Basic General Knowledge

GNLF stands for Gorkha National Liberation Front. Gorkha National Liberation Front (GNLF) is a political party in the Darjeeling District of West Bengal, India.

Excessive secretion from the pituitary gland in the children results in increased height. In children and adolescents, excessive levels of growth hormone can result in a condition called gigantism. Children with this condition may have unusually long arms and legs and may grow to heights of 7 to 8 feet or more.

Fa-Hien was the first Buddhist pilgrim of China to visit India during the reign of Chandragupta Vikramaditya. He is also renowned for his pilgrimage to Lumbini, the birthplace of Gautama Buddha (modern Nepal).

August 3, 1914 – Germany declares war on France, and invades neutral Belgium.

ICAO stands for International Civil Aviation Organization. The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) is a UN specialized agency, established by States in 1944 to manage the administration and governance of the Convention on International Civil Aviation (Chicago Convention).

In year 2001, terrorists crash two planes into New York’s World Trade Centre on September 11 in a sequence of destruction. The September 11 attacks were a series of airline hijackings and suicide attacks committed in 2001 by 19 terrorists associated with the Islamic extremist group al-Qaeda. It was the deadliest terrorist attack on U.S. soil; nearly 3,000 people were killed.

India’s first ocean wave’s energy project was launched in 1991.

In 1965, the membership of the Security Council was increased from 11 to 15 (under Article 23). Expansion of the UN Security Council from 11 to 15 members, with the supermajority required for action being increased from 7 to 9 votes.

India’s tallest stone statue of the Jain sage Gomateswara is at Sravanabelagola, Karnataka. Shravanabelagola (Śravaṇa Beḷagoḷa) is a town located near Channarayapatna of Hassan district in the Indian state of Karnataka.

In 1945, fifty nations met to phrase the basic charter for a world organization which would “save succeeding generations from the scourge of war”. This conference took place at San Francisco.