Monday, May 4, 2009

DAILY DOSE -GK & CA













  • Ingrid Newkirk is the co-founder of PETA
  • Patrick Seasau-MD of Unilever
  • Only 2 cricketers with hatrick in both Test and ODIs-Mohd Sami and Wasim Akram
  • Brian Lara scored 501 against Durham while playing for Warwickshire
  • SAIL Chairperson -KS Roongta
  • New name of Cherapunji is Sohra
  • Generic name of viagra is Sildenafil
  • Present SEBI Chairman-SB Bhave
  • JM Coetzee only person to win Booker twice
  • 2008 SCO Summit- Dushanbe
  • Raman Ray is known as Father of Outsourcing in India
  • AK Goswami Committee-Interlinking of Rivers
  • President Of EU- Jean Claude Junket
  • Swaraj-IT solution for Panchayat Raj by Microsoft
  • GLOVE 1 -EU's first navigational satellite
  • SMART 1 -European Space Agency's Lunar Mission
  • CASSINI-NASA's mission to Saturn
  • Norman Vaugh n discovered Antarctica.It is the continent with highest mean elevation
  • The Enola Gay is the B-29 Superfortress bomber that dropped the first atomic bomb, code-named " Little Boy", to be used in war, by the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) in the attack on Hiroshima, Japan on 6 August 1945
  • Largest asteroid-CERES
  • Bangkok has hosted Asian Games highest number of times
  • CEO of Infosys-S Gopalakrishnan
  • India's tank manufacturing center at Avadi
  • Dept Of Official Languages comes under the Ministry of Home Affairs
  • Azim Ceku is the PM of Kosovo
  • Bai Korroma is the president of Sierra Leone
  • John Key is the new PM of New Zealand
  • M Annadurai is the project Chief of Chandrayaan
  • TD Dogra is the new head of AIIMS
  • Ashok Lahiri committee on FII
  • World'd oldest existing newspaper -Post Och Inrikes(Sweden)
  • Reang is a tribe of Mizoram
  • Haumea is the 5th dwarf planet

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