IAS.PQ.GSTUDIES
195. Koyana Dam is in Maharastra.
196. Singur in West Bengal is the place where the Tatas would produce people’s car of Rs. 1 lakh.

197. MCR (Mustard Corp Residue) based thermal plant is coming up at Alwar, Rajasthan. The project is supported by Global opportunity fund of British High Commission & eco securities, leading buyer of Carbon Credits. Mr. Ajay Bararia is the M.D. of the company.
198. “Janata Raja”, a historical play in Hindi, Panned by Baba Saheb Purendare is based on Sivaji’s Life.
199. Cellular Jail is in Portblair, Andaman Nicobar Island.
200. LEON, in Mexico was recently in the news as it hosted hot air balloon festival recently.
201. 2006-2007 – is the Birth Centenary year of Sri R.K. Narayanan author of “The Guide”.
202. India and EFTA (European Price Trade Association) comprising of Switzerland, Norway, Lichen stein & Iceland to explain agreement on trade and commerce.
203. Kovalon & Kannegi are hero & heroine of Tamil Epic Silpadikrama.
204. The present day Kerla was Chera Kingdom.
205. Kannegi temple is located at Mangaldevi Koli, Kerla.
206. Cheran King Senguttuvan brought stone from Himalayas to erect statue of Kamnegi.
207. “Snow” and “My life is Ned” are two novels panned by Turkish novelist Orham Pamuk, current year’s novel prize winner for literature.
208. Kangala fort is at Imphal.

“Let Noble Thoughts Come to Us from All Sides” - RIGVEDA

209. India team for expedition to Australia would start the voyage on 10th of December. They would reach Indian station “Maitree” at Antarctica.
210. The Thikese Buddhist monastery (Gompa) is at Ladakh.
211. CFTRI (Central Food Technological Research Institute) the Apex Institute of its kind is at Mysore.
212. HIV prevention is to be done by focusing to shifting to microbicides. Then Tenofovir based combination, if consumed before and after having sex can prevent the infection. After results on monkeys evoked a good response human trail have been undertaken. Now WHO and other agencies adopt ABC approach and CBS method for preventive of AIDS but of little tangible results.
ABC Approach : A - abstain from sex before marriage.
B - be faithful to partner.
C - Condom usage when A & B fail.
CBS Method : C - circumcision (male)
B - Barrier (like diaphagram for female)
S- Syringe (people addicted with drugs should be Provided / sold needles on production of used one.
Future Method--
MTV M- microbicides (in the form of gel, ointments & suppository applied at endo-crevic point of the female 30 minutes before having sex.)
T- Tenoverr based combination, a pill a day.
V- Vaccination, to bring down viral load & retard progression of disease.
213. “Maine Gandhi Ko Nahin Mara” is a film directed by Jahnu Barua ,one of the Jury in recently concluded IFFI.
214. “Mr. Prime Minister” is a film produced by Dev Anand.
215. WADA stands for worlds Anti doping Agency which conducts dope test on players off & on.
216. CII has sponsored India Economic Summit 2006.
217. Knowledge commission India was established on 13th June 2005.
218. NALCO established in the year 1981.
219. Present Director General of W.T.O.- Pascal Lami.
220. Movement for right to information in India began at Debadungri village, Rajsoman Dist. Of Rajasthan.
221. The statue of liberty has been patented means it cannot be replicated.
222. The root of Red Wood goes to 5/6 mt. below ground but spreads around one acre.
223. Worldwide spring season is being shortened @ 8 hours/ 1000 years.
224. Phlip Rozdel is producer of Virtual second life and founder CEO of Linden Lab.
225. Webster New World College Dictionary recently declared Crackberry as the word of the year, John Wiley & Sons the Hobken, New Jersey based publishing group of the dictionary hold the word of the year contest every year. The runner word was Netroot means grassroot movement on the internet that is employed in political & business marketing.
226. The center has set new parameters for navaratna psus.

Ratios
Weight age
Net Profit / Net worth
25%
PBIT / Turnover
15%
Sectoral Performance
20%
PBDIT / Capital employed
15%
Wages / Output Cost
15%
EPS
10%

227. Mr Aravind Kejarwal, founder of Parivartan, a Delhi based citizen movement for RTI, won the Raman Megasaysay award for emergent leadership to take to the grassroots in organizing social activities for empowering poor citizens to fight corruption by holding the Govt. answerable.
228. Carin energy, is an Edinburgh based power company.
229. Forward markets commission overseas the commodity Exchange (There are 24 comexs is India including 3 national exchanges). The national exchanges (commodity) are MCX, NCDEX, & NMCE.
230. Futures on butter are traded in Chicago mercantile exchange.
231. In 1985 UNESCO. declared The manas National Park, Asom, as world heritage site. It has also been declared as biosphere reserve.
232. FN Souza, S.H. Raza, MF Husain all belong to progressive group of master painters in the world of Art.
233. Mumbai based Saskhi Art gallery has floated Art funds operated by trust mode. It is first Indian entity todo so. It has chirstined it as Yatra fund.
234. Recently Rajshree Production released it’s film “Vivah” simultaneously at theatres & Online. Download of the film is available at $9.99.
235. Google was founded in California garage in 1998 and gone public in 1904. It has grown to be 15th biggest US listed company by Stock market capitalization, surpassing giants like IBM, CHEVERON& Intel.
Tough Times Never Last, Tough People Do


236. You tube, video sharing website, created by students was recently bought by Google for $1.65 Billion this October.
237. Price water house is a MNC Accountancy Consultancy Firm.
238. Flicker is a photo exchange site recently acquired by Yahoo.
239. Myspace is a social networking site.
240. Global Trade Finance (GTF) is India’s leading stand alone factoring company.
241. Bangalore based Dhruba interactive is a gaming company.
242. Recently FDA has directed Wockhordt to withdraw insulin drug wosulin from the market.
243. Blue Mosque is at Istanbul & it is one of most famous shrines for Muslims.
244. “SAVITRI” is the Mangum opus of Sri Aurovinda.
245. Ion Exchange (India) has bagged water award in the category of best water company, best purifier. The best complete domestic water solution provider award went to Kent-R-O Systems. The life time achievement award was bagged by G. S. Ranganathan of Ion Exchange.
Water Icon award - Rajiv Mittal, M. D., VA Tech Waltug Ltd.
246. Top three richest soccer clubs in the world are Real Madrid, Manchester United, A.C Milan.
247. The largest faceted diamond of the world is the Golden Jubilee Weighing 545.57 carats.
248. Bender Thiratha, Karnataka is the only hot spring in south India.
249. Ananda – in the Himalayas is a luxury destination spa resort located at the foothills of the Himalaya.
250. WWF has assigned protected status to Amazon rain forest of Brazil to halt deforestation.
251. E-bay is an online auction site
252. Ravi Jaipuria, Chairman of R.J. Corporation, is the indisputable king of franchising in India. He is also proclaimed as bottling king of India as he is handling Pepsi Bottling & franchisee of CostaCofee (cafes). He handles franchisee of restaurant chain, Tecobell, Pizahuts etc.
253. Helion Venture is a venture capital firm located at Bangalore.
254. Dentsu Communication as a Japanese Advertising firm. It has already set up shop in India.
255. An Indian American Journalist & author Asra Nomani has won the South Asian Journalist Association (SAJA) reporting fellowship for 2006-07 to support her in-depth project on the building of a women’s mosque in Southern India.
256. Govt. of India is planning to establish an Aviation Management Institute in the line of IIMS, at New Delhi.
257. S.H. Raza’s painting “Nad Bindu” was auctioned at Rs. 1.4 crore by Osians.
258. National Film Institute of India is at pune.
259. Dada Shaheb Falke’s first film “Raja Harischandra”
260. “Sant Tukaram” is the first film of India to get certificate of merit (International) at 1936 Venice film festival.
261. World Water Institute is at Pune.
262. As per report ground water has become unfit for drinking in 22 industrial zones in India.
263. Many of the vegetables, the city dwellers eat are grown with waste water, the untreated sewage that we dump in rivers & stream, spinach for example contains heavy metals so grown. Pollutants enter our system through these vegetables & crops.
264. “Suvarna Jala” is a scheme under taken by a Karnataka based NGO “ARGHYAM” in which Rooftop rain water harvesting system in public building has become successful with Bharat Nirman Funding.
265. In India police to people ration is 1:820 where in U.S.A it is 1:238.
266. About 10,000 years ago, as per scientists rice was made of jungle grass whose wild varieties still survive in the Koraput region. The present Eastern Ghats was a part of ancient gondowana landmass, where Nishad Civilization flourished.
1st paddy cultivation was evolved in Koraput so the botanical name of the rice is Oriyaza Sativa. There were more than 2000 varieties of paddy available but 205nos of varieties could be presented.
267. Satrtriya dance belong to Asam. The name sattra denotes to monasteries, it was performed outside the sattra’s.
268. Mr. Kirana Karnik is the president of NASSCOM.
269. Anil Gupta, IIM Ahmedabad, professor is associated with National Innovative Foundation.
270. The art & science of Time Keeping is called Horology.

Easy Words: - The Word of Horoscope main Latin word
Horo – Means Time literally means see through time


271. The palindromic group ABBA belongs to Sweden.
272. Edward – VIII, British monarch had voluntary relinquished his throne for marrying a commoner.
273. Tenali Raman was court Jester of Emperor Krishna Deva Ray of Vijaynagar.
274. Asia Society, New York conferred leadership award 2006 on steel tycoon sri L.N. Mittal, Chairman & CEO of Mittal Steel. Citi Groups, Charles O Prince got the same award (Leadership) for his contribution to financial sector.
275. TAPCO stands for: - Trans Anatolian Pipeline company, which is building a pipeline from Turkey’s black sea port of Samson to Ceyhon. It is in the news recently because IOC has bought 12.5% stake in it.
276. Police Act 1861 was enacted by Britishers time & again many commissions have been instituted for reforming police administration in India, the commissions are –
a. 1998 – Liberhan Commission.
b. 2000 – Padmanaraya Commission
c. 2002 – malimuth Commission.
Of late GOI has constituted a new police act drafting committee headed by Ex-Attorney General Mr. Soli Sorabajee.
277. The 3 National Commodity Exchanges are MCX, NMCE & NCDEX (NCDEX is the largest commodity Exchange in India).
278. As per October 06 figures Top ‘3’ mutual funds are UTI, Reliance & PRUICICI (assets under management).
279. Mr. Vijaya Mallya is the CEO & MD of Kingfisher Airline.
280. POROK, one of the indigenous games of Arunachal Pradesh, is a human adoption of Cock Fighting. Microsoft’s X box 360 gaming console is nick named as Porok due to it’s porok ads.
Easy Words :- Anachronous –Latin word coronus that means time, some things/person out of time (Rip Van Winkle). The opposite is Synchronous in tandem with time, similarly chronicle, chronic & chronometer.




281. “Mastige” concept implies combination of mass market and prestige brands, but it is quickly catching up with value conscious consumers. It mostly applied in consumer durables.
282. Bio-dynamic farming follows Zodiac principle of crop calendar, developed by Austrian Philosopher Dr. Rudolof Steiner in 1924. It is a holistic approach to agriculture & a variant form of organic farming. It was prevalent in ancient India. It’s concept says the cosmic forces play dominant role & influence, enhance nutritional aspects of food as per claim of Bangalore based Iskon initiative NGO, Eco - Agri Research Foundation.
283. Airbus planes marker is European aeronautic defense & space Ltd.(EADS). Boeing of America is its business competitor.
284. Essar Steel is the country’s largest flat steel producer.
285. The most powerful woman in Hollywood is Amy Pascal, Head of Sony’s film division as per ranking of “Hollywood Reporter”.
286. Haifa, an Israeli city is the resting place of Baha Ullah (Syed Ali Mohammad) The founder of newest religion, the Bahai faith.
287. Ramalingam Raju of Satyam is the president of NASSCOM.
288. David Lladro Roig, is the owner of Lladro Commercial, Spain. Its porcelain figurine Ganesh & Radha lunched under the spirit of India theme has been huge success. The art pieces have been appreciated about 12 times in 5 years.
289. Top three cities with four wheeler ownership
New Delhi - 23% of the Household
Chandigarh - 21% of the household
Chennai - 20% of the household
as per net survey agency indicus.net.
290. Business software Association is wing of NASSCOM to check piracy.
Easy Words :- Vorous – Latin word means to eat.
Omnivorous – who eats everything.
Herbivorous – who eats herbs.
Carnivorous – who eats flesh.




291. Global Indian film Awards Festival hosted by Kualalampur.
292. The Bonnerghatta National Park, situated in Karnataka is recently in news as a butterfly park has opened here.
293. THOP Bird Sanctuary is in Gujarat.
294. As per a research report appearing in nature magazine that a species of bat has an in built magnetic compass to find its way home from a long distance.
295. Bats hang upside down primarily to help them get into take off quickly. They belong to mammal family & unlike birds they didn’t have strong wings so they can not take off from the ground. Their hind legs are not strong enough to run to get off speed on the ground.
“To live is nothing, to live rightly is every thing.”
- Socrates -


296. Reliance cultivates Asia’s largest mango plantation. 80% of the area covered by “Keshar” variety of mango. The plantation was planned to give green cover to its Jamnagar refinery complex.
297. U.S.A. Topmost Commodity Exchange is Nymex (New York Mercantile Exchange).
298. LME stands for London Metal exchange. It is the premier metal exchange in the world.
299. PS 3 is the gaming console produced by Microsoft.

300. US based Sun Valley Capital Investment Ltd plans to float a $100 million international film fund only to invest Aishwarya Rai starred Projects.
301. Ray Ozzle may succeed Bill Gates at Microsoft after 2008.
302. Empi-India express Indian Innovation Award 2006 –
Gold
Il & FS, Mother Dairy & Food processor Ltd., Narayana Hridayalaya & BAIF Development & Research Foundation.
Silver
NSE, All India Society for Electronics & Computer Tech (AISECT) Govt. of Nagaland.


303. Colour Plus is brand name of apparel. Its founder is Kailash Bhatia.
304. Cornelia Sorabji is the 1st woman lawyer in India.
305. Bill gates is the richest person as per Forbs Magazine. Second place is occupied by Warren Buffett. Bill Gates is in the position for last 13 years. Recently Mr. Gates has founded a Charitable Trust “ Milinda & Bill Gates Foundation” which would strive for good health & education world wide.
306. World Health day is 24th September.
Books (Fiction)
Author
The Afgan
Fedrick Forsyth
Sacred games
Vikrama Chandra
King of Ayodhya
Khaled Hisini
307. The two Google founders Serger Brin & larry Page are in 12th & 13th position in 2006 years forbes richest men’s list in the World.
308. Microsoft co-founder paul Allen is in the 5th position in Forbes List.
Sl No.
Name
Raking in the Forbes Richest List 2006
A
Kavitank Ram Shriram
(Google Founder – Director)
242th
B
Amar Gopal Bose
(Acoustics Pioneer)
242th
309.


310. India has the third largest share market in the world.
311. Sudarsana Kriya is taught in the art of living training. Sudarsana Kriya imparts the following benefits –
a. Reduces mental depression.
b. Lightens mind, sorrow, grief, & worry.
c. Good Slumber.
d. One gains mental peace which has paramount influence over once liaison with others.
e. One’s spiritual awakening begins.
312. Sri Sri Ravi Shanker was born on May 13th 1957 at Papanasanam, Tamilnadu. This is famous for Temples of Lord Vishnu & Siva. So he was christened as Ravishankara. He began his education at the age of 3 years and completed an advance degree in modern physics at the age of 17 years. Creation of Happy Earth is his mission. The world can be peaceful, & progressive only through selfless service, self realisation & happy life. He has contributed to the world Sudarsana Kriya after observing Silence Penance for 10 days in 1982. It is silver jubilee year of establishment of Art of Living Foundation head quartered at Bangalore.
313. Indian heads on Macs.
Name
Org./Company
Arun Sarin
Vodaphone
Anshu Jain
Deutsche Bank
Indira Nooyi
Pepsi






314. Gandhigiri Term has been popularized by the film “Lage Raho Muna Bhai”.
315. India is the lowest cost producer of medicine in the world.
316. K. Anji Reddy is founder is founder chairman of Dr Reddy’s labrotories.
317. 1 in 20 doctors on USA is Indian origin.
318. Hackers use their knowledge to help organizations & secure company secrets & Govt. to protect criminals at a bay. Crackers are criminals who deface websites, release viruses and steel credit card numbers on the internet.
319. Horsley nos. on the internet in Andhra Pradesh perched over the dusty plains of Madanpalli, famous for mango & tamarind.


320. Comparison Table
Item
One Day Cricket
Twenty 20
Over
50 Overs
20 Overs
Bowler
Maximum 10 Overs
Maximum 4 Overs
Fielding Restriction
1st To 20th Over
1st To 6th Over
No Ball
One Run Award
Two Runs, Next Ball Free Hit
Time
310 Minutes
80 Minutes
Interval
40 Minutes
15 Minutes
In The Occasion Of Tie
Both Parties Joint Winner
Bowling To Stump
Result
Minimum 20 Over
Minimum 5 Over


321. National Game of Japan – Karate.
322. The gazgelle takes breath through eye & nose.
323. Himasagar express runs between Jammu to Kanyakumari, it is largest train journey in India.
324. Infosys has become the 1st Indian company to enter the prestigious Nasdag 100 index.
325. As per world bank latest report Kanpur is the 7th most polluted city in the world & most polluted city in Asia.

326. New 7 wonders of the world would be declared at Lisbon on July 2007. India’s Taj Mahal, Statue of Liberty, The Great Wall of China, are some of the entries of 21 international entries. 7 wonders would be decided on the basis of online voting world wide.
327.
Easy Words :- Mater - in Latin means mother & Matru in Sanskrit.
Marternal (Adj) - relating to mother.
Matrimony – marriage.
Matrilineal – In a clam where people are known by their mother’s clam.Kolkata’s college street is famous for selling of second hand rare books.






328. Ram & Laxman Jhula is at Rishikesh.
Country’s name
Stock Index Name.
Hong Kong
Hang Seng
Japan
Nikkee
South Korea
Kopsi
Singapore
Straits Times
Taiwan
Weighted Index
USA
NASADAQ
India
NSE & BSE
329.









Country
Currency
Switzerland
Swiss Franc
Malaysia
Ringitti
Sweden
Kroner
Kuwait
Dinar
U.A.E
Dirham
Saudi Arabia
Saudi Riel
330.







331. India & Russia are among the top wealth markets as per survey by Boston Consulting Group. The two occupy 19th and 20th position respectively in the global wealth 2006 list, U.S.A. occupies the top notch.
332. United Breweries (UB) plans to export from India a mystery brand of liquor made from 40 numbers of herbs & christened as “Asha” is claimed to be made of a royal recipe from the palace of Udaipur.
333. The nodal agency for the task of conservation of forest around Vienna is looked after by the forestry & Urban Agriculture Department, otherwise known as “MA 49”
334. Studies by the school of Oceanography Jadavpur University have reported that if the present rate of rise of sea level continues due to global warming, at least 12 islands of Sundarban may face complete submergence by 2020 & estimated 70,000 people may be turned into environmental refugees.
Similarly forest officials in Orissa have reported large scale erosim of Gahira Matha Coast, the breeding ground of Olive Ridely Turtles. In places the sea has moved in by about half km within a short span of 18 months.
As per a recent World Bank report if the rate of global warming continues Bangladesh’s one fifth land mass would be submerged in the years to come & more tropical storms would rage in the Bay of Bengal in post monsoon periods.



Books
Author
Travel on by Elephant
Mark Sand
River dog: A Journey down Bramhaputra
Queen of Elephant
Skullduggery
335.









336. Flora & Fauna international looks after conservation of Animals & Flora worldwide.
337. The dead sea is the lowest point on the earth one can float in the water due to high density of water. The world’s saltiest water body has the form & shape of a frontier province.
338. Google project 2 implies Extension of a scanner.
339. Wikipedia CD has been prepared by SOS children.
340. Google sponsored competition among Technical Students is Imagine Cup, Agra was the venue of this cup for 2006.
341. The free software used to convert wikipedia to I-pot is encyclopedia.
342. Google application sketch up has been prepared by Last software.
343. “One world many voice” is the slogan of Yahoo time capsule.
344. The name of C-net portal is cho.com.
345. Adobe is the producer of Video Production Software.
346. Off late Google has bought company named cut spot.
347. Wirbee is associated with Nokia.
348. Microsoft has began music service with assistance of MTV.
349. Masatusates University. U.S.A had began web science research.


350.

Hybride Animal
Father
Mother
Laiger
Lion
Tiger
Taigon
Tiger
Lion
Geep
Goat
Sheep
Grolar
Grigly Bear
Polar Bear
Inon Age Pig
Wild Bear
Pig
Zony
Zebra Pony
Pony
Zorse
Zebra
Horse
Cama
Camel
Lama
Leopan
Leopard
Lion





351. Gangu Dance belongs to Madhya Pradesh.
352. Cobalt 60 therapy is chemo therapy for cancer.
353. Technorati is a Blog Search engine & Digg. & Tailrank are social news services sites.
354. Institute of Yoga & Naturopathy is at Bangalore.
355. “The tree of friendship” is in Russian Port town of Sochi.
The representatives of 45 countries have added their own graft to a large citrus tree, therof resulting in fruits of different verities size & tags bearing name of those who contributed to the grafting.
356. Sunita William is the 2nd woman of Indian origin after Kalpana Chawla to board Space shuttle discovery. She is expected to take a space walk with ner colleague Bob Cubeaam to help rewine the ISS ( international Space Station ) Space lab & also Operate the space station’s robotic arm, along other tasks.
357. 1st international Jain Multi-trade organization would be held at NSE Complex, Goregaon East, Mumbai from 4th Jan, 2007 to 7th Jan 2007. It is also venue of 2nd international conference of Jain businessmen & industrialists from 6th to 7th January. The Jain Pavilion in the venue would present invaluable & Unique items of Jain history& Jain ancestral artifact (website WWW.Jito.org)
358. A news in the stock market has either positive, Negative or neutral effect on the price of concerned stock . Particularly (Change of profit in corporate world change of bottom line merger even the weather). Recently Reuter group has began rolling two trading services that allow subscribers to set up automatic trading orders based on the news. By this system the subscriber’s programmed computer automatically buy, sale or hold stock based on market moving events. The mining & shifting of news take place in computers dedicated to algorithmic trading, that is automatic buying & selling based on complex mathematical formulas that aim to pick the optimal time to trade a stock.
359. Earth Worm is a Hermaphrodite.
360. Bio-conversion is a term used describes a process by which sun rays get converted into chemical energy.
361. Cerebrum is the longest part of human brain.
362. Pitcher plant is carnivorous.
363. The botanical name of Castor is Ricinus Communis.
364. Ery therocytes in human blood have the longest life span.
365. Erythrocytes transport gases in blood stream in human system.
366. Lymphocytes or WBC creates antibodies & fight disease in human system.
367. Liver renders harmless the substance produced by metabolic process.
368. Halophyte is one type of plant that grown in Saline Soil.
369. Now-a-days memory chips of different electronic devices use flash memory. Off late scientist in U.S. have developed a novel computer memory technology by which the new material makes “phase-change” memory 500 to 1000 times faster than the flash memory while using half as much power.
370. “Time machine TV” is an Innovative TV lunched by LG electronics India recently. It is built on the digital video recorder technology which would enable consumer to have an absolute control over the way they want to view TV. It has “playability feature” i.e. the viewer can go back in time to view their favorite programme all over again, also allow the viewer record another programme while watching a live programme & skip annoying commercials.
371. Swiss Re (a Swiss reinsurance Company) recently has bought 26% stock in TTK healthcare.
372. Montek Singh Ahiwalia is the deputy chairman of Planning Commission of India. Prime Minister is the ex-officio chairman of Planning Commission.
373. Sant Sankaradev of Assam, spearheaded Bhakti Movement in Assam by establishing “Namagharas” to spread the teaching of Srimad Bhagabata Epic.
374. Ms Sakuntala Devi recently was honored with the Ramanuj Award for her contribution to the field of mathematics. Presently she is involved in setting up a mathematics Institute in Bangalore .
375. Jataka tales one part of Buddhist Tradition & reflect the spirit of the teaching of The Buddha.
376. Emperor Ashoka built the 1st Buddhist Temple in Bodhagaya, which is on the bank of River Niranjan. Recently the tallest Buddha statue in the world is being constructed here.
377. According to a report by Reuters, an astronomical calculator made at the end of 2nd century B.C. is amazingly more accurate & complex. It is called Antikythera Mechanism as it was retrived from a ship wreek off the Greek coast from an island named Antikythera.
378. Basketball game was started by James Naismith.
379. Zorastrian faiths’ texts are called Gathas.
380. River Potomac flows by the side of Washington D.C., U.S.A.
381. The mascot of Doha Asiad is ORRY, the Oryx. The Asiad torch is also shaped like a horn of the Oryx. The long ringed horn is like spear. The animal was extinct in Arabian Penusula, was introduced into the wild from the captive stock in 1980s, but the Arabian Oryx continues to be endangered. Two other species are in Africa.
382. Jaspal Rana have been declared as the best sportsman of Asian game. He is winner of triple gold medal in shooting event.
383. Ms Sarmila Tagore is the goodwill ambassador of UNICEF.
384. Indus water Treaty 1960 is a treaty between India & Pakistan regarding sharing of water of River Indus. It is recently in the news as India’s building of Baglighar Dam on Chenab is opposed by Pakistan & the dispute has been referred to World Bank appointed neutral expert.
385. Green Peace International & the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society are environmental N.G.O. s fiercely pursuing environmental issues like whaling, oil sill and conservation of flora & fauna of the seas.
386.
Easy Words :- Homo – means similar.
Homogeneous - similar group.
opposite
Heterogeneous – dissimilar group.Recently Indian parliament approved university status to Central Institute of English & Foreign Languages (CIEFL)





387. Pandit Hari Prasad Chaurasia is the 1st Indian flutist in Indian history to be awarded the Padma Bhusan in 1992. he has composed music for Indian films including “Silsila”. His experimental Album “Eternity” which included many western items brought him much fame.
388. Sri Narayan Gura, Kerala propagated the dictum of “ one caste, one religion, one god for all the people of the world.
389. Venkataramana was the earlier name of Ramana Maharshi. His place of Sadhana was temple of Arunachala in Thiruvannamali, Tamilnadu. Upadesha Sara & Sat Darshan are his works.
390. “Mira movement in education” was started at Pune by Sadhu Vaswani aimed at enriching students with vital truths make them appreciate Indian culture. His works are “Builders of Tomorrow”, “My Mother Land”, “Awake”, “Young India”.
391. “Manche Sloka” was composed by Samantha Ramdas, Guru of Shivaji. His earlier name is Narayana.
392. Margert Nobel was the previous name of sister Nivedita, a prominent disciple of Swami Vivekananda. “Here reposes sister Nivedita who gave her all to India” – Epitaph on her grave.
393. “Youths are not useless but used less” & “Youths are not careless but cared less” are famous statements of Swami Chinmayananda.
394. Ardeshi Godraj is the 1st Indian manufacturer who displaced foreign brands from India by producing godrej locks & brand.
395. Swami Ramtirth, is a saint with a Scientific outlook who supplemented Swami Vivekananda’s work of emancipating India during his times.
396. Kupuswamy is the previous name of Swami Sivananda. He founded divine life society in the year 1936 to promote the wisdom of the Upanishads.
397. Chippykutty, is the previous name Swami Tapovan Maharaj, was a God realized soul. He was revered as “Himalaya Viboothi” as he was extensive trekker in Himalayas & scaled Kailash range twice. Swami Chinmayananda was his prominent sishya. “Wondering in the Himalayas”, “Kailash Yatra” are some of his books authored by him.
398. UGC lunched educational channel is christened as “Vysa Channel”. It would be available on internet.
399. Vidyaranyan was instrumental in establishment of the great Vijaynagr empire, His previous name was Madhav. When Mallik Kafur, the general of Allaudin Khiliji was attacking all temples of south India, he was filled with remorse at the uncivilized conduct of the invaders. He decided to work for a strong Indian empire & undertook severe penance to invoke the grace of Goddess. He got the glimpse of the divine & his will get strengthened. He become Vidyaranya after Sannyara. Harihar & Bukkaraya approached him & by them he laid the foundation of the Vijay Nagar Empire.
400. Vallabhacharya is the founder of Suddmadvatia otherwise known as Kevaladvaila.
401. Sri Madhavcharya is the founder of Dvaita or the dualistic system of philosophy.
402. India comes third place in the world after U.S.A. & Japan to built a super computer (called Parama) indigenously.
403. Sat Darshan – Indian 6 system of philosophy are –
Sankhy, Yoga, Nyaya, Vaiseshika, Purvamimansha & Vedanta.
404. TDSAT (Telecom disputes settlement & appellate authority), settles dispute between telecom service provider & the consumer.
405. In India the confluence of two or rivers are called Prayaga. These are places of pilgrimage of the Hindus. There are 14 nos. of important prayags.

Name of Prayaga
Name of the Rivers In the fluence
Prayagraj
Ganga, Yamuna & Saraswati.
Deva Prayaga
Alakananda, Bhagirathi
Rudra Prayaga
Alaakananda, Mandaakini
Karna Prayaga
Pindarganga, Alakananda
Nanda Prayaga
Alakananda, Nanda
Vishnu Prayaga
Alakananda, Vishnuganga
Surya Prayaga
Mandakini, Alasatarangi
Indra Prayaga
Bhagirathi, Vyasaganga
Soma Prayaga
Somanadi, Mandakini
Bhaskar Prayaga
Bhaswati, Bhagirathi.
Hari Prayaga
Hariganga, Bhagirathi
Gupta Prayaga
Nilaganga, Bhagirathi
Shyama Prayaga
Shyamganga, Bhagirathi
Keshab Prayaga
Alakananda, Saraswati

406. The 7 Khetras of pilgrimages for the Hindus are Kurukhetra, Harihara Khetra, Pravas Khetra, Bhrigu Khetra, Purusottam Khetra, Naimish Khetra, Gaya Khetra.
407. Pancha Sarovar is important for Hindus –
Manas Sarovar, Vindu Sarovar, Siddhashram (Gujarat), Narayan Sarovar(at the foot of Narayan Mountain, The Himalaya), Pampasara (on the bank of Tungabhadra), Puskar (Rajasthan) where is the only Bramha temple in India).
408. Blood sugar measurement is level of glucose in the blood.
409. The computer word www (World Wide Web) was created by European Particle Research Laboratory.
410. Internet concept was conceived on 9th September, 1979 in U.S.A on that day a team headed by Professor Leonard Clinok a professor of California University connected a electronic switch called Reuter to their computers & send data through it among various networked computers. This router now-a-days is called server

Name of the River
Point of Origin
Fall Point
Narmada
Amarkantaka (M.P)
The Arabian Sea
Godavari
Brahmagiri (Near Nasik)
The Bay of Bengal
Saryu
Manasarovar
Ganga
Gomati
Himalayas
Ganga
Bagamati(Nepal)
Katmandu & Manchyndranath is on its bank
Himalayas
Ganga
Sipra
Kebeteswar (Parijat Mountain i.e Aravali Mountain)
Narmada
Painganga ( Payonsti)
Vindyas
Narmada
Gondaki
Dhavagiri
Ganga
Tamasa (Chitrakoot on its bank)
Raskya Mountain

Kaveri (Sri Rangapatanam, Siva Samudram on its bank)
Koorg
Bay of Bengal
Wegai (Madurai on this river)
Krutamala Malaya Mountain
Bay of Bengal
Sabarmati
Krutamala Malaya Mountain
Bay of Bengal

411. Godavari divide into seven before falling into Bay of Bengal is known as Sapta Godavari. Godavari is also famous as Goumati Nasik, Debagiri, Paithana, Paravani, Gangakheda, Bhadranchalam & Panchabati are the places of pilgrimage on the river bank of Godavari.
412. The river Indus mostly flows through Pakistan. It is only through Leh river Indus flows in India.
413. Kanchipuram situated on river Pelam. It is divided in Siva Kanchi & Vishnu Kanchi. Bhadraraj Temple, Debraj Temple & Ekrameswar Temple are here.
414. Sandipani Ashram, the gurukula where Lord Sri Krishna was educated is situated at Angapada, Ujjain.
415. Hariwar (Mayapuri is the place where the Ganga enters plain land from mountains.

Name of the Place
Famous for
Dwarka
One of the Chatirdham, the famous temple of Ranachoda Rai, Sarada Matha established by Srimad. Adi Sankaracharya. It is referred as Aiswarya Khetra.
Badrinath
In Himalayas, referred as Tapah Khetra, the idol of Vishnu made of Salagram silas worshiped here. Jyoti Matha established by Shakaracharya.
Sri Jagannath Puri
Sree Khetra, Sankha Khetra, also referred as Bhoga Khetra Of God. Sankar Pitha known as Gobardhan Math.
Rameswaram
4th Parakrama Khetra of God (Valour)
416. The Sapta Badri of Hindu pilgrimage are Adibadri, Dhyanabadri, Bridhbadri, Bhabishyatabadri, Yogabadri , Nrisinghbadri, Pradhanbadri or Badrinath.
417. The name of Pancha Khetras are Sri Kedarnath, Sri Madhyameswar, Sri Tunganath, Sri Rudranath, Sri Kalpeswar.
418. Decimal system is referred 1st in the world in Ishabasyopanishad in the sloka of Shantimantra like “Purnamadam” “Purnamidam” etc. description of Zero.
419. Baidhayana’s Sulava Sutra describes the area of rectangular field is length & Bredth of the field. It is enunciated 1000 years before Pythogoria formula.
420. Saka Sambad was introduced in 78 A.D.
421. Harihara & bukka Raya have founded the Sangama Dynastry.
422. There ware 63nos. of famous Nayanar (devotee of Siva) & 12nos. of famous Alvar (devotees of Vishnu) in the South India.
423. Anantapadmanabha Swami Temple is at Tribhubanathapuram, Kerala.
424. Lepakshi in Andhra Pradesh, there are three famous shrines dedicated to Shiva, Vishnu, & Vishnubhadra. It is one of the 108 Shaiba Khetra referred in the Skanda Puran.
425. Hazgiri, a Tribal Dance belong to Tripura.
426. Nestle brand is occupied 3rd position in top100 brands in Asia in 2006. Last Year it was ranked 4th.
427. New Delhi based Call Next Solutions is planning to lunch “Call Paper” a mobile news paper as per report of P.T.I.
428. Camel fair is held at Bikaner India.
429. The most poisonous fish found in Australian cost is stone fish.
430. Humming Bird flaps its wings 50 to 70 times / second while flying.
431. Recently Sony has lunched an ultra portable PC named VGN UX 17GP which weights half – a – Kg & has 4.5 screen with slide out keyboard & two cameras.
432. The wireless technology to link computing & communication devices over short distance is called Bluetooth.
Mind tree’s Bluetooth headphone technology received the best of CES award in the Stereo Audio Category at the consumer electronics show in Las Vegas in 2006.
433. KG – DWN – 92/2A name of the basin block where KG – DWN stands for Krishna Godavari Deep Water North Belford Dolphin Block where ONGC has found huge gas reserve now. KG-DWN is name of the ring.
434. “Goodsun” is brand of solar water heater.
435. Ammonia is used in the space station’s cooling system as it has very low freezing point which well suits the chill of space.
436. Colget Palmolive is the top brand among 100 Asian & 4th among the 1000 world brands. Panasonic is on 5th position.
437. Tania Sachadeva of Delhi has won 33rd win TV National Women’s ‘A’ chess championship recently held at Chennai.
438. Graham Lara recently achieved 10,000 runs in ODI.
439. Fabio Cannavaro, who led Italy to victory at the World Cup was named world soccer’s “World Player of the Year” recently.
Institute
Location
National Institute of Epidemiology
Chennai
National Institute of Nutrition
Hyderabad
National Institute of Immunology
New Delhi
ICRISAT
Hyderabad
TIFR
Mumbai


440. “Traffic Signal” & “Page 3” are two realistic films produced by Madhur Bhandarkar. The former film is about the people living in pavements.
441. “Mirena” a device weighting newly to grams in placed inside the uterus manually by a gynecologist which can cure as an effective contraceptive. The new technique is known as Surgical Solution for women suffering from menorrhagia (heavy Menses).
442. As per WHO report 6,00,000 Asians die every year prematurely due to air pollution.
443. As per UNEP report in major Asian Cities the concentration of fine particulate matter PMIO is serious.
444. Chandrayana I & Chandrayana II space programs are in the anvil of ISRO for lunching space shuttle to Moon.
445. The 1st election in the U.A.E. opened on 16th December, 2006 after its independence in 1971. 7nos of emirates from the federation of United Arab Emirates.
446. Slash or Burn or Jhuma (Podu) cultivation is different names of shifting cultivation practiced by Tribals which causes heavy damage to forest cover.
447. Ocimum Bio-solution, Hyderabad, recently acquired Isogen life science of Netherland, it would set up a new lab to produce Oligos, a synthetic gene fragment used by all bio-tech firms.
448.
A good book is the best of friends, the same to day & for ever - Martine Tupper
AND
All books are divisible into two classes as the books of the time & the books of all times.
- John Ruskin.Rudrapatana is Karnataka has contributed much for the development of Karnatic music.



449. Desi brand (Indian) search engines –

Name
Log on Till date (Cumulative)
Guruji.com
10 Lakh
Indaitimes.com
12 lakhs/Month (Compani Source
Report)
Rediff.com
- N.A -
Khoj.com
- N.A -

As per report there is around 100 core search logon in India out of which there are 30 core clicks on advertisements. 50 lakh click on advertisement/monthly.
450. Peter Ungro is the CEO of “CREY”
451. Yahoo formerly known as over tune services.
452. Good for the web & good for the world is the Tag line of “Mozzila”
453. Microsoft has acquired 10% stake of TCS China recently.
454. 3 IITians have got Agrawal – Kayal Saxsena primarily test awards.
455. Munnar, Kerala’s hill station is now in the news for blooming of Kuranj flowers, a typical which blooms only once in 12 years.
456. World’s largest solar system would be setup in Dunhung city in China.
457. A temple dedicated to Ravan would come up at Jodhapur, Rajasthan.
458. Maxis, a Malaysian company operates aircell brand mobile service provider in India.
459. A new language named “Globish” with only 1500 words has been developed by retired IBM chairman Jahn Poul Nerihore. He has two books on this subject “Don’t speak English” paraleys Globish & Dickaverage Le Globish.
460. Now UNO has 192 member Bin Kia Moon would take change on 1st Jan’ 2007.
461. Dempo Sports Club, Goa beat JCT Mills 1-0 to win Durand Cup 2006 held (119th event) – venue Ambedkar Stadium, Sponsored by Osians.
462. Dachigam Sanctuary \in the J & KState is the only home of the endangered species of the Red Deer Hangul.
463. Barrel – Cactus Plant, of Mexico stores water.
464. WTO came in to force in 1995.
465. Sikandar Lodi founded city of Agra.
466. Top 10 searched items of 2006 on Google are 1. You tube, 2. Video 3. world cup 4. Steve Irwin(Crocodile Hunter) 5. Prison break 6. Wikipedia (online date base) 7. Euro millions 8. Big brother 9. Lost 10. Weather.
467. Scientists have founded that Lactobacillus acidophilus, a bacterium found in Yoghurt bosts the synthesis of receptors for natural pain killers in gut cells.
468. Viganilla is a mountain locked village in Italy which plunges into chilli & darkness during the winter months due to cut off the direct sun light. Recently it is in the news as a giant mirror 8mt-by-5mt has been installed to follow the sun’s path & reflect back rays on the village.
469. Bharat Bio-tech International Ltd. Hyderabad has lunched new rabbies, vaccine named Rabirix. It would be useful pre-bite or post bite application with minimal or no side effects.
470. Recently Govt. of Orissa has signed MOU with Chennai based creative port development privet ltd. to develop an all weather port at the mouth of Subarnarekha river, at Kirtania, Balasore.
471. Nila Madhaba Panda, Documentary film maker from Orissa shot into fame for his film “Climate’s first orphan” has been selected as one of the India’s creative futures by British Council, India recently.
472. Spiro Meter used to find out weather lung’s alveoli is damaged or obstructed.
473. Smokers Beware! Smoking a ‘Picca’ (crude cigar) smoked in Andhra people is equivalent to smoking 20 cigarettes /daily & may cause damage to lungs & allied complaints.
474. Omega 3 found in marine foods may contain in the above disease (Research Report).
475. “Kalamandalam Gopi” is a film produced by Adoor Gopal Krishna, recently Gopal Krishna was at Bhubaneswar to inaugurate the first “National Festival of films on art and artists.”
476. “Tiruppavai” was composed by Andal a prominent Alwar in Tamilnadu.
477. Italy may ban anorexic models from catwalk to boost healthier body.
478. Six sigma is a management approach & where green belt & black belt certificate is issued to the participants.
Author
Wink
John Steen back
of Mice & Man
Harper Lee
To kill a Mocking Bird
J.D. Sialainger
Catcher in Rey
William golding
Lord of Flies
479.

480. “Futuregen” a project billed as the world’s cleanest coal burning power plant would come up in China.
481. National Academy of Construction is at Hyderabad.
482. ‘YOU’ named person of the year 2006 by time. It highlights the importance of user generated internet content as a during force in the modern world. You tube has proved the latest twist in internet revolution attracting huge traffic other sites such as Flicker, My Space, Wikipedia are prime examples of user generated contents.
483. Itar-Tass is a news agency of Russia.
484. Monaco, a picturesque country, adjacent to France, known for its formula one circuit, Spas International Circus Festival, ballets & Monte Carlo Casino.
485. Mr. S. S. Badrinath is the chairman of Sankar Netralaya, Chennai.
486. Recently Sankar Netralaya has opened a centre for poof Giancarlo falicinelli invented latest technique for restoration of eye sight named MOOKP. Netralaya’s director of cornea services.
G. Sita Laxmi become the 1st woman in the world to perform the operation. The operation takes 3 setting at intervals each lasting 8 hours & costs little over 105 lakh.
487. NASA scientists have developed a software called IEARTH. The software will superimpose data on 3D maps provided by Google Earth & can generate data on atmosphere of any location on the Globe.
488. Scientific evidence makes it clean that full habitat protection is essential for charismatic species like Tiger & elephants which sit at the apex of the eco-system.
489. Japan is the 2nd largest economy after U.S.A.
Persons
Gurus
Sri Ramakrishna Paramahansa
Totapuri
Vivekananda
Ramakrishna Paramhansa
Adi Sankaracharya
Bhagabatapada
Parhamasa Yogananda
Sri Yuketwar Giri
Bhagini Nivedita
Swami Vivekananda
Swami Chinmayananda
Tapovan Maharaj
Tansen
Swami Haridas
490.












491. Khitiza 2007 would be held in IIT Kharagpur in the 1st week of Feb’ 2007 to encourage young scientific talents.
492. C. Mohan has been named chief scientist for IBM India.
493. Cuttack is to host International theatre festival for 10th consecutive year in 2007 January.
494. Vestas RRB India is a leading wind operated electricity generator making company.
495. the Rev Jonathan Scoble an American Baptist minister invented the rickshaw, he made it in 1869 to enable his invalid wife see the sights of Yokohama city in Japan.
Easy Word :- Circus comes form Latin word for a ring.

496. LUC Mountagnier & Robert Charles Gallo are the co-discoverer of the AIDS virus.
497. Traditional Chinese medical practice consists of herbal cures, Acupuncture & Moxibustion. Moxibustion is a process of burnig a small amount of dried herbs called moxa (a twig) on an acupressure point giving healing warmth through the body.
498. ZAPAC. COM is the online gaming venture of Reliance ADAG. It plans to open gaming centers all over the country.
499. Robert Owes its origin to Czechoslovakia.
500. Robots which mimic living things are called “Bio-Mimetic”.
501. A Robot that resembles human is called Android.
502. Method of animating modles using Robotic techniques is called animatronics.
503. Robot in each Czech means forced labour, 1st coined by Czech Play Wright Karel Capek in 1992.
504. Dasakathia is a folk art form of Southern Orissa. In this folk art two artistes narrate stories from the timeless epic through singing the only musical instruments two small sticks. While the main performer called Gayak holds four stick musical instruments called “Ramalata” & the other assistant called “Palia” holds two stick instrument called Dasakathia.
505. A new IIT would be established at Isnapur in Madak Dist. Of Andhra Pradesh.
506. Indian post is launching a new channel “Invitation Channel” to quickly handle greeting cards, invitation cards & wedding cards.
507. National Brain Research Centre (NBRC) is at Manesar, Haryana.
508. Chess playing software DEEP FRITZ beat Vladmir Kramnik 4-2 at Born on 5th December, 2006.



509. The village Koondhankulam is T.N. is where painted storks raise their young among human habitation. The villagers, vegetarians all have guarded the birds zealously. If any one was caught killing a bird the villagers would tie the dead bird round the culprit’s neck & parade him around the village.

510. Water fouls live in heronies which are noticed as the indicator of status of wetlands in the country. Critical to the environment, wetlands maintains subterranean water sustain food chains, control floods and provide habitat for wild life
511. Mozart, Hyden & Beethoven are classical trinity of western music.
512. Angela Zoille & Brad Piett and their 3 children have been named as “Family of this year”.FABIO CANNAVARO is named FIFA world player of the year & Marta (Brazil) women’s world player of the yea