2. Legend has it that Vilwamangalam Swamiyar
was in penance when the lord appeared in the
form of a boy. The saint chased after the boy,
but he disappeared into a cobra infested forest
named Ananthan Kadu. There he saw the boy
merging into an Iluppa tree and became the
Lord’s idol. A temple was built here with the
help of the king.
3.
4. He was only 25 at that time, the youngest to
become president of any state cricket association in
the country. To be eligible for a post in BCCI's
junior selection committee, a plump post in itself,
he needed to have been a Ranji Trophy player.
So, one fine day in the month of November, he just
walked into the dressing room of Himachal Ranji
team and announced himself captain for this
match against Jammu & Kashmir.
As it would have happened to any other
administrator in India, he got a 'big zero' as
batsman but managed to get two late-order
wickets.
5.
6. Kaushik Basu in his book An Economist in the Real
World says that Indians tend to have much smaller
mortgages compared to the real value of their
properties than elsewhere in the world.
At the peak of the property boom in the US and the UK
it was common for lenders to offer mortgages worth
100% of the value of the property.
Some would even offer 110% mortgages, allowing
buyers to roll in the cost of finance and furnishing their
new home.
That's why when the crash came, the balance sheets of
the big banks collapsed along with property prices.
But the same wouldn’t happen in India because of
_______________.
7. This is how it works.
Let's say you like the look of a house that is for
sale. You judge it is worth - for argument's sake
- 100 rupees.
The chances are the seller will tell you he will
only take, say, 50 rupees as a formal payment
and demand the rest in cash.
That cash payment is what Indians refer to as
"black money".
8.
9.
10.
11.
12. The app catalogues the latest photos, written
reports, radio news bulletins and video releases
concerning _____, however it is not available
through the Google Play Store. Instead, the
users need to download the app's code in order
to run it on their smartphones or tablets.
Picture follows.
13.
14.
15. “Guardian of the skies “ is an app in the play
which is arguably India’s first 3D game app. It
features a storyline where the ________ is
engaged in defence missions against a fictitious
nation named ‘Zaruzia’, which coincidentally
like India’s neighbour Pakistan, is politically
and economically unstable and has also
witnessed a military coup.
16.
17.
18. "Life doesn't end here. We have to go on. Life
cannot end here. No matter how difficult, we
must stand back up. We only have two
options: either allow anger to paralyze us and
the violence continues, or we overcome and try
our best to help others. It's our choice. Let us
please maintain respect. My warmest regards
to everyone. It's been a most amazing and rare
experience. We'll see each other again soon
because life does not end here"
19.
20.
21.
22. The film stars Dwayne Johnson, Carla Gugino, Alexandra
Daddario, Ioan Gruffudd, Archie Panjabi, and Paul Giamatti. Its
plot centers on an earthquake in the Los Angeles and the San
Francisco Bay Area.
The single-player story follows Carl "CJ" Johnson, who returns
home to Los Santos from Liberty City after his mother's murder.
Carl finds his old friends and family in disarray, and over the
course of the game he attempts to re-establish his old gang,
clashes with corrupt cops, and gradually unravels the truth
behind his mother's murder.
The X is a continental transform fault that extends roughly 800
miles (1,300 km) through California. It forms
the tectonic boundary between the Pacific Plate and the North
American Plate. The fault divides into three segments, each with
different characteristics and a different degree of earthquake risk,
the most significant being the southern segment, which passes
within about 35 miles (56 km) of Los Angeles.
23.
24. Clay is extracted from the topsoil and baked in a kiln,
then immersed in water within copper cauldrons called
degs, which are then sealed with earth.
A cow-dung fire is then lit underneath the cauldron
and the vapour travels through bamboo pipes to
condense in receivers, over a base of oil, to form the
perfume. The process is called hydro-distillation.
“The clay used for this purpose is baked exactly like a
chapati. First, it is made into a soft dough, then
flattened into discs, which are baked at a fairly high
temperature to prepare them for hydro-distillation.”
The perfume is stored in leather bottles, which absorb
the moisture and further concentrate the fragrance.
25.
26.
27. The appointment prompted an angry backlash
from some quarters. More than 44,000 people
signed a petition that claimed to have been started
by “concerned United Nations staff members”
which called on the UN secretary general, Ban Ki-
moon, to appoint a non-fictional woman to the
role.
“It is alarming that the United Nations would
consider using a character with an overtly
sexualised image at a time when the headline news
in United States and the world is the objectification
of women and girls,” the petition’s authors wrote.
28.
29. Sir James Taylor arranged for a photograph to
be taken of the entrance gate at Belvedere
Estate, Calcutta.
When the final designs came through, he
expressed dissent and said that most things in
the X was a cause of concern. However it was
finalised and no changes could be made.
30.
31.
32.
33.
34.
35.
36. The mapping experts at Google have just
launched a way to get folks to diverge a bit
from their given path. Field Trip, released for
Android, runs in the background on your
Android handset, eagerly waiting for you to
get near a point of interest. Once that happens,
it leaps into action, showing you a card for one
of thousands of cool locations -- historic spots,
museums, restaurants and the like.
37.
38. Joachim Sauer (born 19 April 1949) is a
German quantum chemist and full professor at
the Humboldt University of Berlin.
From his previous marriage to a fellow
chemist, Sauer has two sons, Daniel and
Adrian. On 30 December 1998, he married X
(herself a doctor of physics who had once
worked in quantum chemistry research), who
later became chairwoman of the Christian
Democratic Union.
39.
40. Nilufer Demir was crossing a beach in Bodrum,
Turkey, on Wednesday when she saw him
So Demir, a correspondent and photographer
with Turkey's Dogan News Agency, did the
only thing she could: She raised her camera
and began shooting.
"There was nothing to do except take his
photograph ... and that is exactly what I did,"
she said Thursday in a live on-air interview.
41.
42. Afghanistan is the only country other than X
which features a building in its national flag.
The flag of X has three horizontal bands of
blue, red (double width) and blue, with a
depiction of the building in white centered on
the red band.
43.
44.
45.
46. Pikotaro was listening to the tune when he
picked up a pen to start writing. He thought
about his background of being from an apple
country, and he also realized that he had an
open can of pineapples on the table.
47.
48.
49. The reasons for the identification are four. In the
first place the figure has three faces and that Siva
was portrayed with three as well as with more
usual five faces, there are abundant examples to
prove. Secondly, the head is crowned with the
horns of a bull and the trisula are characteristic
emblems of Siva. Thirdly, the figure is in a typical
yoga attitude, and Siva was and still is, regarded as
a mahayogi—the prince of Yogis. Fourthly, he is
surrounded by animals, and Siva is par excellence
the "Lord of Animals", no less than that of
domesticated cattle.
50.
51. The Ārzī Hukūmat-e-Āzād Hind was an
Indian Provincial Government that ruled over
certain parts of India. They had control of two
island groups called Swaraj and Shaheed, the
largest city of which served as the major
headquarters while Singapore was the
Capital in exile.
The leader of this government however
visited the Headquarters only once during his
rule, which was later captured by the British
after the second World War.
52.
53. The Chausath Yogini Temple, Morena is
formed by a circular wall with 64 chambers
and an open mandapa in the centre, separated
by a courtyard, which is circular in shape,
where Lord Shiva is deified.
The temple is in the Seismic Zone III, and has
withstood earthquake shocks, without any
damage to its circular structural features, in the
past several centuries.
54.
55.
56. The park combines the religious and cultural
practices of Buddhism as well as the ecological
significance of the region, and stands out as an
outstanding example of traditional knowledge and
environmental preservation. It is also a unique
example of coexistence and exchange between
different religious traditions and people.
The park exhibits one of the widest altitudinal
ranges of any protected area worldwide. It boasts
of a unique diversity of lowlands, steep valleys
and snow-clad mountains besides numerous lakes
and glaciers.
57.
58.
59. X, the owner of FLC trattori was having problems
with his Ferrari, which he took to the owner Enzo
Ferrari himself. The story is that he passed a note
to Enzo , since he had refused to meet him, that the
clutch of the car needs to be redesigned. Ferrari
said that let the farm hands look after things on the
farm, he had better things to do.
Taking the insult as a challenge, X went home and
fit his Ferrari with a clutch from one of his own
vehicles. He then went on to create a company.
60.
61.
62.
63. The term X has been used as a derogatory
reference to a black person who is perceived or
judged to act in a "white manner." The racial
slur may be levied as an accusation that the
person called "X" perpetuates the "un-level
playing field for blacks." The racial epithet is
used to imply that someone is like the X, "black
on the outside and white on the inside". What
is this term X?