Districts and Headquarters of West Bengal

District => Headquarters

1. Alipurduar =>    lipurduar
2. Bankura =>    Bankura
3. Purba Bardhaman =>    Bardhaman
4. Birbhum =>    Suri
5. Cooch Behar =>    Cooch Behar
6. Darjeeling =>    Darjeeling
7. Purba Medinipur =>    Tamluk
8. Hooghly =>    Chinsura
9. Howrah =>    Howrah
10. Jhargram =>    Jhargram
11. Kolkata =>    Kolkata
12. Kalimpong =>    Kalimpong
13. Malda =>    English Bazar
14. Murshidabad =>    Baharampur
15. Nadia =>    Krishnanagar    
16. North 24 Parganas =>    Barasat
17. Uttar Dinajpur =>    Raiganj    
18. Purulia =>    Purulia
19. South 24 Parganas =>    Alipore
20. Dakshin Dinajpur =>    Balurghat
21. Paschim Midnapore =>    Medinipur
22. Paschim Burdwan => Durgapur
23. Jalpaiguri => Jalpaiguri

States and Capitals of India

State – Capitals

Andhra Pradesh – Hyderabad (Proposed Capital: Amaravati in Guntur district. See Note 1 below.)
Arunachal Pradesh – Itanagar
Assam – Dispur
Bihar – Patna
Goa – Panaji
Gujarat – Gandhinagar
Haryana – Chandigarh
Himachal Pradesh – Shimla
Jammu & Kashmir – Srinagar (Winter : Jammu)
Karnataka – Bangalooru
Kerala – Tirubanantapuram
Madhya Pradesh – Bhopal
Maharashtra – Mumbai
Manipur – Imphal
Meghalaya – Shillong
Mizoram – Aizawl
Nagaland – Kohima
Orissa – Bhubaneswar
Punjab – Chandigarh
Rajasthan – Jaipur
Sikkim – Gangtok
Tamil Nadu – Chennai
Tripura – Agartala
Uttar Pradesh – Lucknow
West Bengal – Kolkata
Chhattisgarh – Raipur
Uttarakhand – Dehradun
Jharkhand – Ranchi
Telangana – Hyderabad (see Note 1 below)
(Note: From 2nd June, 2014, The State of Andhra Pradesh has been divided into Telangana and Andhra Pradesh. Hyderabad will remain capital of both the resultant states for 10 years. The proposed capital for the state of Andhra Pradesh is Amaravati in Guntur district.)

Union Territories and National Capital

Territory- Capitals

Delhi (National Capital Territory of Delhi or NCT) – New Delhi *
Andaman & Nicobar Islands – Port Blair
Chandigarh – Chandigarh
Dadra & Nagar Haveli – Silvasa
Daman & Diu – Daman
Lakshadweep – Kavaratti
Puducherry – Puducherry
(Note: In 1991, the constitution vide the 69th amendment, made provisions to make Delhi a special Union Territory. It was declared that the former Union Territory of Delhi would be known as National Capital Territory.)

World Capital Cities

Capital City => Country

Abu Dhabi => United Arab Emirates
Abuja => Nigeria
Accra => Ghana
Addis Ababa => Ethiopia
Algiers => Algeria
Amman => Jordan
Amsterdam  => Netherlands
Andorra la Vella => Andorra
Ankara => Turkey
Antananarivo => Madagascar
Apia => Samoa
Ashgabat => Turkmenistan
Asmara => Eritrea
Astana => Kazakhstan
Asuncion => Paraguay
Athens  =>   Greece
Baghdad  =>   Iraq
Baku  =>   Azerbaijan
Bamako  =>   Mali
Bandar Seri Begawan  =>   Brunei
Bangkok  =>   Thailand
Bangui  =>   Central African Republic
Banjul   =>  Gambia
Basseterre   =>  Saint Kitts and Nevis
Beijing  =>   China
Beirut  =>   Lebanon
Belfast  =>   Northern Ireland
Belgrade  =>   Serbia
Belmopan   =>  Belize
Berlin  =>   Germany
Bern  =>   Switzerland
Bishkek  =>   Kyrgyzstan
Bissau   =>  Guinea-Bissau
Bogota  =>   Colombia
Brasilia  =>   Brazil
Bratislava  =>   Slovakia
Brazzaville  =>   Congo, Republic of the
Bridgetown  =>   Barbados
Brussels  =>   Belgium
Bucharest  =>   Romania
Budapest  =>   Hungary
Buenos Aires   =>  Argentina
Bujumbura  =>   Burundi
Cairo  =>   Egypt
Canberra   =>  Australia
Caracas   =>  Venezuela
Cardiff   =>  Wales
Castries  =>   Saint Lucia
Cayenne  =>   French Guiana
Chisinau  =>   Moldova
Colombo   =>  Sri Lanka
Conakry  =>   Guinea
Copenhagen  =>   Denmark
Dakar  =>   Senegal
Damascus  =>   Syria
Dar es Salaam  =>   Tanzania
Dhaka  =>   Bangladesh
Dili  =>   East Timor
Djibouti   =>  Djibouti
Doha   =>  Qatar
Dublin  =>   Ireland
Dushanbe   =>  Tajikistan
Edinburgh  =>   Scotland
Freetown  =>   Sierra Leone
Gaborone  =>   Botswana
Georgetown   =>  Guyana
Guatemala City  =>   Guatemala
Hanoi  =>   Vietnam
Harare   =>  Zimbabwe
Havana  =>   Cuba
Helsinki   =>  Finland
Honiara   =>  Solomon Islands
Islamabad  =>   Pakistan
Jakarta  =>   Indonesia
Juba  =>   South Sudan
Kabul  =>   Afghanistan
Kampala   =>  Uganda
Kathmandu  =>   Nepal
Khartoum   =>  Sudan
Kiev  =>   Ukraine
Kigali  =>   Rwanda
Kingston  =>   Jamaica
Kingstown  =>   Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Kinshasa   =>  Congo, Democratic Republic of the
Kuala Lumpur   =>  Malaysia
Kuwait City  =>   Kuwait
La Paz  =>   Bolivia
Libreville   =>  Gabon
Lilongwe  =>   Malawi
Lima  =>   Peru
Lisbon  =>   Portugal
Ljubljana  =>   Slovenia
Lome  =>   Togo
London   =>  England
London  =>   United Kingdom
Luanda  =>   Angola
Lusaka  =>   Zambia
Luxembourg  =>   Luxembourg
Madrid  =>   Spain
Majuro  =>   Marshall Islands
Malabo   =>  Equatorial Guinea
Male  =>   Maldives
Managua  =>   Nicaragua
Manama  =>   Bahrain
Manila  =>   Philippines
Maputo  =>   Mozambique
Maseru  =>   Lesotho
Mbabana   =>  Swaziland
Melekeok  =>   Palau
Mexico City  =>   Mexico
Minsk   =>  Belarus
Mogadishu  =>   Somalia
Monaco  =>   Monaco
Monrovia  =>   Liberia
Montevideo  =>   Uruguay
Moroni   =>  Comoros
Moscow  =>   Russia
Muscat  =>   Oman
N'Djamena   =>  Chad
Nairobi   =>  Kenya
Nassau  =>   Bahamas
New Delhi   =>  India
Niamey  =>   Niger
Nicosia   =>  Cyprus
No official capital  =>   Nauru
Nouakchott  =>   Mauritania
Nuku'alofa   =>  Tonga
Oslo   =>  Norway
Ottawa    => Canada
Ouagadougou   =>  Burkina Faso
Palikir   =>  Federated States of Micronesia
Panama City   =>  Panama
Paramaribo  =>   Suriname
Paris  =>   France
Phnom Penh  =>   Cambodia
Podgorica  =>   Montenegro
Port au Prince   =>  Haiti
Port Louis  =>   Mauritius
Port Moresby  =>   Papua New Guinea
Port of Spain  =>   Trinidad and Tobago
Port Vila  =>   Vanuatu
Porto Novo   =>  Benin
Prague   =>  Czech Republic
Praia   =>  Cape Verde
Pretoria  =>   South Africa
Pristina  =>   Kosovo
Pyongyang  =>   North Korea
Quito  =>   Ecuador
Rabat  =>   Morocco
Rangoon (Yangon)   =>  Myanmar (Burma)
Reykjavik  =>   Iceland
Riga  =>   Latvia
Riyadh  =>   Saudi Arabia
Rome  =>   Italy
Roseau  =>   Dominica
Saint George's  =>   Grenada
Saint John's   =>  Antigua and Barbuda
San Jose   =>  Costa Rica
San Marino  =>   San Marino
San Salvador  =>   El Salvador
Sanaa  =>   Yemen
Santiago  =>   Chile
Santo Domingo  =>   Dominican Republic
Sao Tome  =>   Sao Tome and Principe
Sarajevo  =>   Bosnia and Herzegovina
Seoul  =>   South Korea
Singapore  =>   Singapore
Skopje  =>   Macedonia
Sofia  =>   Bulgaria
Stockholm  =>   Sweden
Suva  =>   Fiji
Taipei   =>  Taiwan
Tallinn  =>   Estonia
Tarawa Atoll  =>   Kiribati
Tashkent   =>  Uzbekistan
Tbilisi   =>  Georgia
Tegucigalpa  =>   Honduras
Tehran  =>   Iran
Tel Aviv* =>    Israel
Thimphu  =>   Bhutan
Tirana (Tirane)  =>   Albania
Tokyo  =>   Japan
Tripoli  =>   Libya
Tunis   =>  Tunisia
Ulaanbaatar  =>   Mongolia
Vaduz  =>   Liechtenstein
Vaiaku village   =>  Tuvalu
Valletta  =>   Malta
Vatican City  =>   Vatican City
Victoria  =>   Seychelles
Vienna  =>   Austria
Vientiane  =>   Laos
Vilnius  =>   Lithuania
Warsaw  =>   Poland
Washington D.C.  =>   United States
Wellington  =>   New Zealand
Windhoek  =>   Namibia
Yamoussoukro   =>  Cote d'Ivoire
Yaounde  =>   Cameroon
Yerevan  =>   Armenia
Zagreb  =>   Croatia
*Most countries do not officially recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital and maintain their embassies in Tel Aviv.

General Knowledge

• Water pollution in rivers is measured by the dissolved amount of >> Chlorine.
• One Astronomical Unit is the average distance between >> Earth and the Sun.
• The major chemical compound found in human kidney stones is >> Calcium oxalate.
• Zinc, Copper, Magnesium or Iron -- which one does not form amalgams >> Iron.
• Cobalt, Nichel, Zirconium or Tungsten -- which is essential for the construction of nuclear reactors >> Zirconium.
• The major importer of Bauxite from India >> UAE
• The leading producer of Oak Tasar Silk >> Assam.
• A language which belongs to the Austric group >> Tamil.