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- Andy Roddick
- Gujarat
- Smita Shah
- Jindal Steel and Power Limited (JSPL) SAIL Bhushan Steels Global Competitiveness Report The Global Competitiveness Report (GCR
- Global Competitiveness Index
- World Economic Forum (WEF
- Stockholm Water Prize
- 2012:International Water Management Institute, Sri Lanka
- 2011:Stephen R. Carpenter, United States
- 2009: Dr. Bindeshwar Pathak, founder of Sulabh International
- 16th Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement
- United Nations Conference on Environment and Development
- South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC
- Michel Hazanavicius – The Artist Best Picture--The Artist – Thomas Langmann Best Actor--Jean Dujardin – The Artist
- Most awards won by a woman
- Most nominations received by a single film
- Prathap C Reddy
- Classical Dance of India and states associated
- Some famous Instrumentalists
Deepak Parekh-HDFC AM Naik--L&T; KV Kamath-Infy(He was non executive chairman of ICICI bank) Shashi Ruia-Essar Group Cyrus Mistry--Tata Sons Nitin Paranjpe--HIndusta Uniliver Shiv Nadar--HCL Venu Srinivasan--TCS motors life expectancy at birth.. UN list(2010-2015) Expected after the Millenium Dev Goal 1)Japan--83.5 2)Switzerland--82.5 3)Iceland,Spain,Sweden,IsraelAsutralia--82 India-66
Countries facts 1)Most populous Country--China 2)Least Populous country--Independent state with smallest population is Vetican city with a population of 832. 3)Most Densly populated country--Monaco(39,547.8/sqmile) 4)Most Sparsely populated country--Mangolia(5.2 person/sqmile) 5)world comprises 195 soverreign states with 193 members of UN and 2 non members China(Taiwan) and Vatican City. 6)In july 2011 south sudan broke away from the parent country Sudan to becaome a new nation and that was the 193rd member of UN. 7)In total dere r 63 colonies at present 8)6 major disputed territories r dere...like Kashmir,Gaza Strip 9)Major Nuclear Weapon capacity nations- US Russia UK Francs China Issarel India Pakistan more facts 1)largest countries--Russia 2)smallest countries--State of Vatican Cities or Holy see 3)Smallst Republic--Nauru,Central Pacific 4)Largest City--Jiuquan 5)Highest Capital--please anyone tell me this 6)Most Populous Metro—Tokyo 5 most spoken language.. 1)Mandarin--12.4% 2)Spanish--4.8% 2)English--4.8% 3)Arabic-3.3% 4)HIndi/Bengali-2.7% other indian languages r.. Marathi and tamil--1% % shows % of world population.. Highest peak in the world. 1.Mount Everest- 8,848mt, 29,029ft, Nepal/Tibet 2.K2-8,611mt, 28,251, Pakistan/China 3.Kanchenjunga- 8,586mt, 28,169ft, India/Nepal 4.Lhotse- 8,516mt, 27,940ft, Nepal/Tibet 5.Makalu- 8,485mt, 27,838, Nepal/Tibet IMPORTANT BATTLES IN MEDIEVAL HISTORY OF INDIA
Adding furthermore 6. Dhaulagiri - 8170 7. Nanga Parabat - 8130 8. Nanda Devi - 7820. All above Mountains are situated in Asia. K2 is India's highest mountain peak, but it's situated in POK. Therefore, Kanchanjunga is the highest peak within India. OA in bold: Which of the following has been the 100th mission of Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)? PSLV C-21 GSLV 8 PSLV C-15 RISAT 2) Which of the following players recently announced hid retirement from the Tennis? Andy Murry Rafael Nadal Roger Federer Andy Roddick 3) Dr. Verghese Kurien is related with: Yellow Revolution Green Revolution Blue Revolution White Revolution 4) Which of the following countries is not a member of The Mekong-Ganga Cooperation (MGC)? China Cambodia Lao Peoples Democratic Republic Myanmar 5) Which of the following countries is known as the ‘Rock of Polynesia’? Tonga New Zealand Nieu Samoa 6) Recently, a special court convicted 32 people, in infamous 2002 Naroda Patiya riots case. Naroda Patiya riots are related with: Punjab Maharashtra Gujarat Uttar Pradesh 7) What was India’s official rank in Global Competitiveness Report 2012-2013 released on 5 September 2012 by the World Economic Forum? 59 60 61 62 8) Which of the following personalities has become the first person from Indian-American origin to serve as a parliamentarian for Democratic National Convention? Preeta Shah Indra Nooyi Kiran Majumdar Shaw Smita Shah 9) Recently Aditi Mukherjee won which of the following the prestigious award? Stockholm Water Prize Norman Borlaug Award Pulitzer Prize Booker Prize 10) Recently, CIC Energy Corp of Canada was acquired by which of the following Indian companies? Tata Steel Jindal Steel and Power Limited (JSPL) SAIL Bhushan Steels Global Competitiveness Report The Global Competitiveness Report (GCR) is a yearly report published by the World Economic Forum. The first report was released in 1979. The 2011–2012 report covers 142 major and emerging economies.[1] Since 2004, the Global Competitiveness Report ranks countries based on the Global Competitiveness Index, developed by Xavier Sala-i-Martin and Elsa V. Artadi.[2] Before that, the macroeconomic ranks were based on Jeffrey Sachs's Growth Development Index and the microeconomic ranks were based on Michael Porter's Business Competitiveness Index. The Global Competitiveness Index integrates the macroeconomic and the micro/business aspects of competitiveness into a single index. Switzerland leads the ranking as the most competitive economy in the world, as the United States, which ranked first for several years, fell to fifth place due to the consequences of the financial crisis of 2007–2010 and its macroeconomic instability.[3] China continues its relative rise in the rankings reaching 27th. The report "assesses the ability of countries to provide high levels of prosperity to their citizens. This in turn depends on how productively a country uses available resources. Therefore, the Global Competitiveness Index measures the set of institutions, policies, and factors that set the sustainable current and medium-term levels of economic prosperity Indias rank is 59th in 2012-2013 report.. The World Economic Forum (WEF) is a Swissnon-profitfoundation, based in Cologny, Geneva. It describes itself as an independent international organization committed to improving the state of the world by engaging business, political, academic and other leaders of society to shape global, regional and industry agendas. The Forum is best known for its annual meeting in Davos, a mountain resort in Graubünden, in the eastern Alps region of Switzerland. The meeting brings together some 2,500 top business leaders, international political leaders, selected intellectuals and journalists to discuss the most pressing issues facing the world, including health and the environment.
Global nutrition event The event is being organised by UK Prime Minister David Cameron to strengthen global efforts and to build political leadership and momentum to tackle malnutrition among children. The event is proposed to lay down a challenge to the international community to raise the level of political commitment to create new kinds of partnerships and to develop new products and services that will enable in addressing this global scourge. The Global meet will be a forum to generate new and innovative ideas to support countries that face malnutrition to develop their own solution to the problem of under nutrition. This may be through technological innovation and scientific advances or through enhanced accountability and transparency. The problem of malnutrition has been recognized by the UN. A new global target to reduce the number of stunted children, caused due to under nutrition, by 40% by 2025 has been agreed to by the World Health Assembly. The ‘Scaling Up Nutrition’ (SUN) movement to which 28 countries have signed already is developing a framework for monitoring progress of efforts to reduce stunting. The G8 ‘New Alliance on Food and Nutrition Security’ is committed to supporting SUN in its efforts. Stockholm Water Prize Presented annually since 1991, the Stockholm Water Prize[1] is a prestigious award that recognises outstanding achievements in water related activities. Over the past two decades, Stockholm Water Prize Laureates [2] have come from across the world and represented a wide-range of professions, disciplines and activities in the field of water. The Stockholm Water Prize Laureate is announced each 22 March at the UN World Day for Water and honoured each August during the World Water Week in Stockholm at a Royal Prize Ceremony and Banquet in the Stockholm City Hall. Past winner: 2012:International Water Management Institute, Sri Lanka “The International Water Management Institute is the foremost organisation in agricultural water management. Their work has led to new policies and investments in agriculture that have not only enabled more productive use of water, but have enhanced food security, economic development and environmental health around the world.” 2011:Stephen R. Carpenter, United States "Professor Carpenter has shown outstanding leadership in setting the ecological research agenda, integrating it into a socio-ecological context, and in providing guidance for the management of aquatic resources". 2010: Professor Rita R. Colwell, United States "Dr Rita Colwell’s numerous contributions towards solving the world’s water and water-related public health problems, particularly her work to prevent the spread of cholera, is of utmost global importance. Through her research on its physiology, ecology, and metabolism, Dr Colwell advanced the fields of mathematics, genetics and remote sensing technology and not only as they relate to these bacteria but to the prevention other diseases in many developing countries." 2009: Dr. Bindeshwar Pathak, founder of Sulabh International For his wide ranging work in the sanitation field to improve public health, advance social progress, and improve human rights in India and other countries. His accomplishments span the fields of sanitation technology, social enterprise, and healthcare education for millions of people in his native country, serving as a model for NGO agencies and public health initiatives around the world. BRICS Summit 2012 The 2012 BRICS summit was the fourth annual BRICS summit, an international relations conference attended by the heads of state or heads of government of the five member states Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. The summit was held at at Taj Mahal Hotel[1] in New Delhi, India on 29 March 2012[2] and began at 10:00 Indian Standard Time.[3] This is the first time that India has hosted a BRICS summit.[4] The theme of the summit was "BRICS Partnership for Global Stability, Security and Prosperity Logo Preparations for the summit began with the announcement from the Ministry of External Affairs, India about a competition to choose the official logo for the meeting. The logo was expected to "bring out the essence of this grouping of countries, which has received unprecedented global attention in recent years and now occupies a prominent space in the global political and economic landscape." A specially-constituted jury announced the winning design on 10 February 2012 as the submission of Sonesh Jain, an architecture student of the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee. The logo is a symbolic representation of a peacock with "colours suggesting resurgence and renewal".[5] Officials also commented that the BRICS logo drew inspiration from the lotus in addition to the peacock.[6] The logo caused controversy regarding its similarity to that of the National Broadcasting Corporation. The Ministry of External Affairs said that there should have been a more careful selection process, but defended the logo by saying that there were more differences than similarities Follows South Africa summit, 2013 Precedes Sanya summit, 2011 NAM Summit 2012 Historical Background Non-Aligned Movement was formed in an attempt not to take sides during the Cold War,[11] it has sought to seek a new direction since the fall of the Soviet Union. After the breakup of Yugoslavia, a founding member, its membership was suspended[12] in 1992 at the regular ministerial meeting held in New York during the regular annual session of the United Nations General Assembly. As of August 2012, the organisation consists of 120 member states, including the non-UN member state of Palestine, and 21 other observer countries.[9] The countries of the Non-Aligned Movement represent nearly two-thirds of the United Nations' members and contain 55% of the world's population 2012 Meeting- The 16th Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement was held from 26 to 31 August 2012 in Tehran, Iran. The summit was attended by leaders of 120 countries,[3] including 24 presidents, 3 kings, 8 prime ministers and 50 foreign ministers.[4]
The summit was scheduled to be held at Kish Island but it was transferred to Tehran in 2010 India is also an active member of NAM. Earth Summit-2012 The United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), also known as the Rio Summit, Rio Conference, Earth Summit (Portuguese: Eco '92) was a major United Nationsconference held in Rio de Janeiro from 3 June to 14 June 1992. In 2012, the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development was also held in Rio, and is also commonly called Rio+20 or Rio Earth Summit 2012. was held June 20-22nd. 255 governments participated, with 144 sending their heads of state or government.[1] Some 2,400 representatives of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) attended, with 17,000 people at the parallel NGO "Global Forum" (a.k.a. Forum Global), who had Consultative Status. SAARC
The Republic of Maldives, declared “Building Bridges” as the theme for the Seventeenth SAARC Summit to be held in Addu Atoll of the island nation on 10-11 November this year.(2011)
Fact File---ISRO Established in 1969, ISRO superseded the erstwhile Indian National Committee for Space Research (INCOSPAR). Headquartered in Bangalore, ISRO is under the administrative control of the Department of Space, Government of India. 1st launch--Aryabhata(with soviet Help)(1975) 1st launch with Indian-made launch vechile--SLV-3(1980) Chandrayaan-1, India’s first mission to the Moon Dr Vikram Sarabhai, considered the father of Indian Space Programme ISRO's PSLV C21 rocket successfully blasted off into space on its 100th mission on a cloudy Sunday morning. Administrator K. Radhakrishnan, Chairman Motto Space technology in the service of human kind. launch station Thumba--Indian Space Programme began at Thumba Equatorial Rocket Launching Station (TERLS) located at Thumba near Thiruvanathapuram. The geomagnetic equator of the earth passes over Thumba 84th Academy Awards(Oscars) For the first time since 1929 a silent black&white; thematic movie won oscars.
Highest Nominations-Hugo(11) Maxm no of Awards--The Atrist & Hogu(5-5 each) Best Director--Michel Hazanavicius – The Artist Best Picture--The Artist – Thomas Langmann Best Actor--Jean Dujardin – The Artist Best Actress--Meryl Streep – The Iron Lady Best Foreign Language Film--A Separation (Iran) in Persian – Asghar Farhadi some historic facts-- Most awards won by a manWalt Disney won 22 Oscars (22 competitive, 4 honorary). He also won the most Oscars in one year, with 4. Most awards won by a womanSheila Nevins, HBO President and Documentary Producer, won 9 Oscars Most awards won by a single film Three films won 11 Academy Awards. They are: Ben-Hur (1959) Titanic (1997) The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) Most nominations received by a single film Two films received 14 nominations. They are: All About Eve (1950) Titanic (1997) Highest Sweep (Winning every nominated category)The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) won all 11 categories for which it was nominated: Picture, Director, Adapted Screenplay, Original Score, Original Song, Sound Mixing, Art Direction, Makeup, Costume Design, Film Editing, Visual Effects AIMA-2012 AWARDS Awards hav been categorised as 'Managing India Awards 2012'. Award getters are known faces in the Indian Business Environment. Prathap C Reddy, executive chairman (Apollo Group) was awarded with Life Time Achievement Award. Aditya Birla Group was given the 'Indian Multinational of the Year' Awrad. Nita M Ambani, chairperson of Reliance Foundation recieved the 'Corporate Citizen of the Year' Award. Lo me bhi aa gaya ... Classical Dance of India and states associated Bharat Natyam=Tamil Nadu Bihu=Assam Bhangra =Punjab Chhau =Bihar, Orissa, W. Bengal and Jharkhand Garhwali= Uttaranchal Garba= Gujarat Hattari= Karnataka Kathak =North India (Originated in uP) Kathakali= Kerala Kutchipudi= Andhra Pradesh Khantumm =Mizoram Karma= Madhya Pradesh Laho= Meghalaya Mohiniattam =Kerala Mando= Goa Manipuri= Manipur Nati= Himachal Pradesh Nat-Natin= Bihar Odissi =Orissa Rauf=Jammu & Kashmir Yakshagan =Karnataka Folk Dances.... Maharashtra =Kathakeertan, Lezin, Dandaniya, Tamasha, Gafa, Dahikala, Lovani, Mauni, Dasavtar. Karnataka =Huttari, Suggi Kunitha, Yakashagana Kerala =Kaikottikali, Kaliyattam, Tappatikkali Tamil Nadu =Kolattam, Pinnal Kolattam, Kummi, Kavadi, Karagam Andhra Pradesh= Ghanta Mardala, Veedhi Natakam, Burrakatha Orissa =Ghumara Sanchar, Chadya Dandanata, Chhau West Bengal =Kathi, Chhau, Baul, Kirtan, Jatra, Lama Assam =Bihu, Khel Gopal, Rash Lila, Tabal Chongli, Canoe Punjab =Giddha (women), Bhangra (men) J&K; =Rauf, Hikat Himachal Pradesh =Jhora, Jhali, Dangli, Mahasu, Jadda, Jhainta, Chharhi Haryana =Jhumar, Ras Leela, Phag dance, Daph, Dhamal, Loor, Gugga, Khoria, Gagor Gujarat =Garba, Dandiya Rass, Tippani, Gomph Rajasthan= Ginad, Chakri, Gangore, Terahtaal, Khayal, Jhulan Leela, Jhuma, Suisini Bihar =Jata Jatin, Jadur, Chhau, Kathaputli, Bakho, Jhijhiya, Samochakwa, Karma, Jatra, Natna Got a question on flute instrumentalists in CMAT..so here goes...
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