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• The Sahara Desert is the largest hot desert in the world.
• Location: Africa
• Length: Approximately 4,800 km (3,000 miles)
• Area: About 9.2 million km²

List of top deserts in the world:

Last verified on 10-05-2026

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• The English Army in the Battle of Buxar was led by Hector Munro.
• It was fought on 22/23 October 1764.
• Buxar, a small town in Bihar.

The battle was fought between:

• The East India Company
• The combined armies of Mir Qasim, Nawab of Bengal, and the Nawab of Awadh.
• The Mughal Emperor Shah Alam II on 22nd October 1764.

The battle was a decisive victory for the British East India Company.

The war was put to an end by the Treaty of Allahabad in the year 1765.

Last verified on 29-10-2026

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• Pakistan became a member of the IMF and the World Bank in 1950.
• WTO in 1995.

Additional information:

• Founded: 22 July 1944
• Headquarters: Washington, D.C., USA
• Members: 191 countries
• Purpose: Financial stability, economic growth, and balance of payments support
• First Managing Director: Camille Gutt

Last Verified on 13-01-2026

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• Nagorno-Karabakh is a mountainous region internationally recognized as part of Azerbaijan, historically inhabited mainly by ethnic Armenians.
• The conflict intensified during the late Soviet period, particularly in the late 1980s, and led to wars between Armenia and Azerbaijan.
• Azerbaijan regained control of the region in 2023 after a military operation, and almost the entire ethnic Armenian population fled to Armenia.

Last verified on 29-10-2026

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• Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah joined the All India Muslim League in 1913.
• He was about 37 years old when he became a member of the Muslim League.

Additional information:

• Quaid-e-Azam joined the Indian National Congress in 1906 and left it in 1920.

Last verified on 21-07-2026

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• Lewis Waterman invented the first practical fountain pen in 1884.
• He was an American inventor who improved the ink-feeding system.
• His design regulated ink flow and reduced leakage.
• The fountain pen stores ink in a reservoir and delivers it to the nib.

Last verified on 29-10-2026

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• Al Jazeera Media Network (AJMN) is a Qatari news media organization
• Headquarters: Doha, Qatar.
• Founded: 1 November 1996.
• Founder: Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani
• Type: International news network.
• Language: Arabic and English, among other languages.

Last updated on 26 OCT 2026

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• Wang Yaping became the first Chinese woman to perform a spacewalk on 7 November 2021.
• She conducted the spacewalk during the Shenzhou-13 mission aboard China’s Tiangong Space Station.
• She was the second Chinese woman to travel into space, flying aboard Shenzhou-10 in 2013.

Last verified on 22-10-2026

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• The United States conducted the world’s first nuclear test, code-named Trinity, on 16 July 1945.
• The test took place in the Jornada del Muerto desert in New Mexico, USA.
• The experiment was part of the Manhattan Project, a secret American-led programme to develop atomic weapons during World War II.

Additional information:

• Soviet Union: 1949
• United Kingdom: 1952
• China: 1964

Last verified on 22-10-2026

Explanation

• India conducted its first nuclear test on May 18, 1974
• Codename: Smiling Buddha (or Pokhran-I).
• Location: Pokhran, Rajasthan, India.
• Type: Plutonium fission device.
• Smiling Buddha, other name Pokhran-I 
• Number of tests 1

Last updated by NA on 24-April-2026