INTERESTING INFO !!!

SOME INTERESTING INFO !!!

(1) To honour KamalHasan's presence in cinema for 50 years, Govt of India inagurated a 3-day festival in New Delhi which screens some of his films like 'Nayagan', 'HeyRam', 'Virumandi' etc...

(2) India shares border with 7 countries.

(3) The largest state in India is (by area) is Rajasthan.

(4) The number of coastal states in India is 09 (05 in West and 04 in East) .

(5) Those who are pregnant after 35 years will have the 1 in 27 chance of giving birth to twins !!!

(6) Ms Aishwarya Rai was the first Indian personlaity to be in the prestigious Cannes Film Festival as jury member .

(7) Chandrayaan-II will be launched in 2013.

(8) July 01 is being celebrated as World Doctor's Day.

(9) The famous Amarnath Shrine is in South Himalayas.

(10) FIFA-2010 is being held at South Africa.

(11) "Shera" is the mascot of the XIX Commonwealth Games 2010 Delhi.

(12) Leander Paes and Cara Black won the Wimbledon 2010 mixed doubles title.

(13) Worl EARTH Day is observed on April 22.

(14) Including India, at present 13 countries in the world have women as their PM or President. {one country to have both of them as women}.

(15) BENTHOS: Plant biomes found beneath the seas.

(16) India and Canada signed civil nuclear pact in 2010.

(17) Telecom operator Bharti Airtel today said that its subscribers can access social networking site Facebook on their mobiles free of cost for two months till August 31.

(18) The motto of Commonwealth Games is "Humanity-Eauality-Destiny".

(19) The previous name of Commonwealth Games is/are: "British Empire Games", "British Empire and Commonwealth Games" and "British Commonwealth Games". From 1978, the name, "Commonwealth Games" was came into existence.

(20) Indian Peace Keeping Force was the Indian military contingent performing a peacekeeping operation in Sri Lanka between 1987 and 1990. It was formed under the mandate of the Indo-Sri Lankan Accord signed between India and Sri Lanka in 1987 that aimed to end the Sri Lankan Civil War between militant Sri Lankan Tamil nationalists such as the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and the Sri Lankan military.

(21) The venue of 2016 Olympic Games is Rio de Janeiro(Brazil), the first south-american city to host the event.

(22) 2014 Commonwealth Games will be held in Glasgow, Scotland.

(23) At the time of USA founded in 1776, it had 13 colonies/provinces/states. Now it has 50+1.

(24) Concorde palne was a product of an Anglo-French government treaty, combining the manufacturing efforts of Aerospatiale and the British Aircraft Corporation. First flown in 1969, Concorde entered service in 1976 and continued for 27 years still 2003.

(25) Mother Teresa/Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu was born in Macedonia.