Thursday, 11 October 2012

SPORTS AND THE TERMS ASSOCIATED WITH THEM

SPORTS AND THE TERMS ASSOCIATED WITH THEM
Badminton
Angled Drive Serve, Backhand Low Serve, Bird, Deuce, Double Droup, Fault, Flick Serve, Forehand Smash, Let, Lob, Love All, net Shots, Rush, Smash.
Baseball
Base, Battery, Bunting, Catcher, Diamond, Hitter, Home Infield, Outfield, Pinch, Pitcher Plate, Pullout, Short Stop, Strike.
Basketball
Ball, Basket, Blocking, Dribbling, Free Throw, Held Ball, Holding, Jump Ball, Multiple Throws, Pivot.
Billiards
Baulk Line, Break, Bolting, Cannon, Cue, Hazard, In-off, Jigger, Long jenney, Pot, Scratch, Screw Back, short Stop, Strike.
Boxing
Ausiliary Point System, Babit Punch, Break, Cut, Defence, Down, Hook, Jab, Lying On, Knock, Seconds out, Slam, Upper Cut, Weight In, Win by Knock-out.
Bridge
Auction, Bid, Chicane, Cut, Declarer, Doubleton, Dummy, Finesse, Grand Slam, Little Slam, Notrumps, Over-trick, Revoke, rubber, Ruff, Shuffle, Suit, Vulnerable.
Chess
Bishop, Capture, Castling, Checkmate, En Passant, Gambit, Grand Master, King, Knight, Pawn, Queen, Rook, Stalemate, Under Promoting.
Cricket
Ashes, Banana, Boundary, Bowling, Caught, Chinaman, Cover Drive, Crease, Doosra, Duck, Duckworth-Lewis Rule, Fine Leg, Follow On, Full Toss, Gardening, Googly, Gully, Hat-trick, Hit Wicket, Inswinger, l.b.w., Leg-break, Leg-bye, Leg Glance, late Cut, maiden Over, No Ball, Off Break, On Drive, Out, Outswinger, Over, Mandatory Over, over Pitch, Popping Crease, Rubber, Run Down, Run Out, Short Pitch, Silly Point, Slip, Square Leg, Stone Walling, Straight Drive, Stumped, Short leg, Spin, Swing, Thirdman, Yorker.
Croquet
Hoops, Mallet, Peg Out.
Draughts
Huff
Football
Advantage Clause, Blind Side, Centre Forward, Corner Kick, Dead Ball, Direct Free Kick, Dribble, Goal kick, Golden Goal, Hat-trick, Marking, OffSide, Penalty Kick, Penalty Shootout, Red Card, Striker, Throw In, Tripping.
Golf
Best-ball Foursome, Bogey, Bunker, Caddie, Dormy, Fairway, Fourball, Foursome, Greed Holes, Links, Niblic, Par, Put, Rough, Stymied, Tee, Threesome.
Gymnastics
A-bars, Ariel, Blocks, Cone of Swing, Dish, Flairs, Giants, Inlocate, Kip, Planche, Tariff, Tumble, Virtuosity, Wrap.
Hockey
Advantage, Back-stick, Bully, Cary, Centre Forward, Corner, Dribble, Flick, Free-hit, Goal Line, Green Card, Halfway Line, Hat-trick, Off-side, Red Car, Roll -in, Scoop, Short Corner, Sixteen-yard hit, Square Pass, Stick, Striking Cirele, Tackle, Tie-breaker, Zonal Marking.
Horse Racing
Jockey, Punt, Steeplechase, Thorough Bred.
Judo
Ashi-waza, chui, Dan, Dojo, Gyaku, Hajime, Ippon, Jigotai, Kaeshiwaza, Koka, Makikomi, Nage-waza, O-goshi, Randori, Scarf, Tani-Otoshi, Uchi-komvi, Waki-gatame, Yoshi, Yuko.
Karate
Age Zuki, Ai-uchi, Aka, Chakugan, Dachi, Encho Sen, Fudotachi, Gedan, Geri, Hajime, Ibuki, Jion, Kakato, Koka, Makiwara, Nidan, Obi, Rei, Sanbon, Shiro, Tobigeri, Ude, Waza-ari, Yoko-geri, Zanshin, Zen-no.
Polo
Bunker, Chukker, Mallet.
Rowing
Bow, Bucket, Cow, Ergometer, Feather, Paddle, Regatta.
Rugby Football
A Trackle, Lines, Scrum, Touch, Try.
Shootng
Bag, Bull's Eye, Marksmanship, Muzzle, Plug.
Skiing
Tobogganing.
Swimming
Breast Stroke, Crawl.
Table Tennis
Anti Loop, Backspin, Chop, Loop, Penhold Grip, Push, Spin, Twiddle.
Tennis
Ace, Backhand Stroke, Deuce, Deep Volley, Deuce, Double Fault, Fault, Ground Stroke, Half Volley, Let, Love, Slice, Smash, Volley
Volleyball
Ace, Base-line, Blocking, Doubling, Foot Fault, Heave, Holding, Jump Set, Lob Pass, Love All, Point, Quick Smash, Scouting, Service, Spike, Tactical Ball, Volley, Windmill Service.
Wrestling
Half-Nelson, Head Lock, Heave, Hold, Rebouts, Scissor.

Wednesday, 10 October 2012

Important UN Agencies


Important UN AgenciesOther UN Agencies
NameEstd.HeadquartersPurpose

International Labour Organization (ILO)

1919GenevaTo improve conditions and living standard of workers.

World Health Organization (WHO)

1948Genevaattainment of highest possible level of health by all people.

Monday, 8 October 2012

Indian State & Union Teritory - Governor, Capital, Official Language


IDState NameState CapitalGovernerChief MinisterOfficial LanguageDistrict
1Andhra PradeshHyderabadMr. E.S.L. NarasimhanSri. N.Kiran Kumar ReddyTelugu23
2Arunachal PradeshItanagarGen.(Retd.) J.J. SinghShri Nabam TukiEnglish16
3AssamDispurShri Janaki Ballav PattanaikMr. Tarun GogoiAssamese27
4BiharPatnaMr. Devanand KonwarMr. Nitish KumarHindi37
5ChhatisgarhRaipurShri Shekhar DuttDr. Raman SinghHindi16
6GoaPanajiMr.B.V. WanchooShri Manohar ParrikarKonkani2
7GujaratGandhi NangarDr. Kamla BeniwalMr. Narendra ModiGujarati26
8HaryanaChandigarhMr. Jagannath PahadiaMr. Bhupinder S. HoodaHindi20
9Himachal PradeshShimlaMs. Urmila SinghMr. Prem Kumar DhumalHindi12
10Jammu and KashmirSrinagar(Summer) , Jammu(Winter )Mr. N.N. VohraMr. Omar AbdullahUrdu, Kashmiri, Dogri22
11JharkhandRanchiDr. Syed AhmedShri Arjun MundaHindi22
12KarnatakaBengaluruMr. Hans Raj BhardwajShri Jagadish Shivappa ShettarKannada27
13KeralaThiruvananthapuramMr. Hans Raj Bhardwaj (Additional Charge)Mr. Oommen ChandyMalayalam14
14Madhya PradeshBhopalMr. Ram Naresh YadavMr. Shivraj Singh ChauhanHindi50
15MaharashtraMumbaiShri Kateekal SankaranarayananMr. Prithviraj ChavanMarathi35
16ManipurImphalMr. Gurbachan JagatMr. Okram Ibibo SinghManipuri9
17MeghalayaShillongMr. R.S. MooshaharyMr. Mukul A. SangmaEnglish7
18MizoramAizawlMr. V. PurushothmanMr. LalthanhawlaEnglish8
19NagalandKohimaShri. Nikhil KumarMr. Neiphiu RioEnglish8
20OrrissaBhubaneshwarShri Murlidhar Chandrakant BhandareMr. Naveen PatnaikOriya30
21PunjabChandigarhShri Shivraj PatilMr. Parkash Singh BadalPunjabi20
22RajasthanJaipurMs. Margaret AlvaMr. Ashok GehlotHindi33
23SikkimGangtokMr. Balmiki Prasad SinghMr. Pawan ChamlingNepali4
24Tamil NaduChennaiDr. K. RosaiahJ. JayalalithaaTamil31
25TripuraAgartalaShri Dnyandeo Yashwantrao PatilMr. Manik SarkarBengali4
26UttarakhandDehradunDr.Aziz QureshiVijay BahugunaHindi13
27Uttar PradeshLucknowMr. B.L. JoshiMr. Akhilesh YadavHindi71
28West BengalKolkataShri M.K. NarayananMs. Mamta BanerjeeBengali19

IDUnion TeritoryState CapitalGovernerChief MinisterOfficial LanguageDistrict
1Andaman and Nicobar IslandsPort BlairLt. Gen. (Retd) Bhopinder Singh, PVSM, AVSM (Lieutenant Governor) Hindi, Nicobarese, Bengali,Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu4
2ChandigarhChandigarhShri Shivraj V. Patil (Administrator) Hindi, Punjabi, English1
3Daman and DiuDamanMr. Narendra Kumar Gujarati2
4Dadra and Nagar HaveliSilvassaMr. Narendra Kumar Gujarati, Hindi1
5LakshadweepKavarattiShri Amar Nath, IAS (Administrator) Jeseri (Dweep Bhasha) and Mahal1
6PuducherryPuducherryShri Iqbal Singh (Lieutenant Governor)Mr. N. RangaswamyTamil, Telugu, Malayalam, English and French4
7NCT of DelhiDelhiShri Tejendra Khanna (Lieutenant Governor)Smt. Sheela DixitHindi,Punjabi9