Cabinet Ministers (as on 17.06.2013)

1 Dr. Manmohan Singh— Prime
Minister and also in-charge of the
Ministries/Departments not
specifically allocated to the charge of
any Minister viz.:
(i) Ministry of Personnel, Public
Grievances & Pensions;
(ii) Ministry of Planning;
(ii) Department of Atomic Energy; and
(iv) Department of Space.
2 Shri A.K. Antony — Minister of
Defence.
3 Shri Sharad Pawar— Minister of
Agriculture, and Minister of Food
Processing Industries.
4 Shri P. Chidambaram— Minister of
Finance.
5 Shri Ghulam Nabi Azad — Minister
of Health and Family Welfare.
6 Shri Sushilkumar Shinde — Minister
of Home Affairs.
7 Shri M. Veerappa Moily— Minister
of Petroleum and Natural Gas.
8 Dr. Farooq Abdullah— Minister of
New and Renewable Energy.
9 Shri S. Jaipal Reddy — Minister of
Science and Technology, and
Minister of Earth Sciences.
10 Shri Sis Ram Ola — Minister of
Labour and Employment.
11 Shri Kamal Nath — Minister of
Urban Development, and
Minister of Parliamentary Affairs.
12 Shri Ajit Singh— Minister of Civil
Aviation.
13 Shri Vayalar Rav—i Minister of
Overseas Indian Affairs.
14 Shri Mallikarjun Kharge— Minister
of Railways.
15 Shri Oscar Fernandes— Minister of
Road Transport and Highways.
16 Shri Kapil Sibal — Minister of
Communications and Information
Technology, and Minister of Law and
Justice.
17 Shri Anand Sharma— Minister of
Commerce and Industry.
18 Kumari Selja— Minister of Social
Justice and Empowerment.
19 Dr. Girija Vyas — Minister of
Housing and Urban Poverty
Alleviation.
20 Shri G.K. Vasan— Minister of
Shipping.
21 Shri Praful Patel — Minister of
Heavy Industries and Public
Enterprises.
22 Shri Shriprakash Jaiswal— Minister
of Coal.
23 Shri Salman Khurshid— Minister of
External Affairs.
24 Shri V. Kishore Chandra Deo—
Minister of Tribal Affairs, and
Minister of Panchayati Raj.
25 Shri Beni Prasad Verma— Minister
of Steel.
26 Shri Jairam Ramesh — Minister of
Rural Development.
27 Shri K. Rahman Khan— Minister of
Minority Affairs.
28 Shri Dinsha J. Patel— Minister of
Mines.
29 Shri M.M. Pallam Raju— Minister
of Human Resource Development.
30 Shri Harish Rawat— Minister of
Water Resources.
31 Smt. Chandresh Kumari Katoch—
Minister of Culture.
32 Dr. Kavuru Samba Siva Rao—
Minister of Textiles.

MECHANICAL ENGINEERING JOB INTERVIEW QUESTIONS

1.)Why condenser is needed in steam
power plant?
Ans.-The function of the condenser is
to condense exhaust steam from the
steam turbine by rejecting the heat
of vaporization to the cooling water
passing through the condenser.
2.)What is absolute humidity and
relative humidity?
Ans.-Absolute humidity is the mass
of water vapor divided by the mass of
dry air in a volume of air at a given
temperature. The hotter the air is,
the more water it can contain.Relativ
e humidity is the ratio of the current
absolute humidity to the highest
possible absolute humidity.
3.)What is viscosity?
Ans.-The viscosity of a fluid is a
measure of its resistance to gradual
deformation by shear stress or tensile
stress. For liquids, it corresponds to
the informal notion of "thickness". For
example, honey has a higher viscosity
than water.
4.)What is difference between power
cycles and heat pump cycles?
Ans.-Any thermodynamic cycle
functions in a similar way. There are
basically 3 interlinked energy sources
at play:
1. A reservoir of heat energy at high
temperature Eh
2. A reservoir of heat energy at low
temperature Ec
3. Mechanical (driving) energy P.
The power cycle provides high
temperature heat energy Eh, harvests
mechanical P and throws away low
temperature energy into Ec.
Whereas,
The heat pump provides P, harvests
Eh and throws away into Ec.

Top 10 Tech companies based on their revenue/anum

10. Dell – United States – $62.07
Billion
9. Sony – Japan – $67.4 Billion
8. Microsoft – United States – $73.72
Billion
7. Toshiba – Japan – $74.39 Billion
6. Panasonic – Japan – $99.65 Billion
5. IBM – United States – $106.91
Billion
4. Foxconn – Taiwan – $117.51 Billion
3. Hewlett Packard – United States –
$
120.35
Billion
2. Samsung Electronics – South Korea
– $149
Billion
1. Apple, Inc. – United States –
$156.5
Billion

Tag lines of Some Indian Banks

Hum Hai Na— ICICI
Good People To Grow With — Indian
Overseas Bank
Pure banking nothing else, —State
Bank Of India
Tradition Of Trust—Allahabad Bank
Trusted Family Bank— Dena Bank
Good People To Bank With —Union
Bank Of India
World's Local Bank—HSBC
We Understand Your World—HDFC
Much More To Do With YOU In Focus
—Andhra Bank
A Friend You Can Bank Upon—Vijaya
Bank
Together We Prosper— Bank Of
Rajasthan
Your Perfect Banking Partner—Federal
Bank
Taking Banking Technology To The
Common Man— Indian Bank
Experience Our Expertise— Yes Bank
Build A Better Life around Us—
Central Bank Of India
Serving To Empower—J & K Bank
The Changing Face Of Prosperity —
Lakshami Vilas Bank
Where Every Individual Is Committed
—Oriental Bank Of Commerce
Aao Soche Bada—IDBI
A Faithful & Friendly Financial Partner
— Syndicate Bank
Relationships Beyond Banking— Bank
Of India
Honours Your Trust—Uco Bank
Smart Way To Bank—Karur Vaisya
Bank
A Passion To Perform—Deutche Bank
Experience Next Generation Banking—
South Indian Bank
The Name You Can Bank Upon—
Punjab National Bank

New Seven Wonders of World

1. Taj Mahal — Agra, Uttar Pradesh,
India (AD 1632)
2. Chichen Itza — Yucatán Mexico
( AD 800)
3. Christ the Redeemer — Rio de
Janeiro Brazil (AD 1926)
4. Colosseum — Rome, Italy (AD 70)
5. Great Wall of China — China (BC
700)
6. Machu Picchu — Cuzco Region,
Peru (AD 1438)
7. Petra —Ma'an Governorate, Jordan
(BC 312)

Rajiv Gandhi KhelRatna Awards

1991–92 —Viswanathan Anand
(Chess)
1992–93— Geet Sethi (Billiards)
1993–94 —Not Conferred
1994–95— Cdr. Homi D. Motivala &
Lt. Cdr. P. K. Garg (Yachting)
1995–96— Karnam Malleswari(Weig
htlifting)
1996–97— Nameirakpam Kunjarani
(Weightlifting),Leander Paes(Tennis)
1997–98— Sachin Tendulkar(Cricket)
1998–99— Jyotirmoyee Sikdar(Athletics)
1999–2000— Dhanraj Pillay (Hockey)
2000–01— Pullela Gopichand(Badmi
nton)
2001–02— Abhinav Bindra(Shooting)
2002–03— Anjali Ved Pathak Bhagwat
(Shooting), K. M. Beenamol(Athletics)
2003–04— Anju Bobby George
(Athletics)
2004–05— Lt. Col Rajyavardhan Singh
Rathore(Shooting)
2005–06— Pankaj Advani (Billiards
and Snooker)
2006–07— Manavjit Singh Sandhu
(Shooting)
2007–08— Mahendra Singh Dhoni
(Cricket)
2008–09— Mary Kom (Boxing),Vijender
Singh (Boxing),Sushil Kumar
(Wrestling)
2009–10— Saina Nehwal (Badminton)
2010–11— Gagan Narang (Shooting)
2011–12— Vijay Kumar (Shooting),
Yogeshwar Dutt (Wrestling) 2012–13
Ronjan Sodhi (Shooting)

Internet technologies and their founders

1. Google: Larry Page & Sergey Brin
2. Facebook: Mark Zuckerberg
3. Yahoo: David Filo & Jerry Yang
4. Twitter: Jack Dorsey & Dick Costolo
5. Internet: Tim Berners Lee
6. Linkdin: Reid Hoffman, Allen Blue
&
Koonstantin Guericke
7. Email: Shiva Ayyadurai
8. Gtalk: Richard Wah kan
9. Whats up: Laurel Kirtz
10. Hotmail: Sabeer Bhatia
11. Orkut: Buyukkokten
12. Wikipedia: Jimmy Wales
13. You tube: Steve Chen, Chad
Hurley
& JawedKarim
14. Rediffmail: Ajit Balakrishnan
15. Nimbuzz: Martin Smink & Evert
Jaap Lugt
16. Myspace: Chris Dewolfe & Tom
Anderson
17. Ibibo: Ashish Kashyap
18. OLX: Alec Oxenford & Fabrice
Grinda
19. Skype: Niklas Zennstrom,JanusFriis
& Reid Hoffman
20. Opera: Jon Stephenson von
Tetzchner & Geir lvarsoy
21. Mozilla Firefox: Dave Hyatt &
Blake
Ross
22. Blogger: Evan Willams

Organizations and their Headquarters

1. UNO - New York
2. UNICEF - New York
3. UNESCO - Paris
4. UNIDO – Vienna
5. WHO - Geneva
6. UNFPA - New York
7. ILO - Geneva
8. IMF - Washington DC
9. WTO – Geneva
Keep Yourself Updated
10. International Court Of Justice –
The
Hague
11. International Atomic
EnergyAgency
- Vienna
12. World Bank - Washington D.C.
13. International Committee of
theRed
Cross - Geneva
14. International MaritimeOrganis
ation
- London
15. Universal Postal Union - Berne
16. Food and Agricultural
Organisation-
Rome
17. World Meteorological
Organisation-
Geneva
18. SAARC - Kathmandu
19. Amnesty International - London
20. Transparency International -
Berlin
21. World Intellectual Property
Organization - Geneva
22. International Renewable Energy
Agency - Abu Dhabi (UAE)
23. Commonwealth of Nations –
London

Famous Persons and Their Nicknames

1. Bengali Tiger =>> Bipin Chandra
Pal
2. Punjab Lion, Punjab Kesari =>>
Lala Lajpat Rai
3. Sher- e -Punjab =>> Ranjit Singh
4. Lion of Kashmir =>> Sheikh
Mohammed Abdullah
5. Mysore Tiger =>> Tippu Sultan
6. Bard of Avon =>> William
Shakespeare
7. Sage of Kanchi =>> Sankaracharya
8. Bird man of India =>> Salim Ali
9. Maratha Kesari =>> Bal Gangadhar Tilak
10. Bapu =>> Gandhiji
11. Babuji =>> Jagjeevan Ram
12. Indian Machiavelli =>> Chanakya
13. Indian Napoleon =>>
Samudragupta
14. Indian Bismarck =>> Sardar
Vallabhai Patel
15. Indian Shakespeare =>> Kalidasa
16. Deenabandhu =>> C.F Andrews
17. Deshabandhu =>> C.R Das
18. Who is known as Prince of Beggars =>> Madan Mohan Malaviya
19. Who is known as Prince of Patriots=>> Subash Chandra Bose
20. Who is known as prince of Martyrs=>> Bhagat Singh
21. Who is known as prince of
Builders =>> Shahjahan
22. Who is known as prince of
Pilgrims =>> Hiuen Tsang
23. Who is known as prince of
Autobiography =>> Babur
24. Who is known as prince of Money Makers=>> Muhammad bin Tughlaq
25. Who is known as prince of
Pilgrims =>> Hiuen Tsang
26. Who is known as Grand old man of Indian Journalism =>> Tushar Kanti Ghosh
27. Man of Destiny =>> Napoleon Bonaparte
28. Andhara Kesari =>> Tangutoori Prakasam
29. Lok Nayak =>> Jayaprkash Narayan
30. Father of Medicine =>> Hippocrates
31. Lady with the lamp =>> Florence Nightingale
32. Poet's Poet =>> Edmund

Some company names and their origin

1.Mercedes - Name of the daughter of
the
founder
2.Nokia - Name of city in Finland
3.Pepsi - Named from the digestive
enzyme
pepsi
4.Honda - From the name of its
founder
Soichiro Honda
5.Sony - from the Latin word 'sonus'
meaning sound
6.Maggi - Food company named after
its
founder,Julius Maggi
7.Suzuki - From the name of its
founder,
Michio Suzuki
8.Samsung - Meaning 'three stars' in
Korea
9. Toyota - From the name of founder,
Sakichi Toyoda
10.Yamaha - After Torakusu Yamaha,
who
founded the company
11.Adidas - From the name of the
founder
Adolf (Adi) Dassler. (das)

Sugar Production

The process adopted in the
manufacture of sugar is Double
Sulphitation Process.
Sugar Factory consists of the
following five main stations:
1. Mill House
2. Boiler House
3. Power House
4. Clarification and Evaporation
House
5. Boiling and Curing House
MILL HOUSE:
Mill house is the cane crushing unit
which consists of cane carrier, cane
cutter having cutting knives, milling
tandem, bagasse carrier and
conveyor. Cane feeding to the cane
carrier is done by unloaders and
feeder table. As the cane carrier
moves, the cane kicker evens out
cane load in the cane carrier and
then two sets of cane knives cut the
cane into small pieces. This process
of cane cutting is called 'cane
preparation. These cane pieces then,
pass through different mills and the
juice is extracted. The mills are
driven by D.C.motors. The residue
which comes out of the mill after
extraction of juice is called bagasse.
BOILER HOUSE:
Boiler generates steam by burning
the bagasse. The steam is used in
powerhouse, boiling house, curing
house. The steam required by the
Sulphitation process varies from 42 -
45 % on cane crushed per hour.
POWER HOUSE:
The high pressure steam generated
by the boiler is utilized for
production of power by the turbo-
alternators. The power produced is
used for captive needs and the
surplus power is exported to the
government grid. The low pressure
steam that comes out from the turbo
alternator is utilized for boiling the
extracted juice.
CLARIFICATION AND BOILING
HOUSE:
The juice extracted by the mills is
measured by juice flow system. The
measured juice is heated in juice
heater in two stages. First the juice
is heated by the vapours from fourth
and third bodies of evaporator in
different heaters. This heating is
called primary heating. The heated
juice is treated with milk of lime and
sulphur-di-oxide to coagulate
maximum impurities and sent for
secondary heating. The secondary
heating is done with vapours from
second body of evaporator and
vapours from the first body or
exhaust steam. The treated juice is
passed to clarifier, where in clear
juice is removed from the top and
settled mud at the bottom is
separated. To extract sugar from the
mud, it is taken to vacuum filter in
which juice and filter cake are
separated. Juice is taken back to
process and the mud is disposed as
solid waste. Clear juice from clarifier
is taken to evaporator for
evaporating its water content. First
body is heated by exhaust steam,
and other bodies by the vapours of
the previous body. The total water
evaporated in the evaporator is
75-80 % percent. The juice after
evaporation is called as syrup. This
syrup is normally of 60 % solids of
its total weight. The syrup is then
sulphited in syrup Sulphitation
tower.
BOILING AND CURING HOUSE:
Sulphited syrup is taken to pan floor
for making sugar crystal. Three
massecuites boiling systems is
normally adopted, in which, A, B and
C Massecuites are boiled. A-
massecuites is formed by boiling
syrup, sugar melt ,‘A’ light molasses
and on ‘B’-single cured sugar as
seed. This A-Massecuite is boiled
till it attains the required size of
sugar crystal and it is dropped into
crystallizers and cooled. After
exhaustion of sugar in solution, the
‘A’ massecuite is passed on to the
centrifugals for separating sugar
crystals from the massecuite. The
separated 'A' sugar is bagged after
drying. ‘A’-Light and ‘A’-Heavy
molasses are pumped to pan floor
and are used for making ‘A’- and ‘B’-
Massecuite respectively.
‘B’-Massecuite boiled in ‘B’ pans is
dropped into B- Crystallizers and
then it is cured in ‘B’-Centrifugal
machines. ‘B’-heavy molasses and
‘B’-single cured sugar are obtained
separately. ‘B’-single cured sugar is
used as seed for A massecuite. ‘B’-
heavy molasses is used for making
‘C’-Massecuite in C-pans. ‘C’-
Massecuite is dropped into ‘C’-
Crystallizers where it is cooled. ‘C’-
Massecuite is then taken to ‘C’-fore
worker centrifugal machines for
curing. Final molasses and ‘C’-single
cured sugar are obtained. 'C' Single
cured sugar is again cured in
another centrifugal machine in
which ‘C’-double cured sugar and
‘C’-light molasses are obtained. ‘C’-
light molasses are taken to pan floor
and is used in making ‘C’-
Massecuite. ‘C’-double cured sugar
is melted and is used in making 'A'
Massecuite.
Sugar discharged from 'A' Machine is
dropped on to grass hopper
conveyors. By passing hot air in
hoppers the sugar is dried and
taken to grader in which powder and
rori’s are separated. The required
grade sugar is bagged

Books By Indian Authors

Following are some of the books by Indian Authors
Book Name                    Author
A bend in the river  V.S. Naipal
A brush with life  Satish Gujral
A House of Mr. Biswar  V.S. Naipal
A Million Mutinies Now  V.S. Naipal
A Passage to England  Nirad C.Chodhury
A Prisoner's Scrapbook  L.K. Advani
A River Sutra  Gita Mehra
A sense of time  H.S.Vatsyayan
A strange and subline address  Amit Chaudhary
A suitable boy  Vikram Seth
A village by the sea  Anita Desai
A voice for freedom  Nayantara Sehgal
Aansoo  Suryakant Tripathi Nirala
Afternoon Raag  Amit Chaudhari
Ageless Body, Timeless Mind  Deepak Chopra
Agni Veena  Kazi Nazrul Islam
Ain-i-Akbari  Abul Fazal
Amar Kosh  Amar Singh
An autobiography  Jawaharlal Nehru
An Equal Music  Vikram Seth
An Idealist View of life  Dr. S. Radhakrishan
Amrit Aur Vish  Amrit Lal Nagar
Anamika  Suryakant Tripathi Nirala
Anandmath  Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
Areas of Darkness  V.S. Naipal
Arthashastra  Kautilya
Ashtadhyayi  Panini
Autobiography of an Unknown India  Nirad C. Choudhury
Bandicoot Run  Manohar Malgonkar
Beginning of the Beginning  Bhagwan Shri Rajneesh
Between the Lines  Kuldip Nayyar
Beyond Modernisation, Beyond Self  Sisirkumar Ghose
Bhagvad Gita  Ved Vyas
Bharat Bharati  Maithilisharan Gupt
Bharat Durdasha  Bhartendu Harischandra
Border and Boundaries: women in India's Partition Ritu Menon & Kamla Bhasin
Bharat Bharati  Maithili Saran Gupt
Breaking the Silence  Anees Jung
Bride and the Sahib and the other stories Khushwant Singh
Broken Wings  Sarojini Naidu
Bubble, The  Mulk Raj Anand
Buddha Charitam  Ashwaghosh
By God's Decree  Kapil Dev
Chandalika  Rabindra Nath Tagore
Chandrakanta Santati  Devkinandan Khatri
Chemmen: Thakazhi  Sivasankara Pillai
Chitra  Rabindranath Tagore
Chitralekha  Bhagwati Charan Verma
Chitrangada  Rabindra Nath Tagore
Circle of Reason  Amitav Ghosh
Clear Light of Day  Anita Desai
Confessions of a Lower  Mulk Raj Anand
Confrontation with Pakistan  B. M. Kaul
Conquest of Self  Mahatma Ghandhi
Continent of Crime  Nirad C Chaudhary
Coolie  Mulk Raj Anand
Court Dancer  Rabindranath Tagore
Culture in the Vanity Bag  Nirad C Chaudhury
Days of My Years  H.P. Nanda
Daybhag  Jeemootwahan
Death of a City  Amrita Pritam
Devdas  Sharat Chandra Chatterjee
Discovery of India  Jawaharlal Nehru
Distant Drums  Manohar Malgonkar
Distint Neighbours: India  Kuldip Nayar
Divine Life  Swami Shivananda
Durgesh Nandini  Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
Dynamics of Social Change  Chandra Shekhar
Eight Lives  Rajmohan Gandhi
English August  Upamanyu Chatterjee
Essays on Gita  Sri Aurobindo Ghosh
Eternal Himalayas  Major H.P.S. Ahluwalia
Eternal India  Mrs Indira Gandhi
Faces of Everest  Major H.P.S. Ahluwalia
Foreign Policy of India  I.K. Gujral
Forty Nine Days  Amrita Pritam
From Rajpath to Lokpath  Vijaya Raje Scindia
Gaban  Munsi Premchand
Ganadevata  Tara Shankar Bandopadhyaya
Gardener  Rabindra Nath Tagore
Geet Govind  Jayadev
Ghasiram Kotwal  Vijay Tendulkar
Gitanjali  Rabindranath Tagore
Gita Rahasya  Bal Gangadhar Tilak
Glimpses of World History  Jawaharlal Nehru
Godan  Prem Chand
Golden Threshold  Sarojini Naidu
Gora  Rabindra Nath Tagore
Guide  R.K. Narayanan
Harsha Charita  Bana Bhatta
Harvest  Manjula Padmanabhan
Heir Apparent  Dr. Karan Singh
Himalayan Blunder  Brigadier J.P. Dalvi
Hind Swaraj  M.K. Gandhi
Hindu View of Life  Dr. S. Radhakrishan
Hinduism  Nirad C. Choudhury
History of India  Romila Thapar
Hullabaloo in a Guava Orchard  Kiran Desai
Humanyunama  Gulbadan Beghum
Hungary Stones  Rabindranath Tagore
I follow the Mahatma  K.M. Munshi
Idols  Sunil Gavaskar
India After Nehru  Kuldip Nayyar
India Divided  Rajendra Prasad
India Unbound  Gurcharan Das
India of Our Dreams  M.V. Kamath
India Wins Freedom  Abdul Kalam Azad
India's Priceless Heritage  N.A. Palkhivala
Indian Philosophy  Dr. S. Radhakrishan
Indira Ghandi Returns  Khushwant Singh
Indira Gandhi: Badhate Kadam  Khushwant Singh
Inscrutable Americans  Anurag Mathur
Interpreter of Maladies  Jhumpa Lahiri
It's Always Possible  Kiran Bedi
Jai Somnath  K.M. Munshi
Jayadev  Geet Govind
Jhansi Ki Rani  Vrindavanlal Verma
Kadambari  Ba

15 Amazing Facts

1. China has more English speakers
than the United States.
2. Guinness Book of Records holds
the record for being the book most
stolen from Public Libraries
3. In Missouri, a man must have a
permit to shave.
4. The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows; it
was the fashion in Renaissance
Florence to shave them off!
5. The Nobel Peace Prize medal
depicts three naked men with their
hands on each other's shoulders!
6. It is estimated that millions of
trees in the world are accidentally
planted by squirrels that bury nuts
and then forget where they hid them!
7. Recycling one glass jar, saves
enough energy to watch T.V for 3
hours!
8. There are more plastic flamingos in
the U.S, than real ones!
9. A company in Taiwan makes
dinnerware out of wheat, so you can
eat your plate!
10. Thomas Edison, light bulb
inventor, was afraid of the dark!
11. President George W Bush was
once a cheerleader!
12. More Monopoly money is printed
in a year, than real money printed
throughout the world!
13. On a Canadian two dollar bill, the
flag flying over the Parliament
building is an American flag.
14. Canada is an Indian word
meaning 'Big Village'.
15. French was the official language
of England for over 600 years..