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Tag: Historical Places
Azaadi ke Diwane museum inaugurated at Red Fort
Tags: Historical Places, Personalities
Published on: 05 March 2019
Earth Museum: Government to set up museum of natural history
Tags: Historical Places
Published on: 07 March 2019
India, Portugal to set up maritime museum in Lothal
Tags: Historical Places
Published on: 10 June 2019
Chaukhandi Stupa declared Monument of National Importance
Tags: Architecture, Historical Places
Published on: 10 June 2019
Maharaja Ranjit Singh statue unveiled at Lahore Fort, Pakistan
Tags: Historical Places
Published on: 27 June 2019
Insects and pests threatening Ajanta paintings
Tags: Historical Places
Published on: 20 October 2019
Parliament passes Jallianwala Bagh memorial Trust Bill
Tags: Historical Places
Published on: 20 November 2019
Monsoon decided history of Indian subcontinent
Tags: Historical Places
Published on: 23 December 2019
Sarcophagus dedicated to Sky god excavated in Egypt
Tags: Historical Places
Published on: 31 January 2020
Scientists to digitally create port city Poompuhar
Tags: Historical Places
Published on: 03 February 2020
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<li style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand",serif">It has been built by Archaeological Survey of India (ASI). It pays homage to hundreds of freedom fighters who do not find mention in popular culture.</span></span></span></li>
<li style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand",serif">It aims to inspire younger generation and letting them know the cost of freedom that the great fighters achieve by sacrificing their lives.</span></span></span></li>
<li style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand",serif">It attempts to document unsung hero’s contributions to India’s Freedom Struggle. It also pays tribute to selfless sacrifices of revolutionaries, brave women freedom fighters and valiant children. </span></span></span></li>
<li style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand",serif">It is digitised and interactive museum with state-of-the-art, informative and educational exhibition allowing visitors to engage with exhibits through multi-sensor technology.</span></span></span></li>
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<li style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand",serif">It will house India’s geological and palaeontological wealth in one location and make people aware of India’s prehistorical wealth.</span></span></span></li>
<li style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand",serif">It will be set up as public-private partnership. It will be located somewhere in NCR Delhi in Noida or Gurugram.</span></span></span></li>
<li style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand",serif">It will be modelled on American Museum of Natural History or Smithsonian museum in US. </span></span></span></li>
<li style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand",serif">It will organize several collections of fossils and important geological specimens at single place. </span></span></span></li>
<li style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand",serif">Moreover, it will serve as single site, accessible to public as well as researchers wanting to investigate rare and important finds. </span></span></span></li>
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<li style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand",serif">India has rich geological history and fossils dating back to breaking up of Gondwanaland super-continent nearly 150 million years ago.</span></span></span></li>
<li style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand",serif">It home to vast treasury of geological and palaeontological specimens ranging from dinosaur fossils to pre-human skulls, that contain wealth of scientific information about planet and its history. </span></span></span></li>
<li style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand",serif">Prominent fossils include jaw of an extinct ape, <em>Gigantopithecus bilaspurensi,</em> large dinosaur eggs and e skeleton of horned carnivore, <em>Rajasaurus narmadensis</em> (royal Narmada dinosaur). </span></span></span></li>
<li style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand",serif">But these rare historical specimens are scattered in different labs all over the country. Moreover, there is no such museum in India to showcase its natural heritage including fossils and geological features. </span></span></li>
<li style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand",serif">Most of developed countries have well organised museums for housing and display of pre-historic animals and plants</span></span></li>
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<p style="margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand","serif"">About National Maritime Heritage Museum</span></span></strong></span></span></p>
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<li><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand","serif"">The foundation stone for proposed museum was laid by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in March 2019. It will be located near ancient Indian site of Lothal in Gujarat.</span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand","serif"">The complex will be built in public-private partnership (PPP) model. It will have huge museum displaying India’s heritage of inland waterways and trade through water route.</span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand","serif"">Objective:</span></span></strong><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand","serif""> It will showcase and preserve India’s rich and diverse maritime heritage. It will also display objects relating to ships and travel on large bodies of water. It also intends to highlight the ancient shipbuilding and navigational technologies developed by India.</span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand","serif"">Implementing agencies:</span></span></strong><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand","serif""> It will be implemented Union Ministry of Shipping through its Sagarmala programme with support of Archaeological Survey of India (ASI), State government and other stakeholders. The Indian Navy is also keen to be a stakeholder in the project. Besides, Portuguese Navy also has agreed to assist with their experience of administering the maritime museum in Lisbon.</span></span></span></span></li>
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<p style="margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand","serif"">Lothal </span></span></strong></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand","serif"">It is located 85 kilometers away from Ahmedabad, Gujarat. It was centre of major maritime activities of Harappans civilization. It is one of the oldest man-made dockyards in India and the world. It displays engineering standards used during Harappan times in creating artificial dock. It also showcases high standards of scientific and engineering skill of that time which were far more advanced than anywhere else in the world in 3rd millennium BCE.</span></span></span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand","serif"">Chaukhandi Stupa </span></span></strong></span></span></p>
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<li><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand","serif"">It is said to be originally a terraced temple constructed during the Gupta period between 4th to 6th century. Presently, this stupa is high earthen mound covered with brickwork edifice topped by octagonal tower. It is maintained by ASI.</span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand","serif"">Significance:</span></span></strong><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand","serif""> It was built to mark site where Lord Buddha and his first disciples met traveling from Bodh Gaya to Sarnath.</span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand","serif"">Present shape to Chaukhandi Stupa: </span></span></strong><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand","serif"">It was given during reign of Govardhan, the son of Raja Todarmal. Under this rule, an octagonal tower was built to commemorate visit of Humayun, the great Mughal ruler.</span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand","serif"">Excavations:</span></span></strong><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand","serif""> Some Buddha and other statues found during excavations at Chaukhandi Stupa are said to be rare artefacts and classic examples of art from the Gupta period.</span></span></span></span></li>
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<p style="margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand","serif"">Background</span></span></strong></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand","serif"">What is Ancient Monument of National Importance?</span></span></strong><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand","serif""> Section 4 of Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Sites and Remains Act, 1958 empowers government to declare ancient monuments or archaeological sites which are of historical, archaeological or artistic interest and which have been in existence for not less than 100 years as of national importance.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand","serif"">Role of ASI:</span></span></strong><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand","serif""> The protection and maintenance of monuments, declared as of national importance is taken up by ASI by way of chemical preservation m structural repairs, environmental development around the monument.</span></span></span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in; text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand","serif"">Note:</span></span></strong><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand","serif""> Arabic horse Kahar Bahar was gifted to Maharaja Ranjit Singh by Dost Muhammad Khan, the founder of the Barazkai dynasty.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in; text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand","serif"">About Maharaja Ranjit Singh</span></span></strong></span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Heavy rains in catchment areas of Karnataka have resulted in flooding of World famous heritage site of Hampi.</span></span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Background</span></span></strong></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0in"> </p>
<p style="margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><span style="background-color:whitesmoke"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="color:#282828">Many places along the banks of Tungabhadra river, including the world heritage site Hampi, are facing flood threat after water was released from the Tungabhadra reservoir on Sunday morning.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><span style="background-color:whitesmoke"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="color:#282828">The reservoir was receiving heavy inflow, thanks to the downpour in Tungabhadra catchment area in the Western Ghats for the last one week</span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0in"> </p>
<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="background-color:whitesmoke"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="color:#282828">Hampi- UNESCO world Heritage site</span></span></span></span></strong></span></span></p>
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<li><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><span style="background-color:#f1f1f1"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="color:#2a2828">Hampi was the last capital of the Vijayanagara rulers. Its rulers built temples and palaces, which have been sites of admiration ever since. Constructed between the 14th and 16th centuries, the region was conquered and pillaged by the Deccan confederacy in 1565.</span></span></span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><span style="background-color:#f1f1f1"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="color:#2a2828">A popular tourist attraction in Karnataka, Hampi was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1986.</span></span></span></span></span></span></li>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="background-color:#f1f1f1"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="color:#2a2828">Monuments of Hampi</span></span></span></span></strong></span></span></p>
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<li><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><span style="background-color:#f1f1f1"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="color:#2a2828">Vittala Temple Complex</span></span></span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><span style="background-color:#f1f1f1"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="color:#2a2828">Virupaksha Temple</span></span></span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><span style="background-color:#f1f1f1"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="color:#2a2828">Virupaksha Bazar</span></span></span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><span style="background-color:#f1f1f1"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="color:#2a2828">Krishna Temple</span></span></span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><span style="background-color:#f1f1f1"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="color:#2a2828">Ugra Narasimha statue</span></span></span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><span style="background-color:#f1f1f1"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="color:#2a2828">Lotus Mahal</span></span></span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><span style="background-color:#f1f1f1"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="color:#2a2828">Elephant Stables</span></span></span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><span style="background-color:#f1f1f1"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="color:#2a2828">Hazara Rama Temple</span></span></span></span></span></span></li>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="background-color:#f1f1f1"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="color:#2a2828">Vijayanagara Empire</span></span></span></span></strong></span></span></p>
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<li><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><span style="background-color:white"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The Vijayanagara Empire (also called Karnata Empire,<sup>[3]</sup> and the Kingdom of Bisnegar by the Portuguese) </span></span></span><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><span style="background-color:white"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">was based in the Deccan Plateau region in South India</span></span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><span style="background-color:white"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">. It was established in 1336 by Harihara I and his brother Bukka Raya I of Sangama Dynasty. </span></span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><span style="background-color:white"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The empire rose to prominence as a culmination of attempts by the southern powers to ward off Islamic invasions by the end of the 13th century. It lasted until 1646, although its power declined after a major military defeat in the Battle of Talikota in 1565 by the combined armies of the Deccan sultanates. The empire is named after its capital city of Vijayanagara, whose ruins surround present day Hampi,</span></span></span></span></span></li>
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<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Background</strong></span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-right:0in"> </p>
<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Details</strong></span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The researchers who conducted the study contend that the theory of the Harappans having Steppe pastoral or ancient Iranian farmer ancestry thus stands refuted. The finding also negates the hypothesis about mass migration during Harappan times from outside South Asia.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Researchers have successfully sequenced the first genome of an individual from Harappa and combining it with archaeological data, found that hunter-gatherers of South Asia had an independent origin, and authored the settled way of life in this part of the world.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The study, he said, finds that the same hunter-gatherer communities developed into agricultural communities and formed the Harappan civilisation.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The researchers also suggest that there was a movement of people from east to west as the Harappan people’s presence is evident at sites like Gonur in Turkmenistan and Sahr-i-Sokhta in Iran.</span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Other Information</strong></span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Indus valley Civilization</strong></span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The Indus Valley Civilization was an ancient civilization located in what is Pakistan and northwest India today, on the fertile flood plain of the Indus River and its vicinity. </span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Evidence of religious practices in this area date back approximately to 5500 BCE.</span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The Aryan were central Asian Steppe pastoralists who arrived in India between roughly 2000 BCE and 1500 BCE, and brought Indo-European languages to the subcontinent.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Importantly, the two recent studies are based on 12 ancient DNA samples: one from Rakhigarhi, 8 from Shahr-i-Sokhta in eastern Iran and three from Gonur in BMAC.</span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Details</strong></span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The primary source of ancestry for today’s South Asians is a mixture of First Indians and a people related to the hunter-gatherers of Iran. This mixed population created the agricultural revolution in northwestern India and built the Harappan Civilisation.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">When the Harappan Civilisation declined after 2000 BCE due to a long drought, the Harappans moved south-eastwards (from northwestern India) to mix with other First Indians to form the <strong>Ancestral South Indian</strong> (ASI) population whose descendants live in <strong>south India</strong> today.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The Harappans also mixed with Steppe pastoralists who had migrated to north India through Central Asia, to form the <strong>Ancestral North Indian</strong> (ANI) population.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The Steppe ancestry of the people of both South Asia and Eastern Europe in the Bronze Age explains how the movements of the Central Asians between the two regions caused the well-known similarities between the Indo-Iranian and Balto-Slavic languages.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">It has also been found that the genome of IVC people lacked steppe ancestry as widely believeds earlier.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">This indicates that the Steppe migrations to India happened after the decline of the Harappan Civilisation.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The earlier study on Genomic Formation of South and Central Asia said the migrants from Iran who mixed with First Indians were herders. The new study says the Iranians arrived in India before agriculture or even herding had begun anywhere in the world.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">This means that these migrants were likely to have been hunter-gatherers, i.e they did not bring the knowledge of agriculture<span style="background-color:whitesmoke"><span style="color:#282828">.</span></span></span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Background</strong></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The report titled, ‘<strong>Keeladi-An Urban Settlement of Sangam Age on the Banks of River Vaigai’</strong>, was published by the TNAD and released recently bt the tamil Nadu government, which reported this findings.</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Details</strong></span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The report, place Keeladi artefacts about 300 years earlier than previously believed era of 3rd century BCE.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The results from the excavations suggest that the “second urbanisation of Vaigai plains happened in Tamil Nadu around 6th century BCE as it happened in Gangetic plains.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The recent scientific dates obtained for Keeladi findings push back the date of Tamil-Brahmi script to another century, i.e., 6th century BCE.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Fifty-six Tamil-Brahmi inscribed potsherds were also recovered from the site of excavation .</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Pottery specimens from Keeladi sent for mineral analysis, confirmed that water containers and cooking vessels were shaped out of locally available raw materials.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The next round of excavations are underway to determine further studies.</span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Keeladi</strong></span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Keeladi is a <strong>Sangam period</strong> residence that is being excavated by the Archaeological Survey of India.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">This excavation site is located 12 km southeast of Madurai in Tamil Nadu, near the town of Keeladi in Sivagangai district.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">It is found on the shores of river Vaigai and it brings out the culture of Tamils</span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Background</strong></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Ajanta caves are one of the most famous and sought after tourist destination in India after the Taj Mahal. The caves are famous for their ancient paintings and sculptures depicting Buddhist culture.</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0in"> </p>
<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Details</strong></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Ajanta Caves</strong></span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The Ajanta Caves are 30 (approximately) rock-cut Buddhist cave monuments which date from the 2nd century BCE to about 480 CE in Aurangabad district of Maharashtra state of India.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The caves include paintings and rock-cut sculptures described as among the finest surviving examples of ancient Indian art.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The site is a protected monument in the care of the Archaeological Survey of India, and since 1983, the Ajanta Caves have been a <strong>UNESCO World Heritage Site</strong>.</span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Art</strong></span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The paintings in the Ajanta caves predominantly narrate the Jataka tales. These are Buddhist legends describing the previous births of the Buddha.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">These fables embed ancient morals and cultural lores that are also found in the fables and legends of Hindu and Jain texts.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The paintings are in "dry fresco", painted on top of a dry plaster surface rather than into wet plaster.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Famous paintings include <strong>Bodhisattva Padmapani,King Janaka and wife, Persian ambassador, Buddha painting, Doorway painting</strong>.</span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Graves of Chalukyan rulers have been found in a village near Huligemmanakolla in Pattadakal of Bagalkot district in <strong>Karnataka</strong>.</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0in"> </p>
<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Background</strong></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> The Chalukyan kings were famous for building gigantic temples with intricate architecture in places such as Aihole, Badami and Pattadakal in Bagalkot district. There are 11 small temple-like structures in Huligemmanakolla that are believed to be the final resting place of the royal family.</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0in"> </p>
<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Details</strong></span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The Chalukyan kings built marvellous monuments and temples, but there are no clear details available of the places where they lived including their graves, which they had kept discreet.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The discovered area contains small temples built over linga, which is assumed to be graves of the Chalukyan royal family.</span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Chalukyas</strong></span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The Chalukya dynasty was established by Pulakeshin I in 543 AD. <strong>Pulakeshin I</strong> took Vatapi (modern Badami in Bagalkot district, Karnataka) under his control and made it his capital. </span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Pulakeshin I and his descendants are referred to as "<strong>Chalukyas of Badami</strong>". </span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Pulakeshin II, the most famous ruler, extended the Chalukya Empire up to the northern extents of the Pallava kingdom and halted the southward march of <strong>Harsha</strong>, belonging to <strong>Pushyabhuti</strong> dynasty by defeating him on the banks of the river <strong>Narmada.</strong></span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Architecture</strong></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Their style of architecture is called "Chalukyan architecture" , "Karnata Dravida architecture" or the “Vesara Style” of architecture, which is the fusion between northern “Nagara” style and southern “Dravida” style.</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0in"> </p>
<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Badami Cave temples</strong></span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Badami cave temples have rock-cut halls with three basic features: pillared veranda, columned hall and a sanctum cut out deep into rock.</span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Pattadkal temples</strong></span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Virupaksha temple</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Papanatha temple</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Mallikarjuna temple</span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Sangameshwara temple</span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Aihole temples</strong></span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Lad khan temple</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Durga temple</span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Suryanarayan temple</span></span></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Ravana Phadi temple</span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Contributions</strong></span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">A Southern India-based kingdom took control and consolidated the entire region between the Kaveri and the Narmada rivers. </span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The rise of this empire saw the birth of <strong>efficient administration, overseas trade and commerce.</strong></span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Kannada literature, which had enjoyed royal support in the 9th century Rashtrakuta court found eager patronage from the Western Chalukyas.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The Chalukyas provided patronage to various religions and traditions such as Jainism, Veerashaiva etc and allowed them to prosper.</span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The Archaelogical Survey of India(ASI) is planning to declare the Rangdum monastery, located in Kargil district of Jammu and Kashmir, a monument of national importance.</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Background</strong></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> The centre is looking at bringing more monuments under protection in order to boost tourism in the region , after its decision to split Jammu and Kashmir into two Union Territories J&K and Ladakh.</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Details</strong></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Rangdum Monastery</strong> is a Tibetan Buddhist monastery belonging to the Gelugpa sect, located in the Suru Valley, in Ladakh.</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Famous Monastries</strong></span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Hemis Monastery</strong></span></span></p>
</li>
</ul>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">It is a Tibetan Buddhist monastery (gompa) of the Drukpa Lineage, in Hemis, Ladakh, India. It is situated near Leh in Jammu and Kashmir State, on the West bank of river Indus.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Tabo Monastery</strong></span></span></p>
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</ul>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">It is located in the Tabo village of Spiti Valley, Himachal Pradesh, India</span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Tsulglagkhang Monastery</strong></span></span></p>
</li>
</ul>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">This is the home for His Holiness Dalai Lama and is situated in Maclodganj suburb of Dharamshala district in Himachal Pradesh.</span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Thiksey Monastery</strong></span></span></p>
</li>
</ul>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">It is a gompa (monastery) affiliated with the Gelug sect of Tibetan Buddhism. It is located on top of a hill in Thiksey village near Leh in Ladakh.</span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Tawang Monastery</strong></span></span></p>
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</ul>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">It is located in Tawang city of Tawang district in the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh, is the largest monastery in India and second largest in the world .</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Rumtek Monastery - </strong>Gangtok, Sikkim</span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Nako Monastery - </strong>Himachal Pradesh</span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Matho Monastery - </strong>Ladakh</span></span></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Alchi Gompa Monastery -</strong> Ladakh</span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Lingdum Monastery - </strong>Sikkim</span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Kye Gompa Monastery - </strong>Himachal Pradesh</span></span></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Ghum Monastery - </strong>West Bengal</span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Shashur Monastery -</strong> Himachal Pradesh</span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Bylakuppe Monastery – </strong>Karnataka</span></span></p>
</li>
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<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Background</strong></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Ajanta caves are classic masterpiece of Buddhist art and is a UNESCO world heritage site and a protected monument of the Archaeological Survey of India.</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0in"> </p>
<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Details</strong></span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">A research team from National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (CSIR-NEERI) has looked at all the available literature on the Ajanta caves and mapped out the different factors causing this damage.</span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">They have also mentioned a few environmentally friendly solutions to the problem that can help preserve them from the threat.</span></span></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The team writes that the most common insects were silverfish, beetles and common bugs.</span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Another main problem was the entry of rainwater and water from the <strong>Waghura</strong> River which lead to dampness in the cave atmosphere causing an increase in algae, fungi, insects, and microbes. </span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">These factors together were changing the original colour of the paintings, where white is turning to yellow and blue is becoming green.</span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The researchers found that a mixture of hemp, clay, and lime plaster was considered efficient for preserving paintings and carvings in nearby Ellora caves, but this method was not used in Ajanta caves. </span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Studies have shown that basal layer of the murals was made of mud plaster and organic matter such as paddy husks, grass, vegetable fibres, thus making it a good breeding place for microbes and insects.</span></span></p>
</li>
</ul>
<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Protective measures</strong></span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The study has suggested using certain lights and colour to tackle the problem of insects such as using ultraviolet light traps, as nocturnal insects are known to get attracted to ultraviolet radiation.</span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Yellow lamps can also be an excellent tool to effectively control moths, which are diurnal and attracted to yellow light.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Spraying of insecticides and herbicides, fixing the loose plaster on cave walls, regular cleaning and use of preservative coating on the painting.</span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Ajanta Caves</strong></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The Ajanta Caves are 30 rock-cut Buddhist cave monuments which date from the 2nd century BCE to about 480 CE in Aurangabad district of Maharashtra.</span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Germany<strong> </strong>has marked three decades since the fall of the Berlin Wall. A hint of a return of the Cold War and the rise of nationalism is dampening the mood.</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Background</strong></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The fall of the wall that divided post-war Europe had led to hopes of a liberal democratic era and disarmament three decades ago but has not changed yet.</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Details</strong></span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The Berlin Wall was a wall that separated the city of Berlin in Germany from 1961 to 1989.</span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">It separated the eastern half from the western half. Many people think it was a symbol of the Cold War. The Berlin Wall was taken down on November 9, 1989.</span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">After World War II ended, Germany was divided into four zones, one zone for each of the main Allied countries: France, the United Kingdom, the United States and the Soviet Union. </span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Its capital Berlin was also divided into four zones, so that it was an enclave, like an island inside the Soviet zone.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">On May 8, 1949, the French, United Kingdom and US zones were made into West Germany and West Berlin. The Soviet zones were made into East Germany and East Berlin.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">After Germany split into West and East Germany many East Germans left to go to West Germany. In Berlin alone, 3.6 million people fled to the west.</span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> To stop this, the Communist government of East Germany built a wall separating East and West Berlin.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">In October 1989 mass demonstrations against the government in East Germany began. In November, 1989, the Central Committee of East Germany decided to make it easier for East Germans to pass through the wall.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Less than one year after the Berlin Wall was broken down, Germany again became one country.</span></span></p>
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</ul>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p>
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'description' => '<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Issue</strong></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Parliament has passed the Jallianwala Bagh National Memorial (Amendment) Bill, 2019. Rajya Sabha approved the bill on 19th November while Lok Sabha had passed it in the last session.</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0in"> </p>
<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Background</strong></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> The Act provides for the erection of a National Memorial in memory of those killed or wounded on April 13, 1919, in Jallianwala Bagh, Amritsar. In addition, it creates a Trust to manage the National Memorial.</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0in"> </p>
<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Details</strong></span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The Bill seeks to amend the Jallianwala Bagh National Memorial Act, 1951. It has a provision to remove the President of the Congress party as a trustee and clarifies that when there is no Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha, the leader of the single largest Opposition party will be the trustee.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Under the 1951 Act, the Trustees of the Memorial include: </span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">(i) the Prime Minister as Chairperson, (ii) President of the Indian National Congress, (iii) Minister in-charge of Culture, (iv) Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha, (v) Governor of Punjab, (vi) Chief Minister of Punjab, and (vii) three eminent persons nominated by the central government. </span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The Bill amends this provision to remove the President of the Indian National Congress as a Trustee. Further, it clarifies that when there is no Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha, then the leader of the single largest opposition party will be the Trustee.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The Bill also allows the Central government to terminate the term of a nominated trustee before the expiry of the period of his term, without assigning any reason.</span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Jallianwala Bagh Massacre</strong></span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The Jallianwala Bagh massacre took place on 13 April 1919 when Acting Brigadier-General <strong>Reginald Dyer</strong> ordered troops of the British Indian Army to fire their rifles into a crowd of unarmed civilians in Jallianwala Bagh, Amritsar, Punjab.</span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The government had sent a notification to ban all meetings under the Rowlatt Act during Baisakhi but it was not widely circulated.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Many villagers had gathered in the Bagh to celebrate the important Sikh festival of Baisakhi, and peacefully protest the arrest and deportation of two national leaders, <strong>Satyapal</strong> and<strong> Saifuddin Kitchlew</strong>. </span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Dyer was initially lauded for his actions in Britain and became a hero among many who were directly benefiting from the British Raj, such as members of the House of Lords.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">He was, however, widely criticised in the House of Commons, whose July 1920 committee of investigation censured him.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">This incident shocked <strong>Rabindranath Tagore</strong> to such extent that he renounced his <strong>knighthood</strong>.</span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>The Rowlatt Act or The Anarchical and Revolutionary Crimes Act of 1919</strong></span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">This act effectively authorized the government to imprison any person suspected of terrorism living in British India for up to two years without a trial, and gave the imperial authorities power to deal with all revolutionary activities.It was named after its president, British judge <strong>Sir Sidney Rowlatt.</strong> </span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The Government of India repealed the Rowlatt Act, the Press Act, and twenty-two other laws in March 1922.</span></span></p>
</li>
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<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Rowlatt Satyagraha</strong></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>M. K Gandhi</strong> started campaign against Rowlatt bill and set up Satyagraha Sabha 24th February AD 1919 at Bombay. It was also called the ‘<strong>Himalayan Blunder</strong>’ for its failure to curb violence.</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0in"> </p>
<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>The Hunter Commission</strong></span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The government of India formed a committee of inquiry to investigate the Jallianwala Bagh shootings. On October 14, 1919, the Government of India announced the formation of the Disorders Inquiry Committee. </span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The committee was commonly known as Hunter Commission after the name of chairman, Lord William Hunter. It also had no Indian members.</span></span></p>
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'description' => '<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Issue</strong></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The items collected during research from the Karim Shahi in Rann of Kutch region revealed that humans occupied that region from Early Iron Age to the Early Historic (3,100 – 2,300 years) period.</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0in"> </p>
<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Background</strong></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> Recent research article that says that this region might have been home to the early Iron Age settlements about 3,000 years ago. The region was also inhabited during the Medieval periods of about 1,500 to 900 years ago.</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0in"> </p>
<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Details</strong></span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Researchers from IIT Kharagpur during their geological explorations stumbled upon artefacts like pitchers, jewellery, jars, figurines. </span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Using modern luminescence and radiocarbon methods, the team tried to date them, which revealed that these items were the earliest to be found in the presently arid Rann of Kutch and the Thar Desert.</span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The Bronze age Indus Valley civilisation started declining around 4,000 years and finally collapsed at 3,300 years before present.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">After this period there is no evidence of any settlements in the Indus valley region. This was called the ‘Dark Age’.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The Karim Shahi region was found to be very close to sea-level and based on the artefacts collected it has been pointed out that this region could have been a local trade center. The people are believed to have traded jewellery and pottery. </span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Also, Chinese and Persian pottery were found at the Vigakot site indicating that it was a hub for a long-distance trade both through sea and land from China through India to West Asia.</span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Sedimentological observation revealed that below these settlements, there was evidence of riverine system. </span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Carbon isotopes and pollens in these sediments revealed that there was gradual increase in grasslands and plant communities that thrive in arid environments.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The Monsoon started to decline 7000 years ago. Eventhough Harappan people had adopted water conservation techniques, they were forced to migrate from early Iron Age till medieval time.</span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Researchers from Physical Research Laboratory (PRL), Ahmedabad, and Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, have analysed sand from 3-10 metres below surface of modern <strong>Ghaggar</strong> river and found that it was indeed a perennial river, fed by glacial rivers in the past.</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0in"> </p>
<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Background</strong></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The Rig veda mentions a mighty, snow-fed river Saraswati on whose banks the literature was supposed to be derived. Today, the Ghaggar is a seasonal, monsoon-fed river originating in the sub-Himalayas. </span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0in"> </p>
<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Details</strong></span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The Indus valley civilisation which flourished in present day northwestern India and adjacent Pakistan was the largest and oldest urban civilisation in the world. </span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Nearly two-thirds of the 1,500 archaeological sites of the Harappans occur on the dried up banks of the Ghaggar river.</span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Coarse-grained white or grey sands that contain abundant white mica are typical of glacier-fed Higher Himalayan rivers such as the Ganga, Yamuna and Sutlej. </span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Researchers found such sand layers 3-10 metres below the surface on both sides of the modern Ghaggar in a stretch of 300 kilometres up to the Pakistan border.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Presence of this sand itself is an indication of existence of a powerful river in the past. </span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The team identified the source of these sands by studying the <strong>strontium-neodymium isotopic</strong> <strong>ratios</strong>. </span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">They also measured the ages of the mica samples in the sand by <strong>argon-argon dating method</strong>. </span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">It was found that the isotopic ratios and Ar-Ar ages overlap with those of the rocks of the Higher Himalaya, thus establishing that these sands have been transported by the river from Higher Himalaya to the plains.</span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The team established the depositional ages of the samples by radiocarbon dating and optical dating of mollusk shells found in the deposit. </span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The researchers thus established that the ancient Ghaggar transported sands from glaciated regions of the Higher Himalaya.</span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The key result of the research is that the river Ghaggar had two distinct perennial phases: one during 80,000-20,000 years ago and the other during 9,000-4,500 years ago.</span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">On the basis of the data the researchers show that the <strong>Sutlej</strong> River was flowing into the Ghaggar River to make it perennial for the Early Harappans.</span></span></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The researchers say that the revived perennial condition of the Ghaggar, between 9,000 and 4,500 years ago can be correlated with the Rig vedic Saraswati, and that it likely facilitated development of the early Harappan settlements along its banks.</span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Perennial and non-perennial rivers</strong></span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Perennial rivers are those rivers which exhibit a continuous flow of water throughout the year except during extreme drought. Examples: <strong>Indus</strong>, <strong>Ganges</strong>, <strong>Brahmaputra</strong>. </span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Non-perennial rivers are those rivers which have no flow for at least a part of the year. Examples : <strong>Mahanadi</strong>, <strong>Krishna</strong>, <strong>Narmada</strong>, <strong>Tapi</strong>, <strong>Godavari</strong>.</span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">A recent study by researchers at Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur (IIT-KGP) has revealed that abrupt changes in the Indian monsoon in the last 900 years decided the course of human history in the subcontinent.</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0in"> </p>
<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Details</strong></span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Abrupt changes in Indian summer monsoon strength during the last 900 years and their linkages to socio-economic conditions in the Indian subcontinent. </span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The study highlights that decline of Indian dynasties was linked to weak monsoon and reduced food production.</span></span></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Deficient rainfall led to the collapse of the Mansabdari system, started by Mughal emperor Akbar, in the late 17th century. Similarly, drought interspersed with violent monsoon rains sounded the death knell for the Khmer empire of south-east Asia in the 15th century.</span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Several dynasties, such as the Sena in Bengal, Solanki in Gujarat in the mid-13th century and Paramara and Yadav in the early to mid-14th century, all of which flourished during abundant rainfall, declined during the dry phases of Indian summer monsoon (ISM), suggesting role of the climate in the socio-political crisis.</span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The study highlights strong monsoon during Medieval Climate Anomaly and Current Warm Period and phases of weak and strong monsoon in Little Ice Age.</span></span></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The study suggests that from the beginning of the 19 century, the changes in the ISM became more abrupt with a rise in atmospheric temperature that coincides with the dawn of the Industrial Revolution.</span></span></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The scientists also said that they were doing similar work extending their Palaeoclimatic study to 6000 years ago to see the impact of climate change on Indus Valley civilization and on population migrations.</span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Mansabdari system</strong></span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Mansabdari System was a system introduced by Akbar for military administration and territorial commands (grant and revenue) to sustain parts of army.</span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The Mansabdari system was borrowed from the system followed in Mongolia. The Mughal officers whether Hindus or Muslims were granted territorial commands in return for the military service.</span></span></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">They had to bring in some fixed number of men-at-arms, horses and elephants to the field and were rated as per the numbers which was known as Zats. So they were called Mansabdars of 10, 20, 100, and 1000 and so on.</span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Lakhs of people paid their tributes at the “Jaystambh” (victory pillar) in Perne village in Pune district of Maharashtra<strong> </strong>on the occasion of the 202nd anniversary of the Bhima- Koregaon battle.</span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Background</strong></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The Bhima Koregaon obelisk is dedicated to the Mahar British soldiers who fought against the Peshwa forces in the 1818 battle. </span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0in"> </p>
<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Details</strong></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Bhima Koregaon </strong></span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The 1818 Battle of Koregaon is of communal importance for the Dalits. On 1 January 1818, 800 troops of the British Army, with small number of Mahars (leather workers) predominant among them, defeated a numerically superior force of the <strong>Peshwa Baji Rao II</strong>. </span></span></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">A victory pillar (Vijay Sthamb) was erected in Koregaon by the British, commemorating the dead soldiers. In 1928, the Dalit leader B. R. Ambedkar led the first commemoration ceremony here. </span></span></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Since then, on 1 January every year, Ambedkarite Dalits gather at Bhima Koregaon to celebrate their victory against the upper caste Peshwa regime, whom they see as their oppressors.</span></span></p>
</li>
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<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Battle of Koregaon</strong></span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The Battle of Koregaon (also called the Battle of Koregaon Bhima, after the river <strong>Bhima</strong> that flows close to it) was fought on <strong>1 January 1818</strong> between the British East India Company and the <strong>Peshwa faction of the Maratha Confederacy</strong>, at Koregaon Bhima.</span></span></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The battle was part of the <strong>Third Anglo Maratha</strong> <strong>war</strong>, a series of battles that culminated in the defeat of the Maratha empire (under the Peshwas) and subsequent rule of the British East India Company in nearly all of Western, Central and Southern India. The company forces were led by <strong>Captain Francis Staunton.</strong></span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Tension mounted in Nankana Sahib in Pakistan when a man hurled stones at Gurdwara Janam Asthan, the birthplace of Guru Nanak Dev, and threatened to convert it into a mosque.</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0in"> </p>
<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Background</strong></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Nankana Sahib is a city in Pakistan’s Punjab province, where Gurdwara Janam Asthan (also called Nankana Sahib Gurdwara) is located. The shrine is built over the site where Guru Nanak, the founder of Sikhism, was believed to be born in 1469. </span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0in"> </p>
<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Details</strong></span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Besides Gurdwara Janam Asthan, Nankana Sahib has several important shrines, including Gurdwara Patti Sahib, Gurdwara Bal Leela, Gurdwara Mal Ji Sahib, Gurdwara Kiara Sahib, Gurdwara Tambu Sahib, all dedicated to stages in the life of the first Guru. There is also a Gurdwara in memory of Guru Arjan (5th Guru) and Guru Hargobind (6th Guru).</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The Janam Asthan shrine was constructed by Maharaja Ranjit Singh, after he visited Nankana Sahib in 1818-19 while returning from the Battle of Multan.</span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">During British rule, the Gurdwara Janam Asthan was the site of a violent episode when in 1921, over 130 Akali Sikhs were killed after they were attacked by the Mahant of the shrine.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The incident is regarded as one of the key milestones in the Gurdwara Reform Movement, which led to the passing of the Sikh Gurdwara Act in 1925 that ended the Mahant control of Gurdwaras.</span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Gurudwara Reform Movement</strong></span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The Akali Movement also known as Gurdwara Reform Movement came into full swing from the early 1920's. Its aim was to bring reform in the working and management of Sikh Gurdwaras. </span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The Akali Movement was created to free the Sikhs historic Gurdwaras from Mahants who were supported by the British rule.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Eventually the Gurdwara Reform Act was passed in July 1925 which placed all Gurdwaras in Punjab under Panthic control. This control was to be exercised through elected Panthic bodies viz, Shiromani Gurdwara Prabandak Committee and local Gurdwara Committees.</span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The Alamparai Fort, which was once a thriving port and mint of the Muslim and French rulers, is set to regain its majesty after 350 years.</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0in"> </p>
<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Background</strong></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The funding for the conservation and restoration project has come from the Asian Development Bank, which has allotted ?8.02 crore for the initiative.</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0in"> </p>
<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Details</strong></span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Situated along the Chennai-Puducherry East Coast Road in Madurantakam taluk of Kancheepuram district, the 15-acre brick and lime square structure was built by the Muslim rulers in the 17th century AD.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">It was under the control of Nawab Dost Ali Khan in 1735, and was gifted to French Governor Joseph François Dupleix in 1750.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Important commodities like salt, cloth and ghee were exported from Alamparai, which is situated close to the Marakkanam port.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Alamparai, a flourishing place of trade and commerce, fell into oblivion when the British, led by Sir Thomas Eyre Coote, captured the fort in 1760 and inflicted damage on it.</span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Carnatic Wars</strong></span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">In the 18th century, three Carnatic Wars were fought between various Indian rulers and British and French East India Company on either side. These wars resulted in establishment of political supremacy of British East India Company.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The French company was reduced in the areas around Pondicherry only. Commercial and maritime rivalry between France and England was the primary reason for the wars.</span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>First war (1744-48)</strong></span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The war began with British Fleet arrived on Coromandel Coast and they started capturing the French Ships. </span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">French asked backup forces from Mauritius. When these forces came, they attacked British, captured Madras and imprisoned the British Company servants. </span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">To recapture Madras from French, Nawab of Arcot sent troops to Fort St George but the forces of Nawab were defeated by French.</span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">In 1748, the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle ended the war in Europe and this also restored the peace between France and England. With this treaty, Madras was restored to the English for some territories (Louisburg) in North America.</span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Second war (1749-54)</strong></span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">A victory over Indian Nawab in first war boosted the confidence of Dupleix, who now thought to expand influence in South India.</span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">In 1748 he saw an opportunity when Nizam of Hyderabad Asaf Jah I died and a war for succession broke out. There was a trouble in Arcot also.</span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Dupleix pledged French support for Nizam’s grandson Muzaffar Zang for Hyderabad and Chanda Sahib for Arcot.</span></span></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">British pledged support to Nasir Zang for Hyderabad and Muhammad Ali for Arcot.</span></span></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">French protégé Muzaffar Zang was killed. French quickly put his nominee Salabat Zang on throne and maintained French Influence on Hyderabad for several years.</span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Robert Clive, who was a Clerk at that time in the Company suggest to attack on Arcot. This plan was approved, Arcot was occupied Chanda Sahib was captured and executed. Mohammad Ali was made Nawab of Arcot / Carnatic.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">French and British signed a treaty of Pondicherry in 1755 and by this both countries agreed to not to interfere in quarrels of Indian princes.</span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Third War (1757-63)</strong></span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The conflict between the France and England got renewed in 1756 in Europe, in the form of Seven Years War, which is coterminous with the Third Carnatic war.</span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The Third Carnatic War put an end to the French ambitions to create a colonial empire in India. The British Forces were able to capture the French Settlements at Chandranagar in 1757.</span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The British Forces were able to capture the French Settlements at Chandranagar in 1757. The French forces in south were led by Comte De Lally. The British forces under Sir Eyre Coote, defeated the French in the Battle of Wandiwash in 1760 and besieged Pondicherry.</span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Egypt’s Antiquities Ministry has unveiled the tombs of ancient high priests and a sarcophagus dedicated to the sky god <strong>Horus</strong> at an archaeological site in <strong>Minya</strong> governorate.</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0in"> </p>
<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Background</strong></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Egypt<strong> </strong>has in recent years sought to promote archaeological discoveries across the country in a bid to revive tourism, which took a hit from the turmoil that followed its 2011 uprising.</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0in"> </p>
<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Details</strong></span></span></p>
<ul>
<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The mission found 16 tombs containing 20 sarcophagi, some engraved with hieroglyphics, at the <strong>Al-Ghoreifa</strong> site, about 300 km south of Cairo.</span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The shared tombs were dedicated to high priests of the god Djehuty and senior officials, from the Late Period around 3,000 years ago. </span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">They were from the 15th nome, an ancient Egyptian territorial division ruled over by a Provincial Governor.</span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">One of the stone sarcophagi was dedicated to the god Horus, the son of Isis and Osiris, and features a depiction of the goddess Nut spreading her wings. </span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The ministry also unveiled 10,000 blue and green ushabti (funerary figurines), 700 amulets bearing scarab shapes, and one bearing the figure of a winged cobra.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Painted limestone canopic jars, which the ancient Egyptians used to store the entrails of their mummified dead, were also unearthed.</span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Background</strong></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The heritage sites with on-site museum are <strong>Rakhigarhi</strong> (Haryana), <strong>Hastinapur</strong> (Uttar Pradesh), <strong>Sivsagar</strong> (Assam), <strong>Dholavira</strong> (Gujarat) and <strong>Adichanallur</strong> (Tamil Nadu).</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0in"> </p>
<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Details</strong></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Rakhigarhi</strong></span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Rakhigarhi in Haryana’s Hissar district is one of the most prominent and largest sites of the Harappan civilisation. It is one among the five known townships of the Harappan civilisation in the Indian subcontinent.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">In one of the excavations, the skeletal remains of a couple were discovered. Interestingly, of the 62 graves discovered in Rakhigarhi, only this particular grave consisted of more than one skeletal remains and of individuals of the opposite sex together.</span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Hastinapur</strong></span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Hastinapur finds mention in the Mahabharata and the Puranas. One of the most significant discoveries made at this site was of the “new ceramic industry”, which was named the Painted Grey Ware, which as per the report represented the relics of the early Indo-Aryans.</span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The sites of Hastinapur, Mathura, Kurukshetra, Barnawa, etc., are identifiable with those of the same name mentioned in the Mahabharata. If that be so, the Painted Grey Ware would be associated with the early settlers on these sites, viz. The Pauravas, Panchalas, etc., who formed a part of the early Aryan stock in India.</span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Shivsagar</strong></span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">In Sivasagar, excavations at the Karenghar (Talatalghar) complex between 2000 and 2003 led to the discovery of buried structures in the north-western and north-eastern side of the complex.</span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Among the structural remains found at the site were ceramic assemblages including vases, vessels, dishes, and bowls, etc. Terracotta smoking pipes were also found.</span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Another excavation site in Sivasagar district is the Garhgaon Raja’s palace. A burnt-brick wall running in north-south orientation was found, along with the remains of two huge circular wooden posts.</span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Dholavira</strong></span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Dholavira in Gujarat is located in the Khadir island of the Rann of Kutch, and like Rakhigarhi is one of the sites where the remains of the Harappan civilisation have been found.</span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Dholavira is unique because remains of a complete water system have been found here. </span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The people who lived there for an estimated 1,200 years during the Harappan civilisation are noted for their water conservation system using rainwater harvesting techniques in an otherwise parched landscape.</span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Adichnallur</strong></span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Adichnallur lies in the Thoothukudi district of Tamil Nadu. The urn-burial site was first brought to light during a “haphazard excavation” by a German archaeologist in 1876.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Over the years, the site has gained attention because of three important findings: the discovery of an ancient Tamil-Brahmi script on the inside of an urn containing a full human skeleton, a fragment of a broken earthenware, and the remains of living quarters.</span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The Chola Dynasty port city in Tamil Nadu that vanished from maritime history around 1,000 years ago will be digitally reconstructed by a team led by the Department of Science and Technology.</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0in"> </p>
<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Background</strong></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The reconstruction of Poompuhar is part of DST’s Indian Digital Heritage project. An exhibition of its first project ‘Digital Hampi’ is currently on display at the National Museum.</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0in"> </p>
<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Details</strong></span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">There are exhaustive narrations in works of Sangam Tamil literature to infer that the city, located 30 km from the existing Poompuhar town in southern TN, was submerged due to “<em>kadalkol</em>” or rising sea levels.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Despite several studies on Tamil literature, archaeology, history, epigraphy, underwater exploration and geosciences, the mystery of the exact location of initial establishment of Poompuhar, its age, later shifts, along with periods, time-series spatial evolution in the present location at the mouth of river Cauvery, and the reasons and periods of its extinction, remain unresolved.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The study involves underwater surveys and photography by remotely operated vehicles and sea bed drilling, remote sensing-based geodynamic studies to bring out comprehensive information on the time series evolution and extinction. </span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">It also involves the visualisation of geodynamic processes of the last 20,000 years like land subsidence, sea-level rise, Cauvery’s migration, floods, tsunami, cyclones and erosion. The information extracted from the studies will help digitally reconstruct the life history of Poompuhar.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Initial studies carried out by the Indian Remote Sensing Satellites show that the city was established initially in the Cauvery Delta-A about 30km away from the present town around 15,000 years ago.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">It shifted further 10 km to the west to Delta-B around 11,000 years ago and again further 10 km west to Delta-C around 8000 years ago. Finally, it was re-established at the present location at the mouth of the river Cauvery around 3,000 years ago.</span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">A mound in Sirsa indistinguishable from the dusty background of most Haryana small towns could hold clues to the ancient city of ‘<strong>Sarishika’</strong>.</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0in"> </p>
<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Background</strong></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Falling on the old route to Takshashila, the 6th-5th century BC city found mention in the Mahabharata, Panini’s Ashtadhyayi and the Buddhist text Divyavadana.</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0in"> </p>
<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Details</strong></span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Before the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) can confirm the historicity of the site, it has to convince the nearly 50,000 people living on the identified 82 acres to move.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">There is also a dispute over the size of the protected area, with surveys by the ASI and government departments such as Revenue and Archaeology and Museums coming up with different figures.</span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The government is said to be trying to see if the ASI can take the parts of Ther that are heavily inhabited out of the protected zone.</span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The ASI found numerous antiquarian remains, ranging from the Gupta to the Mughal period in three months of excavation, but needs more time to verify the facts.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Following an affidavit to court regarding the area for protection, a joint survey conducted by the ASI and Haryana’s Archaeological and Museums Department too had put the Ther area at 82 acres.</span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">An archaeological excavation carried out in the trenches at Dhaba in the upper Son river valley in central India has found evidence of human occupation in this area almost 80,000 years ago.</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0in"> </p>
<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Background</strong></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> The international team of researchers found evidence of the continuous presence of humans in this region between 80,000 years ago and 65,000 years ago.</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0in"> </p>
<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Details</strong></span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The lithic industry (stone tools) from Dhaba strongly resembles stone tool assemblages from the African Middle Stone Age (MSA) and Arabia, and the earliest artefacts from Australia, suggesting that it is likely the product of <em>Homo sapiens</em> as they dispersed eastward out of Africa.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">This finding is important in the face of competing theories on the first presence of human populations in different regions of the world and on human dispersal from Africa.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">About 74,000 years ago, the Toba volcanic super-eruption, centred around Sumatra, is believed to have caused an almost decade-long spell of cold weather across many parts of the Earth. </span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">There is an argument that this induced winter not only led to the cooling of the Earth’s surface for almost a thousand years since the eruption, but also destroyed huge populations of hominins.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The hypothesis is that the ‘volcanic winter’ caused a bottleneck in the gene pool of humans, because only a few survived who were in Africa at the time. Later, this population is believed to have emerged from Africa and colonised different parts of the world. </span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">However, the present study rules out this hypothesis as it implies that a population of early humans inhabited northern India even before the date of the eruption (74,000 years ago) and continued through the period of the devastation and until much later.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The excavation unearthed a large tool industry spanning the period of the Toba super-eruption. The large Megalithic tools were dated between approximately 80,000 years and 65,000 years and the small tools were dated at approximately 50,000 years suggesting a continuous inhabiting of this region by humans undisturbed by the super-eruption.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The fact that we find these before and after the Toba eruption with no apparent change in technology indicates that major eruptions like Toba appear not to have had a catastrophic effect on small hunter-gatherer bands living in India at the time.</span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The Centre is moving ahead with its plan to develop the site of Rakhigarhi as a tourist hub and set up a museum,which has got the residents worried.</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0in"> </p>
<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Background</strong></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman had announced the government’s plan to fund five on-site museums, including the under-construction museum initiated by the Haryana government at Rakhigarhi in her budget speech.</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0in"> </p>
<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Details</strong></span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The ASI has been able to get under its control just 83.5 acres of the 350-hectare site that spans 11 mounds, after first taking over the site in 1996, due to encroachments and pending court cases.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Regarding the concerns, the government would work with the villagers to address their concerns as the tourist hub is formed.</span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Rakhigarhi</strong></span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Rakhigarhi is the site of a pre-Indus Valley Civilisation settlement going back to about 6500 BCE, located in the state of Haryana. Later, it was also part of the mature Indus Valley Civilisation, dating to 2600-1900 BCE. The site is located in the Sarasvati river plain, some 27 km from the seasonal <strong>Ghaggar</strong> river.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Rakhigarhi encompasses a set of seven mounds, and there are many more settlement mounds in the immediate vicinity. In January 2014, the discovery of additional mounds resulted in it becoming the largest Indus Valley Civilization site, overtaking Mohenjodaro (300 Hectares) by almost 50 hectares, resulting in almost 350 hectares.</span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Findings</strong></span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Terracotta statues, weights, bronze artefacts, comb, copper fish hooks, needles and terracotta seals have also been found. A bronze vessel has been found which is decorated with gold and silver. </span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">A gold foundry with about 3000 unpolished semi-precious stones has been found. Many tools used for polishing these stones and a furnace were found there. </span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">A burial site has been found with 11 skeletons, with their heads in the north direction. Near the heads of these skeletons, utensils for everyday use were kept. The three female skeletons have shell bangles on their left wrists. Near one female skeleton, a gold armlet has been found.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Hunting tools like copper hafts and fish hooks have been found here. Presence of various toys like mini wheels, miniature lids, sling balls, animal figurines indicates a prevalence of toy culture.</span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">A granary belonging to mature Harappan phase (2600 BCE to 2000 BCE) has been found here. Granary is made up of mud-bricks with a floor of ramped earth plastered with mud. It has 7 rectangular or square chambers.</span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">With the novel coronavirus pandemic severely affecting the global economy, some experts have begun comparing the current crisis with the Great Depression, the devastating economic decline of the 1930s that went on to shape countless world events.</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Background</strong></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> A depression is a severe and prolonged downturn in economic activity. In economics, a depression is commonly defined as an extreme recession that lasts three or more years or leads to a decline in real gross domestic product (GDP) of at least 10 percent.</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Details</strong></span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Experts have warned that unemployment levels in some countries could reach those from the 1930s era, when the unemployment rate was as high as around 25 per cent in the United States.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Currently, unemployment levels in the US are already estimated to be at 13 per cent, highest since the Great Depression, according to a New York Times report.</span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>The Great Depression</strong></span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The Great Depression was a major economic crisis that began in the United States in 1929, and went to have a worldwide impact until 1939.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">It began on October 24, 1929, a day that is referred to as “Black Thursday”, when a monumental crash occurred at the New York Stock Exchange as stock prices fell by 25 per cent.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">While the Wall Street crash was triggered by minor events, the extent of the decline was due to more deep-rooted factors such as a fall in aggregate demand, misplaced monetary policies, and an unintended rise in inventory levels.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">In the United States, prices and real output fell dramatically. Industrial production fell by 47 per cent, the wholesale price index by 33 per cent, and real GDP by 30 per cent.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The havoc caused in the US spread to other countries mainly due to the gold standard, which linked most of the world’s currencies by fixed exchange rates.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">In almost every country of the world, there were massive job losses, deflation, and a drastic contraction in output.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Unemployment in the US increased from 3.2 per cent to 24.9 per cent between 1929 and 1933. In the UK, it rose from 7.2 per cent to 15.4 per cent between 1929 and 1932.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">In Europe, economic stagnation that the Depression caused is believed to be the principal reason behind the rise of fascism, and consequently the Second World War.</span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Effects on India</strong></span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The Depression had an important impact on India’s freedom struggle. Due to the global crisis, there was a drastic fall in agricultural prices, the mainstay of India’s economy, and a severe credit contraction occurred as colonial policymakers refused to devalue the rupee.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The effects of the Depression became visible around the harvest season in 1930, soon after Mahatma Gandhi had launched the Civil Disobedience movement in April the same year.</span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">There were “No Rent” campaigns in many parts of the country, and radical Kisan Sabhas were started in Bihar and eastern UP. Agrarian unrest provided a groundswell of support to the Congress, whose reach was yet to extend into rural India.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">The endorsement by farming classes is believed to be among the reasons that enabled the party to achieve its landslide victory in the 1936-37 provincial elections held under the Government of India Act, 1935– which significantly increased the party’s political might for years to come.</span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The Armenian diaspora marks April 24 as Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day. This year marks 105 years since the beginning of the genocide, something Turkey has consistently denied.</span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Background</strong></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The Armenian Genocide is often called the first genocide of the twentieth century. It refers to the systematic annihilation of Armenians living in the Ottoman Empire between 1915 to 1917.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The Armenian Genocide occured during the First World War, and in many ways a direct result of the developments during the war. Although Armenians had always faced harassment and persecution in Asia Minor, this heightened around 1908. During the Ottoman rule, minorities like the Armenians were subjected to discriminatory treatment. </span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The Armenians in the Ottoman empire were Christians by faith and the Ottoman Caliphate feared that the Armenians would bear allegiance to neighbouring countries, Russia for instance, with similar religious affiliations than the Ottoman empire, especially during a war.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">A result of this continued hostility and suspicion towards Armenians was the first state-sanctioned pogroms called the Hamidian Massacres between 1894–1896. These violent massacres were implemented to crush protests against discrimination that was being perpetrated against minorities in the Ottoman Caliphate.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The reigning monarch, Abdul Hamid II was never held accountable for the massacres although researchers believe that the violence was perpetrated with his approval.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">In 1908, a political reform movement that called itself the Young Turks formed of intellectuals and revolutionaries led a rebellion against Abdul Hamid II in an attempt to overthrow the monarchy in favour of a constitutional government.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">However, as the political ideology of the Young Turks changed, the group became less tolerant of Armenians asking for liberties and freedoms. The Russo-Turkish wars and the conflict in the Balkans and Russia further increased hostilities against the Armenians.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The Ottoman Turks believed the Armenians would side with Russia in the war and aggressively engaged in propaganda against them. This resulted in the Ottoman Turks engaging in a mass-removal campaign of Armenians from the border areas along the Eastern Front.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">On April 24, 1915, Ottoman Turkish government officials arrested and executed thousands of Armenian intellectuals. Women and girls were subjected to widespread sexual violence and abuse and were also trafficked into sexual slavery.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Researchers of the Armenian Genocide say may actions against Armenians bear similarities to abuses and torture perpetrated by the Nazis during the Holocaust.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">As of 2020, the Armenian Genocide has been formally recognised by 32 countries and parliaments. While other countries may not have officially recognised the genocide, presently, only Turkey and Azerbaijan openly deny the occurence of the genocide. </span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Large sections of Hindus, Muslims and Sikhs together challenged the greatest imperialist power, Britain, during India’s first war of independence which began on May 10, 1857. </span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Details</strong></span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The rebellion began on 10 May 1857 in the form of a mutiny of sepoys of the Company's army in the garrison town of Meerut, 40 mi (64 km) northeast of Delhi. </span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">It then erupted into other mutinies and civilian rebellions chiefly in the upper Gangetic plain and central India, though incidents of revolt also occurred farther north and east.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Its name is contested, and it is variously described as the Sepoy Mutiny, the Indian Mutiny, the Great Rebellion, the Revolt of 1857, the Indian Insurrection, and the First War of Independence.</span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Reasons for rebellion</strong></span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">One of the main reasons for the revolt was that the British East India Company also started meddling with India’s political and financial system</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Underlying grievances over British taxation and recent land annexations by the British East Indian Company (BEIC) were ignited by the sepoy mutineers.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">An uprising in several sepoy companies of the Bengal army was sparked by the issue of new gunpowder cartridges for the Enfield rifle February, 1857. The cartridges were rumoured to have been made from cow and sow fat. </span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Loading the Enfield required tearing open the greased cartridge with one's teeth. This would have insulted both Hindu and Muslim religious practices; cows were considered holy by Hindus, while pigs were considered unclean by Muslims.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The old aristocracy, both Muslim and Hindu, who were seeing their power steadily eroded by the BEIC, also rebelled against British rule.</span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Centres of rebellion</strong></span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">At <strong>Delhi</strong>, the nominal and symbolic; leadership belonged to the<strong> Emperor Bahadur Shah</strong>, but the real command lay with a Court of Soldiers headed by <strong>General Bakht Khan</strong> who had led the revolt of the Bareilly troops and brought them to Delhi.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">At <strong>Kanpur</strong>, the Revolt was led by <strong>Nana Sahib</strong>, the adopted son of Baji Rao II, the last Peshwa. Nana Sahib expelled the English from Kanpur with the help of the sepoys and proclaimed himself the Peshwa. At the same time, he acknowledged Bahadur Shah as the Emperor of India and declared himself to be his Governor.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The revolt at <strong>Lucknow</strong> was led by the <strong>Begum of Avadh</strong> who had proclaimed her young son, Birjis Kadr, as the Nawab of Avadh.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The Rani of <strong>Jhansi</strong> joined the rebels when the British refused to acknowledge her right to adopt an heir to the Jhansi gaddi (throne) annexed her state, and threatened to treat her as an instigator of the rebellion of the sepoys at Jhansi.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Kunwar Singh</strong>, a ruined and discontented zamindar of Jagdishpur near <strong>Arrah</strong>, was the chief organizer of the Revolt in Bihar.</span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>British suppression of revolt</strong></span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The Revolt was suppressed. Sheer courage could not win against a powerful and determined enemy who planned its every step.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The rebels were dealt an early blow when the British captured Delhi on 20 September 1857 after prolonged and bitter fighting.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The aged Emperor Bahadur Shah was taken prisoner. The Royal Princes were captured and butchered on the spot. The Emperor was tried and exiled to Rangoon where he died in 1862.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The Rani Jhansi had died on the field of battle earlier on 17 June 1858. By 1859, Kunwar Singh, Bakht Khan, Khan Bahadur Khan of Bareilly, Rao Sahib brother of Nana Sahib, and Maulavi Ahmadullah were all dead, while the Begum of Avadh was compelled to hide in Nepal.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">John Lawrence, Outram, Havelock, Neil, Campbell, and Hugh Rose were some of the British commanders who earned military fame in the course of the revolt.</span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Defence Minister Rajnath Singh is on a three-day trip to Russia to attend the 75th Victory Day. India has sent a tri-services contingent to participate in the Victory Day Parade.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Victory Day marks the end of World War II and the victory of the Allied Forces in 1945. Adolf Hitler had shot himself on April 30. </span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">On May 7, German troops surrendered, which was formally accepted the next day and came into effect on May 9. In most European countries, it is celebrated on May 8, and is called the Victory in Europe Day.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The erstwhile Soviet Union had not wanted the surrender to take place in the west and wanted that such a significant event should reflect the contribution of the Red Army and the Soviet population.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">This year, the celebrations this year were pushed to June because of the Covid-19 pandemic. In November 2019, Russian President Vladimir Putin had invited Prime Minister Narendra Modi to the Victory Day celebration which were due to be held on May 9.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The parade will see the participation of military personnel from 19 countries, including India and China. The celebrations are expected to include 64,000 participants. </span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Many Indian leaders have attended several Victory Day Parades. At the 70th anniversary of Victory Day celebrations in 2015, then President Pranab Mukherjee went to represent India. Manmohan Singh had attended the 60th anniversary in 2005 as the then Prime Minister of India.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Mukherjee had attended the celebrations earlier as well. He had then said there were several reasons why the government should not participate in Victory Day celebrations for the Second World War.</span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Coronavirus has reached far corners of the Earth including faraway Timbuktu in the Western African country of Mali.</span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Background</strong></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The city, located 1,000 km from the capital Bamako, has already seen more than 500 cases, and, at least, nine deaths, making it one of the worst affected places in the country.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Located about 20 km away from the river Niger, on the southern tip of the Sahara desert, there is nothing but thousands of miles of barren desert to its north. In its heyday, the city was both a great centre of learning and a prosperous trading outpost, dealing primarily in salt, gold, cotton, and ivory.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Since medieval times, the remoteness of Timbuktu, in the heart of sub-Saharan Africa, has inspired many literary works that describe it a place of splendors and richness.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Historical accounts suggest that there have been settlements in Timbuktu since the early 12th century, when it was a local Tuareg outpost. But it soon established itself as an important pit stop for camel caravans on the Saharan trade routes.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Timbuktu came to signify a kind of El Dorado to the outside world, a place brimming with treasures, that revealed itself only to those who were lucky enough to reach its realm. </span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The city would reach its pinnacle under the Songhai empire, one of Africa’s most influential ruling states in the 15th and 16th century.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">King Musa is also credited with paving the way for establishing Timbuktu as a seat of intellectual resonance. During his time in Mecca, Musa is believed to have invited religious scholars to Timbuktu to bring to fruition his plan for a new centre of Islamic scholarship.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Over the next several decades, it became a dynamic centre of learning and discourse, producing about 70,000 manuscripts on a wide range of topics, including Sufism, Arabic grammar, Islamic jurisprudence, philology, lexicography, astronomy, and arithmetic. </span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Timbuktu today is a distant cry from what it used to be in its golden age. Still relatively inaccessible, it has been plagued by poverty, corruption, war and terrorism, following its years as a French colony.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The Sahara desert has been fast breaching its boundaries, the silting of the Niger River impacting its water supply.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">From 2008, acts of terrorism had impacted its fledgling tourism industry, prompting several nations to issue advisories against visiting the place.</span></span></p>
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It also pays tribute to selfless sacrifices of revolutionaries, brave women freedom fighters and valiant children. </span></span></span></li> <li style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand",serif">It is digitised and interactive museum with state-of-the-art, informative and educational exhibition allowing visitors to engage with exhibits through multi-sensor technology.</span></span></span></li> </ul> ', 'created_date' => object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {}, 'posturl' => 'azaadi-ke-diwane-museum', 'image' => 'https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/696d/7m56o0k6zm34km66g.jpg', 'fbimage' => 'https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/696d/7m56o0k6zm34km66g.jpg', 'metatitle' => 'Azaadi ke Diwane museum inaugurated at Red Fort', 'metakeyword' => 'In Art and Culture Current Affairs, Azaadi ke Diwane museum, Red Fort, unsung heroes, India's freedom struggle,Archaeological Survey of India', 'metadescription' => 'Azaadi ke Diwane museum dedicated to unsung heroes of the country's freedom struggle was recently inaugurated on the Red Fort premises.', 'author' => 'Nikhil Paigude', 'downlaodpdf' => 'http://www.mediafire.com/file/fdy22f61b4sihss/5Mar_Azaadi_ke_Diwane_museum.pdf/file', '[new]' => false, '[accessible]' => [ [maximum depth reached] ], '[dirty]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[original]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[virtual]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[errors]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[invalid]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[repository]' => 'currentaffairs' }, (int) 1 => object(Cake\ORM\Entity) { 'tag' => 'Historical Places', 'keyword' => 'historical-places', 'id' => (int) 370, 'title' => ' Earth Museum: Government to set up museum of natural history', 'description' => '<p style="margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in; text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand",serif">Government will set up <strong>Indian Museum of the Earth (TIME)</strong> to showcase India’s natural heritage including fossils and geological features. <em>It will be first of its kind museum in the country and help in better conservation of India’s prehistoric heritage</em>. It is one of four key projects identified by Prime Minister's Advisory Council on Science, Technology & Innovation.</span></span></span></p> <p style="margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in; text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong><span style="font-family:"Quicksand",serif">Earth Museum </span></strong></span></span></p> <ul> <li style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand",serif">It will house India’s geological and palaeontological wealth in one location and make people aware of India’s prehistorical wealth.</span></span></span></li> <li style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand",serif">It will be set up as public-private partnership. It will be located somewhere in NCR Delhi in Noida or Gurugram.</span></span></span></li> <li style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand",serif">It will be modelled on American Museum of Natural History or Smithsonian museum in US. </span></span></span></li> <li style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand",serif">It will organize several collections of fossils and important geological specimens at single place. </span></span></span></li> <li style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand",serif">Moreover, it will serve as single site, accessible to public as well as researchers wanting to investigate rare and important finds. </span></span></span></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in; text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong><span style="font-family:"Quicksand",serif">Background</span></strong></span></span></p> <ul> <li style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand",serif">India has rich geological history and fossils dating back to breaking up of Gondwanaland super-continent nearly 150 million years ago.</span></span></span></li> <li style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand",serif">It home to vast treasury of geological and palaeontological specimens ranging from dinosaur fossils to pre-human skulls, that contain wealth of scientific information about planet and its history. </span></span></span></li> <li style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand",serif">Prominent fossils include jaw of an extinct ape, <em>Gigantopithecus bilaspurensi,</em> large dinosaur eggs and e skeleton of horned carnivore, <em>Rajasaurus narmadensis</em> (royal Narmada dinosaur). </span></span></span></li> <li style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand",serif">But these rare historical specimens are scattered in different labs all over the country. Moreover, there is no such museum in India to showcase its natural heritage including fossils and geological features. </span></span></li> <li style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand",serif">Most of developed countries have well organised museums for housing and display of pre-historic animals and plants</span></span></li> </ul> ', 'created_date' => object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {}, 'posturl' => 'earth-museum-indias-natural-history', 'image' => 'https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/1f2a/wrhk2gf59ivk6x36g.jpg', 'fbimage' => 'https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/1f2a/wrhk2gf59ivk6x36g.jpg', 'metatitle' => ' Earth Museum: Government to set up museum of natural history', 'metakeyword' => 'In Art and Culture Current Affairs, Government,to set up, Indian Museum of the Earth, TIME, showcase, India’s natural heritage,fossils, geological features, Delhi', 'metadescription' => 'Government will set up Indian Museum of the Earth (TIME) to showcase India’s natural heritage including fossils and geological features', 'author' => 'Nikhil Paigude', 'downlaodpdf' => 'http://www.mediafire.com/file/p8qy4llf2vsxds1/7Mar_Earth_Museum.pdf/file', '[new]' => false, '[accessible]' => [ [maximum depth reached] ], '[dirty]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[original]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[virtual]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[errors]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[invalid]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[repository]' => 'currentaffairs' }, (int) 2 => object(Cake\ORM\Entity) { 'tag' => 'Historical Places', 'keyword' => 'historical-places', 'id' => (int) 1406, 'title' => 'India, Portugal to set up maritime museum in Lothal', 'description' => '<h1 style="margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand","serif"">India and Portugal have announced cooperation in the setting up of National Maritime Heritage Museum near ancient Harappans civilization at Lothal in Gujarat. It is likely to come up on the lines of a similar museum at Lisbon, which is administered by Portuguese Navy. </span></span></span></span></h1> <p style="margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand","serif"">About National Maritime Heritage Museum</span></span></strong></span></span></p> <ul> <li><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand","serif"">The foundation stone for proposed museum was laid by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in March 2019. It will be located near ancient Indian site of Lothal in Gujarat.</span></span></span></span></li> <li><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand","serif"">The complex will be built in public-private partnership (PPP) model. It will have huge museum displaying India’s heritage of inland waterways and trade through water route.</span></span></span></span></li> <li><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand","serif"">Objective:</span></span></strong><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand","serif""> It will showcase and preserve India’s rich and diverse maritime heritage. It will also display objects relating to ships and travel on large bodies of water. It also intends to highlight the ancient shipbuilding and navigational technologies developed by India.</span></span></span></span></li> <li><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand","serif"">Implementing agencies:</span></span></strong><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand","serif""> It will be implemented Union Ministry of Shipping through its Sagarmala programme with support of Archaeological Survey of India (ASI), State government and other stakeholders. The Indian Navy is also keen to be a stakeholder in the project. Besides, Portuguese Navy also has agreed to assist with their experience of administering the maritime museum in Lisbon.</span></span></span></span></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand","serif"">Lothal </span></span></strong></span></span></p> <p style="margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand","serif"">It is located 85 kilometers away from Ahmedabad, Gujarat. It was centre of major maritime activities of Harappans civilization. It is one of the oldest man-made dockyards in India and the world. It displays engineering standards used during Harappan times in creating artificial dock. It also showcases high standards of scientific and engineering skill of that time which were far more advanced than anywhere else in the world in 3rd millennium BCE.</span></span></span></span></p> ', 'created_date' => object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {}, 'posturl' => 'maritime-museum-lothal', 'image' => 'https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/4fb7/e69zto8imtis8xu6g.jpg', 'fbimage' => 'https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/4fb7/e69zto8imtis8xu6g.jpg', 'metatitle' => 'India, Portugal to set up maritime museum in Lothal', 'metakeyword' => 'India, Portugal , cooperation, setting up, National Maritime Heritage Museum, ancient Harappans civilization, Lothal, Gujarat', 'metadescription' => 'India and Portugal have announced cooperation in the setting up of National Maritime Heritage Museum near ancient Harappans civilization at Lothal in Gujarat.', 'author' => 'Nikhil Paigude', 'downlaodpdf' => 'https://www.mediafire.com/file/n6g5f48tj5v4obg/India%2C_Portugal.pdf/file', '[new]' => false, '[accessible]' => [ [maximum depth reached] ], '[dirty]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[original]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[virtual]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[errors]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[invalid]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[repository]' => 'currentaffairs' }, (int) 3 => object(Cake\ORM\Entity) { 'tag' => 'Historical Places', 'keyword' => 'historical-places', 'id' => (int) 1407, 'title' => 'Chaukhandi Stupa declared Monument of National Importance', 'description' => '<p style="margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand","serif"">Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) has declared ancient Buddhist site in Sarnath Uttar Pradesh known as <strong>Chaukhandi Stupa</strong> as "protected area (monument) of national importance”.</span></span></span></span></p> <p style="margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand","serif"">Chaukhandi Stupa </span></span></strong></span></span></p> <ul> <li><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand","serif"">It is said to be originally a terraced temple constructed during the Gupta period between 4th to 6th century. Presently, this stupa is high earthen mound covered with brickwork edifice topped by octagonal tower. It is maintained by ASI.</span></span></span></span></li> <li><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand","serif"">Significance:</span></span></strong><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand","serif""> It was built to mark site where Lord Buddha and his first disciples met traveling from Bodh Gaya to Sarnath.</span></span></span></span></li> <li><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand","serif"">Present shape to Chaukhandi Stupa: </span></span></strong><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand","serif"">It was given during reign of Govardhan, the son of Raja Todarmal. Under this rule, an octagonal tower was built to commemorate visit of Humayun, the great Mughal ruler.</span></span></span></span></li> <li><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand","serif"">Excavations:</span></span></strong><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand","serif""> Some Buddha and other statues found during excavations at Chaukhandi Stupa are said to be rare artefacts and classic examples of art from the Gupta period.</span></span></span></span></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand","serif"">Background</span></span></strong></span></span></p> <p style="margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand","serif"">What is Ancient Monument of National Importance?</span></span></strong><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand","serif""> Section 4 of Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Sites and Remains Act, 1958 empowers government to declare ancient monuments or archaeological sites which are of historical, archaeological or artistic interest and which have been in existence for not less than 100 years as of national importance.</span></span></span></span></p> <p style="margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand","serif"">Role of ASI:</span></span></strong><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand","serif""> The protection and maintenance of monuments, declared as of national importance is taken up by ASI by way of chemical preservation m structural repairs, environmental development around the monument.</span></span></span></span></p> ', 'created_date' => object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {}, 'posturl' => 'chaukhandi-stupa-monument-mational-importance', 'image' => 'https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/30e2/arm8bq2gxmxzcld6g.jpg', 'fbimage' => 'https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/30e2/arm8bq2gxmxzcld6g.jpg', 'metatitle' => 'Chaukhandi Stupa declared Monument of National Importance', 'metakeyword' => 'Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) has declared ancient Buddhist site in Sarnath Uttar Pradesh known as Chaukhandi Stupa as "protected area (monument) of national importanceâ€.', 'metadescription' => 'Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) has declared ancient Buddhist site in Sarnath Uttar Pradesh known as Chaukhandi Stupa as "protected area (monument) of national importanceâ€.', 'author' => 'Nikhil Paigude', 'downlaodpdf' => 'https://www.mediafire.com/file/gw1tdx97s6zp89b/Chaukhandi_Stupa.pdf/file', '[new]' => false, '[accessible]' => [ [maximum depth reached] ], '[dirty]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[original]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[virtual]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[errors]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[invalid]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[repository]' => 'currentaffairs' }, (int) 4 => object(Cake\ORM\Entity) { 'tag' => 'Historical Places', 'keyword' => 'historical-places', 'id' => (int) 1524, 'title' => 'Japan gifts Imphal Peace Museum to Manipur', 'description' => '<p style="margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in; text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand","serif"">Japan gifted Manipur museum of peace to mark the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Imphal, one of the fiercest battles of the Second World War. The Imphal Peace Museum was inaugurated at Red Hill, about 20 km southwest of Manipur’s capital Imphal. The museum is funded by Nippon Foundation, a private, non-profit grant-making organization based in Japan.</span></span></span></span></p> <p style="margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in; text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand","serif"">Signifance of Imphal Peace Museum </span></span></strong></span></span></p> <p style="margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in; text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand","serif"">It symbolises reconciliation between Japan and Britain and Japan and India. It will serve as living memory of tragic war, reinforcing message that history changes and will make world learn from past which is required for lasting peaceful world.</span></span></span></span></p> <p style="margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in; text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand","serif"">Background</span></span></strong></span></span></p> <p style="margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in; text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand","serif"">It took place in region around city of Imphal (now Manipur’s capital) from March to July 1944 during Second World War. During this war, Japanese armies attempted to invade India by destroy Allied forces at Imphal. However, they were diven back into Burma (todays’ Myanmar) with heavy losses. The Battle of Imphal together with simultaneous Battle of Kohima (also known as Stalingrad of the East) were main turning points of Japan’s Burma Campaign during World War Second. Around, 70,000 Japanese soldiers, alongside those of Indian National Army (INA) led by Subhash Chandra Bose had died in battles with British-led Allied forces in areas around Imphal and Kohima from March to June 1944. The last of these battles was fought at Red Hill, where the Japanese War Memorial was built in 1994 to mark the 50th anniversary of the battle.</span></span></span></span></p> ', 'created_date' => object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {}, 'posturl' => 'japan-imphal-peace-museum-manipur', 'image' => 'https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/0e70/1ln5e7q7tb8ftg16g.jpg', 'fbimage' => 'https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/0e70/1ln5e7q7tb8ftg16g.jpg', 'metatitle' => 'Japan gifts Imphal Peace Museum to Manipur', 'metakeyword' => 'Japan gifted Manipur museum of peace to mark the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Imphal, one of the fiercest battles of the Second World War', 'metadescription' => 'Japan gifted Manipur museum of peace to mark the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Imphal, one of the fiercest battles of the Second World War', 'author' => 'Nikhil Paigude', 'downlaodpdf' => 'https://www.mediafire.com/file/2wredsn4hifyzle/japan_gifts_Imphal_Peace_Museum_to_Manipur.pdf/file', '[new]' => false, '[accessible]' => [ [maximum depth reached] ], '[dirty]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[original]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[virtual]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[errors]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[invalid]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[repository]' => 'currentaffairs' }, (int) 5 => object(Cake\ORM\Entity) { 'tag' => 'Historical Places', 'keyword' => 'historical-places', 'id' => (int) 1545, 'title' => 'Maharaja Ranjit Singh statue unveiled at Lahore Fort, Pakistan', 'description' => '<p style="margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in; text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand","serif"">Life-size bronze statue of Maharaja Ranjit Singh was unveiled at Lahore fort near Maharani Jinda haveli at Lahore, Pakistan on the occasion of 180th death anniversary of Sikh ruler. The life-size statue shows Maharaja Ranjit Singh, riding his favourite Arabic horse Kahar Bahar. The statue is located in open space outside Mai Jindian Haveli in Lahore Fort, close to the building that houses Ranjit Singh samadhi. The haveli is named after Ranjit Singh’s youngest queen. </span></span></span></span></p> <p style="margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in; text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand","serif"">Note:</span></span></strong><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand","serif""> Arabic horse Kahar Bahar was gifted to Maharaja Ranjit Singh by Dost Muhammad Khan, the founder of the Barazkai dynasty.</span></span></span></span></p> <p style="margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in; text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand","serif"">About Maharaja Ranjit Singh</span></span></strong></span></span></p> <p style="margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in; text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand","serif"">He was popularly known as Sher-e-Punjab Singh. He had ruled over Punjab for close to 40 years in the early 19th century from 1801-1839. He had a long association with Lahore, which was the capital of Sikh Empire under leadership of Ranjit Singh and is also his final resting place.</span></span></span></span></p> <p style="margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in; text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand","serif"">He captured Lahore in 1799 and unified all the warring misls(groups) into one empire. He also protected Lahore from invading Afghans and was responsible for restoration of Mughal architecture in the city. Before he took reigns of Sikh empire, factionalism was prevalent in Lahore with different warring misls ruling different parts of the city.</span></span></span></span></p> <p style="margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in; text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand","serif"">Other Maharaja Ranjit Singh Statues: </span></span></strong><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand","serif"">22-feet tall bronze statue of Ranjit Singh was installed in Parliament of India in 2003. French town called Saint Tropez, that had military links with Punjab also had installed bronze bust of Ranjit Singh in 2016. </span></span></span></span></p> ', 'created_date' => object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {}, 'posturl' => 'maharaja-ranjit-singh-statue-lahore-fort-pakistan', 'image' => 'https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/1fa1/fg7s2sb4chfiqng6g.jpg', 'fbimage' => 'https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/1fa1/fg7s2sb4chfiqng6g.jpg', 'metatitle' => 'Maharaja Ranjit Singh statue unveiled at Lahore Fort, Pakistan', 'metakeyword' => 'Life-size bronze statue of Maharaja Ranjit Singh was unveiled at Lahore fort near Maharani Jinda haveli at Lahore, Pakistan on the occasion of 180th death anniversary of Sikh ruler.', 'metadescription' => 'Life-size bronze statue of Maharaja Ranjit Singh was unveiled at Lahore fort near Maharani Jinda haveli at Lahore, Pakistan on the occasion of 180th death anniversary of Sikh ruler.', 'author' => 'Nikhil Paigude', 'downlaodpdf' => '', '[new]' => false, '[accessible]' => [ [maximum depth reached] ], '[dirty]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[original]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[virtual]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[errors]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[invalid]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[repository]' => 'currentaffairs' }, (int) 6 => object(Cake\ORM\Entity) { 'tag' => 'Historical Places', 'keyword' => 'historical-places', 'id' => (int) 1878, 'title' => 'Hampi Flooding', 'description' => '<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Issue</span></span></strong></span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0in"> </p> <p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Heavy rains in catchment areas of Karnataka have resulted in flooding of World famous heritage site of Hampi.</span></span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0in"> </p> <p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Background</span></span></strong></span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0in"> </p> <p style="margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><span style="background-color:whitesmoke"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="color:#282828">Many places along the banks of Tungabhadra river, including the world heritage site Hampi, are facing flood threat after water was released from the Tungabhadra reservoir on Sunday morning.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><span style="background-color:whitesmoke"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="color:#282828">The reservoir was receiving heavy inflow, thanks to the downpour in Tungabhadra catchment area in the Western Ghats for the last one week</span></span></span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0in"> </p> <p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="background-color:whitesmoke"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="color:#282828">Hampi- UNESCO world Heritage site</span></span></span></span></strong></span></span></p> <ul> <li><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><span style="background-color:#f1f1f1"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="color:#2a2828">Hampi was the last capital of the Vijayanagara rulers. Its rulers built temples and palaces, which have been sites of admiration ever since. Constructed between the 14th and 16th centuries, the region was conquered and pillaged by the Deccan confederacy in 1565.</span></span></span></span></span></span></li> <li><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><span style="background-color:#f1f1f1"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="color:#2a2828">A popular tourist attraction in Karnataka, Hampi was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1986.</span></span></span></span></span></span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="background-color:#f1f1f1"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="color:#2a2828">Monuments of Hampi</span></span></span></span></strong></span></span></p> <ul> <li><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><span style="background-color:#f1f1f1"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="color:#2a2828">Vittala Temple Complex</span></span></span></span></span></span></li> <li><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><span style="background-color:#f1f1f1"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="color:#2a2828">Virupaksha Temple</span></span></span></span></span></span></li> <li><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><span style="background-color:#f1f1f1"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="color:#2a2828">Virupaksha Bazar</span></span></span></span></span></span></li> <li><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><span style="background-color:#f1f1f1"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="color:#2a2828">Krishna Temple</span></span></span></span></span></span></li> <li><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><span style="background-color:#f1f1f1"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="color:#2a2828">Ugra Narasimha statue</span></span></span></span></span></span></li> <li><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><span style="background-color:#f1f1f1"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="color:#2a2828">Lotus Mahal</span></span></span></span></span></span></li> <li><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><span style="background-color:#f1f1f1"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="color:#2a2828">Elephant Stables</span></span></span></span></span></span></li> <li><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><span style="background-color:#f1f1f1"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="color:#2a2828">Hazara Rama Temple</span></span></span></span></span></span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="background-color:#f1f1f1"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="color:#2a2828">Vijayanagara Empire</span></span></span></span></strong></span></span></p> <ul> <li><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><span style="background-color:white"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The Vijayanagara Empire (also called Karnata Empire,<sup>[3]</sup> and the Kingdom of Bisnegar by the Portuguese) </span></span></span><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><span style="background-color:white"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">was based in the Deccan Plateau region in South India</span></span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><span style="background-color:white"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">. It was established in 1336 by Harihara I and his brother Bukka Raya I of Sangama Dynasty. </span></span></span></span></span></li> <li><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><span style="background-color:white"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The empire rose to prominence as a culmination of attempts by the southern powers to ward off Islamic invasions by the end of the 13th century. It lasted until 1646, although its power declined after a major military defeat in the Battle of Talikota in 1565 by the combined armies of the Deccan sultanates. 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The finding also negates the hypothesis about mass migration during Harappan times from outside South Asia.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Researchers have successfully sequenced the first genome of an individual from Harappa and combining it with archaeological data, found that hunter-gatherers of South Asia had an independent origin, and authored the settled way of life in this part of the world.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The study, he said, finds that the same hunter-gatherer communities developed into agricultural communities and formed the Harappan civilisation.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The researchers also suggest that there was a movement of people from east to west as the Harappan people’s presence is evident at sites like Gonur in Turkmenistan and Sahr-i-Sokhta in Iran.</span></span></p> </li> </ul> <p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Other Information</strong></span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0in"> </p> <p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Indus valley Civilization</strong></span></span></p> <ul> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The Indus Valley Civilization was an ancient civilization located in what is Pakistan and northwest India today, on the fertile flood plain of the Indus River and its vicinity. </span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Evidence of religious practices in this area date back approximately to 5500 BCE.</span></span></p> </li> </ul> ', 'created_date' => object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {}, 'posturl' => 'indus-valley-genetic-lineage', 'image' => 'https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/c3b5/mf3190r4w9sysr06g.jpg', 'fbimage' => 'https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/c3b5/mf3190r4w9sysr06g.jpg', 'metatitle' => 'Indus Valley Genetic lineage', 'metakeyword' => 'Indus Valley Genetic lineage', 'metadescription' => 'A study of DNA from skeletal remains excavated from the Harappan cemetery at Rakhigarhi argues that the hunter-gatherers of South Asia,', 'author' => null, 'downlaodpdf' => 'https://www.mediafire.com/file/0jve0m4973qrb9p/Indus_Valley_Genetic_lineage.pdf/file', '[new]' => false, '[accessible]' => [ [maximum depth reached] ], '[dirty]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[original]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[virtual]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[errors]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[invalid]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[repository]' => 'currentaffairs' }, (int) 8 => object(Cake\ORM\Entity) { 'tag' => 'Historical Places', 'keyword' => 'historical-places', 'id' => (int) 2204, 'title' => 'New discoveries in Aryan Migration theory', 'description' => '<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Issue</strong></span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">A new paper published in scientific journal has thrown light on various aspects of ancient genetic history of modern day Indians. The study has also provided answers to Aryan miigration theory.</span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Background</strong></span></span></p> <ul> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The Aryan were central Asian Steppe pastoralists who arrived in India between roughly 2000 BCE and 1500 BCE, and brought Indo-European languages to the subcontinent.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Importantly, the two recent studies are based on 12 ancient DNA samples: one from Rakhigarhi, 8 from Shahr-i-Sokhta in eastern Iran and three from Gonur in BMAC.</span></span></p> </li> </ul> <p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Details</strong></span></span></p> <ul> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The primary source of ancestry for today’s South Asians is a mixture of First Indians and a people related to the hunter-gatherers of Iran. This mixed population created the agricultural revolution in northwestern India and built the Harappan Civilisation.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">When the Harappan Civilisation declined after 2000 BCE due to a long drought, the Harappans moved south-eastwards (from northwestern India) to mix with other First Indians to form the <strong>Ancestral South Indian</strong> (ASI) population whose descendants live in <strong>south India</strong> today.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The Harappans also mixed with Steppe pastoralists who had migrated to north India through Central Asia, to form the <strong>Ancestral North Indian</strong> (ANI) population.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The Steppe ancestry of the people of both South Asia and Eastern Europe in the Bronze Age explains how the movements of the Central Asians between the two regions caused the well-known similarities between the Indo-Iranian and Balto-Slavic languages.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">It has also been found that the genome of IVC people lacked steppe ancestry as widely believeds earlier.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">This indicates that the Steppe migrations to India happened after the decline of the Harappan Civilisation.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The earlier study on Genomic Formation of South and Central Asia said the migrants from Iran who mixed with First Indians were herders. The new study says the Iranians arrived in India before agriculture or even herding had begun anywhere in the world.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">This means that these migrants were likely to have been hunter-gatherers, i.e they did not bring the knowledge of agriculture<span style="background-color:whitesmoke"><span style="color:#282828">.</span></span></span></span></p> </li> </ul> ', 'created_date' => object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {}, 'posturl' => 'new-discoveries-in-aryan-migration-theory', 'image' => 'https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/6caf/9ietmnqad3uy4gu6g.jpg', 'fbimage' => 'https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/6caf/9ietmnqad3uy4gu6g.jpg', 'metatitle' => 'New discoveries in Aryan Migration theory', 'metakeyword' => 'A new paper published in scientific journal has', 'metadescription' => 'A new paper published in scientific journal has thrown light on various aspects of ancient genetic history of modern day Indians. 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This is a major turning point in cultural history of ancient sangam age.</span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Background</strong></span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The report titled, ‘<strong>Keeladi-An Urban Settlement of Sangam Age on the Banks of River Vaigai’</strong>, was published by the TNAD and released recently bt the tamil Nadu government, which reported this findings.</span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Details</strong></span></span></p> <ul> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The report, place Keeladi artefacts about 300 years earlier than previously believed era of 3rd century BCE.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The results from the excavations suggest that the “second urbanisation of Vaigai plains happened in Tamil Nadu around 6th century BCE as it happened in Gangetic plains.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The recent scientific dates obtained for Keeladi findings push back the date of Tamil-Brahmi script to another century, i.e., 6th century BCE.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Fifty-six Tamil-Brahmi inscribed potsherds were also recovered from the site of excavation .</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Pottery specimens from Keeladi sent for mineral analysis, confirmed that water containers and cooking vessels were shaped out of locally available raw materials.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The next round of excavations are underway to determine further studies.</span></span></p> </li> </ul> <p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Keeladi</strong></span></span></p> <ul> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Keeladi is a <strong>Sangam period</strong> residence that is being excavated by the Archaeological Survey of India.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">This excavation site is located 12 km southeast of Madurai in Tamil Nadu, near the town of Keeladi in Sivagangai district.</span></span></p> </li> </ul> <p><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">It is found on the shores of river Vaigai and it brings 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style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Ajanta caves are one of the most famous and sought after tourist destination in India after the Taj Mahal. The caves are famous for their ancient paintings and sculptures depicting Buddhist culture.</span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0in"> </p> <p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Details</strong></span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Ajanta Caves</strong></span></span></p> <ul> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The Ajanta Caves are 30 (approximately) rock-cut Buddhist cave monuments which date from the 2nd century BCE to about 480 CE in Aurangabad district of Maharashtra state of India.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The caves include paintings and rock-cut sculptures described as among the finest surviving examples of ancient Indian art.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The site is a protected monument in the care of the Archaeological Survey of India, and since 1983, the Ajanta Caves have been a <strong>UNESCO World Heritage Site</strong>.</span></span></p> </li> </ul> <p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Art</strong></span></span></p> <ul> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The paintings in the Ajanta caves predominantly narrate the Jataka tales. 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There are 11 small temple-like structures in Huligemmanakolla that are believed to be the final resting place of the royal family.</span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0in"> </p> <p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Details</strong></span></span></p> <ul> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The Chalukyan kings built marvellous monuments and temples, but there are no clear details available of the places where they lived including their graves, which they had kept discreet.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The discovered area contains small temples built over linga, which is assumed to be graves of the Chalukyan royal family.</span></span></p> </li> </ul> <p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Chalukyas</strong></span></span></p> <ul> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The Chalukya dynasty was established by Pulakeshin I in 543 AD. <strong>Pulakeshin I</strong> took Vatapi (modern Badami in Bagalkot district, Karnataka) under his control and made it his capital. </span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Pulakeshin I and his descendants are referred to as "<strong>Chalukyas of Badami</strong>". </span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Pulakeshin II, the most famous ruler, extended the Chalukya Empire up to the northern extents of the Pallava kingdom and halted the southward march of <strong>Harsha</strong>, belonging to <strong>Pushyabhuti</strong> dynasty by defeating him on the banks of the river <strong>Narmada.</strong></span></span></p> </li> </ul> <p style="margin-right:0in"> </p> <p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Architecture</strong></span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Their style of architecture is called "Chalukyan architecture" , "Karnata Dravida architecture" or the “Vesara Style” of architecture, which is the fusion between northern “Nagara” style and southern “Dravida” style.</span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0in"> </p> <p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Badami Cave temples</strong></span></span></p> <ul> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Badami cave temples have rock-cut halls with three basic features: pillared veranda, columned hall and a sanctum cut out deep into rock.</span></span></p> </li> </ul> <p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Pattadkal temples</strong></span></span></p> <ul> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Virupaksha temple</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Papanatha temple</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Mallikarjuna temple</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Sangameshwara temple</span></span></p> </li> </ul> <p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Aihole temples</strong></span></span></p> <ul> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Lad khan temple</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Durga temple</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Suryanarayan temple</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Ravana Phadi temple</span></span></p> </li> </ul> <p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Contributions</strong></span></span></p> <ul> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">A Southern India-based kingdom took control and consolidated the entire region between the Kaveri and the Narmada rivers. </span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The rise of this empire saw the birth of <strong>efficient administration, overseas trade and commerce.</strong></span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Kannada literature, which 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false, '[accessible]' => [ [maximum depth reached] ], '[dirty]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[original]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[virtual]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[errors]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[invalid]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[repository]' => 'currentaffairs' }, (int) 12 => object(Cake\ORM\Entity) { 'tag' => 'Historical Places', 'keyword' => 'historical-places', 'id' => (int) 2557, 'title' => 'Rangdum monastery', 'description' => '<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Issue</strong></span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The Archaelogical Survey of India(ASI) is planning to declare the Rangdum monastery, located in Kargil district of Jammu and Kashmir, a monument of national importance.</span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Background</strong></span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> The centre is looking at bringing more monuments under protection in order to boost tourism in the region , after its decision to split Jammu and Kashmir into two Union Territories J&K and Ladakh.</span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Details</strong></span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Rangdum Monastery</strong> is a Tibetan Buddhist monastery belonging to the Gelugpa sect, located in the Suru Valley, in Ladakh.</span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Famous Monastries</strong></span></span></p> <ul> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Hemis Monastery</strong></span></span></p> </li> </ul> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">It is a Tibetan Buddhist monastery (gompa) of the Drukpa Lineage, in Hemis, Ladakh, India. It is situated near Leh in Jammu and Kashmir State, on the West bank of river Indus.</span></span></p> <ul> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Tabo Monastery</strong></span></span></p> </li> </ul> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">It is located in the Tabo village of Spiti Valley, Himachal Pradesh, India</span></span></p> <ul> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Tsulglagkhang Monastery</strong></span></span></p> </li> </ul> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">This is the home for His Holiness Dalai Lama and is situated in Maclodganj suburb of Dharamshala district in Himachal Pradesh.</span></span></p> <ul> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Thiksey Monastery</strong></span></span></p> </li> </ul> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">It is a gompa (monastery) affiliated with the Gelug sect of Tibetan Buddhism. It is located on top of a hill in Thiksey village near Leh in Ladakh.</span></span></p> <ul> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Tawang Monastery</strong></span></span></p> </li> </ul> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">It is located in Tawang city of Tawang district in the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh, is the largest monastery in India and second largest in the world .</span></span></p> <ul> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Rumtek Monastery - </strong>Gangtok, Sikkim</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Nako Monastery - </strong>Himachal Pradesh</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Matho Monastery - </strong>Ladakh</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Alchi Gompa Monastery -</strong> Ladakh</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Lingdum Monastery - </strong>Sikkim</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Kye Gompa Monastery - </strong>Himachal Pradesh</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Ghum Monastery - </strong>West Bengal</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Shashur Monastery -</strong> Himachal Pradesh</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Bylakuppe Monastery – </strong>Karnataka</span></span></p> </li> </ul> ', 'created_date' => object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {}, 'posturl' => 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(int) 2590, 'title' => 'Insects and pests threatening Ajanta paintings', 'description' => '<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Issue</strong></span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The Ajanta cave paintings have started deteriorating in the past few decades and are losing the battle against insects and other climatic stressors.</span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0in"> </p> <p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Background</strong></span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Ajanta caves are classic masterpiece of Buddhist art and is a UNESCO world heritage site and a protected monument of the Archaeological Survey of India.</span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0in"> </p> <p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Details</strong></span></span></p> <ul> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">A research team from National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (CSIR-NEERI) has looked at all the available literature on the Ajanta caves and mapped out the different factors causing this damage.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">They have also mentioned a few environmentally friendly solutions to the problem that can help preserve them from the threat.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The team writes that the most common insects were silverfish, beetles and common bugs.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Another main problem was the entry of rainwater and water from the <strong>Waghura</strong> River which lead to dampness in the cave atmosphere causing an increase in algae, fungi, insects, and microbes. </span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">These factors together were changing the original colour of the paintings, where white is turning to yellow and blue is becoming green.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The researchers found that a mixture of hemp, clay, and lime plaster was considered efficient for preserving paintings and carvings in nearby Ellora caves, but this method was not used in Ajanta caves. </span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Studies have shown that basal layer of the murals was made of mud plaster and organic matter such as paddy husks, grass, vegetable fibres, thus making it a good breeding place for microbes and insects.</span></span></p> </li> </ul> <p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Protective measures</strong></span></span></p> <ul> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The study has suggested using certain lights and colour to tackle the problem of insects such as using ultraviolet light traps, as nocturnal insects are known to get attracted to ultraviolet radiation.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Yellow lamps can also be an excellent tool to effectively control moths, which are diurnal and attracted to yellow light.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Spraying of insecticides and herbicides, fixing the loose plaster on cave walls, regular cleaning and use of preservative coating on the 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A hint of a return of the Cold War and the rise of nationalism is dampening the mood.</span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Background</strong></span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The fall of the wall that divided post-war Europe had led to hopes of a liberal democratic era and disarmament three decades ago but has not changed yet.</span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Details</strong></span></span></p> <ul> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The Berlin Wall was a wall that separated the city of Berlin in Germany from 1961 to 1989.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">It separated the eastern half from the western half. Many people think it was a symbol of the Cold War. The Berlin Wall was taken down on November 9, 1989.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">After World War II ended, Germany was divided into four zones, one zone for each of the main Allied countries: France, the United Kingdom, the United States and the Soviet Union. </span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Its capital Berlin was also divided into four zones, so that it was an enclave, like an island inside the Soviet zone.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">On May 8, 1949, the French, United Kingdom and US zones were made into West Germany and West Berlin. 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Rajya Sabha approved the bill on 19th November while Lok Sabha had passed it in the last session.</span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0in"> </p> <p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Background</strong></span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> The Act provides for the erection of a National Memorial in memory of those killed or wounded on April 13, 1919, in Jallianwala Bagh, Amritsar. In addition, it creates a Trust to manage the National Memorial.</span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0in"> </p> <p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Details</strong></span></span></p> <ul> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The Bill seeks to amend the Jallianwala Bagh National Memorial Act, 1951. It has a provision to remove the President of the Congress party as a trustee and clarifies that when there is no Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha, the leader of the single largest Opposition party will be the trustee.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Under the 1951 Act, the Trustees of the Memorial include: </span></span></p> </li> </ul> <p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">(i) the Prime Minister as Chairperson, (ii) President of the Indian National Congress, (iii) Minister in-charge of Culture, (iv) Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha, (v) Governor of Punjab, (vi) Chief Minister of Punjab, and (vii) three eminent persons nominated by the central government. </span></span></p> <ul> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The Bill amends this provision to remove the President of the Indian National Congress as a Trustee. Further, it clarifies that when there is no Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha, then the leader of the single largest opposition party will be the Trustee.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The Bill also allows the Central government to terminate the term of a nominated trustee before the expiry of the period of his term, without assigning any reason.</span></span></p> </li> </ul> <p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Jallianwala Bagh Massacre</strong></span></span></p> <ul> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The Jallianwala Bagh massacre took place on 13 April 1919 when Acting Brigadier-General <strong>Reginald Dyer</strong> ordered troops of the British Indian Army to fire their rifles into a crowd of unarmed civilians in Jallianwala Bagh, Amritsar, Punjab.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The government had sent a notification to ban all meetings under the Rowlatt Act during Baisakhi but it was not widely circulated.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Many villagers had gathered in the Bagh to celebrate the important Sikh festival of Baisakhi, and peacefully protest the arrest and deportation of two national leaders, <strong>Satyapal</strong> and<strong> Saifuddin Kitchlew</strong>. </span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Dyer was initially lauded for his actions in Britain and became a hero among many who were directly benefiting from the British Raj, such as members of the House of Lords.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">He was, however, widely criticised in the House of Commons, whose July 1920 committee of investigation censured him.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">This incident shocked <strong>Rabindranath Tagore</strong> to such extent that he renounced his <strong>knighthood</strong>.</span></span></p> </li> </ul> <p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>The Rowlatt Act or The Anarchical and Revolutionary Crimes Act of 1919</strong></span></span></p> <ul> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">This act effectively authorized the government to imprison any person suspected of terrorism living in British India for up to two years without a trial, and gave the imperial authorities power to deal with all revolutionary activities.It was named after its president, British judge <strong>Sir Sidney Rowlatt.</strong> </span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The Government of India repealed the Rowlatt Act, the Press Act, and twenty-two other laws in March 1922.</span></span></p> </li> </ul> <p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Rowlatt Satyagraha</strong></span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>M. K Gandhi</strong> started campaign against Rowlatt bill and set up Satyagraha Sabha 24th February AD 1919 at Bombay. It was also called the ‘<strong>Himalayan Blunder</strong>’ for its failure to curb violence.</span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0in"> </p> <p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>The Hunter Commission</strong></span></span></p> <ul> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The government of India formed a committee of inquiry to investigate the Jallianwala Bagh shootings. On October 14, 1919, the Government of India announced the formation of the Disorders Inquiry Committee. </span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The committee was commonly known as Hunter Commission after the name of chairman, Lord William Hunter. It also had no Indian members.</span></span></p> </li> </ul> ', 'created_date' => object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {}, 'posturl' => 'jallianwala-bagh-memorial-trust-bill', 'image' => 'https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/5690/x1fsq2zg13qcixx6g.jpg', 'fbimage' => 'https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/5690/x1fsq2zg13qcixx6g.jpg', 'metatitle' => 'Parliament passes Jallianwala Bagh memorial Trust Bill', 'metakeyword' => 'Parliament passes Jallianwala Bagh memorial Trust Bill', 'metadescription' => 'Parliament has passed the Jallianwala Bagh National Memorial (Amendment) Bill, 2019. 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The region was also inhabited during the Medieval periods of about 1,500 to 900 years ago.</span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0in"> </p> <p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Details</strong></span></span></p> <ul> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Researchers from IIT Kharagpur during their geological explorations stumbled upon artefacts like pitchers, jewellery, jars, figurines. </span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Using modern luminescence and radiocarbon methods, the team tried to date them, which revealed that these items were the earliest to be found in the presently arid Rann of Kutch and the Thar Desert.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The Bronze age Indus Valley civilisation started declining around 4,000 years and finally collapsed at 3,300 years before present.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">After this period there is no evidence of any settlements in the Indus valley region. This was called the ‘Dark Age’.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The Karim Shahi region was found to be very close to sea-level and based on the artefacts collected it has been pointed out that this region could have been a local trade center. The people are believed to have traded jewellery and pottery. </span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Also, Chinese and Persian pottery were found at the Vigakot site indicating that it was a hub for a long-distance trade both through sea and land from China through India to West Asia.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Sedimentological observation revealed that below these settlements, there was evidence of riverine system. </span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Carbon isotopes and pollens in these sediments revealed that there was gradual increase in grasslands and plant communities that thrive in arid environments.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The Monsoon started to decline 7000 years ago. Eventhough Harappan people had adopted water conservation techniques, they were forced to migrate from early Iron Age till medieval time.</span></span></p> </li> </ul> ', 'created_date' => object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {}, 'posturl' => 'climate-induced-human-migration', 'image' => 'https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/9290/yyir025ezmzwnxu6g.jpg', 'fbimage' => 'https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/9290/yyir025ezmzwnxu6g.jpg', 'metatitle' => 'Climate induced human migration', 'metakeyword' => 'Climate induced human migration', 'metadescription' => 'The items collected during research from the Karim Shahi in Rann of Kutch region revealed that humans occupied that region from Early Iron Age to the Early ', 'author' => null, 'downlaodpdf' => 'https://www.mediafire.com/file/q1uzkeoa6ins38p/Climate_induced_human_migration.pdf/file', '[new]' => false, '[accessible]' => [ [maximum depth reached] ], '[dirty]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[original]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[virtual]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[errors]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[invalid]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[repository]' => 'currentaffairs' }, (int) 17 => object(Cake\ORM\Entity) { 'tag' => 'Historical Places', 'keyword' => 'historical-places', 'id' => (int) 3089, 'title' => 'Evidence of Saraswati river’s existence', 'description' => '<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Issue</strong></span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Researchers from Physical Research Laboratory (PRL), Ahmedabad, and Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, have analysed sand from 3-10 metres below surface of modern <strong>Ghaggar</strong> river and found that it was indeed a perennial river, fed by glacial rivers in the past.</span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0in"> </p> <p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Background</strong></span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The Rig veda mentions a mighty, snow-fed river Saraswati on whose banks the literature was supposed to be derived. Today, the Ghaggar is a seasonal, monsoon-fed river originating in the sub-Himalayas. </span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0in"> </p> <p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Details</strong></span></span></p> <ul> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The Indus valley civilisation which flourished in present day northwestern India and adjacent Pakistan was the largest and oldest urban civilisation in the world. </span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Nearly two-thirds of the 1,500 archaeological sites of the Harappans occur on the dried up banks of the Ghaggar river.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Coarse-grained white or grey sands that contain abundant white mica are typical of glacier-fed Higher Himalayan rivers such as the Ganga, Yamuna and Sutlej. </span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Researchers found such sand layers 3-10 metres below the surface on both sides of the modern Ghaggar in a stretch of 300 kilometres up to the Pakistan border.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Presence of this sand itself is an indication of existence of a powerful river in the past. </span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The team identified the source of these sands by studying the <strong>strontium-neodymium isotopic</strong> <strong>ratios</strong>. </span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">They also measured the ages of the mica samples in the sand by <strong>argon-argon dating method</strong>. </span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">It was found that the isotopic ratios and Ar-Ar ages overlap with those of the rocks of the Higher Himalaya, thus establishing that these sands have been transported by the river from Higher Himalaya to the plains.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The team established the depositional ages of the samples by radiocarbon dating and optical dating of mollusk shells found in the deposit. </span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The researchers thus established that the ancient Ghaggar transported sands from glaciated regions of the Higher Himalaya.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The key result of the research is that the river Ghaggar had two distinct perennial phases: one during 80,000-20,000 years ago and the other during 9,000-4,500 years ago.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">On the basis of the data the researchers show that the <strong>Sutlej</strong> River was flowing into the Ghaggar River to make it perennial for the Early Harappans.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The researchers say that the revived perennial condition of the Ghaggar, between 9,000 and 4,500 years ago can be correlated with the Rig vedic Saraswati, and that it likely facilitated development of the early Harappan settlements along its banks.</span></span></p> </li> </ul> <p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Perennial and non-perennial rivers</strong></span></span></p> <ul> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Perennial rivers are those rivers which exhibit a continuous flow of water throughout the year except during extreme drought. Examples: <strong>Indus</strong>, <strong>Ganges</strong>, <strong>Brahmaputra</strong>. </span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Non-perennial rivers are those rivers which have no flow for at least a part of the year. Examples : <strong>Mahanadi</strong>, <strong>Krishna</strong>, <strong>Narmada</strong>, <strong>Tapi</strong>, <strong>Godavari</strong>.</span></span></p> </li> </ul> ', 'created_date' => object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {}, 'posturl' => 'evidence-of-saraswati-river-existence', 'image' => 'https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/2368/8vmnxil3lgle2qz6g.jpg', 'fbimage' => 'https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/2368/8vmnxil3lgle2qz6g.jpg', 'metatitle' => 'Evidence of Saraswati river’s existence', 'metakeyword' => 'Evidence of Saraswati river’s existence', 'metadescription' => 'Researchers from Physical Research Laboratory (PRL), Ahmedabad, and Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, have analysed sand from 3-10 metres', 'author' => null, 'downlaodpdf' => 'https://www.mediafire.com/file/4tz0u6lcxsr89ty/Evidence_of_Saraswati_river%C6s_existence.pdf/file', '[new]' => false, '[accessible]' => [ [maximum depth reached] ], '[dirty]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[original]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[virtual]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[errors]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[invalid]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[repository]' => 'currentaffairs' }, (int) 18 => object(Cake\ORM\Entity) { 'tag' => 'Historical Places', 'keyword' => 'historical-places', 'id' => (int) 3160, 'title' => 'Monsoon decided history of Indian subcontinent', 'description' => '<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Issue</strong></span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">A recent study by researchers at Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur (IIT-KGP) has revealed that abrupt changes in the Indian monsoon in the last 900 years decided the course of human history in the subcontinent.</span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0in"> </p> <p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Details</strong></span></span></p> <ul> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Abrupt changes in Indian summer monsoon strength during the last 900 years and their linkages to socio-economic conditions in the Indian subcontinent. </span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The study highlights that decline of Indian dynasties was linked to weak monsoon and reduced food production.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Deficient rainfall led to the collapse of the Mansabdari system, started by Mughal emperor Akbar, in the late 17th century. Similarly, drought interspersed with violent monsoon rains sounded the death knell for the Khmer empire of south-east Asia in the 15th century.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Several dynasties, such as the Sena in Bengal, Solanki in Gujarat in the mid-13th century and Paramara and Yadav in the early to mid-14th century, all of which flourished during abundant rainfall, declined during the dry phases of Indian summer monsoon (ISM), suggesting role of the climate in the socio-political crisis.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The study highlights strong monsoon during Medieval Climate Anomaly and Current Warm Period and phases of weak and strong monsoon in Little Ice Age.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The study suggests that from the beginning of the 19 century, the changes in the ISM became more abrupt with a rise in atmospheric temperature that coincides with the dawn of the Industrial Revolution.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The scientists also said that they were doing similar work extending their Palaeoclimatic study to 6000 years ago to see the impact of climate change on Indus Valley civilization and on population migrations.</span></span></p> </li> </ul> <p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Mansabdari system</strong></span></span></p> <ul> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Mansabdari System was a system introduced by Akbar for military administration and territorial commands (grant and revenue) to sustain parts of army.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The Mansabdari system was borrowed from the system followed in Mongolia. The Mughal officers whether Hindus or Muslims were granted territorial commands in return for the military service.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">They had to bring in some fixed number of men-at-arms, horses and elephants to the field and were rated as per the numbers which was known as Zats. 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On 1 January 1818, 800 troops of the British Army, with small number of Mahars (leather workers) predominant among them, defeated a numerically superior force of the <strong>Peshwa Baji Rao II</strong>. </span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">A victory pillar (Vijay Sthamb) was erected in Koregaon by the British, commemorating the dead soldiers. In 1928, the Dalit leader B. R. 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The shrine is built over the site where Guru Nanak, the founder of Sikhism, was believed to be born in 1469. </span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0in"> </p> <p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Details</strong></span></span></p> <ul> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Besides Gurdwara Janam Asthan, Nankana Sahib has several important shrines, including Gurdwara Patti Sahib, Gurdwara Bal Leela, Gurdwara Mal Ji Sahib, Gurdwara Kiara Sahib, Gurdwara Tambu Sahib, all dedicated to stages in the life of the first Guru. There is also a Gurdwara in memory of Guru Arjan (5th Guru) and Guru Hargobind (6th Guru).</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The Janam Asthan shrine was constructed by Maharaja Ranjit Singh, after he visited Nankana Sahib in 1818-19 while returning from the Battle of Multan.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">During British rule, the Gurdwara Janam Asthan was the site of a violent episode when in 1921, over 130 Akali Sikhs were killed after they were attacked by the Mahant of the shrine.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The incident is regarded as one of the key milestones in the Gurdwara Reform Movement, which led to the passing of the Sikh Gurdwara Act in 1925 that ended the Mahant control of Gurdwaras.</span></span></p> </li> </ul> <p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Gurudwara Reform Movement</strong></span></span></p> <ul> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The Akali Movement also known as Gurdwara Reform Movement came into full swing from the early 1920's. 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These wars resulted in establishment of political supremacy of British East India Company.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The French company was reduced in the areas around Pondicherry only. Commercial and maritime rivalry between France and England was the primary reason for the wars.</span></span></p> </li> </ul> <p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>First war (1744-48)</strong></span></span></p> <ul> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The war began with British Fleet arrived on Coromandel Coast and they started capturing the French Ships. </span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">French asked backup forces from Mauritius. When these forces came, they attacked British, captured Madras and imprisoned the British Company servants. </span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">To recapture Madras from French, Nawab of Arcot sent troops to Fort St George but the forces of Nawab were defeated by French.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">In 1748, the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle ended the war in Europe and this also restored the peace between France and England. With this treaty, Madras was restored to the English for some territories (Louisburg) in North America.</span></span></p> </li> </ul> <p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Second war (1749-54)</strong></span></span></p> <ul> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">A victory over Indian Nawab in first war boosted the confidence of Dupleix, who now thought to expand influence in South India.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">In 1748 he saw an opportunity when Nizam of Hyderabad Asaf Jah I died and a war for succession broke out. There was a trouble in Arcot also.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Dupleix pledged French support for Nizam’s grandson Muzaffar Zang for Hyderabad and Chanda Sahib for Arcot.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">British pledged support to Nasir Zang for Hyderabad and Muhammad Ali for Arcot.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">French protégé Muzaffar Zang was killed. French quickly put his nominee Salabat Zang on throne and maintained French Influence on Hyderabad for several years.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Robert Clive, who was a Clerk at that time in the Company suggest to attack on Arcot. This plan was approved, Arcot was occupied Chanda Sahib was captured and executed. Mohammad Ali was made Nawab of Arcot / Carnatic.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">French and British signed a treaty of Pondicherry in 1755 and by this both countries agreed to not to interfere in quarrels of Indian princes.</span></span></p> </li> </ul> <p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Third War (1757-63)</strong></span></span></p> <ul> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The conflict between the France and England got renewed in 1756 in Europe, in the form of Seven Years War, which is coterminous with the Third Carnatic war.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The Third Carnatic War put an end to the French ambitions to create a colonial empire in India. 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reached]], '[invalid]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[repository]' => 'currentaffairs' }, (int) 22 => object(Cake\ORM\Entity) { 'tag' => 'Historical Places', 'keyword' => 'historical-places', 'id' => (int) 3536, 'title' => 'Sarcophagus dedicated to Sky god excavated in Egypt', 'description' => '<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Issue</strong></span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Egypt’s Antiquities Ministry has unveiled the tombs of ancient high priests and a sarcophagus dedicated to the sky god <strong>Horus</strong> at an archaeological site in <strong>Minya</strong> governorate.</span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0in"> </p> <p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Background</strong></span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Egypt<strong> </strong>has in recent years sought to promote archaeological discoveries across the country in a bid to revive tourism, which took a hit from the turmoil that followed its 2011 uprising.</span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0in"> </p> <p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Details</strong></span></span></p> <ul> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The mission found 16 tombs containing 20 sarcophagi, some engraved with hieroglyphics, at the <strong>Al-Ghoreifa</strong> site, about 300 km south of Cairo.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The shared tombs were dedicated to high priests of the god Djehuty and senior officials, from the Late Period around 3,000 years ago. </span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">They were from the 15th nome, an ancient Egyptian territorial division ruled over by a Provincial Governor.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">One of the stone sarcophagi was dedicated to the god Horus, the son of Isis and Osiris, and features a depiction of the goddess Nut spreading her wings. </span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The ministry also unveiled 10,000 blue and green ushabti (funerary figurines), 700 amulets bearing scarab shapes, and one bearing the figure of a winged cobra.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Painted limestone canopic jars, which the ancient Egyptians used to store the entrails of their mummified dead, were also unearthed.</span></span></p> </li> </ul> ', 'created_date' => 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<strong>Rakhigarhi</strong> (Haryana), <strong>Hastinapur</strong> (Uttar Pradesh), <strong>Sivsagar</strong> (Assam), <strong>Dholavira</strong> (Gujarat) and <strong>Adichanallur</strong> (Tamil Nadu).</span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0in"> </p> <p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Details</strong></span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Rakhigarhi</strong></span></span></p> <ul> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Rakhigarhi in Haryana’s Hissar district is one of the most prominent and largest sites of the Harappan civilisation. It is one among the five known townships of the Harappan civilisation in the Indian subcontinent.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">In one of the excavations, the skeletal remains of a couple were discovered. Interestingly, of the 62 graves discovered in Rakhigarhi, only this particular grave consisted of more than one skeletal remains and of individuals of the opposite sex together.</span></span></p> </li> </ul> <p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Hastinapur</strong></span></span></p> <ul> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Hastinapur finds mention in the Mahabharata and the Puranas. One of the most significant discoveries made at this site was of the “new ceramic industry”, which was named the Painted Grey Ware, which as per the report represented the relics of the early Indo-Aryans.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The sites of Hastinapur, Mathura, Kurukshetra, Barnawa, etc., are identifiable with those of the same name mentioned in the Mahabharata. If that be so, the Painted Grey Ware would be associated with the early settlers on these sites, viz. The Pauravas, Panchalas, etc., who formed a part of the early Aryan stock in India.</span></span></p> </li> </ul> <p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Shivsagar</strong></span></span></p> <ul> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">In Sivasagar, excavations at the Karenghar (Talatalghar) complex between 2000 and 2003 led to the discovery of buried structures in the north-western and north-eastern side of the complex.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Among the structural remains found at the site were ceramic assemblages including vases, vessels, dishes, and bowls, etc. Terracotta smoking pipes were also found.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Another excavation site in Sivasagar district is the Garhgaon Raja’s palace. A burnt-brick wall running in north-south orientation was found, along with the remains of two huge circular wooden posts.</span></span></p> </li> </ul> <p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Dholavira</strong></span></span></p> <ul> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Dholavira in Gujarat is located in the Khadir island of the Rann of Kutch, and like Rakhigarhi is one of the sites where the remains of the Harappan civilisation have been found.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Dholavira is unique because remains of a complete water system have been found here. </span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The people who lived there for an estimated 1,200 years during the Harappan civilisation are noted for their water conservation system using rainwater harvesting techniques in an otherwise parched landscape.</span></span></p> </li> </ul> <p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Adichnallur</strong></span></span></p> <ul> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Adichnallur lies in the Thoothukudi district of Tamil Nadu. 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The information extracted from the studies will help digitally reconstruct the life history of Poompuhar.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Initial studies carried out by the Indian Remote Sensing Satellites show that the city was established initially in the Cauvery Delta-A about 30km away from the present town around 15,000 years ago.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">It shifted further 10 km to the west to Delta-B around 11,000 years ago and again further 10 km west to Delta-C around 8000 years ago. 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[[maximum depth reached]], '[errors]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[invalid]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[repository]' => 'currentaffairs' }, (int) 25 => object(Cake\ORM\Entity) { 'tag' => 'Historical Places', 'keyword' => 'historical-places', 'id' => (int) 3767, 'title' => 'Ancient city in Haryana’s Sirsa', 'description' => '<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Issue</strong></span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">A mound in Sirsa indistinguishable from the dusty background of most Haryana small towns could hold clues to the ancient city of ‘<strong>Sarishika’</strong>.</span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0in"> </p> <p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Background</strong></span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Falling on the old route to Takshashila, the 6th-5th century BC city found mention in the Mahabharata, Panini’s Ashtadhyayi and the Buddhist text Divyavadana.</span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0in"> </p> <p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Details</strong></span></span></p> <ul> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Before the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) can confirm the historicity of the site, it has to convince the nearly 50,000 people living on the identified 82 acres to move.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">There is also a dispute over the size of the protected area, with surveys by the ASI and government departments such as Revenue and Archaeology and Museums coming up with different figures.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The government is said to be trying to see if the ASI can take the parts of Ther that are heavily inhabited out of the protected zone.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The ASI found numerous antiquarian remains, ranging from the Gupta to the Mughal period in three months of excavation, but needs more time to verify the facts.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Following an affidavit to court regarding the area for protection, a joint survey conducted by the ASI and Haryana’s Archaeological and Museums Department too had put the Ther area at 82 acres.</span></span></p> </li> </ul> ', 'created_date' => object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {}, 'posturl' => 'ancient-city-in-haryana-sirsa', 'image' => 'https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/3deb/i8uk3qzx9lw79mv6g.jpg', 'fbimage' => 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style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Issue</strong></span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">An archaeological excavation carried out in the trenches at Dhaba in the upper Son river valley in central India has found evidence of human occupation in this area almost 80,000 years ago.</span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0in"> </p> <p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Background</strong></span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> The international team of researchers found evidence of the continuous presence of humans in this region between 80,000 years ago and 65,000 years ago.</span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0in"> </p> <p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Details</strong></span></span></p> <ul> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The lithic industry (stone tools) from Dhaba strongly resembles stone tool assemblages from the African Middle Stone Age (MSA) and Arabia, and the earliest artefacts from Australia, suggesting that it is likely the product of <em>Homo sapiens</em> as they dispersed eastward out of Africa.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">This finding is important in the face of competing theories on the first presence of human populations in different regions of the world and on human dispersal from Africa.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">About 74,000 years ago, the Toba volcanic super-eruption, centred around Sumatra, is believed to have caused an almost decade-long spell of cold weather across many parts of the Earth. </span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">There is an argument that this induced winter not only led to the cooling of the Earth’s surface for almost a thousand years since the eruption, but also destroyed huge populations of hominins.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The hypothesis is that the ‘volcanic winter’ caused a bottleneck in the gene pool of humans, because only a few survived who were in Africa at the time. Later, this population is believed to have emerged from Africa and colonised different parts of the world. </span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">However, the present study rules out this hypothesis as it implies that a population of early humans inhabited northern India even before the date of the eruption (74,000 years ago) and continued through the period of the devastation and until much later.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The excavation unearthed a large tool industry spanning the period of the Toba super-eruption. The large Megalithic tools were dated between approximately 80,000 years and 65,000 years and the small tools were dated at approximately 50,000 years suggesting a continuous inhabiting of this region by humans undisturbed by the super-eruption.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The fact that we find these before and after the Toba eruption with no apparent change in technology indicates that major eruptions like Toba appear not to have had a catastrophic effect on small hunter-gatherer bands living in India at the time.</span></span></p> </li> </ul> ', 'created_date' => object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {}, 'posturl' => 'early-human-habitat-in-northern-india', 'image' => 'https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/69ff/2bgz0h7uy6gzfr76g.jpg', 'fbimage' => 'https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/69ff/2bgz0h7uy6gzfr76g.jpg', 'metatitle' => 'Early human habitat in northern India', 'metakeyword' => 'Early human habitat in northern India', 'metadescription' => 'An archaeological excavation carried out in the trenches at Dhaba in the upper Son river valley in central India has found evidence of human occupation in this area almost 80,000 years ago.', 'author' => null, 'downlaodpdf' => 'https://www.mediafire.com/file/udosojdr72v4jm3/Early_human_habitat_in_northern_India.pdf/file', '[new]' => false, '[accessible]' => [ [maximum depth reached] ], '[dirty]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[original]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[virtual]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[errors]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[invalid]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[repository]' => 'currentaffairs' }, (int) 27 => object(Cake\ORM\Entity) { 'tag' => 'Historical Places', 'keyword' => 'historical-places', 'id' => (int) 3789, 'title' => 'Rakhigarhi Harappan site', 'description' => '<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Issue</strong></span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The Centre is moving ahead with its plan to develop the site of Rakhigarhi as a tourist hub and set up a museum,which has got the residents worried.</span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0in"> </p> <p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Background</strong></span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman had announced the government’s plan to fund five on-site museums, including the under-construction museum initiated by the Haryana government at Rakhigarhi in her budget speech.</span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0in"> </p> <p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Details</strong></span></span></p> <ul> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The ASI has been able to get under its control just 83.5 acres of the 350-hectare site that spans 11 mounds, after first taking over the site in 1996, due to encroachments and pending court cases.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Regarding the concerns, the government would work with the villagers to address their concerns as the tourist hub is formed.</span></span></p> </li> </ul> <p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Rakhigarhi</strong></span></span></p> <ul> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Rakhigarhi is the site of a pre-Indus Valley Civilisation settlement going back to about 6500 BCE, located in the state of Haryana. Later, it was also part of the mature Indus Valley Civilisation, dating to 2600-1900 BCE. The site is located in the Sarasvati river plain, some 27 km from the seasonal <strong>Ghaggar</strong> river.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Rakhigarhi encompasses a set of seven mounds, and there are many more settlement mounds in the immediate vicinity. In January 2014, the discovery of additional mounds resulted in it becoming the largest Indus Valley Civilization site, overtaking Mohenjodaro (300 Hectares) by almost 50 hectares, resulting in almost 350 hectares.</span></span></p> </li> </ul> <p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Findings</strong></span></span></p> <ul> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Terracotta statues, weights, bronze artefacts, comb, copper fish hooks, needles and terracotta seals have also been found. A bronze vessel has been found which is decorated with gold and silver. </span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">A gold foundry with about 3000 unpolished semi-precious stones has been found. Many tools used for polishing these stones and a furnace were found there. </span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">A burial site has been found with 11 skeletons, with their heads in the north direction. Near the heads of these skeletons, utensils for everyday use were kept. The three female skeletons have shell bangles on their left wrists. Near one female skeleton, a gold armlet has been found.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Hunting tools like copper hafts and fish hooks have been found here. Presence of various toys like mini wheels, miniature lids, sling balls, animal figurines indicates a prevalence of toy culture.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">A granary belonging to mature Harappan phase (2600 BCE to 2000 BCE) has been found here. Granary is made up of mud-bricks with a floor of ramped earth plastered with mud. It has 7 rectangular or square chambers.</span></span></p> </li> </ul> ', 'created_date' => object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {}, 'posturl' => 'rakhigarhi-harappan-site', 'image' => 'https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/6fb4/6c199bf2xyvmazg6g.jpg', 'fbimage' => 'https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/6fb4/6c199bf2xyvmazg6g.jpg', 'metatitle' => 'Rakhigarhi Harappan site', 'metakeyword' => 'Rakhigarhi Harappan site', 'metadescription' => 'The Centre is moving ahead with its plan to develop the site of Rakhigarhi as a tourist hub and set up a museum,which has got the residents worried.', 'author' => null, 'downlaodpdf' => 'https://www.mediafire.com/file/q9zbbs7g9ur22sq/Rakhigarhi_Harappan_site.pdf/file', '[new]' => false, '[accessible]' => [ [maximum depth reached] ], '[dirty]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[original]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[virtual]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[errors]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[invalid]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[repository]' => 'currentaffairs' }, (int) 28 => object(Cake\ORM\Entity) { 'tag' => 'Historical Places', 'keyword' => 'historical-places', 'id' => (int) 4151, 'title' => 'The Great Depression', 'description' => '<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Issue</strong></span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">With the novel coronavirus pandemic severely affecting the global economy, some experts have begun comparing the current crisis with the Great Depression, the devastating economic decline of the 1930s that went on to shape countless world events.</span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Background</strong></span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> A depression is a severe and prolonged downturn in economic activity. In economics, a depression is commonly defined as an extreme recession that lasts three or more years or leads to a decline in real gross domestic product (GDP) of at least 10 percent.</span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Details</strong></span></span></p> <ul> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Experts have warned that unemployment levels in some countries could reach those from the 1930s era, when the unemployment rate was as high as around 25 per cent in the United States.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Currently, unemployment levels in the US are already estimated to be at 13 per cent, highest since the Great Depression, according to a New York Times report.</span></span></p> </li> </ul> <p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>The Great Depression</strong></span></span></p> <ul> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The Great Depression was a major economic crisis that began in the United States in 1929, and went to have a worldwide impact until 1939.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">It began on October 24, 1929, a day that is referred to as “Black Thursday”, when a monumental crash occurred at the New York Stock Exchange as stock prices fell by 25 per cent.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">While the Wall Street crash was triggered by minor events, the extent of the decline was due to more deep-rooted factors such as a fall in aggregate demand, misplaced monetary policies, and an unintended rise in inventory levels.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">In the United States, prices and real output fell dramatically. Industrial production fell by 47 per cent, the wholesale price index by 33 per cent, and real GDP by 30 per cent.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The havoc caused in the US spread to other countries mainly due to the gold standard, which linked most of the world’s currencies by fixed exchange rates.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">In almost every country of the world, there were massive job losses, deflation, and a drastic contraction in output.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Unemployment in the US increased from 3.2 per cent to 24.9 per cent between 1929 and 1933. In the UK, it rose from 7.2 per cent to 15.4 per cent between 1929 and 1932.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">In Europe, economic stagnation that the Depression caused is believed to be the principal reason behind the rise of fascism, and consequently the Second World War.</span></span></p> </li> </ul> <p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Effects on India</strong></span></span></p> <ul> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The Depression had an important impact on India’s freedom struggle. Due to the global crisis, there was a drastic fall in agricultural prices, the mainstay of India’s economy, and a severe credit contraction occurred as colonial policymakers refused to devalue the rupee.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The effects of the Depression became visible around the harvest season in 1930, soon after Mahatma Gandhi had launched the Civil Disobedience movement in April the same year.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">There were “No Rent” campaigns in many parts of the country, and radical Kisan Sabhas were started in Bihar and eastern UP. Agrarian unrest provided a groundswell of support to the Congress, whose reach was yet to extend into rural India.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">The endorsement by farming classes is believed to be among the reasons that enabled the party to achieve its landslide victory in the 1936-37 provincial elections held under the Government of India Act, 1935– which significantly increased the party’s political might for years to come.</span></span></p> </li> </ul> ', 'created_date' => object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {}, 'posturl' => 'the-great-depression', 'image' => 'https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/df6e/jyb3hfmefidwldn6g.jpg', 'fbimage' => 'https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/df6e/jyb3hfmefidwldn6g.jpg', 'metatitle' => 'The Great Depression', 'metakeyword' => 'The Great Depression', 'metadescription' => 'With the novel coronavirus pandemic severely affecting the global economy, some experts have begun comparing the current crisis with the Great Depression, the devastating', 'author' => null, 'downlaodpdf' => 'http://www.mediafire.com/file/itn5ki7f4gq3vdy/4.The_Great_Depression.pdf/file', '[new]' => false, '[accessible]' => [ [maximum depth reached] ], '[dirty]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[original]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[virtual]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[errors]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[invalid]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[repository]' => 'currentaffairs' }, (int) 29 => object(Cake\ORM\Entity) { 'tag' => 'Historical Places', 'keyword' => 'historical-places', 'id' => (int) 4357, 'title' => 'The Armenian genocide', 'description' => '<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Issue</strong></span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The Armenian diaspora marks April 24 as Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day. This year marks 105 years since the beginning of the genocide, something Turkey has consistently denied.</span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Background</strong></span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The Armenian Genocide is often called the first genocide of the twentieth century. It refers to the systematic annihilation of Armenians living in the Ottoman Empire between 1915 to 1917.</span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Details</strong></span></span></p> <ul> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The Armenian Genocide occured during the First World War, and in many ways a direct result of the developments during the war. Although Armenians had always faced harassment and persecution in Asia Minor, this heightened around 1908. During the Ottoman rule, minorities like the Armenians were subjected to discriminatory treatment. </span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The Armenians in the Ottoman empire were Christians by faith and the Ottoman Caliphate feared that the Armenians would bear allegiance to neighbouring countries, Russia for instance, with similar religious affiliations than the Ottoman empire, especially during a war.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">A result of this continued hostility and suspicion towards Armenians was the first state-sanctioned pogroms called the Hamidian Massacres between 1894–1896. These violent massacres were implemented to crush protests against discrimination that was being perpetrated against minorities in the Ottoman Caliphate.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The reigning monarch, Abdul Hamid II was never held accountable for the massacres although researchers believe that the violence was perpetrated with his approval.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">In 1908, a political reform movement that called itself the Young Turks formed of intellectuals and revolutionaries led a rebellion against Abdul Hamid II in an attempt to overthrow the monarchy in favour of a constitutional government.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">However, as the political ideology of the Young Turks changed, the group became less tolerant of Armenians asking for liberties and freedoms. The Russo-Turkish wars and the conflict in the Balkans and Russia further increased hostilities against the Armenians.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The Ottoman Turks believed the Armenians would side with Russia in the war and aggressively engaged in propaganda against them. This resulted in the Ottoman Turks engaging in a mass-removal campaign of Armenians from the border areas along the Eastern Front.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">On April 24, 1915, Ottoman Turkish government officials arrested and executed thousands of Armenian intellectuals. Women and girls were subjected to widespread sexual violence and abuse and were also trafficked into sexual slavery.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Researchers of the Armenian Genocide say may actions against Armenians bear similarities to abuses and torture perpetrated by the Nazis during the Holocaust.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">As of 2020, the Armenian Genocide has been formally recognised by 32 countries and parliaments. While other countries may not have officially recognised the genocide, presently, only Turkey and Azerbaijan openly deny the occurence of the genocide. </span></span></p> </li> </ul> ', 'created_date' => object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {}, 'posturl' => 'the-armenian-genocide', 'image' => 'https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/22b2/ci3jdgtbmblqaih6g.jpg', 'fbimage' => 'https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/22b2/ci3jdgtbmblqaih6g.jpg', 'metatitle' => 'The Armenian genocide', 'metakeyword' => 'The Armenian genocide', 'metadescription' => 'The Armenian diaspora marks April 24 as Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day. 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The cartridges were rumoured to have been made from cow and sow fat. </span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Loading the Enfield required tearing open the greased cartridge with one's teeth. This would have insulted both Hindu and Muslim religious practices; cows were considered holy by Hindus, while pigs were considered unclean by Muslims.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The old aristocracy, both Muslim and Hindu, who were seeing their power steadily eroded by the BEIC, also rebelled against British rule.</span></span></p> </li> </ul> <p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Centres of rebellion</strong></span></span></p> <ul> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">At <strong>Delhi</strong>, the nominal and symbolic; leadership belonged to the<strong> Emperor Bahadur Shah</strong>, but the real command lay with a Court of Soldiers headed by <strong>General Bakht Khan</strong> who had led the revolt of the Bareilly troops and brought them to Delhi.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">At <strong>Kanpur</strong>, the Revolt was led by <strong>Nana Sahib</strong>, the adopted son of Baji Rao II, the last Peshwa. Nana Sahib expelled the English from Kanpur with the help of the sepoys and proclaimed himself the Peshwa. At the same time, he acknowledged Bahadur Shah as the Emperor of India and declared himself to be his Governor.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The revolt at <strong>Lucknow</strong> was led by the <strong>Begum of Avadh</strong> who had proclaimed her young son, Birjis Kadr, as the Nawab of Avadh.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The Rani of <strong>Jhansi</strong> joined the rebels when the British refused to acknowledge her right to adopt an heir to the Jhansi gaddi (throne) annexed her state, and threatened to treat her as an instigator of the rebellion of the sepoys at Jhansi.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Kunwar Singh</strong>, a ruined and discontented zamindar of Jagdishpur near <strong>Arrah</strong>, was the chief organizer of the Revolt in Bihar.</span></span></p> </li> </ul> <p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>British suppression of revolt</strong></span></span></p> <ul> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The Revolt was suppressed. Sheer courage could not win against a powerful and determined enemy who planned its every step.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The rebels were dealt an early blow when the British captured Delhi on 20 September 1857 after prolonged and bitter fighting.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The aged Emperor Bahadur Shah was taken prisoner. The Royal Princes were captured and butchered on the spot. The Emperor was tried and exiled to Rangoon where he died in 1862.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The Rani Jhansi had died on the field of battle earlier on 17 June 1858. By 1859, Kunwar Singh, Bakht Khan, Khan Bahadur Khan of Bareilly, Rao Sahib brother of Nana Sahib, and Maulavi Ahmadullah were all dead, while the Begum of Avadh was compelled to hide in Nepal.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">John Lawrence, Outram, Havelock, Neil, Campbell, and Hugh Rose were some of the British commanders who earned military fame in the course of the revolt.</span></span></p> </li> </ul> ', 'created_date' => object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {}, 'posturl' => 'the-revolt-of-1857', 'image' => 'https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/c981/xshfkqjv6b3bc0g6g.jpg', 'fbimage' => 'https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/c981/xshfkqjv6b3bc0g6g.jpg', 'metatitle' => 'The revolt of 1857', 'metakeyword' => 'The revolt of 1857', 'metadescription' => 'Large sections of Hindus, Muslims and Sikhs together challenged the greatest imperialist power, Britain, during India’s first war of independence which began on May 10, 1857.', 'author' => null, 'downlaodpdf' => 'http://www.mediafire.com/file/47fhhr9cqxn5bcs/5.The_revolt_of_1857.pdf/file', '[new]' => false, '[accessible]' => [ [maximum depth reached] ], '[dirty]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[original]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[virtual]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[errors]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[invalid]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[repository]' => 'currentaffairs' }, (int) 31 => object(Cake\ORM\Entity) { 'tag' => 'Historical Places', 'keyword' => 'historical-places', 'id' => (int) 4914, 'title' => 'Victory Day and World War II', 'description' => '<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Issue</strong></span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Defence Minister Rajnath Singh is on a three-day trip to Russia to attend the 75th Victory Day. India has sent a tri-services contingent to participate in the Victory Day Parade.</span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Details</strong></span></span></p> <ul> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Victory Day marks the end of World War II and the victory of the Allied Forces in 1945. Adolf Hitler had shot himself on April 30. </span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">On May 7, German troops surrendered, which was formally accepted the next day and came into effect on May 9. In most European countries, it is celebrated on May 8, and is called the Victory in Europe Day.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The erstwhile Soviet Union had not wanted the surrender to take place in the west and wanted that such a significant event should reflect the contribution of the Red Army and the Soviet population.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">This year, the celebrations this year were pushed to June because of the Covid-19 pandemic. In November 2019, Russian President Vladimir Putin had invited Prime Minister Narendra Modi to the Victory Day celebration which were due to be held on May 9.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The parade will see the participation of military personnel from 19 countries, including India and China. 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