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Brijendra Singh (BJP Politician)
Brijendra Singh (born 13 May 1972) is an Indian politician and former Member of Parliament from Hisar parliamentary constituency. He is a member of the Indian National Congress. He is a former Indian Administrative Service officer of the Haryana cadre from the batch of 1998. Political Career Singh contested the 2019 Indian General Election from Hisar as a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate and was elected to the 17th Lok Sabha. He secured 51.1% of the vote share and won by a margin of 3,14,068 votes. As a Member of Parliament, he was a Member of the Public Accounts Committee (India), Standing Committee on Defence (India), Consultative Committee, Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, Committee on Rules, Committee on Petitions, the Joint Committee on the Biological Diversity (Amendment) Bill, 2021, and the Joint Committee on the Multi-State Co-operative Societies (Amendment) Bill. He was among the few members of the BJP who extended support to the Indian wrestlers' protes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hisar (Lok Sabha Constituency)
Hisar (formerly Hissar) is one of the 10 Lok Sabha (parliamentary) constituencies in Haryana state in Northern India. This constituency covers the entire Hisar district and parts of Jind district, Jind and Bhiwani district, Bhiwani districts. Hisar Lok Sabha constituency: Epicenter of strong caste polarisation in the politics of Haryana Daily Pioneer, 28 Jan 2019. Assembly segments At present, Hisar Lok Sabha constituency comprises nine Vidhan Sabha (legislative assembly) constituencies. These are:[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2024 Haryana Legislative Assembly Election
The 2024 Haryana Legislative Assembly elections were held in Elections in Haryana, Haryana on 2024 elections in India, 5 October 2024 to elect all List of constituencies of the Haryana Legislative Assembly, 90 members of the Haryana Legislative Assembly. The schedule of the election was announced by the Election Commission of India on 16 August 2024. The ballots were counted and the results were declared on 8 October 2024. Although the majority of exit polls predicted a landslide victory for the Indian National Congress, the Bharatiya Janata Party won a majority with 48 seats and secured victory for the third consecutive time, becoming the first party in the state's history to achieve this feat. Although the popular vote total differed by less than one percentage point, the Congress managed to win only 37 seats. The tenure of the 14th Haryana Assembly was slated to end on 3 November 2024. In the 2019 Haryana Legislative Assembly election, previous Assembly elections held in Oc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
India MPs 2019–2024
India, officially the Republic of India, is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area; the most populous country since 2023; and, since its independence in 1947, the world's most populous democracy. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south, the Arabian Sea on the southwest, and the Bay of Bengal on the southeast, it shares land borders with Pakistan to the west; China, Nepal, and Bhutan to the north; and Bangladesh and Myanmar to the east. In the Indian Ocean, India is near Sri Lanka and the Maldives; its Andaman and Nicobar Islands share a maritime border with Thailand, Myanmar, and Indonesia. Modern humans arrived on the Indian subcontinent from Africa no later than 55,000 years ago., "Y-Chromosome and Mt-DNA data support the colonization of South Asia by modern humans originating in Africa. ... Coalescence dates for most non-European populations average to between 73 and 55 ka.", "Modern human beings—''Homo sapiens''—originated in Africa. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chandigarh
Chandigarh is a city and union territory in northern India, serving as the shared capital of the states of Punjab and Haryana. Situated near the foothills of the Shivalik range of Himalayas, it borders Haryana to the east and Punjab in the remaining directions. Chandigarh constitutes the bulk of the Chandigarh Capital Region or Greater Chandigarh, which also includes the adjacent satellite cities of Panchkula in Haryana and Mohali in Punjab. It is located 260 km (162 miles) northwest of New Delhi and 229 km (143 miles) southeast of Amritsar and 104 km (64 miles) southwest of Shimla. Chandigarh is one of the earliest planned cities in post independence India and is internationally known for its architecture and urban design. The master plan of the city was prepared by Swiss-French architect Le Corbusier, which built upon earlier plans created by the Polish architect Maciej Nowicki and the American planner Albert Mayer. Narinder Singh Lamba, in the capacity ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Faridabad
Faridabad () is the most populous List of cities in Haryana by population, city near NCT of Delhi in the Indian state of Haryana and a part of National Capital Region (India), Delhi National Capital Region. It is one of the major satellite cities around Delhi and is located 284 kilometres south of the state capital, Chandigarh. The river Yamuna forms the eastern district boundary with Uttar Pradesh. The Government of India included it in the second list of Smart Cities Mission on 24 May 2016. As per the 2021 Delhi Regional Plan, Faridabad is a part of the Central National Capital Region or Delhi metropolitan area. The newly developed residential and industrial part of Faridabad (Sec. 66 to 89) between the Agra Canal and the Yamuna River is commonly referred to as Greater Faridabad (also known as Neharpar). The area is being developed as a self-sustained sub-city with wide roads, tall buildings, malls, educational institutions, and health and commercial centers. Sectors 66 to 74 a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Civil Services Examination (India)
The Civil Services Examination (CSE) is a standardized test in India conducted by the Union Public Service Commission for recruitment to higher civil services in the Government of India, such as the All India Services and Central Civil Services (Group A and a few Group B posts). It is conducted in three phases: a preliminary examination consisting of two objective-type papers (Paper I consisting of General Studies and Paper II, referred to as the Civil Service Aptitude Test or CSAT), and a main examination consisting of nine papers of conventional (essay) type, in which two papers are qualifying and only marks of seven are counted; finally followed by a personality test (interview). A successful candidate sits for 32 hours of examination during the complete process spanning around one year. List of services Those who pass the Civil Service Examination may be selected to join the following services: ;All India Services * Indian Administrative Service (IAS) * Indian Polic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Punjab Province (British India)
The Punjab Province, officially the Province of the Punjab, was a Presidencies and provinces of British India, province of British India, with its capital in Lahore and summer capitals in Murree and Simla. At its greatest extent, it stretched from the Khyber Pass to Delhi; and from the Babusar Pass and the borders of Tibet to the borders of Sind Division, Sind. Established in 1849 following #History, Punjab's annexation, the province was Partition of India#Punjab, partitioned in 1947 into West Punjab, West and East Punjab; and incorporated into Pakistan and India, respectively. Most of the Punjab, Punjab region was annexed by the East India Company on Second Anglo-Sikh War, 29 March 1849 following the company's victory at the Battle of Gujrat, battle of Gujrat in northern Punjab, a month prior. The Punjab was the last major region of the Indian subcontinent to fall to British imperialism. Immediately following its annexation, the Punjab was annexed into the Bengal Presidency a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chhotu Ram
Ram Richpal Ohlyan (born 24 November 1881 – 9 January 1945), better known as Sir Chhotu Ram, was a prominent Indian politician, agrarian reformer, and ideologue in Presidencies and provinces of British India, British India's Punjab Province (British India), Punjab Province. He was known for his advocacy for the rights of farmers and oppressed rural communities. A co-founder of the Unionist Party (Punjab), National Unionist Party, he played a pivotal role in shaping agrarian policies that protected peasants from exploitative moneylenders and promoted agricultural development in pre-independent India. Chhotu Ram is popularly known as "''Deenbandhu''", "''Rahbar-e-Azam''" and "''Kisano ke Maseeha''", as he championed a Secularity, secular, cross-communal alliance of Hindus, Hindu, Muslims, Muslim, and Sikhs, Sikh agriculturists, countering the rising influence of the Indian National Congress and Muslim League (Opposition), Muslim League in Punjab. His legislative reforms, includi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
News18
Network18 Media & Investments Limited, ( d/b/a Network18 Group) is an Indian media conglomerate owned by the Reliance Industries, headed by Mukesh Ambani. Rahul Joshi is the managing director, chief executive officer and group editor-in-chief, and Adil Zainulbhai is the chairman of its board of directors. Through its subsidiaries and franchise licensing agreements, the group owns and operates the news broadcasting networks of News18, and CNBC channels in India, the magazines of '' Forbes India'' and '' Overdrive'', the websites of ''Firstpost'' and '' Moneycontrol,''. It also operates the television networks of Colors TV, Nickelodeon India, MTV India and the channel History TV18. Incorporated in 1996 by Geeta and Rakesh Gupta, the company was acquired by Ritu Kapur and Raghav Bahl to be converted into a conglomerate holding company between 2003 and 2006. It oversaw one of the largest collections of media properties in India following its conversion but became encumbere ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jat People
The Jat people (, ), also spelt Jaat and Jatt, are a traditionally agricultural community in Northern India and Pakistan. Originally pastoralists in the lower Indus river-valley of Sindh, many Jats migrated north into the Punjab region in late medieval times, and subsequently into the Delhi Territory, northeastern Rajputana, and the western Gangetic Plain in the 17th and 18th centuries. Quote: "Hiuen Tsang gave the following account of a numerous pastoral-nomadic population in seventh-century Sin-ti (Sind): 'By the side of the river.. f Sind along the flat marshy lowlands for some thousand li, there are several hundreds of thousands very great manyfamilies ..hichgive themselves exclusively to tending cattle and from this derive their livelihood. They have no masters, and whether men or women, have neither rich nor poor.' While they were left unnamed by the Chinese pilgrim, these same people of lower Sind were called Jats' or 'Jats of the wastes' by the Arab geographers. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jind
Jind is one of the largest and oldest cities in Jind district in the Indian state of Haryana. It is the administrative headquarter of Jind district. Rani Talab is the main destination for tourists while Pandu Pindara and Ramrai are the main religious spots, attracting devotees for the holy bath during ''Amavasya''. Etymology Jind was named Jayantapura after the victory of Lord Jayant (Indra), whom Pandavas worshipped before the Mahabharata war. According to oral tradition, Pandavas built the Jayanti Devi Temple in honour of Jyanti Devi (the goddess of victory, daughter of Indra). The temple is in the centre and whole Jind city was built around it. They offered prayers for success and then started a battle against Kaurava. The town was built around the temple and named Jayantapuri (Abode of Jyanti Devi) which was later renamed to Jind. After Pandavas won the Kurukshetra War they again returned back and stayed here for 14 years in the wait for Somavati Amawasya. The vill ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
King's College London
King's College London (informally King's or KCL) is a public university, public research university in London, England. King's was established by royal charter in 1829 under the patronage of George IV of the United Kingdom, King George IV and the Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, Duke of Wellington. In 1836, King's became one of the two founding colleges of the University of London. It is one of the Third-oldest university in England debate, oldest university-level institutions in England. In the late 20th century, King's grew through a series of mergers, including with Queen Elizabeth College and Chelsea College of Science and Technology (1985), the Institute of Psychiatry (1997), the United Medical and Dental Schools of Guy's and St Thomas' Hospitals and the Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery (in 1998). King's operates across five main campuses: the historic Strand Campus in central London, three other Thames-side campuses (Guy's, St Thomas' an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
