GK QUEST:10-04-14 1-England captain Charlotte Edwards has become only the second women to be named as one of Wisdens 5 cricketers of the year. 2-Australians Triple Olympic gold medallist Stephanie Rice retired from competitive Swimming at the age of 25. 3-Mumbai Indians named Sachin Tendulkar as their icon. 4-Twitter begun the trollout of a new look for profile pages that is meant to highlight each users best tweets 5-SAARC Secretary general mr Rajun Bahadur Thapa . 6-SEBI restricted foreign investors from buying givt. Securities having maturity of less than one year. 7-South Korea signed a free trade agreement with Australia to secure stable energy imports from the resources rich country. 8-Rwanda marked the 20th anniversary of the beginning of devastating 100 day Genocide. 9-A body belt that protect people from the worst effects of Gamma radiation has been developed by an Israeli company. The device called as Stemrad 360 Gamma, 10-According to the Global Dubai tea forum 4 countries produce approximately 70% of the worlds tea with India at 2nd position around 980000 tonnes every years which amount 20% of the total tea production. China occupies the first place with 1.64 billion tonne p.a 35% of the overall production.
Posted on: Fri, 11 Apr 2014 05:44:15 +0000