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Flashcards by Kalpna Gupta, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Kalpna Gupta
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| Question | Answer |
| Hornbill Festival | 'Festival of festivals' First week of December, since 2000 Naga Heritage Village - Kisama, 12 km from Kohima,Nagaland Organized by Nagaland's State Tourism and Art & Culture Department To encourage inter-tribal interaction and promote cultural heritage of Nagaland |
| Railway track gauges in India | Broad (Indian) Gauge - 5 ft 6 in (1676 mm) Meter Gauge - 1000 mm (3 ft 3,3/8 in) Narrow Gauge - 2 ft 6 in, 2 ft Standard Gauge - 1435 mm |
| Broad Gauge | greater stability during periods of high wind and unpredictable weather |
| Metre Gauge | Nilgiri Mountain Railway (TN) Lumding-SIlchar line (Assam) |
| Narrow gauge (Low cost - some private railways or simpler engineering permitting sharper turns in hilly areas) | Darjeeling Himalayan Rly (WB) Kalka-Shimla Rly Kangra Valley Rly (Pathankot, HP) Matheran Hill Rly (MH) |
| Standard Gauge (most metro railways) | Calcutta Tramways Company Metro rails (no SG track operated by Indian Railways) |
| Delhi Metro... | - Broad gauge + metre gauge - Headway between 1-2 mins to 4-10 mins - 25KV 50 Hz AC overhead catenary - 5 colour coded + 1 Airport express lines - Daily ridership ~2.6 mn - Member Nova group of Metros - World's 12th largest metro system |
| ...Delhi Metro | - DMRC, set up in 1995 - equal equity participation by GoI and GoDelhi - Began operation in 2002 - 160 stations, Mangu Singh MD, Barahkhamba Road HQ - Certified by UN as first rail-based system to get 'carbon credits for reducing green house gas emissions' |
| Mountain Railways of India | UNESCO World Heritage Site (1999, 2005, 2008) 1. Darjeeling Himalayan Railway (Toy Train) 2. Kalka-Shimla Railway 3. Nilgiri Mountain Railway -oldest, steepest, only rack and pinion track |
| Darjeeling Himalayan Railway (Toy Train) | # Darjeeling-Ghum-Siliguri (narrow)+ New Jalpaiguri (broad) [Siliguri & Jalpaiguri] # Ghum - highest station in India # second railway to receive world heritage status - after Semmering Rly of Austria |
| Matheran | Western Ghats Asia's only automobile free hill station |
| IRFCA | Indian Railways Fan Club Association |
| Dibrugarh | Tea City of India Assam Communication, industrial hub of upper Assam One of the 2 cities in Assam to receive urban development aid from Asian Development Bank Bogibeel bridge - India's longest rail-cum-road bridge Administrative centre of British 1826 (Lakhimpur district HQ) Tea, Oil, gas , timber Navratna - Oil India Limited Dibru-Saikhowa National Park Tinsukhiya district separated |
| Guantanamo's Child | Book by Michelle Shepherd "The Untold Story of Omar Khadr" A prominent case in Canada about disputed war crime charges and incarceration |
| Al Jazeera (JSC) (The Penninsula) | Doha based state funded broadcaster (partly funded by Qatar's ruling family, the House of Thani) Only channel to cover the Afghanistan war live in 2001 |
| Global Peace Index | Institute of Economics and Peace |
| RAND Corporation | Public Policy Ph. D programme |
| Ford Foundation | a |
| General Douglas A. MacArthur | - SCAP Supreme Commander of Allied Powers from Sep 1945 - issued General Order No. 1 to Japan after WWII - enacted several economic, military, political and social reforms there |
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