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Ahmedabad Ahmedabad ![]() Ahmedabad (/ˈɑːmɪdəbɑːd/ ( listen)), also known as Amdavad[7] is the largest city and former capital of Gujarat, which is a state in India. It is the administrative headquarters of the Ahmedabad district ![]() Ahmedabad district and the seat of the Gujarat ![]() Gujarat High Court. Ahmedabad's population of 5,633,927 (as per 2011 population census) makes it the fifth most populous city in India,[3] and the encompassing urban agglomeration population estimated at 7,650,000 is the seventh most populous in India.[8][9] Ahmedabad ![]() Ahmedabad is located on the banks of the Sabarmati ![]() Sabarmati River, 30 km (19 mi) from the state capital Gandhinagar, which is its twin city.[10] Ahmedabad ![]() Ahmedabad has emerged as an important economic and industrial hub in India [...More...] | "Ahmedabad" on: Wikipedia Yahoo |
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Vehicle Registration Plate A vehicle registration plate, also known as a number plate (British English) or a license plate (American English), is a metal or plastic plate attached to a motor vehicle or trailer for official identification purposes. All countries require registration plates for road vehicles such as cars, trucks, and motorcycles. Whether they are required for other vehicles, such as bicycles, boats, or tractors, may vary by jurisdiction. The registration identifier is a numeric or alphanumeric ID that uniquely identifies the vehicle owner within the issuing region's vehicle register. In some countries, the identifier is unique within the entire country, while in others it is unique within a state or province. Whether the identifier is associated with a vehicle or a person also varies by issuing agency [...More...] | "Vehicle Registration Plate" on: Wikipedia Yahoo |
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Urban Agglomeration An urban area is a human settlement with high population density and infrastructure of built environment. Urban areas are created through urbanization and are categorized by urban morphology as cities, towns, conurbations or suburbs. In urbanism, the term contrasts to rural areas such as villages and hamlets and in urban sociology or urban anthropology it contrasts with natural environment [...More...] | "Urban Agglomeration" on: Wikipedia Yahoo |
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Male A male (♂) organism is the physiological sex that produces sperm. Each spermatozoon can fuse with a larger female gamete, or ovum, in the process of fertilization. A male cannot reproduce sexually without access to at least one ovum from a female, but some organisms can reproduce both sexually and asexually. Most male mammals, including male humans, have a Y chromosome, which codes for the production of larger amounts of testosterone to develop male reproductive organs. Not all species share a common sex-determination system. In most animals, including humans, sex is determined genetically, but in some species it can be determined due to social, environmental, or other factors [...More...] | "Male" on: Wikipedia Yahoo |
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Human Sex Ratio In anthropology and demography, the human sex ratio is the ratio of males to females in a population. More data are available for humans than for any other species, and the human sex ratio is more studied than that of any other species, but interpreting these statistics can be difficult. Like most sexual species, the sex ratio in humans is approximately 1:1. Due to higher female fetal mortality,[2] the sex ratio at birth worldwide is commonly thought to be 107 boys to 100 girls,[3] although this value is subject to debate in the scientific community [...More...] | "Human Sex Ratio" on: Wikipedia Yahoo |
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Telephone Numbering Plan A telephone numbering plan is a type of numbering scheme used in telecommunication to assign telephone numbers to subscriber telephones or other telephony endpoints.[1] Telephone numbers are the addresses of participants in a telephone network, reachable by a system of destination code routing. Telephone numbering plans are defined in each of administrative regions of the public switched telephone network (PSTN) and they are also present in private telephone networks. For public number systems, geographic location plays a role in the sequence of numbers assigned to each telephone subscriber. Numbering plans may follow a variety of design strategies which have often arisen from the historical evolution of individual telephone networks and local requirements. A broad division is commonly recognized, distinguishing open numbering plans and closed numbering plans[discuss] [...More...] | "Telephone Numbering Plan" on: Wikipedia Yahoo |
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Postal Index Number A Postal Index Number ![]() Postal Index Number or PIN or PIN code[1] is a code in the post office numbering or post code system used by India ![]() India Post, the Indian postal administration. The code is six digits long.Contents1 History 2 Postal zones 3 PIN numbering3.1 Sorting district 3.2 Service route 3.3 Delivery office4 Delivery system 5 References 6 External linksHistory[edit] The PIN Code system was introduced on 15 August 1972 by Shriram Bhikaji Velankar, an additional secretary in the Union Ministry of Communications.[2][3][4] The system was introduced to simplify the manual sorting and delivery of mail by eliminating confusion over incorrect addresses, similar place names and different languages used by the public.[5] Postal zones[edit] There are nine PIN zones in India, including eight regional zones and one functional zone (for the Indian Army). The first digit of the PIN code indicates the region [...More...] | "Postal Index Number" on: Wikipedia Yahoo |
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Indian Standard Time Indian Standard Time ![]() Indian Standard Time (IST) is the time observed throughout India, with a time offset of UTC+05:30. India ![]() India does not observe daylight saving time (DSTu) or other seasonal adjustments [...More...] | "Indian Standard Time" on: Wikipedia Yahoo |
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Time Zone A time zone is a region of the globe that observes a uniform standard time for legal, commercial, and social purposes. Time ![]() Time zones tend to follow the boundaries of countries and their subdivisions because it is convenient for areas in close commercial or other communication to keep the same time. Most of the time zones on land are offset from Coordinated Universal Time ![]() Time (UTC) by a whole number of hours ( UTC−12 ![]() UTC−12 to UTC+14), but a few zones are offset by 30 or 45 minutes (e.g. Newfoundland Standard Time is UTC−03:30, Nepal ![]() Nepal Standard Time ![]() Time is UTC+05:45, and Indian Standard Time ![]() Time is UTC+05:30). Some higher latitude and temperate zone countries use daylight saving time for part of the year, typically by adjusting local clock time by an hour [...More...] | "Time Zone" on: Wikipedia Yahoo |
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Demonym A demonym (/ˈdɛmənɪm/; δῆμος dẽmos "people, tribe", ὄόνομα ónoma "name") is a word that identifies residents or natives of a particular place, which is derived from the name of that particular place.[1] It is a neologism (i.e., a recently minted term); previously gentilic was recorded in English dictionaries, e.g., the Oxford ![]() Oxford English Dictionary and Chambers Twentieth Century Dictionary.[2][3][4] Examples of demonyms include Swahili for a person of the Swahili coast and Cochabambino for a person from the city of Cochabamba. Demonyms do not always clearly distinguish place of origin or ethnicity from place of residence or citizenship, and many demonyms overlap with the ethnonym for the ethnically dominant group of a region [...More...] | "Demonym" on: Wikipedia Yahoo |
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Urban Area An urban area is a human settlement with high population density and infrastructure of built environment. Urban areas are created through urbanization and are categorized by urban morphology as cities, towns, conurbations or suburbs. In urbanism, the term contrasts to rural areas such as villages and hamlets and in urban sociology or urban anthropology it contrasts with natural environment [...More...] | "Urban Area" on: Wikipedia Yahoo |
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Cotton Cotton ![]() Cotton is a soft, fluffy staple fiber that grows in a boll, or protective case, around the seeds of the cotton plants of the genus Gossypium Gossypium in the mallow family Malvaceae. The fiber is almost pure cellulose. Under natural conditions, the cotton bolls will increase the dispersal of the seeds. The plant is a shrub native to tropical and subtropical regions around the world, including the Americas, Africa, and India. The greatest diversity of wild cotton species is found in Mexico, followed by Australia ![]() Australia and Africa.[1] Cotton ![]() Cotton was independently domesticated in the Old and New Worlds. The fiber is most often spun into yarn or thread and used to make a soft, breathable textile [...More...] | "Cotton" on: Wikipedia Yahoo |
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Cricket Cricket ![]() Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players each on a cricket field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 20-metre (22-yard) pitch with a target at each end called the wicket (a set of three wooden stumps upon which two bails sit). Each phase of play is called an innings, during which one team bats, attempting to score as many runs as possible, whilst their opponents bowl and field, attempting to minimise the number of runs scored. When each innings ends, the teams usually swap roles for the next innings (i.e. the team that previously batted will bowl/field, and vice versa). The teams each bat for one or two innings, depending on the type of match [...More...] | "Cricket" on: Wikipedia Yahoo |
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Municipal Commissioner In many countries, a municipal commissioner is an official in a municipal government such as that of a city or a town.Contents1 India 2 Sri Lanka 3 Sweden 4 ReferencesIndia[edit] Main article: Municipal Commissioner (India) In India, every Municipal Corporation in India is administratively headed by a Municipal Commissioner, who is the de facto head of the municipal corporation, the form of government which is usually granted to a city of more one million in population. Sri Lanka[edit] In Sri Lanka, under the Municipal Council Ordinance there is a municipal commissioner of each municipal council. He/she would be the chief administrative officer and is the highest ranking non-elected officer of the municipality and in most cases be an officer of the Sri Lanka Administrative Service on secondment [...More...] | "Municipal Commissioner" on: Wikipedia Yahoo |
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Deputy Mayor Deputy mayor is an elective or appointive office of the second-ranking official in many local governments.Contents1 Duties and functions1.1 New York City, USA 1.2 St. Louis, Missouri, USA 1.3 Israel 1.4 France 1.5 Davao City, Philippines2 ReferencesDuties and functions[edit] Many elected vice-mayors are members of the city council who are given the title and serve as acting mayor in the mayor's absence. Appointive deputy mayors serve at the pleasure of the mayor and may function as chief operating officers. There may be within the same municipal government one or more deputy mayors appointed to oversee policy areas together with a popularly-elected vice mayor who serves as the mayor's successor in the event the office is vacated by death, resignation, disability, or impeachment.[1] In other cities the vice mayor presides over the city council, and may not vote except to break ties [...More...] | "Deputy Mayor" on: Wikipedia Yahoo |