Pratibha Devisingh Patil ( pronunciation (help·info)) (born 19 December 1934) is an Indian politician who served as the 12thPresident of India from 2007 to 2012; she was the first woman to hold the office. She was sworn in as President on 25 July 2007‚ succeeding Abdul Kalam‚ after defeating her rival Bhairon Singh Shekhawat. She retired from the office in July 2012. She was succeeded as President by Pranab Mukherjee.[1] Patil is a member of the Indian National Congress (INC) and was nominated for
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Extra material for chapter 4 Van Leuven-Zwart’s comparative–descriptive model of translation shifts1 The most detailed attempt to produce and apply a model of shift analysis has been carried out by Kitty van Leuven-Zwart of Amsterdam. Van Leuven-Zwart’s model takes as its point of departure some of the categories proposed by Vinay and Darbelnet and Levý and applies them to the descriptive analysis of a translation‚ attempting both to systematize comparison and to build in a discourse framework
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Beed (Maharashtra): India’s national bird‚ the peacock‚ is under severe threat from nature’s vagaries at one of the largest peacock national parks in the country at Naigaon here. The threat is not from its natural predators or humans‚ but from the extreme heat wave conditions in the Marathwada region‚ around 400 km east of Mumbai‚ that virtually suffocate and even kill the magnificent bird. | | According to local conservationists‚ nearly 13 adult peafowl have reportedly perished this summer
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Motivation for Investments Companies make investments for at least three reasons. First‚ companies transfer excess cash into investments to produce higher income. Second‚ some entities‚ such as mutual funds and pension funds‚ are set up to produce income from investments. Third‚ companies make investments for strate gic reasons. Short-Term Investments Cash equivalents are investments that are both readily converted to known amounts of cash and mature within three months. Many investments‚ however
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INTRODUCTION: The term ‘cyber crime’ is a misnomer. This term has nowhere been defined in any statute /Act passed or enacted by the Indian Parliament. The concept of cyber crime is not radically different from the concept of conventional crime. Both include conduct whether act or omission‚ which cause breach of rules of law and counterbalanced by the sanction of the state. Before evaluating the concept of cyber crime it is obvious that the concept of conventional crime be discussed and the points
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Independence of India ¤ Sailing of San Gabriel To India When the San Gabriel sailed around the Cape of Good Hope to finally dock at Calicut‚ a prosperous port and an independent principality on the Malabar Coast in May‚ 1498‚ half a century of the Portuguese tentative to find a sea route to India was finally crowned with success. The man behind the quest was Vasco da Gama (1460-1524) – a devout Roman Catholic whose nightlong vigil in a Lisbon chapel before commending himself to the unsure
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Sonia Delaunay-Terk was an innovator‚ inventor‚ fabricator and an artificer; well known for her signature style of geometrization of forms and vibrant melody of colors. Born in Ukraine‚ she moved to Paris in 1905 at the age of 20 after reading a book by an art critic‚ Julius Meier-Graefe‚ who had promoted the creative city as a centre of true art. Her early influences were Van Gogh and Gauguin. Delaunay took up art courses in Paris but left after feeling confused and discouraged by her teachers’
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Tagore (d) Dinshaw petit /OR 1C. (a) (c) (b) (d) 1 Who wrote ‘The Bitter Cry of Outcast London’ ? (a) Andrew Mearns (b) Charles Dickens (c) Sameul Richardson (d) Henry Mayhew 2A. (a) (c) (b) (d) 1 Which of the following newspapers was started by Bal Gangadhar Tilak ? (a) Kesari (b) Jansattu (c) Statesman (d) Amirta Bazaar Patrika /OR 2B. (a) (c) (b) (d) 1 Which of the following novels of Premchand deals mainly with the poor condition of women in society ? (a) Sewasadan (b) Godan (c) Rangbhoomi
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at this time at $22. 1. A 10% stock dividend is declared and issued. 2. A 50% stock dividend is declared and issued. 3. A 2-for-1 stock split is declared and issued. E3.9. Adjusting Entries Supplies | Accounts Receivable | Beg. Bal. | 800 | 10/31 | 470 | 10/17 | 2‚100 | | | | | | | 10/31 | 1‚650 | | | | Salaries and Wages Expense | Salaries and Wages Payable | 10/15 | 800 | | | | | 10/31 | 600 | 10/31 | 600 | | | | | | | | Unearned
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o ANALYSIS OF RISK AND RETURN IN BANKING‚ PHARMACEUTICAL‚ OIL&GAS‚ INFOTECH AND AUTOMOBILE SECTORS 2. A STUDY ON RISK PROFILE IN FUTURES WITH RESPECT TO TOP TEN COMPANIES IN NIFTY CONDUCTED AT GEOJIT FINANCIAL SERVICES LTD 3. AN ANALYTICAL STUDY ON THE VOLATILITY OF SECURITIES TRADED ON BSE SENSEX 4. ERP Report 5. A study on Consumer Preferences in BATA India Ltd 6. A STUDY ON THE BRAND EQUITY IN THE INDIAN AUTOMOBILE INDUSTRY WITH RESPECT TO THE CAR MARKET 7. A STUDY TO VERIFY THE WELFARE
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