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Haryana Assembly passes bills for mandatory educational criteria for urban local bodies elections

The Haryana Legislative Assembly has unanimously passed two bills to make minimum educational qualification criteria mandatory for the urban local bodies election (ULBs). These bills are (i) The...

April 2, 2016

Union Government releases Indian Intellectual Property Panorama

Union Government has released Indian Intellectual Property (IP) Panorama to increase awareness and build sensitivity towards IP in the SME sector, academia and researchers The IP Panorma is...

April 2, 2016

Union Government imposes safeguard duty on import of steel products

The Union Finance Minister has extended the safeguard duty on import of some steel products by two years i.e till March 2018. In this regard, the Central Board...

April 2, 2016

Shiva Thapa wins Silver medal at Asian/Oceania Qualifying event in China

Ace Indian boxer Shiva Thapa has won the silver medal at the Asian/Oceania Qualifying Tournament held in Qian’an, China in the 56 Kilogram category final In the final...

April 2, 2016

Various Types of Landforms

Landforms are defined as the geomorphologic units defined by its surface form and location in the landscape. Landforms are typical elements of the topography. The water body interfaces...

April 2, 2016

Types of Plateaus

Plateau is an elevated tract of relatively flat land, usually limited on at least one side by a steep slope falling abruptly to  lower land. It may also...

April 2, 2016

Orogeny: Types of Mountains and Mountain Building

Orogeny is primarily the mechanism by which mountains are built on continents due to the large structural deformation of the Earth’s lithosphere caused by Plate Tectonics.  Orogenesis involves...

April 2, 2016

The Six Geological Provinces and Continental Shield

The entire Earth has been divided into several Geological Provinces on the basis of their origin. A geologic or geomorphic province is an entity with common geologic or...

April 2, 2016

Lithospheric Plate System: Convergent and Divergent Plate Boundaries

The Earth’s surface is composed of six major lithospheric plates’ viz. Pacific, American, Eurasian, African, Austral-Indian, and Antarctic. Apart from those, there are some lesser plates and sub...

April 2, 2016

Basics of Plate Tectonics and Seafloor Spreading

Lithosphere is made up of about a dozen giant and several smaller sections called plates, and these move in various directions in processes known collectively as plate tectonics....

April 2, 2016

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