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Life Facts

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1.     Be very
selective when it comes to choosing friends. People now a days don’t know the
true meaning of friendship and loyalty.
2.     Know your worth. Know when you have had
enough. And move on from the people who keep ruining your happiness.
3.     What comes easy, will not always last. And
what will last, will not always come easy.
4.     Letting go is
never easy, but sometimes it’s necessary.
5.     You don’t need to waste your time on someone
who only wants you around when it fits their needs.
6.     Stop crying over yesterday
and start smiling for tomorrow.
7.     Find someone who wants you as
much as you want them.
8.     In life, there are some
people you’re going to have to lose in order to find yourself.
9.    There’s no next time. If it’s only now or never.
10.  For us life is a fact, no less, and, above all, no more.
11.  Dream what you want to dream, go where you want to go, be what you
want to be. Because you have only one life and one chance to do all the things you want to do.
12.  You do not know a situation until you experience.
13.  In every moments of life, we’re all having up and down. If there are
no up or down, it means we didn’t have any life.
14.  lies can run but they can’t hide
15.  Nobody can satisfy everybody in life because somebody must complain.
16.  It takes enough courage to accept the truth and it takes only
truth to accept the courage”
17.  The things you do for yourself are gone when you are gone, but the
things you do for others remain as your legacy.
18.   What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of
difference you want to make.
19.   Do one thing every day that scares you.

 

20.   Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever

Countries with the Largest Gold Reserves in the World

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Largest Gold Reserves in the World

India

India rarely invests much in gold, as the country operates under a belief that buying gold leads to a deficit. The country currently holds 557.7 tonnes of gold, making up 9.9 percent of the country’s total forex reserve. Ten percent is the generally agreed-upon ideal average, and India is careful to remain right around that mark for maximum diversification.

Netherlands

Over the last decade and a half, Netherlands has been selling off some tonnes of gold to reduce its gold reserves. Less gold sold than the country wanted, and in recent years, this desire to sell has been reduced. Netherlands holds 52 percent of its forex reserve in gold, which currently totals 612.5 tonnes.

Japan

The small but powerful nation of Japan had been steadily increasing its gold reserves  since the 1960s. That reserve grew until the year 2011, when the country began to sell some of its gold reserves in order to calm the investors and stimulate the economy in the wake of the tsunami and the following Fukushima nuclear disaster. Japan’s reserves hover around 2 percent, with the official total reaching 765.2 tonnes.

Russia

Russia is the fourth largest producer of gold in the world, and has been building up its own gold reserves since 2006 in order to diversify. After a domestic purchase in 2012 of around 75 tonnes, the Russian gold reserve total reaches just shy of 970 tonnes. This investment brings the forex reserve percentage up to 9.8 percent, just shy of the ideal ten percent mark.

Switzerland

Prior to 1997, Switzerland was steadily building its gold reserves. In 1997, the decision was made to sell some of those reserves to bolster the Swiss currency and diversify the forex reserves. The forex reserve percentage in Switzerland is currently eight percent, with the country being the lowest on this list to hold over 1,000 tonnes; the total currently announced as 1,040.1 tonnes.

China

China is the world’s number one producer of gold, and yet very little of that gold is held in reserve for the country. Instead, most of it is sold and the profit reinvested in the Chinese markets. In the coming years, however, China looks to be expanding its need for gold, to increase its forex percentage above the current 1.7 percent. China currently holds 1,054.1 tonnes of gold in reserve.

France

France is the first country on this list to break 2,000 tonnes of gold in reserve. The country currently holds 2,435.4 tonnes. The country has recently sold over 500 tonnes, but has no plans to continue these sales in the coming years. France has a high reserve percentage in gold investment, reaching 65 percent.

Italy

Italy has seen its share of economic problems in the last decade, and its high gold reserve percentage is a symptom of the larger problem. Italy’s forex reserve ratio sits at 65 percent, with the country holding slightly more gold than France. Italy holds 2,451.8 tonnes of gold in reserve.

Germany

As the second largest holder of gold reserves in the world, Germany has been selling gold in small amounts over the last several years. However, the country recently announced its intentions to purchase gold from physical reserves in both Paris and New York. The current German gold total is 3,390.6 tonnes, making up 66 percent of the country’s forex reserves.

United States

Coming as a surprise to no one, the United States is the third largest producer of gold and the single largest holder of gold reserves in the world. The only larger gold reserve in a single organization is the G6, of which many nations reside in the top ten individually. The United States gold reserve percentage is 70 percent, with the physical stockpile reaching 8,133.5 tonnes. This number has fallen in the last half-century from the all-time high of over 20,000 tonnes.

Modi Cabinet Expansion: 21 New Ministers

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Modi Cabinet Expansion

 

Here is the list of Modi Cabinet Expansion: 21 New Ministers:

Manohar Parrikar: He is the first IITian to become the Chief Minister of any Indian state.

Suresh Prabhu: Suresh Prabhu, a former Cabinet minister, is the head of a high-level panel on power revamp — “Advisory Group for Integrated Development of Power, Coal and Renewable Energy”.

J.P. Nadda: He is the Rajya Sabha member from Himachal Pradesh and is also the national general secretary of the BJP.

Birender Singh: He is a Jat leader from Haryana. In August, Birendra Singh ended his four-decade-long association with the Congress and joined the BJP. Mr. Singh is one of the many Congress leaders to have shifted their loyalties to the BJP.

Bandaru Dattatreya: He is a former Union Minister for Railways and was appointed as chairman of parliamentary committee on OBC welfare.

Rajiv Pratap Rudy: He is the BJP MP from Saran constituency in Bihar. He was the civil aviation minister in the previous NDA government.

Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi: Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi is BJP’s prominent Muslim face and is a vice-president of the party. He is also the party’s youth wing president.

Ram Kripal Yadav: The BJP Patliputra MP will be the party’s “Yadav” face in next year’s Assembly elections, challenging his erstwhile leader and Rashtriya Janata Dal chief Lalu Prasad.

Giriraj Singh: A senior party leader who recently stoked controversy with his speeches during the election campaign wherein he said that those who opposed Modi belong in Pakistan.

Hansraj Gangaram Ahir: He is an MP from Maharashtra who is credited with uncovering the
coal block scam.

Y.S. Chowdary: A first-time Rajya Sabha member, Mr. Chowdary is the second MP from the Telugu Desam Party, to be inducted into the Cabinet.

Jayant Sinha: He is the Lok Sabha MP from Hazaribagh constituency, Jharkhand.

Babul Supriyo: He is a popular singer and BJP MP from West Bengal’s Asansol seat. He will be the first Minster from West Bengal in the National Democratic Alliance government.

Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore: He is a first time MP from Jaipur Rural and also an Olympian shooter. He is a recipient of Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna and Arjuna Awards.

Vijay Sampla: He is a BJP MP from Hoshiarpur Lok Sabha constituency.

Dr Mahesh Sharma

Mohanbhai Kundaria

Sanwar Lal Jat

Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti

Ram Shankar Katheriya

Haribhai Parthibhai Chaudhur

 

Continent and Countries

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Asia

Number of Countries: 44 countries
Highest point: Mount Everest, Nepal
Lowest point: Dead Sea, Israel
Most Populous City: Shanghai, China

South America

Number of Countries: 12 countries
Highest point: Aconcagua, Argentina
Lowest point: Laguna del Carbón, Argentina
Most Populous City: Sao Paulo, Brazil

North America

Number of Countries: 23 countries
Highest point: Mount McKinley, USA
Lowest point: Death Valley, USA
Most Populous City: Mexico City, Mexico

 Africa

Number of Countries: 54 countries
Highest point: Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanzania
Lowest point: Lake Assal,Djibouti
Most Populous City: Lagos, Nigeria

Europe

Number of Countries: 47 countries
Highest point: Mount Elbrus, Russia
Lowest point: Caspian Sea, Russia
Most Populous City: Moscow, Russia

Antarctica

Number of Countries: No countries
Highest point: Vinson Massif, Antarctica
Lowest point: Deep Lake, Vestfold Hills, Antarctica
Most Populous City: Villa Las Estrellas, Chilean claim

Australia

Number of Countries: 14 countries
Highest point: Puncak Jaya, Papua Province
Lowest point: Lake Eyre, Australia
Most Populous City: Sydney, Australia

Other Facts

  • Canada has more lakes than all the other countries of the
    world combined.
  • Kazakistan is the largest landlocked country in the world
  • France covers the most time zones, covering 12 time zones
  • Most overweight population found in Nauru
  • Mongolia is the least densely populated country on Earth
    with 4 people per square mile
  • Saudi Arabia has no river
  • Suriname is the most jungle covered country in the world,
    with 91% of its land covered in jungle
  • Papua New Guinea with 820 languages are spoken, is the
    most languages spoken country in world
  • The country with the most neighbors is Russia with 16
    neighbors
  • New Zealand is the first country that gave women the
    right to vote in 1893
  • The country with the longest shoreline measuring 202,080
    km is Canada
  • Liechtenstein and Uzbekistan is the only two countries in
    the world which are doubly landlocked
  • Vatican is the only country where there was no birth in
    1983
  • Singapore is the largest country without any farms.
  • Nauru is the only country in the world with no official
    capital
  • There are more post offices in India than anywhere else
    in the world
  • New
    Zealand is the only country which has every climate in the world

 

Indian States their Capital and Chief Ministers

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indian states
indian states

 

State Capital Chief Minister
Andhra Pradesh Hyderabad Chandrababu Naidu
Arunachal Pradesh Itanagar Nabam Tuki
Assam Dispur Tarun Gogoi
Bihar Patna Jitan Ram Manjhi
Chhattisgarh Raipur Raman Singh
Goa Panjim Manohar Parrikar
Gujarat Gandhinagar Anandiben Patel
Haryana Chandigarh Bhupinder Singh Hooda
Himachal Pradesh Shimla Virbhadra Singh
Jammu & Kashmir Srinagar Omar Abdullah
Jharkhand Ranchi Hemant Soren
Karnataka Bangalore Siddaramaiah
Kerala Thiruvananthapuram Oomen Chandy
Madhya Pradesh Bhopal Shivraj Singh Chauhan
Maharashtra Mumbai Prithviraj Chavan
Manipur Imphal Okram Ibobi Singh
Meghalaya Shillong Mukul Sangma
Mizoram Aizawl Pu Lalthanhawla
Nagaland Kohima T.R. Zeliang
Odisha (Orissa) Bhubaneshwar Naveen Patnaik
Punjab Chandigarh Parkash Singh Badal
Rajasthan Jaipur Vasundhara Raje
Sikkim Gangtok Pawan Chamling
Tamil Nadu Chennai Jayalalitha
Telangana (from June 2, 2014) Hyderabad K Chandrashekhar Rao
Tripura Agartala Manik Sarkar
Uttar Pradesh Lucknow Akhilesh Yadav
Uttarakhand Dehradun Harish Rawat
West Bengal Kolkata Mamata Banerjee

 

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