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The following is a list of the cities in India through which major rivers flow.

City River State .
Agra Yamuna Uttar Pradesh .
Ahmedabad Sabarmati Gujarat .
Allahabad At the confluence of Ganga, Yamuna and Saraswati Uttar Pradesh .
Ayodhya Saryu Uttar Pradesh .
Badrinath Alaknanda Uttarakhand .
Banki Mahanadi Odisha .
Brahmapur Rushikulya Odisha .
Chhatrapur Rushikulya Odisha .
Bhagalpur Ganges Bihar .
Kolkata Hugli West Bengal .
Cuttack Mahanadi Odisha .
New Delhi Yamuna Delhi .
Dibrugarh Brahmaputra Assam .
Ferozpur Sutlej Punjab .
Guwahati Brahmaputra Assam .
Haridwar Ganges Uttarakhand .
Hyderabad Musi Telangana .
Jabalpur Narmada Madhya Pradesh .
Kanpur Ganges Uttar Pradesh .
Kota Chambal Rajasthan .
Kottayam Meenachil Kera...

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The Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna (RGKR) is India’s highest honour given for achievement in sports.  The award is named after the late Rajiv Gandhi, former Prime Minister of India. It carries a medal, a scroll of honour and a substantial cash component.




Year Name  Sport  .
1991–92 Viswanathan Anand Chess .
1992–93 Geet Sethi Billiards .
1993–94 NA .
1994–95 Cdr. Homi D. Motivala (Joint) Yachting (Team Event) .
Lt. Cdr. P. K. Garg (Joint) .
1995–96 Karnam Malleswari Weightlifting .
1996–97 Nameirakpam Kunjarani (Joint) Weightlifting .
Leander Paes (Joint) Tennis .
1997–98 Sachin Tendulkar Cricket .
1998–99 Jyotirmoyee Sikdar Athletics .
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The 2017 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Jeffrey C. Hall, Michael Rosbash and Michael W. Young for their discoveries of molecular mechanisms controlling the circadian rhythm. The announcement marked the start of this year’s Nobel season. It is the 108th time the prize has been awarded.


The medicine prize will be followed by the physics prize announcement on Tuesday. The honour could also go to the discovery of exoplanets by Swiss astrophysicians Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz .


The 2017 Nobel prize in physics has been awarded to three US scientists for the detection of gravitational waves. The coveted award has been conferred jointly upon Rainer Weiss, Barry C. Barish and Kip S. Thorne for their “decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves.” Predicted by Albert Einstein a century ago as part of his theory of general relativity but o...

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