15th Census Of Hindustan

Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India, C Chandramouli announces that census for 2011 is going to kick off from April. 

Highlights:

• Fifteenth 'Census in India' to begin from April 7, 2010.
• There are going to be two phases as first phase of census to be started in April and concluded in September 2010, which would include assimilation of house listing and house census and collection of data on NPR and second and last phase from February 9 to 28 which will include population enumeration.

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Commonwealth Games:Delhi Edition 2010

 

The Commonwealth Games is a multinational, multi-sport event. Held every four years, it involves the elite athletes of the Commonwealth of Nations. Attendance at the Commonwealth Games is typically around 5,000 athletes. The Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) is the organisation that is responsible for the direction and control of the Commonwealth Games.

The first such event, then known as the British Empire Games, was held in 1930 in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. The name changed to British Empire and Commonwealth Games in 1954, to British Commonwealth Games in 1970 and assumed the current name of the Commonwealth Games in 1978.

As well as many Olympic sports, the Games also include some sports that are played mainly in Commonwealth countries, such as lawn bowls, rugby sevens and netball.

There are currently 53 members of the Commonwealth of Nations, and 71 teams participate in the Games. The four constituent countries of the United Kingdom –

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Historical Step in The American History ?

Barack Obama needs to use a bruising victory to unleash the promise of his presidency

LAST November Henry Kissinger compared Barack Obama to a chess grandmaster who had played his opening in six simultaneous matches, but hadn’t completed a single game. Now the president has won the first of those matches with an audacious checkmate snatched from a seemingly hopeless position. But the rest of the chessboards are still gridlocked.

The health-care victory this week was a huge achievement for Mr Obama . After the Democrats in January suddenly lost their filibuster-proof majority in the Senate many, reputedly including his own chief of staff, urged him to play for a draw and settle for a much more modest bill than the 2,400-page behemoth that he signed into law on March 23rd. Instead, the president buckled down: he dumped the (more expensive) House version of the bill, concentrated on the Senate version and criss-crossed the country, making powerful speeches and twisting arms. In short, he took charge, and started.......

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Jindal Quiz League:Dimag Ke Batti Jale De !

Hi Friends, IPL Season 3  Create Many Records in terms of Revenue and Viewership.With Youtube Participation It Provide new Dimension to this Sport.With 2 New Team Coming Next Season (Pune and Kochi) it Create new Sensation in the  Field of Sports for our Country.I am also very Touched by This Concept and Want to Create My Own Jindal Quiz League Which Would Surely Interest the Readers.Till, Then Please Check your Current Level of Cricket Gyan..........

1)Which IPL team's logo bears the letters K, J, H, P, H at the very top?

     a)Kolkata Knight Riders
     b)Deccan Chargers

     c) King's XI Punjab

     d)Delhi Daredevil

2)Who is the CEO of the Kolkata Knight Riders?

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INDIA: Is Delhi Capable To Curb Inflation !

India's growth potential will be capped if government spending isn't controlled.

Inflation in emerging economies is on the rise, and nowhere more so than in India, where policy makers are struggling with accelerating, double-digit price rises. But Delhi's ability to handle the crisis is hampered by the fact that Delhi created the problem in the first place.

Reserve Bank Governor Duvvuri Subbarao has clearly been behind the curve. The central bank held interest rates at 3.25% throughout last year and only increased banks' cash reserve ratios slightly. The central bank created more money than there was demand for—and the value of the rupee fell.

As a result, India is now running the highest inflation rate in Asia. Wholesale price inflation reached 9.9% in February...............

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Europe's Economies:Where They Have To Look !

If Spain, Portugal, Italy and Greece want a lesson in how to take hard decisions, they should look eastward

IN THE depths of the financial crisis a year ago, it was easy to see how the woes of the ex-communist economies could cause huge problems for the rest of Europe. Western banks had lent recklessly in foreign currency to firms and households stricken by the downturn.

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Pani-Pani Hai Hai !

The World Bank last week released a report on the gamut of issues surrounding groundwater over-exploitation in India. While the report skirts the issue of pricing groundwater as politically sensitive and economically unsound, especially for backward rural consumers, we think charging groundwater use can act as a disincentive for its overuse and lead to conservation of one of our most threatened resources.

India is the largest groundwater user in the world, accounting for more than a quarter of the total global usage. Around 60% of irrigated agriculture and 85% of drinking water supplies rely on it. Yet, at least 29% of groundwater blocks in the country are under threat due to extensive overuse, according to a 2004 assessment.

That figure is likely to have increased considerably since then. Economic subsidies are the prime reason behind this overuse. Prolonged subsidies in the use of electricity has meant it is cheap to pump groundwater for agricultural and other purposes, and a poor public water delivery system has made groundwater use much more reliable. Added to this is a near complete regulatory gap on the construction of wells—it is estimated that there are at least 20 million well users now in India.

To be sure, putting a price on groundwater by removing electricity subsidies is a politically loaded issue that, given rampant vote bank politics, can make or break governments. Even assuming such a step is taken, the farmer who depends on groundwater will then need a reliable system of public water delivery and, more crucially, lesser controls on pricing agricultural produce to offset higher pumping costs and to ensure that output does not suffer. But the cavalier way in which farm produce is priced and the presence of strong farming lobbies mean this is unlikely to happen.

The problem, therefore, enmeshes issues of political interest, economic concerns, governance lapses and regulatory loopholes. Removing distortionary subsidies would be a start. But if we are to conserve groundwater, this will have to be complemented by local-level regulation and better delivery of water, not to mention targeted public investment in irrigation, something India has not seen for decades.

Source:Mint.

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Kya Medicine's Sabke Liye ?

Unrestricted entry of foreign equity into the Indian pharmaceuticals sector is being questioned on three grounds, one serious and two non-serious. The least serious of the three comes from the National Security Council, which has proposed that the sector be put on the “sensitive” list, requiring prior scrutiny by the Foreign Investment Promotion Board. This is difficult to understand as there is no intellectual property to guard against foreign takeover, the Indian industry being entirely generic. The second non-serious reason, given by the department of pharmaceuticals, is that Indian firms are not on a level playing field — they do not have deep pockets to do the kind of R&D necessary for survival in a free-for-all which global firms do. But the key example cited in favour of this argumentis the takeover of Ranbaxy by Japanese firm Daiichi Sankyo, which happened not because Ranbaxy ran out of money to carry forward the vision of Parvinder Singh, but because his heirs wanted to cash out.

The department is on firmer ground when it fears that a growing tide of foreign takeovers can impact the pricing and availability of medicines in India. It is in India’s national interest to ensure that essential medicines are available...........

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All About Filmfare Awards:History,Records & Facts.

The Filmfare Awards are presented annually by The Times Group to honour both artistic and technical excellence of professionals in the Hindi language film industry of India. The Filmfare ceremony is one of the oldest and most prominent film events given for Hindi films in India. The awards were first introduced in 1954, the same year as the National Film Awards and were initially referred to as the Clare Awards after the editor of The Times of India, Clare Mendionca. A dual voting system was developed in 1956. Under this system, "in contrast to the National Film Awards, which are decided by a panel appointed by Indian Government, the Filmfare Awards are voted for by both the public and a committee of experts." The Filmfare Awards have been often referred to as Hindi film industry's equivalent of the Oscar.

History:

The Filmfare awards were first introduced in 1954. The Clares was the original name of the award ceremony, named after The Times of India critic Clare Mendonca. Readers of Filmfare were polled to decide the winners, and over 20,000 readers spread throughout India participated in the polls; trophies were given to winners of the popular vote. In the first awards function, held on 21 March 1954 at the Metro Thatre of Mumbai, only five awards were presented: Best Film, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, and Best Music Director. Do Bigha Zameen was the first movie to win the award for Best Film. The first winners for other four categories were: Bimal Roy for his direction of Do Bigha Zameen, Dilip Kumar for his performance in Daag, Meena Kumari for her performance in Baiju Bawra, and Naushad for his music in Baiju Bawra.

To celebrate the 25th year of the awards the statues were made in silver and to celebrate the 50th year the statues were made in gold.

Records and Facts :

• Most awards to a single film
  • Black (2005) - 11
  • Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (1995) - 10
  • Devdas (2002) - 10
  • Madhumati (1958) - 9

• Most acting awards - male (Best Actor + Best Supporting Actor)
  • Dilip Kumar (8+0) = 8
  • Amitabh Bachchan (5+3) = 8
  • Shahrukh Khan (7+0) = 7

• Most acting awards - female (Best Actress + Best Supporting Actress)
  • Nutan (5+1) = 6
  • Jaya Bachchan (3+3) = 6

Film Fare Awards 2010 :............

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India’s Rural Economy:Lies In Future !

Indian policymakers should see agriculture as a source of growth, not votes.....

 INDIA’S industry is going from strength to strength. Manufacturing grew by 14.3% in the fourth quarter of 2009, compared with the same period in 2008. Politicians celebrate the achievements of “India Inc”, applauding its acquisitions abroad and welcoming the foreign investment it attracts.

They do not show anything like the same confidence in “Bharat Inc”, which is how India’s rural economy is sometimes described. Bharat, which means India in Hindi, is a different country. The rural heartland is courted for votes, smothered with regulations, and shielded from the global economy that corporate India is busy conquering. Yet the government cannot achieve the “inclusive” growth it aspires to without robust progress in agriculture, which still employs about half of India’s workforce. Agricultural growth cuts poverty twice as fast as other kinds, because the poor are mostly rural and they spend more than half of their household budgets on food.

Indian agriculture can comfortably feed the country, but that remains the sum of its achievement. The rapid increases in productivity achieved during the green revolution have levelled off, with soils responding only grudgingly to the heavy use of fertilisers. And farmers remain at the mercy of the monsoons. Thanks to the worst rains since 1972, agriculture shrank by 2.8% in the year to the fourth quarter. This year, for the first time in the country’s history, India’s factories may contribute more to GDP than its farms, forests and fisheries.

Indian agriculture has performed so poorly largely because governments have treated it as a source of votes rather than as an engine of growth. The contrast with China is telling. China’s epochal reforms began on the farms. The growing efficiency of agriculture liberated labour and capital, spawning non-agricultural firms which eventually challenged state-owned enterprises. India freed industry first, and has barely reformed agriculture at all. Its policymakers remain stuck in the mindset of the 1960s, when India relied on food aid from America. They are more anxious to avoid such humiliation than to exploit fresh opportunities: they regard a state warehouse bursting with grain as a sign of success, and imports of wheat as a mark of defeat. Politicians’ outbursts against hoarders and speculators have stymied the development of storage facilities and commodity markets. And their concern to protect farmers from exploitative merchants has slowed the development of contract farming.

India’s government still fixes prices and subsidises inputs, when public money.........

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Education Has Finally Started To Attract !

It is very heartening to see that education has finally started to attract the attention it has always deserved but was given an inexplicable short shrift especially in the last 20 years or so. While India talked about financial and other reforms, the education sector actually saw even more regressive policy steps and more stifling of efforts to create high-quality capacity from primary schooling right through post-graduate studies.

At this time, there is a lot of optimism about the reforms in the education sector. Hopefully, many of the progressive reformist measures articulated by the Union HRD minister since his induction into the Cabinet last year will see their implementation in the current year itself, creating the right policy framework and operating environment for attracting large investments into the sector. Indeed, India’s challenge in the education sector, as it is in all other social and physical infrastructure sectors, is mind-boggling. For a population that is likely to touch almost 1.2 billion by the time the next census begins in 2011, India needs — just to illustrate this humungous challenge — over 1.5 million qualified doctors. Against that, we have no more than 550,000 and of this small number, probably 30 per cent or more may be concentrated in the four metros alone. The current annual capacity for MBBS seats is less than 40,000. India’s gross enrolment ratio (number of students in colleges) is just above 10 per cent, while the same for developed nations is over 50 per cent. Just to increase this ratio to 20 per cent in 10 years will require a near doubling of higher education seats in India (the school-going population would have increased by more than 100 million in the next 10 years), needing an investment of more than Rs 480,000 crore. Not only this, 45 per cent of all higher education seats in India are allocated to humanities and arts compared to 3 per cent in Brazil, 14 per cent in China, and 4 per cent in Russia. Not surprisingly, India is way behind in seats available for technical and business/manufacturing-oriented education compared to developed or major developing countries. And finally, while justifiably, a lot of attention is focused on primary education and higher education, and relatively less attention is given to those estimated 400 million out of about 460 million jobs which are skill-based and which require vocational training. Less than 6 per cent of this huge mass of workers receive any form of vocational training. The current landscape of vocational training in India comprises about 5,500 industrial training institutes and about 1,750 polytechnics. China, having a population not much bigger than India’s, has over 500,000 such institutes.

While this infrastructure is being created, it is now also important to start giving serious attention — through policy framework — to the 4 A’s:................

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Android:New Entrant In Moblie Industry

Hi Friends,Yesterday Me And My Friend Muzzamil Hasan Went to the Market for the Search of a Mobile Phone and There We see lot of Variants from Samsung in Touch Screen Segments In Low Cost.Namely STAR Superb,SPICA,Galaxy And Many Others.Important thing is that these Mobile Sets Came With New Technology Called Android which is Somehow Fascinating.So,Here I came with Some Tech-Gyan.........

Android is a software stack for mobile devices that includes an operating system, middleware and key applications. The Android SDK provides the tools and APIs necessary to begin developing applications on the Android platform using the Java programming language.

Features:

• Application framework enabling reuse and replacement of components
• Dalvik virtual machine optimized for mobile devices
• Integrated browser based on the open source WebKit engine
• Optimized graphics powered by a custom 2D graphics library; 3D graphics based on the OpenGL ES 1.0 specification (hardware acceleration optional)
• SQLite for structured data storage
• Media support for common audio, video, and still image formats (MPEG4, H.264, MP3, AAC, AMR, JPG, PNG, GIF)
• GSM Telephony (hardware dependent)
• Bluetooth, EDGE, 3G, and WiFi (hardware dependent)
• Camera, GPS, compass, and accelerometer (hardware dependent)
• Rich development environment including a device emulator, tools for debugging, memory and performance profiling, and a plugin for the Eclipse IDE

Android Architecture:

The following diagram shows the major components of the Android operating system. Each section is described in more detail below.

Applications:

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Unconventional gas: May Turn Around !

Natural gas is becoming less like oil and more like coal, which is a good thing !

 The three conventional forms of fossil carbon—oil, coal and gas—differ both in the way the Earth stores them and the way its people use them. Oil is found in relatively few places, and its energy density, pumpability and ease of use in internal-combustion engines makes it particularly well suited as a transportation fuel. Coal is found in many more places—a whole geological era’s worth of rocks, those of the Carboniferous, are named in its honour—and it cannot be pumped around, but can be crushed and burned and so produces baseload power. Gas, typically found and exploited in the same sort of places as oil, is easily moved around through plumbing but is not, usually, seen as a transportation fuel. It has filled niches in between: Europeans warm their homes with it and many developed countries generate some of their electricity with it.

Now new drilling technologies pioneered in America are allowing gas to be extracted from more types of rock—most notably shales, but also so-called “tight” sands and some coal formations—and thus from much more widespread sources. Other innovations, such as producing liquefied natural gas from offshore sources and shipping it to its destinations directly, and technologies that might allow exploitation of the natural gas that is frozen into some permafrosts, further increase the scope for new production. All told, this transition to more plentiful, diverse and widespread reserves in effect makes gas a bit more like coal, and a bit less like oil.

Coal, unlike oil, is hard to embargo: and an obvious consequence of the changes in gas production is that they make gas supply a less potent political tool. In Europe, where Russia has used supply cut-offs to put pressure on.........

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Border Security Force:What They Are Doing ?

The arrest of Border Security Force Commandant R.K. Birdi in Jammu and Kashmir for allegedly ordering the shooting of a 16-year-old Kashmiri should send shock waves across the ranks in that critical paramilitary force. K.F. Rustamji, the legendary founder of the BSF, was a dynamic and respected policeman who built the BSF brick by brick and paved the way for it to become the premier ally of the Army that it is today in defending the Indo-Pakistan border.

Ironically, Rustamji was the father of Public Interest Litigation (PIL) in India. Two articles he wrote in 1979 in a national daily formed the substance of the first petition of this genre: it drew the Supreme Court’s attention to the miserable plight of undertrials in Karnataka and Bihar and ensured the release of nearly 40,000 prisoners languishing in Indian jails. This he did in his role as a member of the first National Police Commission (NPC) set up in 1977. He was known for his ethical principles and respect for human rights. He should be turning in his grave as a single BSF officer’s misconduct and total insensitivity have brought ignominy to the organisation.

From what has been reported on the incident of February 5, 2010, Birdi’s action was utterly impulsive and thoughtless. He was a total stranger to his victim, Zahid Farook Shah, a high school student. He did not therefore have any motive for the killing. (When the case against Birdi ultimately goes to court, this factor of an absence of mens rea could weigh in the mind of the judge while awarding the sentence, once other facts establish Birdi’s guilt.) That there was no motive does not by itself take the sting out of an otherwise horrific act. It will also be poor consolation to the distraught parents.

These are the basic facts of the episode. Birdi and his fellow-BSF men of a battalion posted in J&K were travelling in a convoy one evening to their camp in.......

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Chak De India:Hockey's Future !

In three decades, India has not seen any success at the highest level of its ‘national game.’ The euphoria that followed a win over Pakistan in the ongoing World Cup tournament in Delhi was short-lived. The host crashed to three successive defeats, suggesting an eventual placing not much higher than what India has achieved in the competition since winning its solitary title at Kuala Lumpur in 1975. Ranked 12th before going into this World Cup, the team can be reasonably pleased with a place in the top eight. In the tough world of international hockey, fitness, speed, agility, and tactics, which were displayed so splendidly by the Australian side, count more than reputations. The tournament has exposed the chasm that exists between India and the top teams in these areas. Although chief coach Jose Brasa’s assertion that a winning combination cannot be developed in eight months is reasonable, the Spaniard’s tenure might come in for review at the end of the Asian Games in Guangzhou in November 2010.

There has been improvement in this Indian team but it is not the sort that can make an impact at the world level. Brasa was engaged only after India’s failure to qualify for the Beijing Olympics. It was a humiliating ‘first’ for a country that has gloried in its eight Olympic gold medals in the sport, though the last one came way back in 1980 in a devalued competition. A player revolt at the Pune camp demanding incentives and annual payments, manipulative establishment politics, and messy litigation marked the run-up to this World Cup. It is time to move on to settling a long-term......

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