India : Council of Ministers

Manmohan Singh Prime Minister Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions; Planning; Atomic Energy; and Space CABINET MINISTERS Pranab Mukherjee – Finance Sharad Pawar – Agriculture Food Processing Industries A K Antony – Defence P Chidambaram – Home Affairs S M Krishna ..

Finance & Economy : Compendium 3

1. What is SATMO?2. What is “Vande Mataram Scheme” ?3. What is Golden Handshake Scheme?4. What is India Brand Equity Fund?5. What is Jago Grahak Jago”?6. What is a revolving credit?7. What is Gender Budgeting?8. What is Soft Currency?9. What ..

Project Kavach

This five-year HIV prevention project, Project Kavach (a Hindi word meaning protection or shield), is being implemented by the social arm of Transport Corporation of India (TCI) , the TCI Foundation, and by the Avahan India AIDS Initiative, which is ..

RTS,S

RTS, S with its trade name Mosquirix is the first licensed malaria vaccine in the world, it is also the first vaccine licensed for use against a parasitic disease of any kind. It has been funded in part by the ..

Gwangju Prize

The 2009 Gwangju Prize for Human Rights Committee has chosen Min Ko Naing to be this year’s prizewinner. Min Ko Naing and his colleagues have devoted themselves to Burma’s democratization.Born in the Burmese capital of Yangon in 1962, Min Ko ..

National Disaster Management Authority

About NDMA: Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh is the chairman and General NC Vij is the Vice chairman. Government of India (GOI), in recognition of the importance of Disaster Management as a national priority, has set up a High-Powered Committee ..

General Knowledge : Andaman & Nicobar Islands

Population (2001 Census):356152Males:192972Females:163180Urban Population %:32.67Literacy Rate (Census 2001) In %:81.3Male Literacy In %:86.3Male Literate In Numbers:146831Female Literacy In %:75.2Female Literate In Numbers:106304Nsdp At Current Prices (2002-2003)* Rs Crores:872 Rs Crores *(2000-2001)Per Capita Income (2002-03) At Current Prices Rs:24560 Rs (2000-2001)

Bank Interview Question Bank 3

1. What is a fiscal deficit?A deficit in the government budget of a country and represents the excess of expenditure over income. So this is the amount of borrowed funds required by the government to meet its expenditures completely.India’s fiscal ..

FIFA Academy

The FIFA Academy is part of FIFA’s Golden Programme that was first proposed by its president Joseph Blatter and approved in 1999. While the first Goal project was limited to Somalia, Guyana and a few European countries, the second Goal ..

Skilled Birth Attendance

What the Human Rights Watch says is that Indian Government treats the huge increase of clinic-based deliveries as progress claiming that 20 million women gave birth in health facilities across India between mid-2005 and March 2009, yet there is no ..