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Railway zones and their description

ssc preparation, important competetion questions, current affairs of india, latest question asked in competetion papers, S/No. Name of the Railway Zone Zonal Headquarter   Division 1 Central Railway Mumbai 1) Mumbai 2) Nagpur 3) Bhusawal 4) Pune 5) Sholapur  2 Eastern Railway Kolkata 1) Howrah-I 2) Howrah-II 3) Sealdah 4) Malda 5) Asansol 6) Chitaranjan 7) Kolkata Metro 3 East Central Railway ...

RRB JE 2017 Solved paper

ssc preparation, important competetion questions, current affairs of india, latest question asked in competetion papers, Railway Recruitment Board JE SE Mechanical Electrical Previous Papers Download RRB Junior Engineer Section Engineer Previous Papers and Model Papers 1. Which is the foll owing pairs of regional Railways and their headquarters not true? (a) South - Central Railway - Secunderabad (b) Central railway - Bhopal (c) South Railway - Chennai (d) North Railway - New Delhi Answer: B.   2. Between which of the destinations the firs t Indian train was started? (a) From Calcutta to Delhi (b) From Mumbai to Thane (c) From Mumbai to Surat (d) From Mumbai to Madras Answer: B   3. When was the first train in Indian started? (a) 1851 (b) 1852 (c) 1853 (d) 1854 Answer: C    4. In which Governor General reign railway lines in India were established? (a) Lord William Bentick (b) Lord Cornwallis (...

A timeline of the USA and Canada

ssc preparation, important competetion questions, current affairs of india, latest question asked in competetion papers, Oct 1492 : the Italian explorer Cristoforo Colombo sails west on behalf of Spain looking for a way to reach Asia, and instead lands in a new continent May 1499 : the Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci sails to the new continent on behalf of Spain 1500 : About seven million Native Americans live in North America 1502 : Vespucci realizes that Colombo discovered a new continent Apr 1507 : German cartographer Martin Waldseemueller's "Cosmographiae Introductio" names the new continent "America" Mar 1524 : the Italian explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano sails up the coast of north America and discovers Manhattan Sep 1542 : Portuguese explorer Juan Cabrillo discovers California Sep 1565 : the Spanish found the first permanent European settlement in North America at St Augustine (Florida) 1573 : The first Chinese goods reach the Americas via Spanish shi...