INDIAN RAILWAYS AND ITS CONTINUING MONOPOLY Indian Railways abbreviated as IR‚ is the state-owned railway company of India‚ which owns and operates most of the country’s rail transport. It is overseen by the Ministry of Railways of the Government of India. Indian Railways has one of the largest and busiest rail networks in the world‚ transporting over 18 million passengers and more than 2 million tonnes of freight daily. It is the world’s largest commercial or utility employer‚ with more than
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Indian Railways (Hindi: भारतीय रेल Bhāratīya Rail)‚ abbreviated as IR (Hindi: भा.रे.)‚ is the state-owned railway company of India‚ which owns and operates most of the country’s rail transport. It is overseen by the Ministry of Railways of the Government of India. Indian Railways has more than 64‚015 kilometres (39‚777 mi)[5] of track and 6‚909 stations. It has the world’s fourth largest railway network after that of the United States‚ Russia and China.[5] The railways traverse the length and breadth
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INDIA’S Contemporary Security Challenges Edited by Michael Kugelman IndIa’s Contemporary seCurIty Challenges Essays by: Bethany Danyluk Michael Kugelman Dinshaw Mistry Arun Prakash P.V. Ramana Siddharth Srivastava Nandini Sundar Andrew C. Winner Edited by: Michael Kugelman ©2011 Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars‚ Washington‚ D.C. www.wilsoncenter.org Available from : Asia Program Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars One Woodrow Wilson Plaza 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue
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PART B HISTORY COURSEWORK “Assess the significance of Indian Nationalism in the period 1845-1947 in changing Britain’s relationship with its Empire in India”. It is possible to say that it was a rising feeling of nationalism that led to the change in relations between Britain and India which is what led to the ultimate end of the British Empire since it came to a point where India was ungovernable. John Keay states that “India was convulsed by a crescendo of satyagrahas‚ swadeshi boycotts; strikes
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Indian Camp by Ernest Hemingway From “In Our Time” (1925) Summary The story begins at the break of dawn as Nick‚ his father‚ and his Uncle George are rowed across a lake by some local Indians. They are on an emergency medical call. The boats arrive on shore and they soon come upon some shanties. Nick‚ his father‚ and his uncle enter the one nearest the road. Inside a pregnant Indian woman lies in agony on the lower berth of a bunk bed. She screams with pain and terror. Despite two days of excruciating
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PRESS REVIEW THE INDIAN RAPE I – Recall of the facts India became the center of many debates few months ago‚ a gang rape which became famous all around the world thanks to the horror of this act that finished into the death of the victim. On 16th December 2012‚ a 23 years old student went out with her boy Friend in South Dehli and decided to go back home by bus. The woman’s friend became suspicious when the bus took another way than it was used to. He asked the driver and the 6 men on
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The Ojibwe Indians‚ also known as the Chippewa indians‚ are located all around the great lakes. They are the second largest indian population in Canada and the fourth largest indian population in the united states. The Ojibwe speak the language Anishinaabe‚ part of the algonquian linguistic group‚ which is still widely spoken today by elders. Anishinaabe has a somewhat developed form of pictorial writing system; most of which was recorded on birch bark scrolls and on rock. The use of petroforms‚
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Indian Ethos & Values in Modern Management “Certainly we should take care not to make intellect our God. Intellect has‚ of course‚ powerful muscles but no personality. It cannot lead. It can only serve. It is not fastidious about its choice of leaders (Mind or Soul). The intellect has a sharp eye for tools and methods but is blind to Ends and Values”. – Albert Einstein “It is already becoming clear that a chapter which had a western beginning in business management will have to have an Indian
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INTRODUCTION The Indian rupee (sign: ₹; code: INR) is the official currency of the Republic of India. The issuance of the currency is controlled by the Reserve Bank of India.[1] The modern rupee is subdivided into 100 paise (singular paisa)‚ though as of 2011 only 50-paise coins are legal tender.[2][3] Banknotes in circulation come in denominations of ₹5‚ ₹10‚ ₹20‚ ₹50‚ ₹100‚ ₹500 and ₹1000. Rupee coins are available in denominations of ₹1‚ ₹2‚ ₹5‚ ₹10‚ ₹50‚ ₹100‚ ₹150 and ₹1000; of these‚ the
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17th centuries‚ when the Europeans started to come over to the new world‚ they discovered a society of Indians that was strikingly different to their own. To understand how different‚ one must first compare and contrast some of the very important differences between them‚ such as how the Europeans considered the Indians to be extremely primitive and basic‚ while‚ considering themselves civilized. The Europeans considered that they were model societies‚ and they thought that the Indians society and culture
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