Study Materials & Unique Facts

1. ISRO was established in 1969, 8 years after Pakistan established Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission (SUPARCO) in 1961. ISRO has completed 120 mission and 74 satellite launches,  but SUPARCO has only been able to launch two satellites (both from foreign soil and with foreign assistance). 2. ISRO’s headquarter is in Bengaluru, Karnataka. India is a member of the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space. 3. ISRO’s spaceport is located at Satish Dhawan Space Centre Sriharikota High Altitude Range. 4. Indian Space Program began at Thumba Equatorial Rocket Launching Station (TERLS) located at Thumba near Thiruvanathapuram. Thumba was selected because the geomagnetic equator of the earth passes over Thumba. It is currently used by ISRO for launching Rohini series sounding rockets. 5. ISRO’s first satellite, Aryabhata it was launched on 19 April, 1975 from Kapustin Yar rocket launch and development site using a Kosmos-3M l...

Mumbai, the City of Dreams, houses the prime centre of Hindi Film Industry, better known as Bollywood. Acclaimed as one of the biggest film industries of the world, Bollywood produces over 1000 films every year. Since 1913, Indian Cinema has made a long journey from simple silent movies to sound films, then colored films to technically advanced movies of the present day. Bollywood imbibed its name from the merger of the term Bombay (now Mumbai) and Hollywood, the American Film Industry. Another point worth-mentioning is that Bollywood is just the part of Indian Film Industry, which also encompasses other language film industries. The movies churned out here are the major source of entertainment, with an audience of 3.6 billion people, which is more than half of the world's population. Bypassing the reality, Hindi films are usually 'masala' (spicy) movies that comprise all the ingredients like music, dance, violence and melodrama of a good entertainer. The languages of Hind...

     Bank of America ,  in full Bank of America Corporation, one of the largest banking and financial services corporations in the  United States . It was formed throughNationsBank’s acquisition of BankAmerica in 1998. Bank of America is headquartered in Charlotte ,  North Carolina .                                                              The  bank’s  history dates to 1904 when  Amadeo Peter Giannini opened the  Bank of Italy  in San Francisco. It eventually developed into the Bank of America and was for a time owned by Giannini’s holding company ,  Transamerica Corporation . It issued the fir...