SSB – A Test of Personality

SSB- a quality filter that only allows a candidate with high motivation, better trainability, clear psychological balance and willingness to do something for the nation. This test is counted as one of the toughest and prestigious exams in our country. But wait!… There is no syllabus, books and exact strategy to crack it.

This is because SSB is not a test of academics or test of one’s achievements, but it is a simple personality test. Board is not looking for supernatural human but for the leaders, those who are capable enough to work under high stress, take life and death decision in split seconds. For getting into forces one should be himself/herself. Never try to impersonate, pretend or bluff during these 5 days. About SSB preparation: It is not the test which could be prepared in a month. It is a way of life and how an individual takes on. SSB is not a test which is restricted to books, labs or offices. But is helpful for all walks of life. This test improves ones thought process, the way of looking at problems, overall personality, organising ability and make him an impact player in his/her field. The value of a recommendation is known to the defence aspirants those who had already made it. Let me tell you that getting recommended is not THE END, rather it is a BEGINNING of a new world where no matter how much they are prepared for the adversity, sometimes an unexpected situation can ruin best of the minds. This is what the boys were trained for and transformed into real men.

Current topics for CAPF, Territorial Army, NDA, CDS, SSB.

CAPF, Territorial Army Essay, Report, Argument question important topics:

1. Make in India
2. Demonitisation, Pros n Cons of Cashless Economy [UPI, BHIM], Digitalization
3. Swach Bharat Abhiyan, Anti defection law
4. PM Modiji’s Agricultural Schemes, Green Development in India
5. Pros & Cons of Union Budget – 2017
6. Prohibition of Liquor near highways & it’s effects
7. Goods and services tax
8. Climate change[paris agreement],Pollution in India & Environmental Crisis
9. Water disputes within States of India
10. Electoral reform[evm, representation of people act 1951]
11. Indo-USA relation, Indo-china [CPEC]
12. India’s counter measures against Terrorism, Surgical strike, URI attack, Pathakot attack
13. Heart of asia conference {afganistan}
14. Nuclear Power Plants in India
15. Indian Women & their role in combat forces
16. Farmer Suicides
17. Beef Politics
18. Jallikattu protest in TN
19. Poverty & Crime Rate in India, Juvenile Crime rate in India, Crime against Women in India
20. India’s role in changing Global views
21. Poverty & Gender equality
22. Beti Bachao, Women education in India
23. Governor Role
24. Center state relation
25. Competitive federalism
26. Sugamya Bharat Abhiyan
27. Indo-Pak [indus water treaty- world bank]
28. Oil prices impact– dynamic price changes
29. Missile Technology
30. Non-proliferation treaty
31. Military Exercise

 

Indian Military Excercises

Gallantry Awards

WAR TIME AWARD

• PARAM VIR CHAKRA
• MAHA VIR CHAKRA
• VIR CHAKRA

PEACETIME AWARD

• ASHOK CHAKRA
• SHAURYA CHAKRA
• KIRTI CHAKRA

WARTIME/PEACETIME SERVICE AWARD

• SENA MEDAL/ NAO SENA MEDAL/ VAYU SENA MEDAL

WAR DISTINGUISHED AWARD

• SARVOTTAM YUDH SEVA MEDAL
• UTTAM YUDH SEVA MEDAL
• YUDH SEVA MEDAL

PEACETIME DISTINGUISHED AWARD

• PARAM VISHISHT SEVA MEDAL
• ATI VISHISHT SEVA MEDAL
• VISHISHT SEVA MEDAL

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Salute to Real Heroes of Our Nation

Science & Technology 2016

Science and Technology

1. LIGO:

• Laser interference gravitational waves observatory (2 Observatory is USA: Livingston, Louisiana and Hanford, Washington. Funded by National science foundation
• It is large scale physic experiment & observatory to detect cosmic gravitational waves to make it as astronomical tool.
• In 2016 gravitational waves is reported by LIGO scientist collaboration.
• In April 2016, India and US had signed an MoU to set up the LIGO Observatory-US National Science Foundation (NSF) and India’s Department of Atomic Energy (DAE).
• LIGO India Project at Maharashtra Dudhala village in Hingoli district.

2. Smart Grid:

• Power grid chairman and director R.N.Nayak.
• Used for electronic power conditioning, distribution of electricity, improve fault detection and allow self-healing of network.
• Tackle an out-of-control electricity theft problem and improve reliability.
• In November 2014, Prime Minister Modi announced $4bn in funding for smart metering programs.
• Over $8bn is available for loss reduction programs.

3. HVDC: High voltage direct current

• Alstom (vice president-Patric Plas) company collaborated with PGCIL.
• It transmit electricity over large distance & separate power source is interconnected easily.
• Electric power is taken from one point in 3 phase AC N/W, converted to DC and transmitted to receiving point by cable and then converted back to AC (reduce loss).
• Categories of HVDC: Point to point transmission, Back to back station, Multi terminal system.
• Advantage: low investment cost, low loss, long distance water crossing, controllability, limited short circuit current, environmentally superior, allow interconnection of asynchronous N/W.

4. Cloud Computing:

• It means delivering of hosted service over the internet and using this network of remote server to store, manage and process data rather than local server or personal computer.
• It is on demand network access and it save cost.
• For every employee new software is needed to install in their PC which might cost high. So with cloud computing we can install software to remote server and give access to every employee.

5. Bio Glass: developed by Lary Henches

• It is special component of glasses that contains some component which is accepted by living bones.
• Scientists from Imperial College London in the UK and University of Milano-Bicocca in Italy have developed a bio-glass material that mimics the shock-absorbing and load bearing qualities of real cartilage.
• The bio-glass consists of silica and a plastic or polymer called polycaprolactone.
• Artificial body parts are printed using 3D printer with exactly same specification of patient organs.
• It is proved as minerals for teeth which gets dissolve into teeth and reduce sensitivity.

6. Li-Fi: Light Fidelity

• It is based on visible light concept. So no radiation problem.Developed by Harald Hass.
• Internet is passed through lamp driver to LED which gets received by photo receptor. After amplification is done it received by receiver as an output of photo detector at computer end.
• More than single user can access internet simultaneously. No interference will be experienced unlike Wi-Fi because of less Bandwidth.
• Range is extended to area which is covered by light. Therefore it is secure and wasted less.
• Due to limited area under light Li-Fi shows high data density.
• Data Rate of Li-Fi is 100 Gbps whereas Wi-Fi has 7 Gbps.

7. Augmented Reality Technology:

• It uses existing environment to overlay new information on top of it.
• It is a special 3D programming which allow developer to tie animation (contextual digital information) in real world.
• It includes GPS & compass to detect device orientation.
• Used for military training as machine vision, object recognition & gesture recognition.
• Union Government has launched Augmented Reality technology based mobile application named ‘Sakaar’ to highlight the achievements of the Department of Space.
• The application consists of 3 Dimensional (3D) models of Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM), RISAT, indigenous rockets such as PSLV, GSLV Mk-III.

8. Cloud Seeding:

• Process of spreading either dry ice or silver iodide to encourage growth of new ice particles.
• Silver iodide aerosol is sprinkled at upper part of cloud to simulate precipitation process to form rain.
• Disadvantage: Costly, not an efficient technique, environmental imbalance.

9. Hybrid Vacuum Toilet:

• Toilet evacuate discharge into biodigester tank which is fitted underneath coach and contains anaerobic bacteria that converts human waste into water & gases before discharging into tracks.
• Conventional toilet uses 10-15 liters of water whereas hybrid uses only 500ml water.

10. ISRO launches 8 satellites:

• It is also for the first time PSLV has successfully placed satellites in two different orbits in single mission.
• Three satellites were from India, three from Algeria (Alsat-1B, 2B, Nano)and one each from Canada (NLS-19) and United States (pathfinder-I).
• SCATSAT-1 satellite: provide weather forecasting services
• Pratham: satellite developed by students from IIT Bombay. It will be used to study the total electron count in space with a resolution of 1km x 1km location grid.
• PISAT: satellite made by students of Bengaluru’s PES University. It will take pictures of earth for remote sensing applications.

11. Telangana sign MoU with ISRO to promote education:

• The MoU was inked between Department of IT, Electronics & Communication of Telangana and ISRO’s Development & Educational Communication Unit (DECU).
• ISRO will help to improve services of Telangana’s educational channel ‘Mana TV’ by using Satcom.
• Mana TV will also launch similar coaching programmes for the students preparing for various competitive examinations.

12. GSAT-18:

• India’s latest communication satellite GSAT-18 was successfully launched from the spaceport of Kourou in French Guiana.
• Carries 48 communication transponders including Ku-band beacon for accurately pointing ground antennas towards the satellite.
• Provide services like television, telecommunication, VSAT and digital satellite news gathering.

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INTERNATIONAL/NATIONAL IMPORTANT DAYS

January 1 Army Medical Corps Establishment Day/Global Family Day
January 8 African National Foundation Day
January 9 Pravasi Bharatiya Divas (Non-Resident Indian Day)
January 10 World Hindi Day/World Laughter Day
January 11 Death Anniversary of Lal Bahadur Shastri
January 12 National Youth Day (Swami Vivekananda Birth Anniversary)
January 15 National Army Day
January 23 Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose Birth Anniversary
January 24 National Girl Child Day
January 25 National Voters Day, National Tourism Day
January 26 India’s Republic Day & International Customs Day
January 30 World Leprosy Eradication Day, National Cleanliness Day, Martyrs Day

February 1 Coast Gaurd Day
February 2 World Wetlands Day
February 4 World Cancer Day
February 5 Kashmir Day{Pakistan}
February 6 International Day against Female Genital Mutilation
February 12 Darwin Day,World Day of the Sick
February 13 National Women’s Day, World Radio Day, Sarojni Naydu’s birthday
February 14 Valentines Day
February 20 World Day of Social Justice
February 21 International Mother Language Day
February 23 World Peace’s and Understanding Day
February 24 Central Excise Day
February 28 National Science Day (Discovery of Raman Effect by Sir C.V. Raman)

March 3 World Wildlife Day
March 4 World Day of the Fight Against Sexual Exploitation, National Security Day
March 8 International Womens’ Day
March 9 CISF Raising Day
March 12 Mauritius Day
March 13 World Kidney Day & World Rotaract Day
March 15 World Consumer Rights Day
March 16 National Vaccination Day
March 20 World Sleep Day, International Day of Happiness, International day for Francophonie
March 21 World Forestry Day, International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.
March 22 World Water Day
March 23 World Meteorological Day
March 24 World TB Day & International Day for Achievers
March 25 International day of Remembrance-victim of slavery
March 26 Bangaladesh Liberation Day
March 27 World Drama Day
March 28 National Shipping Day
March 30 Rajasthan Day

April 1 Utkal Divas (Orrissa Day)
April 2 World Austism Awareness Day, International Children’s Book Day
April 4 International Day for Mine Awareness and Assistance in Mine Action
April 5 National Maritime Day
April 6 International Day of Sport for Development and Peace
April 7 World Health Day, International Day of Reflection on the Genocide in Rwanda
April 7-14 National Handloom Week
April 10 World Homoeopathy Day
April 11 National Safe Motherhood Day
April 12 International Day of Human Space Flight, International Day for Street Children
April 13 Jallianwala Bagh Massacre
April 14 Birth Anniversary of BR Ambedkar
April 17 World Haemophilia Day
April 18 World Heritage Day
April 14-20 National Fire Service Week
April 22 International Earth Day
April 23 World Book and Copyright Day, English Language Day
April 24 National Women’s Political Empowerment Day, Manav ekta Divas
April 25 World Malaria Day
April 26 World Intellectual Property Day
April 28 World Day for Safety and Health at Work
April 29 International Dance Day, Day of Remembrance for all Victims of Chemical Warfare
April 24-30 World Immunization Week (last week of Apr)
April 30 International Jazz Day

May 1 International Labour day
May 3 World Press Freedom Day
May 4 Coal Miners day
May 2nd Sunday Mother’s Day
May 6 Lawyers Day
May 8 World Red Cross day
May 9 Victory Day
May 10 World Migratory Bird Day
May 11 National Technology Day
May 12 International Nurses day
May 13 National Solidarity Day
May 14 World Migratory day
May 15 International Day of the Family
May 17 World Information (telecommunication) Society Day, World Hypertension Day
May 21 Anti-Terrorism Day
May 22 Global Biodiversity Day
May 24 Commonwealth Day
May 29 Mount Everest Day
May 31 World No Tobacco Day

June 4 International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression
June 5 World Environment Day
June 7 International Level Crossing Awareness Day
June 8 World oceans Day
June 12 World Day against Child Labour
June 2nd Sunday Father’s Day
June 14 World Blood Donor day
June 15 World Elder Abuse Awareness Day
June 17 World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought
June 19 International Day for the Elimination of Sexual Violence in Conflict
June 20 World Refugee Day
June 21 International Yoga Day, World Hydrography Day
June 23 United Nations Public Service Day, International widow’s day,International Olympic Day
June 25 World Day of the Seafarer
June 26 International Day against Drug Abuse and Ilicit Trafficking
June 27 International Diabetes Day
June 28 Poor’s Day
June 29 10th National statistics day

July 1 National doctor’s Day
July 4 American Independence Day
July 6 World Zoonosis Day
July 11 World Population Day
July 12 Malala Day
July 15 World Youth Skills Day
July 18 Nelson Mandela International Day
July 26 Kargil Victory Day
July 27 Parents Day
July 28 World Hepatitis Day, World Nature Conservation day
July 29 International Tiger Day
July 30 International Day of Friendship

August 3 Independence day of Niger
August 5 Independence day of Upper Volta
August 6 Hiroshima Day
August 7 National Handloom Day
August 9 International day of the World’s Indigenous People, Quit India Day, Nagasaki Day
August 10 World Bio-Fuel Day
August 12 International Youth Day
August 15 Independence Day
August 19 Worlds Photography Day
August 20 Sadbhavna Divas
August 23 International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition
August 29 National Sports Day (Birthday of Dhyan Chand )

September 2 Coconut Day
September 5 Teacher’s Day (Dr. S Radhakrishnan’s Birth Anniversary), International Day of Charity
September 8 International Literacy Day
September 14 Hindi day, World First Aid Day
September 15 Engineer’s Day (Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya Birth Anniversary)
September 16 World Ozone Day, National Engineer’s Day
September 21 International Day of Peace & World Alzheimer’s day
September 25 Social Justice Day
September 26 Day of Deaf
September 27 World Tourism Day
September 28 World Rabies Day
September 29 World Heart Day, World Maritime Day
September 30 International Translation Day

October 1 International Day of Older Persons, World Vegetarian Day, Blood Donation Day
October 2 Gandhi Jayanthi, International Day of Non-Violence
October 3 World Nature Day & World Habitat Day
October 4 World Animal Day
October 5 World Teacher’s Day
October 6 World Wildlife Day
October 8 Indian Airforce Day
October 9 World Post Day
October 10 National Post Day
October 11 International Girl Child Day
October 12 World Arthritis Day
October 13 UN International Day for disaster reduction
October 14 World Standards Day
October 15 World Students Day, World white cane day (guiding blind)
October 16 World Food day
October 17 International Day for the Eradication of Poverty
October 20 World Statistics Day
October 21 Police Commemoration Day
October 24 United Nations Day, World development information day
October 30 World Thrift Day
October 31 World Thrift Day, National Unity day (Rashtriya Ekta Diwas), Sardar Vallabhai Patel Birth Anniversary

November 1 World Vegan Day
November 5 World Radiography Day
November 7 Infant Protection Day, World Cancer Awareness Day
November 9 World Services Day
November 10 Transport Day
November 11 National Education Day (Birth Anniversary of Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, the first education minister of independent India)
November 14 Children’s Day (Birth Anniversary of Jawaharlal Nehru )
November 16 International Day for Endurance
November 17 International students Day & National Journalism Day
November 18 World Adult Day
November 19 World Citizen Day, International Men’s Day, World Toilet Day
November 20 Universal Children’s Day, African Industrialization Day
November 21 World Television Day, World Fisheries day
November 25 World Non-veg Day
November 26 Law Day, National Constitution Day
November 29 International Human Solidarity Day
November 30 Flag Day, Computer Security Day

December 1 World AIDS Day
December 2 World Computer Literacy Day, World pollution prevention day
December 3 World Disable Day & World Conservation Day
December 4 Navy Day
December 5 International volunteer day for economic & social development
December 6 Ambedkar Remembrance Day ( Mahaparinirvana diwas)
December 7 International Civil Aviation Day, Armed Force Flag Day
December 9 The International Day Against Corruption
December 10 Human Rights Day, International Day of Broadcasting
December 11 International Mountain Day, UNICEF Day
December 14 World Energy conservation Day
December 18 International Migrants Day
December 19 Goa’s Liberation Day
December 20 International Human Solidarity Day
December 23 Kissan Divas
December 24 National Consumer’s Day
December 25 Good Governance Day (Atal Bihari Vajpayee Birth Anniversary), Christmas
December 26 Boxing Day
December 29 International Bio-diversity day

Click here to download pdf of important-days and  learn these days by clicking important dates on Clearssbsite Calendar. Know about important points behind every dates.

Salute to Martyrs of Uri

My hands are frozen and pen is jammed with emotion of great martyrs of Uri. There are no words which can express sorrow of the whole nation. But now it’s high time to be unite and speak up against cowards. This is not the first time when rouge nation Pakistan has done brutal backstabbing but for sure this would be the last one. A nation with world’s 13^th largest army knows it very well that they even cannot fight with single platoon of world’s 4^th largest force. Therefore, Pak army chief is saving his rabbits by sending rats into our territory. Our 18 braves were enough to regain control over occupied Kashmir but it was their mercy that they haven’t done it. Rangers are trained to fight for the nation without uniform, without identity and after all this, they even don’t get graves in their motherland. Indian Army is not only force but it is a trust which keeps our boundaries safe and the day our mother loses her fine warrior the whole country gets flooded with tears. I don’t understand how their defense minister could think of nuclear war with a state which has tested nuclear bomb before them. Is he suffering from amnesia or trying to warn us. Whatever may be the reason but now our soldiers are out of mind. They will pull out all the rats and their piper (heads) and will cut their body into pieces and feed it to dogs. India is responsible nation which never wanted to hurt innocent that’s why till now it has tolerated. But now we cannot let our people blooded for saving your people those who support terrorist.

The terrorists secretly entered into the army base through a tunnel cutting the fencing in the morning 18-09-2016 at 5:00 am, attacked with grenades and fired whatever they could in their range. Government is not going to take it lightly and is planning to take strict action against Pakistan. We Indians are waiting for recovery of 796,095 km² area as part of “Akhand Bharat Nirmaan”.

Important Days (10 JAN)

1.World Hindi Day

The World Hindi Day is being observed annually on 10 January. On this occasion, Union Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) has conducted special events to spread the greatness of the language through its missions abroad. The Department of Official Language (Rajbhasha) also has organised several events to mark this day. World Hindi Day was first observed on 10 January 2006. It is in addition to present National Hindi Divas which is being observed annually on 14 September to mark the day 14 September 1949 on which the Constituent Assembly adopted Hindi written in Devanagari script as the Official Language of the Union. It should be noted that World Hindi Day is the promotion of the language at the global stage. While, National Hindi Divas is being observed across the country at national level. Hindi is the fourth most spoken language of the world. It is mother tongue of around 258 million people across the world. The provision of Hindi as official Language of the Union has been mentioned in Article 120, Article 210 and Article 343, 344 and from 348 to 351.

2. World Laughter Day

The first celebration was on January 10, 1998, in Mumbai, India, and was arranged by Dr. Madan Kataria, founder of the worldwide Laughter Yoga movement. Kataria, a family doctor in India, was inspired to start the Laughter Yoga movement in part by the facial feedback hypothesis, which postulates that a person’s facial expressions can have an effect on their emotions.

Important Days (09 JAN)

Pravasi Bharatiya Divas (Non-Resident Indian Day)

Pravasi Bharatiya Divas (Non-Resident Indian Day), is celebrated in India on 9 January each year to mark the contribution of the overseas Indian community to the development of India. The day commemorates the return of Mahatma Gandhi from South Africa in Bombay on 9 January 1915. Established in 2003, it is sponsored by the Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs of the government of India and the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) and the Ministry of Development of the North Eastern Region of India. A celebratory event is held on 7–9 January each year in an Indian city: a forum for issues concerning the Indian Diaspora is organised and the Pravasi Bharatiya Samman Awards are given.

The annual Pravasi Bharatiya Divas Program since 2003 has been organised in the following cities:

Day	Year	Venue	State
1st	2003	New Delhi	Delhi
2nd	2004	New Delhi	Delhi
3rd	2005	Mumbai	Maharashtra
4th	2006	Hyderabad	Andhra Pradesh (Now in Telangana)
5th	2007	New Delhi	Delhi
6th	2008	New Delhi	Delhi
7th	2009	Chennai	Tamil Nadu
8th	2010	New Delhi	Delhi
9th	2011	New Delhi	Delhi
10th	2012	Jaipur	Rajasthan
11th	2013	Kochi	Kerala
12th	2014	New Delhi	Delhi
13th	2015	Gandhinagar	Gujarat
14th	2016	New Delhi	Delhi
15th	2017	Bengaluru	Karnataka