• Bal Gangadhar Tilak dominated the Lucknow Pact in December 1916.

• The meeting at Lucknow marked the reunion of the moderate and radical wings of the Congress.

• The Lucknow Pact was an agreement that reached between the Indian National Congress and the Muslim League.

• Bal Gangadhar Tilak founded the Home Rule League in 1916 and helped in ushering the Lucknow Pact and Reforms Act at the Amritsar Congress in 1919.

● Curcuma longa – Turmeric

● Rosa – Rose

● Ocimum tenuiflorum – Tulsi

● Saccharum officinarum – Sugar cane

• The Union Territories are administered by the President through an administrator (Lieutenant Governor or Chief Commissioner).

• He/She is appointed by the President of India with a suitable designation.

• NEAT or National Exchange for Automated Trading is the NSE’s electronic platform for trading.

• BOLT or BSE’s Online Trading System is the electronic platform for trading of BSE.

• CBC or Core Banking Solutions are e banking platform and infrastructure used by Banks.

• E Kuber is the electronic platform for trading of RBI.

* National Science Day (NSD) is celebrated every year on 28 February in India to commemorate the discovery of the 'Raman Effect' by the Indian physicist Sir CV Raman.

* The theme of the year 2020 is "Women in Science".

* The theme of the year 2019 was "Science for the People, and the People for Science".

• Sharavati River originates from Ambutheertha in Karnataka and flows entirely in Karnataka state and drains into Arabian sea.

• The Gersoppa or Jog falls is feature of Sharavati River.

• Ultisols, Alfisols, Inceptisols and Entisols types of soil are found in Sharavati River system.

The book ‘I do What I do’ is written by Raghuram Rajan.

• Rajan explains economic concepts in a readily accessible way and also mentioned the troubled as well as exicited time of Indian economy in 2016.

• He was the 23rd Governor of the Reserve Bank of India from 2013 to 2016.

• Saving Capitalism from the Capitalists and Fault lines are two most vital contributions of Raghuram Rajan.

• His book, Fault Lines, won the Financial Times/Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year award in 2010.

• Esters are sweet in nature. These are sweet-smelling substances which are used to make perfumes.

• An ester is a chemical compound derived from an acid in which at least one –OH group is replaced by an –O–alkyl group.

• Some common examples are ethyl acetate, propyl methanoate etc.

● The Indoor Hockey World Cup will be hosted in Belgium.

● This will be the sixth edition of the tournament and played from 3 to 7 February 2021.

● These tournaments are organised by the International Hockey Federation and its headquarters are in Lausanne, Switzerland.

• Terai plain lowland belt is characterised by tall grasslands, scrub savannah, sal forests and clay rich swamps. Jim Corbet National Park, Kaziranga National Park lies in Terai Regions.

• The thickness of terai region varies between 15-30 kms.

• This is also the region in which the rivers again reappear on surface.

• Terai region is suitable for cultivation of Sugarcane, rice and wheat.