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"Here is a wishing that d coming year is a glorious one that rewards all ur future endeavors with success" HpyNewYr - freegksms@gmail.com
India1st participated at d Olympic Games in1900, w/ alone athlete(Norman Pritchard) winning 2 mdls in athletics.
D Central Railway is perhaps d oldest railway zone of Indian Railways. This is one amongst d largest of d 16 zones bifurcated by Indian Rlys.

TeleVision-

word is derived frm mixed Latin &Greek roots, meaning"far sight"Greek-tele=far & Latin-visio=sight. J L Baird invntd in1925
Oil & Natural Gas Corporation,ONGC,was set up in1956. ONGC discovered a new natural gas field in Tripur
TCP: Transmission Control Protocol IP;Internet Protocol HTML:Hyper Text Markup Language HTTP:HyperText Trnsfr Protocol FTP:FileTrnsfr Protocal

(MPLADS)-

Member of Parliament Local Area Devlopment Scheme-introduced by Narasimha Rao Government-2 Crores a Year. MLA LADS-1.5 Crores.
UN Stockholm Conference-1972. Montreal Protocol-1989. Rio-Earth Summit-1992.(Major achievement is "Agenda 21"). Kyoto Protocol-2005.
Near Visakhapatnam d eastern ghats actually plunge into d sea.D ghats called 'Dolphin's nose' in d Cty. This is best natural harbour of India

Ooty-

Ooty (7500 feet abv sea lvl) is d "Queen of hill stations" & d capital of Nilgiris dist Ooty served as d summer capital of d Madras Presidency,

INDIA AT OLYMPICS:

>Bronze Khashaba Dadasaheb Jadhav 1952 Helsinki Wrestling Men's freestyle bantamweight >Bronze Leander Paes 1996 Atlanta Tennis Men's singles >Bronze Karnam Malleswari 2000 Sydney Weightlifting Women's 69 kg >Silver Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore >2004 Athens Shooting Men's double trap >Gold Abhinav Bindra 2008 Beijing Shooting Men's 10m Air Rifle Bronze Sushil Kumar 2008 Beijing Wrestling Men's 66 Kg Freestyle >Bronze Vijender Kumar 2008 Beijing Boxing Men's 75 Kg
India&Bhutan ydy inked a 12 agreemnts, including 4 on hydropower generation, aftr Bhutanese King Jigme Wangchuck.D other agremnts wer in cvl aviation,
India&Bhutan will sign agreements on hydroelectric power&civil aviation during 5-day visit of (Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck,King of Bhutan) 2INDIA
>Electron was discovered in 1897 by ThomSan. >Proton was discovered in 1919 by Rudarford. >Neutron was discovered by Chadvik in1932 (101 mmbrs)

Dr.ManmohanSingh:

is known as d "liberator" of Indian economy. He worked as >Finance Mnstr in d Narasimha Rao Govt1991-96, >Governor of d RBI1982-85
*S.C.BOSE addressed Gandhiji as father of Nation for d1st time. >Re1 note is signed by finance secretary not by RBI governer >Word dictionary is derived from Latin 'diction':means 'Speaking is an art'

VETO;

Constitutional right of a prsn or a legislative body or a member of the United Nations Security Council, to reject or prohibit something.
.ELLORA CAVES: The 34 "caves" Charanandri hill were built btwn the 5th to10th century. The 12 Buddhist (caves 1–12), 17 Hindu (caves 13–29) and 5 Jain (caves 30– 34) caves, built in proximity
>The headquarters of ISRO is located at- Bangalore >ISAC is located at- Bangalore >VSSC is located at- Thiruvananthapuram
>Oldest parliament in world? Althing(Iceland) >The nuclear reactor was invented by- Enrico Ferni >Galileo's 1st scientific discovery was- Pendulum >Dynamo was invented by- Michael Farada

RADAR-

is an abbreviated form of Radio, Angle, Direction & Range. >Used for detecting d direction & range of an approaching plane by means of radio microwaves.
Telangana was heartland for Sathavahanas, Kakatiyas. In fact, Kotilingala in Karimnagar is d 1st Capital of d Sathavahanas b4 shifting to Dharanikota.
UIDAI (Unique Identification Authority of India) >Mr. Nandan Nilekani-Chairperson. >Mr. Ram Sewak Sharma-Director General. >Attachd ofice undr planng cmsn
Life takes on meaning when you become motivated, set goals and charge after them in an unstoppable manner. - Les Brown

JAPAN:

has 6,852 islands. 4 largest islands r Honshu, Hokkaido, Kyushu & Shikoku, 2gether accounting for 97% of Japan's land area. Japan's highest peak, Mount Fuji, is a volcano.

Japan:

has 6,852 islands. 4 largest islands r Honshu, Hokkaido, Kyushu & Shikoku, 2gether accounting for 97% of Japan's land area. Japan's highest peak, Mount Fuji, is a volcano.
Mercalli scale also Modified Mercalli Intensity(MMI)-measure of the ground shaking from earthquakes. Richter Scale-for measuring the magnitude.
>Who designed the Character Scooby Doo? Iwao Takamoto >Commercial section of ISRO? Antrix Corporation >Currency of Botswana Pula
>When was the first postal stamp issued in India. July 1, 1852 >Which is the first sanskrit film made in India. Adi sankaracharya
TRAI decided in New year in India Mobile Number will be of 11 digits. 9 will be first one digit in Mobile No. Example: 9XXXXXXXXXX

CINEMA-

The trend of silent era in Indian cinema continued from 1897 to 1930. The first Indian talking movie was Alam Ara released in 1931.
>Which country was formerly known as 'Upper Volta' - Burkina Faso >'Daughter of the East' book is the autobiography of - Benazir Bhutto

The Treaty of Alahabad-

signed on August 16 between Mughal Emperor Shah Alam II of Bengal and Lord Clive of the British East India Company after the Battle of Buxar (1764). Based on the terms of the agreement, Shah Alam II granted Diwani rights to the East India Company. These rights allowed the Company to collect revenue from the people of Bengal, Bihar, and Orissa. In return, the Company gave an annual tribute of 2. 6 million rupees (260 British pounds) while securing for Shah Alam II the districts of Kora and Allahabad. The tribute money paid to the emperor was for the maintenance of the court of Allahabad. The accord also dictated that Shah Alam II restore to Balwant Singh the province of Varanasi as long as Balwant Singh continued to pay revenue to the Company.
>Cuttack was d capital of Orissa b4 Bhubaneswar. >NewYork city is known as d 'Big Apple' >Rewa is India's first electric Car. Ad-ON freegksms to this no.frm other
>Center of Rajiv Gandhi National Institute of Youth Development? Tamil Nadu >What are 'GM Crops'? Genetically Modified Crops
>36000 bullets used to kill 9terrorists in 26/11 >Oxygen in normal atmosphere air->21% >World Ozone Day is observed on-6th September
>Muhammad Iqbal wrote the patriotic song 'Saare Jahan Se Achcha' > 65 years is the retirement age of Supreme Court judges.

Gk

>Who was the mother of Alexander? Olympia >The first man made plant is? Triticale >Which is known as Wonder Metal? Titanium
Kolkata-based actor Subrat Dutta walked away with d best actor award at d 33rd Cairo International Film Festival( CIFF) for his performance in "Madholal Keep Walking".
>Vancouver (Canada) will host Winter Olympics in 2010 >If any of frnd rltvs want these sms on their mbl.. sms ON freegksms to 9870807070

K,tak Tourism Polcy:

Minister G Janardhana Reddy today released an investor-friendly tourism policy for 2009-14 with a target to attract more than Rs 25 , 000 crore during the five-year period in the state.
>West to East is the direction of rotation of earth on its axis. >Danny Boyle directed 8 Oscar awards winning film 'Slumdog Millionaire'

Intl Tiger Day-14 FEB 2010

To draw intl attention on tiger conservation & protection, India will launch d Year of d Tiger on Valentine's Day nxt yr frm Jim Corbett National Park,Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh announced.

Gk:

INTERPOL is the world s largest international police org, with 186 member countries ,Created in 1923. Headquarter in Lyon (France). ==
John F.Kennedy was the first Roman Catholic President of the USA. Europe is the only continent without a desert.

BLOOD:

Landsteiner discovered that O,A,B and AB are 4 types of blood groups. 'O' is called universal donor and AB is universal acceptor.

DNA

: D molecular structure of DNA was first determined by Watson & Crick in 1953. It was 1st discovered in 1869 by Swiss Friedrich Mieschler.

Chek IQ-

Q: How many times do Hour hand and Minute hand of a clock cross each other in a day? Ans: A:22times (check with a table clock)

Did u Know?

1. Other than cricket in which game do the players score runs. Baseball 2. The biggest oil refinary in the world. Abadan, iran