Classical Dances Of India

Hello visitors. This time I'am presenting some Classical Dances Of India. I hope these may be useful to the visitors of the blog. If the informations are incomplete then please share with us through comment area.

Dance	State
Bharat Natyam	Tamil Nadu
Bihu	Assam
Bhangra	Punjab
Chhau	Bihar, Orissa, W. Bengal and Jharkhand
Garhwali	Uttaranchal
Garba	Gujarat
Hattari	Karnataka
Kathak	North India
Kathakali	Kerala
Kutchipudi	Andhra Pradesh
Khantumm	Mizoram
Karma	Madhya Pradesh
Laho	Meghalaya
Mohiniattam	Kerala
Mando	Goa
Manipuri	Manipur
Nati	Himachal Pradesh
Nat-Natin	Bihar
Odissi	Orissa
Rauf	Jammu & Kashmir
Yakshagan	Karnataka

Folk And Tribal Dances Of India

Hello visitors. This time I'am presenting some folk and tribal dances if India. I hope these may be useful to the visitors of the blog.

State	Dances
Andhra Pradesh	Ghanta Mardala, Veedhi Natakam, Burrakatha
Assam	Bihu, Khel Gopal, Rash Lila, Tabal Chongli, Canoe
Bihar	Jata Jatin, Jadur, Chhau, Kathaputli, Bakho, Jhijhiya, Samochakwa, Karma, Jatra, Natna
Gujarat	Garba, Dandiya Rass, Tippani, Gomph
Himachal Pradesh	Jhora, Jhali, Dangli, Mahasu, Jadda, Jhainta, Chharhi
Haryana	Jhumar, Ras Leela, Phag dance, Daph, Dhamal, Loor, Gugga, Khoria, Gagor
J & K	Rauf, Hikat
Karnataka	Huttari, Suggi Kunitha, Yakashagana
Kerala	Kaikottikali, Kaliyattam, Tappatikkali
Maharashtra	Kathakeertan, Lezin, Dandaniya, Tamasha, Gafa, Dahikala, Lovani, Mauni, Dasavtar.
Orissa	Ghumara Sanchar, Chadya Dandanata, Chhau
Punjab	Giddha (women), Bhangra (men)
Rajasthan	Ginad, Chakri, Gangore, Terahtaal, Khayal, Jhulan Leela, Jhuma, Suisini
Tamil Nadu	Kolattam, Pinnal Kolattam, Kummi, Kavadi, Karagam
Uttar Pradesh	Nautanki, Thora, Chappeli, Raslila, Kajri
West Bengal	Kathi, Chhau, Baul, Kirtan, Jatra, Lama

Nobel Prize Winners Of 2011

About Nobel Prize

Established by Alfred Nobel, Nobel prizes started in 1901 to encourage scientific experiments, promote emerging technologies, creative literature and world peace. They are given every year for worldwide achievements in Physiology or Medicine, Physics, Chemistry, Literature and for Peace. The Nobel prize is administered by Nobel Foundation, Sweden. In 1968, an additional prize for Economics was added in memory of Alfred Nobel.

Nobel Prize includes an award, Nobel diploma and a cash prize. The prize money is distributed from the interest generated from funds originally initiated by Alfred Nobel. For 2011, the names of the winners are given below along with the reason.

Name	Field	Reason
Saul Perlmutter, Brian P. Schmidt and Adam G. Riess	Physics	"for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe through observations of distant supernovae"
Dan Shechtman	Chemistry	"for the discovery of quasicrystals"
Bruce A. Beutler and Jules A. Hoffmann	Physiology or Medicine	"for their discoveries concerning the activation of innate immunity"
Ralph M. Steinman	Physiology or Medicine	"for his discovery of the dendritic cell and its role in adaptive immunity"
Tomas Tranströmer	Literature	"because, through his condensed, translucent images, he gives us fresh access to reality"
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Leymah Gbowee and Tawakkul Karman	Peace	"for their non-violent struggle for the safety of women and for women’s rights to full participation in peace-building work"
Thomas J. Sargent and Christopher A. Sims	Economic Sciences	"for their empirical research on cause and effect in the macroeconomy"

Famous Paintings and Their Painters

This time I'am presenting names of some important paintings and their artists. Though these are very few in number but still they are most important in various compitative exams.

Painting	Artist
Mourning of Christ	Giotto (12667-1337, Italian)
The Arnolfini portrait	Jan van Eyck (13867-1440, Flemish)
Annunciation	Fra Angelico (1387-1455, Italian)
flouf of San Romano	Uccelio (1397-1475, ltalian)
Interior at Pet-worth	J. M. W. Turner (1775-1851, English)
Brighton Beach	John Constable (1776-1837, English)
La Musique aux Tuileries	Edouard Manet (1832-1883, French)
L'absinthe	Edgar Degas (1834-1917, French )
Madonna and Child	Masaccio (1401-1428, Italian)
Baptism	Piero della Francesca (14167-1492, Italian)
Madonna of the Meadow	Giovanni Bellini (1437-1516, Italian)
Primavera Hieronymus	Sandro Botticelli (1444-1510, Italian)
Portrait of a Man	Titian (1477-1576, Italian)
School of Athens	Raphael (1483-1520, Italian)
Ambassadors	Hans Holbein (1477-1543, German)
Origin of the Milky Way	Tintoretto (1518-1594, Italian)
Hunters in the Snow	Pieter Bruegel (1557-1569, Flemish)
Burial of Count Orgaz	El Greco (1547-1614, Spanish)
Chapeau de Paille	Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640, Flemish)
Laughing Cavalier	Frans Hals (1587-1666, Dutch)
Bacchanal	Nicholas Poussin (1594-1665, French)
Charles I of England	Anthony van Dyck (1599-1641, Flemish)
Surrender of Breda	Velasquez (1599-1660, Spanish)
Cephalus and Procris	Claude (1600-1682, French)
Night Watch	Rembrandt (1606-1669, Dutch)
Ship of Fools	Bosch (1457-1516, Flemish)
Mona Lisa	Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519, Italian)
Adoration of the Magi	Albrecht Durer (1471-1528, German)
The Reading Lesson	J. B. S. Chardin (1699-1779, French)
Blue Boy	Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788, English)
Parasol	Francisco Goya (1746-1828, Spanish)
God Creating Adam	William Blake (1757-1827, English)
Little White Girl	James A. M. Whistler (1834-1903, American)
Chapelet	Paul Cezanne (1839-1906, French)
Madame Gaudibert	Claude Monet (1840-1926, French)
Umbrellas	Pierre Renoir (1841-1919, French)
la Orana Maria	Paul Gauguin (1848-1903, French)
Sunflowers	Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890, Dutch)
Baignade	Georges Seurat (1859-1891, French)
At the Moulin Rouge	Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901, French)
Bright Picture 1913	Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944, Russian-born)
La Desserte	Henri Matisse (1869-1954, French)
The Three Judges	Georges Rouault (1871-1958, French)
Composition with Red, Yellow and Blue	Piet Mondrian (1872-1944, Dutch)
Creation of Adam	Michelangelo (1475-1564, Italian)
Artist in his Studio	Jan Vermeer (1632-1675, Dutch
The Shrimp Girl	William Hogarth (1697-1764, English)
Girl's Adventure	Paul Klee (1879-1940, Swiss)
Guernica	Pablo Picasso (Spanish)
Guitare et Pichet	Georges Braque (1882-1963, French)
Polperro, Cornwall	Oskar Kokoschka (Austrian)
The Reclining Poet	Marc Chagall (Belarus)
American Gothic	Grant Wood (1892-1942, American)
Painting 1952	Jackson Pollock (1912-1956, American)

Current Affairs September, 2011

This time I'am presenting some current affairs of September, 2011. Though these are very few in number, still I hope viewers may like these. Please send us various informations on current affairs.

• 71st World Congress of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences held from September 3rd, 2011 in Hyderabad.
• Painter Jhangir Sabavala, passed away on Sep 2nd, 2011.
• Goa was the venue of first ever World Gaming Festival held from Sep 23, 2011.
• Typhoon Talas recently lashed Japanese island of Shikoku and Honshu.
• The rank of India is 56 in The Global Competitiveness Index rankings published by World Economic Forum recently.
• Defence Institute of Bio-energy Research (DIBER) under DRDO has developed Lukoskin, a herbal product for Leucoderma.
• NASA on Sep 10, 2011 launched a pair of washing-machine-sized satellites on a mission to map the Moon's inner core for the first time. The spacecrafts are named GRAIL-A and GRAIL-B
• BC Khanduri is the new Chief Minister of Uttarakhand replacing Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank.
• The Australian tennis player Samantha Stosur has won the US Open 2011 Women's singles title.
• The Serbian tennis player Novak Djokovic has won the US Open 2011 Men's singles title.
• According to America's Census Bureau's annual report for 2010 released recently the overall percentage of poverty in the USA is 15.1% or 46.2 million.
• 51st National Open Athletics Championship was held in Sep 2011, in the Kolkata venue.
• Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Ltd has been awarded the Indira Gandhi Rajbhasha Shield for effective implementation of Official language Hindi.
• The first aircraft developed by Mahindra Aerospace (which made its maiden flight in Sep 11) in partnership with CSIR-Nal and GippsAero is named C-NM5.
• the renowned photographer Gautam Rajadhyaksha who passed away on 13 Sep 2011.
• Scrub Typhus which has taken the lives of at least 12 people in Himachal Pradesh is caused by the bite of an infected mite.
• Assam has resorted to culling of birds to prevent spread of avian flu reported in some of its districts.
• The largest ever joint naval exercise between India and Sri Lanka being conducted off the coast of Trincomalee is code-named SLINEX II.
• Helle Thorning-Schimdt is the new and the first woman Prime Minister of Denmark
• Goa has become the first state in the country to have launched Swarnajayanti Aarogya Bima Yojana providing health insurance cover for the entire resident population of the state.
• Typhoon Roke struck Japan on 21 Sep 11, killing people and disrupting public transportation in northeastern Japan including the tsunami-crippled Fukushima .
• Shoaib Akhtar is the author of the controversial book "Controversially Yours"
• The 2004 Nobel Peace Prize winner, Wangari Maathai of Kenya died on 25 Sep, 2011. She was the first African woman to receive Noble prize.
• Saudi Arabia has granted its women citizens the right to vote and contest in elections for the first time.
• Formalin (originally used to preserve dead bodies in mortuaries), has been found to be used to preserve fish during transportation by unscrupulous businessmen in Punjab.
• Typhoon Nesat lashed Luzon, the main island of Phillipines on Sep 28, 2011. The typhoon later moved on to China and Vietnam.
• The experimental module, the first of series in China's programme to finally launch a space station, launched by China from the Jiuquan launch centre on 29 Sep 2011 is named Tiangong - I.
• 4th SAARC Folklore and Heritage Festival was held from September 30, 2011 in Agra.
• 19 killed as small plane crashes in Nepal on September 25, 2011.
• 11 people were killed and at least 62 others injured in a powerful blast outside Delhi high court gate number 5 on 7th September, 2011. The bomb was kept in a briefcase.
• Indian public on Friday, Sep 16, 2011 shocked after hearing about the sad news of ex-cricketer Mohammed Azharuddin's son Ayazuddin's death. The 19-year-old, who was critically injured in a road accident five days ago, passed away earlier in the day.
• Formar Indian Cricketer Sir Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi passes away on Thursday, September 22, 2011.
• A horrible earthquake took place on Sunday, 18th September, 2011 in India of 5.8 intensity. Mostly effected states are West Bengal and Assam. Next to them Nepal faces the most damages.