What (where/who/when) is

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UPSC CSE Current Affairs Fichas sobre What (where/who/when) is, creado por Kalpna Gupta el 27/08/2016.
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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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