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High Blood Pressure (Hypertension)

Blood is pumped by the heart into the arteries with some pressure. This is known as blood pressure. Blood pressure is defined as the amount of force exerted by the blood...

April 29, 2012

Abhidhana Chintamani

Abhidhana Chintamani is a vocabulary of the Jain Doctrines written by Hemachandra or Hemachandracharya. Acharya Hemachandra was a 11th, 12th century Jain scholar, poet, and polymath who wrote...

April 29, 2012

Abhidhana

Abhidhana is a Sanskrit word which refers to any Sanskrit dictionary or vocabulary. There are many Abhidhanas. One of them, which is considred to be the oldest is...

April 29, 2012

Abastanoi

Abastanoi refers to the people who dwelt, on the eve of Alexander’s invasion on the chenab above its confluence with the Indus River, in the North Western Parts...

April 29, 2012

Abdur razzak of Golconda

Abdur Razzak was a faithful noble and general of Abdul Hassan, the last sultan of Golkunda. When in 1687 Aurangzeb made the final attack on Golkunda, he tried...

April 29, 2012

Abdur Rahman (Afghanistan)

Abdur Rahman  was Amir of Afghanistan who was placed on the throne of Afghanistan in 1880 with the support of the English politician who ruled from 1880 till...

April 29, 2012

Govt proposes a board for growth of auto sector

NAB: National Automative Board The government has finalized the proposal to set up NAB under the Department of Heavy Industry to support fresh initiatives for the growth of...

April 28, 2012

Jan 16, 2012 troop movement was purely training drill: Govt

Discounting a media report on "non-notified" troop movement by army, the government informed Rajya Sabha that the exercise was undertaken for training purpose directed at refining mobilization drills...

April 28, 2012

India forecasts average monsoon rains this year

Earth Sciences Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh held that India is probable to experience average monsoon rains this year, thus forecasting a third straight year without drought. Deshmukh held that...

April 28, 2012

EC relaxes Model Code of Conduct ahead of June 12 by-polls

The EC (Election Commission) has settled to relax the Model Code of Conduct, on an experimental basis, by permitting partial implementation of developmental schemes in those districts where...

April 28, 2012

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