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List of awards and achievements of Rahul Dravid

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Awards 1998: Arjuna award [1] 1999: CEAT International Cricketer of the World Cup [2] 2000: Wisden Cricketer of the Year 2000 [3] 2004: Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy Winner (Awarded for ICC Player of the Year) [4] 2004: Padma Shri [5] 2004: ICC Test Player of The Year, ICC Cricketer of The Year [4] MTV Youth Icon of the Year for 2004 2006: Captain of the ICC's Test Team [6] 2011: NDTV Indian of the Year 's Lifetime Achievement Award with Dev Anand [7] 2012: Don Bradman Award with Glen McGrath [8] 2013: Padma Bhushan   Individual records Tests Rahul Dravid retired as the third most capped player in Test cricket having played 164 matches, only behind Sachin Tendulkar (198 matches) and Steve Waugh (168 matches). Since then, Ricky Ponting has overtaken him. [9] Dravid played 94 consecutive Tests since his debut in 1996, without missing a single match. Of this, he played 93 matches for India and one for ICC XI . He missed a Test match for the first t

Rahul Dravid, The Great Wall Of India - Built Brick By Brick A special article dedicated to 'The Wall' - Rahul Dravid

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Rahul Dravid, The Great Wall Of India - Built Brick By Brick A special article dedicated to 'The Wall' - Rahul Dravid   When Rahul Dravid announced his retirement from international cricket on 9 th March, 2012 , we knew the end was near. He still had playing time available with Rajasthan Royals, and we would take heart from the very fact that there was still some more ‘Dravidian batting’ to enjoy, no matter how short-lived it would be. He continued playing in the same fashion; the same dazzling strokes, the same composure and the same humility with every step he took on the turf. He led the Rajasthan Royals squad with great results, and rightfully commanded the respect of one and all. It is now 6 th October, 2013, and Dravid has just played his last match for Rajasthan Royals too in the Champions League T20, 2013. His stint with RR now comes to an end as he announced his retirement before the start of the CLT20, 2013. And the funny thing is that it

Sachin Tendulkar Achievements - Current Status

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A timeline of Sachin Tendulkar's 24-year-old illustrious career– Feb 23-25, 1988 : Tendulkar (14) and Vinod Kambli (16) compile a 664-run unbroken partnership for Shardashram Vidya Mandir against St Xavier's at Azad Maidan, Mumbai. Kambli remains unbeaten on 349 not out and Tendulkar scores 326 not out. It remains the highest partnership recorded in any form of cricket, until in November 2006. Dec 11, 1988 : Makes first-class debut at the age of 15 and scores an unbeaten century against Gujarat at the Wankhede Stadium. Becomes Youngest Indian to make a hundred on first-class debut. Nov 15, 1989 : Makes his Test debut in Karachi against Pakistan at the age of 16. Makes 15 on debut. Dec 14, 1989 : Suffers a bloody nose in the last Test in Sialkot after being hit by Waqar Younis. Makes 57 in the innings. August 14, 1990 : At the age of 17 years and 112 days, becomes the then second-youngest to score a Test century. He scores 119 not out against England at Old T

All Nobel Prize Winners 2013

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  The Nobel Prize in Physics 2013 François Englert and Peter W. Higgs "for the theoretical discovery of a mechanism that contributes to our understanding of the origin of mass of subatomic particles, and which recently was confirmed through the discovery of the predicted fundamental particle, by the ATLAS and CMS experiments at CERN's Large Hadron Collider" The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2013 Martin Karplus, Michael Levitt and Arieh Warshel "for the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems" The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2013 James E. Rothman, Randy W. Schekman and Thomas C. Südhof "for their discoveries of machinery regulating vesicle traffic, a major transport system in our cells" The Nobel Prize in Literature 2013 Alice Munro "master of the contemporary short story" The Nobel Peace Prize 2013 Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) "for its extensive effort

Forthcoming competitive exams in india 2013 - 2014

October ● Madhya Pradesh P.S.C. State Services (Mains) Exam., 2012 (October 1-25) ● Central Armed Police Force (Assistant Commandant) Exam., 2013 (October 20) ● IBPS Bank Probationary Officers/Management Trainees Common Written Examination (19-20 and 26-27 October) ● Rajasthan State and Subordinate Services Combined Competitive (Pre.) Exam., 2013 (26 October) ● Uttar Pradesh Police Constable (Pre.) Exam., 2013 (27 October) ● Rajasthan Accountant and Junior Accountant Combined Competitive Exam., 2013 (October) ● Rajashan State Road Transport Corporation Driver, Conductor and Artisan Recruitment Exam. (October) ● Himachal Pradesh State Eligibility Test (SET) 2013 (October) November ● SSC Combined Higher Secondary Level (10+2) Examination, 2013 (October 20, 27 and November 10) ● The Andhra Pradesh State Cooperative Bank Ltd. Manager (Scale-I) Exam. (November 16) ● The Andhra Pradesh State Cooperative Bank Ltd. Staff Assistant Recruitment Exam. (November 17) ● Stat

Electronics interview questions on Communication System

Expand ECE. Electronics & Communication Engineering. What is Electronic? The study and use of electrical devices that operate by controlling the flow of electrons or other electrically charged particles. What is communication? Communication means transferring a signal from the transmitter which passes through a medium then the output is obtained at the receiver. (or)communication says as transferring of message from one place to another place called communication. Different types of communications? Explain. Analog and digital communication. As a technology, analog is the process of taking an audio or video signal (the human voice) and translating it into electronic pulses. Digital on the other hand is breaking the signal into a binary format where the audio or video data is represented by a series of "1"s and "0"s. Digital signals are immune to noise, quality of transmission and reception is good, components used in digital commun