------------------------------------------------- India From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia This article is about the Republic of India. For other uses‚ see India (disambiguation). Republic of IndiaBharat Ganrajya | | | Flag | Emblem | | Motto: "Satyameva Jayate" (Sanskrit) "Truth Alone Triumphs"[1] | Anthem: Jana Gana Mana "You are the Ruler of the Minds of All People"[2]MENU0:00 | National song: Vande Mataram "I Bow to You‚ Mother"[a][1]MENU0:00 | Area controlled by
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Urbanization (or urbanisation) refers to the increasing number of people that live in urban areas. It predominantly results in the physical growth of urban areas‚ be it horizontal or vertical. The United Nations projected that half of the world ’s population would live in urban areas at the end of 2008.[1] By 2050 it is predicted that 64.1% and 85.9% of the developing and developed world respectively will be urbanized.[2] Urbanization is closely linked to modernization‚ industrialization‚ and the
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TATA NANO SINGUR CASE TATA NANO SINGUR CASE INTRODUCTION: Tata Motors announced in 2006‚ that the Nano would be manufactured in Singur‚ West Bengal‚ helped in part by a forced acquisition and reuse of farmland by the West Bengal state government to entice Tata to build there. In May 2006‚ the West Bengal Government decided to acquire 997 acres (initially 1013 acres were asked for) for the Tata Motors small car factory in Singur of Hooghly district.Almost 6‚000 families‚ including many agricultural
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Experience and Enlightenment Amb. Cheng Ruisheng ‚ Special Report #91‚ June 2010 Chaitanya Ravi‚ Special Report #90‚ May 2010 PR Chari‚ Special Report #89‚ April 2010 The Nuclear Safety Culture in India: Past‚ Present and Future Countering the Naxalites: Deploying the Armed Forces Southeast Asia in
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GOI-UNDP DISASTER RISK REDUCTION PROJECT Empowered lives Resilient nations Quarterly Report For the Quarter Ending 30th September‚2011 Implemented by Orissa State Disaster Management Authority Bhubaneswar QUARTERLY REPORT ON IMPLEMENTATION OF GOI-UNDP DISASTER RISK REDUCTION (DRR) PROJECT FOR THE QUARTER ENDING ON 30.09.11 MAIN RESULT AREA I: INSITUTIONAL STRENTHENING 1. Formation and meetings of the SDMA and DDMAs‚ SSC‚ Inter-agency groups and expert/thematic groups a. State Disaster Management
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Community Based Water Resources Management – Some Regional Experiences1 K M Baharul Islam Development Gateway South Asia ABSTRACT Massive economic and industrial development across the world is depleting access to water resources for the poorer and marginalized communities. While available water resources are increasingly put to sever stress due to over exploitation‚ the communities whose livelihood depends on water resources are being threatened by the lack of access to water. Therefore‚ it
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Foundation Course 1 Human Rights‚ Gender and Environment Indian Women’s Movement Aparna Basu∗ The roots of the Indian women’s movement go back to the nineteenth century male social reformers who took up issues concerning women and started women’s organizations. Women started forming their own organization from the end of the nineteenth century first at the local and then at the national level. In the years before independence‚ the two main issues they took up were political rights and
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What is social movement and its different faces Different type s of social movements are peasant movement‚ tribal movement‚ dalit movement‚ women’s movement. Tribal movements were basically directed to preserve the tribal identity. Tribal people over the years where in danger due to intrusion of external people affecting the social‚ political and geo-economical position of the tribes. There were about seventy tribal movements from 1778 to 1947. Some of the major tribal movements were Jharkhand
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the largest democracy in the world. Harboring vast regional and cultural variation‚ it has survived as a nation in spite of insurgencies in the northeast‚ the disputed state of Jammu and Kashmir‚ and the growing threat from revolutionary communist Naxalite groups. Economic liberalization in 1991 not only led to rapid economic growth‚ but also brought India closer to North America and Western Europe‚ although the country also maintains strong ties with Russia‚ continuing relations established with the
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