Companies and their cars: 1. General Motors A.

Chevrolet Cruze, Aveo, Captiva, Spark, Avalanche, Camaro, Caprice, Corvette, Equinox, Malibu, Suburban, Cobalt, Volt, Sonic, B. Cadillac ATS, Eldorado, Escalade, Provog, Converi, SRX, SLS, Urban Luxury C. Opel Buick Regal, Holden Astra, Holden Barina, Admiral, Agila, Ascona, Astra, Calibra, Corsa, Combo, Insignia, Kadett, Kapitan, Rekord, Senator, Signum 2. Ford Figo, Fiesta, Endeavour, Ikon, 3. Maruti Suzuki Alto, WagonR, Omni, Gypsy, Estilo, Eeco, A-star, Ritz, Swift, SX4, Dzire, Grand Vitara, Kizashi 4. Honda Brio, Jazz, City, Civic, Accord, CR-V 5. Mahindra Verito, Thar, Bolero, Xylo, Scorpio, XUV500, 6. Tata Nano, Indica V2 Xeta, Indica V2, Indica Vista, Indica eV2, Venture, Indigo ecs, Sumo, Manza, Winger, Xenon, Safari, Aria 7. Renault Fluence, Koleos, Pulse 8.Nissan Micra, Teana, X-Trail, Sunny 9. Toyota EtiosLiva, Etios, Innova, Corolla altis, Fortuner, Camry, Prius, Land Cruiser Prado, Land Cruiser 10. Hyundai Eon, Santro, i10, i20, Accent, Verna, Sonata, Santa Fe, Tucson 11. Volkswagon Polo, Vento, Jetta, Beetle, Passat, Touareg, Phaeton 12. Skoda Fabia, Rapid, Laura, Yeti, Superb, Octavia 13. Fiat Punto, Linea, Fiat 500 14. BMW X1, X3, X5, X6 (SUVs); 3-series, 5-series, Z4, M3, M5, M6, 6-series, 7-series, 8-series.

2012 F1 TEAMS AND PLAYERS Red Bull Racing Sebastian Vettel and Mark Webber McLaren Jansen Button and Lewis Hamilton Ferrari Fernando Alonso and Felipe Massa Mercedes Michael Schumacher and NicoRosberg Lotus KimiRikknen and RomainGrosjean Force India Paul di Resta and NicoHulkenberg Sauber Kamui Kobayashi and Sergio Perez Toro Rosso Daniel Ricciardo and Jean Eric Vergne Williams Pastor Maldonado and yet to announce Caterham HeikkiKovalainen and JarnoTrulli

HRT Pedro de la Rosa and yet to announce Marussia TimoGlock and Charles Pic List of 2011 F1 Championships (efforts by AkashLadha, editing by Ankitdikshit) China, germany and abudhabi lewishamilton Canada, hungary, japan Jenson Button Great Britain Alonso brazil webber Baaki Vettel ! Who invented what? Aeroplane : Orville and Wilbur Wright Atom Bomb ; Auto Han Diesel Engine : Rudolf Diesel Dynamite : Alfred B. Nobel Electric Generator : Michael Faraday Electric Lamp : Thomas Alva Edison Electrolytic cell : Alessandro Volta Elevator : Elisha G. Otis Gramophone : Thomas Alva Edison Integrated Chip : Jack Kilby Lightning Conductor : Benjamin Franklin Mercury Thermometer : Fahrenheit Microphone : Sir Alexander Graham Bell Movie Projector : Thomas Alva Edison Pneumatic Tyres : John Boyd Dunlop Radio : Marconi Safety Razor : King C. Gillette Steam Engine (condenser) : James Watt Telegraph Code : Samuel Morse Telephone : Sir Alexander Graham Bell Television (mechanical) : John Logie Baird Telescope : Galileo Transformer : Michael Faraday Vulcanised Rubber : Charles Goodyear X-Ray : Rontgen Indian States and capital

Capital of Andhra pradeshHyderabad Capital of Arunachal PradeshItanagar Capital of AssamDispur Capital of BiharPatna Capital of ChhatisgarhRaipur Capital of GoaPanaji Capital of GujratGandhinagar Capital of HaryanaChandigarh Capital of Himachal PradeshShimla Capital of KarnatakaBengalooru Capital of KeralaThiruvananthapuram Capital of Jammu and KashmirSrinagar(summer),Jammu(winter) Capital of JharkhandRanchi Capital of Madhaya PradeshBhopal Capital of MaharashtraMumbai Capital of ManipurImphal Capital of MeghalayaShillong Capital of MizoramAizwal Capital of NagalandKohima Capital of OrissaBhuvaneshwar Capital of PunjabChandigarh Capital of RajasthanJaipur Capital of SikkimGangtok Capital of Tamil NaduChennai Capital of TripuraAgartala Capital of Uttar khandDehradun Capital of Uttar PradeshLucknow Capital of West BengalKolkata Top 30 Languages by Population 1 CHINESE, MANDARIN China 885,000,000 2 SPANISH Spain,Several countries in South and Central America 332,000,000 3 ENGLISH United Kingdom,United states 322,000,000 4 BENGALI Bangladesh,West Bengal(India) 189,000,000 5 HINDI India 182,000,000 6 PORTUGUESE Portugal,Brazil 170,000,000 7 RUSSIAN Russia 170,000,000 8 JAPANESE Japan 125,000,000

9 GERMAN Germany 98,000,000 10 CHINESE, WU China 77,175,000 11 JAVANESE Indonesia, Java, Bali 75,500,800 12 KOREAN Korea, South & North 75,000,000 13 FRENCH France,North Africa 72,000,000 14 VIETNAMESE Viet Nam 67,662,000 15 TELUGU South India 66,350,000 16 CHINESE, YUE China 66,000,000 17 MARATHI India 64,783,000 18 TAMIL India,Srilanka,Malaysia 63,075,000 19 TURKISH Turkey 59,000,000 20 URDU Pakistan,India 58,000,000 21 CHINESE, MIN NAN China 49,000,000 22 CHINESE, JINYU China 45,000,000 23 GUJARATI India 44,000,000 24 POLISH Poland 44,000,000 25 ARABIC, EGYPTIAN SPOKEN Egypt 42,500,000 26 UKRAINIAN Ukraine 41,000,000 27 ITALIAN Italy 37,000,000 28 CHINESE, XIANG China 36,015,000 29 MALAYALAM India 34,022,000 30 CHINESE, HAKKA China 34,000,000 Common studies: Study of flowersAnthology Study of spidersAraneology Study of frogsBatracology Study of skulls-Craniology Study of skinDermatology Study of insectsEntomology Study of heredityGenetics Study of bloodHaematology Study of human beautyKalology Study of dictionariesLexicography Study of musclesMyology Study of birds-Ornithology Study of coins and medalsNumismatics

Study of earthquakesSeismology Study of poisonsToxicology

Famous sports personalities 1. Badminton PulelaGopichand SainaNehwal Anup Sridhar AparnaPopat Dipankar Bhattacharya PrakashPadukone JwalaGuetta ChetanAnand 2. Table Tennis ChetanBaboor Mouma Das PoulamiGhatak AchantaSharatha Kamal 3. Boxing Akhil Kumar Vijender Kumar (current world number 1 on middleweight class) Jitender Kumar A.L. Lakra Dinesh Kumar 4. Shooting AbhinavBindra Anjali Bhagwat GaganNarang JaspalRana Manvjit Singh Sandhu Samresh Jung Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore 5. Archery Dola Banerjee JayantaTalukdar

9. Weight lifting KarnamMalleshwari N. Kunjarani Devi 10. Wrestling Dalip Singh Randhawa Dara Singh GobarGoha The Great Gama YogeshwarDutt Palvinder Singh Cheema 11. Squash JoshnaChinappa Ritwick Bhattacharya SauravGhoshal 12. F1 Narayan Kartikeyan ArmaanEbrahim Karun Chandhok 13. Chess DibyenduBarua K Sasikiran P Harikrishna ParimarjanNegi SandipanChanda Koneru Humpy ViswanathanAnand 14. Football BaichungBhutia Dr. TalimeranAo Inivalappil Mani Vijayan 15. Billiards/Snooker GeetSethi

Limba Ram Tarundeep Rai 6. Athletics AshwiniNachappa JyotirmoyeeSikdar KM Beenamol Soma Biswas Anju Bobby George Milkha Singh P.T.Usha Shiny Abraham 7. Golf GauravGhei JeevMilkha Singh JyotiRandhawa Shiv Kapur ArjunAtwal 8. Hockey DilipTirkey GaganAjit Singh Leslie Claudius Pargat Singh DhanrajPillai Dhyanchand

PankajAdvani Ashok Shandilya Michael Ferreira 16. Athletics AshwiniNachappa JyotirmoyeeSikdar KM Beenamol Soma Biswas Anju Bobby George Milkha Singh P.T.Usha Shiny Abraham 17. Lawn Tennis JaidipMukerjea Ramesh Krishnan RohanBopanna Vijay Amritraj Leander Paes Mahesh Bhupathi Ramanathan Krishnan SaniaMirza

Area of India : 3,287,240 Sq km.* Largest State Rajasthan 342,239 Sq km Smallest State Goa 3,702 Sq km Largest Union Territory Andaman & Nicobar Islands Smallest Union Territory Largest District Lakshadweep Kachchh (Gujarat) Smallest District Mahe ( Pondicherry ) * The area figure exclude 78,114 sq. km. under the illegal occupation of Pakistan, 5,180 sq. km. Illegally handed over by Pakistan to China and 37,555 sq.km. under the illegal occupation of China in Ladakh district. 32 Sq km 45,652 Sq km 9 Sq km 8,249 Sq km

Administrative Divisions : No. of States No. of Union Territories No. of Districts No. of Sub-districts No. of CD Blocks No. of Urban Agglomerations / Towns No. of Urban Agglomerations 28 7 593 5,463 3,799 4,378 384

No. of Towns No. of Inhabited Villages No. of Uninhabited Villages Population : Persons Males Females 1,028,737,436 532,223,090 496,514,346

5,161 593,731 44,656

Highest / Lowest Population : State with Highest Population State with Lowest Population UT with Highest Population UT with Lowest Population District with Highest Population District with Lowest Population Uttar Pradesh Sikkim Delhi Lakshadweep Medinipur (West Bengal) Yanam (Pondicherry) 166,197,921 540,851 13,850,507 60,650 9,610,788 31,394

Note: @ The total population and rural population include estimated population of 127,108 for Mao Maram, Paomata and Purul sub-divisions of Senapati district of Manipur. Indias population without the estimated population of these areas is 1,028,610,328 (532,156,772 males and 496,453,556 females) Note : Includes estimated population of Paomata, Mao Maram and Purul Sub-division of Senapati district of Manipur. Institutional and Houseless Population Percentage to Persons Houseless Population Total Rural Urban 1,943,766 1,165,167 778,599 Total Population (%) 1.00 0.85 1.39

Institutional Population

Total Rural Urban

7,802,866 4,044,152 3,758,714

4.03 2.94 6.73

Population Density Persons / Sq. Km India State with Highest Population Density State with Lowest Population Density UT with Highest Population Density UT with Lowest Population Density District with Highest Population Density District with Lowest Population Density West Bengal Arunachal Pradesh Delhi Andaman & Nicobar Islands North East (Delhi) Lahul&Spiti (Himachal Pradesh) 325 903 13 9,340 43 29,468 2

Rural Urban Distribution Rural Urban State with highest proportion of Urban Population State with lowest proportion of Urban Population UT with highest proportion of Urban Population UT with lowest proportion of Urban Population Sex ratio (females per thousand males) India Rural Urban 933 946 900 Goa Himachal Pradesh Delhi Dadra & Nagar Haveli

Population 742,490,639 286,119,689

(%) 72.2% 27.8% 49.76 9.30 93.18 22.89

State with Highest Female Sex Ratio State with Lowest Female Sex Ratio UT with Highest Female Sex Ratio UT with Lowest Female Sex Ratio District with Highest Female Sex Ratio District with Lowest Female Sex Ratio Age Groups 6 years and below Proportion to total population (%) 7 to 14 years Proportion to total population (%) 15 to 59 years Proportion to total population (%) 60 years and above Proportion to total population (%) Age Not Stated Proportion to total population (%) Variation in population since 1901 Year 1901

Kerala Haryana Pondicherry Daman & Diu Mahe (Pondicherry) Daman (Daman & Diu) Persons 163,819,614 15.9 199,791,198 19.4 585,638,723 56.9 76,622,321 7.5 2,738,472 0.3 Males 84,999,203 16.0 104,488,119 19.6 303,400,561 57.0 37,768,327 7.1 1,500,562 0.3

1,058 861 1,001 710 1,147 591 Females 78,820,411 15.9 95,303,079 19.2 282,238,162 56.9 38,853,994 7.8 1,237,910 0.3

Total 238,396,3 27

Rural 212,544, 454 226,151, 757 223,235, 043 245,521,

Urban 25,851,8 73 25,941,6 33 28,086,1 70 33,455,9

1911

252,093,3 90

1921

251,321,2 13

1931

278,977,2

38 1941 318,660,5 80 1951 361,088,0 90 1961 439,234,7 71 1971 548,159,6 52 1981 683,329,0 97 1991 846,302,6 88 2001* 1,028,737, 436 Note: * The total population and rural population include estimated population of 127,108 for Mao Maram, Paomata and Purul subdivisions of Senapati district of Manipur. Indias population without the estimated population of these areas is 1,028,610,328 (532,156,772 males and 496,453,556 females)

249 274,507, 283 298,644, 381 360,298, 168 439,045, 675 523,866, 550 628,691, 676 742,490, 639

89 44,153,2 97 62,443,7 09 78,936,6 03 109,113, 977 159,462, 547 217,611, 012 286,119, 689

Number of Literates & Literacy Rate Persons Total No. of literat es Litera cy rate 64.8% 75.3% 53.7% Males Females 224,154,081

560,687,797 336,533,71 6

Rural

No. of literat es Litera cy rate

361,870,81 223,551,64 7 1

138,319,176

58.7%

70.7%

46.1%

Urban

No. of literat es Litera cy rate

198,816,980 112,982,07 5

85,834,905

79.9%

86.3%

72.9%

Persons (%) State with Highest Lite racy Rate State with Lowest Liter acy Rate UT with Highest Lite racy Rate UT with Lowest Literacy Rate District with Highest Lite racy Rate Aizwal, Dadra & Lakshadwe ep (86.7) Bihar (47.0) Kerala (90.9)

Males (%) Kerala (94.2)

Females (%) Kerala (87.7)

Bihar (59. 7)

Bihar (33.1)

Lakshadw eep (92.5)

Lakshadwee p (80.5)

Dadra &

Dadra &

Nagar Havel Nagar Have Nagar Haveli i (57.6) li (71.2) (40.2)

Mahe,

Aizwal, Mizoram (96 .26)

Mizoram (9 Pondicherr 6.5) y (97.6)

District with Lowest Literacy Rate

Dantewada Chhattisgarh a (30.17)

Dantewad

Shrawasti UP (7.7)

Chhattisgar h (39.75)

Number of Districts by Sex-wise Literacy Rate : Literacy Rate Male s Up to 25.00 % 25.01 % to 50.00 % 50.01% to 75.00 % Above 75 % Total : 22 244 327 593 18 243 287 45 593 Females

Work Participation Rate : Total Workers Persons Males Females Main Workers Persons Males Females Marginal Workers Persons Males 89,229,741 34,866,663 8.7 6.6 313,004,983 240,147,813 72,857,170 30.4 45.1 14.7 Number 402,234,724 275,014,476 127,220,248 Rate (%) 39.1 51.7 25.6

Females

54,363,078

11 Population * 827,578,868 138,188,240 24,080,016 19,215,730 7,955,207 4,225,053 6,639,626 727,588 1,028,610,328 (%) 80.5 13.4 2.3 1.9 0.8 0.4 0.6 0.1 100.0

Religious Composition Hindus Muslims Christians Sikhs Buddhists Jains Other Religions & Persuasions Religion not stated Total *

Scheduled Castes & Scheduled Tribes Population: Scheduled Castes & Scheduled Tribes Population Scheduled Castes : Scheduled Tribes : Scheduled Castes State with highest proportion of Scheduled Castes State with lowest proportion of Scheduled Castes UT with highest proportion of Scheduled Castes UT with lowest proportion of Scheduled Castes District with highest proportion of Scheduled Castes District with lowest proportion of Scheduled Castes Scheduled Tribes State with highest proportion of Scheduled Tribes Mizoram ( 94.5 % ) Punjab ( 28.9 %) Mizoram ( 0.03 %) Chandigarh (17.5%) D & N Haveli (1.9% ) Koch-Bihar (50.1%) Lawngtlai Mizoram (0.01%) 166,635,700 84,326,240 16.2% 8.2%

State with lowest proportion of Scheduled Tribes UT with highest proportion of Scheduled Tribes UT with lowest proportion of Scheduled Tribes District with highest proportion of Scheduled Tribes District with lowest proportion of Scheduled Tribes

Goa (0.04 %) Lakshadweep (94.5 %) A & N Islands (8.3 %) Sarchhip, Mizoram ( 98.1%) Hathras, Uttar Pradesh (0.01%)