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Today's Important News: 15 April 2012
Today's Important News: 14 April 2012
(Current Affairs) India and The World | May : 2012
(QUIZ) Basic Numeracy MCQs: Number System : (Paper -2)
(Notification) UPSC: Indian Forest Service Examination - 2012
(QUIZ) Indian History MCQs: Sources Of Indian History : (Paper -1)
(Test Series) Answers & Explanations of GS Paper -2 of Our Postal Test Series Programme: Test - 10
(Study Material for IPS LCE) Socio Economic Development in India: Population Growth & The Millennium Development Goals in India

Today's Important News: 15 April 2012

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Today's Important News (15-04-2012)

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Today's Important News: 14 April 2012

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Today's Important News (14-04-2012)

The Hindu

National:

(Current Affairs) India and The World | May : 2012

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India & The World

India & Australia
India & China
India & Saudi Arabia
India & Saudi Arabia On Defence Co-operation
India & Maldives
India & Maldives
India & Thailand
India & Bangladesh
India & Colombia
India & Pakistan
India & Somalia

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(QUIZ) Basic Numeracy MCQs: Number System : (Paper -2)

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(Notification) UPSC: Indian Forest Service Examination - 2012

Posted: 16 Apr 2012 12:31 AM PDT

Union Public Service Commission
Indian Forest Service Examination, 2012

A competitive examination for recruitment to the Indian Forest Service will be held by the Union Public Service Commission commencing from the 14th July, 2012 in accordance with the Rules published by the Ministry of Environment and Forests in the Gazette of India dated the 14th April, 2012.

Answers & Explanations of CSAT Paper -2 of Our Postal Test Series Programme: Test - 10
Decision-Making & Problem Solving

1. c,

2. b,

3. c,

4. b,

5. a,

6. a,

7. c,

8. a,

9. c,

10. c,

11. d,

12. a,

13. c,

14. a,

15. d,

16. d,

17. b,

18. a,

19. b,

20. c,

21. a,

22. d,

23. a,

24. a,

25. b,

26. a,

27. b,

28. b,

29. c,

30. b,

31. a,

32. d,

33. d,

34. b,

35. d,

36. c,

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(Study Material for IPS LCE) Socio Economic Development in India: Population Growth & The Millennium Development Goals in India

Posted: 15 Apr 2012 11:24 PM PDT

Important Materials on Socio Economic Development in India for IPS LCE Examination
Population Growth and The Millennium Development Goals in India

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Population Growth and The Millennium Development Goals in India

This article seeks to bring out the linkages of population growth and the millennium development goals (MDG) in India. It has been conceptualized with the following rationale. First, India's progress in achieving the MDGs is of global significance as it constitutes 18% of world population. Second, evidences suggest that the progresses in attaining the MDGs are slow and uneven across and within the countries (Lawn et al., 2006; Houweling et al., 2007). Third, though the population growth is not an implicit indicator of MDGs, it is the underlying cause of attaining the MDGs in developing countries. Globally, the countries with higher birth rate and slower growth rate of population (natural growth rate) are faster in achieving the MDGs. For example, the progress in east Asian countries were faster compared to South Asian and African countries. Studies indicate that India's declining poverty rates have been offset by population growth (Chen and Ravallion 2004).

What are the Millennium Development Goals?

The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are a set of numerical and time bound goals adopted by 189 member states of United Nation in September, 2000 at UN Millennium Summit, New York, USA. The MDGs are global effort to address the multidimensional poverty (income poverty, hunger, disease, lack of adequate shelter and exclusion), promoting gender equality, education and environmental sustainability. The MDGs comprise 8 goals, 21 targets and 60 indicators that are placed in the global development agenda. For each goal, there are certain targets and for each target there are certain indicators. The base year of MDGs was 1990 and the final year is 2015. MDG have become the most widely used yardstick of development effort by the government, donors and non-governmental organizations and extensively used in assessing the progress at national and sub-national level.

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