Civil Nuclear Energy Pacts receive land in India

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The peaceful use of nuclear energy is an important issue. After ending the isolation of India on this issue, India is receiving technology and material for peaceful use of nuclear energy. In the process, India has signed pacts with seven countries. The report hitched below is containing details about the different sites in India where different countries with which India is now having pacts are going to have nuclear energy plants.

A good note on it can be useful for 2010. It is a type of SURE question at least in 2010 Prelims.

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Hitched Link
The Hindu : Front Page : U.S. welcomes site allocation for nuclear plants

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Define Index of Industrial Production

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What is IIP?

What does it convey?

The answer to such questions are being given by Economic Times in the link given below. The Wikipedia link is also given.

It can be useful for October 2009.

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Links to be used:
What does Index of Industrial Production conveys?- Money & You-The Sunday ET-Features-The Economic Times
Index of Industrial Production-Wikipedia

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Working of RTI

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The following report can be nicely used to make a note the working of the RTI Act.

It is mere a report. However, there are many points in the report which can be taken out and an independent note on working of RTI can be made. It can be a good topic for interview. In GS there can be a question but it is my view not a suggestion.

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Use the following link.
Not yet a strong tool - Bangalore - City - The Times of India

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Obama gets Nobel Peace Prize 2009

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The Norwegian Nobel Committee for The Nobel Peace Prize for 2009 has bestowed the Nobel Peace Prize 2009 upon Barrack Obama the President of United States of America.

It writes, "The Committee has attached special importance to Obama's vision of and work for a world without nuclear weapons."

For the complete text of the committee visit the Committee Recommendation HERE.

For Wikipedia Article click HERE I suggest you to check his writing works in site directory given at the lower site of the article. His writings may turn up in literature section in 2010 and with Nobel Prize in his bag, I believe it is going to win place for his writings in the MSQs. Any comment

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Baroness Bertha Sophie Felicita von Suttner: First Woman ever to get Peace Prize

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The Nobel Peace Prize 2009 has been bestowed upon Barrack Obama, the President of United States of America. On this occasion, the Nobel website is also displaying some of the history of Nobel Peace Prizes.

In 1905, the Nobel Peace prize was given to Baroness Bertha Sophie Felicita von Suttner, the first woman ever to get the prize.

Is there any other significance of 1905

Check the following link (Remember 2010 aspirant, glean last year papers and you may observe that UPSC Prelims has special liking of Nobel Prizes as well as UN. Make a note of it as by May 2010 you have to brush them again. )

Home | Nobels Prize Laureates

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Herta Müller -Nobel Prize for Literature: 2009

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Herta Muller, Romanian born German Novelist has won the Nobel Prize for literature 2009.

Nobel organization has written thus about her:
"who, with the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose, depicts the landscape of the dispossessed"

For biography; kindly check the following link. (It is being subjected to vandalism hence use caution.)
Herta Müller - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Nobel Prize Official Site
Photograph Source: Wikiepdia link as given above.

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Venkatraman Ramakrishnan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Check the biography of Venkatraman Ramakrishnan on Wikipeida. He is a structural biologist who has been awarded Nobel Prize in Chemistry along with Thomas A. Steitz and Ada Zonath.

(Nobel Prize, Nobel Prize organization and United Nations are two such topics which have regularly given questions in Prelims GS. That means 150-2=148. Got it)

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Link to be used (Kindly note that the contents keep on changing in case of persons who are in news recently. Hence, try to maintain an update by revisiting the link.)

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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