Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna – Gagan Narang, Arjuna, Dronacharya and Dhyan Chand award winners 2010 – 2011

India‘s ace shooter Gagan Narang has been conferred with Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award by President Pratibha Patil at the Rashtrapati Bhawan on Monday (29-08-2011). Narang collected the trophy that consists of a medal, citation and cash prize of Rs 7.5 lakh from President Pratibha Patil.The Arjuna, Dronacharya and Dhyan Chand awardees got statuettes, citations and cash prize of Rs 5 lakh each.Every year August 29 (Hockey Legend Major Dhyan...

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Dhyan Chand Award Winners 2011

Shabbir Ali (Football) Sushil Kohli (Swimming) Rajkumar (Wrestling)...

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Dronacharya Award Winners 2011

Inukurthi Venkateshwara Rao (Boxing) Devender Kumar Rathore (Gymnastics) Ramphal (Wrestling) Kuntal Roy (Athletics) Rajinder Singh (Hockey)...

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Arjuna Award winners 2011

Zaheer Khan (Cricket) Rahul Banerjee (Archery) Preeja Sreedharan (Athletics) Vikas Gowda (Athletics) Jwala Gutta (Badminton) Suranjoy Singh (Boxing) Sunil Chhetri (Football) Rakesh Kumar (Kabaddi) Rajpal Singh (Hockey) Virdhawal Khade (Swimming) Tejaswini Sawant (Shooting) Ashish Kumar (Gymnastics) Somdev Devvarman (Tennis) Ravinder Singh (Wrestling) Ravi Kumar (Weightlifting) Sandhya Rani (Wushu) Prasanta Karmakar (Swimming) Sanjay Kumar (Volleyball) Rakesh Kumar (Kabaddi) Tejaswini (Kabaddi)...

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Chairmen of UPSC

NameTenure Sir Ross Barker1926-1932 Sir David PetrieAugust 1932-1936 Sir Eyre1937-1942 Sir F.W. Robertson1942-1947 Sh. H.K. Kripalani1 April 1947-13 January 1949 Sh. R.N. Banerjee14 January 1949-9 May 1955 Sh. N. Govindarajan10 May 1955-9 December 1955 Sh. V.S. Hejmadi10 December 1955-9 December 1961 Sh. B.N. Jha11 December 1961-22 February 1967 Sh. K.R. Damle18 April 1967-2 March 1971 Sh. R.C.S. Sarkar11 May 1971-1 February 1973 Dr. A.R. Kidwai5 February 1973-4 February 1979 Dr. M.L. Shahare16 February 1979-16 February 1985...

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UPSC Previous Exam QUESTION PAPERS 2011

QUESTION PAPERS FOR THE YEAR 2011 Exam, 2011   Paper I (Code No.1)General Ability, General Medicine & PaediatricsPaper II (Code No. 2)Surgery, Gynaecology & Obstetrics and Preventive & Social Medicine------------------------------------------------------------Combined Defence Services (I) Exam, 2011   EnglishGeneral KnowledgeElementary Mathematics ------------------------------------------------------------National Defence Academy & Naval Academy Exam (I), 2011   MathematicsGeneral Ability...

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Indian National Movement

• Government of India Act 1858• Indian National Congress (1885)• Partition of Bengal (1905)• Muslim League (1906)• Swadeshi Movement (1905)• Morley-Minto Reforms (1909)• Lucknow Pact (1916)• Home Rule Movement (1915­-1916)• The Gandhian Era (1918-1947)• Khilafat Movement (1920)• The Rowlatt Act (1919)• Jallianwalla Bagh Massacre (1919)• Non-Cooperation Movement (1920)• Chauri Chaura Incident (1922)• Swaraj Party (1922)• Simon Commission (1927)• Dandi March (1930)• Gandhi-Irwin...

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General Knowledge- Quzi

1. Who authored the book ‘The Science of Bharat Natyam’?(a) Saroja Vaidyanathan         (b) Yamini Krishnamurthi ( c) J. Sushila (d) None of theseAnswer a;2.International Day for Disaster Reduction is observed on:(a) 9th August (b) 13th October (c) 24th November (d) 11th DecemberAnswer-b;3. Tianhe 1A, the world’s fastest supercomputer is made by(a) United States (b) Japan  (c) China  (d) None of these Answer :c4. Which is India’s first ever Pollution Control Warship?(a)...

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