Some Random Qacts - 11/09/2018

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  • Indian Roofed Turtles/Pangshura Tecta is found in the basins of Ganga, Indus, Brahmaputra, and Mahanadi
  • Boko Haram is a Jihadist militant movement in Northeastern Nigeria and also active in Chad, Niger, and Cameroon.
  • Rapid Trident Military Exercise is an annual military exercise in Ukraine with other NATO countries.
  • "HOPE" - is the first planned unmanned space probe by an Arab nation UAE to Mars.
  • Inter-Parliamentary Union's(IPU) 139th assembly will be held at  Switzerland from October 11 - 18, 2018.
  • IPU was established at Switzerland in 1889 by Fredrick Passey and Willian Randar Cremer. It has a permanent observer status at UNGA. It is an international organization for parliaments of sovereign states.
  • Idlib is a city in Syria.
  • Chirala, a town in Ongole district of Andhra Pradesh also known as Kshirapuri(due to the visibility of sea like milk) and "Small Bombay" or "Mini Mumbai"  of South India where textiles and hand-loom are famous till date.
  • The Pullari tax was levied by Britishers on the cattle and other animals reared by people.
  • Kanaganti Hanumanthu spearheaded Palnadu rebellion against Pullari tax.
  • Andhra Ratna Duggirala Gopalakrishniah was the leader of Chirala Perala Movement.
  • Chirala and Perala were two different villages, British in 1920 decided to combine both and turn it into a municipality so that they can levy and extract more taxes. People were already fed up with the misrule of the British. Gopalakrishniah on the suggestion of Gandhi convinced the people for a mass exodus of both the villages and took shelter at temporary huts raised at Ramanagara. Army of volunteers created by Gopalakrishniaha known as Ramadhandu. This movement was known as Chirala Perala Movement.
  • Forest Department was established in 1864.