Saturday, April 23, 2011

Pantaloons Femina Miss India World 2011


Pantaloons Femina Miss India World 2011, including (Body Beautiful, Miss No Marks, Miss Ramp Model, Miss Water Baby, Veet Femina Miss Beautiful Legs) Kanishtha Dhankhar

Miss India Earth 2011
Hasleen Kaur
Miss India International 2011
Ankita Shorey
People's Choice Miss Indiatimes
including Miss Fresh Face, 
Miss Talented, Miss Beautiful Smile, 
Miss Beautiful Eyes
Rakul Preet Singh
RMKV Femina Miss Photgenic
Dayana Erappa
Kaya Femina Miss Radiant Skin
Purva Rana
Femina Miss Divine Thoughts
Surabhi Rao
HP Femina Miss Digital Diva
Deepika Bajwa
Femina Miss Iron Maiden and
Tissot Femina Miss Perfect Time
Asmita Sood
Femina Miss Beautiful Lips
Ankita Shorey
Novotel Femina Miss Congeniality
Aditi Mishra
Sunsilk Femina Miss Perfect Hair and
Lavasa Femina Miss Vivacious
Aparajita Sharma
Femina Miss Bollywood Diva and
Forever Femina Miss Traditional
Ankita Mohapatra
Pantaloons Beauty for a Cause
Kriti Kapoor

Miss India South 2011
Shweta Dolli
Miss India South 2011 1st Runner Up
Apoorva Mittra
Miss India South 2011 2nd Runner Up
Nidhi Sunil
Miss India East 2011
Ankita Mohapatra
Miss India East 2011 1st Runner Up
Ruhi Singh
Miss India East 2011 2nd Runner Up
Smrity Singh


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Pulitzer Prize 2011


Journalism

Public Service
Los Angeles Times
Investigative Reporting
Paige St.John of the Sarasota Herald-Tribune
Explanatory Reporting
Mark Johnson, Kathleen, Gallagher, 
Gary Porter, Lou Saldivar and 
Alison Sherwood of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Local Reporting
Frank Main, Mark Konkol and 
John J. Kim of the Chicago Sun-Times
National Reporting
Jesse Eisinger and 
Jake Bernstein of ProPublica
International Reporting
Clifford J. Levy and 
Ellen Barry of The New York Times
Feature Writing
Amy Ellis Nutt of The Star-Ledger, Newark, N.J.
Commentary
David Leonhardt of The New York Times
Criticism
Sebastian Smee of The Boston Globe
Editorial Writing
Joseph Rago of The Wall Street Journal
Editorial Cartooning
Mike Keefe of The Denver Post
Breaking News Photography
Carol Guzy, Nikki Kahn and 
Ricky Carioti of The Washington Post
Feature Photography
Barbara Davidson of the Los Angeles Times


Letters, Drama and Music


Fiction
"A Visit from the Goon Squad" 
by Jennifer Egan (Alfred A. Knopf)
Drama
"Clybourne Park" by Bruce Norris
History
"The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln 
and American Slavery" 
by Eric Foner (W. W. Norton & Company)
Biography
"Washington: A Life" 
by Ron Chernow (The Penguin Press)
Poetry
"The Best of It: New and Selected Poems" 
by Kay Ryan (Grove Press)
General Nonfiction
"The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer" 
by Siddhartha Mukherjee (Scribner)
Music
"Madame White Snake'" by Zhou Long, premiered on February 26, 2010 
by Opera Boston at the Cutler Majestic Theatre

Accounting Terms/Quiz


1. Crossing of cheque means?
Drawing two parallel lines across the cheque so that it can only be credited to bank account


2. What is Cash Credit?
Credit transaction in which cash is to be paid later


3. If you invest in mutual fund you get the benefit of?
Diversification, Liquidity and Professional Fund Management


4. The acronym 'AUM' stands for?
Assets Under Management


5. Who bears the burden of Service Tax?
Service Seeker


6. Accumulated losses of joint stock company are its?
Liabilities


7. P-E Ratio stands for?
Price-earnings ratio


8. ABC Ltd. has a current account with a nationalised bank. To withdraw cash it has to submit to the bank?
Cheque

Good Friday Quiz


What is Lent?


The name Lent comes from the Middle English "Lenten," which means, "spring." It signifies a season of fasting and preparation for baptism on Easter Sunday.




What is Palm Sunday?


Palm Sunday is the sixth and final Sunday of Lent. In many churches, it is the beginning of the Holy Week, a week of observances leading up to Easter Sunday.




What is Ash Wednesday?


Ash Wednesday is a day of fasting that gets its name from the practice of sprinkling ashes over those engaging in the fast of Lent.




What is Maundy Thursday?


Maundy Thursday have come from the Latin word "mandatum," meaning "commandment," as in the Biblical words of Jesus.




What is Good Friday?


The Friday before Easter is the most solemn day for Christians - it is the day on which Jesus Christ died on the cross.




Why it is called as good Friday?


Christians believe the day is "good" because the message of Easter is of Christ's victory over sin, death, and the devil




What are the Great Fifty Days?


Contrary to what many people think, Easter is not a single day. It is actually a season that begins on Easter Sunday and continues for seven full weeks. This 7-week cycle is known historically as the Great Fifty Days or the Week of Weeks.

Time's Most influential people in the world, Time 100


Wael Ghonim
Lamido Sanusi
Katsunobu Sakurai
Takeshi Kanno
Joseph Stiglitz
Colin Firth
Michelle Obama
Nicolas Sarkozy
Reed Hastings
Amy Chua
Paul Ryan
Michele Bachmann
Amy Poehler
Joe Biden
Ai Weiwei
Saad Mohseni
Geoffrey Canada
Jennifer Egan
Rob Bell
Chris Christie
Mark Zuckerberg
Kim Clijsters
Fathi Terbil
Matthew Weiner
Peter Vesterbacka
Ahmed Shuja Pasha
Dilma Rousseff
Lisa Jackson
Angela Merkel
Aung San Suu Kyi
Tom Ford
Jean-Claude Trichet
Julian Assange
Cory Booker
Liang Guanglie
Justin Bieber
Ron Bruder
Gabrielle Giffords
Sue Savage-Rumbaugh
Prince William and Kate Middleton

Joe ScarboroughSergio Marchionne
Mukesh Ambani
Marine Le Pen
Blake Lively
Mahendra Singh Dhoni
Chris Colfer
Grant Achatz
Hillary Clinton
Felisa Wolfe-Simon
Major General Margaret Woodward
Feisal Abdul Rauf
Muqtada al-Sadr
Esther Duflo
Bruno Mars
El Général
Anwar al-Awlaki
Rain
David and Charles Koch
Jamie Dimon
Kim Jong Un
Larry Page
Hung Huang
Heidi Murkoff
Saif al-Islam Gaddafi
Mia Wasikowska
General David Petraeus
Sting
Hassan Nasrallah
David Cameron
Matt Damon and Gary White
Jonathan Franzen
Nathan Wolfe
John Lasseter
Cecile Richards
V.S. Ramachandran
Oprah Winfrey
Maria Bashir
George R.R. Martin
Michelle Rhee


Mark Wahlberg
Ray Chambers
Rebecca Eaton
Scott Rudin
Xi Jinping
John Boehner
Kathy Giusti
Derrick Rossi
Arianna Huffington
Hu Shuli
Barack Obama
Benjamin Netanyahu
Lionel Messi
Ayman Mohyeldin
Azim Premji
Charles Chao
Aruna Roy
Bineta Diop
Dharma Master Cheng Yen
Patti Smith

Video: Melkus RS 2000 GT & GTS





German marquee Melkus bring this year's Top Marques show in Monaco, the RS2000 GT and GTS models, which are of two types, a lightweight sports coupe, and both of them are fixed with a turbocharged 2.0-liter engine that was completed by a "well-known German manufacturer".

The entry-level GT model delivers 296 hp (300 PS / 221 kW), sufficient for a 0-60 mph race in 4.5 seconds. The greater version, the GTS, cranks out 345 hp (350 PS / 257 kW) and has a top speed of 186 mph (300 km/h), while 0-60 mph is done in only 3.9 seconds.

Both models has characteristic adjustable dampers for the suspension along with AP performance brakes. Thanks to using a lot of carbon fiber components, they've managed to get a curb weight of only 2205 lb (1000 kg). This lightweight material was used for the front spoiler, rear diffuser, rear wing and the side air guides.

Wednesday, April 13, 2011

6 Indian-Americans in Forbes Midas 100


RANK
NAME
15
Aneel Bhusri
26
Rob Chandra
49
Sunil Dhaliwal
51 
Neeraj Agarwal
71
Vinod Khosla
81
Sameer Gandhi

Current Affairs April 2011


Automobile

Ford Motor India launches cheaper sedan version, 'Fiesta Classic'

Volskwagen to launch Jetta variant in India sometime in mid-2011


Business

VMware takes over Mozy which has been serving as the could-based storage and back up service of EMC for the last 4 years

MindTree co-founder Ashok Soota to set up a new business venture - Happiest Minds Technologies Limited to provide IT services to global firms

HCL bags broadband connectivity project for Indian Railways

IBM to provide finance and administration shared services to PepsiCo India

FedEx acquires Boeing 777F aircraft to provide better international connectivity to Indian cargo business

Canara Bank launches Debit Card-Platinum and Canara Campus Card

BSE signed an MoU with Osaka Securities Exchange to develop opportunities including cross-licencing of indices


Education

Symbiosis International University plans to start a school of liberal arts at its model colony campus from June 2011

'Pengala', a learning software for students to create interactive multimedia courses


Event

Dr.Gangubai Hanagal Music Foundation and Hubli Art circle to jointly organize a 2-day Indian classical music, dance and folk festival to mark 98th birth anniversary of Hindustani stalwart Gangubai Hanagal

4-day Auto Expo 2011 to be held in Surat, Gujarat

2-day North Zone conference of International College of Surgeons to be held at KN Udupa auditorium, Banaras Hindu University


People

Ex-IAS officer Sanjay Gupta has been appointed as Metro Express between Gandhinagar and Ahmedabad (MEGA) chief

Chris Capossela has been appointed as Chief Marketing Officer at Microsoft

Partip Chaudhuri has been appointed as SBI's chief

Atifete Jahjaga, Kosovo's highest ranking policewoman becomes country's President

Shiv Nadar, founder of HCL has been appointed as the chairman of the board of governors of the IIT Kharagpur


Science

Scientists have created the world's 1st artificial leaf that can turn sunlight and water into energy which could pave the way for a cheaper source of power in developing countries


Technology

Mozilla releases Firefox 4 for Android

Yahoo to launch new search engine in India by 2011 H2

Dr.Abdul Kalam launches launches language translation software developed by 17 institutions including the International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) at the 20th International World Wide Web conference

IT firm LinguaNext launched solutions Indify SAP and Indify Oracle to translate SAP ERP and Oracle E-Business Suite into 22 official Indian languages.

HTC launches demo of HTC Flyer tablet

Best Android Phones


Phone ModelSpecs
HTC Thunder Bolt4.3" screen,Android Os 2.2,8MP Camera,
1Ghz Qualcomm CPU
HTC Insprie4G4.3" screen,Android Os 2.2,8MP Camera,1Ghz Qualcomm CPU
Motorola Droid X4.3" screen,Android Os 2.1,8MP Camera,1Ghz Cortex-A8 CPU
Samsung Galaxy S 4G4.0" screen,Android Os 2.2(Froyo),5MP Camera,
1Ghz Cortex-A8 CPU
Motorola Atrix 4G4.0" screen,Android Os 2.2(Froyo),5MP Camera,Dual Core 1Ghz Cortex-A9 CPU
Google Nexus One3.7" screen,Android Os 2.1(Eclair),5MP Camera,
1Ghz Scorpion Processor
Sony Erricson Xperia pro3.7" screen,Android Os 2.3,8.1MP Camera,1Ghz Qualcomm CPU
LG Optimus 3D4.3" screen,Android Os 2.2(Froyo),5MP Camera,
Dual Core 1Ghz Cortex-A9 CPU

Thursday, April 7, 2011

General Knowledge : Latest Quiz Questions


What does PIN stands for?

Postal Index Number

Which spice is called the king of spices?

Pepper

What is the name given to a dealer in textile fabrics?

Mercer
 

Who is called as the Father of Modern Geography?

Carl Ritter

Who was the first Mongol Emperor of China?

Kublai Khan

Which is the biggest Factory in the world?

Boeing everett in Washington

Which is the fastest growing plant in the world?

Bamboo 100cm (39 inch) per day

which country was previously called as East Bengal?

Bangladesh

Single Entry System - accounts quiz


Single Entry System

In Single entry system of book-keeping only one aspect of the transaction is recorded. In simple words it is called as incomplete record of Book-keeping.

In single entry system Real accounts and Nominal accounts are not maintained.


Advantages Single Entry System

Single entry system is simple method of recording the business transactions.

Single entry system is less expensive when compared to double entry system of book keeping.

It does not require a specialized knowledge to maintain the books of accounts under single entry system.


Disadvantages of Single Entry System

Incomplete record : Single entry system of book keeping is an incomplete record as only one aspect of the transaction is recorded.

Lacks Accuracy : In this method as Trial Balance is not prepared it is difficult to know the arithmetical accuracy.

Balance Sheet : As Trial balance is not prepared it is not possible to prepare the balance sheet.

Comparative study : Due to incomplete information the comparative study of two years accounts cannot be undertaken.

True financial position : Because of the incomplete information true financial position of the business cannot be ascertained.

Managerial Decisions : Due to the lack of preparation of key accounts managerial decisions cannot be taken.

Monday, April 4, 2011

ICC WORLD CUP 2011 - Facts and Figures-Statistics


Highest Team Total
India vs Bangladesh - 370/4, 
played at Mirpur, Dhaka
Most runs
Tillakaratne Dilshan - 500 at strike rate of 90.74 
with 61 fours and 4 six's
Highest Scores
Virender Sehwag - 175 off 140 balls 
with 14 fours and 5 six
Highest Partnership
1st Wicket - 282, Srilanka - Upul Tharanga and Tillakaratne Dilshan vs Zimbabwe
Most Wickets
Shahid Afridi - 21 wickets with 3.62 Economy rate, 
Best Bowling - 5/16
Best Bowling Figures
Kemar Roach - 6/27 in 8.3 Overs vs Netherlands
Hat-tricks
Kemar Roach vs Netherlands and 
Lasith Malinga vs Kenya
Most Dismissals
Brad Haddin - 13 caught behind
Most Catches
Mahela Jayawardene - 8 catches
Player of the Match awards
Yuvraj Singh - 8 matches - 4 awards

ICC World Cup 2011 FINALS Facts - ICC World Cup 2011 videos


World Cup 2011 was the 1st all-Asian final World Cup and 6th consecutive final (since 1992) to feature at least one Asian team


India joined Australia and West Indies as the only teams to have won the World Cup more than once


India's successful run chase of Sri Lanka's 274 runs is the highest run-chase ever achieved in a World Cup final


This was the 2nd time in World Cup history that host nation has won the World Cup final. Sri Lanka were co-hosts with India and Pakistan in 1996 and were the first nation to win the World Cup in the same year


It was Sri Lanka's 2nd successive final having appeared in 2007


It is the 3rd time the team batting 2nd has won the World Cup final after Sri Lanka in 1996 and Australia in the 1999 World Cup


World Cup Final 2011 was also the 3rd World Cup Final appearance for both India and Sri Lanka


Sri Lanka's Mahela Jayawardene became the 6th player to score a century in a World Cup Final, and the 1st to score a century from a losing World Cup side


Muttiah Muralitharan's last international match, who bowled 0/39 in 8 Overs. His 1st and last ODI matches were against India



INDIA are 2011 WORLD CRICKET CHAMPIONS:
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Ugadi Quiz


Ugadi is the beginning of New Telugu Year


Ugadi is celebrated during the month of Chaitra


Ugadi marks the beginning of Spring


It falls on a different day every year because the Indian calendar is a Lunisolar calendar


Special dish prepared to celebrate Ugadi festival is Ugadi Pachadi


Ugadi Pachadi is made of Neem flower, sugar, tamarind, chilli powder


In Andra Pradesh, a special dish called Bhakshyalu or Bobbatlu (Puran Poli) are prepared on this occasion


In Punjab what is the Ugadi festival is called Bisakhi