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 …
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Census 2011 Data Sheet, click here. (pdf, opens in new window) Houslisting and Housing Census As per the Houselisting and Housing Census 2011, the census houses increased from 25 cr to 33cr. There is an increase of 6 cr census houses for residential and partly residential purposes. The data indicates that the housing gap has …
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BUDGET SPEECH click here (pdf, 234KB) HIGHLIGHTS Budget identifies five objectives relating to growth recovery, private investment, supply bottlenecks, malnutrition and governance matters GDP growth to be 7.6 per cent (+ 0.25 percent) during 2012-13 Amendment to the FRBM Act proposed as part of Finance Bill. New concepts of “Effective Revenue Deficit” and “Medium Term …
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Economic Survey (All Chapters) 2011-2012 (10.9mb, zip) Two Important New Chapters in This Year’s Economic Survey: 1) Sustainable Development and Climate Change, click here 2) India and the Global Economy, click here All Chapters: State of the Economy and Prospects Micro Foundations of Macro Economic Policy Fiscal Developments and Public Finance Prices and Monetary Mangement …
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On 13 January, 2012, India reached a major milestone in the history of polio eradication – a 12-month period without any case of polio being recorded. This date marks the unprecedented progress in India and is an endorsement of the effectiveness of the polio eradication strategies and their implementation in India. Cases in 2011 …
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• Passenger fares increased marginally. The increase will be by 2 paise per km for suburban and ordinary second class; 3 paise per km for mail/express second class; 5 paise per km for sleeper class; 10 paise per km for AC Chair Car, AC 3 tier and First Class; 15 paise per km for AC …
India State of Forest Report 2011 Released by The Forest Survey of India (FSI) has been publishing a series of biennial assessment report the forest cover in the country since 1987. The India State of Forest Report is recognized as the authoritative assessment of the country’s forest resources. The India State of Forest Report 2011 …
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(From PIB) Full Report, click here. SUMMARY The report on the State of Indian Agriculture placed by the Government to the Rajya Sabha, calls for wide-ranging reforms in agriculture sector to enable it to meet the growing demands and meet the challenges posed by various human and environmental factors. The report was placed in the …
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Yesterday in NOIDA, a girl was raped by five boys in a car – all were neighbours, and knew each other. It is said that they asked her to accompany them to a party, to which she agreed, later, after the party got over, these boys who were drunk, raped her in their car. After …
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Misandrists were thrilled when they heard two researchers say that men were on the verge of extinction – in 2003, Brian Sykes, a genetics professor, in his book Adam’s Curse:A Future Without Men, predicted that men would vanish from earth within 100,000 years as their Y chromosome was slowly decaying genetically. Again in 2009, Professor …
In Prime Minister’s words, Naxalism is the biggest internal security threat being faced by India. He is not wrong. Naxals have killed more security personnel and civilians than victims claimed by terrorists and other extremists in North East India put together. Government has adopted both violent and peaceful strategies to tackle threat posed by naxals. …
EC, ECB and IMF have agreed to bail out Greece second time in two years now. Offering it a package of $170 billion to allow it to repay some of its debt and keep its banks afloat with some capital in them. But, this bail out has come at a cost – humiliation and promise …
Terrorism and corruption are two sides of a same coin called inhumanness. To tackle corruption, a monster that is threatening economic progress of India, some ‘wise’ people came up with an idea called ‘lokpal‘. Government killed it. And when Mumbai was taken hostage by gunmen from neighbouring country, the government realized that there should be …
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When few people suggested military operation against left wing extremists (naxalites), UPA government opposed the idea. Some human rights activists and NGOs were even against the use of paramilitary forces in fighting maoist menace. Army is just not meant for operations against its own fellow citizens. Its mode of operation is different than that of …
USA and Israel, by imposing stricter economic and political sanctions on Iran through UN and EU, are upping the ante for Iran in Middle East. Israel is seriously contemplating war with Iran to destroy its nuclear research facilities and teach a lesson. In pursuance of this folly of war, west is playing a dangerous game …
When looked from space, Earth is a beautiful planet – there are continents and oceans, and there are no countries and borders. From space one can see vanishing rainforests, melting ice caps and expanding deserts – they have no respect for borders, because there are no borders. They engulf us all. Earth is one planet …
Today’s The Hindu newspaper reports that there are 1,622.8 government servants for every 100,000 residents in India. It also says that Indian Railways employs 44.81% of entire Central government workforce. Also, 59.69 per cent public servants belong to Group C and 29.37 per cent to Group D. In USA there are 7,681 servants for every …
On December 12th, 2011 UPSC appointed a committee of experts to review and suggest changes to the existing pattern of civil services main examination. This year it introduced changes in the preliminary examination. The committee will be headed by Arun S. Nigavekar, ex-chairman of UGC, and a reputed educationist, whom A P J Abdul Kalam …
USA has formally declared that war is over in Iraq and it has withdrawn last remaining troops from this country. After 8 years of brutal battles that brought death to more than 100,000 Iraqi civilians, 4500 American soldiers, which displaced more than 1.75 million people and which cost USA $1 trillion (of taxpayers money) – …
