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Indian Budget The Constitution refers to the budget as the ‘annual financial statement’. In other words, the term ‘budget’ has nowhere been used in the Constitution. It is the popular name for the ‘annual financial statement’ that has been dealt with in Article 112 of the Constitution. The budget is a statement of the estimated […]
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What is Albedo? Albedo is a non-dimensional, unitless quantity that indicates how well a surface reflects solar energy. Albedo is the portion of solar energy reflected from the surface of the Earth back into space. It is a reflection coefficient and has a value of less than one. When the solar radiation passes through the
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रूस-यूक्रेन युद्ध के प्रमुख कारण और विश्व अर्थव्यवस्था पर इस युद्ध के प्रभाव को इस लेख में समझाया गया है।
Land tenure refers to the possession or holding (tenere=to hold, Latin) of the many rights and responsibilities associated with a parcel of land.
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INDIA and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on 18 Feb, 2022 has signed a Free Trade Agreement (CEPA), which is set to reduce tariffs for 80 per cent of goods and give zero duty access to 90 per cent of India’s exports to the UAE.
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Know about Rating Agencies A rating agency is a company that assesses the financial strength of companies and government entities, especially their ability to meet principal and interest payments on their debts. The rating assigned to a given debt shows an agency’s level of confidence that the borrower will honor its debt obligations as agreed. Their
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Know About Lakes Lake is a surface water body that is surrounded by land. Rivers will be outlet or inlet to the lakes i.e. lakes take the water from rivers or act as a source of water. Largest lakes by continent Important Facts on lakes of the world Largest lake of Asia Caspian Sea Largest
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To read this article in hindi, click here. List of Important Ports of Ancient India Lothal The oldest port in India, Lothal was an important port city of Indus valley civilization and was located in today’s Bhal region of Gujarat. Existed about 4500 years ago, the remains of the port city of Lothal were discovered
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Why is Indonesia changing its capital city? In August 2019, President Joko Widodo first announced that the capital would be shifted from Jakarta, on the island of Java, which has served as the national capital since Indonesia’s independence, to a new city to be built in East Kalimantan on the island of Borneo, some 2,000
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Philosophy in Medieval India Medieval India saw the rise of the Bhakti and the Sufi movements and along with it, a big churn in the way people viewed God and religion. For instance, a lasting effect of the movement is the importance of devotion to God (bhakti) as the way towards salvation. Bhakti saints like
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