Saturday, September 29, 2012

First union of India

FIRST UNION CABINET OF INDIA Mount batten, Governor General of India handed over the power to first Indian cabinet  headed by Prime minister Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru. There were 14 members in the first union council of Independent India. Members of the first Cabinet of Independent India, who took the oath of office on the 15th of August, 1947. NAME PORT FOLIO 1 Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru- Prime Minister , Externel Affairs ,Common Wealth Relations and Scientific Research 2 Sardar Vallbhbhai Patel-Deputy PM & Home 3 Syama Prasad Mookerjee-Industry...

Thursday, September 27, 2012

Tiger Reserves in India

Project tiger was started in 19...

Friday, September 21, 2012

Apple's iO6

With its latest mobile operating system, Apple is stretching upgradation compatibility to eight of its products across different generations. The iO6, features over 200 changes, and is compatible from the iPhone 3GS onwards, despite the company having dropped the 3GS model from its line-up after releasing the latest iPhone. By reaching as many legacy devices as possible, Apple has tried to maximise the market for iOS app developers. This has been an area of concern for Google’s Android platform where the latest OS upgrades are unable to capture...

Wednesday, September 12, 2012

iPhone 5 Apple's

4G enabled iPhone 5 is lighter and faster -- though also taller -- than any of Apple's previous smartphones. It has a 4-inch screen with an 1136x640 resolution Retina display. It is 7.6 mmthick and weighs in at 112 grams. That's a half-inch bigger, 18 percent thinner, and 20 percent lighter than the iPhone 4S. Apple said the iPhone 5 has a fifth row of icons on its screen, which features 44 percent more color saturation. A more powerful A6 processor...

Monday, September 10, 2012

NATGRID

NATGRID 26/11 attacks on Mumbai exposed several weaknesses in India’s intelligence gathering and action networks. So, Chidambaram came up with the idea of National Intelligence Grid (NATGRID) NATGRID will integrate 21 categories of data from agencies like 1. Banks, 2. Railways and airlines, 3. Income tax department, 4. Credit card companies etc. 5. Visa and immigration *. This combined data will be made available to 11 central agencies including the R&AW, the National Investigation Agency, the CBI, the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence, the...

GOOGLE GLASS

An augmented reality head-mounted display (HMD). It will be hands free display of information like smartphones.Designed like a pair of glasses,this gadget will be using Android platform. It will see a public release in 2014. It will use voice input and output. It will include a small screen in front of your eye and will have motion sensors, GPS and either 3G or 4G data connection...

Sunday, September 9, 2012

JUNO: Mission MARS

Juno is a mission to the planet Jupiter by NASA. Juno was launched on August 5, 2011.This spacecraft will be placed in a polar orbit to study the planet's composition, gravity field , magnetic field etc. Juno will also search for clues about how Jupiter formed.Juno was God Jupiter's wife according to mythology. It was launched by an Atlas V551 rocket. It will be a five-year journey to Jupiter, arriving around July 4, 2016. The spacecraft will travel...

Friday, September 7, 2012

Indian Research stations on Antartica

Under Antartic Treaty of 1959,first Indian research station in Antartica was established in 1983.It was named "Dakshin Gangotri".It got buried under ice in 1989. Second station was established in the same year.It was named "Maitri" Recently,another station is being established.It is named "Bharathi".(2012) India's first research station in Arctic Circle: HIMADRI (2008).At Ny Alesund,Svalbard,Norwa...

INDIA ON "POLES'

First Indian to reach North Pole: Sq.leader Sanjay Thapar First Indian to reach South Pole: Col Jatinder Kumar Bajaj female: Reena Kaushal Dharamshakt...