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(IGP) IAS Pre: GS - Indian History - Modern Indian History: 1937 : Election Results (MCQ -12)
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All About Indian Police Service Limited Competitive Examination
(Report) Poverty Estimates For 2009-10
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Today's Important News: 19 March 2012

Posted: 19 Mar 2012 05:52 AM PDT

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Today's Important News (18-03-2012)

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(IGP) IAS Pre: GS - Indian History - Modern Indian History: 1937 : Election Results (MCQ -12)

Posted: 19 Mar 2012 05:42 AM PDT

Modern Indian History
1937 : Election Results (MCQ -12)

1 Which of the organisation sujpported the British Govt. during Quit India Movement?
(a) Hindu Mahasabha
(b) Muslim League
(c) Communist Party of India
(d) Krishak Praja Party

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(IGP) IAS Pre: GS - Indian History - Modern Indian History: 1937 : Election Results

Posted: 19 Mar 2012 05:37 AM PDT

Modern Indian History
1937 : Election results

Congress had clear majority in five provinces i.e. United Provinces (U.P.), Bihar, Madras, Central Provinces (C.P.), Orissa.
In Bengal, NWFP, Assam and Bombay, Congress emerged as the single largest party.
482 seats were reserved as Muslim seats. The Congress contested 58 and could win only 26 seats.

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All About Indian Police Service Limited Competitive Examination

Posted: 19 Mar 2012 03:38 AM PDT

All About Indian Police Service Limited Competitive Examination

Dear Candidate,
Recently the Union Public Service Commission has published notification regarding the limited Competitive examination for the purpose of filling vacancies in the India Police Service examination, to recruit the same in notification it has mention about the syllabus & Plan of examination, that is the Indian Police Service Limited Competitive Examination will consist of two successive stages:—

Written examination &
Personality Test

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(Report) Poverty Estimates For 2009-10

Posted: 19 Mar 2012 03:11 AM PDT

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The Tendulkar Committee for the first time recommended use of implicit prices derived from quantity and value data collected in household consumer expenditure surveys for computing and updating the poverty lines. Tendulkar Committee developed a methodology using implicit prices for estimating state wise poverty lines for the year 2004-05. Using these poverty lines and distribution of monthly per capita consumption expenditure based on mixed reference period (MRP), the Tendulkar Committee estimated poverty ratios for the year 2004-05.In its Report, Tendulkar Committee recommended a methodology for updating 2004-05 poverty lines derived by it.

Accordingly, implicit price indices (Fisher Price Index) have been computed from the 66th Round NSS (2009-10) data on Household Consumer Expenditure Survey. As per Tendulkar Committee recommendations, the state wise urban poverty lines of 2004-05 are updated for 2009-10 based on price rise during this period using Fisher price indices. The state wise rural-urban price differential in 2009-10 has been applied on state specific urban poverty lines to get state specific rural poverty lines.

The head count ratio (HCR) is obtained using urban and rural poverty lines which are applied on the MPCE distribution of the states. The aggregated BPL population of the states is used to obtain the final all-India HCR and poverty lines in rural and urban areas. Some of the key results are:

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