• Raigad is a hill fort situated in Maharashtra.
• Shivaji built this fort and made it his capital in 1674 when he was crowned as the King of the Maratha Kingdom which later developed into the Maratha Empire, eventually covering much of western and central India.

● Smriti Irani has launched Power Tex India to boost the powerloom sector.

● She is currently the youngest Minister in the Council of Ministers at the age of 43.

● The Power Tex India was launched on 1 April 2017.

• The Black soil is also known as Regur soil.

• The black color of black soil is due to excess of iron.

• Apart from black soil, it is also called Shregun, Regur, Cotton soil, and Lava soil.

• It is rich in magnesium, lime and iron and organic matter.

• It is found abundantly in Maharashtra, Karnataka, Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh.

● Excise duty can be charged for goods manufactured.

● Excise duty is a type of indirect tax. There are three types of excise duty basic excise duty,additional excise duty, special excise duty.

● This tax is also known as central value added tax(CENVAT).

● Excise duty is charged on animal products like meat, eggs, fish,honey etc. vegetable products like plants, trees, roots, flowers etc. miscellaneous products like spices, starch, cereals, gluten etc.

● Non renewable products like metals, industrial chemicals. It comes under the authority of Central Excise Act 1944.

● Blood is white or red vascular connective tissue is not true about the vascular system.

● The vascular system is also known as the circulatory system.

● This system is made up of the vessels that carry blood and lymph through the body.

● The skin is made up of Epidermal Cells.

● The tissue which connects, separates and supports all other types of tissues in the body is called Connective tissue.

● Permanent tissue are those tissues which are completely grown and have lost the ability of division.

● The tissues which are concerned with a function are called Parenchyma Tissue.

● 18 groups and 7 periods are present in the Modern Periodic Table.

● The 1st period is the shortest period and the sixth period is the longest period of the Periodic table.

● The periodic table consists of four blocks s-block, p-block, d-block and f-block.

● The father of the Periodic table is Dmitri Mendeleev.

● "A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin: what else does a man need to be happy?" is said by Albert Einstein.

● Alexander Graham Bell invented Telephone and Gramophone.

● Sir Isac Newton is known for his most famous discovery of Newton's three laws of motion.

● Alan Turing is known for Cryptanalysis of the Enigma.

● V_av = u + v/2 is the formula of average velocity.

● The total displacement divided by the total time taken is called Average Velocity.

● It is a vector quantity and The Si unit is m/s.

● Ge is a semiconductor.

● The Ge is a symbol of element Germanium and It is a metalloid.

● The materials that have a conductivity between conductors and insulators is called Semiconductor.

● Pb(lead), Ga(gallium) and Sn(Tin) are metals and conductors of electricity.