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by Wonder Boy · Published May 10, 2016 · Last modified June 19, 2016
Mahalwari was a revenue system in British India. It was introduced by Holt Mackenzie. Holt Mackenzie’s recommendation incorporated in the Regulation 3 VII of 1822 which attained maturity under the Regulation IX of 1833 under...
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by Nitish Kumar · Published May 9, 2016
The nodal agency is the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change (MoEFCC). The ministry acts as nodal agency for the following 1. United Nations Environment Program 2. South Asia Co-operative Environment Programme (SACEP)...
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by Amita Dokhale · Published May 8, 2016 · Last modified June 17, 2016
Capital punishment, death penalty or execution is government sanctioned punishment by death. The sentence is referred to as a death sentence. Crimes that can result in a death penalty are known as capital crimes or capital offences. The United Nations General Assembly has adopted, in...
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by Wonder Boy · Published May 6, 2016 · Last modified May 9, 2016
Ryotwari was one of the main system to collect revenues from collectors of Agricultural land.The revenue system was directly applicable on the cultivators of the land (i.e. people who actually work on the land)....
Articles / Civil Services / Environment & Biodiversity / Geography
by Nitesh Rana · Published May 5, 2016 · Last modified June 4, 2016
Equatorial counter current is a current phenomenon noted near the equator, an eastward flow of oceanic water in opposition to and flanked by the westward equatorial currents of the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian oceans. It...
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by Nitish Kumar · Published May 2, 2016
Capital Acquisition schemes are broadly classified as, ‘Buy’, ‘Buy and Make’, and ‘Make’. Under the ‘Buy’ scheme procurement are categorized as ‘Buy (Indian – IDDM)’, ‘Buy (Indian)’, and ‘Buy (Global)’. The three categories under...
“The world’s favorite season is the spring. All things seem possible in May.” – Edwin Way Teale Schedule : May for CSAT 2016 \/ \/ Schedule : January for CSAT 2016 \/ Schedule :...
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by Nitish Kumar · Published April 30, 2016
The idea of this alliance was mooted by India during 21st Conference of Parties, France, 2015. ISA is conceived as a coalition of solar resource rich countries lying fully or partially between the Tropic...
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by Nitish Kumar · Published April 28, 2016
Recent Panama papers leak has again rekindled the old question, whether countries should go for Capital account convertibility? To understand the answer to this, let’s first understand the concept of convertibility Current Account Convertibility...
There are three types of reported mortality rates Infant Mortality Rate: Number of deaths under 1 year per 1000 live births. Neonatal Mortality Rate: Number of deaths under 4 weeks per 1000 live births....
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