General Qacts - 31/08/2018

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  • The highest classification  of a natural calamity by the Home Ministry's National Disaster Management Authority is 'Natural Calamity of the Severest Order'. This status will helo the state to get funds from the MPLADS all over the country.
  • SAAW - Smart Anti Airfeild Weapon (Guided bombs) & Helina - Anti tank guided missile, were recently developed and tested by DRDO.
  • Indian rupee was delinked from British sterling in 1975.
  • World Toilet Organisation is head quartered at Singapore.
  • November 19th is World Toilet Day.
  • World Toilet College was inagurated at Aurangabad.
  • Feild medal in mathematics is awarded once in four years to two person below the age of forty.
  • Suez canal was opened in 1869.
  • Budget and income tax were introduced in india in 1860.
  • Avarage land holding size in India in 1771 was 40 acers, it came down to 7 acers by 1901.
  • An open jail is a jail in which the prisoners are trusted to serve their sentences with minimal supervision and security and are often not locked up in their prison cells. Prisoners may be permitted to take up employment while serving their sentence. 
  • In India, Rajasthan became the first state to adopt the open jail concept.Image result for suez canal