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Dung beetles and disease carrying flies both compete for the same food, that is cattle droppings. Since both of these organisms belong to different species, this competition is called interspecific competition.
The three major categories of energy for electricity generation are fossil fuels (coal, natural gas, and petroleum), nuclear energy, and renewable energy sources. Most electricity is generated with steam turbines using fossil fuels, nuclear, biomass, geothermal, and solar thermal energy. Therefore out of various power resources government relies on thermal power.
A new online Atlas of freshwater biodiversity has been launched on 29 January, 2014. It will present spatial information and species distribution patterns. TheAtlasis an output of BioFresh – an EUfunded project in which the IUCN Global Species Programme is a key partner. It is working to better understand, manage and protect our freshwaters, for generations to come.
A biodiversity hotspot is an area with an unusual concentration of species, many of which are endemic. It is marked by a serious threat to its biodiversity by humans. The concept was given in 1988 by Norman Myers. The British biologist Norman Myers coined the term "biodiversity hotspot" in 1988 as a biogeographic region characterized both by exceptional levels of plant endemism and by serious levels of habitat loss. In 1990 Myers added a further eight hotspots, including four Mediterranean-type ecosystems.
Tree foundation, an NGO engaged in conservation of the sea turtle, found more than 100 dead Olive Ridley turtles in the shores of Nagapattinam. The Olive Ridley turtles are rusty coloured carapace and have slightly smaller head and shell than the Kemp turtles. These Olive Ridley turtles generally occur through the Antilles, around the north coast of South America, in West Africa, the Indian Ocean, Australia and Southeast Asia. As per the reports the populations of Olive Riddles have declined in Pakistan, Myanmar, Malaysia and Thailand, and possibly on the east coast of India, south of Orissa and in the Andaman and Nicobar islands.
White-bellied Heron (Ardeainsignis), Great Indian Bustard (Ardeotisnigriceps) and Forest Owlet (Atheneblewitti) are some, among the list of endangered birds of India. Mallard (Anasplatyrhynchos) is a dabbling bird, which is not an endangered bird.
This question sates tropical forest: The forest that possesses the maximum biodiversity is the Tropical Forests. It is interesting to note that they cover just around 2% of the surface of Earth and are still home to around half of the varieties of flora and fauna. The largely tropical Amazonian rain forest in South America has the greatest biodiversity on earth- it is home to more than 40,000 species of plants, 3,000 of fishes, 1,300 of birds, 427 of mammals, 427 of amphibians, 378 of reptiles and of more than 1,25,000 invertebrates. Hence we can state that biodiversity is found in tropical rain forest.
The Nobel for Economic Sciences in 1998 was won by Kolkata-born economist Amartya Sen "for his contributions to welfare economics." India-born Venkatraman Ramakrishnan won the 2009 Nobel Prize along with two others in Chemistry "for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome." In 1998, Amartya Sen received the Nobel Prize “for his contributions to welfare economics.” Much of Sen's early work was on issues raised by kenneth arrow's “impossibility theorem.” Arrow had shown, much more generally than Condorcet had in 1785, that majority rules often lead to intransitivities.
In a book “Why Socialism?” (1932), Jayaprakash Narayan explained why socialism would be right for India. In 1934, Jayaprakash and his friends formed the Congress Socialist Party under the Presidentship of Acharya Narendra Deva and Secretaryship of Jayaprakash himself.
Functional finance is a heterodox macroeconomic theory developed by Abba Lerner during World War II that seeks to eliminate economic insecurity (i.e., the business cycle) through government intervention in the economy. Functional finance emphasizes the result of interventionist policies on the economy. The functional finance rule says that the fall in private demand requires the government budget to move toward deficit. ... The sound finance rule, on the other hand, says that the response to a fall in private demand should be a reduction in the interest rate
Mashelkar Committee Report on India's National Auto Fuel Policy. The Government had formed a high powered Mashelkar Committee to decide about the National Auto Fuel Policy in the year 2003. Mashelkar was constituted by MOP&NG to recommend an Auto Fuel Policy for the country including major cities; to devise a road map for its implementation; to recommend suitable auto fuels and their specifications considering the availability and logistics of fuel supplies, the processing economics of automotive fuels,
NABARD role in rural development in India is phenomenal. National Bank For Agriculture & Rural Development (NABARD) is set up as an apex Development Bank by the Government of India with a mandate for facilitating credit flow for promotion and development of agriculture, cottage and village industries. NABARD is a Development Bank with a mandate for providing and regulating credit and other facilities for the promotion and development of agriculture, small-scale industries, cottage and village industries, handicrafts and other rural crafts and other allied economic activities in rural areas
The BIFR was established under The Sick Industrial Companies (Special Provisions) Act, 1985 (SICA). BIFR: Board of Industrial and Financial Reconstruction, BIFR stands for Board of Industrial and Financial Reconstruction. It was an agency of Government of India and a part of the Department of Financial Services of the Ministry of Finance. The main function of the BIFR is to revive, rehabilitate and wind up the sick public sector units.
The Securities and Exchange Board of India was established on April 12, 1992 in accordance with the provisions of the Securities and Exchange Board of India Act, 1992. Securities Exchange Board of India (SEBI) was established in 1988 to regulate the functions of securities market. SEBI promotes orderly development in the stock market. SEBI was set up with the main idea to keep a check on malpractices and protect the interest of investors.
The National Social Assistance Programme (NSAP) is a Centrally Sponsored Scheme of the Government of India that provides financial assistance to the elderly, widows and persons with disabilities in the form of social pensions. The main aim is To reach out to and provide social security to vulnerable sections of society, particularly those living below the poverty line.
Navratna was title to public sector enterprise identified by government of india as ‘public sector companies that have cooperative advantages givinh them greater autonomy to compete global market so as to support them to become global gaint, thus number of PSE having navratna status has been raised to 16 the most recent addition is oil india limited.
Gujarat is the largest salt producer state of India and third largest in the world. The state contributes 76 percent to the total salt production in India, Kharaghoda,Bhavnagar, Porbandar and Rann of Kutch of Gujarat are major salt produced districts.
Among the states, Haryana accounted for 41% of the total sulphur production and it was followed by Gujarat 23%, Maharashtra 13%, Uttar Pradesh 11%, West Bengal 10% and the remaining 2% production was contributed by Bihar and Assam.
Digboi. Crude oil was discovered here in late 19th century and first oil well was dug in 1866. Digboi is known as the Oil City of Assam where the first oil well in Asia was drilled. The first refinery was started here as early as 1901. The colonial era saw the first oilfield being developed by the Assam Oil Company, a private entity, in Digboi in Tinsukia district of Assam, where oil was discovered barely eight years after Edwin L Drake drilled the world's first oil well in 1859 in Titusville, Pennsylvania, US.
The Bretton Woods system lasted between 1945 -1972. Its main objectives were to design a post-war monetary system that facilitates greater stability of the exchange rateswithout using the gold standard and to promote international trade and development. The Bretton Woods Institutions are the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF). They were set up at a meeting of 43 countries in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, USA in July 1944. Their aims were to help rebuild the shattered postwar economy and to promote international economic cooperation hence OEDC does not come under BWI.
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