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Friday, February 22, 2008

Important Days

April 17 World Haemophilia Day
April 18 World Heritage Day
April 22 Earth Day
April 23 World Book and Copyright Day
April 5 National Maritime Day
April 7 World Health Day
August 15 Independence Day
August 29 National Sports Day
August 6 Hiroshima Day
August 9 Nagasaki Day
August 9 Quit India Day
December 1 World AIDS Day
December 10 International Day of Broadcasting
December 18 Minorities Rights Day
December 23 Farmers Day [Kisan Divas]
February 24 Central Excise Day
February 28 National Science Day
January 10 World Laughter Day
January 12 National Youth Day
January 15 Army Day
January 26 International Customs Day
January 26 Republic Day
January 30 Martyrs' Day
January 30 World Leprosy Eradication Day
July 1 International Joke Day
July 11 World Population Day
June 20(3rd Sunday in June) Father's Day
June 5 World Environment Day
March 15 World Disabled Day; World Consumer Rights Day
March 21 World Forestry Day; International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.
March 22 World Day for Water
March 23 World Meteorological Day
March 24 World TB Day
March 8 International Womens Day
May 1 International Labour Day
May 11 National Technology Day
May 12 International Nurses Day
May 15 International Day of the Family
May 24 Commonwealth Day
May 3 Press Freedom Day
May 31 Anti-tobacco Day
May 8 World Red Cross Day
November 14 Children's Day
November 14 Diabetes Day
November 29 International Day of Solidarity with Palestinian People
October 1 International Day for the Elderly
October 10 National Postal Day
October 12 World Sight Day
October 16 World Food Day
October 24 UN Day
October 3 World Habitat Day
October 30 World Thrift Day
October 4 World Animal Welfare Day
October 8 Indian Air Force Day
September 16 World Ozone Day
September 26 Day of the Deaf
September 27 World Tourism Day
September 5 Teachers' Day, Sanskrit Day
September 8 World Literary Day
Third Sunday of July National Ice Cream Day


E & OE Prepared by Riaz in Orkut Community . Republished by qblp Team

Friday, February 15, 2008

Post Answers to this Question From Electronics

  1. Which of the following has highest conductivity?

a) Silver b) Aluminum c) tungsten d) Platinum

  1. At room temperature barrier potential in a silicon diode is

a) 0.1 V b) 0.3V c) 0.7V d) 1V

  1. In which mode of BJT operation are both junctions reverse biased

a) active b) saturation c) cut-off d) reverse active

  1. The sensitivity of human eyes is maximum at

a) white portion of spectrum b) green portion of spectrum

c) red portion of spectrum d) violet portion of spectrum

  1. Which quantity controls the effectiveness of LED in emitting light

a) applied voltage b) current c) extent of doping d) temperature

  1. The abbreviation EMG stands for ____________________
  2. The number of bits in a nibble is

a) 8 b) 4 c) 16 d) 32

  1. The frequency spectrum of FM radio broadcasting is

a) 565 KHz – 1605 Khz b) 88 MHz – 108 MHz

c) 3 GHz – 30 GHz d) None of the above

  1. Which of the following is an OP-AMP IC

a) BC107 b) 74LS00 c) mA 741C d) AE137

  1. Which of the following medium has highest bandwidth

a) Twisted pair b) optical fiber cable c) coaxial cable

d) copper strip

Wednesday, February 13, 2008

Facts about Indian National Congress

Creation -1885

Founder of INC -Allan Octavian Hume(A.O.Hume)

The First President -Womesh Chandra Bonerjee(W.C.Banerjee)

The Ist meeting was in -Bombay

The Viceroy at the time of creation -Lord Dufferin

Hw many delegates at the time of Ist meeting -72

The 1929 Lahore session under the presidency of -Jawaharlal Nehru

"Poorna Swaraj" was declared at the session -1929 Lahore

President at the time of independence -Acharya J.B. Kripalani

The present Leader -Sonia Gandhi

E&OE - QBLP RESEARCH TEAM

Monday, February 11, 2008

National Research Institutes in India

1.Drug Research Institute - Lucknow (U.P)
2.Horticulture college - Thiruvananthapuram (Kerala)
3.Tubercrops Research Institute - Thiruvananthapuram (Kerala)
4.Cattle Breeding Reasearch Institute - Hissar (Haryana)
5.Forest Reasearch Institute - Dehradun (Uthar ghund)
6.Cancer Reasearch Centre - Mumbai(Maharastra)
7.Rubber Reasearch Institute - Kottayam (Kerala)
8.Central Marine Reasearch Institute - Chennai (Tamil Nadu)
9.Dairy Reasearch Institute - Karnal (Haryana)
10.Tropical Botanical Garden & Reasearch Institute - Thiruvananthapuram (Kerala)

Asked by various PSC s many times. Errors and omissions expected.Taken from Public Service Commission community posted by safeeq . Republished by qblp team for psc job aspirants.

Saturday, February 9, 2008

Geographic Terms

ANTIPODES A region or place on the opposite side of a point on the earth.

ANTICYCLONES Winds which blow outward from the center.

APHELION Position of the earth in its orbit when is at the maximum distance from the sun.

ARCHIPELAGO A cluster of islands, e.g., Pearl Islands in the Gulf of Panama.

ATOLL Coral reef resembling a horse shoe, enclosing a lagoon.

AXIS An imaginary line joining north and south poles.

AVALANCHE A vast mass of snow mixed with earth or stones.

BIOSPHERE Animate or inanimate organic kingdom on earth.

CANYON A deep valley cut by a river through a mountain region, e,g., the Grand Canyon of the Colarado river in the USA.

CONTINENTAL SHELF Land adjoining a continent submerged in the sea.

CYCLONES A low pressure system area in which the wind blows spirally inward.

CROP ROTATION Growing different crops needing different minerals for their growth in the same piece of land in order to get more yield.

DATE LINE An imaginary line pointing north-south approximating to the Meridian 180 (east or west) where the date changes by one day the moment it is crossed.

ANTIPODES A region or place on the opposite side of a point on the earth.

ANTICYCLONES Winds which blow outward from the center.

APHELION Position of the earth in its orbit when is at the maximum distance from the sun.

ARCHIPELAGO A cluster of islands, e.g., Pearl Islands in the Gulf of Panama.

ATOLL Coral reef resembling a horse shoe, enclosing a lagoon.

AXIS An imaginary line joining north and south poles.

AVALANCHE A vast mass of snow mixed with earth or stones.

BIOSPHERE Animate or inanimate organic kingdom on earth.

CANYON A deep valley cut by a river through a mountain region, e,g., the Grand Canyon of the Colarado river in the USA.

CONTINENTAL SHELF Land adjoining a continent submerged in the sea.

CYCLONES A low pressure system area in which the wind blows spirally inward.

CROP ROTATION Growing different crops needing different minerals for their growth in the same piece of land in order to get more yield.

DATE LINE An imaginary line pointing north-south approximating to the Meridian 180 (east or west) where the date changes by one day the moment it is crossed.

DELTA Alluvial deposit shaped like Greek letter, formed at the mouth of the river, where it falls into the sea, e.g., the Sunderban delta.

DEW Condensed atmospheric water vapours due to the cooling of the air.

DRY FARMING Growing of crops in low rainfall areas by moisture conservation, crop rotation but without irrigation.

EQUATOR An imaginary line dividing the earth into two equal parts.

EQUINOXES The day on which nights and days are of equal duration, e.g., March 22 and September 23.

EROSION Wearing away of the earth's land surface by rain, wind, water, etc. rendering the land infertile. Alluvial deposit shaped like Greek letter, formed at the mouth of the river, where it falls into the sea, e.g., the Sunderban delta.

DEW Condensed atmospheric water vapours due to the cooling of the air.

DRY FARMING Growing of crops in low rainfall areas by moisture conservation, crop rotation but without irrigation.

EQUATOR An imaginary line dividing the earth into two equal parts.

EQUINOXES The day on which nights and days are of equal duration, e.g., March 22 and September 23.

EROSION Wearing away of the earth's land surface by rain, wind, water, etc. rendering the land infertile.

Posted by Riaz in Orkut . E&OE Republished by qblp team.

Wednesday, February 6, 2008

Indian Cities & Nicknames

  • Rose Pink City - Jaipur (Rajastan)

  • Garden City - Bangalore (Karnataka)

  • Diamond City - Surat (Gujarat)

  • Egg city - Namakkal (Tamilnadu)

  • Lake City - Udaipur (Rajastan)

  • Sun City - Jodhpur (Rajastan)

  • City of Palaces - Kolkata (West Bengal)

  • Bangle City - Hyderabad (Andra Pradesh)

  • Golden City - Jaisalmer(Rajastan)

  • City of Dawn - Auroville (Pondichery)

  • White City - Udaipur (Rajastan)

  • City of golden Temple - amritsar (Punjab)

  • Twin Cities - Hyderabad and Secundarabad(Andra pradesh)

  • Pearl City - Tuticorin (Tamil Nadu)

  • Weavers city - Panipat (Haryana)

  • Temple City - Bhuvaneswar (Orissa)

  • Sandal Wood City - Mysore (Karnataka)

  • City of Blood - Tezpur (Assam)

  • Orange City - Nagpur (Maharashtra)

  • City of seven Islands - Mumbai (Maharashtra)

Saturday, February 2, 2008

Previous PSC Question Paper


1.Who is the Finance minister in the Achutanandan ministry?
Dr.Thomas Issac
2.Who is the 2nd Indo-Anierican astronaut selected by American Space agency NASA for a space mission?
Sunita Williams
3.The famous Lucknow pact between the Congress and the Muslim League was concluded in:
1916
4.Who was the chairman of the two commissions appointed by the British Govt. for Partition of the provinces of Bengal and Punjab in 1947?
Cyril Radcliff
5.Who is the Vice chairman of Kerala State Planning Board?
Dr. Prabhat Patnaik
6. Who is the Malayalam Film Director recently selected for Dada Saheb Falke award?
Adoor Gopalakrjshnan
7.In which state is the first synagogue built in India?
Kerala
8.Operation Flood deals with:
Production of milk
9.Who produced the first automobile?Carl Benz10.Who is the president of Afghanistan?Hamid Karzai
11.Angela Markel is the first woman Chancellor of:
Germany
12.Rou’sseaus theories greatly contributed to which one of the following?
French revolution
13.Who is the Malayalam poet recently selected for 'Saraswathy Saman’?
K. Ayyappa Paniker
14.Dengue fever is caused by:
Virus
15.Hormones are normally absent in:
Bacteria
16.Which is the largest living bird?
Ostrich
17.Milk tastes sour when kept in the open for sometime due to the formation of:
Lactic acid
18.Which river feeds Tehri dam?Bhagirithi
19.Who was the founder of Servants of India Society?
G.K. Gokhale
20.Who was the first Indian to become a member of the British parliament?
Dadabhai Naoroji
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