2 October, 2009

1)Who is the the chairman of planning commission of India?
ans: Dr. Manmohan Singh

2)This person became the youngest one to sail around the world alone recently?
ans: Zac Sunderland

3)Where would you find Wills tower(formerly known as 'sears tower') in the world?
ans: Chicago

4)Who was the president of India during the emergency from June 1975 to March 1977?
ans: Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed

5)Shelbyville is a fictional city in the famous television series of?
ans: The Simpson

6)SEBI was created in which year?
ans: 1988

7)The version of Google Earth by ISRO launched recently?
ans: Bhuvan



MAHATMA GANDHI, our father of the nation...here some facts about him which many of us might not be knowing

1)Mahatma Gandhi spoke English with an Irish accent

2)As a child he was afraid of darkness.

3)He was married at the age of 13 to Kasturba Gandhi.

4)Mahatma Gandhi had a law office in South Africa.

5) His income during those days in South Africa touched fifteen thousand dollars a year! Something still a dream for most Indians !

6)Mahatma Gandhi experimented with diets to see how cheaply he could live and remain healthy. He started living principally on fruit and goats’ milk and olive oil.

7)the last words on his lips were 'Hey Ram'.

8)Mahatma Gandhi inspired many noble prize winners but he himself never got one.

9)Gandhi's policy of Satyagraha, based largely on Hinduism, was influenced by many diverse sources, including Christ, Leo Tolstoy, and Henry David Thoreau.

10)He was educated at London University and became an attorney. But the first time he attempted to make a speech in court, his knees trembled, and he was so frightened that he had to sit down in confusion and defeat.