Two transmission towers in neighbouring West Bengal were damaged by a devastating storm‚ which has also led to the shortage. The state is facing a shortage of 403 Megawatt (MW) of power with the peak load hour power demand being 1100 MW as against the available 497 MW‚ official sources said today. The problem has been further compounded with the damage of transmission towers due to storm last week in Jalpaiguri district in the neighbouring West Bengal that supplies 300 MW power to Assam‚ the sources
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Ahmed Amr Helmy Ch. 3 Pg. 57-69 Summary China’s Great Famine (greatest famine in Chinese history) • Result of collectivization programme in 1956 • Mao believed China had agronomists who would revolutionize food produce. Lysenkoism • Russian scientists theory that “super crops” could be grown‚ which was proven a lie‚ but the Chinese believed it was true. • Mao later bases Chinese agricultural “constitution” on Lysenko’s teachings. “Sparrowcide” – Chinese populations mass
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Drainage Drainage Systems in India Flow of water from a higher to a lower level is called drainage. It also refers to the river system of any particular area. The Indian River system is divided into two groups- the Himalayan Rivers and the Peninsular Rivers. The Himalayan Rivers They have water all throughout the year and originate from the mountains in the north. They flow through the mountains and form gorges. Himalayan rivers cover long routes before falling into the sea.
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method of production attracted demand from the Europeans. The labor to state relations were much better in the late 18th century as compared to earlier times. In the book titled ‘Modern South Asia’ by Jalal & Bose‚ it is mentioned that ‘Evidence from Bengal and Madras suggests that urban labor was worse off in relation to the state and the market in the early colonial than in the immediate pre-colonial period.’ The level of inland trade was also doing well. There was a thriving inter-regional trade.
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EVOLUTION Although there was a flurry of english newspapers in the 18th century‚ newspapers in religious languages made its way much later during the second half of the 19th century. First on the list were two bengali newspaers called Samachar darpan and Bengal gazette while the first hindi newspaper was Samachar Sudha Varshan. The Hindu newspaper which was launched as a competitor of madras Mail became the first national newspaper of the country. Soon it beacme the voice of the nation during the
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• Educational • Video • About Us The Nobel Prize in Literature 1913 Rabindranath Tagore Tagore and His India by Amartya Sen* Voice of Bengal Rabindranath Tagore‚ who died in 1941 at the age of eighty‚ is a towering figure in the millennium-old literature of Bengal. Anyone who becomes familiar with this large and flourishing tradition will be impressed by the power of Tagore’s presence in Bangladesh and in India. His poetry as well as his novels‚ short stories‚ and essays are very
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The Subaltern in India The ground breaking text Orientalism written by Edward Said widened the arena for the post-colonial thinkers to consider the text with a new mechanism in Third World context. Orientalism has developed a purported approach of binary opposition to dismantling the East/West dualism in relation to Eurocentric edifice. The focal point of Said’s study is the ‘West’ and its observation of the ‘East’. The former having all positive traits: white‚ brave‚ dynamic‚ civilized‚ cultured
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7/17/13 Subhas Chandra Bose: The Afterlife of India’s Fascist Leader | History Today Wednesday‚ 17 July 2013 | Login / Register Search the archive Subhas Chandra Bose: The Afterlife of India’s Fascist Leader By Hugh Purcell (/taxonomy/term/281) | Published in History Today (/taxonomy/term/43) Volume: 60 Issue: 11 (/taxonomy/term/23086) 2010 (/taxonomy/term/14784) Tw eet 71 10 Like 851 (/PRI NT/66186) DECOLONISATION (/TAXONOMY /TERM/22516) 20TH CENTURY (/TAXONOMY
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CASE Tata Motors in Singhur case talks about the controversy related to Land acquisition by Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharya for proposed Nano factory in West Bengal. The reason for choosing West Bengal as the location was that it was believed as the most investor friendly state with faith in investment climate and government of Bengal. However‚ soon after the announcement of the Nano Project‚ the protest led by opposition leader Mamta Banerjee began as it was viewed as forcible acquisition of
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1.1- Introduction Availability of natural resources and their proper application to overall development activities is the key factor for the economic growth of any nation. Bangladesh‚ though it is a small country of about 143‚998 sq km‚ has a number of mineral resources within its territory. The mineral resources so far discovered are mineral fuels (oil‚ gas‚ coal‚ peat)‚ hard rock‚ limestone‚ white clay‚ glass sand and heavy mineral sands. It was previously assumed that the geological setting of
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