All About Civil Services: 23/10/2011

Monday, 24 October 2011

Important Facts About India 2

PIN Code which stands for Postal Index Number was introduced in India in 1972.
STD stands for Subscriber Trunk Dialing was first introduced in India between Kanpur and Lucknow.
The Railway Board of India was established in 1905.
The Shipping Corporation of India was set up in 1961.
The Indian Constitution was modelled on the fedral pattern of the country known as Canada.
The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research(C.S.I.R) was set up in 1942.
The Atomic Energy Commission was set up in August,1948.
The Indian Constitution is essentially democratic and republican in character.It declares India to be a Sovereign Democratic Republic.
Solar Physical Observatory is situated at Kodaikanal.
The Space Commission was set up in June,1972.

Important Facts About India 1

On July 22,1947 the tri-color was adopted as India's National Flag.
The lion capital was adopted as the National Emblem by the Government of India on January 26,1950.
The unified Indian Calendar is based on the Saka Era.
Minimum age limit for becoming a member of Lok Sabha is 25 years.
Minimum age limit for becoming a member of Rajya Sabha is 30 years.
The Planning Commission was set up in 1950,its first chairman was Dr. Jawaharlal Nehru.
Kavaratti is the administrated headquarter of Lakshadweep.
The length of the river Ganga is 1650 miles.
The river which flows between Vindhyas and Satpuras is Sone.
The State having deposits of nickel is Orissa.

AIM'S of INTERPOL

According to its constitution, these are Interpol's aims.

Article 2

(1) To ensure and promote the widest possible mutual assistance between

all criminal police authorities within the limits of the laws existing in the different

countries and in the spirit of "Universal Declaration of Human Rights".

(2) To establish and develop all institutions likely to contribute effectively to the

prevention and suppression of ordinary law crimes.

Article 3

It is strictly forbidden for the Organization to undertake any intervention or activities

of a political, military, religious or racial character.

Founder of Interpol : Dr. Johann Schober(1874-1932)

The man who actively founded Interpol started as a policeman in the Austro-Hungarian Empire as a young man and quickly made his way into the upper ranks.As he did so ,he encouraged the gathering of records of criminals of many different nations.

In 1918, he was made head of the Vienna police,but just then,the treaty ending World War I split the empire into several different independent countries.He remained in the new Austria and encouraged the police to accept the new government.

In 1921,Schober was elected prime minister of Austria,but he held the position for few months only.When he helped form the International Criminal Police Commission(ICPC) in 1923, the Austrian international records became the core of the new organization's criminal records.

Sunday, 23 October 2011

Purchase of Alaska from Russia,American revolutionary Benjamin Franklin ....

American revolutionary Benjamin Franklin tested the electrical charge of a thunder storm.
American revolutionary hero Nathan Hale last words were,'I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country'.
The animal symbol 'elephant' represents the US Republican Party.
The Softball originated in USA.
$100 note is the largest note in general circulation in the USA.
The US state of Florida is nicknamed as ' the Sunshine state'.
In 1978 the US Open Tennis Championships moved from Forest Hills to Flushing Meadows.
The purchase of Alaska from Russia in 1867, for $7,200,000 was known as 'Sewald's Folly'.
Manhattan cocktail was invented by Lady Randolph Churchill(Winston Churchill's mother).
John F Kennedy was the thirty fifth president of USA.

Smallest state of USA,Louisiana purchase of 1803....

The smallest state of USA is Rhode Island.
Arthur Ashe was the first black man to win the US tennis championship.
New York was the first US state to require car licences in 1901.
Harvard is the oldest university in USA.
Bill Tilden was the only player to have won the United States Singles Tennis Championships at Forest Hills seven times.
C.C Magee invented the parking meter(in the USA) which was first used in 1935.
The metal known as columbium in the USA is called niobium in the UK.
Delaware, USA is also referred as Diamond state.
As a philanthropic experiment to give debtors from English prisons a chance, General Oglethrope founded the state of Georgia,USA in 1733.
US President Thomas Jefferson completed the Louisiana purchase of 1803.