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GK & Current Affairs: December 28, 2016
1. Nedumkayam, which has become the India’s first cashless and digital tribal colony, is in which state/union territory? [A]Kerala [B]Tamil Nadu [C]Puducherry [D]Andhra Pradesh Answer: NedumkayamNotes: Nedumkayam, Nilambur...
Palestinian Authority
The Palestinian Authority (PA), formally known as the Palestinian National Authority, is the provisional administrative structure established to exercise limited self-government in specific areas of the West Bank...
Panama Canal
The Panama Canal is one of the most significant infrastructural achievements in modern engineering, providing a crucial maritime passageway between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Traversing the narrow...
Pancreas
The pancreas is a vital organ of the digestive and endocrine systems in vertebrates, performing an essential dual role in nutrient digestion and metabolic regulation. In humans it...
Pandemic
A pandemic is a large-scale epidemic of an infectious disease that spreads across multiple countries or continents, affecting substantial numbers of people. Unlike endemic diseases, which remain consistently...
Paracel Islands
The Paracel Islands—also known as the Xisha Islands in Chinese and the Hoàng Sa or Hồng Sa Archipelago in Vietnamese—form a strategically significant and politically contested group of...
Particle physics
Particle physics—often termed high-energy physics—is the branch of physics concerned with the elementary constituents of matter and radiation, and with the fundamental interactions governing their behaviour. While nuclear...
Patanjali
Patanjali is a collective name attributed to one or more influential authors, mystics, and philosophers active in ancient India. Across the Sanskrit literary and intellectual traditions, several significant...
Patriot Act
The USA PATRIOT Act of 2001 was a landmark piece of United States federal legislation enacted in the aftermath of the September 11 terrorist attacks and the subsequent...
Pauli exclusion principle
The Pauli exclusion principle is a fundamental concept in quantum mechanics that governs the behaviour of fermions—particles with half-integer spin. First proposed in 1925 by Austrian physicist Wolfgang...
Peace of Westphalia
The Peace of Westphalia refers to a pair of treaties concluded in 1648 that brought an end to the Thirty Years’ War in the Holy Roman Empire and...
