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FIVE YEAR PLANS IN INDIA


1st Five Year Plan (1951-56) - Priority of Agriculture
2nd Five Year Plan (1956-61) - Priority of Industries Sector
3rd Five Year Plan (1961-66) - Self Reliance
4th Five Year Plan (1969-74) - Removal of Poverty, Growth with Justice
5th Five Year Plan (1974-79) - Removal of Poverty and Self reliance
6th Five Year Plan (1980-85) - The emphasis same as 5th Plan
7th Five Year Plan (1985-90) - Food Production, Employment, Productivity
8th Five Year Plan (1992-97) - Employment Generation, Control of Population
9th Five Year Plan (1997-02) - Growth Rate of 7 percent
10th Five year Plan (2002-07) - Self employment and resources and development
11th Five Year Plan (2007-12) - Comprehensive and faster growth
12th Five Year plan (2012-17) - Improvement of Health, Education and Sanitation.

FIRST IN THE WORLD-GK


Woman to reach North Pole: Ann Bancroft

Test Tube Baby: Louise Joy Brown

Woman Prime Minister of a country: Sirimavo Bandaranaike (1960)

Woman President of a country: Maria Estela Peron (Argentina)

Men on Mt. Everest without Oxygen: Reinhold Messner and Peter Habeler (1978)

Foreigner to get Bharat Ratna: Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan

First Chinese pilgrim to visit India: Fahien

Englishman to receive Nobel Prize for Literature: Rudyard Kipling (1907)

Pope to visit India: Pope Paul VI

Woman to climb Mount Everest: Junko Taibei

Muslim invader of India: Mohammad-bin-Qasim

List of Latest Appointments in India 2014


1. Sushil Koirala become new PM of Nepal. He replace Khil Raj Regmi.
2. Satya Nadella appointed as CEO of Microsoft.
3. R.K.Tiwari appointed new Chairman of CBDT.
4. N Ramachandran was elected President of Indian Olympic Association (IOA).
5. Justice Ashok Kumar Mathur appointed head of 7th Central Pay Commission
6. Harish Rawat appointed 8th Chief Minister of Uttrakhand. He succeeded Vijay Bahuguna.
7. Manoj Vaish took charge as MD & CEO of MCX.
8. Aruna Bahuguna first woman to be appointed chief of National Police Academy.
9. Janet Yellen new Chairperson of Federal Reserve.
10. R. Chandrashekhar appointed the President of NASSCOM (National Association of Software and Service Companies)
11. J.N.Chaudhary was appointed as new head of NSG (National Security Guard)
12. Arvind Ranjan was appointed the full time chief of the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF).
13. Ashok Lavasa, appointed the New Civil Aviation Secretary. He succeeded K.N.Srivastava.
14. M. Veerappa Moily appointed as the new Environment and Forests Minister.
15. Siddarth Birla took charges as President of FICCI.
16. Subrahmanyam Jaishankar became the ambassador of US
17. B. G. Srinivas and U.B. Pravin Rao appointed as presidents of the Infosys.
18. Sushma Singh to take over as new Chief Information Commissioner
She succeed Deepak Sandhu.
19. Harsh Kumar Bhanwala appointed Chairman of National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD).
20. Usha Sangwan appointed first woman managing director of LIC.

FIRST INDIAN WOMENS IN VARIOUS FIELDS


1. India's First Woman Railway Driver - Surekha Shankar Yadav

2. India's First Woman Tabla Maestro - Dr. Aban Mistry

3. India's First Recognized Billionth Citizen - Astha

4. India's First Woman Airbus Pilot - Durba Banerjee

5. First Woman Secretary General Of Rajya Sabha - V. S. Rama Devi

6. First Indian Woman To Win Magsasay Award - Kiran Bedi

7. First Indian Woman Cricketer To Get 100 Wickets - Diana Eduljee

8. First Indian Paratrooper Of Indian Air Force - Nita Ghose

9. First Indian Woman To Complete Her MBBS - Kadambini Ganguli Bose In 1888

10. First Woman Cheif Engineer - P. K. Tresia Nanguli

11. First Indian Woman At Antarctica - Meher Moos In 1976

12. First Woman Foriegn Minister - Lakshmi N. Menon

13. First Woman Commercial Pilot - Prem Mathur Of Deccan Airways

14. First Woman Sahitya Award Winner - Amrita Pritam

15. First Woman President Of Indian Science Congress - Dr. Ashima Chatterjee

16. First Woman To Win WTA Tennis Tournament - Sania Mirza

17. First Chief Justice Of Mumbai High Court - Justice Sujaata B Manohar

18. First Indian Woman Advocate - Regina Guha

19. First Indian Woman Barrister - Cornotia Sorabji

20. First Woman Surgeon - Dr. Prema Mukherjee

21. First Woman To Get Arjun Award - N. Lumsden (1961)

22. First Woman Chairman Of Bank - Tarzani Vakil

23. First Woman Chairperson Of National Woman Commission - Mrs. Jayanti Patnayak

24. First Indian Woman To Receive Asiad Gold Medal - Kamalji Sandhu

25. First Woman Speaker Of State Assembly - Mrs. Shano Devi

Fathers of Different Fields:PSC Guru


1. Father of Astronomy : Copernicus
2. Economics : Adam Smith
3. Biology : Aristotle
4. Chemistry : Antoine Lavoisier
5. Geometry : Euclid
6. History : Herodotus
7. Genetics : G.J. Mendel
8. Botany : Theophrastus
9. Classical mechanics : IsaacNewton
10. Computer : Charles Babbage
11. Comedy : Aristophanes
12. English poetry : GeoffreyChaucer
13. Homeopathy : Heinemann
14. Indian Green Revolution : M.S.Swaminathan
15. India's Communication Revolution : Sam Pitroda
16. Medicine : Hippocrates
17. Modern physics : GalileoGalilei
18. Nuclear physics : Ernest Rutherford
19. Nuclear science : Marie Curie , Pierre Curie
20. Pentium Chip : Vinod Dham
21. Periodic table : Dmitri Mendeleev
22. Political science : NiccolòMachiavelli
23. Quantum mechanics : Max Planck
24. Relativity : Albert Einstein
25. Robotics : Al-Jazari
26. Thermodynamics : Sadi Carnot
27. Zoology : Aristotle

Folk dances in India


• Bathukamma :A folk dance of Andhra Pradesh. 
• Bhangra: This is a folk dance from the Northwest Indian state of Punjab. It is a lively, powerful dance. 
• Bihu: Bihu is a folk dance from Assam. It is a very brisk and aggressive dance performed by both boys and girls. 
• Changu: The changu dance is a folk dance found in Odissa and Andhra Pradesh. It derives its name from the changu, which is a simple tambourine (daf) that is used to accompany this dance. 
• Dandaria: A folk dance of Andhra Pradesh. 
• Dhamal: 1) A folk dance of Punjab. 2) A folk dance of Andhra Pradesh 
• Gair: This is a dance of Rajasthan. It is performed by groups of dancers moving in and out with an almost military precision. 
• Garba: This is a folk dance from Gujarat. It is traditionally danced at marriages and during the time of Navaratri.
Gatka: A folk dance utilising swords, daggers, or sticks performed in the Punjab 
• Ghoomar: This is a folk dance of Rajasthan. It derives its name from its characteristic pirouettes. 
• Gobbi: A folk dance of Andhra Pradesh. 
• Karagam: This is a folk dance of Tamil Nadu. It is played with a pot balanced on the head. 
• Raas: This is a folk dance from Gujarat. It is traditionally danced at marriages and during the   time of Navaratri. 
• Yaksha Gana: This is a folk theatre from the south Indian state of Karnatika 
• Dumhal: A folk dance of Kashmir. 
• Padayani: Padayani is one of the most colorful and popular dances of Southern Kerala. Padayani is associated with the festival of certain temples, called Padayani or Paddeni. 
• Dollu Kunitha: Dollu Kunitha is a popular drum dance of Karnataka state. 
• Lavani: Lavani is a folk dance of Maharashtra. 
• Kathak: Kathak is a dance form basically from Uttar Pradesh. 
• Bharatnatyam: It is the purest form of dancing in india, originated in tamil nadu. These three concepts cpome into play in bharatnatyam dance; bhava, thala and raga. 
• Kuchipudi: It is a form of classical and folk dance that originated in Andhra Pradesh. 
• Kathakali: Classical dance of kerela. 
• Odissi: Folk dance performed in Orissa. 
• Chau: A popular dance performed in Orissa, bihar and west Bengal 
• Kalbelia, chari, fire, kacchi: Popular dance forms in Rajasthan. 
• Dindi dance: performed in Maharashtra.

IT Cyber Law Questions

Information Technology [IT] and Cyber Law Model Questions and answers for preparing Kerala PSC Assistant Grade, Lower Division Clerk [LDC] Examinations.



1. What type of devices are computer speakers and headphones?
Answer: Output device

2. Who discovered Unix operating system?
Answer: Dennis Ritchie

3. The ........... of system includes the programs and instructions?
(a) Icon
(b) Hardware
(c) Software
(d) Information
Answer: Software

4. What is the full form of USB?
Answer: Universal Serial Bus

5. What is the full form of WWW?
Answer: World Wide Web

6. Who invented computer mouse?
Answer: Douglas Engelbart

7. Who invented QWERTY type Keyboard?
Answer: Christopher Sholes

8. Who invented Compact Disc (CD)?
Answer: James Russell

9. Who is known as the Father of Internet?
Answer: Vint Cerf

10. Who is known as the Father of World Wide Web?
Answer: Tim Berners Lee

11. Who invented Integrated Circuit (IC) chips?
Answer: Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce

12. Which is the Super Computer developed by India?
Answer: Param

13. Conversion of computer generated result into human acceptable form is a function of:
Answer: Output interface

14. Which type of files having the extensions .jpg, .png, .gif etc?
Answer: Image files

15. What is the full form of pdf?
Answer: Portable Document Format


16. Which of the following is a Web Browser?
(a) Unix
(b) Linux
(c) Fire fox
(d) Android
Answer: Fire fox

17. The exponent of Hotmail?
Answer: Sabeer Bhatia

18. A device that connects to a computer network without the use of cables is said to be:
Answer: Wireless

19. Which one of the following is a standard code used to exchange information among data processing and communication system?
(a) ANSI
(b) ASCII
(c) ACM
(d) APL
Answer: ASCII

20. What is the full form of ASCII?
Answer: American Standard Code for Information Interchange

Information Technology Questions asked in Kerala PSC Company Corporation Assistant Grade Examinations - 2013.


1. Which of the following is not related to a computer monitor?
(a) VDU
(b) Plasma Display
(c) Pointing devices
(d) CRT
Answer: Pointing devices

2. ......... is an input device commonly available in laptops.
(a) Trackball
(b) Touchpad
(c) Touch screen
(d) Joystick
Answer: Touchpad

3. A temporary storage area attached to the CPU of the computer for input-output operations is a:
(a) Register
(b) Buffer
(c) Channel
(d) Core
Answer: Register

4. Product of the data processing is:
(a) Data
(b) A computer
(c) Software
(d) Information
Answer: Information

5. A collection of parallel lines that connects several devices in a computer is called:
(a) Bus
(b) Link
(c) Bidirectional wires
(d) Cables
Answer: Bus

6. Software installed to help prevent hacking is called:
(a) System software
(b) Antivirus software
(c) Firewall software
(d) Application software
Answer: Firewall software

7. Encryption of data means that:
(a) Data cannot be sent over the internet
(b) Data is encoded so it cannot be read without decoding software
(c) Data is kept locked in special room
(d) Data has been hacked into
Answer: Data is encoded so it cannot be read without decoding software

8. A person who gains unauthorized access to a computer network for profit, criminal mischief or personal pleasure is:
(a) Hacker
(b) Cracker
(c) Programmer
(d) None of these
Answer: Hacker

9. Linux is a .........
(a) Database program
(b) Application program
(c) Operating system
(d) None of these
Answer: Operating system

10. ......... is a legal monopoly granted for a limited time to the owner of an invention?
(a) Trade secrets
(b) Copyright
(c) Trademark
(d) Patent
Answer: Patent


11. This is based on individual who knows how to use information and communication technologies and those who do not?
(a) Access
(b) Usage
(c) Usage Quality
(d) None of the above
Answer: Usage

12. The kind of crime involves altering raw data just before a computer processes it and then changing it back after the processing is completed:
(a) Data diddling
(b) Data tampering
(c) Salami attacks
(d) None of the above
Answer: Data diddling

13. Information Technology Act in India was amended in:
(a) 2000
(b) 2004
(c) 2008
(d) 2010
Answer: 2008

14. This network is an autonomous Inter-University Centre of the University Grants Commission:
(a) NICENET
(b) BRNET
(c) INFLIBNET
(d) NICNET
Answer: INFLIBNET

15. Which of the following is not a wireless communication device?
(a) Blue tooth
(b) GPS
(c) Infra red communication
(d) None of these
Answer: None of these

16. Computer to computer exchange of business documents is done through?
(a) EDI
(b) ERP
(c) CAM
(d) CAD
Answer: EDI

17. Who started Free Software Foundation?
(a) Linus Torvald
(b) Richard Stallman
(c) Bill Gates
(d) GNU
Answer: Richard Stallman

18. Which of the following is not an e-governance project in India?
(a) PRAYAN
(b) FRIENDS
(c) Bhoomi
(d) CARD
Answer: PRAYAN

19. The resolution of a monitor is governed by the:
(a) Size of the screen
(b) Cost of the monitor
(c) Contrast of the pixels on the screen
(d) Number of pixels
Answer: Number of pixels

Oscar Awards 2014 Winners

Oscar Award Trophy The 86th Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles.

Best Motion picture: 12 Years a Slave.

Best Director: Alfonso Cuarón (Gravity).

Best Actor: Matthew McConaughey (Dallas Buyers Club).

Best Actress: Cate Blanchett (Blue Jasmine)

Best Supporting Actor: Jared Leto (Dallas Buyers Club).

Best Supporting Actress: Lupita Nyong’o (12 Years a Slave).

Best Writing – Original Screenplay: Her by Spike Jonze.

Best Writing – Adapted Screenplay: 12 Years a Slave by John Ridley.

Best Animated Feature Film: Frozen.

Best Foreign Language Film: The Great Beauty (Italy) in Italian – Paolo Sorrentino

Best Documentary Feature: 20 Feet from Stardom.

Best Visual Effects: Gravity

Best Film Editing: Gravity.

Best Costume Design: The Great Gatsby.

Best Cinematography: Gravity.

Best Sound Mixing: Gravity.

Best Sound Editing: Gravity.

Best Production Design: The Great Gatsby

Best Original Score: Gravity(Steven Price).

Best Makeup and Hairstyling: Dallas Buyers Club

Best Animated Short Film: Mr. Hublot

Best Live Action Short Film: Helium

PSC GURU:Physics GK Questions and Answers Part 1













1. Heat is measured in the unit?
Answer: Joule

2. One calorie equals?
Answer: 4.2 Joule

3. Normal body temperature is?
Answer: 36.90 C or 98.40 F

4. Instrument to measure temperature is?
Answer: Thermometer

5. The temperature at which solid changes to a liquid is called?
Answer: Melting point of sold

6. Lowest melting point has?
Answer: Mercury (-38.80 C)

7. Highest melting point has?
Answer: Tungsten (34100 C)

8. Change of liquid to gaseous state is called?
Answer: Evaporation

9. The amount of heat required to melt unit mass of substance?
Answer: Heat of fusion

10. The amount of water vapour present in air is known as?
Answer: Humidity

Indian Movie Quiz Part 3


Q 21. Which great star received the award of "The Star of the Millenium" from BBC?
a) Dilip Kumarb) Amitabh Bacchan
c) Sunny Deold) Javed Jaffery

Q 22. Who directed the film 'Pukar'? Anil Kapoor one!
a) Rajkumar Santoshib) Ramesh Sippy
c) A.R.Rahmand) David Dhawan


Q 23. Name the director of the film 'Satya'
a) Ramgopal Vermab) David Dhawan
c) Mani Ratnamd) J.P.Dutta

Q 24. Name an Amir Khan's home production.
a) Akele hum Akele tumb) Mann
c) Lagaand) Mela


Q 25. Name Karan Johar's 2nd directorial film comprising of a cast of- Amitabh Bachhan, Jaya, Shahrukh, Hritik, Kareena, Kajol and Rani.
a) Kabhi Khushi Kabhi Ghumb) Pyaar tune Kya Kiya
c) Love you... Hameshad) Aap Mujhe Achhe lage



Q 26. Which film are Sanjay (Uday Chopra) and Ria (Bipasha Basu) watching in "Mere Yaar Ki Shaadi", which is about two friends who realize that they are in love, when they mute the dialogues and mouth the dialogues themselves?
a) Hum Aapke Hai Kounb) Dil To Pagal Hai
c) Maine Pyar Kiyad) Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge


Q 27. The title song of “Dil Deke Dekho”(1959) is a direct lift of ‘Sugartime’. Which group sang the original?
a) Ames Brothersb) The Four Freshmen
c) The Champsd) The McGuire Sisters


Q 28. The track ‘Jeena, Pyaar Se Jeena’ from the movie “Yeh Tera Ghar, Yeh Mera Ghar”(2002) has been blatantly copied from the popular song ‘Nina, Pretty Ballerina’. Name the band which sang the original.
a) The Beatlesb) ABBA
c) The Rolling Stonesd) The Who


Q 29. “Dilliagi”, a movie released in 1999, had a popular song ‘Haan Haan Yeh Pyaar Hai’ as part of its soundtrack. This tune is blatantly copied from the English number ‘Can’t Take My Eyes Off You’. Who sang the English song?
a) Frank Sinatrab) Paul Simon
c) Frankie Vallid) Bob Dylan



Q 30. The first actress of the 'talkie' films was...
a) Jaddan baib) Fatima Begum
c) Nadirad) Zubeida

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