The biggest dams in India

Hailed as the "Temples of Resurgent India" by Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, the country's dams help provide water and electricity to millions citizens. We look at some of the biggest ones. 1. The Tehri Dam is a multi-purpose rock and earth-fill embankment dam on the Bhagirathi River near Tehri in Uttarakhand, India. It is the primary dam of the Tehri Hydro Development Corporation Ltd. and the Tehri hydroelectric complex. The...

इंदिरा आवास योजना

इंदिरा आवास योजना ही केंद्र पुरस्कृत योजना असून या योजनेंतर्गत राज्यातील ग्रामीण भागातील दारिद्र्य रेषेखालील निवारा नसलेल्या कुटूंबासाठी टिकाऊ व मजबूत घरे बांधून देण्यासाठी अनुदान देण्यात येते. अनुसूचित जाती/जमातीचे सदस्य, मुक्त वेठबिगार तसेच ग्रामीण भागातील दारिद्र्य रेषेखालील बिगर अनुसूचित जाती/जमातीच्या गरीब व्यक्ती यांना सहाय्यक अनुदान देवून त्यांच्या राहत्या घराच्या बांधकामासाठी मदत करणे हे इंदिरा आवास योजनेचे मुळ उद्दीष्ट आहे. इंदिरा आवास योजनेंतर्गत घरकुलासाठी दिले जाणारे अनुदान हे दि.1...

Wars faced India with other countries ?

Republic of IndiaThe Republic of India has fought three wars and one major incursion battle with Pakistan and one border war with China. Major warsFirst Indo-Pak war, 1947Independent India, formed on August 15, 1947, has seen three wars with Pakistan (1947–48, 1965, 1971). The first war took place after Pakistani soldiers and armed tribesmen invaded the independent province of Kashmir. When the forces almost reached the capital Srinagar...

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सुवर्णधोरण कसे झाकोळले?

डॉ. अनिल पडोशी | गुरुवार, १८ ऑक्टोबर २०१२ | लोकसत्ता  सीमाशुल्क दुपटीने वाढवल्यामुळे सोन्याचे भाव वाढले, पण मागणी कमी झाली नाही. उलट, सोन्याची चोरटी आयात २०१२च्या एप्रिलपासूनच प्रचंड वाढली असल्याचे दिसले. त्यातच गुंतवणूक म्हणून सोन्याला भाव आला़  आता  मागणी रोखण्यासाठी काही जुने उपाय उपयुक्त ठरतील.. आपल्या देशामध्ये सोन्याला प्रचंड मागणी आहे. या मागणीचे एकूण अर्थव्यवस्थेवर होणारे दुष्परिणाम लक्षात घेऊन ही मागणी कमी करण्यासाठी सरकारने २०१२-१३ या अर्थसंकल्पामध्ये सोन्याच्या...

Bharat Ratna Awardees

1. 1954 – C.Rajgopalchari – A prominent freedom fighter and last Governor General. 2. 1954 – C.V.Raman – A physicist. 3. 1954 – S.Radhakrishnan – The second President of India. 4. 1955 – Bhagwan Dash – Freedom Fighter. 5. 1955 – M. Visvesvarayya – Mysore Deewan. 6. 1955 – Jawahar lal Nehru – First Prime Minister of India. 7. 1957 – Govind Ballabh Pant – Freedom fighter, Chief Minister of UP. 8. 1958 – D.K.Karve – Social Activist. 9. 1961 – B.C.Roy – Chief Minister of...

Shrikrishna Committee

Srikrishna committee: ‘Common regulator for financial sector As per the suggestions made by Financial Sector Legislative Reforms Commission (FSLRC), headed by former Justice B. N.Srikrishna, key regulators such as the Securities and ExchangeBoard of India (SEBI), the Insurance Regulatory and DevelopmentAuthority (IRDA), the Pension Fund Regulatory and DevelopmentAuthority (PFRDA) and the Forward Markets Commission (FMC)should be merged into a Unified Financial Agency (UFA).Why the commission was set up?...

Kyoto Protocol

NEED OF A GLOBAL WARMING PROTOCOL In 1992, countries joined an international treaty, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, to cooperatively consider what they could do to limit average global temperature increases and the resulting climate change, and to cope with whatever impacts were, by then, inevitable.By 1995 countries realized that emission reductions provisions in the Convention were inadequate. They launched negotiations to strengthen the global...

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NAXALISM: MEANING AND RISE

Naxalism refers to the ultra left movement that took birth from the Sino-Soviet split in the Indian Communist Movement, the porotagonists of this movement denied to follow parliamentary democracy and believe in the tenet that “Power flows from the barrel of the gun”. The word Naxalism comes from Naxalbari , a small village in West Bengal , where a leftist section of Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI(M))...