General Knowledge, Current Affairs, and Pharmacy Lecture Notes

Manchester of India

Ahmedabad

City of Seven Islands

Mumbai

Queen of Arabian Sea

Cochin

Electric Garden / Space City

Bangalore

Twin City

Hyderabad–Secunderabad

City of Festivals

Madurai

Deccan Queen

Pune

City of Buildings (Palace of India)

Kolkata

Egg Bowl

Andhra Pradesh

Soya Region

Madhya Pradesh

Manchester of South

Coimbatore

Spice City

Guntur

Mango City

Nuzvid

Banana City

Hajipur

Night City

Ahembada (Ahmednagar)

Silk / Diamond / Textile / Bridge City

Surat

Painting City

Rajkot

City of Waterfalls

Ranchi

$1$\,Nibble

$4$\,Bits

$1$\,Byte

$8$\,Bits

$1$\,KB

$1024$\,Bytes

CVD

Lead compound

Truant test

Test used for TB (Tuberculosis)

Lirafit

Chromark antidiabetic

Zosurabalpin

Antibiotic

Lipitor

Atorvastatin

Vd high

High volume of distribution; occurs when drug binds to tissues

Diabetes Research model

Albino rat with Streptozotocin

$3R$\,Principle

Replace, Reduce, Refine (used in Genetic experiments using Mouse)

Metavalent Bonding

New type of chemical bonding in solid

Three-parent baby

Mitochondrial Donation Treatment; first performed in UK

AT2021lwx

Brightest/largest known explosion in Astronomy

NORFB

Non-aqueous all-organic redox flow battery developed at IIT Madras

AIRAWAT

Supercomputer ranked $75^{th}$ in Top $500$

Bhimbetka Cave Shelter

Located in Madhya Pradesh

Formation of Phosphine

Occurs on Venus

Abrysvo

Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) vaccine used in pregnancy (USA)

Apollo Robot

Robot originating from USA

First AI School in India

Located in Kerala

Ethanol-fuelled Car

Produced by Toyota

Indian Institute of Integrative Medicine

Located in J&K

ICGEB

International Centre for Genetic Engineering & Biotech located in Delhi

Adyar Cancer Centre

Located in Chennai, Tamil Nadu

National Institute of Virology

Located in Pune

DNA Fingerprinting

Research conducted in Hyderabad

National Brain Research Centre

Located in Gurgaon

National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC)

Located in Delhi

Food Technology Research

Located in Mysore, Karnataka

Toxicological Research Centre

Located in Lucknow

Petroleum Research

Located in Dehradun, UK (Uttarakhand)

Rice Research

Located in Cuttack

Cotton Research

Located in Chennai

Potato Research

Located in Shimla

Sugarcane Research

Located in Coimbatore

Mining / Fuel Research

Located in Dhanbad

Uranium

Located in Jadugoda

Andaman & Nicobar Capital

Port Blair

Lakshadweep Capital

Kavaratti

Ladakh Capital

Leh

Nile

Longest river in the world

Yangtze

Longest river in Asia

Brahmaputra / Amazon

Largest rivers

Roe, USA

Shortest river in the world