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Rihand Dam is a concrete gravity dam located at Pipri in Sonbhadra District in Uttar Pradesh. Its reservoir area is on the border of Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh. It is located on the Rihand River, a tributary of the Son River. Rihand Dam Project provides irrigation to Uttar Pradesh and Bihar.

Servants of India Society was founded by Gopal Krishna Gokhale in 1905 to unite and train Indians of different ethnicities and religions in welfare work. It was the first secular organization in that country to devote itself to the underprivileged, rural and tribal people, emergency relief work, the increase of literacy, and other social causes.

Russian astronaut Alexei Arkhipovich Leonov was the first man to walk in space. The first spacewalk was on March 18, 1965. The Soviet spacecraft Voshkod-2 launched from its base in Baikonur, in modern-day Kazakhstan. Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin was a Soviet pilot and cosmonaut who became the first human to journey into outer space, his capsule, Vostok 1, completed one orbit of Earth on 12 April 1961.

Nanga Parbat is the ninth-highest mountain in the world at 8,126 metres above sea level. Located in Gilgit-Baltistan of POK. Nanga Parbat is the western anchor of the Himalayas. Nanda Devi (7,816 m) is the 23rd-highest peak in the world.

Royal Dutch Airlines, known simply as KLM, is the oldest airline in the world. KLM's first aircraft entered service in 1920. KLM and Air France merged in 2005.

Pir Panjal Railway Tunnel, Jammu and is the longest (railway) tunnel in India, measuring 11.215 km. Pir Pranjal runs through the heart of the Himalayas at an altitude of 11215 metres. Atal Tunnel, Himachal Pradesh, formerly known as the Rohtang Tunnel, is the longest highway tunnel in the world measuring 9.02 km. It is located in the Himalayas at an altitude of 3000 metres.

The world's three Longest Rivers are Nile (6650 km), Amazon (6400 km) and Yangtze (6300 km). The Nile River is the longest whereas the Amazon is the largest river in the world.

The Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre is a major space research centre of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), focusing on rocket and space vehicles for India's satellite programme. It is located in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala.

Manas National Park or Manas Wildlife Sanctuary is a national park, UNESCO Natural World Heritage site, a Project Tiger reserve, an elephant reserve and a biosphere reserve in Assam.

Roorkee Engineering College (I.I.T. Roorkee) is the earliest Engineering Educational Institution in India. It was established in 1847 AD in the British Empire. It was formerly known as the University of Roorkee and Thomason College of Civil Engineering.