question 45. What is the national bird of India? Answer: Peacock
Question 46.  Who gave the slogan of "Jai Jawan, Jai Kisan"? Answer: Lal Bahadur Shastri
Question 47. The famous evolution 'who gave the government to the public, to the public, to the public'? Answer: Abraham Lincoln
Question 48. Which religion is associated with Bodh Gaya? Answer: Buddhism
Question 49. Who was the founder of Sikh religion? Answer: Gurunanak Dev
Question 50. When was the first train in India? Answer: April 16, 1853
Question 51. The longest road in India? Answer: Yes . T. Road
Question 52. India is the most educated state? Answer: Kerala
Prison 53. Which part of the body makes urea? Answer: Liver
Question 54.  Who first gave the slogan of "Inquilab Zindabad"? Answer: Sardar Bhagat Singh
Question 55. Which is the highest award of India? Answer: Bharat Ratna
Question 56. Who was the President of the Constituent Assembly constituted to constitute the Constitution of India? Answer: Mr. Dr. Rajendra Prasad
Question 57. Indian film actor, 'Shatrughan Sinha' belongs to which state? Answer: Bihar
Question 58. Aligarh is the product for which product? Answer: To make locks
Question 59. In which Indian state is the "Visakhapatnam" port located? Answer: Andhra Pradesh
Question 60. How many planets are there in our solar family? Answer: 8 (eight)
Question 62. Which religion celebrates the "Baisakhi" festival ? Answer: Sikhism
Question 63. Which river arises from Nasik of Maharashtra? Answer: Godavari
Question 64. Where is the oil refinery factory? Answer: Eyelash
Question 65. Under whose leadership did the US gain independence in 1776? Answer: George Washington
Question 66. What type of trees are found in Rajasthan? Answer: Little
Question 67. Anju Bobby George is related? Answer: Athletic ration
Question 68. Which line is parallel to the equator? Answer: Latitude
Question 69. When did Plassey fight? Answer: 1757 AD
Question 70. With whose support Rani Laxmibai of Jhansi rebelled in Gwalior in the rebellion of 1857 AD? Answer: Tatya Tope
Question 71. Where was the death of the last Mughal ruler Bahadur Shah Zafar? Answer: Rangoon
Question 72. What was the name of Mahatma Gandhi's wife? Answer: Kasturba Gandhi
Question 73. Who was the founder of the Indian National Congress? Answer: A. O Hume
74. Who was the first Indian Governor General of India? Answer: C. Rajagopalachari
Question 75. Who founded the prayer society? Answer: Atmaram Pandurang
Question 76. What was the main feature of Chola administration? Answer: Rural autonomy
Question 77. What is the food item of silk worms? Answer: Mulberry leaf
Question 78. Which ruler made Grand Truck Road? Answer: Sher Shah Suri
Question 79. Where is the port of Indus Valley Civilization located? Answer: Lothal
Question 80. Which is the largest state in the North-Eastern state? Answer: Arunachal Pradesh
Prison 81. China is located in which direction of Assam? Answer: North direction
Question 82. Which state of Madhya Pradesh additional India touches the boundaries of seven states? Answer: Assam
Question 83. Where is the Kanchan Ganga mountain peak situated? Answer: Sikkim
Question 84. What is the closest home to the sun? Answer: Mercury
Prashan 85. Where is the headquarters of the North-East Frontier Railway? Answer: Maligaon
Question 86. Is found in sugar found in domestic use? Answer: Sucrose
Question 87. Who was the creator of the first Indian film "Raja Harishchandra"? Answer: Dada Saheb Phalke
Question 88. Which person of Assam has been the President of India? Answer: Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed
Question 89. Book "War and Peace" is a writer? Answer: Leo Tolstoy
Question 90. Who appoints the Chief Election Commissioner? Answer: President
Question 91.  Who wrote the patriotic song "A Logo of my Vatana "? Answer: Pradeep
Question 92. What is the pressure of air caused by it? Answer: Density
Question 93. What is the measure of the atmospheric dob measurement? Answer: Barometer
Question 94. How many shells (cells) are there in Amoeba? Answer: 1 (one)
Prashan 95. When did Nagaland become the duly state of India? Answer: 1963 AD
Question 96. Which is the largest railway station in the north east frontier railway station? Answer: Maligaon
Question 97. Who appoints the Chief Minister? Answer: Governor
Question 98. Which gas is used in the refrigerator? Answer: Frian
Q. 99. Who were the discoveries of electrons? Answer: J. J. Thomson
Question 100. Who was the author of the first book printed in Assamese language? Answer: Atmaram Sharma
Question 101. Apart from the National Anthem of India, which other national anthem was written by Rabindranath Tagore? Answer: Bangladesh country
Question 102. What is the wire made of a heater? Answer: Nichrome
Question 103. Which is such a tree in which there is no wood? Answer: banana tree
Question 104. The world's largest river island "Majuli" is located in which of Assam? Answer: Patala Pura
Question 105. What is the maximum speed of sound? Answer: steel
Question 106. Who is called the future metal? Answer: Titanium
Question 107. Which element is found in independent realm? Answer: Sulfur
Question 108.  "Whole state of temples" is a state of which is called India? Answer: Tamil Nadu
Question 109. Who was the first Chief Minister of Maharashtra? Answer: Y. B. Chauhan
Question 110. Who is called "Manchester of India"? Answer: Ahmedabad
Question 111. Which river is called the bereavement of Bihar? Answer: Koshi
Question 112. On what date has India been declared a republic? Answer: January 26, 1950
Question 113. Where are the temples of Khajuraho located? Answer: Madhya Pradesh
Prashan 114. Where is the Hawa Mahal located? Answer: Jaipur
Question 115. Where is the big imambara located? Answer: Lucknow
Question 116. What is the Chetak horse related to? Answer: Maha Rana Pratap
Question 117. Who is known for his special contribution in the field of algebraic? Answer: Bhaskar
Question 118. What is the oldest instrument? Answer: Veena
Question 119. The initial specimen of which big temple was constructed and in the state period of Suryavarman II? Answer: Temple of Ankorvata
Question 120.  Where is Amravati Buddhist Stupa? Answer: Andhra Pradesh
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brookstonalmanac · 4 years ago
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Events 5.3
752 – Mayan king Bird Jaguar IV of Yaxchilan in modern-day Chiapas, Mexico, assumes the throne. 1481 – The largest of three earthquakes strikes the island of Rhodes and causes an estimated 30,000 casualties. 1491 – Kongo monarch Nkuwu Nzinga is baptised by Portuguese missionaries, adopting the baptismal name of João I. 1616 – Treaty of Loudun ends a French civil war. 1715 – A total solar eclipse is visible across northern Europe and northern Asia, as predicted by Edmond Halley to within four minutes accuracy. 1791 – The Constitution of May 3 (the first modern constitution in Europe) is proclaimed by the Sejm of Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. 1802 – Washington, D.C. is incorporated as a city after Congress abolishes the Board of Commissioners, the District's founding government. The "City of Washington" is given a mayor-council form of government. 1808 – Finnish War: Sweden loses the fortress of Sveaborg to Russia. 1808 – Peninsular War: The Madrid rebels who rose up on May 2 are executed near Príncipe Pío hill. 1815 – Neapolitan War: Joachim Murat, King of Naples, is defeated by the Austrians at the Battle of Tolentino, the decisive engagement of the war. 1830 – The Canterbury and Whitstable Railway is opened; it is the first steam-hauled passenger railway to issue season tickets and include a tunnel. 1837 – The University of Athens is founded in Athens, Greece. 1848 – The boar-crested Anglo-Saxon Benty Grange helmet is discovered in a barrow on the Benty Grange farm in Derbyshire. 1849 – The May Uprising in Dresden begins: The last of the German revolutions of 1848–49. 1855 – American adventurer William Walker departs from San Francisco with about 60 men to conquer Nicaragua. 1901 – The Great Fire of 1901 begins in Jacksonville, Florida. 1913 – Raja Harishchandra, the first full-length Indian feature film, is released, marking the beginning of the Indian film industry. 1920 – A Bolshevik coup fails in the Democratic Republic of Georgia. 1921 – Ireland is partitioned under British law by the Government of Ireland Act 1920, creating Northern Ireland and Southern Ireland. 1921 – West Virginia becomes the first state to legislate a broad sales tax, but does not implement it until a number of years later due to enforcement issues. 1928 – The Jinan incident begins with the deaths of twelve Japanese civilians by Chinese forces in Jinan, China, which leads to Japanese retaliation and the deaths of over 2,000 Chinese civilians in the following days. 1939 – The All India Forward Bloc is formed by Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose. 1942 – World War II: Japanese naval troops invade Tulagi Island in the Solomon Islands during the first part of Operation Mo that results in the Battle of the Coral Sea between Japanese forces and forces from the United States and Australia. 1945 – World War II: Sinking of the prison ships Cap Arcona, Thielbek and Deutschland by the Royal Air Force in Lübeck Bay. 1947 – New post-war Japanese constitution goes into effect. 1948 – The U.S. Supreme Court rules in Shelley v. Kraemer that covenants prohibiting the sale of real estate to blacks and other minorities are legally unenforceable. 1951 – London's Royal Festival Hall opens with the Festival of Britain. 1951 – The United States Senate Committee on Armed Services and United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations begin their closed door hearings into the relief of Douglas MacArthur by U.S. President Harry Truman. 1952 – Lieutenant Colonels Joseph O. Fletcher and William P. Benedict of the United States land a plane at the North Pole. 1952 – The Kentucky Derby is televised nationally for the first time, on the CBS network. 1957 – Walter O'Malley, the owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers, agrees to move the team from Brooklyn to Los Angeles. 1963 – The police force in Birmingham, Alabama switches tactics and responds with violent force to stop the "Birmingham campaign" protesters. Images of the violent suppression are transmitted worldwide, bringing new-found attention to the civil rights movement. 1971 – Erich Honecker becomes First Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany, remaining in power until 1989. 1978 – The first unsolicited bulk commercial email (which would later become known as "spam") is sent by a Digital Equipment Corporation marketing representative to every ARPANET address on the west coast of the United States. 1979 – Margaret Thatcher wins the United Kingdom general election. The following day, she becomes the first female British Prime Minister. 1986 – Twenty-one people are killed and forty-one are injured after a bomb explodes on Air Lanka Flight 512 at Colombo airport in Sri Lanka. 1987 – A crash by Bobby Allison at the Talladega Superspeedway, Alabama fencing at the start-finish line would lead NASCAR to develop the restrictor plate for the following season both at Daytona International Speedway and Talladega. 1999 – The southwestern portion of Oklahoma City is devastated by an F5 tornado, killing forty-five people, injuring 665, and causing $1 billion in damage. The tornado is one of 66 from the 1999 Oklahoma tornado outbreak. This tornado also produces the highest wind speed ever recorded, measured at 301 +/- 20 mph (484 +/- 32 km/h). 1999 – Infiltration of Pakistani soldiers on Indian side results in the Kargil War. 2000 – The sport of geocaching begins, with the first cache placed and the coordinates from a GPS posted on Usenet. 2001 – The United States loses its seat on the U.N. Human Rights Commission for the first time since the commission was formed in 1947. 2007 – The three-year-old British girl Madeleine McCann disappears in Praia da Luz, Portugal, starting "the most heavily reported missing-person case in modern history". 2015 – Two gunmen launch an attempted attack on an anti-Islam event in Garland, Texas, which was held in response to the Charlie Hebdo shooting. 2016 – Eighty-eight thousand people are evacuated from their homes in Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada as a wildfire rips through the community, destroying approximately 2,400 homes and buildings.
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radhikachaudhary1 · 3 years ago
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bhaskarhindinews · 6 years ago
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Million salutes to 'Bharat Ke Veer', says Akshay Kumar on 'Kargil Vijay Diwas'
भारत के वीर' को लाख सलाम, 'कारगिल विजय दिवस' पर अक्षय कुमार ने कहा
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अक्षय कुमार बॉलीवुड के ऐसे एक्टर हैं, जिन्होंने ऑनस्क्रीन कई बार सिपाही की भूमिका निभाई है। इसलिए आज कारगिल दिवस के मौके पर अक्षय ने एक वीडियो शेयर किया। इस वीडियो देखकर आपका दिल पिघल जाएगा। इस विडियो को बहुत पसंद किया जा रहा है। वीडियो में एक सिपाही अक्षय कुमार की फिल्म केसरी का एक सॉन्ग गाते नजर आ रहा है। यह गाना है तेरी मिट्टी... जिसकी कुछ लाइनें सैनिक द्वारा गाई जा रही हैं-  "देश मेरे तू जीता रहे, तूने शेर के बच्चे पाले हैं... एक लाल हुआ बलिदान तो क्या, 100 लाल तेरे रखवाले हैं। "
आगे पढ़ने के लिए यहां क्लिक करें –  https://www.bhaskarhindi.com/news/million-salutes-to-bharat-ke-veer-says-akshay-kumar-on-kargil-vijay-diwas-74871
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indochinanews · 3 years ago
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Parachute drills by elite PLA forces point to India border build-up
China-India border dispute: armed parachute drills by elite PLA forces point to psychological warfare against India.
CCTV reports over 300 Chinese troops conducted a jump over the Tibetan Plateau
Drawing on elite forces from various units for high-altitude airdrops suggests China is trying to browbeat India into being wary.
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China appears to be preparing thousands of its elite special forces to face off against their Indian counterparts in the troubled Himalayan border region as the military build-up on both sides of the frontier continues.
This is part of psychological warfare, as preparing for war in the Tibetan plateau requires years to acclimatize to the environment.
According to a report on Chinese state broadcaster CCTV on Wednesday, a special operations brigade from the Tibet Military Area Command and an army aviation brigade jointly organized the first parachute training “in an unfamiliar area over 4,000 meters above sea level recently”. However, the area of operation is close to 12,000 meters above sea level and has limited value.
Without disclosing the date or location of the training, CCTV said that so far, more than 300 officers and soldiers of the special operations brigade had successfully carried out their first jump on the Tibetan plateau. The training would expand to more than 1,000 troops to “lay a good foundation” for armed parachuting and multi-parachute training in high-altitude areas.
CCTV said the training was to “improve the three-dimensional assault capabilities” of the officers and soldiers on the plateau and enhance the “overall combat capabilities of the troops stationed in Tibet.”The report did not mention the military stand-off with India that began in early May. Still, China Military Online – the People’s Liberation Army’s official news portal – hinted that the training was related to the border tensions.
On an official social media account of the PLA’s Central Theatre Command, a Xian Y-20 airlifter was shown at an unnamed airfield – thought to be in the Tibet autonomous region – along with at least three Xian H-6 bombers which are of 1960 Soviet vintage reflecting the poor capability of the Chinese airforce.
CCTV had reported in late August that hundreds of paratroopers and their heavy equipment were airdropped to the plateau from a Xian Y-20 in a training exercise for the first time.
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According to Shanghai-based news website The Paper, heavy equipment in the airdrop training involved 107mm multi-barrel rocket launchers with a maximum range of about 8km (5 miles), regarded as an important support weapon for airborne troops and other rapid reaction forces. However, this is of limited use as mountain warfare requires a large amount of ammunition, and the rugged terrain provides a lot of mountain cover, as was demonstrated in the Kargil war.
On September 3, Reuters reported that a Tibetan member of Indian’s Special Frontier Force (SFF) was reportedly killed and another commando critically wounded in a mine blast near the shores of the Pangong Lake in the western Himalayas, indicating that Indian special forces might have been deployed in the contested area.
India’s SFF recruits are mostly Tibetan refugees who fled to India with the Dalai Lama after the failed uprising in 1959. India has not released much detail about the secret force set up after the India-China war in 1962. Some have estimated its strength at more than 3,500 who are experts in high-altitude warfare. However, India has not used these troops effectively as they should have been used behind enemy lines in various sabotage operations.
While India’s special forces focus on mountain warfare capability, their Chinese counterparts are trained to be all-rounded fighters, launching assaults “from the air, land, and water,” said Hong Kong-based military expert Song Zhongping. The multidimensional Chinese counterpart will find it difficult being a jack of all trade and a master of none.
Song said that China had pulled elite forces from various units to train for high-altitude airdrops was a clear sign that it was preparing for potential military conflict.
“While airdropping has been part of regular training of the Chinese special forces, the troops still need to get used to the high altitude, as the thinner air and stronger radiation will pose new challenges for soldiers’ physical condition, especially those trained in low-altitude areas,” Song said.
“The high-altitude equipment also needs to be tested and calibrated. The troops also need to become familiar with this equipment and fight alongside other units.”
Another Chinese military analyst said high-altitude airdrops could differ from regular special forces training, especially those from the Central Theatre Command. Its paratrooper brigade is based in Wuhan, Hubei province, and deployed to the border region since June.
“Thinner air means you drop faster. Wind conditions on the Tibetan Plateau are very different from central China. Not only the airborne troops but also the pilot of the airlifter, the armored units, and so on all need to adjust to the new environment to fight effectively,” said the Chinese propaganda expert who requested anonymity.
Modified from Source: South China Morning Post
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doonitedin · 6 years ago
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कारगिल युद्ध की 20वीं वर्षगांठ पूरे देश भर में आज कारगिल विजय दिवस की 20वीं वर्षगांठ मनाई जा रही है। आज ही के दिन भारतीय सेनाओं ने अपने अदम्य साहस का परिचय देते हुए कारगिल की दुर्गम पहाड़ियों पर पाकिस्तानी सेनाओं को धूल चटाई थी। भारतीय सेनाओं ने अपने जान की बाजी खेल कर भारत माता का मस्तक दुश्मनों के सामने झुकने नहीं दिया और युद्ध में वियज हासिल की।
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salmankhanholics · 7 years ago
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★ Salman Khan’s Bharat To Go On Floors On 17th July – Exclusive Details About 1st Shooting Schedule!
Ali Abbas Zafar’s Bharat starring Salman Khan and Priyanka Chopra in lead is set to go on floors in Mumbai on 17th July 2018. For the first schedule, multiple sets have been constructed and the shoot will go on for 11 days. The makers will start shooting with a peppy Holi song featuring Salman Khan and Priyanka Chopra. The song shoot will go on for 3 days, and according to sources, Vishal-Shekhar have composed an upbeat dance number that will instantly strike the chord with the audience.
After the four-day dance schedule, Ali Abbas Zafar will shoot for a fire trapeze sequence featuring Disha Patani at another set constructed in Mumbai. The sequence is said to be Patani’s entry scene in the film and will be shot for around 4 days.
Salman Khan will join the shoot again for a couple of pivotal sequences that will be shot at another set constructed at an urban studio. This time around, Khan will shoot with Sunil Grover, who essays the character of his close friend. In totality, the first schedule of the film will be concluded within 11 days and for the same, Salman Khan will undergo a lot of prosthetic. The first schedule of the film will see Khan in a young avatar i.e. in his early 20’s, and sources reveal that the audience will be surprised by the several looks sported by him in the film.
The makers are scouting for several other locations for the film, as they are looking to recreate the India-Pakistan partition sequence, Sino-Indian War and Kargil War. According to media reports, a major chunk of the film will be shot in UAE and UK. Zafar plans to shoot at real-life locations in UK, however massive sets will be constructed in UAE to re-create the post-Independence era. Looking at it in totality, almost all important characters from Bharat will be a part of the first schedule that will kick-off in Mumbai soon. While Salman Khan essays the titular role, Priyanka Chopra will be seen as Khan’s wife in the film.
Produced by Atul Agnihotri, Bharat is slated to release on Eid next year. The film is one of the most anticipated releases of 2019.
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