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India ranks 131 in the 2016 Human Development Index (HDI) among the 188 countries. It scored 0.624 and was placed in medium human development category.

The index was unveiled recently as part of the Human Development Report (HDR) 2016 titled Human Development for Everyone published by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).

Every year on 18 April, ICOMOS (International Council on Monuments and Sites) celebrates the International Day for Monuments and Sites (also called as World Heritage day), whose establishment was approved by the 22nd UNESCO General Conference in 1983.

All the three statements lead to either increase in demand of goods and services or decrease in the supply. This leads to increase in general level of prices.

Joseph F. Glidden - Father of Barbed Wire.

• Glidden was born in New York in 1812. He invented Barbed Wire in 1873 and was granted the patent on Nov. 24, 1874. After a three year battle over the patent, which he eventually won received a patent for the modern invention in 1874 after he made his own modifications to previous versions.

Gorakhpur railway platform in Uttar Pradesh is the longest railway platform in the world.