The Saga of Satyendra Dubey. Satyendra Dubey (1973-2003) was a project director at the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI). He was murdered in Gaya‚ Bihar after fighting corruption in the Golden Quadrilateral highway construction project. Satyendra Dubey‚ the son of Bageshwari Dubey and Phulamati Devi‚ was born at the village of Sahpur in the Siwan district of Bihar‚ India. The family of five girls and two boys subsisted on a small piece of land‚ and Bageshwari also held a low-paying
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The Highway to socio-economic development– the Golden Quadrilateral The Golden Quadrilateral is a network of highways connecting India’s top four metropolitan cities‚ namely Delhi‚ Mumbai‚ Chennai and Kolkata‚chennak thereby‚ forming a quadrilateral. The principal objective of India’s most vaunted highway project is to connect most of the major agricultural industrial and cultural centers of India. Some of the more important centers being (Karnataka)‚ Chennai (Tamil Nadu)‚ Visakhapatnam (Andhra
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Indo-Pakistani relations Since independence‚ relations between Pakistan and India have been characterized by rivalry and suspicion. Although many issues divide the two countries‚ the most sensitive one since independence has been the status of Kashmir. Born out from the furnace of animosity‚ India and Pakistan‚ the twin brothers have a history of unique relations. There is much in common between Republic of India and Islamic Republic of Pakistan. The diplomatic relations developed soon after independence
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Raj‚ a pre- and post-British era mechanism of strict government controls on setting up new industry. Following these major economic reforms‚ and a strong focus on developing national infrastructure such as the Golden Quadrilateral project by Atal Bihari vajpayee‚ prime minister‚ the country’s economic growth progressed at a rapid pace‚ with relatively large increases in per-capita
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Indian History - Important events History of India . An overview : The people of India have had a continuous civilization since 2500 B.C.‚ when the inhabitants of the Indus River valley developed an urban culture based on commerce and sustained by agricultural trade. This civilization declined around 1500 B.C.‚ probably due to ecological changes. During the second millennium B.C.‚ pastoral‚ Aryan-speaking tribes migrated from the northwest into the subcontinent. As they settled in the middle Ganges
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Indian History - The History of India information. Indian History - Important events. Period Description ANCIENT EMPIRES ca. 2500-1600 B.C. Indus Valley culture. ca. 1500-500 B.C. Migrations of Aryan-speaking tribes; the Vedic Age. ca. 1000 B.C. Settlement of Bengal by Dravidian-speaking peoples. ca. 563-ca. 483 B.C. Life of Siddartha Gautama--the Buddha; founding of Buddhism. ca. 326-184 B.C. Mauryan Empire; reign of Ashoka (269-232 B.C.); spread of Buddhism. ca. 180 B.C.-A.D.
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References: [edit]History and costs Then Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee laid the foundation stone for the project on January 6‚ 1999.[2] 1. | Delhi-Kolkata | 1‚453 km (903 mi) | 1‚453 km (903 mi) | 100 | August 31‚ 2011 | [7] | 2. | Chennai-Mumbai | 1‚290 km (800 mi) | 1‚290 km (800 mi) | 100 | August 31‚ 2011
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fronts elsewhere in Kashmir or‚ potentially‚ along the international border with Pakistan proper. The decision not to expand the conflict horizontally or vertically was New Delhi ’s‚ but Washington ’s influence helped to reinforce Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee ’s preference for a limited operation to restore the Line of Control rather than open-ended war with the inherent potential for nuclear escalation. This new U.S.-Indian interaction during Kargil was founded on a relationship that had been painstakingly
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constructing civil society‚ the impediments to a resolution of the Kashmir question and most significantly the country’s nuclear arms race with India. In July as president Musharraf traveled to Agra India where he met with Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee to discuss regional security and importantly the issue of Kashmir. No real progress was made but the meeting set the stage for subsequent summit meetings between Musharraf and his Indian counterparts.
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The Kargil War also known as the Kargil Conflict‚ was an armed conflict between India and Pakistan that took place between May and July 1999 in the Kargil district of Kashmir and elsewhere along the Line of Control (LoC). After the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971‚ there had been a long period with relatively few direct armed conflicts involving the military forces of the two neighbors - notwithstanding the efforts of both nations to control the Siachen Glacier by establishing military outposts on the
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