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Satellite launching stations............................................................................. 1

Public sector banks heads and HQs ............................................................... 1

Imp Private banks heads and HQs ................................................................. 3

Insurance companies in India ........................................................................ 4

States CMs and Governors ............................................................................. 4

Cabinet ministers and their constituency ....................................................... 6

Minister of state (Independent charge) .......................................................... 7

Minister of state .............................................................................................. 8

Chiefs of armed forces .................................................................................... 9

Important ports in India ................................................................................. 9

International airports in India ....................................................................... 9

Maharatna CPSEs ........................................................................................ 10

Navratna CPSEs ........................................................................................... 10

Missiles Developed in India ......................................................................... 11

Satellite launching stations 1. ISRO satellite centre, Bangalore.

2. Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sri Hari Kota, AP.

3. Vikram Sarabhai Space center, Thiruvananthapuram.

4. Thumba Equatorial Rocket Launching Station, Thiruvananthapuram.

Public sector banks heads and HQs

S.No Bank Tag line HQ Head 1 Allahabad bank a tradition of

trust

Kolkata Rakesh Sethi

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2 Andhra bank Where India

Banks

Hyderabad C.V.R

Rajendran

3 Bank of Baroda Indias International

Bank

Mumbai Vacant(vice

S.S. Mundra)

4 Bank of India Relationship

beyond

banking

Mumbai V.R. Iyer

5 Bhartiya Mahila

Bank

Empowring

Women

Usha Anantha

Subramaniyan

6 Bank of Maharashtra One family one

bank

Pune Sushil Muhnot

7 Canara Bank Together we

can

Bangalore V.S. Krishna

Kumar

8 Central bank of

India

Central to you

since 1911

Mumbai Rajeev rishi

9 Corporation Bank Prosperity to

all

Mangolore Sadhu ram

bansal

10 Dena Bank Trusted family

bank

Mumbai Ashwini kumar

11 Indian bank Taking

banking

technology to

common man.

Your tech

friendly bank

Chennai t.m Bhasin

12 Indian overseas bank Good people to

grow with

Chennai R.Koteeswaran

13 Oriental bank of

commerce

Where every

individual

committed

Delhi Animesh

Chauhan

14 Punjab&sindh bank Where service

is a way of life

Delhi Jatinder Bir

Singh

15 Punjab national bank A name you

can bank upon

Delhi Vacant

(K.R.Kamath)

16 Syndicate bank Friendly and

faithful

Manipal Vacant( Sudhir

Kumar Jain)

17 UCO bank Honours your

trust

Kolkata Arun Kaul

18 Union bank of India Good people to

bank with

Mumbai Arun Tiwari

19 United bank of india The bank that

starts with you

West Bengal P.Srinivas

20 Vijaya bank A friend you

can bank upon

Bangalore Kishor kumar

sansi

21 IDBI ltd Banking for all Mumbai M.S Raghavan

22 State Bank of India With you all

the way.

The nation

Mumbai Smt. Arundhati

bhattacharya

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banks on us.

Pure banking

nothing else

23 State bank of

bikaner an jaipur

Rajasthan Smt. Arundhati

bhattacharya

24 State bank of

Hyderabad

A trusted

relationship.

you can always

bank on us

Hyderabad Smt. Arundhati

bhattacharya

25 State bank of

Mysore

Working for a

better

tomorrow

Bangalore Smt. Arundhati

bhattacharya

26 State bank of

patiyala

Blending

modernity with

tradition

Punjab Smt. Arundhati

bhattacharya

27 State bank of

Travancore

A long

tradition of

trust.

Tiruvananthapuram Smt. Arundhati

bhattacharya

Imp Private banks heads and HQs

S.no Bank Tag line HQ Head 1 City Union Bank Trust and

excellence since

1904.

Tamil nadu N.Kamakodi

2 ING vysya Bank Jiyo Easy Bangalore Shailendra

bhandari

3 Tamilanadu mercantile

bank

Be a step ahead

of life

Tuticorin H.S.U

kamanth

4 Catholic Syrian bank Support all the

way

Thrissun Rakesh Bhatia

5 Dhanalaxmi bank Tann man dhan Tamilnadu G.N.Bajpal

6 Federal bank Your perfect

banking partner

Kerala Shyam

srinivaan

7 Karnataka bank Your family

bank across

india

Mangalore

8 Karur vysya bank Smart way to

bank.

Tamilnadu Jayaram bhat

9 Lakshmi vilas bank the changing

face of

prosperity

Chennai k.venkatraman

10 Axis bank Every thing is

same,except the

name

Mumbai Shika Sharma

11 HDFC bank We understand Mumbai Aditya puri

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12 ICICI bank Hum hain na Mumbai Chanda

kochar

13 Kotak mahendra bank Lets make

money simple

Mumbai Uday kotak

14 Yes bank Experience our

expertise

Mumbai Rana kapoor

Insurance companies in India

S.no insurance

company

Tag line HQ Head

1 LIC Yogakshemam

Vahamyaham

Mumbai S.K Roy

2 United Insurance Rest Assured

with Us

Chennai Milind Kharat

3 New India

Assurance

Indias premier

general

insurance

company

Mumbai G.Srinivasan

4 National

Insurance

Company

Kolkata A.V. Girija

kumar

5 Oriental

insurance

Prithvi, Agni,

Jal, Akash,

Sabki

Suraksha

Hamare Paas

Delhi A.K Saxena

States CMs and Governors

S.No State Capital CM Governor 1 Andhra

Pradesh

Hyderabad N.Chandrababu

Naidu(TDP)

E.S.L

Narisimhan

2 Arunachal

Pradesh

Itanagar Nakam Tuki(congress) Nirbhay

Sharma

3 Assam Dispur Tarun Gogoi(congress) Padmanabha

Acharya

4 Bihar Patna Nitish Kumar(JDU) Keshari nath

tripathi

5 Chhattishgarh Raipur Raman Singh(BJP) Balaram das

tendon

6 Goa Panaji Laxmikant Mridula

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7 Gujarat Gandhinagar Anandiben Patil(BJP) Om Prakash

Kohli

8 Haryana Chandigarh Manohar Lal

Khatter(BJP)

Kapta Singh

solanki

9 Himachal

Pradesh

Shimla Virabhadra

singh(congress)

Kalyan Singh

10 Jammu &

Kashmir

Srinagar(summer)

Jammu(winter)

Mafti Mohammad

Syed(PDP)

Narinder

Nath Vohra

11 Jharkhand Ranchi Raghbar Das(BJP) Syed Ahmed

12 Karnataka Bangalore Siddaramaiah(congress) Vajubhai

vala

13 Kerala Thiruvananthapuram Oomen

Chandy(congress)

P.Sathasivam

14 Madhya

Pradesh

Bhopal Shivraj Singh

Chauhan(BJP)

Ram Naresh

Yadav

15 Maharastra Mumbai Devendra Fadnavis(BJP) C.Vidya

Sagar Rao

16 Manipur Imphal Okram Ibobi

Singh(congress)

Krishna kant

Paul

17 Meghalaya Shillong Mukul

Sangma(congress)

Keshari nath

tripati

18 Mizoram Aizwal Pu

Lalthanhawla(congress)

Nirbhay

Sharma

19 Nagaland Kohima T.R.Zeliang(Nagalands

People Front)

Padmanabha

acharya

20 Odisha Bhuvaneswar Naveen Patnaik(BJD) S.C.Jamir

21 Punjab Chandigarh Prakash Singh

Badal(SAD)

Kaptan Singh

Solanki

22 Rajasthan Jaipur Vasundhara Raje(BJP) Kalyan Singh

23 Sikkim Gangtok Pawan champling(SDF) Srinivas

Dadasaheb

Patil

24 Tamilnadu Chennai Jayalalitha(AIADMK) K.Rosaiah

25 Telangana Hyderabad K.Chandrasekhar

Rao(TRS)

E.S.L.

Narishimhan

26 Tripura Agartala Manik sarkar(CPM) Padma

Nabha

Acharya

27 Uttarapradesh Lucknow Akhilesh Yadav Ram Naik

28 Uttarakhand Dehradun Harish Rawath(congress) Krishna Kant

Paul

29 West Bengal Kolkata Mamata

Benarjee(trinamool

congress)

Keshari nath

tripathi

Union Territory 1 Andaman &

Nikobar

Port blair A.K. Singh

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2 Chandigarh Chandigarh Kaptan singh

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3 Dadra nagar

haveli

Silvassa Ashish

Kundra

4 Lakshadweep Kavaratti H.Rajesh

Prasad

5 Delhi Delhi Arvind Kejirwal(AAP) Najeeb Jung

6 Puducherry Pandicherry N.Rangaswamy(AINRC) A.K.Singh

7 Daman and

Diu

Daman Ashish

kundra

Cabinet ministers and their constituency

S.No Ministry Minister Constituency 1 Prime Minister, minister of

personal, public grievances

and pensions, department of

atomic energy, department of

space, all important policy

issues and all other portfolios

which is not allocated to any

minister.

Narendra Modi Varanasi,UP

2 Minister of Home Affairs Rajanath singh Lucknow, UP

3 Minister of External Affairs,

overseas Indian affairs

Sushma Swaraj Vidisha, MP

4 Minister of corporate affairs,

finance, information and

broadcasting

Arun Jaitely Gujarat rajya sabha

5 Minister of urban

development, housing and

urban poverty elevation,

parliamentary affairs

M.Venkaiah naidu Karnata rajya sabha

6 Minister of road transport and

highways,shipping

Nitin Gadkari Nagapur,

Maharashtra

7 Minister of law& justice D.V.Sadananda

Gowda

Bangalore north,

Karnataka

8 Minister of water resources,

river development and ganga

rejunivation

Sushri Uma

Bharathi

Jhansi, UP

9 Minister of minority affairs Najma A Heptulla Madhyapradesh

Rajyasabha

10 Minister of consumer affairs,

food and public distribution

Shri ram vilas

paswan

Hajipuri, bihar

11 Minister of micro, small and

medium industries

Kalraj mishra Deoria, UP

12 Minister of women and child Menka Gandhi Pilibhit, UP

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13 Minister of chemicals and

fertilizers

Ananth kumar Bangalore south,KA

14 Minister of communication

and information technology

Ravi Shankar

Prasad

Bihar rajya sabha

15 Minister of civil aviation Ashok gajapathi

raju

Vijayanagaram, AP

16 Minister of food processing

industry

Harisimrat kaur

badal

Bathinda, Punjab

17 Minister of heavy industries

and public enterprises

Ananth gangaram

geete

Raighad,

Maharashtra

18 Minister of tribal affairs Jual oram Sundargarh,Odisha

19 Minister of agriculture Radha mohan

singh

Purvi champaran,

Bihar

20 Minister of social justice and

empowerment

Tawar chand

gehlot

Madhya Pradesh

rajya sabha

21 Minister of human resource

development

Smrithi zubin irani Gujarath rajyasabha

22 Minister of defence Manohar parrikar UP rajyasabha

23 Minister of railways Suresh prabhu Haryana rajya sabha

24 Minister of health and family

welfare

Jagath prakash

nadda

Himachal Pradesh

rajya Sabha

25 Minister of mines, steel Narendra singh

tomar

Gwalior, Madhya

Pradesh

26 Minister of scicence and

technology, earth sciences

Harsha vardhan Krishna nagar, delhi

27 Minister of rural development,

panchayati raj, drinking water

and sanitation

Chaudary birendar

singh

Uchana kalan,

haryana

Minister of state (Independent charge)

1 General V. K. Singh Statistics and Programme Implementation

(Independent Charge)

External Affairs

Overseas Indian Affairs

2 Shri Inderjit Singh Rao Planning (Independent Charge)

Defence

3 Shri Santosh Kumar Gangwar Textiles (Independent Charge)

4 Shri Bandaru Dattatreya Labour and Employment (Independent Charge)

5 Shri Rajiv Pratap Rudy Skill Development & Entrepreneurship (Independent

Charge)

Parliamentary Affairs

6 Shri Shripad Yesso Naik AYUSH (Independent Charge)

Health & Family Welfare

7 Shri Dharmendra Pradhan Petroleum and Natural Gas (Independent Charge)

8 Shri Sarbananda Sonowal Youth Affairs and Sports (Independent Charge)

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Minister of state 1 Shri Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi Minority Affairs

Parliamentary Affairs

2 Shri Ram Kripal Yadav Drinking Water and Sanitation

3 Shri Haribhai Parthibhai Chaudhary Home Affairs

4 Shri Sanwar Lal Jat Water Resources, River Development and Ganga

Rejuvenation

5 Shri Mohanbhai Kalyanjibhai

Kundariya

Agriculture

6 Shri Giriraj Singh Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises

7 Shri Hansraj Gangaram Ahir Chemicals & Fertilizers

8 Shri G. M. Siddeshwara Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises

9 Shri Manoj Sinha Railways

10 Shri Nihalchand Panchayati Raj

11 Shri Upendra Kushwaha Human Resources Development

12 Shri Radhakrishnan P Road Transport & Highways

Shipping

13 Shri Kiren Rijiju Home Affairs

14 Shri Krishan Pal Social Justice & Empowerment

15 Dr. Sanjeev Kumar Balyan Agriculture

16 Shri Mansukhbhai Dhanjibhai Vasava Tribal Affairs

17 Shri Vishnu Deo Sai Mines

Steel

18 Shri Sudarshan Bhagat Rural Development

19 Prof. (Dr.) Ram Shankar Katheria Human Resource Development

20 Shri Y. S. Chowdary Science and Technology

Earth Science

21 Shri Jayant Sinha Finance

22 Col. Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore Information & Broadcasting

23 Shri Babul Supria (Babul Supriyo)

Baral

Urban Development

Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation

24 Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti Food Processing Industries

9 Shri Prakash Javadekar Environment, Forest and Climate Change

(Independent Charge)

10 Shri Piyush Goyal Power (Independent Charge)

Coal (Independent Charge)

New and Renewable Energy (Independent Charge)

11 Dr. Jitendra Singh Development of North Eastern Region (Independent

Charge)

Prime Ministers Office Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions

Department of Atomic Energy

Department of Space

12 Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman Commerce and Industry (Independent Charge)

13 Dr. Mahesh Sharma Culture (Independent Charge)

Tourism (Independent Charge)

Civil Aviation

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25 Shri Vijay Sampla Social Justice & Empowerment

Chiefs of armed forces Chief of air staff: air chief marshal Arup Raha

Chief of army staff: general Dulbir Singh Suhag

Chief of naval staff: admiral R.K.Dhowan

Chief of integrated defence staff: air marshal PP Reddy

Important ports in India

1 Chennai Port or Madras Port Chennai, Madras

2 Haldia (Kolkata Dock System & Haldia Dock Complex) Kolkata

3 Jawaharlal Nehru Port, also known as Nhava Sheva Maharashtra, South Mumbai

4 Kamarajar Port or Ennore Port Ennore, Chennai

5 Kandla Port Gujarat, Gulf of Kutch

6 Kochi Port or Cochin Port Kochi, Kerala

7 New Mangalore Port Manglore, Karnataka

8 Mormugao Port Panaji, Goa

9 Mumbai Port West Mumbai, Maharashtra

10 Panaji Panaji Goa

11 Paradip Jagatsinghpur, Odisha

12 Tuticorin Port (now called V.O.Chidambaram Port) Tuticorin, Tamil Nadu

13 Visakhapatnam Port Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh

International airports in India

S.No State City Airport name 1 Andaman and nicobar Port blair Veer savarkar International Airport

2 Andhra Pradesh Visakhapatnam Visakhapatnam International

airport

3 Assam Guwahati Lokapriya gopinath Bordoloi IA

4 Bihar Gaya Gaya International Airport

5 Bihar Raxaul Raxaul airport

6 Delhi New Delhi Indira Gandhi IA

7 Goa Goa Goa international airport

8 Gujarat Ahmedabad Sardar vallabhbhai Patel IA

9 Jammu &Kashmir Srinagar Srinagar airport

10 Jharkhand Deoghar Deoghar airport

11 Jharkhand Ranchi Birsa Munda airport

12 Karnataka Bengaluru Kempegowda International airport

13 Karnataka Mangalore Mangalore International airport

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14 Kerala Kochi Cochin International airport

15 Kerala Kozhikode Calicut IA

16 Kerala Thiruvananthapuram Trivandrum IA

17 Maharashtra Mumbai Chhatrapati Shivaji IA

18 Maharashtra Nagpur Dr.Babasaheb ambedkar IA

19 Manipur Imphal Tulihal IA

20 Odisha Bhubaneswar Biju Patnaik IA

21 Punjab Amritsar Sri Guru Ram Dass Jee IA

22 Rajasthan Jaipur Jaipur Airport

23 Tamil nadu Chennai Chennai IA

24 Tamil Nadu Coimbatore Coimbatore IA

25 Tamil Nadu Tiruchirapalli Tiruchirapalli IA

26 Telangana Hyderabad Rajiv Gandhi IA

27 Uttar Pradesh Lucknow Chaudhary Charan Singh IA

28 Uttar Pradesh Varanasi Lal Bahadur Shastri Airport

29 West Bengal Kolkata Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose IA

Maharatna CPSEs

1. Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited New Delhi 2. Coal India Limited- Kolkata 3. GAIL (Gas Authority of India Limited)- New Delhi 4. Indian Oil Corporation Limited- New Delhi 5. NTPC Limited- New Delhi 6. Oil & Natural Gas Corporation Limited(ONGC)-Dehradun 7. Steel Authority of India Limited(SAIL)-New Delhi

Navratna CPSEs

1. Bharat Electronics Limited 2. Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited 3. Container Corporation of India Limited 4. Engineers India Limited 5. Hindustan Aeronautics Limited 6. Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited 7. Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited 8. National Aluminium Company Limited 9. National Buildings Construction Corporation Limited 10. NMDC Limited 11. Neyveli Lignite Corporation Limited 12. Oil India Limited 13. Power Finance Corporation Limited 14. Power Grid Corporation of India Limited 15. Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Limited 16. Rural Electrification Corporation Limited 17. Shipping Corporation of India Limited

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Missiles Developed in India

S.No Missile Type Range Payload 1 Akash Medium range Surface

to air

Up to 30 km away,

Altitudes up to

18km

2 Trishul Short range Surface to

air

9 km fitted 5.5kg

3 Nag Fire and forget anti

tank missile

3 to 7 km range

4 Prithvi-I Surface to surface 150km and 1000kg

5 Prithvi-II Surface to surface 350km and 350-750 kg

6 Prithvi-III 2 stage ship to surface 350-600 km 500-1000kg

7 Agni-I Short Or intermediate

range ballistic missile

700-1250km 1000kg

8 Agni-II Medium range ballistic

missile(MRBM)

2000-3500km 750-1000kg

9 Agni-III Intermediate range

ballistic

missile(IRBM)

3500-5000km 2000-2500 kg

10 Agni-IV Intermediate range

ballistic

missile(IRBM)

3000-4000km 800-1000kg

11 Agni-V Intercontinental

ballistic

missile(ICBM)

5500-5800km 1500 kg

12 Agni-VI Intercontinental

Ballistic

Missile(ICBM)

6000-8000km 1000

13 Shaurya Surface to surface

tactile missile

750-1900km 180-1000kg

14 BrahMos Short range ramjet

supersonic cruise

missile

300-500km 200kg

15 BrahMos-II Hypersonic cruise

missile

290km

16 BrahMos-A Modified air launched

variant of missile

Raised from 500 to

14000m and fall

for 10-150 m

17 BrahMos-M Smaller variant of

BrahMos(M-Mini)

290km

18 Astra Beyond Visual Range

air-to-air

Missile(BVRAAM)

60km 15kg

19 Nirbhay Long range all weather

subsonic cruise missile

1000-1500km

20 Prahaar Surface to surface 150km 200kg

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missile

21 Helina Helicopter launched

Nag Missile

7-8km