Indian Geography

The southwest monsoon normally reaches Kerala first on the Indian mainland, usually around 1 June.

In eye donation, the donated transplantable tissue is mainly the cornea, not the entire eyeball. Corneal transplantation can restore vision in suitable cases.

The Gauhati High Court was established in 1948 under the Gauhati High Court Order, 1948. It began functioning on 5 April 1948.

India finished 48th in the medal table at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, held in 2021 after postponement. India won 7 medals.

Google’s headquarters are at the Googleplex in Mountain View, California. California is the headquarters location referred to in the source options.

Dasht-e Margo, meaning “Desert of Death”, is a desert region of Afghanistan.

CTBT stands for Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty. It was adopted in 1996 but has not entered into force.

Most of the Amazon rainforest lies in Brazil, which contains the largest share of the Amazon Basin and rainforest.

The Indian subcontinent lies entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and largely in the Eastern Hemisphere. India’s mainland extends roughly from 8°N to 37°N latitude.

Gwadar Port is in Pakistan, on the Arabian Sea coast of Balochistan.

The source identifies the Delhi–Varanasi route for the Vande Bharat Express. Vande Bharat is India’s indigenous semi-high-speed train service.

The word agriculture comes from Latin roots: ager (field) and cultura (cultivation).

Amartya Sen received the 1998 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for contributions to welfare economics and social choice theory.

A standard Kho Kho team has 9 players on the field. The sport is a traditional Indian team chasing game.

Verghese Kurien is known as the Father of the White Revolution for leading India’s Operation Flood dairy-development programme.

Ajmer lies in Rajasthan near the Luni river system. The city is also famous for the Ajmer Sharif Dargah.

The headquarters of the North Eastern Railway is at Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh.

Persia is the historical name used in English for Iran. The official international name “Iran” was adopted for diplomatic use in the 20th century.

The Tower of Silence tradition is associated with Zoroastrian funerary practice; Mumbai has historically had prominent Parsi Towers of Silence.

Mahmud of Ghazni is traditionally recorded as having made 17 raids into the Indian subcontinent between 1000 and 1027 CE.