A resident of Elopain village in the Ithun Valley, Lohit District, North-East Frontier Agency (Arunachal Pradesh), Taji Mideren was a farmer and trader. He took part in the activities against British rule and killed three British officers near the Dikran river in 1905. He organized his Mishmi fellow tribals and got them to come together [...]
Entries from October 2009
October 27, 2009
Maski
Maski is an archaeological site in the Raichur district of the state of Karnataka, India. It lies on the bank of the Maski river which is a tributary of the Tungabhadra. The site came into prominence with the discovery of a minor rock edict of Emperor Ashoka by C. Beadon in 1915. It was the first edict [...]
October 27, 2009
Haileybury College
an educational and training institute for the newly recruited cadets of the east india company. The idea of giving the East India Cadets (newly recruited members of the Company’s Civil Service) a designed education and training before they entered active service was first conceived and implemented by Lord wellesley. With the purpose of educating and [...]
October 27, 2009
Brahmadeya, Devadana and Agrahara Land Grants
Land grants to religious institutions were called Brahmadeya, (i.e. donated to Brahmins) Devadana (donated to Gods) and Agrahara (Settlement – of priests) These lands donated to the temples and monasteries apart from being used as normal tenancy also carried a right vested with the temple authorities to call for unpaid labour (called Vishti) as a [...]
October 27, 2009
Kiang Nongbah
Raja Rajendra Singh of Jaintiapur, a Jaintia king was deprived of his kingdom as his territory in the plains was taken away by the British. He was left with the option to rule over his people in the hills which offered little scope for earning revenue for running the administration. Hence he declined kingship. The [...]
October 25, 2009
2009 IAS Civil Services Mains Essay Question Paper
ESSAY (Compulsory): 2009
Time Allowed: Three Hours Max. Marks: 200
Instruction: The Essay must be written in the medium specified in the admission certificate issued to you. The name of medium must be stated clearly on the cover of the answer-book in the space provided for the purpose. No credit will be given to the essay [...]
October 7, 2009
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2009 – Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Thomas A. Steitz, and Ada E. Yonath
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2009 jointly to
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge,
United Kingdom
Thomas A. Steitz, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
Ada E. Yonath, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
“for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome”
The ribosome translates the [...]
October 5, 2009
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2009
(nobelprize.org)
The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet has today decided to award
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2009 jointly to
Elizabeth H. Blackburn, Carol W. Greider and Jack W. Szostak
for the discovery of
“how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase“
Summary
This year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is awarded to three scientists who have [...]
