tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-54064088629816230682010-10-04T09:59:22.432-07:00General knowledgejecyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07427841472271223849noreply@blogger.comBlogger29125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5406408862981623068.post-85313818064120842792010-10-04T09:59:00.000-07:002010-10-04T09:59:22.453-07:002010-10-04T09:59:22.453-07:00What is an E-SKIN ?<span></span><br />
>acronym of <strong>Eelectronic skin</strong>.<br />
><span><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=generalknow0d-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=B000JQU1VS" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important;" width="1" />It is made by <strong>javey's team</strong> comprises <strong><span style="color: orange;">a matrix of nanowires</span></strong> made of geranium and silicon rolled onto a sticky polyimide film .</span><br />
<span>>electronic skin(E-skin) that <span style="color: orange;"><strong>can sense touch</strong></span>,will helpful in developin nexgen robots,artificial arms with smarter, touch-sensitive upgrades.</span><br />
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<span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Science-Book-Everything-National-Geographic/dp/B003YCQECO?ie=UTF8&tag=generalknow0d-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank">The Science Book: Everything You Need to Know About the World and How It Works (National Geographic)</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=generalknow0d-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=B003YCQECO" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important;" width="1" /></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5406408862981623068-8531381806412084279?l=current-facts-file.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>jecyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07427841472271223849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5406408862981623068.post-30927969298975473592010-10-01T02:13:00.000-07:002010-10-01T02:13:56.826-07:002010-10-01T02:13:56.826-07:00RASHTRIYA SWASTHYA BIMA YOJANA(RSBY)<ol><li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It was launched in 2008 for BPL family to get medical care.</span> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">RSBY offers the so-called cashless medical insurance facility in which payments are made directly by the insurance company to the hospital. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">health insurance scheme for the poor ,NOW OPEN FOR <strong>for all sections of society</strong>, even those above the poverty line.</span></li>
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1. As per the scheme, the central government will contribute Rs. 1,000 a year for four years to every Swavalamban account holder who can deposit up to Rs. 12,000 a year into his pension account.<br />
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2. Reportedly only about 13% of the working population in our country is eligible for some kind of retirement pension.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5406408862981623068-744696654190315915?l=current-facts-file.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>jecyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07427841472271223849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5406408862981623068.post-22466373289095581762010-09-27T11:39:00.000-07:002010-09-27T11:39:32.461-07:002010-09-27T11:39:32.461-07:00INDIAN STRATEGIC PETROLEUM RESERVES LTD (ISPRL)<em>To ensure energy security, the Government of India has decided to set up 5 million metric tones (MMT) strategic crude oil storages at three locations namely, Visakhapatnam, Mangalore and Padur (near Udupi). These strategic storages would be in addition to the existing storages of crude oil and petroleum products with the oil companies and would serve as a cushion in response to external supply disruptions. The construction of the proposed strategic storage facilities is being managed by Indian Strategic Petroleum Reserves Limited (ISPRL), a Special Purpose Vehicle, owned by Oil Industry Development Board (OIDB).</em><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5406408862981623068-2246637328909558176?l=current-facts-file.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>jecyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07427841472271223849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5406408862981623068.post-9946164267724340122010-09-25T22:00:00.000-07:002010-09-25T22:00:36.979-07:002010-09-25T22:00:36.979-07:008-point initiative to end the unrest in kashmir valley.<ul><li>will appoint <strong>interlocutors</strong> to begin dialogue with all sections .</li>
<li>has called for <strong>immediate release</strong> of youth held for stone pelting.</li>
<li>want state to review cases of detenues under <strong>public safety Act</strong>.</li>
<li>has sought <strong>rellook at deployment of security forces</strong> in valley with a view to reducing it.</li>
<li>has announced <strong>Rs 5 lakh</strong> relife to families of all 108 people killed.</li>
<li>has asked state to<strong> reopen</strong> all school,colleges</li>
<li>grant of <strong>Rs100 crore</strong> to improve education infrastructure</li>
<li>will constitute <strong>Special Task Forces</strong> for jammu and Ladakh to examine their development needs.</li>
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In other words,its a tax that has to be paid by the companies that are enjoying tax benefits or tax exemption under various schemes.It is mostly targetted to the R&D companies and Export oriented units which enjoy tax emptions.Under this they have to pay a particular amount of MAT, so they come under the tax net.<br />
AT present it is 2% in new Direct tax code.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5406408862981623068-1387373594918352636?l=current-facts-file.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>jecyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07427841472271223849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5406408862981623068.post-80565715628950042752010-09-23T01:35:00.000-07:002010-09-23T01:35:04.007-07:002010-09-23T01:35:04.007-07:00What is Sevottam framework?The Sevottam framework has basically three modules - Citizen Charter, Public Grievance Mechanism and Service Delivery Capability. Each of the modules is further divided into three criteria and eleven elements each. The framework helps Government Departments towards improving their public service delivery.<br />
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The Performance Management Division of the Cabinet Secretariat has included <strong>two modules</strong> of the Sevottam framework as mandatory success indicator in the Result Frame Document (RFD) 2010-11 for 62 Ministries/Departments approved under Performance Monitoring and Evaluation System (PMES) by Hon’ble Prime Minister. These success indicators are called “<span style="color: black;"><u>Sevottam compliant system for citizens / client charter” and “Sevottam compliant system for public grievance redress</u></span>”. <br />
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The Second ARC in – “Citizen Centric Administration – The Heart of Governance” – has recommended that Union and State Governments should make the Seven Step Model outlined mandatory for all organizations having public interface which was accepted by the Government of India. The ARC had made the recommendations after studying the Sevottam model which the Commission felt was a step in the right direction.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5406408862981623068-8056571562895004275?l=current-facts-file.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>jecyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07427841472271223849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5406408862981623068.post-75542848627970973322010-09-22T00:46:00.000-07:002010-09-22T00:46:57.726-07:002010-09-22T00:46:57.726-07:00<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What is women reservation bill?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">1. The women reservation bill will reserve the 33 percent seats in Parliament and state legislatures for the females.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">2. The bill is pending from the year 1996 proving that Indian politicians are not ready to accept this bill so every time we see the new drama, new demand from political parties.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">3. The women reservation bill will provide Reservation for women at each level of legislative decision-making, starting with the Lok Sabha, down to state and local legislatures.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">4. If the Bill is passed, one-third of the total available seats would be reserved for women in national, state, or local governments. And this number will be 181 . The Bill seeks to reserve for women 181 of the 543 seats in the Lok Sabha and 1,370 out of a total of 4,109 seats in the 28 State Assemblies.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">5. The reserved seats will be rotated. So the seats will be reserved only once every 3 election.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">6. Currently 33.3 percent seats in panchayat elections have been reserved for women already.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">7. In the May 2004 general election, 539 candidates were elected to the 14th Lok Sabha. Only 44 of them are women.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">8. Women have less than 10 percent representation in India’s parliament even though they make up 44 percent of the voting population.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">1. 1996 — The Deve Gowda government introduces the women’s reservation bill as 81st Constitutional Amendment Bill.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">2. 1998 — the bill is re-introduced in the 12th Lok Sabha as the 84th Constitutional Amendment Bill by the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government headed Atal Bihari Vajpayee.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">3. 1999 — The NDA government re-introduces the bill in the 13th Lok Sabha.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">4. 2002 — the bill is introduced in parliament but fails to sail through.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">5. 2003 — Bill introduced twice in parliament.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">6. 2004 — The United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government includes it in the Common Minimum Programme.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">7. 2008 — the government tables the bill in the Rajya Sabha so that the legislation does not lapse.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">8. 2010 — the cabinet clears the bill for taking it up in the Rajya Sabha. And on 8th March mother India was again made to cry by some political parties, just like Draupadi of Mahabharat. The house was adjourned for the sixth times and congress failed to punish the law breakers and kept silence like the they also wanted the bill be treated like Draupadi and enjoyed the drama when mother india was insulted.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The women’s reservation Bill was finally passed in the Rajya Sabha with 186 members voting for it and only one voting against it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Trinamool Congress Members remained absent when the Bill was put to vote.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Now the bill will be introduced in the Lok Sabha</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5406408862981623068-7554284862797097332?l=current-facts-file.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>jecyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07427841472271223849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5406408862981623068.post-61250186189530898202010-09-14T03:07:00.000-07:002010-09-14T03:07:36.742-07:002010-09-14T03:07:36.742-07:00New Wholesale price Index,2010The new series of Wholesale Price Index (WPI) for August ,2010 with additional 241 items and change in the base year from 1993-94 to 2004-05.Its few features are :<br />
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<ul><li>WPI will measure a total of 676 items against the existing 435.</li>
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<ul><li>Readymade food, computer stationery, refrigerators, dish antenna, VCD, crude petroleum and computers would also be part of the new series. </li>
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<ul><li>Under the primary article group of the new WPI, there would be 102 items against the existing 98 while the fuel and power category would remain static at 19. </li>
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<ul><li>There is a substantial increase in the number of items in manufactured products. In the new series, there would be 555 items compared to 318 items at the moment, according to the official. </li>
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<ul><li>At the same time, the weight of manufactured products would go up to 64.9 per cent compared to 63.7 per cent while the weight of primary articles group, including food, has come down to 20.1 per cent against existing 22.02 per cent. The data release would accompany inflation numbers with old base year (1993-94) as well for comparison</li>
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<ul><li>The new series of WPI is based on the recommendations of the Working Group headed by Planning Commission member <span style="color: orange;">Abhijit Sen</span>.</li>
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A price index is a normalized average of prices for a given class of goods or services in a given region, during a given interval of time<br />
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The <strong>Wholesale Price Index</strong> is the price of a representative basket of wholesale goods. Some countries use the changes in this index to measure inflation in their economies, in particular India - The Indian WPI figure is released every 10 days and influences stock and fixed price markets. The Wholesale Price Index focuses on the price of goods traded between corporations, rather than goods bought by consumers, which is measured by the Consumer Price Index. The purpose of the WPI is to monitor price movements that reflect supply and demand in industry, manufacturing and construction. This helps in analyzing both macroeconomic and microeconomic conditions.<br />
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The wholesale price index consists of over 2,400 commodities. The indicator tracks the price movement of each commodity individually. Based on this individual movement, the WPI is determined through the averaging principle. The following methods are used to compute the WPI:<br />
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<span style="color: blue;">Laspeyres Formula (relative method):</span>It is the weighted arithmetic mean based on the fixed value-based weights for the base period. The formula is as follows: <br />
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<span style="color: blue;">Ten-Day Price Index:</span> Under this method, 'sample prices' with high intra-month fluctuations are selected and surveyed every ten days through phone. Utilizing the data retrieved by this procedure and with the assumption that other non-surveyed "sample prices" remain unchanged, a "ten-day price index" is compiled and released. <br />
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<span style="color: blue;">Calculation Method:</span> Monthly price indexes are compiled by calculating the simple arithmetic mean of three ten-day 'sample prices' in the month. <br />
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The WPI covers five commodity groups - agriculture; manufacturing; quarrying; import and export; and mining.<br />
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-It captures the price movement extensively and is, therefore, taken as an indicator of inflation. <br />
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-These features highlight the utility of this index in monitoring ongoing changes in an economy in order to suggest the need for any adjustment.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5406408862981623068-8508269634264063051?l=current-facts-file.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>jecyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07427841472271223849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5406408862981623068.post-85294038199259704782010-09-02T01:48:00.000-07:002010-09-02T01:54:21.016-07:002010-09-02T01:54:21.016-07:00Land Acquisition (Amendment) Act 2007<span style="color: orange;"><em>-came into force in 7 may 2007,</em></span><em>This Act amends the Land Acquisition Act to abolish the use of a statutory date in determining the basic compensation for land that is compulsorily acquired on or after 12 February 2007 and to provide that the basic compensation will instead be the market value of the land as at the date of its acquisition.</em><br />
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<em>However, the market value of the acquired land cannot exceed the price which a bona fide purchaser might reasonably be willing to pay for the land. The market value of the land is to be arrived having regard (but not only) to the zoning and density requirements and any other restrictions imposed by or under the Planning Act at the date of acquisition, and any restrictive covenants in the title of the acquired land. However, no account is to be taken of any potential value of the land for any other use more intensive than what is permissible by or under the Planning Act as at the date of its acquisition.</em><br />
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<em>The Land Acquisition Act is also amended so that when accessing the market value of acquired land, it will no longer be prohibited to take into account any increase in value arising from any improvement to the land within two years before the date the land is declared to be required for a public purpose, or from development in the neighbourhood by the provision of roads, drains, electricity, water, gas or sewerage or social, education or recreational facilities within seven years preceding that date.</em><br />
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<em>The special compensation provisions for acquired land which is used as a burial ground and acquired land that is devastated or affected, directly or indirectly, by fire, explosion, thunderbolt, earthquake, storm, tempest, flood or any act of God, have also been abolished. Such land, if acquired, will be assessed no differently from other acquired land.</em><br />
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<em>The compensation for land acquired before 12 February 2007 continues to be governed by the existing law.</em><br />
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<em>The Act also makes improvements and establishes new procedures for the compulsory acquisition of land to simplify the acquisition process.</em><br />
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<em><span style="color: orange;">The Spam Control Bill 2007 (the 'Bill')</span> has been passed in Parliament on 12 April 2007. The Bill was introduced in Parliament on 12 February 2007 following two public consultations in 2004 and 2005 which were jointly conducted by the Info-communications Development Authority of Singapore and the Attorney-General's Chambers. The Bill regulates the sending of electronic messages per se as well as the sending of 'spam', defined in the Bill as the sending of unsolicited commercial electronic messages in bulk.</em><br />
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<em><span style="color: orange;">The Competition (Amendment) Bill 2007</span> (the 'Bill') was introduced in Parliament today (9 April 2007). The Bill will amend the Competition Act (the 'Act') for, amongst others, the following purposes: </em><br />
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<em>1 To extend Part III of the Act to an anticipated merger which, if carried into effect, will result in the occurrence of a merger, as defined in the Act. The amendments will permit voluntary statutory notifications of certain anticipated mergers to be made to the Competition Commission of Singapore (the 'CCS') for decision.</em><br />
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<em>2 To remove notifications for guidance in respect of the section 54 prohibition and to remove the provision that allows the CCS to re-open a non-infringement decision on a merger due to a material change in circumstances.</em><br />
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<em>3 To clarify when a merger occurs, the test for control for the purposes of determining when a merger has occurred, and who is a party involved in a merger for the purposes of notification, decision and appeal.</em><br />
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<em>5 To clarify, in respect of the three prohibitions in the Act, that when the CCS gives guidance or makes a decision that one prohibition is unlikely to have been, or has not been, infringed, this will not preclude an investigation by the CCS into a possible infringement of the other two prohibitions.</em><br />
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<em>6 To exclude from the section 34 prohibition and the section 47 prohibition, mergers and ancillary ?restrictions (additional arrangements not integral to the merger, but which are directly related and necessary to its implementation).</em><br />
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2. However, the census will avoid going into parameters such as caste and subcaste.<br />
3. Census 2011, which gets underway on April 1, will start with President Pratibha Patil becoming the first citizen to be enumerated at 10 am, followed by Vice-President Hamid Ansari, who will get listed at 11 am.<br />
4. The census will have two phases. The first phase involving house-listing and housing Census will be conducted between April and July, with each state/UT getting 45 days to complete it. The second phase, involving population enumeration, will be conducted simultaneously all over the country from February 9 to 28 next year.<br />
5. India has held Censuses uninterruptedly since 1872, every 10 years, through the freedom struggle, Partition, World Wars and natural calamities.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5406408862981623068-1127488018324037570?l=current-facts-file.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>jecyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07427841472271223849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5406408862981623068.post-45069233214821052942010-04-02T22:43:00.000-07:002010-04-02T22:43:34.051-07:002010-04-02T22:43:34.051-07:00Importants Facts .<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_TQIEYeGpmJw/S7bVFC_S3xI/AAAAAAAAANY/dbIZGONUDLI/s1600/news.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_TQIEYeGpmJw/S7bVFC_S3xI/AAAAAAAAANY/dbIZGONUDLI/s320/news.jpg" /></a></div><br />
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<div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;">#<b>Macraes Mine</b>, in East Otago is New Zealand's largest gold mine, owned by </span></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;">OceanaGold Corporation, which consists of a large scale opencast mine.<br />
The gold bearing rocks were formed by the orogenic processes that </span></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;">created the Otago Schist belt.<br />
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#<b>The Venetia Diamond Mine</b> is South Africa's largest producer of diamonds. It </span></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;">is situated close to the South African town of Alldays in the Limpopo </span></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;">province and is located within the 360 km² Venetia Limpopo Nature Reserve.<br />
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#<b>The Treadwell gold mine</b> was the largest mine of the Alaskan Panhandle and, in its time, the largest gold mine in the world<br />
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#<b>The Grasberg Mine </b>is the largest gold mine and the third largest copper mine </span></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;">in the world. It is located in the province of Papua in Indonesia near Puncak Jaya, the highest mountain in Papua, and it has 19,500 employees.<br />
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#<b>Rabbit Lake</b> is the second largest uranium milling facility in the western world, and is the longest operating uranium production facility in Saskatchewan.<br />
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#<b>The Catoca diamond mine</b> is the fourth largest diamond mine in the world, and is located in Angola. <br />
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#world's largest diamond mine is located in <b>Orapa</b>, a town in the Boteti Sub-District of Botswana about 240 kilometers (150 miles) west of the city of Francistown. Orapa ("resting place for lions") is owned by Debswana, a partnership between the De Beers company and the government of Botswana. It is the oldest of four mines operated by the company, having begun operations in July 1971.Orapa is of open pit construction and is the largest diamond mine in the world by area.<br />
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#<b>The Hull-Rust-Mahoning Mine</b> in Hibbing, Minnesota, is the largest open pit iron mine in the world. The mine, located in the Mesabi Range, supplied as much as one-fourth of all the iron ore mined in the United States during its peak production years of World War I and World War II<br />
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#<b>The Cigar Lake Mine</b> is the largest undeveloped high grade uranium deposit in the world, located in the uranium rich Athabasca Basin of northern Saskatchewan, Canada.<br />
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#<b>Mina Proaño </b>an underground silver mine located in central Mexico, is one of the world's largest and most profitable silver mines. The mine is located just outside the city of Fresnillo, Zacatecas; as a result the mine is also known as Mina Fresnillo<br />
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#<b>The McArthur River mine</b> is one of the world's largest zinc, lead and silver mines, situated about 70 kilometres southwest of Borroloola, near the Gulf of Carpentaria in the northeastern Northern Territory, Australia.<br />
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#The largest coal mine in the US is the <b>Black Thunder Coal Mine</b> near Gillette, Wyoming. It produces more coal annually than many states.<br />
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#<b>Serra Pelada</b> (English: "Bald Mountain") was a large gold mine in Brazil 430 kilometres (270 mi) south of the mouth of the Amazon River.<br />
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#<b>Corta Atalaya</b> is the largest open-pit mine in Europe and was at one time the largest in the world.[citation needed] It is located within the city limits of Minas de Riotinto in the province of Huelva, autonomous community of Andalusia, Spain.<br />
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#<b>Panasqueira</b> is a one of the largest tungsten mines in the world. It is located in Castelo Branco, Portugal.<br />
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#<b>Four Mile</b> is a proposed uranium mine in Australia.The proposed mine is sited in the far north of the state of South Australia, around 600 kilometres (370 mi) north of the state capital, Adelaide <br />
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#<b>Four Mile</b> will be Australia's first new uranium mine in nearly ten years and it is claimed it will be the tenth-largest uranium mine in the world.<br />
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#<b>Tara Mine</b> is a zinc and lead mine near Navan, County Meath, Ireland. In the Navan ore body Tara is an underground mine where the orebody lies between 50 and 900 metres below surface.t is the largest zinc mine in Europe and the fifth largest in the world.<br />
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#<b>Chiria</b> is a census town in Pashchimi Singhbhum district in the state of Jharkhand, India. India's largest iron ore mine with reserves of 2,000 million tonnes of iron ore is located here. It is operated by Steel Authority of India Limited.<br />
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#The silver mines of <b>Kongsberg</b>, in Buskerud county in Norway, constitute the largest mining field in Norway, with over 80 different mines.<br />
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#<b>The Climax mine</b>, near Climax, Colorado, United States, was a major molybdenum mine.It was the largest molybdenum mine in the world.The mine is currently inactive.<br />
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#As of October 2009, <b>the largest photovoltaic (PV) power plants</b> in the world are the <b>Olmedilla Photovoltaic Park</b> (Spain, 60 MW), the Strasskirchen Solar Park (Germany, 54 MW), the Lieberose Photovoltaic Park (Germany, 53 MW), the Puertollano Photovoltaic Park (Spain, 50 MW), the Moura photovoltaic power station (Portugal, 46 MW), and the Waldpolenz Solar Park (Germany, 40 MW)<br />
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#<b>Xikuangshan mine</b> contains the world's largest deposit of antimony.It is unique in that there is a large deposit of stibnite (Sb2S3) in a layer of Devonian limestone.<br />
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#<b>Boron</b> is home to California's largest open-pit mine, which is also the largest borax mine in the world.<br />
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#<b>Tanzanite</b> is a rare gem. It is found mostly in the foothills of Mount Kilimanjaro. The mineral is named after Tanzania, the country where it was first discovered.One of the most famous large tanzanites (242 carats) is the "<i>Queen of Kilimanjaro</i>"<br />
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#<b>Asbestos</b> is a town in southeastern Quebec, Canada on the Nicolet River.It is the site of the Jeffrey Mine, the world's largest asbestos mine, which has long been the town's largest employer.<br />
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#<b>The Athabasca Basin </b>is a region of Northern Saskatchewan and Alberta Canada that is </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;">best known as the world's leading source of high grade uranium. It currently supplies about 20% of the world's uranium<br />
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</span><span style="font-size: small;">#<b>Key Lake</b> (canada)is the site of the largest uranium mill in the world. It was initially developed as the site of open pit uranium mining at two sites: the Gaertner deposit and the Deilmann deposit. Production of original ore ceased in the late 1990s, and the Key Lake mill is currently processing uranium ore from the McArthur River mine .<br />
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</span><span style="font-size: small;">#<b>The McArthur River Uranium Mine</b>, in northern Saskatchewan, Canada, is the <br />
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</span><span style="font-size: small;">#<b>Mir Mine </b>also called Mirny Mine was an open pit diamond mine located in </span><span style="font-size: small;">Mirny, Eastern Siberia, Russia.It is the second largest excavated hole in the </span><span style="font-size: small;">world, after Bingham Canyon Mine. The airspace above the mine is closed for </span><span style="font-size: small;">helicopters because of a few incidents in which they were sucked in by the </span><span style="font-size: small;">downward air flow.<br />
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</span><span style="font-size: small;">#<b>The Red Dog mine</b> is a zinc and lead mine located in a remote region of the </span><span style="font-size: small;">Arctic, within the boundaries of the Red Dog Mine census-designated place in </span><span style="font-size: small;">the Northwest Arctic Borough of the U.S. state of Alaska.The mine is the </span><span style="font-size: small;">world's largest producer of zinc and has the world's largest zinc reserves<br />
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</span><span style="font-size: small;">#<b>Chingola</b> is a city in Zambia's Copperbelt Province,It is the home of Nchanga </span><span style="font-size: small;">Open Pit Mine, the second largest open cast mine in the world.<br />
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</span><span style="font-size: small;">#<b>Obuasi</b> is a city in southern Ghana, lying south of Kumasi. It has a </span><span style="font-size: small;">population of 115,564 (2000 census) On the railway line from Kumasi to </span><span style="font-size: small;">Sekondi, it is known for its gold mine, now one of the ten largest in the </span><span style="font-size: small;">world,<br />
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</span><span style="font-size: small;">#<b>Yanacocha</b> is a gold mine in northern Peru, considered to be the second </span><span style="font-size: small;">largest gold mine in the world, producing <br />
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</span><span style="font-size: small;">#<b>Bougainville Copper Ltd</b> is an Australian copper, gold, and silver mining </span><span style="font-size: small;">company that operates the Panguna open cut mine on the island of Bougainville </span><span style="font-size: small;">in Papua New Guinea (PNG). It was one of the world's largest open-pit mines. </span><span style="font-size: small;">The Panguna mine dominated the economy of the island during the 1970s and </span><span style="font-size: small;">1980s<br />
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</span><span style="font-size: small;">#<b>Cerrejón</b> is a coal mine located in the Guajira department in the north of </span><span style="font-size: small;">Colombia. It is the largest mining operation in Colombia and among the </span><span style="font-size: small;">largest open-pit coal mines in the world.<br />
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Burma -- Hkakabo Razi 5881 m (19294.62 feet)<br />
Pakistan — K2 (MT. Godwin-Austen) 8,611 M<br />
Bhutan — Kula Kangri 7,553 M<br />
Sri Lanka — Pidurutalagala 2,524 M<br />
Malaysia — Gunung Kinabalu 4,100 M<br />
Singapore — Bukit Timah 166 M<br />
Thailand — Doi Inthanon 2,576 M<br />
Cambodia — Phnum Aoral 1,810 M<br />
Vietnam — Fan Si Pan 3,144 M<br />
Laos — Phou Bia 2,817 M<br />
Philippines — Mount Apo 2,954 M<br />
Indonesia — Puncak Jaya 5,030 M<br />
Kazakhstan — Khan Tangiri Shyngy (Pik Khan-Tengri) 6,995 M<br />
Uzbekistan — Adelunga Toghi 4,301 M<br />
Kyrgyzstan — Jengish Chokusu (Pik Pobedy) 7,439 M<br />
Afghanistan — Nowshak 7,485 M<br />
Mongolia — Nayramadlin Orgil (Huyten Orgil) 4,374 M<br />
Ukraine — Hora Hoverla 2,061 M<br />
Chile — : Nevado Ojos del Salado 6,880 M<br />
Haiti — Chaine de la Selle 2,680 M<br />
Saudi Arabia — Jabal Sawda' 3,133 M<br />
Israel — Har Meron 1,208 M<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_TQIEYeGpmJw/S5SnFj1YhYI/AAAAAAAAAME/l4C3LKnn_7E/s1600-h/kathryn-bigelow.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_TQIEYeGpmJw/S5SnFj1YhYI/AAAAAAAAAME/l4C3LKnn_7E/s320/kathryn-bigelow.jpg" /></a></div>>Her best-known films are the horror film <b>Near Dark</b> (1987), <b>Point Break </b>(1991).. She was the first woman to win the Directors Guild of America award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5406408862981623068-2527017476413347082?l=current-facts-file.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>jecyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07427841472271223849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5406408862981623068.post-91235827144150346422010-03-07T23:07:00.000-08:002010-03-07T23:07:39.135-08:002010-03-07T23:07:39.135-08:00Saclaysaclay(france) became one of the early foreign atomic energy establishments where the first generation of indian scientists learnt their lessons in practically.The others were HARWELL(UK),CHALK RIVER(CANADA),ARGONNE(Oak Ridge ,U.S.)<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5406408862981623068-9123582714415034642?l=current-facts-file.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>jecyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07427841472271223849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5406408862981623068.post-47815325766315966552010-03-04T23:21:00.000-08:002010-03-04T23:23:19.374-08:002010-03-04T23:23:19.374-08:00Companies and their founders..<b>Yahoo </b> -Jerry Yang and David Filo(january 1994 & inc. in march 1995)<br />
<b>Mozilla </b> -Jamie Zawinski<br />
<b>Twitter </b> -Jack Dorsey & Evan Williams<br />
<b>Google </b> -Larry Page and Sergey Brin<br />
<b>Facebook</b> -Mark Elliot Zuckerberg<br />
<b>Linkdin </b> -Reid Hoffman( present CEO-Jeff Weiner)<br />
<b>Paypal </b> -Max Levchin,Thiel<br />
<b>Wikipedia </b>-Jimmy Donal Wales<br />
<b>MySpace</b> -Tom Anderson<br />
<b>Rediff</b>. - Ajit Balakrishnan<br />
<b>Youtube </b>-Chad Hurley,Steve Chen,Jawed Karim<br />
<b>Hotmail </b>-Shabeer bhatia<br />
<b>Apple </b> -Steven Paul Jobs <br />
<b>Microsoft</b> -Bill gates<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5406408862981623068-4781532576631596655?l=current-facts-file.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>jecyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07427841472271223849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5406408862981623068.post-10250001045743970462010-03-04T22:39:00.000-08:002010-03-04T22:39:20.491-08:002010-03-04T22:39:20.491-08:00scirocco cup>world first echo friendly race.<br />
><b>Aditya patel</b> will become first Indian to participate in this tournament it is going to held in Germany,in April 2010.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5406408862981623068-1025000104574397046?l=current-facts-file.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>jecyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07427841472271223849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5406408862981623068.post-66365542711409270192010-03-01T21:24:00.000-08:002010-03-01T21:30:16.535-08:002010-03-01T21:30:16.535-08:00Some facts about Communication & Information technology of India.The ministry of communication & information technology has <b>three departments</b><br />
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2.Department of Information technology<br />
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<b>1. India Post</b><br />
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India post is world largest postal network in the world.One post office serving 7174 people and covering an area of approximately 21.2 sq. kms.FROm 23,344 post offices at the time of independence to 1,55,035 post offices as on 31.3,2008.<br />
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<b>a). </b><b style="color: black;">Project Arrow</b><br />
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Department of posts has launched a pilot project "project arrow" to lay the information for a comprehensive,long term transformation of India post.<br />
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<b>b)IT induction</b><br />
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>><b>Imo :</b>An online web based domestic money transmission services called Imo was launched in january 2006 which enables the customer to recieve money from any of the post office providing this service.<br />
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>><b>eMoney Order(eMO) :</b>The electronic money order,which has been launched in October 2008,facilitates transmission of ordinary money orders through electronic media without any extra charge.<br />
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>><b>ePayment :</b>It is 'many to one' service through which bills are paid by customers in post offices.<br />
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2.Information Technology<br />
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Department of Information technology(DIT} for reaching and serving the masses. the National e-governance plan (NeGP) ,approved by the Government on may 18,2006.The NeGP comprise of 27 mission mode project.NeGP is implemented at the central,state and local levels.<br />
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Under NeGP, the Government has approved the Scheme for establishing<b> State Wide Area Networks(SWAN) </b>across the country in 29 states/6 UTs at a total outlay of Rs.3,334 crores <br />
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<b>>e-Samadhan</b>,it is an online public grievance redressal system has been developed and implemented by national informatics center for the state of Himachal Pradesh<br />
><b>"Prajavani"</b> a web based petition monitoring system enabling citizens to submit their petitions through kiosk and redressal from the District collectorate has been successfully implemented and extented to 14 district of Andhra Pradesh.<br />
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<div style="background-color: #eeeeee; color: orange;"><a href="http://india.gov.in/govt/national_egov_plan_online.php#passport" style="color: #cc0000;">passport/Visa</a> </div><div style="background-color: #eeeeee; color: red;"><a href="http://india.gov.in/govt/national_egov_plan_online.php#company" style="color: #cc0000;">company affairs</a></div><div style="background-color: #eeeeee; color: #cc0000;"><a href="http://india.gov.in/govt/national_egov_plan_online.php#central" style="color: red;">central excise</a> </div><div style="background-color: #eeeeee; color: red;"><a href="http://india.gov.in/govt/national_egov_plan_online.php#pensions" style="color: #cc0000;">pensions</a> </div><div style="background-color: #eeeeee; color: red;"><a href="http://india.gov.in/govt/national_egov_plan_online.php#land" style="color: #cc0000;">land records</a></div><div style="background-color: #eeeeee; color: #cc0000;"><a href="http://india.gov.in/govt/national_egov_plan_online.php#road">road transport</a> </div><div style="background-color: #eeeeee; color: red;"><a href="http://india.gov.in/govt/national_egov_plan_online.php#property">property registration</a></div><div style="background-color: #eeeeee; color: red;"><a href="http://india.gov.in/govt/national_egov_plan_online.php#ecourts" style="color: red;">e-courts</a> </div><div style="background-color: #eeeeee; color: red;"><a href="http://india.gov.in/govt/national_egov_plan_online.php#agriculture" style="color: red;">agriculture</a></div><div style="color: red;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/" style="background-color: #eeeeee;"></a></div><br />
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<b>National Internet Exchange of India(NIXI)</b><br />
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>establish as a not-profit Organization under section 25 of the companies Act 1956 and was registered in July ,2003The NIXI is the neutral meeting point of the Internet service providers(ISPs) in the country.It manage the .IN registry for the country code top level domain name in the country.<br />
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<b>Telecom Regulatory Authority of India(TRAI)</b><br />
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>established under the Telecom Regulatory authority of India Act ,1997 to regulate the telecommunication services and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.<br />
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<b>Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd.(BSNL)</b><br />
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>established on October ,2000,it is world' 7th largest telecommunications company providing comprehensive range of telecom services in India.<br />
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<b>Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd.(MTNL)</b><br />
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>establish in Feb 28,1986 under the companies Act as a wholly owned Govt. company.In April 1986,MTNL assumed responsibility for the control,management,operation of the Telecommunication servics in two metro cities of Delhi & Mumbai.<br />
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<span id="goog_1267501277227"></span><span id="goog_1267501277228"></span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/"></a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5406408862981623068-6636554271140927019?l=current-facts-file.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>jecyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07427841472271223849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5406408862981623068.post-87695385635577898092010-03-01T02:46:00.001-08:002010-03-01T02:46:26.917-08:002010-03-01T02:46:26.917-08:00Indian prime minister visit to Saudi Arabia.<h3 class="post-title entry-title"> <a href="http://currentaffairs-gk-india.blogspot.com/2010/03/indian-prime-minister-visit-to-saudi.html"><br />
</a> </h3>Indian prime minister has said that Saudi Arabia is a "<b>reliable partner</b>" in meeting Indian's energy needs<br />
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>Both the countries are lookin for establish new partnership in the area of new and renewable energy through sharing of clean technologies and joint collaborations.<br />
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>India wants saudi arab investment in construction,manufacturing,pharmaceuticals,health,agriculture,energy,telecom,tourism and other service sectors.<br />
>Both the countries paving way for Educational and skill development cooperation.<br />
>S.Arabia wants cooperation in Sc. & Tech. and space technology from India.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5406408862981623068-8769538563557789809?l=current-facts-file.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>jecyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07427841472271223849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5406408862981623068.post-78902985362274764202010-03-01T02:41:00.000-08:002010-03-01T02:42:54.223-08:002010-03-01T02:42:54.223-08:00How will India reduce its fiscal deficit in near future.?The <b>Budget 2010-11 </b> estimates the fiscal deficit number to go down to 5.5 per cent by the end of the next financial year.This is sought to be achieved by:<br />
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>reduction in total expenditure by <b>0.6</b> percent of GDP,<br />
>Increase in gross tax revenue by<b> 0.4</b> percent of GDP<br />
>Increase in non-debt capital receipt by <b>0.6</b> percent of GDP<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5406408862981623068-7890298536227476420?l=current-facts-file.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>jecyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07427841472271223849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5406408862981623068.post-62435124016356151082010-02-28T11:32:00.001-08:002010-02-28T11:32:45.296-08:002010-02-28T11:32:45.296-08:00Natinal knowledge Network<div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">THE Union Cabinet on Friday will have on its agenda the launching of the Rs 5,000-crore ‘National Mission in Education in ICT’ project, which envisages the creation of a National Knowledge Network across institutes through a 15 Gigabit broadband connectivity. </span></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">A key recommendation of the Sam Pitroda-led National Knowledge Commission (NKC), this project first mooted in 2007 envisages networking across some 15,000 colleges and universities, putting learning material online and sharing the expertise of centres of excellence with institutes spread across the country. With the Cabinet nod for the project, this will be one of the few NKC proposals which has found favour with the Arjun Singh led-HRD Ministry. </span></div><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;">The Ministry will be tying up with the Department of Telecom for creation of a countrywide broadband access network by utilising its existing optical fibre network. The Mission is expected to cover some 18,000 colleges eventually and make available facilities like e-books and e-journals in digital libraries</span>. </span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5406408862981623068-6243512401635615108?l=current-facts-file.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>jecyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07427841472271223849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5406408862981623068.post-7014352785713917532010-02-28T11:28:00.001-08:002010-02-28T11:28:45.534-08:002010-02-28T11:28:45.534-08:00Natinal knowledge commission<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;">The </span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: small;">National</span><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"> Knowledge Commission is a high-level advisory body to the Prime Minister of India, with the objective of transforming India into a knowledge society. In its endeavour to transform the knowledge landscape of the country, the National Knowledge Commission has submitted around 300 recommendations on 27 focus areas during its three and a half year term. While the term of the NKC has come to an end, the implementation of NKC's recommendations is currently underway at the Central and State levels</span><b>.</b><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5406408862981623068-701435278571391753?l=current-facts-file.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>jecyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07427841472271223849noreply@blogger.com0