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Static GK Digest
Dear Readers,
This Static GK Digest is a complete docket of important news and events. The Static GK Digest
is important and relevant for all competitive exams like Banking, Insurance, SSC and UPSC Exams.
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Himachal
Pradesh Pin Valley National Park -
Great Himalayan National Park UNESCO World Heritage Site
Inderkilla National Park -
Khirganga National Park -
Simbalbara National Park -
Jammu &
Kashmir Dachigam National Park Kashmir stag
Hemis National Park -
Kishtwar National Park -
Salim Ali National Park -
Jharkhand Betla National Park Forest owlets, Sloth bear, Bison
Karnataka Dandeli National Park -
Nagarhole National Park (Rajiv
Gandhi National Park) -
Bandipur National Park -
Bannerghatta National Park Sloth Bear
Kudremukh National Park -
Anshi national park -
Kerala Pambadum Shola National Park -
Eravikulam National Park Nilgiri Tahr (found in western ghats)
Mathikettan Shola National Park -
Silent Valley National Park Lion-tailed macaque (found in western ghats)
Anamudi Shola National Park -
Periyar National Park -
Madhya Pradesh Bandhavgarh National Park -
Pench National Park -
Kanha National Park -
Panna National Park
Madhav National Park -
Mandla Plant Fossils National
Park -
Pench National Park -
Sanjay National Park -
Satpura National Park -
Van Vihar national park -
Kuno Wildlife Sanctuary
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Telangana Nagarjuna Sagar Dam Krishna (Some Part of Dam also in Telangana)
Koteshwar Bhagirathi
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3. Saraswati Samman (Literature): The award Mahabharata. This very award is not related
was instituted in 1991 by the K. K. Birla with the sportspersons who are still playing in
Foundation. It is an annual award given for the field; instead this is related to those
outstanding prose or poetry literary works in eminent coaches of any particular sport.
any 22 Indian languages. 12. Dhyan Chand Award (sports): The award
4. Jnanpith award (Literature): The award was that is given to the veteran sportspersons of
instituted in 1961 and it is It is presented by India for their lifetime achievement in their
the Bharatiya Jnanpith, a trust founded by the respective field of sport is named as the Dhyan
Sahu Jain family, the publishers of the Chand Award for Life Time Achievement in
newspaper The Times of India. It is an annual Sports and Games.
award given for outstanding prose or poetry 13. Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award: It is the
literary works in any 22 Indian languages. highest honour bestowed to a sportsperson
5. Vyas Samman (Literature): The award for his/her achievements in India.
annually by the K.K. Birla Foundation in 14. Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize (for
recognition of the Hindi literary work published Science & Technology): It is a science award
in past 10 years. in India given annually by the Council of
6. Bihari Puraskar (Literature): It is Bihari Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) for
Puraskar is a literary award instituted by K. K. notable and outstanding research, applied or
Birla Foundation. The award is named after the fundamental, in biology, chemistry,
famous Hindi poet Bihari and is awarded to an environmental science, engineering,
outstanding work published in Hindi or mathematics, medicine and Physics.
Rajasthani by a Rajasthani writer. 15. Kalinga Prize (Science): It is an award given
7. Moorti Devi Award (Literature): It is an by UNESCO for exceptional skill in presenting
annual literary award in India presented by the scientific ideas to lay people.
Bharatiya Jnanpith organization for a work 16. Pulitzer Prize (Journalism): It is an award
which emphasizes Indian philosophy and for achievements in newspaper and online
culture. journalism, literature, and musical composition
8. Booker Prize (Literature): It is an annual in the United States.
award for the best original novel, written in the 17. Abel Prize (Mathematics): It is an
English language, and published in the UK international prize awarded annually by the
literary award Government of Norway to one or more
9. DadasahebPhalkeAward (Cinema/Films): outstanding mathematicians.
It is India's highest award in cinema. It is 18. Grammy Award (Music): It is an accolade by
presented annually at the National Film Awards the National Academy of Recording Arts and
ceremony by the Directorate of Film Festivals, Sciences of the United States to recognize
an organisation set up by the Ministry of outstanding achievement in the music industry.
Information and Broadcasting. 19. Stirling Prize (Architecture): The Royal
10. Arjuna Award (sports): Outstanding Institute of British Architects Stirling Prize is a
performance from the sportspersons in sports British prize for excellence in architecture.
and games. 20. Aga Khan Award (Architecture): It is an
The Government has modified the format of architectural prize established by Aga Khan IV
Arjuna Award very recently and as per the in 1977. It aims to identify and reward
revised schematic guidelines a sportsperson architectural concepts that successfully
must have very good consistent performances address the needs and aspirations of Islamic
for the previous 3 years at the international societies in the fields of contemporary design,
level to be considered as eligible for the Award. social housing, community development and
11. Dronacharya Award (eminent coaches of improvement.
any particular sport): The award is named 21. Pritzker Prize (Architecture): It is awarded
after the very famous archery coach, annually "to honour a living architect.
mentioned in the epic of India known as the
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Table Tennis Travancore Cup (women), Swathling Cup (men), Bama Belleck Cup
Lawn Tennis Davis Cup, Australian Open, French Open, Wimbledon, US Open, Heineken Cup
Golf Augusta Masters, British Open, US Maters
Horse Racing Derby
Rowing Wellington trophy
Cabinet Ministers
Portfolio Minister Name Constituency
Prime Minister, Ministry of Personnel, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh
Public Grievances and Pensions Narendra Modi
Ministry of Home Affairs Raj Nath Singh Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh
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January
4th January World Braille Day
9th January Pravasi Bhartiya Divas (NRI Day)
10th January World Hindi Day
World Laughter Day
12th January National Youth Day (Birth Day of Swami Vivekanand)
15th January Army Day
24th January National Girl Child Day
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International Olympic Day, United Nations Public Service Day, International Widows
23 Jun Day
International Day against Drug abuse and Illicit Trafficking, International Day in
26 Jun support of Victims of torture
July
01 Jul International Joke Day, World Doctor’s Day
26 Jul Kargil Vijay Diwas or Kargil Memorial Day or Kargil Victory Day
August
06 Aug Hiroshima Day, Anti Nuclear Day
09 Aug Nagasaki Day, International Day of the World’s Indigenous People, Quit India Day
12 Aug International Youth Day
14 Aug Pakistan’s Independence Day
15 Aug India’s Independence Day, International Mourning Day
19 Aug World Humanitarian Day, World Photography Day
National Sadbhavna Divas or Birthday of Rajiv gandhi, World Mosquito Day, Indain
20 Aug Akshay Urja Diwas
23 Aug International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and Its Abolition
29 Aug National Sports Day or Dhyanchand's Birthday
September
05 Sep National Teacher’s Day or Dr. Radhakrishanan's Birth Day, Sanskrit Day
08 Sep World Literacy Day
14 Sep Hindi Diwas or Hindi Day, World First Aid Day
15 Sep International Day of Democracy, International Engineer’s Day
16 Sep World Ozone Day
World Peace Day or International day for Peace an Nonviolence (UN), World
21 Sep Alzheimer’s Day
27 Sep World Tourism Day
28 Sep World Rabies Day
October
1st Monday of World Habitat Day
October
01 Oct World Vegetarian Day, International Day of the older/Elderly
02 Oct Gandhi Jayanti, International Day of Nonviolence
03 Oct World Nature Day
04 Oct World Animal Day
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November
06 Nov International Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in War and
Armed Conflict
10 Nov World Science day for Peace and Development, Public Transport Day
11 Nov National Education Day
12 Nov World Pneumonia Day, Public Service Broadcasting Day
14 Nov Children’s Day(India), World Diabetes Day
17 Nov International Students Day, Gurunanak Dev's Birth Anniversary, National eplilepsy
day
19 Nov World Toilet Day, International Men’s Day, National Integration Day
20 Nov Universal Children’s Day
26 Nov National Law Day or National constitution Day
30 Nov National Flag Day
December
01 Dec World AIDS Day
02 Dec World Computer Literacy Day, International Day for the Abolition of Slavery
03 Dec International Day of People with Disability or World Disability Day
04 Dec Indian Navy Day
07 Dec International Civil Aviation Day, Indian Armed Force Flag Day
09 Dec The International Anticorruption Day
10 Dec World Human Rights Day, International Children's Day of Broadcasting
11 Dec International Mountain Day, UNICEF Day
14 Dec National Energy Conservation Day (India)
16 Dec Vijay Diwas
18 Dec International Migrants Day, National Minority Rights Day
23 Dec National Farmer’s Day or Kisan Diwas
25 Dec Good governance day
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Mulatu Hailemariam
38. Ethiopia Addis Ababa Birr
Teshome Desalegn
39. Fiji Suva Fiji dollar - -
Euro (formerly - -
40. Finland Helsinki
markka)
Euro (formerly Emmanuel -
41. France Paris
French franc) Macron
42. The Gambia Banjul Dalasi - -
43. Georgia Tbilisi Lari - -
44. Germany Berlin Euro - -
45. Greece Athens Euro - -
46. Guinea Conakry Guinean franc - -
47. Guyana Georgetown Guyanese dollar - -
48. Haiti Port-au-Prince Gourde - -
49. Hungary Budapest Forint - -
Ram Nath Narendra Modi
50. India New Delhi Rupee
Kovind
51. Indonesia Jakarta Rupiah - -
52. Iran Tehran Rial Hassan Rouhani -
53. Iraq Baghdad Iraqi Dinar - -
54. Ireland Dublin Euro - -
Reuven Rivlin Binyamin "Bibi"
55. Israel Jerusalem Shekel
Netanyahu
56. Italy Rome Euro - Paolo Gentiloni
57. Jamaica Kingston Jamaican dollar - -
58. Japan Tokyo Yen - Shinzo Abe
59. Jordan Amman Jordanian dinar - -
60. Kazakhstan Astana Tenge - -
61. Kenya Nairobi Kenya shilling - -
King-Kim Jong- -
62. Korea, North Pyongyang Won
un
63. Korea, South Seoul Won - -
64. Kuwait Kuwait City Kuwaiti dinar - -
65. Kyrgyzstan Bishkek Som - -
66. Laos Vientiane New Kip - -
67. Latvia Riga Lats - -
68. Lebanon Beirut Lebanese pound - -
69. Liberia Monrovia Liberian dollar - -
70. Libya Tripoli Libyan dinar - -
71. Liechtenstein Vaduz Swiss franc - -
72. Lithuania Vilnius Litas - -
73. Luxembourg Luxembourg Euro - -
74. Macedonia Skopje Denar - -
75. Madagascar Antananarivo Malagasy franc - -
76. Malaysia Kuala Lumpur Ringgit - -
77. Maldives Male Rufiya - -
78. Mali Bamako CFA Franc - -
79. Mauritania Nouakchott Ouguiya - -
80. Mauritius Port Louis Mauritian rupee - -
81. Mexico Mexico City Mexican peso - -
82. Mongolia Ulaanbaatar Tugrik - -
83. Montenegro Podgorica Euro - -
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Dar es Salaam; - -
Tanzanian
117. Tanzania Dodoma
shilling
(legislative)
118. Thailand Bangkok baht - -
119. Tunisia Tunis Tunisian dinar - -
Turkish lira - -
120. Turkey Ankara
(YTL)
121. Turkmenistan Ashgabat Manat - -
Vaiaku village, - -
122. Tuvalu Funafuti Australian dollar
province
Ugandan new - -
123. Uganda Kampala
shilling
124. Ukraine Kyiv Hryvna - -
Khalifa bin Mohammed bin
125. United Arab
Abu Dhabi U.A.E. dirham Zayed Al Rashid Al
Emirates
Nahyan Maktoum
Queen- Theresa May
126. United Kingdom London Pound sterling
Elizabeth II
127. United States of Donald Trump -
Washington D.C. dollar
America
128. Uruguay Montevideo Uruguay peso - -
129. Uzbekistan Tashkent Uzbekistani sum - -
130. Vatican City Vatican City Euro - -
131. Venezuela Caracas Bolivar - -
132. Vietnam Hanoi Dong - -
133. Yemen Sanaa Rial - -
Emmerson -
134. Zimbabwe Harare -
Mnangagwa
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Current Chief
States Capital Minister Current governor
Hyderabad (Proposed Capital N. Chandrababu
Andhra Pradesh Amaravati) Naidu E. S. L. Narasimhan
Arunachal
Pradesh Itanaga Pema Khandu B. D. Mishra
Assam Dispur Sarbananda Sonowal Jagdish Mukhi
Bihar Patna Nitish Kumar Satya Pal Malik
Chhattisgarh Raipur Raman Singh Balram Das Tandon
Goa Panaji Manohar Parrikar Mridula Sinha
Gujarat Gandhinagar Vijay Rupani Om Prakash Kohli
Haryana Chandigarh Manohar Lal Khattar Kaptan Singh Solanki
Himachal Pradesh Shimla, Dharamsala (2nd capital) Virbhadra Singh Acharya Dev Vrat
Jammu and Srinagar (summer), Jammu
Kashmir (winter) Mehbooba Mufti Narinder Nath Vohra
Jharkhand Ranchi Raghubar Das Draupadi Murmu
Karnataka Bengaluru Siddaramaiah Vajubhai Vala
Kerala Thiruvananthapuram Pinarayi Vijayan P. Sathasivam
Shivraj Singh Om Prakash Kohli (Additional
Madhya Pradesh Bhopal Chouhan Charge)
Maharashtra Mumbai Devendra Fadnavis C. Vidyasagar Rao
Manipur Imphal N. Biren Singh Najma Heptulla
Meghalaya Shillong Mukul Sangma Ganga Prasad
Mizoram Aizawl Lal Thanhawla Nirbhay Sharma
Nagaland Kohima T. R. Zeliang Padmanabha Acharya
Odisha Bhubaneswar Naveen Patnaik S. C. Jamir
Punjab Chandigarh Amarinder Singh V. P. Singh Badnore
Rajasthan Jaipur Vasundhara Raje Kalyan Singh
Pawan Kumar
Sikkim Gangtok Chamling Shriniwas Patil
Edappadi K.
Tamil Nadu Chennai Palaniswami Banwarilal Purohit
K. Chandrashekar E. S. L. Narasimhan (Additional
Telangana Hyderabad Rao Charge)
Tripura Agartala Manik Sarkar Tathagata Roy
Uttar Pradesh Lucknow Yogi Adityanath Ram Naik
Trivendra Singh
Uttarakhand Dehradun Rawat Krishan Kant Paul
West Bengal Kolkata Mamata Banerjee Keshari Nath Tripathi
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City River
Agra, Uttar Pradesh Yamuna
Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh Confluence of Ganga, Yamuna and Saraswati
Ayodhya, Uttar Pradesh Saryu
Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh Ganges
Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh Ganges
Mathura, Uttar Pradesh Yamuna
Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh Gomti
Ahmedabad, Gujarat Sabarmati
Surat, Gujarat Tapi
Vadodara, Gujarat Vishwamitri, Mahi, Narmada
Bhagalpur, Bihar Ganges
Patna, Bihar Ganges
Gaya, Bihar Falgu (Neeranjana)
Dibrugarh, Assam Brahmaputra
Guwahati, Assam Brahmaputra
Kolkata, West Bengal Hooghly
Pune, Maharashtra Mula, Mutha
Nashik, Maharashtra Godavari
Cuttack, Odisha Mahanadi
Rourkela, Odisha Brahmani
Bangalore, Karnataka Vrishabhavathi
Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh Chambal
Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh Narmada
Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh Shipra
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