Kerala
Kudumbashree is a poverty eradication mission of government of Kerala. The mission aims at the empowerment of women, through forming self-help groups and encouraging their entrepreneurial or other wide range of activities. The purpose of the mission is to ensure that the women should no longer remain as passive recipients of public assistance, but active leaders in women involved development initiatives.

Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, West Bengal, Andhra Pradesh
Uttar Pradesh has the maximum number of voters in the country followed by Maharashtra, West Bengal, Andhra Pradesh and Bihar. Uttar Pradesh has 16.4 percent of the total voters and Maharashtra has 9.6 percent followed by West Bengal at 7.7 percent, Andhra Pradesh at 7.6 percent.

Delhi, Agra and Jaipur
India’s Golden Triangle is a tourist circuit which includes: Delhi, Agra and Jaipur. The Golden Triangle is so called because of the triangular shape formed by the locations of New Delhi, Agra and Rajasthan on a map, but is occasionally expanded to include the wider geographical area of North India, most frequented by tourists. These three cities are extremely popular as tourist destinations among the foreign tourists visiting India as well as among the natives.

Odia
Odia became the sixth language of the country to get “classical language’’ status after the Union Cabinet conceded a long-pending demand for putting it in the same league as Sanskrit, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam. Odia is billed as the first language from the Indo-Aryan linguistic group and the case for making it a classical language was also premised on the fact that it has no resemblance to Hindi, Sanskrit, Bengali and Telugu. The proposal was moved by the Culture Ministry.

Rajasthan
India’s first Minority Cyber Village was inaugurated by the Minister for Minority Affairs K Rehman Khan in “Chandoli” in Alwar district of Rajasthan. The Cyber village project will provide computer education to people in the age group of 15 to 59. Institution under the project will be instituted in the villages with substantial population of minority.

February 21
The United Nations’ (UN) International Mother Language Day annually celebrates language diversity and variety worldwide on February 21. It also remembers events such as the killing of four students on February 21, 1952, because they campaigned to officially use their mother language, Bengali, in Bangladesh.

Madhya Pradesh
Nauradehi Wildlife Sanctuary is located in Madhya Pradesh. It is potential site for Cheetah reintroduction in the country.

Italy

Central Asia
The International North-South Transport Corridor (INSTC) is a multi-modal network which would connect India to Central Asia through Iran.

World’s fastest car
Venom GT is the world’s fastest car with a top speed of an incredible 435 kilometres per hour. Venom beat the previous best record of 431km/hr set by Bugatti Veyron Super Sport.

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