1. The World Trade Organization (WTO) is an organization that intends to supervise and liberalize international trade and it officially commenced on Jan 1, 1995.

2. Ganga is the longest river of India. The total length of the Ganga river from its source is 2525 km of which 1450 km is in the Uttar Pradesh.

3. Dr. Duvvuri Subbarao (born 11 August 1949) is a 1972 batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer of Andhra Pradesh cadre. On 5-Sep-2008, he was appointed the twenty-second Governor of Reserve Bank of India (RBI). His term will end in September 2011.

4. Surjit Singh Barnala is the only appointed Governor of Tamilnadu to have served two terms in office (24-May-1990 to 15-February-1991 and 3-November-2004 to present).

5. India is in second position with 14 medals (6 Gold, 6 Silver, 2 Bronze) in ongoing Commonwealth game. Australia is in first with 25 medals (11 Gold, 9 Silver, 5 Bronze).

6. The first Commonwealth Games were held in Hamilton in Ontario, Canada, in 1930.

7. About half of the bones in the human body are located in the hands and feet.

8. The heart of a blue whale weighs over 600kgs.

9. Bhanu Athaiya was the first indian to win the OSCAR award for Best Costume Design for Gandhi (film) in 1982.

10. Arjun Atwal became the first Indian and just the sixth Asian-born player to win on the PGA Tour-Golf.

11. "Chandrayaan-1" was India's first unmanned lunar probe. It was launched by the Indian Space Research Organisation in October 2008, and operated until August 2009.

12. Current Population of India (2010) is around 1,150,000,000 (1.15 billion) people.