- Champion double-trap shooter and Asian Games gold medalist Ronjan Sodhi, ranked No.1 in the world, as per the latest rankings released by the International Shooting Sport Federation on 1 August 2011.
- The Veteran fighter pilot Air Marshal Kishan Kumar Nohwar took over as the Vice Chief of the Air Staff (VCAS).
- Union government accorded a two-year extension to Reserve Bank of India Governor D. Subbarao beyond his term ending September 2011.
- Shammi Kapoor, the veteran actor and leading star of Bollywood of the 1960s died on 14 August 2011.
- Chairman & MD of Mathrubhoomi group of newspapers, M.P. Veerendrakumar elected chairman of the Board of Directors of Press Trust of India (PTI).
- Former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister K Rosaiah was appointed as the new Governor of Tamil Nadu on 26 August 2011.
- Ustad Azizuddin Khan, the exponent of Jaipur-Atrauli Gharana (school of music), passed away on 23 August 2011.
- Haryana Government declared the constitution of State Innovation Council headed by State Chief Secretary Urvashi Gulati for promotion of innovations.
- Dadar & Nagar Haveli celebrated its 58th liberation day on 2 August 2011.
- Prime Minister's Economic Advisory Council (PMEAC) scaled down its projection for the growth rate of the economy in 2011-12 to this percent.- 8.2%
- Sexual-assault case against this former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn was dismissed by Justice Michael J. Obus of State Supreme Court in Manhattan.
- Lamine Diack from Senegal was reelected unopposed as president of the International Association of Athletics Federation (IAAF) on 24 August 2011.
- Prime Minister of Japan Naoto Kan announced his resignation after almost 15 months in office.
- Red Bull member Sebastian Vettel returned to the highest step of the podium for the first time in four races after he won the Belgian Grand Prix on 28 August 2011.
- Novak Djokovic defeated American Mardy Fish to win the Montreal Masters.
- The European country Spain won the tenth edition of the UEFA European Under-19 Championship title in Romania.
- U.N. declared three regions of Somalia to be famine hit.
- Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak’s trial was televised on 3 August 2011.
- Yashwant Sinha headed the parliamentary Standing Committee on Finance that presented its recommendations on the Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority (PFRDA) Bill, 2011.
- This former director general of the Railway Protection Force (RPF), Ranjit Sinha was selected to head the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP)
- The first gold index in India with a base date of 2 January 2007 was launched on 29 August 2011 by CRISIL.
- The foreign minister of Libya, Abdel Aati Al Obeidi visited India on 22 July 2011 to brief about latest developments.
- India –Japan comprehensive economic partnership agreement entered into force on 1st August, 2011.
- Hina Rabbani Khar, the first woman foreign minister of Pakistan to visit India from 26 to 28 July 2011.
- The food safety and standards Act of 2006 became effective from the date- 5 August 2011.
- The oldest known fossil of an African Ape discovered in the African country Uganda.
- The fossil of an African Ape was discovered in Uganda, which is considered to be 20 million years old.
- Foreign direct investment into India grew to the amount of 5.65 billion US dollarin June 2011.
- Lobsang Sangay took oath as the Kalon Tripa( Prime Minister) of Tibetans in exile.
- US credit rating downgraded to AA+ from AAA by a United States-based financial services company Standard and Poor’s (S&P).
- In Nepal, ban on smoking in public places comes into effect from the date 7th August 2011.
- The Indian Government Set up NATGRID to Access all Intelligence Data. NATGRID stands for National Intelligence Grid.
- In Afghanistan, a probe was launched to determine the exact cause of the chopper crash by the security agency called International Security Assistance Force (ISAF).
- To cure influenza US scientists found an antibody called CH65.
- British scientists developed a new device called EndoBarrier to cure diabetes.
- The Indian state, Jharkhand launched Dal Bhat scheme on Independence day.
- Google to buy Motorola Cell unit for the amount 12.5 Billion Dollars.
- Fossils of largest cheetah was found in the country Georgia.
- The Ace Indian discus thrower Krishna Poonia won the gold medal in the Annual Athletic Meet at Portland in USA.
- Scientists recently estimated that the age of the moon is 4.36 billion years.
- Scientists discovered a natural preservative called Basin.
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Thursday, September 29, 2011
Current Affairs of August, 2011
This time I'am presenting some current affairs of August, 2011. Though these are very few in number, still I hope viewers may like these. Please send us various informations on current affairs.
Sunday, September 25, 2011
Nick Names of Important Persons (World)
Hello visitors. This time I'm back with some nick names of some important persons of the world. These nick names are very famus as will as their real names. Stay in touch for the next post.
Nick Name | Real Name |
Joe the Plumber | Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher, an American plumbing contractor |
Genghis Khan | Temüjin |
The General | Irish Criminal Martin Cahill |
El Cauclillo | Francisco Franco |
Maid of Orleans | Joan of Arc |
Desert Fox | Erwin Rommel |
The Godfather of Soul | James Brown |
Man of Destiny | Napolean Bonaparte |
The Elephant Man | Joseph Merrick |
The Edge | David Howell Evans, guitarist in the rock band U2 |
The Duke | John Wayne |
Dubya | George W. Bush |
Man of Blood and Iron | Otto Von Bismark |
The Cincinnatus of the Americans | George Washington |
The Fab Four | The Beatles |
Jesse "The Mind" Ventura | Jesse Ventura, Professional Wrestler and Former Governor of Minnesota |
Jesse "The Body" Ventura | Jesse Ventura, Professional Wrestler and Former Governor of Minnesota |
Father of his country | George Washington |
Honest Abe | Abraham Lincoln |
His Airness | Michael Jordan |
The Hick from French Lick | Larry Bird |
Hanoi Jane | Jane Fonda |
The Glimmer Twins | Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, Rolling Stones originals members, they co-write most of the hits |
The Greatest | Muhammad Ali boxer[1] |
The Great One | Wayne Gretzky, WHA/NHL hockey player |
The Great Emancipator | Abraham Lincoln, The 16th President of the United States of America |
The Great Communicator | Ronald Reagan, The 40th President of the United States of America |
The Governator | Arnold Schwarzenegger, 38th Governor of California |
King Maker | Earl of Warwick |
The Golden Bear | Jack Nicklaus |
The Great Commoner | William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham ("Pitt the Elder") or William Jennings Bryan |
Bonnie Prince Charlie | Charles Edward Stuart |
Canuck | Canadian, from Johnny Canuck |
Caligula | Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus |
The Bambino | George Herman Ruth, Jr., American baseball Player |
Broadway Joe | Joe Namath, AFL/NFL American Football player |
The Bard | William Shakespeare |
Brangelina | Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie |
Boom Boom Afridi | Shahid Afridi |
Bono | Paul Hewson |
The Young Pretender | Charles Edward Stuart |
Body Beautiful Beale | Edith Bouvier Beale |
Bloody Mary | Mary I of England |
Birdman | Chris Andersen |
Bird | Charlie Parker |
The Boston Strangler | Albert DeSalvo |
The Boss | Bruce Springsteen |
The Bird | Mark Fidrych, Baseball pitcher |
Biggie Smalls | Christopher Wallace, American Hip-Hop and rap singer |
Bonzo | John Bonham |
Dr. Death | Jack Kevorkian proponent of assisted suicide |
Ike Dwight | David Eisenhower |
Bard of Twickenham | Alexander Pope |
Bard of Avon | William Shakespeare |
Chemical Ali | Muhammad Saeed al-Sahhaf, Iraqi Information Minister during the 2003 US invasion; also known as Baghdad Bob |
Angel of Death | Josef Mengele |
The Doctor | Valentino Rossi |
Digger | Australian soldier |
Diamond Dave | David Lee Roth, Singer |
DeathStar | DeskStar, a model of disk drives by IBM which had a remarkably high failure rate |
Wizard of the North | Walter Scott |
Grand Old Man of Britain | Willian Ewart Glandstone |
der Alte (the old man) | Konrad Adenauer |
Qaid-e-Azam | Mohammad Ali Jinnah |
Sandman | Howard Sims, dancer |
Saint Jimmy | Billie Joe Armstrong |
The Rock Chameleon | David Bowie |
The Rock (person) | Dwayne Johnson |
The Rat Pack | A group of American singers and entertainers from the late 1950s to the early 1970s |
The Red Baron | Manfred von Richthofen, World War I, German flying ace |
Old Rough and Ready | Zachary Taylor |
Ike | Dwight David |
Slash | Saul Hudson, guitarist |
Joltin' Joe | Joe Dimaggio, Baseball player; former husband of Marilyn Monroe |
Fuhrer | Adolf Hitler |
Pearl of the Orient | Philippines |
Pelé | Edson Arantes do Nascimento |
The Paris of the South | São Paulo and Buenos Aires |
The Rawalpindi Express | Shoaib Akhtar |
The Teflon Don | mobster John Gotti |
X-22 | backgammon champion Paul Magriel |
Turd Blossom | name given by George W. Bush to Karl Rove |
Tricky Dick | Richard Nixon, 37th President of the United States |
Trane | John Coltrane |
Satchmo | Louis Armstrong |
The Thin White Duke | David Bowie, Actor, Entertainer |
The Say Hey Kid | Willie Mays, American, Major League baseball player and Hall of Famer |
The Sultan of Swat | Babe Ruth, Major league Baseball player and Hall of Famer |
Sting | Gordon Sumner, British rock musician |
Soapy Sam | Samuel Wilberforce, Bishop of Oxford |
Slowhand | Eric Clapton |
Slick Willy | U.S. President Bill Clinton |
Prince of the Humanists | Desiderius Erasmus |
Knick Killer | Reggie Miller |
Larry Legend | Larry Bird |
The Little Sparrow | Sezen Aksu |
The King (of all Media) | Howard Stern |
The Killer | Jerry Lee Lewis |
The Old Pretender | James Francis Edward Stuart |
Madiba | Nelson Mandela |
Madge | Madonna |
The King of Spin | Shane Warne |
The King of Spain | Ashley Giles |
The King of Pop | Michael Jackson |
King James | LeBron James |
The King (of golf) | Arnold Palmer |
Old Kinderhook (OK) | Martin Van Buren, 8th President of the United States |
Old Hickory | Andrew Jackson, 7th President of the United States |
Old Blue Eyes | Frank Sinatra, entertainer |
Old St. Nick | Santa |
Old Nick | Santa |
The Man from Tennessee | Andrew Jackson |
Mr. Hockey | Gordie Howe |
Iron Duke | Duke of Wellington |
The Mick | Mickey Mantle |
The Myth | Bodybuilding great Sergio Oliva |
The Material Girl | Madonna |
Manitas de Plata | Flamenco guitarist Ricardo Baliardo |
Thursday, September 22, 2011
Nick name of Important Persons (India)
Hello visitors. This time I'm back with some nick names of some important persons of India. These nick names are very famus as will as their real names. Stay in touch for the next post on some important persons of the world and their nick names.
Nick Name | Real Name |
Father of the Nation | Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi |
Bapu | Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi |
Chacha | Jawaharlal Nehru |
Loknayak | Jayaprakash Narayan |
Man of Peace | Lal Bahadur Shastri |
Punjab Kesari | Lala Lajpat Rai |
Guruji | M S Gohlwalkar |
Haryana Hurricane | Kapil Dev |
Panditji | Jawaharlal Nehru |
Buddha | Siddhartha Gautama |
Saint of the Gutters | mother Teresa |
Kaviguru | Rabindranath Tagore |
Badshah Khan / Frontier Gandhi | Abdul Ghaffar Khan |
Adi Kavi | Valmeeki |
Nightingale of India | Sarojini Naidu |
Netaji | Subhash Chandra Bose |
Gurudev | Rabindranath Tagore |
Prince of Kolkata | Saurav Ganguly |
Lokmanya | Bal Gangadhar Tilak |
Deenabandhu | C F Andrews |
Super Star | Tamil Actor(Indian) Rajinikanth |
Grand Old Man of India | Dadabhai Naoroji |
Anna | C N Annadurai |
Rajaji | C Rajagopalachari |
Mahatma Gandhi | Mohandas K. Gandhi |
Deshbandhu | Chitta Ranjan Das |
Iron Man | Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel |
Bengal Kesari | Ashutosh Mukherji |
Bihar Kesri | Dr. Srikrishna Singh |
Andhra Kesri | T.Prakasam |
Sher-e-Kashmir | Sheikh Abdullah |
Jana Nayak | Karpuri Thakur |
Rajarshee | Purushottam Das tandon |
Desh Ratna | Dr. Rajendra Prasad |
Ajatshatru | Dr. Rajendra Prasad |
Mahamana | Pt.Madan Mohan Malaviya |
Sparrow | Major General Rajinder Singh |
Young Turk | Chandra Sekhar |
Tau | Chaudhury Devi Lal |
Sahid-e-Azam | Bhagat Singh |
Swar Kokila | Lata Mangeshkar |
Udanpari | P.T.Usha |
Biswa Kavi | Rabindranath Tagore |
Tota-e-Hind | Amir Khushro |
Lal, Bal, Pal | Lala Lajpat Rai, Bal Ganghadhar Tilak and Bipin Chandra Pal |
Bihar Vibhuti | Dr. Anurag Narayan Singh |
Babuji | Javjeevan Ram |
Nepoleon of India | Samudra Gupta |
Shakespeare of India | Mahakavi Kalidas |
Machiavelli of India | Chanakya |
Akbar of Kashmir | Jainul Abdin |
Father of Gujrat | Ravi Sankar Maharaj |
Grandfather of Indian Films | Dhundiraj Govind Fhalke |
Morning Star of India Renaissance | Raja Ram Mohan Roy |
King Maker of Indian History | Sayyed Bandhu |
Little Master | Sunil Gavaskar |
Magician of Hockey | Dhyanchand |
Deshpriya | Yatindra Mohan Sengupta |
Kuvempu | K.V.Puttappa |
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
Nick Names of Imporant Places
Hello visitors. This time I'm back with some nick names of some important places. These nick names are very famus as will as their real names. Stay in touch for the next post on some important indian persons and their nick names.
Nick Name | Real Name |
Queen of Arabian Sea | Kochi, India |
Queen of Adriatic | Venice, Italy |
Land of the Kangaroo | Australia |
Land of the Golden Fleece | Australia |
Roof of World | Pamirs, Central Asia |
Yellow River | Huang Ho (China) |
Garden City of India | Bangalore |
Quaker City | Philadelphia, USA |
World's Loneliest Island | Tristan De Gunha (Mid-Atlantic) |
Sick Man of Europe | Turkey |
Sorrow of China | River Hwang Ho |
World's Bread Basket | Praires of N.America |
Windy City | Chicago, USA |
Sugar bowl of the World | Cuba |
White Man's Grave | Guinea Coast |
White City | Belgrade, Yugoslavia |
Venice of North | Stockholm, Sweden |
Venice of East | Alleppey, India |
Spice Garden of India | Kerala |
Dark Continent | Africa |
Great White Way | Broadway, New York, USA |
Granite City | Aberdeen, Scotland |
Gift of Nile | Egypt |
Gateway of India | Mumbai |
Gate of Tears | Bab-el-mandab, Jerusalem |
Garden of India | Bangalore, India |
Garden of England | Kent, England |
Forbidden City | Lhasa, Tibet |
Eternal City | Rome, Italy |
Herring Pond | Atlantic Ocean |
Emerald Island | Ireland |
The City or The City by the Bay | San Francisco, California |
Cockpit of Europe | Belgium |
City of Sky-scrapers | New York, USA |
City of Seven Hills | Rome, Italy |
City of Palaces | Kolkata, India |
City of Magnificent Distances | Washington D.C., USA |
City of Golden Temple | Amristar, India |
City of Golden Gate | San Francisco, USA |
City of Dreaming Spires | Oxford, England |
Britain of South | New Zealand |
Blue Mountain | Niligiri Hills, India |
Empire City | New York, USA |
Land of Lilies | Canada |
Playground of Europe | Switzerland |
Pink City | Jaipur, India |
Pillars of Hercules | Strait of Gibraltar |
Pearl of Antilles | Cuba |
Never Never Land | Prairies of N.Australia |
Manchester of Japan | Osaka |
Land of White Elephants | Thailand |
Land of Thunderbolt | Bhutan |
Land of Thousand Lakes | Finland |
Land of Rising Sun | Japan |
Hermit Kingdom | Korea |
Land of Midnight Sun | Norway |
Powder Keg of Europe | Balkans |
Land of Kangaroo | Australia |
Land of Golden Pagoda | Myanmar (Burma) |
Land of Five Rivers | Punjab, India |
Land of Cakes | Scotland |
Lady with the Lamp | Florence Nightingale |
Key of Mediterranean | Gibraltar |
Island of Pearls | Bahrain |
Island of Cloves | Madagascar |
Land of Maple | Canada |
Holy Land | Palestine |
Land of Morning Calm | Korea |
The Eternal City | Rome |
The Mother-in-law of Europe | Denmark |
Hogtown | Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
Gotham | New York |
God's Own Country | Kerala, New Zealand, Rhodesia or Yorkshire |
Garrincha | Manoel Francisco dos Santos |
Frisco | San Francisco, California |
Columbia | The United States or The Americas |
The Federal City | Washington D.C. |
The Old Bailey | The Central Criminal Court in England |
The Enchanted Isle | (from 'la isla del encanto') Puerto Rico |
The Emerald City | Seattle, Washington, USA |
The Emerald Isle | Ireland or Puerto Rico |
The Dragon | China (as an economy) |
Chosin Few | US Marine survivors of Korean War Battle of Chosin Reservoir |
The Fourth Estate | The press |
Sin City | Las Vegas, Nevada, USA |
White House | The executive branch of the government of the United States |
Whitehall | The British government including Parliament but excluding the monarchy |
Westminster | The British Parliament |
Tinseltown | Hollywood, California, USA |
Taiwan | Republic of China |
The New Sinatra | Jay-Z |
The Smoke | London |
The Old Lady of Threadneedle Street | the Bank of England |
The Rock (prison) | Alcatraz Prison |
The Red Devils | Manchester United Football Club |
Perfidious Albion | Great Britain |
Pensioneers | Chelsea football club |
The Paris of the West | San Francisco, USA |
The Steel City | Pittsburgh. Pennsylvania |
City of the Golden Gate | San Francisco |
The Battlefield of Europe | Belgium |
Auntie | Australian Broadcasting Corporation / British Broadcasting Corporation |
the Antipodes | Australia and New Zealand |
Diamond City in India | Surat, Gujarat |
Humming Bird | Trinidad |
Land of the Canals | Netherlands |
World's Breadbasket | Prairies of N. America |
City of Brotherly Love | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
The Beeb | The British Broadcasting Corporation |
Port of five Seas | Moscow |
Land of Windmills | Netherlands |
Brass Fountain | PPSh-41 |
The City of Joy | Kolkata, India |
The City of Light | Paris |
Bengal's Sorrow | Damodar River, India |
Chocolate City | Washington, D.C., so named because of its majority African-American population |
C-3 | the Collins Crystal Cave expedition |
The Bayou City | Houston, Texas, USA |
Brew City | Milwaukee, Wisconsin |
Beantown | Boston, Massachusetts, USA |
Blighty | Great Britain (used by British servicemen abroad and expatriates) |
The Big Stick | Theodore Roosevelt's diplomatic policy |
The Big Smoke | Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
The Big Easy | New Orleans, Louisiana |
The Big D | Dallas, Texas, USA |
The Big Apple | New York City, New York, USA |
Brisvegas | Brisbane, Queensland, Australia |
Saturday, September 10, 2011
Parliament's Name of the Famous Countries
A parliament is a legislature. The name is derived from the French parlement, the action of parler (to speak): a parlement is a talk, a discussion, hence a meeting (an assembly, a court) where people discuss matters. Below is the list of Parliament's name in some of the Famous countries of the world.
Name of The Country | Name of The Parliament |
Afghanistan | Shura |
Argentina | National Congress |
Australia | The Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia |
Bahamas | General Assembly |
Bangladesh | Jatiyo Sangsad |
Bhutan | Tshogdu |
Brazil | National Congress |
Bulgaria | Narodno Sabranieye (National Assembly) |
Myanmar | Pyithu Hluttaw |
Cambodia | National Assembly |
Canada | Parliament of Canada |
China (Mainland) | National People's Congress |
China (National) | Li Fa Yuan (Legislative Yuan) |
Colombia | Congress of the Republic |
Cuba | National Assembly of People's Power |
Denmark | Folketinget |
Ethiopia | Shergo |
Egypt | Consultative Council and People's Assembly |
Finland | Eduskusta / Riksdagen |
France | Parlement |
Germany | Bundestag (Lower House), Bundestrat (Upper House) |
Greenland | Landstinget |
Hungry | National Assembly |
Iceland | Althingi |
India | Sansad [Lok Sabha (Lower House) and Rajya Sabha (Upper House)] |
Indonesia | People's Consultative Assembly and House of Representives |
Iran | Majles |
Iraq | National Assembly |
Ireland | Oireachtas |
Israel | The Knesset |
Japan | The Diet |
Kuwait | Majlis-al-Umma |
Laos | National Assembly |
Libya | General People's Congress |
Maldives | Majlis |
Mangolia | Great Hural |
Nepal | Sansad |
Netherlands | Staten General |
New Zealand | Hosue of Representatives |
Norway | Stortinget |
Oman | Majlis |
Pakistan | Majlis-e-Shoora |
Papua New Guinea | National Parliament |
Poland | Sejm |
Russia | Duma |
South Africa | House of Assembly |
Spain | Cortes Generales (General Courts) |
Surinam | Staten |
Sweden | Riksdagen |
Switzerland | Federal Assembly |
Taiwan | Yuan |
Turkey | Grand National Assembly |
United Kingdom (UK) | Parliament (House of Commons and Hosue of Lords) |
United States | Congress (House of Representatives and Senate) |
Uzbekistan | Oliy Majlis |
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