Rajya Sabha approved the Bill to add more Scheduled Tribes to List

Rajya Sabha of Indian Parliament  passed the bill the Constitution (Scheduled Tribes) Order (Amendment) Bill, 2011 to amend the list of Scheduled Tribes and add more tribes from North-Eastern India. 

The bill includes six more tribes namely Thangal, Zeme, Mate, Inpui, Liangmai, Rongmei from Manipur and substitutes Galo in place of Galong in the list of Scheduled tribes in Arunachal Pradesh.

At present, 26 communities exist in the list of Scheduled Tribes in Arunachal Pradesh, which includes Galong as well. The Lok Sabha had passed the Bill on 19 December 2011.

Steve Jobs to be posthumously honoured with a Grammy Award

The Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences on 21 December 2011 chose Apple co-founder Steve Jobs to be posthumously honoured with a Grammy award for his contribution to music technology. Jobs  is to be honoured as a creative visionary. He is one of 11 people who will be honoured with special awards.

 

Jobs, who died on 5 October 2011 of pancreatic cancer, will receive a Trustees Award on 13 February 2012 for helping create products that transformed the way music, TV, movies and books are consumed. Apple Computer Inc first received a Technical Grammy Award in 2002 for contributions of outstanding technical significance to the recording field.

 

Bandleader and composer Dave Bartholomew, recording engineer Rudy Van Gelder will also receive the award along with Jobs.

 

The academy also picked the Allman Brothers, Glen Campbell, Diana Ross and Brazilian pianist/singer/guitarist Antonio Carlos Jobim as recipients of Lifetime Achievement Awards. Jobim was known for composing The Girl from Ipanema, a worldwide hit in the mid-1960s which won a Grammy for Record of the Year in 1965.

 

Trumpeter Wayne Jackson, saxophonist Andrew Love of the Memphis Horns, country legend George Jones, and the late Gil Scott-Heron were also named as recipients.

 

German sound-technology firm Celemony and the late audio engineer Roger Nichols, who worked with artists including Ross, Placido Domingo, James Taylor and Stevie Wonder, were also recognised with Grammy Technical Awards.

 

The Trustees Awards are given to people who make a contribution to music beyond performance.

 

The Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences also chose seven performers to receive Lifetime Achievement Awards: The Allman Brothers Band, Glen Campbell, Antonio Carlos Jobim, George Jones, The Memphis Horns, Diana Ross, Gil Scott-Heron.

First Pan-India Satellite Survey pegged the Sugar Cane Area

The first pan-India satellite survey jointly commissioned by Indian Sugar Mills Association (ISMA) and the National Federation of Co-operative Sugar Factories Ltd (NFCSF) pegged the cane area for 2011-12 crop year starting October at 51.82 lakh hectares (lh). For the first time the survey was carried out State-wise and district-wise for the area under sugarcane, through satellite mapping on such a large-scale.

Satellite images of the cane area procured from the National Remote Sensing Agency, Hyderabad, were analysed using the Geographical Information Systems software by South India-based firm.

A satellite mapping of sugarcane acreage carried out for the first time across India showed an increase of 3% over the government estimate. The data showed acreage to be the same in Uttar Pradesh and higher by 3% in Maharashtra as compared to the figures projected by the ministry of agriculture for the two states.

The satellite-based survey was jointly carried out by Indian Sugar Mills Association and National Federation of Cooperative Sugar Factories to reduce the deficiencies involved in the manual estimation of acreage. The Union government had provisioned satellite crop surveys under its Fasal (forecasting of agriculture outputs through satellite, agrometeorology and land-based observations) programme.

According to the satellite data, acreage for 2011-12 has been estimated at 51.82 lakh hectare. The figure is higher than the estimates made manually by the sugar industry at 50.79 lakh hectare, by the ministry of agriculture at 50.93 lakh hectare and the ministry of food and public distribution at 50.25 lakh hectare.

The area estimated for the 2011-12 season through satellite mapping is 2.38 lakh hectare higher than the actual area of 49.44 lakh hectare in the previous crop year marking an increase of 4.8%.

India joined the ranks of major sugar producers such as Brazil and Thailand in leveraging remote sensing technology to estimate the cane area

List of all Bharat Ratna Winner

List of all Bharat Ratna Winner

1.Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan(1888–1975) 1954 Second President, First Vice President,Philosopher. Tamil Nadu

2.Chakravarti Rajagopalachari 98701878–1972 1954 Last Governor-General, Freedom Fighter. Tamil Nadu

3. C. V. Raman 1888–1970 1954 Nobel-prize winning Physicist Tamil Nadu

4. Bhagwan Das 1869–1958 1955 Philosopher, Freedom Fighter Uttar Pradesh

5. Sir Mokshagundam Visvesvarayya231 1861–1962 1955 Civil Engineer Karnataka

6. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889–1964231 1955231 First Prime Minister, Freedom Fighter, Author. Uttar Pradesh

7. Govind Ballabh Pant 1887–1961 1957 Freedom Fighter, Home Minister Uttar Pradesh

8. Dhondo Keshav Karve 1858–1962 1958 Educationist, Social Reformer  Maharashtra

9. B. C. Roy 1882–1962 1961 Physician, Politician West Bengal

10. Purushottam Das Tandon 1882–1962 1961278904231 FreedomFighter, Educationalist. Uttar Pradesh

11. Rajendra Prasad 1884–1963 1962 First President, Freedom Fighter, Jurist  Bihar

12. Zakir Hussain 1897–1969 1963 Former President, Scholar. Andhra Pradesh

13. Pandurang Vaman Kane 1880–1972 1963 Indologist and Sanskrit scholar Maharashtra

14. Lal Bahadur Shastri 1904–1966 1966 Posthumous, Second Prime Minister, Freedom Fighter Uttar Pradesh

15. Indira Gandhi 1917–1984 1971 Former Prime Minister Uttar Pradesh

16. V. V. Giri 1894–1980 1975 Former President, Trade Unionist. Andhra Pradesh

17. K. Kamaraj 1903–1975 1976 Posthumous, Freedom Fighter, Chief Minister-Tamil Nadu. Tamil Nadu

18. Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu (Mother Teresa) 1910–1997 1980 Naturalized Indian citizen, Nobel Laureate (Peace, 1979). West Bengal

19. Acharya Vinoba Bhave 1895–1982 1983 Posthumous, Social Reformer, Freedom Figher. Maharashtra

20. Khan Abdu231l Ghaffar Khan 1890–1988 1987 First non-citizen, Freedom Fighter. Pakistan

21. M. G. Ramachandran 1917–1987 1988 Posthumous, Chief Minister-Tamil Nadu, Actor. Tamil Nadu

22. B. R. Ambedkar 1891–1956 1990 Posthumous, Architect-Indian Constitution, Leader of Buddhist people of India Maharashtra

23. Nelson Mandela b. 1918 1990 Second non-citizen and first non-Indian, Leader of Anti-Apartheid movement. South Africa

24. Rajiv Gandhi 1944–1991 1991 Posthumous, Former Prime Minister New Delhi

25. Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel 1875–1950 1991 Posthumous, Freedom Fighter, First Home Minister of India. Gujarat

26. Morarji Desai 1896–1995 1991 Former Prime Minister, Freedom Fighter. Gujarat

27. Maulana Abul Kalam Azad 1888–1958 1992 Posthumous, Freedom Fighter, Educator. West Bengal

28. J. R. D. Tata 1904–1993 1992 Industrialist and philanthropist. Maharashtra

29. Satyajit Ray 1922–1992 1992 Legendary Indian Film Director West Bengal

30. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam b. 1931 1997 Former President, Scientist. Tamil Nadu

31. Gulzarilal Nanda 1898–1998 1997 Freedom Fighter, former Prime Minister. Punjab

32. Aruna Asaf Ali 1908–1996 1997 Posthumous, Freedom Fighter. West Bengal

33. M. S. Subbulakshmi 1916–2004 1998 Classical singer. Tamil Nadu

34. Chidambaram Subramaniam 1910–2000 1998 Freedom Fighter, Minister of Agriculture(Father of Green revolution). Tamil Nadu

35. Jayaprakash Narayan 1902–1979 1998 Posthumous, Freedom Fighter, Social Reformer. Uttar Pradesh

36. Ravi Shankar b. 1920 1999 Classical sitar player. west bengal

37. Amartya Sen b. 1933 1999 Nobel Laureate (Economics, 1998), Economist. West Bengal

38. Gopinath Bordoloi 1890–1950 1999 Posthumous, freedom fighter Assam

39. Lata Mangeshkar b. 1929 2001 Play back singer. Maharashtra

40. Ustad Bismillah Khan 1916-2006 2001 Classical Maestro Uttar Pradesh

JPSC is the SPV of Corruption for Jharkhand Government

Ranchi,Dec,13:JPSC is a special purpose setup to promote corruption in the Jharkhand by incorporating relatives and money man in the services.

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