# Pakistan was put on the grey list by the Paris-based Financial Action Task Force (FATF), the global watchdog for money laundering and terror financing in June 2018 and the country has been struggling to come out of it.

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♻️First In India (Men) ♻️

▪️The first chairman of the National Human Rights Commission of India: Justice Ranganath Misra
▪️The first Lokpal of India: Justice P. C. Ghosh
▪️The first batsman to score three test century in three successive tests on debut: Mohd. Azharuddin
▪️The first batsman to score double century in One Day International cricket match: Sachin Tendulkar
▪️The first man to have climbed Mount Everest twice: Nawang Gombu
▪️The first President of Indian Republic: Dr. Rajendra Prasad
▪️The first Prime Minister of free India: Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru
▪️The first Indian to win Nobel Prize: Rabindranath Tagore
▪️The first president of Indian National Congress: W. C. Banerjee
▪️The first Muslim President of Indian National Congress: Badruddin Tayyabji
▪️The first Muslim President of India: Dr. Zakir Hussain
▪️The first British Governor General of India: Lord William Bentinck
▪️The first British Viceroy of India: Lord Canning
▪️The first Governor General of free India: Lord Mountbatten
▪️The first and the last Indian Governer General of free India: C. Rajgopalachari
▪️The first man who introduce printing press in India: James Hicky
▪️The first Indian to join the I.C.S.: Satendranath Tagore
▪️The first Indian man in space: Rakesh Sharma
▪️The first Prime Minister of India who resigned without completing the full term: Morarji Desai
▪️The first Indian Commander-in-Chief of India: General Cariappa
▪️The first Cheif of Army Staff: Gen. Maharaj Rajendra Singhji

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💠Famous Lakes And Rivers In India And World💠

🔸Lake Baikal (Russia) is the deepest lake of the world. One of the biggest and most ancient lakes of world is situated nearly in the center of Asia in a huge stone bowl set 445 m above sea level.
🔸Lake Eyre is a important lake of Australia.
🔸Lake Onakal (Uganda) and Lake Aswan (Egypt) are man made lakes.
🔸Lake Tso Sekuru located on the Tibetan Plateau is the highest lake of the world.
🔸Lake Titicaca, located at the boundary of Bolivia and Peru is the highest navigable lake of the world.
🔸The highest lake in India is Devtal, located at a height of 17,745 ft in the Garhwal Himalayas.
🔸Dead Sea is the lowest lake of the world, its base is located 2500 ft below the sea level.
🔸Lake Van (Turkey) is the most saline lake of the world, with salinity of330%. It is followed by Dead Sea (238%) Jordan, and Great Salt Lake (220% salinity) USA.
🔸Caspian Sea is the largest lake of the world. It is a salt water lake. Ural and Volga rivers drain into it from the north, therefore its northern part is less saline.
🔸Lake Victoria, forms the border between Uganda, Tanzania and Kenya.
🔸Lake Nyasa or Lake. Malawi forms the border of Tanzania, Malawi and Mozambique.
🔸Lake Tanganyika forms the border of Zaire. Tanzania and Zambia.
🔸Lake Superior is the largest fresh water lake of the world.
🔸The nuclear test range of China is located near the lake Lop Nor.
🔸Lake Chad forms the border of Chad, Niger, Nigeria, Camroon.
🔸Lake Great Bear it is famous as Port Radium.
🔸Lake Athabasca famous as Uranium City.
🔸LakeVolta in Ghana is a largest man made lake.
🔸Lake Maracaibo in Venezuela is famous for oil reserves.

🔸Wular Lake: Wular Lake is one of the largest fresh water lakes in Asia and the largest in India, is located in Jammu and Kashmir.
🔸Dal Lake: The Kashmir valley is blessed with exotic natural beauty of landscape and water bodies, out of them one of the best is Dal Lake. The Dal lake is situated in the beautiful city of Srinaga,Some of the most famous mosques are also located in Srinagar city to visit.
🔸Loktak Lake: Loktak Lake is the largest freshwater lake in northeastern India, located in Manipur. It is also called the only floating lake in the world due to the floating phumdis. This ancient lake plays an important role in the economy of Manipur.
🔸Chilka Lake: Chilka Lake is the brackish water lake and is the largest coastal lake in India. The Chilka Lake in situated in Orissa and is Asia’s largest inland salt-water lagoon. The beautiful chilka lake is paradise for the migratory birds.

🔸Pulicat lake: It is a saline backwater lake lying along the Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh coast; part extending to Chengalpattu district of Tamil Nadu. It has an area of 481 sq. KM and it is the 2nd largest brackish water lagoon in India after Chilka lake in Orissa.

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Corruption Perceptions Index(CPI) 2020

● Released by: Transparency International

● Objective: It ranks 180 countries and territories by their perceived levels of public sector corruption, according to experts and business people.It uses a scale of 0 (highly corrupt) to 100 (very clean)

● Topped by: The index has been topped by New Zealand and Denmark (88 each), followed by Switzerland, Finland, Sweden and Singapore (85 each).

● India: India’s rank has slipped six places to 86th in the index with a score of 40.

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💥 Major countries of the world and their highest honors💥

☞ Argentina - The Order of San Martin

☞ Cambodia - Royal Order of Cambodia

☞ Indonesia - Star of Republic of Indonesia (Vitung Republic Indonesia)

☞ Kuwait - Mubarak Al Kabir Medal

☞ Canada - Order of Canada

☞ Germany - Pol Le Merit Iron Cross

☞ China - Order of Brilliant Jade

☞ Japan - Order of Molovenia Sun

☞ Turkey - Order of Democracy

☞ Denmark - Order of Diana Brogue

☞ Nicaragua - Augusto Caesar Sandino Ier

☞ Netherlands - Order of the Netherlands Lion

☞ Nepal - Jewel of Nepal (Man title)

☞ Norway - Order of St Olway

☞ New Zealand - The Order of New Zealand

☞ Pakistan - Nishan-e-Pakistan

☞ Poland - Cross of Merit

☞ Philippines - Quezon Service Cross

☞ France - Lange of Honor

☞ Bangladesh - Bangladesh Independence Award (Bangladesh Freedom Honor)

☞ India - Bharat Ratna

☞ Bhutan - Eyre of Great Victory of Thugger Dragon

☞ Mongolia - Best Worker

☞ United Kingdom - Order of Merit

☞ Russia - Order of Saint Andrew the Apostle

☞ Vietnam - The Order of the Golden Star

☞ Sri Lanka - Pride of Sri Lanka (Sri Lankabhimanya)

☞ United States - Lange of Merit

☞ Saudi Arabia - Shah Abdul Aziz Medal

☞ Spain - Order of Idbella the Catholic

☞ Palestine - And Collar

☞ Hungary - The Order of Banner

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📍Headquarters of International Organizations in Recent News📍


🎈 Barclays – London, United Kingdom

🎈 Goldman Sachs – New York, United States

🎈 World Health Organization (WHO)- Geneva, Switzerland

🎈 S&P Global Ratings – New York, United States

🎈 Fitch Solution – London, United Kingdom

🎈 International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)– Geneva, Switzerland

🎈 European Union (EU) – Brussels, Belgium

🎈 Mastercard – New York, United States

🎈 SpaceX – California, United States

🎈 Moody’s Investors Service (Moody’s) – New York, United States

🎈 Nomura – Tokyo, Japan

🎈 National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) – Washington, D.C., United States

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Ongoing Issue between Israel and Palestine

* Tensions have been building up in Jerusalem since the start of Ramzan in mid-April between Israeli forces and Palestinians.

* Recently, Israeli armed forces stormed Al-Aqsa Mosque in the Haram esh-Sharif in Jerusalem.

* In retaliation, Hamas, the Islamist militant group that runs Gaza, fired dozens of rockets.


# Why Jerusalem?

* Jerusalem has been at the centre of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

* According to the original 1947 UN Partition Plan, Jerusalem was proposed to be an international city.

* But in the first Arab Israel war of 1948, the Israelis captured the western half of the city, and Jordan took the eastern part, including the Old City that houses Haram esh-Sharif.

* Al-Aqsa Mosque, Islam’s third holiest site, and the Dome of the Rock are situated within Haram esh-Sharif (Noble Sanctuary).

* Israel captured East Jerusalem from Jordan in the 1967 Six-Day War and annexed it later.

#Citizenship issues:

* Since its annexation, Israel has expanded settlements in East Jerusalem, which is now home for some 220,000 Jews. Jews born in East Jerusalem are Israeli citizens, while Palestinians in the city are given conditional residency permits.

* Palestinians in East Jerusalem, unlike other parts of the occupied West Bank, can, however, apply for Israeli citizenship. Very few Palestinians have done so.

# Root cause of the problem:

* Israel sees the whole city as its “unified, eternal capital”, a claim endorsed by Donald Trump when he was U.S. President but not recognised by most other countries. Palestinian leaders across the political spectrum have maintained that they would not accept any compromise formula for a future Palestinian state unless East Jerusalem is its capital.

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▪️ #IDIOMS_And_PHRASES

(1) Fancy price- At any cost/ At demand price
(2) Feather in the cap- Additional success
(3) Feather one's nest- To enrich oneself by taking advantage of one's position
(4) Fighty shy of- To attempt to avoid a thing or person
(5) Fish in troubled waters- To take advantage of the problems of others
(6) Fish out of water- Out of one's usual and comfortable place
(7) Fly in the ointment- A slight unpleasant thing that obstruct the enjoyment of something
(8) Fool's paradise- A state of being happy for foolish or unfounded reasons
(9) Forty winks- A nap
(10) French leave- A leave without information or permission
(11) Fringe benifits- An additional benifit apart from salary
(12) From hand to mouth- Providing only bare essentials
(13) Gala day- Celebration day
(14) Get away with- To escape
(15) Get down to- To attend to work seriously

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❇️First News Papers, Journals & their Founder/Editors❇️

▪️Kavivachan Sudha- Bhartendu Harishchandra
▪️Rast Goftar (First News Paper in Gujrati)- Dadabhai Naoroji
▪️New India- Bipin Chandra Pal
▪️Statesman- Robert Knight
▪️Hindu- Vir Raghavacharya and G. S. Aiyar
▪️Sandhya- B. B. Upadhyaya
▪️Vichar Lahiri- Krishna Shastri Chiplunkar
▪️The Commonweal- Annie Besant
▪️Pratap- Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi
▪️Essays in Indian Economics- Mahadev Govind Ranade
▪️Samvad Kaumudi (Bengali)- Ram Mohan Roy
▪️Al-Hilal- Abul Kalam Azad
▪️Al-Balagh- Abul Kalam Azad
▪️Independent- Motilal Nehru
▪️Punjabi- Lala Lajpat Rai
▪️New India- Annie Besant
▪️Mirat-ul-Akhbar (First Persian News Paper)- Ram Mohan Roy
▪️Indian Mirror- Devendra Nath Tagore
▪️Nav Jeevan- M. K. Gandhi
▪️Young India- M. K. Gandhi

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GULF OF MANNAR BIOSPHERE RESERVE AND NATIONAL PARK

✅The Gulf of Mannar is an arm of the Indian Ocean lying between the coast of Sri Lanka and the tip of India.

✅ A chain of low islands and coral reefs known as Rama’s Bridge (Adam’s Bridge)
separates the Gulf of Mannar from the Palk Strait which lies to the north between India and Sri Lanka.

✅The Gulf of Mannar is known to harbor of over 3600 species of flora and fauna,
making it one of the richest coastal regions of Asia.

✅The park was declared as a biosphere reserve in 1989.

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🔰 Static GK Important Questions 🔰
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🔸 On which river Tehri dam is constructed?
➖ Bhagirathi river in Uttarakhand

🔸 World largest producer of Mica is?
➖ India

🔸 Corbett national park is in which state?
➖ Uttarakhand

🔸 Which sanctuary in Assam is famous for one horned Rhino?
➖ Kaziranga wildlife sanctuary

🔸 In which state Sariska sanctuary is situated?
➖ Rajasthan

🔸 Simlipal National Park is in which state?
➖ Orissa

🔸 The world's largest salt water lake is?
➖ Caspian Sea (in Russia)

🔸 The world's largest fresh water lake is?
➖ Lake Superior (in Canada)

🔸 The largest ocean of the world is?
➖ Pacific ocean

🔸 The smallest ocean of the world is?
➖ Artic ocean

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