A post office in Kerala which 'delivers' mails to God
Sabarimala (Kerala): It is a unique post office, and one of its main tasks is to deliver letters to God. Located near the famed Hindu temple at the Sabarimala hills, the post office may perhaps be the only one in the country which does not work round the year. It comes alive when the peak pilgrimage season of the Ayyappa shrine begins on the first day of the Malayalam month in November, and the period ends towards the middle of January.
The post office is also open for 10 days during the Vishu season. Functioning six days a week from 8 in the morning to 8 at night, the six employees, led by 23-year-old Sai G Prakash, have a lot to do. Prakash is happy to be here, and says he was a devotee of Lord Ayyappa.
"Our post office mostly gets invitation cards for weddings and shop openings addressed to Lord Ayyappa, obviously to seek divine blessings," Prakash said.
The post office is also open for 10 days during the Vishu season. Functioning six days a week from 8 in the morning to 8 at night, the six employees, led by 23-year-old Sai G Prakash, have a lot to do.
Most such mails come from Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh, he said. But the three letter boxes kept in the temple complex get more than post cards and envelopes. Every morning, the staff find scores of identity cards and wallets too in them.
"We make it a point to mail these cards to the individuals concerned," Prakash said. The employees often spend their own money to do this. "Since this season began, I have posted close to 20 PAN cards to the income tax office."
Police say all this is the work of pickpockets who operate in the temple town -- crowded during the pilgrimage season. The criminals pocket the money from the wallets and dump the cards -- and wallets -- in the post boxes.
Situated in the mountain ranges of the Western Ghats at 914 metres above sea level, the Sabarimala temple is four kilometres uphill from Pamba in Pathanamthitta district, around 100 km from Thiruvananthapuram.
The temple is accessible only on foot from Pamba. During the last pilgrimage season, more than 4.5 million devotees visited the shrine. This season the authorities expect a 10 percent increase.
A feature of the post office is the special pictorial cancellation stamp of the 18 steps that led to the Lord Ayyappa shrine. "Some devotees come and buy covers or cards and write their own address and post them here," said Prakash. "This is their souvenir."
The post office helps pilgrims to post 'appom' and 'aravana' (the temple prasad). It also sells mobile recharge coupons.
Of the six employees, three walk down the hill daily carrying the outgoing mail on their heads. When they walk up, they carry bags of mail -- mostly addressed to Lord Ayyappa. "Overall we enjoy what we do here," said Prakash. "We are very happy we got this posting.
First Day Cover released on Platinum Jubilee of INS Circars
INS Circars celebrates platinum jubilee
The Hindu
Commodore KP Gopal Rao, who served as Commanding Officer of INS Circars from 1974 to 1976, cutting a cake to mark the platinum jubilee of INS Circars in Visakhapatnam on Friday. Commodore Saleem M. Anwer, the present Commanding Officer of INS Circars, is at right. Photo: C.V. Subrahmanyam
Unveiling the Platinum Jubilee plaque, plantation of saplings by former commanding officers, cutting of a special cake and release of a Special First Day Cover by the Postal Department marked the Platinum Jubilee celebrations of INS Circars, the first Naval establishment in Visakhapatnam, here on Friday.
Post Master General of Visakhapatnam Sharda Sampath released the special First Day Cover brought out by the Postal Department to mark the occasion in the presence of Commodore Saleem M. Anwer, the present Commanding Officer.
Director of Postal Services Upender spoke.
Commodore K.P. Gopal Rao, former CO INS Circars, unveiled a plaque and later planted saplings along with some former COs. There was bonhomie among the retired COs and officers as they recalled their ‘golden days’ with nostalgia. They later posed for group photographs with the present officers and men of the unit.
Commodore Gopal Rao, Commanding Officer from January 3, 1974 to January 16, 1976, recalled the historic day on December 4, 1971, when the Indian Navy attacked the Karachi Harbour. “We had to do lot of strategic planning and move our ships at economical speed as going at high speed would result in high fuel consumption and running out of fuel. There was the threat from Pakistan submarines and aircraft. Three days later, we had launched an attack on oil tanks at Karachi,” he said.
Commodore Saleem M. Anwer recalled how the Naval establishment had a humble beginning in a single building near the present Visakhapatnam Port on December 12, 1939. It grew from strength to strength and was christened HMIS Circars during the British rule in 1942 and was re-christened INS Circars, post Independence.
The Depot Ship (as it is technically called) used to provide operational, training, administrative and logistics support but the operational and training wings were de-linked subsequently.
Source : http://www.thehindu.com/
IBPS Clerk Exam (14 December 2014) Questions: Evening Shift
Friends.. Here are the GA & Computer Questions from today's (14 Dec 2014) Evening Shift IBPS Clerk Exam. This will be really useful for those having exams in coming days. If anybody remembers more questions kindly share with us in our mail id: currentaffairs4examz@gmail.com. Thank you.
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General Awareness and Computer Questions
1. Anirban Lahiri is related with which sport? - Golf
2. Constituency of Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh? - Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh
3. Capital of Kuwait? - Kuwait City
4. SAARC summit 2014 was held at? - Kathmandu, Nepal
5. Who is Rajiv Pratap Rudy? - Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Skill Development and Entrepreneurship
6. RTGS full form? - Real Time Gross Settlement
7. Jan Dhan Yojna plans to cover how many accounts? - 7.5 crore
8. UNICEF headquarters? - New York City
9. Rate at which Banks borrow money from RBI? - Repo Rate
10. Currency of Oman? - Omani Rial
11. ISP full form? - Internet service provider
12. MICR full form? - Magnetic ink character recognition
13. Commonwealth Science Conference 2014 was held in? - Bengaluru, India.
14. Full Form of WWW? - World Wide Web
15. International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women was observed on? - 25 November
16. Sansad Adarsh Gram yojna started on whose birthday? - Lok Nayak Jaya Prakash Narayan
17. Indira Awaas yojna will provide house to how many households? -
18. Fullform of HTTP? - HyperText Markup Language
19. Which of the following not a storage device? - Printer
20. Davis Cup related to? -Tennis
21. Birthday of Sardar Vallabhai Patel was recently celebrated as? - National Unity Day
22. 2016 Olympic Games will be held at? -Rio De Janerio, Brazil
23. Network inside a building is called? - Intranet
24. Which is not a threat to user? - spam
25. Shorcut key to go down the page? - Cntrl + End
26. Which follows the principle of 'buy now, pay now'? - Debit Card
27. PM's Chief Economic Officer? - Aravind Subramanian
28. Which sports woman was recently appointed as UN good will ambassador for South Asia Region? - Sania Mirza
1) Narendra Modi- Prime Minister - (Constituency: Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh)
29. Which state has highest literacy rate as per Census 2011? - Kerala
30. Commonwealth games 2014 was held at? - Glascow, Scotland
31. IRNSS satellite belongs to which country? - India
32. ASCII Full from? - American Standard Code for information interchange
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IBPS Clerk Exam Questions for review- Morning Shift - 14 December 2014
Friends..In this post we are sharing the GA and Computer Questions asked in today's (14 Dec 2014) IBPS Clerk Exam. This will be useful for those having exams in coming days. If anybody remembers more questions kindly share with us in our mail id: currentaffairs4examz@gmail.com & sapost2@gmail.com.Thank you.
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General Awareness and Computer Questions
1. Maximum limit of investment in Kisa Vikas Patra? - No Limit
2. Capital of Bhutan? - Thimphu
3. Full form of WAN? - Wise Area Network
4. Baichung Bhutia is related to which sport? - Football
5. What causes ebola? - Virus
6. UNIDO (United Nations Industrial Development Organisation) headquarters? - Vienna
7. Who was given Indian Film Personality of the Year Award at IFFI opening ceremony? - Rajinikanth
8. How much overdraft facility is available for accounts under PMJDY? - Rs.5000/-
9. Human Rights Day is observed on? - December 10
10. Name the owners of Bharat Aluminium Company Ltd. (BALCO)? - Vedanta Resources
11. In which bank LAGHU UDHYAMI account can be opened? - United Bank of India
12. NCR full form? - National Capital Region
13. Sarita Devi, who passed away recently, was related with which dance form? - Kathak
14. Book "Half Girl Friend" was written by? - Chetan Bhagath
15. RTGS full form? - Real Time Gross Settlement
16. Nalanda University is situated in which state? - Bihar
17. Ghoomar is a traditional folk dance of? - Rajasthan
18. Currency of China? - Renminbi
19. Where ISRO situated? - Karnataka
20. Which among the following is not a version of MS office? -
21. Souvik Maiti is related to which field? - Biophysical Chemistry
22. Youngest person to win Nobel prize? - Malala Yousufzai
23. International Buddhist Conference 2014 was held recentlt at? - Nepal
24. Track Asia Cup 2014 was recently held at? - New Delhi
25. MS- DOS which type of operating system? - Command driven
26. Which of the following is not a valid version of MS-Office? -Office VISTA
27. IFSC Full form? - Indian Financial System Code
28. Which of the following provide power backup to computer system?- UPS
29. The individual dots that the image on a monitor are called? -pixel
30. How any person can understand 0,1 format ? - By decoding
31. Which of the following is harmful for information security? - VIRUS
32. Which of the following refers to an upside down mouse? - Track ball
33. In excel how shortcut to reverse last action? - CTRL+Z
34. In 4th generation PC what is found? -MICRO PROCESSOR
35. Conversion of windows 98 to windows XP known as? - Upgrade
36. Which of the following is not found on Mother Board? - System Clock
37. Which of the following is a Input Device? - Touch Pad
38. PROM Full form? - Programmable read-only memory
39. IP full form? - Internet Protocol
40. Which of the following memory erased by ultra violet rays? - EPROM
41. Resident memory portion of operating system? - Registry
42. Moving from one website to another website called? - Surfing
43. Machine language used by computer? - Numeric
44. ANSI full form? - American National Standards Institute
45. Which of the following form the part of a complete URL need to access the web resource? - Protocol
46. NPCI launched which card recently? - RUPAY
47. BINARY number are composed of? - 0 & 1
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Union Ministers and their Constituencies as on 14/12/2014 - PDF Download
Friends.. In the recent Bank Exams it is seen that one question related to Union Ministers and their Constituencies is being asked. Hence in this post we are bringing you the list of important Union Cabinet Ministers, their Portfolios and their constituencies. You can download this post as PDF from the print friendly button below. Hope this help you.
2) Shri Rajnath Singh -Minister of Home Affairs -(Constituency : Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh)
3) Smt. Sushma Swarajy - Minister of External Affairs, Overseas Indian Affairs - (Constituency: Vidisha , Madhya Pradesh)
4) Shri Arun Jaitley - Minister of Corporate Affairs, Finance -(Gujarat Rajya Sabha)
5) Shri M. Venkaiah Naidu- Minister of Urban Development, Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation, Parliamentary Affairs - (Karnataka Rajya Sabha)
6) Shri Nitin Gadkari - Minister for Road Transport and Highways, Shipping - (Constituency: Nagpur, Maharashtra)
7) Shri D V Sadananda Gowda - Law & Justice - (Constituency: Bangalore North, Karnataka)
8) Sushri Uma Bharati - Minister for Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation - (Constituency: Jhansi, Uttar Pradesh)
9) Dr. Najma A. Heptulla - Minister of Minority Affairs - (Madhya Pradesh- Rajya Sabha)
10) Shri Ram Vilas Paswan - Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution - (Constituency: Hajipuri, Bihar)
11) Shri Kalraj Mishra - Minister of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises- (Constituency: Deoria, Uttar Pradesh)
12) Smt. Maneka Gandhi - Minister of Women and Child Development - (Constituency: Pilibhit , Uttar Pradesh)
13) Shri Ananth Kumar - Minister of Chemicals and Fertilizers- (Constituency : Bangalore South, Karnataka)
14) Shri Ravi Shankar Prasad - Minister of Communications & Information Technology- (Constituency: Bihar - Rajya Sabha)
15) Shri Ashok Gajapathi Raju Pusapati - Minister of Civil Aviation - (Constituency: Vizianagaram , Andhra Pradesh)
16) Smt. Harsimrat Kaur Badal - Minister of Food Processing Industries - (Constituency: Bathinda , Punjab)
17) Shri Anant Gangaram Geete - Minister of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises - (Constituency: Raigad , Maharashtra)
18) Shri Jual Oram - Minister of Tribal Affairs- (Constituency: Sundargarh, Odisha)
19) Shri Radha Mohan Singh - Minister of Agriculture - (Constituency: Purvi Champaran , Bihar)
20) Shri Thaawar Chand Gehlot - Minister of Social Justice and Empowerment - (Madhya Pradesh, Rajya Sabha)
21) Smt. Smriti Zubin Irani - Minister of Human Resource Development - (Gujarat, Rajya Sabha)
22) Shri. Manohar Parrikar - Minister of Defence - (Uttar Pradesh, Rajya Sabha)
23) Shri Suresh Prabhu - Minister of Railways - (Haryana, Rajya Sabha)
24) Shri Jagat Prakash Nadda - Minister of Health & Family Welfare - (Himachal Pradesh, Rajya Sabha)
25) Shri Narendra Singh Tomar - Minister of Mines, Steel - (Constituency: Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh)
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