What is Earthquake An earthquake is caused by a sudden slip on a fault. The tectonic plates are always slowly moving‚ but they get stuck at their edges due to friction. When the stress on the edge overcomes the friction‚ there is an earthquake that releases energy in waves that travel through the earth’s crust and cause the shaking that we feel.( readanddigest.com/what-is-an-earthquake) The April 2015 Nepal earthquake (also known as the Gorkha earthquake)[6][9] killed more than 8‚800 people and injured
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APPLICATION FORM & INSTRUCTIONS – JANUARY‚ 2014 The Indira Gandhi National Open University established by an Act of Parliament in 1985 has emerged as a World leader in Open and Distance Education. The University offers a variety of academic programmes at Certificate‚ Diploma‚ Undergraduate‚ Post Graduate and Doctoral levels covering various areas of knowledge. These programmes are offered through Schools of Studies located at the IGNOU Headquarter at Delhi. The delivery of academic programmes
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The Indian National Congress (Hindi: भारतीय राष्ट्रीय कांग्रेस) (also known as the Congress‚ and abbreviated INC) is a major political party in India. It is the largest and oldest democratic political party in the world.[1][2][3] Founded in 1885 by Allan Octavian Hume‚ Dadabhai Naoroji‚ Dinshaw Wacha‚ Womesh Chandra Bonnerjee‚ Surendranath Banerjee‚ Monomohun Ghose‚ Mahadev Govind Ranade[4] and William Wedderburn‚ the Indian National Congress became the leader of the Indian Independence Movement
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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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NEW Application Number Form of Application for New Licence to Drive a Motor Vehicle (Read the instructions on page-5 carefully before filling the form) To‚ The Licensing Authority State * Name of the RTO/DTO UID 263048 * LL DL KA-Karnataka * KA01 -RTO‚KORAMANGALA Part – A First Name 1. Name of the applicant Gender * Middle Name Last Name Male Female Others or 1.2 Age(In Years) 29 * 1.1 Date of birth * (dd-mm-yyyy) 2. Place of Birth 2(a) If place
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Sericulture‚ or silk farming‚ is the rearing of silkworms for the production of raw silk. Although there are several commercial species of silkworms‚ Bombyx mori is the most widely used and intensively studied. According to Confucian texts‚ the discovery of silk production byB. mori dates to about 2700 BC‚ although archaeological records point to silk cultivation as early as the Yangshao period (5000 – 3000 BCE).[1] About the first half of the 1st century AD it had reached ancient Khotan‚[2] and
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Jump to: navigation‚ search Crime is present in various forms in India. Organized crime include drug trafficking‚ gunrunning‚ money laundering‚ extortion‚ murder for hire‚ fraud‚ human trafficking poaching and Prostitution. Many criminal operations engage in black marketeering‚ political violence‚ religiously motivated violence‚ terrorism‚ and abduction. Other crimes are homicide‚ robbery‚ assault etc. Property crimes include burglary‚ theft‚ motor vehicle theft‚ and arson. Corruption is a significant
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www.outlookindia.com | http://www.outlookindia.com/articlefullwidth.aspx?237765 WEB MAGAZINE SECTIONS INTERACTIVE FEATURES REGULARS RESOURCES RSS Business MAGAZINE | JUN 30‚ 2008 Top 35 Private Engineering Colleges Rank Name of Institute City IC II I PP PS GT IC: Intellectual capital (600)‚ II: Industry Interface (300)‚ I: Infrastructure (650)‚ PP: Placement Performance (400)‚ PS: Pedagogic System (200)‚ GT: Grand Total (2150) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
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1. Introduction: What is Labour Migration? 2. Migration in India: Statistical Framework and Regional Disparities 2.1 Inter – state migration flows 1991-2002 2.2 Inter-state migration: socio-economic determinants 3. Who Migrates? 3.1 Female Migration 3.2 Segmentation of labour markets by ethnic group 3.3 Age Profile of Migrants 3.4 Do the poorest migrate? 4. Causes of Migration 4.1 Push Factors 4.2 Pull Factors 4.3 The Urban Informal Sector
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HISTORY OF CHRISTIANITY IN INDIA I. The Beginning of Christianity in India – The Tradition of St. Thomas and Bartholomew The Christian church in arose out of the events described in the central portion of the Apostle’s Creed – the birth‚ passion and resurrection of our lord Jesus Christ. These happen in the small country of Palestine in the first century‚ an its spread outwards from Palestine through the work of his apostles‚ their helpers and successors‚ who planted the church in country after country
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