LITERATURE  AT GLANCE First Indian Nobel Prize winner: Rabindra Nath Tagore was the first Indian to win Nobel Prize. He won it for literature (Gitanjali) in 1913. Gunadhya: author of Brihatkatha, ‘Great Story’, a famous collection of tales, written in Paisachi dialect and regarded as one of the major classicsContinue Reading

First In Kerala first governer                         –  b.Ramakrishna Rao first king of travancore               –  marthanda varma first english school                   –  mattencherry first collage                          –  c.m.s. college kottayam(1816) first printing press                   –  c.m.s.press kottayam first bank                             –  nedungadi bank first malayalam movie                  –  vigathakumaran first sound movie                      –  balan first news paper                      Continue Reading

First Elected Ministry of  Kerala  formed in  1957 . It consists 11 members .The names of ministers and their  departments are the following . E.M.S.namboothiripaddu  :  Chief minister C.achudhamenon          :  finance joseph mundasseri       :  education V.R.krishnaYYAR         :  LAW,electricity K.C.george              :  food,forest K.R.gauri               :  revenue,excise P.K.chathan master      :  local administration K.P.gopalan            Continue Reading

VITAMINS The Vitamins are necessary auxiliaries in metabolism. They combine with specific proteins, as parts of various oxidative enzyme systems which are concerned with the breakdown of carbohydrates, proteins, and fat in the body. Thus, they are intimately involved in the mechanism which releases energy, carbon dioxide and water asContinue Reading

Abdul Ghaffar Khan: He was popularly known as ‘Frontier Gandhi’. Refer Red Shirts and also under Civil Disobedience Movement. Abdur Rahim Khan-i-Khanan: lived during the reign of Akbar. He translated Babar’s Memoirs from Turki to Persian. Abdur Razzaq: was a Persian traveller who visited Vijayanagar during the reign of DevaContinue Reading

Name                                                                    Place                                   State Chandraprabha Sanctuary                         Varanasi                       Uttar Pradesh Dachigam Sanctuary                                      Srinagar                      Jammu & Kashmir Ghana Bird Sanctuary                                   Bharatpur                    Rajasthan Ghatprabha Bird Sanctuary   Continue Reading

Pager: A Pager is a electronic device with FM radio receiver  which is useful for communication purpose.  Paging service has now popular with the introduction of statelite base stations. A pager (sometimes called a beeper) is a simple personal telecommunications device for short messages. A one-way numeric pager can onlyContinue Reading

Subhash Chandra Boss Bose, Subhash Chandra : better known as Netaji of Azad Hind Fauj (Indian National Army,INA), was a powerful nationalist leader and was also once elected President of the Indian National Congress. He gained much prominence for organising INA during world war II. In his speech, while inauguratingContinue Reading