31 From http://www.webshots.com/explore/Vittala   Chariot, Vittala temple, Hampi  

33. Jos� Daniel Ortega Saavedra  is the current President of Nicaragua,  Ver�nica Michelle Bachelet Jeria  is a center-left politician and the current President of Chile�the first woman to hold this position in the country's history, Andy Garcia is one of Hollywood 's most private and guarded leading men

34. The 958 km2 Indira Gandhi National Park (IGNP) and Wildlife Sanctuary {formerly known as the Anamalai (Anaimallai) Wildlife Sanctuary} lies in the Coimbatore District of Tamil Nadu at the southern part of the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve in the Anamalai Hills. Separated from the Nilgiri Hills by the Palghat Gap on the north, the Park is contiguous to the Parambikulam Wildlife Sanctuary (Kerala) to its west and to the Eravikulam National Park (Kerala) and Chinnar WLS to its south. The tourist zone and main birding area is at Top Slip (740m).

35. Operation Sukoon was launched by India to evacuate its nationals and that of Sri Lanka , Nepal who were fleeing from the Israeli�Lebanese conflict.  

36. Parathyroid hormone is the most important endocrine regulator of calcium and phosphorus concentration in extracellular fluid. This hormone is secreted from cells of the parathyroid glands and finds its major target cells in bone and kidney. Another hormone, parathyroid hormone-related protein, binds to the same receptor as parathyroid hormone and has major effects on development.

37. Insects, being arthropods, have a relatively inefficient, open circulatory system with no vessels to carry oxygen to different parts of their body. Because of the inefficiency of the circulatory system, a centralized respiratory system, such as lungs, would not meet the respiratory demands of the insect's cells. Instead, insects have evolved a very simple tracheal system that relies on a network of small tubes that channel O₂ directly to the different parts of the body

38. The Fallopian tubes, also known as oviducts, uterine tubes, and salpinges (singular salpinx) are two very fine tubes leading from the ovaries of female mammals into the uterus.

39. The medulla oblongata is the lower portion of the brainstem.It controls autonomic functions and relays nerve signals between the brain and spinal cord.

The Medulla oblongata is responsible for controlling several major autonomic functions of the body:

�        respiration (via dorsal respiratory group and ventral respiratory group)

�        blood pressure

�        heart rate

�        reflex arcs

�        vomiting

40. The liver is an organ present in vertebrates and some other animals. It plays a major role in metabolism and has a number of functions in the body, including glycogen storage, plasma protein synthesis, and drug detoxification.

The various functions of the liver are carried out by the liver cells or hepatocytes.  

�        The liver produces and excretes bile (a greenish liquid) required for emulsifying fats. Some of the bile drains directly into the duodenum, and some is stored in the gallbladder.

�        The liver performs several roles in carbohydrate metabolism:

�        Gluconeogenesis (the synthesis of glucose from certain amino acids, lactate or glycerol)

�        Glycogenolysis (the breakdown of glycogen into glucose) (muscle tissues can also do this)

�        Glycogenesis (the formation of glycogen from glucose)

�        The breakdown of insulin and other hormones

�        The liver is responsible for the mainstay of protein metabolism.

�        The liver also performs several roles in lipid metabolism:

�        Cholesterol synthesis

�        The production of triglycerides (fats).

�        The liver produces coagulation factors I (fibrinogen), II (prothrombin), V, VII, IX, X and XI, as well as protein C, protein S and antithrombin.

�        The liver breaks down hemoglobin, creating metabolites that are added to bile as pigment (bilirubin and biliverdin).

�        The liver breaks down toxic substances and most medicinal products in a process called drug metabolism. This sometimes results in toxication, when the metabolite is more toxic than its precursor.

�        The liver converts ammonia to urea.

�        The liver stores a multitude of substances, including glucose in the form of glycogen, vitamin B12, iron, and copper.

�        In the first trimester fetus, the liver is the main site of red blood cell production. By the 32nd week of gestation, the bone marrow has almost completely taken over that task.

�        The liver is responsible for immunological effects- the reticuloendothelial system of the liver contains many immunologically active cells, acting as a 'sieve' for antigens carried to it via the portal system.

41 On January 7, 2007, the Japan Defense Agency was upgraded to Ministry of Defense, a Cabinet-level ministry.

 42. The FIFA World Player of the Year is a football award given annually to the male and female player who are thought to be the best in the world, based on votes by coaches and captains of international teams. The award started in 1991 for men and 2001 for women. The award's youngest winner, male or female, is Ronaldo, who won at the age of 20 in 1996. He won it again in 1997. Ronaldo, Ronaldinho, Mia Hamm and Birgit Prinz are the only players to have won twice in a row. Ronaldo, Zinedine Zidane and Prinz are the only three-time winners. The oldest winner is Fabio Cannavaro who won in 2006 at age 33.

 43. In humans, gastrin is a hormone that stimulates secretion of gastric acid by the stomach. It is released by G cells in the stomach and duodenum.  

44. Mixing yellow and cyan produces shades of green; mixing yellow with magenta produces shades of red, and mixing magenta with cyan produces shades of blue. In theory, mixing equal amounts of all three pigments should produce shades of grey, resulting in black when all three are fully saturated, but in practice they tend to produce muddy brown colors.

45. Dr. John C. Mather is a Senior Astrophysicist in the Observational Cosmology Laboratory at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center He was awarded the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physics, shared with George F. Smoot for "their discovery of the black body form and anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation". And Michael Griffin returned to NASA as its 11th Administrator

46. On September 5, 2006 Dayanidhi Maran inaugurated an undersea 2.56-terabit Falcon submarine cable system of Reliance Communications Ltd. connecting 11 countries on its entire length of 11,859 km from Mumbai to Egypt .

In  September  2006 space shuttle Atlantis and its six astronauts blasted off from Cape Canaveral on a mission to resume construction of ISS - 16 nations contribute to the ISS

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