Thursday, April 29, 2010

Earthquakes,deadliest,fear,China

The ten deadliest earthquakes since 1900

Year - Epicentre - Magnitude - Deaths
1. 1976 -Tangshan ,China -7.8- 6,50,000

2. 2004 -Sumatra -9.1- 2,80,000

3. 1920 -Gansu,China - 7.8 - 2,00,000

4. 1927-Tsinghai,China-7.9-2,00,000

5. 1923-Tokyo ,Japan-7.9-1,43,000

6. 1948-Turkmenisthan-7.3-1,10,000

7. 1908-Messina ,Italy-7.2-1,00,000

8. 2005-Kashmir/Pakisthan-7.6-80,000

9. 1932-Gansu,China-7.6-70,000

10. 1935-Quetta,Pakisthan-7.5-60,000

Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Proverbs ,Sayings,A friend,Crying child, will ,

Proverbs and sayings

1.A Stitch in time saves nine

2.A rolling stone gathers no moss

3.Where there is a will there is a way

4.Make hay while the sun shines

5.Prevention is better than cure

6.A bird in hand is worth two in the bush

7.Failure is the stepping stone to success

8.Slow and steady wins the race

9.Honesty is the best policy

10.Necessity is the mother of inventions

11.Rome was not built in a day

12.Union is strength

13.More haste,less speed

14.Every cloud has a silver lining

15.Look before you leap

16.Don't count your chickens before they are hatched

17.Never cry over spilt milk

18.Waste not ,want not

19.Least said,soonest mended

20.It is never too late to mend

21.Many a little makes a mickle

22.All that glitters is not gold

23.The early bird catches the worm

24.The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world

25."Child is the Father of man"

26."As you sow so you reap"

27."A little learning is a dangerous thing "

28."Sweet are the uses of adversity "

29The proper study of mankind is man

30.There is some soul of goodness in things evil

31.Man does not live by bread alone

32.Nothing succeeds like success

33.If you want peace you must prepare for war

34.Peace has her victories no less renowned than war

35.Where ignorance is bliss it is folly to be wise

36.Life is not an empty dream

37.They never fail who die for a great cause

38.Our sweetest songs are those that tells us of saddest thoughts

39.Man is born free but everywhere he is in chains

40.If winter comes can Spring be far behind?

41.Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown

42.Know thyself

43.Quo Vadis Dominie?

44.One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name

45.Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world

46.Progress is an illusion

47.The old order changeth yielding place to new and God fulfils himself in many ways

48.Honour and shame from no condition rise act well your part ,there all your honour lies

49.The mind in its own place and in itself can make a heaven of Hell and a Hell of Heaven

50.To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive

51.They are slaves who dare not be in the right with two or three

52.Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime,and departing ,leave behind us foot prints on the sands of time

53.Perseverance is the key to success

54.Well begun is half done

55.A crying child gets milk

56.Familiarity breeds contempt

57.A friend in need is a friend indeed

58.Face is the index of the mind

59.Pride goes before a fall

60.Example is better than precept

Sunday, April 25, 2010

Islands ,Largest,Indian Ocean , Arctic Ocean

Worlds Largest Islands its name,area sq km and location

Australia -7682300 -Indian Ocean
Green land-2175600-Arctic Ocean
New Guinea -792 500 -W Pacific
Borneo-725545 -Indian Ocean
Malagasy Rep.-587 000-Indian Ocean
Baffin Island -476065-Arctic Ocean
Sumatra -427300-Indian Ocean
Honshu-227400-NW Pacific
Great Britain -218041-N.Atlantic
Victoria Island -217300 -Arctic Ocean
Eliesmere Island -196236-Arctic Ocean
Celebes-189035-Indian Ocean

Waterfalls,Famous,World, Country ,Angel

Famous Waterfalls of the world its name ,Country, Drop in metres


Angel -Venezuela -807

Mongefossen -Norway-774

Kukenaam-Venezuela -610

Utigard -Norway-600

Ribbon -USA-491

King George VI-Guyana -487

Roraima -Guyana -457

Upper Yosemite-USA-435

Kalambo-Tanzania-Zambia-426

Gavarnie-France-421

Tugela -S.Africa-410

Takakkaw-Canada-365

Desert , Largest, Sahara,

Largest Deserts of the world

Subtropical

Sahara ,N.Africa -9,064,650 sq km

Arabian ,Middle East-2,589,900 sq km

Great Victoria ,Australia-647,475 sq km

Kalahari,Southern Africa-582,727 sq km

Chihuahuan ,Mexico -453,232 sq km

Thar -India/Pakisthan -453,232 sq km

Great Sandy ,Australia-388,485 sq km

Gibson ,Australia -310,788 sq km

Sonoran ,SW USA -310,788 sq km

Simpson /Stony,N.Africa -145,034 sq km

Mohave,S,W,USA -139,854 sq km

Cool Coastal


Atacama ,Chile SA -139,854 sq km

Namib,SW Africa -33,668 sq km

Cold Winter

Gobi,China -1,294,950 sq km

Patagonian ,Argentina -673,374 sq km

Great Basin ,S.W.USA-492,081 sq km

Kara Kum,West Asia -349,636 sq km

Colorado,Western USA ,also called the painted Desert -336,687 sq km

Kyzyl-Kum,West Asia -297,838 sq km

Taklamakan,China -271,939 sq km

Iranian ,Iran -258,990 sq km

Rivers, Longest,World rivers,Nile, Amazon

Longest Rivers in the World,its name ,Country/Continent and Length in Kilometres

Nile -Africa -6650

Amazon -S. America -6437

Mississippi-Missouri-USA-6020

Yangtze Tiang -China -5494

Ob-Irtysh-Russia -5410

Zaire-Africa -4700

Lena -Russia -4400

Hwang Ho-China -4344

Mackenzie-Canada -4241

Mekong-Asia-4180

Niger-Africa-4180

St.Lawrence -Canada -USA-4023

Parana -S.America -4000

Yenisey-Russia-3804

Murray -Darling-Australia -3780

Volga -Russia -3690

Zambezi-Africa -3540

Maderia-S.America -3218

Purus -S.America -3200

Yukon -Teslin -Alaska -Canada -3185

Rio -Grande -USA-Mexico-3040

Indus-Asia-2900

Brahmaputhra -Asia -2900

Gabga-India-2510

Godawari-India-1450

NArmada -India-1290

Krishna -India-1290

Caves, Deepest,Location ,World Caves

Deepest Caves ,Location and its Depth (World)

Resseu du Foillis -France- 1455

Resseau de la Pierre St.-France-1321

Snezhnaya,Caucasus -Russia -1280

Sistema Huatla -Mexico-1220

Deepest Lakes,Lake Depth , Africa

Deepest lakes in the world

Baikal ,Russian Federation -1620 m
Tanganyika,Africa -1463 m
CAspian Sea ,Asia-Europe-1025 m
Malawi or Nyasa ,Africa-706m
Issyk-Kul,Kyrgyzstan -702m

Lakes,Caspian Sea, Water,Metres ,Wider

Major lakes

Caspian Sea,Asia -Europe -371,000 sq km

Superior ,North america-82,100 sq km

Victoria ,Africa -69,500 sq km

Huron,north America -59,600 sq km

Michigan ,North America -57,800 sq km

Tanganyika Africa -32,900 sq km

Baikal ,Asia -31,500 sq km

Great Bear ,North America -31,300 sq km

Aral sea ,Asia-30,700 sq km

MAlawi ,Africa -28,900 sq km

Great Slave, Canada -28,568 sq km

Erie,North America- 25,667 sq km

Winnipeg,Canada -24,387 sq km

Ontario ,North America -19,529 sq km

Balkhash ,Kazhakisthan -18,300 sq km

Sea ,World Seas,Water,Metres,

Major Seas of the world

South China -2,974,600 sq km

Caribbean -2,515,900 sq km

Mediterranean -2,510,000 sq km

Bering-2,261,100 sq km

Gulf of Mexico-1,507,600 sq km

Sea of Okhotsk-1,392,100 sq km

Sea of japan -or East sea-1,012,900 sq km

Hudson bay-730,100 sq km

East China -664,600 sq km

Andaman -564,900 sq km

Black -507,900 sq km

Red -453,000 sq km

Booker Prizes ,The Sea, The God of Small things,1970's,1980's,1990's,2000's prizes

Booker prizes

1969- P.H Newby-Something To Answer For

1970- Bemice Rubens-The Elected Member

1971- V.S Naipaul -In A Free State

1972- John Berger -G

1973- J G Farrell -The siege of Krishnapur

1974- Nadine Gordimer -The Conservationist

1974- Stanltley Middleton -Holiday

1975- Ruth Prawer Jhabwala -Heat and Dust

1976-David Storey-Saville

1977-Paul Scott-Staying on

1978-Iris Murdoch -The sea,The sea

1979-Penelope Fitzgerald-Offshore

1980-William Golding -Rites of Passage

1981-Salman Rushdie-Midnight's Children

1982-Thomas keneally-Schindler's Ark

1983-J M Coetzee-Life and Times of Michael K

1984-Anita Brookner-Hotel Du Lac

1985-Keri Hulme -The bone People

1986-Kingsley Amis -The Old Devil's

1987-Penelope Lively-Moon Tiger

1988-Peter Carey-Oscar and Lucinda

1989-Kazuo Ishiguro-The remains of the day

1990-A S Byatt-Possession

1991-Ben Okri-The Famished Road

1992-Michael Ondaatjee-The English Patient

1992- Barry Unsworth -Sacred Hunger

1993-Roddy Dodoyle-Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha

1994-James Kelman -How late it was ,how Late

1995-Pat Barker-The Ghost Road

1996-Graham Swift-Last Orders

1997-Arundhanthi Roy-The God of Small Things

1998-Ian Mcewan-Amsterdam

1999-J M Coetzee-Disgrace

2000-Margarate Atwood -The blind assassin

2001-Peter Carey-True History of the Kelly Gang

2002-Yann Martel-Life of Pi

2003-D B Pierre-Vernon God Little

2004-Alan Hollinghurst-The Line of Beauty

2005-John Banville-The sea

Saturday, April 24, 2010

Nobel Prize ,Economics,Economy,Social,

Nobel Prize Winners Since 1995

Economics


1996 James A Mirrlees -Britain ,William Vickrey-Canada USA

1997 Robert C Merton -US ,Myron S Scholes Canada -US

1998 Amartya Sen -India

1999 Robert A Mundell -Canada

2000 James J Heckman ,Daniel LMcfadden-US

2001 George A Akerlof ,A Michael Spence,Joseph E Stiglitz -US

2002 Daniel Kahneman ,Vernon L Smith -US

2003 Robert F Engle -US Clive W J Granger -UK

2004 Finn Kydland Norway,Edward Prescott -USA

2005 Robert Aumann Israel-USA and Thomas C Schelling -US

2006 Dr.Edmund Phelips -US

2007 Leonid Hurwicz ,Eric Maskin and Roger Myerson -US

Nobel Prize,Peace,Kofi Annan,Prizes

Nobel Prize Winners Since 1995

Peace

1995 Joseph Rotbalt-Poland ,Britain

1996 Bishop CArlos Ximenes Belo,Jose Ramos -Horta ,Timorese

1997 Jody Williams,US

1998 John Hume,David Trimble -N.Ireland

1999 Doctors without borders France

2000 Kim Dae Jung -S.Korea

2001 UN Kofi Annan -Ghana

2002 Jimmy Carter -US

2003 Shirin Ebadi -Iran

2004 Wangari Maathai -Kenya

2005 Un International Atomic Energy Agency and its D-G Mohamed El Baradei (Egypt)

2006 Muhammed Yunus -Bangladesh and The Grameen Bank

2007 Al Gore (former U S Vice President and UN 'sIntergonernmental Panel on Climate Change

Nobel Prizes ,Winners ,Literature,Prizes

Nobel Prize winners Since 1995

Literature

1995 Seamus Heaney-Ireland

1996 Wislawa Szymborska-Poland

1997 Dario Fo-Italy

1998 Jose Saramago-Portuguese

1999 Gunter Grass-Germany

2000 Gao Xingjian -China

2001 Sir V S Naipaul -Brazil

2002 Imre Kertesz -Hungary

2003 John Maxwell Coetze -S.Africa

2004 Elfrriede Jelinek (Austria )

2005 Harold Pinter (Britain )

2006 Han Pamuck -Turkey

2007 Doris Lessing Britain

Nobel Prize,Psyciology , Medicine ,Medical Science , Science

Nobel Prize Winners

Physiology or Medicine

1995 Edward B Lewis ,Eric F Wieschaus-US Christiane Nuesslein -Volhard -Germany

1996 Peter C Doherty-Australia ,Rolf M Zinkernagel -Swiss

1997 Stanley B Prusiner -US

1998 Robert F Furchgott ,Louis J Ignarro ,Ferid Murad -US

1999 Gunter Blobel -Us

2000 Arvid Carlsson -Sweden,Paul Greengard -US ,Eric R Kandel-Australia -US

2001 Leland H Hartwell-US,R Thimothy (Tim) Hunt ,Sir Paul M Nurse -Brazil

2002 Sydney Brenner -UK ,H Robert Howvitz-US,John E Sulston -UK

2003 Paul C LAuterbur -US,Sir Peter Mansfield -UK

2004 Richard Axel and Linda Buck -USA

2005 Barry J MArshall ,Robin Warren(Australia)

2006 Andrew Fire and Craig Mello (both US )

2007 Dr.Oliver Smithies -US, Mario R Capecchi -US,Martin Evans -Britain

Nobel Prize,Chemistry,Science ,USA

Nobel Prize Winners Since 1995

Chemistry

1995 Paul Crutzen -Dutch Mario Molina -Mexico,- US
1996 Harold W Kroto,-Br ,Robert F Curl Jr,Richard E Smalley - US
1997 Paul D Boyer -Us John E Walker ,Brazil,Jens C Skou,Dan
1998 Walter Kohn-US ,John A pople -Brazil
1999 Ahmed H Zewail -US
2000 Alan J Heeger -US,Alan G Macdiar-mid ,Newzealand ,US ,Hideki Shirakawa-Japan
2001 K barry Sharpless -US ,Ryoji Noyori-Japan
2002 John B Fenna-US,Kurt Wulthrich -Swiss ,Koichi Tanaka -Japan
2003 Peter Agre ,Roderick Mackinnon -US
2004 Aaron Ciechanover,Avram Hershko-Both Israel ,Irwin Rose (USA)
2005 Yves Chauvin -France ,Robert H Grubbs,Richard H Schrock both US
2006 Roger Komberg -US
2007 Gerhard Ertl -Germany

Nobel Prize,Physics ,Science,Winners

Nobel Prize Winners Since 1995

Physics

1995 Martin Perl,Frederick Reines ,US

1996 David M Lee ,Douglas D Osheroff,Robert C Richardson,US

1997 Steven Chu ,William D philips,US Claud Cohen -Tannoudji,Fr.

1998 Robert B Laughlin ,Horst L Stormer , Daniel C Tsui,US

1999 Gerardus 't Hooft and Martinus J G Veltman ,Netherlands

2000 Jack S Kilby-US, Zhores I Alferov -Russia

2001 Eric A Cornell ,Carl E Wieman -Us , Wolfgang ketterle ,Germany

2002 Riccardo Giacconi ,Rayond Davis Jr. -US , masatoshi Koshiba -Japan

2003 Alexei A Abrikosov US-Russia, Vitaly I Ginz-burg-Russia , Anthony J Leggett-UK-US

2004 David J Gross,H David Politzer,Frank Wilcek -USA

2005 Roy Glauber,John Hall (both U S ) and Theodor Haensch - Germany

2006 John C mather and George F Smoot- Both US

2007 Peter Gruenberg -Germany Albert Fert (France)

Thursday, April 22, 2010

Animal and Bird sounds,Animal ,cat, cow ,dog

Animals and Birds Sounds

Apes- gibber

Asses -bray

Bears -growl

Bees- hum, buzz, murmur

Beetles- drone

Birds- sing

Bitterns- boom

Blackbirds -whistle

Bulls- bellow

Calves -bleat

Cats -meow, mew, purr, caterwal

Chickens -peep, cackle

Cocks -crow

Cows- moo, low

Crows -caw

Cuckoos -cuckoo

Deer -bell

Dogs -bark, woof, arf

Dolphins -click

Doves- coo, moan

Ducks -quack

Eagles- scream

Elephants -trumpet

Falcons -chant

Flies- buzz

Foxes -bark, yelp

Frogs -croak

Geese -cackle, hiss, honk

Giraffes- bleats, grunts

Grasshoppers- chirp, pitter

Grouse -drum

Guinea -fowl cry

Guinea -pigs squeak, whistle

Gulls -squawk

Hares-squeak

Hawks -scram

Hippos -bray

Horses -neigh, whinny

Hyenas -laugh

Kittens -mew

Lions- roar

Loons- howl

Magpies -chatter

Mice -squeak, squeal

Monkeys- chatter, gibber

Nightingales- pipe, warble, jug-jug

Owls- hoot, screech, wail

Oxen- low, bellow

Parrots -talk

Peacocks -scream

Penguin babies- bleat

Pigeons -coo

Pigs -grunt, squeal, squeak

Ravens -croak

Rhinos -snort

Rooks- caw

Sandpipers -pipe, whistle

Shearwaters -shrill

Sheep -bleat, baa

Snake -hiss

Sparrow -chirp

Stags -bellow, call

Swallows- titter

Swans -crey, hiss, grunt

Tigers -roar, growl

Tortoises- grunt

Turkeys -gobble

Wolves- howl

Mothers Day,Quotes, History,Dates,Celebration,India ,England,USA

Mother's Day History

Origin of Mother's Day goes back to the era of ancient Greek and Romans. But the roots of Mother's Day history can also be traced in UK where a Mothering Sunday was celebrated much before the festival saw the light of the day in US. However, the celebration of the festival as it is seen today is a recent phenomenon and not even a hundred years old. Thanks to the hard work of the pioneering women of their times, Julia Ward Howe and Anna Jarvis that the day came into existence. Today the festival of Mothers day is celebrated across 46 countries (though on different dates) and is a hugely popular affair. Millions of people across the globe take the day as an opportunity to honor their mothers, thank them for their efforts in giving them life, raising them and being their constant support and well wisher.

Earliest History of Mothers Day

The earliest history of Mothers Day dates back to the ancient annual spring festival the Greeks dedicated to maternal goddesses. The Greeks used the occasion to honor Rhea, wife of Cronus and the mother of many deities of Greek mythology.

Ancient Romans, too, celebrated a spring festival, called Hilaria dedicated to Cybele, a mother goddess. It may be noted that ceremonies in honour of Cybele began some 250 years before Christ was born. The celebration made on the Ides of March by making offerings in the temple of Cybele lasted for three days and included parades, games and masquerades. The celebrations were notorious enough that followers of Cybele were banished from Rome.


Early Christians celebrated a Mother's Day of sorts during the festival on the fourth Sunday of Lent in honor of the Virgin Mary, the Mother of Christ. In England the holiday was expanded to include all mothers. It was then called Mothering Sunday.Mothers Day is celebrated in several country across the globe though the month and date on which Mother's Day is celebrated in different countries varies.

Most countries celebrate Mothers Day on second Sunday in the Month of May. This Mother's Day date was declared by US President Woodrow Wilson on May 8, 1914 when he signed a Joint Resolution designating the second Sunday in May as Mother's Day. This US tradition of celebrating Mothers Day and paying tribute to mothers spread across several countries over the years and these countries too adopted second Sunday of May as Mother's Day. However, in many countries the way Mothers Day is celebrated varies and is quite different from the manner in which Mothers Day is celebrated in US. But what is more important than the date and fashion of celebration is the feeling behind the festival. The idea of celebrating Mother's Day the world over is to pay tribute to mothers for all their love and support and to make them feel special.

Today Mothers Day is celebrated in several countries including US, UK, India, Denmark, Finland, Italy, Turkey, Australia, Mexico, Canada, China, Japan and Belgium. People take the day as an opportunity to pay tribute to their mothers and thank them for all their love and support. The day has become hugely popular and in several countries phone lines witness maximum traffic. There is also a tradition of gifting flowers, cards and others gift to mothers on the Mothers Day. The festival has become commercialised to a great extent. Florists, card manufacturers and gift sellers see huge business potential in the day and make good money through a rigorous advertising campaign.

Mother's Day Date in Different Countries

United States: Second Sunday in the month of May.
Australia: Second Sunday in the month of May.
Belgium: Second Sunday in the month of May.
Brazil: Second Sunday in the month of May.
Canada: Second Sunday in the month of May.
Denmark: Second Sunday in the month of May.
Finland: Second Sunday in the month of May.
Germany: Second Sunday in the month of May.
Greece: Second Sunday in the month of May.
India: Second Sunday in the month of May.
Italy: Second Sunday in the month of May.
Japan: Second Sunday in the month of May.
New Zealand: Second Sunday in the month of May.
Singapore: Second Sunday in the month of May.
Turkey: Second Sunday in the month of May.
United Kingdom/England: Mother's Day is called Mothering Sunday and falls on the fourth Sunday in Lent.
France: First Sunday in June or last Sunday in May
Much of South America (as well as Mexico), Bahrain, Malaysia, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates: May 10
Mexico: - May 8
Albania: - March 8
Russia: - November 28
Poland: - May 26
Indonesia: - December 22
Egypt: - March 21
Norway: - February 13
Thailand: Birthday of Queen Sirikit Kitiyakara - August 12
Sweden: Last Sunday in May
Lebanon: First day of Spring
Norway: The second Sunday in February
Austria, Hong Kong, Netherlands, Taiwan, Hungary, Portugal, South Africa, Spain: First Sunday in May
Antwerp (Belgium), Costa Rica: Assumption day - August 15
Argentina: The Día de la Madre - The second or third Sunday in October

Mothers Day Quotes:-

A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie. -Tenneva Jordan

Hundreds of dewdrops to greet the dawn,Hundreds of bees in the purple clover,Hundreds of butterflies on the lawn,But only one mother the wide world over.-George Cooper

Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs... since the payment is pure love. Mildred B. Vermont

The sweetest sounds to mortals givenAre heard in Mother, Home, and Heaven.-William Goldsmith Brown

A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after. Peter De Vries

If the whole world were put into one scale, and my mother in the other, the whole world would kick the beam. Lord Langdale (Henry Bickersteth)

It would seem that something which means poverty, disorder and violence every single day should be avoided entirely, but the desire to beget children is a natural urge. -Phyllis Diller

The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new. -Rajneesh

Woman in the home has not yet lost her dignity, in spite of Mother's Day, with its offensive implication that our love needs an annual nudging, like our enthusiasm for the battle of Bunker Hill. -John Erskine

Women's Liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It's the men who are discriminated against. They can't bear children. And no one's likely to do anything about that. -Golda Meir

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his. -Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest, 1895

When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child. -Sophia Loren, Women and Beauty

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. -Aristotle

Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible. -Marion C. Garretty, quoted in A Little Spoonful of Chicken Soup for the Mother's Soul

Mother - that was the bank where we deposited all our hurts and worries. -T. DeWitt Talmage

A man's work is from sun to sun, but a mother's work is never done. -Author Unknown

A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest. -Irish Proverb

The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men - from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms. -Oliver Wendell Holmes

God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers. -Jewish Proverb

Motherhood is pricedOf God, at price no man may dareTo lessen or misunderstand.-Helen Hunt Jackson

Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother. -Oprah Winfrey

You don't really understand human nature unless you know why a child on a merry-go-round will wave at his parents every time around - and why his parents will always wave back. -William D. Tammeus

Now that... my kids are grown, I understand how much work and love it takes to raise and to keep a family together. The example of your strength, devotion, and patience is now rippling through the generations. Thank you! -Forest Houtenschil

ILO,May Day, Workers Day,Important day,Holiday Quotes

International Labor Day May 1 2010

International Labor Day is a day observed all over the world on May 1 to celebrate the social and economic achievements of workers.In India and other countries like England, the day also has the significance as the spring fertility festival, so people celebrate it to honor goddess of spring. International Labor Day is celebrated with lots of joy and fervor in towns and villages. They celebrate fertility in the month of, May (spring) with village fetes and community gatherings. The most significant of the traditions is the traditional dances by men and women. Towns and villages in England plan huge celebration on the day.
In most of the countries like US and UK, it is a national holiday. In India, May 1, has also been declared a public holiday.The day has a historic significance which dates back to May 1 1886. On this International Labor Day several Labor unions all over the US decided to go on strike. They demanded a workday of eight hours to be accepted as a standard all over the US. In Chicago a bomb explosion planned by revolutionist led to the deaths and injury of over 100 people. Ultimately the protests proved fruitful and effective thus standardizing eight-hour work days as the new norm in many countries across the globe
International Labor Day is celebrated as a day for demonstrations, parades, and speeches. The International Labor Day is still often chosen as a day for protests and rallies. While the rallies are tried to be peaceful with all kinds of security arrangements, sometimes violence is erupted due to clash between militant groups and riot police. Sometimes there are marches for rights of thousands of workers on to the streets to mark May Day with demands for better Labor conditions.
Many Labor organizations across the country carry out processions and speeches are organized by various political parties. International Labor Day is one of the major holidays in US. The International Labor Day is also very significant in Russia and other communist countries. Now a day the celebration of this day is sometimes marked by the demand of economic and social reforms by the workers and trade unions to preserve their interests.But there is some difference in the celebration dates of the International Labor Day in different countries. In Germany, International Labor Day is celebrated on May 2. Violence has become a game of International Labor Day celebrations in Germany since the late 1980s.There is always brawl between far-Left youths and authorities.
In India, International Labor Day is observed as a national holiday. In Maharashtra, Labor Day is known as Maharashtra Diwas. In Poland, International Labor Day is celebrated on May 1 and termed as State Holiday. International Labor Day is observed on the first Monday in October in the New South Wales and South Australia. It is a public holiday on this day in Australia. International Labor Day is observed on the first Monday of the month, September in Canada.
The International Labor Day history in Canada can be dated back to a revolt in 1872 in Toronto. Since that day International Labor Day parades, picnics, fireworks displays, water activities, and public art events and picnics are organized by many unions in Canada. International Labor Day is a public holiday observed on the fourth Monday of October, in New Zealand. Its origin dates back to the movement that was started in Wellington colony in 1840. The demand was the eight hour working day.
The International Labor Day is also known as Eight-Hour Demonstration Day in New Zealand. International Labor Day is observed on the first Monday of September. It is a federal holiday in United States. International Labor Day is celebrated on May 1, in China, and is a public holiday. Previously, there used to be a full week holiday on account of International Labor Day. They use to combine weekends with three day holiday of International Labor Day. This week long holiday was marked by the striking consumption of shopping extravaganza. But now there is a single holiday observed International Labor Day.

International Labor Day Quotes

The end of labor is to gain leisure."- Aristotle
"Our mental make-up is suited to a life of very severe physical labor." - Bertrand Russell
"It is labour indeed that puts the difference on everything."- John Locke
"Heaven is blessed with perfect rest but the blessing of earth is toil."- Henry van Dyke
"If all the cars in the United States were placed end to end, it would probably be Labor Day Weekend."- Doug Larson
"God sells us all things at the price of labor."- Leonardo da Vinci
"Labor Day is a glorious holiday because your child will be going back to school the next day. It would have been called Independence Day, but that name was already taken."- Bill Dodds
"The man who doesn't relax and hoot a few hoots voluntarily, now and then, is in great danger of hooting hoots and standing on his head for the edification of the pathologist and trained nurse, a little later on."- Elbert Hubbard
"A bad day at work is better than a good day in hell."- Scott Johnson
"Work isn't to make money; you work to justify life."- Marc Chagall
"God give me work, till my life shall endAnd life, till my work is done." - Labour Day Quotes by Epitaph of Winifred Holtby
"Without labor nothing prospers."- Sophocles
"We must learn to live together as brothers or we are going to perish together as fools."- Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Labor was the first price, the original purchase-money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labor, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased."- Adam Smith
"Freedom is never granted; it is won. Justice is never given; it is exacted."- A. Philip Randolph
"Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop."- Ovid
"Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another."- Anatole France
"In labor news, longshoremen walked off the piers today; rescue operations are continuing."- George Carlin
"A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity."- Thomas Jefferson
"The highest pleasure to be got out of freedom, and having nothing to do, is labor."- Mark Twain
"od give me work, till my life shall endAnd life, till my work is done."- Epitaph of Winifred Holtby
"The disease with which the human mind now labors is want of faith."- Unknown

Activities during Labor Day ,or May Day

Some countries commemorate this day on the first Monday of September.The labor day celebrations has its basis in Eight-hour day movement, which sponsored eight hours for recreation, eight hours for rest, and eight hours for work. It may be tricky to arrange a party for the Labor Day. And there are not many enjoyable symbols of labor. Mostly people don’t want to think about labor they simply think that they have time off from their work for the holiday. And some of them wish to think of the Labor Day as the ending of summer holidays for students.
Several, simply choose to decorate with same white, blue and red banners and flags that are applied to decorate for the Independence Day when making a plan for the Labor Day party. While some resourceful thought a unique pattern can appear for this vacation just similar to all of others. The Labor Day can be an unimportant holiday for that people who do not want to spend time for this holiday.
In placing of using left over flags why not merge these with items that imitate the place of work? An office employee might be equal to use old briefcase with the carnations for centerpiece. Possible the shirt, tie or tie cake pan that are utilized for the father’s day can be ornamented with the "Happy Labor Day" message. And a historic lunch container that a preferred precursor might have used could be a division of decorations for a blue collar tribute.

Burg Khalifa ,tallest building,Imperial Tower, In India,height,tallest man made,


The tallest building in the world


Burg Khalifa
The building is 2625 feet tall with more than 160 stories. It will house the world’s first Armani Hotel, residences, and more.Burj Khalifa is the tallest man made structure built by thousands of laborers in 6 years (Construction started @ Sept 2004). The total height of the building is 828 meter (confirmed by Emaar during launching presentation of Burj Khalifa) which stands 310 meters higher than Taipei 101 (previously tallest building in the world).On 4th Jan 2009, Burj Dubai has been renamed as “Burj Khalifa” i.e Dubai based tower has been given a name of UAE President and Abu Dhabi ruler Khalifa Bin Zayed

Tallest Building in India

Name -City- Height -Floors -Year


Imperial Tower I -Mumbai- 249 metres -(817 ft) -60 2010


Imperial Tower II -Mumbai -249 metres (817 ft) 2009


Planet Godrej Mumbai 181 metres (594 ft) 51 2009


Ashok Towers 1 Mumbai 193 metres (633 ft) 49 2009


RNA Mirage Mumbai 180 metres (591 ft) 40 2009


Raheja Legend Mumbai 40 2009


Oberoi Woods Tower I Mumbai 170 metres (558 ft) 40 2009


Oberoi Woods Tower II Mumbai 170 metres (558 ft) 40 2009


Oberoi Woods Tower III Mumbai 170 metres (558 ft) 40 2009


MVRDC Mumbai 156 metres (512 ft) 35 2002


Shreepati Arcade Mumbai 153 metres (502 ft) 45 2002


Vasant Polaris Mumbai 151 metres (495 ft) 34 2009


Belvedere Court Mumbai 149.35 m (490 ft) 40 2008

Kalpataru Heights Mumbai 144 metres (472 ft) 39 2008

Vasant Grandeur Mumbai 38 2009

Sheth Beaumonde Towers 1 Mumbai 35 2009

Sheth Beaumonde Towers 2 Mumbai 35 2009

Sheth Beaumonde Towers 3 Mumbai 35 2009

Heritage Mumbai 36 2008

Orbit Heights Mumbai 40 2008

The Legend Mumbai 40 2009

Shreepati Castle Mumbai 43 2009

Shreepati Towers Mumbai 40 2009

Suraj Towers Mumbai 40 2008

Oberoi Skyheights Tower 1 Mumbai 150 metres (492 ft) 37 2009

Oberoi Skyheights Tower 2 Mumbai 150 metres (492 ft) 37 2009

Four Seasons Mumbai Mumbai 146 metres (479 ft) 37 2008

South City Kolkata [citation needed] 35 2008

Tahnee heights Mumbai 137 metres (449 ft) 35 1994

Orchid Tower Mumbai 32 2008

Thursday, April 15, 2010

Tower ,Tallest tower in the world

Tallest towers in the world

Tower, city- Year - Height (m) Height (ft)

Canadian National (CN) Tower, -Toronto - 1975 -553 1,815

Ostankino Tower, -Moscow -1967 -537 1,762

KFVS TV Tower,- Missouri -1960 -511 1,677

Oriental Pearl Tower, - Shanghai -1995- 468 1,535

Milad Tower,-Tehran -2005 - 435 1,427

Menara Kuala Lumpur, -Kuala Lumpur,- Malaysia -1996 -421 1,403

Tianjin TV Tower, -Tianjin, -China -1991 -415 1,362

Central Radio & TV Tower, - Beijing -1992 -405 1,329

Kiev TV Tower,Kiev, -Ukraine -1973 -385 1,263

Tashkent Tower,- Tashkent, -Uzbekistan -1985- 375 1,230

Liberation Tower,-Kuwait City -1996 -372 1,221

Alma-Ata Tower, -Almaty,- Kazakhstan -1983 -371 1,217

Riga TV Tower,-R iga, -Latvia -1987 -368 1,209

Fernsehturm Tower, - Berlin, -Germany -1969 -368 1,207

Stratosphere Tower, - Las Vegas,- United States- 1996 -350 1,149

Macau Tower, -Macau,-China -2001 -338 1,109

Dada Sahib Phalke Awards,Awards

Dade Sahib Phalke Awards

Shyam Benegal - Director- 2006
Adoor Gopalakrishnan - Director-2005

Mrinal Sen - Director- 2004

Dev Anand- Actor, Director, Producer- 2003

Yash Chopra - Director, Producer -2002

Asha Bhosle - Singer-2001

Hrishikesh Mukherjee - Director -2000

B.R. Chopra - Director, Producer -1999

Pradeep - Lyricist, Poet-1998

Sivaji Ganesan - Actor-1997

Dr. Raj Kumar - Actor, Singer, Producer-1996

Dilip Kumar - Actor- 1995

Majrooh Sultanpuri - Lyricist -1994

Bhupen Hazarika - Composer, Singer, Producer -1993

Bhalji Pendharkar - Producer, Director -1992

A. Nageshwar Rao- Actor- 1991

Lata Mangeshkar - Singer, Producer- 1990

Ashok Kumar - Actor, Singer- 1989

Raj Kapoor - Actor, Director- 1988

B. Nagi Reddi - Producer- 1987

V.Shantaram - Director, producer, actor- 1986

Satyajit Ray - Director, Producer- 1985

Durga Khote - Actress- 1984

L.V. Prasad - Actor, Director, Producer- 1983

Naushad- Composer- 1982

Jairaj - Actor, Director, Producer- 1981

Sohrab Modi - Actor, Director, Producer- 1980

R.C. Boral - Composer- 1979

Nitin Bose - Cinematographer, Director, Producer- 1978

Kanan Devi - Actress, Singer, Producer- 1977

Dhiren Ganguly - Actor, Director, Producer- 1976

B.N. Reddi - Director, Producer- 1975

Sulochana- Actress- 1974

Pankaj Mallick - Singer, Actor, Composer- 1973

Prithviarj Kapoor - Actor, Director, Producer- 1972

B.N. Sircar - Producer- 1971

Devika Rani - Actress- 1970

Jnanpith Awards,Awardees,

Jnanpith Awards

1965 -G Sankara Kurup Odakkuzhal (Flute) -Malayalam

1966 -Tarashankar Bandopadhyaya Ganadevta- Bengali

1967 -Kuppali Venkatappagowda Puttappa (Kuvempu) Sri Ramayana Darshanam -Kannada

1967 -Umashankar Joshi Nishitha- Gujarati

1968 -Sumitranandan Pant Chidambara -Hindi

1969 -Firaq Gorakhpuri Gul-e-Naghma -Urdu

1970 -Viswanatha Satyanarayana Ramayana Kalpavrikshamu (A resourceful tree:Ramayana)- Telugu

1971 -Bishnu Dey Smriti Satta Bhavishyat- Bengali

1972 -Ramdhari Singh 'Dinkar' Urvashi-Hindi

1973 -Dattatreya Ramachandra Bendre Nakutanti (Naku Thanthi) (Four Strings) -Kannada

1973 -Gopinath Mohanty Paraja -Oriya

1974 -Vishnu Sakharam Khandekar Yayati -Marathi

1975 -P.V.Akilan Chitttrappavai -Tamil

1976 -Asha Purna Devi Pratham Pratisruti -Bengali

1977 -K.Shivaram Karanth Mookajjiya Kanasugalu (Mookajjis dreams) -Kannada

1978 -Sachchidananda Hirananda Vatsyayan 'Ajneya' Kitni Navon Men Kitni Bar (How many times in many boats?) -Hindi

1979 -Birendra Kumar Bhattacharya Mrityunjay (Immortal) -Assamese

1980 -S. K. Pottekkatt Oru Desattinte Katha (Story of a land) -Malayalam

1981 -Amrita Pritam Kagaj te Canvas- Punjabi

1982 -Mahadevi Varma Yama -Hindi

1983 -Maasti Venkatesh Ayengar Chikkaveera Rajendra (Life and struggle of Kodava King Chikkaveera Rajendra) -Kannada

1984 -Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai Kayar {Coir} -Malayalam

1985- Pannalal Patel Maanavi Ni Bhavaai -Gujarati

1986 -Sachidananda Rout Roy -Oriya

1987 -Vishnu Vaman Shirwadkar (Kusumagraj) Natsamrat -Marathi

1988 -Dr.C. Narayana Reddy Vishwambhara -Telugu

1989 -Qurratulain Hyder Akhire Shab Ke Humsafar -Urdu

1990 -V. K. Gokak (Vinayaka Krishna Gokak) Bharatha Sindhu Rashmi -Kannada

1991 -Subhas Mukhopadhyay -Bengali

1992 -Naresh Mehta -Hindi

1993 -Sitakant Mahapatra "for outstanding contribution to the enrichment of Indian literature, 1973-92" -Oriya

1994 -U.R. Ananthamurthy -Kannada

1995 -M. T. Vasudevan Nair Randamoozham [second chance} -Malayalam

1996 -Mahasweta Devi -Bengali

1997 -Ali Sardar Jafri -Urdu

1998 -Girish Karnad "for his contributions to modern Indian drama" -Kannada

1999 -Nirmal Verma -Hindi

1999 -Gurdial Singh -Punjabi

2000 -Indira Goswami -Assamese

2001 -Rajendra Keshavlal -Shah Gujarati

2002 -D. Jayakanthan -Tamil

2003 -Vinda Karandikar Ashtadarshana (poetry) -Marathi

2004 -Rahman Rahi Subhuk Soda, Kalami Rahi and Siyah Rode Jaren Manz -Kashmiri

2005 -Kunwar Narayan -Hindi

2006 -Ravindra Kelekar -Konkani

2006 -Satya Vrat Shastri -Sanskrit

manfacturers of cars,Car industry,

Global Car Manufacturers

Aston Martin -UK

BMW Group: MBW ,Rolls Royce -Germany

Brilliance Auto -China

Changfeng Auto -China

Chery Automobiles-China

Chysler corporation :Dodge Jeep -USA

Daimler:Mercedes Benz -Germany

Fiat Group -Italy

Ford Motor Co:-USA

Geely Motors-China

General Motors -USA

GM Daewoo Auto Tech -South Korea

Great Wall Motors-China

Honda Motor Co-Japan

Hyundai-South Korea

Isuzu Motors-Japan

mazda Motor Co-JApan

MAhindra and Mahindra -India

MAruti Suzuki-India

M.G.Rover-UK

Mittsubishi Motor corporation-Japan

Nissan Motor company-Japan

Proton Perodua-Indonesia

Paykan-Iran

Porsche-Germany

PSA.Peugeot,Cotroen -France

Renault- France

Suzuki Motor Corporation-JapanT

ata Motors-India

Toyota Motor Corporation-Japan

Volks Wagen Group-Germany

Cars,Indian Cars,Luxury cars,Sports cars

Cars - An Icon of Modern Age

The advent of steam engine lent impetus to the search forb a self-propelled vehicle to replace animal drawn ones.Naturally the precursor of modern automobile was a steampowder contraption designed to houl can-nons.the the bulky steam engines were replaced by smaller than easier to operate gasolen engines by mid 18th century.However the early cars had only rudimentary controls for passengers.Progress in building roads,growth of petroleum industry and inventions like lead -acid battery,pneumatic tyres along with advances in Metallurgy led to the emergence of improved models of motor cars.
By the dawn of 21st century cars had become veritable showcases of modern technology with electronics and computer systems playing major roles.awareness of the part played by cars in increasing atmospheric pollution has led to the search for new engine technologies.Electric ,Fuel Cell,abd Hybrid powered cars have been introduced by auto majors as a solution.Steep increase in the efficiency and drastic reduction in emissions hasbeen acheived in regular petrol and deisel powered cars with use of innovative technologies As Korea emulates Japan in capturing the global car market and China and India grow as the largest consumers of automobiles ,Future of the industry looks bright as ever .
Car models currently available new in the market are listed. Prices mentioned are approximate ex-showroom prices, although additional taxes in different states in India make for different on-the-road prices.
Manufacturers of widely selling cars in India are Maruti Suzuki, Hyundai, Tata Motors, Ford India, Honda , General Motors etc.
Some important cars in India are the following :-
car name starting price (in Lakh Rs.)

Chevrolet Spark 2.74

Chevrolet Optra SRV 7.31

Chevrolet Aveo UV-A 4.11

Fiat Palio, Palio Stile 3.57

Fiat 500 14.0

Fiat Grande Punto 4.65

Ford Figo (New) 3.6 - 5.45

Ford Fusion 7.0

Honda Jazz 5.60

Hyundai Santro Xing 4.10

Hyundai Getz 3.97

Hyundai i10 3.41

Hyundai i20 5.05

Maruti Suzuki 800 1.97

Maruti Suzuki Alto 2.36

Maruti Suzuki A-STAR 3.48

Maruti Suzuki WagonR 3.22

Maruti Suzuki Estilo (New) 3.13

Maruti Suzuki Swift 4.16

Maruti Suzuki Ritz (New) 3.9

REVA (Electric) 4.2

Å koda Fabia 4.98

Tata Nano 1.25

Tata Indica 2.52

Tata Indica Xeta 3.8

Tata Indica Vista 3.41

Saloons/Sedans/Subcompacts and Luxury cars

car name starting price (in Lakh Rs.)

Audi A4 29.0

Audi A6 38.9

Audi A8 72.5

Bentley Arnage 225.0

Bentley Continental Flying Spur 170.0

BMW 3 Series 26.7

BMW 5 Series 36.9

BMW 7 Series 73.6

BMW M5 105.28

Chevrolet Aveo 6.2

Chevrolet Optra Magnum 8.19

Fiat Linea 4 fire petrol

Ford Ikon 5.15

Ford Fiesta 5.89

Hindustan Motors Ambassador 4.31

Honda Accord 17.3

Honda City 7.95

Honda Civic 10.49

Honda Civic Hybrid 22.23

Hyundai Sonata Embera 12.58

Hyundai Elantra 11.02

Hyundai Accent Excutive 5.08

Hyundai Verna 10.24

Jaguar 63.00

Mahindra Renault Logan 4.58

Maruti Suzuki Swift Dzire 4.75

Maruti Suzuki SX4 VXi, ZXi, ZXi (leather option) 6.72

Maybach 62 540.0

Mitsubishi Cedia 9.12

Mitsubishi Lancer 7.63

Mercedes-Benz C-Class 28.84

Mercedes-Benz E-Class 37.93

Mercedes-Benz S-Class 81.36

Mercedes-Benz CLS 77.15

Nissan Teana 24.35

Porsche Panamera 141.74

Rolls Royce Phantom 350.0

Å koda Octavia 1.8

Classic, Combi 10.44

Å koda Laura 13.54

Å koda Superb 20.65

Tata Indigo 3.62

Tata Indigo Manza Aqua, Aura, Aura (ABS), Aura + 4.8-6.75

Toyota Camry 1.8G, 1.8GL, 1.8VL 132PS 22.26

Toyota Corolla Altis 11.13

Volkswagen Passat 23.07

Volkswagen Jetta 13.19

Volvo S80[1]

Estates and Vans

car name starting price (in Lakh Rs.)

Audi Q7

BMW X3

BMW X5

BMW X6

Chevrolet Captiva

Chevrolet Tavera

Chinkara Motors Jeepster

Force Motors Gama, Cruiser

Force Motors Trax Toofan,

Challenger

Ford Endeavour 16-20

Honda CR-V 2.0 2WD, 2.4 AT, MT 170 PS 18-20

Hummer H2 99

Hummer H3 93

Hyundai Tucson

Land Rover Discovery

Land Rover Range Rover 73

Land Rover Range Rover Sport 93.3

Mahindra Bolero 4-6

Mahindra Commander

Mahindra MaXX

Mahindra Scorpio 6-10

Mahindra Xylo E2, E4, E8 115PS, 2.5L 6.3-8.3

Maruti Eeco 2-3

Maruti Suzuki Gypsy 2-3

Maruti Suzuki Versa

Mercedes-Benz M-Class 65-70

Mitsubishi Montero 40

Mitsubishi Pajero 2.8 SFX 115 PS 23.5

Mitsubishi Outlander

Nissan X-Trail

Å koda Yeti (New)

Sonalika Rhino RX 6-7

Suzuki Grand Vitara 15-17

Tata Safari, Safari DiCOR 7-11

Tata Sumo Spacio, Victa, Grande 5-7

Tata TL, 207DI, Tatamobile

Tata Indigo Marina

Tata Winger 5

Toyota Innova 2.0G, 2.5V 103 PS 9-13

Toyota Prado 54

Toyota Land Cruiser 90

Toyota Fortuner (New) 22

Volvo XC90 (New) 55-60

Volkswagen Touareg 62

Sports cars
car name starting price (in Lakh Rs.)

Audi TT Coupé 60

Audi R8 117.00

Bentley Arnage Azure, Brooklands 358.00, 400.00

Bentley Continental GT/GTC 190.00/224.00

BMW M3 78.14

BMW 6 Series 83.16

Chinkara Motors Roadster

Jaguar cars (New) XK, XF 62.0

Lamborghini Gallardo Coupe 502PS, 5000cc 150.0

Lamborghini Gallardo Spyder 230.0

Lamborghini Murciélago LP640 640PS, 6500cc 260.0

Mercedes-Benz SL-Class

Mercedes-Benz SLK-Class

Nissan 370Z (New) 53.5

Porsche 911 Carrera 86.5

Porsche Boxster 53

San Storm

Earth Day, Saving Earth,Environment

Earth Day


Earth Day is commemorated April 22nd each single year, both held yearly during autumn in southern hemisphere and in northern hemisphere. And these are planned to inspire attentiveness and admiration for the Earth's surroundings. The United Nations commemorates an Earth Day every year on March equinox, a custom which was established by peace campaigner John McConnell in 1969. A second Earth Day, which was established through U.S. Senator Gaylord Nelson as an ecological teach-in in 1970, is commemorated in several countries every year on 22nd April.
History of the April 22 Earth Day
In September 1969 at a meeting in Seattle, Washington, U.S. Senator Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin declared that in spring 1970 there would be a national grassroots revelation on the surroundings. And this occurred throughout a time of apprehension about overpopulation and when there was a brawny movement towards "Zero Population Growth."
Facing Five months, the first April 22nd Earth Day, on Sunday, November 30, 1969, The New York Times carried a prolonged article through Gladwin Hill reporting on rising hysteria of "global cooling.
"Rising concern about the environmental crisis is sweeping the nation's campuses with an intensity that may be on its way to eclipsing student discontent over the war in Vietnam...a national day of execution of environmental problems...is being planned for next spring...when a nationwide environmental 'teach-in'...coordinated from the office of Senator Gaylord Nelson is planned...." Senator Nelson hired Denis Hayes as a coordinator.
22nd April, 1970, Earth Day marks the opening of contemporary environmental association. Approximately 20 million Americans contributed, with an objective of a vigorous, sustainable atmosphere.
Denis Hayes, the national manager, and his old employees organized gigantic coast-to-coast rallies. And Thousands of colleges and universities prearranged protests aligned with the corrosion of the atmosphere. Associations that had been fighting aligned with power plants, polluting factories and oil spills, raw sewage, pesticides, the loss of wilderness, freeways, toxic dumps, and the extermination of wildlife abruptly comprehended they shared frequent values.
Organizing 200 million people in 141 countries and lifting the rank of ecological issues onto the world stage, Earth Day on 22nd April in 1990 gave a vast boost up to recycling attempts all-inclusive and helped cover the way for 1992 United Nations Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro.
Earth Day 2007 was one of leading Earth Days to date, with an estimated billion citizens taking part in the activities in thousands of places like Caracas, Ukraine; Kiev, Tuvalu, Philippines, Manila, Venezuela, Togo, Spain, New York, London, and Madrid.
Founded through the organizers of primary April 22 Earth Day in 1970, Earth Day Network endorses environmental nationality and year round progressive act universal. Earth Day Network is a lashing force steering ecological attentiveness around the world. And Through the Earth Day Network, activists fix change in local, nationwide, and worldwide policies. The Earth Day Network’s international network reaches above 17,000 associations in 174 countries, while a domestic program connects 5,000 groups and above 25,000 educators organizing millions of population development and ecological protection activities all through the year. The Earth Day is an only event commemorated concurrently around the world through people of all nationalities backgrounds, and faiths. In excess of a half billion people contribute in Earth Day Network crusades each year.
Criticisms of Earth Day

Some ecologists have become decisive of Earth Day, mainly those in Bright green environmentalism camp. And they accuse that the Earth Day has come to signify the marginalization of ecological sustainability, and that the commemoration itself has survived its usefulness.


Earth Day Symbol

Earth Day attaches no local or disruptive set of symbols, no statement of the truth or control of one way of life over another.But the selection of the March Equinox makes earthly observance of a mutual event possible, and a flag which shows the Earth as seen from space suitable.

Earth Day Flag

According to Flags of the globe, the Ecology Flag was formed by cartoonist Ron Cobb, and was published for the first time in October 25, 1969. The flag was after the flag of the United States, and had thirteen stripes alternating green and white. Flag canton was green through a yellow theta. It first had a symbol that was a combination of the letters "E" and "O" taken from the words "Environment" and "Organism", correspondingly. Later flags used also a theta because of its historic utilize as a warning symbol, or the peace symbol


Earth Day Quotes

1. "After a visit to the beach, it's hard to believe that we live in a material world."- Earth Day Quotes By Pam Shaw 2. "We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive." - Earth Day Quotes By Albert Einstein
3. Till now man has been up against Nature; from now on he will be up against his own nature. - Earth Day Quotes By Dennis Gabor (Back in 1964)
4. Nature’s laws affirm instead of prohibit. If you violate her laws you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman. - Earth Day Quotes By Luther Burbank
5. It is not man the ecological crisis threatens to destroy, but the quality of human life. - Earth Day Quotes By René Dubos
6. "When the well's dry, we know the worth of water." - Earth Day Quotes By Benjamin Franklin, (1706 - 1790), Poor Richard's Almanac.
7. "When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world." - Earth Day Quotes By John Muir
8. Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. - Earth Day Quotes By Margaret Mead
9. When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world. - Earth Day Quotes By John Muir
10. We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive. - Earth Day Quotes By Albert Einstein
11. "When the well's dry, we know the worth of water." - Earth Day Quotes By Benjamin Franklin, (1706-1790), Poor Richard's Almanac. 12. "Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every man's greed."- Earth Day Quotes By Mohandas K. Gandhi quoted in EF Schumacher, Small is Beautiful.
13. "Every day is Earth Day." - Earth Day Quotes By Unkown

Secretaries Day ,International days,Office Secretary,

Secretaries Day

The life of secretary or the administrative assistant isvery responsible as they have to manage every single thing in the office, running errands for the boss, typing, filling forms and fulfilling many other duties. They take care of each and everything so that the office runs smoothly and the every work of their boss will be completed accurately in time. They are the little hand which has a big role in the success of the company, but they are seldom appreciated and recognized. They have to be recognised.
To appreciate the work of secretaries and encourage more people into the professionHarry F Klemfuss, a New York publicist along with the National Secretary association in the year 1952 created the National Secretary's week .The National secretary week was held on the first week of June from june1 to 7 and June 4th was celebrated as the secretary day. Three years later in 1955, the observance of the week was moved to the last full week of April and the Wednesday in the week was decided as the secretary day. The name of the week has been changed twice; in 1981 it came to be called the Professional Secretary Week and in the year 2000 it got named the Administrative Professional Week as it is called up to the day.
Today, the Administrative Professional day is an unofficial holiday for the secretaries in United States. This year (2010) the secretary day is on Wednesday April 21st. The secretary day is a chance for the boss to thank their secretary for all the big and small support and hard work the secretaries and the assistants put from their part. It is the day for the boss to recognize the importance of the professional support staff and appreciate them for all they have done throughout the year. It is the day to make the secretaries feel that they are indeed a very important and indispensible part of the institution or company.
This day is celebrated through community events. The National Secretary Association, now called the International Association for Administrative Professionals (IAAP), suggest the arrangement of events to highlight the importance of the assistant professionals and to enhance the work related skill. The work related skill can be improved by providing an opportunity for continuing education and training and by conducting seminars. Over these years, the secretary day or the Administrative Professional day has become one of the largest workplace celebrations with millions of secretaries, receptionists and personal assistants observing it on the Wednesday of the Administrative Professional week.
On this day the boss usually appreciate and acknowledge the work of the Administrative assistants by presenting them with little gifts of appreciation like flowers, chocolates, cards, assorted gift basket, wine, candies and office accessories like pen, clock or writing set. Some honor their assistant or secretary by taking them for a lunch, giving them a day off, getting a movie ticket or surprising them with really good gift like a holiday package. After all, the main idea behind the day is to say "Thank You Very Much" for them
Just one day in the office without these professional support staff can cause a real uproar in the office because no boss knows how to handle their projects without the little support the secretaries and administrative assistant provides. They are the real oil for the smooth running of the busiest of the busiest offices. So do thank them and thank them from your heart because you are what they made you to be, and the success of the boss is on the hard work of his secretary.

World Heritage ,Indian heritage ,International Days

World Heritage
Borobudur - Indonesia Heritage is our legacy from the past, what we live with today, and what we pass on to future generations. Our cultural and natural heritage are both irreplaceable sources of life and inspiration. Places as unique and diverse as the wilds of East Africa’s Serengeti, the Pyramids of Egypt, the Great Barrier Reef in Australia and the Baroque cathedrals of Latin America make up our world’s heritage.
What makes the concept of World Heritage exceptional is its universal application. World Heritage sites belong to all the peoples of the world, irrespective of the territory on which they are located.
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) seeks to encourage the identification, protection and preservation of cultural and natural heritage around the world considered to be of outstanding value to humanity. This is embodied in an international treaty called the Convention concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage, adopted by UNESCO in 1972.
UNESCO's World Heritage mission is to:

encourage countries to sign the World Heritage Convention and to ensure the protection of their natural and cultural heritage;
encourage States Parties to the Convention to nominate sites within their national territory for inclusion on the World Heritage List;
encourage States Parties to establish management plans and set up reporting systems on the state of conservation of their World Heritage sites;
help States Parties safeguard World Heritage properties by providing technical assistance and professional training;
provide emergency assistance for World Heritage sites in immediate danger;
support States Parties' public awareness-building activities for World Heritage conservation; encourage participation of the local population in the preservation of their cultural and natural heritage;
encourage international cooperation in the conservation of our world's cultural and natural heritage.
World heritage Day
The International Day for Monuments and Sites which is known as the World Heritage Day was created on 18th April, 1982, by ICOMOS and later approved at the 22nd UNESCO General Conference in 1983. This special day offers an opportunity to raise public’s awareness concerning the diversity of the world’s heritage and the efforts that are required to protect and conserve it, as well as to draw attention to its vulnerability.
The Theme of International Day for Monuments and Sites (World Heirtage Day) in 2010 is Agricultural Heritage
Agricultural practices, systems and landscapes have been shaped and maintained over millennia, by generations of farmers - responding to challenges of nature, climate and geography, as well as conserving and using available local resources.
Agricultural heritage goes beyond just production of food. It, in fact, reflects the evolution of humankind, its interrelationships with nature, and the lifestyles that people have led.
Some recent World Heritage Day themes include:
2009: Heritage and Science
2008: Religious heritage and sacred places
2007: Cultural landscapes and monuments of nature
2006: Industrial Heritage
2005: 40th Anniversary of ICOMOS
2004: Earthen Architecture and Heritage
2003: Underwater Cultural Heritage
2002: 20th Century Heritage 2001: Save our historic villages
These are some suggestions for the conservation of the world Heritage
1.Visits to monuments and sites, and restoration works, possibly with free admission;
2.Articles in newspapers and magazines, as well as television and radio broadcasts;
3.Hanging banners in town squares or principal traffic arteries calling attention to the day and the preservation of cultural heritage;
4.Inviting local and foreign experts and personalities for conferences and interviews; 5.Organizing discussions in cultural-centers, city halls, and other public spaces.
6.Exhibitions (photos, paintings, etc)
7.Publication of books, post-cards, stamps, posters
8.Awarding prizes to organizations or persons who have made an outstanding contribution to the conservation and promotion of cultural heritage or produced an excellent publication on the subject.
9.Inaugurate a recently restored monument
10.Special awareness raising activities amongst school children and youth
11.Promotion of "twinning" opportunities, defining areas for co-operation; exchange of speakers; 12.organization of meetings and seminars, or the editing of joint publications

World Heritage in young hands
Only by instilling a deep sense of responsibility in young people towards the World Heritage can we be confident that the planet's cultural and natural iversity will endure into the future.

Friday, April 9, 2010

Home recipes,Chicken taste,Biriyani,Pulavu

Chicken Biryani recipe

Ingredients
Basmati rice 500 gms.
Chicken pieces 1kg.
Garam masala powder 4 tsp.
Milk ½ cup
Whole garam masala 4 tbsp.
Butter 50 gms.
Sliced onions 1 cup
Golden fried sliced onions ¾ cup
Chopped garlic 4 tbsps.
Rose Water 2 tbsps.
Chopped ginger 4 tbsps.
Oil 5 tbsps
Red chili powder 3 tsps.
Salt To taste
Coriander powder 1 tbsp.
Saffron ½ gm.
Turmeric powder 2 tsps.
Curd (yogurt) 2 cup
Bay leaf 4 nos.
Chopped tomato ¾ cup
Preparation
1. Marinate chicken pieces .Mix salt, ½ of the red chili powder, ½ of the chopped ginger, ½ of the chopped garlic, 1 tsp. Garam Masala Powder, ½ of the turmeric powder and Curd/Yogurt. Mix well and put chicken pieces in this for an hour.
2. Wash and soak rice in water for about 30 minutes.
3. Boil water, add ½ of the Whole Garam Masala , bay leaf and salt and boil rice till ¾th done. Drain rice and keep aside.
4. Heat oil in a thick bottomed pan. Add remaining Whole Garam masala .Let it crackle. Add Sliced onions and sauté’ until light golden brown.
5. Then add remaining chopped ginger, chopped garlic, coriander powder, turmeric powder, red chili powder, 1 tsp. Garam Masala powder and chopped tomatoes. Cook for about 5 minutes. Add marinated chicken and cook till chicken is tender.
6. Dissolve saffron in warm milk and keep aside.
7. Arrange alternate layers of chicken and rice. Sprinkle saffron dissolved in milk, remaining Garam Masala powder, mint leaves, golden fried sliced onions and butter in between the layers and on top. Make sure that you end with the rice layer topped with saffron , rose water and spices.
8. Cover and seal with aluminum foil . Cook in a preheated oven, for 10-12 minutes. Alternatively cook on an indirect slow flame for 10 to 12 minutes.


Vegetable Fried rice
Ingredients
Rice Basmati or long 1 kg,
Raisins: 20 gm,
Apricots dried: 2,
Walnut: 2 made in small pieces,
Almond: 20 gm,
Cinnamon sticks 2,
finely powdered,
Cloe: 10-12,
Turmeric powder: 1/4 tsp,
Onion: 250 gm, cut vertically,
Green peper: 100 gm
chopped, seedless,Carot: 200 gm
chopped,French beans: 250 gm
chopped,Garlic petals: 10
chopped,Black pepper: 7-8 powdered,
Salt: 1 tbsp,
Bay leaf: 1,
Fresh coriander leaves: 50 gms,
Oil: 250 gm,
Sugar: 20 gm.
Preparation
Roast rice with little amount of oil and cook it for 10 minutes, decant remained water. Do not cook rice to complete. Keep aside until vegetable fry mix is ready.
VEGETABLE FRY MIX:In another large bottom vessel, pour oil and heat it to become hot, to hot oil add garlic, bay leaf, cloe and onion, let onion fry on low fire until it become light pink to orange tint, add black pepper powder. Add finely chopped vegetables, french beans, carrot, and green pepper continue heating on medium for another 5-7 minutes. Add the turmeric powder, salt and mix it well. Add the cooked rice to above mixture and keep mixing well on the low fire for a minute. Cover the vessel and let it cook for another 5 minutes. Add approx. 20 gm sugar and mix it once.
Take it out from the vessel and garnish the rice with chopped walnut, almond, raisins, cinnamon powder, dry apricot finely diced and fresh coriander leaves.

Chinese Fried Rice
Ingredients
Basmati Rice - 11/2 cup,
capsicum (medium size) - 2,
spring onions - 10,
carrot - 2,
chopped cabbage - 1 cup,
chopped beans - 1/2 cup.
Preparation
Cook Basmati rice adding 1 1/2 times water until fully cooked. Cut the vegetables in the form of long thin pieces. Heat 2 tblespoons of oil in a frying pan. Add the vegetables and 1/2 a teaspoon salt and fry till half-cooked. Add the cooked rice and mix. Add a pinch of aji-no-moto(chinese salt), 1/2 a teaspoon salt, 1/2 a teaspoon pepper powder, and 1/2 a teaspoon garam masala(if required). Keep in low heat for about 10 min, stirring once in a while. Remove from flame and serve hot with Onion curd pachidi.

Vegetable Noodles
Ingredients
4 cup(s) boiled and cooled Thai egg noodles (ba mee) or vegetarian noodles (guay thiew)
2 cup(s) sliced and blanched mixed vegetables (carrots, beans, cauliflower, baby corn)
1 tablespoon(s) bamboo shoots sliced and blanched
2 tablespoon(s) mushrooms (hed) sliced
2 teaspoon(s) chopped garlic (kratiem)
2 teaspoon(s) chopped ginger (khing)
2 teaspoon(s) soy sauce
2 teaspoon(s) oyster sauce (optional)
4 tablespoon(s) oil
2 spring onions chopped
salt and pepper to taste
Preparation
Toss the boiled noodles with some oil so that they do not become sticky. Heat the oil in a wok and briefly saute the chopped ginger and garlic. Mix in the noodles, all the vegetables and toss them well. Mix in the sauces, salt and pepper. Toss the noodles on high heat for about 3 minutes ensuring the vegetables are crunchy. Serve hot garnished with chopped spring onions.


Shrimp Pulavu
Ingredients
Basmati Rice 500 gms.
Shrimp 1kg.
Bay leaf 2 no.
Sliced onion ¼ cup
Coriander leaves 1 tbsp.
Fresh grated coconut 1 tbsp.
Lemon juice 1 tsp.
Turmeric powder ½ tsp.
Green chili 2 no.
Whole garam masala 1 tsp.
Ghee/Oil 2 tbsp.
Salt As per taste
Preparation
Wash and soak rice for about 20 minutes. Drain and keep aside. Clean and wash shrimp. Heat Ghee or oil in a thick bottomed pan. Add bay leaves and Whole Garam Masala. Let it crackle. Add sliced onion, sauté till the onion turns pink. Add water, turmeric powder, lemon juice and green chilies slit into two. Bring it to boil and add rice. Cook for a minute and add shrimp. Season with salt. Stir lightly. Stir till rice absorbs all the water and then cover it with a lid and cook it on a slow fire till rice and shrimp are fully cooked. Garnish with chopped coriander leaves and grated fresh coconut. Serve hot.

Seven Wonders of the world,natural wonders

The Seven Wonders of the World

Seven monuments of the ancient world that appeared on varios lists of late antiquity are known as the:
Seven Wonders of the World
1. The Colossus of Rhodes
2. The Pharos (lighthouse) at Alexaandria
3. The Hanging Gardens(and walls)of Babylon
4.The Temple of Artemis (or Diana )at Ephesus
5.The pyramid of Khusu
6.The Tomb of Mausolus at Hali Carnassus
7.The Statue of Zeus at Olympia
The tradition of Seven wonders has inspired succeeding generations to compile countless lists since the Alexandrian Era.

Seven Wonders of the middle ages.

1.The Collossuem of Rome
2.The Catacombs of Alexandria
3.The Great Wall of China
4.Stonehenge
5.The Porcelein Tower (or Pagoda) of Nanking,China.
6.The Leaning Tower of Pisa ,Italy
7.Hagia Sophia of Constantinople

Seven Natural Wonders of the world

1.The Grand Canyon ,Colorado River,Artizona
2.Rio de Janeiro Harbour
3.Iguassu Falls ,Argentina
4.Yosemite Valleyand the giant Sequioas of California
5.Mount Everest on the border of Tibet and Nepal
6.Nile River, Egypt
7.The Northern Lights especially from Northern Canada and Alasca.

Seven Wonders of Today

1.The great pyramid of Egypt and adjacent Great Sphinx of Gizeh
2.Hagia Sophia ,6th century,in present day Istanbul
3.Leaning Tower of Pisa ,Italy
4. The Taj mahal of Agra , India
5.The Washington Monument ,Washington
6.The Eiffel Tower , Paris
7.The Empire State Building,Newyork City

Thursday, April 8, 2010

Engineering Entrance Exams,Entrance Exams

Popular Engineering Entrance Exams in India


Kerala Engineering Entrance Exam - KEAM

Karnataka Engineering Entrance exam - Karnataka CET

All India Engineering Entrance Exam - AIEEE

Maharashtra Engineering Entrance Exam - MHT-CET

West Bengal Engineering Entrance Exam - WBJEE IIT

Joint Entrance Examination - IIT JEE

Uttar Pradesh Engineering Entrance Exam - UPTU SEE

Delhi Common Engineering Entrance Exam - DCEE

BIrla Institute of Technology Engg. Entrance Exam BITSAT VIT

University Engineering Entrance Exam VITEEE

Punjab Technical University (PTU) CET

Engineering Colleges Admission Notification 2010

Mody Institute of Technology and Science Lakshmangarh Admission Notice 2010 B.Tech, MCA, Phd, M.Tech, M.A., MBA, M.Sc Programmes

Shanmugha Arts Science Technology and Research Academy Thanjavur B.Tech Admission 2010

National Institute of Industrial Engineering (NITIE) Mumbai - Post Graduate Diploma in Industrial Engineering (PGDIE) 2010

Jaypee Institute of Information Technology B.Tech (Engineering) Admissions 2010

Vel Tech Rangarajan Dr Sagunthala R&D Institute of Science and Technology Chennai - B.Tech, M.Tech, MBA Admissions 2010

International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT), Banglore Admissions to M.Tech programmes 2010

Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University (PDPU) School of Petroleum Technology - B.Tech Admission 2010

Books ,Authors,World Library

Books - Authors
Acoession to Extinction -D.R. Mankekar

Across Borders, Fifty-years of India's Foreign Policy -J.N. Dixit

Adam Bede -George Eliot

Adhe Adhure -Mohan Rakesh

Adonis -P.B. Shelley

Adrain Mole-The Wilderness Years -Sue Townsend

Adventures of Huckleberry -Finn Mark Twain

Adventures of Robinson Crusoe -Daniel Defoe

Adversary in the House -lrving Stone

Advice and Consent -Allen Drury

Aeneid -Virgil Affairs -C.P.Snow

Affluent Society -J.K.Galbraith

Agni Pariksha -Acharya Tulsi

Agni -Veena Kazi Nazrul Islam

Agony and the Ecstasy- Irving Stone

Ain-i-Akbari -Abul Fazal

Airport- Arthur Hailey

Ajatshatru-Jai Shankar Prasad

Akbarnama -Abul Fazal

Alaska Unbound- James Michener

Alchemist-Ben Johnson

Alexander Quartet -Lawrence Durrel

Alexander the Great -John Gunther

Alice in Wonderland- Lewis Carroll

Alien Nation -Peter Brimelow

All for Love -John Dryden

All is Well that Ends Well- William Shakespeare

All Quiet on the Western Front -Erich Maria Remarque

All the King's Men -Robert Penn Warren

Amar Kosh -Amar Singh

An Autobiography -Jawaharlal Nehru

An Eye to China -David Selbourne

An idealist View of Life Dr.S. Radhakrishnan Anandmath Bankim Chandra Chatterjee

Anatomy of a Flawed inheritance J.N. Dixit

Ancient Evenings Norman Mailer

Ancient Mariner Samuel Taylor Coleridge

And Quiet Flows the Don Mikhali Sholokhov

And Through the Looking Glass Lewis Carroll

Androcles and the Lion George Bernard Shaw

Angry Letters Willem Doevenduin

Anguish of Deprived Lakshmidhar Mishra

Animal Farm George Orwell

Anna Karenina Count Leo Tolstoy

Another Life Derek Walcott

Apple Cart George Bernad Shaw

Arabian Nights Sir Richard Burton

Area of Darkness V.S. Naipaul

Arion and the Dolphin Vikram Seth

Arms and the Man George Bernard Shaw

Around the World in Eighty Days Jules verne

Arrangement Elia Kazan

Arrival and Departure Arthur Koestler

Arrow in the Blue Arthur Koestler

As You Like It William Shakespeare

Ascent of the Everest Sir John Hunt

Ashtadhyayi Panini

Asia and Western Dominance K.M. Panikkar

Asian Drama Gunnar Myrdal

Aspects of the Novel E.M. Forster

Assassination of a Prime Minister S.Anandram

Assignment Colombo J.N. Dixit

Assignment India Christopher Thomas

Athenian Constitution Aristotle

Babbit Sinclair Lewis

Baburnama Babur

Baby and Child Penelope Leach

Back to Methuselah G.B. Shaw

Backward Place Ruth Prawer Jhabwala

Bandicoot Run Manohar Malgonkar

Bang-i-Dara Mohammad lqbal

Bend in the Ganges Manohar Malgonkar

Bermuda Triangle Charles Berlitz

Beyond Boundaries: A Memoire Swaraj Paul

Beyond the Horizon Eugene O'Neill

Beyond Modernisation, Beyond Self Sisir Kumar Ghose

Beyond Peace Richard Nixon

Bhagwat Gita Veda Vyas

Bharal Aur Europe Nirmal Verma

Bharat Bharati Maithili Sharan Gupta

Bharaitya Parampara Ke Mool Swar Govind Chandra Pande

Big Fisherman Lloyd C. Douglas

Big Money P.G. Wodehouse

Bill the Conqueror P.G. Wodehouse

Billy Albert French

Biographia Literaria Samuel Taylor coleridge

Birds and Beasts Mark Twain

Birth and Death of The Sun George Gamow

Birth and Evolution of the soul Annie Besant

Birth of Europe Robert, S. Lopez

Bisarjan R.N. Tagore

Bitter Sweet Noel Coward

Blind Beauty Boris Pasternak

Blind Men of Hindoostan-indo-Pak Nuclear War Gen. Krishnaswamy Sundarji

Bliss was it in that Dawn Minoo Masani

Bloodline Sidney Sheldon

Blood Sport James Stewart

Breakthrough Gen.Moshe Dayan

Buddha Charitam Ashvaghosha

Bunch of Old Letters Jawaharlal Nehru

Bureaucrazy M.K. Kaw

Butterfield 8 John O'Hara By God's Decree Kapil Dev

By Love Possessed James Gould Cozzens

Byzantium W.B. Yeats Caesar and Cleopatra G.B. Shaw

Call the Briefing Martin Fitzwater

Cancer Ward Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Canterbury Tales G.Chaucer

Canvass of Life Sheila Gujral

Caravans James A. Michener

Cardinal Henry M. Robinson

Coverly Papers Joseph Addison

Cranford Mrs. Gaskell

Creation Gore Vidal

Crescent Moon Rabindranath Tagore

Crescent Over Kashmir Anil Maheshwari

Cricket on the Hearth Charles Dickens

Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoevsky

Crisis in India Ronald Segal

Crisis into Chaos E.M.S. Namboodiripad

Critical Mass William E. Burrows

Critique of Pure Reason Immanuel Kant

Crossing in River Caryl Phillips

Crossing the Sacred Line-Women'sCrown of Wild Olive John Ruskin

Cry, My Beloved Country Alan Patan

Cuckold Kiran Nagar Kar

Culture and Anarchy Matthew Arnold

Culture in the Vanity Bag Nirad C. Chaudhuri

Curtain Raisers K. Natwar Singh

Damsel in Distress P.G. Wodehouse

Dancing with the Devil Rod Barker

Dangerous Plaqce Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Dangerous Summer Emest Hemingway

Dangling Man Saul Bellow

Daniel Deronda Geroge Eliot

Dark Room R.K. Narayan

Dark Debts Karen Hall

Dark Home Coming Eric Lustbader

Dark Side of Camelot Seymour Hersh

Darkness at Noon Arthur Koestler

Das Kapital Karl Marx

Death and After Annie Besant

Death Be Not Proud John Gunther

Death in the Castle Pearl S. Buck

Death in Venice Thomas Mann

Death of a City Amrita Pritam

Death of a Patriot R.E. Harrington

Death on the Nile Agatha Christie

Death of a President William Manchester

Death of a Salesman Arthur Miller

Debacle Emile Zola

Decameron Giovannie Boccaccio

Detective Arthur Hailey

Diana-Princess of Wales : A Tribute Tim Graham

Diana-The Story So Far Julia Donelli

Diana-The True Story Andrew Morton

Diana Versus Charles James Whitaker

Die Blendung Elias Canetti

Dilemma of Our Time Harold Joseph Laski

Diplomacy Henry Kissinger

Diplomacy and Disillustion George Urbans

Diplomacy in Peace and War J.N. Kaul

Disappearing Acts Terry McMillan

Discovery of India Jawaharlal Nehru

Distant Drums Manohar Malgonkar

Distant Neighbours Kuldip Nayar

Divine Comedy A.Dante

Divine Life Swami Sivananda

Doctor Faustus Christopher Marlowe

Doctor's Dilemma G.B.Shaw

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Robert Louis Stevensan

Dr. Zhivago Boris Pasternak

Doll's House lbsen

Dolly-The Birth of a Clone Jina Kolata

Don Juan George Byron

Don Quixote Cervantes

Earth Emile Zola

Earth in the Balance: Forging a NewCommon Purpose Al Gore

Earth Mother Pupul Jayakar

East of Eden B.N. Mullick

East West Salman Rushdie

East Wind Pearl S. Buck

Economic Planning of India Ashok Mehta

Economics of Peace and Laughter John K. Galbraith

Economics of the Third World S.K. Ray

Education of Public Man Hubert Humphrey

Edwina and Nehru Catherine Clement

Egmont J.W. Von Goethe

Eight Lives Rajmohan Gandhi

Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard Thomas Gray

Emile J.J. Rousseau

Eminent Churchillians Andrew Roberts

Emma Jane Austen

Empire of the Soul: Some Journeys in India Paul William Roberts

Ends and Means Aldous Huxley

End of a Beautiful Era Joseph Brodsky

End of an Era C.S. Pandit

End of History and the Last Man Francis Fukuyama

End of the Chapter John Forsyte

Enemies Maxim Gorky

English August Upamanyu Chatterjee

Envoy to Nehru Escott Reid

Erewhon Samuel Butler

Escape John Forsyte

Eassay on Life Samuel Butler

Essays for Poor to the Rich John Kenneth Galbraith

Essays in Criticism Matthew Arnold

Essays On Gita Aurobindo Ghosh

Essays of Elia Charles Lamb

Estate Issac Bashevis Singer

Eternal Himalayas Major H.P.S.Ahluwalia

Eternal India Indira Gandhi

Eternity Anwar Shaikh

Ethics Aristotle

Europa Time Parks

Family Moskat Issac Bashevis Singer

Family Reunion T.S.Eliot

Famished Road Ben Okri

Far From the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy

Far Pavilions M.M.Kaye

Faraway Music Svetlana Allilueva

Farewell to the Trumpets James Morris

Farewell to a Ghost Manoj Das

Farewell to Arms Ernest Hemingway

Farm House George Orwell

Fasana-i-Azad Ratan Nath Sarkar

Fathers and Sons lvan Turgenev

Faust J.W. Von Goethe

Faustus Chirstopher Marlow

Fidelio L.Beethoven

Fiesta Ernest Hemingway

Fifth Column Ernest Hemingway

Fifth Horseman Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre

Final Days Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein

Final Passage Caryl Phillips

Finding a Voice-Asian Women in Britain Amrit Wilson

Fine Balance Rohinton Mistry

Fire Next Time James Baldwin

Fire Under the Snow: Testimony of a Tibetan Prisoner Palden Gyatso

First Circle Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Flags in the Dust William Faulkner

Flames from the Ashes P.D. Tandon

Flounder Gunder Grass

Follywood Flashback Bunny Reuben

Food, Nutrition and Poverty in India V.K.R.V. Rao

For the President's Eyes Only Christopher Andrew

For Whom the Bell Tolls Emest Hemingway

Forbidden Sea Tara Ali Baig

Forsyte Saga John Galsworthy

Fortynine Days Amrita Pritam

Franklin's Tale Geoffrey Chaucer

Fraternity John Forsyte

Free Man's Worship Bertrand Russell

Freedom at Midnight Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre

French Revolution Thomas Carlyle

Freedom Behind Bars Sheikh Mohd. Abdullah

Freedom from Fear Aung San Suu Kyi

French Leave P.G. Wodehouse

Ganadevata Tara Shankar Bandopadhyaya

Gandhi and Stalin Louis Fisher

Gardener Rabindra Nath Tagore

Garrick Year Margaret Drabble

Gathering Storm Winston Churchill

Geeta Govind Jaya Dev

Ghasiram Kotwal Vijay Tendulkar

Ghosts in the Machine Arthur Koestler

Girl in Blue P.G. Wodehouse

Girl On the Hungry Stones Rabindra Nath Tagore

I am not an Island K.A Abbas

I Dare Parmesh Dangwal

I follow the Mahatma K.M. Munshi

Idylls of the King Tennyson I Muse; Therefore I am V.N.Narayanan

Idiot Fyodor Dostoevsky

Idols Sunil Gavaskar

If I am Assassinated Z.A. Bhutto

Imperial Woman Pearl S. Buck

Importance of Being Earnest Oscar Wilde

In Afghanistan's Shadow Salig S. Harrison

In Confidence Anatolyu Dobrynin

In Evil Hour Gabriel Garcia Marquez

In Light of India Octavio Paz

In Retrospect-The Tragedyand Lessons of Vietnam Robert S. McNamara

In Search of Gandhi Richard Attenborough

In Search of Identity Anwar el-Sadat

In the Afternoon of Time Dr.Rupert Snell

In the Bluest Eye Toni Morrison

In the Light of the Black Sun Rohit Manchanda

In the Shadow of Pines Mandeep Rai

India 2020: A Vision for the New Millennium Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam & Dr. Y.S. Rajan

India-A Wounded Civilisation V.S. Naipaul

India discovered John Keay

India-Facing the Twenty-First Century Barbara Crossette

India-From Curzon to Nehru and After Durga Dass

India-From Midnight to the Millennium Shashi Tharoor

India-Independence Festival (1947-1997) Raghu Rai

India in Transition PRof.Jagdish Bhagwati

India is for Sale Chitra Subramaniam

India of Our Dreams M.V. Kamath

India Remembered Percival & Margaret Spear

India Today Rajni Palme Dutt

India We Left Hymphry Trevelyan

Indian Home Rule M.K. Gandhi

Indian Philosophy Dr.S.Radhakrishnan

India's China War Neville Maxwell

India's Culture the State the Arts & Beyond B.P. Singh

India's Economic Crisis Dr. Bimal Jalan

Indian Arms Bazaar Maj-Gen, Pratap Narain

Indian Mansions Sarah Tiloston

India Changes Taya Zinkin

India Divided Rajendra Prasad

India Wins Freedom Maulana Abul Kalam Azad

Indian Muslims Prof. Mohd.Mujeeb

India, the Critial Years Kuldip Nayar

Indo-Pakistan Conflict Russen Brines

Indica Megasthenes

Indira Gandhi's Emergence and Style Nayantara Sehgal

Indira's India S.Nihal Singh

Inferno Alighieri Dante

Inner Circle Jonathan First

Innocence of Father Brown G.K.Chesterton

Inside the CBI Joginder Singh

Inside the Third Reich Albert Spencer

Insider P.V. Narasimha Rao

In Memoriam Tennyson

Inside Asia John Gunther

Inside Europe John Gunther

Inside Africa John Gun ther

Insulted and the injured Fyodor Dostoevsky

Jack and Jackle-Portrait of an American Marriage Chirstopher Anderson

Jai Somnath K.M. Munshi

Jaguar Smile Salman Rushdie

Jajar, Churashir Maa Mahashweta Devi

Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte

Jankijeevanam Prof. Rajendra Mishra

Jawaharlal Nehru-A Communicator & Democratic Leader A.K. Damodran

Jawaharlal Nehru, Rebel and Statesman B.R. Nanda

Jazz Toni Morrison

Jean Christopher Romain Rolland

Jesus Rediscovered Malcolm Muggeridge

Jewel Danielle Steel

Jhoota Sach Yashpal

Jobs for Millions V.V. Giri

Joke Milan Kundra

Judge's Miscellany M. Hidayatullah

Julius Caesar William Shakespeare

Jurassic Park Michael Crichton

Jungle Book Rudyard Kipling

Junglee Girl Ginu

Kamani Kadambari Bana Bhatt

Kamadhenu Kubernath Ray

Kamasutra Vatsyayan

Kagaz Te Kanwas Amrita Pritam

Kamayani Jai Shankar Pandit

Kaleidoscope of India Tomoji Muto

Kali Aandhi Kamleshwar

Kanthapura Raja Rao

Kanyadaan Vijay Tendulkar

Kapal Kundala Bankim Chandra Chatterjee

Kashmir-A Tale of Shame Hari Jaisingh

Kashmir-Behind the Vale M.J.Akbar

Kashmir Diary: Psychology of Militancy Gen.Arjun Ray

Kashmir-The Wounded Valley Ajit Bhattacharjee

Kashmir in the Crossfire Victoria Shaffield

Kashmir A Tragedy of Errors Tavleen Singh

Katghare Main Ram Sharan Joshi

Kayakalp Munshi Prem Chand

Kayar Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai

Keepers of the Keys Milan Kundera

Kenilworth Sir Walter Scott

Kumar Sambhava

Kalidas La Divine Comedia A. Dante

La Peste Albert Camus

Lady of the Lake Sir Walter Scott

Lady with the Lapdog Anton Chekhov

Lady Chatterly's Lover D.H.Lawrence

Lajja Taslima Nasreen

Lal Bahadur Shastri C.P. Srivastava

Last Analysis Saul Bellow

Last Burden Upamanyu, Chatterjee

Last Maharaja Jean Louis Nou & Jacques Pouchepadass

Last Orders Graham Swift

Last Days of Pompeii Edward George Lytton

Last Phase Pyare Lal

Last Things C.P. Snow Law, Lawyers & Judges H.R. Bhardwaj

Laws Versus Justice V.R. Krishna lyer

Leaders Richard Nixon

Leaves of Grass Walt Whitman

Lead Kindly Light Cardinal Newman

Le Contract Social (The Social Contract) J.J. Rousseau

Macbeth William Shakespeare

Magic Mountain Thomas Mann

Mahabharata Vyasa

Marriage and Morals Bertrand Russell

Managing of the Future Peter, F. Drucker

Mama Terry McMillan

Man for All Seasons Robert Bolt

Man of Destiny George Bernard Shaw

Mandarin Simon de Beauvoir Mankind and Mother Earth Arnold Toynbee

Meghdoot Kalidas

Mein Kampf Adolf Hitler

Memoris of the Second World War Churchill

Memoris of a Bystander: Life in Diplomacy lqbal Akhund

Momories of Hope Charles de Gaulle

Men Who Kepl the Secrets Thomas Powers

Men Who Killed Gandhi Manohar Malgonkar

Meri Rehen Meri Manzil Krishna Puri

Middle March George Eliot

Middle Ground Margaret Drabble

Midnight's Children Salman Rushdie

Midsummer Night's Dream William Shakespeare

Mill on the Floss George Eliot

Million Mutinies Now V.S. Naipaul

Mirror of the Sea Joseph Conrad

Mistaken identity Nayantara Sehgal

Moby Dick Herman Melville

Modern Painters John Ruskin

Mother India Katherine Mayo

Mod Classics Joseph Conrad

Modern South Asia: History, Culture,

Moonwalk Michael Jackson

Moor's Last Sigh Salman Rushdie

Mother Maxim Gorky

Mountbatten and Independent India Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre

Mountbatten and the Partition of India Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre

My Days R.K. Narayan

My Early Life M.K. Gandhi

My Experiment With Truth M.K. Gandhi

My Life and Times V.V.Giri

My Own Boswell M.Hidayatullah

My Father, Deng Xiaoping Xiao Rong

My India S. Nihal Singh

My Music, My Love Ravi Shankar

My Presidential Years Ramaswamy Venkataraman

My Truth Indira Gandhi

Mysterious Universe James Jeans

My Several Worlds Pearl S. Buck

My Son's Father Dom Moraes

My South Block Years J.N. Dixit

My Struggles E.K. Nayanar

Nile Basin Sir Richard Burton

Nine Days Wonder John Mansfield

Nisheeth Uma Shankar Joshi

Niti-Sataka Bhartrihari

Nineteen Eighty-Four George Orwell

1999-Victory Without War Richard Nixon

Nirbashita Narir Kabita Taslima Nasreen

Non-Violence in Peace and War M.K. Gandhi

North Seamus Heanev

Northanger Abbey Jane Austen

Nothing Like The Sun Anthony Burgess

No Full stops in India Mark Tully

Nuclear India G.G. Mirchandani and P.K.S. Namboodari

Nurturing Development Ismail Serageldin

Nursery Alice Lewis Carroll

O'Jerusalem Larry Collins and Dominique Lepierre

Occasion for Loving Nadine Gordimer

Odessa File Frederick Forsyth

Odakkuzal G.Shankara Kurup

Odyssey Homer

Oh, Le Beaux Jours Samuel Beckett

Old Curiosity Shop Charles Dickens

Old Goriot Honore de Balzac

Old Man and the Sea Ernest Hemingway

Old Path: white Clouds Thich Nht Hanh

Oliver's Story Erich Segal

Oliver Twist Erich Segal

Oliver Twist Charles Dickens

Omeros Derek Walcott

On History Eric Hobswan

One Day in the Life of lvan Denisovich Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

One-eyed Uncle Laxmikant Mahapatra

One World to Share Sridath Ramphal

One the Threshold of Hope Pope john Paul Painter of Signs R.K.

Panchtantra Vishnu Sharma

Paradise Lost John Milton

Pakistan Cut to Size D.R. Mankekar

Paradiso Alighieri Dante

Paradise Regained John Milton

Passage to England Nirad C. Chaudhuri

Passage to India E.M. Forster

Persuasion Jane Austen

Pickwick Papers Charles Dickens

Pilgrim's Progress John Bunyan Pillow

Problems and the Tangled Tale Lewis Carroll

Pinjar Amrita Pritam

Plague Albert Camus

Plans for Departure Nayantara Sehgal

Pleading Guilty Scott Turow

Preparing for the Twentieth Century Paul Kennedy

Price of Partition Rafiq Zakaria

Price of Power-Kissinger in the Nixon White House Seymour M. Hersh

Princess in Love Ann Pasternak

Prison and Chocolate Cake Nayantara Sehgal

Prison Diary Jayaprakash Narayan

Pyramids of Sacrifice Peter L.Berger

Pygmation G.B. Shaw

Quarantene Jim Crass

Quest for Conscience Madhu Dandavate

R Documents Irving Wallace

Rabbit, Run John Updike

Radharani Bankim Chandra Chatterjee

Rage of Angels Sydney Sheldon

Ragtime E.L. Doctorow

Raghuvamsa Kalidas

Rajtarangini Kalhana

Ram Charit Manas Tulsidas

Ramayana Maharishi Valmiki (in Sanskrit)

Ramayana Dharshanam K.V. Puttappa Rangbhoomi Prem Chand

Rains Came Louis Bromefield

Rain King Saul Bellow

Rainbow Pearl S. Buck

Raj : The Making & Unmaking of British India Lawrence James

Rape of the Lock Alexander Pope

Rape of Nanking: An undeniable History of Photographs Shi Young

Rape of Bangladesh Anthony Mascarenhas

Rare Glimpses of the Raj Pran Nevile

Ratnavali Harsha Vardhan

Ravi Paar (Across the Ravi) Gulzar

Razor's Edge Somerset Maugham

Rebel Albert Camus

Rebirth Leonid Brezhnev

Red and Black Stendhal

Red Star Over China Edgar Snow

Red Wheel Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Rediscovering Gandhi Yogesh Chadha

Reflections on the Frence Revolution Edmund Burke

Red Badge of Courage Stephen Crane

Remembering Babylon David Malouf

Reminiscences Thomas Carlyle

Reminiscences Thomas Carlyle

Reminiscences of the Nehru Age M.O. Mathai

Rendezvous with Rama Arthur C. Clark

Reprieve Jean Paul Sartre

Republic Plato

Rescue Joseph Conrad

Resurrection Leo Tolstoy Return of the Aryans Bhagwan S. Gidwani

Return of the Native Thomas Hardy

Returning to the Source Acharya Rajneesh

Revenue Stamp Amrita Pritam

Rich Like Us Nayantara Sehgal

Sardar Patel and Indian Muslims Rafiq Zakaria

Sakharam Binder Vijay Tendulkar

Saket Maithili Sharan Gupta

Satyartha Prakash Swami Dayanand

Smaler's Planet Saul Bellow

Sanctuary William Faulkner

Sands of Time Sidney Sheldon

Santa Evita Tomas Eloymartinez

Satanic Verses Salman Reshdi