Test: Overview of India- 2 - Class 5 MCQ

Chandigarh is the capital of Haryana State.

Wood's despatch (1854) was the first milestone of Indian education because it had suggested the various ideas and ways for the development of Indian education.

Julian Paul Assange is an Australian computer programmer, publisher and journalist. He is editor in-chief  of the organization  WikiLeaks, which he founded in 2006. Assange surrendered himself to UK police on 7 December 2010 and was held for ten days in solitary confinement before being released on bail. 

During Ekta Yatra  Sushma Swaraj and Arun Jaitley, aboard a BJP rath were arrested for violating Section 144 which bans the assembly of more than four person at any particular place.

The growing power of the Dutch by the middle of the seventeenth century forced the Surat Council of the British Empire to acquire Bombay from King John IV of Portugal in 1659. The marriage treaty of Charles II of England and Catherine of Portugal on 8 May 1661 placed Bombay in British possession of a part of Catherine's dowry to Charles.

The April 2010 Dantewada Maoist attack, was an 6 April 2010 ambush by Naxalite Maiost insurgents from the Communist Party of India (Maoist) near Chintalnar village in Dantewada district Chhattisgarh. 

The Great Barrrier Reef is the worlds largest coral reef system composed of over 2,990 individual reefs and 900 island stretching for over 2,300 kilometers(1,400 mi)  over an area  of approximately  344,400  square kilometers (133,000sq mi). The reef is located in the Coral Sea, off the coast of Queensland, Australia.

Great soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle With India is a 2011 biography of Indian political and spiritual leader Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi written by Pulitzer-winning author Joseph Lelyveld and published by Alfred A Knopf. 

The Tunisian Revolution , also known as the Jasmine Revolution,was an intensive campaign of civil resistance, including a series of street demonstrations taking place in Tunisian, and led to the ousting of longtime president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali in January 2011. 

Chand Bibi is best known for defending Ahmednagar against the Mughal forces of Emperor Akbar in 1595. Chand Bibi was the daughter of Hussain Nizam Shah I and Ahmednagar, and the sister of Burhan-ul-Mulk the Sultan of Ahmednagar. 

The Radia tapes controversy relates to the telephonic conversations between Nira radia, an influence peddler and an acquaintance of the (then) Indian telecom minister A.Raja, and with senior journalists, politicians,and corporate houses, taped by the Indian Income Tax Department in 2008-09.Nira Radia used to run a public relations firm named Vaishnavi Communations, whose clients include the Tata Teleservices and Mukesh Ambanis  Reliance Industries. 

The first Indian Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru presented the First Five-Year Plan to the Parliament of India and needed urgent attention. The First Five-Year Plan was based on the Harrod-Domar  model with few modifications. 

The 16th Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement was held from 26 to 31 August 2012 in Tehran, Iran. 
The summit was attended by leaders of 120 countries, including 24 presidents, 3 kings, 8 prime ministers and 50 foreign ministers.   

The former name Formosa dates from 1542, when Portugese  sailors sighted the main island of Taiwan and named it Ilha Formosa, which means beautiful island. 

Hickys Bengal Gazette was an English newspaper published from Kolkata (then Calcutta), India. It was the first Major newspaper in India, started in 1780.