Miscellaneous Facts for opsc OAS Exam

 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

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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

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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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