Monday, December 22, 2014

Railway Zones: India


Railway Zones:

Central Railway: Mumbai
Southern Railway: Chennai
Northern Railway: Delhi
Eastern Railway: Kolkata
Western Railway: Mumbai

North Eastern: Gorakhpur
South Eastern: Kolkata

South Central: Secundarabad
Northeast Frontier: Guwahati

East Central: Hajipur
North Western: Jaipur
East Coast: Bhubaneswar
North Central: Allhabad
South East Central: Bilaspur
South Western: Hubli
West Central: Jabalpur
Kolkat Metro: Kolkata

Thursday, December 18, 2014

Nobel Prize Winners


Nobel Prize 2014

Peace: Malala Yusaf Sai, Kailesh Sathyarthi

Kailesh: 5 the Indian receiving the Nobel Price - rights of children to education - India -
born : Vidisha - India

Malala: Youngest ever Nobel price laureate - rights of all children to education -
resident at the time of award : united Kingdom
born: Mingora, Pakistan

Physics: Isamu Akasaki, hiroshi Amano and Shuji Nakamura
Innovation: Blue light-emitting diodes, energy saving white light sources

Chemistry

Eric Betzig;
Stefan Hell;
William Moerner

Medicine

John O'Keefe;
May-Britt Moser;
Edvard Moser

Literature

Patrick Modiano

Economics

Jean Tirole

 

Commissions of India


Right to Information Act: 2005

Date enacted 15-June-2005
Date commenced 12-October-2005
First RTI application submitted by Shahid Raza Burney to a police station in Pune on 12 October 2005
Appointed by President of India
Appointment committee held by Prime minister
First Chairman: Wajahat Habibullah
Current Chairman: Shri Rajiv Mathur retired at 3 aug 2014 - Vacant

First Chairperson: Deepak Sandhu

Committe: 1 chairman and not more than 10 members
Age limit: 5 years or 65

 

State Information Commission:

Appointed by Governer
Appointment committee held by Chief Minister.
Current SIC: Siby Mathews

 

Human Rights Commission:

Formed on October 12 1993
Amendment on 2006
Human Rights day: December 10

First Chairman: Jst. Ranganath Misra
Second Chairman: M N Venkatachellaih
Current Chairman: K. G. Balakrishnan

Headquarters: New Delhi
Chairman is appointed by: President of India

State Human Rights Commission

Formed on 11 - December - 1998
Chairman: Justice Jacob Benjamin Koshy

 

Finance Commission of India

Formed on 22 - November - 1951
Article: 280

Commission is appointed by: President of India

First Chairman: K C Neogy

10th Chairman: K.C. Pant
13th Chairman: Vijay Kelkar (2010 - 2015)
14th Chairman: Y V Reddy (2015- 2020)

Union Public Service Commission

formation: Oct 1 - 1926
Location: Dholpur House, New Delhi

Article:
first Chairman: Sri Ross Barker
Members are appointed by: President of India

Duration: 6 years of 65 whichever is earlier
Current Chairman: Deepak Gupta

Election Commission of India

Article 243
Chairman is appointed by President of India
Formed 25 January 1950

First Chairman: Sukumar Sen

First Chairperson: V.S. Ramadevi

10th Chairman: T.N Seshan
Current Chairman: V.S. Sampath

State Commission for Woman

Established on : 11- December 1998

First Chairpersion: Sugathakumari

Current Chairpersion: K. C Rosakkutty