Most Probable Valuable Random Facts For OAS Prelim
Name of the Book Author
● My Experiments with Truth Mahatma Gandhi
● Hind Swaraj Mahatma Gandhi
● Key to Health Mahatma Gandhi
● Discovery of India Jawaharlal Nehru
● Glimpses of World History Jawaharlal Nehru
● The Indian Struggle 1920-1942 Subhash Chandra Bose
● My Truth Indira Gandhi
● Golden Threshold Sarojini Naidu
● The Broken Wing, Songs of Life, Death & the Spring Sarojini Naidu
● The Birds of Time, Songs of Life, Death & the Spring Sarojini Naidu
● The Sceptred Flute: Songs of India Sarojini Naidu
● The Feather of the Dawn Sarojini Naidu
● India Divided Dr. Rajendra Prasad
● India Wins Freedom Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
● Ghubar-e-khatir Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
● Unhappy IndiaLala Lajpat Rai
● Poverty and Un-British Rule in India Dadabhai Naoroji
● Geeta Rahashya Bal Gangadhar Tilak
● The Arctic Home in the Vedas Bal Gangadhar Tilak
● The Indian War of Independence of 1857 V.D. Savarkar
● The Insider PV Narasimha Rao
● My Country My Life LK Advani
● Wings of Fire APJ Abdul Kalam
● Ignited Minds APJ Abdul Kalam
● You Are Unique APJ Abdul Kalam
● India 2020 APJ Abdul Kalam
● Indomitable Spirit APJ Abdul Kalam
● Turning Points - A Journey through Challenges APJ Abdul Kalam
● Target 3 Billion APJ Abdul Kalam and Srijan Pal Singh
● My Journey - Transforming Dreams into Actions APJ Abdul Kalam
● Governance for Growth in India APJ Abdul Kalam
● Jobs for Our Millions VV Giri
Competitive Exam
Diseases transmitted by Animals
Animal/Bird/Insect Disease
● Tsetse fly Sleeping Sickness
● Sand fly Kala Azar
● Anopheles mosquito Malaria
● Rodents Bubonic Plague
● Rodents Leptospirosis
● Rodents Hantavirus Syndromes
● Dogs Rabies
● Animals in general Anthrax
● Rabbits Tularemia
● Poultry Avian Influenza or Bird Flu
● Pigs (through Culex mosquitoes) Japanese Encephalitis
● Mosquito Dengue, West Nile Fever, Yellow Fever
● Ticks Crimean-Congo Haemorrhagic Fever, Lyme
● Fruit bats Nipah virus infection
● Note: Diseases which can be transmitted from animals to humans and vice-versa are
called zoonotic diseases.
2. Chandigarh Le Corbusier - Designer
3. Hyderabad Quli Qutub Shah
4. New Delhi Edward Lutyens - Designer
5. Jaipur Sawai Jai Singh - Founder; Vidyadhar Bhattacharya - Designer
6. Bhubhaneswar Dr. Otto Kolenigs Berger - Designer
7. Fatehpur Sikri Akbar
8. Agra Badal Singh
9. Nagpur Bhakt Buland
10. Jaunpur Feroz Shah Tughlaq (named after his father Mohd bin Tughlaq or Jauna
Khan)
11. Ahmedabad Sultan Ahmed Shah
12. Faridabad Shaikh Farid
13. Bhavnagar Bhavsinhji Gohil
14. Jodhpur Rao Jodha
15. Bikaner Rao Bika
16. Jammu Raja Jambu Lochan
17. Durgapur Joseph Allen Stein and Benjamin Polk - Designers
18. Ferozepur Ferozeshah Tughlaq
Temples of India
Temples Location
● Cheena Kesava Temple Belur, Karnataka
● Black Pagoda or Sun Temple Konark (Orissa)
● Brihadiswara Temple (WHS) Thanjuvur, Tamil Nadu
● Gangaikonda Cholapuram Temple (WHS) Gangaikondacholisvaram, TN
● Airavatesvara Temple (WHS) Darasuram, Tamil Nadu
● Hazara Rama Temple (WHS) Hampi, Karnataka
● Virupaksha Temple (WHS) Pattadakal, Karnataka
● Golden Temple Amritsar, Punjab
● Jagannath Temple Puri, Orissa
● Kailasa Temple Ellora, Maharashtra
World Heritage Sites in India
Monument(s) Location
1. Agra Fort Agra, Uttar Pradesh.
2. Ajanta Caves Aurangabad, Maharashtra.
3. Buddhist Monuments at Sanchi Raisen, Madhya Pradesh.
4. Champaner-Pavagadh Archaeological Park Panchmahal, Gujarat.
5. Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus Mumbai, Maharashtra.
6. Churches and Convents of Goa Goa.
7. Elephanta Caves Mumbai, Maharashtra.
8. Ellora Caves Aurangabad, Maharashtra.
9. Fatehpur Sikri Agra, Uttar Pradesh.
10. Great Living Chola Temples Many temples in Tamilnadu.
11. Group of Monuments at Hampi Karnataka.
12. Group of Monuments at Mahabalipuram Tamilnadu.
13. Group of Monuments at Pattadakal Karnataka.
14. Humayun's Tomb New Delhi
15. Khajuraho Group of Monuments Madhya Pradesh
16. Mahabodhi Temple Complex at Bodh Gaya Bihar
17. Mountain Railways of India Darjeeling, Shimla, Ooty.
18. Qutb Minar and its Monuments New Delhi
19. Red Fort ComplexNew Delhi
20. Rock Shelters of Bhimbetka Raisen, MP
21. Sun Temple, Konarak Konarak, Orissa.
22. Taj Mahal Agra, Uttar Pradesh.
23. The Jantar Mantar Jaipur, Rajasthan.
24. Hill Forts of Rajasthan Chittorgarh, Kumbhalgarh, Sawai Madhopur, Jhalawar, Jaipur and
Jaisalmer
Competitive Exam
28. Sarala Puraskar Odia poet, Nityanand Nayak
29. Nobel Prize in Literature 2020 American poet Louise Glück “for her unmistakable
poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal”.
30. Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2020 Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna
“for the development of a method for genome editing”.
31. Nobel Prize in Physics 2020 Roger Penrose for the discovery that black hole formation
is a robust prediction of the general theory of relativity. The other half jointly to Reinhard Genzel
and Andrea Ghez for the discovery of a supermassive compact object at the centre of our
galaxy.
32. The Indo-American Chamber of Commerce (IACC) lifetime achievement Award Ratan
Tata
33. Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2020 Harvey J. Alter(America), Charles M. Rice
(America) and Michael Houghton (Britain) for the discovery of the Hepatitis C virus.
34. Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) Grand Title Winner 2020 for Marketing Kerala
Tourism’s ‘Human by Nature Print Campaign’
35. Right Livelihood Award 2020 The four activists Ales Bialiatski of Belarus, Nasrin
Sotoudeh of Iran, Bryan Stevenson of the United States(US) and Lottie Cunningham Wren of
Nicaragua.
36. ‘National Energy Leader’ and ‘Excellent Energy Efficient Unit’ Awards at National Award
for ‘Excellence in Energy Management’ Hyderabad International Airport or GMR led Rajiv
Gandhi International Airport
37. ‘Excellent Energy Efficient Unit’ award by Confederation of Indian industry and Godrej
Green Business Centre Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Ltd (Vizag Steel Plant)
38. Lifetime Achievement Awards by Euromoney Awards for Excellence 2020 Aditya Puri
39. Asia Game Changer Award 2020 Chef Vikas Khanna
40. 2020 Dayton Literacy Peace Prize’s Lifetime Achievement Margaret Atwood
41. Ig Noble Prize 2020 for Medical Education Prime Minister Narendra Modi
42. All India Football Federations Men’s Footballer of the Year 2019-20 Gurpreet
Singh Sandhu (Goalkeeper)
43. All India Football Federations Women’s Footballer of the Year 2019-20 Sanju Yadav
(Midfielder)
44. Gan Samragni Lata Mangeshkar Award 2020-21 Usha Mangeshkar
45. SDG Special Humanitarian Action Award Sonu Sood
46. Asian College of Journalism’s (ACJ) Award 2019 Nitin Sethi and Shiv Sahay Singh
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