Everyone has heard of the Sensex. Most of us know it is the index of the Bombay Stock Exchange. But there are lots of facts you are probably unware of. Here are six interesting facts about the Sensex.
1. The Sensex is an abbreviated version of The Bombay Stock Exchange Sensitive Index. It is the benchmark index for the Indian stock market, closely followed by Nifty, which is the index of the National Stock Exchange. Officially called S&P CNX Nifty, this name is credited to the 50 stocks that comprise its index.
2. The Sensex is made up of only 30 stocks. These stocks represent around a dozen sectors. They are leaders in their respective industries.
3. The stocks are picked by the stock selection committee (known as the Index Committee). There are certain basic parameters fixed when picking these 30 stocks. They are:
~ The stock should have been traded on each and every trading day (the days on which the stock market works) for the past one year.
~ It should be among the top 150 companies listed by average number of trades (buying or selling of shares) and the average value of the trades (in actual rupee terms) per day over the past one year.
~ The stock should have been listed on the BSE for at least one year.
4. The job of the Sensex is to capture the price movement of the equity market. The Sensex reflects the price movements of shares. If the Sensex rises, it indicates the market is doing well.
The price of every stock price rises or falls for two possible reasons:
News about the company Great earnings, great annual or quarterly results, product launch, closure of a factory, the government providing tax or duty exemptions to the sector so more profits expected, a feud among the company's top bosses, etc. This will be stock specific news.
News about the country Testing a nuclear bomb, a terrorist attack, the Budget announcement, new tax regime, declaration of war, change of government, good monsoons and hence a good agricultural crop, etc. This will be called index news.
The job of an index is mainly to capture the news about the country. This will reflect the movement of the stock market as a whole. It could also reflect the sentiment of the market as a whole. If corporate India is largely doing well, then it will get reflected here.
A good index will only capture news that is common to all stocks in India. This is what the Sensex does. In order to present a broad picture, the stocks selected are from different sectors.
5. The value of each of the stocks in the Sensex is not equal.
The market cap method Each of the 30 stocks in the Sensex has a weight attached to it. This weight depends on the market capitalisation of the stock.
Market capitalisation refers to the number of shares of a company multiplied by its market value (the price of each share). For instance, if a company has 10 million shares whose value is Rs 30 per share on July 1, 2006, it will have a market cap of Rs 300 million on July 1, 2004.
Let's assume the market cap of the 30 Sensex stocks is Rs 3,00,000 crore. Let us also assume the market cap of ITC (which is one of the 30 shares that make up the Sensex) is Rs 20,000 crore, then ITC's weight in the Sensex is 6.66%.
The rise or fall in the price of ITC's shares will impact the Sensex to that extent.
This is referred to as the full market capitalisation methodology.
Free-float weightage Here, a company's entire lot of shares are not taken into account (which means we are not looking at the entire market capitalisation). Only the shares readily available for trading are considered.
In every company, a certain amount of shares are not available for trading on the stock exchange. These shares could be held by the government or the promoters of the company. Under the free-float weightage method, they are not taken into account.
How does the stock exchange arrive at this weightage? In this case, the market cap is multiplied by the free float factor (which is the proportion of a company's shares that can be readily bought and sold).
The Sensex uses the free-float weightage method.
The Sensex's free-float market cap at close of business on December 3, 2005, was Rs 3,66,124 crore.
Unlike the Sensex, the 50 stocks in Nifty -- the index of the National Stock Exchange -- is based on the market cap method and not the free-float method.
You can read about the free-float method in detail on the BSE web site.
6. The clincher
Even though the BSE came into existence in 1875, the Sensex was formulated and came into existence only in 1986.
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22 August 2007
about death...
Top 10 things you didn't know about death
1. When a person dies, hearing is the last sense to go -- the first is usually sight, followed by taste, smell and touch
2. A human head remains conscious for about 15 to 20 seconds after it has been decapitated
3. 100 people choke to death on pens each year. One is more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a spider
4. Alexander's funeral would have cost $600 million today. A road from Egypt to Babylon was built to carry his body
5. When inventor Thomas Edison died in 1931, his friend Henry Ford captured his last dying breath in a bottle
6. Over 2500 left-handed people are killed each year from using products made for right-handed people
7. It takes longer than ever before a body to decompose due to preservatives in the food that we eat these days
8. An eternal flame lamp at the tomb of a Buddhist priest in Nara, Japan has kept burning for 1,130 years
9. Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry is the first person to have his ashes put aboard a rocket and 'buried' in space
10. Japanese factory worker Kenji Urada became the first know fatality caused by a robot in July, 1981, in a car plant.
1. When a person dies, hearing is the last sense to go -- the first is usually sight, followed by taste, smell and touch
2. A human head remains conscious for about 15 to 20 seconds after it has been decapitated
3. 100 people choke to death on pens each year. One is more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a spider
4. Alexander's funeral would have cost $600 million today. A road from Egypt to Babylon was built to carry his body
5. When inventor Thomas Edison died in 1931, his friend Henry Ford captured his last dying breath in a bottle
6. Over 2500 left-handed people are killed each year from using products made for right-handed people
7. It takes longer than ever before a body to decompose due to preservatives in the food that we eat these days
8. An eternal flame lamp at the tomb of a Buddhist priest in Nara, Japan has kept burning for 1,130 years
9. Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry is the first person to have his ashes put aboard a rocket and 'buried' in space
10. Japanese factory worker Kenji Urada became the first know fatality caused by a robot in July, 1981, in a car plant.
15 Science Fiction Books You Must Read
15 Science Fiction Books You Must Read
It's been a while we have been geeking so it's no wonder then that we often get asked, which are our favorite geeky books, movies and stuff like that that we would recommend.
So, that's what we will be doing off and on for the next few weeks to come. We are starting the series with the list of top 15 Science Fiction books that are our favorites and we recommend you read:
1. The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to Galaxy by Douglas Adams
2. 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke
3. Dune by Frank Herbert
4. Neuromancer by William Gibson
5. I, Robot by Isaac Asimov
6. Tau Zero by Poul Anderson
7. Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlien
8. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
9. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip Dick
10. Contact by Carl Sagan
11. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne Contact
12. Time Machine by HG Wells
13. The War of the Worlds by HG Wells
14. Foundation by Isaac Asimov
15. Starship Troopers by Rober A Heinlein
The list is not in any particular order, just the way they are in our bookstack, so don't kick me for that
It's been a while we have been geeking so it's no wonder then that we often get asked, which are our favorite geeky books, movies and stuff like that that we would recommend.
So, that's what we will be doing off and on for the next few weeks to come. We are starting the series with the list of top 15 Science Fiction books that are our favorites and we recommend you read:
1. The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to Galaxy by Douglas Adams
2. 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke
3. Dune by Frank Herbert
4. Neuromancer by William Gibson
5. I, Robot by Isaac Asimov
6. Tau Zero by Poul Anderson
7. Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlien
8. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
9. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip Dick
10. Contact by Carl Sagan
11. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne Contact
12. Time Machine by HG Wells
13. The War of the Worlds by HG Wells
14. Foundation by Isaac Asimov
15. Starship Troopers by Rober A Heinlein
The list is not in any particular order, just the way they are in our bookstack, so don't kick me for that
Twelve books that changed the world
1.The Origin of Species
When Charles Darwin's book went on sale to the trade on November 22, 1859 the stock of 1,250 copies was oversubscribed. His theory: Evolution was by natural selection, not a divine process. The most enthusiastic response came from radical atheists, who hailed Darwin as "the greatest revolutionist in natural history of this century" but clerics were pained at his theory which entirely ruled out divine intervention and destroyed the idea that all creatures were immutably made during the seven-day Creation.
2.The FA Rule Book
In 1863, the Football Association's First Rule Book set out a list which regulated the game in and around London, though for quite some time the provinces clubs continued to follow their local rules. The FA Rule Book forms the basis for the modern rules of the game. 1st game played under the rules: January 9, 1863 at Battersea Park in south-west London.
3.Shakespeare's 1st Folio
The first collected edition of William Shakespeare's plays was published in 1623. Collection: 36 plays, 18 of which were published for the first time, thus saving such works as The Tempest and Macbeth from probable extinction. Collected by: Actor editors John Heminge and Henry Condell. These plays were not attributed to Shakespeare until the date of publication, seven years after his death.
4.Principia Mathematica
Isaac Newton in his Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, published on July 5, 1687 describes the universal gravitation and, via his laws of motion, laid the groundwork for classical mechanics. Generally regarded as one of the most important works in the history of science, it also contains the Hypotheses non fingo ("I do not assert that any hypotheses are true").
5.The Wealth of Nations
The Scottish economist Adam Smith's groundbreaking book, published in 1776, is the first complete system of political economy by the articulator of laissez-faire capitalism. It set the foundation for modern economics. He supports the theory that the less government interferes with business, the more prosperous
6.Wilberforce's speech
On May 12, 1789, the Tory MP William Wilberforce made his first speech against the slave trade. It was a speech that changed history. Wilberforce said: "...having heard all of this you may choose to look the other way but you can never again say that you did not know." Until then it was possible for people in Britain to say that they did not know the truth about slavery..
7.The King James Bible
The 1611 bible was controversial because it was a translation into the English spoken by the common people. It had a profound influence on ensuing translations and on English literature as a whole. It is considered one of the masterpieces of early modern English literature, Works by John Bunyan, John Milton, Herman Melville, John Dryden and William Wordsworth were inspired by it.
8. Arkwright's Patent
The patent (no 931) was granted to Richard Arkwright for his spinning maching on July 3, 1769. The machine used the drawing roller method invented by Lewis Paul in 1738. The invention of this machine revolutionised the production of yarn and led to rapid mechanisation throughout Britain
9.Rights of a Woman
At the heart of Mary Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the Rights of Women, are the twin virtues of freedom of thought and devotion to family. Called the "mother for feminism" she strove to trade "soft" descriptions of women that denoted weakness, such as " susceptibility of heart" and "delicacy of sentiment" for strength.
10.Faraday's research
Michael Faraday's 1855 Experimental Research in Electricity made him the leading experimental scientist of his time. He was the first to invent the dynamo, which made the generation of electricity possible, thereby paving the way for modern technology. He introduced several words that we still use today to discuss electricity: ion, electrode, cathode, and anode.
11.Married Love
In her book Married Life, Marie Stopes argued that marriage should be an equal relationship between husband and wife. The first book to suggest that women should enjoy sex as much as men. Thought fiercely opposed by doctors, the press and the Church, the book met with immediate success, selling 2,000 copies within a fortnight. Married Love was also published in America but the courts declared the book was obscene and it was promptly banned.
12.Magna Carta
Rebellious British noblemen forced King John to sign a document which contained 63 clauses defining his feudal rights. From that moment, the king was no longer permitted to change anything without the barons' permission. The meaning of certain clauses is still a cause for dispute.
When Charles Darwin's book went on sale to the trade on November 22, 1859 the stock of 1,250 copies was oversubscribed. His theory: Evolution was by natural selection, not a divine process. The most enthusiastic response came from radical atheists, who hailed Darwin as "the greatest revolutionist in natural history of this century" but clerics were pained at his theory which entirely ruled out divine intervention and destroyed the idea that all creatures were immutably made during the seven-day Creation.
2.The FA Rule Book
In 1863, the Football Association's First Rule Book set out a list which regulated the game in and around London, though for quite some time the provinces clubs continued to follow their local rules. The FA Rule Book forms the basis for the modern rules of the game. 1st game played under the rules: January 9, 1863 at Battersea Park in south-west London.
3.Shakespeare's 1st Folio
The first collected edition of William Shakespeare's plays was published in 1623. Collection: 36 plays, 18 of which were published for the first time, thus saving such works as The Tempest and Macbeth from probable extinction. Collected by: Actor editors John Heminge and Henry Condell. These plays were not attributed to Shakespeare until the date of publication, seven years after his death.
4.Principia Mathematica
Isaac Newton in his Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, published on July 5, 1687 describes the universal gravitation and, via his laws of motion, laid the groundwork for classical mechanics. Generally regarded as one of the most important works in the history of science, it also contains the Hypotheses non fingo ("I do not assert that any hypotheses are true").
5.The Wealth of Nations
The Scottish economist Adam Smith's groundbreaking book, published in 1776, is the first complete system of political economy by the articulator of laissez-faire capitalism. It set the foundation for modern economics. He supports the theory that the less government interferes with business, the more prosperous
6.Wilberforce's speech
On May 12, 1789, the Tory MP William Wilberforce made his first speech against the slave trade. It was a speech that changed history. Wilberforce said: "...having heard all of this you may choose to look the other way but you can never again say that you did not know." Until then it was possible for people in Britain to say that they did not know the truth about slavery..
7.The King James Bible
The 1611 bible was controversial because it was a translation into the English spoken by the common people. It had a profound influence on ensuing translations and on English literature as a whole. It is considered one of the masterpieces of early modern English literature, Works by John Bunyan, John Milton, Herman Melville, John Dryden and William Wordsworth were inspired by it.
8. Arkwright's Patent
The patent (no 931) was granted to Richard Arkwright for his spinning maching on July 3, 1769. The machine used the drawing roller method invented by Lewis Paul in 1738. The invention of this machine revolutionised the production of yarn and led to rapid mechanisation throughout Britain
9.Rights of a Woman
At the heart of Mary Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the Rights of Women, are the twin virtues of freedom of thought and devotion to family. Called the "mother for feminism" she strove to trade "soft" descriptions of women that denoted weakness, such as " susceptibility of heart" and "delicacy of sentiment" for strength.
10.Faraday's research
Michael Faraday's 1855 Experimental Research in Electricity made him the leading experimental scientist of his time. He was the first to invent the dynamo, which made the generation of electricity possible, thereby paving the way for modern technology. He introduced several words that we still use today to discuss electricity: ion, electrode, cathode, and anode.
11.Married Love
In her book Married Life, Marie Stopes argued that marriage should be an equal relationship between husband and wife. The first book to suggest that women should enjoy sex as much as men. Thought fiercely opposed by doctors, the press and the Church, the book met with immediate success, selling 2,000 copies within a fortnight. Married Love was also published in America but the courts declared the book was obscene and it was promptly banned.
12.Magna Carta
Rebellious British noblemen forced King John to sign a document which contained 63 clauses defining his feudal rights. From that moment, the king was no longer permitted to change anything without the barons' permission. The meaning of certain clauses is still a cause for dispute.
TOLL FREE NUMBERS IN INDIA
TOLL FREE NUMBERS IN INDIA
Airways
Indian Airlines - 1600 180 1407 Jet Airways - 1600 22 5522 Specked - 1600 180 3333
Automobiles
Mahindra Scorpio - 1600 22 6006 Maruti - 1600 111 515 Tata Motors - 1600 22 5552 Windshield Experts - 1600 11 3636
Banks
ABN AMRO - 1600 11 2224 Canara Bank - 1600 44 6000 Citibank - 1600 44 2265 Corporatin Bank - 1600 443 555 Development Credit Bank - 1600 22 5769 HDFC Bank - 1600 227 227 ICICI Bank - 1600 333 499 ICICI Bank NRI - 1600 22 4848 IDBI Bank - 1600 11 6999 Indian Bank - 1600 425 1400 ING Vysya - 1600 44 9900 Kotak Mahindra Bank - 1600 22 6022 Lord Krishna Bank - 1600 11 2300 Punjab National Bank - 1600 122 222 State Bank of India - 1600 44 1955 Syndicate Bank - 1600 44 6655
Cell Phones
BenQ - 1600 22 08 08 Bird CellPhones - 1600 11 7700 Motorola MotoAssist - 1600 11 1211 Nokia - 3030 3838 Sony Ericsson - 3901 1111
Computers/IT
Adrenalin - 1600 444 445 AMD - 1600 425 6664 Apple Computers - 1600 444 683 Canon - 1600 333 366 Cisco Systems - 1600 221 777 Compaq - HP - 1600 444 999 Data One Broadband - 1600 424 1600 Dell - 1600 444 026 Epson - 1600 44 0011 eSys - 3970 0011 Genesis Tally Academy - 1600 444 888 HCL - 1600 180 8080 IBM - 1600 443 333 Lexmark - 1600 22 4477 Marshal's Point - 1600 33 4488 Microsoft - 1600 111 100 Microsoft Virus Update - 1901 333 334 Seagate - 1600 180 1104 Symantec - 1600 44 5533 TVS Electronics - 1600 444 566 WeP Peripherals - 1600 44 6446 Wipro - 1600 333 312 xerox - 1600 180 1225 Zenith - 1600 222 004
Couriers/Packers & Movers
ABT Courier - 1600 44 8585 AFL Wizz - 1600 22 9696 Agarwal Packers & Movers - 1600 11 4321 Associated Packers P Ltd - 1600 21 4560 DHL - 1600 111 345 FedEx - 1600 22 6161 Goel Packers & Movers - 1600 113456 UPS - 1600 22 7171
Education
Edu Plus - 1600 444 000 Hindustan College - 1600 33 4438 NCERT - 1600 11 1265 Vellore Institute of Technology - 1600 441 555
Healthcare
Best on Health - 1600 11 8899 Dr Batras - 1600 11 6767 GlaxoSmithKline - 1600 22 8797 Johnson & Johnson - 1600 22 8111 Kaya Skin Clinic - 1600 22 5292 LifeCell - 1600 44 5323 Manmar Technologies - 1600 33 4420 Pfizer - 1600 442 442 Roche Accu-Chek - 1600 11 45 46 Rudraksha - 1600 21 4708 Varilux Lenses - 1600 44 8383 VLCC - 1600 33 1262
Home Appliances
Aiwa/Sony - 1600 11 1188 Anchor Switches - 1600 22 7979 Blue Star - 1600 22 2200 Bose Audio - 1600 11 2673 Bru Coffee Vending Machines - 1600 44 7171 Daikin Air Conditioners - 1600 444 222 DishTV - 1600 12 3474 Faber Chimneys - 1600 21 4595 Godrej - 1600 22 5511 Grundfos Pumps - 1600 33 4555 LG - 1901 180 9999 Philips - 1600 22 4422 Samsung - 1600 113 444 Sanyo - 1600 11 0101 Voltas - 1600 33 4546 WorldSpace Satellite Radio - 160044 5432
Hotel Reservations
GRT Grand - 1600 44 5500 InterContinental Hotels Group - 1600 111 000 Marriott - 1600 22 0044 Sarovar Park Plaza - 1600 111 222 Taj Holidays - 1600 111 825
Insurance
AMP Sanmar - 1600 44 2200 Aviva - 1600 33 2244 Bajaj Allianz - 1600 22 5858 Chola MS General Insurance - 160044 5544 HDFC Standard Life - 1600 227 227 LIC - 1600 33 4433 Max New York Life - 1600 33 5577 Royal Sundaram - 1600 33 8899 SBI Life Insurance - 1600 22 9090
Mattresses
Kurl-on - 1600 44 0404 Sleepwell - 1600 11 2266
Investments/ Finance
CAMS - 1600 44 2267 Chola Mutual Fund - 1600 22 2300 Easy IPO's - 3030 5757 Fidelity Investments - 1600 180 8000 Franklin Templeton Fund - 1600 425 4255 J M Morgan Stanley - 1600 22 0004 Kotak Mutual Fund - 1600 222 626 LIC Housing Finance - 1600 44 0005 SBI Mutual Fund - 1600 22 3040 Sharekhan - 1600 22 7500 Tata Mutual Fund - 1600 22 0101
Paints
Asian Paints Home Solutions - 1600 22 5678 Berger Paints Home Decor - 1600 33 8800
Teleshoppin
Asian Sky Shop - 1600 22 1600 Jaipan Teleshoppe - 1600 11 5225 Tele Brands - 1600 11 8000 VMI Teleshopping - 1600 447 777 WWS Teleshopping - 1600 220 777
Travel
ClubMahindra Holidays - 1600 33 4539 Cox & Kings - 1600 22 1235 God TV Tours - 1600 442 777 Kerala Tourism - 1600 444 747 Kumarakom Lake Resort - 1600 44 5030 Raj Travels & Tours - 1600 22 9900 Sita Tours - 1600 111 911 SOTC Tours - 1600 22 3344
UPS
APC - 1600 44 4272 Numeric - 1600 44 3266
Others
ConsumerHelpline - 1600 11 4000 L'Oreal, GARNIeR - 1600 223 000 KONE Elevator - 1600 444 666 Indane - 1600 44 51 15 Aavin - 1600 44 3300 Pedigree - 1600 11 2121 Kodak India - 1600 22 8877 Domino's Pizza - 1600 111 123 World Vision India - 1600 444 550 Telecom Monitoring Cell - 1600 110 420
Arif A.Shaikh Sales Executive ICS Electronics Deira Dubai +971-50-8483435 +971-4-2225592
Airways
Indian Airlines - 1600 180 1407 Jet Airways - 1600 22 5522 Specked - 1600 180 3333
Automobiles
Mahindra Scorpio - 1600 22 6006 Maruti - 1600 111 515 Tata Motors - 1600 22 5552 Windshield Experts - 1600 11 3636
Banks
ABN AMRO - 1600 11 2224 Canara Bank - 1600 44 6000 Citibank - 1600 44 2265 Corporatin Bank - 1600 443 555 Development Credit Bank - 1600 22 5769 HDFC Bank - 1600 227 227 ICICI Bank - 1600 333 499 ICICI Bank NRI - 1600 22 4848 IDBI Bank - 1600 11 6999 Indian Bank - 1600 425 1400 ING Vysya - 1600 44 9900 Kotak Mahindra Bank - 1600 22 6022 Lord Krishna Bank - 1600 11 2300 Punjab National Bank - 1600 122 222 State Bank of India - 1600 44 1955 Syndicate Bank - 1600 44 6655
Cell Phones
BenQ - 1600 22 08 08 Bird CellPhones - 1600 11 7700 Motorola MotoAssist - 1600 11 1211 Nokia - 3030 3838 Sony Ericsson - 3901 1111
Computers/IT
Adrenalin - 1600 444 445 AMD - 1600 425 6664 Apple Computers - 1600 444 683 Canon - 1600 333 366 Cisco Systems - 1600 221 777 Compaq - HP - 1600 444 999 Data One Broadband - 1600 424 1600 Dell - 1600 444 026 Epson - 1600 44 0011 eSys - 3970 0011 Genesis Tally Academy - 1600 444 888 HCL - 1600 180 8080 IBM - 1600 443 333 Lexmark - 1600 22 4477 Marshal's Point - 1600 33 4488 Microsoft - 1600 111 100 Microsoft Virus Update - 1901 333 334 Seagate - 1600 180 1104 Symantec - 1600 44 5533 TVS Electronics - 1600 444 566 WeP Peripherals - 1600 44 6446 Wipro - 1600 333 312 xerox - 1600 180 1225 Zenith - 1600 222 004
Couriers/Packers & Movers
ABT Courier - 1600 44 8585 AFL Wizz - 1600 22 9696 Agarwal Packers & Movers - 1600 11 4321 Associated Packers P Ltd - 1600 21 4560 DHL - 1600 111 345 FedEx - 1600 22 6161 Goel Packers & Movers - 1600 113456 UPS - 1600 22 7171
Education
Edu Plus - 1600 444 000 Hindustan College - 1600 33 4438 NCERT - 1600 11 1265 Vellore Institute of Technology - 1600 441 555
Healthcare
Best on Health - 1600 11 8899 Dr Batras - 1600 11 6767 GlaxoSmithKline - 1600 22 8797 Johnson & Johnson - 1600 22 8111 Kaya Skin Clinic - 1600 22 5292 LifeCell - 1600 44 5323 Manmar Technologies - 1600 33 4420 Pfizer - 1600 442 442 Roche Accu-Chek - 1600 11 45 46 Rudraksha - 1600 21 4708 Varilux Lenses - 1600 44 8383 VLCC - 1600 33 1262
Home Appliances
Aiwa/Sony - 1600 11 1188 Anchor Switches - 1600 22 7979 Blue Star - 1600 22 2200 Bose Audio - 1600 11 2673 Bru Coffee Vending Machines - 1600 44 7171 Daikin Air Conditioners - 1600 444 222 DishTV - 1600 12 3474 Faber Chimneys - 1600 21 4595 Godrej - 1600 22 5511 Grundfos Pumps - 1600 33 4555 LG - 1901 180 9999 Philips - 1600 22 4422 Samsung - 1600 113 444 Sanyo - 1600 11 0101 Voltas - 1600 33 4546 WorldSpace Satellite Radio - 160044 5432
Hotel Reservations
GRT Grand - 1600 44 5500 InterContinental Hotels Group - 1600 111 000 Marriott - 1600 22 0044 Sarovar Park Plaza - 1600 111 222 Taj Holidays - 1600 111 825
Insurance
AMP Sanmar - 1600 44 2200 Aviva - 1600 33 2244 Bajaj Allianz - 1600 22 5858 Chola MS General Insurance - 160044 5544 HDFC Standard Life - 1600 227 227 LIC - 1600 33 4433 Max New York Life - 1600 33 5577 Royal Sundaram - 1600 33 8899 SBI Life Insurance - 1600 22 9090
Mattresses
Kurl-on - 1600 44 0404 Sleepwell - 1600 11 2266
Investments/ Finance
CAMS - 1600 44 2267 Chola Mutual Fund - 1600 22 2300 Easy IPO's - 3030 5757 Fidelity Investments - 1600 180 8000 Franklin Templeton Fund - 1600 425 4255 J M Morgan Stanley - 1600 22 0004 Kotak Mutual Fund - 1600 222 626 LIC Housing Finance - 1600 44 0005 SBI Mutual Fund - 1600 22 3040 Sharekhan - 1600 22 7500 Tata Mutual Fund - 1600 22 0101
Paints
Asian Paints Home Solutions - 1600 22 5678 Berger Paints Home Decor - 1600 33 8800
Teleshoppin
Asian Sky Shop - 1600 22 1600 Jaipan Teleshoppe - 1600 11 5225 Tele Brands - 1600 11 8000 VMI Teleshopping - 1600 447 777 WWS Teleshopping - 1600 220 777
Travel
ClubMahindra Holidays - 1600 33 4539 Cox & Kings - 1600 22 1235 God TV Tours - 1600 442 777 Kerala Tourism - 1600 444 747 Kumarakom Lake Resort - 1600 44 5030 Raj Travels & Tours - 1600 22 9900 Sita Tours - 1600 111 911 SOTC Tours - 1600 22 3344
UPS
APC - 1600 44 4272 Numeric - 1600 44 3266
Others
ConsumerHelpline - 1600 11 4000 L'Oreal, GARNIeR - 1600 223 000 KONE Elevator - 1600 444 666 Indane - 1600 44 51 15 Aavin - 1600 44 3300 Pedigree - 1600 11 2121 Kodak India - 1600 22 8877 Domino's Pizza - 1600 111 123 World Vision India - 1600 444 550 Telecom Monitoring Cell - 1600 110 420
Arif A.Shaikh Sales Executive ICS Electronics Deira Dubai +971-50-8483435 +971-4-2225592
Did u know........(II)
• The poison-arrow frog has enough poison to kill about 2,200 people.
• The hummingbird, the loon, the swift, the kingfisher, and the grebe are all birds that cannot walk.
• The poisonous copperhead snake smells like fresh cut cucumbers.
• A chameleon's tongue is twice the length of its body.
• Worker ants may live seven years and the queen may live as long as 15 years.
• The blood of mammals is red, the blood of insects is yellow, and the blood of lobsters is blue.
• Cheetahs make a chirping sound that is much like a bird's chirp or a dog's yelp. The sound is so an intense, it can be heard a mile away.
• The underside of a horse's hoof is called a frog. The frog peels off several times a year with new growth.
• The bloodhound is the only animal whose evidence is admissible in an American court. 98% of brown bears in the United States are in Alaska.
• Before air conditioning was invented, white cotton slipcovers were put on furniture to keep the air cool.
• The Barbie doll has more than 80 careers.
• To make one pound of whole milk cheese, 10 pounds of whole milk is needed.
• 99% of pumpkins that are sold for decoration.
• Every 30 seconds a house fire doubles in size.
• The month of December is the most popular month for weddings in the Philippines.
• A one ounce milk chocolate bar has 6 mg of caffeine.
• Carbon monoxide can kill a person in less than 15 minutes.
• The largest ever hailstone weighed over 1kg and fell in Bangladesh in 1986.
• Ants can live up to 16 years.
• In Belgium, there is a museum that is just for strawberries.
• The sense of smell of an ant is just as good as a dog's.
• Popped popcorn should be stored in the freezer or refrigerator as this way it can stay crunchy for up to three weeks.
• Coca-Cola was originally green.
• The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
• The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.
• The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
• TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row ! of the keyboard.
• Women blink nearly twice as much as men!!
• You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.
• It is impossible to lick your elbow.
• People say "Bless you " when you sneeze because when you sneeze, your heart stops for a millisecond.
• It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
• The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest
• tongue twister in the English language.
• If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die.
• Each king in a deck of playing cards represents great king from history.
Spades - King David
Clubs - Alexander the Great,
Hearts - Charlemagne
Diamonds - Julius Caesar.
• If a statue of a person in the park on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle. If the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle. If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
• What do bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers and laser printers all have in common? Ans. - All invented by women.
• The only food that doesn't spoil is HoneY.
• A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
• A snail can sleep for three years.
• All polar bears are left handed.
• American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.
• Butterflies taste with their feet.
• Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
• In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
• On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.
• The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
• Most lipstick contains fish scales.
• Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different. Tapeworms range in size from about 0.04 inch to more than 50 feet in length.
• A baby bat is called a pup.
• German Shepherds bite humans more than any other breed of dog.
• A female mackerel lays about 500,000 eggs at one time.
• It takes 35 to 65 minks to produce the average mink coat. The numbers for other types of fur coats are: beaver - 15; fox - 15 to 25; ermine - 150; chinchilla - 60 to 100 .
• The hummingbird, the loon, the swift, the kingfisher, and the grebe are all birds that cannot walk.
• The poisonous copperhead snake smells like fresh cut cucumbers.
• A chameleon's tongue is twice the length of its body.
• Worker ants may live seven years and the queen may live as long as 15 years.
• The blood of mammals is red, the blood of insects is yellow, and the blood of lobsters is blue.
• Cheetahs make a chirping sound that is much like a bird's chirp or a dog's yelp. The sound is so an intense, it can be heard a mile away.
• The underside of a horse's hoof is called a frog. The frog peels off several times a year with new growth.
• The bloodhound is the only animal whose evidence is admissible in an American court. 98% of brown bears in the United States are in Alaska.
• Before air conditioning was invented, white cotton slipcovers were put on furniture to keep the air cool.
• The Barbie doll has more than 80 careers.
• To make one pound of whole milk cheese, 10 pounds of whole milk is needed.
• 99% of pumpkins that are sold for decoration.
• Every 30 seconds a house fire doubles in size.
• The month of December is the most popular month for weddings in the Philippines.
• A one ounce milk chocolate bar has 6 mg of caffeine.
• Carbon monoxide can kill a person in less than 15 minutes.
• The largest ever hailstone weighed over 1kg and fell in Bangladesh in 1986.
• Ants can live up to 16 years.
• In Belgium, there is a museum that is just for strawberries.
• The sense of smell of an ant is just as good as a dog's.
• Popped popcorn should be stored in the freezer or refrigerator as this way it can stay crunchy for up to three weeks.
• Coca-Cola was originally green.
• The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
• The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.
• The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
• TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row ! of the keyboard.
• Women blink nearly twice as much as men!!
• You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.
• It is impossible to lick your elbow.
• People say "Bless you " when you sneeze because when you sneeze, your heart stops for a millisecond.
• It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
• The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest
• tongue twister in the English language.
• If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die.
• Each king in a deck of playing cards represents great king from history.
Spades - King David
Clubs - Alexander the Great,
Hearts - Charlemagne
Diamonds - Julius Caesar.
• If a statue of a person in the park on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle. If the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle. If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
• What do bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers and laser printers all have in common? Ans. - All invented by women.
• The only food that doesn't spoil is HoneY.
• A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
• A snail can sleep for three years.
• All polar bears are left handed.
• American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.
• Butterflies taste with their feet.
• Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
• In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
• On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.
• The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
• Most lipstick contains fish scales.
• Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different. Tapeworms range in size from about 0.04 inch to more than 50 feet in length.
• A baby bat is called a pup.
• German Shepherds bite humans more than any other breed of dog.
• A female mackerel lays about 500,000 eggs at one time.
• It takes 35 to 65 minks to produce the average mink coat. The numbers for other types of fur coats are: beaver - 15; fox - 15 to 25; ermine - 150; chinchilla - 60 to 100 .
Did u know........(I)
• Shakespeare invented the word 'assassination' and 'bump'.
• Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
• The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
• The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
• The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to Squirt blood 30 feet.
• Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear By 700 times.
• Ants don't sleep .
• Owls have eyeballs that are tubular in shape, because of this, they cannot move their eyes.
• A bird requires more food in proportion to its size than a baby or a cat.
• The mouse is the most common mammal in the US.
• A newborn kangaroo is about 1 inch in length.
• A cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime.
• The Canary Islands were not named for a bird called a canary. They were named after a breed of large dogs. The Latin name was Canariae insulae - "Island of Dogs."
• There are 701 types of pure breed dogs.
• A polecat is not a cat. It is a nocturnal European weasel.
• The animal responsible for the most human deaths world-wide is the mosquito.
• The biggest pig in recorded history was Big Boy of Black Mountain, North Carolina, who was weighed at 1,904 pounds in 1939.
• Cats respond most readily to names that end in an "ee" sound.
• A cat cannot see directly under its nose. This is why the cat cannot seem to find tidbits on the floor.
• Pigs, walruses and light-colored horses can be sunburned.
* Snakes are immune to their own poison.
• An iguana can stay under water for 28 minutes.
• Cats have more than one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten.
• The biggest member of the cat family is the male lion, which weighs 528 pounds (240 kilograms).
• Most lipstick contains fish scales.
• Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over a million descendants.
• Each day in the US, animal shelters are forced to destroy 30,000 dogs and cats.
• A shrimp's heart is in their head.
• A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
• A cockroach will live nine days without its head, before it starves to death.
• The cat lover is an ailurophile, while a cat hater is an ailurophobe.
• A woodpecker can peck twenty times a second.
• It may take longer than two days for a chick to break out of its shell.
• Dragonflies are one of the fastest insects, flying 50 to 60 mph.
• Despite man's fear and hatred of the wolf, it has not ever been proved that a non-rabid wolf ever attacked a human.
• There are more than 100 million dogs and cats in the United States.
• Americans spend more than 5.4 billion dollars on their pets each year.
• Cat's urine glows under a black light .
• The largest cockroach on record is one measured at 3.81 inches in length.
• It is estimated that a single toad may catch and eat as many as 10,000 insects in the course of a summer.
• Amphibians eyes come in a variety shapes and sizes. Some even have square or heart-shaped pupils.
• It would require an average of 18 hummingbirds to weigh in at 1 ounce.
• Dogs that do not tolerate small children well are the St. Bernard, the Old English sheep dog, the Alaskan malamute, the bull terrier, and the toy poodle.
• Moles are able to tunnel through 300 feet of earth in a day.
• Howler monkeys are the noisiest land animals. Their calls can be heard over 2 miles away.
• A quarter of the horses in the US died of a vast virus epidemic in 1872.
• The fastest bird is the Spine-tailed swift, clocked at speeds of up to 220 miles per hour.
• There is no single cat called the panther. The name is commonly applied to the leopard, but it is also used to refer to the puma and the jaguar. A black panther is really a black leopard. A capon is a castrated rooster.
• The world's largest rodent is the Capybara. An Amazon water hog that looks like a guinea pig, it can weigh more than 100 pounds.
• Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
• The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
• The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
• The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to Squirt blood 30 feet.
• Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear By 700 times.
• Ants don't sleep .
• Owls have eyeballs that are tubular in shape, because of this, they cannot move their eyes.
• A bird requires more food in proportion to its size than a baby or a cat.
• The mouse is the most common mammal in the US.
• A newborn kangaroo is about 1 inch in length.
• A cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime.
• The Canary Islands were not named for a bird called a canary. They were named after a breed of large dogs. The Latin name was Canariae insulae - "Island of Dogs."
• There are 701 types of pure breed dogs.
• A polecat is not a cat. It is a nocturnal European weasel.
• The animal responsible for the most human deaths world-wide is the mosquito.
• The biggest pig in recorded history was Big Boy of Black Mountain, North Carolina, who was weighed at 1,904 pounds in 1939.
• Cats respond most readily to names that end in an "ee" sound.
• A cat cannot see directly under its nose. This is why the cat cannot seem to find tidbits on the floor.
• Pigs, walruses and light-colored horses can be sunburned.
* Snakes are immune to their own poison.
• An iguana can stay under water for 28 minutes.
• Cats have more than one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten.
• The biggest member of the cat family is the male lion, which weighs 528 pounds (240 kilograms).
• Most lipstick contains fish scales.
• Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over a million descendants.
• Each day in the US, animal shelters are forced to destroy 30,000 dogs and cats.
• A shrimp's heart is in their head.
• A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
• A cockroach will live nine days without its head, before it starves to death.
• The cat lover is an ailurophile, while a cat hater is an ailurophobe.
• A woodpecker can peck twenty times a second.
• It may take longer than two days for a chick to break out of its shell.
• Dragonflies are one of the fastest insects, flying 50 to 60 mph.
• Despite man's fear and hatred of the wolf, it has not ever been proved that a non-rabid wolf ever attacked a human.
• There are more than 100 million dogs and cats in the United States.
• Americans spend more than 5.4 billion dollars on their pets each year.
• Cat's urine glows under a black light .
• The largest cockroach on record is one measured at 3.81 inches in length.
• It is estimated that a single toad may catch and eat as many as 10,000 insects in the course of a summer.
• Amphibians eyes come in a variety shapes and sizes. Some even have square or heart-shaped pupils.
• It would require an average of 18 hummingbirds to weigh in at 1 ounce.
• Dogs that do not tolerate small children well are the St. Bernard, the Old English sheep dog, the Alaskan malamute, the bull terrier, and the toy poodle.
• Moles are able to tunnel through 300 feet of earth in a day.
• Howler monkeys are the noisiest land animals. Their calls can be heard over 2 miles away.
• A quarter of the horses in the US died of a vast virus epidemic in 1872.
• The fastest bird is the Spine-tailed swift, clocked at speeds of up to 220 miles per hour.
• There is no single cat called the panther. The name is commonly applied to the leopard, but it is also used to refer to the puma and the jaguar. A black panther is really a black leopard. A capon is a castrated rooster.
• The world's largest rodent is the Capybara. An Amazon water hog that looks like a guinea pig, it can weigh more than 100 pounds.
The First... ( INDIAN )
Actress of the Talkies ----------------- Zubeida, Alam Ara(1931)
Actress to win Padma Shri Award ----------------- Nargis Dutt(1958)
Architect ------------------ Maha Govinda(5th C.BC)
Aryabhatta Medal Winner ------------------ K.R. Ramanathan(1977)
Bharat Ratna Award Winner ------------------- C.Rajgopalachari( 1954)
British Governor General of Indian Union ------------ Lord Louis Mountbatten( Aug. 15, 1947-June 20, 1948)
Captain of Test Cricket -------------------- C.K.Nayudu(1932)
Century in Test Cricket -------------------- Lala Amarnath(1933- 1934)
Chairman of Rajaya Sabha -------------------- S.V.Krishnamoorthy( 1952)
Chevalier Award Winner -------------------- Sivaji Ganesan
Chief Election Commissioner -------------------- Sukumar Sen(1950-1958)
Chief Justice of India -------------------- Hiralal J.Kania(1950- 1951)
Chief of Air Staff -------------------- Sir Thomas Elmhirst(1947- 1950)
Chief of Army Staff to die in harness ---------------- B.C.Joshi(1994)
Chief of Coast Guard -------------------- V.A.Kamath(1978- 1980)
Chief of Naval Staff -------------------- R.D.Katari(1958- 1962)
Commander-in- Chief -------------------- K.M.Cariappa( 1949-1953)
Cosmonaut --------------------- Rakesh Sharma(1984)
Dada Saheb Phalke Award Winner -------------------- Devika Rani Roerich(1969)
Dancer to perform abroad ---------------------- Uday Shankar
Deputy Prime Minister ---------------------- Vallabhbhai Patel(1947-1950)
Deputy Prime Minister to die in harness ------------- Vallabhbhai Patel(1950)
Elected President ---------------------- S.Radhakrishnan( 1962-1967)
Emperor of Mughal Dynasty ---------------------- Babar(1526-1530)
Field Marshal ---------------------- S.H.F.J.Manekshaw( 1973)
Film Star Chief Minister ---------------------- M.G.Ramachandran( Tamil Nadu, 1977)
Financial Minister to present the ----------------------- Manmohan Singh (1933, 1994, 1995) Budget three times in a row
Finix Award Winner ----------------------- Sr.P.C.Sorcar
Geometer ---------------------- Baudhayana, Sulva Sutras(800 BC)
Governor General of British India --------------------- Warren Hastings(1774- 1785)
Grammarian ---------------------- Panini, Ashtadhyaayi( 6th C. BC)
Helms Award Winner ---------------------- Kunwar Digvijay Singh Babu(1952)
Home Minister ---------------------- Vallabhbhai Patel(1946)
ICS Officer ---------------------- Satyendranath Tagore
Indian Chief of Air Staff ---------------------- S.Mukherjee( 1954-1960)
Indian Governor General of Indian Union ------------ M.Rajendra Singh(April 1, 1955-May 14, 1955)
Indian Woman President of I N C -------------------- Sarojini Naidu(1925)
J.C.Bose Medal Winner --------------------- V.Ramalingaswami( 1977)
Jain Tithankara --------------------- Rishabha Dev
Jananpith Award Winner ---------------------- G.Sankara Kurup, Odakuzhal(1965)
Lady of the Indian Film ---------------------- Devika Rani Roerich
Lata Mangeshkar Award Winner ---------------------- Naushad(1984)
Lawgiver ----------------------- Manu, Manu Smirti(3100 BC)
Man to climb Mount Everest without oxygen ----------- Phu Dorjee(1984)
Man to climb Mount Everest ---------------------- Tanzing Norgay(with Edumund Hillary, 1953)
Man to make solo Flight(from US to India) ------------ Satish Soman(1994)
Man to swim across English Channel ------------------- Mihir Sen(1966)
Man to swim several Straits in one calender year ----- Mihir Sen(1966)
Managing Director of World Bank -------------------- Gautam Kaji(1995)
Member of British Parliament -------------------- Dadabhai Naoroji(1862)
Member of Viceroy's Executive Council --------------- Sir S.P.Sinha(1909)
Miss Universe -------------------- Sushmita Sen(1994)
Miss World --------------------- Reita Faria(1966)
Musician to get Padma Bhushan ---------------------- M.S.Subbulakshmi( 1954,1975) and Padma Vibhushana
Musician to get Ramon Magsaysay Award -------------- M.S.Subbulakshami( 1974)
Naval Pilot ---------------------- Y.N.Singh(1941)
Nishan-Eey-Pakistan Award Winner --------------------- Morarji Desai(1991)
Nobel Prize Winner ---------------------- Rabindranath Tagore, Gitanjali(1913)
Olympic Medal Winner ------------------------ Norman Pritchard, Silver(1900)
Oscar Winner ------------------------- Bhanu Athaiya
Patricide ------------------------- Ajatshatru's killing of Bimbisara(494 BC)
Physically handicapped mountaineer ---------------------- Baba Manindra Pal
Pilot ----------------------- J.R.D.Tata, Tata Airlines(1929)
Presentation of Budget ------------------------ R.K.Shanmugham Chetty, Finance Minister(1947)
Presentation of General Budget ------------------------ C.D.Deshmukh, Finance Minister(1952)
President ------------------------ Rajendra Prasad(1950- 1962)
President of Indian National Congress -------------------- W.C.Bannerjee( 1885)
President of International Court of Justice ---------------- Nagendra Singh(1970)
President to die in harness ----------------------- Zakir Hussain(1967- 1969)
Prime Minister ------------------------ Jawaharlal Nehru(1947-1964)
Prime Minister to be assassinated ------------------------ Indira Gandhi(1984)
Prime Minister to die in harness ------------------------- Jawaharlal Nerhru(1964)
Prime Minister to head a minority government ------------ Choudhary Charan Singh(July 28, 1979-Jan,14, 1980)
Prime Minister to resign from office ---------------------- Morarji Desai(1979)
Prime Minister who did not face Parliament -------------- Chaudhary Charan Singh(July 28, 1979-Jan 14, 1980)
Raman Medal Winner ---------------------- Salim Moinuddin Ahmed Ali(1979)
Raman Magsaysay Award Winner ----------------------- Vinoba Bhave(1958)
Recipient of Stalin Peace Prize ----------------------- Saifuddin Kitchlew(1954)
Recipient of World Food Prize ----------------------- M.S.Swaminathan( 1987)
S.Ramanujan Medal Winner ----------------------- S.Chandrashekhar( 1962)
S.S.Bhatnagar Medal Winner ----------------------- Atma Ram(1959)
Scientist ----------------------- Uddalaka Aruni(560 BC)
Slave Ruler of India ----------------------- Qutb-ud-din Aibak(1206-1210)
Speaker in Hindi at the UN ----------------------- Atal Bihari Vajpayee(1977)
Speaker of Lok Sabha ------------------------ Ganesh Vasudeo Mavalankar(1952- 1957)
Test-tube baby ------------------------- Baby Harsha or Indira(1986)
Vice-President ------------------------- S.Radhakrishnan( 1952-1962)
Viceroy of India ------------------------- Lord Canning (1858-1862)
Woman (Muslim) Ruler of India ------------------------- Razia Sultana(1236- 1240)
Woman Advocate -------------------------- Cornelia Sorabji(1894)
Woman Ambassador -------------------------- Vijayalakshmi Pandit(U.S.S. R., 1947-1949)
Woman at Antarctica --------------------------- Meher Moos(1976)
Woman Central Minister -------------------------- Rajkumari Amrit Kaur(Health)
Woman Chief Justice(of High Court) ------------------------- Leila Seth(Himachal Pradesh, 1991)
Woman Chief Minister ------------------------- Sucheta Kriplani(Uttar Pradesh, 1963-1967)
Woman Foreign Minister -------------------------- Lakshmi N. Menon(1957-1966)
Woman Secretary General of Rajya Sabha ---------------- V.S.Rama Devi(1993)
Woman Governor ------------------------- Sarojini Naidu(Uttar Pradesh, 1963-1967)
Woman IAS Officer --------------------------- Anna Rajam George(1950)
Woman IPS Officer ---------------------------- Kiran Bedi(1974)
Woman Jet Commander -------------------------- Saudamini Deshmukh
Woman Jnanpithpith Award Winner ------------------------- Ashapurna Devi, Prathama Pratishruti( 1976)
Woman Judge of Supreme Court --------------------------- Meera Sahib Fatima Beevi(1989)
Woman Minister of State -------------------------- Vijayalakshmi Pandit(Uttar Pradesh, 1937)
Woman Missionary --------------------------- Sanghamitra, daughter of King Ashoka (Sri Lanka, 3rd C.BC)
Woman Pilot (Commercial) -------------------------- Prem Mathur(Deccan Airways, 1951)
Woman Pilot (Indian Airlines) ------------------------- Durga Banerjee(1966- 1988)
Woman President of Indian National Congress ------------ Annie Besant(1917)
Woman President of UN General Assembly --------------- Vijayalakshmi Pandit(1953)
Woman Prime Minister ------------------------- Indira Gandhi(1966- 1977, 1980-1984)
Woman Sahitya Akademi Award Winner ----------------- Amrita Pritam, Sunehre(1956)
Woman to climb Mount Everest ------------------------- Bachendri Pal(1984)
Woman to perform a solo Flight ------------------------ Harita Kaur Deol(1944)
Woman to swim across English Channel --------------- Arati Saha(1959)
Woman to swim across the Strait of Gibraltar ----------- Arti Pradhan
Woman to win an Asian Gold ----------------------- Kamaljit Sandhu(1970)
Woman to go in Space ------------------------ Dr.Kalpana Chawla(November 1997)
Actress to win Padma Shri Award ----------------- Nargis Dutt(1958)
Architect ------------------ Maha Govinda(5th C.BC)
Aryabhatta Medal Winner ------------------ K.R. Ramanathan(1977)
Bharat Ratna Award Winner ------------------- C.Rajgopalachari( 1954)
British Governor General of Indian Union ------------ Lord Louis Mountbatten( Aug. 15, 1947-June 20, 1948)
Captain of Test Cricket -------------------- C.K.Nayudu(1932)
Century in Test Cricket -------------------- Lala Amarnath(1933- 1934)
Chairman of Rajaya Sabha -------------------- S.V.Krishnamoorthy( 1952)
Chevalier Award Winner -------------------- Sivaji Ganesan
Chief Election Commissioner -------------------- Sukumar Sen(1950-1958)
Chief Justice of India -------------------- Hiralal J.Kania(1950- 1951)
Chief of Air Staff -------------------- Sir Thomas Elmhirst(1947- 1950)
Chief of Army Staff to die in harness ---------------- B.C.Joshi(1994)
Chief of Coast Guard -------------------- V.A.Kamath(1978- 1980)
Chief of Naval Staff -------------------- R.D.Katari(1958- 1962)
Commander-in- Chief -------------------- K.M.Cariappa( 1949-1953)
Cosmonaut --------------------- Rakesh Sharma(1984)
Dada Saheb Phalke Award Winner -------------------- Devika Rani Roerich(1969)
Dancer to perform abroad ---------------------- Uday Shankar
Deputy Prime Minister ---------------------- Vallabhbhai Patel(1947-1950)
Deputy Prime Minister to die in harness ------------- Vallabhbhai Patel(1950)
Elected President ---------------------- S.Radhakrishnan( 1962-1967)
Emperor of Mughal Dynasty ---------------------- Babar(1526-1530)
Field Marshal ---------------------- S.H.F.J.Manekshaw( 1973)
Film Star Chief Minister ---------------------- M.G.Ramachandran( Tamil Nadu, 1977)
Financial Minister to present the ----------------------- Manmohan Singh (1933, 1994, 1995) Budget three times in a row
Finix Award Winner ----------------------- Sr.P.C.Sorcar
Geometer ---------------------- Baudhayana, Sulva Sutras(800 BC)
Governor General of British India --------------------- Warren Hastings(1774- 1785)
Grammarian ---------------------- Panini, Ashtadhyaayi( 6th C. BC)
Helms Award Winner ---------------------- Kunwar Digvijay Singh Babu(1952)
Home Minister ---------------------- Vallabhbhai Patel(1946)
ICS Officer ---------------------- Satyendranath Tagore
Indian Chief of Air Staff ---------------------- S.Mukherjee( 1954-1960)
Indian Governor General of Indian Union ------------ M.Rajendra Singh(April 1, 1955-May 14, 1955)
Indian Woman President of I N C -------------------- Sarojini Naidu(1925)
J.C.Bose Medal Winner --------------------- V.Ramalingaswami( 1977)
Jain Tithankara --------------------- Rishabha Dev
Jananpith Award Winner ---------------------- G.Sankara Kurup, Odakuzhal(1965)
Lady of the Indian Film ---------------------- Devika Rani Roerich
Lata Mangeshkar Award Winner ---------------------- Naushad(1984)
Lawgiver ----------------------- Manu, Manu Smirti(3100 BC)
Man to climb Mount Everest without oxygen ----------- Phu Dorjee(1984)
Man to climb Mount Everest ---------------------- Tanzing Norgay(with Edumund Hillary, 1953)
Man to make solo Flight(from US to India) ------------ Satish Soman(1994)
Man to swim across English Channel ------------------- Mihir Sen(1966)
Man to swim several Straits in one calender year ----- Mihir Sen(1966)
Managing Director of World Bank -------------------- Gautam Kaji(1995)
Member of British Parliament -------------------- Dadabhai Naoroji(1862)
Member of Viceroy's Executive Council --------------- Sir S.P.Sinha(1909)
Miss Universe -------------------- Sushmita Sen(1994)
Miss World --------------------- Reita Faria(1966)
Musician to get Padma Bhushan ---------------------- M.S.Subbulakshmi( 1954,1975) and Padma Vibhushana
Musician to get Ramon Magsaysay Award -------------- M.S.Subbulakshami( 1974)
Naval Pilot ---------------------- Y.N.Singh(1941)
Nishan-Eey-Pakistan Award Winner --------------------- Morarji Desai(1991)
Nobel Prize Winner ---------------------- Rabindranath Tagore, Gitanjali(1913)
Olympic Medal Winner ------------------------ Norman Pritchard, Silver(1900)
Oscar Winner ------------------------- Bhanu Athaiya
Patricide ------------------------- Ajatshatru's killing of Bimbisara(494 BC)
Physically handicapped mountaineer ---------------------- Baba Manindra Pal
Pilot ----------------------- J.R.D.Tata, Tata Airlines(1929)
Presentation of Budget ------------------------ R.K.Shanmugham Chetty, Finance Minister(1947)
Presentation of General Budget ------------------------ C.D.Deshmukh, Finance Minister(1952)
President ------------------------ Rajendra Prasad(1950- 1962)
President of Indian National Congress -------------------- W.C.Bannerjee( 1885)
President of International Court of Justice ---------------- Nagendra Singh(1970)
President to die in harness ----------------------- Zakir Hussain(1967- 1969)
Prime Minister ------------------------ Jawaharlal Nehru(1947-1964)
Prime Minister to be assassinated ------------------------ Indira Gandhi(1984)
Prime Minister to die in harness ------------------------- Jawaharlal Nerhru(1964)
Prime Minister to head a minority government ------------ Choudhary Charan Singh(July 28, 1979-Jan,14, 1980)
Prime Minister to resign from office ---------------------- Morarji Desai(1979)
Prime Minister who did not face Parliament -------------- Chaudhary Charan Singh(July 28, 1979-Jan 14, 1980)
Raman Medal Winner ---------------------- Salim Moinuddin Ahmed Ali(1979)
Raman Magsaysay Award Winner ----------------------- Vinoba Bhave(1958)
Recipient of Stalin Peace Prize ----------------------- Saifuddin Kitchlew(1954)
Recipient of World Food Prize ----------------------- M.S.Swaminathan( 1987)
S.Ramanujan Medal Winner ----------------------- S.Chandrashekhar( 1962)
S.S.Bhatnagar Medal Winner ----------------------- Atma Ram(1959)
Scientist ----------------------- Uddalaka Aruni(560 BC)
Slave Ruler of India ----------------------- Qutb-ud-din Aibak(1206-1210)
Speaker in Hindi at the UN ----------------------- Atal Bihari Vajpayee(1977)
Speaker of Lok Sabha ------------------------ Ganesh Vasudeo Mavalankar(1952- 1957)
Test-tube baby ------------------------- Baby Harsha or Indira(1986)
Vice-President ------------------------- S.Radhakrishnan( 1952-1962)
Viceroy of India ------------------------- Lord Canning (1858-1862)
Woman (Muslim) Ruler of India ------------------------- Razia Sultana(1236- 1240)
Woman Advocate -------------------------- Cornelia Sorabji(1894)
Woman Ambassador -------------------------- Vijayalakshmi Pandit(U.S.S. R., 1947-1949)
Woman at Antarctica --------------------------- Meher Moos(1976)
Woman Central Minister -------------------------- Rajkumari Amrit Kaur(Health)
Woman Chief Justice(of High Court) ------------------------- Leila Seth(Himachal Pradesh, 1991)
Woman Chief Minister ------------------------- Sucheta Kriplani(Uttar Pradesh, 1963-1967)
Woman Foreign Minister -------------------------- Lakshmi N. Menon(1957-1966)
Woman Secretary General of Rajya Sabha ---------------- V.S.Rama Devi(1993)
Woman Governor ------------------------- Sarojini Naidu(Uttar Pradesh, 1963-1967)
Woman IAS Officer --------------------------- Anna Rajam George(1950)
Woman IPS Officer ---------------------------- Kiran Bedi(1974)
Woman Jet Commander -------------------------- Saudamini Deshmukh
Woman Jnanpithpith Award Winner ------------------------- Ashapurna Devi, Prathama Pratishruti( 1976)
Woman Judge of Supreme Court --------------------------- Meera Sahib Fatima Beevi(1989)
Woman Minister of State -------------------------- Vijayalakshmi Pandit(Uttar Pradesh, 1937)
Woman Missionary --------------------------- Sanghamitra, daughter of King Ashoka (Sri Lanka, 3rd C.BC)
Woman Pilot (Commercial) -------------------------- Prem Mathur(Deccan Airways, 1951)
Woman Pilot (Indian Airlines) ------------------------- Durga Banerjee(1966- 1988)
Woman President of Indian National Congress ------------ Annie Besant(1917)
Woman President of UN General Assembly --------------- Vijayalakshmi Pandit(1953)
Woman Prime Minister ------------------------- Indira Gandhi(1966- 1977, 1980-1984)
Woman Sahitya Akademi Award Winner ----------------- Amrita Pritam, Sunehre(1956)
Woman to climb Mount Everest ------------------------- Bachendri Pal(1984)
Woman to perform a solo Flight ------------------------ Harita Kaur Deol(1944)
Woman to swim across English Channel --------------- Arati Saha(1959)
Woman to swim across the Strait of Gibraltar ----------- Arti Pradhan
Woman to win an Asian Gold ----------------------- Kamaljit Sandhu(1970)
Woman to go in Space ------------------------ Dr.Kalpana Chawla(November 1997)
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Some GK questions 1. What programming language is GOOGLE developed in?
2. What is the expansion of YAHOO?
3. What is the expansion of ADIDAS?
4. Expansion of Star as in Star TV Network?
5. What is expansion of "ICICI?"
6. What does "baker's dozen" signify?
7. The 1984-85 season. 2nd ODI between India and Pakistan at Sialkot- India 210/3 with Vengsarkar 94*. Match abandoned. Why?
8. Who is the only man to have written the National Anthems for two different countries?
9. From what four word ex-pression does the word 'goodbye' derive?
10. How was Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu better known?
11. Name the only other country to have got independence on Aug 15th?
12. Why was James Bond Associated with the Number 007?
13. Who faced the first ball in the first ever One day match?
14. Which cricketer played for South Africa before it was banned from international cricket and later represented Zimbabwe?
15. The faces of which four Presidents are carved at Mt.Rushmore?
16. Which is the only country that is surrounded from all sides by only one country(other than Vatican)? ........................................................................
Answers 1. Google is written in Asynchronous java-script and XML, or its acronym Ajax.
2.Yet Another Hierarchy of Officious Oracle
3. ADIDAS- All Day I Dream About Sports
4. Satellite Television Asian Region
5. Industrial credit and Investments Corporation of India
6. A baker's dozen consists of 13 items - 1 more than the items in a normal dozen
7. That match was abandoned after ppl heard the news of indira gandhi beingkilled.
8. Rabindranath Tagore who wrote national anthem for two different countries one is our 's National anthem and another one is for Bangladesh-(Amar Sonar Bangla)
9. Goodbye comes from the ex-pression: 'god be with you'
. 10. Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu is none other Mother Teresa.
11. South Korea.
12. Because 007 is the ISD code for Russia (or the USSR, as it was known during the cold war)
13. Geoffrey Boycott
14. John Traicos
15. George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln
16. Lesotho surrounded from all sides by South Africa.
2. What is the expansion of YAHOO?
3. What is the expansion of ADIDAS?
4. Expansion of Star as in Star TV Network?
5. What is expansion of "ICICI?"
6. What does "baker's dozen" signify?
7. The 1984-85 season. 2nd ODI between India and Pakistan at Sialkot- India 210/3 with Vengsarkar 94*. Match abandoned. Why?
8. Who is the only man to have written the National Anthems for two different countries?
9. From what four word ex-pression does the word 'goodbye' derive?
10. How was Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu better known?
11. Name the only other country to have got independence on Aug 15th?
12. Why was James Bond Associated with the Number 007?
13. Who faced the first ball in the first ever One day match?
14. Which cricketer played for South Africa before it was banned from international cricket and later represented Zimbabwe?
15. The faces of which four Presidents are carved at Mt.Rushmore?
16. Which is the only country that is surrounded from all sides by only one country(other than Vatican)? ........................................................................
Answers 1. Google is written in Asynchronous java-script and XML, or its acronym Ajax.
2.Yet Another Hierarchy of Officious Oracle
3. ADIDAS- All Day I Dream About Sports
4. Satellite Television Asian Region
5. Industrial credit and Investments Corporation of India
6. A baker's dozen consists of 13 items - 1 more than the items in a normal dozen
7. That match was abandoned after ppl heard the news of indira gandhi beingkilled.
8. Rabindranath Tagore who wrote national anthem for two different countries one is our 's National anthem and another one is for Bangladesh-(Amar Sonar Bangla)
9. Goodbye comes from the ex-pression: 'god be with you'
. 10. Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu is none other Mother Teresa.
11. South Korea.
12. Because 007 is the ISD code for Russia (or the USSR, as it was known during the cold war)
13. Geoffrey Boycott
14. John Traicos
15. George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln
16. Lesotho surrounded from all sides by South Africa.
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