- Online gaming and ‘knighthood’
- We usually associate ‘knighthood’ with British honours; right? The online gaming world has come out with its own knights! In MMOG (Massively Multiplayer Online Game) environment, a gamer chooses an ‘avatar’ or ‘character’. Depending on the game, it could be a magician, archer, healer, swordsman, dwarf or gunman. Once in virtual arena, the player walks through the worlds killing other players or, more commonly, monsters.
- ‘Knighthood’ is conferred on some excellent players by the other gamers (usually their rivals in the game). Reportedly there are some good gamers in the online arena that make about Rs. 30,000 per month playing e-games and selling virtual stuff for which other gamers are willing to pay real cash.
- LIC’s prestigious dematerializing project
- LIC intends to dematerialize the records of its 19 crore (190 mn) customers in the next 8 years.
- ‘City of
- Remember this famous book by French author Dominique Lapierre? This controversial book about life in Kolkata is to be translated into Sanskrit by Ramesh Bhattacharya.
- Let’s learn a bit about TTD: Tirumala Tirupathi Devasthanam
- It is a very rich board managing the Tirumala and some other temples in and around Tirupathi.
- 15% of its receipts (donations) go towards revenue expenditure.
- Interest income on investments made by it is about Rs. 172 crores in 2006-07.
- Tirumala receives about 40,000 visitors per day.
- Provides free meals to about 30,000 persons every day.
- 2 lakh laddus are sold as prasadam per day.
- Free tonsuring for 15,000 people per day.
- Receives about 75 to 80 kgs of gold ornaments and about 100-120 kgs of silver ornaments per month.
- Cases filed in Supreme Court
- About 55,000 cases are being filed annually in our Supreme Court, as stated by our CJI.
- Kuwaiti Prime Minister
- Sheikh Nasser Mohammed al Sabah
- Amount locked up in disputed tax arrears
- Rs. 100,461 crores is the amount locked up in about 27,250 cases pending before various courts across the country.
- APEDA
- Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority
- Chairman is KS Money
- IFCI seeing better days again
- Industrial Finance Corporation of
- For the first time in 5 years, it has registered profits of Rs. 115.89 crores. This came on the back of a rehab package of Rs. 5,525 crores that announced in 2002.
- Cost of road laying across the country
- The average cost of laying a km of road in the country (national highways) is about Rs. 3 crore per km.
- But there are some pockets like
- How does manage the forex reserves?
- Usually it parks a bulk of the reserves as deposits with other central banks and foreign banks and invests in securities in top-rated sovereign paper or triple A rated corporate paper. Yield is not the main consideration here. Security i.e., capital protection is.
- Of the $173 bn reserves as of end January, RBI parked 75% in deposits and 25% as securities.
- ICTT
- International Container Trans-shipment Terminal
- Is coming up at Vallarpadam near Cochi.
- Irom Sharmila
- Is the social activist who has been on fast for more than 6 years seeking withdrawal of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act in the north-east.
- Kanishka bombing probe to resume
- John C. Major, a former Supreme Court judge of
- The 1985 bombing of the Air India plane killed over 300 people.
- Sports
- Tennis:
- In the women’s final, French woman Emilie Loit defeated Italian Flavia Penetta.
- When we read something like “The Lankans were eliminated in the initial round-robin stage of the Champions Trophy”, what does the round-robin stage stand for?
- The stage in which every team plays every other participating team.
05.03.2007
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