1-Legendary actress Suchitra Sen, who was popularly known as Bengal’s Greata Garbo, died at the age of 82. Sen began her career with the Bengali film “Shesh Kothay” in 1952. She is well known for her role in Devdas and Aandhi. She was also the first Indian actress to be awarded at an international film festival-best actress award for “Saptapadi” at the Moscow film festival in 1963. 2-The WHO declared Pakistan’s northern city of Peshawar as the world’s largest reservoir of polio and called for urgent action to boost vaccination. With more than 90 percent of the current polio cases in the country genetically linked to Peshawar, the city is now the largest reservoir of endemic poliovirus in the world. 3-Morocco is the only African country that is not member of the African Union 4-Thaipusam is a Hindu festival celebrated mostly by the Tamil community on the full moon in the month of January. It is mainly observe in countries where there is a significant presence of Tamil community such as India, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Mauritius, Singapore, Thailand and Myanmar. 5-Dachigam National Park is home to endanger Kashmir Stag .6-The Hukawang Valley is an isolated valley in Myanmar (Burma), roughly 5,586 square miles in area. The Burmese government has also designated 6500 square kilometre of the valley as the protected forest reserve. It is the world’s largest tiger reserv 7-The Central Vigilance Commission was set up by the government in February, 1964 on the recommendations of the committee on Prevention of Corruption, headed by Shri K Santhanam, to advice and guide Central government agencies in the field of vigilance. The CVC is celebrating its Golden Jubilee on 11th-12th February, 2014. 8-The annual “Flamingo Festival” began at Sullurpeta near the Pulicat lake bird sanctuary in Nellore district of Andhra Pradesh. The festival was being held every year to bring together the people and various departments in the task of preserving the Pulicat Lake and surroundings. Every year approximately 15,000 Greater Flamingos are reported to visit the lake along with pelicans, kingfishers, herons, painted storks, spoonbills and ducks. 9-Krumen people are an ethnic group living mostly along the coast of Liberia and Cote d’Ivoire. They speak Kru language and are skilful fishermen. 10-In a bid to boost bilateral trade, India and Pakistan decided to have a non-discriminatory market access programme, keep Wagha-Attari border open 24 hours throughout the year and facilitate the opening of bank branches in each other countries.
Posted on: Mon, 11 Aug 2014 09:42:24 +0000
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