• In 1918, the British Government formed a committee under Justice Rowlatt to suggest ways to curb seditious activities in India. 
• The Viceroy of India at that time was Lord Chelmsford. 
• The Rowlatt Act 1919 gave unrestrained powers to the government to arrest and imprison suspected people without any trial. 
• Gandhi called for a Satyagraha against this draconian act and he was arrested soon after that. 

• Bengal Gazette or the Original Calcutta General Advertiser was an English language weekly newspaper published in Kolkata (then Calcutta), the capital of British India.
• It was the first newspaper printed in Asia and was published for two years before the East India Company seized the newspaper's types.

• The Nagarjuna Dam is the world’s largest and tallest masonry dam which is built across the Krishna River at NagarjunaSagar in the Nalgonda district of Telangana.
• It has an installed capacity of ‎about 816 MW (1,094,000 HP)

Bhagirathi and Alaknanda rivers meet at Devprayag. The two headstreams meet at Devprayag (Uttarakhand) to form the Ganges. Vishnuprayag, Nandaprayag, Karnaprayag, Rudraprayag and Devprayag are Panch Prayags (five prayags) where prayag refers to meeting point of two or more rivers.

Panchayati Raj generally refers to the system introduced by the constitutional amendment in the Constitutional 73rd Amendment Act 1992 came into force to provide constitutional status to the Panchayati Raj institutions.

• There are three All India Services in India.
• These include the Indian Administrative Service (IAS), the Indian Forest Service (IFS) and the Indian Police Service (IPS) which are all Civil services of India.
• While the members of these services are placed under various states, they are recruited by the Centre.

Born in 1723, Adam Smith is regarded as the Father of Economics due to his immense contribution to the subject. Amongst his many books, the most famous is Wealth of Nations (1776) which is regarded as the first work in modern economics. Smith influenced many later thinkers such as Karl Marx, Joseph Schumpeter, David Ricardo and many more.

The United Nations Environment Programme has been established by the United Nations General Assembly in pursuance of the Stockholm Conference. The UNEP worked as catalyst stimulator and coordinator among the member states on the environmental action.

Namdapha National Park is the largest protected area in the Eastern Himalaya biodiversity hotspot and is located in Arunachal Pradesh in Northeast India.