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)

tags: Governors-General

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

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

IAS - Genral Studies

Indian History & Culture:
NCERT (+ 2 level) — Ancient India, Medieval India, Modern India.
Publication Division : Gazetteer of India (Vol 2 : History & Culture)
Vaid's Study Notes.
Gandhi Nehru Tagore & Ambedkar—Gopal Krishna
Raghavan Aiyer—Mahatma Gandhi

Geography:
NCERT (+2 level)
Sharma & Cotinho : Economic and Commercial Geography of India.
Indian Economy
NCERT (+1 level)—Evolution of Indian Economy.
Mishra & Puri or Dutt & Sundaram
Bimal Jalan

Indian Polity:
NCERT (+1 level)—Indian Political System
N.L. Madan : Bhartiya Rajya Vyavastha
D.D. Basu—Indian Constitution
Kashyap—Constitution of India
Publication Division—Subhash Kashyap : Our Parliament
P.M. Bakshi—Indian Constitution

Science:
NCERT : (10 level) : Science, (+2 level) : Biology.
Popular Science Series (CSIR)

Statistics:
(NCERT +1 level) Elementary Statistics
Other Books
1. India Year Book latest
2. One competitive Magazine
3. Economic Times & The Hindu
4. Yojana/Kurukshetra.

Constitution of India facts

The Constituent Assembly met for the first time in New Delhi on 9 December, 1946 in the Constitution Hall which is now known as the Central Hall of Parliament House.

The inaugural session began at 11 a.m. with the introduction of Dr. Sachchidananda Sinha, the temporary Chairman of the Assembly, by Acharya Kripalani.

The Constituent Assembly took almost three years (two years, eleven months and seventeen days to be precise) to complete its historic task of drafting the Constitution for Independent India. During this period, it held eleven sessions covering a total of 165 days. Of these, 114 days were spent on the consideration of the Draft Constitution.

The Constitution of India was adopted on 26 November, 1949 and the hon'ble members appended their signatures to it on 24 January, 1950. In all, 284 members actually signed the Constitution. On that day when the Constitution was being signed, it was drizzling outside and it was interpreted as a sign of a good omen.

The Constitution of India came into force on 2 6 January, 1950. On that day, the Assembly ceased to exist, transforming itself into the Provisional Parliament of India until a new Parliament was constituted in1952

Sessions of the Constituent Assembly

First Session: 9-23 December, 1946

Second Session: 20-25 January, 1947

Third Session: 28 April - 2 May, 1947

Fourth Session: 14-31 July, 1947

Fifth Session: 14-30 August, 1947

Sixth Session: 27 January, 1948

Seventh Session: 4 November,1948 - 8 January, 1949

Eighth Session: 16 May - 16 June, 1949

Ninth Session: 30 July - 18 September, 1949

Tenth Session: 6-17 October, 1949

Eleventh Session: 14-26 November, 1949


[The Assembly met once again on 24 January, 1950,


ASSEMBLY OF INDIA AS ON 31 DECEMBER, 1947

PROVINCES-229

INDIAN STATES-70

Doordarshan News- 16th Nov

1. Gold cross 16900 on global clues and sensex crossed 17000 mark.
2.A Deputy Inspector General of BSF was on Monday killed and two other force officials seriously injured in a blast triggered by militants near the Indo-Pak border in Samba district's Ballad post.
3.United States President Barack Obama arrived in China on Monday on a three-day mission aimed at convincing Beijing that Washington is its partner, not its rival.

DoorDarshan News-15th Noc-2009

1. Central home secreatry -G.K.Pillai said that no body will get any excuse for David-Headly and rana case.
2 National Investigation Agency is in high run for mumbai blast case.
Energy Minister Sushil Kumar Sinde said that for 11th fifth year plan we are expecting 66000 MegaWatt energy so go fast .. this is to the state ministers.

3 Asia-Prashant summit held in singapur -- decided that will complete DOHA round by 2010
no clues on carbon imission.

4 Sachin Ramesh Tendulakar completed 20 Glorious year in international cricket.

DoorDarshan News---14th Nov

Headlines:

1. Mandoor Express Train derailed(jaipur to delhi near dausa)--- arround 7 ppl dead
2. Let man Headly related info from US .. Home minister postive on that.
3 29th WTO meeting in India
4. NASA's L-Cross said that on south pole we have water after chandrayaan said same few months back.