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🎼🎬 Question of the Day 🎬🎼

Which of these has won the Album of the Year award at the Grammy Awards 2021?
ग्रैमी अवार्ड्स 2021 में इनमें से किसने एल्बम ऑफ़ द ईयर पुरस्कार जीता है?

📒 Black Pumas
📕 Everyday Life
📗 Chilombo
📘 Folklore

Option D
Explanation:Album of the Year : “Folklore”, by Taylor Swift

■ YAMUNA RIVER

◇ Longest and Western-most tributary of Ganges.

◇ Source - Yamunotri Glacier in westernslopes of Banderpunch.

◇ It makes boundary between Delhi and Haryana.

◇ It passes through Delhi, Mathura, Agra and flows southward till joins Ganges in Prayagraj.

◇ It creates highly fertile Alluvial, Yamuna-Ganges Doab region.

◇ Important Tributaries of Yamuna - Chambal, Betwa, ken and Tons.

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■ CHAMBAL RIVER

◇ Rises in highlands of Janpao hills in Vindhyan range south of Mhow.

◇ Flows in - MP, Rajasthan(Kota) and UP.

◇ It discharge into Yamuna near Bhareh in UP.

◇ Tributaries :-

• Left bank - Banas and Bej.

• Right bank - Kali, Sind, Parbati, Kunwari.

◇ Dams :-

• Gandhi-Sagar Dam.
• Rana pratap sagar Dam.
• Jawahar Sagar Dam.
• Kota barrage.

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■ BANAS RIVER

◇ Originates at Aravallis in the Khamnor hills near Kumbalgarh.

◇ Joins Chambal on Rajasthan-MP border near Sawai-Madhopur.

◇ Tributaries :-

• Right bank - Berach, Manali

• Left bank - Kothari, Dheel, Sohadara, Morel

◇ Major Dam - Bisalpur

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🔥 3 IMP TRICKS TO LEARN BORDER'S STATE

♦️Indian State Boundaries Touch with China

🪐Trick: जम्मू का सिपाही अरुण
हिमालय पर उतरा

⚡️जम्मू- जम्मू कश्मीर
⚡️सिपाही- सिक्किम
⚡️अरुण- अरुणाचल प्रदेश
⚡️हिमालय- हिमांचल प्रदेश
⚡️उतरा- उत्तराखंड
⭐️ Total 5 states

♦️Indian State Boundaries Touch with Bhutan
🪐Trick: SAAB
⚡️S- Sikkim
⚡️A- Assam
⚡️A- Arunachal Pradesh
⚡️B- Bengal (West bengal)
⭐️ Total 4 states

♦️भारत की सीमा से लगने वाले देश

🪐 Trick : ‘BACHPAN MBA’

⚡️BA : Bangladesh ( 4,096.7 km)
⚡️CH : China ( 3,488 km)
⚡️PA : Pakistan (3,323 km)
⚡️N : Nepal ( 1,751 km)
⚡️M : Myanmar ( 1,643 km)
⚡️B : Bhutan (699 km)
⚡️A : Afghanistan (106 km)
⭐️Total 7 Countries

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❇️ 18 March

⚔ Ordinance Factories' Day
आयुध कारखानों का दिवस

Theme 2021 : "Vinashaya Dushkritam | [विनाशाय दुष्कृताम्]"

🛡The day is celebrated by displaying the rifles, guns, artillery, ammunition etc in exhibitions all over India. The celebrations start with a parade and the exhibition will also display the photographs of various mountaineering expeditions.

🛡The production of India’s oldest Ordnance Factory, which is at Cossipore of Kolkata, was started in 18th of March, 1802.

🛡OFB is the 37th largest defence equipment manufacturer in the world, 2nd largest in Asia, and the largest in India.

🛡OFB is referred to as the “Fourth Arm of Defence” and the “Force Behind the Armed Forces” of India.

🛡OFB is functioning under the Department of Defence Production of Ministry of Defence.

🛡Director-General & & Chairman of Ordnance Factories:
C S Vishwakarma
Headquarters of Ordnance Factory Board: Kolkata, West Bengal.

✍Credit : Arvιnd Kυмar ✪

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📱 Question of the Day 📱

Name the new grievance redressal feature launched by NPCI on BHIM UPI app for the users.
उपयोगकर्ताओं के लिए BHIM UPI ऐप पर NPCI द्वारा शुरू की गई नई शिकायत निवारण सुविधा का नाम बताएं?

📒 UPI-Help
📕 UPI-Aid
📗 UPI-Boost
📘 UPI-Assist

Option A
Explanation:The National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI), the umbrella entity for digital payments in India, has launched a new application named “UPI-Help” on BHIM UPI, which will act as a grievance redressal mechanism for the users of the BHIM application.

🏔 List of Hill Stations in India 🏔
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🔹 Almora➖Uttarakhand
🔹 Cherrapunjee➖Meghalaya
🔹 Coonoor➖Tamil Nadu
🔹 Dalhousie➖Himachal Pradesh
🔹 Darjeeling➖West Bengal
🔹 Gangtok➖Sikkim
🔹 Gulberga➖Jammu and Kashmir
🔹 Kalimpong➖West Bengal
🔹 Kasauli➖Himachal Pradesh
🔹 Kemangundi➖Karnataka
🔹 Khandala➖Maharashtra
🔹 Kodiakanal➖Tamil Nadu
🔹 Kullu valley➖Himachal Pradesh
🔹 Lansdowne➖Uttarakhand
🔹 Mahabaleshwar➖Maharashtra
🔹 Manali➖Himachal Pradesh
🔹 Mount Abu➖Rajasthan
🔹 Mussoorie➖Uttarakhand
🔹 Nainital➖Uttarakhand
🔹 Pahalgam➖Jammu and Kashmir
🔹 Panchgani➖Maharashtra
🔹 Panchmarhi➖Madhya Pradesh
🔹 Ranikhet➖Uttarakhand
🔹 Saputara➖Gujarat
🔹 Shillong➖Meghalaya
🔹 Shimla➖Himachal Pradesh
🔹 Ooty or Udhamandalam➖Tamil Nadu

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Cyclone: NIVAR

About Cyclone

▪️ Cyclone is a system of low atmospheric pressure in which the barometric gradient is steep.

▪️ Cyclones represent circular fluid motion rotating in the same direction as the Earth. 

▪️ The inward spiralling winds in a cyclone rotate anticlockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and clockwise in the Southern Hemisphere of the Earth.

▪️ Most large-scale cyclonic circulations are centred on areas of low atmospheric pressure.

▪️ General factors responsible for the origin of Cyclones in Bay of Bengal region are;

▪️ Large sea surface with temperature higher than 27° C.

▪️ Presence of the Coriolis force enough to create a cyclonic vortex.

▪️ Small variations in the vertical wind speed.

▪️ A pre-existing weak low-pressure area or low-level-cyclonic circulation.

▪️ Upper divergence above the sea level system.

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🍃 Question of the Day 🍃

As per the 2020 IQAir World Air Quality Report, which city has been adjudged as the most polluted capital city in the world?
2020 के IQAir वर्ल्ड एयर क्वालिटी रिपोर्ट के अनुसार, किस शहर को दुनिया के सबसे प्रदूषित राजधानी शहर के रूप में घोषित किया गया है?

📒 Beijing
📕 Kathmandu
📗 Dhaka
📘 New Delhi

Option D
Explanation:New Delhi has been adjudged as the world’s most polluted capital city for the third straight year in the 2020 World Air Quality Report by Swiss organisation, IQAir. Globally, New Delhi is ranked as the 10th most polluted city in the world.