• Ramman folk dance of Uttrakhand is included in UNESCO’S intangible heritage list.

• It is mainly performed in Chamoli district during Ramman Festival.

• From India the Intangible heritage Cultural site are –

a) Koodiyattam

b) Mudiyett

c) Tradition of vedic chanting

d) Kalbelia

e) Ramlila

f) Sankirtana

g) Ramman

h) Thatheras

i) Chhau dance

j) Buddhist chanting of Ladhak

k) Yoga

l) Kumbh Mela.

● Madai festival is one of many popular festivals of Chhattisgarh.

● The Madai Festival is celebrated by people belonging to the Gond Tribe.

● It is celebrated from the month of December to March.

● Sound is a vibration that propagates as an acoustic wave through a transmission medium such as gas, liquid or solid.

● Through solids, longitudinal or transverse sound waves can be transmitted.

● When sound is moving through a medium that does not have constant physical properties.

● 23.5 degree latitude is known as Tropic of Cancer. It is present above the Equator. At this place the midday sun rays are vertical about 21 June.

● It is at approximately 23 1/2⁰ north of the equator.

● The Tropic of Cancer passes through 8 states in India : Gujarat, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, West Bengal, Tripura and Mizoram.

• Muhammad bin Tughlaq transferred his capital from Delhi to Devagiri in 1327.

• He transferred the capital because he thought that it would help him to establish control over the fertile land of the Deccan plateau and to create a more accessible capital since his empire had grown more in the south.

• Muhammad ascended to the Delhi throne upon his father's death in 1325.

• The great jurist and traveller Ibn Battuta was his courtier.

● Article 343 of Indian Constitution declared Hindi as the official language.

● English is also the official language of India along with Hindi.

● The Eighth Schedule to the Indian Constitution contains a list of 22 scheduled languages.

The institution of Lokayukta was established first in Maharashtra in 1971. Although Odisha had passed the act in this regard in 1970, it came into force only in 1983.

The Lokayukta is an anti-corruption authority constituted at the state level. It investigates allegations of corruption and mal-administration against public servants.

• The International Naval event ‘Milan’ in March 2020, was held in Vishakhapatnam.

• Milan is a multilateral naval exercise that is hosted by the Indian Navy under the aegis of the Andaman and Nicobar Command.

• Harsh Vardhan Shringla is the current Foreign Secretary of India since 29 January, 2020.

• He has previously served as ambassador to Thailand and US & also as high commissioner to Bangladesh.

• He is 1984-batch Indian Foreign Service (IFS) officer.

• According to the World Investment Report 2020 by the UNCTAD, India was the 9^th largest recipient of FDI in 2019.

• India received USD 51 billion in foreign investment in 2019 according to a report by the UN's trade body.

• According to this report, In the “developing Asia” region, India was among the top five host economies for FDI.

• In 2018, India was ranked 12^th among the top 20 host economies in the world.