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madrasa - Islamic seminary
mahal - palace
maharaja - great king
mandi - market
mandir - temple
mani stone - stone carved with the Tibetan-Buddhist mantra 'Om mani padme hum'
mani walls - wall with mani stones found mainly in Ladakh, Kashmir
marg - road
mehndi - ornate henna designs on woman's hands (and often feet)
mela - fair or festival
Mughal - Muslim dynasty of subcontinental emperors from Babur to Aurangzeb

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namaste - traditional Hindu greeting
namaz - Muslim prayers
Narasimha - man-lion incarnation of Vishnu
Nataraja - Shiva as the cosmic dancer. Shiva's cosmic victory dance is called tandava
pashmina - fine quality woollen shawl from Kashmir
pir - Muslim holy man
punka - cloth fan, swung by pulling a cord
purdah - a Muslim custom to keep women in seclusion
Qwwali - Urdu devotional singing
rann - desert
Saraswati - wife of Brahma, goddess of learning; sits on a white swan holding a veena (a stringed instrument)
Shikara - gondola like boat found in Dal lake, Kashmir

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thangka - Tibetan cloth painting
tonga - two wheeled horse/pony carriage
Trimurti - the Hindu triad of Shiva, Vishnu and Brahma
Urs - death anniversary of a Muslim saint
Vedas - Hindu sacred text of hymns in Sanskrit in four books - Rig Veda, Yajur Veda, Sama Veda and Atharva Veda.
Vishnu - part of Trimurti with 10 incarnations - Matsya (fish), tortoise (Kurma), wild boar (Varaha), Narasimha, Vamana, Parasurama, Rama, Krishna, Buddha and the expected avatar of Kalki.
wav - step-well, commonly found in Gujarat
zakat - tax in the form of a charitable donation by Muslims
zenana - area in an upper-class home where women are secluded (in Rajasthani palaces)

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CENTRAL VIGILANCE COMMISSION
Satarkata Bhavan , A-Block
GPO Complex , INA
New Delhi - 110 023

A public servant working in any organisation, to which the executive control of the Government of India comes under CVC. CVC works in accordance with the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988. You can rertport about the corruption in Central goverment employees and taking of bribe to [email protected]

For more details visit http://cvc.nic.in

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Believe it or not - Wonderful facts for one and all

If you keep a goldfish in a dark room, it will eventually turn white.

If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.

In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.

In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.

It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.

Marilyn Monroe had six toes.

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Anti Corruption Bureau

If you have any complaints about corrupted State government officials in India, you can file a report with ACB to trap these corrupted persons.

In Maharashtra, contact : Anti Corruption Bureau

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Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.

More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes.

No word in the English language rhymes with month.

Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.

On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.

One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today is because cotton growers in the '30s lobbied against hemp farmers, they saw it as competition.

Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.

Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.

Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.

Shakespeare invented the word "assassination" and "bump."

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Believe it or not

Some lions mate over 50 times a day.

Starfish haven't got brains.

Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.

The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.

The average human eats eight spiders in their lifetime at night.

The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds.

The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth 2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.

The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.

The most common name in the world is Mohammed.

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Interesting information

The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.

The Pentagon, in Arlington, Virginia, has twice as many bathrooms as is necessary. When it was built in the 1940s, the state of Virginia still had segregation laws requiring separate toilet facilities for blacks and whites.

The sentence, "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the English language.

The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.

The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.

The word "lethologica" describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.

The word racecar, Malayalam and kayak are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left.

There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.

TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard.

Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

You are more likely to be killed by a Champagne cork than by a poisonous spider.

You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.

You share your birthday with at least nine million other people in the world.