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1.East African Community (EAC) – composed of 5 countries in the African Great Lakes region in eastern Africa: Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Uganda

2.Lake Victoria: surrounded by three countries,Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda

3.Arunachal Pradesh,Hydroelectric project that was banned.

Tawang HEP(Nymang Chhu River ) due to blacknecked crane-- IUCN VULNERABLE included under WPA1972 Section 1. It is migratory bird from tibet to Ar.P during winter

4.Agasthyamala biosphere reserve

includes pepara, senduranney,Neyyar, and Satya mangalam Tiger reserve

Kanikaran tribe

5. restructuring of CSS at least remember core of the core

core of core- 

1. MGNREGA

2. National Social Assistance Program (For Senior citizens, widows etc.)

3. Umbrella Scheme for SC (All schemes for SC in one)

4. Umbrella Scheme for ST (All schemes for ST in one)

5. Umbrella Scheme for OBC (All schemes for OBC in one)

6. Umbrella Scheme for Minorities (All schemes for Minorities in one)

Optional Schemes: (Because all states don't need them)

1. Border Area Development Program

2. National River Conservation Plan

3. Shyama Prasad Mukharjee RURBAN Mission

As per the new system, the Core of the Core schemes will retain their expenditure allocation framework. For example, MGNREGA had 75 per cent of the material expenditure from the Centre and 25 per cent from the states.

The Core schemes will have a 60:40 formula, while the Optional schemes will have a 50:50 formula, with the states having the flexibility to decide whether to invest in these or not.

6.

Food Safety and Standards Authority of India

The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India has been established under the Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006 as a statutory body

Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Government of India is the Administrative Ministry for the implementation of FSSAI.

FSSAI has been created for laying down science based standards for articles of food and to regulate their manufacture, storage, distribution, sale and import to ensure availability of safe and wholesome food for human consumption

7.MISSION FUNDED BY WORLD BANK

Neeranchal National Watershed Project *

Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan(SSA)

Ajeevika - National Rural Livelihoods Mission (NRLM) *

Nai Manzil - Education and Skills Training for Minorities

Eastern dedicated freight corridor

8.Budget provisions for farmers

First, ‘Pashudhan Sanjivani’, an animal wellness programme and provision of Animal Health Cards (‘Nakul Swasthya Patra’). 

Second, an advanced breeding technology. 

Third, Creation of E-Pashudhan Haat, an e market portal for connecting breeders and farmers. 

Fourth, a National Genomic Centre for indigenous breeds.  

Unified Agricultural Marketing E Platform will be dedicated to the Nation

‘Parmparagat Krishi Vikas Yojana’ for  bringing 5 lakh acres of rain fed areas under organic farming.

dedicated Long Term Irrigation Fund in NABARD with an initial corpus of Rs. 20,000 crore.

Double farm income by 2022- Committee under Ashok Dalwai constituted

9. Naval bASES

Indian Navy has its major operational bases in Visakhapatnam, Mumbai, Kochi and Chennai. In 2005, the Indian Navy commissioned INS Kadamba at Karwar, 100 km from Goa. The base is the first to be controlled exclusively by the Navy without sharing port facilities with commercial shipping. Built under phase I of theProject Seabird, it is the largest naval base in the region.^[92] The Indian Navy also has berthing rights in Oman and Vietnam.^[93] The navy operates INS Kattabomman, a VLF and ELF transmission facility at Vijayanarayanapuram near Tirunelveli in Tamil Nadu.

10.The Komagata MarU was a Japanese steamship that sailed from Hong Kong to Vancouver, Canada via Japan in May, 1914. It was carrying 376 passengers who were immigrants from Punjab, India. Of these, only 24 were granted admittance in Canada when the ship docked in Vancouver. At that time, Canada had laws restricting entry of migrants of Asian origin. Following a two month stalemate, the ship and its 352 passengers were escorted out of the dock by the Canadian military and forced to sail back to India. The ship returned to Calcutta on 27 September and was stopped by the British. The passengers were put under guard and the ship was allowed to dock in Budge Budge, Calcutta. The British believed that the passengers were law breakers and political agitators. When the police sought to arrest the persons it viewed as leaders of the group, there was resistance and a riot ensued. The police fired shots and 19 passengers were killed. Baba Gurdit Singh, who was one of the persons the British wanted to arrest, escaped with some other persons. Most of the remaining passengers were either arrested or sent back to Punjab. Baba Gurdit Singh later surrendered to the police

11. MCLR Vs Base rate

The Reserve Bank of India has issued new guidelines for setting lending rate (on loans) by commercial banks under the name Marginal Cost of Funds based Lending Rate (MCLR). It will replace the existing base rate system from April 2016 onwards.

12.Salma Dam, officially the Afghan-India Friendship Dam, is a hydroelectric and irrigation dam project located on the Hari Rive

India's only foreign airbase is located in Tajikistan, at Farkhor on the Tajik–Afghan border

13.INDC

Reduce emission intensity by 33 to 35 per cent by 2030 compared to 2005 levels

How:

Introduce new, more efficient and cleaner technologies in thermal power generation

Reducing emissions from transportation sector

Promote energy efficiency, mainly in industry, transportation, buildings and appliances

Develop climate resilient infrastructure

Pursue Zero Effect, Zero Defect policy under Make in India programme

Produce 40 per cent of electricity from non-fossil fuel based energy resources by 2030, if international community helps with technology transfer and low cost finance.

How:

Install 175 GW of solar, wind and biomass electricity by 2022, and scale up further in following years

Aggressively pursue development of hydropower

Achieve the target of 63 GW of installed nuclear power capacity by 2032

Create an additional carbon sink of 2.5 to 3 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent by 2030 through additional forest and tree cover.

How:

Full implementation of Green India Mission and other programmes of afforestation

Develop 140,000 km long tree line on both sides of national highways

Develop robust adaptation strategies for agriculture, water and health sectors

How:

Redesign National Water Mission and National Mission on Sustainable Agriculture

Active implementation of ongoing programmes like National Initiative on Climate Resilient Agriculture, setting up of 100 mobile soil-testing laboratories, distribution of soil health cards to farmers.

Additional impetus on watershed development through Neeranchal scheme

Effective implementation of National Mission on Clean Ganga

Early formulation and implementation of National Health Mission

Complete Integrated Coastal Zone Management plan. Mapping and demarcation of coastal hazard lines

14.The International Court of Justice is the primary judicial branch of the United Nations (UN). Seated in the Peace Palace in The Hague, Netherlands, the court settles legal disputes submitted to it by states and provides advisory opinions on legal questions submitted to it by duly authorized international branches, agencies, and the UN General Assembly.
15 judges
five judges elected every three years to ensure continuity within the court.
No two judges may be nationals of the same countrySeats Distribution
Seats will be distributed by geographic regions so that there are 
Five seats for Western countries, 
Three for African states
Two for Eastern European states, 
Three for Asian states and
Two for Latin American and Caribbean states

Muddiman Committee October 25, 20111 Comment To meet the demand of the Indian Leaders and in view of the resolution adopted by Swaraj Party in early 1920s, the British Government had set up a committee under Sir Alexander Muddiman (Muddiman Committee), along with 4 Indian members, to go into the provisions of the Government of India Act 1919 and pinpoint the defects. 
The members were: Sir Sivaswami Aiyar Dr. R P Paranjape Sir Tejbahadur Sapru 4. Mohammad Ali Jinnah

SECC 2011 has three census components which were conducted by three separate authorities,^[40] but under the overall coordination of Department of Rural Development in the Government of India:

• Census in Rural Area has been conducted by the Department of Rural Development.
• Census in Urban areas is under the administrative jurisdiction of the Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation.
• Caste Census is under the administrative control of Ministry of Home Affairs: Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India.

CENSUS

The Census organisation functions under the Ministry of Home Affairs of the Government of India. 

RLV-TD

 

Reusable Launch Vehicle – Technology Demonstrator (RLV-TD) is one of the most technologically challenging endeavors of ISRO towards developing essential technologies for a fully reusable launch vehicle to enable low cost access to space. The configuration of RLV-TD is similar to that of an aircraft and combines the complexity of both launch vehicles and aircraft. The winged RLV-TD has been configured to act as a flying test bed to evaluate various technologies, namely, hypersonic flight, autonomous landing and powered cruise flight. In future, this vehicle will be scaled up to become the first stage of India’s reusable two stage orbital launch vehicle.

RLV-TD consists of a fuselage (body), a nose cap, double delta wings and twin vertical tails. It also features symmetrically placed active control surfaces called Elevons and Rudder. This technology demonstrator was boosted to Mach no: 5 by a conventional solid booster (HS9) designed for low burn rate.  The selection of materials like special alloys, composites and insulation materials for developing an RLV-TD and the crafting of its parts is very complex and demands highly skilled manpower. Many high technology machinery and test equipment were utilised for building this vehicle.

Objectives of RLV-TD:

• Hypersonic aero thermodynamic characterisation of wing body
• Evaluation of autonomous Navigation, Guidance and Control (NGC) schemes
• Integrated flight management
• Thermal Protection System Evaluation

REPORT-Global Education Monitoring Report 

Developed by an independent team and published by UNESCO, the EFA Global Monitoring Report is a reference that aims to sustain commitment towards Education for All.

Six internationally agreed education goals aim to meet the learning needs of all children ... Dakar Framework for Action,

As of 1 January 2016, the EFA Global Monitoring Report has become the Global Education Monitoring Report (GEM Report), with a new mandate to monitor the new sustainable development goal on education (SDG 4)

The Bogor Goals are a set of targeted goals for realizing free and open trade in the Asia-Pacific(APEC)

fastest growing economies - myanmar>ivory coast>bhutan>india>iraq

The Indira Gandhi Prize or the Indira Gandhi Peace Prize or the Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development is the prestigious award accorded annually by India to individuals or organizations in recognition of creative efforts toward promoting international peace, development and a new international economic order; ensuring that scientific discoveries are used for the larger good of humanity, and enlarging the scope of freedom

2015- UNCHR

BARATHANATYAM

Nritta can be broadly divided into Chari, Karana, Angahara and Mandala. Movement of a leg is called Chari.

108 karanas as the building blocks to the art of dance.

SACON-The Sálim Ali Centre for Ornithology and Natural History (SACON) is a national centre for information, education and research inornithology and natural history in India. It was inspired by and named in honour of Salim Ali, the leading pioneer of ornithology in India. It is an autonomous organisation established in 1990 and registered under the Indian Societies Registration Act. Its headquarters are at Anaikatti, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India. SACON is associated with the Ministry of Environment and Forests^[1] SACON's mission is:

"To help conserve India’s biodiversity and its sustainable use through research, education and peoples’ participation, with birds at the centre stage".

Deepak Mohanty(Financial Inclusion),

Tapan Ray ( Companies Act), 

Ashok Dalwani- double farmers income

WHAT IS BLUE CARBON?

Blue carbon is the carbon stored in coastal and marine ecosystems. The Blue Carbon Initiative currently focuses on carbon in coastal ecosystems - mangroves, tidal marshes and seagrasses. These ecosystems sequester and store large quantities of blue carbon in both the plants and the sediment below. For example, over 95% of the carbon in seagrass meadows is stored in the soils*.
WHERE IS IT?

The Blue Carbon Initiative focuses on mangroves, salt marshes and seagrasses, which are found on every continent except Antarctica. These coastal ecosystems cover between 13.8 and 15.2 million hectares (Mha), 2.2 and 40 Mha, and 17.7 and 60 Mha, respectively. Combined, these ecosystems cover approximately 49 Mha

WHY IS IT IMPORTANT?

• When protected or restored, blue carbon ecosystems sequester and store carbon.
• When degraded or destroyed, these ecosystems emit the carbon they have stored for centuries into the atmosphere and oceans and become sources of greenhouse gases. Experts estimate that as much as 1.02 billion tons of carbon dioxide are being released annually from degraded coastal ecosystems, which is equivalent to 19% of emissions from tropical deforestation globally*.
• Mangroves, tidal marshes and seagrasses are critical along the world's coasts, supporting coastal water quality, healthy fisheries, and coastal protection against floods and storms. For example, mangroves are estimated to be worth at least US$1.6 billion each year in ecosystem services that support coastal livelihoods and human populations around the world*.

he doctrine of colourable legislation says that what a legislature cannot do directly, it cannot do indirectly either. That is, it cannot exceed its competence in the garb of extraordinary purpose. The doctrine of territorial nexus says that the object to which the law applies need not be physically located within the territorial boundaries of the state, but must have a sufficient territorial connection with the state.

The doctrine of territorial nexus says that the object to which the law applies need not be physically located within the territorial boundaries of the state, but must have a sufficient territorial connection with the state.

Doctrine of eminent domain says that the Government can acquire any private property for a public purpose.

Doctrine of occupied field says that the federal government can occupy a particular area of legislation without leaving any scope for the provincial government. For example, in the concurrent list of Indian Constitution.