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- 3. Who started the Kesari and Maratha newspapers to promote nationalism?
- 5. Who chaired the Drafting Committee of the Indian Constituent Assembly and later served as India’s first Law and Justice Minister, helping shape India’s Constitution and abolishing untouchability?
- 7. Who presented the Union Budget of India multiple times as Finance Minister since 2019?
- 9. Who declared a 21-month state of emergency in India in 1975 following a court ruling that voided her election, suspending civil liberties and censoring the press?
- 10. Who is the current Union Minister for Railways, Communications, and Electronics & Information Technology in India?
- 11. Which ruler standardized Indian coinage by issuing a tri-metallic currency system (silver rupee, gold mohur, copper paisa) and introduced the term “rupiya” during his rule in the 1540s?
- 15. Who is considered the chief strategist behind the BJP's major electoral victories since 2014?
- 17. Who founded India’s first luxury hotel, the Taj Mahal Palace in Mumbai in 1903, partly to challenge colonial-era racial exclusion after being denied entry into a whites-only hotel?
- 18. Who is known as the "Missile Man of India"?
- 19. Which business icon once said, “I don’t believe in taking right decisions. I take decisions and then make them right”?
- 20. Who was the Prime Minister of India before Narendra Modi?
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- 1. Who is credited as the father of India’s nuclear program, founded the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), and served as the first chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission. The theoretical physicist formulated the concept of “Bhabha scattering.”
- 2. Which Indian scientist is known as the “Father of the Indian Space Programme”
- 4. Which Indian poetess, fondly called the "Nightingale of India,"
- 6. Who is the current Minister of External Affairs of India?
- 8. Which Indian leader, known as the "Iron Man of India," was instrumental in integrating over 565 princely states into independent India and served as its first Home Minister and Deputy Prime Minister?
- 12. Who is the current Defence Minister of India?
- 13. Who threw non-lethal bombs in the Central Legislative Assembly to protest British rule?
- 14. Which Indian physicist is commemorated every February 28 as part of National Science Day for discovering the Raman Effect?
- 16. Who is the first tribal woman to become the President of India?
