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Books and Authors General Knowledge Multiple Choice Questions with Answers
The Government took over the transmitters in 1930 and started operating them under the name of Indian Broadcasting Service. It was changed to All India Radio (AIR) in 1936 and it came to be known as Akashvani from 1957.
Gyan Vani is an educational service of AIR. It aims at the proliferation of literacy rate through various programs like language improvement, communication proficiency, social awareness, subject related topics etc. It was first started in the year 2000 by the government of India then its operational duties were transferred to IGNOU.
The television serial 'Charitraheen' is based on the famous novel Choritrohin. Choritrohin is a 1917 novel by Bengali novelist Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay.
The novel is set in Bengali society of the early 1900's. The story has four main women characters – two major, Savitri and Kiranmayi, and two minor, Surbala and Sarojini. The former two are the ones on whom the accusation of being charitraheen (of loose character) is made.
Star TV, sometimes styled as "STAR TV" (standing for Satellite Television Asian Region), is an Asian TV service owned by 21st Century Fox.
In 2009, News Corporation restructured Star Asia into 3 units – Star India, Star Greater China and Fox International Channels Asia.
CEO: Uday Shankar (Oct 2007–)
Founder: Rupert Murdoch
Founded: 1 August 1991
Formerly called: STAR TV India Private Limited
Parent organizations: 21st Century Fox, News Corporation
A. B. Vajpayee
Aristotle believed man was a "political animal" because he is a social creature with the power of speech and moral reasoning: Hence it is evident that the state is a creation of nature, and that man is by nature a political animal.
Lajja is a novel in Bengali by Taslima Nasrin, a writer of Bangladesh. The word lajja/lôjja means "shame" in Bengali and many other Indo-Aryan languages. The book was first published in 1993 in Bengali and was subsequently banned in Bangladesh.
Herodotus, a Greek author, known as the 'father of history' was born some time in the 5th century B.C. his book history, describing the wars between Greece and Persia is generally considered to be the first deliberate attempt to see the events of the time against a historical background.
'A Secular Agenda' is a 1997 book by Arun Shourie. In the book, Shourie discusses various problems faced by India due to minority appeasement and pseudo-secularism practiced by the Indian politicians.
Arun Shourie (born 2 November 1941) is an Indian economist, journalist, author and politician. He has worked as an economist with the World Bank, a consultant to the Planning Commission of India, editor of the Indian Express and The Times of India and a minister in the government of India (1998–2004). He was awarded the Ramon Magsaysay Award in 1982 and the Padma Bhushan in 1990.
'The Naked Face' is the first novel (1970) written by Sidney Sheldon. It was nominated by the Mystery Writers of America for the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best First Novel by an American Author.