INSAT started in 1983 with the joint venture of the department of space, Doordarshan, All India Radio, Indian Metereological Department and the Department of Telecom
Human Genome project – 1990 – presence of 20-25 K genes in human chromosome. Chromosome 1 is the biggest. Contains 8% of genetic code with 3141 genes.
Pre consumption and pre natal diagnostic techniques prohibition of sex selection act - 1994
HOBIT – it is the dwarf form of Homo erectus discovered in Flores island of Indonesia
Chikunguniya – Aedis aegyptia is the name of the mostquito
Diclofenae – it is an anti inflammatory dfrug used to treat cattle in india it is banned since of the ill effects on the vultures feeding on the caracus of the cattle.
Birth rate of Japan – reduced to record low of 1.2 babies per woman. 2005 and in india its 3.5 babies per woman,
NSSO on the disabled placed the nation average of the disabled at 105 out of 100000 . kerala topped the list.
Rhinderpest – A Fatal virus disease that hits domestic cattle. India is declared free from Rhinderpest.
Gardasil – it is a first vaccine to prevent cervical cancer and own FDA approval.
HARRIET – 178 year old tortoise which helped Charles Darwin in giving his theory of evolution
Yuva –youth Unit for victrion aids – joint sponsored by naco, and Union ministry of youth affairs and sports
First Stem cell bank of the country – Chennai
Central drugs research institute – lucknow
HLL released 2 vaccines – Hivac – B and Tyfex for typhoid
According to WHO, one in 20 members effected by hepatitis b in india
Report on MMR – 407 per 100000 in 1997 and 301 per 100000 in 2003
2/3 of maternal deaths occurred in empowered action group states(Uttaranchal,UP,MP,chattisgarh,bihar,Jharkhand,Orissa and assam)
IMR – 80/10000 in 1991 and 58/1000 in 2003
DICOCCOM – it’s a wheat variety produced by ICAR which is suitable for diabetic patients
NANDROLONE – steroid with naturally occus in the human body in very small quantities. It is a single structure to test steron when used in high quantities increases the muscle mass of the athletes
The limit prescribed by IOC is 2 nanograms per milliliter
COPYCAT – the first cloned cat born in 2001
Micro raptor – gui – it is the ancestor of modern birds 125 million years ago it was a dinosaur
It later became the archeoptreys
GLLEVECK – it is an anti cancer drug of Novartis
Donye – pole – temple – Along – NE – temple is known for introducing environmental friendly rice cultivation
AIDS vax – the aid vaccine produced by ICMR
Brazil, Thailand, Uganda –free AIDS treatment
What are scramjets ?A: supersonic combustion ram jet ....the combustor being a supersonic one to give a very high efficiency... and ramjets are nothing but jets at supersonic speeds
What is Truth Serum test?A: Some process of narco - analytical test used for investigations
What is brain mapping?A: Neuroscience technique of mapping the brain into neuromappings
What is bio dynamic farming?A:Biodynamics is a method of agriculture which seeks to actively work with the health-giving forces of nature. It is the oldest non-chemical agricultural movement in the world
What are the different types of diabetes?A: Insulin - Dependent Diabetes Mallitus, Non-Insulin-Dependent Diabetis Mallitus and Gestational Diabetis
Sunday, February 25, 2007
More Personalities and Heads Contdd.
Secretary general of Rajya Sabha – Yogender Narayan
Sec Gen of Lok Sabha - PDT Acharya
Deputy chairman of RS – Rehman Khan
Chairman of Scientific advisory council to PM and chairman of IITs– CNR Rao
Union cabinet Sec. BK chaturvedi
Saina Nehwal – Badminton – 4 star bad tournament first Indian woman tro win and Phillippens open
Arundhati roy – nominated for the Spanish prince of Astuaries 2006
Kim Wu Choong – of Hyundia who was involved in the corruption charges
Cederick Prakash – the founder director of Prashanth and Ahmedabad based Human rights Org
Awarded the france highest civilan award for 2005 Legion De Honor
Zadie Smith – Orange Prize – “on beauty”
“white teeth” and “autograph man”
Bhumipal Adulyatez – King of Thailand for 60 years.
Dalai lama – 14th one at present – Tenzing gyatso – US Senate has announced the congregation gold medal that is the countires highest civilan honour
Anuradha Mohit – Nominated by UN high Commission for human rights as the global representative of national human rights institute in UN
Verghese Kurian – White revolution – resigned as the chairman on IRMA – Institute of rural management – Anand
Rona Jain Dutta – resigned from the psot of president of Air Sahara and now replaced by Alok Sharma.
VK Krishna Menon – freedom fighter and former defence minister – dfied rencently
Peery sonn-new chairperson of international criminal court.
Amertro maresmo-first French women to win wimbeldon in 81 years.
Nirupama sen – india’s permanent reprensentative to UN
Principal Secretary to the PM – TKA Nair
Tasrima Nasreen - Grand Prix International Condorcet-Aron 2005, from the French-Parliament in Belgium, 2005
R Laxmipati – chairman of PTI and is the publisher of the tamil daily Dina Malar
Anand Satyananda – elected as NZ governor general
Forbes list of Top woman:
1. Angela Merkel
2. Condoleezza Rice
3. Wu Yi
4. Indra Nooyi
Envoy to china – nirupama rao replaced nalin suri
Justice PN Bhagwati – elected for the fourth term to the UN HRC
Irom sharmila chanu – human right activist agitated against the armed forces special power act
Powerful business women(fortune magazine)
ICICI – Dy MD – chanda kochar(37th position)
HSBC – ind. CEO - naina lal kidwai(41st )
Biocon CMD – kiran mazumdar(45th )
John hanson baur – Norwegian special envoy on peace talks between LTTE n sri lanka
Yasushi Akashi – Japanese special envoy for talks with LTTE and SL government
Tamil chevelam – LTTE chief
Hans Bratskar – norways ambassador to sl
He mediated w.r.t to Brussels declaration of sep 12 of 2006
Ispek calisper – faced conviction on charges of insulting the founder of modern tuykey Mustafa kemal Ataturk.
Madan jith singh – us good will ambassador and founder pf South asia foundation UNESCO madan jith prize given for promotion of non violence and tolerance – ananda sanghavia of sl got this prize
Jimmy Carter- previous president of US – initiated the Habitat for humanity in india
Chandrika kumara tunga appointed senior advisor to UNESCO in the matters related to advancement of education in south asia minus SL.
Alok Mehta – president of editors guild of india
CMD of Air India _Tulsi das
Surendra Patil – eminent Indian scientist and a civil servant
His works include the inda we want – essays in economic transition Indian economy towards 21 century
Dr k Kasturitrangan is appointed as the Pope Benedict XVI as an academician of the pontifical academy of sciences
Gherald Ford – died – former US president
Shemon Perize – deputy PM of Isreal – nobel peace prize in 1994
The longest serving member of Knesset
Arun Gandhi – director of Tata sons
Jose Bove – a French anti globalization campaigner contesting for French presidency
Martin Ahtisaari – UN Negotiator in KOSovo
S Rangarajan – Kasturi Sons Chairman 1974 – 2005
Publisher of Hindu
Serigvenov – Russian defence minister promoted to first Deputy PM
Maria sharapova –goodwill ambassador for UNDP
Mark inglis – (new Zealand) –scaled the Everest
Barack Hussein Obama (born August 4, 1961; is the junior United States Senator from Illinois. According to the U.S. Senate Historical Office, he is the fifth African American Senator in U.S. history and the only African American currently serving in the U.S. Senate.[1] He is a candidate for the Democratic Party's 2008 presidential nomination.[2]
Ali larijani – chief nuclear negotiator
Dr chitra baurch – chief of BBC – the first women Indian
Claude schwab – founder of world economic forum
Neha hotchandani –first Indian women to enter US army
Ashbinder singh –UN environmental program .he was the author of one planet –many people .he was awarded union -24 award for improving the working standard of UNEP
who is the speaker of commonwealth parlimentry committee?A: HA.Halim-speaker of west bengal
Who is the head of national institute of advanced studies?A: K Kasturirangan
Who is the head of RAW?A: Ashok Chaturvedi (the former chief is PKH Thaparan)
Who was the 2nd Sarsanghachalak of RSS?A: MS Gowalkar - Shri Guruji
Who is Asma Jahangir?A: Human rights activist and a lawyer in pakistan and the founder of a law practise there
Who was the first foreigner to lead an Indian unit for the republic day parade?A: Ismail Tunk from Malaysia. he lead the 62 cavalry of Jaipur
Who is Ajeet Bajaj?A: the Indian to reach both the north pole and the south pole this year
Who is S K Poddar?A: Indian Industrialist, Former FICCI president and Gillette Chairman
Who is PC Haldar?A: New Director, Intelligence Bureau after ESL NarasimhamWho is the new head FICCI?A: Habil Khorakiwala
Who was VD Savarkar?A: Hinduvata propagandist and the prime alleged in the killing of Mahatma Gandhi
Who is ECG Sudarshan?A: Indo Americal Physist from Kerala.
Whos is the present head of Muslim personal law board?A: Hazrat Maulana Syed Mohammad
Rabe Hasani Nadwi
Which committee enquired the MPLADS scam and the cash for question scam?A: Parliamentary committee headed by V. Kishore Chandra S. Dev
Who is the CM of Sikkim?A: pawan chamling
Who is the Israeli president who is facing charges on rape?A: Moshe Katzav
Who is the head of SBI?A: Om Prakash Bhatt - Chairman. SBI is under RBI as of now and may go into the hands of the government
Who was the Armenian journalist shot dead recently for condemning the Armenian genocide by Turkey?A: Dink
Who is the head of Tata steels?A: Ratan Tata, MD of Tata Steel is Muthuraman
Who is the head of HAMAS?A: Khaled Mashaal and Ismail Haniya
Who is the PM of PoK?A: Attitque Khan
On Sept 29, 2006, who became the first female space tourist, first Muslim to go in space and the first Iranian in orbit ? - ANUSHEH ANSARI
who was the first person as space tourist? dennis tito..
what was the name of the korean scientist who created a hoax report on stem cell research?
hwang woo suk
who became the first indian senator in US?
first US senator- its satveer chowdary.. year 2000..
what's the name of doctor who performed 1st(minor) surgery in space?
dominique martin - doctor - surgery.. (not sure)
Who is the first to recive all 4 Highest civilian awards...(i.e. PadamShri, PadmBhushan, PadmVibhushan & BharatRatn)
Satyajit Ray and the second is Bismillah Khan
who is the chairman of ISRO telematry,Tracking and Command Network(ISTRAC)?
S.K. Shivakumar
Head,commonwealth-Queen Elizabeth II
Reverend Astley Cooper (in 1891),proposed c'wealth games concept when he wrote an article in `The Times'
whos's CFO Tata Steel?
kaushik chatterje
Where did bulldozer revolution take place?
its the 5th october overthrow of the President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Milosevic in 2000...
Takamoto..........is the person who designed scooby doo
Chairman and Managing Direc. UTI:U.K. Sinha
chief executive of CAIRN ENERGY is:Sir Bill Gammell
Cairn Energy PLC is an independent, public oil and gas exploration and production company based in Edinburgh, Scotland
yasin ramadan is to be executed by hanging...iraqi vice president i think
since he is accused in a case, the acting president now is Dalia Itzik - isreal
Vaclav HAVAL is the first president of the Czech republic.
the first chairman of the petroleum and gas regulatory authority is SC Tripathi and this authority will be coming into force from july 2007
cmd of ntpc is snkaralingam....rs sharma lost his post as chirman ongc and nhai chairman is lk joshi
Peter Benenson is the founder of Amnesty International
the President of Fiji is Josefa Iloilo and the Prime minister for now is the Military coup leader Frank Bainimarama..
Feb 19(6 days ago) alberto fujimori has the citizenship of peru and japan..............but he is now in chile and peru is seeking his extradition
Csir head i Mr prAKASH
Chanda Shroff won the Rolex Award in 2006. She had set up a mobile resource centre to showcase and teach Kutchi embroidery so as to revive the ethnic Indian tradition.
rafel correa is the president of ecuador...i think he was elected recently
rafael correa is a good economist
name the prominent scientist who carried out dakshin gangotri expedition..
lakshman singh rathore
List The Indian Novel Winner N Details.
International red cross has got it 3 times........
UN high commission for refugees has won two times.........
The Miss International 2007 competition will be held July 27th and 28th, 2007 at Chicago Miss Venezuela, Daniela Di Giacomo 2006 winner
Where was Vijay Nambiar selected?A: Chief of Staff of the New Secretary General, UN
who is the only muslim to be awarded with param vir chakra
Hawaldar Abdul Hamid in 1965.
Sec Gen of Lok Sabha - PDT Acharya
Deputy chairman of RS – Rehman Khan
Chairman of Scientific advisory council to PM and chairman of IITs– CNR Rao
Union cabinet Sec. BK chaturvedi
Saina Nehwal – Badminton – 4 star bad tournament first Indian woman tro win and Phillippens open
Arundhati roy – nominated for the Spanish prince of Astuaries 2006
Kim Wu Choong – of Hyundia who was involved in the corruption charges
Cederick Prakash – the founder director of Prashanth and Ahmedabad based Human rights Org
Awarded the france highest civilan award for 2005 Legion De Honor
Zadie Smith – Orange Prize – “on beauty”
“white teeth” and “autograph man”
Bhumipal Adulyatez – King of Thailand for 60 years.
Dalai lama – 14th one at present – Tenzing gyatso – US Senate has announced the congregation gold medal that is the countires highest civilan honour
Anuradha Mohit – Nominated by UN high Commission for human rights as the global representative of national human rights institute in UN
Verghese Kurian – White revolution – resigned as the chairman on IRMA – Institute of rural management – Anand
Rona Jain Dutta – resigned from the psot of president of Air Sahara and now replaced by Alok Sharma.
VK Krishna Menon – freedom fighter and former defence minister – dfied rencently
Peery sonn-new chairperson of international criminal court.
Amertro maresmo-first French women to win wimbeldon in 81 years.
Nirupama sen – india’s permanent reprensentative to UN
Principal Secretary to the PM – TKA Nair
Tasrima Nasreen - Grand Prix International Condorcet-Aron 2005, from the French-Parliament in Belgium, 2005
R Laxmipati – chairman of PTI and is the publisher of the tamil daily Dina Malar
Anand Satyananda – elected as NZ governor general
Forbes list of Top woman:
1. Angela Merkel
2. Condoleezza Rice
3. Wu Yi
4. Indra Nooyi
Envoy to china – nirupama rao replaced nalin suri
Justice PN Bhagwati – elected for the fourth term to the UN HRC
Irom sharmila chanu – human right activist agitated against the armed forces special power act
Powerful business women(fortune magazine)
ICICI – Dy MD – chanda kochar(37th position)
HSBC – ind. CEO - naina lal kidwai(41st )
Biocon CMD – kiran mazumdar(45th )
John hanson baur – Norwegian special envoy on peace talks between LTTE n sri lanka
Yasushi Akashi – Japanese special envoy for talks with LTTE and SL government
Tamil chevelam – LTTE chief
Hans Bratskar – norways ambassador to sl
He mediated w.r.t to Brussels declaration of sep 12 of 2006
Ispek calisper – faced conviction on charges of insulting the founder of modern tuykey Mustafa kemal Ataturk.
Madan jith singh – us good will ambassador and founder pf South asia foundation UNESCO madan jith prize given for promotion of non violence and tolerance – ananda sanghavia of sl got this prize
Jimmy Carter- previous president of US – initiated the Habitat for humanity in india
Chandrika kumara tunga appointed senior advisor to UNESCO in the matters related to advancement of education in south asia minus SL.
Alok Mehta – president of editors guild of india
CMD of Air India _Tulsi das
Surendra Patil – eminent Indian scientist and a civil servant
His works include the inda we want – essays in economic transition Indian economy towards 21 century
Dr k Kasturitrangan is appointed as the Pope Benedict XVI as an academician of the pontifical academy of sciences
Gherald Ford – died – former US president
Shemon Perize – deputy PM of Isreal – nobel peace prize in 1994
The longest serving member of Knesset
Arun Gandhi – director of Tata sons
Jose Bove – a French anti globalization campaigner contesting for French presidency
Martin Ahtisaari – UN Negotiator in KOSovo
S Rangarajan – Kasturi Sons Chairman 1974 – 2005
Publisher of Hindu
Serigvenov – Russian defence minister promoted to first Deputy PM
Maria sharapova –goodwill ambassador for UNDP
Mark inglis – (new Zealand) –scaled the Everest
Barack Hussein Obama (born August 4, 1961; is the junior United States Senator from Illinois. According to the U.S. Senate Historical Office, he is the fifth African American Senator in U.S. history and the only African American currently serving in the U.S. Senate.[1] He is a candidate for the Democratic Party's 2008 presidential nomination.[2]
Ali larijani – chief nuclear negotiator
Dr chitra baurch – chief of BBC – the first women Indian
Claude schwab – founder of world economic forum
Neha hotchandani –first Indian women to enter US army
Ashbinder singh –UN environmental program .he was the author of one planet –many people .he was awarded union -24 award for improving the working standard of UNEP
who is the speaker of commonwealth parlimentry committee?A: HA.Halim-speaker of west bengal
Who is the head of national institute of advanced studies?A: K Kasturirangan
Who is the head of RAW?A: Ashok Chaturvedi (the former chief is PKH Thaparan)
Who was the 2nd Sarsanghachalak of RSS?A: MS Gowalkar - Shri Guruji
Who is Asma Jahangir?A: Human rights activist and a lawyer in pakistan and the founder of a law practise there
Who was the first foreigner to lead an Indian unit for the republic day parade?A: Ismail Tunk from Malaysia. he lead the 62 cavalry of Jaipur
Who is Ajeet Bajaj?A: the Indian to reach both the north pole and the south pole this year
Who is S K Poddar?A: Indian Industrialist, Former FICCI president and Gillette Chairman
Who is PC Haldar?A: New Director, Intelligence Bureau after ESL NarasimhamWho is the new head FICCI?A: Habil Khorakiwala
Who was VD Savarkar?A: Hinduvata propagandist and the prime alleged in the killing of Mahatma Gandhi
Who is ECG Sudarshan?A: Indo Americal Physist from Kerala.
Whos is the present head of Muslim personal law board?A: Hazrat Maulana Syed Mohammad
Rabe Hasani Nadwi
Which committee enquired the MPLADS scam and the cash for question scam?A: Parliamentary committee headed by V. Kishore Chandra S. Dev
Who is the CM of Sikkim?A: pawan chamling
Who is the Israeli president who is facing charges on rape?A: Moshe Katzav
Who is the head of SBI?A: Om Prakash Bhatt - Chairman. SBI is under RBI as of now and may go into the hands of the government
Who was the Armenian journalist shot dead recently for condemning the Armenian genocide by Turkey?A: Dink
Who is the head of Tata steels?A: Ratan Tata, MD of Tata Steel is Muthuraman
Who is the head of HAMAS?A: Khaled Mashaal and Ismail Haniya
Who is the PM of PoK?A: Attitque Khan
On Sept 29, 2006, who became the first female space tourist, first Muslim to go in space and the first Iranian in orbit ? - ANUSHEH ANSARI
who was the first person as space tourist? dennis tito..
what was the name of the korean scientist who created a hoax report on stem cell research?
hwang woo suk
who became the first indian senator in US?
first US senator- its satveer chowdary.. year 2000..
what's the name of doctor who performed 1st(minor) surgery in space?
dominique martin - doctor - surgery.. (not sure)
Who is the first to recive all 4 Highest civilian awards...(i.e. PadamShri, PadmBhushan, PadmVibhushan & BharatRatn)
Satyajit Ray and the second is Bismillah Khan
who is the chairman of ISRO telematry,Tracking and Command Network(ISTRAC)?
S.K. Shivakumar
Head,commonwealth-Queen Elizabeth II
Reverend Astley Cooper (in 1891),proposed c'wealth games concept when he wrote an article in `The Times'
whos's CFO Tata Steel?
kaushik chatterje
Where did bulldozer revolution take place?
its the 5th october overthrow of the President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Milosevic in 2000...
Takamoto..........is the person who designed scooby doo
Chairman and Managing Direc. UTI:U.K. Sinha
chief executive of CAIRN ENERGY is:Sir Bill Gammell
Cairn Energy PLC is an independent, public oil and gas exploration and production company based in Edinburgh, Scotland
yasin ramadan is to be executed by hanging...iraqi vice president i think
since he is accused in a case, the acting president now is Dalia Itzik - isreal
Vaclav HAVAL is the first president of the Czech republic.
the first chairman of the petroleum and gas regulatory authority is SC Tripathi and this authority will be coming into force from july 2007
cmd of ntpc is snkaralingam....rs sharma lost his post as chirman ongc and nhai chairman is lk joshi
Peter Benenson is the founder of Amnesty International
the President of Fiji is Josefa Iloilo and the Prime minister for now is the Military coup leader Frank Bainimarama..
Feb 19(6 days ago) alberto fujimori has the citizenship of peru and japan..............but he is now in chile and peru is seeking his extradition
Csir head i Mr prAKASH
Chanda Shroff won the Rolex Award in 2006. She had set up a mobile resource centre to showcase and teach Kutchi embroidery so as to revive the ethnic Indian tradition.
rafel correa is the president of ecuador...i think he was elected recently
rafael correa is a good economist
name the prominent scientist who carried out dakshin gangotri expedition..
lakshman singh rathore
List The Indian Novel Winner N Details.
International red cross has got it 3 times........
UN high commission for refugees has won two times.........
The Miss International 2007 competition will be held July 27th and 28th, 2007 at Chicago Miss Venezuela, Daniela Di Giacomo 2006 winner
Where was Vijay Nambiar selected?A: Chief of Staff of the New Secretary General, UN
who is the only muslim to be awarded with param vir chakra
Hawaldar Abdul Hamid in 1965.
Summits/Organizations
International Whaling Commission - started in 1946 by the International Commission for the Regulation of Whaling
Annual conferences :
2005 - South Korea (Ulsan)
2006 - St Kitts and Nevis (Frigate Bay)
2007 - USA (Anchorage, Alaska)
2008 - Chile
2009 - Portugal
GUAM – Organization for Democracy and Economic Development
Georgia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan and Maldova HQ at Kiev – Ukraine Capital.
Sec General is the President of Azerbaijan –Illham Aliyav
Uzbekisthan is a former member and withdrawn in 2005
Turkey and Latvia are having the Observer Status
OIC - Org for Islamic Conference – Jeddah, Saudi Arabia - started in 1969
57 member countries with a permanent delegation to the UN
Sec genral – Dr Ikmaluddin Ihsan Oglu (Turkey)
This is the second largest international organization after UN!!
India (with second largest muslim population in the world) has attempted for Observer status and was denied.
Asia Security Summit held at Singapore 2006
The New RRb of Canara bank – Sreyas Grwameena bank
IMF – Appointed the first MD – John Libsky
International Conference of Youth Hotels – Davos. 2006
Global newspapers conference – Moscow.
Shanghai Coperation Org _SCO – uzbekisthan is the new entry – (Russia, China, Uzbekisthan, Krygzthan, Tazaksithan, Kazakshthan)
New wing of SCO – SCO Regional Anti terrorism Structure. – Tashken
Sec gen – Zang Den Zang
World Editors Forum – Moscow – Given away the award the golden pen of freedom – Akbar gangi of Iran – 2006
World Knowledge platform proposed by – Abdul Kalam.
MC Sondi institute for Asia pacific affairs – hq –delhi
IIS – International institute for Strategic studies – London – rencet meeting – Singapore
Released a report “India – a rising global player”
Readers Digest survey – most courtieus city – New York
Rudest city – Mumbai
Third world urban forum – vancour
African Union – HQ –Addis Ababa –ethiopia
DG – Olusugan Obassango. Total 53 countries
African Union Summit – Zambia – 2006- f
First world summit of religious leaders – Moscow
NABARD – 25 years – H Q –mumbai
G8 –pertersburg – three themes – Energy security, education and health
The meet attended by 5 outreach countries – india, south Africa, brazil, china and mexico
UNIFIL - UN interim force in Lebanon
IFFCO – Indian federation for fertilizer company – gas based company at kalol – in Gujarat
SAARC – 8th member – afghanisthan – HQ – Kathmandu
In 1985 – 8th December
DG – Rahim – India, sri lanka, Bangladesh, pak, Nepal, Bhutan, Maldives and afghan
Next summit in november in delhi
Observer status – US, south korea in 2006
EU is seeking this status
ASEAN – Jakarta – Indonesia
Sec gen – Ong keng Yong
10 countries in this – Indonesia, Malaysia, laos, Cambodia, Myanmar, bruenie, Singapore, Thailand, philippennes and Vietnam
ASEAN regional forum – syed hamid albar is the sec gen
Total countries – 26 last members is east timor and bangladesh
16th international aids conference – Toronto, Canada and it wil be in mexico in 2008
International astronomical union – hq – prague
NAM - Havana Declaration of 1979 Important members have included Yugoslavia, India, Egypt, Indonesia, Pakistan, Cuba
Nasser of Egypt, Tito of Yugoslavia and Nehru are the important members in the beginning
Total 118 members
7th Summit – New Delhi, 7 March 1983 – 12 March 1983
10th Summit – Jakarta, 1 September 1992 – 7 September 1992
11th Summit – Cartagena de Indias, 18 October 1995 – 20 October 1995
12th Summit – Durban, 2 September 1998 – 3 September 1998
13th Summit – Kuala Lumpur, 20 February 2003 – 25 February 2003
14th Summit – Havana, 11 September 2006 – 16 September 2006HYPERLINK "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-Aligned_Movement" \l "_note-4"[5]
NAM ministerial Meet – Malaysia
CVC – Central Vigilance Committee – Pratyush Sinha
Rodrigo Rato from Spain is the present Managing Director of IMF since 2004
International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD): IBRD and its associate institutions are called as World Bank
IMF and IBRD are Bretton Wood Twins. Both are complementary institutions.
World War II and the Economic Crisis of 1930s caused the evolution of these institutes
World Bank Group: IBRD (1945), IFC (International Finance Corporation) (1956), MIGA (Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency) (1988), IDA (International Developmental Association) (1960) and ICSID (International Center for Settlement and Investment Disputes) (1966)
Every member of IMF is also a member of IBRD 182 members are there at present.
India is the single largest borrower from the World Bank (13%) – 47 Billion US Dollars, both from the IBRD and the IDA
IBRD and other allied institutions gives long term loans while IMF gives short term loan for balance of payments
World Bank provides guarantee on capital investment and private loans
Authorized capital of the world bank is given to member countries as shares.
World Bank Head Quarters in Washington DC
President – Paul Wilpholis
IFC released a report called – Doing Business 2007: How to reform
LIC : 50 yrs
SEBI – ex director – usha narian
Indian newspapers society – Hormurji cama of Mumbai samachar weekly is elected president for 2006-07
IRCON CMD – Ankush Kishan
Pacific Islands forum – of 16 member countries – NADI, Fiji
International energy agency – ex director –claud mandil
NMCC – national manufacturing competitive council
Chairman – V.Krishnamurthy.
Function – advising on competetiveness policies , company law, M and A
Insurance regulatory and development authority –director-C.S Rao
Indian commerce association – diamond jubilee- president M.B ShuklaIIPA – chairman-bhairon singh shekawat
IOC – B.N Bankapur(director)
NHAI – chairperson –Pradeep kumar
ISAF – international secutriy assistanxce for NATO having 37 nationals –hq – Kabul - commander-general james jones
Indian council for agriculture research – mangal roy
World Metereological Org – 14th session held in Delhi - It originated from the International Meteorological Organization (IMO), which was founded in 1873. Established in 1950, WMO became the specialized agency of the United Nations for meteorology (weather and climate), It has its headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. The current president is Alexander Bedritsky and the current Secretary-General is Michel Jarraud,
This years theme is Agri Meterorology
International Agri summit – 2006 – new delhi
Central food technological research institute – mysore- dg – V prakash
CBI – DG _ Shankar
China Africa summit – 40 countries participated in beijin. 12 different agreements signed Jintao pledged to offer 5 billion dollars and to double the aid by 2009
First Indian social forum meet – delhi
UN sec council non permanent members – Peru, Qutar, Congo republic, Ghana, and slovania will be 2007
SA, Indinesia, Italy and Belgium elected in 2006
Deadlock over Gauntelama and venezula
A9 highway – connecting jafna peninsular and rest of SL
Cebu – fifth Indo- Asia summit and th second east asian Summit
CIEFL is given the central university status under the English and foreign languages university act 2006
Central bank of india celebrated the 96th founding day on 21december and the founder is Rustemj Pockkhanawala
31st indian social science congress – Mumbai – December 2007
30th in Chennai and the previous in Hyderabad
CAPARO – UK based company of Lord Swaraj Paul
Conference on Centenary on Gandhi satyagraha – new delhi –
National conference on E Governance – Feb 07 – Theme – enabling govt to accelerate transformation
International conference on Peace, Non violence and empowerement – gandhian philosophy in the 21ce ntury held in delhi attended by Tutu
World economic forum meet 2007 –davos
MD – peter turiliee
World social forum – Nairobi – 2007
International org for migration – HQ geneva
TESCO – UK based company – global chief – sir terry lahy
COIR board – hq – cochi – AC Jose is the chairperson
Bharath Heavy plates and vessels lTd – is a state owned subsidiary of Bharat Entra nigam ltd
Company law board – chairman – s bala subramaniam
9th asian security summit conference new delhi –
Swalbord –norway – Seed bank – an international seed vault called doomsday vault is proposed
UPOV –Union for protection of new varieties of plants - Geneva DG of WIOP is the sec gen of UPOC
Total 63 members
UPOV convention It is an international conv to protect new varieties of plants that came into effect in 1968
FAO treaty also called international treaty on plant and genetic resources for food and agri that came into force in 2004
3rd world conference against death penalty – paris
international conference on alternative dispute resolution – ND
sustainable development summit – ND
world convention on science and spirituality – the first such convention held in ND
international donors meet for lebonon – paris
it isn to rise money for economic reform program by the PM- fuad sanioria . he has the US backing
CBDT – chairmen indira bharghav
PSTN – pub switch telephone network
Indian institute of pulses research - kanpur
What is GUAM in EUROPE?A: Organization for Democracy and Economic Development - a regional org of 4 CIS countries - Georgia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan and Maldova. Uzbekistan joined and again moved out of it. Turkey has observer statusStarted in 1997 in Strauborg. HQ in Ukrainian capital and the president of Azerbaijan Illham Aliyev will be the first secretart general. Backed by US to check the prominence of Russia
What is INTERPAT?A: INTERPAT is an international registration of marks by some pharmaceutical companies of US, Swiss, Japan etc ..and so is the madrid protocol related with TRIPS.India has decided to join the Madrid Protocol very recently
who is the speaker of commonwealth parlimentry committee?A: HA.Halim-speaker of west bengal
What is ECGC and what is its function?A: Exports Credit Gaurantee Corporation of India Ltd, established in 1957 to strengthen the export promotion drive by covering the risk of exporting on creditunder the control of the Ministry of Commerce & Industry, Department of Commerce, Government of India
When was IIT Kharagpur sestablished?A: 1951. It was the first IIT to be established
Where is the Indian Institute of Horticulture located?A: Benguluru
What is IRDA in insurance terms?A: Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority
Write the full form of TRAI?A: Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of India
What is MIDHANI?A: Mishra Dhatu Nigam limited, DOD agency, Hyderabad
SAARC firs editors conference – new deihi – mediator –shashi kumar chairman of medi adevleopment foundation
The United Nations Convention against Corruption was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly by resolution 58/4 of 31 October 2003.
To combat corruption it includes measures on
prevention
criminalization
international cooperation
asset recovery
The treaty entered into force on 14 December, 2005, following the 30th ratification by Ecuador on 15 September at the 2005 World Summit.
As of 20 January 2007 there were 140 signatories. The Convention is ratified,accepted, approved or acceded by 83 countries
Annual conferences :
2005 - South Korea (Ulsan)
2006 - St Kitts and Nevis (Frigate Bay)
2007 - USA (Anchorage, Alaska)
2008 - Chile
2009 - Portugal
GUAM – Organization for Democracy and Economic Development
Georgia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan and Maldova HQ at Kiev – Ukraine Capital.
Sec General is the President of Azerbaijan –Illham Aliyav
Uzbekisthan is a former member and withdrawn in 2005
Turkey and Latvia are having the Observer Status
OIC - Org for Islamic Conference – Jeddah, Saudi Arabia - started in 1969
57 member countries with a permanent delegation to the UN
Sec genral – Dr Ikmaluddin Ihsan Oglu (Turkey)
This is the second largest international organization after UN!!
India (with second largest muslim population in the world) has attempted for Observer status and was denied.
Asia Security Summit held at Singapore 2006
The New RRb of Canara bank – Sreyas Grwameena bank
IMF – Appointed the first MD – John Libsky
International Conference of Youth Hotels – Davos. 2006
Global newspapers conference – Moscow.
Shanghai Coperation Org _SCO – uzbekisthan is the new entry – (Russia, China, Uzbekisthan, Krygzthan, Tazaksithan, Kazakshthan)
New wing of SCO – SCO Regional Anti terrorism Structure. – Tashken
Sec gen – Zang Den Zang
World Editors Forum – Moscow – Given away the award the golden pen of freedom – Akbar gangi of Iran – 2006
World Knowledge platform proposed by – Abdul Kalam.
MC Sondi institute for Asia pacific affairs – hq –delhi
IIS – International institute for Strategic studies – London – rencet meeting – Singapore
Released a report “India – a rising global player”
Readers Digest survey – most courtieus city – New York
Rudest city – Mumbai
Third world urban forum – vancour
African Union – HQ –Addis Ababa –ethiopia
DG – Olusugan Obassango. Total 53 countries
African Union Summit – Zambia – 2006- f
First world summit of religious leaders – Moscow
NABARD – 25 years – H Q –mumbai
G8 –pertersburg – three themes – Energy security, education and health
The meet attended by 5 outreach countries – india, south Africa, brazil, china and mexico
UNIFIL - UN interim force in Lebanon
IFFCO – Indian federation for fertilizer company – gas based company at kalol – in Gujarat
SAARC – 8th member – afghanisthan – HQ – Kathmandu
In 1985 – 8th December
DG – Rahim – India, sri lanka, Bangladesh, pak, Nepal, Bhutan, Maldives and afghan
Next summit in november in delhi
Observer status – US, south korea in 2006
EU is seeking this status
ASEAN – Jakarta – Indonesia
Sec gen – Ong keng Yong
10 countries in this – Indonesia, Malaysia, laos, Cambodia, Myanmar, bruenie, Singapore, Thailand, philippennes and Vietnam
ASEAN regional forum – syed hamid albar is the sec gen
Total countries – 26 last members is east timor and bangladesh
16th international aids conference – Toronto, Canada and it wil be in mexico in 2008
International astronomical union – hq – prague
NAM - Havana Declaration of 1979 Important members have included Yugoslavia, India, Egypt, Indonesia, Pakistan, Cuba
Nasser of Egypt, Tito of Yugoslavia and Nehru are the important members in the beginning
Total 118 members
7th Summit – New Delhi, 7 March 1983 – 12 March 1983
10th Summit – Jakarta, 1 September 1992 – 7 September 1992
11th Summit – Cartagena de Indias, 18 October 1995 – 20 October 1995
12th Summit – Durban, 2 September 1998 – 3 September 1998
13th Summit – Kuala Lumpur, 20 February 2003 – 25 February 2003
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NAM ministerial Meet – Malaysia
CVC – Central Vigilance Committee – Pratyush Sinha
Rodrigo Rato from Spain is the present Managing Director of IMF since 2004
International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD): IBRD and its associate institutions are called as World Bank
IMF and IBRD are Bretton Wood Twins. Both are complementary institutions.
World War II and the Economic Crisis of 1930s caused the evolution of these institutes
World Bank Group: IBRD (1945), IFC (International Finance Corporation) (1956), MIGA (Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency) (1988), IDA (International Developmental Association) (1960) and ICSID (International Center for Settlement and Investment Disputes) (1966)
Every member of IMF is also a member of IBRD 182 members are there at present.
India is the single largest borrower from the World Bank (13%) – 47 Billion US Dollars, both from the IBRD and the IDA
IBRD and other allied institutions gives long term loans while IMF gives short term loan for balance of payments
World Bank provides guarantee on capital investment and private loans
Authorized capital of the world bank is given to member countries as shares.
World Bank Head Quarters in Washington DC
President – Paul Wilpholis
IFC released a report called – Doing Business 2007: How to reform
LIC : 50 yrs
SEBI – ex director – usha narian
Indian newspapers society – Hormurji cama of Mumbai samachar weekly is elected president for 2006-07
IRCON CMD – Ankush Kishan
Pacific Islands forum – of 16 member countries – NADI, Fiji
International energy agency – ex director –claud mandil
NMCC – national manufacturing competitive council
Chairman – V.Krishnamurthy.
Function – advising on competetiveness policies , company law, M and A
Insurance regulatory and development authority –director-C.S Rao
Indian commerce association – diamond jubilee- president M.B ShuklaIIPA – chairman-bhairon singh shekawat
IOC – B.N Bankapur(director)
NHAI – chairperson –Pradeep kumar
ISAF – international secutriy assistanxce for NATO having 37 nationals –hq – Kabul - commander-general james jones
Indian council for agriculture research – mangal roy
World Metereological Org – 14th session held in Delhi - It originated from the International Meteorological Organization (IMO), which was founded in 1873. Established in 1950, WMO became the specialized agency of the United Nations for meteorology (weather and climate), It has its headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. The current president is Alexander Bedritsky and the current Secretary-General is Michel Jarraud,
This years theme is Agri Meterorology
International Agri summit – 2006 – new delhi
Central food technological research institute – mysore- dg – V prakash
CBI – DG _ Shankar
China Africa summit – 40 countries participated in beijin. 12 different agreements signed Jintao pledged to offer 5 billion dollars and to double the aid by 2009
First Indian social forum meet – delhi
UN sec council non permanent members – Peru, Qutar, Congo republic, Ghana, and slovania will be 2007
SA, Indinesia, Italy and Belgium elected in 2006
Deadlock over Gauntelama and venezula
A9 highway – connecting jafna peninsular and rest of SL
Cebu – fifth Indo- Asia summit and th second east asian Summit
CIEFL is given the central university status under the English and foreign languages university act 2006
Central bank of india celebrated the 96th founding day on 21december and the founder is Rustemj Pockkhanawala
31st indian social science congress – Mumbai – December 2007
30th in Chennai and the previous in Hyderabad
CAPARO – UK based company of Lord Swaraj Paul
Conference on Centenary on Gandhi satyagraha – new delhi –
National conference on E Governance – Feb 07 – Theme – enabling govt to accelerate transformation
International conference on Peace, Non violence and empowerement – gandhian philosophy in the 21ce ntury held in delhi attended by Tutu
World economic forum meet 2007 –davos
MD – peter turiliee
World social forum – Nairobi – 2007
International org for migration – HQ geneva
TESCO – UK based company – global chief – sir terry lahy
COIR board – hq – cochi – AC Jose is the chairperson
Bharath Heavy plates and vessels lTd – is a state owned subsidiary of Bharat Entra nigam ltd
Company law board – chairman – s bala subramaniam
9th asian security summit conference new delhi –
Swalbord –norway – Seed bank – an international seed vault called doomsday vault is proposed
UPOV –Union for protection of new varieties of plants - Geneva DG of WIOP is the sec gen of UPOC
Total 63 members
UPOV convention It is an international conv to protect new varieties of plants that came into effect in 1968
FAO treaty also called international treaty on plant and genetic resources for food and agri that came into force in 2004
3rd world conference against death penalty – paris
international conference on alternative dispute resolution – ND
sustainable development summit – ND
world convention on science and spirituality – the first such convention held in ND
international donors meet for lebonon – paris
it isn to rise money for economic reform program by the PM- fuad sanioria . he has the US backing
CBDT – chairmen indira bharghav
PSTN – pub switch telephone network
Indian institute of pulses research - kanpur
What is GUAM in EUROPE?A: Organization for Democracy and Economic Development - a regional org of 4 CIS countries - Georgia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan and Maldova. Uzbekistan joined and again moved out of it. Turkey has observer statusStarted in 1997 in Strauborg. HQ in Ukrainian capital and the president of Azerbaijan Illham Aliyev will be the first secretart general. Backed by US to check the prominence of Russia
What is INTERPAT?A: INTERPAT is an international registration of marks by some pharmaceutical companies of US, Swiss, Japan etc ..and so is the madrid protocol related with TRIPS.India has decided to join the Madrid Protocol very recently
who is the speaker of commonwealth parlimentry committee?A: HA.Halim-speaker of west bengal
What is ECGC and what is its function?A: Exports Credit Gaurantee Corporation of India Ltd, established in 1957 to strengthen the export promotion drive by covering the risk of exporting on creditunder the control of the Ministry of Commerce & Industry, Department of Commerce, Government of India
When was IIT Kharagpur sestablished?A: 1951. It was the first IIT to be established
Where is the Indian Institute of Horticulture located?A: Benguluru
What is IRDA in insurance terms?A: Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority
Write the full form of TRAI?A: Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of India
What is MIDHANI?A: Mishra Dhatu Nigam limited, DOD agency, Hyderabad
SAARC firs editors conference – new deihi – mediator –shashi kumar chairman of medi adevleopment foundation
The United Nations Convention against Corruption was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly by resolution 58/4 of 31 October 2003.
To combat corruption it includes measures on
prevention
criminalization
international cooperation
asset recovery
The treaty entered into force on 14 December, 2005, following the 30th ratification by Ecuador on 15 September at the 2005 World Summit.
As of 20 January 2007 there were 140 signatories. The Convention is ratified,accepted, approved or acceded by 83 countries
Polity of the Nations
Parliament has passed the bill to amend the constitution making it mandatory for chattisgarh and Jharkhand to have a tribal minister while freeing bihar from having a minister unless to choose on its own.
Criminal Tribes act – 1871
Indian Govt repealed this act in 1952
POK intern act 1974 – according to this, in POK, only those candidates whose signed dellaration of “States Accession to Pak are allowed to contest the elction”
It is considered a violation of UN’s universal declaration of human rights
20 point program formulated y Indira Gandhi in 1975 as a compliment to Garibi Hatao Slogan
GoI is structuring and launching a new 20 point program
The 4th bus service between india and pak - connecting in Poonch in JK and Rawalkot in POK
Dandi Yatra route – given national heritage status – from Sabarmati ashram to dandi in Gujarat to break the salt tax.
Madan lal khurana – bharatiya jan mahasangh
New governor of Bihar – GAVAi
Meghalaya CM – Rhim Bhai
Great June apprising – observed in Manipur to pay tribute to those who died fighting for protection of territorial integrity of Manipur – June 2001
Phillippees abloished death sentence.
Kuwait – for the first time woman cast a vote in parliamentary elections
Netherlands – Jan Peter Balkanende – the PM who resigned ddue to withdrawl support by coalition partners.
East Timor – Jose Ramos Horta – the nobel laurete being considered for PM – replaced – Mari Alkatri
Part XX1 A- plea bargaining
Shamil Basayer –the chenchus rebel leader who was killed
Razaigat and habania – these are the arab tribes that are involved in the conflict over control of grazing lands in southern Darfur
Actuaries bill-2005it seeks to regulate and develop the profession of actuaries.
Nandini satpathi – oriya writer and former Orissa CM for two terms and elected to LA 7 times in row.
COMMUNAL VIOLENCE PREVENTION CONTROL AND REHABILITATION OF VICTIM OF BILL – 2005
It empowers center to send forces to communally disturbed ares to maintain law and order.
GOI banned the employment of children from 10th oct 2006 as domestic service or in hospitality sector.
National Security Advisory Board is reconstituted with former secretary MK Rasgotra as its convenor for the second time.
UN resolution 1707 – called for immediate for succession of hostility in Lebanon
Thar express from Munabao in India to Khokhrapar in Pak
Parliament – (prevention of disc act) – 1959 – being amended under the title of the Office of profit bill.
the Delhi Laws (Special Provisions) Bill, 2006, to put a one-year moratorium on demolitions in the capital and the Constitution (105th Amendment) Bill, 2006
SA legalized gay marriages
Muzaffir hussain beg – deputy cm of JK who lost the position of PDP legislature party
Shwna – Pretoria SA – Shaan declaration signed by SA president and Indian PM it is a 25 point joint declaration in which the leaders agreed that international civilian nuclear cooperation under IAEA safeguards among nuclear countries could be enhanced through acceptable approaches
A permanent exhibition of Mahatma gandhi has been set up at old fort in Johaannesburg
Satyagraha – the idea of satya graham was proposed by Mahatma Gandhi at phoenix settlement in 1906 outside durban
Pheonix settlement at Gandhi museum international painting press, Gandhi health center etc.
Satyagraha centenary celebrations were launched in Durban
Jambhoori vatan party of pak – whose leader nawab akhtar mukthi killed in a military operation in bambhor hills of balochistan
World peace gong – a symbol of brotherhood peace and nature is inaugurated at Gandhi smriti center in new delhi to commemorate centenary of satya graha
UN report on migrants – US has the largest inflow of migrants , afghanisthan topped the list in the ot flow of migrants followed by sudan
September 7th observed as the global day for Darfur
It is observed through out the world calling for the end of the fighting
Anti terrorism mechanism by india and Pak agreed in the Havana meeting
World’s resistence army – rebel group of Uganda
Conclave of CMS on state of states 2006 – new delhi
Punjab – overall best performance award, HP – best state in primary education and health
Kalidasa statue at shanghai , china first statue is of Gandhi
Pondicherry renamed Pudicherry by Pondicherry (Alteration of name) Act 2006
Uttaranchal – state alteration of the name bill in December 2006 to uttarakhand
Bangalore –alteration of the name bill in December 2006 to Benguluru
India – japan –year of friendship
India – china – year of friendship through tourism
TEMPLE OF RAVANA – (Kanpur) –located in kailash mandir complex-140 yrs old-opened for devotee on oct-2 after 10 yrs.
Khasi hills autonomous dist. Council in shilling – chief executive member – Martamlyn pirbot.
MP celebrating golden jubilee(created in 1956)
Karnataka.kerala.AP,TN – golden jubilee on NOV 1
Nov 1 is the sixth anniversary of chattisgarh
HP- state forest deppt decided to transfer the wild life sanctuary to wild life wing.
There are: Dhauladan sanctuary, simla catchment forest, sechutuan sanctuary, kugti sanctuary ,tundah sanctuary.
ICANN- international cooperation for assigned names n numbers (1988) (california)-deals with internet domain names n ISBN marking.
Yasushi Akashi – Japanese special envoy for talks with LTTE and SL government
6th scheduled areas –the 7 expert committee appointed by govt of india by V ramachandra to view the progress of NE and three hill councils of Darjeeling, ladakh and jkargil
Rehabilitation council of india –established as statutory body under ministry of social justice and empowerement.
Union cabinet has approved a provision of 150 crores for commemorating the following
150th anniversary of first war of independence may 07-08
60th indepencdence aug 0708
Centenary celebrations of vandemataram as a ational song – sep 0506
Birth centenaery of bhagat singh and 75th anniversary of his martyrdom 0607
Foreigners Tribunals award 2006 was held unconstitutional by the SC this order puts the onus of proof regarding the foreigner on the complainer accord to the sc goes against the article 355
Jallian wala bagh – national massacre amend bill 2006 – passed amending the 1951 act – to provide for the extension of management of the national memorial commemorating the april 13 1919 massacre
India US Totalisation Agreement: totalization agreement involves taking into account or linking security taxes payable and benefits enjoyable by migrant workers in their home country as also host country.
This is exploring the possibility of exempting the preofesionals from both the countries from social security taxes for short term duration
“The Way forward” – a report on war of Iraq prepared by a 10 member Iraq study group co chaired by James Baker III and Lee Hamilton
2007 is the year of India in Russia
2008 – will be the year of Russia in india
2007 declared as the year of Broadband – BSNL CMD – AK Sinha
CCTV 9 is the china based English news channel
WHO submitted its report called world report on Read traffic injury prevention. The provisions of WHO are incorporated in section 129 of Motor vehicles act calling of compulsory use of standard helmet and not all states of india has enforced this section
UN 1937 resolution – regulating iran nuclear program
June 29 will be the National Statastical day in the memory of Mahabolis from 2007 who was the
founder of Indian Statastical Institute – Kolkata
Indo japan agreement on the visit of Shizno Abi –
Comprehensive economic partnership agreement
Participate in power generation
Would invest in proposed rail freight corridor
Indian national center for ocean information service being set up at Hyderabad
Goa Bachao andolan – against the state regional plan 2007
Chennai port celebrating 125 years
Panipat – which houses babri masjid the tomb of Ibrahim Lodhi located on NH 1
EU Trade commissioner – Peter mendelson
India Isreal is celebrating the 15th annicersary of their bilateral raltions 29th jan 1992
Raleb Najadeleb – the arab muslim to be nominated in to the ministry of Isreal
India and SL – Indian railways is going to construct a 160 km route from Colombo to mathara – this is an Indian railways first foreign venture
Thiruvananthapuram is the first dsit to ban beggary
SACRA ROT- Vatican – it is the appeals court of the church of Vatican it is in news bcoz of its duties that is to consider appeals for couples and grant them
Feb 4th – world cancer day and independence day of SL – 59th
· Logan blue saffire – SL
· Mahavamsha is the historical chronicle of ceylone
· Yala games sanctuary identified as ramsar site
· Nuwas eliya called little England and also called the swiss of east
· India SL FTA came into effect in 2000
· Bilateral trade 2.2 billion dollars 06 07
· 2 billion dollars 05 06
· SL is the largest trading partner of india in SAARC
· Mannar basin is alloted to india for exploration and production of oil - OVL
New Power P5 countries – India, China, Brazil, Mexico and SA
Sampur – the new site announced by Rajapakse the president of SL on 59th independwence day for setting up the NTPC plant
Originally proposed at Tricanmole
Sampur is the eastern town captured by the SL military from the LTTE
TULF – tamil united liberation front – leader is anand sanghavi
EPDP – Ealem People’s democratic party – Devananda is the head
India staked its claim from UN SC non permanent seat for 2 year term ie 2011 2012 in the asian kota
Earlier India was a non permanent member for 6 times
Russia had an org called Sikobiki – an org of senior officials in security and law enforcing agency
This org is opposed putting plans of handing over the power to deputy PM
First PM of Russia – Dimitriv Medyadev
Prevention of Money Laundering Act pasded in 2003 and notified in 2005
India Bhutan new friendship treaty signed between pranab mukherjee and Jigme Kesa Wuunhchuk
It upgrades the Aug 4 a949 for the friend ship treaty and the new treaty includes fresh provisions for expanding economic relations and cooperation in culture education health ST etc
Indo – china discussed abt
BAB – AL – MANDAO – straight – red sea and Arabian sea
Cape of good hope – SA
Straignht of homroz – separating iran and oman
Banda-aaceh – Irawady Yusuf – the former rebel leader of free ASOM movement
Was inaugurated as the new governor from 07 12
MPRF – madhesi peoples rights forum – convenor – upendra yadav – they live in the talai region – Nepal – 30 % of nepals population and they demand autonomy
New citizen ship test involving qs from civics – USA
Indias legislation addressing terrorism – narayanan - FEMA
Narcotics drugs and psycotrpphic sunstance act 03 –
prevention substances act 03 effect from 05
Unlawful activity prevention act 1967 and amended in 04
Chinese external affairs – lie – zhoseiang
Discussed abt possibility of opening of new consulates at guangzou and Kolkata
Iindia – Italy agreement – fiat and tata motors
Tata motors and IVECO (Commercial vehicles of Fiat)
Bet Cararo group and Mahindra and Mah – to produce farm agreement
ONGC and ENISPA
Bank of baroda and pioneer – Global asset managing company
UNICEF report on child poverty:
Child poverty in perceptive: a overview of child well being in rich countrie.this is unicef’s first study of child welfare in developed countries.40 countries were listed with Briton at the bottom.
First three countries:Sweden,Iceland,finland
J&k – Indian sharait act -1937 which was applicable to rest of india is now adopted by j&k legislative council.
Trilateral business meet bet india , china, Russia to be held in nov nov-2007
China supports Russia in EAS
UN convention on migrated species has declared 2007 as the year of the dolphins.(prince albert 2 of the Monaco is the patron of the year of the dolphin)
BAGLIHAR dam:
-india did not violated the Indus valley water treaty-1960
-the dam could be completed with slight modifications in design n without any imopact of 450mw power capacity
-the gated spillways are not a violation of the treaty as they are recognized by international org. on large dams.
The listed issues of bone of contention
1.gated spillways
2.dam ht: ind was to reduce the ht of the free board from 4.5 to 3m
3.width of the pondage: india’s method of calculation was accepted rejecting Pakistan
4.level of intake for running the turbine can be increased by 2m
Red brigader – Itlay (terrorist group)
AP state tree – neem tree
Bihar n haryan – papal tree
HP – deodar
J&k – chinar
Jharkhand –sal
Karnataka - sandal
Kerala - cocnut
Maharastra - mango
UP - asoka tree
Communist party of Nepal - prachanda
Party celebrated the 11th anniversary of it’s peoples war.
Nepal converted to secular state on 18th may 2006
Iranain revolution day 11th feb 1979 – azadi square of Tehran
Meghalaya will observe 2007 as the year of the farmer
Achievable nationhood – it is a vision document on the resolution J&K conflict released by chairman of people’s conference – sajjad ghani lone
The new foreign minister of Sl – rohita bogallagama
Akshara dasoha – mid day meal initiated by Karnataka
Ind – pak exchange of lists of nuclear installation for the 16th time under the prohibition of attack against nuclear installation and facilities.
www.indlii.org-legal information website
ITUC – a new workers body created in Vienna with membership 150 countries formed after dissolution n merger of two largest bodies of the world conference of labour.
Global ambassador of peace – jus K Narayana Kurup
Ruth manorama(India’s women’s right activist)
And Daniel estberg (former employee of pentagon)
China has launched clean development mechanism fund to help finance climate change.it is the largest emitter of CO2 after US
What is Year 2007 termed?A: International Polar Year
name a major country which is not a member of wtoA: Russia
who is the deputy secretary general of UN?A: It is Tanzanian Foreign Minister Asha-Rose Migiro
what is the previous position of BAN KI MOON in the UN?A: Cheif of Staff of the president of the General Assembly
what is the position of shashi tharoor before contesting the election in the UN?A: Under Secretary General for Communications and Public Information
What is Armenian Genocide?A: armenian genocide is allegedely commited by turks during the first world war and is termed as the first genocide of the last century. 2006 Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk has written books supporting the alligations.
What is Western Sahara Movement?A: Western Sahara movement is we can say a self-determination movement by the Polisario group which tries to overthrow the Morocco goverment's rule over the Sahara territory. Saudi Arabia, USA are at the back of Morocco.Algeria has also a part to play, but the problem is put in the hands of the international players
What is INTERPAT?A: INTERPAT is an international registration of marks by some pharmaceutical companies of US, Swiss, Japan etc ..and so is the madrid protocol related with TRIPS.India has decided to join the Madrid Protocol very recently
who is the speaker of commonwealth parlimentry committee?A: HA.Halim-speaker of west bengal
Criminal Tribes act – 1871
Indian Govt repealed this act in 1952
POK intern act 1974 – according to this, in POK, only those candidates whose signed dellaration of “States Accession to Pak are allowed to contest the elction”
It is considered a violation of UN’s universal declaration of human rights
20 point program formulated y Indira Gandhi in 1975 as a compliment to Garibi Hatao Slogan
GoI is structuring and launching a new 20 point program
The 4th bus service between india and pak - connecting in Poonch in JK and Rawalkot in POK
Dandi Yatra route – given national heritage status – from Sabarmati ashram to dandi in Gujarat to break the salt tax.
Madan lal khurana – bharatiya jan mahasangh
New governor of Bihar – GAVAi
Meghalaya CM – Rhim Bhai
Great June apprising – observed in Manipur to pay tribute to those who died fighting for protection of territorial integrity of Manipur – June 2001
Phillippees abloished death sentence.
Kuwait – for the first time woman cast a vote in parliamentary elections
Netherlands – Jan Peter Balkanende – the PM who resigned ddue to withdrawl support by coalition partners.
East Timor – Jose Ramos Horta – the nobel laurete being considered for PM – replaced – Mari Alkatri
Part XX1 A- plea bargaining
Shamil Basayer –the chenchus rebel leader who was killed
Razaigat and habania – these are the arab tribes that are involved in the conflict over control of grazing lands in southern Darfur
Actuaries bill-2005it seeks to regulate and develop the profession of actuaries.
Nandini satpathi – oriya writer and former Orissa CM for two terms and elected to LA 7 times in row.
COMMUNAL VIOLENCE PREVENTION CONTROL AND REHABILITATION OF VICTIM OF BILL – 2005
It empowers center to send forces to communally disturbed ares to maintain law and order.
GOI banned the employment of children from 10th oct 2006 as domestic service or in hospitality sector.
National Security Advisory Board is reconstituted with former secretary MK Rasgotra as its convenor for the second time.
UN resolution 1707 – called for immediate for succession of hostility in Lebanon
Thar express from Munabao in India to Khokhrapar in Pak
Parliament – (prevention of disc act) – 1959 – being amended under the title of the Office of profit bill.
the Delhi Laws (Special Provisions) Bill, 2006, to put a one-year moratorium on demolitions in the capital and the Constitution (105th Amendment) Bill, 2006
SA legalized gay marriages
Muzaffir hussain beg – deputy cm of JK who lost the position of PDP legislature party
Shwna – Pretoria SA – Shaan declaration signed by SA president and Indian PM it is a 25 point joint declaration in which the leaders agreed that international civilian nuclear cooperation under IAEA safeguards among nuclear countries could be enhanced through acceptable approaches
A permanent exhibition of Mahatma gandhi has been set up at old fort in Johaannesburg
Satyagraha – the idea of satya graham was proposed by Mahatma Gandhi at phoenix settlement in 1906 outside durban
Pheonix settlement at Gandhi museum international painting press, Gandhi health center etc.
Satyagraha centenary celebrations were launched in Durban
Jambhoori vatan party of pak – whose leader nawab akhtar mukthi killed in a military operation in bambhor hills of balochistan
World peace gong – a symbol of brotherhood peace and nature is inaugurated at Gandhi smriti center in new delhi to commemorate centenary of satya graha
UN report on migrants – US has the largest inflow of migrants , afghanisthan topped the list in the ot flow of migrants followed by sudan
September 7th observed as the global day for Darfur
It is observed through out the world calling for the end of the fighting
Anti terrorism mechanism by india and Pak agreed in the Havana meeting
World’s resistence army – rebel group of Uganda
Conclave of CMS on state of states 2006 – new delhi
Punjab – overall best performance award, HP – best state in primary education and health
Kalidasa statue at shanghai , china first statue is of Gandhi
Pondicherry renamed Pudicherry by Pondicherry (Alteration of name) Act 2006
Uttaranchal – state alteration of the name bill in December 2006 to uttarakhand
Bangalore –alteration of the name bill in December 2006 to Benguluru
India – japan –year of friendship
India – china – year of friendship through tourism
TEMPLE OF RAVANA – (Kanpur) –located in kailash mandir complex-140 yrs old-opened for devotee on oct-2 after 10 yrs.
Khasi hills autonomous dist. Council in shilling – chief executive member – Martamlyn pirbot.
MP celebrating golden jubilee(created in 1956)
Karnataka.kerala.AP,TN – golden jubilee on NOV 1
Nov 1 is the sixth anniversary of chattisgarh
HP- state forest deppt decided to transfer the wild life sanctuary to wild life wing.
There are: Dhauladan sanctuary, simla catchment forest, sechutuan sanctuary, kugti sanctuary ,tundah sanctuary.
ICANN- international cooperation for assigned names n numbers (1988) (california)-deals with internet domain names n ISBN marking.
Yasushi Akashi – Japanese special envoy for talks with LTTE and SL government
6th scheduled areas –the 7 expert committee appointed by govt of india by V ramachandra to view the progress of NE and three hill councils of Darjeeling, ladakh and jkargil
Rehabilitation council of india –established as statutory body under ministry of social justice and empowerement.
Union cabinet has approved a provision of 150 crores for commemorating the following
150th anniversary of first war of independence may 07-08
60th indepencdence aug 0708
Centenary celebrations of vandemataram as a ational song – sep 0506
Birth centenaery of bhagat singh and 75th anniversary of his martyrdom 0607
Foreigners Tribunals award 2006 was held unconstitutional by the SC this order puts the onus of proof regarding the foreigner on the complainer accord to the sc goes against the article 355
Jallian wala bagh – national massacre amend bill 2006 – passed amending the 1951 act – to provide for the extension of management of the national memorial commemorating the april 13 1919 massacre
India US Totalisation Agreement: totalization agreement involves taking into account or linking security taxes payable and benefits enjoyable by migrant workers in their home country as also host country.
This is exploring the possibility of exempting the preofesionals from both the countries from social security taxes for short term duration
“The Way forward” – a report on war of Iraq prepared by a 10 member Iraq study group co chaired by James Baker III and Lee Hamilton
2007 is the year of India in Russia
2008 – will be the year of Russia in india
2007 declared as the year of Broadband – BSNL CMD – AK Sinha
CCTV 9 is the china based English news channel
WHO submitted its report called world report on Read traffic injury prevention. The provisions of WHO are incorporated in section 129 of Motor vehicles act calling of compulsory use of standard helmet and not all states of india has enforced this section
UN 1937 resolution – regulating iran nuclear program
June 29 will be the National Statastical day in the memory of Mahabolis from 2007 who was the
founder of Indian Statastical Institute – Kolkata
Indo japan agreement on the visit of Shizno Abi –
Comprehensive economic partnership agreement
Participate in power generation
Would invest in proposed rail freight corridor
Indian national center for ocean information service being set up at Hyderabad
Goa Bachao andolan – against the state regional plan 2007
Chennai port celebrating 125 years
Panipat – which houses babri masjid the tomb of Ibrahim Lodhi located on NH 1
EU Trade commissioner – Peter mendelson
India Isreal is celebrating the 15th annicersary of their bilateral raltions 29th jan 1992
Raleb Najadeleb – the arab muslim to be nominated in to the ministry of Isreal
India and SL – Indian railways is going to construct a 160 km route from Colombo to mathara – this is an Indian railways first foreign venture
Thiruvananthapuram is the first dsit to ban beggary
SACRA ROT- Vatican – it is the appeals court of the church of Vatican it is in news bcoz of its duties that is to consider appeals for couples and grant them
Feb 4th – world cancer day and independence day of SL – 59th
· Logan blue saffire – SL
· Mahavamsha is the historical chronicle of ceylone
· Yala games sanctuary identified as ramsar site
· Nuwas eliya called little England and also called the swiss of east
· India SL FTA came into effect in 2000
· Bilateral trade 2.2 billion dollars 06 07
· 2 billion dollars 05 06
· SL is the largest trading partner of india in SAARC
· Mannar basin is alloted to india for exploration and production of oil - OVL
New Power P5 countries – India, China, Brazil, Mexico and SA
Sampur – the new site announced by Rajapakse the president of SL on 59th independwence day for setting up the NTPC plant
Originally proposed at Tricanmole
Sampur is the eastern town captured by the SL military from the LTTE
TULF – tamil united liberation front – leader is anand sanghavi
EPDP – Ealem People’s democratic party – Devananda is the head
India staked its claim from UN SC non permanent seat for 2 year term ie 2011 2012 in the asian kota
Earlier India was a non permanent member for 6 times
Russia had an org called Sikobiki – an org of senior officials in security and law enforcing agency
This org is opposed putting plans of handing over the power to deputy PM
First PM of Russia – Dimitriv Medyadev
Prevention of Money Laundering Act pasded in 2003 and notified in 2005
India Bhutan new friendship treaty signed between pranab mukherjee and Jigme Kesa Wuunhchuk
It upgrades the Aug 4 a949 for the friend ship treaty and the new treaty includes fresh provisions for expanding economic relations and cooperation in culture education health ST etc
Indo – china discussed abt
BAB – AL – MANDAO – straight – red sea and Arabian sea
Cape of good hope – SA
Straignht of homroz – separating iran and oman
Banda-aaceh – Irawady Yusuf – the former rebel leader of free ASOM movement
Was inaugurated as the new governor from 07 12
MPRF – madhesi peoples rights forum – convenor – upendra yadav – they live in the talai region – Nepal – 30 % of nepals population and they demand autonomy
New citizen ship test involving qs from civics – USA
Indias legislation addressing terrorism – narayanan - FEMA
Narcotics drugs and psycotrpphic sunstance act 03 –
prevention substances act 03 effect from 05
Unlawful activity prevention act 1967 and amended in 04
Chinese external affairs – lie – zhoseiang
Discussed abt possibility of opening of new consulates at guangzou and Kolkata
Iindia – Italy agreement – fiat and tata motors
Tata motors and IVECO (Commercial vehicles of Fiat)
Bet Cararo group and Mahindra and Mah – to produce farm agreement
ONGC and ENISPA
Bank of baroda and pioneer – Global asset managing company
UNICEF report on child poverty:
Child poverty in perceptive: a overview of child well being in rich countrie.this is unicef’s first study of child welfare in developed countries.40 countries were listed with Briton at the bottom.
First three countries:Sweden,Iceland,finland
J&k – Indian sharait act -1937 which was applicable to rest of india is now adopted by j&k legislative council.
Trilateral business meet bet india , china, Russia to be held in nov nov-2007
China supports Russia in EAS
UN convention on migrated species has declared 2007 as the year of the dolphins.(prince albert 2 of the Monaco is the patron of the year of the dolphin)
BAGLIHAR dam:
-india did not violated the Indus valley water treaty-1960
-the dam could be completed with slight modifications in design n without any imopact of 450mw power capacity
-the gated spillways are not a violation of the treaty as they are recognized by international org. on large dams.
The listed issues of bone of contention
1.gated spillways
2.dam ht: ind was to reduce the ht of the free board from 4.5 to 3m
3.width of the pondage: india’s method of calculation was accepted rejecting Pakistan
4.level of intake for running the turbine can be increased by 2m
Red brigader – Itlay (terrorist group)
AP state tree – neem tree
Bihar n haryan – papal tree
HP – deodar
J&k – chinar
Jharkhand –sal
Karnataka - sandal
Kerala - cocnut
Maharastra - mango
UP - asoka tree
Communist party of Nepal - prachanda
Party celebrated the 11th anniversary of it’s peoples war.
Nepal converted to secular state on 18th may 2006
Iranain revolution day 11th feb 1979 – azadi square of Tehran
Meghalaya will observe 2007 as the year of the farmer
Achievable nationhood – it is a vision document on the resolution J&K conflict released by chairman of people’s conference – sajjad ghani lone
The new foreign minister of Sl – rohita bogallagama
Akshara dasoha – mid day meal initiated by Karnataka
Ind – pak exchange of lists of nuclear installation for the 16th time under the prohibition of attack against nuclear installation and facilities.
www.indlii.org-legal information website
ITUC – a new workers body created in Vienna with membership 150 countries formed after dissolution n merger of two largest bodies of the world conference of labour.
Global ambassador of peace – jus K Narayana Kurup
Ruth manorama(India’s women’s right activist)
And Daniel estberg (former employee of pentagon)
China has launched clean development mechanism fund to help finance climate change.it is the largest emitter of CO2 after US
What is Year 2007 termed?A: International Polar Year
name a major country which is not a member of wtoA: Russia
who is the deputy secretary general of UN?A: It is Tanzanian Foreign Minister Asha-Rose Migiro
what is the previous position of BAN KI MOON in the UN?A: Cheif of Staff of the president of the General Assembly
what is the position of shashi tharoor before contesting the election in the UN?A: Under Secretary General for Communications and Public Information
What is Armenian Genocide?A: armenian genocide is allegedely commited by turks during the first world war and is termed as the first genocide of the last century. 2006 Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk has written books supporting the alligations.
What is Western Sahara Movement?A: Western Sahara movement is we can say a self-determination movement by the Polisario group which tries to overthrow the Morocco goverment's rule over the Sahara territory. Saudi Arabia, USA are at the back of Morocco.Algeria has also a part to play, but the problem is put in the hands of the international players
What is INTERPAT?A: INTERPAT is an international registration of marks by some pharmaceutical companies of US, Swiss, Japan etc ..and so is the madrid protocol related with TRIPS.India has decided to join the Madrid Protocol very recently
who is the speaker of commonwealth parlimentry committee?A: HA.Halim-speaker of west bengal
Geography Inititated...
Cotton production in India 04-05 – 243 lakh bales.
03-04 – 179 lakh bales.
Yelid – 04-05 – 460 kg per hectares and for 03-04 398 kg per hectares
Leading producer of cotton in India – Gujarat, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh
Productive wise – TN, Gujarat, Punjab
Three Georges Dam - on Yangtse river in Hubei province of China
Indira sagar power project – Narmada Nagar - MP - 100 MW
Typhoon:
Kaemi – east china’s fuzin province
SAOMO – strongest one in east china
Prapiroon – south china
Durian – Phillippines
XANGSANE – Philippines
Cimaron - philipines
Mavilaru – sri lanka – water way
Largest Urban forest in India inaugurated
FASAL – a project by ministry of agri – forecasting aagri putput using space agro meterology and land based observations
Minitry of environment and forest – govt of india has given permission to 8 new tiger reserves in the states .
Annamudi parmbikulam – TN and kerala
Munumalai – Tn
Udanti – Sita nadi - chattisgarh
Achanakmar sanctauary – chattisgarh
Sanjay dubri national park
Sanjay national park – both in MP
Kaziranga national park – assam
Satkosia – orrissa
Dandeli aushi – Karnataka
Talchal power project located in angu district of Orissa Dedecated to the nation
Bansagar hydro project on son river MP capacity is 425 MW catering to the needs of MP UP and bihar
MP is the largest beneficiary in this
Nicargua – is planning to build a 20 billion dollar grand inter oceanic nicargua channel connecting pacific anf atlantic ocean
First inland waterway cruise – sunderban
Ministry of non-convention energy resources is renamed as the ministry of new n renewable energy
Mt.merapi – active volcano – border of java n yogakarta
Volcano Bulesan – Philippines
Press Freedom Index – total membership 168 India is at 105th position
Bill Clinton is nominated as the special envoy for the tsunami related operations
Alwar district of - Mustard crop residue based non conventional thermal plant Is built here
Fiji – suspended from the Commonwealth countries – 53 in number
City of Lagos – Africa – Nigeria – explosion of petroleum pipeline
Indonesian Senopati – nusantava – Ferri which sangs in a storm of the coast of Java
Little Andaman – white surf waterfall – destroyed in tsunami
Whisper wave waterfall also a part of the little Andaman
Lacones – laboratory for conservation of endangered species – Hyderabad
Water bird population estimates are prepared by Wetland International – it prepares a red list
That is it is the list of globally threatened fauna
Omsk region – south Serbia – Russia –orange snowfall
Factory at this region – ust-kut and a nuclear plant
Macau –Monte carlo of Orient – gambling top notch in china and number one in the world.
Wild life institute of India – Dehra dun
Indian institute of petroleum – Dehradun
Eravikulam national park of kerala.it houses niligiri thar in red list
Red list is prepared by wetland international inassociation with IUCN - international conservation of nature – HQ – geneva
In which country in March 2006, more than 600 followers of slain Shia cleric Hussein al-Houthi who were captured following a rebellion he led in 2004 were released under an amnesty ?A: Yemen
Where is the XXX Antarctic Treaty Consultataive Meeting (ATCM) 2007 being held ?A: Government of India will be hosting the 30th Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting (ATCM) at New Delhi.India is 25 years old in this treaty. This treaty is going to be held first time in India and the previous one was held in Eidenburg. The Antarctic Treaty Secretariat is at Buenos Aires
In an effort to curb greenhouse gases and global warming, the installation of world's biggest offshore wind farm has been approved at ______________A: London Array
Scientists have discovered at least 52 new species of animals and plants ...where in the world ?A: in the rainforests of Borneo which is shared by three countries...Indonesia, Malaysia and Brunei Darussalam
Where is the doomsday vault coming?A: Norway
List European countries who are not members of eu ?A: Ukraine, Belarus, Norway, Switzerland
Where does the Aravalli range start and where does it end?A: over 300 miles, it starts in the Northeast of Rajasthan near Delhi and ends in the South west near the Gujarat border almost making Mount Abu, the highest of Aravalli range the ending point
What is a shale?A: it is a fine grained sedimentary rock made of clay or muds with fissility
What is a lateral moraine?A: Lateral moraine is formed from debris derived from frost shattering on the valley sides, and is carried along the sides of the glacier
What are oxbow lakes?A: it is a single from the album orbus terranum by ambient house artist the Orb - geographiacally - An oxbow lake is a type of lake which is formed when a wide meander from a stream or a river is cut off to form a lake. They are called oxbow lakes due to the distinctive curved shape that results from this process
Which is India's biggest lake?A: Wular lake is the biggest fresh water lake and chilika lake is the biggest coastal lake in India
Which is India's oldest dam?And which is India's first Hydroelectric project?A: Along the Kaveri river in tamil Nadu built by Cholas (King Karikala Chola) - it is the world's oldest dam.
Shivanasamudra in Mysore division has the oldest hydroelectric power project in India built in 1902
Where is the Bay of Biscay?A: on the west coast of France and the north coast of spain....the gulf of the atlantic ocean
Which is the largest province in Pakistan?A: Balochisthan
What is a Graben and Horst?A: geological terms referring to regions that lie between the faults
What is sea floor spreading?A: the theory of continental drift by the tectonic theory
Which is the land of lakes?A: Nainital
What is the capital of Kazhakstan?A: Astana
What is the capital of Armenia?A: Yerevan
What is ETA in Spain?A: Euskadi Ta Askatasuna or ETA
How many sites in India are there in the world heritage list?A: 26
What is a bogoslof?A: Bogoslof Island is the summit of a largely submarine stratovolcano located in the Bering Sea
03-04 – 179 lakh bales.
Yelid – 04-05 – 460 kg per hectares and for 03-04 398 kg per hectares
Leading producer of cotton in India – Gujarat, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh
Productive wise – TN, Gujarat, Punjab
Three Georges Dam - on Yangtse river in Hubei province of China
Indira sagar power project – Narmada Nagar - MP - 100 MW
Typhoon:
Kaemi – east china’s fuzin province
SAOMO – strongest one in east china
Prapiroon – south china
Durian – Phillippines
XANGSANE – Philippines
Cimaron - philipines
Mavilaru – sri lanka – water way
Largest Urban forest in India inaugurated
FASAL – a project by ministry of agri – forecasting aagri putput using space agro meterology and land based observations
Minitry of environment and forest – govt of india has given permission to 8 new tiger reserves in the states .
Annamudi parmbikulam – TN and kerala
Munumalai – Tn
Udanti – Sita nadi - chattisgarh
Achanakmar sanctauary – chattisgarh
Sanjay dubri national park
Sanjay national park – both in MP
Kaziranga national park – assam
Satkosia – orrissa
Dandeli aushi – Karnataka
Talchal power project located in angu district of Orissa Dedecated to the nation
Bansagar hydro project on son river MP capacity is 425 MW catering to the needs of MP UP and bihar
MP is the largest beneficiary in this
Nicargua – is planning to build a 20 billion dollar grand inter oceanic nicargua channel connecting pacific anf atlantic ocean
First inland waterway cruise – sunderban
Ministry of non-convention energy resources is renamed as the ministry of new n renewable energy
Mt.merapi – active volcano – border of java n yogakarta
Volcano Bulesan – Philippines
Press Freedom Index – total membership 168 India is at 105th position
Bill Clinton is nominated as the special envoy for the tsunami related operations
Alwar district of - Mustard crop residue based non conventional thermal plant Is built here
Fiji – suspended from the Commonwealth countries – 53 in number
City of Lagos – Africa – Nigeria – explosion of petroleum pipeline
Indonesian Senopati – nusantava – Ferri which sangs in a storm of the coast of Java
Little Andaman – white surf waterfall – destroyed in tsunami
Whisper wave waterfall also a part of the little Andaman
Lacones – laboratory for conservation of endangered species – Hyderabad
Water bird population estimates are prepared by Wetland International – it prepares a red list
That is it is the list of globally threatened fauna
Omsk region – south Serbia – Russia –orange snowfall
Factory at this region – ust-kut and a nuclear plant
Macau –Monte carlo of Orient – gambling top notch in china and number one in the world.
Wild life institute of India – Dehra dun
Indian institute of petroleum – Dehradun
Eravikulam national park of kerala.it houses niligiri thar in red list
Red list is prepared by wetland international inassociation with IUCN - international conservation of nature – HQ – geneva
In which country in March 2006, more than 600 followers of slain Shia cleric Hussein al-Houthi who were captured following a rebellion he led in 2004 were released under an amnesty ?A: Yemen
Where is the XXX Antarctic Treaty Consultataive Meeting (ATCM) 2007 being held ?A: Government of India will be hosting the 30th Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting (ATCM) at New Delhi.India is 25 years old in this treaty. This treaty is going to be held first time in India and the previous one was held in Eidenburg. The Antarctic Treaty Secretariat is at Buenos Aires
In an effort to curb greenhouse gases and global warming, the installation of world's biggest offshore wind farm has been approved at ______________A: London Array
Scientists have discovered at least 52 new species of animals and plants ...where in the world ?A: in the rainforests of Borneo which is shared by three countries...Indonesia, Malaysia and Brunei Darussalam
Where is the doomsday vault coming?A: Norway
List European countries who are not members of eu ?A: Ukraine, Belarus, Norway, Switzerland
Where does the Aravalli range start and where does it end?A: over 300 miles, it starts in the Northeast of Rajasthan near Delhi and ends in the South west near the Gujarat border almost making Mount Abu, the highest of Aravalli range the ending point
What is a shale?A: it is a fine grained sedimentary rock made of clay or muds with fissility
What is a lateral moraine?A: Lateral moraine is formed from debris derived from frost shattering on the valley sides, and is carried along the sides of the glacier
What are oxbow lakes?A: it is a single from the album orbus terranum by ambient house artist the Orb - geographiacally - An oxbow lake is a type of lake which is formed when a wide meander from a stream or a river is cut off to form a lake. They are called oxbow lakes due to the distinctive curved shape that results from this process
Which is India's biggest lake?A: Wular lake is the biggest fresh water lake and chilika lake is the biggest coastal lake in India
Which is India's oldest dam?And which is India's first Hydroelectric project?A: Along the Kaveri river in tamil Nadu built by Cholas (King Karikala Chola) - it is the world's oldest dam.
Shivanasamudra in Mysore division has the oldest hydroelectric power project in India built in 1902
Where is the Bay of Biscay?A: on the west coast of France and the north coast of spain....the gulf of the atlantic ocean
Which is the largest province in Pakistan?A: Balochisthan
What is a Graben and Horst?A: geological terms referring to regions that lie between the faults
What is sea floor spreading?A: the theory of continental drift by the tectonic theory
Which is the land of lakes?A: Nainital
What is the capital of Kazhakstan?A: Astana
What is the capital of Armenia?A: Yerevan
What is ETA in Spain?A: Euskadi Ta Askatasuna or ETA
How many sites in India are there in the world heritage list?A: 26
What is a bogoslof?A: Bogoslof Island is the summit of a largely submarine stratovolcano located in the Bering Sea
Economic Traits across the World
India ad Srilanka – placed vanaspati under canalized list – NAFAD – National Agricultural Cooperative MAARKETING Federation of India Ltd/
Earllier Vanaspati is in FTA
India is the top newpaper power has largest copies of dailies sold. FORDS Survey
National Steel Policy – target – 110 million tones – 2019-2020
CRISIL and ICRA – credit rating org of India
Report –placed AP as the best performing state in power followed by Gujarat and Delhi
Japan – lifted a 2 decade ban of mangoes from india
National investment fund – launched by LIC , SBI and UTi 75 % social sector schemes and the remaninig for the revivval of sick PSUs
Govt to sell equities of 10% in NALCO and Neyveli lignite ltd.
Pradhanamantri swastiya surakhsha yojana – its aim is to fill the gap in tertiary health care infrastructure and provide for quality mediacal infra in under served states.
India – UK – investment increased a 110% becomes the third largest investor in UK next only to USA and japan.
Handloom mark – launched by Pm, as a quality mark for handloom products
New norms in telecom – fdi 49 to 74 %
Nathula pass- 4310mt high links sikkim and Tibet autonomous region opened for sino-indian trade after 44 years.
Karokoram highway – innovated by china and pak for trade.
Russian natural gas company – gazprom signed an nafgreement with Gujarat state petroleum corporation for joint exploration and development of on shore and off shore hydrocarbons in Gujarat
MOU for bilateral corporation between Gujarat and Astrocorn region of Russia was signed.
Governor proposed establishment of MIR – manufacturing investment region in the lines of SEZ but it could have large area of around 100 sq km and qould avail extra infra but no fiscal incentives
First visual radio service in india – is being launched jointly by hutch and hp nokia and radio
Mirchi
World survey of happiness - Denmark – lasrt – burendi
SBI – the first Indian bank to open a branch in main land china
One india one rate scheme - a speed post scheme by the postal department – 25 rs for 50 gms anywhere in india
Poppy cultivation – afghanisthan is the largest producer 90 % of opium and heroine
Dedicated freight corridor for eastern region – it is the largest single railway program initiated after independence linking Ludhiana with north eastern states and western - Jawahar lal Nehru port with delhi
Goa – it became the first state to allow offshore casino on the mandovi river
AUTHENTITX – a new marker system under which kerosene meant for PDS would be died with a a specual marker which cannot be removed or tampered with . it also helps in detecting adulteration of pertroleum kerosene and diesel
Belgaum – india’s first SEZ for sugar and ethanol and also first agro based SEZ in ind.
The concept of SEZ introduced in the year 2000.
The concept of EPZ introduced in the year 1995
First EPZ – kandla(first in asia) - doubt with Shenzen in China!
First EPZ of the world – shanon(Ireland)
Garib rath express introduced in 06-07 budget
Cabinet committee on economic affairs recommended national bamboo mission to be implemented by ministry of agriculture for N-E states.
RBI – it directed “departmental of industrial promotion of FDI and FII”
FDI in retail sector – 51%
FDI in whole sector – 100%
Year 2006 – “year of challenges and new initiatives”
National inst. Of horticulture – Nagaland
Year 2007 –year of water by GoI
Slogan is “water year, year of more crop and income for drop of water” it is based on the recommendation of the advisory council on artificial recharge of ground water chaired by Saiffudin soz
NIXI – national internet exchange of ind.
Nodal hubs – noida , Mumbai, Chennai, kolkata
Regional hubs –bangalore, Hyderabad, ahmedabad and mohali
UNIFIED CONSUMER INDEX- IT IS AN HARMONISED INDEX OF COMSUMER PRICES TO BRING TOGETHER THE EXISTING FOUR CPI SERIES i.e
CPI – IW -1982(base yr)
CPI – urban non manual employ. (1981-82)
CPI – agri and
CPI - rural laborers (86-87)
The digital gaming industry meet called games convention of asia – Singapore – sep 2007
Top industrial houses:
Tata
Reliance of mukesh ambani
Bharti telecom
ADAG
Wipro
Icici
India – Qatar agreement on LNG
Qatar supplies 7.5 MT of lng annually.it wants to participate in the kayamkulam project(kerala) and ONGC’s petro chemical hub at mangalore for dhabol power plant.
Power purchase agreements
1.SASAN pro. In MP(4000 mw)
Distribution-1500mw(MP) ,600mw(puj) ,500mw(up) ,delhi n Haryana(450mw each)
Rajasthan(400mw), Uttaranchal(100mw)
2.munda pro. Of Gujarat (4000MW)
-gujarat(1900mw) ,mah(800mw), Punjab(500mw), raj(400mw), Haryana(400mw)
2nd international rise congress –new delhi
Five point agenda n eight point delhi decleration
-estb of asain rise network for HRD
-transboundary issues related to pests
-assessment of seeds quality
-estb of laboratories
-technology transfer
Golden triangular region – Myanmar, Laos nd thailand (Opium cuntivating counties and forming the highway of narcotic trade)
The region registered a steep fall in opium cultivation in 2006
Mirpur of Bangladesh – the HQ of Grameen bank founded in 1976 by Yunus Mohammed.
He also founded Grameen fone and palli fone org.
A9 highway – connecting Jaffna peninsula and the rest of SL
It was closed by the SL govt and LTTEs demanded to open.
Tata acquired companies: Corus, Energy Brands, Techlitee of Britan, 78 o clock coffee of US and Daewoo commercial company of South Korea
1. 109.7 Mton Arcelor-Mittal (Global) [2]
2. 32.0 Mton Nippon Steel (Japan) [3]
3. 30.5 Mton POSCO (South Korea) [4]
4. 29.9 Mton JFE (Japan) [5]
5. 28.2 Mton Tata Steel-HYPERLINK "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corus" \o "Corus"Corus (India)
6. 23.8 Mton Shanghai Baosteel Group Corporation (China)
7. 19.3 Mton United States Steel Corporation (United States)
Ten major steel producers of the world -
1. China 418.8 Mton （2006）
2. Japan 112.5 Mton
3. United States 94.9 Mton
4. Russia 66.1 Mton
5. South Korea 47.8 Mton
6. Germany 44.5 Mton
7. Ukraine 38.6 Mton
8. India 38.1 Mton
9. Brazil 31.6 Mton
10. Italy 29.3 Mton
EU free Trade Association – Swiss, Norway, Iceland, Liechestein
2 regional national textile corporation – Coimbatore –TN, Kerala, AP, Pudicherry and Karnataka. And Mumbai – Rest of India
NITIKAN Expedition – began at st Petersburg top trace the 500 yr old over land trade route of 10000 km to Mumbai
Rural electrification Corporation – first private firm to construct a transmission line in Gujarat and Maharashtra
Social security agreement between india and Belgium – first of its kind working on a short term contract of upto 60 months in each other countries are exempt from social security contri in the host countries if they make the social secutrity payments in their own countries
Nokia the finland based company with doordarshan for digital video broadcast
New Mangalore port received the first shipment shakalin 1 OVL has 20% stake in this,
Mangalore refineries and petro chemicals ltd is the fully owned subsidiary of ONGC
IOC purchased 12.5 % stake in the oil pipeline constructed between mediterraian and the black sea coast of turkey
Infosys is the first Indian company to be listed in the MASDAQ 100 list
Total banking state – kerala by june 10 2007
Total banking district – palakkad
India semiconductor association – vision summit 07 – in Hyderabad
Allahabad bank to work in a branch in hongkong
It is a first overseas bank for this bank
Chairperson is AC Mahajan
The central bank of Nepal is called Nepal rashtra bank
Newspaper of Zimbabwe – MAIL
SA – Gaurdian
England – The Gaurdian
Standard Chartered – Indias largest foreign bank
Ethanol produced from plant distillation it can be made from corn and other starch or sugar based crops such as soya beans sugarcane and barley wheat and potato in india 90 % ethanol is from sugar cane waste
4G mobile comm. system – China – shanghai
100 MBPS is the speed
ROSNEFT – Russian govt oil major proposed that ONGC can get wider access to Russian oil and gas [products in exchange of stakes in india
First tele radiology network of india commissioned in Hyderabad
Indo china trade – rised 18.7 billion dollars 2005 to 24.9 bilion dollars in 2006
India is chinas 10th largest trade partner and china is India second largest trade partner
RAPSOL – German oil company
Top oil producers of Africa – Nigeria , Algeria, Libya and angola
National maternity benefit scheme –centrally sponsored provides financial assitenace at the rate of 500 Rs at the birth of first two live children to a woman who is 19 yrs or above in the BPL families
Libyan new s agency – Jana
Transnational pipeline of Africa – Libya – sudan – eritria – Dijbouti and Gulf of Eden
Lane of refinery – agreement between IOC and Libyas national oil corporation 50 50
Azzaviya – other imp refinery where india is interested
They will execute a 100 mw at navi nagar – bihar
GAS OPEC – a natural gas equivalent of OPEC first articulated by iran at SCO summit 2006
Energy NATO – propsed by Poland to stop Russia strengthening in energy sector
NTPC signed agreements with SL and Nigerian for power generations
2 * 250 MW in trainamcole Sl 50 50 partnership
SBI – operating in Iran and US
ZArang – afghan – chababhar – iran a new transist route India is supportin this project
Earllier Vanaspati is in FTA
India is the top newpaper power has largest copies of dailies sold. FORDS Survey
National Steel Policy – target – 110 million tones – 2019-2020
CRISIL and ICRA – credit rating org of India
Report –placed AP as the best performing state in power followed by Gujarat and Delhi
Japan – lifted a 2 decade ban of mangoes from india
National investment fund – launched by LIC , SBI and UTi 75 % social sector schemes and the remaninig for the revivval of sick PSUs
Govt to sell equities of 10% in NALCO and Neyveli lignite ltd.
Pradhanamantri swastiya surakhsha yojana – its aim is to fill the gap in tertiary health care infrastructure and provide for quality mediacal infra in under served states.
India – UK – investment increased a 110% becomes the third largest investor in UK next only to USA and japan.
Handloom mark – launched by Pm, as a quality mark for handloom products
New norms in telecom – fdi 49 to 74 %
Nathula pass- 4310mt high links sikkim and Tibet autonomous region opened for sino-indian trade after 44 years.
Karokoram highway – innovated by china and pak for trade.
Russian natural gas company – gazprom signed an nafgreement with Gujarat state petroleum corporation for joint exploration and development of on shore and off shore hydrocarbons in Gujarat
MOU for bilateral corporation between Gujarat and Astrocorn region of Russia was signed.
Governor proposed establishment of MIR – manufacturing investment region in the lines of SEZ but it could have large area of around 100 sq km and qould avail extra infra but no fiscal incentives
First visual radio service in india – is being launched jointly by hutch and hp nokia and radio
Mirchi
World survey of happiness - Denmark – lasrt – burendi
SBI – the first Indian bank to open a branch in main land china
One india one rate scheme - a speed post scheme by the postal department – 25 rs for 50 gms anywhere in india
Poppy cultivation – afghanisthan is the largest producer 90 % of opium and heroine
Dedicated freight corridor for eastern region – it is the largest single railway program initiated after independence linking Ludhiana with north eastern states and western - Jawahar lal Nehru port with delhi
Goa – it became the first state to allow offshore casino on the mandovi river
AUTHENTITX – a new marker system under which kerosene meant for PDS would be died with a a specual marker which cannot be removed or tampered with . it also helps in detecting adulteration of pertroleum kerosene and diesel
Belgaum – india’s first SEZ for sugar and ethanol and also first agro based SEZ in ind.
The concept of SEZ introduced in the year 2000.
The concept of EPZ introduced in the year 1995
First EPZ – kandla(first in asia) - doubt with Shenzen in China!
First EPZ of the world – shanon(Ireland)
Garib rath express introduced in 06-07 budget
Cabinet committee on economic affairs recommended national bamboo mission to be implemented by ministry of agriculture for N-E states.
RBI – it directed “departmental of industrial promotion of FDI and FII”
FDI in retail sector – 51%
FDI in whole sector – 100%
Year 2006 – “year of challenges and new initiatives”
National inst. Of horticulture – Nagaland
Year 2007 –year of water by GoI
Slogan is “water year, year of more crop and income for drop of water” it is based on the recommendation of the advisory council on artificial recharge of ground water chaired by Saiffudin soz
NIXI – national internet exchange of ind.
Nodal hubs – noida , Mumbai, Chennai, kolkata
Regional hubs –bangalore, Hyderabad, ahmedabad and mohali
UNIFIED CONSUMER INDEX- IT IS AN HARMONISED INDEX OF COMSUMER PRICES TO BRING TOGETHER THE EXISTING FOUR CPI SERIES i.e
CPI – IW -1982(base yr)
CPI – urban non manual employ. (1981-82)
CPI – agri and
CPI - rural laborers (86-87)
The digital gaming industry meet called games convention of asia – Singapore – sep 2007
Top industrial houses:
Tata
Reliance of mukesh ambani
Bharti telecom
ADAG
Wipro
Icici
India – Qatar agreement on LNG
Qatar supplies 7.5 MT of lng annually.it wants to participate in the kayamkulam project(kerala) and ONGC’s petro chemical hub at mangalore for dhabol power plant.
Power purchase agreements
1.SASAN pro. In MP(4000 mw)
Distribution-1500mw(MP) ,600mw(puj) ,500mw(up) ,delhi n Haryana(450mw each)
Rajasthan(400mw), Uttaranchal(100mw)
2.munda pro. Of Gujarat (4000MW)
-gujarat(1900mw) ,mah(800mw), Punjab(500mw), raj(400mw), Haryana(400mw)
2nd international rise congress –new delhi
Five point agenda n eight point delhi decleration
-estb of asain rise network for HRD
-transboundary issues related to pests
-assessment of seeds quality
-estb of laboratories
-technology transfer
Golden triangular region – Myanmar, Laos nd thailand (Opium cuntivating counties and forming the highway of narcotic trade)
The region registered a steep fall in opium cultivation in 2006
Mirpur of Bangladesh – the HQ of Grameen bank founded in 1976 by Yunus Mohammed.
He also founded Grameen fone and palli fone org.
A9 highway – connecting Jaffna peninsula and the rest of SL
It was closed by the SL govt and LTTEs demanded to open.
Tata acquired companies: Corus, Energy Brands, Techlitee of Britan, 78 o clock coffee of US and Daewoo commercial company of South Korea
1. 109.7 Mton Arcelor-Mittal (Global) [2]
2. 32.0 Mton Nippon Steel (Japan) [3]
3. 30.5 Mton POSCO (South Korea) [4]
4. 29.9 Mton JFE (Japan) [5]
5. 28.2 Mton Tata Steel-HYPERLINK "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corus" \o "Corus"Corus (India)
6. 23.8 Mton Shanghai Baosteel Group Corporation (China)
7. 19.3 Mton United States Steel Corporation (United States)
Ten major steel producers of the world -
1. China 418.8 Mton （2006）
2. Japan 112.5 Mton
3. United States 94.9 Mton
4. Russia 66.1 Mton
5. South Korea 47.8 Mton
6. Germany 44.5 Mton
7. Ukraine 38.6 Mton
8. India 38.1 Mton
9. Brazil 31.6 Mton
10. Italy 29.3 Mton
EU free Trade Association – Swiss, Norway, Iceland, Liechestein
2 regional national textile corporation – Coimbatore –TN, Kerala, AP, Pudicherry and Karnataka. And Mumbai – Rest of India
NITIKAN Expedition – began at st Petersburg top trace the 500 yr old over land trade route of 10000 km to Mumbai
Rural electrification Corporation – first private firm to construct a transmission line in Gujarat and Maharashtra
Social security agreement between india and Belgium – first of its kind working on a short term contract of upto 60 months in each other countries are exempt from social security contri in the host countries if they make the social secutrity payments in their own countries
Nokia the finland based company with doordarshan for digital video broadcast
New Mangalore port received the first shipment shakalin 1 OVL has 20% stake in this,
Mangalore refineries and petro chemicals ltd is the fully owned subsidiary of ONGC
IOC purchased 12.5 % stake in the oil pipeline constructed between mediterraian and the black sea coast of turkey
Infosys is the first Indian company to be listed in the MASDAQ 100 list
Total banking state – kerala by june 10 2007
Total banking district – palakkad
India semiconductor association – vision summit 07 – in Hyderabad
Allahabad bank to work in a branch in hongkong
It is a first overseas bank for this bank
Chairperson is AC Mahajan
The central bank of Nepal is called Nepal rashtra bank
Newspaper of Zimbabwe – MAIL
SA – Gaurdian
England – The Gaurdian
Standard Chartered – Indias largest foreign bank
Ethanol produced from plant distillation it can be made from corn and other starch or sugar based crops such as soya beans sugarcane and barley wheat and potato in india 90 % ethanol is from sugar cane waste
4G mobile comm. system – China – shanghai
100 MBPS is the speed
ROSNEFT – Russian govt oil major proposed that ONGC can get wider access to Russian oil and gas [products in exchange of stakes in india
First tele radiology network of india commissioned in Hyderabad
Indo china trade – rised 18.7 billion dollars 2005 to 24.9 bilion dollars in 2006
India is chinas 10th largest trade partner and china is India second largest trade partner
RAPSOL – German oil company
Top oil producers of Africa – Nigeria , Algeria, Libya and angola
National maternity benefit scheme –centrally sponsored provides financial assitenace at the rate of 500 Rs at the birth of first two live children to a woman who is 19 yrs or above in the BPL families
Libyan new s agency – Jana
Transnational pipeline of Africa – Libya – sudan – eritria – Dijbouti and Gulf of Eden
Lane of refinery – agreement between IOC and Libyas national oil corporation 50 50
Azzaviya – other imp refinery where india is interested
They will execute a 100 mw at navi nagar – bihar
GAS OPEC – a natural gas equivalent of OPEC first articulated by iran at SCO summit 2006
Energy NATO – propsed by Poland to stop Russia strengthening in energy sector
NTPC signed agreements with SL and Nigerian for power generations
2 * 250 MW in trainamcole Sl 50 50 partnership
SBI – operating in Iran and US
ZArang – afghan – chababhar – iran a new transist route India is supportin this project
World banks report on the GDP of india – 05 – 785 billion dollars – and 25% of it is contri by South india
Ranks of Countries based on GDP growth –
China – 10.4
India 9.2
Argentina 8.7
Russia 6.5
Malaysia 5.8
Indonesia 5.2
Taiwan 5.02
Phillippines 4.8
Mexico 4.6
GI – Kondapalli toys – the first man made toys
Govt is to divest from REC, PGCIL, NHPC
Center stake in REC – reduced to 81.22 and PGCIL and NHPC to be reduced to 86.26
China, NANZING – satyam computers is establishing a comp there
Agri biotec day – 9th june
National bio tec board – esta in 1982 and the plan for the development of BT
1986 given the full fledged govt department for BT and a proposal to create a national BT regulatory authority
MAXIS – Malaysia tele comp
ORNACS –egypt tele comp
Economics of india space program authored by – U Shankar
Italian trade commission – Kolkata 07 –
Commission of Indus water board – syed jamat Alisha
2007 – Malaysia 50 yrs of diplomatic relations with india
Trade – 5.7 billion dollars 06
29.5 percent increase
Pan African e-network project to be established by a joint venture of nigeria n telecommunications consultance ind. Ltd
3GSM world conference – barsilona
NSE – CMD – ravi narayana
HINDALCO – Hindustan aluminium corp. india’s largest non ferrous company of aditya group signed a agreement with novetis of Canadian company
Duty free import authorization scheme initiated in 2006.
It allows exporters to import raw material without paying any duty on the basis of their export performance.
Development od Buddhist roads (with japan’s cooperation)
Patna- bodh gaya –dobhi
Bodh gaya- rajgir
Hajipur – deoria(up)
Global economic freedom survey -07 Prepared by wall street journal -157 countries
Top 5
Hong kong
Singapore
Australia
USA
New Zealand
157th is the north korea
India-104, pak – 89
Trincomale – batticaloa (a-15 highway) It was closed for 15 yrs
150th country to join WTO – Vietnam
Latest country in EU – Slovenia (the first former communist state to join euro n the 13th euro country)
ILO report on unemployment – Global unemployment rate is – 06 -6.3% It registered a drop of 0.1%
name a major country which is not a member of wto - A: Russia
In which country was the world's biggest solar power project approved at..?A: Portugal
which countries inflation rate is the highest in the worldA: Zimbabwe
What is ITER? A: International Thermo Nuclear Experimental Reactor to test the Fusion ReactionsSeven Participants joined in 2006 with US $ 12 Billion and is the third most expensive project after the Manhattan project and the International Space Station project.Based in Cadarache, France and expected to start in 2016USA, EU, Russia, China, Korea, India and Japan.
which country is constructing one million kw nuclear power plan and where is the plant comming?A: China is constructing it.
What is ECGC and what is its function?A: Exports Credit Gaurantee Corporation of India Ltd, established in 1957 to strengthen the export promotion drive by covering the risk of exporting on creditunder the control of the Ministry of Commerce & Industry, Department of Commerce, Government of India
When was NTPC formed?A: 1975
Which is the largest oil company in Russia?A: Lukoil is the private largest oil company, and rosneft is the state owned largest oil company
What is SLR in economic terms?A: Statuory Liquidity Ratio - it is the amount that a bank has to maintain in the form of gold, cash or securities with the RBI and the RBI decides the value of the SLR
What is money laundering?A: it is the main operation of the underground money transactions for tax evasion and other purposes.
What is third party insurance?A: insurance provided by a third party like the auto insurance etc.
What is Indo Russian trade volume?A: around 3 Billion Dollors
What is Sinopec?A: The China Petroleum and Chemical Corporation
Who has the major stake in VSNL?A: Tatas
What is MIDHANI?A: Mishra Dhatu Nigam limited, DOD agency, Hyderabad
What is the institute started in Chennai testing on newsprint and inks?A: Ifra India and the Research Institute of Newspaper Development Institute, ChennaiWho are the largest producers of gas?A: Saudi Arabia, Canada and Iran
Which country is supporting the Koodankulam reactors?A: Russia
What is FBTR?A: Fast Breed Test Reactor under IGCAR and BARC
Which company produces the Flexcube banking software?A: I-FlexWhat is OVL’s stake in Sakhalin 1?A: 20%
What is POSCO famous for?A: Pohang Iron and Steel Company, third largest steel company in the world, South Korea
Defence/Space Strategies around the world
Top Space agencies around the world
NASA - 16 Billion Dollars
ESA (European Space Agency) - 4 Billion
CNES (French Space Agency)
JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency)
RKA (Russia Feferal Space Agency) - ROSKOMOS
DLR - German Aerospace Center
ASI - Italian Space Agency
ISRO - Indian Space Research Organization
CNSA - Chinese National Space Administration
BNSC - British National Space Center
Top defence Companies around the world
1 Lockheed Martin U.S.
2 Boeing U.S.
3 Northrop Grumman U.S.
4BAE Systems U.K.
5 Raytheon U.S.
6General Dynamics U.S.
7 EADS France [1]
8 Honeywell U.S.
9 Thales France
10 Halliburton [2] U.S.
Konkan 06 – Joint naval exercise by Indian and British navy on the west coast
TAPP III – 16th nuclear reactor of the country. It is a PHWR using natural uranium as fuel and heavy water as moderant and coolant. 540 MW capacity
TAP I and II were boiling water reactors
AWACS – Airborne Warning and control systems - First country to do it is Isreal recently sweden supplied AWACS to Pak
Operation Maraham – by Indian navy and air force to provide relief for earth quake effected Indonesia
Lohagoan airport base – Pune
SS Norway – A Norwenian ship permitted by SC to enter territorial water of India
FVDA – Fire power defence agreement signed by Singapore, Malaysia, Australia NZ and UK
TYEPEYUNGYANG- korean coast guard patrol vessel taking part in the first ever indo-korean coast exercise of chennai coast.
Kumhari village-Fatehabad dist-Harayana-nuclear power project
Agni 3 – 3500 Km failed – advanced long range ballistic missile.
Taepodong -2 – north korea missile – ICBM
GSLV – FO2 – was a failure which was placing in the orbit INSAT 4c
MI 17 – Helicopters of Russia purchased by india
MV Esparenza – the vessel of green peace which visited Chennai recently
India signed the convention on nuclear terror
UN resolution 1695 – devise the suspension of north Korean nuclear program it also prevents all the UN member states for transfer of financial assistance or technical know how of missile and wmd agenda of north korea
Agosta 90 B – it is an indigenously built class of submarine of Pak
HAmza is the agosta class of sub marine built recently
Operation Sukoon – evacuation of Indians from Lebanon by Indian navy
Fumiyo Kuyama – chief od defence agency of japan
Aroushee ansal – first woman space tourist – USA of Iranian origin
Anza – MK3 – missile of pak – it’s a modified version of QUIAG – WEI 2 of china
Smart 1 – Europes first aircraft to the moon – small mission for advanced research and tech
M –V – is a rocket launched by japan to put a sun observation satellite in orbit
Artificial sun –It is the nickname of the first test of an experimental thermonuclear fusion reactor.
K – 84 – a nuclear powered sub marine of Russia which has successfully launched an ICBM in northern pole
H2-A-Japan’s intelligence gathering satellite
Project rohini – satellite comm. Network for the army
Mars mission – Lockheed martins – to build the next space ship for human ride to mars called orion
T 90 – MBT of Russia and india signed a fresh deal to buy T 90 (390) – Bhisma
T- 80 UD – MBT build by Ukraine and brought by Pak
HAL – ashok bhaveja –signed a venture with IRKUT corp of Russia to manufacture a multirole transport aircraft.
Indra dhanush 2006 – first ever joint exercise in 43 years by Indian air force and royal air force of UK held at Gwalior.
First maritime law coll. – Chennai
Victoria crater on mars being studied by MARS RECONNAISASNCE ORBITOR(MRO)
Pungye-yok - north korea conducted nuclear weapon test
Shatrujith 06 – by Indian and US navy in the semi urban counter terrorism held at belgaum
The Indo-Tibetan Border Police is a paramilitary force conceived on October 24, 1962 for the security along the Indo-Tibetan Border covering 2115 km - VK Joshi is the DG
Liquid Propulsion system – TN mahendraghiri
HAFT 3 – Also known as the Ghaznavi – with a range of 290 km short range ballistic missile
HAFT 4 – shaheen 1 of pak – successful –medium range ballistic missile – 700 km
Haft 5 – IRBM – Ghouri - pak – 1300 km
Chashura – power plant under construction in pak with china help under IEAE norms
Cassini space craft t- satrun -7th ring is found of NASA
Defense secretary of US – Donald Rumsfeld was replaced by Robert Gates
Discovery space shuttle launched with seven astraunauts to ISS including Sunita Williams she replaced the german scientist Thomas Reitu Max Polenski is the commander in chief of the mission
Freindship 2006 is the joint exercise by china and pak troops in NW pak. The last such exercise was friendship 2004 on the Chinese side of the border
16th December is celebrated as the 35th vijay diwas commemorating the victory of Indian armed forces in the war against Pak. It was called the operation cactus lilly
INS Shardul and INS Kesari – a landing ship for tanks – large – LST – L
Built by Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers and this was inducted into Indian naval base INS kadamba – karwar – katrnataka
It is the third in the class the others being – INS margar and INS kharial
GLONASS – Russian Global Navigation system – 17 satellites
Under 2004 agreement india joined it. And agreed to jointly develop the new generation satellites called glonass K
COROT – it stands for Conviction, rotation and planetary transcends it is a first space telescope designed to find the habitual lands orbiting stars in remote solar systems built by French space agency and launched through Soyuz rocket by Baikonor Kazaksthan
Isreal leading developers of arms are –
NASA - 16 Billion Dollars
ESA (European Space Agency) - 4 Billion
CNES (French Space Agency)
JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency)
RKA (Russia Feferal Space Agency) - ROSKOMOS
DLR - German Aerospace Center
ASI - Italian Space Agency
ISRO - Indian Space Research Organization
CNSA - Chinese National Space Administration
BNSC - British National Space Center
Top defence Companies around the world
1 Lockheed Martin U.S.
2 Boeing U.S.
3 Northrop Grumman U.S.
4BAE Systems U.K.
5 Raytheon U.S.
6General Dynamics U.S.
7 EADS France [1]
8 Honeywell U.S.
9 Thales France
10 Halliburton [2] U.S.
Konkan 06 – Joint naval exercise by Indian and British navy on the west coast
TAPP III – 16th nuclear reactor of the country. It is a PHWR using natural uranium as fuel and heavy water as moderant and coolant. 540 MW capacity
TAP I and II were boiling water reactors
AWACS – Airborne Warning and control systems - First country to do it is Isreal recently sweden supplied AWACS to Pak
Operation Maraham – by Indian navy and air force to provide relief for earth quake effected Indonesia
Lohagoan airport base – Pune
SS Norway – A Norwenian ship permitted by SC to enter territorial water of India
FVDA – Fire power defence agreement signed by Singapore, Malaysia, Australia NZ and UK
TYEPEYUNGYANG- korean coast guard patrol vessel taking part in the first ever indo-korean coast exercise of chennai coast.
Kumhari village-Fatehabad dist-Harayana-nuclear power project
Agni 3 – 3500 Km failed – advanced long range ballistic missile.
Taepodong -2 – north korea missile – ICBM
GSLV – FO2 – was a failure which was placing in the orbit INSAT 4c
MI 17 – Helicopters of Russia purchased by india
MV Esparenza – the vessel of green peace which visited Chennai recently
India signed the convention on nuclear terror
UN resolution 1695 – devise the suspension of north Korean nuclear program it also prevents all the UN member states for transfer of financial assistance or technical know how of missile and wmd agenda of north korea
Agosta 90 B – it is an indigenously built class of submarine of Pak
HAmza is the agosta class of sub marine built recently
Operation Sukoon – evacuation of Indians from Lebanon by Indian navy
Fumiyo Kuyama – chief od defence agency of japan
Aroushee ansal – first woman space tourist – USA of Iranian origin
Anza – MK3 – missile of pak – it’s a modified version of QUIAG – WEI 2 of china
Smart 1 – Europes first aircraft to the moon – small mission for advanced research and tech
M –V – is a rocket launched by japan to put a sun observation satellite in orbit
Artificial sun –It is the nickname of the first test of an experimental thermonuclear fusion reactor.
K – 84 – a nuclear powered sub marine of Russia which has successfully launched an ICBM in northern pole
H2-A-Japan’s intelligence gathering satellite
Project rohini – satellite comm. Network for the army
Mars mission – Lockheed martins – to build the next space ship for human ride to mars called orion
T 90 – MBT of Russia and india signed a fresh deal to buy T 90 (390) – Bhisma
T- 80 UD – MBT build by Ukraine and brought by Pak
HAL – ashok bhaveja –signed a venture with IRKUT corp of Russia to manufacture a multirole transport aircraft.
Indra dhanush 2006 – first ever joint exercise in 43 years by Indian air force and royal air force of UK held at Gwalior.
First maritime law coll. – Chennai
Victoria crater on mars being studied by MARS RECONNAISASNCE ORBITOR(MRO)
Pungye-yok - north korea conducted nuclear weapon test
Shatrujith 06 – by Indian and US navy in the semi urban counter terrorism held at belgaum
The Indo-Tibetan Border Police is a paramilitary force conceived on October 24, 1962 for the security along the Indo-Tibetan Border covering 2115 km - VK Joshi is the DG
Liquid Propulsion system – TN mahendraghiri
HAFT 3 – Also known as the Ghaznavi – with a range of 290 km short range ballistic missile
HAFT 4 – shaheen 1 of pak – successful –medium range ballistic missile – 700 km
Haft 5 – IRBM – Ghouri - pak – 1300 km
Chashura – power plant under construction in pak with china help under IEAE norms
Cassini space craft t- satrun -7th ring is found of NASA
Defense secretary of US – Donald Rumsfeld was replaced by Robert Gates
Discovery space shuttle launched with seven astraunauts to ISS including Sunita Williams she replaced the german scientist Thomas Reitu Max Polenski is the commander in chief of the mission
Freindship 2006 is the joint exercise by china and pak troops in NW pak. The last such exercise was friendship 2004 on the Chinese side of the border
16th December is celebrated as the 35th vijay diwas commemorating the victory of Indian armed forces in the war against Pak. It was called the operation cactus lilly
INS Shardul and INS Kesari – a landing ship for tanks – large – LST – L
Built by Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers and this was inducted into Indian naval base INS kadamba – karwar – katrnataka
It is the third in the class the others being – INS margar and INS kharial
GLONASS – Russian Global Navigation system – 17 satellites
Under 2004 agreement india joined it. And agreed to jointly develop the new generation satellites called glonass K
COROT – it stands for Conviction, rotation and planetary transcends it is a first space telescope designed to find the habitual lands orbiting stars in remote solar systems built by French space agency and launched through Soyuz rocket by Baikonor Kazaksthan
Isreal leading developers of arms are –
- Rafel Arms Development Authority
- Isreal Aerospace industries
- Isreal Military Industries
Important missiles of Isreal – Produced by Rafael is Python-5 a short range air to air missile
Derbi – beyond vision range air to air
Spike – E/O is a guidance kit for precise wapon - anti-tank guided missile
Lightening is a targeting and navigational syste,
Spider – surface to air missile system
Ravenet 399 a radio network
RECCELLITE – targeting in reconniscence system
Aero India show – Blore – 6th International aerospace and defence exhibition show in 2007
Quick board – a US satellite owned by the company digital globe
Cobra – the helicopter gun ships produced by US gifted to Pak as a part of the 5 yr security assistance program between them signed in 2003
Sunita Williams – longest space walk – 22 hrs 27 min
Bombardiea – Canadian aircraft manufactures
Brahmos –NPO – MASHINOSTROYENIA and ISRO and DRDO
It was a joint establishment of Brahmos aerospace ltd through an inter govt agreement with 250 million dollars between india and Russia with 50.5 % india’s contribution
It is a 2 stage missile with 9m height and 3.9 tonne weight already inducted in army
Defence purchases of India in 2007 – 40 Sukhoi from Russia 30 MK aircrafts
Hercules C 130 from Lockheed martin
MI 17 – medium lift helicopters from Russia
12 vip helicopters – contenders are EH 101 – UK , Sukhociski 92 – US
10 cheetah Heli from HAL
6 IL 78 from Russia
Okhinova island – kadina airforce base of japan – F22 of US is landed is there
Expedition 14 is the 14th expedition to the International Space Station (ISS). Two crew members, Michael Lopez-Alegria, and Mikhail Tyurin were launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome on September 18, 2006, 04:09 UTC, aboard Soyuz TMA-9. They joined Thomas Reiter who arrived at the ISS aboard Space Shuttle Discovery during mission STS-121 on 06 July 2006. In December 2006, Space Shuttle Discovery mission STS-116 delivered Sunita Williams to replace Reiter as the third member of Expedition 14
Action aviation – UK based aircraft distributor setting up it’s unit in bangalore.
Yongboan (pyongsong ) – nuclear reactor which was to be closed by north korea.
Japan – first defence ministry 06( since 2nd world war 2)
TOR MI – Russian air force missile delivered to iran
INS tarangini –it is to participate in the tall ship series challenge in 2007 .it’s voyage is termed
lokayan –07
plans of ISRO – chandrayan mission -1 -08
chandrayan mission 2 -11
to consist of a space craft and landing platform
JIAN 10 –it’s a china’s home made new generation fighter aircraft produced by china aviation industry cooperation (its becomes the 4th country)
SRE – proj director – A .Subramanium
PLSV – c7 -DIR – GEORGE KHOSI
what were the names of the Argentinian and Indonesian Satellites that PSLV -C7 took yesterday?A: Pehunsat-1 and LAPAN-TUBSAT of Indonesia with the Jv of Technical University of Berlin
To which country does GRIPEN belong ?A: this belongs to the Swedish Company SAAB - A fighter air craft and has been in service to the Swedish Air Force, Czech Republic Air Force and has been ordered by Hungary Air Force and South Africa
Does India have a license to manufacture SUkhoi?If yes where is the factory?A: Yes, India has a license to manufacture 140+ Sukhoi aircrafts. its by HAL, Bangalore.
What is Bhishma?A: T-90S Tanks for the Indian Army called Main Battle Tank - MBT
What is the Intermediate rockets ban treaty?Who signed it?What is its implication now?A: To stop the manufacture and use of Intermediate range ballistic missiles signed by US and Russia (the then USSR)
Where is Karwar naval base?A: Karnataka - a Blue water project of the Navy exclusively, code named Seabird - INS Kadamba - Binaga Point to the Anjadip Island is the exact place.
Committees and Commissions in India
Name - year - Work of the committee - Recommendations/comments
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Js Mukherjee - 1999 - Death of Subhash Bose
Shahan Nawaz Khan - 1956 - Death of Subhash Bose
GD Khosla - 1970 - Death of Subhash Bose - Netaji died in plane crash
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Veerappan Moily - - Roadmap for reservation policy
Veerappa Moily - 2005 - Second ARC – to study 4 subjects – RTI, Employment Guarantee Act, Crisis Mgmt, Public Order and Conflict Mgmt. Three year term but given in 2007
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Bala Krishna Siddiram Ranke Committee – National Commission for Denotified, Nomadic and Semi Nomadic Tribes
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National Commission on farmers – MS Swaminathan - 2005 - Farmers policy Minimum Support price to cover all crops. Market risk stabilization fund and Agricultural risk fund
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MS Valliyanathan - -Functioning of AIIMS
K Narayana Committee - - Failure of GSLV – FO2
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National knowledge Commission –
Chairman – Sam Pitroda
Vice Chairman – PM Bhargava
Members – Jayati Ghosh, Nandan Nilekani, Ashok Ganguly and Deepak Nayyar
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Election Commissioners:
CEC – N Gopalaswami
EC – SY Qureshi, Naveen Chawla
Deputy EC – Rajashree Bhattacharya, R Balakrishnan and JP Prakash.
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Economic Advisory Council:
Chairman – Dr. C Rangarajan
Secretary – D Subba Rao
Members – Satish Jha, GK Chanda and Suresh Tendulkar
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Planning Commission:
Chairman – Dr Manmohan Singh
Deputy Chairman – Montek Singh Ahulwalia
Member Secretary – Rajeev Ratna Shah
Members – MV Rajasekharan (Minister of State), Kirit Parekh, Abhijit Sen, Sayeed Ahmed, Yugandhar
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National Statistics Commission:
Chairman – Suresh Tendulkar
Members – Surjith Singh Bhalla, Amitabh Kundlu, Bikas Sinha and Padma Singh
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National Commission on Center-State ties:
Chairman - MM Puncchhi
Members - Dhirendra Singh, VK Duggal and MR Madhav Menon (This commission replaces the Sarkaria Commission! )
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Cauvery Water Dispute Trbuanal:
Chairman – NP Singh
Members – NS Rao and Sudhir Narian
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6th pay commission –
Sri Krishna – sushma nath, js mathur, rh dholakia - - Pay and allowance, service conditions,promotion policies, retired benefits, inflation, standard of living of central goi employees
Composition – chairman of minister of state, part time member, member secretary
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National Comission for Backward Classes – Justice Ratna Vel Pandian
National Human Rights Commission Shivraj Patil
National Comission for Women Chairperson – Girija Vyas
National Commission for Children and Child Rights - Shanta Sinha
National Comission for Minorities – Hamid Ansari
National Commission on Scheduled Tribes – Fakirbahi Vaghela (Former Kunwar Singh ) National Commission on Minorites Educational Institutions - Justice MSA Siddiqui
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Integrated Energy committee – Kirit Parekh
Justice Jeevan Reddy committee - - Armed forces special provisions act
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KG Shah and GT Sinha Committee - - Godhra carnage
Banerjee committee-godra riots
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R Radhakrishnan Committee - -Appointed on Farmers Indebtedness
Hanumantha rao committee – Andhra - - Study of recommendations of national commission on farmers
Rajendar sachar committee - - Evaluation of equal opportunity commission modeled on UK race relation act 1972 also to look into the grievances of religious minorities.
Fatmi committee - - 13 member by HRD, to examine the education related recommendations ofsachar committee
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Liberhan committee - - 1992 - Babri Masjid
C Rangarajan Task force - On development of JK 11 member
RK Raghavan committee - - By HRD to check ragging after an order from the SC
Rakesh mohan comm.. - 2000 - NHDP(infrastructure) - NHDF :1Rs/lit on petrol and diesel
Saptharishi comm.. - Price stabilization fund
Hazari comm - On the functioning of licensing policy It is an pro rich and leading to corrupt practices
Subimal dutt comm - On the functioning of the licensing policy - delicensing
Abed hussain comm.. - 93-94 - SSI
Goswami comm.. - 1997 - Sick industries - Fast track winding tribunals and NRF
Meera seth com.. - 1997 -Handloom sector
Rangarajan comm… - 1993 - Disinvestment
Satyam comm.. - Abolition of handloom reservation act
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Mahajan comm - Development and growth of sugar industry
Vaish panel comm - To suggest measures to cut down local cases related to company law
Synergy for energy comm.(V Krishna murthy)
Mineral comm - To review national mineral policy
Justice kochar comm - Interlinking of rivers and collapse of ganga bridge.
Pathak panel - Oil for food program
Parthasarthy comm - 2005 - Review of implementation of centrally sponsored watershed programs
Chaturveda panel - On airport modernization
Abhijit sen comm - 2005 - Long term grain policy of fertilizers
Committee on agriculture(MS Swaminathan) - 2005- Agriculture policy
National population comm. (MS Swaminathan) - 2000 - Population policy
Gadgil comm. And nariman comm. - Regional rural banks
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First narisimham comm - 1991 - Finanacial sector
Second narasimham comm - 1998 - Banking sector reforms
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Goiporia comm. - 2004 - Consumer service improvement
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Tarapore comm. 1 - 1995 - Full capital a/c convertibility
Tarapore comm. 2 - 2005 - Full capital a/c convertibility in relation of economy in between 1997-2005
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Khanna comm - 2001 - Om railway safety Laying down fibre optic network
Amit mishra comm - 2006 - New FM radio policy - 330 new frequencies- FDI n FII is 20% - No current affairs show 4% as fee
Shanti bhushan comm - Judicial accountability
N Ranghachari comm - Plantation sector n tobacco
Chellaih and kelkar comm - Tax reforms
NK Singh comm - FDI limit in insurance sector
RH Patel comm - Uniform stamp duty across the country
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Who submitted the Baghlighar report?A: Ramond Lafitte of Switzerland of World Bank has submitted this report
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Defunct Companies – OP Vaish Committee
National Commission on Scheduled Tribes – Fakirbahi Vaghela (Former Kunwar Singh )
Atomic Commission - Anil K Kakodkar
Judicial Accountability – Shanti Bhushan Committee
Ragging – RK Raghavan Committee
Plantation Sector and Tobacco – N Rangachari Committee RBI
Reforms – Narasimham Committee
Tax Reforms – Chellaiah and Kelkar Committee
Atomic Commission - Anil K Kakodkar
Forward Markets Commission - BC Khatua replaced M Sundaresan as its chairman
NK Singh Committee - FDI limit in Insurance sector
Tarapore Committee - Fuller Capital Account Convertiblity
Ganeshan Committee - Export parity pricing for Iron for domestic iron and steel companies
RH Patil and AS Ganguly Committee - Corporate governance for Banking and financial insts. Standing Committee on Defence - Balasaheb Vikhe Patil
MH Kania committee - Investor Protection fund for small investors
CS Murthy Committee - Priority Sector Lending
Vaidyanathan Ayyar Committee -
Wage Board for working and non working journalists - Narayana Swarup
Rangarchari comm-margadarsi finance
RA Mashelkar panel - Patent Laws
Deepak Parekh committee - Long term investment in Infrastructure
Committee on Climate change and the reduction of green house gases - R Chidambaram - principal scientific advisor for the PM of india
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Investment commission - Ratan Tata
Trade Commission - KM Birla
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James Commission - Iraq study group
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radhakishanan expert panel - The department of ocean development has constituted an expert committee to review the long-term impact of tsunami on the ecu-system of oceans and its resources. **The panel, headed by the director of Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services K Radhakrishnan, consists of five members and a convenor(Dr V Sampath).
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Js Mukherjee - 1999 - Death of Subhash Bose
Shahan Nawaz Khan - 1956 - Death of Subhash Bose
GD Khosla - 1970 - Death of Subhash Bose - Netaji died in plane crash
---------------------------------
Veerappan Moily - - Roadmap for reservation policy
Veerappa Moily - 2005 - Second ARC – to study 4 subjects – RTI, Employment Guarantee Act, Crisis Mgmt, Public Order and Conflict Mgmt. Three year term but given in 2007
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Bala Krishna Siddiram Ranke Committee – National Commission for Denotified, Nomadic and Semi Nomadic Tribes
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National Commission on farmers – MS Swaminathan - 2005 - Farmers policy Minimum Support price to cover all crops. Market risk stabilization fund and Agricultural risk fund
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
MS Valliyanathan - -Functioning of AIIMS
K Narayana Committee - - Failure of GSLV – FO2
---------------------------------------------------
National knowledge Commission –
Chairman – Sam Pitroda
Vice Chairman – PM Bhargava
Members – Jayati Ghosh, Nandan Nilekani, Ashok Ganguly and Deepak Nayyar
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Election Commissioners:
CEC – N Gopalaswami
EC – SY Qureshi, Naveen Chawla
Deputy EC – Rajashree Bhattacharya, R Balakrishnan and JP Prakash.
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Economic Advisory Council:
Chairman – Dr. C Rangarajan
Secretary – D Subba Rao
Members – Satish Jha, GK Chanda and Suresh Tendulkar
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Planning Commission:
Chairman – Dr Manmohan Singh
Deputy Chairman – Montek Singh Ahulwalia
Member Secretary – Rajeev Ratna Shah
Members – MV Rajasekharan (Minister of State), Kirit Parekh, Abhijit Sen, Sayeed Ahmed, Yugandhar
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National Statistics Commission:
Chairman – Suresh Tendulkar
Members – Surjith Singh Bhalla, Amitabh Kundlu, Bikas Sinha and Padma Singh
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National Commission on Center-State ties:
Chairman - MM Puncchhi
Members - Dhirendra Singh, VK Duggal and MR Madhav Menon (This commission replaces the Sarkaria Commission! )
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Cauvery Water Dispute Trbuanal:
Chairman – NP Singh
Members – NS Rao and Sudhir Narian
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6th pay commission –
Sri Krishna – sushma nath, js mathur, rh dholakia - - Pay and allowance, service conditions,promotion policies, retired benefits, inflation, standard of living of central goi employees
Composition – chairman of minister of state, part time member, member secretary
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National Comission for Backward Classes – Justice Ratna Vel Pandian
National Human Rights Commission Shivraj Patil
National Comission for Women Chairperson – Girija Vyas
National Commission for Children and Child Rights - Shanta Sinha
National Comission for Minorities – Hamid Ansari
National Commission on Scheduled Tribes – Fakirbahi Vaghela (Former Kunwar Singh ) National Commission on Minorites Educational Institutions - Justice MSA Siddiqui
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Integrated Energy committee – Kirit Parekh
Justice Jeevan Reddy committee - - Armed forces special provisions act
--------------------------------------------------------
KG Shah and GT Sinha Committee - - Godhra carnage
Banerjee committee-godra riots
---------------------------------------------
R Radhakrishnan Committee - -Appointed on Farmers Indebtedness
Hanumantha rao committee – Andhra - - Study of recommendations of national commission on farmers
Rajendar sachar committee - - Evaluation of equal opportunity commission modeled on UK race relation act 1972 also to look into the grievances of religious minorities.
Fatmi committee - - 13 member by HRD, to examine the education related recommendations ofsachar committee
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Liberhan committee - - 1992 - Babri Masjid
C Rangarajan Task force - On development of JK 11 member
RK Raghavan committee - - By HRD to check ragging after an order from the SC
Rakesh mohan comm.. - 2000 - NHDP(infrastructure) - NHDF :1Rs/lit on petrol and diesel
Saptharishi comm.. - Price stabilization fund
Hazari comm - On the functioning of licensing policy It is an pro rich and leading to corrupt practices
Subimal dutt comm - On the functioning of the licensing policy - delicensing
Abed hussain comm.. - 93-94 - SSI
Goswami comm.. - 1997 - Sick industries - Fast track winding tribunals and NRF
Meera seth com.. - 1997 -Handloom sector
Rangarajan comm… - 1993 - Disinvestment
Satyam comm.. - Abolition of handloom reservation act
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Mahajan comm - Development and growth of sugar industry
Vaish panel comm - To suggest measures to cut down local cases related to company law
Synergy for energy comm.(V Krishna murthy)
Mineral comm - To review national mineral policy
Justice kochar comm - Interlinking of rivers and collapse of ganga bridge.
Pathak panel - Oil for food program
Parthasarthy comm - 2005 - Review of implementation of centrally sponsored watershed programs
Chaturveda panel - On airport modernization
Abhijit sen comm - 2005 - Long term grain policy of fertilizers
Committee on agriculture(MS Swaminathan) - 2005- Agriculture policy
National population comm. (MS Swaminathan) - 2000 - Population policy
Gadgil comm. And nariman comm. - Regional rural banks
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
First narisimham comm - 1991 - Finanacial sector
Second narasimham comm - 1998 - Banking sector reforms
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Goiporia comm. - 2004 - Consumer service improvement
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Tarapore comm. 1 - 1995 - Full capital a/c convertibility
Tarapore comm. 2 - 2005 - Full capital a/c convertibility in relation of economy in between 1997-2005
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Khanna comm - 2001 - Om railway safety Laying down fibre optic network
Amit mishra comm - 2006 - New FM radio policy - 330 new frequencies- FDI n FII is 20% - No current affairs show 4% as fee
Shanti bhushan comm - Judicial accountability
N Ranghachari comm - Plantation sector n tobacco
Chellaih and kelkar comm - Tax reforms
NK Singh comm - FDI limit in insurance sector
RH Patel comm - Uniform stamp duty across the country
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Who submitted the Baghlighar report?A: Ramond Lafitte of Switzerland of World Bank has submitted this report
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Defunct Companies – OP Vaish Committee
National Commission on Scheduled Tribes – Fakirbahi Vaghela (Former Kunwar Singh )
Atomic Commission - Anil K Kakodkar
Judicial Accountability – Shanti Bhushan Committee
Ragging – RK Raghavan Committee
Plantation Sector and Tobacco – N Rangachari Committee RBI
Reforms – Narasimham Committee
Tax Reforms – Chellaiah and Kelkar Committee
Atomic Commission - Anil K Kakodkar
Forward Markets Commission - BC Khatua replaced M Sundaresan as its chairman
NK Singh Committee - FDI limit in Insurance sector
Tarapore Committee - Fuller Capital Account Convertiblity
Ganeshan Committee - Export parity pricing for Iron for domestic iron and steel companies
RH Patil and AS Ganguly Committee - Corporate governance for Banking and financial insts. Standing Committee on Defence - Balasaheb Vikhe Patil
MH Kania committee - Investor Protection fund for small investors
CS Murthy Committee - Priority Sector Lending
Vaidyanathan Ayyar Committee -
Wage Board for working and non working journalists - Narayana Swarup
Rangarchari comm-margadarsi finance
RA Mashelkar panel - Patent Laws
Deepak Parekh committee - Long term investment in Infrastructure
Committee on Climate change and the reduction of green house gases - R Chidambaram - principal scientific advisor for the PM of india
-------------------------------------------------
Investment commission - Ratan Tata
Trade Commission - KM Birla
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James Commission - Iraq study group
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radhakishanan expert panel - The department of ocean development has constituted an expert committee to review the long-term impact of tsunami on the ecu-system of oceans and its resources. **The panel, headed by the director of Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services K Radhakrishnan, consists of five members and a convenor(Dr V Sampath).
Movies, Sports, Books, Art and Festivals
MS Swaminathan – head of newly created chair for sustainable development in IGNOU
MS Swaminathan – President of voluntary health services
Environment and agriculture book by MS Swaminathan and KK chadda
NOBEL PRIZE FOR MATHEMATICS:FIELDS MEDAL..last year it was given to 3 persons(one person refused to take)...Andrei Okounkov (Russia)Terence Tao(Australia)Wendelin Werner(France)the guy hu declined it, was Grigori Perelman(Russia) who solved Poincare Conjecture,one of the most difficult problems of the century...
women Nobel Laureates =33, men Nobel Laureates= 735 total 787.....
2 times nobel laureatesJ. Bardeen Physics 1956Physics 1972M. Curie Physics 1903Chemistry 1911L. Pauling Chemistry 1954Peace 1962 (only person to have been awarded two unshared Nobel Prizes )F. Sanger Chemistry 1958Chemistry 1980
Rolex enterprise award 06 – given by rolex – chanda shroff(a crafts teacher from india who is a voluntary manager of SHRUJAN a charitable trust) was nominated
Kabir samman instituted by GOI(1990)- for acts of physical and moral courage given to Ram babu singh chauhan(2006)
Vyas samman for literary works-premanand sri vasthava (2006) – “kavitha ka arthat”
Alternative noble - are the right livelihood awards
Kiran Desai (born 3 September 1971)
- Her novel The Inheritance of Loss won the 2006 Man Booker Prize.[1] She is the daughter of the noted author Anita Desai. her first book, Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard .she was the third indian to get the prize.
Kiran Desai won the Betty Trask Award for her first book "Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard"(published in 1998),a prize given by the Society of Authors for the best new novels by citizens of the Commonwealth of Nations under the age of 35
List of Indian Novelists who won the Bookers PrizeSalman Rushdie -1981- Midnight's Children (It also won the Booker of Bookers Prize in 1993)Arundathi Roy -1997- The God of Small ThingsVS Naipaul -1971- In a Free State (not an Indian but ofIndian ethnicity)The Inheritance of Loss-2006-Kiran Desai
Dylan Thomas Award – World wide literary award instituted in 2006 of 60000 pounds
The first reciepent of this is Rachel Trezise for her novel “Fresh apples“
The award is restricted to writers under 30 yrs
Borlaugh Medallian award instituted in 2006 – given by world food oprg to honor humanitarian effects across the globe. First reciepent is Thaniland's previous king Bhumipal
2006 Sastra ramanujan prize to Prof. Terencs Tao from US
Nishan e Pak – Hu Jintuao
Business man of the year – forbes asia –nandan nilekani
Deshkottama award – CNR Rao – given by viswabharathi univ
Indian year of 2007 by CNN IBN – Dr manmohan Singh
Jawahar lal Nehru award for intellectual understanding – Vangari Mathai –kenya 2005 and to
Lula Di Silva – brazil 2006
Specialty coffee association of US – sustainability award to Indian coffee estate by Poabs state of kerala
Plant genome saviour awards – introduced by rural ministry for agri – these are presented to tribal men and woman for their contri to genetic resources, conservation and enhancement
Amartya sen received K.S Sanjeevi endowment lecture gold medal by voluntary health services
Businessman of the year -06- lakshmi mittal
First national award on e –excellence .it is given to teachers who had gone beyond their duty to implement siksha india program .Aren given to Reshma katuria and K Ahulwalia(punjab), desh pande (mah)
Kalidas samman :
Sonal mansingh (kathak n odissi),Shanthi dave (painting),Puttaraja gavai (music),Vimalatha (theatre)
National communal harmonry award –given to institute for socialistic education from delhi
What is Saraswati Samman ...who got this for 2006?A: Saraswati Samman - For outstanding Literary work(Poetry and Prose)...Monetary Award : 5lakhs ...Instituted in 1991 by the K. K. Birla Foundation. Work(for which the award is meant) should have been published in the past ten years in an Indian Language acc. to the Constitution. Panel includes former Award winners and Scholars
Jagannath Prasad Das (Orissa)-Parikrama - 2006
1991 - Harivanshrai 'Bachchan' for his autobiography in four volumes (UP)
Ramakanta Rath (orissa) - Sri Radha- 1992
1993 - Vijay Tendulkar
1994 - Harbhajan Singh
1995 - Balamani Amma for poetry collection Nivedyam
1996 - Shamsur Rahman Faruqi for She`r-e Shor-Angez
1997 - Manubhai Pancholi
1998 - Sankar Ghosh
1999 - Indira Parthasarathy
Manoj Das (Orissa) - Amruta Phala - 2000
2001 - Dalip Kaur Tiwana for her novel Katha Kaho Urvashi
2002 - Mahesh Elkunchwar for his play Yugant
2003 - Govind Chandra Pande for his collection of 163 Sanskrit poems entitled Bhagirathi
2004 - Sunil Gangopadhyay for his novel Pratham Alo
2005 - K. Ayyappa Panicker for his collection of poems Ayyappa Panikarude Kritikal
Complete list of the Awardees Bharat Ratna
S.No Name Birth / death Awarded Notes State(If Indian) else Country
1. Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan 1888–1975 1954 Former President, Philosopher. Tamil Nadu
2. Chakravarti Rajagopalachari 1878–1972 1954 Former Governor-General, Freedom Fighter. Tamil Nadu
3. Dr C.V. Raman 1888–1970 1954 Nobel-prize winning Physicist Tamil Nadu
4. Dr Bhagwan Das 1869–1958 1955 Philosopher, Freedom Fighter Uttar Pradesh
5. Dr Sir Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya 1861–1962 1955 Engineer Karnataka
6. Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru 1889–1964 1955 Former Prime Minister, Freedom Fighter, Author. Uttar Pradesh
7. Govind Ballabh Pant 1887–1961 1957 Freedom Fighter, Home Minister Uttar Pradesh
8. Dr Dhondo Keshav Karve 1858–1962 1958 Maharashtra
9. Dr B. C. Roy 1882–1962 1961 Scientist West Bengal
10. Purushottam Das Tandon 1882–1962 1961 Freedom Fighter, Educationalist. Uttar Pradesh 11. Dr Rajendra Prasad 1884–1963 1962 Former President, Freedom Fighter, Jurist Bihar
12. Dr Zakir Hussain 1897–1969 1963 Former President, Scholar. Andhra Pradesh
13. Dr Pandurang Vaman Kane 1880–1972 1963 Maharashtra
14. Lal Bahadur Shastri 1904–1966 1966 Posthumous, Former Prime Minister, Freedom Fighter Uttar Pradesh
15. Indira Gandhi 1917–1984 1971 Former Prime Minister Uttar Pradesh
16. V.V. Giri 1894–1980 1975 Former President, Trade Unionist. Andhra Pradesh
17. K. Kamraj 1903–1975 1976 Posthumous, Freedom Fighter, Chief Minister-Tamil Nadu. Tamil Nadu
18. Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu (Mother Teresa) 1910–1997 1980 Naturalized Indian citizen, Nobel Laureate (Peace, 1979). West Bengal
19. Acharya Vinoba Bhave 1895–1982 1983 Posthumous, Social Reformer, Freedom Figher. Maharashtra
20. Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan 1890–1988 1987 First non-citizen, Freedom Fighter. Pakistan
21. Dr M.G. Ramachandran 1917–1987 1988 Posthumous, Chief Minister-Tamil Nadu, Actor. Kerala
22. Dr Bhim Rao Ramji Ambedkar 1891–1956 1990 Posthumous, Architect-Indian Constitution, Leader of Dalits Maharashtra Feb 16
23. Nelson Mandela b. 1918 1990 Second non-citizen and first non-Indian, Leader of Anti-Apartheid movement. South Africa
24. Rajiv Gandhi 1944–1991 1991 Posthumous, Former Prime Minister New Delhi
25. Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel 1875–1950 1991 Posthumous, Freedom Fighter, First Home Minister of India. Gujarat
26. Morarji Desai 1896–1995 1991 Former Prime Minister, Freedom Fighter. Gujarat
27. Maulana Abul Kalam Azad 1888–1958 1992 Posthumous, Freedom Fighter, Educator. West Bengal
28. J.R.D. Tata 1904–1993 1992 Industrialist and philanthropist. Maharashtra
29. Satyajit Ray 1922–1992 1992 Legendary Indian Film Director West Bengal
30. Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose 1897–1945(?) 1992 Freedom fighter, Founder of Indian National Army. West Bengal
31. Dr A.P.J. Abdul Kalam b. 1931 1997 President of India, Scientist. Tamil Nadu
32. Gulzarilal Nanda 1898–1998 1997 Freedom Fighter, former Prime Minister. Punjab
33. Aruna Asaf Ali 1908–1996 1997 Posthumous, Freedom Fighter. West Bengal
34. Dr M.S. Subbulakshmi 1916–2004 1998 Classical singer. Tamil Nadu
35. C Subramaniam 1910–2000 1998 Freedom Fighter, Minister of Agriculture. Tamil Nadu
36. Jayaprakash Narayan 1902–1979 1998 Posthumous, Freedom Fighter, Social Reformer. Uttar Pradesh
37. Pandit Ravi Shankar b. 1920 1999 Classical sitar player. Uttar Pradesh
38. Dr Amartya Sen b. 1933 1999 Nobel Laureate (Economics, 1998). West Bengal
39. Gopinath Bordoloi 1890–1950 1999 Posthumous, freedom fighter Assam
40. Lata Mangeshkar b. 1929 2001 Play back singer. Maharashtra
41. Ustad Bismillah Khan 1916-2006 2001 Shehnai (classical instrument) player. Uttar Pradesh Last 3 Years It Is Not Given To Anybody.
Yes. Dilip Kumar (Yusuf Khan ) N Moraraji Desai (Form. PM) Has Received Nishan e Pak from India.
Which Padma award winner has created a controversy saying that giving Padma awards is unconstitutional?A: - Sukumar Azhikode
Amartya Sen's books – “Capabilities, Freedom and Equality” and “Identity and violence: the illusion of destiny”
VP Singh's book – “Manjil se jyada safar”
Jaswanth Singh's book– “A call for honor in service of emergent india"
“Strategic consequences of India's economic performances” book by Sanjay Baru – media advisor to PM
“Vision Unlimited: the outstanding legacy of MA Chidambaram” – Muttiah
John wright's book - "indian summers"
"Gaddar kyon" – biography of Nawaz Sheriff
"In the line of fire" – auto biography of Musharaf
"Friends not master" – auto biography of Ayub khan
"Lifting the covers" book by Glunn turner
Gunter Gross's books – “the peeling the onion” and the “tin drum"
"Order of british empire" - roshan seth, supriya banerjee and jagmohan puri
"Cheruab of the Mist" – by ajay and viday bedi
"The last dance of saras" – global broadcast news of india
"Mark twain for american humor" – neil simon
"My days" – R.K Narayana(birth centenary 9th oct)
salman Rushdie –"midnight children"
arundhati roy- "god of small things"
Joseph stilgitz – "Globalization and its discontents" 2002 and "Making globalization work" 2007
"Arundhati roy critical perspectives" by Murari Prasad
"The trail of Tony Blair" – Alsttair Beaton
The guardian – first news ombudsman – Ian Mayes his works are
"Journalism – right and wrong" "Only correct: the best of corrections and clarifications" and "More corrections and clarifications"
“Shantaram” - greg Roberts
“Next” – micheal Crichton
“World is flat” – Thomas friedman
“the last mughal” – William darlympyle
Other books of this guy - White Mughals, The Age of Kali, Begums Thugs And Englishmens
“In spite of gods ” – edward Luci
“the kite runner” –khaled Hussaini
Charlie Hebdo – the French weekly that was sued for publishing cartoons of prophet mamood
Russian news agency- ria novostibiography of V.K BIRLA – one day at a time –P.K BIRLA
First newspaper of the world - post and domestic newspaper of Spain has now opted to publish exclusively on internet. The paper was founded by Queen Christina.
Iranna - Islamic republic news agency which is a state run news agency
1. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (June 26, 1997) (titled Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone in the United States)
2. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (July 2, 1998)
3. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (September 8, 1999)
4. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (July 8, 2000)
5. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (June 21, 2003)
6. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (July 16, 2005)
7. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (July 21, 2007(Scheduled))
New Love meetings – First film shot on cellular pone. – by Marcello Maencrini.
World Trade center – a film by oliver stone
Green Oscars – also called wild screen panda awards – they are given in the honour of wild life films projecting the ecological diversity
2 out of 5 are given projects from India
Asian film festival – pune
Jahnua barua –director- maine ghandi ko nahi mara –received Kodak vision award
Old Baber – film directed by Hasi Chaolu of China won the best film award and golden peacock award at 37th IIFI goa
A short life – A south Korean film by Ankung Lee got the most promising director and silver peacock award.
Night at the museum and the superman returns of Mumbai studios are among the shortlisted movies for US academy awards.
Ravindra upadhay documentary maker
from which country the film WATER had been selected for the oscars under forgein films category........?A: Canada
10th south asian games – Colombo
2016 summer Olympics – Tokyo
15th Asian games – Doha Slogan: "The Games of Your Life"
Orry – Mascot of the Doha Asian games
44 countries participated. Doha nicknamed spports capital of the middle east and the pearl of the gulf
Jaspal rana is chosen as the best sports person of the asian games
The Logo of 33rd at guwahati National Games is Rang Ghar ,an amphitheatre in the town of Sivasagar.
The Mascot is RONGMON ,the amazing Rhino
world cup cricket mascot resembles an orange raccoon-like creature named as MELLO
New teams in World cup cricket - Bermuda, Ireland, Scotland, Netherlands, Kenya and Canada.
Kenya and others are added in the new teams list by ICC
Olympics – slogan - One World, One Dream
The "Dancing Beijing" emblem, depicting a Chineseseal inscribed with the character "Jing" (fromthe name of the host city)in theform of a dancing figure
Mascot of the Olympics - Fuwa consists of five members: Beibei, Jingjing, Huanhuan, Yingying, and Nini. The five mascots incorporate fish, giant panda, fire, Tibetan antelope, and swallow designs respectively, and each also represents one of the five Olympic Rings. When the five names are put together, they form a pun on the phrase 北京欢迎你 (Bìijîng huânyíng nǐ) which means "Beijing welcomes you".[6]
Unforgettable blackness – a biography of jack Johnson written jeoffrey walt.
Jack Jackson was the first black world heavy weight champion
Military world games will be held in India – Hyderabad Mascot – Bravo organized by the International Military Sports Council (CISM). The Games have been held since 1995
1st Military World Games 1995 Rome, Italy
2nd Military World Games 1999 Zagreb, Croatia
3rd Military World Games 2003 Catania, Italy
4th Military World Games 2007 Hyderabad, India
Spirit of cricket award – England
Sochi of Russia-winter olmpics -2014
7th international childrens festival of performing art held in new delhi
Teasures of ancient india – an exhibition of ind in beijing
Herat – sivarathri is popularly known by this name in JK
Chandra lekha – bharatanatyam (died)
Guru govind kutty – kathakali maestro (died)
MS Swaminathan – President of voluntary health services
Environment and agriculture book by MS Swaminathan and KK chadda
NOBEL PRIZE FOR MATHEMATICS:FIELDS MEDAL..last year it was given to 3 persons(one person refused to take)...Andrei Okounkov (Russia)Terence Tao(Australia)Wendelin Werner(France)the guy hu declined it, was Grigori Perelman(Russia) who solved Poincare Conjecture,one of the most difficult problems of the century...
women Nobel Laureates =33, men Nobel Laureates= 735 total 787.....
2 times nobel laureatesJ. Bardeen Physics 1956Physics 1972M. Curie Physics 1903Chemistry 1911L. Pauling Chemistry 1954Peace 1962 (only person to have been awarded two unshared Nobel Prizes )F. Sanger Chemistry 1958Chemistry 1980
Rolex enterprise award 06 – given by rolex – chanda shroff(a crafts teacher from india who is a voluntary manager of SHRUJAN a charitable trust) was nominated
Kabir samman instituted by GOI(1990)- for acts of physical and moral courage given to Ram babu singh chauhan(2006)
Vyas samman for literary works-premanand sri vasthava (2006) – “kavitha ka arthat”
Alternative noble - are the right livelihood awards
Kiran Desai (born 3 September 1971)
- Her novel The Inheritance of Loss won the 2006 Man Booker Prize.[1] She is the daughter of the noted author Anita Desai. her first book, Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard .she was the third indian to get the prize.
Kiran Desai won the Betty Trask Award for her first book "Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard"(published in 1998),a prize given by the Society of Authors for the best new novels by citizens of the Commonwealth of Nations under the age of 35
List of Indian Novelists who won the Bookers PrizeSalman Rushdie -1981- Midnight's Children (It also won the Booker of Bookers Prize in 1993)Arundathi Roy -1997- The God of Small ThingsVS Naipaul -1971- In a Free State (not an Indian but ofIndian ethnicity)The Inheritance of Loss-2006-Kiran Desai
Dylan Thomas Award – World wide literary award instituted in 2006 of 60000 pounds
The first reciepent of this is Rachel Trezise for her novel “Fresh apples“
The award is restricted to writers under 30 yrs
Borlaugh Medallian award instituted in 2006 – given by world food oprg to honor humanitarian effects across the globe. First reciepent is Thaniland's previous king Bhumipal
2006 Sastra ramanujan prize to Prof. Terencs Tao from US
Nishan e Pak – Hu Jintuao
Business man of the year – forbes asia –nandan nilekani
Deshkottama award – CNR Rao – given by viswabharathi univ
Indian year of 2007 by CNN IBN – Dr manmohan Singh
Jawahar lal Nehru award for intellectual understanding – Vangari Mathai –kenya 2005 and to
Lula Di Silva – brazil 2006
Specialty coffee association of US – sustainability award to Indian coffee estate by Poabs state of kerala
Plant genome saviour awards – introduced by rural ministry for agri – these are presented to tribal men and woman for their contri to genetic resources, conservation and enhancement
Amartya sen received K.S Sanjeevi endowment lecture gold medal by voluntary health services
Businessman of the year -06- lakshmi mittal
First national award on e –excellence .it is given to teachers who had gone beyond their duty to implement siksha india program .Aren given to Reshma katuria and K Ahulwalia(punjab), desh pande (mah)
Kalidas samman :
Sonal mansingh (kathak n odissi),Shanthi dave (painting),Puttaraja gavai (music),Vimalatha (theatre)
National communal harmonry award –given to institute for socialistic education from delhi
What is Saraswati Samman ...who got this for 2006?A: Saraswati Samman - For outstanding Literary work(Poetry and Prose)...Monetary Award : 5lakhs ...Instituted in 1991 by the K. K. Birla Foundation. Work(for which the award is meant) should have been published in the past ten years in an Indian Language acc. to the Constitution. Panel includes former Award winners and Scholars
Jagannath Prasad Das (Orissa)-Parikrama - 2006
1991 - Harivanshrai 'Bachchan' for his autobiography in four volumes (UP)
Ramakanta Rath (orissa) - Sri Radha- 1992
1993 - Vijay Tendulkar
1994 - Harbhajan Singh
1995 - Balamani Amma for poetry collection Nivedyam
1996 - Shamsur Rahman Faruqi for She`r-e Shor-Angez
1997 - Manubhai Pancholi
1998 - Sankar Ghosh
1999 - Indira Parthasarathy
Manoj Das (Orissa) - Amruta Phala - 2000
2001 - Dalip Kaur Tiwana for her novel Katha Kaho Urvashi
2002 - Mahesh Elkunchwar for his play Yugant
2003 - Govind Chandra Pande for his collection of 163 Sanskrit poems entitled Bhagirathi
2004 - Sunil Gangopadhyay for his novel Pratham Alo
2005 - K. Ayyappa Panicker for his collection of poems Ayyappa Panikarude Kritikal
Complete list of the Awardees Bharat Ratna
S.No Name Birth / death Awarded Notes State(If Indian) else Country
1. Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan 1888–1975 1954 Former President, Philosopher. Tamil Nadu
2. Chakravarti Rajagopalachari 1878–1972 1954 Former Governor-General, Freedom Fighter. Tamil Nadu
3. Dr C.V. Raman 1888–1970 1954 Nobel-prize winning Physicist Tamil Nadu
4. Dr Bhagwan Das 1869–1958 1955 Philosopher, Freedom Fighter Uttar Pradesh
5. Dr Sir Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya 1861–1962 1955 Engineer Karnataka
6. Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru 1889–1964 1955 Former Prime Minister, Freedom Fighter, Author. Uttar Pradesh
7. Govind Ballabh Pant 1887–1961 1957 Freedom Fighter, Home Minister Uttar Pradesh
8. Dr Dhondo Keshav Karve 1858–1962 1958 Maharashtra
9. Dr B. C. Roy 1882–1962 1961 Scientist West Bengal
10. Purushottam Das Tandon 1882–1962 1961 Freedom Fighter, Educationalist. Uttar Pradesh 11. Dr Rajendra Prasad 1884–1963 1962 Former President, Freedom Fighter, Jurist Bihar
12. Dr Zakir Hussain 1897–1969 1963 Former President, Scholar. Andhra Pradesh
13. Dr Pandurang Vaman Kane 1880–1972 1963 Maharashtra
14. Lal Bahadur Shastri 1904–1966 1966 Posthumous, Former Prime Minister, Freedom Fighter Uttar Pradesh
15. Indira Gandhi 1917–1984 1971 Former Prime Minister Uttar Pradesh
16. V.V. Giri 1894–1980 1975 Former President, Trade Unionist. Andhra Pradesh
17. K. Kamraj 1903–1975 1976 Posthumous, Freedom Fighter, Chief Minister-Tamil Nadu. Tamil Nadu
18. Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu (Mother Teresa) 1910–1997 1980 Naturalized Indian citizen, Nobel Laureate (Peace, 1979). West Bengal
19. Acharya Vinoba Bhave 1895–1982 1983 Posthumous, Social Reformer, Freedom Figher. Maharashtra
20. Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan 1890–1988 1987 First non-citizen, Freedom Fighter. Pakistan
21. Dr M.G. Ramachandran 1917–1987 1988 Posthumous, Chief Minister-Tamil Nadu, Actor. Kerala
22. Dr Bhim Rao Ramji Ambedkar 1891–1956 1990 Posthumous, Architect-Indian Constitution, Leader of Dalits Maharashtra Feb 16
23. Nelson Mandela b. 1918 1990 Second non-citizen and first non-Indian, Leader of Anti-Apartheid movement. South Africa
24. Rajiv Gandhi 1944–1991 1991 Posthumous, Former Prime Minister New Delhi
25. Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel 1875–1950 1991 Posthumous, Freedom Fighter, First Home Minister of India. Gujarat
26. Morarji Desai 1896–1995 1991 Former Prime Minister, Freedom Fighter. Gujarat
27. Maulana Abul Kalam Azad 1888–1958 1992 Posthumous, Freedom Fighter, Educator. West Bengal
28. J.R.D. Tata 1904–1993 1992 Industrialist and philanthropist. Maharashtra
29. Satyajit Ray 1922–1992 1992 Legendary Indian Film Director West Bengal
30. Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose 1897–1945(?) 1992 Freedom fighter, Founder of Indian National Army. West Bengal
31. Dr A.P.J. Abdul Kalam b. 1931 1997 President of India, Scientist. Tamil Nadu
32. Gulzarilal Nanda 1898–1998 1997 Freedom Fighter, former Prime Minister. Punjab
33. Aruna Asaf Ali 1908–1996 1997 Posthumous, Freedom Fighter. West Bengal
34. Dr M.S. Subbulakshmi 1916–2004 1998 Classical singer. Tamil Nadu
35. C Subramaniam 1910–2000 1998 Freedom Fighter, Minister of Agriculture. Tamil Nadu
36. Jayaprakash Narayan 1902–1979 1998 Posthumous, Freedom Fighter, Social Reformer. Uttar Pradesh
37. Pandit Ravi Shankar b. 1920 1999 Classical sitar player. Uttar Pradesh
38. Dr Amartya Sen b. 1933 1999 Nobel Laureate (Economics, 1998). West Bengal
39. Gopinath Bordoloi 1890–1950 1999 Posthumous, freedom fighter Assam
40. Lata Mangeshkar b. 1929 2001 Play back singer. Maharashtra
41. Ustad Bismillah Khan 1916-2006 2001 Shehnai (classical instrument) player. Uttar Pradesh Last 3 Years It Is Not Given To Anybody.
Yes. Dilip Kumar (Yusuf Khan ) N Moraraji Desai (Form. PM) Has Received Nishan e Pak from India.
Which Padma award winner has created a controversy saying that giving Padma awards is unconstitutional?A: - Sukumar Azhikode
Amartya Sen's books – “Capabilities, Freedom and Equality” and “Identity and violence: the illusion of destiny”
VP Singh's book – “Manjil se jyada safar”
Jaswanth Singh's book– “A call for honor in service of emergent india"
“Strategic consequences of India's economic performances” book by Sanjay Baru – media advisor to PM
“Vision Unlimited: the outstanding legacy of MA Chidambaram” – Muttiah
John wright's book - "indian summers"
"Gaddar kyon" – biography of Nawaz Sheriff
"In the line of fire" – auto biography of Musharaf
"Friends not master" – auto biography of Ayub khan
"Lifting the covers" book by Glunn turner
Gunter Gross's books – “the peeling the onion” and the “tin drum"
"Order of british empire" - roshan seth, supriya banerjee and jagmohan puri
"Cheruab of the Mist" – by ajay and viday bedi
"The last dance of saras" – global broadcast news of india
"Mark twain for american humor" – neil simon
"My days" – R.K Narayana(birth centenary 9th oct)
salman Rushdie –"midnight children"
arundhati roy- "god of small things"
Joseph stilgitz – "Globalization and its discontents" 2002 and "Making globalization work" 2007
"Arundhati roy critical perspectives" by Murari Prasad
"The trail of Tony Blair" – Alsttair Beaton
The guardian – first news ombudsman – Ian Mayes his works are
"Journalism – right and wrong" "Only correct: the best of corrections and clarifications" and "More corrections and clarifications"
“Shantaram” - greg Roberts
“Next” – micheal Crichton
“World is flat” – Thomas friedman
“the last mughal” – William darlympyle
Other books of this guy - White Mughals, The Age of Kali, Begums Thugs And Englishmens
“In spite of gods ” – edward Luci
“the kite runner” –khaled Hussaini
Charlie Hebdo – the French weekly that was sued for publishing cartoons of prophet mamood
Russian news agency- ria novostibiography of V.K BIRLA – one day at a time –P.K BIRLA
First newspaper of the world - post and domestic newspaper of Spain has now opted to publish exclusively on internet. The paper was founded by Queen Christina.
Iranna - Islamic republic news agency which is a state run news agency
1. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (June 26, 1997) (titled Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone in the United States)
2. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (July 2, 1998)
3. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (September 8, 1999)
4. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (July 8, 2000)
5. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (June 21, 2003)
6. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (July 16, 2005)
7. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (July 21, 2007(Scheduled))
New Love meetings – First film shot on cellular pone. – by Marcello Maencrini.
World Trade center – a film by oliver stone
Green Oscars – also called wild screen panda awards – they are given in the honour of wild life films projecting the ecological diversity
2 out of 5 are given projects from India
Asian film festival – pune
Jahnua barua –director- maine ghandi ko nahi mara –received Kodak vision award
Old Baber – film directed by Hasi Chaolu of China won the best film award and golden peacock award at 37th IIFI goa
A short life – A south Korean film by Ankung Lee got the most promising director and silver peacock award.
Night at the museum and the superman returns of Mumbai studios are among the shortlisted movies for US academy awards.
Ravindra upadhay documentary maker
from which country the film WATER had been selected for the oscars under forgein films category........?A: Canada
10th south asian games – Colombo
2016 summer Olympics – Tokyo
15th Asian games – Doha Slogan: "The Games of Your Life"
Orry – Mascot of the Doha Asian games
44 countries participated. Doha nicknamed spports capital of the middle east and the pearl of the gulf
Jaspal rana is chosen as the best sports person of the asian games
The Logo of 33rd at guwahati National Games is Rang Ghar ,an amphitheatre in the town of Sivasagar.
The Mascot is RONGMON ,the amazing Rhino
world cup cricket mascot resembles an orange raccoon-like creature named as MELLO
New teams in World cup cricket - Bermuda, Ireland, Scotland, Netherlands, Kenya and Canada.
Kenya and others are added in the new teams list by ICC
Olympics – slogan - One World, One Dream
The "Dancing Beijing" emblem, depicting a Chineseseal inscribed with the character "Jing" (fromthe name of the host city)in theform of a dancing figure
Mascot of the Olympics - Fuwa consists of five members: Beibei, Jingjing, Huanhuan, Yingying, and Nini. The five mascots incorporate fish, giant panda, fire, Tibetan antelope, and swallow designs respectively, and each also represents one of the five Olympic Rings. When the five names are put together, they form a pun on the phrase 北京欢迎你 (Bìijîng huânyíng nǐ) which means "Beijing welcomes you".[6]
Unforgettable blackness – a biography of jack Johnson written jeoffrey walt.
Jack Jackson was the first black world heavy weight champion
Military world games will be held in India – Hyderabad Mascot – Bravo organized by the International Military Sports Council (CISM). The Games have been held since 1995
1st Military World Games 1995 Rome, Italy
2nd Military World Games 1999 Zagreb, Croatia
3rd Military World Games 2003 Catania, Italy
4th Military World Games 2007 Hyderabad, India
Spirit of cricket award – England
Sochi of Russia-winter olmpics -2014
7th international childrens festival of performing art held in new delhi
Teasures of ancient india – an exhibition of ind in beijing
Herat – sivarathri is popularly known by this name in JK
Chandra lekha – bharatanatyam (died)
Guru govind kutty – kathakali maestro (died)
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