Plastic Money At present there are three million cards in use with estimated annual billing, Rs. 5000 crore. No one can deny the importance and advantages of credit cards. Thus we see that The Age of Plastic Money has finally come to India. The credit card has become a matter of status. This system is being popular day by day. There are various categories of credit cards. The category we are...
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March 23, 2017 evirtualguru_ajaygourEnglish (Sr. Secondary), LanguagesNo Comment
Vijay Operation (Kargil Conflict) India has a history of being caught by surprise. It happened in Kashmir in 1947-48 and when the Chinese occupied Aksai Chin in 1950. It happened in 1965 with Pakistan’s second attempt on Kashmir and again in 1987 when the Chinese moved in and out of Sumdurong Chu (Arunachal Pradesh). Pakistan again surprised us in Kargil. This proves that India did not learn from created blunders. Experts...
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March 23, 2017 evirtualguru_ajaygourEnglish (Sr. Secondary), LanguagesNo Comment
Effects of Globalization The term ‘globalization’, evokes several concerns in the minds of many. People are afraid that it could lead to political and economic hegemony, if not in physical but in ideological terms. But globalization in one sense not a new phenomenon. It is being examined now as if it is a new plant or tree. In fact, its roots extend farther and deeper than the visible part of the...
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March 23, 2017 evirtualguru_ajaygourEnglish (Sr. Secondary), LanguagesNo Comment
India- A Soft State? A country that took pride in joining the nuclear club had to bend on its knees and succumb to the hijackers’ demand. “in the wake of the recent deal with the Pakistani hijackers for the release of the Indian Airlines passengers in exchange for their three hardcore terrorists, it is very easy for any professional defense analyst to castigate the government of India. Brahma Chellaney says, “...
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March 23, 2017 evirtualguru_ajaygourEnglish (Sr. Secondary), LanguagesNo Comment
The Super Cyclone (A Killer) People who had lived for years in Bhubaneshwar, could not recognize the city after the super cyclone hit the capital of Orissa. The super cyclone hit Orissa at a speed ranging between 240-260 km per hour on October 29, 1999. All the trees and electric poles were uprooted. There was no sign of any hoarding or bill- boards and people could not recognize even their colonies....
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March 23, 2017 evirtualguru_ajaygourEnglish (Sr. Secondary), Languages1 Comment
The Hijacking of I.C. 814 The Indian Airlines aircraft 814 took off at 4.25 p.m. on Friday dated 24-12-1999 form Tribhun Das Airport, Kathmandu, with 178 passengers and crew of 11. Soon after five men announced that the plane was in their control. No one would hurt if the passengers followed the given directions. Passengers were told to keep their heads down and not talk to each other. The hijackers stabbed...
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March 23, 2017 evirtualguru_ajaygourEnglish (Sr. Secondary), LanguagesNo Comment
The Millennium Cycle A Millennium is a lot of time. Naturally it sees the world change dramatically. But most of the change that had taken place in he present millennium was really in the last 200 years. Until then, the world was poor and growth was upset. The center of gravity of the world economy was not in the west, as it is today, but in the east, over the years...
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March 22, 2017 evirtualguru_ajaygourEnglish (Sr. Secondary), LanguagesNo Comment
International Terrorism The biggest threat that the nation-state is facing today, flows out of terrorism which is widespread geographically and diverse ideologically. Modern terrorism thrives on its ability to hit where it hurts the most. While the hallmark of the earlier terrorists was that they wanted a lot of people watching and not a lot of people dead, modern terrorist see death and destruction as an end in itself. Old terrorists...
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March 22, 2017 evirtualguru_ajaygourEnglish (Sr. Secondary), LanguagesNo Comment
