10 Best Intelligence Agencies in the World
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1. CIA – America
2. MI-6 – United Kingdom
3. RAW- India
4. ISI – Pakistan
5. MSS – China
6. Mossad – Israel
7. ASIS – Australia
8. DGSE – France
9. FSB – Russia
10. BND – Germany

Winners of Oscar 2014
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* Best Picture - 12 Years a Slave

* Best Actor in a Leading Role - Matthew McConaughey (Dallas Buyers Club)

* Best Actress in a Leading Role - Cate Blanchett (Blue Jasmine)

* Best Actor in a Supporting Role - Jared Leto (Dallas Buyers Club)

* Best Actress in a Supporting Role - Lupita Nyong'o (12 Years a Slave)

* Best Animated Feature - Frozen (Chris Buck, Jennifer Lee, Peter Del Vecho)

* Best Cinematography - Gravity (Emmanuel Lubezki)

* Best Costume Design - The Great Gatsby (Catherine Martin)

* Best Directing - Gravity (Alfonso Cuarón)

* Best Documentary Feature - 20 Feet from Stardom

* Best Documentary Short - The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life (Malcolm Clarke, Nicholas Reed)

* Best Film Editing - Gravity (Alfonso Cuarón, Mark Sanger)

* Best Foreign Language Film - The Great Beauty (Italy)

* Best Makeup and Hairstyling - Dallas Buyers Club (Adruitha Lee, Robin Mathews)

* Best Original Score - Gravity (Steven Price)

* Best Original Song - Let It Go - Frozen

* Best Production Design - The Great Gatsby (Catherine Martin, Beverley Dunn)

* Best Animated Short Film - Mr. Hublot (Laurent Witz, Alexandre Espigares)

* Best Live Action Short Film - Helium (Anders Walter, Kim Magnusson)

* Best Sound Editing - Gravity (Glenn Freemantle)

* Best Sound Mixing - Gravity (Skip Lievsay, Niv Adiri, Christopher
Benstead, Chris Munro)

* Best Visual Effects - Gravity (Tim Webber, Chris Lawrence, Dave Shirk, Neil Corbould)

* Best Adapted Screenplay - 12 Years a Slave (John Ridley)

* Best Original Screenplay - Her (Spike Jonze)

The Moon walkers:
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1. Neil Armstrong - Apollo 11 - July 21, 1969

2. Buzz Aldrin - Apollo 11 - July 21, 1969

3. Pete Conrad - Apollo 12 - November 19–20, 1969 Navy

4. Alan Bean - Apollo 12 - November 19–20, 1969 Navy

5. Alan Shepard - Apollo 14 - February 5–6, 1971

6. Edgar Mitchell - Apollo 14 - February 5–6, 1971

7. David Scott - Apollo 15 - July 31 - August 2, 1971

8. James Irwin - Apollo 15 July 31 - August 2, 1971

9. John W. Young - Apollo 16 - April 21–23, 1972

10. Charles Duke - Apollo 16 - April 21–23, 1972

11. Eugene Cernan - Apollo 17 - December 11–14, 1972

12. Harrison Schmitt - Apollo 17 - December 11–14, 1972

List of laureates awarded with the Bharat Ratna:
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1954 - C. Rajagopalachari - Independence activist, last and the only Indian Governor-General of India
1954 - C. V. Raman Nobel laureate physicist (1930)
1954 - Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan Philosopher, India's first Vice President (1952–62), and second President (1962–67)
1955 - Bhagwan Das - Independence activist, theosophist, and founder of Mahatma Gandhi Kashi Vidyapith 
1955 - Visvesvaraya - Civil engineer, Diwan of Mysore (1912–18), and Knight Commander of the Indian Empire 
1955 - Jawaharlal Nehru - Independence activist, author, and first Prime Minister of India (1947–64) 
1957 - Govind Ballabh Pant - Independence activist, first Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh (1950–54)
1958 - Dhondo Keshav Karve - Social reformer
1961 - Bidhan Chandra Roy - Physician-Surgeon and second Chief Minister of West Bengal (1948–62)
1961 - Purushottam Das Tandon - Independence activist, educator
1962 - Rajendra Prasad - Independence activist, lawyer, first President of India (1950–62) 
1963 - Zakir Hussain - Independence activist, second Vice President of India (1950–62), and third President of India (1962–67) 
1963 - Pandurang Vaman Kane - Indologist and Sanskrit scholar
1966 - Lal Bahadur Shastri - Independence activist and second Prime Minister of India (1964–67)
1971 - Indira Gandhi - Former Prime Minister of India (1966–77, 1980–84)
1975 - V. V. Giri Trade unionist, first Acting President of India, and fourth President of India (1969–74)
1976 - K. Kamaraj - Independence activist and former Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu (1954–57, 1957–62, 1962–63) 
1980 - Mother Teresa - Catholic nun, founder of the Missionaries of Charity and Nobel peace prize laureate (1979) 
1983 - Vinoba Bhave - Independence activist, social reformer, and Ramon Magsaysay Award laureate (1958) 
1987 - Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan double- Independence activist 
1988 - M. G. Ramachandran - Film actor and former Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu (1977–80, 1980–84, 1985–87)
1990 - B. R. Ambedkar - Chief architect of the Indian Constitution and social reformer 
1990 - Nelson Mandela - Leader of the Anti-Apartheid Movement in South Africa and Nobel Peace Prize laureate (1993) 
1991 - Rajiv Gandhi - Sixth Prime Minister of India (1984–89)
1991 - Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel - Independence activist and first Deputy Prime Minister of India (1947–50) 
1991 - Morarji Desai Independence activist and fourth Prime Minister of India (1977–79) 
1992 - Maulana Abul Kalam Azad - Independence activist 
1992 -J. R. D. Tata - Industrialist and philanthropist
1992 -Satyajit Ray - Filmmaker 
1997 - Gulzarilal Nanda - Independence activist and two times interim Prime Minister of India 
1997 - Aruna Asaf Ali - Independence activist
1997 - A. P. J. Abdul Kalam Aerospace and Defense Scientist, eleventh President of India (2002–07) 
1998 - M. S. Subbulakshmi - Carnatic classical vocalist
1998 - Chidambaram Subramaniam- Independence activist and former Minister of Agriculture of India (1964–66) 
1999 - Jayaprakash Narayan - Independence activist and social reformer 
1999 - Ravi Shankar - Hindustani classical Sitar player
1999 - Amartya Sen - Nobel laureate economist (1998)
1999 - Gopinath Bordoloi - dagger - Independence activist, first Chief Minister of Assam (1946–50) 
2001 - Lata Mangeshkar - Playback singer
2001 - Bismillah Khan - Hindustani classical Shehnai player 
2008 - Pandit Bhimsen Joshi - Hindustani classical vocalist 
2013 - C. N. R. Rao - Chemist
2013 - Sachin Tendulkar - Cricketer

Short forms

Computer = Commonly Operated Machine Particularly Used in Technical and Educational Research

CPU = Central Processing Unit

RAM = Random Access Memory

ROM = Read Only Memory

PROM = Programmable Read Only Memory

EPROM = Erasable PROM

EEPROM = Electrically EPROM

HDD = Hard Disk Drive

FDD = Floppy Disk Drive

KBD = KeyBoard

I/O = Input & Output

CD = Compact Disk

DVD = Digital Video Disk

SMPS = Switch Mode Power Supply

POST = Power ON Self Test

BIOS = Basic Input Output System

VDU = Visible Display Unit

LED = Light Embedded Diode

LCD = Liquid Crystal Display

USB = Universal Serial Bus

VGA = Video/Visual Graphic Adapter

LAN = Local Area Network

WAN = Wide Area Network

MAN = Metropolitan Area Network

HLL = High Level Language

LLL = Low Level Language

MIPS = Million of Instruction Per Second

Mbps = Mega Bytes Per second

Kbps = Kilo Bytes per second

HTTP = Hyper Text Templates

WWW = World Wide Web

IP = Internet Protocol

ISP = Internet Service Provider

4 Bits = 1 Nibble

8 Bits = 1 Byte

1024 Bytes = 1 Kilo Byte ( KB )

1024 KB = 1 Mega Byte ( MB )

1024 MB = 1 Gyga Byte ( GB )

1024 GB = 1 Tera Byte ( TB )

1024 TB = 1 Peta Byte ( PB )

1024 PB = 1 Exa Byte ( EB )

1024 EB = 1 Zetta Byte ( ZB )

1024 ZB = 1 Yotta Byte ( YB )