🔮Classical Dances of India

🔷 Bharatanatyam   
🔶Tamil Nadu

🔷Kathak 
🔶Northern and Western India

🔷Kathakali   
🔶Kerala

🔷Kuchipudi   
🔶Andhra Pradesh

🔷Odissi   
🔶Odisha

🔷Sattriya   
🔶Assam

🔷Manipuri   
🔶Manipur

🔷Mohiniyattam   
🔶Kerala

Interesting Facts

🔮International Dance Day was introduced in 1982 by the International Dance Council (CID, Conseil International de la Danse), a UNESCO partner NGO, and is celebrated yearly, on April 29.

Bharatanatyam culture of South India

🔮Mridangam, Veena, Flute, Violin, and Talam are some of the instruments used in Bharatanatyam performance

🔮Kathak is intermingled with the culture of North India. This classical dance form is associated with the recital art of storytelling. 

🔮Heavy makeup and colorful costume are the most amazing facets of Kathakali

🔮noble hero or god wears green makeup on the face while the dance playing a demon smears his face in green with red marks on the cheeks.
✅ IMPORTANT NOTES FOR COMING EXAM

         📖HISTORY 

📮कौन सा सिंधु सभ्यता का स्थान वर्तमान पाकिस्तान में है- हड़प्पा / Which Indus Civilization site is in present day Pakistan – Harappa

📮भारतीय की डीजल इंजन विनिर्माण इकाई ‘डीजल लोकोमोटिव वर्क्स’ भारत में कहाँ स्थित है?- वाराणसी / Where is the Indian Diesel Engine Manufacturing Unit ‘Diesel Locomotive Works’ located in India? – Varanasi

📮1857 ई. के विद्रोह में झाँसी की रानी लक्ष्मीबाई ने किसके सहयोग से ग्वालियर में विद्रोह किया था?- तात्यां टोपे / In the rebellion of 1857 AD, with whose cooperation did Rani Laxmibai of Jhansi revolt in Gwalior? – Tatyan Tope
रविन्द्रनाथ टैगोर ने भारत के राष्ट्रीय गान के अलावा किस एक और देश का राष्ट्रीय गान लिखा?- बांग्लादेश / Apart from the national anthem of India, Rabindranath Tagore wrote the national anthem of which other country? – Bangladesh

📮विश्व का सबसे बड़ा नदी द्वीप ‘माजुली’ असम के किस जिले में स्थित है- पाताल पूरी / The world’s largest river island ‘Majuli’ is located in which district of Assam- Patal Puri
✅BRICS:

🔴The first BRICS Sherpas meeting of 2022 was held virtually on January 18-19, 2022.

🔴China has taken on the rotating chairmanship of BRICS in 2022.

🔴Program and priorities for the year were discussed during the meeting.


🔴BRICS is a grouping of five major emerging economies —  Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa.

🔴Since 2009, the governments of the BRICS states have met annually at formal summits.

🔴India hosted the most recent 13th BRICS summit on 9 September 2021 virtually.

🔴Originally the first four were grouped as "BRIC" before the induction of South Africa in 2010.