Great INDIAN Festivals

INDIAN FESTIVALS: 

January 5th - Guru Gobind Singh Jayanthi
January 13th - Lohri
January 14th - Makar Sankranthi 
January 15th - Pongal 
January 22nd - Giaravahin Sharif
February 1st - Vasant Panchami 
February 9th - Thaipusam 
February 25th - Maha Shivarathri 
February 27th - Losar
March 12th - Holika Dahan 
March 13th - Holi, Holla Mohalla 
March 28th - Ugadi  / Telugu New year 
March 30th - Gangaur Festival 
April 5th - Ram Navami 
April 9th - Mahavir Jayanthi
April 11th - Hanuman Jayanthi 
April 14th - Good Friday 
April 16th - Easter 
May 5th - Shab-e-Barat 
May 10th - Buddha Purnima 
June  23rd - Jamat-Ul-Vida
June 25th - Rath  Yatra 
June 26th - Id-Ul-Fitr (Ramzan Eid) 
July 3rd - Hemis Gompa 
July 9th - Guru Purnima 
August 7th - Raksha Bandan 
August 14th - Janmashtami 
August 18th - Paryushan
August 25th - Ganesh Chathurthi 
August 29th - Kumar mela
September 2nd - Bakrid / Eid-Ul-Adha 
September 4th - Onam 
September 5th - Pitv Paksh / Ullambana 
September 8th - Ramlila 
September 20th - Muharram 
September 21st - Navratra 
September 22nd - Brahmostavam 
September 27th - Sodal  Mela
September 30th - Dussehra 
October 5th - Maharishi 
October 8th - Rambarat / Karva Chauth 
October 9th - Guru Nanak Jayanthi 
October 17th - Dhanteras 
October 19th - Diwali 
October 20th - Govardhan Puja 
October 21st - Bhai Dooj 
November 3rd - Deep Diwali 
December 2nd - Milad-Un-Nabi 
December 11th - Barawatat 
December 25th - Christmas 

PHOBIAS

Fear of Phobia :

Alcohol                  :  Potophobia
Amphibians          :  Batrachophobia
Animals                 :  Zoophobia
Ants                        :  Myrmecophobia
Anything new      :  Neophobia

Being forgotten      :  Athazagoraphobia
Being dirty              :  Automysophobia
Being alone             :  Autophobia
Beautiful woman   :  Coligynephobia
Being ridiculed       :  Catagelopbobia
Bicycles                    :  Cyclophobia
Blushing                   :  Ereuthrophobia
Being touched         :  Haptephobia
Being robbed           :  Harpaxophobia
Blood                         :  Haemophobia
Burns or beggars    :  Hobophobia
Being started at       :  Opthalmophobia
Birds                          :  Ornithophobia
Bald people              :  Peladophobia
Becoming bald        :  Phalacrophobia
Beards                       :  Pogonophobia
Bad men, burglars  :  Scelerophobia
Being buried alive  :  Taphephobia
Bulls                           :  Taurophobia
Bullets                       :  Ballistophobia

Cats                           :  Ailurophobia
Cancer                      :  Carcinophobia
Cold                           :  Cheimaphobia
Colours                     :  Chromatophobia
Clocks                       :  Chronementrophobia
Confined spaces     :  Claustrophobia
Computers               :  Cyberphobia
Crowds                     :  Demophobia
Crossingstreets       :  Dromophobis
Crossing bridges    :  Gephysrophobia
Childbirth                :  Lockiophobia
Cooking                    :  Mageirocophobia
Changes                   :  Metathesiophobia
Colour purple         :  Porphyrophobia
Clothing                   :  Vestiphobia
Corpses                    :  Necrophobia

Darkness       :  Achluophobia
Depth             :  Bathophobia
Dancing         :  Chorophobia
Demons         :  Dacmonophobia
Drinking       :  Dipsophobia
Deformity     :  Dysmorphophobia
Dolls               :  Pediophobis
Drugs             :  Pharmacophobia
Dirt                 :  Mysophobia
Disease          :  Nosophobia
Dogs               :  Cynophobia
Dreams          :  Oneirophobia

Electricity        :  Electrophobia
Erect penis      :  Medorthophobia
Eyes                  :  Ommetophobia
Everything      :  Pantophobia

Flowers      :  Anthrophobia
Floods         :  Antlophobia
Failure        :  Atychiphobia
Flying          :  Ariophobia
Food            :  Cibophobia
Fever           :  Febriphobia
Fog               :  Homichlophobia
Frogs           :  Ranidaphobia
Fear             :  Phobophobia
Fire              :  Pyrophobia
Foreigners  :  Xenophobia
Forest           :  Hylophobia

Going to school          :  Didaskaleinophobia
Growing old               :  Gerascophobia
Going to the Doctor  :  Latrophobia
Gaining weight          :  Obes phobia
Ghost                           :  Phasmophobia
Getting wrinkles       :  Rhytiphobia
Germs                         :  Spermatophobia
God                              :  Zeusophobia

Heights     :  Altophobia
Hair           :  Trichopathophobia
Houses      :  Domatophobia
Home        :  Oikophobia
Hell           :  Stygiophobia
Horses      :  Hippophobia
Hospitals  :  Nosocomephobia
Heredity   :  Patroiophobia
Heat          :  Thermophobia

Infinity            :  Apeirophobia
Imperfection  :  Atelophobia
Insanity           :  Dementophobia
Insects             :  Entomophobia
Ideas                :  Ideophobia
Injury              :  Traumatophobia
Ice                    :  Cryophobia
Idleness          :  Thassophobia

Jumping  :  Catapedaphobia
Japanese :  Japanophobia
Jews         :  Judeophobia
Jealousy  :  Zelophobia

Laughter                    :  Geliophobia
Leprosy                      :  Leprophobia
Lakes                          :  Limnophobia
Long waits                 :  Macrophobia
Love play                   :  Malaxophobia
Losing  an erection  :  Medomalacuphobia
Learning                    :  Sophophobia
Lighting                     :  Astrapophobia
Loneliness                 :  Autophobia

Men                         :  Androphobia
Money                     :  Chrematophobia
Making decisions  :  Decidophobia
Marriage                 :  Gametohobia
Menstruation         :  Monophobia
Mice                         :  Musophobia
Many things           :  Polyphobia
Mirror                     :  Eisoptrophobia
Mobs                        :  Ochlophobia

Noise                  :  Acousticophobia
Needles              :  Aichmophobia
Novelty              :  Cainotophobia
Nudity                :  Gymnophobia
Narrow places  :  Stenophobia
Night                   :  Nictophobia

Open spaces  :  Agoraphobia
Opinions        :  Allodoxaphobia
Old people     :  Gerontophobia

Pins                    :  Balenephobia
Prostitutes        :  Cyprianophobia
Property            :  Orthophobia
Poverty              :  Peniaphobia
Progress             :  Prosophobia
Parents in-law  :  Soceraphobia
Pleasure             :  Hedonophobia
People                :  Anthropophobia
Priests                :  Hierophobia

Riding                  :  Amaxophobia
Reptiles                :  Herpetophobia
Road travel          :  Hodophobia
Responsibility     :  Hypengyophobia
Rooms                   :  Koinoniphobia
Returning home  :  Nostophobia
Rivers                    :  Harpaxophobia
Relatives               :  Syngenesophobia
Rape                      :  Virginitiphobia
Robbers                :  Thalassophobia
Rail travel            :  Siderodromophobia

Telangana Budget - 2017

     Telangana Finance minister Sri. Etala Rajender Presented the fourth Budget of the Telangana State Highlights:-

* Total Budget size is Rs 149646 crore. 

* Estimated committed expenditure is of Rs 61607.20 crore. 

* The Revised estimate of 2016-2017 budget expenditure was 86.02% Rs 112191. 07 crore. 

* Information Technology department gets Rs.252.86 crore in the budget. 

* Revenue surplus is of Rs 4571.30 crore and fisical deficit of Rs 26096.31 crore. 

* Expenditure in schemes pegged at Rs 88038.80 crore. 

* Mission Bhagiratha, the piped drinking water programme gets Rs. 3000 crore. 

* Revenue expenditure pegged at Rs. 50954.61 crore. 

* Urbon infrastructure development to rely on 'extra budgetary resources'. 

* Agriculture and allied sectors to get Rs 46946.98 crore. 

* 19.61 % growth rate achieved. 

* Rs 4000 crore set aside towords payment of fourth and final installment to banks towards the Rs 17000  crore farm loan weiver scheme. 

* Rs 300 crore allocated for Warangal municipal corporation.  Warangal is the second biggest city in Telangana after Hyderabad. 

* Backward classes welfare to benefit Fishermen and Shepherd communities. 

* SC, ST Welfare funds unspent to be carried forward to this year's budget. Founds for SC, ST Welfare based on population ratio. 

* Rs 1000 crore allocated for Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation. 

* Irrigation Continues to be priority area for the state. To get Rs 25000 crore this year too. 

* Finance Minister says rural economy is the FOCUS. 

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Do You Know New Ministers Educational Qualifications?

2017- New Ministers  Educational Qualifications

# Suresh Prabhu = Chartered Accountent. 

# Satpal Singh = MSC, MPhil, Chemistry, MBA, PhD and IPS-Former Mumbai Police Commissinor.  

# R K Singh = IAS-25 Years experience and Served as Home Secretary. 

# Nirmala Sitharaman = BA, MA Economic, MPhil, PhD Economic, Worked in PWC and BBC. 

# Piyush Goyal = All India 2nd Topper in Chartered Accountent Course, 2nd Topper LLB in  Mumbai University, Served on board of SBI and Bank of Baroda. 

# Alphons Kannan thanam = MA Economic, LLB, IT'S. 

# Hardeep Puri = Post Graduate, IFS with Over 30 years of Experience and Worked as Indian Representative to UN. 

Oscar Awards - 2017

OSCARS - 2017 WINNERS  
                

     The 89th Academy Awards in Los Angeles, USA. 

1. Best Picture - Moonlight by Adele Romanski, Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner.  
2. Best Director - Damien Chazelle for"La La Land". 
3. Best Actress in a Leading Role - Emma Stone for "La La Land".  
4. Best Actor in a Leading Role - Casey Affleck for Manchester by the Sea.  
5. Best Original Screen Play - Kenneth Lonergan for Manchester by the sea.  
6. Best Adapted Screenplay - Barry Jenkins and Tavell Alvin Mccraney for "Moon Light". 
7. Best Original Song - 'City of Stars' from La La Land by Justin Hurwitz, Benj pasek and justin Paul.  
8. Best Original Score - Justin Hurwitz for La La Land. 
9. Best Cinematography - Linus Sandgren for 'La La Land'.  
10. Best Documentary Short - "The white Helmets" by Orlando von Einsiedel and Joanna Natasehara.  
11. Best Live Action Shart - 'Sing' by Kristof Deak and Anna Udvardy. 
12. Best Film Editing - John Gilbert for "Hacksaw Ride". 
13. Best Visual Effects - Robert Legato, Adam valdez, Andrew R Jones and Dan Lemmon for "The Jungle Book". 
14. Best Production Design - David wasco and Sandy Reynolds, Wasco for 'La La Land'. 
15. Best Animated Short - "Piper" by Alan Barillaro and Makc Sondheimer. 
16. Best Animated Feature - 'Zootopia' by Byron Howard, Rich Moore and Clark Spencer. 
17. Best Documentary Feature - Ezra Edelman Caroline waterlow for OJ. Made in America. 
18. Best Sound Editing - Sylvian Bellemare for Arrival. 
19. Best Sound Mixing - Kevin 'O' Connel, Andy Wright, Robert Mackenzie and Peter Grace for "Hacksaw Ridge". 
20. Best Foreign Language Film - "The Sales Man" by Asghar Farhadi. 
21. Best Actress in a Supporting Role - Viola Davis for "Fences". 

#New Central Ministers of India - 2017

1. Suresh Prabhu - (Commerce and Industry)
2. Dharmendra Pradhan  - (Petroleum and Natural gas, skill development and Entrepreneurship)
3. Piyush Goyal - (Railway, Coal)
4. Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi - (Minority Affairs)
5. Hardeep Singh Puri  - (Housing, Urban Affairs)
6. Alphons Kannanthanam - (Tourism, Electronics and Information Technology)
7. Ashwini Kumar Choubey - (Health and Family welfare)
8. Dr. Satyapal Singh - (Human Resources Development, water Resources, River Development)
9. Dr. Virendra Kumar - (Women and Child Development, Minority Affairs)
10. Gajendra Singh Shekhawat - (Agriculture and Farmers Welfare)
11. Shiv Pratap Shukla - (Finance)
12. Ananth Kumar - (Chemicals and Fertilizers, Parliamentary Affairs)
13. Raj Nath Singh - (Home Affairs)
14. Sushma Swaraj - (External Affairs)
15. Ramvilas Paswan - (Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution)
16. Ravi Shankar Prasad - (Law and Justice Electronics)
17. Chaudhary Birender Singh - (Steel)
18. Ashok Gajapathi Raju Pusapati - (Civil Aviation)
19. Thaawar Chand Gehlot - (Social Justice and Empowerment)
20. Dr. Harsh Vardhan - (Science and Technology, Earth Sciences, Environment, Forest and Climate Change)
21. Smriti Zubin Irani - (Textiles, Information and Broad casting)
22. Jual Oram - (Tribal Affairs)
23. Arun Jaitley - (Finance Corporate Affairs)
24. Uma Bharati - (Drinking Water and Sanitation)