Learning of the day # 3

• Mohamed Nasheed is the first democratically elected president of Maldives.
• He defeated Maumoon Abdul Gayoom to become the president.
• The island nation got its independence from Britain in 1965.
• ASEAN stands for Association of South East Asian Nations. It comprises of 10 members.
• New King of Bhutan: Jigme Khesar Namgyal Wangchuck. He is the son of the last king: Jigme Singye Wangchuck.
• Prime Minister of Nepal: Madhav Kumar Nepal.
• President of Nepal: Ram Baran Yadav.
• First Indian to win at Oscars: Bhanu Athaiya for costume design in GANDHI in 1983.
• Total number of Indians or people of Indian origin who have won Nobel Prize: 7. Venkatraman Ramakrishnan was the seventh. He shared the prize in Chemistry.
• The National Aquatic Animal of India: Dolphin (found in Ganga) aka SUSU.
• The original name of Indian-American actor Kal Penn is Kalpen Suresh Modi. He played the role of Gogol Ganguli in Mira Nair's Namesake

Learning of the day # 2

• There are two major Political Parties in Japan, Liberal Democratic Party and Democratic Party of Japan. Presently Democratic Party of Japan is in power with Yukio Hatoyama as the Prime Minister.
• Sheikh Hasina, prime minister of Bangladesh belongs to a party named Awami League. Her political rival Begum Khaleda Zia belongs to Bangladesh Nationalist Party

Learning of the day # 1

• Barak Obama is the 4th US President to win Nobel Prize.
• "Wasp 17b" is the name of a planet which has an opposite sense of revolution of its host star's sense of rotation.
• You win a sum of $1.4 million if you win Nobel Prize.
• IMEI stands for International Mobile Equipment Identity. Dial "*#06#" in your mobile phone and get the IMEI Number of the same.