04/02/2010 : Earlier C Rangarajan and B K Chaturvedi, and now Kirit Parikh recommended price rise in Petrol, diesel, kerosene and LPG by reducing subsidy provided by government
04/02/2010 : Russian-origin T-90S main battle tanks (MBTs) and indigenous Arjun MBT - face to face performance test will be done in Thar desert. Army wants Russian Tanks while DRDO ( makers of Arjun tank) and government want to sell Arjun Tank to Army
04/02/2010 : Iran sent animals in space - President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad - Iran launched into space its satellite carrier Kavoshgar 3
04/02/2010 : Telangana Committee head - former Supreme Court judge, Justice B.N. Srikrishna.
04/02/2010 : P. Sainath - Bharat Asmita national award
04/02/2010 : What is the Need of SLR?
With the SLR (Statutory Liquidity Ratio), the RBI can ensure the solvency a commercial bank. It is also helpful to control the expansion of Bank Credits. By changing the SLR rates, RBI can increase or decrease bank credit expansion. Also through SLR, RBI compels the commercial banks to invest in government securities like government bonds..
04/02/2010 : SLR to Control Inflation and propel growth : SLR is used to control inflation and propel growth. Through SLR rate tuning the money supply in the system can be controlled efficiently.
04/02/2010 : Inflation : Inflation is defined as an increase in the price of bunch of Goods and services that projects the Indian economy. An increase in inflation figures occurs when there is an increase in the average level of prices in Goods and services. Inflation happens when there are less Goods and more buyers, this will result in increase in the price of Goods, since there is more demand and less supply of the goods.
04/02/2010 : Deflation : Deflation is the continuous decrease in prices of goods and services. Deflation occurs when the inflation rate becomes negative (below zero) and stays there for a longer period...
04/02/2010 : What are the effects of Deflation : During deflation the price of goods and services is falling and consumers will tend to delay their purchases until prices fall further. This will cause for a lower production, lower wages and demand which will lead to further decrease in prices. This is known as deflationary spiral.
04/02/2010 : What is Deflationary Spiral? : It is a situation when decrease in the prices leads to lower production, lower wages and demand, which can lead to further decrease in the prices. A deflationary spiral is when decrease in prices lead to a vicious circle (a trouble leads to another that aggravates the first).
04/02/2010 : CRR Rate in India : Cash reserve Ratio (CRR) is the amount of funds that the banks have to keep with RBI. If RBI decides to increase the percent of this, the available amount with the banks comes down. RBI is using this method (increase of CRR rate), to drain out the excessive money from the banks. Ex. If bank A have assets of Rs 100 crore and CRR is 6%, then bank A will have to give RBI Rs 6 crore.
04/02/2010 : Repo Rate : Whenever the banks have any shortage of funds they can borrow it from RBI. Repo rate is the rate at which our banks bor.row rupees from RBI. A reduction in the repo rate will help banks to get money at a cheaper rate. When the repo rate increases borrowing from RBI becomes more expensive. Ex. If Repo Rate is 3%, and bank A borrows Rs 100 crore from RBI, bank A will have to pay an interest of Rs 3 crore to RBI.
04/02/2010 : Reverse Repo Rate : Reverse Repo rate is the rate at which Reserve Bank of India (RBI) borrows money from banks. Banks are always happy to lend money to RBI since their money are in safe hands with a good interest. An increase in Reverse repo rate can cause the banks to transfer more funds to RBI due to this attractive interest rates. It can cause the money to be drawn out of the banking system. Ex. If bank A lends Rs 100 crore to RBI and RRR is 4%, RBI will pay bank A an interest of Rs 4 crore.
04/02/2010 : SLR (Statutory Liquidity Ratio) is the amount a commercial bank needs to maintain in the form of cash, or gold or govt. approved securities (Bonds) before providing credit to its customers. SLR rate is determined and maintained by the RBI (Reserve Bank of India) in order to control the expansion of bank credit. Ex. If SLR is 8% and bank A have total cash and gold of Rs 100 crore, then bank A can lend or spend only Rs 92 crore and will have to save Rs 8 crore.
04/02/2010 : Iran sent animals in space - President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad - Iran launched into space its satellite carrier Kavoshgar 3
03/02/2010 : Vivek Singh, Harpreet Singh and Chandrashekar Kumar Chaudhary - 25m standard pistol - associated with shooting
03/02/2010 : India and Hungary on inked an agreement for oil and gas exploration and decided to strengthen cooperation in the information technology (IT) sector.Signed between MOL, the official Hungarian Oil Company, and Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) in which MOL will be a 35 per cent partner
03/02/2010 : Central Employment Guarantee Council (CEGC) - governing body for the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme
03/02/2010 : Indian Air Force (IAF) has decided to procure 750 Akash missile systems from the public sector undertaking Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL) at a cost of about Rs.4,000 crore.
03/02/2010 : The BrahMos missile is a joint product of India and Russia and it has already been inducted into the Indian Navy and Army. It is going to be tested in Baltic sea (near Russia) later this year. There are four versions of BrahMos now: sea-to-sea; sea-to-land; land-to-sea; and land-to-land. Work on launching the cruise missile from submarines and aircraft was in progress. Established in 1998, Brah- Mos Aerospace, produces and markets the BrahMos supersonic missiles. Known as BrahMos Block-2, the missile has a top speed of over Mach 5, making it virtually impossible to intercept, and it can effectively engage even slightly visible ground targets. It has been designed primarily to meet the needs of the Army.
03/02/2010 : South African President Jacob Zuma
03/02/2010 : Tejas - Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) programme will get an additional funding of Rs 8,000 crore. Tejas in the making since 1983
03/02/2010 : Pentagon - US Military - Report Says New Delhi Will Provide Security In Indian Ocean
03/02/2010 : Dr. Norman Borlaug - father of green revolution. Dr Borlaug founded the World Food Prize, which is now regarded as the "Nobel prize for food"
02/02/2010 : Russia is building two reactors at Koodankulam in Tamil Nadu
02/02/2010 : SBI - World's 36th largest bank
02/02/2010 : ICICI - India's largest private bank - World's 70th largest bank
02/02/2010 : 11th South Asian Games - going on in Dhaka
02/02/2010 : Rahman wins two Grammy awards : He shared the 'best compilation soundtrack for a motion picture' Grammy with lyricist Gulzar for the Slumdog Millionaire soundtrack. "Jai ho" was judged the best motion picture song. "Jai Ho" has been sung by Sukhvinder Singh, Mahalaxmi Iyer, Tanvi Shah, Vijay Prakash and Rahman himself. This is Rahman's first Grammy win and the musician joins the league of stalwarts like Pandit Ravi Shankar, Zakir Hussain, Vikku Vinayak and Vishvamohan Bhatt, the previous Grammy winners from India.
02/02/2010 : Melghat Tiger Resevre is a catchment area of five rivers - Khandu, Khapra, Sipna, Gadga and Dolar rivers, all of which are tributaries of the river Tapti. The North Eastern boundary of the reserver is marked by Tapti river.
02/02/2010 : Chandra Prabha WildLife Sanctuary - Varanasi
02/02/2010 : Pirotan Island is the only one Marine National Park of its kind in India at Jamnagar district, Gujarat situated about 16 nautical miles away from Jamnagar.
02/02/2010 : Tsomgo lake, near Gangtok, is a home for Brahmani Ducks besides stop over for various migratory ducks.
02/02/2010 : Yumthang Valley (Sikkim) is the home of Singbha Rhododendron Sanctuary
02/02/2010 : Mal Sarovar Bird Sanctuary - near Wullar Lake - J&K
02/02/2010 : Rann, Gujarat - Indian Wild Ass Sanctuary
02/02/2010 : Govind WildLife Sanctuary - Uttarkashi District - Uttaranchal
01/02/2010 : Autralian Open - Paes and Black win the mixed doubles title
01/02/2010 : Autralian Open - Roger Fedrer wins men singles - 4th Australian Open for him - 16th Grand Slam titles
01/02/2010 : Yemen - Houthi group (tribe) was fighting government in northern Saada mountains - now ceasefire is declared
01/02/2010 : Haiti - earthquake - magnitude 7.0 - epicentre was near the town of Léogâne, approximately 25 km (16 miles) west of Port-au-Prince, Haiti's capital. On 12 January 2010 - Haitian President Rene Preval
01/02/2010 : Indian Air Force - The fourth largest air force in the world after US, Russia and China.
01/02/2010 : IAF chief - Air Chief Marshal P V Naik
01/02/2010 : AWACS - airborne warning and control system
01/02/2010 : Thekkadi Wild Life Sanctuary - Kerala
01/02/2010 : Vedanthangel Wild Life Sanctuary - Tamil Nadu
01/02/2010 : Trishna and Unakoti Wild Life Sanctuary - Tripura
01/02/2010 : After Uttarachal became a separate state, Dudhwa National Park is the only national park in the state of Uttar Pradesh
01/02/2010 : One-horned rhinoceros - only in Assam - Kaziranga National Park
01/02/2010 : Manas Wild Life Sanctuary / National Park also called Kamrup Sanctuary - established in 1928 - UNESCO Natural World Heritage site, a Project Tiger Reserve, an Elephant Reserve and a Biosphere Reserve in Assam, India. Named after manas river - major tributary of Brahmaputra river.
01/02/2010 : Kaziranga National Park, on the southern bank of river Bhramaputra, lies between Brahmaputra and Mikir Hills
01/02/2010 : Pench Tiger Reserve in M. P., which includes Indira Priyadarshini National Park and the Mowgli Pench Sanctuary
01/02/2010 : Ranthambore National Park - Rajashtan
01/02/2010 : Mawmrang Tlang Wild Life Sanctuary - Mizoram
01/02/2010 : Project Tiger - launched in April 1973 to protect Tigers
01/02/2010 : Indian Peacock - National Bird - Pavo cristatus
01/02/2010 : Botanical Survey of India - HeadQuarter at Howrah
01/02/2010 : Chila WildLife Sanctuary - Shiwalik Hills - near Haridwar and Rishikesh - part of Rajaji National Park
01/02/2010 : The WildLife (Protection) Act, 1972 adopted by all states except J.K, governs wildlife conservation and protection of endangered species.
01/02/2010 : Kumarakom Bird Sanctaury - Kochi, Kerala
01/02/2010 : Melghat Tiger Reserve - Satpura Hills in central India - Amravati District, Maharashtra
01/02/2010 : Elephant Reserve :
Shiwalik - U.P.
Kameng and Deomali - Arunachal Pradesh
Singhbhum - Jharkhand
Maysore - Karnataka
Mayurjharna and Easter Dooars - W.B.
SonitPur, Dihing - Patkai , Kaziranga - Karbi Anglong, Dhansiri - Lungding and Chirang - Ripu in Assam
Garo Hills - Meghalaya
Intaki - Nagaland
Rayala - Andhra Pradesh
Wayanad, Nilambur, Anamudi and Periyar - Kerala
Nilgiri, Coimbatore, Anamalai and Srivilliputtur - T.N.
31/01/2010 : UK halts student visa requests in N India - step taken after large number (10 times greater) of application were made in three months
31/01/2010 : Serena Williams won Australian Open women singles - her 5th Australian Open title - her 12th Grand Slam title
31/01/2010 : UNFCCC - United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change - dealing with current emission cut proposals
31/01/2010 : Australia wins Under-19 Cricket world cup
31/01/2010 : November 26 is celebrated as National Law Day because it was on this day in 1949 that the Constituent Assembly of India adopted the Constitution, which then came into effect on January 26, 1950.
31/01/2010 : The World Bank president Robert B Zoellick
31/01/2010 : "YSR Abhaya Hastam (Helping Hand), a co-contributory pension-cum-insurance scheme for poor women - in Andhra Pradesh
31/01/2010 : Saba Anjum - member of Indian women hockey team
31/01/2010 : Environmentalist and Chipko movement leader Sunderlal Bahuguna launched "Save Himalaya, Save Water, Save Life" movement for the North-East states
31/01/2010 : Internationally famous largest cattle fair of Asia - on Kartik Purnima at Sonepur in Saran district (Bihar).
31/01/2010 : Gold stock of RBI shot up by more than 55 pc with the purchase of 200 tnns of IMF gold at an estimated cost of $6.7 billion. RBI pledged gold during 1991 crisis with Bank of England to raise resources to meet external obligations
31/01/2010 : Kosovo - first poll took place in November 2009 since the territory declared independence from Serbia last year.
31/01/2010 : One of the senior-most journalists of the country and Editor-in-Chief of The Tribune group of newspapers, HK Dua, was nominated by the President to the Rajya Sabha
31/01/2010 : Governors:
Dr Kamla - Gujrat
Dr D Y Patil - Tripura
J B Patnaik - Assam.
31/01/2010 : Satinder Sharma became the first Indian hockey umpire to get Golden Whistle Award from the International Hockey Federation.
31/01/2010 : International Mobile Equipment Identity (IMEI) number - 15 digit code that identifies a mobile phone - phones not having this number are banned now- most of chinese phones dont have it. Indian Cellular Association (ICA) - advised this to GoI
31/01/2010 : Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina was chosen for the prestigious Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development this year for her "outstanding contribution to the promotion of democracy and pluralism".
31/01/2010 : Philippines President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
31/01/2010 : Force One, the elite commando force set up by the Maharashtra government in the wake of last year's terror attacks in Mumbai.
31/01/2010 : Union Minister for Youth Affairs and Sports Dr M.S.Gill
30/01/2010 : ITBP - First batch of Women battalion
30/01/2010 : The debate on Bt brinjal is getting broader, with farmers and health experts putting their weight behind the campaign against commercial marketing and supply of the food crop. Even as scientists and farmers cry foul over the ill-effects of genetically modified crops, an equally large community of scientists and patent holders are making a strong case in favour of Bt brinjal.
30/01/2010 : US pledged to cut its greenhouse gas emission by 17% by 2020 from the 2005 level, hoping that countries like India and China would follow suit as agreed upon during the Copenhagen Summit on Climate Change in December.
30/01/2010 : Law minister - Veerappa Moily
30/01/2010 : Telecom minister - A Raja
30/01/2010 : RBI Governor - Duvvuri Subbarao
30/01/2010 : Court martial - Military Secretary Lieutenant General Avadesh Prakash for his alleged involvement in a land scam in the Darjeeling area of West Bengal
30/01/2010 : Russia's new fifth-generation stealth fighter (FGFA), a joint project with India which is set to form the backbone of the two nation's air power till the mid-21st century, made a successful maiden test flight. HAL has 50 per cent investment stake in the $8-billion project; the IAF will get a modified two-seater derivative. Russia is the second country after the United States to have built such a plane. India, Russia will set up joint venture company to build the aircraft
30/01/2010 : Cash Reserve Ratio - the portion of deposits that commercial banks are required to keep with the central bank
30/01/2010 : Abdul Rahim Khan-I-Khana - Akbar's Navratnas was the State Treasury Minister and an important noble. A renowned poet in Persian, Sanskrit, and Hindustani.
30/01/2010 : Fakir Aziao-Din - Akbar's Navratnas was a sage with no formal office, but was one of the chief advisors of the Emperor
30/01/2010 : Raja Bhagwant Das - Akbar's Navratnas was Commander-in-Chief of the Mughal Armies
30/01/2010 : Faizi - Akbar's Navratnas was the Poet Laureate who is best known for his Nal u Daman, a poetic rendering of the Sanskrit story of Nala and Damayanti
30/01/2010 : 2007 Lisbon Treaty - European Union.
30/01/2010 : 2009 reigning Miss World, Ksenia Kukhinova (Russia), presented World Travel Award to Indian Tourism Minister Kumari Selja
30/01/2010 : Dr Yash Paul Sharma, Additional Professor and former Head, Department of Cardiology, PGI, Chandigarh, was selected for the prestigious Indira Gandhi Priyadarshini Award 2009
30/01/2010 : Noted journalist, writer and human rights activist Balraj Puri, 81, was honored with the prestigious Indira Gandhi Award for National Integration (award comprises Rs 5 lakh and a citation).
30/01/2010 : Avionic expert Dr K Radhakrishnan, Director of Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC), Thiruvananthapuram, now chairman of ISRO
30/01/2010 : Infosys Technologies won the Most Admired Knowledge Enterprises (MAKE) award for the year. (The company had bagged the award six times in the past)
30/01/2010 : Power Minister - Sushilkumar Shinde
29/01/2010 : G77 : The Group of 77 at the United Nations is a loose coalition of developing nations, designed to promote its members collective economic interests and create an enhanced joint negotiating capacity in the United Nations. There were 77 founding members of the organization, but the organization has since expanded to 130 member countries. The Republic of Yemen holds the Chairmanship in New York for 2010. The group was founded on June 15, 1964 by the "Joint Declaration of the Seventy-Seven Countries" issued at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD).
29/01/2010 : G24: The Group of 24 (G24), a chapter of the G-77, was established in 1971 to coordinate the positions of developing countries on international monetary and development finance issues and to ensure that their interests were adequately represented in negotiations on international monetary matters. The group, which is officially called the Intergovernmental Group of Twenty-Four on International Monetary Affairs and Development, is not an organ of the IMF, but the IMF provides secretariat services for the Group. Its meetings usually take place twice a year, prior to the IMFC and Development Committee meetings, to enable developing country members to discuss agenda items beforehand. Although membership in the G-24 is strictly limited to 24 countries, any member of the G-77 can join discussions. China has been a "special invitee" since the Gabon meetings of 1981. Miguel Gustavo Peirano, Argentine Minister of Economy, is the current chairman of the G-24.
29/01/2010 : 2008 G-20 Washington summit : About how to deal with the financial crisis, and lay the foundation for reform to avoid similar crises in the future. Since many economists and politicians called for a new Bretton Woods system to overhaul the world?s financial structure, the meeting has sometimes been described by the media as Bretton Woods II.
29/01/2010 : Bretton Woods system - a monetary management which was instituted after World War II
29/01/2010 : G20 : The Group of Twenty Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors (known as the G-20 and also the G20 or Group of Twenty) is a group of finance ministers and central bank governors from 20 economies: 19 countries, plus the European Union. The current chair country of the G-20 is South Korea. Collectively, the G-20 economies comprise 85% of global gross national product, 80% of world trade (including EU intra-trade) and two-thirds of the world population. The G-20 is a forum for cooperation and consultation on matters pertaining to the international financial system. With the G-20 growing in stature since the 2008 Washington summit, its leaders announced on September 25, 2009, that the group will replace the G8 as the main economic council of wealthy nations. Heads of states of G-20 members meet biannually at the G-20 Summit
29/01/2010 : Health and Family Welfare Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad
29/01/2010 : Liberhan Commission report - Demolition of Babri Masjid in Ayodhya
29/01/2010 : Justice Muzaffer Jan Commission - Best Bakery Case
29/01/2010 : Japan PM - Yukio Hatoyama
29/01/2010 : China-ASEAN free trade agreement is signed. Biggest in term of popolation and third largest in term of turnover.
29/01/2010 : MahaRaja HariSingh accessed J&K to India. Seikh Muhammad Abdullah endorsed him.
29/01/2010 : Large Hadron Collidor (LHC) - European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) - Failed in 2008 end - Running succesfully now. Indian participation:- Variable Energy Cyclotron Center, Kolkata. Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata. Institute of Physics, Bhubaneshwar.
29/01/2010 : Punjab Cabinet approved the Sukhbir Badal-Manoranjan Kalia Committee report, accepting most of the suggestions, except enhancing the retirement age from 58 to 60, made by the committee on resource mobilisation
29/01/2010 : The 26-member group set up by Planning Commission, headed by economist Dr Kirit Parikh for assessing the low carbon options and outlining a roadmap for India, held its first meeting
29/01/2010 : India and Finland signed a MoU to promote cooperation and exchange of information relating to the Information Security Sector between the two countries.
29/01/2010 : Chairman of the Organising Committee of 2010 Delhi Commonwealth Games - Suresh Kalmadi
29/01/2010 : Former External Affairs Minister Jaswant Singh, who was expelled from the BJP for eulogising Pakistan founder Mohammad Ali Jinnah in his book, was bestowed with the title "Ambassador of Peace" for South Asian region
29/01/2010 : Reena Kaushal Dharmshaktu, 38, became the first Indian woman to ski at the South Pole
29/01/2010 : HRDM Kapil Sibal, during his meeting with DG of UNESCO Irina Bokova, advocated the case for the Majuli Island in the Brahmaputra river to be declared a Unesco World Heritage site.
29/01/2010 : Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) Chairman Srikumar Banerjee shared that GoI has set an ambitious target to generate 35,000 MW nuclear energy by 2020 and 59,500 MW by 2032
29/01/2010 : Chhattisgarh government agreed to the request of IAF for 2,500-3,000 acres for setting up an air base in the state
29/01/2010 : Iceland, president Olafur Ragnar Grimsson
29/01/2010 : Burj Khalifa, revealed to be 828m (2,716ft) high, tallest building of the world was opened in the Gulf emirate of Dubai. Construction of the Burj Dubai began in 2004 . .Far taller than the previous record holder, Taipei 101.
29/01/2010 : Prof Upinder Singh, daughter of PM Dr Singh, was presented Infosys Prize-2009 in recognition of her contribution as an outstanding historian of ancient and early medieval Indian history
29/01/2010 : Teesta river - Issue between India and Bangladesh
29/01/2010 : The nebula, from which our Solarsystem is supposed to have been formed, started its collapse and core formation some time 5-5.6 billion years ago and the planets were formed about 4.6 billion years ago. Our solar system consists of the sun (the star), 9 planets, 63 moons, millions of smaller bodies like asteroids and comets and huge quantity of dust-grains and gases.
29/01/2010 : Formation of Planets: The following are considered to be the stages in the development of planets: (i) The stars are localised lumps of gas within a nebula. The gravitational force within the lumps leads to the formation of a core to the gas cloud and a huge rotating disc of gas and dust develops around the gas core. (ii) In the next stage, the gas cloud starts getting condensed and the matter around the core develops into small rounded objects. These small-rounded objects by the process of cohesion develop into what is called planetesimals. Larger bodies start forming by collision, and gravitational attraction causes the material to stick together. Planetesimals are a large number of smaller bodies. (iii) In the final stage, these large number of small planetesimals accrete to form a fewer large bodies in the form of planets.
29/01/2010 : The mean distance between the sun and the earth is 149,598,000 km. In terms of light years, it is 8.311 minutes of a year.
29/01/2010 : A galaxy starts to form by accumulation of hydrogen gas in the form of a very large cloud called nebula. Eventually, growing nebula develops localised clumps of gas. These clumps continue to grow into even denser gaseous bodies, giving rise to formation of stars. The formation of stars is believed to have taken place some 5-6 billion years ago.
29/01/2010 : The Big Bang Theory considers the following stages in the development of the universe. (i) In the beginning, all matter forming the universe existed in one place in the form of a "tiny ball" (singular atom) with an unimaginably small volume, infinite temperature and infinite density. (ii) At the Big Bang the "tiny ball" exploded violently. This led to a huge expansion. It is now generally accepted that the event of big bang took place 13.7 billion years before the present. The expansion continues even to the present day. As it grew, some energy was converted into matter. There was particularly rapid expansion within fractions of a second after the bang. Thereafter, the expansion has slowed down. Within first three minutes from the Big Bang event, the first atom began to form. (iii) Within 300,000 years from the Big Bang, temperature dropped to 4,500 K and gave rise to atomic matter. The universe became transparent.
29/01/2010 : AP CM YSR death - Nallamal Hill No. 339 (height) . It falls under the Rudracodu forest beat of Gundla Brahmeshwaran Wildlife Sanctuary.
29/01/2010 : India ranks 123rd in 2010 Environmental Performance Index (EPI), while Iceland leads the world in addressing pollution control and natural resource management challenges, the latest EPI index has revealed. Of the newly industrialised nations, China and India rank 121st and 123rd respectively - reflecting the strain rapid economic growth imposes on the environment.
29/01/2010 : India has now moved closer to buying 145 ultra-light howitzers, which can be swiftly deployed in forward and inaccessible areas by helicopters and aircraft, from the US in a direct government-to-government deal worth $647 million.
29/01/2010 : Major D Sreeram Kumar, late Major Mohit Sharma and Havildar Rajesh Kumar were honoured with the country's highest peace time gallantry medal - the Ashok Chakra on Republic Day.
28/01/2010 : Institute of Post Graduate Training and Research in Ayurveda (Jamnagar), National Institute of Ayurveda (Jaipur)
28/01/2010 : Yuri Gagarin from USSR, Alan Shephard from USA.
28/01/2010 : India?s forest cover increased by 728 sq km during 2005-07 ? a marginal rise of 0.03%. Overall, 21.02% of the country?s geographical area is now under green cover
28/01/2010 : World AIDS Day is held on 1 December every year.
28/01/2010 : India will get the 12,000-tonne ?K-152 Nerpa? Akula-II class submarine from Russia on a 10-year lease. Navy?s underwater arm to include three SSBNs and six SSNs in the long term Navy to get a ?K-152 Nerpa? Akula-II class nuclear submarine from Russia by early 2010. The 6,000-tonne INS Arihant will be more of ?a technology demonstrator?, rather than a fully operational SSBN. SSBNs (nuclear-powered submarines with long-range strategic missiles) and six SSNs (nuclear-powered attack submarines)
28/01/2010 : New Zealand Prime Minister John Key
28/01/2010 : Thomas Babington Macaulay: The famous Britisher who codified Indian laws in 1860
28/01/2010 : All about Telanga Telangana is a region comprising 10 of Andhra Pradesh?s 23 districts. Originally, it was a part of the erstwhile Nizam?s princely state of Hyderabad. The region accounts for 119 seats of 294 in the assembly. In 1948, India put an end to the rule of the Nizams and a Hyderabad state was formed. In 1956, the Telangana part of Hyderabad was merged with then Andhra state (carved out of Madras Presidency in October, 1953). The remaining parts of the Nizam?s empire merged with Karnataka and Maharashtra. Andhra Pradesh became the first linguistically carved state in the country after Gandhian revolutionary Potti Sreeramulu, on a hunger strike over the issue, died on December 16, 1952. The first Telangana movement intensified in 1969. There was a distinct difference between Andhra and Telangana regions. Since Andhra was part of a colonial Madras Presidency, education levels and development of this region were better than in feudal Telangana. People from Telangana were against merger with Andhra state as they feared they would lose jobs to them. Cultural differences, too, remain. Under Nizam?s, and before that, under the Qutb Shahi rule, the culture and langauge in Telangana bore influences of north India. Emphasis on festivals are also different. Primarily a student-driven protest, it turned historical for the number of people who took part in it. Over 350 students were killed in police firing and lathi charge. Osmania University was the movement?s hotbed. Congress leader Marri Channa Reddy, who raised the ?Jai Telangana? slogan, diluted the movement by merging his Telangana Praja Samithi Party with Congress ? Indira Gandhi made him the chief minister after this. That?s how the movement collapsed: a result of Indira Gandhi?s masterstroke. P V Narasimha Rao, too, was made CM in 1971 because he was from Telangana region. In the 90s, KCR, then a member of the Telugu Desam Party, was hopeful of a ministerial post in the state government but was made deputy speaker after the 1999 elections. He quit TDP in 2001 to champion the cause of a separate Telangana state and founded Telangana Rashtra Samithi. All this while, with faster development in the rest of Andhra, a strong feeling was gaining ground in Telangana that it was being exploited and that the region?s surplus was being transferred to finance development in the rest of the state. In 2004 election, Y S Rajasekhara Reddy joined hands with KCR, promising a separate Telangana. But YSR got cold feet and backtracked, triggering resignations of TRS MLAs. KCR quit his Union ministry post. Congress continues to flip-flop, while TDP, which was against separate Telangana until 2009 election, is now supporting it. BJP, CPI and PRP support Telangana. CPM?s stand still unclear, but by and large, it is opposed to Telangana. Hyderabad, which is within the Telangana region, is a bone of contention between votaries of Telangana and those against it. The issue of AP capital remains a stumbling block in the creation of Telangana.
28/01/2010 : Employment in the unorganized sector - Arjun Sengupta report
28/01/2010 : If there arises a situation to use nuclear weapons, how is the decision taken? There is a body called the NCA which stands for Nuclear Command Authority. The NCA consists of a political council and an executive council. The political council is to be chaired by the prime minister and it is the sole body which can authorise the use of nuclear weapons. The executive council is chaired by the NSA (National Security Advisor), and it provides inputs for decision-making by the NCA and executes the directives given to it by the political council.
28/01/2010 : The INTACH Indira Gandhi Lifetime Achievement Awards for Conservation of Cultural Heritage-2010 were presented to stalwarts from different fields at a two-day All-India Convenors? Meet of the Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage that opened here on Wednesday.The recipients were Ebrahim Alkazi, Kapila Vatsyayan, Martand Singh, Rajeev Sethi, O.P. Jain and O.P. Agarwal.
28/01/2010 : The Safdar Hashmi Memorial Trust (SAHMAT) on Wednesday urged litterateurs to protest against the Sahitya Akademi?s decision to enter into a tie-up with the multinational company, Samsung, to institute the ?Samsung-Tagore? Awards.
28/01/2010 : Seeking to put at rest doubts over the status of the Copenhagen Accord agreed upon at the 15th meeting of the Conference of Parties last year, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) has issued a clarification saying the agreement was not a legally binding document but merely a political one.
28/01/2010 : R.D. Pradhan committee probed the police response to the November 2008 terrorist attacks in Mumbai
28/01/2010 : ICICI Bank CEO and MD Chanda Kochhar
28/01/2010 : RajaPaksha wins presidential elections in Sri Lanka. Defeated Foneska.
28/01/2010 : According to a study, The Mentossa glacier in Miyar valley of Lahaul-Spiti in Himachal Pradesh has expanded in the last few years while there is no change in the Kangriz glacier in Zanskar valley of J&K since 1913. The Miyar glacier in Lahaul region covers an area of 27 square km. Since 1971, it has receded by just 150 meters.
28/01/2010 : According to the present RTI Act, section 8A allows exemption of information, disclosure of ??which would prejudicially affect the sovereignty and integrity of India, the security, strategic, scientific or economic interests of the State, relation with foreign State or lead to incitement of an offence.?? Government is now working to ??strengthening?? the Act to prevent a repeat of the embarrassment. Government is set to make some changes in the exemption List. This is being done after an RTI filed to disclose Forign Ministry documents regarding Sharm el-Sheikh joint statement. Some other issues of concern to government are recruitment of judges, judicial proceedings, names of passengers in Air Flight.
28/01/2010 : The Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan, a government scheme for universalization of education for all, has been beneficial in its efforts towards girls? education. One of the largest education initiatives in the world, the targeted provision for girls under Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan include: Free textbooks to all girls upto class VIII, Separate toilets for girls, Back to school camps for out-of-school girls, Bridge courses for older girls, Recruitment of 50% women teachers, Early childhood care and Education centers in/near schools/convergence with ICDS programme, etc. Teachers? sensitization programmes to promote equitable learning opportunities, Gender-sensitive teachinglearning materials including textbooks. Intensive community mobilisation efforts .
28/01/2010 : Defence minister A K Antony has overruled Army chief General Deepak Kapoor to clear the way for the courtmartial of Lt-Gen Avadhesh Prakash, the seniormost of the four generals indicted in the infamous Sukna land scam case. Sukhna land scam - Darjeeling - W.B.
27/01/2010 : Reliance Power is implementing 16 power projects, totalling a generating capacity of 33,780 MW. Among these, there are three Ultra Mega Power Projects of 4000 MW each ? Sasan in Madhya Pradesh, Tilaiya in Jharkhand and Krishnapatnam in Andhra Pradesh. However, its another mega power project of 7,480 MW in Dadri in UP has run into rough weather on the issue of land acquisition.
27/01/2010 : Rosa Power Project 1200MW - UP. - Reliance Power.
27/01/2010 : The signatures of at least 50 Rajya Sabha members or 100 Lok Sabha members is the first step in initiating an impeachment procedure, a power which only Parliament wields for removing a judge. A committee is then set up for further consideration of the petition, as it has been done in the case of Justice Soumitra Sen of the Calcutta High Court. As many as 58 Rajya Sabha MPs had signed a petition in February this year seeking his impeachment. A resolution of impeachment would require the support of twothirds of the members present and voting in each House of Parliament. Once it is adopted, the President has to order the judge?s removal.
27/01/2010 : Haryana wrested a lone project for Karnal, only district running adult literacy programme under Sakshar Bharat Mission . .with a budgetary support of $1 billion, seeks to educate 70 million illiterates by 2012
27/01/2010 : Thyagarajan committee recommendations - service conditions of teachers
27/01/2010 : Keoladeo National Park, popularly known as Bharatpur Bird Sanctuary, was facing threat of losing its World Heritage Site status as UNESCO has set a deadline of January 2011 to arrange adequate water for the park . 2010
27/01/2010 : "Spituk Gustor", an annual two-day monastic festival takes place at the Spituk Monastery in the Ladakh region of JK.
27/01/2010 : In Delhi the first government-run "corporate"' hospital, Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences (ILBS) was opened to public
27/01/2010 : Dalai Lama unveiled at Chandragiri (Gajapati district. Orissa) monastery, a new Buddhist place of worship , described as biggest in South Asia
27/01/2010 : PM Dr Singh launched the Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission "Solar India" . Mission targets 1,100 MW grid solar power, 7 million sq m solar collectors and 200 MW off grid solar applications in first phase by 2013
27/01/2010 : PM Dr Singh launched Solar Energy Mission aimed at generating 20,000 MW of solar power by 2022 and urged the industry to create "Solar Valleys" on the lines of Silicon Valleys
27/01/2010 : PM Dr Singh assured visiting PM of Bangladesh Sheikh Hasina that India would not do anything on the controversial Tipahimukh project that would affect the interests of Bangladesh.
27/01/2010 : State-run telecom services provider BSNL shared its having formed a strategic alliance with National Fertilizers Ltd (NFL) to use the network base of the fertiliser firm for offering services in rural areas.
27/01/2010 : Gaborone, India and Botswana signed two agreements on agriculture and education, with visiting Indian Vice President Hamid Ansari also expressing interest in mining in the southern African state.
27/01/2010 : Dr Raj Shah was sworn in as administrator of US Aid for International Development (USAID) .
27/01/2010 : Road Transport and Highways Minister Kamal Nath
27/01/2010 : South Korean President Lee Myung-bak was announced to be the chief guest on occasion of the Republic Day
27/01/2010 : Ranganath Mishra Commission - report on reservation for minorities
27/01/2010 : The decision of GoI to issue visa on arrival for passport holders from Japan, New Zealand, Finland, and Luxemburg came into effect
27/01/2010 : New NSA(National Security Advisor) - former foreign secretary Shiv Shankar Menon
26/01/2010 : New Governors - MK Narayanan - West Bengal , Shivraj Patil - Punjab , ESL Narasimhan - Andhra Pradesh , Shekhar Dutt - Chattisgarh , Mohsina Kidwai - Jharkhand , K Sankaranarayanan - Maharashtra , Prabha Rau - Rajasthan, Urmilaben Patel - Himachal Pradesh
26/01/2010 : Leading NRI entrepreneur Maneck Dalal, who has played a major role in promoting Indian art and culture in the UK, has awarded the Asian Leadership Award for his contribution towards heritage
26/01/2010 : NTPC, the world's second-largest independent power producer (IPP), plans to set up a new entity for acquiring coal assets abroad to secure fuel supplies for its coal-based plants. NTPC's coal imports stood at eight million tonne in 2008-09. It is expected to reach the 12.5-million tonne mark in the current fiscal (2009-10) and rise further as the company's coal-based generation capacity will go on stream in the coming years. It is estimated that the company may require at least 270 million tonne of coal annually by 2017, by when its total generation capacity is targeted to touch 75,000 mw from the current level of 30,644 mw. Of the NTPC-owned capacity, 86% is coal-based, operated through 15 coal-based power stations.
26/01/2010 : CCEA approved the establishment of a permanent research base at Larsemann Hills region in East Antarctica during the XIth Five Year Plan period at a total cost of Rs287 crore to meet the logistic and scientific objectives.
26/01/2010 : Lok Sabha passed the Representation of the People (Amendment) Bill, 2009 with a voice vote. . . centre amended the Representation of People Act 1951 to discourage non- serious candidates in elections
26/01/2010 : Science and Technology Minister Prithviraj Chavan
26/01/2010 : Hollywood film star Nicolas Cage was given the Global Citizen of the Year award for his humanitarian work by UN in New York by Secretary General Ban Ki-moon
27/01/2010 : State-run telecom services provider BSNL shared its having formed a strategic alliance with National Fertilizers Ltd (NFL) to use the network base of the fertiliser firm for offering services in rural areas.
27/01/2010 : Gaborone, India and Botswana signed two agreements on agriculture and education, with visiting Indian Vice President Hamid Ansari also expressing interest in mining in the southern African state.
27/01/2010 : Dr Raj Shah was sworn in as administrator of US Aid for International Development (USAID) .
27/01/2010 : Road Transport and Highways Minister Kamal Nath
27/01/2010 : South Korean President Lee Myung-bak was announced to be the chief guest on occasion of the Republic Day
27/01/2010 : Ranganath Mishra Commission - report on reservation for minorities
27/01/2010 : The decision of GoI to issue visa on arrival for passport holders from Japan, New Zealand, Finland, and Luxemburg came into effect
27/01/2010 : New NSA(National Security Advisor) - former foreign secretary Shiv Shankar Menon
26/01/2010 : New Governors - MK Narayanan - West Bengal , Shivraj Patil - Punjab , ESL Narasimhan - Andhra Pradesh , Shekhar Dutt - Chattisgarh , Mohsina Kidwai - Jharkhand , K Sankaranarayanan - Maharashtra , Prabha Rau - Rajasthan, Urmilaben Patel - Himachal Pradesh
26/01/2010 : Leading NRI entrepreneur Maneck Dalal, who has played a major role in promoting Indian art and culture in the UK, has awarded the Asian Leadership Award for his contribution towards heritage
26/01/2010 : NTPC, the world's second-largest independent power producer (IPP), plans to set up a new entity for acquiring coal assets abroad to secure fuel supplies for its coal-based plants. NTPC's coal imports stood at eight million tonne in 2008-09. It is expected to reach the 12.5-million tonne mark in the current fiscal (2009-10) and rise further as the company's coal-based generation capacity will go on stream in the coming years. It is estimated that the company may require at least 270 million tonne of coal annually by 2017, by when its total generation capacity is targeted to touch 75,000 mw from the current level of 30,644 mw. Of the NTPC-owned capacity, 86% is coal-based, operated through 15 coal-based power stations.
26/01/2010 : CCEA approved the establishment of a permanent research base at Larsemann Hills region in East Antarctica during the XIth Five Year Plan period at a total cost of Rs287 crore to meet the logistic and scientific objectives.
26/01/2010 : Lok Sabha passed the Representation of the People (Amendment) Bill, 2009 with a voice vote. . . centre amended the Representation of People Act 1951 to discourage non- serious candidates in elections
26/01/2010 : Science and Technology Minister Prithviraj Chavan
26/01/2010 : Hollywood film star Nicolas Cage was given the Global Citizen of the Year award for his humanitarian work by UN in New York by Secretary General Ban Ki-moon
26/01/2010 : Institute for Social Economic Change (ISEC) Society, Bangalore.
26/01/2010 : National Commission for Women (NCW) chairman Girija Vyas
26/01/2010 : Kamal Kumar committee in its report submitted on October 15 last year suggested holding limited competitive examination for at least seven years to recruit an additional 450 IPS officers.
26/01/2010 : India is the world's largest milk producer. It accounts for 15% of the global production. Its production has risen to 115 mn tonnes.
26/01/2010 : Tagore awards presented for 8 litterateurs. Eight litterateurs were awarded on Monday, the first Tagore Literature Awards 2009 for their contributions to Bengali, Bodo, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Kashmiri, Punjabi and Telugu. Instituted by the Sahitya Akademi and Samsung Electronics, the winners were chosen from across different genres of essays, poetry, biography and autobiography for literary works between 2005 and 2008.
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