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Stands For
AC Alternate Current OR Air Conditioner IBA Indian Bank Association ACC Ancillary Cadet Core ICBM Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile AD Ano Domini (After the birth of Jesus) WHO World Health Organisation ADB Asian Development Bank WILL Wireless in Local Loop AEC Atomic Energy Commission WIPO World Intellectual Property Organisation BAMS Bachelor of Ayurvedic Medicine and Surgery WLL-M Mobile Warless in Local Loop BARC Bhabha Atomic Research Centre WMO World Meteorological Organisation BBC British Broadcasting Corporation ZBB Zero Based Budgeting BC Before Christ (Before the birth of Jesus) ZSI Zoological Survey of India BCG Bacillus Chalmette Guerin (Anti TB Vaccine) KG Kinder Garten CAG Comptroller and Auditor General KYC Know Your Customer CBI Central Bureau of Investigation LIC Life Insurance Corporation of India CBSE Central Board of Secondary Education LLB Bachelor of Law C-DAC Central For Development of Advance
Computing LLM Master of Law
BSNL Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd. LMG Light Machine Gum CASA Current Account and Savings Account
deposits LoC Line of Control (Pakistan)
DDT Dichloro Diphenyle Tri-chloromethane MA Master of Arts DFDR Digital Flight Data Recorder (Black box) MBA Master of Business Administration DIG Deputy Inspector General MBT Main Battle Tank D.Litt Doctor of Literature MD Doctor of Medicine DM District Magistrate MFN Most Favoured Nation ECG Electro Cardiogram TTFI Table Tennis Federation of India EDUSAT Education Satellite TELEX Telepointer Exchange EEG Electro Encephalogram TOEFL Test of English as a Foreign Language EPABX Electronic Private Automatic Branch
Exchange TRAI Telecom Regulatory Authority of India
EPZ Export Processing Zone TRIPS Trade Related Intellectual Property Rights
FAO Food and Agriculture Organisation UFO Unidentified Flying Object FCI Fertilizer Corporation of India UGC University Grant Commission FCI Food Corporation of India UNDP United Nations Development Programme FDI Foreign Direct Investment UNEP United Nations Environment Programme FDR Foreign Direct Recorder (Black Box) UNI United News of India GAIL Gas Authority of India Limited VAT Value Added Tax GATT General Agreement of Tariff and Trade VC Vice Chancellor GDP Gross Domestic Product VIP Very Important Person GIC General Insurance Corporation VPP Value Payable Post GMT Greenwich Mean Time VRS Voluntary Retirement Scheme HDFC Housing Development Finance Corporation NARI National AIDS Research Institute HIV Human Immuno-deficiency Virus NATO North Atlantic Treaty Organisation HYVS High Yield Variety Seeds NBFC Non-Banking Financial Companies IAAI International Airport Authority of India NCA National Cricket Academy IAEA International Atomic Energy Agency NCW National Commission for women IARI Indian Agricultural Research Institute SC Security Council/Supreme Court OGL Open General Licence SEBI Security Exchange Board of India OIC Overseas Indian Citizenship SEWA Self Employed Woman’s Association OK All Correct SFC State Financial Corporation OGL Open General Licence SEBI Security Exchange Board of India OIC Overseas Indian Citizenship SEWA Self Employed Woman’s Association OK All Correct SFC State Financial Corporation
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First Wax statue of a Living Indian Mahatma Gandhi at Madame Tussaud's in 1939
First Chinese pilgrim to Visit India Fa-hien
First Exclusive internet magazine Bharat Samachar
First Miss India to participate in Miss Universe Indrani Rehman
First President of Indian National Congress W.C. Bannerjee, 1885
First Muslim President of the Indian National Congress
Badruddin Tayyabji
First Judge in International Court of Justice Dr. Nagender Singh
First Graduate in Medicine Soorjo Coomar Goodeve Chukerbutty
India's First University Nalanda University
India's First Open University Andhra Pradesh Open University
India's First Lok Sabha Member to be elected with a record maximum number of votes
P.V.Narasimha Rao
First Indian to reach Antarctica Lt. Ram Charan
First British to Visit India Hawkins
First Test tube baby of India Indira (Baby Harsha)
First Post Office Opened in India Kolkata(1727)
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Satellite Launch Date
Launch Vehicle
Aryabhatt 19-Apr-75 U-11 Interkosmos Bhaskara-I 7-June-79 C-1 Interkosmos Rohini Technology Payload 10-Aug-79 SLV-3 Rohini RS-I 18-Jul-80 SLV-3 Rohini RS-D1 31-May-81 SLV-3 Ariane Passenger Payload Experiment 19-June-81 Ariane-1 (V-3) INSAT-1C 21-Jul-88 Ariane-3 INSAT-ID 12-Jun-90 Delta 4925 IRS-1B 29-Aug-91 Vostok INSAT- DT 26-Feb-92 Ariane-44LH10 Stretched Rohini Satellite Series (SROSS-C) 20-May-92 ASLV INSAT-2A 10-Jul-92 Ariane-44LH10 IRS-1D 29-Sep-97 PSLV-C1 INSAT-2E 4-Apr-99 Ariane-42P H10-36 Oceansat-1 (IRS-P4) 26-May-99 PSLV-C2 INSAT-3B 22-Mar-00 Ariane-5G INSAT-4A 22-DEC-05 Ariane-5GS INSAT-4C 10-Jul-06 GSLV-F02 CARTOSAT-2 10-Jan-07 PSLV-C7 Space Capsule Recovery 10-Jan-07 PSLV-C7 INSAT-4B 12-Mar-07 Ariane-5ECA Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) 5-Nov-13 PSLV-C25 IRNSS-1B 10-Nov-14 PSLV-C26 GSAT-16 7-Dec-14 Ariane-5` IRNSS-1D 28-Mar-15 PSLV-C27
Satellite Launch Date
Launch Vehicle
Aryabhatt 19-Apr-75 U-11 Interkosmos Bhaskara-I 7-June-79 C-1 Interkosmos Rohini Technology Payload 10-Aug-79 SLV-3 Rohini RS-I 18-Jul-80 SLV-3 Rohini RS-D1 31-May-81 SLV-3 Ariane Passenger Payload Experiment 19-June-81 Ariane-1 (V-3) INSAT-1C 21-Jul-88 Ariane-3 INSAT-ID 12-Jun-90 Delta 4925 IRS-1B 29-Aug-91 Vostok INSAT- DT 26-Feb-92 Ariane-44LH10 Stretched Rohini Satellite Series (SROSS-C) 20-May-92 ASLV INSAT-2A 10-Jul-92 Ariane-44LH10 IRS-1D 29-Sep-97 PSLV-C1 INSAT-2E 4-Apr-99 Ariane-42P H10-36 Oceansat-1 (IRS-P4) 26-May-99 PSLV-C2 INSAT-3B 22-Mar-00 Ariane-5G INSAT-4A 22-DEC-05 Ariane-5GS INSAT-4C 10-Jul-06 GSLV-F02 CARTOSAT-2 10-Jan-07 PSLV-C7 Space Capsule Recovery 10-Jan-07 PSLV-C7 INSAT-4B 12-Mar-07 Ariane-5ECA Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) 5-Nov-13 PSLV-C25 IRNSS-1B 10-Nov-14 PSLV-C26 GSAT-16 7-Dec-14 Ariane-5` IRNSS-1D 28-Mar-15 PSLV-C27
Indian Satellites
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Important Organisations and Founders
Organisation Year Founder Arya Samaj 1875 Swami Dayanand Saraswati Azad Hind Fouj 1942 Subhash Chandra Bose Brahmo Samaj 1828 Raja Ram Mohan Rai Forward Block 1939 Subhash Chadra Bose Home Rule League 1916 Bla Gangadhar Tilak and Anne
Besent Khalsa 1799 Guru Govind Singh Khudai Khidmatgar 1837 Abdul Gaffar Khan Prathana Samaj 1867 Atmaram Pandurang Pamakrishna Mission 1877 Swami Vivekanand Sabarmati Ashram 1916 Mahatma Gandhi Satya Sodhak Samaj 1873 Jyotirao Phule Theosophical Society 1875 Madame H. P. Blavatsky and Col.
H.S. Olcott Viswa Bharati, Shanri Niketan 1918 Gurudev Ravindra Nath Tagore
Indian Press
Paper/Journal Year Founder / Editor Bengal Gazette 1780 James Augustus Hicky(First paper form
India) Samachar-Darshan 1818 Kairre, Maeshaman (Oldest paper in Indian
languages) Samwad Koumudi 1821 Raja Ram Mohan Roy Morat-ul-Akbar 1822 Raja Ram Mohan Roy Bomaby Times 1838 (Presently Times of India, 1861) Hindu Patriot 1853 Girish Chandra Ghosh (Later Harish
Chandra Mukherjee) Radt-Goftar 1861 Dada Bhai Naoroji Amrit Bazar Patrika 188 Moti Lal Ghosh, Shishir Kumar Ghosh The Statesman 1875 Robert Knigh. Sunanda Dutta Rai The Hindu 1881 G.S. Aiyar and Vir Ragheachari Maratha 1881 Bal Gangadhar Tilak Kesari 1881 Bal Gangadhar Tilak The Tribune 1881 Dayal Singh Majethia Common Weal 1914 Annie Besant New India 1914 Annie Besant Independent 1919 Moti Lal Nehry Young India 1919 Mahatma Gandhi The Hindustan Times 1922 K.M. Pnikar Harijan 1933 Maharma Gandhi
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Vice Presidents of India
Name From To Dr. S. Radhakrishnan 1952 1962 Dr. Zakir Hussain 1962 1967 V.V. Giri 1967 1969 Gopal Swarup Patahk 1969 1974 B.D. Jatti 1974 1979 Jusrice M. Hidayatullah 1979 1984 R. Venkataraman 1984 1987 Dr. Shanker Dayal Sharma 1987 1992 K.R. Narayanan 1992 1997 Krishna Kant (27th July, died in office) 1997 2002 Bhairon Singh Shekhawat 2002 2007 Mohammad Hamid Ansari 2007
Chief Election Commissioners of India
Name From To Mr. Sukimar 21-03-1950 19-12-1958 Mr. K.V.K. Sundaram 20-12-1958 30-09-1967 Mr. S.P. Sen Verma 01-10-1967 30-09-1972 Dr. Nagendraa Singh 01-10-1972 06-02-1973 Mr. T. Swaminathan 07-02-1973 17-06-1977 Mr. S.L. Shakdhar 18-06-1977 17-06-1982 Mr. R.K. Trivedi 18-06-1982 31-12-1985 Mr. R.V.S. Peri Sastri 01-01-1986 25-12-1990 Mrs. V.S. Rama Devi 26-11-1990 11-12-1990s Mr. T.N. Sheshan 12-12-1990 11-12-1996 Dr. M.S. Gill 12-12-1996 13-06-2001 Mr. J. M. Lyngdoh 13-06-2001 07-02-2004 Mr. T. S. Krishnamurthy 08-02-2004 15-05-2005 Mr. B.B> Tandan 16-05-2005 28-06-2006 Mr. N. Gopalaswami 29-06-2006 20-04-2009 Namvin Chawla 21-04-2009 29-07-2010 S.Y. Quraishi 30-07-2010 10-07-2012 V.S. Sampath 10-06-2012
Unit of Measurements
Quantity Units (S.I.) Length Metre Time Second Mass Kilogram Area Square metre Volume Cubic Metre Velocity Metre/second Acceleration Metre/second square
Density Kilogram/metre cube Momentum Kilogram metre/second Work Joule Energy Joule Force Newton Pressure Pascal or Newton/sq. metre Viscosity Poise Surface tension Newton/square metre Heat Joule Temperature Kelvin Temperature Kelvin Absolute temperature Kelvin Resistance Ohmm Electric current Ampere Electromotive force Volt Electrical conductivity Ohm/metre Electric energy Kilowatt hour Electric power Kilowatt hour Magnetic intensity Orsted Charge Coulomb Frequency Hertz Power Watt Weight Newton or Kilogram Impulse Newton-second Angular velocity Radian/second Magnetic induction Gauss Luminous flux Candela Intensity of sound Decibel Power of lens Dioptre Depth of sea Fathom
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