INDIAN RAILWAYS AND ITS CONTINUING MONOPOLY Indian Railways abbreviated as IR‚ is the state-owned railway company of India‚ which owns and operates most of the country’s rail transport. It is overseen by the Ministry of Railways of the Government of India. Indian Railways has one of the largest and busiest rail networks in the world‚ transporting over 18 million passengers and more than 2 million tonnes of freight daily. It is the world’s largest commercial or utility employer‚ with more than
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OnOn Learning to Be an Indian By Santha Rama Rau If you are going to choose between Sampaguita and Rose‚ what will you choose? We know that Sampaguita and Rose has its own identification and different structure but they also have similarities‚ they have stem‚ leaves and they are both flowers‚ right? It’s like an Indian Culture and Philippine Culture‚ they have its own identification‚ different traditions and different cultures but they also have similarities on it. But first‚ did you know
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Title: Out in the open: elected female leadership in Canada ’s first nations community Author(s): Cora Voyageur Source: Canadian Review of Sociology. Canadian Review of Sociology. 48.1 (Feb. 2011): p67. Document Type: Report Abstract: The Indian Act banned women from elected leadership positions in reserve politics in Canada until 1951. This paper locates women in reserve politics and provides an analysis of the First Nations women who served as chiefs and councilors across Canada. Amy Wharton
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Navajo Indians The Navajo Indian culture is a very unique culture. Family‚ sense of belonging and helping one another is more than just a nice thing to do. For them‚ it’s a way of life. Being the largest federally recognized tribe in the United States this culture typically reside in the Arizona and New Mexico area. They speak their own language but English is also spoken fluently. Their beliefs and values‚ gender relations and how they handle sickness and healing are all major aspects that
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Plains Indians The American Plains Indians are among the best known of all Native Americans. There Indians played a significant role in shaping the history of the West. Some of the more noteworthy Plains Indians were Big Foot‚ Black Kettle‚ Red Cloud‚ Sitting Bull‚ and Spotted Tail. Big Foot Big Foot (? 1825-1890) was also known as Spotted Elk. Born in the Great Plains he eventually became a Minneconjou Teton Sioux chief. He was part of a tribal delegation that traveled to Washington‚ D.C.‚
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throughout India are approximately 500‚000 villages. The Census of India regards most settlements of fewer than 5‚000 as a village. These settlements range from tiny hamlets of thatched huts to larger settlements of tile-roofed stone and brick houses. Most Indian villages are small; nearly 80 percent have fewer than 1‚000 inhabitants‚ according to the 1991 census. Most are nucleated settlements‚ while others are more dispersed. It is in villages that India’s most basic business--agriculture--takes place. Here
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Innovation of Agriculture Logistics Managing Food Inflation © 2011 KPMG‚ an Indian Partnership and a member firm of the KPMG network of independent member firms affiliated with KPMG International Cooperative (“KPMG International”)‚ a Swiss entity. All rights reserved. About the study This is a briefing paper written by KPMG that assesses the underlying reasons for the high levels of inflation in the food economy of the country and its subsequent impact on innovations in business models
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governing body for the Klamath tribes from 1961 to 1975. The majority of members removed themselves from affiliation with the tribes as a “legal entity”‚ these removed members were still Klamath‚ but they had no legal status either as Klamaths or as Indians. Remaining members of the Klamath tribes occasionally conducted meetings and resolved disputes concerning their common interests; they elected an executive committee from their ranks to enable interaction between themselves and the trustee that managed
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1 CAPACITY UTILIZATION IN INDIAN AIRLINES Danish A. Hashim* Sir Ratan Tata Fellow Institute of Economic Growth Delhi. 110 007. INDIA. E-mail: danish_hashim@yahoo.com April 2003 Abstract The financial performance of the state -owned Indian Airlines has deteriorated since 1989- 90. The main reasons cited for the poor financial performance of Indian Airlines include: rising fuel prices‚ excess staff‚ serving uneconomic routes and increasing expenses on insurance. However‚ low capacity utilization
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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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