Thursday, January 31, 2013

Jan 30 2013

Costa Book Awards

Author Hilary Mantel wins the Costa Book of the Year award for her Booker Prize-winning novel Bring Up the Bodies.

United Nations Military Observer Group in India and Pakistan (UNMOGIP)

 The United Nations has played an important role in maintaining peace and order in Jammu and Kashmir since the transfer of Power to India and independence to Pakistan in 1947. Immediately after the freedom a dispute erupted between India and the successor nation-state of Pakistan on the question of the very basis of accession of Jammu and Kashmir by the ruler. New Delhi took this matter to the United Nation and the Security Council passed resolution 39 (1948) and established the United Nations Commission for India and Pakistan (UNCIP) to investigate and mediate the issues .

Thursday, January 24, 2013

Jan 24 2013

UNCLOS

The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), also called the Law of the Sea Convention or the Law of the Sea treaty, is the international agreement that resulted from the third United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS III), which took place from 1973 through 1982.


Representation of the People Act 1951

According to Section 8 clause 4 of the Representation of the People Act, 1951, Chautalas have protection from disqualification from the Assembly.

Supply-side

Supply-side economics is a school of macroeconomic thought that argues that economic growth can be most effectively created by lowering barriers for people to produce (supply) goods and services, such as lowering income tax and capital gains tax rates, and by allowing greater flexibility by reducing regulation. According to supply-side economics, consumers will then benefit from a greater supply of goods and services at lower prices. Typical policy recommendations of supply-side economists are lower marginal tax rates and less regulation

Demand - Side

 

Keynesian economics

 Keynesian economics are the group of macroeconomic schools of thought based on the ideas of 20th-century economist John Maynard Keynes. Keynesian economists believe that, in the short run, productive activity is influenced by aggregate demand (total spending in the economy), and that aggregate demand does not necessarily equal aggregate supply (the total productive capacity of the economy). Instead, it is influenced by a host of factors and sometimes behaves erratically, affecting production, employment, and inflation.

 

Block Trade

Alternative trading systems

Alternative trading systems (ATS), are United States Securities and Exchange Commission approved non-exchange trading venues specifically designed to match buyers and sellers to find counterparties for transactions, instead of trading large blocks of shares on the normal exchange, a practice that can skew the market price in a particular direction, depending on a security's market capitalization and trading volume.
ATS have to be distinguished from electronic communication networks (ECNs), that are a "fully electronic subset of ATSs that automatically and anonymously match orders".[1] The equivalent term of ECN under European legislation is a Multilateral Trading Facility (MTF). These venues play an important role in public markets for allowing alternative means of accessing liquidity.


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Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Jan 23 2013

Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act 2005

The Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act 2005 was brought into force by the Indian government from October 26, 2006. The Act was passed by the Parliament in August 2005 and assented to by the President on 13 September 2005. As of November 2007, it has been ratified by four of twenty-eight state governments in India; namely Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh and Orissa. Of about 8,000 criminal cases registered all over India under this act, Rajasthan had 3440 cases, Kerala had 1,028 cases, while Punjab had 172 cases registered

Abdelmalek Sellal

Tuesday, January 15, 2013

Jan 15 2013


Guinnes World Record

Nagaland today entered the Guinness World Record of the Largest Electric Guitar Ensemble surpassing England, with 368 musicians performing at Agri-Expo in Dimapur on 12/01/2013.

Soumyajit Ghosh becomes youngest national table tennis champ


Index of Economic Freedom

The Washington, D.C.-based Heritage Foundation publishes its Index of Economic Freedom in partnership with the Wall Street Journal. The ranking measures countries' freedom in terms of property rights and freedom from government regulation, averaging 10 factors that include government corruption, international
trade barriers, income tax and enforcement. Hong Kong has been ranked number one for 19 years running, although its score was lower this year than last year. It was followed by Singapore, Australia, New Zealand, Switzerland and Canada. The United States was ranked 10th. India has been ranked as the 119th freest country. Among the BRIC economies China, Russia were ranked below India in the index, while Brazil was above India.







Thursday, January 10, 2013

Wednesday, January 9, 2013

Jan 10 2013


BAFTA

The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) is a charity in the United Kingdom that hosts annual awards shows for excellence in cinema, television, television craft, video games and forms of animation.


Man Booker Prize

The Man Booker Prize for Fiction is a literary prize awarded each year for the best original full-length novel, written in the English language, by a citizen of the Commonwealth of Nations, Ireland, or Zimbabwe.The winner of the Man Booker Prize is generally assured of international renown and success; therefore, the prize is of great significance for the book trade.

The 2012 winner, announced on 16 October, was Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel


Kathryn Ann Bigelow

Kathryn Ann Bigelow (born November 27, 1951)[1] is an American film directorfilm producerscreenwriter and television director. Her films includeNear Dark (1987), Point Break (1991), Strange Days (1995), The Weight of Water (2000), K-19: The Widowmaker (2002), The Hurt Locker (2008) andZero Dark Thirty (2012). The Hurt Locker won the 2009 Academy Award for Best Picture, won the BAFTA Award for Best Film, and was nominated for the 2009 Golden Globe Award for Best Drama.
With The Hurt Locker, Bigelow became the first woman to win the Academy Award for Best Director,[2] the Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing,[3] the BAFTA Award for Best Direction,[4] and the Critics' Choice Award for Best Director.[5] She also became the first woman to win the Saturn Award for Best Director in 1995 for Strange Days.
In April 2010, Bigelow was named to the Time 100 list of most influential people of the year.


Monday, January 7, 2013

Jan 8th 2013


Amy Macdonald

Amy Macdonald (born 25 August 1987 in BishopbriggsEast Dunbartonshire) is a Scottish recording artist. Macdonald rose to fame in 2007 with her debut album, This Is the Life (2007) and its fourth single, "This Is the Life". The single charted at number one in six different countries worldwide, and charted inside the top ten in another eleven countries worldwide.

Friday, January 4, 2013

Jan 4th 2013


Donald Miller

Donald Miller (born August 12, 1971) is a best-selling American author and public speaker based out of Portland, Oregon who focuses on Christian spirituality as "an explanation for beauty, meaning, and the human struggle".


Daniel Kish


Daniel Kish (born 1966 in Montebello, California[1]) is an American expert in human echolocation and President of World Access for the Blind, a non-profit founded in 2000 to facilitate "the self-directed achievement of people with all forms of blindness" and increase public awareness about their strengths and capabilities.


Richard Charles Nicholas Branson

Daniel Kish (born 1966 in Montebello, California[1]) is an American expert in human echolocation and President of World Access for the Blind, a non-profit founded in 2000 to facilitate "the self-directed achievement of people with all forms of blindness" and increase public awareness about their strengths and capabilities.



Team Hoyt

Team Hoyt is a father (Dick Hoyt, born June 1, 1940[1]) and son (Rick Hoyt, born January 10, 1962) team from Holland, Massachusetts, who have competed together in various athletic endeavors, including marathons and triathlons. Rick has cerebral palsy and during competition Dick pulls Rick in a special boat as they swim, carries him in a special seat in the front of a bicycle, and pushes him in a special wheelchair as they run. Team Hoyt was inducted to the Ironman Hall of Fame in 2008.

Paleo Diet