civilisation and culture over the past several millennia. Few are aware that India was the fountainhead of important foundational scientific developments and approaches. These cover many great scientific discoveries and technological achievements in Mathematics‚ Astronomy‚ Architecture‚ Chemistry‚ Metallurgy‚ Medicine‚ Natural Philosophy and other areas. A great deal of this traveled outwards from India. Equally‚ India also assimilated scientific ideas and techniques from elsewhere‚ with open-mindedness
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INTRODUCTION TO INDUSTRY The Times of India (TOI) is an Indian English-language daily newspaper. According to Audit Bureau of Circulations‚ it has the largest circulation among all English-language newspapers in the world‚ across all formats (broadsheet‚ tabloid‚ compact‚ Berliner and online). In 2008‚ the newspaper reported that (with a circulation of over 3.14 million) it was certified by the Audit Bureau of Circulations (India) as the world’s largest selling English-language daily‚ ranking
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! Dear Reader‚ It gives me immense pleasure to introduce you to the Centre for WTO Studies‚ coinciding with the inaugural issue of our new bimonthly newsletter: “ India‚ WTO and Trade Issues”. The Centre for WTO Studies – WTO Centre in its shorter form – has indeed been functioning since November 2002 in the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade with the objective of providing research and analytical support to the Department of Commerce in the Ministry of Commerce and Industry on identified issues
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Air India plans a turnaround strategy without wage and job cuts After all the turbulence national air carrier Air India went through in the recent past‚ Arvind Jadhav‚ Chairman and Managing Director of the beleaguered airlines is now determined to have a positive balance sheet by 2014-15 and is ready with a turnaround strategy. Some of the key targets the national carrier has set for itself include achieving 25 million domestic and 15 million international passengers by 2015‚ 93% on-time punctuality
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Terrorism and India A Common definition of terrorism is the systematic use or threatened use of violence to intimidate a population or government and thereby effect political‚ religious‚ or ideological change.[1][2] Terrorism in India‚ according to the Home Ministry‚ poses a significant threat to the state. Terrorism in India is basically two types external and internal‚ external terrorism emerge from neighboring countries and internal terrorism emulates from religious or communal violence and Naxalite–Maoist
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Chapter-1 • Introduction • Concept of Transport • Functions of Transport • Means of Transport • Transport in India ix 1.1 INTRODUCTION From the beginning of history‚ human sensitivity has revealed an urge for mobility leading to a measure of Society’s progress. The history of this mobility or transport is the history of civilization. For any country to develop with right momentum modern and efficient Transport as a basic infrastructure is a must. It has been seen throughout the history
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India also has enormous problems with overpopulation. The current population is over a billion‚ but India does not have the large land mass that China has. India is experiencing major problems with declining water tables due to over-extraction beyond sustainable yield. India is building desalination plants to solve this problem. Because India has the same population density as Japan‚ some have claimed that India’s poverty is caused by underdevelopment‚ not overpopulation. Increased depletion of
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Wildlife in India The wildlife in India comprises a mix of species of different types of organisms.[1] Apart from a handful of the major farm animals such as cows‚ buffaloes‚ goats‚ poultry‚ pigs & sheep‚ India has an amazingly wide variety of animals native to the country. It is home to Bengal tigers‚ Asiatic lions‚ Leopards‚ Pythons‚ Wolves‚ Foxes‚ Bears‚ Crocodiles‚ Rhinoceroses‚ Camels‚ Wilddogs‚ Monkeys‚ Snakes‚ Antelope species‚Deer species‚ varieties of bison and not to mention the mighty Asian
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Sovereignty of India Sovereignty is a sensitive issue in India even sixty years after independence. Take the recent fracas over the Indo-US nuclear deal‚ ignited quite ironically by both the Left and the Right at the same time. It has seen the debate Centre not so much on the actual agreement‚ as on the notion of an independent foreign policy. This article isn’t about the nuclear deal. It is about understanding the meaning of sovereignty in the 21st century. A proper understanding of the concept
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