DAILY DOSE

• The 1st world Punjabi Conference was held in Chandigarh in Mrach 2008
• The first weekday after Christmas is known as Boxing Day
• Venezuela means little Venice
• Benazir Bhutto's posthumous memoir"Reconciliation:Islam, Democracy and the west"
• 7th IIM is now functional at Shillong and it is named after Rajiv Gandhi
• Monopsony is the situation when there is just one buyer in the market
• Smallest nation in the world after Vatican City is Monaco
• Arthur C Clark was a citizen of SriLanka
• World's first Youth Olympics will be hosted in Singapore in 2010
• USA gave the women the Right to Vote in 1920
• BHP Billiton is the world's biggest mining company
• Martin Luther King made his famous "Mountaintop" speech on the day before being assassinated
• World's biggest sea bridge on Yangtze River,China
• Recently Virgin Airlines started flights run on biofuel
• Recently Rabbit fever hit Thailand
• Europe's largest IT Farm- Capgemini
• Asteroids are located between Mars and Jupiter
• UK will soon introduce migration tax
• Apart from Tibet Lamaism is practiced in Mongolia as well
• Theodore Roosevelt was the first American to win Nobel Peace Prize
• Urban VII, the Pope held office for just 12 days
• Cheryl Bart and Nykki became the first Mother daughter in the world to climb Mt.Everest
• Martin Cooper invented Mobile phone