Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg marries Priscilla Chan.
May 21 - Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated in 1991, is also observed as Anti Terrorism Day in India.
Deficiency of insulin causes Diabetes mellitus.
Controlled dose of insulin & sugar free diet are best preventive measures for diabetes mellitus.
The 2012 Nuclear Security Summit was a summit held at the COEX Convention & Exhibition Center in Seoul, South Korea, on March 26 & 27, 2012.
The 2010 Nuclear Security Summit was a summit held in Washington, D.C., on April 12 and 13, 2010.
Auxins were discovered by Went in 1928. He experimented with coleoptile tips of Avena (oats).
Gibberellins were discovered by Kurusowa.
A section of the nationalist leaders like C.R. Das and Motilal Nehru formed the Swarajya Party in 1922.
In 1940, at the Lahore session of the Muslim League, the demand for a separate nation of Pakistan was made.
Quit India Movement - 1942.
Physiography means the description of the physical relief features of a country.
Black Soil - is also known as Regur soil or Cotton soil.
'In vitro' culture means culturing the tissues outside the body of living organisms i.e. in the laboratory.
October 8 - Indian Air Force Day.
Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research (IGCAR) was set up at Kalpakkam (Tamil Nadu) in 1971 under the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE). Vijaya Lakshmi Nehru Pandit (18 August 1900 - 01 December 1990): In 1953, she became the 1st woman President of the United Nations General Assembly.
The Total number of protons in the nucleus of an atom is called the atomic number.
JJ Thomson's atom model is referred as the plum-pudding model.
High Altitude Research Laboratory - Gulmarg (Kashmir).
Uranium Corporation of India - Jaduguda (Jharkhand).
Tata Memorial Centre - Mumbai.
Aggregate fruit is developed from a single flower with multicarpellary, apocarpous, superior ovaries. Each free carpel develops into a fruitlet.
ISRO launched 'spy satellite' RISAT-1.
Karpechenko a Russian geneticist produced an intergeneric hybridization between radish and cabbage.
'Bangalore' known as the Electronic Capital of India.
Edward Jenner was the 1st one developed the vaccine.
The Legal Services Authorities Act was passed by the Parliament of India in 1987. By this Act the system of Lok Adalat came into practice.
The first hour of the day, when the Parliament is in session, is allotted for asking and answering questions. It is known as the "Question Hour".
Wipro was established in 1945 as a vegetable oil manufacturer in Amalner, Maharashtra. The company at that time was known as Western India Products Limited. Its main area of business was the production of Sunflower Vanaspati Oil, and later on, soaps and other consumer care products.
20% of the Earth's oxygen produced by the Amazon forest.
The amount of carbon in the human body is enough to fill 9000 'lead' pencils.
Tennis: Roger Federer beats Andy Dubai to win Dubai Open 2012.
Vladimir Putin claims victory in Russian elections.
India has won the first women's Kabaddi World Cup championship, beating Iran 25-19 in a thrilling game played in Patna, in the state of Bihar.
Kaziranga national park Jorhat - Assam. Bandipur national park, Mysore - Karnataka.
Tata Steel has topped a list of India's 50 most admired companies.
Vinton Cerf, who is recognized as one of "the fathers of the Internet".
Bharati is the name of an upcoming Antarctic research station commissioned by India and the station is scheduled to be operational by 2012.
Pedagogy is the study of being a teacher or the process of teaching. The term generally refers to strategies of instruction, or a style of instruction.
It is estimated that plastic containers can resist decomposition for 50,000 years.
Indians cross 3 million mark in US.
Lt General Rizwan Akhtar is Pakistan's new ISI Chief.
C. Rajagopalachari was the first & the last Indian Governor-General of free India.
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel - First Deputy Prime Minister of India.
Acoustics: The study of sound and sound waves.
Theology: The study of religions.
Cardiology: A branch of medicine dealing with heart.
Akhilesh Yadav scripts history by becoming UP's youngest Chief Minister. Dr. Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen (APJ), Abdul Kalam worked in DRDO in 1958 and then joined ISRO in 1963.
ISRO's first Indian satellite - Aryabhatta.
February 22 - World Thinking Day.
In 1821, the French scientist Ampere showed that a current carrying conductor placed in a magnetic field experiences a mechanical force.
DPT - Diphtheria, Pertussis, Tetanus vaccine (Trible antigen). DT - Diphtheria, Tetanus (Dual antigen).
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