Green Revolution From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia For other uses‚ see Green Revolution (disambiguation). [pic] [pic] Increased use of various technologies such as pesticides‚ herbicides‚ and fertilizers as well as new breeds of high yield crops were employed in the decades after the Second World War to greatly increase global food production. |[pic] | |Agriculture
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Event: Techfest 2013 | Technical Fest Organised by: IIT Bombay‚ Mumbai‚ Maharashtra Key dates: Fest dates: 3rd-5th January 2013 Last date: Details: Techfest is the Annual Science and Technological Festival of IIT Bombay. Being the Asia’s largest Science and Technological Festival and patronised by UNESCO‚ Techfest is proud to bring to you its sixteenth edition from 3rd to 5th January 2013. Techfest 2012 saw a footfall of more than 92‚000 students with over 25‚000 students from India and abroad participating
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Knowledge‚ truth‚ wisdom and intellect are many a times found juxtaposed while mankind tries to articulate the highest goals of a meaningful life. Any living species on earth has knowledge needed for its survival and over the centuries all life forms have adapted and evolved‚ showing a universal propensity to learn. Men‚ of all life forms‚ have the most developed brains. Their ability to learn‚ to use the acquired knowledge and to prosper is unmatched. Nature gave all living creatures some natural
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gender equity in the family centre stage. Economic and Political Weekly‚ 38(17)‚ 1674–1679. 9. Dietrich‚ G. (2003). Loss of socialist vision and options before the women’s movement. Economic and Political Weekly‚ 38(43)‚ 4547–4554. 10.Dreze‚ J.‚ & Sen‚ A. (1997). Economic development and social change. Delhi: Oxford University Press. 11. Dyson‚ T.‚ & Moore‚ M. (1983) On kinship structure‚ female autonomy and demographic behaviour in India. Population and Development Review‚ 9‚ 35–60. 12. Government
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The short story‚ "Mrs. Sen ’s"‚ by Jhumpa Lahiri‚ tells the experiences of Mrs. Sen‚ an Indian Bengali housewife‚ who has unhappily immigrated from Calcutta‚ India to the United states‚ due to her husbands profession. She is married to Mr. Sen‚ who spends the majority of his time at his work place as a mathematics professor at an American University. As a result‚ Mrs. Sen decides to become a babysitter for an 11-year-old- boy‚ named Eliot‚ as a way to fill up her lonely afternoons while her husband
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Multiculturalism in a globalized society explores the concepts and debates surrounding the complex modern phenomenon of multiculturalism‚ and its varied effects on the advanced industrial nations of the world with clarity and concision‚ it focuses on the interrelated ties of ethnicity‚ race‚ nationalism in a world where globalizing processes have made such ties increasingly important in economic‚ political and cultural terms. Multiculturalism relates to communities containing multiple cultures
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that special educational needs (SEN) came in use as a result of dissatisfaction: The term special educational needs began to come into use in the late 1960s as a result of increasing dissatisfaction with the terminology used in the Handicapped Pupils and School Health Service Regulations (1945)‚ which classified handicapped children into ten categories according to their main handicap. (Gulliford and Upton‚ 1992) The definition of SEN in the Education Act 1996 is: ‘a
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and Elaine Hartwick. Theories of Development: Contentions‚ Arguments‚ Alternatives. New York‚ NY: The Guilford Press‚ 2009. Print. Sachs‚ Jeffrey D. The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time. New York: Penguin Books‚ 2005. Print. Sen‚ Amartya. Development As Freedom. New York: Anchor Books‚ 1999. Print. Stiglitz‚ Joseph E. Making Globalization Work. New York‚ NY: W.W. Norton & Company‚ 2007. Print. The Economist Intelligence Unit Transparency International. Corruption Perceptions Index
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Narendra Modi Narendra Damodardas Modi ( pronunciation (help·info)‚ born 17 September 1950) is the 14th and current Chief Minister of the state of Gujarat‚ representing theBharatiya Janata Party (BJP). He is the prime ministerial candidate of the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance for the upcoming 2014 Indian general elections. Modi was a key strategist for the BJP in the successful 1995 and 1998 Gujarat state election campaigns‚ as well as a major campaign figure in the 2009 general elections
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Sen. Juan Ponce Enrile Senate President Sen. Jinggoy Ejercito Estrada Senate President Pro-Tempore Chairman - Labor‚ Employment & Human Resource Development Committee Sen. Vicente C. Sotto III Majority Leader Chairman - Rules Committee Sen. Alan Peter “Compañero” S. Cayetano Minority Leader Chairman - Ethics and Privileges Committee Sen. Edgardo J. Angara Chairman - Science and Technology Committee Sen. Joker P. Arroyo Sen. Pia S. Cayetano Chairman - Health and Demography
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