Narayanan | Succeeded by | Pratibha Patil | | Born | 15 October 1931 (age 79)[1] Rameshwaram‚ Madras Presidency‚ British India | Alma mater | Madras Institute of Technology | Profession | Aerospace engineering | Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam (Tamil: அவுல் பகீர் ஜைனுலாப்தீன் அப்துல் கலாம்; born 15 October 1931 inRameshwaram‚ Madras Presidency‚ British India)‚ usually referred to as Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam‚ was the 11th President of India‚ serving from 2002 to 2007.[2] He was elected during the
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Anil’s Ghost is the critically acclaimed fourth novel by Michael Ondaatje‚ first published in 2000. Anil’s Ghost follows the life of Anil Tissera‚ a native Sri Lankan who left to study in the United States on a scholarship‚ during which time she has become a forensic anthropologist. She returns to Sri Lanka in the midst of its merciless civil war as part of a Human Rights Investigation by the United Nations. Anil‚ along with archaeologist Sarath Diyasena‚ discovers the skeleton of a recently burned
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Biotechnology‚ Dr.N.G.P. Arts and Science‚ Coimbatore‚ Tamil Nadu‚ India. 2 Department of Botany‚ School of Life sciences‚ Periyar University‚ Salem-11‚ Tamil Nadu‚ India. *Author for correspondence: E-mail: selsarat@yahoo.com <Present address: Department of Botany‚ School of Life Sciences‚ Periyar University‚ Salem-11‚ Tamil Nadu‚ India. Summary White rot fungi Daldenia concentrica‚ Lepiota sp and Trametes serialis isolated from the Western Ghats region of Tamil Nadu‚ India were used to treat pulp and paper
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to Floods (million Ha.) | Uttar Pradesh | 7.336 | Bihar | 4.26 | Punjab | 3.7 | Rajasthan | 3.26 | Assam | 3.15 | West Bengal | 2.65 | Haryana | 2.35 | Orissa | 1.4 | Andhra Pradesh | 1.39 | Gujarat | 1.39 | Kerala | 0.87 | Tamil Nadu | 0.45 | Tripura | 0.33 | Madhya Pradesh | 0.26 | Himachal Pradesh | 0.23 | Maharashtra | 0.23 | Jammu & Kashmir | 0.08 | Manipur | 0.08 | Delhi | 0.05 | Karnataka | 0.02 | Meghalaya | 0.02 | Pondichery | 0.01 | Total
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FLORA IN INDIA The flora of India is one of the richest of the world due to a wide range of climate‚ topology and environments in the country. It is thought there are over 15000 species of flowering plants in India‚ which account for 6 percent of the total plant species in the world. Due to the wide range of climatic conditions‚ India holds rich variety of flora that no other country can boast of. India covers more than 45‚000 species of flora‚ out of which there are several species that are not
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Supreme Court guidelines * Order dated 28 November 2001 * Each child up to 6 years of age is to get 300 calories and 8-10 gms of protein. * Each malnourished child to get 600 calories and 16-20 grams of protein. * Each pregnant woman‚ nursing mother and adolescent girl to get 500 calories and 20-25 grams of protein. * Every settlement is to have an Anganwadi. * Order dated 29 April 2004 * All 0-6 year old children‚
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for floor covering and other applications. In the meantime‚ Coconut cultivation also got spread over in many regions other than the traditional areas like Tamil Nadu‚ in a significant way. Prominent among the states other than Tamil Nadu‚ which have promoted coir industry‚ are Kerala‚ Karnataka‚ Andhra Pradesh and Orissa. The Coir Industry in Tamil Nadu presently provides direct employment to about 3.60 lakhs persons including those who are employed for part of the year. It is a fact that a good percentage
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coming from two different states in India‚ who face hardships in convincing their parents for approval of their marriage. The novel is a fiction‚ but is said to be inspired from the real story[1] of the author and his wife Anusha who are from Delhi and Tamil Nadu‚ respectively.[2] This is the second Chetan Bhagat book based largely on his life‚ with the other being his first book ’Five Point Somenone’. He wrote this novel after quitting his job at an investment bank.[3] This is his fourth book after Five
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Pranav Misri Mike Tribe IB History 1‚ Period 2 29th August 2014 Word Count: 1996 words What is Nationalism? Historical and scholarly perspectives on nationalism are almost as numerous as the different strains of nationalism and other phenomena that are often confused with it. Some‚ like Richard Handler‚ a professor of Anthropology at the University of Virginia‚ declare it “as an ideology about individuated being‚ an ideology concerned with boundedness‚ continuity‚ and homogeneity encompassing
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whim‚ donor influence Left vs Right Cabinet appoints Uneven Regime Tensions Bureaucratic leadership Education Conditions access Private‚ public‚ ‘central schools’ and others Media: English‚ Sinhala and Tamil quality International/private National‚ provincial Media: Sinhala‚ Tamil‚ resurgence of English ▲Increasing politicisation of implementation ▲ What is national political will? Public commitment to the need for policy and plans from highest political authority
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