- Cricket betting and a few new words to learn from
- Who is a southpaw?
- A left-hander: a person who uses the left hand with greater skill than the right. In cricket we see batsmen and bowlers who are left-handers.
- It is reported by papers that betting is at an all time high in cricket and that the Indian betting stakes on this current World Cup would be to the tune of Rs. 10,000 crores to 15,000 crores.
- In betting, what do we understand when we are told that the odds of the Indian team winning are 1:8? It means that for every Rs. 100 that is bet, if the Indian team wins, the betting person would get back Rs. 180. So if the odds on
- Which is the biggest MNC in
- Nokia has emerged as that beating Hindustan Unilever with a turnover of Rs. 15,298 crores for the year ended December 2006.
- A little about road accidents
- There are 4 lakh road accidents occurring in
- Close to 1 lakh people died on our roads in 2005. That’s about 10 persons an hour in
- Planning Commission estimates that the social cost of road accidents in the country is about Rs. 55,000 crores (in 1999-2000) which is about 2% of the country’s GDP for that year.
- Where is the Bharatpur bird sanctuary located?
- In eastern Rajasthan. Nearer to
- Full name of the sanctuary is
- It is declared as a World Heritage site by UNESCO. It was a duck-hunting reserve of the Maharajas and is one of the major wintering areas for large numbers of aquatic birds from
- Also known as "
- Is Bharatpur the only world heritage site in
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* Buddhist Monuments at Sanchi, Madhya Pradesh
* Champaner-Pavagadh Archaeological Park,
* Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus,
* Churches and Convents of
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* Fatehpur Sikri, Uttar Pradesh
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* Group of Monuments at Hampi, Karnataka
* Group of Monuments at Mahabalipuram, Tamil Nadu
* Group of Monuments at Pattadakal, Karnataka
* Humayun's Tomb,
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* Khajuraho Group of Monuments, Madhya Pradesh
* Mahabodhi Temple Complex,
* Manas Wildlife
* Mountain Railways of
* Nanda Devi and
* Qutub Minar and its monuments,
* Rock Shelters of Bhimbetka, Madhya Pradesh
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* Taj Mahal, Uttar Pradesh
- Sunil Mahto, the JMM MP’s murder
- He was the MP from
- Sorry if I appear cruel as just recording one more fact for us to remember. I am perplexed as to what the Naxals will gain by such killings. I don’t see any difference between such behaviour and the barbaric depradations that were picturised in the 1982 movie “Conan the Barbarian.”
- RSS veto on Sethusamudram shipping canal project
- The project envisages linking
- RSS says that the bridge was older than the pyramids of
- Biotech crops reduce CO2 emissions
- A study “GM Crops: The First 10 Years – Global Socio-economic and Environmental Impacts” was commissioned by Monsanto, world’s leading provider of biotech crops.
- It found that since their commercialization in 1996, biotech crops have saved farmers 1,679 mn litres of fuel through reduced field operations – eliminating 4,613 mn kgs of carbon dioxide emissions.
- Brain gymnasium
- This is the place where a prospective trainee is put through Neuro-Semantics and Neuro-Linguistic Programming to analyse her state of mind and, based on the findings, an mental exercise regimen is prescribed and conducted.
- Many IT professionals are thronging such places to sharpen their intellect and beat stress.
- CONFONET
- It is a project being executed by National Informatics Centre on a turnkey basis. Stands for “Cmputerisation & Computer Networking of Consumer Fora.” The expanded name says it all; know?
- RLDA
- It was set up to undertake all tasks relating to commercial development of railway vacant land. The Authority came into existence from November 1, 2006. I twill identify new sites for development. Railways have 4.23 lakh hectares of land, of which 43,000 hectares are lying vacant.
- The government is shortly going to come up with a bill titled “Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizens Bill” making the negligence and abandonment of parents and senior citizens by their successors an offence.
- Women power in Golf
- Some prominent women golf players include
- Irina Brar
- Simi Mehra Guffin
- Parnita Garewal
- Shalini Malik
- Womens’ Golf is getting a boost with the Women’s Golf Association of India launching the “The DLF Women’s Indian Open” which carries a prize purse of US $100,000.
- What is daylight savings time?
- Daylight saving time (DST), also known as summer time in British English, is the convention of advancing clocks so that evenings have more daylight and mornings have less. Typically clocks are adjusted forward one hour in late winter or early spring and are adjusted backward in autumn. Details vary by location and change occasionally.
- Governments often promote DST as an energy conservation measure because it substitutes summer afternoon sunlight for electrical lighting. However, in some cases DST can increase energy costs.
- Saving daylight was first mentioned in 1784 by Benjamin Franklin in a humorous letter urging Parisians to save money by getting up earlier to use morning sunlight, thereby burning fewer candles in the evening.
- DST was first proposed in 1907 by William Willett. DST was first enacted by
- Climate change pushing diseases north
- Bluetongue, transmitted by midges, is a viral infection of cattle. First discovered in
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