Region : India Main interests: Mathematics‚ Astronomy Major works: aryabhatiya‚ Arya-siddhanta Aryabhatta‚ also known as Aryabhatta I or Aryabhata (476-550?)‚ is a famous Indian mathematician and astronomer‚ born in a place called Taregana‚ in Bihar (though some people do not agree with the evidence). Taregana which literally means songs of stars in Bihari‚ is a small place situated nearly 30 km from Patna‚ which was then known as Kusumpura later Pataliputra‚ the capital of the Gupta Empire. This
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---------On 16 December 2012 a female physiotherapy intern[2] was beaten and gang raped in Delhi. She died from her injuries thirteen days later while undergoing emergency treatment in Singapore for brain and gastrointestinal damage. After watching a film in South Delhi in the early evening‚ she and a male companion had boarded a bus‚ which was being driven as an unauthorized "joyride"‚ thinking it was a public bus.[3] The only other passengers on the bus were five men who were friends of the driver
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Top 10 Corruption Scams in India [pic] Project by- Sanya Makan [pic] You can fool some of the people all of the time‚ and all of the people some of the time‚ but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time - Abraham Lincoln. “I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.”
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Chief Justice of India: Mr. Altamas Kabir Governer of Reserve Bank of India: Mr. D. Subbarao Deputy Chairman Planning Commission of India: Mr. Montek Singh Ahluwalia Chairman of IRDA: Mr. T.S. Vijayan Chairman of GIC: Mr. D. Ashok Kumar Roy Speaker of Lok Sabha: Ms. Meira Kumar Chief Election Commissioner: Mr.V.S. Sampath Prime Minister of Pakistan: Mr. Raja Pervez Ashraf Head quarter of IRDA: Hyderabad Head quarter of National Insurance Co. Ltd: Calcutta Biggest private General Insurance
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Save Ganga Movement Save Ganga Movement is a widespread Gandhian non-violent movement supported by saints and popular social activists across the Indian States Uttar Pradesh and Bihar in support of a free Ganga. The movement is supported by Ganga Seva Abhiyanam‚ Pune-based National Women’s Organisation (NWO) besides those of many other like-minded organizations and with the moral support from many religious leaders‚ spiritual and political‚ scientists‚ environmentalists‚ writers and social activists
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References: 1. ^ Ritu Chaturvedi (1 January 2007). Bihar Through the Ages. Sarup & Sons. pp. 340–. ISBN 978-81-7625-798-5. Retrieved 28 April 2012.
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For All Government Jobs alert visit www.gurujobalert.com Last Six months Current affairs 2012-13 for IBPS Specialist Officer’s and SBI PO Exam For all Competitive Exams Current Affairs Section Current Affairs Study Material for Month of August 2012 September 2012 October 2012 November 2012 December 2012 January 2013 Content: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. International India and World National States Conferences Awards and Honours
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Bofors scam and he lost 1989 elections. Though‚ P.V Narasingh Rao is considered as the father of liberalized Indian economy‚ he had to lose 1996 election due to scams only. In 1996‚ Lalu Prasad Yadav was forced to leave the chief minister post of Bihar after the insurgence of fodder scam. The major political scams of this decade are Taj corridor case‚ Oil-for-food program scam‚ and Cash-for-votes scandal‚ money laundering above Rs. 4000 crores by Madhu Koda‚ Ex-chief Minister of Jharkhand and 3G
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for navigation in some areas and also facilitating pisciculture and recreational activities. The main multipurpose projects constituting Indian dams are the Hirakud Dam in Orissa‚ the Bhakra-Nangal Project in Punjab‚ the Damodar Valley Project in Bihar and West Bengal‚ the Tungabhadra Project in Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka‚ the Rihand Project in Uttar Pradesh. Advantages of Dams of India In the year 1947‚ there were around 300 large dams throughout the country and number gradually increased by
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i Crouch grass Elytrigia repens (couch grass; syn. Triticum repens L.‚ Agropyron repens (L.) P. Beauv.‚ Elymus repens (L.) Gould) is a very common species of grass native to most of Europe‚ Asia‚ and northwest Africa. Other names include twitch‚ quick grass‚ quitch grass (also just quitch)‚ dog grass‚ quackgrass‚ scutch grass‚ and witchgrassIt has creeping rhizomes which enable it to grow rapidly across grassland. The stems (’culms’) grow to 40–150 cm tall; the leaves are linear‚ 15–40 cm long and
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