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Roots of English English language is made up of four parts GREEK ROOTS, GERMAN ROOTS, FRENCH ROOTS, LATIN ROOTS Now if you learn these roots you can figure out the meaning of hundreds of English language words without even knowing their exact meaning. The first question arises here is  what is a root? A root is the part of the word which gives instructions to a  word.  Now how many parts is a word made of? A word is made up of three parts. For ex – subtracted Sub (prefix) ——–tract (root) ———-ed (suffix) Note:   PREFIX —a word, letter or number placed before another. SUFFIX —a letter or a group of letters added to the end of a word to change its meaning. CASE I  Consider  MACR  as a  ROOT  means  length, large Now with the help of this one root you can come out with conclusion of several other English words. Such as, ACROMACRIA——  Abnormal length of the fingers. BAROMACROMETER—-  An instrument fo...

Latest News Mar 17, 2015 Yahoo! pays $24,000 to Hacker for finding Security Vulnerabilities  Yahoo! has offered $24,000 to a security researcher for finding out and reporting three critical security vulnerabilities in its products including Yahoo! Stores and Yahoo!-hosted websites. While testing all the company's application, Mark Litchfield, a bug bounty hunter who often works with different companies, discovered three critical vulnerabilities in Yahoo!'s products. All the three ... Read more... Smart ATM offers Cardless Cash Withdrawal to Avoid Card Skimmers  Banks have tried every effort, from providing Magnetic Stripes based Credit and Debit Cards to Chip-and-Pin Cards, in order to secure its users from credit card cloning and card Skimmers. It has been known from years that Magnetic stripe are incredibly hackable, but Chip-n-Pin cards have also been hacked and successfully cloned by a group of security researchers. A unit of Canada’s Bank of ... R...

1. Wipro appoints Abid Neemuchwala as COO i. India's third largest IT services exporter Wipro Ltd. announced the appointment of appointment of former TCS top executive Mr. Abid Ali Neemuchwala as the Group President and Chief Operating Officer of the company.  ii. Mr Neemuchwala was heading the Business Process Services globally.  iii. Apart from this he was also involved in several leadership roles during his 23-year-long career with TCS.   2. Facebook acquires The Find e-commerce search engine i. Facebook has acquired The Find, a nine-year-old company with a search engine that indexes products across thousands of e-commerce sites. ii. That probably means the ads Facebook users see will be more relevant to products they’ve been browsing and buying online, perhaps highlighting local retailers. One of The Find’s features is that it attempts to mix online and local stores and says its results are based on “your social profile.” iii. For Facebook, the technolog...

1. US dollar hits 12-year peak, emerging markets spooked i. The US dollar climbed to multi-year peaks against the euro and yen in Asia amid starkly diverging outlooks for interest rates globally. ii. Currencies from emerging markets came under mounting pressure from risk aversion. iii. The skittish mood spread to Asian stocks as MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan slipped 0.6 per cent. iv. Federal Reserve would start lifting interest rates from mid-year, while central banks in the European Union and Japan were busy easing policy by buying billions in government bonds. v. Oil managed minor gains, with Brent crude oil up 13 cents to $58.66 a barrel, while U.S crude added 26 cents to $50.26.   2. India slips to second place in hiring outlook for April-June quarter i. India has slipped to the second place, after Taiwan, in terms of the companies' employment outlook for the next quarter. ii. As per the latest quarterly Employment Outlook Su...

1. Union Budget 2015 highlights -   No merit in going ahead with Direct tax Code as it exists today. Net impact of tax proposals Rs.15,068 crore. - Yoga to be included under charitable activites. - Indiviual taxpayer can get benefits up to Rs. 4,44,200. - Transport allowance exemption to be increased to Rs. 1,600 per month. - Rs. 50,000 contribution to new pension scheme. "To make India a pensioned society." - Additional deduction of Rs. 25,000 for differently abled persons. - Increase in limit of deduction of health insurance premium of Rs. 15,000 to Rs. 25,000. For senior citizens, limit will be Rs. 30,000. Very senior citizens - Rs. 30,000 deduction on expenses incurred. - 2 per cent cess on services for Swachch Bharat. - 100 per cent deduction for contribution to Swachch Bharat and Clean Ganga schemes. - Service Tax rate increased to 14 per cent.   2. Three-point action plan to realise ‘Make in India’ dream i. The non-controversial response lies in improving th...

1. India presses for automatic exchange of tax information at G20 meet  i. India has called for expeditious implementation of the automatic exchange of tax information saying it would help in tracking illegal money stashed in foreign banks.  ii. Minister of State for Finance Jayant Sinha advocated "full and fast implementation" of Automatic Exchange of Information within the agreed time-frame.  iii. India called for strengthening the IMF through implementing the 2010 quota and governance reforms and creating an environment for multilateral swaps to overcome such negative impact. iv. The quota reform, if implemented, will increase India's voting share in IMF from the current 2.44 per cent to 2.75 per cent, following which the country will become the eighth largest quota holder at the IMF, up from the 11th position.   2. National Games mascot in Limca Book of Records i. National Games mascot Ammu, the Great Hornbill, has immortalised itself by finding a...

1. Kalyan Singh sworn in as Himachal Pradesh Governor i.  Rajasthan Governor Kalyan Singh was today sworn in as the Himachal Pradesh Governor  ii.  He was administered oath of office by Himachal Pradesh High Court Chief Justice Mansoor Ahmed Mir  iii.  Singh has been given an additional charge of Himachal Pradesh after Urmila Singh, who completed the full five year term as HP Governor on January 24.   2.  Hockey Olympian Jaswant Singh Rajput passes away i.  Two-time gold medal winning hockey Olympian Jaswant Singh Rajput passed away on 28th January 2015 following a prolonged illness ii.  The former India centre-half was part of the gold medal winning teams in 1948 London and 1952 Helsinki Olympics. iii.  With the likes of Leslie Claudius, Keshav Dutt and Meldric Daluz, Jaswant had formed a lethal foursome and was part of a golden era in Bengal hockey with as many as seven players in the Helsinki-bound side.   3....