December 20, 2008

DID YOU KNOW ?


  • 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.

December 19, 2008

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.

December 18, 2008

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.