Thursday, July 31, 2008



Angle falls is the world's highest free falling waterfall at 979 m,with a clear drop of 807 m.It is located in the canaima national park.The height of the falls is so great that before getting anywhere near the ground,the water is buffeted by the strong winds and turned into mist.
Trans Canada hihg way is world's longest highway.
.Trans Canada highway connects Victoria and st john's and the direction of it is east-west.It is having 7821 km of south route and 2960 km of yellow head.

Saturday, July 26, 2008



quiz 3


[1]How many sides does a heptagone have? ans = 7


[2]which is the only city in the world to lie in 2 continents? ans = istanbul (europe and asia )


[3]What is the only continent occupied by one nation? ans = Australia


[4]which company manufactured a model called the intercepter? ans = Jenson
















[3]what is the only continent occupied by one nation?


[4]which company manufactured a model called the intercepter?



quiz 2

[1]which game is known as 'sport of king'?



[2]What is the fullform of DVD?



[3]which are the three components of a colour TV picture ?



[4]what is the capital of china?



[5]what does Ghana called before 1957?

answer [1] horse racing [2]digital versatile disc [3]red, green and blue [4] beijing [5] gold cost

Monday, July 21, 2008


quiz 1


1] which is first indian company to raise money from global market?


2]BSE is situated in which tower?


3]where the world famous golden gate bridge is situated?

Friday, July 18, 2008







DLF is tital sponsar,S MAX is official broadcaster, Hero honda,Citi bank and Vodafone are official partner,ITC-Welcomegroup is official suppliar, Kingfisher Airlines is official airlines and umpire partner and pepsi is official Pouring partner of IPL.



Kolkata Knight Riders and Jaipur were only two teams to make profit of 13 carores and 6 carores respectively in first season of IPL.While mumbai losses 16,banglore 43 Hydrabad 18,Chennai 0.2 Delhi 6.6 and punjab losses 2.4 carore in first IPL season.

puzzle

You are your way to visit Grandma,Who lives at the end of the valley.It's her birthday,and you want to give her the cakes you have made.Between your house and her house,you have to cross 7 Bridges and as it goes in the land of make believe,there is a troll under every bridge! Each troll,quite rightly ,insists that you pay a troll toll.Before you can cross their bridge,you have to give them half of the cakes you are carrying,But as they are kind trolls,they each give you back a single cake.

how many cakes do you have to leave home with to make sure that they you arrive at grandma's house with exactly 2 cakes?

Thursday, July 17, 2008



Darjeeling Toy Train,Kangra Valley Railway,Kalka Shimla Hill Train,Nilgiri mountain train,Matheran Light Railway are the hill trains of india.

Wednesday, July 16, 2008



A Sun outage is an interruotion in or distortion of geostationary satellite signals caused by interference from solar radiation.The effect is due to the sun's radiation overwhelming the satellite signal.At these times,the apparent path of the sun across the sky takes it directly behind the line of sight between an earth station and a satellite .As the sun radiates strongly at the microwave frequencies used to communicate with satellite ( c band and k band),the sun swaps the signal from the satellite.The effect of a sunoutage can include partial degration,that is an increse in the error rate,or total destruction of the signal.

In India the BSE and NSE use VSATs ( Very Small Aperture Terminal)for members to connect to their trading system.VSATs depend upon satellites for connectivity between the terminals.Hence these exchanges are affected due to the sun outage. So exchanges normally remain closed from 11:45 to 12:30 deu to sun outage for some week.This times vary depending on the scientific factor.


Operation bluestar was an Indian military operation ordered by Indira Gandhi to remove sikh militants laying siege on the Golden Temple in Amritsir.
The military assaults on the Golden Temple caused an uproar among sikhs all over the world. In India, many sikhs resigned from armed and civil administrative offices and returned their government awords.
On June 3, a 36 hour blanket cerfew was imposed in the state of Punjab and all sorts of communication,Railways,Bus and air services,were suspended.All line of communications and supply of electricity were suspended.There was a total blackout and the state was cut off from the rest of India.Complete cencorship was placed on all types of media.

Tuesday, July 15, 2008



On May 21,KGN industries' stock price rises to 55,000 on relisting after seven years.When last traded in 2001,the z group script was trading at the price of Rs 11.It closes at 5216 rupee and even at that price the market cap of KGN industry is near to the mkt cap of REL CAPITAL.KGN is a castor oil trading company,engaged in the business of trading in agro commodities like castor seeds.The full name of KGN is Khwaja Garib Nawaz.


Bombay Stock exchange is situated at Phiroze jeejeebhoy towers ,Dalal Street,Mumbai 400 001.

National stock exchange is situated at Exchange plaza,Bandra kurla complex Bandra(east),mumbai 400 051

Monday, July 14, 2008



After graduating in electrical engineering from IIT mumbai in 1978, Nandan Nilekani joined Patni computers.Here he worked under Narayan Murthy.Three years later in 1981,Nandan Nilekani along with Narayan Murthy and five other co-founder founded Infosys.While Narayan Murthy stayed in India,Nandan nilekani shifted to U.S to take care of Infosy's intrests there.He was the company's marketing face.


Azim Premji,was studying electrical Engineering from stanford University ,USA when due to the sudden demise of his father , he was called upon to handle the family business.Azim Premji took over the reins of family business in 1966 at the age of 21.

At the first annual general Meeting of the company attended by Azim Premji,a share holder doubted Premji's ability to handle business at such a young age and publicly advised him to sell his share holding and give it to a more mature managment.This spurred Azim Premji and made him all the more determined to make wipro a success story and the rest is history.



CARBON CREDITS

Carbon credits create a market for reducing greenhouse emissions by giving a monetary value to the cost of polluting the air.Emissions become an internal cost of doing business and are visible on the balance sheet alongside raw materials and other liablities or assets.

By way of example,consider a business that owns a factory putting out 1,00,000 tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions in a year.Its government is an annex 1 country that enacts a law to limit the emmisions that the business can produce so the factory is given a quota of say 80,000 tonnes per year.The factory either reduces its emmissions to 80,000 tonnes or is required to purchase carbon credits to offset the excess.

And a carbon credit seller may have already invested in new low emission machinary and have a surplus of allowances as a result.The factory could make up for its emissions by buying 20,000 tonnes of allowances from them.The cost of the seller,s new machinery would be subsidized by the sale of allowances.Both the buyer and the seller would submit accounts for their emmissions to prove that their allowances were met correctly.



L N Mittal's house in Kensington , London is decorated with marble taken from the same quarry that supplied the Taj Mahal.


Manchester United football club lost their 8 players and 3 staff members including club secretary and chief coach in Munich air disaster in 1958.The crash occurs due to take off failure and the plane was of british European Airways.


Raman Lamba,an Indian cricketer died in Dhaka hospital due to onfield injury while fielding at short leg.Batsman Mehrab Hossain hit the ball so hard that the ball rebound from the head of Raman Lamba to Wicket keeper Khaled Masood.

Lamba walked off the field and the injury did not appear too serious ,but he suffered an internal haemorrhage and his condition soon worsened dramitically .A neurosurgeon was flown in from Delhi but it was already too late.

Sunday, July 13, 2008



Howrah bridge is one of the finest cantilever bridges in the world.Out of the total 26,500 tons of steel used ,TATA iron and steel company supplied 23,500 tons of steel.

One night,while grabbing out the muck to enable the caisson to move ,the ground below it yielded and the entire mass plunged down two feet,shaking the ground.The impact of this shake was so intense that the seismograph at khidirpore had registered as earthquake.

The Hawrah Bridge Had a single 450 m span.It is technically a cantilevel truss bridge,constructed entirely by riveting ,without nuts and bolts.



Bharti cellural Limited entered into a joint venture with Singapore Telecom International for a $ 650 million submarine cable project, India's first ever undersea cable link connecting chennai in india and singapore.


The palace on wheel is one of the four luxury trains on Indian Railway.

The train departs from New delhi and during its 8 day journey travels around Rajasthan.The trip includes visit to a number of sights,including Hawa Mahal,Ranthambore National Park,Jag niwas,Jag mandir and keoladea national park.



Old Traford football stadium ,the home ground of Manchester United is known as theatre of dreams.


The shipyard at Alang recycle approximately half of all ship salvage around the world.The yard is located on the gulf of khambhat , 50 kilometers southeast of Bhavnagar.One major problem is that despite many serious work related injuries.the nearest full service hospital is 50 kilometers away in bhavnagar.Alang itself is served by a small Red Cross hospital that offers only limited services.


The Kalka Shimla Railway runs through 103 tunnels.The longest tunnel is at barog, and is named after the engineer in charge of construction. Mr Barog apparently committed suicide after making a mistake in laying the allignment.

The line has 864 bridges and 919 curves.

puzzle

there is a pole in a lake.one half of the pole is in the ground,another one third of it is coverded by water,8 ft is out of water.what is the total length of the pole in ft?

A total of 15 delegates from Africa,Asia,America and Europe meet at an international conference.Each continent sends a different number of delegates,and each is represented by at least 1 delegates . America and Asia send a total number of 6 delegates .Asia and Europe send a total of 7 delegates .which continent can send 4 delegates?

Answer of first is 48 and second is Asia



Wagah is the only road border crossing between India and Pakistan and lies on the grand trunk road between the cities of Amritsar India and Lahore Pakistan.Wagah itself is a village where the controversial Radcliffe was drawn.Today, the eastern half of the village remains in iIndia and other half in Pakistan.


REVA is india's first electrical car.


Kapil Dev established a company DEV MUSCO lighting pvt limited in partnership with Musco Lighting to install floodlights in major stadiums and sports venues in india.Floodlight project include PCA stadium,GCA stadium,Brabourne stadium, barabati stadium,sector 16 stadium.


The Panama Canal is a man made canal in PANAMA which joints Pacific and Atlantic oceans.This canal has a lock system which lift and lower down the ship.By the time canal was completed a total number of 27,500 workmen are estimated to have died in the French and American effort.


D Y PATIL STADIUM

A unique feature of the stadium is the cantilever roof which eliminates the need for any supports.Thus providing the spectators with an unobstructed view of the match from any place within the stand.It has also 9 tennis hard courts ,4 indoor badminton courts and an olympic sized swimming pool.


POKHRAN NUCLEAR TEST
The combine force of the three blasts lifted an area about the size of a cricket ground to a few metres above the earth kicking up dust and sand into air.Due to this test BJP's popularity skyrocketed and the bombay Stock Exchange registered significant gains.The american established was embarresed as there had been a serious intelligance failure in detecting the preparations for the test.


Tehri dam is the 8th tallest dam of world.It is in Uttarakhand.This dam has been the object of intense protests from environmental groups and the people of this region because this project is displacing more than 1,00,000 people.There is also concern about dam's safety.The tehri dam is located in the central Himalayan Seismic Gap, a major geologic fault zone.This region was the site of a magnitude 6.8 earthquake in octo 1991, epicentred 50 km from the location of the dam.
PUZZLE
INDIA,Pakistan,Sri lanka and Bangladesh were to play a cricket tournament.Akshay , Arjun , John made the following statements regarding results.
1) RAJ said either India or Bangladesh will definitely win.
2) Ketul said he is confident that bangladesh will not win.
3) Mitesh said he is confident that neither Bangladesh nor Sri lanka will win.


when the result came out ,it was found that only only one of above had made a correct statement.who has made the correct statement and who has won the tournament?

(A) Raj , India (B) Ketul , Sri Lanka (c) Raj,Pakistan (D)Mitesh , Bangladesh

Answer is [ C ]


other company and tag lines.

ABN AMRO BANK - Making more possible

AMAZON.COM - Earth's biggest book store

Bank of America - Higher Standards

Bank of Rajasthan - Dare to Dream

BIOCON - The difference lies in our dna.

BPCL - Pure for sure

HYUNDAI - Drive your way.

Lufthansa airline - There's no better to fly.



J R D Tata launched Air India International, india's first international airlines.

On the death of J R D Tata,the indian parliament was adjourned in his memory, an honour not usually given to persons who are not members of parliament.



Reliance is first indian company to raise money in global markets and also first indian company to feature in Forbes 500 list.

Saturday, July 12, 2008


important full forms
BSE -Bombay Stock Exchange
ATF - Aviation Turbine Fuel
EPS - Earning Per Share
HNI - High Networth Individuel
FDI - Foreign Direct Investment
HSBC- Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation
C.C.U-Critical Care Unit
NYSE-Newyork Stock Exchange
PETA - People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
NIIT -National Institute of Information Technology

The Grand Trunk Express is one of the longest train root in india.It connects New Delhi and Chennai. It covers distance of 2186kilometers in exactly 35 hrs 35 minutes with 38 halts.The train passes through the states of Tamil Nadu,Andhra Pradesh,Maharashtra,Madhya Pradesh,Rajasthan,Utter Pradesh,Haryana and Delhi.

World famous Golden Gate Bridge is located at highway 101 between San Francisco and Marin Countries , San Francisco.It is 2742.9 meter long and at the height of 750 feet.



R N TATA is holding directorship of following companies for the year 2007-08


Tata Sons Limited

Tata Industries Limited

Tata Consultancy Service Limited

Tata Steel Limited

Tata Motors Limited

Tata Chemicals Limited

The Indian Hotels Company Limited

Tata power limited

Tata Tea Limited

Tata Autocomp System Limited

The Bombay Dyeing & Manufacturing Limited

Tata Teleservices Limited

Tata Teleservices (maharashtra) Limited

Hindustan Aeronautics Limited


Tuesday, July 8, 2008



Karshan bhai Patel man behind Nirma started door to door selling of Nirma ditergent at the price of Rs 3 per Kg and the next cheapest available ditergent in the market is at Rs 13 per Kg.

five important fullforms

PIN - Personal Identification Number

OPEC - Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries

FCCB- Foreign Currency Convertible Bond

WHO - World Health Organization

BBC - British Broadcasting Corporation

5 puzzles and logical question quiz

[1]I have three daughters and each has one brother.How many children do I have ?

(A) 6 (B) 3 (C) 4 (D) 7

[2]If I took 12 apples from a pile of 23 apples , how many apples would I have ?

(A) 11 (B) 12 (C) 15 (D) 23

[3]There were 50 players playing a game among them.Each player is out of the game when he losses a match .What is the number of matches should be played in order to get the winner?

(A)49*25 (B) 49 (C) 50 (D)51

[4]A Train leaves New York for Boston.Five minutes later another train leaves Boston for New York, having a double speed. which train will be closer to new york ,when they encounter?

(A) the faster one (B) the slower one (C) both will be at same distance (D) Depends on the distance

[5]A Group of 100 soldiers suffered the following injuries in a battle: 70 soldiers lost an eye,75 lost an car .85 lost a leg , and 80 lost an arm.What is the maximum numbers of soldiers who must have lost all 4?

(A) 0 (B) 10 (C) 70 (D) 100

### JRD TATA is the first indian pilot ###

five companies with TAG line

Air CANADA - A breath of fresh air

ARCELOR - steel solution for a better world

British Airways-The way to fly

Business Today - For managing tomorrow

Chevrolet Aveo - When good is not enough

#### Paraguana Refining Complex located at Venezuela is world's largest refinery with capacity of 9,40,000 Barrels per day. But in near future it's place is replaced by RELIANCE industry and reliance petroleum's combine capacity at Jamnagar.###

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answer [1] C [2] B [3] B [4] C [5] C

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Monday, July 7, 2008



Bhai Mohan Singh was the founder of pharmaceutical giant Ranbaxy Labs.Ranbaxy was started by his cousin Ranjit Singh and Gurbax Singh.Ranbaxy's name was a fusion of Ranjit and Gurbax's names.

5 important full forms

BPO - Business Process outsourcing // I.C.U - Intensive Care Unit

CRR- Cash Reserve Ratio // STD - Subscriber Trunk Dialling

LAN-Local Area Network // VPN - Virtual Private Network

5 puzzle or logical question

[ 1 ]Two fathers, two sons and a grandson walked into a restaurant and ordered food such that each person was fed with 1 plate each.what is the minimum number of dishes they would have to order if they were minimum numbers of person possible ?

a) 1 b) 2 c) 3 d)5

[2]Answer quickly.starting with an empty barrel,which happens first?

a) 2/3 full b)1/4 full c) 1/2 full d) 3/4 empty

[3]If even numbers are green and odd numbers are yellow, what colour is yellow + yellow ?

a) green b) yellow c) red d) can't say

[4]At the annual puzzle discussion conference , 20 people attended . At the start of the conference , each person shook hands with every other person , how many handshakes took place in total ?

a) 380 b) 190 C) 210 d) 400

[5] A haulage contractor did not have room in his garage for 8 of his trucks. He therefore incresed the size of his garage by 50 percent , which gave him room for 8 more trucks than he owned altogether.How many trucks did he own ?

a) 40 b) 32 c) 48 d) 24

COMPANY AND TAGLINES

Accenture - High performance . Delivered

Boeing - Forever new frontiers

FORD - Built for the road Ahead

HONDA - The power of dreams

Lehman brothers - Where vision gets built.

##### Shanghai Port is world's busiest ports on the base of Cargo tonnage currently ####


Answer [1] c [2] d [3] a [4] b [5] d

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