Farmer Digonta Saikia shows a bhut jolokia pepper plucked from his field in the north-eastern Indian state of Assam.
India deploys world's hottest chilli to fight terrorism
Bhut jolokia, or 'ghost chilli', to be used for teargas-like grenades to immobilise suspects, defence officials say
1. Name the Member of Parliament who served for the longest time – Indrajit Gupta (11 times), 37 years. He was also the first home minister of India from a communist party.
2. First sportsman to earn $ 1 billion dollars – Tiger Woods
3. The Father of India’s renaissance – Raja Ram Mohan Roy
4. 20 million tones of grain are reported to be eaten by rats in India a year.
5. Cuba was discovered by Columbus
6. The world’s first commercial spacecraft – Spaceship Two
7. The number of berths in a train coach- 72
8. Author Paulo Coelho mentions in The Alchemist, ‘When you want something, the universe conspires in helping you achieve it”.
9. The author of Kane and Abel – Jeffrey Archer
10. Vijay Ghat is the Samadhi of – Lal Bahadur Shastri
11. What is ‘real property’ – Land and buildings
12. Stephen Hawking afflicted by Lou Gehrig’s disease.
13. Banana oil is obtained from – Coal
14. What did De Witt Wallace launch in 1924 – The Readers Digest
15. The most commonly donated and used organ are the eyes. What is the second ? Kidneys
Christopher Poole
TIME names Christopher ‘moot’ Poole the most influential person in the world
Time Magazine has named 4chan.org founder Christopher Poole (a.k.a. moot) the most influential person in the world.
A melodic chanting of the Gayatri mantra opened the inaguaration on May 9, 2009 of Jacob Zuma, South Africa's fourth post-aparthied President and the first Zulu head of state
J S Sarma takes over as TRAI chairman
The TDSAT member, Mr J S Sarma on Thursday took over as Chairman of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI)
James Buchanan, Jr. (April 23, 1791 – June 1, 1868) was the 15th President of the United States from 1857–1861 and the last to be born in the 18th century.
To date he is the only President from the state of Pennsylvania and the only to remain a lifelong bachelor.
India world's largest producer of mangoes
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