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ONGC GT 2011 General Awareness Questions(Objectives)

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1. Through which procedure, a writ can be filed in the Supreme Court against decision of the Election Commission on recognising or de-recognising a political party for the purpose of an electoral symbol, or which group within a particular party, constitutes that party for been allotted of Election symbol to that party—
(A) Under Article 32
(B) Under Article 229
(C) Special leave petition
(D) Public Interest Litigation
ANS.(C)

2. Which Constitutional Article lays down the provision for a National Commission for SC and ST—
(A) Article 337
(B) Article 334
(C) Article 338
(D) Article 339
ANS.(C)

3. In case President Rule in the state is not approved by the Parliament, ‘For how many months the same promulgation shall last’.
(A) Four Months
(B) Two Months
(C) Three Months
(D) Six Months
ANS.(D)

4. Constitutionally, who has the power to make a law on the subject mentionable in the Union List—
(A) Lok Sabha
(B) Parliament
(C) Rajya Sabha
(D) Legislative Council
ANS(B)

5. Under which act, the Bicameral Central Legislature was established during the British period for the first time—
(A) Govt. of India Act 1938
(B) The Indian Council Act 1861
(C) Govt. of India Act 1919
(D) Govt. of India Act 1935
ANS.(C)

6. Who said ‘As President, I have no eyes but constitutional eyes. I cannot see you’—
(A) Dr. Rajendra Prasad
(B) Dr. Radhakrishnan
(C) Abraham Lincoln
(D) Mahatma Gandhi
ANS.(C)

7. In the Parliament, what is the meaning of the Government Bill—
(A) Bill presented by Ruling Party member
(B) Bill approved by the Government
(C) Only the Prime Minister presents the Bill
(D) A Bill introduced by any Minister in either of the Houses of the Parliament
ANS.(D)

8. Spell out the condition under Article 361A by which any person or newspaper cannot be sued for legal proceeding if any report of proceedings of Parliament and State Legislature is published—
(A) The report must be a report of the `procedings' of a House of the Union or a State Legislature. Hence, it must be relevant to a motion or other business before the House, and must not have been expunged
(B) It must be a ‘report’ as distinguished from one article or `Comment'.
(C) Such report must be substantially true. Hence, an extract or a garbed or perverted report would not be protected. The reporting must not be actuated by malice
(D) All of the above
ANS(D)

9. Who has ample powers under Article 324(1) to make appropriate orders as to the conduct of Elections, e.g., cancellation of poll and ordering to poll according to exigencies in particular areas, introduction of electronic voting machines, postponing of election, etc.—
(A) Regional Election Commissioner
(B) Election Committee of Government
(C) Electoral Officer
(D) Election Commission
ANS.(D)

10. In the Indian Constitution, which type of the Sabha is mentioned under Panchayat Raj—
(A) District Sabha
(B) Gram Sabha
(C) Nagar Panchayat Sabha
(D) Zila Sabha
ANS.(B)

11. The Vedanga consists of the—
(A) Kalp, Shiksha, Nirukta, Vyakaran, Chhanda, Jyotish
(B) Kalp, Shiksha, Brahman, Vyakaran, Chhanda, Jyotish
(C) Kalp, Shiksha, Nirukta, Aranyak, Chhanda, Jyotish
(D) Kalp, Upanishad, Nirukta, Vyakaran, Chhanda
Ans : (A)

12. Frontier Gandhi was the nickname of—
(A) Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan
(B) Vinoba Bhave
(C) None of these
(D) Mahatma Gandhi
Ans : (A)

13. India and Pakistan were partitioned under which of D following plans of the British colonial government ?
(A) Mountbatten Plan
(B) Cripps Plan
(C) Chelmsford Plan
(D) Wavell Plan
Ans : (A)

14. The foreign traveller who visited India during the Mughal period and who left us an expert’s description of the Peacock Throne was—
(A) Geronimo Verroneo
(B) ‘Omrah’ Danishmand Khan
(C) Travernier
(D) Francisco Palsaert
Ans : (C)

15. Which of the following statements are not true of the Home Rule Movement ?
I. The demand was for selfgovernment and not complete independence.
II. The movement included promoting political education to build a base for selfgovernment
III. It did not achieve much impact or popularity.
IV. The movement was the part of the Congress activity.
(A) I and II
(B) II and III
(C) III and IV
(D) IV and I
Ans : (C)

15. Who said the following ‘‘the British empire is rotten to the core, corrupt in every direction and tyrannical and mean’’ ?
(A) Mrs. Annie Besant
(B) W. Digby
(C) Sister Nivedita
(D) William Wedderburn
Ans : (C)

16. Which bank in India performs duties of Central Bank ?
(A) Central Bank of India
(B) State Bank of India
(C) Reserve Bank of India
(D) Above (A) and (B)
ANS.(C)

17. Which of the following statements about the Indian Economy is correct ?
(A) Indian economy is as developed as that of China
(B) About 70% Indians are involved in some type of selfemployment and are the owners of some or the other micro or small enterprise
(C) In India single biggest employment is agriculture and allied activities
(D) About 48% Indian workforce is employed in foreign countries or in organizations assisted by foreign capital
(E) None of these
Ans : (C)

18 In the last one decade, which one among the following sectors has attracted the highest foreign direct investment inflows into India?
A. Chemicals other than fertilizers
B. Services sector
C. Food processing
D. Telecommunication
ANS.(D)

19. Devaluation of a currency means
A. reduction in the value of a currency vis-a-vis major internationally traded currencies
B. permitting the currency to seek its worth in the international market
C. fixing the value of the currency in conjunction with the movement in the value of a basket of pre-determined currencies
D. fixing the value of currency in multilateral consultation with the IMF, the World Bank and major trading partners
ANS.(D)

20 In the state of India, the State Financial Corporation have given assistance mainly to develop
A. agricultural farms
B. cottage industry
C. large-scale industries
D. medium and small-scale industries
ANS.(D)

21. Inpursuance with the recommendations of Narsimhan Committee, the RBI has framed new guidelines
A. to govern entry of new private sector banks to make the banking sector more competitive
B. to reduce the freedom given to banks to rationalize their existing branch network
C. to setup more foreign exchange banks
D. to lend more easily for industrial development
ANS.(A)

22.The condition of indirect taxes in the country's revenue is approximately
A. 70 percent
B. 75 percent
C. 80 percent
D. 86 percent
ANS.(D)

23. In India, rural incomes are generally lower than the urban incomes, which of the following reasons account for this?
I. A large number of farmers are illiterate and know little about scientific agriculture
II. Prices of primary products are lower than those of manufactured products
III. Investment in agriculture has been low when compared to investment in industry
A. I, II, III
B. I, II
C. I, III
D. II, III
ANS.(A)

24)madurai and other districts---pandyan rulers

25)earliest tamil literature---tolkappiyam

26)order of mughal emperors---akbar,jahangir,shahjahan.auranjeb

27)DOCTORINE OF LAPSE :LORD DALHOUSIE

28))1976 AMENDMENT: SOCILAIST SECULAR

29)"FISCAL POLICY" is by Ministry of Finance."

30). some social activist @ lahor called B.R. Ambedkr, he cudnt give a speech and later it became a famous book....the name of book is-annihilation of caste

31 )Kalibangan is situated—Rajasthan

32) fundamental rights abolish by during emergency---------President

ONGC GT 2011 General Awareness Question(Subjective)

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About Anna Hazare - real name of Anna Hazare,birth place,profession ,award from government of India,
Team member's name for fighting against corruption,their present and past profession,
Other name of Jan Lokpal bill and main purpose,
3 demands which was put on 25 august 2011 as a part of Jan Lokpal bill by Anna Hazare.

Biggest terrorist attack in INDIA, mumbai 2008
Date of terrorist attack,
terrorist group name,
5 places where blast happened,
Give 3 police personnel name(out of 4) with designation who killed in this attack

General Knowledge 2011 - 3

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1.President of Mumbai Crcket Association: Vilas Rao Deshmukh

2.Copa america 2011won by : Urguaya

3.Golfer who became oldest winner of British Open Championship: Darren Clarke

4.India launched Communication satellite on 15 july 2011: G-SAT-12

5.Chief of Empowered Comitee of Goods And Services tax: Sushil kumar modi

6. Pakistan's new foreign Minister & first women Foreign Minister :Hina Rabbani Khar

7.National Billiards and snooker championship won by: Vidya Pillai from Tamilnadu

8.Bangladesh Freedom Honour is honoured to: Indira Gandhi

9.The Shuttle Undocked for Final time from International Space station NASA: Atlantis

10.Speak Asia COO Got Arrested : Manoj kumar Tarak Bajpai

General Knowledge 2011 - 2

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1. Recently Oxford university established a chair in the memory of ? Sanjay Lall

2. FIFA Announced World cup 2014 will start from 12th June in Brazil

3. Indians win Magsaysay Award… Nileema Mishra for solar light in maharastra and Harish Hande

4. Rohinton Nariman to be next Solicitor General

5. Vasuki Sunkavalli, popularly known as Vasuki in the Indian modelling industry, has been chosen to represent India at the Miss Universe contest this year

6. World Population Day: July 11,

7. Ruskin bond and upamanyu chattergee shortlisted for 2011 vodafone-crossword award

8. President of Nasscom - Som mittal

9. In Africa which river passes twice Tropic of Capricon Limppopo

10. First aerospace SEZ applied in which place? Hattaragi,dist. Belgaum,Karnatka

General Knowledge 2011 - 1

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1. New Chief election commissioner of India : Shahabuddin Yaqoob Quraishi.

2. Sex ratio in India as per current senses(2011) : 940 (Earlier 933)

3. Literacy rate :73.06%, lowest in Bihar : 63% max in Kerala 93%

4. The Nobel Prize 2010 in Literature was awarded to: Mario Vargas Liosa

5. The Directorate of Bhutan Lotteries is situated at : Phuentsholing

6. The largest irrigation project in Kerala is Malampuzha

7. Who has been elected as the President of Nigeria ? Goodluck Jonathan

8. Who is the Secretary General of SAARC ? Fathimath Dhiyana Saeed

9. Which country won Sudiraman cup this year ? china

10. Who has been nominated for CK Naidu lifetime achievement award ? Salim Durrani

Give number to yourself out of 10.......

Coal India Limited Management Trainee Examination 2011

2011-08-19T08:53:00.000-07:00

Non Tech General Knowledge Questions-

1. Which innovative discussion process is introduced by the Indian parliament to the
world parliamentary systems ?
(A)Question hour.
(B)Zero hour
(C)Resolutions.
(D)Presidental speech.
ANS: (B)Zero hour

2. The first computer made available for commercial use was ?
(A)MANIAC.
(B)ENIAC.
(C)UNIVAC.
(D)EDSAC.
ANS: UNIVAC

3. The time period of a pendulum when taken to the moon would ?
(A)Remain the same.
(B)Decrease.
(C)Become zero.
(D)Increase
ANS: Increase

4. The world’s only floating national park is situated in ?
(A)Manipur.
(B)Kuala Lumpur.
(C)Bilaspur.
(D)Dispur.
ANS:Manipur.

5.The project snow leopard to conserve the endangered species, by the union
ministry of environment and forests covers the state of ?
(A)Jammu and Kashmir and Himachal Pradesh only.
(B)Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand only.
(C)Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Arunachal Pradesh only.
(D)Jammu and Kashmir , Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Arunachal Pradesh and
Sikkim
ANS: D

6.The strong earthquake-cum-tsunami which has moved Japan’s main island by a
few feet and has caused the earth’s axis to wobble is expected to lead to the
shortening of the day by ?
(A)1.6 microseconds.
(B)2.3 microseconds.
(C)3.1 microseconds.
(D)3.4 microseconds
ANS: A

7. "Nomadic Elephant" was the joint military exercise recently held in India between
India and
1 Sri Lanka
2 Malaysia
3 Indonesia
4 Mongolia
ANS: MONGOLIA

8. present secretary general of UNO--------------Ban ki Moon

9. largest producer state of Coal in India----------------------Jharkhand

10. largest producer of coal in world---------------------China

11. The government of India has decided to institute a prestigious international award in the name of Rabindranath Tagore to recognize very distinguished contributions towards the promotion of
ANS: international brotherhood and fraternity

12. Author of the Book "Winner Stands Alone" - Paulo Coelho!

synonyms

13. rendezvous

14. denouement

15. feign

antonyms

16. trite

17. overt

18. anonymous.

19. CIL Authority established in 1975

20. To flog a dead horse---- (Idioms)

21. largest exporter of coal - Australia

22. authorized to issue coins - RBI

23. maximum poll expenditure for parliamentary constituencies - 40 lakes

24. south south dialogue - between developing nations

25. geostationary satellite rotation direction - west to east

Grid Substation 440 KV (GSS 440 KV)

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annuity

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annuity [ uh-NOO-i-tee, uh-NYOO-i-tee ]
[ noun ]

MEANING :
1. the annual payment of an allowance
2. a contract by which one receives fixed payments on an investment for a lifetime

USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :
They assured him that after he retired he would receive an annuity for the rest of his natural life.
USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :
"When you have an annuity and you sell it, there are a lot of penalties that the insured incurs, and the first time you buy an annuity, the agent makes a very nice commission," Atterholt said.

effectuate

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effectuate [ ih-FEK-choo-eyt ]
[ transitive verb ]

MEANING :
1. to effect or bring about
2. to cause to happen

USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :
The slashing of headcount in many companies was effectuated by the economic recession.
USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :
"Given that this court finds that there can never be service effectuated on the named defendant this action will be dismissed with prejudice," Judge Polk wrote in his ruling.

scrupulous

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scrupulous [ SKROO-pyuh'-luh's ]
[ adjective ]

MEANING :
1. principled or having a strict regard for what one considers right
2. painstaking or minutely careful

USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :
The young executive was rewarded by the company for his scrupulous performance during the year.
USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :
Charles Wheeler was a scrupulous reporter who tirelessly pursued the truth.

cavil

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cavil [ KAV-uh'l ]
[ noun, intransitive verb, transitive verb ]

MEANING :
1. (tr. v.) to quibble about or raise inconsequential or frivolous doubts or objections
2. (tr. v.) to make petty objections or point out sham or minor discrepancies
3. (intr. v.) to raise trivial objections or unnecessarily find fault with
4. (n.) a frivolous and irritating objection
3. (n.) the act of making a frivolous objection

USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :
The little boy grumbled that he could never please his parents as they cavilled about everything he did.
USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :
Purists who shudder at the historical doubtfulness of the Uzbek-Timur connection may also cavil at the Tajiks' claims.

hubbub

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hubbub [ HUHB-uhb ]
[ noun ]

MEANING :
1. an uproar or confusion caused by many voices
2. tumult
3. loud noises or din

USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :
The group discussion turned out to be a regular hubbub with each candidate trying to shout down the others.
USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :
Within minutes of filling in my registration forms there was a hubbub at the door and David Cameron, Andrew Lansley and the rest of the shadow health team accompanied by senior Royal Marsden staff arrived in the room.

bliss

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bliss [ blis ]
[ noun ]

MEANING :
1. spiritual joy or heavenly
2. extreme happiness or ecstasy

USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :
The prince married the princess and they lived in bliss for the rest of their lives.
USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :
The notion of suddenly bolting a cushy corporate dream to follow one's bliss may seem romantic.

parochial

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parochial [ puh'-ROH-kee-uh'l ]
[ adjective ]

MEANING :
1. pertaining to or supported by or located in a parish
2. pertaining the education provided by a parochial school
3. very limited scope or narrow in outlook
4. provincial

USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :
The best education is provided in parochial schools.
USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :
Sometimes it's political, sometimes it's parochial, but senators see it as another critical check the legislators have over the executive branch.

lance

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lance [ lans, lahns ]
[ noun, transitive verb ]

MEANING :
1. (n.) a weapon with a long wooden shaft and a sharp metal head
2. (n.) a lancet or surgical knife with a short, pointed double-edged blade for making incisions
3. (n.) a pipe for directing oxygen onto a heated metal object in order to burn a hole in it
4. (tr. v.) to pierce with or as if with a lancet
5. (tr. v.) to cut through with an oxygen lance

USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :
The lance was used by knights in a jousting tournament.
USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :
The event took place in an encampment that featured medieval tents, stocks, the pillory and racks of weapons and lances.

emulate

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emulate [ v. EM-yuh'-leyt; adj. EM-yuh'-lit ]
[ adjective, transitive verb ]

MEANING :
1. (tr. v.) to imitate with an effort to excel or surpass or to strive to equal
2. (tr. v.) to successfully compete with or attain equality with
3. (adj.) desirous of excelling or equalling

USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :
He joined medical college so that he could emulate his father who was a prominent doctor.
USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :
Many people are determined that the United States should emulate the rest of the industrialized world and adopt a publicly subsidized system of universal coverage.

pseudonym

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pseudonym [ SOOD-n-im ]
[ noun ]

MEANING :
1. a pen name
2. a fictitious name used by an author to conceal his or her identity
3. a nickname or alias

USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :
One of the employees wrote a letter to the manager criticizing the new policies being enforced by the company and signed it with a pseudonym.
USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :
Colonel Britton was the pseudonym of Douglas Ritchie, a 36-year-old Assistant News Editor at the BBC.

prefigure

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prefigure [ pree-FIG-yer ]
[ transitive verb ]

MEANING :
1. to foreshadow or show beforehand
2. to imagine or picture beforehand
3. to suggest or represent by an antecedent

USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :
The novel titled “Twenty thousand leagues under the sea” written by Jules Verne prefigured the invention of the submarine.
USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :
In the soaring dreams of Daniel Burnham and the hellish ones of Henry Holmes, Larson has paired two unlikely stories that paint a dazzling picture of the Gilded Age and prefigure the American century to come.

fuss

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fuss: [ fuhs ]
[ noun, intransitive verb, transitive verb ]

MEANING :
1. (n.) an excessive display of anxious attention or needless activity
2. (n.) a noisy dispute
3. (n.) a frivolous complaint or protest
4. (tr. v.) to be excessively careful or to fret or worry over trifles
3. (intr. v.) to disturb or bother with trifles

USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :
The old dame would fuss over her pet dog as if it were a baby.
USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :
The fuss is, and will continue to be, about the funding of British politics and not the precise tax status of members of the House of Lords.

replenish

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replenish [ ri-PLEN-ish ]
[ intransitive verb, transitive verb ]

MEANING :
1. (tr. v.) to fill up or complete again, with what is lacking
2. (tr. v.) to refill or fill again
3. (tr. v.) to supply again with what was used
4. (intr. v.) to become full again

USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :
They placed an order with the grocer who promptly replenished their larder.
USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :
Part of the pearl initiative is to encourage pearl diving in the country again, since experts believe that harvesting oysters actually helps replenish oyster beds.

abbreviate

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abbreviate [ uh'-BREE-vee-eyt ]
[ intransitive verb, transitive verb ]

MEANING :
1. (tr. v.) to make a word shorter by omitting letters
2. (tr. v.) to make briefer or less lengthy
3. (tr. v.) to make a short form of
4. (intr. v.) to use the shortened version of

USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :
He abbreviated most of his presentation due to time constraints.
USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :
Highlight your notes or abbreviate them on cards, so that the information can be referred to easily - but don't spend all of your time doing this instead of revising.

thematic

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thematic [ thee-MAT-ik ]
[ noun ]

MEANING :
1. related to or pertaining to a topic
2. pertaining to the stem of a word

USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :
They conducted a series of thematic discourses which provided guidance and counselling to students who had graduated.
USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :
The gallery said the drawings offered "close thematic and formal comparisons with The Dream".

furtive

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furtive [ FUR-tiv ]
[ adjective ]

MEANING :
1. surreptitious or stealth or secret
2. sly or sneaky
3. having hidden motives

USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :
Security personnel were alerted by the furtive behaviour of the thief.
USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :
The Sunday Telegraph can reveal that amid the deteriorating health of the Duke’s brother King George VI, who had succeeded him after the 1936 abdication crisis, furtive discussions began among rattled courtiers and senior politicians to the possibility of a “caretaker” monarch.

bane

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bane [ beyn ]
[ noun ]

MEANING :
1. anything that spoils or ruins
2. anything that caused harm, destruction or death
3. a deadly poison
4. the source of one's exasperation or a persistent annoyance

USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :
Alcoholism was the bane of his family life.
USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :
Suspension-jarring, bike-toppling, ankle-turning potholes are the bane of road users and local authorities alike.

eccentricity

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eccentricity [ ek-suh'n-TRIS-i-tee ]
[ noun ]

MEANING :
1. a peculiarity or an oddity
2. idiosyncrasy or the quality of being strangely odd
3. a deviation from the normal or the expected

USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :
M. F. Hussain the famous artist is also noted for his eccentricity.

USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :
Oil City Confidential celebrates English eccentricity and cussedness, as well as great music, and the band’s brilliant, boggle-eyed guitarist Wilko Johnson is surely the only pop star in recorded history capable of quoting from Langland’s daunting Middle English poem Piers Plowman.

debris

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debris [ duh'-BREE or especially Brit., DEB-ree ]
[ noun ]

MEANING :
1. wreckage, ruins, rubble or the remains of anything broken down
2. an accumulation of loose rock fragments
3. litter or carelessly discarded refuse

USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :
The road was blocked with debris from the building that had collapsed.
USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :
The report pointed out that on or below every square mile of our ocean, there were 46,000 pieces of floating marine debris and that the problem was particularly acute in certain areas.

bestial

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bestial [ BES-chuh'l ]
[ adjective ]

MEANING :
1. beastly or pertaining to or in the form of a beast
2. inhuman behaviour
3. debased or marked by depravity

USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :
The legend is about a person who assumed a bestial form on the night of the full moon.
USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :
Fr Murray, a well-known civil rights campaigner, said the treatment of prisoners in the H Blocks was "squalid, cowardly and bestial".

laggard

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laggard [ LAG-erd ]
[ noun, adjective ]

MEANING :
1. (n.) a person or thing that lingers
2. (n.) one who loiters or a straggler
3. (adj.) falling behind or dallying
4. (adj.) sluggish

USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :
They stopped several times during the hike to enable the laggards to catch up with them.
USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :
Malaysia is one of the most nationalistic countries in APEC, and has been one of the laggards as the group seeks to reduce trade tariffs to zero by 2010 for developed APEC countries and 2020 for developing ones.

nebula

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nebula [ NEB-yuh'-luh' ]
[ noun, adjective ]

MEANING :
1. (n.) a thinly spread cloud of interstellar dust and gas
2. (n.) a liquid medication prepared for use as a spray
3. (adj.) relating to or resembling a thinly spread cloud of interstellar dust and gas
4. (adj.) cloudy or resembling a cloud

USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :
The scientists concluded that the nebula they were studying was the result of a collapsed star.
USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :
The image, taken by NASA's space-based Chandra Observatory telescope, shows an X-ray nebula 150 light years across.

Coup

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coup [ koo ]
[ noun ]

MEANING :
1. a clever action or accomplishment
2. a very successful move or a brilliantly executed stratagem
3. a takeover or a sudden appropriation of power or leadership

USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :
The presidency had to be won in a free and fair election and not by a coup.
USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :
The protesters are supporters of former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, who was ousted in a bloodless military coup in 2006.

mantle

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mantle [ MAN-tl ]
[ noun, intransitive verb, transitive verb ]

MEANING :
1. (n.) a cloak or loose sleeveless cape
2. (n.) anything that conceals or covers or envelops
3. (tr. v.) to conceal or cover or envelop
4. (intr. v.) to become covered or spread over

USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :
The final trick was the disappearing act in which the magician covered a volunteer with his mantle and made her vanish.
USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :
Ganymede's ocean is probably deeper beneath the surface, not in direct contact with the rocky mantle.

cognate

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cognate [ KOG-neyt ]
[ noun, adjective ]

MEANING :
1. (adj.) related by birth or descended from the same parentage
2. (adj.) descended from the same language
3. (adj.) similar or allied in nature or quality
4. (n.) a person or thing related by origin or by blood with another
3. (n.) a word in one language related to a word in another language

USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :
The pauper was actually a cognate of the prince that is why their features were so amazingly similar.
USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :
No exchanges between Poland and Germany either on Danzig or cognate subjects have taken place

conjugal

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conjugal [ KON-juh'-guh'l ]
[ adjective ]

MEANING :
1. matrimonial or pertaining to marriage
2. the relationship of spouses or to husband and wife

USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :
After they exchanged conjugal vows the priest declared that they were husband and wife.

USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :
The lawsuit filed Friday claims lack of conjugal rights affected Kimondo's marriage and seeks undisclosed damages from the G-10, an umbrella group for women's activists, KBC said.

attrition

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attrition [ uh'-TRISH-uh'n ]
[ noun ]

MEANING :
1. a decrease in size, numbers or strength
2. a gradual reduction in work force without firing of personnel, as when workers resign or retire and are not replaced
3. the act of abrasion or a wearing down or away by friction
4. imperfect contrition or repentance for sin motivated by fear of punishment rather than by love of God

USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :
The HR executive informed the directors at the board meeting that the rate of attrition was high because salaries paid by the company were the lowest in the industry.

USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :
Since our original announcement, the economic downturn has reduced the level of natural attrition.

reprise

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reprise [ ri-PRAHYZ; ruh'-PREEZ ]
[ noun, transitive verb ]

MEANING :
1. (n.) a repetition or resumption of a theme or action
2. (n.) a recurrence or a return to the first theme
3. (n.) an annuity or annual payment
4. (tr. v.) to repeat or execute a repetition of
5. (tr. v.) to resume an action

USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :
At the end of the meeting the secretary was asked for a reprise of the main points that were discussed.

USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :
As previously reported Shane Ritchie will reprise his role as the East End lovable rogue Alfie and Jessie will return as the brash, tart with a heart, Kat Moon.

diurnal

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diurnal [ DAHY-ur-nl ]
[ noun, adjective ]

MEANING :
1. (adj.) daily or pertaining to a day or 24 hour period
2. (adj.) occurring during or belonging to the day time
3. (n.) a book containing the prayers for the daily hours of prayer
2. (n.) a daily newspaper

USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :
The doctor advised him to change his job as working the night shift had caused abnormal diurnal variations in his blood pressure.

USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :
They are also diurnal, and are active through most of the day – unlike other armadillo species, which are mostly nocturnal.

clemency

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clemency [ KLEM-uh'n-see ]
[ noun ]

MEANING :
1. the quality of being merciful or having the disposition to show leniency or compassion
2. the act of being merciful
3. mildness of (weather)

USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :
He pleaded guilty and begged the court for clemency.

USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :
The rights group says it now has time to pursue her appeal in court and make further clemency appeals.

centrifugal

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centrifugal [ sen-TRIF-yuh'-guh'l, -uh'-guh'l ]
[ noun, adjective ]

MEANING :
1. (adj.) moving outward from the centre
2. (adj.) pertaining to or operated by force that moves outward from the centre
3. (n.) a perforated rotating drum for holding the materials to be separated in a centrifuge

USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :
The machine uses centrifugal force to extract juice from the grated fruit.

USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :
Centrifugal force moves the heavier particles to the outside wall of the channel while clean water hugs the inside.

prefatory

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prefatory [ pref-uh-TWAR-ee ]
[ adjective ]

MEANING :
1. introductory or pertaining to a preface
2. characteristic of a preface

USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :
After a short prefatory announcement the CFO went on to an in depth analysis of the financial statement of the company.

USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :
Ben Jonson writes a prefatory poem to the posthumous collected edition of Shakespeare's works.

embody

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embody [ em-BOD-ee ]
[ transitive verb ]

MEANING :
1. to incarnate or provide with a bodily form
2. to incorporate or be part of a system
3. to represent materially
4. to embrace or be a part of

USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :
Their ideas were embodied in the belief that they would be reincarnated.

USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :
Any proposed service must embody the BBC’s core values and be communicated to all interested parties ahead of its introduction.

rarefied

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rarefied [ RAIR-uh'-fahyd ]
[ adjective ]

MEANING :
1. elevated or extremely high
2. lofty
3. belonging or pertaining to an exclusive group

USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :
When dealing with the villagers, the landlord put on a rarefied attitude of royalty.

USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :
The ministers flew in to Lukla, in the Everest region where the nearest airstrip is, a day earlier to acclimatize to the rarefied atmosphere of Kala Patthar.

whit

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whit [ hwit, wit ]
[ noun ]

MEANING :
1. an iota
2. the least bit

USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :
The new student was not a whit afraid of the class bully.

USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :
It doesn't matter a whit that Austrailia 'dominated'.

conglomerate

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conglomerate [ n., adj. kuh'n-GLOM-er-it, kuh'ng-; v. kuh'n-GLOM-uh'-reyt, kuh'ng- ]
[ noun, adjective, intransitive verb ]

MEANING :
1. (n.) a company that consists of a grouping of businesses from unrelated industries
2. (n.) something composed of heterogeneous materials or elements
3. (adj.) clustered or comprising of parts gathered into a mass
4. (adj.) having heterogeneous parts or elements
5. (tr. v.) to form into a mass
6. (intr. v.) to cause to form into a mass

USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :
The CEO declared that their company had become a conglomerate with the successful completion of the acquisition and diversification program.

USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :
The magazine's publisher, El Tiempo Publishing Group, is owned by Spanish conglomerate Grupo Planeta, which owns a Colombian television station and is seeking a government license to operate a national network.

impropriety

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impropriety [ im-pruh'-PRAHY-i-tee ]
[ noun ]

MEANING :
1. an improper act or state
2. quality of being inappropriate or unsuitable
3. an erroneous or incorrect expression
4. the use of an improper or unsuitable word, phrase or expression

USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :
The lecturer reported the impropriety of his behaviour to the principal.

USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :
Mr Blair last night denied any impropriety and insisted all his political and charitable activities were being kept completely separate.

phylum

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phylum [ FAHY-luh'm ]
[ noun ]

MEANING :
1. a primary division of the plant or animal kingdom
2. a large division of genetically related families of languages or linguistic stocks
3. a group of organisms ranking above a class and below a kingdom or the second-largest division of biological classification

USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :
The biology students were asked to examine the six organisms on the table and then identify the phylum to which each specimen belonged.

USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :
The creature, first discovered in a small industrial cooling tower on the outskirts of the city, could qualify for a new ""domain"" in the tree of life - where a domain is a bigger category than a kingdom or a phylum.

convulsion

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convulsion [ kuh'n-VUHL-shuh'n ]
[ noun ]

MEANING :
1. contortion of the body caused by violent, involuntary muscular contractions
2. a commotion or violent disturbance
3. a paroxysm or an uncontrollable fit of laughter

USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :
The electrician was lucky to have survived the convulsions caused by the electric shock.

USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :
It subsequently emerged that he had suffered a convulsion but had been cleared to play in the match in Paris.

aloft

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aloft [ uh'-LAWFT, uh'-LOFT ]
[ adverb ]

MEANING :
1. (adv.) above the ground or high up
2. (adv.) into the air
3. (prep.) at the top of

USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :
They placed the television antenna aloft the roof to get a better reception.

USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :
It's Budget day on Wednesday, when Alistair Darling will hold aloft the Chancellor's famous battered briefcase.

leash

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leash [ leesh ]
[ noun, transitive verb ]

MEANING :
1. (n.) strap attached to the collar or harness of an animal
2. (n.) a restraint or control
3. (n.) a threesome or a group of three
4. (tr. v.) to restrain or control
5. (tr. v.) to connect, associate or bind together

USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :
When walking the dog in the park, he always kept it on a short leash.

USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :
The pit bull terrier was not on a leash at the time of the attack.

welt

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welt [ welt ]
[ noun, intransitive verb, transitive verb ]

MEANING :
1. (n.) a ridge on the skin caused by whip or cane
2. (n.) a strip of leather stitched into a shoe between the upper and the sole
3. (n.) a blow or lash which produces a ridge on the body
4. (tr. v.) to flog or beat soundly
5. (tr. v.) to reinforce with a welt
6. (intr. v.) to be marked with welts

USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :
The jockey was fined for indiscriminately whipping his horse during the race thereby causing welts on its flanks.

USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :
Some will bear the scars, in the form of welts shaped like the drain, on their bodies forever.

codicil

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codicil [ KOD-uh'-suh'l ]
[ noun ]

MEANING :
1. a supplement containing an addition, explanation or modification to a will
2. any supplement or appendix
3. a legal change made in a will

USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :
The billionaire had a codicil drawn up disowning his son-in-law and specifying the amount originally set aside for him to be given to charity instead.

USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :
Meanwhile, I'm drawing up a codicil to my will that states my older son gets the gold sequined pheasant, and my younger the silver owl.

laud

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laud [ lawd ]
[ noun, transitive verb ]

MEANING :
1. (tr. v.) to extol or sing one's praise
2. (tr. v.) to honour or glorify
3. (n.) a song of praise
5. (n.) praise

USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :
People lauded the good work done by volunteers in the tsunami hit area.

USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :
Indian newspapers and analysts lauded Mr Singh's performance in parliament.

fancier

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fancier [ FAN-see-er ]
[ noun, adjective ]

MEANING :
1. (n.) an enthusiast or a person having a liking for something
2. (n.) a person who breeds animals or plants in order to improve their strain
3. (adj.) a greater degree of fancy

USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :
He was a horse fancier and had the largest stud farm in the country.

USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :
The National Homing Union for pigeon fanciers held its first AGM in 1897.

SEMINAR - SUPERVISORY CONTROL AND DATA ACQUISITION (SCADA) SYSTEMS-APPLICATION AND SECURITY

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ABSTRACT

SCADA is an acronym for Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition. SCADA systems are used to monitor and control a plant or equipment in industries such as telecommunications, water and waste control, energy, oil and gas refining and transportation. These systems encompass the transfer of data between a SCADA central host computer and a number of Remote Terminal Units (RTUs) and/or Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs), and the central host and the operator terminals. A SCADA system gathers information (such as where a leak on a pipeline has occurred), transfers the information back to a central site, then alerts the home station that a leak has occurred, carrying out necessary analysis and control, such as determining if the leak is critical, and displaying the information in a logical and organized fashion. These systems can be relatively simple, such as one that monitors environmental conditions of a small office building, or very complex, such as a system that monitors all the activity in a nuclear power plant or the activity of a municipal water system. Traditionally, SCADA systems have made use of the Public Switched Network (PSN) for monitoring purposes. Today many systems are monitored using the infrastructure of the corporate Local Area Network (LAN)/Wide Area Network (WAN). Wireless technologies are now being widely deployed for purposes of monitoring.

A typical SCADA application requires several low cost distributed RTUs, controlled by a central station/master. Common applications for SCADA systems typically include water and waste treatment, electrical power generation, transmission and distribution, wind power energy, oil and gas industries ,train traction system etc.

SCADA is facing some security threat which belonging to different classes i.e. environmental threat, electronic threat, physical security, communication and information network attacks, software damage etc.

TABLE OF CONTENT

CHAPTER-1 SUPERVISORY CONTROL AND DATA ACQUISITION

1.1 Introduction……………………………………………………………1

1.2 Components of SCADA………………………………………...……..3

1.3.Advantages and Disadvantages………………………………………...8

CHAPTER-2 SCADA in Electrical System

2.1 Introduction.............................................................................................9

2.2 SCADA for Hydro Power Plants………..……………………………...11

2.3 SCADA for Thermal Power Plants….……………………..…………....12

CHAPTER-3 Application of SCADA for Oil and Gas Industries

3.1 HPCL Vizag-Secunderabad Multi Product pipeline……………..…..........14

3.2 BP Teeside to Saltend Ethylene Pipeline (TSEP)……………….…….......16

3.3 Crude Oil Storage and Loading Terminal for QGPC Qatar……….............18

CHAPTER -4 Miscellaneous Applications

4.1 SCADA System for Fore Street Underpass UK.……………………….20

4.2 WIND POWER SCADA SYSTEMS.…………………………………21

4.3 SCADA System for Filling System ………………………………...…....22

CHAPTER-5 Security Consideration

5.1 Environmental threats ………………………………………….……....25

5.2 Electronic threats …………………………….…………………….…..26

5.3 Physical security …………………………………………………...…..30

5.4 Communication and information networks ………………………..….....31

5.5 Software management and documentation ………………………...…....32

BIBLIOGRAPHY……...…...…………………………………………………34

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List of Indian Nobelist

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Rabindranath Tagore (1861 - 1941) -Nobel Prize for : Literature (1913)

CV Raman (1888 - 1970) -Nobel Prize for Physics : (1930)

Dr. Hargobind Khorana -Nobel Prize for Medicine and Physiology : (1968)

Dr. Subramaniam Chandrasekar-Nobel Prize for physics : (1983)

Mother Teresa (1910 - 1997) -Nobel Prize for peace : (1979)

Dr. Amartya Sen -Nobel Prize for Economics: (1998)

RK Pachauri (IPCC) -Nobel Peace Prize : 2007

Other Nobel Prize Laureates related to India

Rudyard Kipling : (1865-1936)
VS Naipaul : (1932)

Padma Awards 2010

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Padma Awards, the country’s highest civilian awards, are conferred in three categories, namely, Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan and Padma Shri. The awards are given in all disciplines/ fields of activities, viz. art, social work, public affairs, science and engineering, trade and industry, medicine, literature and education, sports, civil service, etc. ‘Padma Vibhushan’ is awarded for exceptional and distinguished service; ‘Padma Bhushan’ for distinguished service of high order and ‘Padma Shri’ for distinguished service in any field. The awards are announced on the occasion of Republic Day every year.

The awards are conferred by the President of India at a function held at Rashtrapati Bhavan sometime around March/ April. This year the President has approved 130 awards including 13 in the category of Foreigners/ NRIs/ PIOs. These comprise 6 Padma Vibhushan, 43 Padma Bhushan and 81 Padma Shri awards. There are 17 ladies among the awardees.

Padma Vibhushan

Sl.No.	Name	Discipline	State/ Domicile
1.	Shri Ebrahim Alkazi	Art	Delhi
2.	Shri Umayalpuram K. Sivaraman	Art	Tamil Nadu
3.	Smt. Zohra Segal	Art	Delhi
4.	Dr. Yaga Venugopal Reddy	Public Affairs	Andhra Pradesh
5.	Dr. Venkatraman Ramakrishnan	Science and Engineering	UK *
6.	Dr. Prathap Chandra Reddy	Trade and Industry	Tamil Nadu

Padma Bhushan

Sl.No.	Name	Discipline	State/ Domicile
1.	Shri Ilaiyaraaja	Art	Tamil Nadu
2.	Shri Aamir Khan	Art	Maharashtra
3.	Shri Akbar Padamsee	Art	Maharashtra
4.	Shri Allah Rakha Rahman	Art	Tamil Nadu
5.	Pandit Chhannulal Mishra	Art	Uttar Pradesh
6.	Smt. Kumudini Lakhia	Art	Gujarat
7.	Shri Kuzhur Narayana Marar	Art	Kerala
8.	Prof. Madhusudan Amilal Dhaky	Art	Gujarat
9.	Ms. Mallika Sarabhai	Art	Gujarat
10.	Prof. (Dr.) Nookala Chinna Satyanarayana	Art	Andhra Pradesh
11.	Pandit (Dr.) Puttaraj Gavai	Art	Karnataka
12.	Shri Ram Kumar	Art	Delhi
13.	Shri Shrinivas Vinayak Khale	Art	Maharashtra
14.	Ustad Sultan Khan	Art	Maharashtra
15.	Shri B.K. Chaturvedi	Civil Service	Delhi
16.	Shri Moosa Raza	Civil Service	Delhi
17.	Dr. P.R. Dubhashi	Civil Service	Maharashtra
18.	Shri Fareed Zakaria	Journalism	USA *
19.	Shri Anil Bordia	Literature and Education	Rajasthan
20.	Prof. Bipan Chandra	Literature and Education	Delhi
21.	Shri G.P. Chopra	Literature and Education	Delhi
22.	Prof. Mohammad Amin	Literature and Education	Delhi
23.	Prof. Satya Vrat Shastri	Literature and Education	Delhi
24.	Prof. Tan Chung	Literature and Education	USA *
25.	Prof. Belle Monappa Hegde	Medicine	Karnataka
26.	Shri E.T. Narayanan Mooss	Medicine	Kerala
27.	Dr. Noshir M. Shroff	Medicine	Delhi
28.	Dr. Panniyampilly Krishna Warrier	Medicine	Kerala
29.	Dr. Ramakant Madanmohan Panda	Medicine	Maharashtra
30.	Prof.(Dr.) Satya Paul Agarwal	Medicine	Delhi
31.	Prof. Abhijit Sen	Public Affairs	Delhi
32.	Shri Sailesh Kumar Bandyopadhyay	Public Affairs	West Bengal
33.	Shri Sant Singh Chatwal	Public Affairs	USA *
34.	Prof. Arogyaswami Joseph Paulraj	Science and Engineering	USA *
35.	Prof. Bikash Chandra Sinha	Science and Engineering	West Bengal
36.	Shri Jagdish Chandra Kapur	Science and Engineering	Delhi
37.	Dr. Balagangadharanatha Swamiji	Social Work	Karnataka
38.	Shri Eknath Rao alias Balasaheb Vikhe Patil	Social Work	Maharashtra
39.	Capt. C.P. Krishnan Nair	Trade and Industry	Maharashtra
40.	Dr. Kushal Pal Singh	Trade and Industry	Delhi
41.	Shri Manvinder Singh Banga alias Vindi Banga	Trade and Industry	UK *
42.	Shri Narayanan Vaghul	Trade and Industry	Tamil Nadu
43.	Shri S.P. Oswal	Trade and Industry	Punjab

Padma Shri

Sl.No.	Name	Discipline	State/ Domicile
1.	Shri Gulam Mohammed Mir	Public Service	Jammu and Kashmir
2.	Ms. Rekha	Art	Maharashtra
3.	Shri Arjun Prajapati	Art	Rajasthan
4.	Ms. Arundhati Nag	Art	Karnataka
5.	Ms. Carmel Berkson	Art	Maharashtra
6.	Ustad F. Wasifuddin Dagar	Art	Delhi
7.	Smt. Gul Bardhan	Art	Madhya Pradesh
8.	Smt. Haobam Ongbi Ngangbi Devi	Art	Manipur
9.	Shri Hari Uppal	Art	Bihar
10.	Shri K. Raghavan	Art	Kerala
11.	Guru Mayadhar Raut	Art	Delhi
12.	Shri Mukund Lath	Art	Rajasthan
13.	Shri Nemai Ghosh	Art	West Bengal
14.	Pandit Raghunath Panigrahi	Art	Orissa
15.	Shri Rajkumar Achouba Singh	Art	Manipur
16.	Dr. Ram Dayal Munda	Art	Jharkhand
17.	Shri Resul Pokutty	Art	Kerala
18.	Shri Saif Ali Khan	Art	Maharashtra
19.	Dr. (Smt.) Shobha Raju	Art	Andhra Pradesh
20.	Ms. Sumitra Guha	Art	Delhi
21.	Pandit Ulhas Kashalkar	Art	West Bengal
22.	Shri D.R. Karthikeyan	Civil Service	Delhi
23.	Dr. Ranjit Bhargava	Environment Protection	Uttarakhand
24.	Shri Arun Sarma	Literature and Education	Assam
25.	Prof. Arvind Kumar	Literature and Education	Maharashtra
26.	Ms. Bertha Gyndykes Dkhar	Literature and Education	Meghalaya
27.	Prof. Govind Chandra Pande	Literature and Education	Madhya Pradesh
28.	Prof. Hamidi Kashmiri	Literature and Education	Jammu and Kashmir
29.	Prof. (Dr.) Hermann Kulke	Literature and Education	Germany *
30.	Shri Janaki Ballav Shastri	Literature and Education	Bihar
31.	Dr. Jitendra Udhampuri	Literature and Education	Jammu and Kashmir
32.	Dr. Lal Bahadur Singh Chauhan	Literature and Education	Uttar Pradesh
33.	Shri Lalzuia Colney	Literature and Education	Mizoram
34.	Ms. Maria Aurora Couto	Literature and Education	Goa
35.	Dr.(Smt.) Rajalakshmi Parthasarathy alias Y.G. Parthasarathy	Literature and Education	Tamil Nadu
36.	Prof. Ramaranjan Mukherji	Literature and Education	West Bengal
37.	Dr. Ranganathan Parthasarathy	Literature and Education	Tamil Nadu
38.	Fr. Romuald D’Souza	Literature and Education	Goa
39.	Prof. Sadiq - Ur - Rahman Kidwai	Literature and Education	Delhi
40.	Mr. Sheldon Pollock	Literature and Education	USA *
41.	Dr. Surendra Dubey	Literature and Education	Chhattisgarh
42.	Dr. Anil Kumar Bhalla	Medicine	Delhi
43.	Dr. Arvinder Singh Soin	Medicine	Uttar Pradesh
44.	Dr. B. Ramana Rao	Medicine	Karnataka
45.	Dr. Jalakantapuram Ramaswamy Krishnamoorthy	Medicine	Tamil Nadu
46.	Dr. K.K. Aggarwal	Medicine	Delhi
47.	Prof. Kodaganur S. Gopinath	Medicine	Karnataka
48.	Dr. Laxmi Chand Gupta	Medicine	Delhi
49.	Dr. Philip Augustine	Medicine	Kerala
50.	Dr. Rabindra Narain Singh	Medicine	Bihar
51.	Dr. Vikas Mahatme	Medicine	Maharashtra
52.	Dr. Rafael Iruzubieta Fernandez	Public Affairs	Spain *
53.	Prof. M.R. Satyanarayana Rao	Science and Engineering	Karnataka
54.	Prof. (Dr.) Palpu Pushpangadan	Science and Engineering	Kerala
55.	Prof. Ponisseril Somasundaran	Science and Engineering	USA *
56.	Prof. Pucadyil Ittoop John	Science and Engineering	Gujarat
57.	Dr. Vijay Prasad Dimri	Science and Engineering	Andhra Pradesh
58.	Dr.(Ms.) Vijaylakshmi Ravindranath	Science and Engineering	Karnataka
59.	Ms. Anu Aga	Social Work	Maharashtra
60.	Shri Ayekpam Tomba Meetei	Social Work	Manipur
61.	Shri Deep Joshi	Social Work	Delhi
62.	Dr. J.R. Gangaramani	Social Work	UAE *
63.	Shri Kranti Shah	Social Work	Maharashtra
64.	Dr. Kurian John Melamparambil	Social Work	Kerala
65.	Baba Sewa Singh	Social Work	Punjab
66.	Ms. Sudha Kaul	Social Work	West Bengal
67.	Dr. Sudhir M. Parikh	Social Work	USA *
68.	Shri Ignace Tirkey	Sports	Orissa
69.	Kumar Ram Narain Karthikeyan	Sports	Tamil Nadu
70.	Shri Ramakant Vithal Achrekar	Sports	Maharashtra
71.	Ms. Saina Nehwal	Sports	Andhra Pradesh
72.	Shri Vijender Singh	Sports	Haryana
73.	Shri Virendra Sehwag	Sports	Delhi
74.	Dr. Alluri Venkata Satyanarayana Raju	Trade and Industry	Andhra Pradesh
75.	Dr. B. Raveendran Pillai	Trade and Industry	Bahrain *
76.	Shri Deepak Puri	Trade and Industry	Delhi
77.	Shri Irshad Mirza	Trade and Industry	Uttar Pradesh
78.	Brig. Dr. Kapil Mohan	Trade and Industry	Himachal Pradesh
79.	Dr. Karsanbhai Khodidas Patel	Trade and Industry	Gujarat
80.	Shri T.N. Manoharan	Trade and Industry	Tamil Nadu
81.	Shri Venu Srinivasan	Trade and Industry	Tamil Nadu

Note: *Denotes awardees in the category of Foreigners/ NRIs/ PIOs.

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News Papers Name With Their Founders

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Newspaper/Journal	Founder/Editor
Bengal Gazette(1780) (India’s first newspaper)	J.K.Hikki
Kesari	B.G.Tilak
Maharatta	B.G.Tilak
Sudharak	G.K.Gokhale
Amrita Bazar Patrika	Sisir Kumar Ghosh and Motilal Ghosh
Vande Mataram	Aurobindo Ghosh
Native Opinion	V.N.Mandalik
Kavivachan Sudha	Bhartendu Harishchandra
Rast Goftar (First newspaper in Gujarati)	Dadabhai Naoroji
New India (Weekly)	Bipin Chandra Pal
Statesman	Robert Knight
Hindu	Vir Raghavacharya and G.S.Aiyar
Sandhya	B.B.Upadhyaya
Vichar Lahiri	Krishnashastri Chiplunkar
Hindu Patriot	Girish Chandra Ghosh (later Harish Chandra Mukherji)
Som Prakash	Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar
Yugantar	Bhupendranath Datta and Barinder Kumar Ghosh
Bombay Chronicle	Firoze Shah Mehta
Hindustan	M.M.Malviya
Mooknayak	B.R.Ambedkar
Comrade	Mohammed Ali
Tahzib-ul-Akhlaq	Sir Syyed Ahmed Khan
Al-Hilal	Abdul Kalam Azad
Al-Balagh	Abdul Kalam Azad
Independent	Motilal Nehru
Punjabi	Lala Lajpat Rai
New India (Daily)	Annie Besant
Commonweal	Annie Besant
Pratap	Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi
Essays in Indian Economics	M.G.Ranade
Samvad Kaumudi (Bengali)	Ram Mohan Roy
Mirat-ul-Akhbar	Ram Mohan Roy (first Persian newspaper)
Indian Mirror	Devendra Nath Tagore
Nav Jeevan	M.K.Gandhi
Young India	M.K.Gandhi
Harijan	M.K.Gandhi
Prabudha Bharat	Swami Vivekananda
Udbodhana	Swami Vivekananda
Indian Socialist	Shyamji Krishna Verma
Talwar (in Berlin)	Birendra Nath Chattopadhyaya
Free Hindustan (in Vancouver)	Tarak Nath Das
Hindustan Times	K.M.Pannikar
Kranti	Mirajkar, Joglekar, Ghate

NFL Question 2010

2010-04-06T07:43:00.000-07:00

Income tax range for general,woman and senior citizen-(Rs.160000,190000,240000)
Commonwealth game 2010-No. of team,No. of Sports,Which one-(71,17,19)
Team playing in IPL III-(8)
Team played in Hocky World Cup 2010-(12)
Inflation rate in India

Tureen

2010-02-22T18:53:00.002-08:00

tureen [ too'-REEN ]
[ noun ]

MEANING :
1. a large covered bowl used for serving soup or stew
2. a large and deep dish which has a cover

USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :
The butler served the guests with soup from a huge tureen.

USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :
Silver platters of sushi, cold meats and delicately cut sandwiches were constantly replenished, along with tureens of beef and broccoli, grilled salmon or scallops.

Enrapture

2010-02-22T18:53:00.001-08:00

enrapture [ en-RAP-cher ]
[ transitive verb ]

MEANING :
1. (tr. v.) to fill with delight
2. (tr. v.) to enchant
3. (tr. v.) to enthrall or entrance

USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :
The audience was enraptured by the stellar performance of the Russian Ballet troupe.

USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :
By the end of the evening they had most of the crowd squeezed onto the dance floor enraptured by the performance.

Germinal

2010-02-22T18:52:00.000-08:00

germinal [ JUR-muh'-nl ]
[ adjective ]

MEANING :
1. occurring in the earliest stage of development
2. relating to a germ or germs or germ cell

USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :
They were provided with a germinal concept and had to build a plan of action around it.

USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :
We surmise that cells of the adult forebrain germinal zone might be potential candidate cells to be transplanted for the replacement of non-renewable hair cells.

Gobble

2010-02-22T18:51:00.000-08:00

gobble [ GOB-uh'l ]
[ intransitive verb, transitive verb ]

MEANING :
1. (tr. v.) to eat greedily
2. (intr. v.) to eat quickly and greedily
3. (intr. v.) to utter a guttural, chortling sound like a male turkey

USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :
The hungry urchins gobbled up the food they were given and then asked for more.

USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :
They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannise their teachers.

Dossier

2010-02-22T18:46:00.002-08:00

dossier [ DOS-ee-ey; Fr. daw-SEYE ]
[ noun ]

MEANING :
1. a file of documents on a particular subject
2. a collection or a complete file containing details about a person or subject

USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :
The incriminating dossier of the company had mysteriously disappeared.

USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :
Lawyers for the last man to be sentenced to death in Northern Ireland are to seek access to a secret dossier in a bid to overturn his conviction.

Sextant

2010-02-22T18:46:00.001-08:00

sextant [ SEK-stuh'nt ]
[ noun ]

MEANING :
1. an instrument used to determine latitude and longitude at sea by measuring the altitudes of the stars or other celestial bodies

USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :
In the old days, before the discovery of radar the sextant was used in the navigation of ships.

USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :
Last week, a sextant -- an instrument used by navigators to measure the angular distance of the sun from the horizon -- with the inscription "Mercier" was found near "the fault".

Circumspect

2010-02-22T18:45:00.001-08:00

circumspect [ SUR-kuh'm-spekt ]
[ adjective ]

MEANING :
1. (adj.) cautious or watchful and discreet
2. (adj.) mindful of the circumstances and consequences
3. (adj.) prudent

USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :
The confident trickster had never been caught because of his circumspect behaviour.

USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :
Defense Secretary Robert Gates praises former President Reagan for being "circumspect" about putting American troops at risk.

Motif

2010-02-22T18:44:00.002-08:00

motif [ moh-TEEF ]
[ noun ]

MEANING :
1. a recurrent theme in an artistic or literary work
2. a distinctive and recurring shape appearing in a design
3. a dominant concept, feature or central idea

USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :
The decorative motif on the curtains was very eye-catching.

USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :
Journalists shown around the compound earlier this week noted cushions emblazoned with diamante skulls, and walls decorated with a flame motif.

Degenerate

2010-02-22T18:44:00.001-08:00

degenerate [ v. di-JEN-uh'-reyt; adj., n. di-JEN-er-it ]
[ noun, verb, adjective ]

MEANING :
1. (adj.) having lost the qualities appropriate to humankind
2. (adj.) having sunk below the desired level of moral qualities
3. (n.) a person who has fallen from a normal standard of moral character
4. (tr. v.) to sink below the normal standard in mental, physical or moral qualities
5. (intr. v.) to bring about deterioration

USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :
He was shunned by society because he was a degenerate person

USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :
The Hamas-organized rally began peacefully but degenerated into violence with hundreds of Palestinians throwing rocks across the border wall.

Orient

2010-02-22T18:43:00.001-08:00

orient [ n., adj. AWR-ee-uh'nt, -ee-ent, OHR-; v. AWR-ee-ent ]
[ noun, verb, adjective ]

MEANING :
1. (n.) the east; also the eastern region of the heavens
2. (n.) Asian countries
3. (adj.) exceptionally lustrous or iridescent
4. (tr. v.) to adjust to or become familiar with
5. (tr. v.) to place or position so as to face the east
6. (tr. v.) to align with respect to a point of reference

USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :
Businessmen tour the orient in search of lucrative trade opportunities.

USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :
But Brazil still needs market oriented reforms of taxation, pensions and education

Remove Virus in XP that Disables "Show Hidden Files"

2010-02-21T02:35:00.000-08:00

There is a certain virus that prevents XP users from viewing the hidden files.

The virus meddles with the ’Show hidden files and folders’ option in the Folder Options and the option keeps bouncing back to ‘Do not show hidden files and folders’, despite repeated trials.

Here is how you can set this problem right:

Navigate to the windows registry:
Go to Start menu
Click Run
Type regedit in the text box and then click Enter.

When the Registry Editor opens, perform the following steps:

Go to the following registry key:

Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE and then open Software.Under this navigate to:

Microsoft -> Windows -> Current Version -> Explorer Then go to Advanced -> Folder -> Hidden -> SHOWALL

Delete the value CheckedValue.

(Its type should be REG_SZ and data should be 2 or 0.)

Modify the value data to 1 (0×00000001).This should enable you to select the ‘Show hidden files and folders’ option without much problem.

How to Remove Autorun Virus from Hard Disk Drives

2010-02-20T23:56:00.000-08:00

Open command prompt. Go to Windows, then Run, and type "cmd" . Press enter
Type "cd\" and press enter to get to the root directory of c:\ .
Type "attrib -h -r -s autorun.inf" and press enter.
Type "del autorun.inf" and press enter.
Repeat the same process with other drives, type "d:" and do the same thing. then next "e:".and restart your computer.
Restart your computer and it's done. Enjoy the freedom to open hard drives on a double click.

Slipshod

2010-02-16T20:37:00.001-08:00

slipshod [ SLIP-shod ]
[ adjective ]

MEANING :
1. untidy or careless
2. slovenly
3. shabby in appearance

USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :
He was denied entry into the five star restaurant because of the slipshod way he was dressed.

USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :
The surprise, and disappointment, of "The Da Vinci Code" is how slipshod and hokey the religious detective story now seems.

Indoctrinate

2010-02-16T20:36:00.001-08:00

indoctrinate [ in-DOK-truh'-neyt ]
[ transitive verb ]

MEANING :
1. to instruct in a principle or ideology
2. to teach or impress upon
3. to influence with an ideological point of view

USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :
The militants were indoctrinated against western culture.

USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :
But Ryan Kent, the lawyer who filed suit on behalf of Harrelson and 26 other former employees in May, said Dahn Yoga leaders indoctrinate followers, then "take advantage of you and take all your money."

Prologue

2010-02-16T20:35:00.001-08:00

prologue [ PROH-lawg ]
[ noun, verb ]

MEANING :
1. (n.) an introductory part or preface to a literary piece or speech
2. (n.) the actor who delivers an introduction
3. (v.) to introduce with

USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :
After reading the prologue which was not to his liking he returned the book to the library without reading it.

USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :
The prologue, by the first of many narrators, explains that the story takes place in “that golden age which nobody noticed… at the time”: between the fall of the Berlin Wall and the attack on the World Trade Center.

Sullen

2010-02-16T20:34:00.001-08:00

sullen [ SUHL-uh'n ]
[ adjective ]

MEANING :
1. sulky or silent resentment
2. somber or gloomy
3. sluggish

USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :
The child was in a sullen mood because he could not have his way.

USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :
My son is 15 years old and moody, uncommunicative, sullen and rude.

Philanthropist

2010-02-16T20:33:00.000-08:00

philanthropist [ fi-LAN-thruh'-pist ]
[ noun ]

MEANING :
1. a person who is charitable in an effort to increase the well-being of humankind
2. a person who has a great love of humankind

USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :
A philanthropist funded the research and development of the new vaccine which has saved many lives.

USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :
He said Sir Allen was the most significant philanthropist Northern Ireland has ever known.

Gate 2010 Aptitude Solved Paper (Mining Engineering)

2010-02-15T02:55:00.000-08:00

1. The closest meaning of the word EXHORT is
a) Urge
b) restrain
c) condemn
d) scold
Answer:a

2. PREAMBLE: CONSTITUTION
a) Amendment: Law
b) Prologue: Play
c) Episode: Serial
d) plot: story
Answer:b

3. Fill in the blanks
The committee wrote a ...............report extolling only the strength of the proposal
a) Reasonable
b) supportive
c) biased
d) fragmented
Answer:c

4. If the country has to achieve real prosperity, it is ............. that the fruits of progress reach all in equal measures.
a) Inevitable
b) Contingent
c) Oblivious
d) Imperative
Answer:d

5. A person invest Rs. 1000 at 10% CI compounded annually for 2 years .At the end of 2 years the whole amount is invested at an annual SI of 12 % pa for 5 years. The total value of investment finally is
a) 1776
b) 1760
c) 1920
d) 1936
Answer:d

6. "The ban on smoking in designated public places can save a large number of well known effects of environmental tobacco smoke, and the passive smokers are the worst affected from it”. Which of the following sentences sums up the meaning of the above passage?
a) Effects of tobacco are well known
b) The ban of smoking in public places protects the non smokers
c) Passive smoking is bad for your health.
d) The ban of smoking in public places excludes passive smokers.
Answer:b

7. Consider the set of integers (1, 2, 3..............,5000) the number of integers that is divisible by neither 3 nor 4 is :
a) 1668
b) 2084
c) 2500
d) 2916
Answer:c

8. Given the sequence A, BB, CCC, DDDD...........and so on , the 240th letter in the sequence will be:
a) V
b) U
c) T
d) W
Answer:a

9. A positive integer m in base 10 when represented in base 2 has the representation p and the base 3 has the representation q , We get p-q= 990, where the subtraction is done in base 10 , Which of the following is necessarily true:
a)14
b) 9
Answer:b

10. Given the following functions
f1 (n) =n100 f2 (n) =1.2n f3 (n) =2n/2 f4 (n) = 3n/3 Which function will have the largest value for sufficiently large value of n as (n→∞)
a) f1
b) f2
c) f3
d) f4
Answer:d

Electrical Engineering GATE 2010 Answer Key

2010-02-14T08:30:00.000-08:00

1.B

2.A

3.D

4.B

5.B

6.A

7.B

8.D

9.D

10.A

11.C

12.D

13.C

14.C

15.A

16.A

17.A

18.C

19.C

20.C

21.B

22.B

23.A

24.C

25.A

26.D

27.C

28.B

29.B

30.D

31.D

32.C

33.B

34.C

35.A

36.A

37.C

38.C

39.A

40.C

41.D

42.B

43.A

44.B

45.A

46.A

47.D

48.B

49.B

50.D

51.A

52.B

53.D

54.D

55.A

56.D

57.D

58.A

59.B

60.C

61.B

62.D

63.C

64.B

65.C

Expected Cut Off for IITs is 35 Marks or 95 Percentile

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Eigenvalues of 2×2 matrices by Trace and determinant

2010-02-13T06:49:00.000-08:00

An analytic solution for the eigenvalues of 2×2 matrices can be obtained directly from the quadratic formula: if

The characteristics polynomial is

so the solutions are

Notice that the characteristic polynomial of a 2×2 matrix can be written in terms of the TRACE tr(A) = a + d and determinant det(A) = ad − bc as

where I₂ is the 2×2 identity matrix The solutions for the eigenvalues of a 2×2 matrix can thus be written as

Coal India Limited Placement Paper Process

2010-01-18T17:19:00.000-08:00

Coal India visits M.B.M. Engineering College,Jodhpur on 17^th Jan, 2010

When most of the companies are recruiting in single digit Coal India has cheered the student community by recruiting 26 students. Package offered by the company was quite attractive and outnumbered other PSUs by selecting 26 candidates.

Offer by the company:

Eligibility	B.E.(MECH, EE, Mining,Civil )
Salary	CTC- 5.8 LPA (approximate)
Profile Offered	Management Trainee (Technical)
Location	Not Disclosed

Placement Process Detail:

The process followed by Coal India was:

1) Group Discussion

2) Interview(HR+Technical)

Other Description:

Higher CGPA Preferred.

Results:

Total offers made -26
Mining - 10
Mechanical - 04
EE– 05 , Civil-07

Company Profile:

For details please visit: http://www.coalindia.in/

https://www.coalindia.in/Career/default.aspx

NOTE- Colour Blindness problem having person will not be allowed to join the company(That person will be declared medically unfit)