*The number of spokes in Ashoka Chakra 
Ans : 24
*Colour of Ashoka Chakra
Ans : Navy blue
*Cloth used to make National Flag
*New flag code of India is adopted in
Ans : January 26, 2002
*As per the flag code of India, the smallest size of National Flag is
Ans : 6" X 4"
*The tallest National Flag in India is situated at
Ans : Attari (Punjab)
*Indian National Flag can be made by
Ans : 9 types
*The only unit in India, that is authorised to manufacture and supply the National flag of India
Ans : Karnataka Khadi Gramodyoga Samyukta Sangha (Hubli, Karnataka).
*The ceremony of raising National Flag on the Lahori Gate in Red Fort on every Independence day was started from
Ans : 1947
*The countries; having National flags similar to India
*The studies of Flags is called 
Ans : Vexillology
* First woman to raise Indian National 
Ans : Bhikaiji Cama (at Stuttgart, Germany)
* First person to raise the Indian National Flag in Indian Soil
Ans :Surendranath Banerjee (Kolkata)
* First person to raise the Tricolour flag of India
Ans :jawaharlal Nehru (1929, INC Lahore)
*National Anthem of India
Ans : Jana Gana Mana
*National Anthem was written by
Ans : Rabindra Nath Tagore
*Constituent Assembly adopted National Anthem on
Ans : January 24,1950
*Jana Gana Mana was composed on the Raga called
Ans : Sankarabharanam 
*Music of Jana Gana Mana was composed by 
Ans : Captain Ram Singh Thakur
*Music of Vande mataram was composed by
Ans : Jadunath Bhattacharya
*Present form of Vande mataram is composed by
Ans : Pandit Ravi Sankar
*Vande mataram is taken from the novel
Ans : Anandamath (1882)
*Vande mataram was first sung by
Ans : Rabindra Nath Tagore
*Vande mataram was first sung at the
Ans : Calcutta Session (1896)
*National Anthem was first sung by
Ans : Sarala Devi Chowdhary (on December 28,1911 - Kolkata Session)
*The complete song of Jana Gana Mana consists of
Ans : Five stanzas
* First stanza of Jana Gana Mana comprises the full version of the
Ans : National Anthem
*English Translation of Jana Gana Mana is known as
Ans : Morning Song of India
*Jana Gana Mana was translated into English as the 'Morning song of India' by
Ans : Rabindra Nath Tagore
*Tagore wrote Jana Gana Mana in the language of
Ans : Bengali
*The Hindi version of Jana Gana Mana was adopted as National Anthem by the
Ans : Constituent Assembly
*The only person who wrote two , National anthems
Ans : Rabindra Nath Tagore
Gana Mana for India Amar Sona Bangla for
Ans : Bangladesh
 *Time taken to sing the National Anthem of India
Ans : 52 seconds for all version (20 seconds for short version)
*The studies of National Anthem is called
Ans : Anthematology
*Vande mataram was translated into English by
Ans : Aurobindo Ghosh
*Constituent Assembly adopted the National Song on
Ans : January 24,1950 
*Anandamath was written by
Ans : Bankim Chandra Chatterjee 
*Anandamath is written in 
Ans : Bengali language
*The character who is singing Vande mataram in Anandamath novel 
Ans : Bhavanandan
*Vande mataram is written in 
Ans : Sanskrit language 
*The Raga used to sing Vande mataram is 
Ans : Desh
*The goddess praised in Vande mataram 
Ans : Durga
* The song which also raises patriotism like the National Anthem . 
Ans : Sare Jahan se Accha 
* Sare Jahan se Accha was composed by 
Ans : Muhammad Iqbal 
* The language used to compose Sare Jahan se Accha 
Ans : Urdu
* Formally, Sare Jahan Se Accha was known as
Ans : Taranah-i-Hindi

NATIONAL EMBLEM

*National Emblem of India
Ans : Lion Capital
*National Emblem of India is adopted from 
Ans : Lion Capital of Asoka at Sarnath 
*Sri Buddha gave his first sermon at 
Ans : Sarnath
*The Lion Capital of Ashoka is kept at Sarnath Museum Lion Capital was built by
Ans : Emperor Ashoka the Great 
*The animals that seen in the emblem 
Ans : 1. Elephant 2. Lion 3. Horse 4. Bull
*The flower that seen in the National Emblem is
Ans : Lotus
* Constituent Assembly adopted National Emblem on
Ans : January 26,1950
*The motto inscribed in the National emblem is
Ans : Satyameva Jayate
*The motto Satyameva Jayate is taken from
Ans : Mundakopanishad
*The script used to write Satymeva Jayate on Lion Capital
Ans : Devanagari
*The Capital is carved out of a single block of polished sandstone
*It features four Asiatic Lions standing back to back
*They are mounted on an abacus with a frieze carrying sculptures in high relief of an elephant, a galloping horse, a bull, and a lion
*They are separated by intervening 
Ans : spoked chariot-wheels
*The whole sits upon 
Ans : a bell shaped lotus
* The capital is crowned by 
Ans : A 'Wheel of Dharma' (Dharmachakra or "Ashoka Chakra") with 24 spokes 

NATIONAL ANIMAL AND BIRD

*National Animal of India
Ans : Royal Bengal Tiger
*Tiger was adopted as our National Animal in
Ans : 1972
*Project Tiger came into force in
Ans : 1973
*Before adopting Tiger, our National Animal was
Ans : Lion
* Scientific name of Tiger 
Ans : Panthera Tigris
*National bird of India
Ans : Peacock
*Scientific name of Peacock
Pavo Cristatus
*Peacock became our National bird in
Ans : 1963

NATIONAL FLOWER

*National Flower of India
Ans : Lotus
*Botanical name of lotus
Ans : Nelumbo nucifera
*The countries having lotus as their national flower
Ans : Egypt, Vietnam, India 

NATIONAL TREE

* National tree of India
Ans : Banyan Tree
*Botanical name of banyan tree Ficus 
Ans : benghalensis

NATIONAL FRUIT

*National fruit of India 
Ans : Mango
*Botanical name of mango
Ans : Mangifera indica
*Birth place of mango tree
Ans : India
*National fruit of Pakistan
Ans : Mango

NATIONAL RIVER

*National river of India
Ans : Ganges
*Ganges was adopted as the National river of India on
Ans : November 4, 2008 
*Ganga Action Plan was in 
Ans : 1986
*The longest river in India 
Ans : Ganges

NATIONAL GAME

*National game of India
*The man known as Hockey wizard 
Ans : Dyan Chand 
*The sports event in which India got most number of gold medals in Olympics 
Ans : Hockey

NATIONAL DANCE FORM

*National Dance form of India
Ans : Bharatanatyam 
*The birth place of Bharatanatyam 
Ans : Tamil Nadu 
*The dance form known as Motion of Poetry
Ans : Bharatanatyam

NATIONAL AQUATIC ANIMAL

*National aquatic animal of India 
Ans : Ganga Dolphin
*Ganga dolphin was adopted as the National aquatic animal on 
Ans : October 5,2009 
*Scientific name of Ganga dolphin 
Ans : Platanista gangetica

NATIONAL FISH

*National Fish of India
Ans : King Mackerel
*Scientific name of King Mackerel 
Ans : Scomberomorus cavalla
*National heritage animal of India
Ans : Elephant
*Scientific name of elephant 
Ans : Elephas Maximus
*Elephant was declared as the Heritage animal of India in
Ans : October 2010
*Project elephant was started in 
Ans : 1992
*Elephant is the official animal of
Ans : Karnataka, Kerala Jharkhand

NATIONAL REPTILE 

*National Reptile of India
Ans : King Cobra
*Scientific name of King Cobra 
Ans : Ophiophagus Hannah 
*World's longest venomous snake 
Ans : King Cobra

National Pledge

Ans : India is my country
*National Pledge was prepared by
Ans : Pydimarri Venkata Subba Rao
*The language in which the National Pledge is composed
Ans : Telugu (1962)
*National Pledge was started to swear in schools w.e.f.
Ans : January 26, 1965
*The chairman of the Samiti which decided to swear National Pledge in schools
Ans : M.C.Chagla

OFFICIAL LANGUAGE

*Official Language of India
Ans : Hindi
*The Article which declares Hindi as Official Language
Ans : 343
* Hindi became the Official Language of India from 
Ans : 1965
*In case of leap yearstarts on  
Ans :  Saka year March 21
*Saka Era was started by
Ans : Kanishka
*Saka year was started in AD 
Ans :  78
*Government of India accepted Saka era on 
Ans :  March 22,1957
*First month of Saka era 
Ans : Chaitra
*Second month of Saka era 
Ans : Vaishakha 
*Last month of Saka era 
Ans : Phalguna
*Chaitra 1 is equivalent to
Ans : March 22 in Gregorian Calendar

NATIONAL CALENDAR

*National Calendar of India 
Ans : Saka era
*The new symbol for Indian rupee was I adoptein
Ans : July 2010
*Designer of Indian rupee new symbol 
Ans : D. Udaya Kumar (Tamil Nadu)
*Fifth.currency, in the world which has got a symbol
Ans : Indian Rupee
*Indian standard Meridian BBwBli passes through
Ans : Allahabad (U.P)
*The clock tower which shows India's standard time is at
Ans : Mirzapur (Allahabad, U.P) 
*Percentage of India's land area in the world 
Ans : 2.420/0
*The oldest Mountain ranges in India 
Ans : Aravalli
*The highest peak in India
Ans : Mount K2 or Godwin Austin 
*Height of Mount 
Ans : K2 8611m
*The highest peak situated completely in India
Ans : Kangchenjunga (Sikkim)
*Height of Kangchenjunga
Ans : 8586 m
*The second longest glacier in the world Ans : Siachen Glacier
*Which is known as third pole of the earth 
Ans : Siachen
*The longest river in India
Ans : Ganges
*The longest river in the Indian sub continent
Ans : The Indus
* The longest river in the peninsular India 
Ans : Godavari

RIVER BANK CITIES IN INDIA

1.Agra - Yamuna
2.Ahmedabad -Sabarmati
3.Ajmer - Luni
4.Allahabad - Ganga and Yamuna
5.Ayodya - Sarayu
6.Kolkata - Hooghly
7.Cuttack - Mahanadi
8.Delhi - Yamuna
9.Gandhi Nagar - Sabarmati
10.Guwahati - Brahmaputra
11.Humpi - Tungabhadra
12.Hyderabad - Musi
13.Jabalpur - Narmada
14.Jamshedpur - Subarnarekha
15.Kanpur -  Ganges
16.Kota - Chambal
17. Leh - Indus 
18. Lucknow - Gomati
19.Ludhiana - Sutlej
20.Madurai - Vaigai
21.Mathura - Yamuna
22.Mangalore - Netravati
23.Mysore - Kaveri
24.Nasik - Godavari
25.Sri Nagar - Jhelum
26.Surat  - Tapti
27.Thanjavur - Kaveri
28.Tiruchirapalli - Kaveri
29.Ujjain - Kshipra
30.Vijayawada - Krishna
31.Badrinath - Ganges(Alaknanda)
32.Curnool - Thungabhadra
33.Dibrugarh - Brahmaputra
34.Ferozpur - Sutlej
35.Haridwar - Ganges
36.Jammu - Tawi
37.Nellore - Pennar
38.Patna - Ganges
39.Sambalpur - Mahanadi
40.Sriranga patna - Kaveri
41.Varanasi - Ganges

NEWS PAPERS IN INDIA

*The country which leads the world in terms of newspaper circulation
Ans : India
*First newspaper in India
Ans : Bengal Gazette (Kolkata)
*Bengal Gazette was published by 
Ans : James Augustus Hicky (1780, January 29)
*Early name of Bengal Gazette
Ans : The Calcutta General Advertiser 
* In which language Bengal Gazette was published
Ans : English
*Indian News paper day
January 29  National press day
Ans : November 16
*World press freedom day
Ans : May 3
*Oldest existing newspaper in India
Ans : Bombay Samachar
*The languages in which Bombay Samachar is published
Ans : Gujarati & English
*Founder of the newspaper Bonroay Samachar
Ans : Fardunjee Marzban (1822)
*The most circulated newspaper in WORLD 
Ans : Yomiuri Shimbun (Japan)
*The place from where the newspapers are published in most number of Indian languages 
Ans : Delhi
*The only State where no national newspapers are published
Ans : Arunachal Pradesh
*First e-newspaper in India
Ans : Uttar Pradesh