Friday, July 25, 2014

Largest Producers in India

• The largest producer of Paddy: West Bengal 
• The largest producer of Wheat: Uttar Pradesh 
• The largest producer of Sugarcane: Uttar Pradesh 
• The largest producer of Groundnut: Gujarat 
• The largest producer of Tea: Assam 
• The largest producer of Tobacco: Andhra Pradesh 
• The largest producer of Bananas: Tamilnadu 
• The largest producer of Saffron: Jammu & Kashmir 
• The largest producer of Onion: Maharashtra 
• The largest producer of Black pepper: Kerala 
• The largest producer of Cotton: Gujarat 
• The largest producer of Bamboos: Assam  
• The largest producer of Coffee: Karnataka 

• The largest producer of Jute: West Bengal

Father of Nation

• Afghanistan: Ahmad Shah Durrani 
• Argentina: Don Jose de San Martín 
• Australia: Sir Henry Parkes 
• Bahamas: Sir Lynden Pindling 
• Bangladesh: Sheikh Mujibur Rahman 
 • Bolivia: Simón Bolívar 
• Brazil: Dom Pedro I andJose Bonifacio de Andrada e Silva 
• Burma: Aung San 
• Cambodia: Norodom Sihanouk 
• Chile: Bernardo O'Higgins 
• Republic of China: Sun Yat-sen 
• Colombia: Simón Bolívar 
• Sweden: Gustav I of Sweden 
• Croatia: Ante Starcevic 
• Cuba: Carlos Manuel de Cespedes 
• Dominican Republic: Juan Pablo Duarte 
• Ecuador: Simon Bolivar 
• Ghana: Kwame Nkrumah 
• Guyana: Cheddi Jagan 
• Haiti:Jean-Jacques Dessalines 
• India: Mohandas Karam Chand Gandhi 
• Indonesia: Sukarno 
• Iran: Cyrus the Great 
• Israel: Theodor Herzl 
• Italy: Victor Emmanuel II 
• Kenya: Jomo Kenyatta 
• Kosovo: Ibrahim Rugova 
• Lithuania: Jonas Basanavicius 
• Macedonia: Krste Misirkov 
• Malaysia: Tunku Abdul Rahman 
• Mauritius: Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam 
• Mexico: Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla 
• Mongolia: Genghis Khan 
• Namibia: Sam Nujoma 
• Netherlands: William the Silent 
• Norway: Einar Gerhardsen 
• Pakistan: Mohammad Ali Jinnah 
• Panama: Simón Bolivar 
• Peru: Don Jose de San Martin 
• Portugal: Dom Afonso Henriques
• Republic of Korea: Kim Gu 
• Russia: Peter I of Russia 
• Saudi Arabia: Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia 
• Scotland:Donald Dewar 
• Serbia:Dobrica Cosic 
• Singapore: Lee Kuan Yew 
• Slovenia: Primoz Trubar 
• South Africa: Nelson Mandela 
• Spain:Fernando el Catolico 
• Sri Lanka: Don Stephen Senanayake 
• Suriname: Johan Ferrier 
• Tanzania:Julius Nyerere 
• Turkey: Mustafa Kemal Ataturk 
• United Arab Emirates: Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan 
• United States: George Washington 
• Uruguay: Jose Gervasio Artigas 
• Venezuela: Simon Bolívar 

• Vietnam: Ho Chi Minh

Thursday, July 24, 2014

Gandhi Peace Prize Winners List

2013 : Chandi Prasad Bhatt (Environmentalist, India)
2005 : Desmond Tutu (South African Cleric and Activist, South Africa)
2004 : Coretta Scott King (Widow of Martin Luther King, United States)
2003 : Václav Havel (1st President of Czech Republic, Czech Republic)
2002 : Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan (Educational Trust, India)
2001 : John Hume (Northern Irish Politician, Northern Ireland)
2000 : Nelson Mandela (Former President of South Africa, South Africa) & Grameen Bank (Founded by Mohammad Yunus, Bangladesh)
1999 : Baba Amte (Social Worker, India)
1998 : Ramakrishna Mission (Founded by Swami Vivekananda, India)
1997 : Gerhard Fischer (German Diplomat, Germany)
1996 : A. T. Ariyaratne (Founder of Sarvodaya Shramadana Movement, Sri Lanka)
1995 : Julius Nyerere (1st President of Tanzania, Tanzania)

Sunday, July 20, 2014

Admission Watch (19th – 25th July 2014)

  1. Karnataka Institute of Leather Technology, Bangalore admissions open for 2014-15.

  1. Central Institute of Plastic Engineering & Technology (CIPET), Chennai admission notice for CAD/CAM/CAE Courses

  1. National Institute of Open Schooling, Noida invites for courses offered OBE, Secondary, Senior Secondary & Vocational Education Programmes

  1. MSME-Tool Room, Hyderabad Admission into M. Tech (Mechatronics) Course-2014

  1. MSME-Tool Room, Hyderabad Admission Notice for M.E. Courses-2014

  1. University of Mumbai Admission Notice for BA/B.Com/B.Sc./M.A/M.Sc./ M.C.A.

  1. University of Pune Admission Notice for Job Oriented Certificate Course September 2014

  1. Indian Institute of Mass Communication, New Delhi Admission Notice for 2014-15

  1. NIELIT, Calicut Invites for All India Post Graduate Diploma Programme

  1. Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, New Delhi, invites for Joint CSIR-UGC Test for Junior Research Fellowship, Last date-13.08.2014


Source: www.employmentnews.gov.in

Job Highlights (19th July – 25th July 2014)

  1. Union Public Service Commission, Name of Post – Combined Defense Services Examination (II), 2014.

  1. Indian Bank, Chennai, No. of Vacancies – 251, Name of the Post – Assistant Manager (Industry), Manager etc & Last Date: 30.07.2014

  1. SIDBI, No. of Vacancies – 83, Name of the Post – Officers & Last Date: 25.07.2014

  1. Staff Selection Commission, Name of the Post – Examination (2014) notice for Combined Higher Secondary Level (10+2) & Last Date: 19.08.2014

  1. Indian Ordnance Factories, No. of Vacancies – 1572, Name of the Post – Mechanical, Electrical, Non Technical (Stores) etc & Last Date: 16.08.2014

  1. Steel Authority of India Limited, Orissa , No. of Vacancies- 40, Name of the Post – Consultant (Cardiology), Sr. Medical Officer etc & Last Date: 09.08.2014

  1. Centre of Innovative and Applied Bioprocessing, Punjab, No. of Vacancies – 09, Name of the Post – Associate Plant Manager, Scientist etc & Last Date: 01.08.2014

  1. Staff Selection Commission, No. of Vacancies – 02, Name of the Post – Zoological Assistant & Last Date: 16.08.2014


Source: www.employmentnews.gov.in

Sunday, June 1, 2014

Odisha Book Online Essay Competition Winners announced



Odisha Book announces the winners of the Odisha Book Online Essay Competition on 31st May 2014. This competition was the key initiatives undertaken by the Indumatee Media which provides services of publishing (Books, Magazines and Online Portals), advertising, photography, translations, and consultancy services. 

Participants had the opportunity to express their thoughts on the topic “Importance of Computer Education”, received a good number of entries and had a tough time picking the winners. The essays were evaluated by a panel of five judges through a review process and finally analyzed by Mr. Nihar Ranjan Shanti, Senior Editor of Odishabook.com. 

Penned down by the senior editor; It is just a beginning of the journey by the Odishabook.com towards benefits of the students in the field of education awareness. The essay writing competition of Odishabook.com got an overwhelming response from different parts of the country. We take it as a very good beginning as we got the response from 16 states of the country and hope for greater number of participation in the days to come. We have also got responses from all major cities of India. The evaluation of essays were based on the on various parameters such as relevance of the content to the subject, structure, grammar, thought process, originality of the content and so on. It was a tough job to evaluate the few top scores which resulted in 5 time review of the score for top 10 candidates for deciding the top three of them. I would like to thank and appreciate Er. Kanishka Dash for revaluation and ensuring the correctness and completeness of the evaluation process. I congratulate the winners as well as other participants for their active participation. Any effort never goes fruitless; if not today it will return all the results tomorrow with all interest accumulated on it. 

On combined request, the Chief Editor, Mr. Akshaya Kumar Sahoo willingly took the responsibility of declaring the result and awarding the winners. 

The three winners are: 

1. First place goes to Krishna DakshVishwakarma from Sonebhadra of Uttar Pradesh. 

2. Second place goes to SaurabhVitthal Khekde from Chindwada of Madhya Pradesh. 

3. Third place goes to Ankit Sharma from Rourkela, Odisha. 

Twenty other Students won consolation prizes are: 

4. Preetham Upadhya from Karnataka. 

5. Saumya Bansal from Agra of Uttar Pradesh. 

6. Amanjeet Singh Bhandari from Punjab. 

7. Azad Hind Gulshan Nanda from Patna, Bihar. 

8. Deepak Singh from Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh. 

9. Rohit M Bhardwaj from Maharashtra. 

10. Laxmi Prasad Boda from Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh. 

11. Nirmesh R Prajapati from Mumbai, Maharashtra. 

12. Akshat Kaushal from Uttar Pradesh. 

13. Debanik Das from Kolkata, West Bengal. 

14. Nitesh Katoch from Kangra, Himachal Pradesh. 

15. Pushpendra Kumar Kashyap from Chhattisgarh. 

16. Rishabh Gupta from Thane, Maharashtra. 

17. Simran Mohapatra from Shilong, Meghalaya 

18. Saurav Chhawchharia from Sikar, Rajasthan. 

19. Mohammed Ishak Ali from Vizag, Andhra Pradesh. 

20. Himansu Gupta from New Delhi. 

21. Khusbu Kumari Jha from Kolkata,West Bengal. 

22. Saddam Hussain from Bikaner, Rajasthan. 

23. Shreeraksha Naik form Kasorgod, Kerala. 

The first, second and third prize winner essays will be published in Odisha Book online portal soon. 

Mr. Akshaya Kumar Sahoo, Chief Editor of Odishabook.com along with his team would like to give heartiest congratulations to all the winners of the competition and to thank all who took part in the competition and encourage. 

The next competition, which will be on a different topic, will be announced soon. Keep on visiting Odishabook.com

Source: http://www.odishabook.com/Aticle/More/Odisha-Book-Competitions/2014/05/31/Odisha-Book-Online-Essay-Competition-Winners-announced