Sindhu River Originating from Kailash mountain‚ it covers 550 kms in Jammu and Kashmir. From there it enters Leh‚ and gets mingled with Zanzkar river. In Punjab it is met with five major rivers of Punjab – Jhelum‚ Chenab‚ Ravi‚ Beas and Satluj. The word Sindhu originates from the word sidh meaning to keep off . The river Sindhu has been mentioned 176 times in Rigveda‚ 95 times in plural‚ used in the generic meaning. In Rigveda – the Ancient Indian Scripture( 1500 B.C.)‚ is the earliest chronicle
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INTRODUCTION Hindustan Unilever Limited (abbreviated to HUL)‚ formerly Hindustan Lever Limited‚ is INDIAs largest consumer products company and was formed in 1933 as Lever Brothers India Limited. It is currently headquartered in Mumbai‚ India and its 41‚000 employees are headed by Harish Manwani‚ the non-executive chairman of the board. HUL is the market leader in Indian products such as tea‚ soaps‚ detergents‚ as its products have become daily household name in India. The Anglo-Dutch company Unilever
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SEVERE THUDERSTORMS – OBSERVATIONAL AND REGIONAL MODELING (STORM) OVER NORTH-EASTERN REGION (NER) OF INDIA [STORM‐2010 OVER GUWAHATI] OBSERVATIONAL REPORT SUBMITTED TO MINISTRY OF EARTH SCIENCES GOVERNMENT OF INDIA BLOCK 12‚ CGO COMPLEX‚ LODHI ROAD NEW DELHI 110003 By Department of Physics Yogi Vemana University Vemanapuram Kadapa – 516 003 (in Collaboration with India Meteorological Department‚ RMC Guwahati) ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The technical supports extended by the India
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dalits‚ adivasis‚ those who are oftten left untouched by India’s development and bypassed by the electoral process. The Area under the control of Naxal groups is Known as ‘Red Corridor‘ which is about 92‚000 Sq. Km. spread in states like orissa‚ WB‚ Bihar‚ Chattisgarh‚ AP‚ Jharkhand and South-eastern part of UP. Naxalism thrives in forest and tribal area due to the existence of discontentment among the people living in those areas‚ availability of terrain suitable for guerilla tactics‚ inaccessibility
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Topic: Famines‚ poverty‚ government policy‚ food supply in colonial India Introduction From 1760 till 1943 India was hit by terrible famines on a regular basis. More than 85 million Indians died in these famines which were in reality genocides done by the British Raj. Contrast this to the fact that there have been no famine related deaths since independence. British famine policy in India was influenced by the arguments of Adam Smith‚ as seen by the non-interference of the government with the
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clout to become a powerful ‘vote bank’. They now aspired to a larger share of administrative and educational opportunities‚ where they were underrepresented. Some of the largest and best-organized Shudra castes were the ‘Yadavs in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar‚ Jats in Haryana and Punjab‚ Marathas in Maharashtra‚ Vokkaligas in Karnataka‚ and Gounders in Tamil Nadu.’ And during the recent
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Our Census‚ Our Future CENSUS 2011 PROVISIONAL POPULATION TOTALS Office of the Registrar General and Census Commissioner‚ India Ministry of Home Affairs 31st March 2011 CENSUS 2011 • Census 2011 is the 15th Census of India since 1872 • Census 2011 was held in two phases: • Houselisting & Housing Census (April to September 2010) • Population Enumeration (9th to 28th February 2011) • Reference Date: 0:00 Hours of 1st March 2011 • In Snow Bound areas the Population Enumeration was conducted
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The study of universe is known as Cosmology. Total universe is commonly defined as the totality of everything that exists including all physical matter and energy‚ the planets‚ stars‚ galaxies and the contents of intergalactic space. Galaxy: A galaxy is a vest system of billions of stars‚ dust and light gases bound by their own gravity. There are 100 billion galaxies in the universe and each galaxy has‚ an average‚ 100 billions stars. (1022 stars) Our galaxy is Milky Way Galaxy (or the Akash Ganga)
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Growth of fertilizer industry in India From a nation dependent on food imports to feed its population‚ India today is not only self--sufficient in grain production‚ but also has a substantial reserve. The progress made by agriculture in the last four decades has been one of the biggest success stories of free India. Agriculture and allied activities constitute the single largest contributor to the Gross Domestic Product‚ almost 33% of it. Agriculture is the means of livelihood of about two-thirds
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SCANDALS IN 2000S Named scandals Named scandals in India Scandal Year reported Scope Location Key players Summary 2012 Indian coal mining controversy 2012 185‚591.34 crore (US$33.78 billion) nation Comptroller and Auditor General of India‚ the coal ministry‚ many electricity boards and private companies coal blocks allotted‚ not auctioned‚ leading to estimated losses as per the Comptroller and Auditor General of India [1][2][3] Karnataka Wakf Board Land Scam 2012 200‚000 crore
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