Brand Trivia: Close-up
As a part of their branding campaign, they launched ‘Closeup Corners’, in which corner seats of certain cinema halls, were branded as ‘Closeup Corners’.
SMS to Tell Status of Court Cases
Now you have to simply type out the case category code (available on the high court's web site), the case number and the year of filing the petition and send the message to 56767989 to know, within seconds, the next date of hearing or adjournment.
Now, don't be too much happy , since it is ONLY available (announced) in Gujarat only
A Fake Three idiots website
A firm by the name of (RS Consultancy Services) has recently started what we can call as the 'Fake Amir-khan-starrer-Threeidoits' website , just to in cash few extra dollars via Google ad-sense. Anyway they have been using this way to earn extra bucks, since in the past also they have launched SRK's KBC site. 
Professionals Party of India
Vision: "Improve the Quality of Life of every Indian"
Its a newly launched political party— whose target audience is Urban India, and hence they have planed to field candidates in 140 Lok Sabha seats of the urban India. Their aim is to target the middle-class educated voters who usually refrain from taking part in the election process.
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Maitreya Project, Kushinagar,
World's Largest Buddha
It is in the Planning Stage in Kushinagar,India, the place where the Buddha died 25 centuries ago. This statue will at least 1.7 times taller than the Statue of Liberty of US. Statue of Liberty is 305ft. (93mts) tall while the Buddha statnd at 499 fts (152 mts). Statue is named as Maitreya Buddha" means the "Buddha of the future", Symbol of Love & Kindness, Peace.
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Desi TriVia: Brand Dabbawals
Microsoft, recently used our very own Six Sigma dabbawalas to promote its Windows package for a campaign called “Asli PC,” meaning “Genuine PC”. Corporation Bank has already also appointed them to source clients for offering banking services. Realizing their brand power and influence, Richard Branson donned a Gandhi topi and dhoti (the dabbawallas' signature dress code), during the launch of Virgin's inaugural flights to Mumbai. Infcat such is their branidng power that the bollywood's biggest studio , YRF tied with them to promote their movie Tashan. The dabbawalas wore a bright Tashan T-shirt and their dabbas, too, had Tashan stickers with a paan attached to it.
Indian Banks Trivia
1908: Maharaja Sayajirao III Gaekwad set up Bank of Baroda (BOB). BOB established its first branch in Ahmedabad. In 1954: BOB opened a branch in Nairobi.
Vijaya Bank, was founded on 23rd October 1931 by late Shri A.B.Shetty and other enterprising farmers in Mangalore, Karnataka. The objective of the founders was essentially to promote banking habit, thrift and enterpreneurship among the farming community of Dakshina Kannada district in Karnataka State. The bank became a scheduled bank in 1958.
Uco Bank, formerly United Commercial Bank, established in 1943 in Kolkata, is one of the oldest and major commercial bank of India. Ghanshyam Das Birla, an eminent Indian industrialist, during the Quit India movement of 1942, had conceived the idea of organizing a commercial bank with Indian capital and management, and the United Commercial Bank Limited was incorporated to give shape to that idea.
Syndicate Bank, established in 1925 in Udupi (Karnataka state, India) by Upendra Ananth Pai, Vaman Kudva and Dr, T. M. A. Pai, is one of the oldest and major commercial bank of India. At the time of its establishment, the bank was known as Canara Industrial and Banking Syndicate Limited.
Punjab National Bank (PNB), established in 1895 in Lahore.
In 1937: Shri.M.Ct.M. Chidambaram Chettyar establishes the Indian Overseas Bank (IOB) to encourage overseas banking and foreign exchange operations.
In 1907: Indian Bank was established on 15th August 1907 as part of the Swadeshi movement. Head office is in Chennai (Madras). Though not a Chettiar bank, some of the founders were Chettiars.
Dena Bank was founded in 1938 by the family of Devkaran Nanjee under the name Devkaran Nanjee Banking Company Ltd.
Corporation Bank, founded in 1906 in Udupi, Karnataka state, India,
Central Bank of India, established in 1911 by Sir Sorabji Pochkhanawala, is one of the oldest and largest commercial banks of India. It was the first commercial bank of India, which was completely owned by Indians.
Canara Bank established in 1906 with the name of Canara Bank Hindu Permanent Fund in Mangalore, India, by Ammembal Subba Rao Pai, Its name was changed to Canara Bank Limited in 1910.
Bank of India was founded on 7th September, 1906 by a group of eminent businessmen from Mumbai. Bank of India was the first Indian Bank to open a branch outside the country, at London, in 1946. This was also the first post-WWII overseas branch of any Indian bank. It was first to open a branch in Europe, Paris in 1974.
The roots to the State Bank of India are traceable to the first decade of 19th century, when the Bank of Calcutta, later renamed as the Bank of Bengal, was established on 2nd June 1806. The Bank of Bengal and two other Presidency banks, namely, the Bank of Bombay (incorporated on 15 April 1840) and the Bank of Madras (incorporated on 1st July 1843) were amalgamated on 27th January 1921, and the reorganized banking entity was named the Imperial Bank of India.
Allahabad Bank is one of the oldest public sector banks in India with head-quarters in Kolkata