The above features are of Namdhapa. This question was based on an previous year question.

The city of Allahabad was originally known as Prayag in ancient times. The Union Home Ministry has approved the proposal of the Uttar Pradesh Government to rename Allahabad as Prayagraj. Akbar’s grandson Shah Jahan renamed the entire city as Allahabad.

Roaring Forties is the name given to strong westerly winds found in the Southern Hemisphere, generally between the latitudes of 40 and 49 degrees.

The Ashgabat agreement is a multimodal transport agreement. It aims to enhance the transport corridor between Central Asia and Persian Gulf through International North-South Transport Corridor encompassing ship, rail and road route. Its member countries are Oman, Iran, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Pakistan and India. India joined the Ashgabat agreement on 2nd February 2018.

As far as Green House Effect is concerned; Carbon monoxide (CO) is only a very weak and insignificant greenhouse gas, but it has important indirect effects on global warming. Carbon monoxide reacts with hydroxyl (OH) radicals in the atmosphere, reducing their abundance. As OH radicals help to reduce the lifetimes of strong greenhouse gases, like methane, carbon monoxide indirectly increases the global warming potential of these gases. Carbon monoxide in the atmosphere can also lead to the formation of the Ground level Ozone.

The Ashgabat agreement is a multimodal transport agreement. It aims to enhance the transport corridor between Central Asia and Persian Gulf through International North-South Transport Corridor encompassing ship, rail and road route. Its member countries are Oman, Iran, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Pakistan and India. India joined the Ashgabat agreement on 2nd February 2018.

Odhisha is the largest manganese producing state of India. Odhisha’s manganese reserves constitute 44% of the total reserves and produces 37% of the total manganese ore in India.

Glaciers are found in the north in the Himalayas. The Thar desert is in Rajasthan in the northwest and the lagoons are in Kerala in the southwest. Unfortunately, we don’t have any icebergs in India or even in the Indian subcontinent.

Taenia is a taxonomic rank of tapeworm (helminth) that includes some main parasites of livestock. There are more than 100 species of Taenia. Taenia is responsible for taeniasis and cysticercosis in humans. They are morphologically characterized by a ribbon like body composed of a series of segments called proglottids.

Dr. Vikram Ambalal Sarabhai, is the father of the Indian Space Industry, a multi-faceted personality, was a distinguished cosmic-ray and space scientist, an institution builder, industrialist, a management expert, educationist, a connoisseur of arts and above all a great human being. He founded the Physical Research Laboratory which later served as the cradle of Space Science Research in India.