Wednesday 10 September 2014

September 2014

1. Sushma opens new Indian Embassy building in Kabul : (10 sept. 14)

The 40 Million USD building was laid its foundation stone in 2005 by Manmohan singh. now its been inaugurated by Sushma swaraj, the External Affairs minister.

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Saturday 15 February 2014

february 2014

1.)  The Union Government approved the setting up of two plants to manufacture semiconductor chips in India on 14 February 2014. 
                           One of the business consortiums consists of India's Jaiprakash Associates, IBM and Tower Jazz. It plans to set up a plant at a cost of 34399 crore Rupees near the Yamuna Expressway in Uttar Pradesh. - The other, which consists of France-based STMicroelectronics, HSMC Technologies (Hindustan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation) and Malaysia's Silterra, will set up a plant in Prantij in Gujarat at a cost of 29013 crore Rupees

2)  Researchers at Chinese Academy of Sciences developed fire-resistant paper
Researchers with Shanghai institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Science developed a new type of paper that is resistant to fire on 14 February 2014. The research was published in Chemistry - A European Journal.
The paper will not catch fire even at 1000 degrees Celsius temperature. This new paper is formed from calcium phosphate compound. 
The novel kind of inorganic paper is flexible and incombustible, but still feels like ordinary paper. It can be torn, folded, and destroyed by strong acid. 
It can be used for important documents to preserve for long periods of time.

3) China to build the longest underwater tunnel of the World
China announced a plan to build the longest underwater tunnel of the World on 14 February 2014. Water tunnel will be constructed beneath the Bohai Sea. 
The 123-km long underwater tunnel will connect the port cities of Dalian in Liaoning province and Yantai in Shandong province. The project will cost 36 billion dollar to construct the shortcut between two northern port cities in an earthquake-prone region.
The tunnel would surpass the combined length of the world's two longest tunnels, Japan's Seikan Tunnel linking Honshu and Hokkaido and the Channel Tunnel between Britain and France. 

4)  OPCW selected US and Finnish Companies to destroy remaining chemical weapons of Syria
The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) selected two US and Finnish companies to help destroy Syria's chemical arsenal. This is the part of an ambitious plan to destroy all the chemical arsenal of Syria by 30 June 2014.
Finland's company Ekokem and the US subsidiary of French company Veolia Environment were selected.

5)  Italy Prime Minister Enrico Letta resigned
Enrico Letta
Italy Prime Minister Enrico Letta resigned on 14 February 2014. The statement released by the Italian presidential palace stated that the Italy’s President, Giorgio Napolitano accepted the resignation.

About Enrico Letta 
Letta was sworn as the Prime Minister in April 2013 forming the grand coalition government. The Democratic Party has a majority in the lower house of Parliament but relies on smaller parties in the Senate. The last election held in Italy was in 2008 where Berlusconi became the Prime Minister for the third time.  After Berlusconi‘s expel from the parliament for the conviction of tax fraud, the country leaders have been appointed. 

6)  G-4 Director Generals(Foreign Ministers)  for UN Affairs met on 11 February 2014 in New Delhi. 
During the meet, the four G-4 nations namely Brazil, Germany, India and Japan also conducted an Outreach Seminar on UN Security Council Reform on 12 February 2014. 

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Monday 6 January 2014

Father of Nation:

Father of Nation:

1. Afghanistan —Ahmad Shah Durrani
2. Argentina—Don José de San Martín
3. Australia— Sir Henry Parkes
4. Bahamas —Sir Lynden Pindling
5. Bangladesh— Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
6. Bolivia —Simón Bolívar
7. Brazil —Dom Pedro I andJosé Bonifácio de Andrada e Silva
8. Burma— Aung San
9. Cambodia— Norodom Sihanouk
10. Chile— Bernardo O'Higgins
11. Republic of China— Sun Yat-sen
12. Colombia —Simón Bolívar
13. Sweden— Gustav I of Sweden
14. Croatia— Ante Starčević
15. Cuba —Carlos Manuel de Céspedes
16. Dominican Republic— Juan Pablo Duarte
17. Ecuador— Simón Bolívar
18. Ghana— Kwame Nkrumah
19. Guyana— Cheddi Jagan
20. Haiti —Jean-Jacques Dessalines
21. India— Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
22. Indonesia —Sukarno
23. Iran —Cyrus the Great
24. Israel —Theodor Herzl
25. Italy —Victor Emmanuel II
26. Kenya —Jomo Kenyatta
27. Republic of Korea— Kim Gu
28. Kosovo —Ibrahim Rugova
29. Lithuania— Jonas Basanavičius
30. Macedonia— Krste Misirkov
31. Malaysia—Tunku Abdul Rahman
32. Mauritius —Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam
33. Mexico —Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla
34. Mongolia Genghis Khan
35. Namibia— Sam Nujoma
36. Netherlands— William the Silent
37. Norway— Einar Gerhardsen
38. Pakistan— Mohammad Ali Jinnah
39. Panama— Simón Bolívar
40. Peru —Don José de San Martín
41. Portugal —Dom Afonso Henriques
42. Russia —Peter I of Russia
43. Saudi Arabia— Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia
44. Scotland —Donald Dewar
45. Serbia —Dobrica Ćosić
46. Singapore— Lee Kuan Yew
47. Slovenia— Primož Trubar
48. South Africa— Nelson Mandela
49. Spain —Fernando el Católico
50. Sri Lanka— Don Stephen Senanayake
51. Suriname— Johan Ferrier
52. Tanzania —Julius Nyerere
53. Turkey— Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
54. United Arab Emirates— Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan
55. United States— George Washington
56. Uruguay— José Gervasio Artigas
57. Venezuela— Simón Bolívar
58. Vietnam —Ho Chi Minh

Some Largest Producers in India:


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1.The largest producer of paddy in India- West Bengal
2.The lagest producer of wheat in India- Uttar Pradesh
3.The lagest producer of sugarcane in India- Uttar Pradesh
4.The lagest producer of groundnut in India- Gujarat
5.The largest producer of tea in India- Assam
6.The largest producer of coffee in India- Karnataka
7.The largest producer of jute in India- West Bengal
8.The largest producer of tobacco in India- Andhra Pradesh
9.The largest producer of bananas in India- Tamilnadu
10.The largest producer of saffron in India- Jammu & Kashmir
11.The largest producer of onion in India- Maharashtra
12.The largest producer of black pepper in India- Kerala
13.The largest producer of cotton in India- Gujarat*
14.The largest producer of bamboos in India- Assam
(Maharashtra has the largest area under cotton cultivation but Gujarat is the largest producer as per GoI release dt 25 Jul 2011

Two New-Born Giant Planets Observed Around the Star ( Jan, 2013)



Astronomers studying about the newborn star called HD 142527, observed glimpses of the planets which were forming around it, depicting the stage of  planetary evolution which was never seen before. The new-born planets were observed using the largest radio telescope on Earth, Atacama Large Millimetre /submillimeter Array in the Atacama Desert of Chile.  

It was observed that  streams of gases  were flowing through the gap found in the disc of the material that was surrounding the young star supported theories, about how these planets grew. The European Southern Observatory (ESO) described  the vast stream of gases were flowing through the gap in disc. 

Astronomers were studying the HD 142527 which is 450 light years away from the Earth. It was found that this star is surrounded by cosmic dust as well as a disc of gases. The disc is segregated into an inner as well as an outer part with the help of a gap. The gap might have been created by newly formed  giant planets of gas which were clearing out the orbits as they revolved around the star. 

The astronomer leading the study, Simon Casassus explained that these giant planets grew in size by capturing gases from the outer discs, from the streams which act like  bridges across the gap in the disc. Simon Casassus also explained that astronomers were predicting  the existence of these streams but this was the first time that they were observed directly.