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The President of India is the head of state and first citizen of India and the Supreme Commander of the Indian armed forces. The President`s role is largely ceremonial, with real executive authority vested in the Council of Ministers, headed by the Prime Minister. The powers of the President of India are comparable to those of the monarch of the UK. There were in all 14 presidents till date. Rajendra Prasad Dr. Rajendra Prasad was the first President of Independent India. As the first President, he was indepedent and unwilling to allow the Prime Minister or the party to seize his constitutional rights. However, following the conflict over the passing of the Hindu Code Bill, he restrained his stand. He set several important rules for later Presidents to follow. He had also served as President of the Constituent Assembly that drafted the constitution of the Republic from 1948 to 1950. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan was born on September 5, 1888 and died on April

The Union Budget of India, referred to as the Annual Financial Statement in Article 112 of the Constitution of India, is the annual budget of the Republic of India,  presented each year on the last working day of February by the Finance Minister of India in Parliament. The budget has to be passed by the House before it can come into effect on April 1, the start of India’s financial year(1st April – March 31st). Total expenditure pegged at Rs 11.08 lakh crore, an increase of 8.6 per cent over 2009-10 Union Budget. Plan expenditure pegged at Rs 3,73,092 crore and Non-Plan expenditure at Rs 7,35,657 crore in budget estimates. 6 per cent increase in plan expenditure and 15 per cent in non-plan expenditure. The Gross Tax Receipts are estimated at Rs. 7,46,651 crore and Non Tax Revenue Receipts are estimated at Rs. 1,48,118 crore for 2010-11. Income tax slabs for individual taxpayers to be as follows: o Income up to Rs 1.6 lakh – nil. o Income above Rs 1.6 lakh and up to

Literacy is a reasonably good indicator of development in a society. Spread and diffusion of literacy is generally associated with essential trait of today’s civilization such as modernization, urbanization, industrialization, communication and commerce. For the purpose of census, a person aged seven and above, who can both read and write with any understanding in any language, is treated as literate. As per 2001 Census, the overall literacy rate of India is 65.38%. The male literacy rate is 75.96% and female literacy rate is 54.28%. Ranking of States and Union Territories by Literacy Rate State / U.T. Literacy Rate Male Literacy Rate Female Literacy Rate Kerala 90.92 94.20 87.86 Mizoram 88.49 90.69 86.13 Lakshadweep (U.T.) 87.52 93.15 81.56 Goa 82.32 88.88 75.51 Delhi (U.T.) 81.82 87.37 75.00 Chandigarh (U.T.) 81.76 85.65 76.65 Pondicherry (U. T.) 81.49 88.89 74.13 Andaman & Nicobar (U.T.) 81.18 86.07 75.29 Daman & Diu (U.T.) 81.09 88.40 70.37 Maharashtr

India’s effective literacy rate has recorded a 9.2 per cent rise to reach 74.04 per cent, according to provisional data of the 2011 census released today. Interestingly, literacy rate improved sharply among females as compared to males. While the effective literacy rate for males rose from 75.26 to 82.14 per cent marking a rise of 6.9 per cent, it increased by 11.8 per cent for females to go from 53.67 to 65.46 per cent. According to provisional totals of the latest census, literates constitute 74 per cent of total population aged seven and above. Ten states and union territories, including Kerala, Lakshadweep, Mizoram, Tripura, Goa, Daman and Diu, Puducherry, Chandigarh, National Capital Territory of Delhi and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, have attained literacy rate of above 85 per cent, the target set by the Planning Commission to be achieved by 2011-12. Kerala has the highest literacy rate at 93.91 per cent followed by Lakshadweep at 92.28 per cent. Bihar is at the b

Classical Dance of India Dance State Bharat Natyam Tamil Nadu Bihu Assam Bhangra Punjab Chhau Bihar, Orissa, W. Bengal and Jharkhand Garhwali Uttaranchal Garba Gujarat Hattari Karnataka Kathak North India Kathakali Kerala Kutchipudi Andhra Pradesh Khantumm Mizoram Karma Madhya Pradesh Laho Meghalaya Mohiniattam Kerala Mando Goa Manipuri Manipur Nati Himachal Pradesh Nat-Natin Bihar Odissi Orissa Rauf Jammu & Kashmir Yakshagan Karnataka Folk and Tribal Dances States Dances Maharashtra Kathakeertan, Lezin, Dandaniya, Tamasha, Gafa, Dahikala, Lovani, Mauni, Dasavtar. Karnataka Huttari, Suggi Kunitha, Yakashagana Kerala Kaikottikali, Kaliyattam, Tappatikkali Tamil Nadu Kolattam, Pinnal Kolattam, Kummi, Kavadi, Karagam Andhra Pradesh Ghanta Mardala, Veedhi Natakam, Burrakatha Orissa Ghumara Sanchar, Chadya Dandanata, Chhau West Bengal Kathi, Chhau, Baul, Kirtan, Jatra, Lama Assam Bihu, Khel Gopal, Rash Lila, Tabal Chongli, Canoe Punjab Giddha (women),

21 Great Quotations by Ravindra Nath Tagore 1.  You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. 2.  I slept and dreamt that life was Joy. I woke and saw that life was Duty. I acted, and behold, Duty was Joy. 3. Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf. 4.   The emancipation of our physical nature is in attaining health, of our social being in attaining goodness, and of our self in attaining love. 5.  Do not say, “It is morning,” and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name. 6.   Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God’s dust is greater than your idol. 7.   According to the true Indian view, our consciousness of the world, merely as the sum total of things that exist, and as governed by laws, is imperfect. But it is perfect when our consciousness realizes all things as spiritually one with it, and therefore capable of giving us joy. F

State Governor Andhra Pradesh Shri E.S Lakshmi Narasimhan Arunachal Pradesh General (Rtd.) J.J. Singh Assam Shri Janaki Ballav Pattanaik Bihar Shri Devanand Konwar Chhattisgarh Shri Shekhar Dutt Goa Dr. Shivinder Singh Sidhu Gujarat Dr. Kamla Beniwal Haryana Shri Jagannath Pahadia Himachal Pradesh Smt. Urmila Singh Jammu and Kashmir Shri N. N. Vohra Jharkhand Shri M.O.H Farook Karnataka Shri H.R. Bhardwaj Kerala Shri R.S. Gavai Madhya Pradesh Shri Rameshwar Thakur Maharashtra Shri K. Shankarnarayan Manipur Shri Gurbachan Jagat Meghalaya Shri Ranjit Shekhar Mooshahary Mizoram Lt. Gen. (Retd.) M.M. Lakhera, PVSM,AVSM,VSM Nagaland Shri. Nikhil Kumar Orissa Shri Murlidhar Chandrakant Bhandare Punjab Shri Shivraj Patil Rajasthan Smt. Prabha Rau Sikkim Shri Balmiki Prasad Singh Tamil Nadu Shri Surjit Singh Barnala Tripura Shri Dnyandeo Yashwantrao Patil Uttar Pradesh Shri B.L. Joshi Uttarakhand Smt. Margaret Alva West Bengal Shri M.K. Narayanan

Famous Birthdays in Indian History « TheOnlineGK http://theonlinegk.wordpress.com/2010/07/04/famous-birthdays-in-indian-history/ September 12, 2011 Famous Birthdays 1483-02-15 –  Babur, founder of Mughal dynasty in India (1526-30) 1506-04-07 –  Francis Xavier, saint/Jesuit missionary to India, Malaya, & Japan 1542-10-14 –  Abul-Fath Djalal-ud-Din, 3rd Mogol emperor of India (1556-1605) 1542-10-15 –  Djalalud-Din Mohammed Akbar, emperor of India (1556-1605) 1569-08-31 –  Djehangir/Jahangir, great mogol of India 1592-01-05 –  Shah Jahan, Mughal emperor of India (1628-58), built Taj Mahal 1592-01-14 –  Sjihab al-Din Sultan Choerram Sjah Djahan, leader of India 1618-11-03 –  Aurangzeb, [Alamgir], Emperor of India (1658-1707) 1643-10-14 –  Bahadur Shah I, Mughal Emperor of India (d. 1712) 1682-07-10 –  Bartholomaeus Ziegenbalg, German Lutheran missionary to India (d. 1719) 1685-01-07 –  Gerard George Clifford, Dutch director of East India Company 1725-09-29 –  Robert Cl