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Showing posts with label Part 6. Show all posts

Jan 1, 2016

[CA/GK] Committees - Part 6

Important Committees / Panel – Part 6
T.S.R. Subramanian
For framing the new Education Policy; by the Union HRD Ministry
T. K. Viswanathan
Bankruptcy Law Reform Committee; Submitted its report to Union Finance Ministry
M K Kaw
Submitted its report to Union HRD Ministry; moots single entrance for technical education
Ashok Misra
Union HRD Ministry; to revamp the entrance test pattern for NITs and IITs; admit the students to the NITs based only on the JEE results and not on the board exams
Ashok Lahiri
To suggest steps sort out taxation problem being faced by the trade and industry
Justice L Narasimha Reddy (retired Chief Justice of Patna High Court)
To head the Judicial Committee which will look into the implementation of One Rank One Pension (OROP) scheme for the Ex-Servicemen
AP Shah
Committee appointed to look into ONGC, RIL dispute on KG gas fields
Gopal Subramanium
Delhi Government; one-member commission of inquiry under former Solicitor General to probe alleged irregularities in the DDCA (Delhi District Cricket Association)
Justice A. S. Naidu
Odisha Government; appointed for enquiring Kandhamal Riots (2008); given the report – point at Maoists for VHP leader Swami Laxmananda death
B S Baswan
To revisit civil services examination pattern
Anil Baijal
Report on how to improve monitoring of CSR spending to government. 
Dr. R.A Mashelkar
Environment Ministry; For selection of Dr. A.P.J Abdul Kalam Post-Doctoral Research Fellows
Shaktikanta Das
For selecting a CEO for the Investment Management Company, under the National Investment and Infrastructure Fund (NIIF)
Tarun Khanna
Committee formed by NITI Aayog; moots private funding for R&D
Upamanyu Hazarika
SC appointed;  submitted report on illegal migrants from Bangladesh
Eknath Khadse
Maharashtra; to tackle drought crisis
Atin Ghosh
Kerala Beautification
Jonodev Osceola Chaudhury
For regulating gaming activities of the sovereign Indian Tribes
Pam Rajput
Status of Women
Pramod Asthana
For re - investigation of the 1984 anti - Sikh Riot cases



Committee / Panel – Part 1  
Committee / Panel – Part 4

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Apr 17, 2015

[GK/CA] Books and Authors - Part 6


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Books
Authors
01
The Red Sari
Javier Moro
02
Neither a Hawk nor a Dove
Khurshid M Kasuri
03
Indians in Singapore 1819-1945
Rajesh Rai
04
Editor Unplugged
Vinod Mehta
05
India’s Doctrine Puzzle – Limiting War in South Asia
Ali Ahmed
06
Beloved Bapu
Tridip Suhrud, Thomas Weber
07
Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights
Salman Rushdie
08
India Shastra: Reflections on the Nation in our Time
Shashi Tharoor
09
The Rebel: biography of Ram Jethmalani
Susan Adelman
10
Maverick Unchanged, Unrepentant
Ram Jethmalani
11
Before Memory Fades: An Autobiography
Fali S Nariman
12
The State of the Nation: In Context of India's Constitution
Fali S Nariman
13
My Tryst with Justice
P. N. Bhagwati
14
Sita’s Sister
Kavita Kane
15
The Underground Girls of Kabul
Jenny Nordberg
16
Science and Technology in Contemporary China
Varaprasad S. Dolla
17
No Free Left – The futures of Indian Communism
Vijay Prashad
18
India’s Rise as an Asian Power
Sandy Gordon
19
The Rise of Islamic State – ISIS and the New Sunni Revolution
Patrick Cockburn
20
To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee
21
Lowland
Jumpa Lahiri
22
Shiva Tribology: the immortals of Meluha, Secret of Nagas and Oath of Vyuputras
Amish Tripathi
23
Makers of Modern Asia
Ramachandra Guha
24
Book of Common Signs
Ashok Srinivasan*
25
When God is a traveler
Arundhathi Subramaniam**
* à Won The Hindu Prize 2014
** à Won Khushwant Singh Memorial Prize for Poetry at Jaipur Lit. Fest 2015


=====> Books & Authors -Part I  
=====> Books & Authors - Part III 
=====> Books & Authors -Part IV  
=====> Books & Authors -Part V
=====> Books & Authors -Part VII
=====> Books & Authors -Part VIII
=====> Books & Authors -Part IX
=====> Books & Authors -Part X
=====> Books & Authors -Part XI


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Nov 9, 2014

[QandA] Question and Answers - Part 6



Date: Nov 09, 2014

(01) Author of "The Illicit Happiness of Other People"
Manu Joseph

(02) Chahbhar port (which India will help) is located in the coast of
Makran Coast (Gulf of Oman)

(03) The panel that submitted its report to the Govt on the guidelines to be formed on Govt advertisements
Madhav Menon Panel

(04) The Indian origin (Tamil) Singaporean poet who won the cultural medallion
K T M Iqbal

(05) Indian Govt has set up a special management team to facilitate and east track investment proposals from Japan known as ___
Japan Plus

(06) A team of researchers from India and Lanka has discovered 7 new species of __ in Western Ghats and Sri Lanka
Frog

(07) World Polio Day is on
October 24

(08) India's first long range subsonic cruise missile is
Nirbhay

(09) Govt has constituted a committee on Electronic Toll Collection Technology for use in NHs under the chairmanship of
Nandan Nilekani

(10) "Visa on Arrival" scheme comes under the control of which Ministry?
Home Ministry

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