India’s tribal village first to get rights over its forests [pic] 24 December 2009 A tribal village in western India has been granted the right to cultivate and manage its forest‚ as per the provisions of the Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest-Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act 2006. For over a decade the villagers have fought against the commercialisation of their land. As climate change negotiators try and figure out how to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest
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dams Rock fill dams Concrete face rockfill dams Earthfill dams Hailed as the "Temples of Resurgent India" by Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru‚ the country’s dams help provide water and electricity to millions citizens. We look at some of the biggest ones. TEHRI DAM 1.The Tehri Dam is a multi-purpose rock and earth-fill embankment dam on the Bhagirathi River near Tehri in Uttarakhand‚ India. It is the primary dam of the Tehri Hydro Development Corporation Ltd. and the Tehri hydroelectric complex
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India and Iran: Contemporary Relations The authors are dealing with the following sub-issue. 1. Political Transformation in Iran – Prospects for Peace‚ Stability and Prosperity i.) Modernization‚ Islam and Iran ii.) Role of Extra Regional Powers (US‚ EU‚ and China) - Impact on India – Iran relations iii.) Impact of Intra-regional Conflicts in West Asia on Indo-Iranian relations – Iran’s and the Gulf States – Iran and the Arab – Israel Conflict. iv.) India – Iran Bilateral Relation’s
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North‚ Central‚ & West India BHIMBETKA (8000 B.C.) The Bhimbetka rock are an archaeological World Heritage site located in Raisen District in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. The Bhimbetka shelters exhibit the earliest traces of human life in India; a number of analyses suggest that at least some of these shelters were inhabited by man for in excess of 100‚000 years. Some of the Stone Age rock paintings found among the Bhimbetka rock shelters are approximately 30‚000 years old. MAURYA and
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India is a fascinating country where people of many different communities and religions live together in unity. Indian Population is polygenetic and is an amazing amalgamation of various races and cultures. It is impossible to find out the exact origin of Indian People. The species known as Ramapithecus was found in the Siwalik foothills of north western Himalayas. The species believed to be the first in the line of hominids (Human Family) lived some 14 million years ago. Researchers have found
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got to know the intensity of the heat the second I walked off the flight. The moment I walked through the doors of the airplane into the tunnel‚ I felt a rush of hot air in my face. It felt like there was no way to escape it. I haven’t seen much of India yet but I can tell you that it is not the cleanest or calmest place. It was around ten at night last night‚ after I greeted my grandma and aunts‚ we were walking back to the car and it was a mad house. People were everywhere pushing and shoving; there
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The maoist problem in India has a long history. It is one of those movements which over the years have changed color from a pristine white to a dark shade of black. The roots of the problem lie not in some terrorist movement and neither is it the product of the state funded cross border terrorism. The roots of this problem lie in the Freedom struggle of India. Back in the heydays of the freedom struggle‚ the naaxals were a band of outlaws in and around the West Bengal‚ Bihar and Orissa border. They
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India is a constitutional democracy with a parliamentary system of government‚ and at the heart of the system is a commitment to hold regular‚ free and fair elections. These elections determine the composition of the government‚ the membership of the two houses of parliament‚ the state and union territory legislative assemblies‚ and the Presidency and vice-presidencyIndia is a constitutional democracy with a parliamentary system of government‚ and at the heart of the system is a commitment to hold
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Fashion in India has become a growing industry with international events such as the India Fashion Week and annual shows by fashion designers in the major cities of India. The victories of a number of Indian beauty queens in International events such as the Miss World and Miss Universe contests have also made Indian models recognized worldwide. Fashion designers such as Ritu Kumar‚ Ritu Beri‚ Rohit Bal‚ Rina Dhaka‚ Muzaffar Ali‚ Satya Paul‚ Abraham and Thakore‚ Tarun Tahiliani‚ JJ Valaya and Manish
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opportunity to realize our dream of India Shining? There has been a lot of talk about the opportunity divide in India. This Opportunity Divide is that by the year 2022‚ 800 million people will be in the working age group but out of these only 200 million will be graduates while the remaining will be in the unskilled group. According to research done by NSDC‚ between the year 2008 and 2022‚ 347 million jobs will be created across 22 different high growth sectors in India. For example‚ the jobs available
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