05/02/2010 : India public spending on education continues to be abysmally low at just 0.6 pc of the GDP in contrast with 1 pc in the US and 0.9 pc of the GDP in the UK.
05/02/2010 : "Dongfeng 31" coded Chinese dangerous and long distance missile was tested in October, 2009 at Wuzhai space centre in Shanghai
05/02/2010 : Kolleru Lake is a freshwater lake. It is located in Andhra Pradesh state, India. Kolleru is located between Krishna and Godavari delta. Kolleru spans into two districts - Krishna and West Godavari. The lake serves as a natural flood-balancing reservoir for these two rivers. The lake is fed directly by water from the seasonal Budameru and Tammileru streams, and is connected to the Krishna and Godavari systems by over 68 inflowing drains and channels
05/02/2010 : India begins Free Trade Agreement talks with New Zealand. India already have Free Trade Agreements with - ASEAN, Sri Lanka, Thialand and South Korea
05/02/2010 : India public spending on education continues to be abysmally low at just 0.6 pc of the GDP in contrast with 1 pc in the US and 0.9 pc of the GDP in the UK.
05/02/2010 : "Dongfeng 31" coded Chinese dangerous and long distance missile was tested in October, 2009 at Wuzhai space centre in Shanghai
05/02/2010 : Kolleru Lake is a freshwater lake. It is located in Andhra Pradesh state, India. Kolleru is located between Krishna and Godavari delta. Kolleru spans into two districts - Krishna and West Godavari. The lake serves as a natural flood-balancing reservoir for these two rivers. The lake is fed directly by water from the seasonal Budameru and Tammileru streams, and is connected to the Krishna and Godavari systems by over 68 inflowing drains and channels
05/02/2010 : India begins Free Trade Agreement talks with New Zealand. India already have Free Trade Agreements with - ASEAN, Sri Lanka, Thialand and South Korea
05/02/2010 : India UK to sign Civil Nuclear Deal soon. Text finalised.
05/02/2010 : Human Resource Development Minister - Kapil Sibal
05/02/2010 : Corporate Affairs Minister - Salman Khurshid
05/02/2010 : NASSCOM president Som Mittal - IT exports to reach $50 billion in 2010
05/02/2010 : Committee on financial sector reforms - under the chairmanship of Raghuram Rajan - related to interest-free banking in India.
05/02/2010 : India has signed civil nuclear cooperation deals with US, France, Russia, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Argentina and Namibia. India has already finalised a civil nuclear cooperation deal with Canada, which is expected to be signed next year.
05/02/2010 : Cauvery water dispute is between states of Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu. Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal was set up in June 1990 at the direction of the Supreme Court after repeated rounds of negotiation among the basin States had failed.
05/02/2010 : India begins Free Trade Agreement talks with New Zealand. India already have Free Trade Agreements with - ASEAN, Sri Lanka, Thialand and South Korea
05/02/2010 : The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names & Numbers (ICANN) - the global body which sets the standards for the Internet.
05/02/2010 : Myanmar Prime Minister - Thein Sein
05/02/2010 : Shale gas is natural gas produced from shale ? a fine grained sedimentary rock composed of flakes of clay and minerals like quartz and calcite.
05/02/2010 : After a series of consultations with stakeholders, the government has formulated the ambitious National Solar Mission implementation plan to be launched soon. The National Solar Mission document which sets a target of 20,000 MW for solar power by 2020 was in principle approved by Prime Minister's Council of Climate Change in its meeting last month. The solar mission sets a goal of making the country dependent on renewable energy.
05/02/2010 : Doha Round : Launched in November 2001, the Doha Round seeks to open up world markets in goods and services further. It has suffered setbacks in the past eight years due to conflict of interest between developed countries, including the EU and the US, and leading developing countries such as India, China and Brazil. Several issues relating to agriculture and industrial goods have held up the talks.
05/02/2010 : Thuan from Vietnam were declared joint winners of UNESCO-Kalinga Prize for 2009 for popularisation of science
05/02/2010 : Americans Elinor Ostrom and Oliver Williamson won the Nobel Prize in economics for their work in economic governance
05/02/2010 : Social activist Kailash Satyarthi of the Bachpan Bachao Andolan received the coveted 2009 Defender of Democracy Award by the Parliamentarians for Global Action (PGA)
05/02/2010 : Tactics and Air combat institution, Gwalior
05/02/2010 : Labonese President Sulaiman
05/02/2010 : Irish PM Brian Cowen
05/02/2010 : Nirmal Gram Puraskar
Panchayti Raj institution can win cash prize ranging from Rs. 50,000 to Rs 5 lakh under the Nirmal Gram Puraskar if:
(a). All households in the panchayat area have access to sanitary toilets.
(b). All schools and aanganwadis have access to toilet facility.
(c). The panchayat area is free from open defection.
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