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My tweetsA constitution is a system for government, usually a written document, establishing the structure, procedures, powers and duties, of a government according to this wikipedia article on constitution. For some time I was wondering if this document is available for an ordinary citizen and if so where can it be obtained? how about a PDF version of the same online?
India and Singapore signed a Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Agreement in year 2005. On 20 June 2005, Indian cabinet approved the CECA (as it is more commonly known as). I was wondering for some time what is covered in this India-Singapore CECA and why it is called as CECA and not as a FTA?…
LUCKNOW: Masood Ahmad recalls the hush that fell when he went onstage to announce an unscheduled break during the raging battle between Lord Ramaand Ravana, last Dussehra. The huge audience assembled at the Bakshi Ka Talaab ground was not amused. A few even began to boo, till the reason for the interruption was explained.
On April 28, 2008 Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) launched 10 satellites into a Sun Synchronous Orbit (SSO). Two of the satellites are built by ISRO for use by various Indian agencies and 8 are from international customers. The lift-off and placement of 10 satellites in one launch is a new world record and beats the current record of 8 satellites held by Russia. My hearty congratulations to ISRO.
You can follow the links below for more Information
ISRO press release
NDTV news on the launch
India has been crowned Asia’s fastest supercomputer, marking the first time the country takes a seat on the list of world’s top 10 fastest machines.
Housed at Tata Group’s Computational Research Laboratories in Pune, the India-based system, ranks No. 4 on the latest Top500 list unveiled Monday at the Supercomputing Conference (SC07) in Reno, Nevada…
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A little known school of scholars in southwest India discovered one of the founding principles of modern mathematics hundreds of years before Newton according to new research.
Dr George Gheverghese Joseph from The University of Manchester says the ‘Kerala School’ identified the ‘infinite series’- one of the basic components of calculus – in about 1350.
The discovery is currently – and wrongly – attributed in books to Sir Isaac Newton and Gottfried Leibnitz at the end of the seventeenth centuries.
click here to read the complete article carried by physorg.com