(Following Information is taken from PIB website) The Government has adopted a five-pronged strategy to tackle the sensitive issue of Black Money – Joining the Global Crusade Against Black Money Issues of tax evasion and Exchange of Information have been incorporated in G 20 communiqué due to efforts of India in the recent ministerial meetings. …
. PESA,1996 THE PROVISIONS OF THE PANCHAYATS (EXTENSION TO THE SCHEDULED AREAS) ACT, 1996 (24th December, 1996) An Act to provide for the extension of the provisions of Part IX of the Constitution relating to the Panchayats to the Scheduled Areas. Be it enacted by Parliament in the Forty-seventh Year of the Republic of India …
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NAGOYA PROTOCOL A Backgrounder on ICNP – 2 The Second Meeting of the Intergovernmental Committee for Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit Sharing (ICNP-2) is being held in New Delhi from 2-6 July, 2012. The Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit Sharing (ABS) is a new international treaty adopted under the auspices of the Convention …
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Niall Ferguson, financial and economic historian of world repute in an article proposes that -it is not ‘who?’, but Hu should intervene – in Syria to stop humanitarian crisis in that country. Hu Jintao is the paramount leader of China. By suggesting, that not USA but China who should be intervening in Syria to oust Assad …
INDIA PRINT PAGE LAST UPDATED ON JUNE 20, 2012 Introduction ::INDIA Background: The Indus Valley civilization, one of the world’s oldest, flourished during the 3rd and 2nd millennia B.C. and extended into northwestern India. Aryan tribes from the northwest infiltrated onto the Indian subcontinent about 1500 B.C.; their merger with the earlier Dravidian inhabitants …
Department of Economic Affairs, Ministry of Finance, Government of India has published a factbook on India which deals with economic aspects of the country.
Also called ‘Further Liberalisation Measures for Capital Account Transactions’ – RBI has announced following steps to arrest the slide of Rupee: It has been decided to allow Indian companies in manufacturing and infrastructure sector and having foreign exchange earnings to avail of external commercial borrowing (ECB) for repayment of outstanding Rupee loans towards capital expenditure …
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Just concluded Rio+20 summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil has been labeled as failure of epic proportions by Greenpeace and this is not without reason. The final outcome document of the summit brought out by the heads of 190+ countries after lots of negotiations, named “The Future We Want” is high on series of R …
Imagine a situation: An elephant is running amok in a crowded town, it is panicked, and the shouting crowd is not helping the situation either. On its way it tramples a baby girl and an elderly lady into death. A young man tries to capture few photographs of the raging animal, unfortunately he too is …
CLICK HERE FOR 2012 OFFICIAL ANSWER KEY OFFICIAL CUT-OFF MARKS OF PRELIMS 2012 AS DISCLOSED BY UPSC MARKS OF LAST RECOMMENDED CANDIDATE GENERAL OBC SC ST PH-1 PH-2 PH-3 209 190 185 181 160 164 111 UPSC has replied to an RTI query about civil services prelims 2011 cut off marks and also has disclosed …
