Mythology - 6

Which god is believed to have killed his parents at birth?
Agni


Which of the gods, gifted the Pandavas a magic pot which produced unlimited food during their 13 years of exile?
Surya - the sun god


What does the word 'Svaha' often heard during Hindu rites, mean?
Svaha is the wife of Agni - god of fire offerings to the sacred fire are made in her name to ensure acceptance by Agni


How many names does Vishnu the Preserver have?
1000 - The Sahasranama


Like Durga, Sita, heroine of the Ramayana is also known by several names. But what does Sita literally mean?
'Furrow'. Sita was discovered by King Janaka, lying in the furrow. When he saw her, he cried out 'Sita' and later named her.


In which scripture would you find the story of Urvashi and Pururavas?
The Rig Veda


Kubera, the Hindu god of wealth is supposed to have lived in a fabulously prosperous and beautiful mythical city. Which is it?
Alakapuri - also the home of the gandharvas, who are called Vasudhara, Vasusthali or Prabha

Current Affairs April 2011 - 2

Automobile

2011 Jaguar XJ has been named as the International Luxury Car of the Year

South Korean 2-wheeler manufacturer S and T Motors Corporation, in collaboration with Pune-based Garware Motors, launched its Hyosung brands of 650-700 cc superbikes in India priced between Rs.4,75,000 and Rs.5,69,000


Awards

Two Class 7 students from Tamil Nadu have jointly won the 2nd prize with a Romanian team in a competition conducted by NASA. M Srivatsan and Vasundhara Gautham of Bhavan's Rajaji Vidyashram are the only participants from Tamil Nadu to win the competition. Under 'Project IRIS' (International Research and Integration Station), they developed and designed an alternate habitat for human space settlement. The design won recognition for its detailed and in-depth representation of life and its necessities integrated in a space city.

Indian American doctor Siddhartha Mukherjee's book on cancer 'The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography on Cancer' bags 2011 Pulitzer Prize

Mangalore City Corporation has bagged the Green Leaf Award 2011 for its adopting best practices in managing sanitary landfills


People

Diwakar Gupta has been appointed as CFO of SBI

Board Director, Mohandas Pai and Co-founder K. Dinesh resigns from Infosys

New Jersey-based allergist and immunologist Dr.Sunita Kanumury has been elected President of American Association of Physicians of Indian Origin (AAPI) for 2011-12

Indian coach, Beerbul Wadera to be appointed as (PTF) Pak Tennis Federation coach

Former Brazil Vice President Jose Alencar dies at 79

Pop star Michel Martelly declared Haiti president

Actress Lindsay Lohan has been sentenced to 120 days in jail

Spiritual leader Sathya Sai Baba passes away

Sachin Tendulkar turns 38

Cipla's former Chief Executive Amar Lulla passes away

Andy Goss of head US operations of Jaguar Land Rover

California-based NComputing hires former Citrix VP, Raj Dhingra as its CEO


Business

Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Ltd. to increase the output to 20 million tonnes, eyes production facilities at Kudremukh

'Illumine Play System', a play range has been launched by Arihant Industrial Corporation

Biocon to invest Rs.450 crore on insulin programmes

For the first time ever Apple suprpass Nokia as the world's largest phone vendor by revenue

Royal Emirates Group buys Spanish first division soccer club Getafe, renames 'Getafe Team Dubai'

Reliance Industries finds gas in first well it drilled on a deepsea block in Cauvery basin

Tata Steel to sell 51 percent stake in group company Tata Refractories to Nippon Steel's associate Krosaki Harima Corporation for Rs.576.3 crore


Event

First Bejing international film festival begins in China


Science

Brazil runs world's longest, 28-metre bus on biofuel


Technology

Mobile handset make, Intex Technologies has launched a dual SIM handset, designed for the visually impaired priced at Rs.2,600

Intel launches Intel Xeon processor E7 family

iPad 2 to be launched in India by end of April 2011

VMWare's mobile virtualization now on Android

Blackberry's Playbook hits US market

Time's Most influential people in the world, Time 100

Wael Ghonim	Lamido Sanusi	Katsunobu Sakurai	Takeshi Kanno
Joseph Stiglitz	Colin Firth	Michelle Obama	Nicolas Sarkozy
Reed Hastings	Amy Chua	Paul Ryan	Michele Bachmann
Amy Poehler	Joe Biden	Ai Weiwei	Saad Mohseni
Geoffrey Canada	Jennifer Egan	Rob Bell	Chris Christie
Mark Zuckerberg	Kim Clijsters	Fathi Terbil	Matthew Weiner
Peter Vesterbacka	Ahmed Shuja Pasha	Dilma Rousseff	Lisa Jackson
Angela Merkel	Aung San Suu Kyi	Tom Ford	Jean-Claude Trichet
Julian Assange	Cory Booker	Liang Guanglie	Justin Bieber
Ron Bruder	Gabrielle Giffords	Sue Savage-Rumbaugh	Prince William and Kate Middleton

Joe Scarborough	Sergio Marchionne	Mukesh Ambani	Marine Le Pen
Blake Lively	Mahendra Singh Dhoni	Chris Colfer	Grant Achatz
Hillary Clinton	Felisa Wolfe-Simon	Major General Margaret Woodward	Feisal Abdul Rauf
Muqtada al-Sadr	Esther Duflo	Bruno Mars	El Général
Anwar al-Awlaki	Rain	David and Charles Koch	Jamie Dimon
Kim Jong Un	Larry Page	Hung Huang	Heidi Murkoff
Saif al-Islam Gaddafi	Mia Wasikowska	General David Petraeus	Sting
Hassan Nasrallah	David Cameron	Matt Damon and Gary White	Jonathan Franzen
Nathan Wolfe	John Lasseter	Cecile Richards	V.S. Ramachandran
Oprah Winfrey	Maria Bashir	George R.R. Martin	Michelle Rhee

Mark Wahlberg	Ray Chambers
Rebecca Eaton	Scott Rudin
Xi Jinping	John Boehner
Kathy Giusti	Derrick Rossi
Arianna Huffington	Hu Shuli
Barack Obama	Benjamin Netanyahu
Lionel Messi	Ayman Mohyeldin
Azim Premji	Charles Chao
Aruna Roy	Bineta Diop
Dharma Master Cheng Yen	Patti Smith

Good Friday Quiz

What is Lent?


The name Lent comes from the Middle English "Lenten," which means, "spring." It signifies a season of fasting and preparation for baptism on Easter Sunday.


What is Palm Sunday?


Palm Sunday is the sixth and final Sunday of Lent. In many churches, it is the beginning of the Holy Week, a week of observances leading up to Easter Sunday.


What is Ash Wednesday?


Ash Wednesday is a day of fasting that gets its name from the practice of sprinkling ashes over those engaging in the fast of Lent.


What is Maundy Thursday?


Maundy Thursday have come from the Latin word "mandatum," meaning "commandment," as in the Biblical words of Jesus.


What is Good Friday?


The Friday before Easter is the most solemn day for Christians - it is the day on which Jesus Christ died on the cross.


Why it is called as good Friday?


Christians believe the day is "good" because the message of Easter is of Christ's victory over sin, death, and the devil


What are the Great Fifty Days?


Contrary to what many people think, Easter is not a single day. It is actually a season that begins on Easter Sunday and continues for seven full weeks. This 7-week cycle is known historically as the Great Fifty Days or the Week of Weeks.

Accounting Terms/Quiz

1. Crossing of cheque means?
Drawing two parallel lines across the cheque so that it can only be credited to bank account


2. What is Cash Credit?
Credit transaction in which cash is to be paid later


3. If you invest in mutual fund you get the benefit of?
Diversification, Liquidity and Professional Fund Management


4. The acronym 'AUM' stands for?
Assets Under Management


5. Who bears the burden of Service Tax?
Service Seeker


6. Accumulated losses of joint stock company are its?
Liabilities


7. P-E Ratio stands for?
Price-earnings ratio


8. ABC Ltd. has a current account with a nationalised bank. To withdraw cash it has to submit to the bank?
Cheque

Pulitzer Prize 2011

Journalism

Public Service	Los Angeles Times
Investigative Reporting	Paige St.John of the Sarasota Herald-Tribune
Explanatory Reporting	Mark Johnson, Kathleen, Gallagher,  Gary Porter, Lou Saldivar and  Alison Sherwood of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Local Reporting	Frank Main, Mark Konkol and  John J. Kim of the Chicago Sun-Times
National Reporting	Jesse Eisinger and  Jake Bernstein of ProPublica
International Reporting	Clifford J. Levy and  Ellen Barry of The New York Times
Feature Writing	Amy Ellis Nutt of The Star-Ledger, Newark, N.J.
Commentary	David Leonhardt of The New York Times
Criticism	Sebastian Smee of The Boston Globe
Editorial Writing	Joseph Rago of The Wall Street Journal
Editorial Cartooning	Mike Keefe of The Denver Post
Breaking News Photography	Carol Guzy, Nikki Kahn and  Ricky Carioti of The Washington Post
Feature Photography	Barbara Davidson of the Los Angeles Times

Letters, Drama and Music

Fiction	"A Visit from the Goon Squad"  by Jennifer Egan (Alfred A. Knopf)
Drama	"Clybourne Park" by Bruce Norris
History	"The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln  and American Slavery"  by Eric Foner (W. W. Norton & Company)
Biography	"Washington: A Life"  by Ron Chernow (The Penguin Press)
Poetry	"The Best of It: New and Selected Poems"  by Kay Ryan (Grove Press)
General Nonfiction	"The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer"  by Siddhartha Mukherjee (Scribner)
Music	"Madame White Snake’" by Zhou Long, premiered on February 26, 2010  by Opera Boston at the Cutler Majestic Theatre

Pantaloons Femina Miss India World 2011

Pantaloons Femina Miss India World 2011, including (Body Beautiful, Miss No Marks, Miss Ramp Model, Miss Water Baby, Veet Femina Miss Beautiful Legs) Kanishtha Dhankhar

Miss India Earth 2011	Hasleen Kaur
Miss India International 2011	Ankita Shorey
People's Choice Miss Indiatimes including Miss Fresh Face,  Miss Talented, Miss Beautiful Smile,  Miss Beautiful Eyes	Rakul Preet Singh
RMKV Femina Miss Photgenic	Dayana Erappa
Kaya Femina Miss Radiant Skin	Purva Rana
Femina Miss Divine Thoughts	Surabhi Rao
HP Femina Miss Digital Diva	Deepika Bajwa
Femina Miss Iron Maiden and Tissot Femina Miss Perfect Time	Asmita Sood
Femina Miss Beautiful Lips	Ankita Shorey
Novotel Femina Miss Congeniality	Aditi Mishra
Sunsilk Femina Miss Perfect Hair and Lavasa Femina Miss Vivacious	Aparajita Sharma
Femina Miss Bollywood Diva and Forever Femina Miss Traditional	Ankita Mohapatra
Pantaloons Beauty for a Cause	Kriti Kapoor

Miss India South 2011	Shweta Dolli
Miss India South 2011 1st Runner Up	Apoorva Mittra
Miss India South 2011 2nd Runner Up	Nidhi Sunil
Miss India East 2011	Ankita Mohapatra
Miss India East 2011 1st Runner Up	Ruhi Singh
Miss India East 2011 2nd Runner Up	Smrity Singh

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Current Affairs April 2011

Automobile

Ford Motor India launches cheaper sedan version, 'Fiesta Classic'

Volskwagen to launch Jetta variant in India sometime in mid-2011


Business

VMware takes over Mozy which has been serving as the cloud-based storage and back up service of EMC for the last 4 years

MindTree co-founder Ashok Soota to set up a new business venture - Happiest Minds Technologies Limited to provide IT services to global firms

HCL bags broadband connectivity project for Indian Railways

IBM to provide finance and administration shared services to PepsiCo India

FedEx acquires Boeing 777F aircraft to provide better international connectivity to Indian cargo business

Canara Bank launches Debit Card-Platinum and Canara Campus Card

BSE signed an MoU with Osaka Securities Exchange to develop opportunities including cross-licencing of indices


Education

Symbiosis International University plans to start a school of liberal arts at its model colony campus from June 2011

'Pengala', a learning software for students to create interactive multimedia courses


Event

Dr.Gangubai Hanagal Music Foundation and Hubli Art circle to jointly organize a 2-day Indian classical music, dance and folk festival to mark 98th birth anniversary of Hindustani stalwart Gangubai Hanagal

4-day Auto Expo 2011 to be held in Surat, Gujarat

2-day North Zone conference of International College of Surgeons to be held at KN Udupa auditorium, Banaras Hindu University


People

Ex-IAS officer Sanjay Gupta has been appointed as Metro Express between Gandhinagar and Ahmedabad (MEGA) chief

Chris Capossela has been appointed as Chief Marketing Officer at Microsoft

Partip Chaudhuri has been appointed as SBI's chief

Atifete Jahjaga, Kosovo's highest ranking policewoman becomes country's President

Shiv Nadar, founder of HCL has been appointed as the chairman of the board of governors of the IIT Kharagpur


Science

Scientists have created the world's 1st artificial leaf that can turn sunlight and water into energy which could pave the way for a cheaper source of power in developing countries


Technology

Mozilla releases Firefox 4 for Android

Yahoo to launch new search engine in India by 2011 H2

Dr.Abdul Kalam launches launches language translation software developed by 17 institutions including the International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) at the 20th International World Wide Web conference

IT firm LinguaNext launched solutions Indify SAP and Indify Oracle to translate SAP ERP and Oracle E-Business Suite into 22 official Indian languages.

HTC launches demo of HTC Flyer tablet

6 Indian-Americans in Forbes Midas 100

RANK	NAME
15	Aneel Bhusri
26	Rob Chandra
49	Sunil Dhaliwal
51	Neeraj Agarwal
71	Vinod Khosla
81	Sameer Gandhi

Single Entry System - accounts quiz

Single Entry System

In Single entry system of book-keeping only one aspect of the transaction is recorded. In simple words it is called as incomplete record of Book-keeping.

In single entry system Real accounts and Nominal accounts are not maintained.


Advantages Single Entry System

Single entry system is simple method of recording the business transactions.

Single entry system is less expensive when compared to double entry system of book keeping.

It does not require a specialized knowledge to maintain the books of accounts under single entry system.


Disadvantages of Single Entry System

Incomplete record : Single entry system of book keeping is an incomplete record as only one aspect of the transaction is recorded.

Lacks Accuracy : In this method as Trial Balance is not prepared it is difficult to know the arithmetical accuracy.

Balance Sheet : As Trial balance is not prepared it is not possible to prepare the balance sheet.

Comparative study : Due to incomplete information the comparative study of two years accounts cannot be undertaken.

True financial position : Because of the incomplete information true financial position of the business cannot be ascertained.

Managerial Decisions : Due to the lack of preparation of key accounts managerial decisions cannot be taken.

General Knowledge : Latest Quiz Questions

What does PIN stands for?

Postal Index Number

Which spice is called the king of spices?

Pepper

What is the name given to a dealer in textile fabrics?

Mercer
 
Who is called as the Father of Modern Geography?

Carl Ritter

Who was the first Mongol Emperor of China?

Kublai Khan

Which is the biggest Factory in the world?

Boeing everett in Washington

Which is the fastest growing plant in the world?

Bamboo 100cm (39 inch) per day

which country was previously called as East Bengal?

Bangladesh

Ugadi Quiz

Ugadi is the beginning of New Telugu Year


Ugadi is celebrated during the month of Chaitra


Ugadi marks the beginning of Spring


It falls on a different day every year because the Indian calendar is a Lunisolar calendar


Special dish prepared to celebrate Ugadi festival is Ugadi Pachadi


Ugadi Pachadi is made of Neem flower, sugar, tamarind, chilli powder


In Andra Pradesh, a special dish called Bhakshyalu or Bobbatlu (Puran Poli) are prepared on this occasion


In Punjab what is the Ugadi festival is called Baisakhi

ICC World Cup 2011 FINALS Facts - ICC World Cup 2011 videos

World Cup 2011 was the 1st all-Asian final World Cup and 6th consecutive final (since 1992) to feature at least one Asian team


India joined Australia and West Indies as the only teams to have won the World Cup more than once


India's successful run chase of Sri Lanka's 274 runs is the highest run-chase ever achieved in a World Cup final


This was the 2nd time in World Cup history that host nation has won the World Cup final. Sri Lanka were co-hosts with India and Pakistan in 1996 and were the first nation to win the World Cup in the same year


It was Sri Lanka's 2nd successive final having appeared in 2007


It is the 3rd time the team batting 2nd has won the World Cup final after Sri Lanka in 1996 and Australia in the 1999 World Cup


World Cup Final 2011 was also the 3rd World Cup Final appearance for both India and Sri Lanka


Sri Lanka's Mahela Jayawardene became the 6th player to score a century in a World Cup Final, and the 1st to score a century from a losing World Cup side


Muttiah Muralitharan's last international match, who bowled 0/39 in 8 Overs. His 1st and last ODI matches were against India

INDIA are 2011 WORLD CRICKET CHAMPIONS: WATCH the FINAL MOMENTS

ICC WORLD CUP 2011 - Facts and Figures-Statistics

Highest Team Total	India vs Bangladesh - 370/4,  played at Mirpur, Dhaka
Most runs	Tillakaratne Dilshan - 500 at strike rate of 90.74  with 61 fours and 4 six's
Highest Scores	Virender Sehwag - 175 off 140 balls  with 14 fours and 5 six
Highest Partnership	1st Wicket - 282, Srilanka - Upul Tharanga and Tillakaratne Dilshan vs Zimbabwe
Most Wickets	Shahid Afridi - 21 wickets with 3.62 Economy rate,  Best Bowling - 5/16
Best Bowling Figures	Kemar Roach - 6/27 in 8.3 Overs vs Netherlands
Hat-tricks	Kemar Roach vs Netherlands and  Lasith Malinga vs Kenya
Most Dismissals	Brad Haddin - 13 caught behind
Most Catches	Mahela Jayawardene - 8 catches
Player of the Match awards	Yuvraj Singh - 8 matches - 4 awards

World Airport Awards 2011

AIRPORT OF THE YEAR	Hong Kong International Airport Singapore Changi Airport Incheon International Airport
MOST IMPROVED AIRPORT	Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport OR Tambo International Airport JNB Bangalore International Airport
BEST PREMIUM SERVICE AIRPORT	Doha International Airport  (Qatar Airways Premium Terminal) Frankfurt Airport  (Lufthansa First Class Terminal) Abu Dhabi Airport  (Etihad Airways Premium Check-In)
BEST AIRPORT FOR LOW-COST AIRLINES	London Stansted Airport Brussels Charleroi Airport Luton Airport
BEST AIRPORT - AFRICA	OR Tambo International Airport JNB Cape Town International Airport Durban King Shaka International Airport
BEST AIRPORT - ASIA	Hong Kong International Airport Singapore Changi Airport Incheon International Airport
BEST AIRPORT - AUSTRALIA/PACIFIC	Auckland International Airport Gold Coast Airport Brisbane Airport
BEST AIRPORT - CHINA	Beijing Capital Intl Airport Shanghai Hongqiao Airport Shanghai PuDong Airport
BEST AIRPORT - INDIA	Bangalore Airport Hyderabad Airport Delhi Airport
BEST AIRPORT - MIDDLE EAST	Dubai International Airport Abu Dhabi International Airport Bahrain International Airport
BEST AIRPORT - CENTRAL AMERICA	Tocumen Panama Airport San Jose Airport Port of Spain Airport
BEST AIRPORT - NORTH AMERICA	Vancouver International Airport Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky Airport Denver International Airport
BEST AIRPORT - SOUTH AMERICA	Jorge Chávez International Airport Guayaquil Airport Sao Paulo Guarulhos Airport
BEST AIRPORT - NORTHERN EUROPE	Copenhagen Airport Helsinki Airport Oslo Airport
BEST AIRPORT - CENTRAL EUROPE	Munich Airport Zurich Airport Frankfurt Airport
BEST AIRPORT - SOUTHERN EUROPE	Barcelona Airport Madrid Airport Athens Airport
BEST AIRPORT - WESTERN EUROPE	Amsterdam Schiphol Airport London Heathrow Airport London City Airport
BEST AIRPORT - EASTERN EUROPE	Moscow Domodedovo Airport Budapest Airport Moscow Sheremetyevo Airport