Saturday, January 16, 2010

Do you know that.....4

1.Gas Production in Oil & Gas Fields is measured in Million Metric Standard Cubic Meters(MMSCM)
2.Punjab National Bank has recently started distributing Biometric Cards to the weaker sections of the society in Uttar Pradesh
3.92.5% was the operating ratio of Indian Railways in the Interim Budget 2009-10
4.70%from goods traffic & 26%from Passenger traffic of a rupee comes to the Indian Railways
5.Bill Gates won the Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development for 2007
6.Pittsburgh hosted the G-20 Summit
7.“Lisbon Treaty” is the treaty accepted / adopted by the members of European Union
8.Beri-Beri is the deficiency disease caused by the vitamin B1
9.Dadabhai Naoroji is called the “Grand Old Man of India”
10.The fifth five year plan had the objective” Garibi Hatao”
11.The founder director of the CBI was D.P. Kohli who held office from 1 April 1963 to 31 May 1968.
12.Ashwani Kumar is the Director of Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI)
13.The Beijing Olympics were inaugurated at 08-08-08
14.Jhumpa Lahari won the prestigious Franc O'Connor Prize for writing
15.The period for 11th Five Year Plan is 2007-2012
16.10 satellites were launched with PSLV-9 to register world record by India
17.Haryana and Punjab have a common high court at Chandigarh. The Article 231 gives 18.the power to parliament to establish such common high courts
19.India will be hosting the 2010 Men's Hockey World Cup
20.London will be hosting the 2012 Olympic Games
21." Sheru" is official mascot of Common wealth Games to be held at Delhi in 2010
22.Surya Shekhar Ganguly won the Parshvanath International Open Chess Tournament
23.Marathi writer Shyam Manohar was given National Sahitya Award 2008.
24.Saroja Vaidyanathan is a Bharatnatyam dancer who won Sangeet Natak Academy Award 2009.
25.Brahmos is the Indo-Russian supersonic cruise missile with speeds of Mach 2.5 to 2.8, which is world's fastest cruise missile and is about three and a half times faster than the U.S.A's subsonic Harpoon cruise missile

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