Info Regarding the IAS---2010

Though i know that many of us knew about all this but still for those who are searching for this on web and by chance opened this web page i am putting some information here--------------



Exam details ;
-The Exam is notified in the month of november/december and last date for submission of form will be in the month of january.

-The prelims exam will be conducted in the month of may.
-The results for the prelims exam will be out in the month of August/september.

-Next Mains Exam will be held in the month of october/November.
-Results of Mains Exam will be out in the month of feb/march.

-Finally Interview will be held in the month of April.
-Final result will be out in the month of may/june

Subjects for Preliminary Examination:
paper I - The General Studies paper is compulsory.

Subjects for Paper II (one subject to be selected) -

1.Agriculture,
2.Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Science,
3.Botany,
4.Chemistry,
5.Civil Engineering,
6.Commerce,
7.Economics,
8.Electrical Engineering,
9.Geography,
10.Geology,
11.Indian History,
12.Law,
13.Mathematics,
14.Mechanical Engineering,
15.Medical Science,
16.Philosophy,
17.Physics,
18.Political Science,
19.Psychology,
20.Public Administration,
21.Sociology,
22.Statistics,
23.Zoology.

You have to choose any one subject from the above list. You can opt to any subject, it entirely depends on your interest and some little knowledge about any subject.

Its not necessary that you should take only technical subjects, here you can opt to arts/humanities subject or medical science or Science/technical subjects. But ultimately it depends on your interest.


About Preliminary Exam preparation,
- one paper is optional i.e. your choice
- One paper is compulsory i.e. General Studies.

- Now i will tell you how to prepare for General Studies(GS) paper.
- if one wants to have command over GS, then he has to prepare 8 major area i.e.
History
Geography
Polity
Science
Economy
Mental Abiltiy
Current Affairs
General Knowledge.

- For all the above topics, best way to start is from Basics i.e. NCERT Books of Class 6th to Class 12th.
- For History - NCERT + Spectrums Modern India
- Geography - NCERT + GoCheng leong + a good atlas like orient longman/oxford.
- Polity - NCERT + any good guide book like laxmikanth's indian polity/ Jojo mathews's Indian constitution and polity.
- Science - i think Ncert class 6th to class 12th is more than enough.
- Economy - NCERT class 11th and 12th + pratiyogita darpan's special issue on indian economy + Read and make notes of newspaper about current economy.
- Mental Ability - R.s.Agarwal.
- Current Affairs - one has to be thorough with newspaper readings of atleast one year back from the date of exam.
- General Knowledge - India year book + Manorama year book or Chronicle year book.

- if one is thorough with the above topics from the above materials, then he/she will definitely crack this exam easily.


All the best for 2010.

Classical Indian Dance

Classical Indian Dance

1. Kathakali and Mohini Attam from Kerala.

2. Bharata Natyam from Tamil Nadu.

devdassis related

3. Kuchipudi from Andhra Pradesh

radha krishna related

4. Odissi from Orissa

geet govind related

5. Kathak from Uttar Pradesh

radha kirshna related

6. Manipuri from Manipur

This dance style was originally called jogai which means circular movement. In ancient texts it has been compared to the movement of the planets around the sun.

Daily News-- 12 Jan 2010

The Narendra Modi government in Gujarat suffered a setback with the Supreme Court directing a CBI probe into the 2005 Soharabuddin Sheikh encounter case.

In a landmark verdict against the Supreme Court, the Delhi High Court today held that the office of the Chief Justice of India comes within the ambit of the Right to Information (RTI) law, saying judicial independence is not a judge's privilege but a responsibility cast upon him.

The coveted Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development was on Tuesday bestowed on Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, who said India and Bangladesh should work together to achieve peace and progress in South Asia

Industrial growth has gathered pace as factory production rose by 11.7 pc in November 2009, fuelled by stimulus-backed demand for manufactured goods, particularly consumer goods

The crisis in Indian hockey on Tuesday deepened with the striking players walking out of an inconclusive meeting with Hockey India officials, prompting the establishment to serve a fresh 48-hour ultimatum to the players to resume training or get axed from the World Cup squad.

Governors-General

Governors-General
Governors-General of Fort William in Bengal, 1773-1833
*Warren Hastings (1773–1785)
*Sir John MacPherson, (1785–1786) (Provisional)
*Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis (1786–1793)
*Sir John Shore, 1st Baronet (1793–1798)
*Sir Alured Clarke (1798) (Provisional)
*Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley (1798–1805)
*Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis (1805)
*Sir George Hilario Barlow (1805–1807) (Provisional)
*Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 1st Baron Minto (1807–1813)
*Francis Rawdon-Hastings, 1st Marquess of Hastings (1813–1823)
*John Adam (1823) (Provisional)
*William Pitt Amherst, 1st Earl Amherst (1823–1828)
*William Butterworth Bayley (1828) (Provisional)
*The Lord William Bentinck (1828–1833)
Governors-General of India, 1833-1858
*The Lord William Bentinck (1833–1835)
*Sir Charles Metcalfe, 2nd Baronet (1835–1836) (Provisional)
*George Eden, 1st Earl of Auckland (1836–1842)
*Edward Law, 2nd Baron Ellenborough (1842–1844)
*William Wilberforce Bird (1844) (Provisional)
*Henry Hardinge, 1st Viscount Hardinge (1844–1848)
*James Andrew Broun-Ramsay, 1st Marquess of Dalhousie (1848–1856)
*Charles John Canning, 1st Earl Canning (1856–1858)
Governors-General and Viceroys of India, 1858-1947
*Charles John Canning, 1st Earl Canning (1858–1862)
*James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin (1862–1863)
*Sir Robert Napier (1863) (Provisional)
*Sir William Denison (1863–1864) (Provisional)
*Sir John Laird Mair Lawrence (1864–1869)
*Richard Southwell Bourke, 6th Earl of Mayo (1869–1872)
*Sir John Strachey (1872) (Provisional)
*Francis Napier, 10th Lord Napier (1872) (Provisional)
*Thomas George Baring, 2nd Baron Northbrook (1872–1876)
*Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 2nd Baron Lytton (1876–1880)
*George Frederick Samuel Robinson, 1st Marquess of Ripon (1880–1884)
*Frederick Temple Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Earl of Dufferin (1884–1888)
*Henry Charles Keith Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne (1888–1894)
*Victor Alexander Bruce, 9th Earl of Elgin (1894–1899)
*George Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Baron Curzon (1899–1904)
*Arthur Russell, 2nd Baron Ampthill (1904) (Provisional)
*George Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Baron Curzon (1904–1905)
*Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 4th Earl of Minto (1905–1910)
*Charles Hardinge, 1st Baron Hardinge of Penshurst (1910–1916)
*Frederic John Napier Thesiger, 3rd Baron Chelmsford (1916–1921)
*Rufus Isaacs, 1st Earl of Reading (1921–1925)
*Victor Bulwer-Lytton, 2nd Earl of Lytton (1925–1926) (Provisional)
*Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, 1st Baron Irwin (1926–1931)
*George Joachim Goschen, 2nd Viscount Goschen (1929) (During Lord Irwin's absence on leave)
*Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 1st Earl of Willingdon (1931–1936)
*Victor Alexander John Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow (1936–1943)
*Archibald Wavell, 1st Viscount Wavell (1943–1947)
*Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma (1947)
Governors-General of India, 1947-1950
*Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma (1947–1948)
*Chakravarthi Rajagopalachari (1948–1950)

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National Highways : India

Highways are the heart for the development of any place and so as they are important for India as well. I am putting here the national highways of India.

NH Number	Passing Rout	Length (Km)
1	Delhi - Ambala - Jalandhar - Amritsar - Indo-Pak Border	456
2	Delhi - Mathura - Agra - Kanpur - Allahabad - Varanasi - Mohania - Barhi - Palsit - Baidyabati Bara - Calcutta	1,490
3	Agra - Gwalior - Shivpuri - Indore - Dhule - Nasik - Thane - Mumbai	1,161
4	Junction with NH 3 near Thane - Pune - Belgaum - Hubli - Bangalore - Ranipet - Chennai	1,235
5	Junction with NH 6 near Baharagora - Cuttack - Bhubaneswar - Vishakhapatnam - Vijayawada - Chennai	1,533
6	Surat - Dhule - Nagpur - Raipur - Sambalpur - Baharagora - Calcutta	1,932
7	Varanasi - Mangawan - Rewa - Jabalpur - Lukhna - don Nagpur - Hyderabad - Kurnool - Babgalore - Krissnagiri - Salem - Dindigul - Madurai - Kanyakumari	2,369
8	Delhi - Jaipur - Ajmer - Udaipur - Ahmadabad - Vadodara - Mumbai	1,428
9	Pune - Sholapur - Hyderabad - Vijayawada	791
10	Delhi - Fazilka - Indo - Pak border	403
11	Agra - Jaipur - Bikaner	582
12	Jabalpur - Bhopal - Khilchipur - Aklera - Jhalawar - Kota - Bundi - Devil - Tonk - Jaipur	491
13	Sholapur - Chitradurga	491
14	Beawar - Sirohi - Radhanpur	450
15	Pathankot - Amritsar - Bhatinda - Ganganagar - Bikaner - Jaisalmer - Barmer - Samakhiali (near Kandla)	1,526
16	Nizamabad - Mancherel - Jagadalpur	460
17	Panvel - Mahad - Panaji - karwar - Mangalore - Cannore - Calicut (kozhikode) - Ferokh - Kuttipuram - Pudu Ponnani - Chowghat - Cranganur Junction with National Highways No.7 near Edapally	1,269
18	Junction with National Highway No.7 near Kurnool - Nandyal - Cuddapah - Junction with National Highway No.4 near Chittoor	369
19	Ghazipur - Balia - Patna	240
20	Pathankot - Mandi	220
21	Junction with National Highway No.22 near Chandigarh - Ropar - Bilaspur - Mandi - Kullu - Manali	323
22	Ambala - Kalka - Shimla - Narkanda - Rampur - Chini Indo - Tibet border near Shipki La	459
23	Chas - Ranchi - Rourkela - Talcher Junction with National Highway No 42	549
24	Delhi - Bareilly - Lucknow	438
25	Lucknow - Kanpur - Jhansi - Shivpuri	319
26	Jhansi - Lakhnadon	396
27	Allahabad - Mangawan	93
28	Junction with National Highway No. 31 near Barauni - Muzaffarpur - Pipra Gorakhpur - Lucknow	570
29	Gorakhpur - Ghazipur - Varanasi	230
30	Junction with National Highway No.2 near Mohania - Patna - Bachtivarpur	230
31	Junction with National Highway No.2 near Barhi - Bakhtiarpur - Mokameh - Purnea - Dalkola - Salmara - Nalbari Charali Aminagaon Junction with Nationl Highway No. 37	1,125
32	Junction with National highway No.2 near Gobindpur - Dhanbad - Jamshedpur	179
33	Junction with National highway No.2 near Barhi - Ranchi Junction With national Highway No.6 near Baharagora	352
34	Junction with National highway No.31 near Dalkoa - Berhampore - Barasat - Calcutta	443
35	Barasat - Bangaon - Indo- Bangladesh Border	61
36	Nowgong - Dabaka - Dimapur (Manipur Road)	170
37	Junction with National Highway No.31 near Goalpara - Guahati - Jorabat - Kamargaon - Makum - Saikhoaghat	680
38	Makum - Ledo - Lekhapani	54
39	Numaligarh - Imphal - Palel - Indo - Burma Border	436
40	Jorabat - Shillong - Indo - Bangladesh Border near Dawki	161
41	Junction with National HIghway No.6 near Kolaghat - Haldia Port	51
42	Junction with National Highway No. 6 near Sambalpur - Angul Junction with National Highway No. 5 near Currack	261
43	Raipur - Vizianagaram Junction with National Highway No. 5	551
44	Shillong - Passi Badarpur - Agartala - Sabroom	630
45	Chennai - Tiruchirapalli - Dindigul	387
46	Krishnagiri - Ranipet	132
47	Salem - Coimbatore - Trichur - Ernakulam - Trivandrum - Kanniyakumari	640
48	Bangalore - Hassan - Mangalore	328
49	Cochin - Madurai - Dhanushkodi -	440
50	Nasik - Junction with National Highway No.4 near Pune	192
51	Paikan - Tura - Dulu	149
52	Baihata - Charali - Tezpur - Bander Dewa - North Lakhimpur - Pasighat - Tezu - Sitapani Junction with National Highway No.37 near Saikhoaghat	850
53	Junction with National Highway No.44 near Badarpur - Jirighat Imphal - Silchar	320
54	Silchar - Aizawl - Tuipang	560
55	Siliguri - Darjeeling	77
56	Lucknow - Varanasi	285

For the details go to the official website of National highway authority of india http://www.nhai.org/ Please confirm the length as well from there

Five Year Plan : Indian Economy

• FIRST - 1951-52 to 1955-56 - Priority given to irrigation and agriculture.
• SECOND - 1956-57 to 1960-61 - Develoment of basic and heavy industries.
• THIRD - 1961-62 to 1965-66 - Long-term development of India’s economy.
• ANNUAL PLAN - 1967-68 to 1968-69 - Plan holiday period.Pakistan and Chinese wars.
• FOURTH - 1969-70 to 1973-74 - It brought in a scientific temper to Indian agriculture.
• FIFTH - 1974-75 to 1977-78 - Janata Government terminated a year earlier and introduced the Rolling-Plan.
• ANNUAL PLAN - 1978-79 to 1979-80 - Introduced by the Janata Government.
• SIXTH - 1980-81 to 1984-85 - New Government revised plan for 1981-85 and approved subsequently.
• SEVENTH - 1985-86 to 1989-90 - Productivity,work and food were given basic priorities.
• EIGHTH - 1992-93 to 1996-97 - was designed to tackle the twin problems of unemployment and poverty
• NINTH - 1997-98 to 2001-2002 - Ensuring the implementation of Common Minimum Programme and boosting agricultural investment
• TENTH - 2002-2003 to 2006-2007 - Funds will be allocated especially towards poverty alleviation programmes.
• ELEVENTH - 2007 -2008 to 2012-2013 - Current Plan

News - 9th January

Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee said that the government will pass the Right to Food Act to promote inclusive growth, a concept that has been pursued by the Congress since Independence.


Indian Davis cupper, Somdev Dev Varman and Sanam Singh failed to hold on to their nerves at crucial stage losing their semi final in Chennai on Sunday night.

Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina is likely to seek investments from India in a host of sectors like power and telecom during her interaction with top Indian business leaders in New Delhi.

Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor said on Sunday that media has "incorrectly" reported his comments on foreign policy.

Notwithstanding calls against any rapprochement with him, Samajwadi Party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav ruled out accepting the resignation of Amar Singh from key party posts and said differences will be sorted out soon.

4 Jan - 2010 News-Updates

1. Travellers from 14 nations including Pakistan, Afghanistan, Nigeria and Saudi Arabia flying into the United States will face additional screening starting today, US officials have said

2.

Hectic parleys on ahead of all-party meet over Telangana

A day ahead of the crucial all party meeting on Telengana, hectic parleys are on within various political parties, to end the turmoil over formation of a separate Telangana state while bandh by United Andhra supporters affected normal life in the state.

3. A day ahead of the crucial all party meeting on Telengana, hectic parleys are on within various political parties, to end the turmoil over formation of a separate Telangana state while bandh by United Andhra supporters affected normal life in the state.

4.Amidst the crisis, Dubai is keeping its date to create history by opening the Burj Dubai, the world's tallest building on Monday, even as it is keeping the whole world guessing about the final height of the magnificent tower whose parent is fighting for survival.

5.The government has recommended withdrawal of police medal given to former Haryana DGP S P S Rathore and announced that any police officer convicted for "moral turpitude" or bringing "disrepute or disrespect" to the service will be stripped of awards.

2ns Jan- IAS Ntifiaction came

The UPSC Civil Services Examination 2010 Notification has been published. Union Public Service Commission will hold the Civil Services (Preliminary) Examination, 2010 on 23rd May, 2010 for recruitment of the various posts of Indian Administrative Service (IAS), Indian Foreign Service (IFS), Indian Police Service (IPS) and certain other Group 'A' and Group 'B' Central Services / Posts.

For Eligibility, Age, Qualifications, Physical Standards, Number of attempts and scheme of examination please visit the officaial notification through UPSC website or refer to Employment News of January 2, 2010.

31st December

Wishing you all a very happy and prosperous new year.
Hope you will get the dream true.




Chak De India for IAS-2010