Tuesday, October 2, 2012

Countries & National Sport

Countries & National Sport
*Australia
> Cricket
*Canada
> Ice Hockey
*China
> Table Tennis
*UK
> Cricket & Rugby
*Japan
> Ju-Jitsu
*Russia
> Chess
*Scotland
>Rugby
*Spain
>Bull Fighting
*USA
>Baseball
*India Hockey(Not as per RTI)

Ghandi

MohanDas Karamchand Gandhi:

>Born on 2 oct 1869

>1882 Marries Kasturbai Nakanji-both f them were 13

>1888 Trainsas a lawyer in London.

>1891 Returned to India

>1915 The creation of his own Ashram

>1918 Montford program of reforms

>1919 Amritsar Massacre.

>1920 Became leader of the Congress Party/ INC (until 1934) Non-cooperation campaign - general strike: sentenced to 6yrs imprisonment.


*Modern Gandhi
>Baba Amthe

*Burmese Gandhi
>Ong San

*Kosavo Gandhi
>Ibrahim Rugeva

*Kerala Gandhi
>K. Kelappan

*Mayyazhi Gandhi
>I.K. Kumaran Master

*African Gandhi
>Kennath Kounda

*American Gandhi
>Martin Luther King

*Sreelankan Gandhi
>Ariya Retne

*Frontier Gandhi
>Khan Abdul Gaffer Khan

Saturday, September 29, 2012

books & authors

Who wrote the book "My truth" ?
Ans: Indira Gandhi

Who wrote the book "My story" ?
Ans: Vijay Hazare

Who wrote the book "My days" ?
Ans: R K Narayan (Former Indian President )

Who wrote the book "My struggle" ?
Ans: E K Nayanar (Former Kerala CM)

FACTS ABOUT INDIA

**FACTS ABOUT INDIA**

* India is the world’s largest,oldest, continuous civilization.

* The four religions born in India, Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism,
and Sikhism, are followed by 25% of the world’s population.

* India is the largest English speaking nation in the world.

* India is the only country other than US and Japan, to have
built a super computer indigenously.

* India has the second largest pool of Scientists andEngineers in the World.

* Chess was invented in India.

* The value of pi was first calculated by Budhayana, and
he explained the concept of what is known as the Pythagorean Theorem.

* He discovered this in the 6th century long before the European mathematicians.

* The World’s first university was established inTakshashila in 700BC.

* More than 10,500 studentsfrom all over the world studied more than 60 subjects.

* The University of Nalanda built in the 4th century BC was one of the greatest achievements of ancient Indiain the field of education.

* India invented the Number System. Zero was invented by Aryabhatta.

* The place value system, the decimal system was developed in India in 100 BC.


♥♥♥ PROUD TO BE AN INDIAN ♥♥♥

Friday, September 28, 2012

Current Affiers

1. What is the new name of Big Ben tower in London ?
Answer: Elizabeth tower
2. Who is the new President of All Indian Tennis Association ?
Answer: Anil Khanna
3. Who is the new President of Egypt ?
Answer: Muhammad Murzi
4. Which country will host the2016 Euro Cup?
Answer: France
5. Who won the Golden Boot in 2012 Euro Cup ?
Answer: Fernando Torres (Spain)
6. Who is elected as Best player of 2012 Euro cup ?
Answer: Andres Iniesta
7. Who is the new president of Mexico ?
Answer: Enrique Pena Nieto
8. Who is the new prime minister of Greece ?
Answer: Antonis Samaras
9. Who is the first amputee tocompete in Olympics ?
Answer: Oscar Pistorius
10. Who is appointed as new President of World Bank on 16th April 2012 ?
Answer: Jim Yong Kim
11. Who is crowned as Miss India 2012 ?
Answer: Vanya Mishra
12. Who is crowned as Miss World 2012 ?
Answer: Yu Wenxia (China)
13. Who won the 73 rd PGA Tour title 2012 ?
Answer: Tiger Woods
14. Who is the First woman Space traveler of China ?
Answer: Liu Yung
15. Which Indian Won the Ramon Magsaysay Award ?
Answer: Kulendei Francis
16. Who is newly appointed as UN Special Envoy for Syria replacing Kofi Annan ?
Answer: Lakhdar Brahmini
17. Who is the present President of Pakistan ?
Answer: Asif Ali Zardar
18. Who is the present Prime Minister of Pakistan ?
Answer: Raja Pervaiz Asharaf
19. Who is the present President of Nepal ?
Answer: Ram Baran Yadav
20. Who is the present Prime Minister of Nepal ?
Answer: Baburam Bhattari

GK-QUIZ

QUIZ:
1 Who was known as ‘the lady with the lamp’?
2 In the computer abbreviation ASCII, for what does the
letter ‘C’ stand?
3 Of which US state is Lansing the capital?
4 Which of the British Isles has three legs on its flag?
5 What sort of creature is a ‘piddock’?
6 Which Oscar-winning actor starred in the film What
Women Want?
7 On which river does the city of Manchester stand?
8 What is the meaning of the title Fidei Defensor
belonging to English monarchs?
9 Which US football team won Superbowl XLI?
10 Who wrote The Day of theTriffids?




ANSWERS:
1 Florence Nightingale,
2 Code,
3 Michigan,
4 The Isle of Man,
5 Mollusc,
6 Mel Gibson,
7 Irwell,
8 Defender of the Faith,
9 The Indianapolis Colts,
10 John Wyndham.

Confusing Facts

Confusing Facts
----------------------
* Who is the First president of Chinese republic ?
Answer: Sun Yat-Sen
* Who is the First Chairman of Chinese republic ?
Answer: Mao Tse-tung
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* Which country has the oldest National Flag ?
Answer: Denmark
* which country has the oldest national anthem ?
Answer: Japan
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* Where is National Defense College situated ?
Answer: New Delhi
* Where is National Defense Academy (NDA) situated ?
Answer: Khadakwasla (Pune)
* Where is Indian Military Academy situated ?
Answer: Dehradun
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* Who is the First American president who won the Nobel Prize ?
Answer: Theodore Roosevelt
* Who is the First Russian president who won the Nobel Prize ?
Answer: Mikhail Gorbachev
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* Which is the largest lake inthe world ?
Answer: Caspian Sea
* Which is the Largest FreshWater Lake in the world ?
Answer: Lake Superior

Wednesday, September 26, 2012

**PARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEES IN INDIA**

**PARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEES IN INDIA**
Overview
Since Parliament needs to perform substantial functionsin limited time, it cannot go into the details of every legislative and other matter that comes before it
For this reason, Parliamentary Committees areconstituted to study in detail the legislative and other matters that come before Parliament
Committees can be appointed in both Houses of Parliament,and their roles and functions are more or less similar
Functions of the Committees
To consider the Demand for Grants of various Departments/ Ministries and make reports to the Houses
To examine Bills that are referred to the Committee by the Lok Sabha or the Rajya Sabha
To study annual reports of various Ministries and Departments
To consider policy documentspresented to the Houses if/when referred to the Committee by the Lok Sabha or Rajya Sabha
_______________ _______________ _
TYPES OF COMMITTEES
1.Ad hoc Committees
They are appointed for a specific purpose and cease to exist when the task is finished
They can either belong to one particular Parliament House or be a joint committee
There are two types of Ad hoc committees
Committees appointed either by a motion in Parliament or by the Speaker/ Chairman to enquire into a specific subject
Select or Joint Committees on Bills. These Committees are constituted to study and report on specific Bills
Examples of Ad hoc Committees: Committees on Draft Five Year Plans, Railway Convention Committee, Fertilizer Pricing Committee etc
2.Standing Committees
Standing Committees are Committees appointed every year or periodically, and their work goes on in a continuous basis
The three most important Standing Committees (which deal with finance) are worth special mention
Committee on Estimates
Committee on Public Accounts
Committee on Public Undertakings
Additionally, there are 24 Departmentally Related Standing Committees that dealwith affairs of a specific Department/ Ministry
_______________ _______________ ____________
IMPORTANT COMMITTEES
1. Departmentally Related Standing Committees
There are a total of 24 Departmentally Related Standing Committees (DRSC)
The DRSCs were first introduced in 1993 in a batch of 17, and a further 7 were added in 2004
Each of these Committees consists of no more than 45 members.
30 are to be nominated from the Lok Sabha and 15 from the Rajya Sabha
Ministers are not eligible to be nominated to these Committees
The term of the Committee is one year
2. Committee on Estimates
Consists of 30 members elected from the Lok Sabha
Ministers are not eligible for election to this Committee
The term of the Committee is one year
Primary functions include
report what improvements in organisation, efficiency or administration can be made
suggest policies to bring about improvements in efficiency and economy
the Committee can select and study estimates pertaining toany Ministry or government body as it may see fit
Committee can also examine matters of special interest that come up or are referred to it by the Speaker
3. Committee on Public Accounts
Consists of 22 members: 15 elected from the Lok Sabha and 7 from the Rajya Sabha
Ministers are not eligible for election to this Committee
Term of office is one year
Primary function is to determine if money granted by the Parliament has been spent by the Government within the scope of the Demand
The Committee bases its examinations on the Appropriation Accounts of theGovernment and the Audit Reports presented by the Comptroller and Auditor General
The Committee is not concerned with policy, but only with execution of the policy and its results
4. Committee on Public Undertakings
Consists of 22 members: 15 elected from the Lok Sabha and 7 from the Rajya Sabha
Ministers are not eligible for election to this Committee
Term of office is one year
Functions of the Committee include
Examine reports and accounts of Public Undertakings
Examine reports of the CAG on Public Undertakings
Examine whether Public Undertakings are being managed with sound business principles and prudent commercial practices
The Committee does not examine government policy or day-to-day administrationof the Undertakin

Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Indian Nobel Prize Winners

1.RABINDRANATH TAGORE (1913)

Nobel Prize for Literature

Popularly known as Gurudev, India's most famous writer andpoet was awarded the Nobel Prize in recognition of his work Geetanjali, a collection ofpoems, in 1913. Tagore was also involved in teaching. In 1901 he founded the famous Santiniketan which later came to be known as Vishwabharati University.

DID YOU KNOW?
Rabindranath Tagore is also the author of India's National Anthem.


2.CHANDRASHEKAR VENKATA RAMAN (1930)

Nobel Prize for Physics

Born at Thiruvanaikkaval in Tamil Nadu, Raman studied at Presidency College, Madras. Later, he served as Professor of Physics at Calcutta University. C.V. Ramanwon the Nobel Prize for an important research in the field of optics (light). Raman had found that diffused light contained rays of other wavelengths-what is now popularly known as Raman Effect. His theory explains why the frequency of light passing through a transparent medium changes.

3.HARGOBIND KHORANA (1968)

The Nobel Prize for Medicine

Dr. Khorana was born in Raipur, Punjab (now in Pakistan). He went abroad to get his doctorate in Chemistry and later settled there. It was his study of the human geneticcode and the role it plays in protein synthesis that got him the Nobel Prize.

4.MOTHER TERESA (1979)

The Nobel Peace Prize

Mother Teresa was born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu at Skopje, now in Yugoslavia. She wanted to become a nun and joined the Irish order of the Sisters of Loretto (at Dublin) in 1928. It is as a nun that Agnes came Calcutta in 1929. Here she was extremelytouched by the misery of the poor and the sick. She decidedto dedicate her life to serving them. She then founded a group of similar minded people called the Missionaries of Charity and set up Nirmal Hriday a center where she took care of the dying, the lepers and other people who had been left alone on the streets of Calcutta to die. Today her group has centers all over the world.

5.SUBRAMANIAN CHANDRASHEKAR (1983)

The Nobel Prize for Physics

Dr S. Chandrashekar, is an Indian-born astrophysicist (a branch of astronomy or the study of space). After studying at the Presidency College in Madras, Dr. Chandrashekhar went to the United States for work and settled there. He has written many books on his field Astrophysics and
Stellar Dynamics. He developed a theory on white dwarf stars forecasts the limitof mass that dwarf stars can have. This limit is known as the Chandrashekar Limit. His theory also explains the final stages of the evolution of stars.

DID YOU KNOW?
Dr. Chandrashekar is the nephew of another Nobel Prize winner Sir C.V. Raman.

6.AMARTYA SEN (1998)

Nobel Prize for Economics

Prof. Amartya Sen is the first Asian to win the Economics Nobel. He is one of the most respected economics thinker in the world. He is also an excellent teacher. He won the Nobel for his work in the areaof economic theory. Some of his most important work is in the areas of poverty, democracy, development and social welfare.

7.Venkatraman Ramakrishnan (2009)

Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Thomas A. Steitz and Ada E. Yonath.

(born 1952) is an Indian-born American and British structural biologist , who shared the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Thomas A. Steitz and Ada E. Yonath , "for studies of thestructure and function of the ribosome ". He currently works at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, England

Monday, September 24, 2012

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Saturday, September 22, 2012

ICC T20-2012 World Cup Schedule

Initial Groups Super Eight (S8) Groups

Group A – England, India, Afghanistan

Group B – Australia, West Indies, Ireland

Group C – Sri Lanka, SouthAfrica, Zimbabwe

Group D – Pakistan, New Zealand, Bangladesh

Group 1 – A1, B2, C1, D2
Group 2 – A2, B1, C2, D1

Date and Time Match Details and Series

Tue Sep 18
19:30 local | 14:00 GMT Group C : 1st T20 - Sri Lanka vs Zimbabwe
Mahinda Rajapaksa International Stadium, Hambantota
Wed Sep 19
15:30 local | 10:00 GMT Group B : 2nd T20 - Australia vs Ireland
R. Premadasa Stadium, Colombo
Wed Sep 19
19:30 local | 14:00 GMT Group A : 3rd T20 - India vsAfghanistan
R. Premadasa Stadium, Colombo
Thu Sep 20
19:30 local | 14:00 GMT Group C : 4th T20 - South Africa vs Zimbabwe
Mahinda Rajapaksa International Stadium, Hambantota
Fri Sep 21
15:30 local | 10:00 GMT Group D : 5th T20 - New Zealand vs Bangladesh
Pallekele Cricket Stadium, Kandy
Fri Sep 21
19:30 local | 14:00 GMT Group A : 6th T20 - Englandvs Afghanistan
R. Premadasa Stadium, Colombo
Sat Sep 22
15:30 local | 10:00 GMT Group C : 7th T20 - Sri Lanka vs South Africa
Mahinda Rajapaksa International Stadium, Hambantota
Sat Sep 22
19:30 local | 14:00 GMT Group B : 8th T20 - Australia vs West Indies
R. Premadasa Stadium, Colombo
Sun Sep 23
15:30 local | 10:00 GMT Group D : 9th T20 - New Zealand vs Pakistan
Pallekele Cricket Stadium, Kandy
Sun Sep 23
19:30 local | 14:00 GMT Group A : 10th T20 - England vs India
R. Premadasa Stadium, Colombo
Mon Sep 24
19:30 local | 14:00 GMT Group B : 11th T20 - West Indies vs Ireland
R. Premadasa Stadium, Colombo
Tue Sep 25
19:30 local | 14:00 GMT Group D : 12th T20 - Bangladesh vs Pakistan
Pallekele Cricket Stadium, Kandy
Thu Sep 27
15:30 local | 10:00 GMT Super Eights, Group 1 : 13th T20 - TBC vs TBC (C1 v D2)
Pallekele Cricket Stadium, Kandy
Thu Sep 27
19:30 local | 14:00 GMT Super Eights, Group 1 : 14th T20 - TBC vs TBC (A1 v B2)
Pallekele Cricket Stadium, Kandy
Fri Sep 28
15:30 local | 10:00 GMT Super Eights, Group 2 : 15th T20 - TBC vs TBC (D1 v C2)
R. Premadasa Stadium, Colombo
Fri Sep 28
19:30 local | 14:00 GMT Super Eights, Group 2 : 16th T20 - TBC vs TBC (B1 v A2)
R. Premadasa Stadium, Colombo
Sat Sep 29
15:30 local | 10:00 GMT Super Eights, Group 1 : 17th T20 - TBC vs TBC (A1 v D2)
Pallekele Cricket Stadium, Kandy
Sat Sep 29
19:30 local | 14:00 GMT Super Eights, Group 1 : 18th T20 - TBC vs TBC (C1 v B2)
Pallekele Cricket Stadium, Kandy
Sun Sep 30
15:30 local | 10:00 GMT Super Eights, Group 2 : 19th T20 - TBC vs TBC (B1 v C2)
R. Premadasa Stadium, Colombo
Sun Sep 30
19:30 local | 14:00 GMT Super Eights, Group 2 : 20th T20 - TBC vs TBC (D1 v A2)
R. Premadasa Stadium, Colombo
Mon Oct 1
15:30 local | 10:00 GMT Super Eights, Group 1 : 21st T20 - TBC vs TBC (B2 v D2)
Pallekele Cricket Stadium, Kandy
Mon Oct 1
19:30 local | 14:00 GMT Super Eights, Group 1 : 22nd T20 - TBC vs TBC (A1 v C1)
Pallekele Cricket Stadium, Kandy
Tue Oct 2
15:30 local | 10:00 GMT Super Eights, Group 2 : 23rd T20 - TBC vs TBC (B1 v D1)
R. Premadasa Stadium, Colombo
Tue Oct 2
19:30 local | 14:00 GMT Super Eights, Group 2 : 24th T20 - TBC vs TBC (A2 v C2)
R. Premadasa Stadium, Colombo
Thu Oct 4
19:00 local | 13:30 GMT

Thu Oct 4
19:00 local | 13:30 GMT 1st Semi Final T20 - TBC vsTBC (SE Group-1 1 v SEGroup-2 2)
R. Premadasa Stadium, Colombo
Fri Oct 5
19:00 local | 13:30 GMT 2nd Semi Final T20 - TBC vsTBC (SE Group-2 1 v SEGroup-1 2)
R. Premadasa Stadium, Colombo
Sun Oct 7
19:00 local | 13:30 GMT Final T20 - TBC vs TBC
R. Premadasa Stadium, Colombo