Now that September is over, I could watch KBC. The more I saw, the more I felt that how much I don't know. The sad part is I have even forgotten the parts which I thought I knew. I have decided to revive myself. And the tool - the simplest of the simple - To read the daily paper.
The second part is "Googling" for any item which comes to the mind and keeping an excel file of the same. I have already 125 lines. I want to put them up over here. You are welcome to refresh your memories. Here I go.
Akash - name of tablet for use by everybody; developed by Rajasthan IIT ; COST 2250. For students 1125
B,C, D- name given to new satellite systems like the earth discovered
Pillei/Pillaikar - name of Ganesha in Tamil
tomas transtromer of Sweeden wins nobel prize in literature
Michael Nobbs - Australia is the current Hockey India coach.
S Sreejesh saved 2 penalties to give India 4-2 win in Inaugural Asian championship at Ordos(China)
Rajapal(captain), Danish mujtaba, Yuvraj Valmiki and Sarvanjit scored for India. Gurwinder Chandi missed
Liberians Leymah Gbowee, president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and Yemeni activist Tawakul Karman win Nobel Peace prize
Ralph Steinman, nobel winner for medicine 2011, died 3 days before announcement
Duncan Fletcher of Zimb to coach Indian cricket team for 2 yrs. Has never played a test match.
Vikas Gowda (discus throw), Mayookha Johny (triple jump), Tintu Luka (800m), Babubhai Panocha and Gurmeet Singh (both 20km walk),Krishna Poonia(Discuss) getting ready for London Olympics.
Robert Baan (Holland) appointed TD by AIFF for 2 years.
India competed at the Winter Olympic Games for the first time at the 1964 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria. The sole athlete representing India was Jeremy Bujakowski, who competed in the Men's Downhill event in Alpine Skiing
On August 11, 2008, Abhinav Bindra won the gold medal in the men's 10m air rifle shooting event. In doing so, he won the first ever individual gold medal for India, and the first medal in any event for India at the Beijing Games. The previous highest individual achievements for India were two silver medals won by Norman Pritchard, an Englishman born in India representing Great Britain, at the 1900 Paris Olympics and one silver medal won by the 2008 flagbearer Rajyavardhan Rathore at the 2004 Athens Olympics. Sushil Kumar won the second ever wrestling medal for India, the first being the bronze earned by Khashaba Dadasaheb Jadhav in the 1952 Helsinki Olympics. Vijender Kumar won a bronze medal in the middleweight boxing category, having lost in the semifinals. This was India's first-ever Olympic medal in boxing.
'A shot at history'- autobiography by Abhinav Bindra with Rohit Brijnath.
Ian Wilmut, the scientist behind the successful cloning of Dolly the sheep
Woo-Suk Hwang, a professor of Seoul National University sucessfuly cloned the first dog SNUppy, (Afghan hound and a Labrador Retriever)
more to follow......
The second part is "Googling" for any item which comes to the mind and keeping an excel file of the same. I have already 125 lines. I want to put them up over here. You are welcome to refresh your memories. Here I go.
Akash - name of tablet for use by everybody; developed by Rajasthan IIT ; COST 2250. For students 1125
B,C, D- name given to new satellite systems like the earth discovered
Pillei/Pillaikar - name of Ganesha in Tamil
tomas transtromer of Sweeden wins nobel prize in literature
Michael Nobbs - Australia is the current Hockey India coach.
S Sreejesh saved 2 penalties to give India 4-2 win in Inaugural Asian championship at Ordos(China)
Rajapal(captain), Danish mujtaba, Yuvraj Valmiki and Sarvanjit scored for India. Gurwinder Chandi missed
Liberians Leymah Gbowee, president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and Yemeni activist Tawakul Karman win Nobel Peace prize
Ralph Steinman, nobel winner for medicine 2011, died 3 days before announcement
Duncan Fletcher of Zimb to coach Indian cricket team for 2 yrs. Has never played a test match.
Vikas Gowda (discus throw), Mayookha Johny (triple jump), Tintu Luka (800m), Babubhai Panocha and Gurmeet Singh (both 20km walk),Krishna Poonia(Discuss) getting ready for London Olympics.
Robert Baan (Holland) appointed TD by AIFF for 2 years.
India competed at the Winter Olympic Games for the first time at the 1964 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria. The sole athlete representing India was Jeremy Bujakowski, who competed in the Men's Downhill event in Alpine Skiing
On August 11, 2008, Abhinav Bindra won the gold medal in the men's 10m air rifle shooting event. In doing so, he won the first ever individual gold medal for India, and the first medal in any event for India at the Beijing Games. The previous highest individual achievements for India were two silver medals won by Norman Pritchard, an Englishman born in India representing Great Britain, at the 1900 Paris Olympics and one silver medal won by the 2008 flagbearer Rajyavardhan Rathore at the 2004 Athens Olympics. Sushil Kumar won the second ever wrestling medal for India, the first being the bronze earned by Khashaba Dadasaheb Jadhav in the 1952 Helsinki Olympics. Vijender Kumar won a bronze medal in the middleweight boxing category, having lost in the semifinals. This was India's first-ever Olympic medal in boxing.
'A shot at history'- autobiography by Abhinav Bindra with Rohit Brijnath.
Ian Wilmut, the scientist behind the successful cloning of Dolly the sheep
Woo-Suk Hwang, a professor of Seoul National University sucessfuly cloned the first dog SNUppy, (Afghan hound and a Labrador Retriever)
more to follow......
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