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| Atom-smasher sets world record |
| The “Big Bang” experiment at CERN near Geneva scored a world record on 30.11.2009 by accelerating beams to the highest energy ever achieved in a particle collider, the research centre announced. Scientists at CERN, the European Organisation for Nucle |
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| Climate Summit at Copenhagen |
The climate Summit that is taking place between 6-18, December 2009 has received world-wide attention as it is going to be a tough negotiation between developed nations and fast developing countries.
It was virtually a tough negotiation in |
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| Admiral Gorshkov |
| The Russian Aircraft carrier originally named after, Baku, a city in USSR was sold to India in 2004 for conversion into a STOBAR carrier to be named INS Vikramaditya. The ship was renamed as Admiral Gorshkov after the disintegration of USSR in 1991, |
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| 110th Constitution Amendment Bill 2009 |
It envisages 50% quota for women in our three tier panchayat raj system. The Bill also aims at increasing reservation for women in the seats reserved for Scheduled Castes / Tribes.
An another Bill was also introduced to rename the NREGS after |
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| DANISH TEXT ON CLIMATE CHANGE |
The document was described last night by one senior diplomat as “a very dangerous document for developing countries. It is a fundamental reworking of the U.N. balance of obligations. It is to be superimposed without discussion on the talks”.
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| Dr. Manmohan Singh’s U.S. visit in November 2009 |
| Indo-US relations cannot take or follow a one-way path. U.S. attention is now much focussed on troubled Pakistan and Afghanistan on India’s west and economic powerhouse China on India’s north without isolating India. India has got its own independent |
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| Dubai’s Financial Crisis |
| When Dubai World - the very axis of Dubai’s economy, announced delay in repayment of its 59 billion dollar debt, the whole world economy was in tremors. Dubai World the flagship holding company is owned by the government. Dubai which borrowed 80 bill |
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| How the cyclones are named. What is the procedure followed? |
| Tropical cyclones are named to provide ease of communication between forecasters and the general public regarding forecasts, watches, and warnings. Since the storms can often last a week or longer and that more than one can be occurring in the same b |
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| Impeachment of Judges |
| Impeachment of judges can only be done on grounds of ‘proven misbehavior’ and ‘incapacity’. A proposal for impeachment must be introduced by atleast 100 MPs in Lok sabha or 50 MPs in Rajya sabha. The concerned judge is to be given a copy of the propo |
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| India and Russia sign Nuclear Deal |
| Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh sealed an agreement to boost cooperation in the civilian use of nuclear energy after talks in Moscow on 7th Dec. 2009. The nuclear deal could significantly widen atomic fuel exports |
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