GK 6 (India the Great)

Independence Day- the day when British left the golden bird free from their rule. But the bird was left looted, harassed, with the slightest of hope to survive. Then followed a long fight for the survival of golden bird. 64 years have passed and the country is still ‘developing’. The whole world says and even we believe that we are the citizens of an independent country. But a question always keep on hovering in my mind, the answer to which I never found out. You also give it a try. Is India really free? Are we not bound by so many handcuffs of ever growing poverty, illiteracy, unemployment, crimes, men-women inequality, limited technology and the worst of all which potentiate other bounding forces too- Corruption?

Have a look and you all will support me.

Name of Scam	Year	Amount
Jeep Purchase	1948	80 lakh
BHU Funds	1956	50 lakh
MUNDHRA SCANDAL	1957	1.25 crores
Teja Loans	1960	22 crores
Kuo Oil Deal	1976	2.2. crores
HDW Comission	1987	20 crores
Bofors Pay-Off	1987	65 crores
St Kitts Forgery	1989	9.45 crores
Airbus Scandal	1990	2.5 crores per week
Securities Scam	1992	5000 crores
Indian Bank Rip-off	1992	1,300 crores
Sugar Import	1994	650 crores
JMM Bribes	1995	1.2 crores
In a Pickle	1996	10 lakhs
Telecom Scam	1996	1.6 crores
Fodder Scam	1996	950 crores
Urea Scam	1996	133 crores
CRB Scam	1997	1000 crores
Vanishing Companies Scam	1998	330.78 crores
Plantation Companies Scam	1999	2,563 crores
Ketan Parekh Scam	2001	137 crores
Stockmarket Scam	2001	1,15,000 crores
Home Trade Scam	2002	600 crores
Stamp Paper Scam	2003	30,000 crores
IPO- Demat Scam	2005	146 crores
Bihar Food Relief Scam	2005	17 crores
Scorpene Submarine Scam	2005	18,978 crores
Punjab City Centre Project Scam	2006	1500 crores
Taj Corridor Scam	2006	175 crores
Pune Billionare Hasan Ali Khan Tax Default	2008	50,000 crores
The Satyam Scam	2008	10,000 crores
Army Ration Pilferege  Scam	2008	5000 crores
The 2-G Spectrum  Swindle	2008	1,76,000 crores
State Bank of Saurashtra Scam	-	95 crores
Illegal Money in Swiss Bank (est. till 2008)		71,00,000 crores
The Jarkhand Medical Equipment Scam	2009	130 crores
Rice Export Scam	2009	2,500 crores
Orissa Mine Scam		7,000 crores
Madhu Koda Minning Scam	2009	4,000 crores
Commonwealth Games Scam	2010	40,000 crores
Grand Total	Rs. 91,06,03,23,43,00,000/-

Shocked seeing the figure?? Don’t be because there is still a large figure behind the scene which the CBI has failed to suspect.

“Angrez chale gaye par inhe chod gye”- the best phrase that can describe our corrupt politicians and high commanding officers. And why only blame these famous names. Even an ordinary man is giving them a tough competition- Wrong ways to save income tax, Under table income, and what not.  Fighting with any outsider is easy but how to fight with someone amongst ourselves. How to punish a crow from within a group of parrots? And what adds to the tragedy is that everyone is inside this dirty cave of corruption. Those who are in the light of honesty and truthfulness don’t want to make an initiative to clean this dirt.

A grand salute to those great leaders like Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, Swami Vivekanand, Lal Bahadur Shastri, Bhagat Singh who broke a revolt against British and drove them back to their home. Today again we need such leaders to drive corruption out of this beautiful country. Then we all will proudly say that “Yes!! We are the citizens of an independent country which flies unbound in the sky of glory and success”.

Happy Independence Day to all from Udaipur Blog!! Let us vow to make our country a free bird again.

Jai Hind!!

GK 5

Do you know the facts?

1. Coca-Cola was originally green.
2. The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
3. The name of all the continents ends with the same letter that they start with.
4. The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
5. There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
6. TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
7. Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
8. You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.
9. It is impossible to lick your elbow.
10. People say "Bless you" when you sneeze because when you sneeze, your heart stops for a milli second.
11. It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
12. The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.
13. If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can  rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die.
14. Each king in a deck of playing cards represents great king from history. Spades - King David Clubs - Alexander the Great, Hearts - Charlemagne Diamonds - Julius Caesar.

15. 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

16. If a statue of a person in the park on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle.
17. If the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle.
18. If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
19. What do bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers and laser printers all have in common? They are all invented by women.
20. This is the only food that doesn't spoil. What is this? It is Honey.
21. A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
22. A snail can sleep for three years.
23. All polar bears are left handed.
24. American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.
25. Butterflies taste with their feet.
26. Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
27. In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
28. On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.
29. Shakespeare invented the word 'assassination' and 'bump'.
30. Stewardesses are the longest word typed with only the left hand.

31. The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
32. The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
33. The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.
34. Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over million descendants.
35. Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.
36. The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
37. Most lipstick contains fish scales.
38. Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different
39. There is a Butterfly in Brazil which has the color of chocolates and also smells like chocolate.
40. Giraffee can clean there ears with their tongue.
41. Both Humans and Giraffee have the same number of bones in the neck.
42. And finally 99% of people who read this would try to lick their elbow now.

50 Facts You would Like to Know.

1. Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
2. The volume of the Earth's moon is the same as the volume of the Pacific Ocean.
3. The first song played on Virgin Radio was Born to be wild by INXS!
4. A person will burn 7 percent more calories if they walk on hard dirt compared to pavement.
5. Polar bear fur is not white, it's clear.
6. Yahoo! was originally called 'Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web'.
7. It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
8. How does a shark find fish? It can hear their hearts beating.
9. In Ancient Greece, if a woman watched even one Olympic event, she was executed.
10. Eighty percent of Americans will be the victim of violent crime at least once in their lifetime.
11. During the Gold Rush in 1849, some people paid as much as $100 for a glass of water!
12. C3PO is the first character to speak in Star Wars.
13. The state sport of Maryland is Jousting.
14. The first patented condom was meant to be reused!
15. King Kong was Adolf Hitler's favorite movie.
16. A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 100 m.p.h.!
17. Justin Timberlake's half-eaten french toast sold for over $3,000 on eBay!
18. An egg will float if placed in water in which sugar has been added.
19. 7,000 new insect species are discovered every year.
20. More steel in the United States is used to make bottle caps than to manufacture automobile bodies.
21. The Yo-Yo originated as a weapon in the Philippine Islands during the sixteenth century.
22. Dolphins nap with one eye open.
23. The Atlantic Ocean is saltier than the Pacific Ocean.
24. Out of all the senses, smell is most closely linked to memory.
25.  If you counted 24 hours a day, it would take 31,688 years to reach one trillion!
26.  In the year 2000, Pope John Paul II was named an "Honorary Harlem Globetrotter."!
27.  Your skeleton keeps growing until you are about 35, then you start to shrink.
28.  About 10% of Jewish households have Christmas Trees.
29. ·  Frozen lobsters can come back to life when thawed!
30. ·  Each 5 mph (miles-per-hour) you drive over 60 mph is like paying an additional $.10 a gallon for gas!
31. The banana tree cannot reproduce itself. It can be propagated only by the hand of man.
32. The lense of the eye continues to grow throughout a person's life.
33. Tasmania is said to have the cleanest air in the world.
34. The city of Las Vegas has the most hotel rooms in the world.
35. Research indicates that babies who suck on pacifiers are more prone to ear aches.
36. Nearly 10% of American households dress their pets in Halloween costumes.
37. World's heaviest primates: morbidly obese humans. After that: gorillas at 485 lbs.
38. A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet long in just one night!
39. Eskimos don't gamble.
40. A moth has no stomach.
41. A Russian man who wore a beard during the time of Peter the Great had to pay a special tax.
42. Identical twins do not have identical fingerprints.
43. In the White House, there are 13,092 knives, forks and spoons!
44. Only 1% of bacteria cause disease.
45. In one day, a full grown redwood tree expels more than 2 tons of water through its leaves.
46. A person produces about half a liter of farts a day.
47. Arthur Conan Doyle, author of the Sherlock Holmes stories, was an ophthalmologist by profession!
48. When a giraffe's baby is born it falls from a height of six feet, normally without being hurt.
49. The average housefly weighs 10 to 15 millionths of a pound.
50. Contrary to popular belief, lightning travels from the ground upwards not from the sky downwards. 

Your RajGill378

GK4

Record Makers and Breakers

The first person to reach Mount Everest	Sherpa Tenzing, Edmund Hillary
The first person to reach North Pole	Robert Peary
The first person to reach South Pole	Amundsen
The first religion of the world	Hinduism
The first country to print book	China
The first country to issue paper currency	China
The first country to commence competitive examination in civil services	China
The first President of the U.S.A	George Washington
The first Prime Minister of Britain	Robert Walpole
The first Governor General of the United Nations	Trigveli (Norway)
The first country to win football World cup	Uruguay
The first country to prepare a constitution	U.S.A
The first Governor General of Pakistan	Mohd. Ali Jinnah
The first country to host NAM summit	Belgrade (Yugoslavia)
The first European to attack India	Alexander, The Great
The first European to reach China	Marco Polo
The first person to fly aeroplane	Wright Brothers
The first person to sail round the world	Magellan
The first country to send man to the moon	U.S.A
The first country to launch Artificial satellite in the space	Russia
The first country to host the modern Olympics	Greece
The first city on which the atom bomb was dropped	Hiroshima (Japan)
The first person to land on the moon	Neil Armstrong followed by Edwin E. Aldrin
The first shuttle to go in space	Columbia
The first spacecraft to reach on Mars	Viking-I
The first woman Prime Minister of England	Margaret Thatcher
The first Muslim Prime Minister of a country	Benazir Bhutto (Pakistan)
The first woman Prime Minister of a country	Mrs. S. Bandamaike (Sri Lanka)
The first woman to climb Mount Everest	Mrs. Junko Tabei (Japan)
The first woman cosmonaut of the world	Velentina Tereshkova (Russia)
The first woman President of the U.N. General Assembly	Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
The first man to fly into space	Yuri Gagarin (Russia)
The first batsman to score three test century in three successive tests on debut	Mohd. Azharuddin
The first man to have climbed Mount Everest twice	Nawang Gombu
The first U.S. President to resign Presidency	Richard Nixon