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State of Emergency in India In the history of independent India, there were three periods during which a state of emergency was need to have existed. Between 26 October 1962 to 10 January 1968 during the India-China war — the security of India having been declared threatened by external aggression.
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Amartya Sen - Biographical I was at Presidency College during 1951 to 1953. The memory of the Bengal famine of 1943, in which between two and three million people had died, and which I had watched from Santiniketan, was still quite fresh in my mind. I had been struck by its thoroughly class-dependent character.
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Delhi water crisis may last 15 days after caste protest Indian authorities urge residents in the capital to conserve water, after Jat caste protesters sabotaged key waterway. Indian authorities have said severe water shortages in New Delhi will take up to two weeks to fix, after a crucial waterway was sabotaged by protesters to press demands for better treatment for their caste. It caused taps in the capital to run dry.
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- Incessant downpours have damaged swaths of land, uprooted trees and snapped telephone cables in dozens of districts in the states of Bihar in the east, Assam in the remote northeast and Himachal Pradesh in the north. Floods are an annual occurrence in many parts of India during the June-September monsoon season.
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- 1934 Bihar earthquake: The 1934 Bihar earthquake is considered to be one of the worst quakes in Indian history. The quake occurred on January 15, 1934 and was recorded 8.1 on the Richter scale. Over 30,000 people were said to have been killed in the disaster.
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Indian Constitution: Framing, Implementing and Structure With the inauguration of the Constitution of India in January 26, 1950, the Special Recruitment Board came to an end. The All India Service Act was passed by the parliament in October 1951 and the Indian Forest Service was constituted.he Constitution of India was framed by a Constituent Assembly set up under the Cabinet Mission Plan of 1946. The Assembly consisted of 389 members representing provinces (292), states (93), the Chief Commissioner Provinces (3) and Baluchistan (1).
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- Maharashtra drought of 2013 The 2013 drought of Maharashtra happened primarily owing to low rainfall during June to September, the previous year. It is regarded as one of the worst of its kind to have hit the state in the last 40 years.
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Famine in India There was a threat of famine, but after 1902 there was no major famine in India until the Bengal famine of 1943. This famine was the most devastating; between 2.5 and 3 million people died during World War II. In India as a whole, the food supply was rarely inadequate, even in times of droughts.
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Sino-Indian War Sino-Indian War. The Sino-Indian War (Hindi: भारत-चीन युद्ध Bhārat-Chīn Yuddh), also known as the Sino-Indian Border Conflict (simplified Chinese: 中印边境战争; traditional Chinese: 中印邊境戰爭; pinyin: Zhōng-Yìn Biānjìng Zhànzhēng), was a war between China and India that occurred in 1962.
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India and Pakistan â On the Nuclear Threshold The documents in the briefing book date from 1961 to 1983. In 1961, India had an advanced civilian nuclear program, while Pakistan's was in its early stages. In 1983, nine years had elapsed since India's explosion of a nuclear device, and Pakistan's nuclear weapons program was well under way.
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Report on the 1979 Vela Incident The Vela Incident. On 22 September 1979 around 00:53 GMT, the Vela 6911 satellite detected the characteristic double flash of an atmospheric nuclear explosion apparently over the Indian Ocean or South Atlantic. The test location was later localized at 47 deg.
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Top 10 Deadliest Natural Disaster in India The Bengal famine of 1943 struck the Bengal province of pre-partition British India during World War II. Between 1.5 million and 4 million people died due to starvation, malnutrition and disease. Out of Bengal’s 60.3 million population, half of them were dying from disease after food became available in December 1943.
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- Passport Office was established in George Town in Chennai (formerly Madras) in the year 1955. In the year 1966, it was shifted to the Govt. owned premises of Shastri Bhavan located at 26, Haddows Road, Nungambakkam, Chennai-600006, where a number of other Central Govt. Offices are also located.-mail: rpo.chennai@mea.gov.in. * Note: In addition, Passport Office will be closed on National Holidays i.e. Republic Day (26th January), Independence Day (15th August) and Gandhi Jayanti (2nd October).
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Top 10 Deadliest Natural Disaster in India 10 Uttarakhand floods 2013. Death Toll: 5700 People. The huge & deadliest cloudburst on that day caused flash floods and landslides that struck Uttrakhand from 14 to 17 June, 2013. There are more than 5,700 people were assumed dead. More than 1,00,000 pilgrims were trapped in the valleys leading to Kedarnath shrine.
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Emergency Banking Act According to William L. Silber The Emergency Banking Act of 1933, passed by Congress on March 9, 1933, three days after FDR declared a nationwide bank holiday, combined with the Federal Reserve's commitment to supply unlimited amounts of currency to reopened banks, created 100 percent deposit insurance.
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WHAT HAPPENED On the night of December 2nd, 1984, a Union Carbide plant in Bhopal, India, began leaking 27 tons of the deadly gas methyl isocyanate.
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Iraq hostage crisis intensifies Iraq hostage crisis intensifies. Agencies. Monday 12 April 2004 11.53 EDT First published on Monday 12 April 2004 11.53 EDT. The international hostage crisis in Iraq today grew as seven US and seven Chinese civilians went missing and there was mounting uncertainty over the fate of three kidnapped Japanese nationals.
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Delhi faces water rationing crisis and school closures as caste protests rock Indian state Delhi faces water rationing crisis and school closures as caste protests rock Indian state. Protests by rural Jat caste calling for greater access to government jobs turns violent, destroying water infrastructure in Haryana state and killing 12 people.
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Boxing Day tsunami: The facts about the 2004 Indian Ocean disaster A scene of devastation is seen in the 2004 tsunami hit Indonesian City of Banda Aceh Getty. It has been 10 years since the Indian Ocean tsunami and earthquake devastated parts of Indonesia Sri Lanka, India and Thailand.
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- Indian authorities urge residents in the capital to conserve water, after Jat caste protesters sabotaged key waterway. 23 Feb 2016 12:10 GMT | India, Asia, Protests.
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Colonial India in Cartoons Sir Colin Campbell offers India to Lord Palmerston, who shelters behind a chair. Hulton Archive/Print Collectors/Getty Images This cartoon appeared in Punch in 1858, at the end of the Indian Mutiny (also called the Sepoy Rebellion). Sir Colin Campbell, the 1st Baron Clyde, had been appointed Commander in Chief of British forces in India. He lifted a siege on foreigners in Lucknow and evacuated the survivors, and brought in British troops to quell the uprising among Indian sepoys in the British East India Company's army.
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President of India A national emergency can be declared in the whole of India or a part of its territory for causes of war or armed rebellion or an external aggression. Such an emergency was declared in India in 1962 (Indo-China war), 1971 (Indo-Pakistan war), and 1975 to 1977 (declared by Indira Gandhi).
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Timeline of major famines in India during British rule The famines included here occurred both in the princely states (regions administered by Indian rulers) and British India (regions administered either by the British East India Company from 1765 to 1857, or by the British Crown, in the British Raj, from 1858 to 1947).
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- Tokugawa Iemitsu was the third shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate. He was the eldest son of Tokugawa Hidetada, and the grandson of Tokugawa Ieyasu. In 1633, after his brother's death, he dismissed the Daimyo his pre-disessor had left in charge and replaced them with his childhood friends.
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emergency An emergency is a situation demanding immediate action: A power failure created an emergency in transportation. A crisis is a vital or decisive turning point in a condition or state of affairs, and everything depends on the outcome of it: Help arrived when affairs had reached a crisis.
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The worldâs worst train disasters Bihar derailment, India. A train accident in the state of Bihar, India, which resulted in the death of approximately 800 people, occurred in June 1981 when a passenger train crossing a bridge over the Bagmati river near the city of Mansi was hit by a cyclone.