Monday, December 29, 2008

UPSC Examinations Alert

Civil Services (Prel) Exam, 2009
Notification: 06.12.2008
Last Date: 05.01.2009
Commencing On:17.05.2009
Duration:1 Day
Eligibility: A degree from a recognised university or equivalent
Age: 21-30 years as on 1.8.2009
Remarks: Candidates appearing at the degree examination also eligible to compete subject to certain conditions.

Engineering Services Exam 2009
Notification: 03.01.2009
Last Date: 02.02.2009
Commencing On: 06.06.2009
Duration: 3 Days
Eligibility: A degree in Engineering from a recognised university or equivalent. M.Sc. Degree or its equivalent with Wireless Communications, Electronics, Radio Physics or Radio Engineering as special subject acceptable for certain Services/posts only.
Age: 21-30 years as on 1.8.2009
Remarks: Candidates appearing at Engineering Degree or equivalent also eligible to compete subject to certain conditions.

IFS Exam, 2009
Notification: 14.02.2009
Last Date: 16.03.2009
Commencing On: 11.07.2009
Duration: 10 Days
Eligibility: A Bachelor's degree with at least one of the subjects namely Animal Husbandry & Veterinary Science, Botany, Chemistry, Geology, Mathematics, Physics, Statistics and Zoology or a degree in Agriculture or Forestry or Engineering of a recognised University or equivalent.
Age: 21-30 years as on 1.7.2009
Remarks: Candidates appearing at degree examination (with prescribed subject) also eligible to compete subject to certain conditions.

SCRA Exam 2009
Notification: 28.02.2009
Last Date: 30.03.2009
Commencing On: 26.07.2009
Duration: 1 Day
Eligibility: Intermediate or Sr. Secondary (12 years) examinations under the 10+2 pattern of School Education or equivalent with Mathematics and at least one of the subjects Physics and Chemistry as subject of the examination in 1st or 2nd Division.
Age: 17-21 years as on 1.8.2009
Remarks: Candidates appearing at the Intermediate/Sr. Secondary (12 years) examinations under the 10+2 pattern of School Education/1st year of the 3 years degree course or equivalent examination with the prescribed subjects also eligible subject to certain conditions.

NDA & NA Exam (II), 2009
Notification: 14.03.2009
Last Date: 13.04.2009
Commencing On: 30.08.2009
Duration: 1 Day
Eligibility: i) For Army Wing of NDA :- 12th Class pass of the 10+2 pattern of School Education or equivalent examination conducted by a State Education Board or a University
ii) For Air Force and Naval Wings of NDA and for 10+2 (Executive Branch) Course at Naval Academy : 12th Class pass of the 10+2 pattern of School Education or equivalent with Physics and Mathematics conducted by a State Education Board or a University
Age: 16-1/2 to 19 years as on 1.7.2010
Remarks: Candidates appearing at the 12th Class under the 10+2 pattern of School Education or equivalent examination also eligible to compete subject to certain conditions.

CDS Exam (II), 2009
Notification: 18.04.2009
Last Date: 18.05.2009
Commencing On: 13.09.2009
Duration: 1 Day
Eligibility: i) For IMA & OTA :- Degree of a recognised university or equivalent
ii) For Naval Academy :- B.Sc. (with Physics & Mathematics) or Bachelor of Engineering
iii) For Air Force Academy :- Degree of a recognised University (with Physics and Mathematics at 10+2 level) or Bachelor of Engineering
Age: 19-24 years as on 1.7.2010 for IMA; 19-22years as on 1.7.2010 for Naval Academy; 19-23 years as on 1.7.2010 for Air Force Academy; 19-25 years as on 1.7.2010 for OTA
Remarks: Candidates appearing at the degree or equivalent examination also eligible to compete subject to certain conditions.

Central Police Forces (AC) Exam 2009
Notification: 09.05.2009
Last Date: 08.06.2009
Commencing On: 11.10.2009
Duration: 1 Day
Eligibility: A degree from recognised University or equivalent
Age: 20-25 years as on 1.8.2009
Remarks: Candidates appearing at the Degree or equivalent examination also eligible to compete subject to certain conditions.

Civil Services (Main) Exam, 2009
Notification: -
Last Date: -
Commencing On: 23.10.2009
Duration: 21 Days
Eligibility: A degree from recognised University or equivalent
Age: 21-30 years as on 1.8.2009
Remarks: Only such of the candidates as are declared qualified on the results of Preliminary Examination are eligible to take the Main Examination

IES/ISS Exam, 2009
Notification: 06.06.2009
Last Date: 06.07.2009
Commencing On: 21.11.2009
Duration: 3 Days
Eligibility: A post-graduate degree in Economics/Applied Economics/Business Economics/ Econometrics for the IES and a Post-graduate degree in Statistics/Mathematical Statistics/Applied Statistics for the ISS, from a recognised University or equivalent.
Age: 21-30 years as on 1.1.2009
Remarks: Candidates appearing at the Post-graduate degree or equivalent examination in the relevant disciplines also eligible to compete subject to certain conditions.

Geologists' Exam, 2009
Notification: 20.06.2009
Last Date: 20.07.2009
Commencing On: 05.12.2009
Duration: 3 Days
Eligibility: Master's Degree in Geology or Applied Geology or Marine Geology from a recognised University or equivalent
Age: 21-32 years as on 1.1.2009
Remarks: Candidates appearing at their Master's Degree or equivalent examination (with prescribed subjects) also eligible to compete subject to certain conditions.

SO/Steno (Gd B/Gd-I) Ltd Deptt Competitive Exam
Notification: 27.06.2009
Last Date: 24.08.2009
Commencing On: 26.12.2009
Duration: 4 Days

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ICC to adopt new anti-doping code from 1st Jan 2009

International cricketers must be available for testing at any time and any day of the year once the new and more stringent ICC anti-doping code comes into effect from the New Year.


The International Cricket Council (ICC) on Monday has said in a statement that players would have to make themselves available for testing whether it is at ICC events, bilateral series or even out of competition.

The code, which comes into effect on 1st January 2009, was recently given unanimous approval by all members of the ICC Board.

"The ICC has a zero-tolerance approach to doping in cricket and this new code serves to reinforce that position," ICC Chief Executive Haroon Lorgat said.

"This code means it has just become even harder for drug cheats to get away with doping practices and it is part of our continued battle to ensure fair competition for all," he said.

The adoption of this strengthened ICC Anti-Doping Code coincides with the amendment of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) Code.

The ICC became a signatory of WADA in July 2006 and has been testing at its events since 2002. In that time, there has not been a positive test at an ICC event.

According to an ICC statement, the governing body would constitute a doping hearing panel from which three people will be selected to sit as an anti-doping tribunal from time to time in order to determine whether an anti-doping rule violation has been committed.

It has also recently circulated a template anti-doping code for all its members to adopt in order to help them to govern anti-doping matters at domestic level in a consistent and WADA Code-compliant manner.

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Sunday, December 28, 2008

Latest Who's Who

President:
Mrs. Pratibha Devi Singh Patil

Vice President:
Mr. Mohammad Hamid Ansari

Prime Minister:
Dr. Manmohan Singh

Chief Justice of India:
Mr. K. G. Balakrishnan

Speaker of Lok Sabha:
Mr. Som Nath Chatterjee

Deputy Speaker of Lok Sabha:
Mr. Charanjit Singh Atwal

Chairman of Rajya Sabha (Vice-President):
Mr. Mohammad Hamid Ansari (Vice President)

Deputy Chairman of Rajya Sabha:
Mr. K. Rahman Khan

Chairman of Planning Commission (Prime Minister):
Dr. Manmohan Singh (Prime Minister)

Deputy Chairman of Planning Commission:
Mr. Montek Singh Ahluwalia

Chief Election Commissioner:
Mr. N. Gopalaswamy

Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India:
Mr. Vinod Rai

Attorney General of India:
Mr. Milon Banerjee

Solicitor General of India::
Mr. Goolam E. Vahanvati

Cabinet Secretary Of India::
Mr. K. M. Chandrashekhar

Foreign Secretary of India:
Mr. Shivshankar Menon

Chief of the Army Staff:
General Deepak Kapoor

Chief of the Air Staff:
Air Chief Marshal Fali Homi Major

Chief of the Naval Staff:
Admiral Sureesh Mehta

Chairman of Central Administrative Tribunal:
Mr. Justice V. K. Bali

Chairman, National Commission for Minorities:
Mr. Mohammad Shafi Qureshi

Chairman, National Commission for Scheduled Castes (SC):
Dr. Buta Singh

Chairman / Chairperson, National Commission for Scheduled Tribes (ST):
Mrs. Urmila Singh

Chairman, Monopolies and Restrictive Trade Practices Commission (MRTPC):
Justice O. P. Dwivedi

Director, Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI):
Mr. Ashwani Kumar

Governor, Reserve Bank of India (RBI):
Mr. D. Subbarao

Chairman, Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI):
Mr. C. B. Bhave

Director General, Confederation of Indian Industry (CII):
Mr. Chandrajit Banerjee

President, Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI):
Mr. Rajeev Chandrashekhar

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Books and Authors

A
A Bend in the River - V.S. Naipaul
A Brief History of Time – Stephen Hawking
A China Passage – John Kenneth Galbraith
Accidental Death of an Anarchist – Dario Fo
A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess
A Critique of Pure Reason – Immanuel Kant
A Doll’s House – Ibsen
A Farewell to Arms – Ernest Hemingway
A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
A Handful of Dust – Evelyn Waugh
A House for Mr. Biswas – V. S. Naipaul
A Million Mutinies Now – V.S. Naipaul
A Midsummer Night’s Dream – William Shakespeare
A Passage to England – Nirad S. Choudhari
A Passage to India – E.M. Foster
A Prisoner’s Scrapbook – L.K. Adwani
A Sense of Time - H.S. Vatsyayan
A Strange and Sublime Address – Amit Chaudhary
A Streetcar Named Desire – Tennesse Williams
A Study of History – Arnold J. Toynbee
A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth
A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
A Thousand Days – Arthur M. Schiesinger
A Thousand Suns – Dominique Lappierre
A Village by the Sea – Anita Desai
A Voice for Freedom – Nayantara Sehgal
A Week with Gandhi – Louis Fischer
A Woman’s Life – Guy de Maupassant
Absolute Power – David Baldacci
Adam Bede – George Eliot
Adonis – P.B. Shelley
Adventure of Tom Sawyer – Mark Twain
Afternoon Raag – Amit Chaudhary
Agni Veena – Kazi Nazrul Islam
Akbarnama – Abul Fazal
Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
All Quiet on the Western Front – Erick Maria Remarque
All the King’s Men – Robert Penn Warren
All the President’s Men – Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward
All Things Bright and Beautiful – James Herriot
All’s Well that Ends Well – William Shakespeare
Amar Kosh – Amar Singh
An American Dilemma – Gunnar Myrdal
An American Tragedy – Theodore Dreiser
An Area of Darkness – V.S. Naipaul
An Autobiography – Jawaharlal Nehru
An Equal Music – Vikram Seth
An Idealist View of Life – Dr. S. Radhakrishnan
Anandmath – Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
And Quiet Flows the Don – Mikhail Sholokhov
Angels in America – Tony Kushner
Animal Form – George Orwell
Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
Antony and Cleopatra – William Shakespeare
Ape and Essence – Aldous Huxley
Around the World in Eighty Days – Jules Verne
Arrowsmith – Sinclair Lewis
As You Like It – William Shakespeare
Asia and Western Dominance – K. M. Panikkar
Asina Drama – Gunnar Myrdal
August 1914 – Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Autobiography of an Unknown Indian – Nirad S. Choudhari

B
Babbit - Sinclair Lewis
Back to Methuselah - George Bernard Shaw
Bndicoot Run - Manohar Malgaonkar
Beginning of the Beginning – Bhagwan Sri Rajneesh
Being Digital - Nicholas Negroponte
Beloved – Toni Morrison
Ben Hur – Lewis Wallace
Beyond the Horizon – Eugene O’Neill
Bharat Bharati – Maithili Saran Gupt
Biographia Literaria – Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Black Holes and Baby Universes – Stephen Hawking
Blood, Brain and Beer – David Ogilvy
Bonfire of the Vanities – Tom Wolfe
Born Free – Joy Adamson
Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
Bread, Beauty and Revolution – Khwaja Ahmad Abbas
Breakfast at Tiffany’s – Truman Capote
Breakthrough – Gen. Moshe Dayan
Bubble, The – Mulk Raj Anand
Business @ Speed of Thought – Bill Gates
Byzantium – W.B. Yeats

C
Cadillac Desert – Marc Reisner
Caesar and Cleopatra – George Bernard Shaw
Candida – George Bernard Shaw
Candide – Voltaire
Catch-22 – Joseph Heller
Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger
Centennial – James A. Michener
Chemmeen – Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai
Cherry Orchard – Anton Chekhov
Chidambara – Sumitranandan Pant
Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage – Lord Byron
Chitra – Rabindra Nath Tagore
Choma’s Drum – K. Sivaram Karanth
Chronicle of a Death Foretoid – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Circle of Reason – Amitav Ghosh
Circles of Silence – Preeti Singh
City of Joy – Dominique Lapierre
City of Djinns – William Dairymple
Comedy of Errors – William Shakespeare
Coming of Age in Samoa – Margaret Mead
Common Sense – Thomas Paine
Communist Manifesto – Karl Marx
Confessions – J.J. Rousseau
Confessions of an English Opium Eater – Thomas De Quincey
Confidential Clerk – T.S. Eliot
Conquest of Self – Mahatma Gandhi
Coolie – Mulk Raj Anand
Count of Monte Cristo – Alexander Dumas
Coverly Papers – Joseph Addison
Creation – Gore Vidal
Crescent Moon – Rabindra Nath Tagore
Crime and Punishment – Feodor Dostoyevsky
Crisis into Chaos – E.M.S. Namboodiripad
Cry, the Beloved Country – Alan Paton

D
Darkness at Noon – Arthur Koestler
Darkness Visible – William Styron
Das Kapital – Karl Marx
David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
Days of Grace – Arthur Ashe and Arnold Ram Prasad
Death in Venice – Thomas Mann
Death of a City – Amrita Pritam
Death of a Patriot – R.E. Harrington
Death of a Salesman – Arthur Miller
Debacle – Emile Zola
Decameron – Giovanni Boccaccio
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire – Edward Gibbon
Descent of Man – Charles Darwin
Deserted Village – Oliver Goldsmith
Devdas – Sharat Chandra Chatterjee
Dilemma of Our Time – Harold Joseph Laski
Diplomacy – Henry Kissinger
Discovery of India – Jawaharlal Nehru
Distant Drums – Manohar Malgaonkar
Divine Comedy – Dante Alighieri
Divine Life – Swami Sivananda
Doctor Zhivago – Boris Pasternak
Doctor’s Dilemma – George Bernard Shaw
Don Juan – Lord Byron
Don Quixote – Miguel de Cervantes
Dr. Jkyll and Mr. Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson
Durgesh Nandini – Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
Down Under – Bill Bryson
Dust to Dust – Tami Hoag

E
Earth – Emile Zola
Eminent Victorians – Lytton Strachey
Emma – Jane Austen
Ends and Means – Aldous Huxley
English August – Upamanyu Chatterjee
Envoy to Nehru – Escott Reid
Essays of Elia – Charles Lamp
Essays on Gita – Sri Aurobindo Ghosh
Eternal Himalayas – Major H.P.S. Ahluwalia
Ethics for New Millennium – The Dalai Lama
Expandin Universe – Arthur Stanley Eddington

F
Faces of Everest – Major H.P.S. Ahluwalia
Family Matters – Rohinton Mistry
Family Reunion – T.S. Eliot
Far from the Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy
Farewell the Trumpets – James Morris
Farewell to Arms – Ernest Hemingway
Fasting Feasting – Anita Desai
Father and Sons – Ivan Turgenev
Faust – J.W. Goeth
Final Days, The – Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein
First Circle – Alexander Solzhenitsyn
For Whom the Bell Tolls – Ernest Hemingway
Forsyth Saga – John Galsworthy
Fortynine Days – Amrita Pritam
Freedom at Midnight – Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre
French Revolution – Thomas Carlyle
Friends and Foes – Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
From Here to Eternity – James Jones

G
Ganadevta – Tara Shankar Bandopadhyaya
Gandhi and Stalin – Louis Fisher
Gardener – Rabindra Nath Tagore
Gathering Storm – Winston Churchill
Ghasiram Kotwal – Vijay Tendulkar
Gitanjali – Rabindra Nath Tagore
Glimpes of World History – Jawaharlal Nehru
Godan – Prem Chand
Golden Threshold – Sarojini Naidu
Gone With the Wind – Margaret Mitchell
Good Earth – Pearl S. Buck
Good Times, Bad Times – Harold Evans
Goodby, Mr. Chips – James Hilton
Grammar of Politics – Harold Joseph Laski
Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
Guide – R. K. Narayan
Gulag Archipelago – Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Gulliver’s Travels – Janathan Swift
Gypsi Masala – Preeti Nair

H
Half a Life – V.S. Naipaul
Hamlet – William Shakespeare
Harvest – Manjula Padmanabhan
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix – J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire – J. K. Rowling
Heat and Dust – Ruth Prawer Jhabwala
Heri Apparent – Dr. Karan Singh
Heritage – Anthony West
Heroes and Hero Worship – Thomas Carlyle
Himalayan Blunder – Brigadier J.P. Dalvi
Hindu View of Life – Dr. S. Radhakrishnan
Hinduism – Nirad S. Choudhari
Homage to Catalonia – George Orwell
How to Know God – Deepak Chopra
Hullabaloo in a Guava Orchard – Kiran Desai
Human Factor – Graham Green
Hunchback of Notre Dame – Victor Hugo
Hungry Stones – Rabindra Nath Tagore

I
Iacocca – Lee Iacocca
Ideas and Opinions – Albert Einstein
I Follow the Mahatma – K.M. Munshi
Idols – Sunil Gavaskar
If I am Assassinated – Z.A. Bhutto
If Only – Geri Halliwell
Ignited Minds – A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
In Evil Hour – Gabriel Garcia Marques
In Memoriam – Alfred Lord Tennyson
In Search of Gandhi – Richard Attenborough
India in the New Millennium – Dr. P.C. Alexander
India Changes – Taya Zinkin
India Discovered – John Keay
India Divided – Rajendra Prasad
Indian Emerging Power – Stephen Philip Cohen
India- Another Millennium – Romila Thapar
India- Unbound – Gurcharan Das
India of Our Dreams – M.V. Kamath
India Remembered – Percival and Margaret Spear
India Wins Freedom – Abul Kalam Azad
India’s Priceless Heritage – N.A. Palkiwala
Indian Philosophy – Dr. S. Radhakrishnan
Indira: The Life of Indira Nehru Gandhi – Katherine Frank
Inscrutable Americans – Anurag Mathur
Inside Asia, Inside Europe, Inside Africa etc – John Gunther
Interpreter of Maladies – Jhumpa Lahiri
Intimacy – Jean Paul Sartre
Invisible Man – H.G. Wells
Is Paris Burning – Larry Collins & Dominique Lapierre
Isabella – John Keats
Islamic Bomb – Stev Weissman & Herbert Krouney
It was Five Past Midnight in Bhopal – Dominique Lapierre and Javier Moro
Ivanhoe – Sir Walter Swatt

J
Jai Somnath – K.M. Munshi
Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
Jean Christopher – Romain Rolland
Julius Caeser – William Shakespeare
Jungle Book – Rudyard Kipling
Junglee Girl – Ginu Kamani
Jurassic Park – Michael Chrchton

K
Kalpana Chawla- A Life – Anil Padmanabhan
Kamasutra – Vatsyayana
Kane and Abel – Jeffrey Archer
Kanthapura – Raja Rao
Kashmir : A Tragedy of Errors – Tavleen Singh
Kayar – Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai
Kenilworth – Sir Walter Scott
Kidnapped – Robert Louis Stevenson
Kim – Rudyard Kipling
King Lear – William Shakespeare
Kubla Khan – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

L
Ladies Coupe - Anita Nair
La Peste – Albert Camus
Lady Chatterley’s Lover – D. H. Lawrence
Lajja – Taslima Nasreen
Last Burden – Upamanyu Chatterjee
Last Things – C.P. Snow
Le Contract (Social Contract) – J.J. Rousseau
Lead Kindly Light – Vincent Shean
Leaders – Richard Nixon
Leaves of Grass – Walt Whitman
Less Miserables – Victor Hugo
Leviathan – Thomas Hobbes
Life Divine – Sri Aurobindo
Life is Elsewhere – Milan Kundera
Life of Samuel Jhonson – James Bosewell
Living History – Hillary Clinton
Lolita – Vladimir Nobakov
Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner – Allan Sillitoe
Long Day’s Journey into Night – Eugene O’Neill
Long Walk to Freedom – Nelson Mandela
Look Back in Anger – John Osborne
Lord of the Files – William Golding
Love Story – Erich Segal

M
Macbeth – William Shakespeare
Magic Mountain – Thomas Mann
Mahatma Gandhi and his Apostles – Ved Mehta
Main Street – Romain Rolland
Malgudi Days – R.K. Narayan
Man and Superman – George Bernard Shaw
Man of Property – John Galsworthy
Man, Beast and Virtue – Luigi Pirandello
Man-eaters of Kumaon – Jim Corbett
Managing for the Future – Peter Drucker
Managing for Results – Peter Drucker
Mankind and Mother Earth – Arnold Toynbee
Many Worlds - K.P.S Menon
Mayor of Casterbridge – Thomas Hardy
Mein Kampf – Adolf Hitler
Memories of Hope – Gen. Charles de Gaulle
Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus – John Gray
Middle March – George Eliot
Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
Mill on the Floss – George Eliot
Moby Dick – Hermann Melville
Moonwalk – Michael Jackson
Mother India – Katherine Mayo
Mother – Maxim Gorky
Much Ado About Nothing – William Shakespeare
Murder in the Cathedral – T.S. Eliot
My Days – R.K. Narayan
My India – S. Nihal Singh
My Life and Times – V.V. Giri
My Music, My Life – Pandit Ravi Shankar
My own Boswell – M. Hidayatullah
My Presidential Years – R. Venkataraman
Mystic River – Dennis Lehane
My Son’s Father – Dom Moraes
My Truth – Indira Gandhi

N
Nana – Emile Zola
Never At Home – Dom Moraes
New Dimensions of India’s Foreign Policy – Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Nice Guys Finish Second – B. K. Nehru
Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell
Nisheeth – Uma Shankar Joshi
No Full Stops in India – Mark Tully
Nostradamus and his Prophecies – Edgar Leoni
Nostromo – Joseph Conrad

O
O’ Jerusalem – Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre
Odakkuzhal – G. Shankara Kurup
Of Human Bondage – W. Somerset Maugham
Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
On The Threshold of Hope – Pope John Paul II
One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
One World and India – Arnold Toynbee
One World – Wendell Wilkie
Operation Bluestar: The True Story – Lt. Gen. K.S. Brar
Operation Shylock - Philip Roth
Othello – William Shakespeare
Our Films, Their Films – Satyajit Ray
Out of Africa – Isak Dinesen

P
Painter of Signs – R.K. Narayan
Pakistan Cut to Size – D.R. Mankekar
Pakistan: The Gathering Storm – Benazir Bhutto
Pale Blue Dot – Carl Sagan
Panchatantra – Vishnu Sharma
Paradise Lost – John Milton
Pather Panchali – Bibhuti Bhushan
Patriotic Gore – Edmund Wilson
People Like Us – Pavan Verma
Peter Pan – J.M. Barrie
Plain Speaking – N. Chandrababu Naidu
Pleading Guilty – Scott Turow
Portrait of India – Ved Mehta
Post Office – Rabindra Nath Tagore
Prelude – William Wordsworth
Preoccupations – Saemus Heaney
Present at the Creation – Dean Acheson
Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
Prince – Niccolo Machiavelli
Principa Mathematica – Bertrand Russel
Prison Diary – Jayaprakash Narayan
Private Lives – Noel Coward
Profiles in Courage – John F. Kennedy
Pygmalion – George Bernard Shaw

R
Rabbit, Run – John Updike
Rangbhoomi – Prem Chand
Rape of Bangladesh – Anthony Mascarenhas
Ravan and Eddie – Kiran Nagarkar
Rebel, The – Albert Camus
Red Badge of Courage – Stephen Crane
Red Earth and Pouring Rain – Vikram Seth
Red Star Over China – Edgar Snow
Reflections on the French Revolution – Edmund Burke
Remembering Babylon – David Malouf
Rendezvous with Rama – Arthur C. Clark
Revolution from Within – Gloria Steinem
Riding the Storm – Harold MacMillan
Riot: A Novel – Shashi Tharoor
Rise and Fall of the Third Reich – William L. Shierer
Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe
Romeo and Juliet – William Shakespeare
Room at the Top – John Braine
Rabaiyat-I Omar Khyyam – Edward Fitzgerald

S
Saket – Maithili Sharan Gupt
Sanctuary – William Faulkner
Scam, The: Who Won, Who Lost , Who Got Away – Debashis Basu and Sucheta Dalal
Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthome
Seven Lamps of Architecture - John Ruskin
Seven Summers – Mulk Raj Anand
Sexual Behaviour in the American Male – Alfred Kinsey
Shadow and Act – Ralph Ellison
Shape from Ladakh – Bhavani Bhattacharya
Shape of Thing to Come – H.G. Wells
She Stoops to Conquer – Oliver Goldsmith
Siddharta – Hermann Hesse
Silent Spring – Rachel Carson
Six Characters in Search of an Author – Luigi Piradello
Six Easy Pieces – Richard P. Feyman
Slaughter House Five – Kurt Vonnegut
Small is Beautiful: A Study of Economics as if People Mattered – Ernst
Schumacher
Snakes and Ladders: Essays on India – Gita Mehta
Snow Country – Yasunari Kawabata
Sohrab and Rustam – Mathew Arnold
Sons and Lovers – D.H. Lawrence
Sophie’s Choice – William Styron
Story of My Life – Moshe Dayan
Strangers and Brothers – C.P. Snow
Strife – John Galsworthy
Stupid White Men – Michael Moore
Sun Stone – Octavio Paz
Sunny Days – Sunil Gavaskar
Swami and Friends – R.K. Narayan

T
Talisman – Sir Walter Scott
Tarzan of Apes – Edgar Rice Burroughs
Tempest – William Shakespeare
Tender is the Night – E. Scott Fitzgerald
Tenth Insight – James Redfield
Thank You, Jeeves – P.G. Wodehouse
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Arthur Conan Doyle
The Affluent Society – John Kenneth Galbraith
The Age of Reason – Jean Paul Sartre
The Agenda – Bob Woodward
The Agony and the Ecstasy – Irving Stone
The Ambassadors – Henry James
The Applecart - George Bernard Shaw
The Arrangement – Elia Kazan
The Banyan Tree – Hugh Tinker
The Best and the Brightest – David Halberstam
The Better Man – Anita Nair
The Big Fisherman – Lloyd Douglas
The Bride’s Book of Beauty – R.J. Waller
The Cancer Ward – Alexander Solzhenitsyn
The Call of the Wild – Jack London
The Canterbury Tales – Geoffery Chaucer
The Captive of the Caucasus – Alexander Pushkin
The Cardinal – Henry Morton Robinson
The Caretaker – Harold Pinters
The Castle – Ranz Kafka
The Cat and Shakespeare – Raja Rao
The Changing World of the Executive – Peter Drucker
The Civil War – Shelby Foote
The Clown – Heinrich Boll
The Coup – John Updike
The Court Dancer – Rabindra Nath Tagore
The Crucible – Arthur Miller
The Day of the Locust – Nathaniel West
The Death of Vishnu – Manil Suri
The Degeneration of India – T.N. Sheshan
The Diary of a Young Girl – Anne Frank
The Double Helix – James D. Watson
The End of a Beautiful Era – Joseph Brodsky
The End of History and the Last Man – Francis Fukuyama
The Executioner’s Song – Norman Mailer
The Eye of the Storm – Patrick White
The Far Pavilions – M.M. Kaye
The Faraway Music – Svetlana Allilueva
The Feminine Mystique – Betty Friedan
The Fifth Horseman – Larry Collins and Domnique Lapierre
The Fire Next Time – James Baldwin
The Forbidden Sea – Tara Ali Baig
The French Lieutenant’s Woman – John Fowles
The Fury – Salman Rushdie
The Ginger Man – J.P. Donleavy
The Glass Palace – Amitav Ghosh
The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy
The Godfather – Mario Puzo
The Golden Gate – Vikram Seth
The Grapes and the Wind – Pablo Neruda
The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
The Great Challenge – Louis Fischer
The Great Indian Novel – Shashi Tharoor
The Guns of August – Barbara Tuchman
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter – Carson McCullers
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
The Horse Whisperer – Nicholas Evans
The Green Knight – Iris Murdoch
The Heart of the Matter – Graham Greene
The Hot Zone – Richard Prelurid
The House of the Spirits – Isabel Allende
The Humboldt Gift – Saul Bellow
The Idiot – Feodor Dostoyevsky
The Importance of Being Earnest – Oscar Wilde
The Interpreter of Maladies – Jhumpa Lahiri
The Interpreters – Wole Soyinka
The Invisible Man – Ralph Ellison
The Joke – Milan Kundera
The Judge – Steve Martini
The Judgement – Kuldip Nayar
The Keeper of the Keys – Milan Kundera
The Last Temptation of Christ – Kazant Zakis
The Legends of Khasak – O.V. Vijayan
The Making of a Midsummer Night’s Dream – David Selboume
The Mandarin – Simon de Beauvoir
The Masters – C.P. Snow
The Man Who Killed Gandhi – Manohar Malgaonkar
The Merchant of Venice – William Shakespeare
The Middle Ground – Margaret Drabble
The Mind of the C.E.O. – Jeffrey E. Garten
The Minister’s Wife – Amaresh Mishra
The Miser – Moliere
The Moon and Sixpence – W. Somerset Maugham
The Moor’s Last Sigh – Salman Rushdie
The Night Manager – Johnie Cane
The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway
The Origin of Species – Charles Darwin
The Other Side of Midnight – Sidney Sheldon
The Painted Veil – W. Somerset Maugham
The Pickwick Papers – Charles Darwin
The Pilgrim’s Progress – John Bunyan
The Power and the Glory – Graham Greene
The Power of Positive Thinking – Norman Vincent Peale
The Private Life of Chairman Mao – Dr. Li Zhisui
The Proper Study of Mankind – Isaiah Berlin
The Rain King – Saul Bellow
The Rape of the Lock – Alexander Pope
The Return of the Native – Thomas Hardy
The Rights of Man – Thomas Hardy
The Road Ahead – Bill Gates
The Robe – Lloyd C. Douglas
The Roots – Alex Haley
The Satanic Verses – Salman Rushdie
The Second World War – Winston Churchill
The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success – Deepak Chopra
The Sheltering Sky – Paul Bowles
The Shoes of the Fisherman – Morris L. West
The Social Contract – Rousseau
The Songs of India – Sarojini Naidu
The Sound and the Fury – William Faulkner
The Spirit of the Age – William Hazlitt
The Story of My Experiments with Truth – Mahatma Gandhi
The Strange and Sublime Address – Amit Chaudhary
The Struggle in My Life – Nelson Mandela
The Sword and the Sickle – Mulk Raj Anand
The Testament – John Grisham
The Third Wave – Alvin Tofler
The Total Zone – Martina Navaratilova
The Tree of Man – Patrick White
The Trial – Franz Kafka
The Trotter-Nama – Allan Sealy
The Unfurnished Man – Patrick White
The Vendor of Sweets – R.K. Narayan
The Victim – Saul Bellow
The Volcano Lover – Susan Sontag
The Wasteland – T.S. Eliot
The Way of all Flesh – Samuel Butler
The Wealth of Nations – Adam Smith
Theory of War – John Brady
Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe
Thirteenth Sun, The – Amrit Pritam
Thom Birds – Collen McCullough
Thousand Cranes – Yasunari Kawabata
Three Horsemen of the New Apocalypse – Nirad C. Chaudhary
Time Machine – H.G. Wells
Tin Drum – Gunther Grass
Tinker, Tailor Soldier – John Le-Came
Tome Jones – Henry Fielding
To the Lighthouse – Virginia Woolf
Train to Pakistan – Khushwant Singh
Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson
Tropic of Cancer – Henry Miller
Tryst with Destiny – S. Gopalan
Twelfth Night – William Shakespeare
Two Leaves and a Bud – Mulk Raj Anand

U
Ulysses – James Joyce
Uncle Tom’s Cabin – Harriet Beecher Stowe
Under the Net – Iris Murdoch
Unsafe at Any Speed – Ralph Nader
Unto The Last – John Ruskin
Untold Story – General B.M. Kaul
Up from Slavery – Booker T. Washington
Utopia – Thomas Moore

V
Valley of the Dolls – Jacqueline Susann
Vanity Fair – William Thackeray

W
Waiting for Godot – Samuel Beckett
Waiting for the Mahatma – R.K. Narayan
Wake up India – Annie Besant
War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
Westward Ho – Charles Kingsley
What they don’t teach you at Harvard Business School – Mark. H. Mc Cormack
Who is Kalam? – R. Ramanathan
Who moved my cheese? – Dr. Spencer Johnson
Wings of Fire – A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
Winter Solstice – Rosamunder Pilcher
Witness to an Era – Frank Moraes
Women in Love – D.H. Lawrence
World Within Worlds – Stephen Spender
Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte

Y
Yayati – V.S. Khandekar
Year of the Upheaval – Henry Kissinger
Yesterday and Today – K.P.S. Menon
You Can Win – Shiv Khera

Z
Zen and the Art of Motocycle Maintenance – Robert Pirsig

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Saturday, December 27, 2008

Geographical Epithets (Surnames)

Battle Field of Europe- Belgium
Blue Mountains- Nilgiri Hills
Bread Basket of the World- Prairies of North
Britain of the South- New Zealand
City of Arabian Knights- Baghdad
City of Dreaming Spires- Oxford
City of Golden Gate- San Francisco (USA)
City of Magnificent Distance- Washington DC
City of Palaces- Calcutta
City of Popes- Rome
City of Seven Hills- Rome
City of Sky Scrappers- New York
Cockpit of Europe- Belgium
Dairy of Northern Europe- Denmark
Dark Continent- Africa
Emerald Island- Ireland
Empire City- New York
Eternal City- Rome
Forbidden City- Lhasa (Tibet)
Garden City- Bangalore
Garden of England- Kent (England)
Gate of Tears- Strait of Bab-el-Mandeb (Jerusalem)
Gateway of India- Bombay
Gibraltar of Indian Ocean- Aden
Gift of Nile- Egypt
Golden City- Johannesburg
Granite City- Aberdeen (Scotland)
Hermit Kingdom- Korea
Herring Pond- Atlantic Ocean
Holy Land- Palestine
Island Continent- Australia
Island of Cloves- Madagascar (Malaysia)
Island of Pearls- Bahrain
Key to Mediterranean- Gibraltar
Lady of Snow- Canada
Land of Cakes or Oat Cakes- Scotland
Land of Five Rivers- Punjab
Land of Golden Fleece- Australia
Land of Golden Pagoda- Myanmar
Land of Humming Bird- Trinidad
Land of Lilies- Canada
Land of Maple- Canada
Land of Midnight Sun- Norway
Land of Morning Calm- Korea
Land of Rising Sun- Japan
Land of the Flying Fish- Barbados
Land of Thousand Lakes- Finland
Land of Thunderbolt- Bhutan
Land of White Elephant- Thailand
Little Venice- Venezuela
Manchester of India- Bombay
Mother Colony of the West Indies- St. Kitts
Mother-in-law of Europe- Denmark
Pearl of Antilles- Cuba
Pearl of the Pacific- Guayaquil Port (Ecuador)
Pillars of Hercules- Strait of Gibraltar
Pink City- Jaipur
Playground of Europe- Switzerland
Quaker City- Philadelphia USA
Queen of the Adriatic- Venice
Queen of the Arabian Sea- Cochin
Rich Coast- Coasta Rica
Rich Port- Puerto Rico
Roof of the World- Pamir (Tibet)
Sick Man of Europe- Turkey
Sorrow of Bengal- Damodar River (West Bengal)
Sorrow of China- Hwang-Ho/ Yellow River
Spice Garden of India- Kerala
Spice Island of the West- Grenada
Sugar Bowl of India- Uttar Pradesh
The Down Under- Australia
The Eye of Greece- Athens
The Imperial City- Rome
The Isle of Spring- Jamaica
The Modern Babylon- London
The Saw Mills of Europe- Sweden
The Sea of Mountains- British Columbia
The Store House of the World- Mexico
Twin City- Budapest
Venice of the East- Alleppey, India
Venice of the North- Stockholm
White City- Belgrade
White Man’s Grave- Guinea Coast (West Africa)
Windy City- Chicago
Workshop of Europe- Belgium

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Thursday, December 25, 2008

Maldivian President Mohammed Nasheed on 3 days visit to India

Maldivian President Mohammed Nasheed, who is on 3 days visit to India and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh signed pacts for cooperation in economy and aviation.

India also extended 100 million US Dollar stand-by Credit Facility to Maldives. Of 100 million credit facility, 50 million dollars would be used for imports from India while the remaining 50 percent will be for budgetary support.


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Wednesday, December 24, 2008

Bhaichung Bhutia: AIFF's Player of the Year

All India Football Federation (AIFF) named India and Mohun Bagan Skipper Bhaichung Bhutia for its “Player of the Year” award on 23rd December, 2008. He became the only player to win this award twice after IM Vijayan who bagged the award thrice.

The decision was taken in the Annual General Body Meeting of AIFF. Earlier the AGM unanimously chose the office bearers of the new AIFF executive committee by re-electing Priyaranjan Dasmunshi to the post of President of AIFF.

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National Sahitya Akademi Awards

21 names in different categories have been announced for National Sahitya Akademi Awards this year, carrying a cash prize of Rs. 50,000 and an engraved copper plaque, which will given away at a special function on 17th February, 2009.
Novelists: 1. Govind Mishra (Hindi) for his novel "Kohre Mein Kaid Rang" 2. Rita Choudhury (Assamese) 3. Vidya Sagar Narzary (Bodo) 4. Srinivas B Vaidya (Kannada) 5. Ashok Kamat (Konkani) 6. Shyam Manohar (Maratghi) 7. Mitter Sain Meet (Punjabi)

Poets: 1. Sarat Kumar Mukhopadhyay (Bengali) 2. Champa Sharma (Dogri) 3. A O Memchoubi (Manipuri) 4. Pramod Kumar Mohanty (Oriya) 5. Om Prakash Pande (Sanskrit) 6. Jayant Parmer (Urdu)

Short Story Writers: 1. Suman Shah (Gujarati) 2. Shri 'Kirat' (Nepali) 3. Dinesh Panchal (Rajasthani) 4. Badal Hembam (Santhali) 5. Melanmai Ponnusamy (Tamil)

Critics: 1. K P Appan, a well-known critic who died earlier this month, won the award for his collection essays in Malayalam, "Madhuram Ninte Jeevitham". 2. Nabi Aatash (Kashmiri Writer) 3. Hiro Shewkani (Sindi Writer)


The academy is not giving the award for English as no book was found eligible for the honour, while award for Maithili and Telugu will be announced later.

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Monday, December 22, 2008

Chanda Kochhar to replace K V Kamath as CEO of ICICI Bank

Chanda Kochhar will be the next CEO and Managing Director of ICICI bank as K V Kamath, the present holder of the post retires on 30th April, 2009 to take over as non-executive chairman.

Being ICICI bank's Joint Managing Director and Group Chief Financial Officer at present, Chanda Kochhar has often featured in the Fortune magazine's annual lists of most powerful business women across the world.

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Sonia Gandhi, Shahrukh Khan listed among top 50 powerful persons of the world

Sonia Gandhi, President of Indian National Congress and Shahrukh Khan, the Bollywood actor have been listed among the top 50 most powerful persons of the world by the prestigious US magazine "The Week".

While Sonia Gandhi, described to as "The Queen of Largest Democracy" has been ranked 17 in the list, Shahrukh Khan, "The King of Bollywood" is placed at 41st spot. The list is topped by none other than US president-elect Barack Obama, "First Black to enter White House".
Osama Bin Laden, "The Global Terrorist" also makes it to the list.

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