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I like many indoor games. They are a great help on rainydays and also on hot summer afternoons when schoolsare closed for holidays and my friends and I am leftwithout any new ways of passing the time. When I was younger I used to play snakes and ladderswhere one's luck was all that mattered. One had to move ones coin according to the number secured on the dice. Ludo was another game that I have always loved to play. However as I have grown up I have developed an interest in other games too. Monopoly is one of these. This is a game of business where luck and calculation are equally involved. Fake money is used to build hotels and houses and theone' who ends up with the maximum monetary gains wins the game. This game is great fun to play as it leads to a great deal of competition. more...

The price of gold continues to set new records with almost three times Increase in last few years. There are several factors at play which are leading to demand for gold rising, pushing up the price. Some of them are the weakness of the dollar, speculation, and inflation risk. Due to the weakening of the dollar, those who have invested in that currency are looking for other places to put their money where it will, they hope, gain. Value. Secondly, gold becomes attractive when money can he borrowed extremely cheap or when banks offer very low rates of interest on savings. Thirdly, gold is seen as a hedge against inflation. So.  Mounting worries about potential inflation entice more investors to the   Precious metal. Fourthly, gold tends to hold its value over the long term and is not anchored to the value of cash. So, people are drawn to it in more...

The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) is a permanent intergovernmental interactional organization which came into existence in lime 2001 in Shanghai (China). The Republic of Kazakhstan, the People’s Republic of China, the Kyrgyz Republic, the Russian federation, the Republic of Tajikistan and the Republic of Uzbekistan are its members. India, iran, Mongolia, and Pakistan enjoy Observer status with SCO. Its prototype is the Shanghai Five mechanism. The SCO member states occupy a territory of around 30 million 189 thousand square kilometers which makes up three fifths of the Eurasian continent, and have a population 1.5 billion, which makes up a quarter of the planet’s population, except for China, all SCO members including the Russian Federation were geographically crafted from the erstwhile soviet Union after the end of the Cold War during 1990-91. The main goals of the SCO arc strengthening mutual confidence and  Good-neighborly relations among the member countries; promoting Effective more...

Realizing that the eradication of illiteracy from a vast country like India beset by several social and economic hurdles is not an easy task the National Literacy Mission (NLM) was set up on 5th May 1988 to impart a new sense of urgency and seriousness to adult education. The  NLM              accepted the literacy campaigns as the dominant strategy for eradication of illiteracy after the success of the areas-specific, time-bound, voluntary-based campaign approach first in Kottayam city and then in  Ernakulum district in Kerala in 1990. Subsequently, all the districts in the country have been covered under Total Literacy Campaigns. The creditable performance of the NLM received international. recognition when it was awarded the UNESCO Noma Literacy  prize for  1999.The International Jury while selecting NLM for the  prize recognized its initiation of the Total Literacy Campaigns (TLCs) and  also its efforts in galvanizing activities towards integration, conservation  of  the environment, more...

The problem in India is that land features change every few kilometres and, therefore, there can be no uniform or standing national water policy which can be put intopractice properly unless it takes into account theelaborate terrestrial conditions of the terrain in itsdiversity which is too large and whopping. Then we have local variation depending on soil, cropssown and the mode of irrigation. The result is that Whereas there may be an acute paucity of water in onearea another one, not quite far away, may be suffering from the acute problem of water logging. In certain states, as during the Green Revolution inPunjab, the underground water has been tapped to Criminal excess, thus lowering the level to an alarming extent. This local variation can be gauged from the situationprevailing in Punjab and Haryana. In Punjab, whereas in several areas there is scarcity of water, in the districts of Ferozepur and more...

For almost six years now, I have been wearing an oldwrist watch which once belonged to my grandmother. That watch has been a great source of embarrassment for me as all my classmates tease me about it. I do admit that it’s an antique watch which often refusesIn lick. As a result most often my friends have to keep telling me the time much to their irritation. I have been coaxing my parents to buy me a new watch-but they haven't yet paid any heed to my demand. They pacify me when I get agitated by saying that it is my grandmother's favourite watch and that I can serve Her memory well by 'putting her watch to good use.Although I don't agree witli this argument I cannot get Away with too much of complaining. So I force myselfto remain satisfied with what I have. While the question of a new more...

It was the 14th November 1889 when the Great national hero Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru was born. This Freedom fighter with his indomitable strength and strong determination liberated India from the clutches of the British. During the period of the freedom struggle, he did not ignore or forget the precious wealth of the nation children. He was greatly attached to them and would sneak a few hours to spend in their lovely company. He was fond of them all, irrespective of any disparity. He liked to be among them, chat with them and listen to them patiently. The children obviously loved him and respected him. He was called "Chacha Nehru" by them. Hence 14thNovember has an importance of its own. The 14thNovember is celebrated every year with enthusiasm in India. The day is called 'children's day' for obvious reasons. The great son of India is remembered by crores of children and more...

Freedom has many different meanings. The qualities of being frank, open, or outspoken along with the absence’of necessity, coercion, or constraint are just some of the meanings of freedom. The quality of being exempt or released from somethingis also another definition of freedom. As much as Freedom is considered to be a good thing it also has badqualities that can accompany it. As young children Grow; they want to have more freedom as they get older. They want to have that sense of independence. They want to show off their abilities to survive on their own. At age sixteen many teens are given their first realopportunity of freedom. They are given a driver's license. This is the teen'schance to show that they are responsible enough to be given freedom. As they grow up they are given manymore opportunities to have freedom, they are given later curfews and he or she more...

India is a cricket crazy country and there is a saying in India ‘Cricket is my religion and Sachin is my god’. People in India are mad about sachin Ramesh Tendulkar for he is the greatest ever One Day international player and one of the greatest test cricket player. The  master Blaster, holds several batting records, including the  most Test  centuries and the most one-day international centuries, and  was rate  in 2002 by Wisden as the second greatest test batsman ever, after Sir Don  bradman. He received the Rajiv Gandhi khil ratna, India's highest Sporting honour, for 1997-1998, and the cililian award Padma Shri in 1999. Tendulkar was a wisden cricketer of the year in 1997. Sachin was born on 24 April 1973 in mumbai (then Bombay) into a middle-class family. His parents’ ramesh and rajni Tendulkar named him after his family's favourite music director sachin Dev Burman. Sachin was more...

Foreign trade implies trading goods and services that are destined for a country other than their country of origin. It is all about imports and exports. It exists because sonic nations are adept at producing certain products at a cost-effective price. Perhaps if is because they have the labour supply or abundant natural resources which make up the raw materials needed. It is the ability of some nations to produce what other nations want is what makes foreign trade work. In some cases, the products produced in a foreign trade situation are very similar to other products being produced around the world, at least in their raw form. Therefore, these products, known as commodities, are often pooled ‘together in one mass market and sold. This is called trading commodities the most common commodities often sold in foreign trade are oil and grain. One of the issues considered when conducting foreign more...