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- Which is India’s first successfully launched space vehicle? Answer: Satellite Launch Vehicle-3 (SLV-3) was India’s first experimental satellite launch vehicle, which was an all solid, four stage vehicle weighing 17 tonnes with a height of 22 m and capable of placing 40 kg class payloads in Low Earth Orbit (LEO).
- Who is the project director for Satellite Launch Vehicle-3 (SLV-3)? Answer: A.P.J. Abdul Kalam was project director of the SLV-III, India’s first indigenously designed and produced satellite launch vehicle.
- Who is the youngest Nobel laureate till date? Answer: In 2014, Malala Yousafzai became the youngest Nobel laureate to win the Nobel Peace Prize, at the age of 17, for her resistance against the suppression of children and young people and also for the right to education for all. She fought for female education. She is the second Pakistani to receive a Nobel Prize.
- Who is the First Indian to Join Indian Civil Services? Answer: Satyendranath Tagore (1863). He was the elder brother of Guru Dev Rabindranath Tagore.
- Which is the largest alluvial plain of the world? Answer: The Great Plain of North India also known as Indo – Gangetic- Brahmaputra Plain is the largest alluvial plain of the world. It’s area 7.8 lakh sq.km.
- What was the first nuclear power plant in India and when its operation started? Answer: Tarapur Atomic Power Station (T.A.P.S.) Operation start-1969. Its total Power- 320 MW. It is the first boiling water reactors (BWRs) in Asia.
- Who was the first Governor General of India? Answer: Warren Hastings. He occupied this position from 1773 to 1784.
- Who was the first woman Central Minister in India? Answer: Rajkumari Amrit Kaur. She was part of Nehru’s first Cabinet as a Health Minister until 1957.
- Who made the world first telescope? Anwser: The first telescope was made by Hans Lippershey in 1608. Lipperhey was a German-Dutch glass maker, and he managed to reduce the amount of light in his telescope while focusing it. Galileo Galilei (1564 – 1642) was the first to point a telescope skyward. He was able to make out mountains and craters on the moon, as well as a ribbon of diffuse light arching across the sky — the Milky Way. He also discovered the rings of Saturn, sunspots and four of Jupiter’s moons.
- Do you know? Kibithu is the easternmost point of India. It is a tiny village located at an altitude of 11,000 feet in Arunachal Pradesh’s Lohit District.Click Here To Read Series – 1Stay tuned by subscribing any one of the following to get new posts immediately.
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