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Prefixes used in Metric System Sat, 28 Jan 2012 00:13:47 PST Hi readers, Here are some prefixes used in metric system to describe weight, distance and other measurements.Many of us have heard such words but not familiar with them.Let us by heart them using this table.Say thanks to maths teacher. Value Name Prefix 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 Quintillion Exa 1,000,000,000,000,000 Quadrillion Peta 1,000,000,000,000 Trillion Tera 1,000,000,000 Billion Giga 1,000,000 Million Mega 1,000 Thousand Kilo 100 Hundred Hecto 10 Ten Deca 1 One 0.1 Tenth Deci 0.01 Hundredth Centi 0. 001 Thousandth Milli 0.000, 001 Millionth Micro 0.000,000, 001 Billionth Nano 0.000,000,000,001 Trillionth Pico 0.000,000,000,000,001 Quadrillionth Femto 0.000,000,000,000,000,001 Quintillionth Atto [...]
Aristotle, the Greek Philosapher and Scientist (384 BC- 322 BC) Sat, 21 Jan 2012 20:04:54 PST Aristotle was born in Stageira in Macedonia.He was a great Greek philosapher, thinker and a Scientist.He was a disciple of Plato,the famous thinker and teacher of Alexander the Great.He believed in visual Universe.In 335 BC he established his own school at the Lyceum.He spent his life there for research,teaching and writing.His writings includes Physics, Metaphysics, Logic, Philosaphy, Biology, Linguistics, Rhetoric, Poetry, Poetics, Politics, Ethics etc.His work are collected in the 'Corpus Aristotelicum'.He died in Euboea in 322 BC at the age of 62.Theophrastus was his successor as the head of Lyceum.
Numerals; Indian and International Systems Sat, 21 Jan 2012 07:12:30 PST Numerals Indian system International system 1 One or Unit One or Unit 10 Ten Ten 100 Hundred Hundred 1000 Thousand Thousand 10000 Ten Thousand Ten Thousand 100000 Lakh Hundred Thousand 1000000 Ten Lakhs Million 10000000 Crore Ten Million 100000000 Ten Crores Hundred Million 1000000000 Arab Billion 10000000000 Ten Arab Ten Billion 100000000000 Kharab Hundred Billion 1000000000000 Ten Kharab Trillion [...]
Months of the year with days; Including rhyme Sat, 14 Jan 2012 01:07:19 PST "Thirty days hath September, April, June, and November; All the rest have thirty-one,Save February, with twenty-eight days clear, And twenty-nine each leap year." Remember this traditional English rhyme to easily by heart months and days. Months Days January 31February 28 or 29March 31April 30May 31June 30July 31August 31September 30October 31November 30December 31 In leap years February has 29 days.A leap year comes after every four years. There are many variants of the above said rhyme.One of them is "30 days hath September, April, June and November, All the rest have 31, Except February alone Which has 28 days clear, and 29 in each leap year." [...]
Alexander the Great (356- 323 BC) Sun, 22 Jan 2012 00:50:37 PST The name Alexander is derived from the Greek word "Alexandros" means "protector of men".King Alexander III of Macedon is commonly known to us as "Alexander the great".Alexander was one of the greatest military generals and conqueror of the Persian Empire.He was born in Pella, Macedonia in 356 BC as the son of the Greek king (Macedonian) Philip II.
In 336 BC Philip II was assassinated and Alexander ascended the throne of Macedonia as his successor.He had created one of the largest empires of the ancient World.His empire was streching from Ionian sea to the Himalayas.He is considered as one of the most successful commanders of the world.Nobody defeated him in battle.He executed every one who comes to his path.Alexander invaded India in 326 BC, but he was forced to turn back by the demand of his troops. He died in Babylon in 323 BC at the age of 32.Alexander IV of Macedon succeeded him.
Union Territories in India and their Capitals Sat, 27 Aug 2011 01:07:19 PDT Union Territories Capital
States in India and their Capitals Sat, 27 Aug 2011 01:07:19 PDT States Capital Andhra Pradesh Hyderabad Arunachal Pradesh Itanagar Assam Dispur Bihar Patna Chathisgarh Raipur Goa Panaji Gujarat Gandhi Nagar Haryana Chandigarh Himachal Pradesh Simla Jammu and Kashmir Srinagar Jharkhand Ranji Karnataka Banglore Kerala Thiruvananthapuram Madhya Pradesh Bhopal Maharashtra Mumbai Manipur Imphal Meghalaya Shillong Mizoram Aizwal Nagaland Kohima Orissa Bhubaneswar Punjab Chandigarh Rajastan Jaipur Sikkim Gangtok Tamil Nadu Chennai Tripura Agarthala Utharanjal Derhadoon Uttarpradesh Lucknow West Bengal Culcutta [...]
This day in history; August 27 Fri, 26 Aug 2011 23:52:42 PDT
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This day in history- August 24 Wed, 24 Aug 2011 09:14:45 PDT 79 Mount Vesuvius erupts, buries Pompeli and Herculaneum.20,000 people died
1814 Britain invaded Washington 1869 Waffle iron invented 1891 Thomas Edison gets patent for motion picture camera 1949 The North Atlantic treaty came in to effect 1954 America passed Communist control act.They banned American Communist Party. 1966 USSR launched Luna 11 for orbit around Moon 1968 France became World's fifth thermonuclear power.They exploded a hydrogen bomb in South Pacific 1976 Soyuz 21 returned to Earth 1989 Voyager 2 flies past Neptune 1991 Gorbachev resigns as head of Communist party in Soviet Union. 1991 Independence of Ukrain from USSR. 2006 International Astronomical Union declared that Pluto was no longer a planet.They demoted it to the status of a "dwarf planet"
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100 Questions in GK Sat, 27 Aug 2011 01:07:19 PDT 1. Father of Indian Archeology : Alexander Cunningham. 2. Founder of Jainism? Vardhamana Mahavira 3. Ashtanga Marga is the Central theme of: Budhism 4. The first Jain Council was held at: Pataliputra 5. Famous rock cut Kailas Temple at Ellora was built by? Krishna I 6. The Italian traveler visited Vijaya Nagar during the reign of Devaraya I:? Nicolo Conti 7. The book “Budhacharitha” was written by ? Aswaghosha 8. Capital of Yadava Kingdom: Devagiri 9. The Sakae era began in : AD 78 10. Author of Rajatarangini? Kalhana. 11. The fist and only Muslim woman ruler who ever ruled Delhi was:? Sultana Razia 12. Fatawa-i-Jahandari is the work of : Zia-ud-din- Barani 13. Diwan-i-Ariz of the Delhi sultanate is : Head of the military department 14. Pantharpur was the religious reform movement among the : Marathas. 15. William Hawkins visited Mughal court during the time of : Jahangir 16. Fatehpur Sikri was founded by Akbar to commemorate his victory over: Gujrat 17. The Mughal ruler known as ‘mixture of opposites’: Muhammad bin Tughluq 18. The Mughal emperor known as “Prince of Builders”? Shajahan 19. Khalsa, a militant force of the Sikhs was organized by : Guru Govind Singh 20. John Shore, Governor General of British India introduced: Non-intervention policy 21. Sathi was declared illegal during the Governor-Generalship of : Lord William Bentick 22. The Govt.of India Act 1919 was based on : Montague Chelmsford Report 23. Satya Sodhak Samaj was founded by : Jyoti Babhule 24. Azad Hind Fauj was organized by: Subhash Chandra Bose 25. Who said “Go back to the Vedas”? Swami Dayananda Saraswathy. 26. Amartya Sen is the first Asian who got Nobel prize in : Economics 27. The community farm started by Mahatma Gandhi near Johannesburg was: Tolstoy farm 28. The Indian Prime Minister associated with the creation of Bangladesh was: Indira Gandhi 29. The first Indian who became Miss world: Rita Faria 30. The capital of second Chera empire: Thiruvanchikulam 31. The capital of Venad: Kollam 32. The ship in which Vascodagama came to Kerala : Saint Gabriel 33. Blue water policy is associated with : De-Almeda 34. The battle of Plassey was fought between: Siraj-ud daula and Robert Clive 35. The ruler who issued Royal proclamation abolishing slavery in Travancore: Rani Gauri Lekshmi Bai 36. Whose reign is considered as the golden age of modern Travancore? Swati Tirunal 37. First Diwan of cochin was: Col.Munroe 38. High court of Cochin was established during the Diwanship of : Sir.shanmugham Chetti 39. Travancore-Cochin state was formed in : 1949 July 1 40. People’s Planning Campaign in Kerala was inaugurated : August 17, 1996 41. The running of fan makes us comfortable during Summer because it : Increases the rate of evaporation of perspiration. 42. Heat energy from the Sun reaches the earth by : Radiation 43. Temperature of an electric heater becomes constant after sometime because: Rate of heat generation becomes equal to the rate of heat lost to the atmosphere. 44. When current flows through a metallic conductor, heat is produced, known as : Joule’s effect 45. Helium was discovered by : Ramsay 46. Which one of the following elements is not detected by Lassaignes test? (a)Oxygen (b)Sulphur (c)Nitrogen (d)Chlorine. Ans:Oxygen 47. The credit of discovery of Hydrogen goes to: Henry Cavendish 48. Which of the following is added to LPG to detect its leakage? (a)Methane (b)Mercapton (c)Mercury (d)Pentane. Ans:Mercapton 49. Which gas, on coming in contact with blood forms carboxy hemoglobin? Carbon Monoxide 50. The smallest unit [...]
CURRENT AFFAIRS QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS- NOVEMBER-2009 Fri, 12 Feb 2010 06:14:55 PST 1. Who becomes the first Indian to make a fifty while batting at No.9 against Australia? Praveenkumar. He became the first batsman from India to post a fifty on Indian soil while batting at No.9 position 2. The Income Tax department recently conducted nationwide raids at 70 addresses linked to former Jharkhand Chief Minister who has possessing assets worth Rs 2000 crores. Name of that former Jharkhand CM who is now a MP? Madhu Koda 3. Chief Minister V. S. Achuthanandan of Kerala laid foundation for States first Border Security Force (BSF) unit in which place? Kainur village in Thrissur district. 4. A modern space science complex of international standards is to be set up by Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) in South India. Where is it? Ponmudi hills in Thiruvananthapuram District, Kerala 5. Who has been inducted as SP of the prestigious National Investigation Agency (NIA)? T.K. Rajmohan 6. Who won the Man of the Match award in the third One Day International Cricket between India and Australia held in Delhi? Yuvraj Singh. India beat Aussies by 6 wickets 7. Who has claimed the top slot as the highest tax payer in the country for the current fiscal? Lalit Modi, the Indian Premier League chief. 8. China's keystone space scientist, widely acclaimed as the country's "father of space technology" and "king of rocketry", died of illness recently at the age of 98? Tsien Hsue-shen. He has also gone by the name of Qian Xuesen 9. The massive fire at which depot of Indian Oil Corporation destroys Rs 1000 crore, ruins several lives? Jaipur's Indian Oil Corporation depot 10. Which documentaries have been recently nominated for the prestigious 5th CMS VATAVARAN, environment and wildlife film festival, held at the India Habitat Centre, New Delhi? ‘My Purple Sunbird’ directed by Sunil Raj ‘Kaanam - Life Story of a Midland Hill’ by Babu Kambrath 11. Indian who was elected as member of the Italian Democratic Party National assembly? Sibi Kumaramangalam 12. Who is appointed as the chief justice of Himachal Pradesh? Justice Kurian Joseph. He is the senior most judge of the Kerala High Court 13. Who has been appointed first Goodwill Ambassador of the ‘Smile Train,’ an international charity that provides free cleft lip and palate surgery to children in need? Aishwarya Rai Bachan 14. The Supreme Court Collegium headed by Chief Justice of India KG Balakrishnan has dropped the name of Karnataka High Court Justice from the list of those recommended for elevation to the Supreme Court. Name of that justice? Justice PD Dinakaran 15. Name of the typhoon, the fourth in a month, which has hit Manila in the Philippines bringing with it heavy rain, flooding and a tropical storm? Typhoon Mirinae. Typhoon Ketsana was the first to hit this region at the end of September. About 420 people died in that storm and tens of thousands of people are still living in shelters after their homes washed away. This was followed up by Typhoon Parma that killed over 430 people and destroyed 55,000 houses. Typhoon Lupit was the third typhoon to hit the area last week. 16. Who emerged as the winner of Airtel Delhi Half Marathon in the male category? Deriba Merga of Ethiopia. Marry Kitney succeeded in winning the title in women category. Around 30,000 people participated in the Airtel Delhi half Marathon 2009. 17. Name the Jammu Kashmir 'braveheart' who killed a Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terrorist has been appointed as the Special Police Officer (SPO) in the Jammu Kashmir police force recently. Rukhsana Kausar. Rukhsana, who hails from Kalsi village in upper Sh[...]
Revolutions Sat, 27 Aug 2011 01:07:19 PDT Green -------- AgricultureBlue ----------Ocean Products Yellow ------- Oil Seeds White -------- Milk Products Silver --------- Egg Grey---------- Housing Brown ------- Leather,Fertilizers Black --------- Coal Pink ---------- Prawn , Medicines
News Agancies of World Sat, 27 Aug 2011 01:07:19 PDT Royittor--------BritanA.F.P----------France AP ----------- America DPA----------Germany InterFax ------Russia Quodo News --Japan Sinhuva--------Chaina PTI,UNI ------India Yonhap ------- South Korea Bernuma -------Malesia
Prime ministers of India Sat, 27 Aug 2011 01:07:19 PDT
Who said it? Sat, 27 Aug 2011 01:07:19 PDT "Swaraj is my birthright and I will have it" - Lokmanya Tilak"Child is the father of man" - William Words Worth "Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today" - Benjamin Franklin "Man is a political animal" - Aristotle "Ring out the old,ring in the new" - Tennyson
Old Names and New Names Of Countries Sat, 27 Aug 2011 01:07:19 PDT Kampuchia ------------ CombodiaAbyssinia -------------- Ethiopia Peking ----------------- Beijing Salisburg --------------- Harare
Indian States Capitals and Languages Sat, 27 Aug 2011 01:07:19 PDT States Capital LanguagesAndra Pradesh Hyderabad Telugu and Urdu Arunachal Pradesh Itanager Miji, Apotanji, Merdukpen, Tagin,Adi, Honpa,Bangini-Nishi. Assam Dispur Assamese Bihar Patna Hindi Chhattisgarh Raipur Hindi Goa Panaji Marathi and Konkani Gujarat Gandhinagar Gujarati Haryana Chandigarh Hindi Himachal Pradesh Shimla Hindi and Pahari Mizoram Aizawl Mizo and English Srinagar (Summer) Kashmiri,Dogri, Urdu, Ladakhi, Jammu (Winter) Pahari,Punjabi and Dadri Jharkhand Ranchi Hindi Karnataka Bangalore Kannda Kerala Trivandrum Malayalam Madhya Pradesh Bhopal Hindi Maharashtra Bombay Marathi Manipur Imphal Manipuri Meghalaya Shillong Khasi, Jaintia and Garo Nagaland Kohima Ao, Konyak, Angami, Sema and Lotha Orissa Bhubaneswar Oriya Punjab Chandigarh Punjabi Rajasthan Jaipur Rajasthani and Hindi Sikkim Gangtok Bhutia, Hindi, Nepali, Lepcha, Limbu Tamil Nadu Chennai Tamil Tripura Agartala Bengali, Tripuri, Manipuri, Kakborak Uttar Pradesh Lucknow Hindi Uttaranchal Dehra Dun Hindi West Bengal Calcutta Bengali |
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