...The controversial statements of Aamir Khan also sparked other religion issues such as the banning of cow meat in Maharashtra, killings of MM Kalburgi and Govind Pansare. These events were unjustly credited to Modi’s BJP rule as all the events took place under Narendra Modi’s reign as Prime Minister of India. Although many believe the rising intolerance is to be blamed on Modi, several others contradict the claim by insisting that the country has not become intolerant suddenly under the Narendra Modi led BJP government. Mr. Modi addressed this issue directly, when on a visit to the UK, the Indian Prime Minister said to the crowd: “Any event in any corner of India - it doesn't matter if there are even one or two incidents - we will not tolerate it and the law will deal with it strictly It does not matter whether such an incident is significant for a country of 125 crore people. For us, every incident is serious." Mr. Modi being known for addressing issues directly and efficiently made a statement for all the critics who believed that Mr. Modis BJP was leaning towards an intolerant India. Although Mr. Modi made a strong statement in the UK, intolerance as an issue has always existed in the country. It all Started when Bollywood star Aamir Khan's wife Ria Khan made controversial statements on live media about the...
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...industrialization policies This volume of essays is the outcome of a detailed study by a team of contributing research scholars led by Atul Sood. This timely evaluation provides an insight into many crucial questions: What are the constituent elements of Gujarat’s growth story? To what extent can the successful features of Gujarat’s growth story be attributed to the political regime fashioned by Narendra Modi? Is it possible to replicate even this limited success story at the national level – as Modi’s starry eyed upper and middle class following would like to believe? More significantly: what are the implications of Gujarat’s Development Model in terms of its sustainability and its desirability? What happens when we assess this development through a set of comprehensive measures, judge its implication for the average citizen’s material wellbeing, and see what it means for the political and economic rights of citizens? The study proceeds through a meticulous examination of existing official data sources on investment, infrastructure, agriculture, manufacturing , employment, poverty , inequality, education and health expenditures and a set of other indicators of development. These are then used to explain various developmental outcomes in the state in relation to national averages and the performance of other states which have also experienced high growth rates recently, such as Maharashtra, Haryana and Tamilnadu. Atul Sood’s cogently argued and insightful introduction brings...
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...GK Power Capsule – January 2015 (The Hindu Review) This GK Capsule has been prepared by Career Power Institute Delhi (Formerly Known as Bank Power). This has been prepared on the basis of news and events appeared in The Hindu Newspaper in the month of January 2015. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. RBI cut its benchmark rate by 25 basis points to 7.75 per cent. RBI’s growth estimate for 2014-15 is 5.5 per cent. a. Bank Rate – 8.75 % (0.25% Decreased) b. Cash Reserve Ratio – 4 % (Unchanged) c. Statutory Liquidity Ratio – 22 % (Unchanged) d. Repo Rate – 7.75 % (0.25% Decreased) e. Reverse Repo Rate – 6.75 % (0.25% Decreased) f. Marginal Standing Rate – 8.75 % (0.25% Decreased) United Nation Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon appointed Indian sociologist Saraswathi Menon in peace-building panel. Filmmaker Pahlaj Nihalani was appointed as the Chairman of Central Board of Film Certification. Nihalani will succeed Leela Samson. Nepali Congress leader Deep Kumar Upadhyay was appointed as Nepal's ambassador to India. Hari Shankar Bramha was appointed as the new Chief Election Commissioner. Brahma succeeds V.S. Sampath. Anupam Shrivastava was appointed as CMD of BSNL. Arvind Panagariya took charge as Vice-Chairman of NITI Aayog. He became the first vice-chairman of the National Institution for Transforming India (NITI) Aayog, which replaced the Planning Commission on 1 January 2015. NITI Aayog comprises of Prime Minister as chairperson, one vice-chairman...
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...Sports • Entertainment • Life & Style • Women • Hotklix • Spirituality • • NRI • Real Estate • Photos • Times Now • Videos • LIVE TV You are here: Home » India Ex-Gujarat minister Amit Shah charged in fake encounter case TNN | Sep 5, 2012, 12.08AM IST [pic]Article[pic] [pic] Comments (79) [pic] inShare [pic] Read More:Tulsiram Prajapati Fake Encounter Case|Sohrabuddin Sheikh|Sohrabuddin Case|Narendra Modi|Andhra Pradesh|Amit Shah|Abdul Rehman 79 [pic] [pic] Ex-Gujarat minister Amit Shah charged in fake encounter case AHMEDABAD: The CBI on Tuesday named former Gujarat minister of state for home Amit Shah and over half a dozen IPS officers, including former CID (crime) chief OP Mathur, as accused in the Tulsiram Prajapati fake encounter case of 2006. They were among the 20 people named in the CBI chargesheet. Considered to be one of the favourite cops of chief minister Narendra Modi, Mathur and former state police chief P C Pande, are accused of derailing the probe in the case. Mathur has been charged with culpable homicide amounting to murder, conspiracy and destruction of evidence among others. Officers of CID (crime), IPS Geetha Johri and investigating officer R K Patel have also been charged with criminal conspiracy, murder, and destruction of evidence. They had investigated the fake encounter before the probe was handed over to the CBI. Besides Shah, the chargesheet...
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...29 November 2015 Submit : News Photos Just In Debate Topic Latest News Articles Local News Blog Posts Pictures Reviews Recipes New to merinews? merinews | India's largest citizen journalism based news platform WORLD INDIA SPORTS BUSINESS TECHNOLOGY ENTERTAINMENT LIFESTYLE REVIEWS INTERVIEWS LOCAL Sign In | Register Submit News Events Jobs Columnists Just In Videos Classifieds Discount Coupons Compare and Buy Interview: Alok Dixit, Founder of an NGO 'Stop Acid Attack' Bolla Alekhya08 August, 2014 Google + WhatsApp 0 5.0/5 12345 An estimated 1,000 women are attacked with acid every year in India by men who are angry because their advances were refused. The cheap toilet cleaning liquid, easily available at any grocery store, is prominently being used as a weapon of violence against women. These gruesome attacks are followed by lifelong trauma for the victim. Not only are they scarred physically but also emotionally as a distorted physical appearance makes them outcasts in the society. Life brings you to a helpless situation after such an attack. In Focus At such a bizarre time when no one is with acid attack victims, an NGO Stop Acid Attack (SAA) promises to be with them and helps the victims to fight with the difficulties...
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...Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched his nationwide cleanliness campaign, the 'Swachh Bharat Mission' or 'Clean India Campaign' from the Valmiki Basti in New Delhi on Thursday. Addressing the nation at the launch, Modi asked India's 1.25 billion people to join the 'Swachh Bharat Mission' and promote it to everyone. After paying tribute at the memorials of Mahatma Gandhi and former Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri on their birth anniversaries, Modi himself swept a pavement at Valmiki Basti, a colony of sanitation workers before the formal launch of the 'Clean India' drive at Rajpath. While launching the mission at Mandir Marg, he also made a surprise visit at the local police station to check on its cleanliness. Modi said, "Today is the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhiji and Lal Bahadur Shastriji. We have gained freedom under leadership of Gandhiji, but his dream of clean India is still unfulfilled." He added, "Swachh Bharat Campaign logo is not just a logo, through it Gandhiji is watching us and we all should clean India. I am not claiming that the newly elected government is doing everything. Be it temples, mosques, gurudwaras or any place, we must take efforts to clean our surroundings. Cleanliness is not only the responsibility of the 'safaai kaamgar', it is the responsibility of 125 crore Indians. If Indians can reach Mars at a cheap cost, can we not clean our neighbourhoods?" Giving credit to previous governments, Modi said, "I do not make any claim that...
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...Protection of individual properties[edit] There are systems that property owners purchase and fit to their home to stop water entering their house. These systems work on blocking doors, windows and air vents with boards. Propert2.jpg Propert3.jpg Protection of communities[edit] When more homes, shops and infrastructure are threatened by the effects of flooding, then the benefits of greater protection is worth the additional cost. Temporary Flood Defenses can be constructed relatively quickly in certain locations and provide protection from rising flood waters. Communit2.jpg Communit1.jpg Rivers running through large urban developments will often have been controlled and channeled. These channels or canals will have a fixed capacity and if flood water flows exceed this capacity then the city will flood. Over time defenses will have been constructed to minimize the effects, and this will generally be through raising the sides of the river channel with embankments, walls or levees. The large number of people and huge value of infrastructure at risk in cities, means that protection works of high cost can be justified. The water level is receding in parts of Srinagar, which had turned into a giant lake from the waters of the swollen Jhelum. The water level was two to three storeys high in areas like Raj Bagh. People moved to hospitals and other high rise buildings to escape the rising water. The Army...
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...Name – Jigar Parekh Roll No. – 25 After the success of last year Bangalore hosts the Bangalore Literature Festival (BLF) - a paradise for scholars in the field of literature from India and around the world. The Garden City of India commemorates the literary diversity, bringing it in conversation with the best minds in the world for the second consecutive year. BLF bridges the gap between English literature and other regional languages also helping youth to clasp the idea in understanding the power of sound knowledge. The event was spread over for three days at Crowne Plaza, Velankani Park, Electronic City, Bangalore. The Festival was fusion of folk performances, celebrating 100 years of cinema in India, workshop from many renowned speakers and literates -talking about the blend of culture, Classical music and much more. BLF gave the opportunity to mingle with the finest minds of India from inspirational master like Gulzar, Prasoon Joshi to hearth throbbing Farhan Akthar. The Festival endeavors to become an annual flagship event in the Indian and international literary circuit and would provide an ideal platform for urban young thinkers, writers, authors and lovers of literature to meet, discuss and exchange thoughts and views thereby enlarge the scope of literature. DAY-1 A new track this year is one commemorating 100 years of Indian cinema with a discussion on the adaptation of biographies to bio-pics. This track features actor Farhan Akhtar, director Rakeysh Omprakash...
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...ASSIGNMENT 1 5 EXAMPLES EACH ON ANY 3 KINDS OF FORGETTING CHARITHA VASUDEVAN 140702015 I MA According to Paul Connerton, a sociologist and a scholar at the University of Cambridge, there are seven types of forgetting. He argues that 'forgetting' is not necessarily a failing, but it is a combination of actions that lead to one term - forgetting. The seven types of forgetting, in his view, are: 1. Repressive erasure 2. Prescriptive Forgetting 3. Forgetting that is constitutive in the formation of a new identity 4. Structural Amnesia 5. Forgetting as annulment 6. Forgetting as planned obsolescence 7. Forgetting as humiliated silence PRECRIPTIVE FORGETTING Prescriptive Forgetting is an act of collective forgetting where all members of a group/party decide on forgetting a specific memory in order to continue to function more efficiently. Example 1: Vibgyor School Rape Case A six year old girl of Vibgyor High school in Bangalore was allegedly raped by the skating instructor. It was revealed later that the instructor had earlier been sacked by another school for 'inappropriate behaviour'. Vibgyor International School, apparently, did not conduct a background check before employing him. The school remained closed for a few days as the investigation was being carried out. Later, the school re-opened after groups of parents visited the institution to take stock of the safety measures initiated by the management. Here, the parents...
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...NAME- ZOYA DCOSTA COURSE-FYBMM ROLL NO-M12018 DATE- 24/1/2013. SUBJECT- POLITICAL SCIENCE INDIVISUAL PROJECT TOPIC NO 8- “FASCISM”. * EVERY NATION DESERVES ITS OWN FASCISM! Fascism is a terrible kind of political domination; capable of infringing on any eligible rights of any communities or people to unpredictable magnitude. Historically it is an output of the capitalistic system and takes various shapes and forms, depending upon the particular social order. Fascism does emerge in capitalist crises, the moments when the struggle for production reaches a point when the workers can no longer purchase the products they produce, a crisis of over-production and declining profits or an intense battle for cheaper labor, raw materials, and new markets; that is, war. Although this came into practice as a political ideology in 1919 with the Italian dictator Benito Mussolini, Fascism became more prominent after the 1st world war when Adolf Hitler a small time army personal who did not get its due respect and position and was treated very badly by his Party to whom he was affiliated. It was between the 1st and 2nd World War the most famous fascist leader who went to become the Dictator and invaded almost half of the European countries and Asia with His Japanese’s allies. Thus Fascism could not be understood in many of its practical manifestations as a party organization, as a system of education or as a discipline. The present phase of fascism is a more organized and systematic...
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...Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched his nationwide cleanliness campaign, the 'Swachh Bharat Mission' or 'Clean India Campaign' from the Valmiki Basti in New Delhi on Thursday. Addressing the nation at the launch, Modi asked India's 1.25 billion people to join the 'Swachh Bharat Mission' and promote it to everyone. After paying tribute at the memorials of Mahatma Gandhi and former Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri on their birth anniversaries, Modi himself swept a pavement at Valmiki Basti, a colony of sanitation workers before the formal launch of the 'Clean India' drive at Rajpath. While launching the mission at Mandir Marg, he also made a surprise visit at the local police station to check on its cleanliness. Modi said, "Today is the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhiji and Lal Bahadur Shastriji. We have gained freedom under leadership of Gandhiji, but his dream of clean India is still unfulfilled." He added, "Swachh Bharat Campaign logo is not just a logo, through it Gandhiji is watching us and we all should clean India. I am not claiming that the newly elected government is doing everything. Be it temples, mosques, gurudwaras or any place, we must take efforts to clean our surroundings. Cleanliness is not only the responsibility of the 'safaai kaamgar', it is the responsibility of 125 crore Indians. If Indians can reach Mars at a cheap cost, can we not clean our neighbourhoods?" Giving credit to previous governments, Modi said, "I do not make any claim that only the...
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...Joining Prime minister Narendra Modi in 'Swachh Bharat Abhiyaan', a nationwide cleanliness drive ,IIM Raipur will pick up the broom to clean its campus and vicinity tomorrow. As part of the campaign, students and faculty will take part in a day long cleaning activity that will cover the institute and its premises . The campaign is an effort by the students of IIM Raipur to spread the message of cleanliness and create awareness among the local populace .Over 300 staff members and students will participate in this massive cleaning drive. Director B.S. Sahay will flag off the campaign with an oath taking ceremony. The ceremony will also witness the official launch of the Eco-club of IIM Raipur. The cleaning activities will continue till midday. The event which coincides with the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi has a lot of significance, as the Father of nation used to stress on the importance of cleanliness and personal hygiene and sought to promote it in his surroundings in every possible way. Our nation is facing a lot of problems due to poor standards of cleanliness and lack of proper sanitation facilities. According to a United Nations report released this year, India continues to have the largest number of people in the world defecating in the open."The standards of hygiene and sanitation are very poor in even urban areas. Garbage disposal and hygiene standards in many commercial establishments leave much to be desired. This initiative by IIM Raipur is an effort to...
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...mother of all battles in Amethi, which is going to the polls on Wednesday. With campaigning for the high-profile contest coming to an end at 5pm on Monday, both the BJP and Congress have lined up their arsenal in full force for a fight to finish. While BJP's charge will be led by its PM candidate Narendra Modi, Congress will have Priyanka Gandhi leading from the forefront. While Modi is defying tradition to storm into the constituency of his chief rival, Congress insiders say that even party chief Sonia Gandhi might join her razing army on the front on Monday to give the prospects of her son one last push. The Aam Aadmi Party, too, will have its star campaigners bolstering the campaign of Kumar Vishwas which, of late, has got mired in the tangle of attacks and FIRs. Even BJP top brass in the state was taken unawares when word reached them on Friday evening about Modi's rally right in Amethi. When TOI reached the rally ground on Saturday, top state BJP leaders were found running around to make arrangements. "It's a big battle and neither side wants to yield even an inch," was the feeling among party workers in both Congress and BJP camps. They admit that the fact that Modi chose to take the battle right into Rahul's territory...
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...India, Israel to explore joint defence equipment manufacturing, R&D 1 of 3 http://www.ibtimes.co.in/india-israel-explore-joint-defence-equipment... India will send a business delegation to Tel Aviv to participate in a defence and security seminar to be held from Feb.21 to 25 in order to explore investment and manufacturing opportunities in collaboration with Israeli companies. The Indian delegation, consisting of enterprises with interests in defence, aerospace and security, will look at joint R&D, co-development and co-production of defence equipment at the seminar being organised jointly by India's Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (Ficci) and SIBAT, the International Defence Cooperation Directorate of Israel's Ministry of Defence. "The mission will connect companies in Israel to the Indian industry through B2B networking sessions and meetings with leading industry organisations, senior government officials, OEMs and procurement agencies in Israel to facilitate greater cooperation," Ficci said in a statement. Israel has said it is willing to work in the area of defence under Prime Minister Narendra Modi's "Make in India" initiative. "In the field of defence, we are open for the concept of transfer of advanced technology and joint development. Both our governments as well as the Israeli companies that are already implementing projects in India are ready to engage with relevant partners under the 'Make in India' initiative to create...
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...2/18/2014 NEWS CJ INTERIM BUDGET 2014 388 IIM Bangalore students get placed with high salaries within 4 days LATEST SOUTH ELECTIONS INDIA Karnataka SOUTH Kerala MOVIES SPORTS Video CRICKETNEXT FOOTBALL TECH BUZZ MORE Andhra Pradesh Tamil Nadu Show: Southern Stars Bihar Special status for Bihar: JD(U) plans dharna in Parliament today IBNLIVE » SOUTH » KARNATAKA 388 IIM Bangalore students get placed with high salaries within 4 days Deepa Balakrishnan, CNN-IBN Feb 18, 2014 at 09:17am IST Follow #indian institute of management bangalore #iim bangalore #iimb #placements #employment #management student Latest All | Filter SPORTS Americans Querrey, Sock lose at Delray Beach 5 minutes ago POLITICS Live: Lok Sabha, Rajya Sabha adjourned over Telangana 6 minutes ago INDIA Veer: Differently-abled Deepa Malik a record breaking swimmer 21 minutes ago POLITICS SC commutes death penalty of Rajiv Gandhi killers to life imprisonment 22 minutes ago TECH Bharti Airtel agrees to acquire smaller rival Loop Mobile 31 PREVIOUS Education sector gets about 9 per cent hike POLITICS minutes ago Bangalore: Amidst all the economic gloom, there is some news one can be merry We support Telangana, but Tw eet 2 0 Seemandhra concerns must about as recruitments seem to be picking up. The Indian Institute of Management Like 2 be met: BJP 37 minutes ago Bangalore is leading the way with all its students getting placed with...
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