Durban
South Africa has three capital cities: Pretoria, Cape Town and Bloemfontein. Pretoria is the administrative capital and seat of the President of the cabinet. Cape Town is the legislative capital and the seat of the nation’s parliament. Bloemfontein serves as the judicial capital.

Kapila Hingorani
Kapila Hingorani, who more than three decades ago became the first woman lawyer to file a public interest litigation on behalf of voiceless under-trial prisoners in Bihar to earn the title “Mother of PIL’ has passed away.

Brazil
The Tenharim are an indigenous people of Brazil, living in the state of Amazonas.

2015
All non-machine readable passports (Non-MRP) are to be phased out globally by November 2015 in accordance with the decision of the International Civil Aviation Organisation.

China
The Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation “(BIMSTEC) is an international organisation involving a group of countries in South Asia and South East Asia. These are: Bangladesh, India, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Bhutan and Nepal.

ONGC
The Palatana power project is ONGC’s first commercial power project in the country started commercial production in Tripura. The project is expected to ease the power problem of seven of the eight north-eastern states.

Tamil Nadu
Tamil Nadu and Puducherry have become the first in the country to implement the Immigration, Visa, Foreigner Registration and Tracking (IVFRT) system from December 1, 2013. The system, part of national e-governance project facilitates integrated visa and immigration services to foreigners, capture information about visiting foreigners.

Aditya Joshi
Young shuttler Aditya Joshi from Madhya Pradesh has become the first male junior badminton player from India to be ranked top in the world. Aditya, 17, recently got the number one slot in the recent ranking of the World Badminton Federation (WBF).

Saturn
Saturn’s South Pole is the only known hot polar vortex in the solar system.

23rd
India has been ranked 23rd out of 25 countries in the 2014 Nuclear Threat Initiative’s Nuclear Materials Security Index. India received 41 out of 100 points, which is improvement by one point from the 2012score. In the list China has ranked 20th and Pakistan stands at 22nd place.

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