Showing posts with label General Knowledge. Show all posts
Showing posts with label General Knowledge. Show all posts

Friday, June 29, 2012

Pan Card 10 Character Number Explained




PAN is a 10 digit alpha numeric number, where the first 5 characters are letters, the next 4 numbers and the last one a letter again. These 10 characters can be divided in five parts as can be seen below. The meaning of each number has been explained further.
1. First three characters are alphabetic series running from AAA to ZZZ
2. Fourth character of PAN represents the status of the PAN holder.
• C — Company
• P — Person
• H — HUF(Hindu Undivided Family)
• F — Firm
• A — Association of Persons (AOP)
• T — AOP (Trust)
• B — Body of Individuals (BOI)
• L — Local Authority
• J — Artificial Juridical Person
• G — Government
3. Fifth character represents first character of the PAN holder’s last name/surname.
4. Next four characters are sequential number running from 0001 to 9999.
5. Last character in the PAN is an alphabetic check digit.
Nowadays, the DOI (Date of Issue) of PAN card is mentioned at the right (vertical) hand side of the photo on the PAN card.

Tuesday, January 17, 2012

General Knowledge for Todays Indians



1.Louis Pasteur- He invented pasteurization and discovered the germ theory of disease.
2.C. V. Raman- The first `non-white', Asian and Indian to receive the Nobel prize in physics for his work on scattering of light and discovery of the Raman effect.
3.Sir Isaac Newton- The greatest scientist of his era who discovered gravity.
4.Stephen Hawking- One of the most brilliant scientific minds of our time who suffers from Lou Gehrig's disease.
5.Lal Bahadur Shastri- significant figure in the Indian independence movement and the second Prime Minister of the Republic of India.
6.Albert Einstein- One of the most influential scientists of all time and developed the theory of general relativity, effecting a revolution in physics.
7.Helen Keller- American author, political activist, and lecturer. She altered our perception of the disabled and remapped the boundaries of sight and sense.
8.Martin Luther King- He led a mass struggle for racial equality that doomed segregation and changed America forever.
9.Charles Darwin- British scientist who laid the foundations of the theory of evolution and transformed the way we think about the natural world.
10.Swami Vivekananda- Indian Spiritual leader and a key figure in the introduction of Hindu philosophies of Vedanta and Yoga to the "Western" World.
11.Michael Faraday- British chemist and physicist who contributed significantly to the study of electromagnetism and electrochemistry.
12.Mother Teresa- one of the great servants of humanity who received Nobel Prize for Peace in 1979.
13.Srinivasa Ramanujan- The greatest mathematical genius produced in India in the modern times.
14.Madame Curie- One of the first woman scientists and discoverer of radium.

Thursday, January 14, 2010

1. What programming language is GOOGLE developed in?

2. What is the expansion of YAHOO?

3. What is the expansion of ADIDAS?

4. Expansion of Star as in Star TV Network?

5. What is expansion of "ICICI?"

6. What does "baker's dozen" signify?

7. The 1984-85 season. 2nd ODI between India and Pakistan at Sialkot - India 210/3 with Vengsarkar 94*. Match abandoned. Why?

8. Who is the only man to have written the National Anthems for two different countries?

9. From what four word ex-pression does the word `goodbye` derive?

10. How was Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu better known?

11. Name the only other country to have got independence on Aug 15th?

12. Why was James Bond Associated with the Number 007?

13. Who faced the first ball in the first ever One day match?

14. Which cricketer played for South Africa before it was banned from international cricket and later represented Zimbabwe ?

15. The faces of which four Presidents are carved at Mt.Rushmore?

16. Which is the only country that is surrounded from all sides by only one country (other than Vatican )?

17. Which is the only sport which is not allowed to play left handed?



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I'm sure that It was quiet difficult....lets have the answers now


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Answers:


1. Google is written in Asynchronous java-script and XML, or its acronym Ajax .

2. Yet Another Hierarchy of Officious Oracle

3. ADIDAS- All Day I Dream About Sports

4. Satellite Television Asian Region
5. Industrial credit and Investments Corporation of India.
6. A baker's dozen consists of 13 items - 1 more than the items in a normal dozen

7. That match was abandoned after people heard the news of Indira Gandhi being killed.

8. Rabindranath Tagore who wrote national anthem for two different countries one is our 's National anthem and another one is for Bangladesh- (Amar Sonar* *Bangla)

9. Goodbye comes from the ex-pression: 'god be with you'.

10. Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu is none other Mother Teresa.

11. South Korea .

12. Because 007 is the ISD code for Russia (or the USSR , as it was known during the cold war)

13. Geoffrey Boycott

14. John Traicos

15. George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln

16. Lesotho surrounded from all sides by South Africa .

17. Polo.