The Bofors scandal was a major corruption scandal in India in the 1980s; the then Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and several others were accused of receiving kickbacks from Bofors AB for winning a bid to supply India’s 155 mm field howitzer. The scale of the corruption was far worse than any that India had seen before‚ and directly led to the defeat of Gandhi’s ruling Indian National Congress party in the November 1989 general elections. It has been speculated that the scale of the scandal was to the
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Introduction: The world is an ever changing place. What is taboo today may become a norm tomorrow. There are vast numbers of countries with various languages‚ religions and their cultural ethnicity. India has been referred to as a country which is a living example of unity in diversity. In today’s age of capitalism and free trade‚ borders are soon getting irrelevant and people are migrating‚ more than ever before‚ to achieve their personal and organisational goals. It becomes all the more important
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Schemes/ Projects Central Government Schemes 1. Rajiv Gandhi Grameen Vidyutikaran Yojana‚ Ministry of Power - A scheme "Rajiv Gandhi Grameen Vidyutikaran Yojana" for Rural Electricity Infrastructure and Household Electrification was launched for the attainment of the National Common Minimum Programme of providing access to electricity to all Rural Household by 2009. Rural Electrification Corporation (REC) is the nodal agency for the scheme. Rajiv Gandhi Grameen Vidyutikaran Yojana to be continued during
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highlights Dr Manmohan Singh the way he made peace talks with the arch rivals Pakistan. Even after the party’s interference Dr. Singh triumphed the peace talks which were never successfully done by the legendary leaders and former Prime Ministers of the Gandhi family and here comes the man with no political background who eased through the peace talks and made a significant accord with General Musharraf. This was very important and the one which would make the image of Dr. Singh’s image to completely different
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The first generation dynast‚ who establishes the dynasty‚ in a nominally democratic polity‚ always has some leadership qualities in him or her. This is as much true of historical dynasties as it is true of our current ruling dynasty – the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty. Pandit Nehru‚ who established the Indian ruling dynasty‚ was not a man without merit. While history now judges most of the policies he implemented as Prime Minister in an unfair light‚ it would be a huge disservice to argue that he rose without
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Code: BSHF-101 Foundation Course in Humanities and Social Sciences SCHOOL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES INDIRA GANDHI NATIONAL OPEN UNIVERSITY MAIDAN GARHI‚ NEW DELHI – 110 068 BSHF-101 BACHELOR’S DEGREE PROGRAMME (BDP) ASSIGNMENTS For July 2012 and January 2013 Sessions Course Code: BSHF-101 Foundation Course in Humanities and Social Sciences SCHOOL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES INDIRA GANDHI NATIONAL OPEN UNIVERSITY MAIDAN GARHI‚ NEW DELHI – 110 068 BSHF-101 Programme Code: BDP Course
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The government is the people’s representation: our protector and our voice. It is what we turn to in our time of need‚ the one we look up to. However‚ there are times when the government turn against the people‚ acting as an enemy instead of an ally. In those times‚ the people must until and stand together against our government. When the government becomes corrupt‚ common citizens have the right to take actions. Peaceful resistance to law positively impacts all societies in the world‚ no matter
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emergency and suspended civil liberties. Immediately after this declaration‚ the government tightened its controls on the Indian mass media‚ especially o n the newspapers which had reputations of being free and lively. During the Summer of 1975‚ as Indira Gandhi became increasingly more threatened by the mounting criticisms of her government‚ she declared a state of emergency. Immediately she took control of the press‚ prohibiting their reporting of all domestic and international news. The government expelled
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initiation intopolitics came when he came in contact with Mahatma Gandhi in 1919. At that time MahatmaGandhi had launched a campaignagainst Rowlatt Act. Nehru was instantly attracted to Gandhi’s commitment for active but peaceful‚ civil disobedience. Gandhi himself saw promise and India’s future in the young Jaarlal Nehru. Nehru family changed its family according to Mahatma Gandhi’ teachingsThey now wore a Khadi Kurta and Gandhi cap. Jawaharlal Nehru took active part in the Non- Cooperation Movement
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Indian History - Important events History of India . An overview : The people of India have had a continuous civilization since 2500 B.C.‚ when the inhabitants of the Indus River valley developed an urban culture based on commerce and sustained by agricultural trade. This civilization declined around 1500 B.C.‚ probably due to ecological changes. During the second millennium B.C.‚ pastoral‚ Aryan-speaking tribes migrated from the northwest into the subcontinent. As they settled in the middle Ganges
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