DID YOU KNOW ?

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• The dollar symbol ($) is a U combined with an S (U.S.)
• Half the world's population earns about 5% of the world's wealth.
• The word "Checkmate" in chess comes from the Persian phrase "Shah Mat", which means "the king is dead".
• The only "real" food that U.S. Astronauts are allowed to take into space is pecan nuts.
• Cat's urine glows under a blacklight.
• The symbol on the "pound" key (#) is called an octothorpe.
• Ethernet is a registered trademark of Xerox, Unix is a registered trademark of AT&T.
• The oldest word in the English language is "town"
• The Sahara desert expands at about 1km per month.
• The sun is 330330 times larger than the earth.
• The second longest word in the English language is "antidisestablishmenterianism".
• In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.

CHANDA KOCHHAR TO LEAD ICICI

          One of the most powerful business women of India Chanda Kochhar has been declared as new CEO of ICICI bank. Kochhar who is ICICI's joint MD and group CFO will be the successor of K V Kamath to the post of MD and CEO. She was the instrumental in setting up and scaling up the retail business of the bank. In April 2001, she took over as the Executive Director, heading the retail business in the ICICI Bank. In April 2006, she was appointed as Deputy Managing Director.

        Chanda Kochhar joined ICICI as management trainee in 1981.When ICICI decided in 1993 to enter commercial banking, she was deputed to ICICI Bank as part of the core team to set up the operations. She has often featured in the Fortune magazine's annual lists of most powerful business women across the world. Kamath who will retire on April, 2009 will take over as non executive chairman.

IS NUCLEAR TECHNOLOGY HARM OR HELP ?

Obviously tough to conclude or can have a conditional conclusion but not to conclude is a best conclusion.

        These are how the answers would be if someone is asked such question. We all are equally confused for the same. With rising fuel costs, concerns about global warming and the growing energy demand from the developing world all these are the reasonable reasons why one should approach the nuclear technology. For all the developed countries adequate energy is the basic necessity to live their life while for the developing countries energy is necessary to sustain their growth. Nuclear energy is the only option which can fulfill are immense energy requirement.

        Well looking the best option it's not even that much better. On the name of energy nuclear technology is much more oriented as a weapon rather then energy generator more over most of the countries have either developed or imported nuclear technology for their security purpose which is making the entire world an unsecured place.

PAKISTAN DEMANDS EVIDENCES ON MUMBAI

        Pakistan on Wednesday sought on India to provide evidences on Mumbai terror attacks. Pakistani officers said that they need concrete evidences to prosecute the suspects but they have not seen a sign of India providing its findings. Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi said his government hasn't seen any information on the attack except for what has been reported by news media. That isn't sufficient for Pakistan to prosecute suspects, he said."India needs to provide concrete evidence for these investigations to move forward," Qureshi said. "We do not share evidence through the media. There are diplomatic channels for that."

      Pakistan hasn't done anything except arresting few suspects and shuttered a charity that the U.N. recently branded as a front for Lashkar-e-Taiba.Government leaders have been reluctant to acknowledge any of the attackers were Pakistani, even though a major Pakistani newspaper carried an interview with a man in a Pakistani village who confirmed the surviving attacker was his son. Pak president Zaradari said,"investigations are ongoing and I would not jump to any conclusion'.

UK TROOPS TO VACANT IRAQ BY JULY

      British prime minister Gordon Brown said his army has completed their tasks and will leave Iraq by July. Brown with his Iraqi counter part Nouri Maliki said on tuesday "I am proud of my army and salute their efforts for the establishment of Democracy inIraq". The announcement comes after at least 18 people were killed in a twin blast in Bagdad.

    Mr. Brown said "we shall leave Iraq a better place". In their joint statement the leaders said the role played by the UK combat forces was "drawing to a close". They said the partnership between to countries will continue to take new dimensions and will strengthened through cooperation in all areas. 

    The withdrawal of UK troops is expected to start in the spring.

CAN YOU BELIEVE THIS ?

BUSH ENCOUNTERED TO AN UNUSUAL IN IRAQ

          American president had an unusual encounter yesterday during his media conferernce in Iraq. Iraqi journalist, Muntadar al-Zeidi threw two shoes at Bush and shouted "it is the farewell kiss, you dog". Very sharp Bush ducked both throws.

          Responding to the incident Bush said "it is a sign of a free society". Bush said he has seen a lot of such incidents during his eight years presidency but this was the weirdest. On the other side thousand of Iraqis came on streets to demand the realese of the journalist who hailed the journalist as a hero and praised him.

INDIA BEAT ENGLAND BY 6 WICKETS

         India easily won the first test against England by 6 wickets and took a 1-0 lead in the two match series.                                                                                        SACHIN - 103*   YUVRAJ - 85*  

         Match winning perfomance by both Sachin and Yuvi  helped India to achieve the target set by the opponents. 

Recruitment by Indian banks and PSUs

       For the foreign banks this might be the time for job cuts and cost cutting but Indian banks are doing exactly opposite to that by raising their men power.

         All the Indian banks seem to be unaffected by the downturn and  lower sales volume as they all are very busy in recruiting young professionals. Many Indian banks and PSUs are on a hiring spree now a days as they are planning to add thousands of young professionals in their men power.

       India's largest insurer LIC has decided to hire 45,000 out of that10,000 will be hired before March. Biggest lender of the country SBI will hire 25,000 professionals out of which 20,000 will be on a clerical posts and 5,000 will be for a supervisory posts. Some other nationalised banks like Bank Of Baroda , Indian Overseas Bank and Union Bank Of India are also planing to enhance their men power.