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IMPORTANT FACTS
1. The Speaker is the presiding officer of the lower house (Lok Sabha) of Parliament of India. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. The Speaker holds office from the date of election till immediately before the first On the dissolution of the Lok Sabha, although the Speaker ceases to be a member of the The Speaker may, at any time, resign from office by writing under his/her hand to the He/she decides whether a bill is a money bill or a non- money bill. He/she maintains discipline and decorum in the house and can punish a member for He/she permits the moving of various kinds of motions and resolutions like the motion meeting of the next Lok Sabha. He/She is eligible for re-election. House, he/she does not vacate her office. Deputy Speaker.

their unruly behaviour by suspending them. of no confidence, motion of adjournment, motion of censure and calling attention notice as per the rules. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. The Speaker decides on the agenda to be taken up for discussion during the meeting. The first speaker of the Lok Sabha was Shri G.V. Mavalankar. Meira Kumar is the first women speaker of the Indian Parliament. The UK is a country in north-western Europe. It is bordered to the south by the English The United Kingdom is made up of England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. England, Scotland and Wales together forms Great Britain. Great Britain and Northern Ireland together form the "United Kingdom of Great The UK is a developed country and has the world's seventh-largest economy by It was the world's first industrialised country. The UK is a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council since its first

Channel; to the east by the North Sea; to the west by the Irish Sea and the Atlantic Ocean.

Britain and Northern Ireland" (UK). nominal GDP and eighth-largest economy by purchasing power parity.

session in 1946. It has been a member of the European Union and its predecessor the European Economic Community since 1973. 18. 19. 20. The Royal Greenwich Observatory in London is the defining point of the Prime The UK's de facto official language is English (British English). According to the 2011 England's national sport is cricket although some of England's football teams are world Meridian. census, Polish has become the second largest language spoken in England. famous, such as Manchester United, Arsenal and Liverpool.

2 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. India. 29. 30. 31. 32. Shipki La is a mountain pass and border post on the India-China border. The river Zoji La is a high mountain pass in India, located on the Indian National Highway 1 A credit card is a payment card issued to users to pay for goods and services based on The credit card issuer gives a certain amount of time to pay back all of what holder has Sutlej enters India (from Tibet) through this pass. between Srinagar and Leh in the western section of the Himalayan mountain range. the holder's promise to pay for them to banks within stipulated time. borrowed before they charge interest. This period of time is called the grace period and is usually between 20 and 25 days. 33. 34. 35. Zero interest credit cards or interest free credit cards help customers to avoid paying In 1950, Diners Club became the first company to offer a credit card that could be used A Debit card is essentially like an ATM card. When a person makes any purchases interest on credit, if they repay the debt within a specified period of time. at multiple locations. using a debit card, then bank account is instantaneously debited to the extent of the purchase amount. 36. 37. Benefits to customers include: convenience; rewards and benefits packages; also offer Credit Card associations are an association of card-issuing banks such as Discover, reward points which may be redeemed for cash, products, or airline tickets. Visa, MasterCard, American Express, etc. that set transaction terms for merchants, cardissuing banks, and acquiring banks. A mountain pass is a saddle point between two areas of higher elevations and makes a The Khardung la's pass is located at the Ladakh range of the Himalayan ranges. It is a The Karakoram pass is located in the Karakoram Ranges between Jammu and Kashmir Bara-lacha la is present in Zanskar range connecting Lahaul district in Himachal Jelep La is a high mountain pass between India and Tibet in East Sikkim District of Nama Pass is located in eastern Kumaun region of the Pithoragarh District of Nathu La connects the Indian state of Sikkim with China's Tibet Autonomous Region. Rohtang Pass is a high mountain pass on the eastern Pir Panjal Range of the

path for crossing between the chains of mountains. gateway to the valleys of Shyok and Nubra. border and the Xingjiang region of China. Pradesh to Ladakh in Jammu and Kashmir, situated along the Leh-Manali highway. Sikkim. It connects Lhasa to India. Uttarakhand, India. It links Kuthi and Darma Valley.

Himalayas, connects the Kullu Valley with the Lahaul and Spiti Valleys of Himachal Pradesh,

3 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. 44. 45. 46. Visa International has the largest global ATM network in over 113 countries. According to 2009-10, credit card users in India are 18.3 million whereas debit card On August 6, 1945, during World War II (1939-45), an American B-29 bomber It was done on the executive order of U.S. President Harry S. Truman. The atomic bomb was equivalent of 20,000 tons of TNT, it has flattened the city and Three days later, a second B-29 dropped another A-bomb on Nagasaki, killing an Later Japan's Emperor Hirohito announced his country's unconditional surrender in Since then, more have died from leukemia and solid cancers attributed to exposure to The effects of the bombing of Hiroshima are still felt today. For generations after the

users are 181.4 million. dropped the world's first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima.

killed tens of thousands of civilians. estimated 40,000 people. World War II on August 15, citing the devastating power of "a new and most cruel bomb." radiation released by the bombs. bombing, children were born with severe health defects that are believed to be connected to the effects of the bomb's radiation. 47. 48. 49. 50. Hiroshima was chosen because it had not been targeted during the US Air Force's After the war, Hiroshima was rebuilt as a peace memorial city and the closest surviving Hiroshima has been declared a City of Peace by the Japanese Parliament. Rare earth elements or rare earth metals are a group of seventeen elements in the conventional bombing raids on Japan and it was also an important military base. building to the epicentre was designated the Hiroshima Peace Memorial.

Periodic Table from Atomic no. 57 to 71.