Mission Somayana India Marches towards Moon On August 15, 2003 Indian Prime Minister, during his Independence Day address to the nation, announced the long awaited Chandrayan/ Somayana’s 1 mission which represents India’s, foray into planetary exploration era in the coming decades. Owing to India’s indigenously developed launch vehicle and spacecraft capabilities it is confident of undertaking a complex space mission. This mission will provide a unique opportunity for frontier scientific research....

Importance of Right to Information Right to information means the freedom of people to have access to governmental information. It implies that the citizens and non-governmental organizations should enjoy a reasonably free access to all files and documents pertaining to the governmental operations, decisions and performance. In other words, it means openness and transparency in the functioning of government. Thus it is antithetical to secrecy in public administration. Now a question...

National Employment Guarantee Programme One calls slums by different names-jhuggi jhopri in Delhi, chawl in Mumbai and cheri in Chennai. Whatever be the names by which the slums of the big cities are known, they are the abode of urban poor who form nearly half the population of the big cities. Most of them are migrants from the vast countryside. The cities may not be a paradise for them but at...

A.T.M. – Automated Teller Machine   The main business of the banking industry is to give the interest on deposits & distribute the amount, so received, as loan and earn interest. After Nationalization of banks in 1969, personalise banking is converted into social banking, in which banks used their limited resources for economical and social development of the country. This chapter successfully ran for about two decades. After that, process of...

Bus Service Between Srinagar and Muzaffarabad   A Carvavan-E-Aman Kashmir has been a bone of contention between India and Pakistan since the partition between the two countries was decreed. Three wars have already been fought on this issue and thousands of people have lost their lives but the problem is still there as it has ever been. The Kashmiri people have been living under the curse of terrorism since 1990. Thousands...

The Tsunami Horror Introduction : Man claims to have conquered land, ocean, and other planets. He has indeed. Man flies like bird in the air. He has dug out hidden treasures lying buried in the earth. He has found out the mysterious things hidden in the depth of ocean. He has reached moon and the other planets. But man’s claim of conquering land, ocean and air seems to be an empty...