440. Fact

Icbm
Inter continental ballistic missile is a rocket propelled surface to surface guided missile carrying a nuclear warhead which can reach a destined city or installation in the world and destroy it entirely.

441. Fact

Intermediate range ballistic missile (irbm)
It is of three types, viz, air to air, surface to air, and air to surface. Air to air guided missile, launched from an aircraft is employed to hit target in the battlefield.

442. Fact

Jumbo jet
A large passenger jet aircraft having the capacity to life nearly 447 passengers.

443. Fact

Nuclear umbrella
Giving air shield to a city or by nuclear weapons. It is also called parasol or sombrero.

444. Fact

Star wars
Deployment of weapons on satellites in space with a view to destroy inter-continental ballistic missiles in space coming from the enemy.

445. Fact

Squadron
Air force formation consisting of 20 aircraft's commanded by a squadron leader.

446. Fact

Affidavit
A statement on oath for use as evidence in legal proceedings.

447. Fact

Contempt of court
Any disobedience of the court verdict.

448. Fact

Copyright
Exclusive right of an author in his works.

449. Fact

Covenant
An agreement under seal between two or more persons.

450. Fact

Decree
Judgement or decision having the force of law.

451. Fact

Detenu
Persons who dies without making any will.

452. Fact

Intestate
A person who dies without making any will.

453. Fact

Libel
A published statement damaging to a person's reputation or business.

454. Fact

Mandamus
A writ issued by a higher court to a lower court directing it to perform a specified act pertaining to its office.

455. Fact

Plaintiff
A person who, as complainant, brings a suit in a court of law.

456. Fact

Summons
A directive from a court of law ordering a person to appear before it at a specified date, time and place.

457. Fact

Writ
A written order by a supreme court or high court directing the state or a lowest court to act or abstain from acting in a particular case.

458. Fact

Aryabhatta
He lived between 476 and 520 a.d. He was a great mathematician and an astronomer. The first indian satellite was named after him.

459. Fact

Bhagavantam
His contribution to radio astronomy and cosmic rays in noteworthy.

460. Fact

Bhaskaracharya
Born in 1114 a.d., bhaskaracharya was a great hindu mathematician and astronomer. He had a foresight on the modern theory of conventions.

461. Fact

S.s. Bhatnagar
A great indian scientist who lived between 1895 and 1955. He was the first director general of council of scientific and industrial research.

462. Fact

J.c.bose
He was an eminent physicist and botanist. He founded bose research institute, calcutta. He invented crescograph and lived between 1858 and 1937.

463. Fact

S.n. Bose
He expounded the bose einstein theory which deals with the detection of a group of nuclear particles - named after him 'boson'. His contribution to planck's law is laudable.

464. Fact

Dr. S.chandrasekhar
An indian-born american, who won nobel prize for physics in 1983. According to his theory, the old stars just collapse and disappear in the light of denser stars of low light popularly called chandrasekhar limit.

465. Fact

Charaka
He lived between 80 and 180 a.d. He was a court physician of king kanishka. His writings on hindu medicine are invaluable.

466. Fact

Dhanvantri
He was a great physician during the period of chandragupta vikramaditya. His period was between 375 and 413 a.d.

467. Fact

Hargobind khorana
He created an artificial gene and deciphered genetic code. He was awarded nobel prize for medicine in 1968.

468. Fact

Homi j.bhaba
He largely contributed to the development of atomic physics. He was the first chairman of atomic energy commission. He died in a plane crash in 1966 over alps.

469. Fact

Joshi
Prof. S.s.joshi's works on physical and chemical reaction under electrical discharge on active nitrogen, colloids, hydrogen peroxide are noteworthy.

470. Fact

Nagarjuna
A great buddhist philosopher and chemist. His theory on extraction of copper and metallic oxides are mention-worthy.

471. Fact

Nag chowdhury b.d
An eminent indian nuclear physicist known all over the world.

472. Fact

Narlikar
J.v.narlikar was the co-author of hoyle-narlikar theory of continuous creation which supplies missing links in einstein's theory of relativity.

473. Fact

Raja ramanna
A great nuclear scientist, who was instrumental to stage india's first nuclear explosion at pokharan range in 1974.

474. Fact

Sir c.v. Raman
First indian scientist to receive nobel prize for physics in 1929 for his invention 'raman effect'. He founded raman research institute at bangalore.

475. Fact

Sir c.p.roy
Author of 'hindu chemistry'. He founded indian chemical society and bengal chemical and pharmaceuticals ltd. He lived between 1861- 1944 ad.

476. Fact

Prof. V.ramachandra rao
Direction of indian scientific satellite project (issp) at peenya near bangalore.

477. Fact

Saha dr.maghnad
Late palit prof.of physics, university college of scientific and technology, calcutta university well-known for his researches in nuclear physics, cosmic rays, spectrum analysis . He lived from 1893 to 1956.

478. Fact

Srinivas ramanujam
A mathematical wizard, contributed much to number theory, theory of partitions and theory of continuous fractions. He lived between 1887 to 1920 ad.

479. Fact

Satish dhavan
He was chairman of indian space research organisation. He was instrumental to take india into space age by launching aryabhatta in 1975.

480. Fact

Susruta
A fourth century hindu surgeon and physician. He had written an important book on medicine and on medical properties of garlic.

481. Fact

Varahamihira
An indian astronomer and astrologer of 6th century a.d. He was a mathematician and philosopher. He was one of the nine gems of vikramaditya.

482. Fact

The walkman was first introduced in 1979.

483. Fact

The first owner of the marlboro company died of lung cancer.

484. Fact

There are more than 500 given phobias. One of the rarest is hoplophobia - a fear of firearms.

485. Fact

There are more than 17,000 airplanes in the world, of which 4,000 are always airborne.

486. Fact

90 % of the cab drivers in new york are recently landed immigrants.

487. Fact

Madagascar, off the eastern coast of africa, is the fourth largest island in the world.

488. Fact

Charles bronson's given name at birth was charles buchinsky. Eric clapton's was patrick clapp.

489. Fact

The word "amateur" comes from the same spelled french word for "lover" and "is anyone interested?"

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