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Thursday, 8 May 2014

India in Olympic Games



1. In which year was the Indian Olympic Association formed?
Answer: 1927
2. India participated for the first time in ......... Olympics?
Answer: 1900, Paris
3. Who represented India at the 1900 Paris Olympics?
Answer: Norman Pritchard
4. How many gold medals Indian Hockey Team has won in the Olympic Game so far?
Answer: Eight
5. The total number of medals won by the Hockey team for India at the Olympic Games is .........?
Answer: 11 (Gold-8, Silver-1, Bronze-2)
6. In which year Indian Hockey team won the first gold medal in the Olympics?
Answer: 1928, Amsterdam
7. Indian Hockey team won the Olympics gold for the last time in .........?
Answer: 1980, Moscow
8. In which Olympics Indian Hockey Team won the Silver medal?
Answer: 1960, Rome
9. Who was independent India’s first individual Olympic medalist?
Answer: K D Jadhav
10. K D Jadhav won the freestyle wrestling bronze medal at the ......... Olympic Games?
Answer: 1952, Helsinki

Largest Countries Areawise


1 Russia — 17,075,400 km square
2 Canada — 9,984,670 km square
3 United States of America — 9,826,675 km square
4 China — 9,598,094 km square
5 Brazil — 8,514,877 km square
6 Australia — 7,617,930 km square
7 India — 3,287,263 km square
8 Argentina — 2,766,890 km square
9 Kazakhstan— 2,724,900 km square
10 Sudan — 2,505,813 km square

Archives for Awards-Prizes-Honours Current Affairs 2014


• Guljar has won 45th Dadasaheb phalke award.
• Donna Vekic (Croatia) won the BMW Malaysian Tennis Open 2014
• Mathangi Sathyamurthy honored with M S Subbulakshmi Award 2014
• Stanislas Wawrinka won Monte Carlo Masters 2014 Tennis title
• Cherrapunji set World record for highest rainfall in 48 hours with 2493 millimeters
• List of Winner of 61st National Film Awards 2014 India and most important comes up that the best film awards gone to “Ship of Theseus” which is directed by Anand Gandhi.
• Indian Judokas won 12 medals at the 7th South Asia Judo Championship
• Vijay Seshadri (India-born US poet) won Pulitzer Prize 2014
• Gaurav Gill (Delhi based MRF driver) won Vinz Whangarei Car Rally
• Legendary Poet and lyricist Gulzar selected for the Dadasaheb Phalke Award 2013
• British-American physicist Stuart Parkin won Millennium Technology Prize 2014
• Ratan Tata become a member of China-backed Board of Boao Forum for Asia
• Queen Elizabeth II Awarded Ratan Tata With Knight Commander (KBE) 2014
• Ernesto Gainza made a new Guinness world record of skydiving by using smallest parachute
• Andrea Petkovic won WTA title at the Family Circle Cup 2014 in USA
• Heena Sindhu Spot World no.1 Position in 10 Meter Air Pistol Event
• Lee Chong Wei & Shixian Wang won India Super Series Badminton Men’s & Women’s titles
• Iwao Hakamada honored with Boxing Belt by WBC (World Boxing Council )
• Punjab Hockey Team won Junior National Hockey Title 2014
• Koyal Rana won the Femina Miss India 2014 of 51st Edition

LIST OF NEW APPOINTMENTS Part -1


1. Sushil Koirala become new PM of Nepal. He replace Khil Raj Regmi.
2. Satya Nadella appointed as CEO of Microsoft.
3. R.K.Tiwari appointed new Chairman of CBDT.
4. N Ramachandran was elected President of Indian Olympic Association (IOA).
5. Justice Ashok Kumar Mathur appointed head of 7th Central Pay Commission
6. Harish Rawat appointed 8th Chief Minister of Uttrakhand. He succeeded Vijay Bahuguna.
7. Manoj Vaish took charge as MD & CEO of MCX.
8. Aruna Bahuguna first woman to be appointed chief of National Police Academy.
9. Janet Yellen new Chairperson of Federal Reserve.
10. R. Chandrashekhar appointed the President of NASSCOM (National Association of Software and Service Companies)
11. J.N.Chaudhary was appointed as new head of NSG (National Security Guard)
12. Arvind Ranjan was appointed the full time chief of the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF).
13. Ashok Lavasa, appointed the New Civil Aviation Secretary. He succeeded K.N.Srivastava.
14. M. Veerappa Moily appointed as the new Environment and Forests Minister.
15. Siddarth Birla took charges as President of FICCI.
16. Subrahmanyam Jaishankar became the ambassador of US
17. B. G. Srinivas and U.B. Pravin Rao appointed as presidents of the Infosys.
18. Sushma Singh to take over as new Chief Information Commissioner
She succeed Deepak Sandhu.
19. Harsh Kumar Bhanwala appointed Chairman of National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD).
20. Usha Sangwan appointed first woman managing director of LIC.

IMPORTANT IT ACRONYM Part-2


B2B—Business-to-Business
B2C—Business-to-Consumer
BAL—Basic Assembly Language
BAM—Block Availability Map
Bash—Bourne-again shell
BASIC—Beginner's All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code
BBP—Baseband Processor
BBS—Bulletin Board System
BCD—Binary Coded Decimal
BCNF—Boyce–Codd normal form
BEEP—Blocks Extensible Exchange Protocol
BER—Bit Error Rate
BFD—Bidirectional Forwarding Detection
BFD—Binary File Descriptor
BFS—Breadth-First Search
BFT—Byzantine Fault Tolerant
BGP—Border Gateway Protocol
BiDi—Bi-Directional
bin—binary
BINAC—Binary Automatic Computer
BIND—Berkeley Internet Name Domain
BIOS—Basic Input Output System
BJT—Bipolar Junction Transistor
bit—binary digit
Blob—Binary large object
Blog—Web Log
BMP—Basic Multilingual Plane
BNC—Bayonet Neill-Concelman
BOINC—Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing
BOM—Byte Order Mark(datafacebook/cnaonweb)
BOOTP—Bootstrap Protocol
BPDU—Bridge Protocol Data Unit
BPEL—Business Process Execution Language
BPL—Broadband over Power Lines
bps—bits per second
BRR—Business Readiness Rating
BSA—Business Software Alliance
BSB—Backside Bus(datafacebook/cnaonweb)
BSD—Berkeley Software Distribution
BSoD—Blue Screen of Death
BSS—Block Started by Symbol
BT—BitTorrent
BT—Bluetooth
BTAM—Basic Telecommunications Access Method
BW—Bandwidth
BYOD—Bring Your Own Device

Important Phobias –B


Bacillophobia- Fear of microbes.
Bacteriophobia- Fear of bacteria.
Ballistophobia- Fear of missiles or bullets.
Bolshephobia- Fear of Bolsheviks.
Barophobia- Fear of gravity.
Basophobia or Basiphobia- Inability to stand. Fear of walking or falling.
Bathmophobia- Fear of stairs or steep slopes.
Bathophobia- Fear of depth.
Batophobia- Fear of heights or being close to high buildings.
Batrachophobia- Fear of amphibians, such as frogs, newts, salamanders, etc.(datafacebook/cnaonweb)
Belonephobia- Fear of pins and needles. (Aichmophobia)
Bibliophobia- Fear of books.
Blennophobia- Fear of slime.
Bogyphobia- Fear of bogeys or the bogeyman.
Botanophobia- Fear of plants.
Bromidrosiphobia or Bromidrophobia- Fear of body smells.
Brontophobia- Fear of thunder and lightning.
Bufonophobia- Fear of toads.