● The Koya Dance is associated with Odisha.

● It is also associated with states like Telangana, Andhra Pradesh and Chhattisgarh.

● The men wear huge headgears of bison horn which are richly decorated with peacock feathers and cowries.

● The girls wear colourful costumes, ornaments, flat brass bands on their foreheads and holding sticks fitted with tinkling bells.

● Odisha has the third-largest population of Scheduled Tribes in India.

● It is the 8th largest state by area and the 11th largest by population.

● Rajasthan is the largest Indian state by area and the seventh-largest by population.

● The poet and writer Amrita Pritam were associated with Nagmani.

● She is considered the first prominent female Punjabi.

● She became the first woman to win the Sahitya Akademi Award for her magnum opus.

● She is most remembered for her poem Ajj aakhaan Waris Shah nu.

● Preetlari magazine was founded by Gurbakhsh Singh in 1933.

● Awaaz Magazine is published tri-annually out of Nairobi, Kenya.

● Satya Nadella is the author of the book ‘Hit Refresh’.

● He is the executive chairman and CEO of Microsoft.

● Hit Refresh was originally published on 26 September 2017.

● Its special annotated version of the book was given to each Microsoft employee.

● Kazi Nazrul Islam is the national poet of Bangladesh.

● He produced a large body of poetry and music with themes including religious devotion and rebellion against oppression.

● Intangible heritage consists of nonphysical intellectual wealth, such as folklore, customs, beliefs, traditions, knowledge, and language.

● Buddhist chanting of Ladakh, Tradition of Vedic chanting, and Chhau dance are in the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage List. Yakshagana is a traditional Indian theatre, and it is not listed under UNESCO.

● The Prime Minister of India declared the country as 'Open Defecation Free’ on Mahatma Gandhi's 150th birth anniversary.

● The 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi was celebrated in 2019.

● 'Open defecation free' is used to describe communities that have shifted to using toilets instead of open defecation.

● Civil Aviation is related to the flagship scheme of the Government of India UDAN.

● The full form of UDAN is Ude Desh ka Aam Naagrik.

● The government has put in Rs 400 crore to bail out this flagship regional connectivity scheme.

* Ganga Sagar Mela is conducted at the mouth of the river Hooghly in West Bengal.

* Gangasagar is a village and a gram panchayat within the jurisdiction of the Sagar police station in the Sagar CD block in the Kakdwip subdivision of the South 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

The correct option is Ashok Leyland

Other Information:

* Ashok Leyland becomes the first Indian Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) to unveil an in-house LNG engine -powered haulage truck - AVTR 1922 compliant with BSVI Stage II emission standards.

* The AVTR 1922, powered by Liquified Natural Gas (LNG), is built on the AVTR platform and shares a high degree of commonality with Ashok Leyland's existing diesel truck range.

* This ensures that our customers benefit from streamlined service and maintenance processes.

* World Kidney Day is observed on the second Thursday of March every year.

* This year World Kidney Day is observed on 14th March.

* Aim: To raise awareness about the importance of kidney health and the increasing burden of kidney diseases worldwide.