Sharply differing perceptions make it rather difficult to properly assess India’s standing in the world of sports today. The pessimists love to paint a gloomy picture of the Indian sports and its detractors‚ too‚ are eager to point out that for a nation of India’s size and population its sporting successes are few and far between. They‚ however‚ tend to forget that in today’s highly commercialised and fiercely competitive sports‚ mere skill and talent are not enough to ensure success in the form
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the ‘highway’ to solar system in the next century. We are well underway with unmanned explorations of the solar system.” India’s entry into space-age is rather late‚ but it is said that better late than never. The beginning was made in 1975‚ when India launched its first scientific satellite Aryabhatta I into space‚ in collaboration with the U. S. S. R. As we did not have our own rocket-launcher‚ we were helped by the Russians. However‚ it gave the country space status. The second satellite‚ Bhaskara
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INDIA ON THE MOVE - 1. This is about a recent report‚ I saw in NDTV. The report was really shocking and really shaken me thoroughly. The report is talking about small farmers in the Vidarbh region (Near Nagpur) committing suicide because they could not sustain the loan burden and could not survive from the agricultural income. In the last eight months around 400 farmers have committed suicide. This has become a daily occurrence. The government as usual just woken up and started its preliminary
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ACCOUNT OF INDUSTRIALIZATION IN INDIA AND IN KERALA 20 . Introduction By way of substantiating the thesis that the large scale industries and their promotion have proved detrimental to environment‚ a close look at the history and evolution of industrialization is a must. But such a historical account of industrialization is too vast a field for the researcher to look into. It is therefore necessary to limit this enquiry to the area of industrialization in India in general and to industrialization
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for the Committee on Vision 2020 for India‚ Planning Commission‚ Government of India Revised Version: 22 May 2001 Research and Information System for the Non-aligned and Other Developing Countries‚ Zone 4B‚ India Habitat Centre‚ Lodi Road‚ New Delhi-110003. Tel.: 468 2175‚ Fax: 468 2174; Email: nagesh@ndf.vsnl.net.in An earlier version of the paper was presented at the Fifth Meeting of the Committee on Vision 2020 for India‚ Planning Commission‚ on 8 February 2001
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India should stop obsessing about how to become one of the world’s great powers and focus on solving its biggest problems to become a great nation‚ Sundeep Wasleka‚ the president of Strategic Foresight Group‚ writes in this month’s Forbes India. At present‚ regardless of the hype‚ India is failing‚ Wasleka suggests. Politicians and business leaders are always thumping their chests over India’s rising importance in the G20 and lobby for a new G10 (the G8 plus India and China). But 200 out of the
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INTRODUCTION TO INDUSTRY The Times of India (TOI) is an Indian English-language daily newspaper. According to Audit Bureau of Circulations‚ it has the largest circulation among all English-language newspapers in the world‚ across all formats (broadsheet‚ tabloid‚ compact‚ Berliner and online). In 2008‚ the newspaper reported that (with a circulation of over 3.14 million) it was certified by the Audit Bureau of Circulations (India) as the world’s largest selling English-language daily‚ ranking
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civilisation and culture over the past several millennia. Few are aware that India was the fountainhead of important foundational scientific developments and approaches. These cover many great scientific discoveries and technological achievements in Mathematics‚ Astronomy‚ Architecture‚ Chemistry‚ Metallurgy‚ Medicine‚ Natural Philosophy and other areas. A great deal of this traveled outwards from India. Equally‚ India also assimilated scientific ideas and techniques from elsewhere‚ with open-mindedness
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ENGLISH IN INDIA In our country English is important for a number of reasons. India is a land of diversity. Different people speak different languages. A person of Tamil Nadu does not speak Hindi. So he can’t understand Hindi of a person from North India. However he can understand in English. So English is a link language. Different people can communicate with one another with the help of English. Secondly‚ all advanced knowledge in science‚ technology and medicine is available in English.
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10%. The Inflation rate is considered to be high if it is more than 5%. On the contrary if the prices of commodities decline consistently then it leads to deflation. Both inflation and deflation are detrimental to a country’s economy‚ and hence inflation must be kept moderate in a developing nation. 1.2. Inflation in India: India suffers with maximum inflation compared to chief markets. From the last two years India is trying to bring down the inflation rate but all the efforts
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