Importance Of English

 Tips to improve English Speaking Skills

1. Don’t worry about making mistakes because you will and be patient. This is not a one day process.

2. Talk slowly and carefully. Restrict yourself to simple sentences until you gain confidence.

3. Watch English movies and shows. Carefully observe how proficient speakers of the language pronounce words and frame their sentences.

4. Communicate with your friends, relatives and anyone with regularity. Many online sites offer you the opportunity to voice chat with another user. This is an effective way to practice. The more you communicate in English, the better your speaking skills will be.

5. Read article, books and magazines of your choice. Learn new words everyday. When you hear a new word, try to find its usage, synonyms and antonyms.

6.Record your own voice and listen for pronunciation mistakes .

7. Make a list of frequently used words that you find difficult to pronounce and ask someone who speaks the language well to pronounce them for you.

Importance Of TIME

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• Longest river (India)- Ganges
  Longest river (World)- Nile
  The longest tributary river of India- Yamuna
  The longest river of the south -Godavari
  Highest mountain peak- Godwin Austin(k2)
  Largest lake (Fresh water)- Wular lake (Kashmir)
  Highest Dam- Tehri Dam on Bhagirathi River
  Largest Mosque- Jama Masjid, Delhi
  Longest Road -Grand Trunk Road
  State with longest coastline- Gujarat
  Largest railway route- Dibrugarh in Assam to Kannyakumari in Tamil Nadu
  Longest tunnel- Jawahar tunnel (Jammu & Kashmir)
  Longest national highway NH-7 which runs from Varanasi to Kanyakumari
  Longest Dam Hirakod Dam (Orissa)
  Longest River Bride Mahatma Gandhi Setu, Patna
  Longest populated city Mumbai (1.60 crore)
  Largest Museum National Museum, Kolkata
  Largest Delta Sunderban Delta, W. Bengal
  Largest Dome Gol Gumbaz, Bijapur (Karnataka)
  Largest Zoo Zoological Gardens, Alipur, Kolkata
  Largest man-made Lake Govind Vallabh Pant Sagar (Rihand Dam)
  Largest Desert Thar (Rajasthan)
  Highest Tower Pitampura Tower, Delhi
  Smallest State (Area) Goa
  Smallest State (Population) Sikkim
  Highest Waterfall Gersoppa waterfall (Karnataka)
  Longest Electric railway line From Delhi to Kolkata via Patna
  Densest populated State West Bengal
  Largest cave temple Kailash temple, Ellora (Maharashtra)
  Largest animal Fair Sonepur (Bihar)
  Highest Gateway Buland Darwaza, Fatehpur Sikri (Agra)
  Biggest Hotel Oberal –Sharaton (Mumbai)
  Largest State (Area) Rajasthan
  Largest State (Population) Uttar Pradesh
  Place of heaviest rainfall Mausinram (Meghalaya)
  Largest corridor Rameshwaram temple corridor (Tamil Nadu)
  Largest cantilever span bride Howrah Bridge (Kolkata)
  Largest forest state M.P.
  Highest straight gravity Dam Bhakra Dam
  Longest Railway Platform Kharagpur (W. Bengal)
  Largest Stadium Salt lake (Yuva Bharti), Kolkata
  Largest Port Mumbai
  Highest Lake Devatal (Garhwal)
  Largest Lake (Saline water) Chika lake,Orissa
  Highest Award Bharat Ratna
  Highest Gallantry Award Paramveer Chakra
  Largest Gurudwara Golden Temple, Amritsar
  Deepest river valley Bhagirathi & Alaknanda
  State with longest coastline of South India Andhra Pradesh
  Longest river which forms estuary Narmada
  Largest Church Saint Cathedral (Goa)
  Longest Beach Marina Beach, Chennai
  Highest Battle field Siachin Glacier
  Highest Airport Len (Laddakh)
  Largest river island Majuli (Brahmaputra river, Assam)
  Largest Planetarium Birla Planetarium
  
  
  

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Weird facts about human body :

 

• 1. Men lose about 40 hairs in a day and women lose 70 hairs in a day.
  2. Your blood has same amount of salts in it as an ocean has.
  3. You are taller in the morning than you are at night.
  4. Heart circulates blood in your body about 1000 times each day.
  5. Eyelashes last about 150 days.
  6. There are 500 hairs in an eyebrow.
  7. The average human body contains approximately 100
  billion nerve cells.
  8. Bones are 4 times stronger than concrete.
  9. You are born without knee caps and they don’t appear until age of 2 to 6 years.
  10. Eyes stay the same size throughout life but nose and ears never stop growing.
  11. We born with 300 bones but end up with 206 bones when we are adult.
  12. Human skull is made up of 26 different bones.
  13. Hair is made of same substance as fingernails.
  14. Tongue is the strongest muscle in human body.
  15. Typical person goes to
  bathroom six times a day.
  16. Food takes 7 seconds to reach stomach from mouth.
  17. Largest muscle in your body is one on which you are sitting on.
  18. Smallest bone of body is in ears.
  
  

  
  

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LET'S BRING INDIA UP

DOLLAR VS RUPEE -  65

WHERE ARE WE HEADING TO?

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HEAD OF SOME ORGANISATIONS

• Chairman, IRDA – T. S. Vijayan

• Chairman, LIC – S.K. Roy

• President, FICCI –Naina Lal Kidwai

• Chairman, TRAI - Rahul Khullar

• Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) -Pradeep Kumar

• Director, CBI –Ranjit Sinha

• Chariman, CCI – Ashok Chawla

• President, ASSOCHAM -Rajkumar Dhoot

• President, NASSCOM - R. Chandrashekhar

• Chairman, NASSCOM -Krishna kumar Natarajan

• Director, BARC -Dr. Shekhar Basu

• Director, DRDO - Avinash Chander

• Secretary, Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) - R K Sinha

• Chief Information Commissioner(CIC) -
Satyanand Mishra

• Chairman, National Film Development Corporation (NFDC) - Ramesh Sippy

• Chairman, ISRO - Dr. K Radhakrishnan

• Chairperson, CBDT – Sudha Sharma

• Chairman, SEBI - U K Sinha

• Chairman, NABARD -Dr. Prakash Bakshi

• Chief, Intelligence Bureau – Saiyad Asif Ibrahim

• Director, NCERT - Prof. P Sinclair

• Governor, RBI – Dr. Raghuram Rajan.

• MD, NSE – Chitra Ramakrishna

• President, ADB - Takehiko Nakao

• MD, BSE – Ashish Chauhan
 

 • Chariman, University Grant Commission – Ved Prakash

• Chief, Indian Airforce – Norman Anil Kumar Browne

• CEO, IFC – Jim Yong Cai

• Chief, Indian Navy – Devendra Kumar Joshi

• MD, IMF – Christine Lagarde

• Director General, WHO – Margarate Chan

• Chairman, NABARD – Prakash Bakshi

• Chief, Indian Army – Bikram Singh

• President, World Bank – Jim Yong Kim

• Chairman, UPSC – D. P. Agarwal

• Chief, RAW – Alok Joshi

AMAZING INDIANS