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Lesser Known Facts About RAW, The Invisible Backbone Of India’s Defence Forces

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Lesser Known Facts About RAW, The Invisible Backbone Of India’s Defence Forces 1. RAW was established on the 21st of September, 1968, in response to the Sino-Indian war. Following the failures of intelligence services, which were the responsibility of the Investigation Bureau (IB) at the time, during the Sino-Indian conflict in 1962 and the India-Pakistan conflict of 1965, the Indira Gandhi government had to take extreme measures to increase foreign intelligence gathering. This is when the government called on the services of the first director of RAW, Rameshwar Nath Kao. 2. RAW once turned around a strategic move made by Pakistan, against them. The  Indian Airlines hijacking  of aircraft  Ganga  back 1971, was in fact, a strategic move by RAW that subsequently gave India a reason to retaliate by banning flights by Pakistani aircraft. This would later have a significant impact on troop movement by Pakistani forces into East Pakistan during the 1...

10 PUBG Facts That you didn’t Know

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10 PUBG Facts That you didn’t Know  1. PUBG is so popular that Gamers have bought  a virtual Bandana nearly worth 1000 $ that came with the original pre order version of the game . Earlier only few people pre ordered and now this Bandana has became a rare item which does not drop in any of the crates and is available only with the Original pre order PUBG bundle. 2. PUBG set the world record for most simultaneous players at  once . The number of players which played PUBG  simultaneously records for 1,342,857 beating record of Valve  Dota 2. 3. Brendon PlayerUnknown Greene creator of PUBG  , started in game design by modding ARMA series.Playing DAYZ a mod for ARMA , led to Brendon interest in modding . Basic concept of PUBG was originated from Battle Royal mod Greene created for PUBG.  4. Winner Winner Chicken Dinner’ came from alley craps back in the Depression. They used to play craps in alleys and didn’t always use [money], but if...

The War Inside CBI

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                              The War Inside CBI Why Alok Verma and Rakesh Asthana are at each other's throats. Special Director Rakesh Asthana and Director Alok Verma Who are the two officers at the centre of the ongoing battle within the CBI? CBI Director Alok Verma and his deputy Rakesh Asthana. Until this unprecedented showdown, both had long and uncontroversial careers. Verma joined the IPS in 1979 at age 22 and was allotted to the AGMUT (Arunachal, Goa, Mizoram, UTs) cadre. He was the youngest officer in his batch. Prior to assuming the office of CBI Director, Verma had been Commissioner of Police, Delhi; Director General of Prisons, Delhi; Director General of Police, Mizoram; DGP, Puducherry and IGP, Andaman & Nicobar Islands. He is the only CBI Director to hold the top post without any prior experience in the agency. Asthana, a 1984 batch IPS officer of the Gujarat cadre, has inve...

Things You Didn't Know About ... Aliens

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Things You Didn't Know About ... Aliens 1  Astronomers Margaret Turnbull and Jill Tarter of the  Carnegie Institution in Washington , D.C., have compiled a list of 17,129 nearby stars most likely to have planets that could support complex life. 2  According to Turnbull, stars must be at least 3 billion years old (to allow life time to evolve), have low mass, and have high levels of iron; metals are needed to form rocky, Earth like planets. 3  Leading the list is Epsilon Indi A, a dim orange star just 11.8 light-years away, in our local corner of the Milky Way. 4  What's the frequency, Frank? Astronomer Frank Drake made the first scientific attempt to contact alien beings in 1960, when he used an 85-foot radio dish at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in West Virginia to listen for signals from two nearby sun like stars. 5  You haven't heard about it because his search turned up zilch. 6  The more sophistic...

Animals with Surprisingly Smart Social Lives

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Animals With Surprisingly Smart Lives 1. Cows in Cliques Are Smarter Than Lone Bovines 2. Female Mule Deer Have Each Other’s Backs 3. Coyotes and Badgers Team Up to Hunt 4. Orcas Teach Their Friends How To Fish 5. Elephants Talk To Each Other (Sometimes In Secret Tones) 6. Cuttlefish Show Their True Colors 7. Spiders Know That Millions of Legs Are Better Than Eight 8. Penguins Get in Sync

Interesting Facts about Computer Virus

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Interesting Facts about Computer Virus  1.Typically a malicious software author is a male between 14 and 25 years of age. 2.  The first fact of computer virus is that the first computer virus was known as Creeper created by computer programmer Bob Thomas at BBN technologies on Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET) former of Internet. It was formed in early 1971 for experimental purposes and was capable of self-replicating. 3.   The first Windows virus was WinVer 1.4, first .exe file was Groove and first boot virus was created by Faroq Alvi brothers.  4.It is found that 70% of virus writers work on contract basis for a crime syndicate. 5.    Melissa was a powerful macro virus detected in 1999 that forced Microsoft and other big giants to shut down their email system until virus was removed completely. 6.    According to Microsoft security intelligence report and consumer report 40% of US households a...

Interesting Facts You Didn’t Know about Human Behavior

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Interesting Facts You Didn't Know About Human Behavior 1.When people are being watched, they behave better. 2.  People with  high levels of testosterone  get pleasure from the anger of others. 3. People with low self-esteem tend to humiliate others.  Subjects who were told that the results of their IQ test were poor expressed more national and religious prejudices, than those who reported higher results. 4 .  People sincerely believe that  their negative opinions about others are truthful and have no connection with them  and their self-confidence. In fact, the humiliation of others helps them restore their own self-esteem. 5. The behavior of people is affected by bodily sensations. 6. Similarly, the feeling of rigidity and hardness makes people inflexible . 7. However, more people  behave “as expected”  if they have to take a moral decision in front of someone. 8.  People regret quick decisions...