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With its profusion of languages, ethnic groups and regional diversities, with its unique caste system, with its contrast between information technology and industry billionaires and the nearly 300 million people who live below the poverty line, with its mixture of Mahatma Gandhi's nonviolent philosophy and outbreaks of savage communal violence, and with its success as a parliamentary democracy despite having 400 million people who cannot read or write, India remains a bewilderingly complex country. A powerful moral leader as well as a wily politician, Gandhi wanted Indians to be proud of their past, to wear Indian rather than foreign dress, to challenge their colonial overlords through peaceful protest and noncooperation and not through violence, and to eliminate discrimination against...
...The states had authority over agriculture, education, transportation and other areas of dire...In Uttar Pradesh, India's most populous state and the home ... into action like volunteer fire departments seeking to squelch the flames and to prevent a war...
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..., India, was established in 2000, under the Uttar Pradesh Agricultural University Act, the first agr.... Devendra Kumar . Faculty . Department of Library & Information Science . Chaudhary Chara...
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... Rajasthan, its Women and Child Welfare Department, its Department of Social Welfare, and the Union o..., and the Ministries of Defense, Agriculture, and Human Resources have established internal sex... Chief Justice, High Court of Himachal Pradesh, in Noida, India (Apr. 10, 2006) [hereinafter Inte... of the Bombay, Allahabad, Gujarat, and Uttar Pradesh High Courts); FFDA Petition, supra note 13...
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* PINK JUSTICE: In parts of India's Uttar Pradesh state, according to a November BBC News dispatch, women are hopelessly oppressed by poverty, abusive husbands and corrupt officials, but two years ago, Ms. Sampat Pal Devi got fed up. She organized bands of vigilante women (with several hundred members), dressed in pink saris, to protect their sisters using both nonviolence (heaping public shame on wrongdoers) and violence (with axes and the traditional Indian stick, the "lathi"). Said Sampat Devi, "Village society in India ... refuses to educate [women], marries them off too early [age 9, in her case], barters them for money. Village women need to study and become independent to sort it out themselves.
* A FEW DAYS after professional skier Stoil Popow was killed while kite-surfing in t...
... news media reported that the city's Department of Health had ordered Serendipity 3 dosed after in... on the roof of a BMW at a local agriculture fair. According to a psychiatrist, Wong said he is...
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... belt'' in the eastern part of the State of Uttar Pradesh has given way to more spread-out productio... (i.e., disallowing children in agriculture from working with heavy machinery or pesticide app...
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..., and States like Chhattisgarh, Andhra Pradesh, Orissa, Uttar Pradesh, Gujarat, Kerala, Himachal ... Vidyashankar, Secretary to Government, Department of IT and BT, Government of Karnataka, said, "The ... as leads for our SME sector and agriculture finance schemes. We will certainly support this ev...
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GAUHATI, India -- Hungry, frightened and shouting for help, families perched perilously in treetops or on the roofs of their flooded homes in Uttar Pradesh as the death toll rose Friday from a month of torrential rains.
At least 186 people have been killed and 19 million driven from their homes as heavy monsoon rains triggered floods, destroyed crops and submerged roads across a wide swath of northern India and Bangladesh.
... and is vital to the region's agriculture. But the monsoons are always dangerous; last year ...India's Meteorological Department said unusual monsoon patterns this year have led t...
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... second highest number in the country after Uttar Pradesh with 15.6 lakh. Delhi, the National capita... from these libraries, there are few departmental libraries attached to colleges, departments of the...), "Information seeking strategies of agriculture scientists working in the ICAR institutions in Ind...
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Introduction. Advantages of biomass for developing countries. Barriers to biomass as a fuel for power generation. Policy and regulatory frameworks in China and India. Conclusions.
... promote the development of organic agriculture. The ash product of a biomass power plant can be p... renewable energy and a separate Department of Non-Conventional Energy Sources in the Ministry...For example, in Uttar Pradesh, India's leading sugar cane growing region...
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...[DOCID:fr12mr07-2]. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. Animal and Plant Health Inspection...,' and `Neelam'--from four States: Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Maharashtra, and Uttar Pradesh. Based on...