Essential Acts Related to HRD - India

Essential Acts Related to HRD - India


1. Abolition of Bonded Labour System Act 1976
2. Amendment 2006 Child Labour Act
3. Apprentice Act 1961
4. Child Labour Rules 1988
5. Child Labour Updated Schedule
6. Child-labour-Act-1986
7. Contractlabourregulationandabolitionact1970
8. Employee's Compensation Act, 2010
9. Employees’ State Insurance Act, 1948
10. Employers Liability Act, 1938
11. Industrial Employment Act 1946
12. Industrial Disputes Act 1947
13. Maternity Benefit Act 1961
14. Minimum Wages Act 1948
15. Payment of Bonus Act 1965
16. Payment of Gratuity Ac t1972
17. Payment of Gratuity Rule 1972
18. Payment of Wages Act 1936
19. Sales Promotion Act 1976
20. The Employees’ Provident Funds and Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1952
21. The Employment Exchanges (Compulsory Notification of Vacancies) Act, 1959
22. The Factories Act, 1948
23. Trade Union Act 1926

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Oracle Magazine November/December 2012

This issue includes the mix of news, community, customer-focus, and technology stories you've come to expect in Oracle Magazine. This issue's cover story is about IT consolidation, Oracle Applications, Oracle Exadata—and business success.

Here are some highlights from the November/December 2012 issue:

Apps on Oracle Exadata

By consolidating business applications with Oracle Exadata, organizations are simplifying their information technology; lowering costs; and improving system performance, scalability, and reliability. Find out how Praxair and Alliance Data are benefiting by running their applications on Oracle Exadata.

Engineered to Educate, Explore, Engage

Oracle OpenWorld, JavaOne, MySQL Connect, and several other events took San Francisco by storm, September 29-October 5. This content-focused week offered a wealth of learning and networking opportunities, with a little rock, blues, ska, and alt-country added in for good measure. Relive the conference—or see what you missed—and start planning your trip to San Francisco next September.

Built for Speed 

At Oracle OpenWorld, Oracle unveiled new releases of Oracle Exadata Database Machine and Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud. Learn how these engineered systems deliver hardware and software engineered to work together and in-memory, speed-of-thought compute power to private and public clouds.

Interview: Optimized Application Performance

Oracle's Exalogic Elastic Cloud Software enables a true IaaS environment.

Beginning Performance Tuning: Diagnose the Past

Take the next step in diagnosing Oracle Database performance issues.

Ask Tom: On External Table Queries, Data Consistency, and Nothing

Our technologist queries the operating system, locks manually, and uses the right NULL.

Time Capsule

Check out these Oracle conference flashbacks.

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Drinking Water Standards [IS 10500 1991 BIS]

This Indian Standard (First Revision) was adopted by the Bureau of Indian Standards, after the draft finalized by the Water Sectional Committee had been approved by the Chemical Division Council.

This standard was originally published in 1983. The current revision has been undertaken to take into account the up to date information available about the nature and effect of various contaminants as also the new techniques for identifying and determining their concentration. In this revision based on experience gained additional requirements for alkalinity, aluminium and boron have been incorporated and the permissible limits for dissolved solids, nitrate and pesticides residues have been modified.

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मधुमेह - वह सब कुछ जो आप जानना चाहते है

मधुमेह पर यह संक्षिप्‍त पुस्‍तक जटिल रोग के लिए सरल निर्देशिका है यह पुस्‍तक समझती है कि मधुमेह के निवारण के लिए पोषाहार और व्‍यायाम को किस प्रकार इस्‍तेमाल किया जा सकता है। यह एक महत्‍वपूर्ण संदेश भी देती है कि यदि हम अपने आहार और अपनी जीवनशैली में आवश्‍यक परिवर्तन कर ले तो आने वाली विपत्तियों से बचा जा सकता है। अभी हाल ही में जिस रोगियों को मधुमेह से पीड़ित घोषित किया गया है उन्‍हें यथा शीघ्र इस पुस्‍तक में बताई गई एक नई भोजन व्‍यवस्‍था के साथ शारीरिक सक्रियाओं में वृद्धि कर लेनी चाहिए।

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Jyotish Swayam Shikshak - Fal Jyotish (in HINDI)

ज्योतिष्य स्वयं शिक्षक - फल ज्योतिष - पी. एन. ओक (हिंदी में )

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Minimum Wages Notification of Himachal Pradesh 27th September 2012

Himachal Pradesh MINIMUM RATES of wages in the Scheduled employment of Manufacturing Process as Defined in Clause (K) of section 2 of Factories Act, 1948. may be revised in respect of unskilled and other categories of workers with effect from 01.09.2012

Un-skilled Workers Rs.150 .00 per day or Rs.4500 .00 per month

Semi-skilled Rs.157.48 P.D. or Rs.4724.00 per month

Skilled & clerical staff Rs.188.98 P.D. or Rs.5669.00 per month

Highly-Skilled Rs. 242.22 P.D. or Rs.7267.00 per month

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Samadhi Ke Sapt Dwar - समाधि के सप्त द्वार

इस जगत में जो भी जान लिया जाता है, वह कभी खोता नहीं है। ज्ञान के खोने का कोई उपाय नहीं है। न केवल शास्त्रों में संरक्षित हो जाता है ज्ञान, वरन्‌ और भी गुहय तलों पर ज्ञान की सुरक्षा और संहिता निर्मित होती है। शास्त्र तो खो सकते हैं; और अगर सत्य शास्त्र में ही हो, तो शाश्वत नहीं हो सकता। शास्त्र तो स्वयं ही क्षणभंगुर है। इसलिए शास्त्र संहिताएं नहीं हैं। इस बात को ठीक से समझ लेना जरूरी है, तभी ब्लावट्‌स्की की यह सूत्र-पुस्तिका समझ में आ सकेगी।

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Hindu Ideals and Idols for Students - A textbook for introducing Hindu Values

An extraordinary, lucid, introductory volume on Hindu dharma for students which should get used as a text book, to impart the global ethic of sanatana dharma to all children of the globe.

Please read page 5 to figure out what to tell to the parents. Also, please read the note to the teachers.

As stated in the note on page 5, the book has twice the material that the teachers can cover for Level VI text on Dharma (therefore the rest can be used for reference).

The arrangement of the book lends itself very easily to classroom teaching, so do not get overwhelmed by the 320 pages including illustrations.

The world of education owes a deep debt of gratitude to Vishal Agarwal for bringing out this stunning publication.

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गाँधी वध क्यों ? - गोपाल गोडसे

गाँधी वध क्यों ?

("पंचावन्न कोटीचे बली" का हिंदी रूपांतरण )

गोपाल गोडसे 

यदि देशभक्ति पाप है तो मैं मानता हूँ कि मैंने पाप किया है. यदि प्रशंसनीय है तो मैं अपने आप को उस प्रशंसा  का अधिकारी समझता हूँ. मुझे विश्वास है कि मनुष्यों द्वारा स्थापित न्यायालयों के ऊपर कोई न्यायालय हो तो उसमे मेरे काम को अपराध नहीं समझा जाएगा. मैंने देश और जाति की भलाई के लिए यह काम किया. मैंने उस व्यक्ति पर गोली चलाई जिसकी निति से हिन्दूओं पर घोर संकट आये, हिंदू नष्ट हुए.

- नथूराम गोडसे

"I have However no doubt that .had the audience of that day been constituted into a jury and entrusted with the task of deciding Godse's appeal, they would have brought in a verdict of 'not guilty' by overwhelming majority"

 - JUSTICE KHOSIA (The. Murder of Mahatma) (page 234)

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The Secret (Hindi) रहस्य

आप अपने हाथों में एक महान रहस्य थामे हैं ...

यह युगों - युगों से हस्तांतरित होता आ रहा है | इसे सभी पाना चाहते थे, इसे छिपाया गया, यह खो गया, इसे चुराया गया और ढेर साड़ी दौलत में खरीदा गया| सदियों पुराना यह रहस्य इतिहास के कुछ सबसे मशहूर लोगों को मालूम था |

"जब आप यह रहस्य सीखेंगे, तो आप जान जायेंगे कि आप अपने मनचाहे व्यक्तित्व को कैसे पा सकते हैं, अपने मनचाहे काम कैसे कर सकते हैं और अपनी मनचाही चीज कैसे पा सकते हैं| आप जान जायेंगे कि आप सचमुच कौन हैं| आप उस सच्ची भव्यता को जान पाएंगे, जो जीवन में आपका इन्तेजार कर रही हैं|"

Once known only by an elite who were unwilling to share their knowledge of the power, 'the secret' of obtaining anything you desire is now revealed by prominent physicists, authors and philosophers as being based in the universal Law of Attraction. And the good news is that anyone can access its power to bring themselves health, wealth and happiness. Fragments of The Secret have been found in oral traditions, literature, religions and philosophies throughout the centuries. 

A number of the exceptional people who discovered its power went on to become regarded as the greatest human beings who ever lived. Among them: Plato, Leonardo, Galileo and Einstein. Now 'the secret' is being shared with the world. Beautiful in its simplicity, and mind-dazzling in its ability to really work, The Secret reveals the mystery of the hidden potential within us all. By unifying leading-edge scientific thought with ancient wisdom and spirituality, the riveting, practical knowledge will lead readers to a greater understanding of how they can be the masters of their own lives.

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Hinduism under Threat!

Hinduism under Threat!

1. Mass Conversions

2. Destruction of Hindu Institutions

3. Vote Bank Politics

4. Hindu Apathy and Ignorance

5. Solutions

-15,018 persons converted in single day in Ongole

-10,000 churches planned in 2005 alone, by just one group,

the Seventh Day Adventists.

Kyle Fiess, Maranatha (Org for building churches) marketing director reports:

"We were astonished when Ron Watts (head of Seventh Day Adventists) presented us with a proposal for 10,000 churches in India…After many experiences like the one in Ongole, we no longer consider 10,000 churches to be an unrealistic goal, but an unparalleled opportunity”.

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भारत में इस्लामीकरण के चार चरण - पुरुषोतम

भारत में इस्लामीकरण के चार चरण - पुरुषोतम 

( Bharat Me Islamikaran Ke Chaar Charan by Purushottam)

मुझे लोगो से उस समय तक लड़ने का ( अल्लाह से ) आदेश हुआ है कि जब तक वह यह सत्यापित न करने लगे के अल्लाह के अतिरिक्त कोई दूसरा उपास्य नहीं है, मुझे अल्लाह का पैगम्बर न मानने लगे और उस सब में भी विश्वास न करने लगे जो मेरे द्वारा प्रकट किया गया है. (मौहम्मद  प्र. 45)

वही है (अल्लाह) जिसने अपने सन्देश वाहक (मौहम्मद) को सत्य मत ( इस्लाम) देकर पथ प्रदर्शन के लिए भेजा है जिससे वह उसे सभी दूसरे मतों पर विजय बनाये भले ही मूर्ति पूजक उसका कितना ही विरोध क्यों न करें. ( कुरआन 9:33)

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Embracing the World 2012

Amma — Sri Mata Amritanandamayi Devi's Ashram activities eBook (PDF) 2012 update.

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Oracle Magazine - September/October 2012

This issue includes the mix of news, community, customer-focus, and technology stories you've come to expect in Oracle Magazine. This issue's cover story is about identity management, the cloud, mobile computing—and you.

Here are some highlights from the September/October 2012 issue:

Security on the Move:

As corporate computing services become more diverse and the underlying IT infrastructure gets more complex, authorizing users for enterprise information systems becomes progressively more challenging. How do you handle identity administration, authentication, trust management, access control, directory services, and governance for a roving workforce that expects a consistent experience? Find out how organizations are using Oracle Identity Management solutions to secure operations in the cloud and on the go.

Engineered for Innovation:

Oracle OpenWorld, JavaOne, MySQL Connect, and several other events are set for San Francisco, September 30–October 5. No matter what your role in the Oracle ecosystem—from Oracle database developer or Java programmer to Oracle partner or Oracle Applications user—there is something just for you in this diverse mix of keynotes, sessions, educational opportunities, demos, and networking events.

Complete Cloud:

Oracle's cloud strategy is the broadest in the industry, and Oracle Cloud is the heart of that strategy. Learn how Oracle Cloud delivers a complete, modern, and flexible enterprise cloud that provides subscription-based access to best-of-breed, integrated, and standards-based application, platform, and social services-all completely hosted, managed, and supported by Oracle.

Interview: New Questions, Fast Answers:

Oracle Endeca Information Discovery enables easy exploration of diverse and changing data.

Oracle ADF: Consume Early, Consume Often:

Service-enable Oracle ADF Business Components application modules for consumption by SOA and Web services clients.

Ask Tom: On Clustering Factor and Validating Keys:

Our technologist explains different statistics and very foreign keys.

New in this issue: Time Capsule:

Check out these flashbacks on pop culture, industry, Oracle, and Oracle Magazine.

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The Loves of Krishna in Indian Painting and Poetry

During the twentieth century, a certain type of Indian painting began to fascinate the West. Unlike Mughal art, it was a product of Hindu courts in Rajasthan and the Punjab Hills and unlike Mughal painting, its chief concern was with the varied phases of romance. Ladies would be shown brooding in their chambers as storm clouds mounted in the sky. 

A girl might be portrayed desperately fondling a plantain tree, gripping a pet falcon, the symbol of her lover, or hurrying through the rainy darkness intent only on reaching a longed-for tryst. A prince would appear lying on a terrace, his outstretched arms striving vainly to detain a calm beauty or welcoming with delight a bashful girl as she slowly advanced. In all these pictures, romantic love was treated as the highest good and physical passion was interpreted with a freshness and innocence unequalled in the world's art.

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The Employment Exchanges Compulsory Notification of Vacancies Act,1959

The Employment Exchanges Compulsory Notification of Vacancies Act, 1959

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Unheard Voices

The Bhopal gas tragedy, the communal carnage of 1984 and 1989 in Delhi and Bhagalpur, the Orissa supercyclone, among others, are part of collective memory. But, often forgotten are those who actually were affected by these happenings, and others like them, street children, sex workers, dalits, HIV and leprosy patients, the homeless and the famine-stricken. These are people who in many ways are pushed to the outermost, most hopeless margins of society in the name of development and progress. In this book, civil servant and social activist Harsh Mander draws on his own and his colleagues' experiences to explore the lives of twenty such people who have survived and coped despite all odds.

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India's Nuclear Policy

This book examines the Indian nuclear policy, doctrine, strategy and posture, clarifying the elastic concept of credible minimum deterrence at the center of the country's approach to nuclear security. This concept, Karnad demonstrates, permits the Indian nuclear forces to be beefed up, size and quality-wise, and to acquire strategic reach and clout, even as the qualifier minimum suggests an overarching concern for moderation and economical use of resources, and strengthens India's claims to be a responsible nuclear weapon state.

Based on interviews with Indian political leaders, nuclear scientists, and military and civilian nuclear policy planners, it provides unique insights into the workings of India's nuclear decision-making and deterrence system. Moreover, by juxtaposing the Indian nuclear policy and thinking against the theories of nuclear war and strategic deterrence, nuclear escalation, and nuclear coercion, offers a strong theoretical grounding for the Indian approach to nuclear war and peace, nuclear deterrence and escalation, nonproliferation and disarmament, and to limited war in a nuclearized environment. It refutes the alarmist notions about a nuclear flashpoint in South Asia, etc. which derive from stereotyped analysis of India-Pakistan wars, and examines India's likely conflict scenarios involving China and, minorly, Pakistan.

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The Bhagavad Gita According to Gandhi

The Bhagavad Gita, also called The Song of the Lord, is a 700-line section of a much longer Sanskrit war epic, the Mahabharata, about the legendary conflict between two branches of an Indian ruling family. Framed as a conversation between Krishna, an incarnation of the god Vishnu, and a general of one of the armies, the Gita is written in powerful poetic language meant to be chanted. Equally treasured as a guide to action, a devotional scripture, a philosophical text, and inspirational reading, it remains one of the world’s most influential, widely read spiritual books.

The Bhagavad Gita According to Gandhi is based on talks given by Gandhi between February and November 1926 at the Satyagraha Ashram in Ahmedabad, India. During this time—a period when Gandhi had withdrawn from mass political activity—he devoted much of his time and energy to translating the Gita from Sanskrit into his native Gujarati. As a result, he met with his followers almost daily, after morning prayer sessions, to discuss the Gita’s contents and meaning as it unfolded before him. This book is the transcription of those daily sessions.

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Fifty Shades of Grey: Book One of the Fifty Shades Trilogy

When literature student Anastasia Steele goes to interview young entrepreneur Christian Grey, she encounters a man who is beautiful, brilliant, and intimidating. The unworldly, innocent Ana is startled to realize she wants this man and, despite his enigmatic reserve, finds she is desperate to get close to him. Unable to resist Ana’s quiet beauty, wit, and independent spirit, Grey admits he wants her, too—but on his own terms. 

Shocked yet thrilled by Grey’s singular erotic tastes, Ana hesitates. For all the trappings of success—his multinational businesses, his vast wealth, his loving family—Grey is a man tormented by demons and consumed by the need to control. When the couple embarks on a daring, passionately physical affair, Ana discovers Christian Grey’s secrets and explores her own dark desires. Erotic, amusing, and deeply moving, the Fifty Shades Trilogy is a tale that will obsess you, possess you, and stay with you forever. This book is intended for mature audiences.

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The Rise of Islam and the Bengal Frontier, 1204-1760

In all of the South Asian subcontinent, Bengal was the region most receptive to the Islamic faith. This area today is home to the world's second-largest Muslim ethnic population. How and why did such a large Muslim population emerge there? And how does such a religious conversion take place? Richard Eaton uses archaeological evidence, monuments, narrative histories, poetry, and Mughal administrative documents to trace the long historical encounter between Islamic and Indic civilizations.

Moving from the year 1204, when Persianized Turks from North India annexed the former Hindu states of the lower Ganges delta, to 1760, when the British East India Company rose to political dominance there, Eaton explores these moving frontiers, focusing especially on agrarian growth and religious change.

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Children's World Atlas

This revised edition of DK's groundbreaking 2003 atlas has been refreshed with beautiful, bright, new maps, a topical introductory section.

Facts, maps, satellite images, and local stories make this book a global yet personal experience taking the reader on the ultimate round the world journey from Bolivia's bustling markets to carnival time in Venice.

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Nationalism and Post-Colonial Identity

How have nations and nationhood become the dominant form of political organization today? What is the role of culture in nationalism? In what ways have the ideological development of nationalisms in the post-colonial world shaped understandings of contemporary political problems such as the rise of radical Islam, communalism, and the failure of secular-liberal democracy? This book offers the first comparative study of two highly significant anti-colonial nationalisms. Its close analysis of nationalist discourse in India and Egypt is situated within a new theoretical framework for studying nationalism, based on a trenchant critique of theorists such as Benedict Anderson, Ernest Gellner, Eric Hobsbawm and Anthony Smith.

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Sex Matters : From Sex to Superconsciousness by OSHO

Sex Matters offers a vision of sex that is healthy, natural, innocent, and free from guilt and repression. Where other books offer tech-niques to practice and games to play, Sex Matters offers insight into the psychological and spiritual dimensions of sex. In responding to questions from people of all ages and from all walks of life, Osho shows how we can, by accepting and cele-brating sex as a gift of nature, begin to use it as a valu-able step-ping-stone in a lifelong journey toward greater self-awareness and joy.

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Vedic Grammar - A. A. Macdonell

his is a black and white reproduction of the original edition including imperfections. These books have been a source of inspiration, joy and enlightenment to millions through the ages. Now they can be yours.

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New Income Tax Return Forms A.Y. 2012-13

 

ITR - 1

For Individuals having Income from Salary / Pension / Income from One House Property (excluding loss brought forward from previous years) / Income from Other Sources (Excluding Winning from Lottery and Income from Race Horses

ITR-1 SAHAJ Indian Individual Income tax Return

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Shri Guruji And Indian Muslims

The cultural nationalism has been a central theme in Indian social and political discourse since late 19th century. A galaxy of thinkers, spiritual personalities and philosophers, which included people like Rajaram Mohan Roy, Swami Vivekananda, Maharshi Aurovindo, B. C. Pal, Lala Lajpat Rai, B. G. Tilak, Mahatma Gandhi, Bankim Chnadra Chatterjee, Ravindra Nath Tagore, Dr K. B. Hedgewar, V. D. Savarkar, Swami Dayananda, M. S. Golwalkar (Guruji), K. M. Munshi , Dr. B. R. Ambedkar, Jawaharlal Nehru, made enormous contributions to the evolution of idea and debate on it in the modern historiography. They differed with each other on many accounts and on their approaches to outline and define the contours of Indian nationalism but all of them largely concur that the cultural foundation gives shape to Indian nationalism. 

All of them perceived patriotism as a spiritual and cultural rather than a material concept. It is obvious from elevation of the country as ‘Mother’ and ‘Goddess’ by them. Moreover, the acceptance of Bankim’s Vande Mataram as a patriotic and inspiring song in the collective conscience of the people itself tells that nation has been given higher status than religions and community’s identity. Mother India becomes the most inspiring and living deity irrespective of sects, philosophies, religions and regions. 

However, there has been a notable absence of Muslims from such debate. Their hostility to this concept is very remarkable in the trajectory of Indian nationalism. Yet it is also not untrue that there are scattered instances of Muslim thinkers and literary figures who reinforced the idea of cultural nationalism. However, the Islamic religious discourses precluded such thinkers to sustain their ideology or lead to synthesis between indigenous ancestral culture and Islamic faith. Consequently, this could not turn it into an ideology of Muslim masses and remained confined to their personal conviction. The Muslim discourse has not only been predominantly based on pan Islam but also on the hostility to indigenous culture as a rival ideology and tradition.

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Vedic Mathematics Secrets

Vedic Mathematics is a system of mathematics consisting of 16 basic sanskrit concepts related to ancient Hindu Mythology which was recently discovered that enables anyone, especially those who struggle with math, to solve problems quickly and easily, often times in their head, in seconds.

It uses an ancient system of mathematics discovered from palm leaves in ancient India which has in recent times re-emerged as an alternative to simplifying math for all! 

The techniques, concepts, and methods outlined in this e-book that’s based on ancient problem-solving skills is so easy to learn and comprehend that once you start using it on a regular basis, you’ll be able to look at seemingly tough problems, work them out in your head, and speak out the correct answer easily and in just as much time as it would take you to key it in into a calculator or write it down on a piece of scratch paper.

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Minimum Wages Notification of Himachal Pradesh 19th May 2012

Minimum Wages Notification of Himachal Pradesh 19th May 2012.

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Sacred and Secular: Religion and Politics Worldwide

August Comte, Herbert Spencer, Emile Durkheim, Max Weber, Karl Marx and Sigmund Freud predicted that religion would gradually fade in importance and cease to be significant with the emergence of industrial society. Their belief that religion was dying became conventional wisdom in the social sciences during most of the twentieth century. However, this analysis reveals that the traditional secularization thesis needs updating now. Religion has not disappeared and is unlikely to do so, even though secularization has had a surprisingly powerful negative impact on human fertility rates.

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Hitler's U-Boat Bases

This book examines the monolithic bunkers that were constructed at strategically crucial sites, designed to withstand the aggressive attack from allied forces for Germany's U-Boat fleet. The book examines the bases in detail, each site is explored, showing how and why it was bulilt, from the design and the materials used in teh bunkers and their strategic importance to the German U-Boat missions.

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Banana: The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World

In the vein of the bestselling Salt and Cod, a gripping chronicle of the myth, mystery, and uncertain fate of the world’s most popular fruit

In this fascinating and surprising exploration of the banana’s history, cultural significance, and endangered future, award-winning journalist Dan Koeppel gives readers plenty of food for thought. Fast-paced and highly entertaining, Banana takes us from jungle to supermarket, from corporate boardrooms to kitchen tables around the world. 

We begin in the Garden of Eden—examining scholars’ belief that Eve’s “apple” was actually a banana— and travel to early-twentieth-century Central America, where aptly named “banana republics” rose and fell over the crop, while the companies now known as Chiquita and Dole conquered the marketplace. Koeppel then chronicles the banana’s path to the present, ultimately—and most alarmingly—taking us to banana plantations across the globe that are being destroyed by a fast-moving blight, with no cure in sight—and to the high-tech labs where new bananas are literally being built in test tubes, in a race to save the world’s most beloved fruit.

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Sexing the Church: Gender, Power, and Ethics in Contemporary Catholicism

The regulation of human sexuality in contemporary Catholicism, a topic that monopolizes public conversation about the Catholic Church, is also a central concern of Catholic theological discussions of religious ethics. Aline H. Kalbian traces the history of the connection between moral theology and sexual ethics as it applies to the concern for order in official teachings on marriage, reproduction, and sex. 

She explores order as it is reflected in the theology of marriage, the 20th-century challenge to that order in the debates on contraception and assisted reproduction, and the way attitudes about gender in Catholicism connect theological and moral order with ecclesiastical order.

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Flavours of India Delicious Slow Cook Recipes Made Simple

Flavours of India

A Culinary journey through India’s best known regions...

India is home to one of the most exciting and diverse cuisines in the world. From rich, indulgent and spicy to light, delicate and fragrant, the choice is immense. At Patak’s, we are passionate about Indian food and about inspiring you to discover and enjoy the vast array of flavours that the cuisine has to offer. The best way to experience real Indian food is to cook it yourself and cooking Indian food at home needn’t be difficult. That’s why I’ve developed these simple, easy-tofollow recipes that celebrate the diversity of India’s regional cuisine.

Islam and the Abolition of Slavery

Contemporay debates about Muslim slavery occur in a context of fierce polemics between Islam and other belief systems. While Islamic groups had an ambivalent and generally muted impact on the legal repudiation of slavery, a growing religious commitment to abolition was essential if legislation was to be enforced in the twentieth century. Drawing on examples from the whole 'abode' of Islam, from the Philipines to Senegal and from the Caucasus to South Africa,Gervase Clarence-Smith ranges across the history of Islam, paying particular attention to the period from the late 18th century to the present. 

He shows that "sharia-minded" attempts to achieve closer adherence to the holy law restricted slavery, even if they did not end it. However, the sharia itself was not as clear about the legality of servitude as is usually assumed, and progressive scholars within the schools of law might even have achieved full emancipation over the long term. The impact of mystical and millenarian Islam was contradictory, in some cases providing a supportive agenda of freedom, but in other cases causing great surges of enslavement. The revisionist Islam that emerged from the 18th century was divided. "Fundamentalists" stressed the literal truth of the founding texts of Islam, and thus found it difficult to abandon slavery completely.

"Modernists,' appealing to the spirit rather than to the letter of scripture, spawned the most radical opponents of slavery, notably Sir Sayyid Ahmad Khan, the Islamic William Wilberforce. Once slavery had disappeared, it was the Sufi mystics who did most to integrate former slaves socially and religiously, avoiding the deep social divisions that have plagued Western societies in the aftermath of abolition. In this important new book, Clarence-Smith provides the first general survey of the Islamic debate on slavery. Sweeping away entrenched myths, he hopes to stimulate more research on this neglected topic, thereby contributing to healing the religious rifts that threaten to tear our world apart in the 21st century.

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Fast Feng Shui for Singles: 108 Ways to Heal Your Home and Attract Romance

Everything you need to know to shake off the disappointments of the past and find the lasting joy and happiness you desire with the power of feng shui! Fast Feng Shui for Singles provides a unique, holistic, and highly effective program to get you from being alone to being in love.

Step-by-step guidelines show you how to use feng shui to heal old heartache and rediscover a sense of self; attract new opportunities and jump-start your social life; nurture a budding relationship; fan the flames of passion; and overcome barriers to intimacy, communication, and commitment. Filled with journaling exercises, meditations, rituals and feng shui tips on every aspect of turning your love life around.

Fast Feng Shui for Singles prepares and inspires you to transform your home and heart into environments that welcome romance and support a lasting, loving relationship with the man or woman of your dreams!

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Homosexuality in Islam - Scott Kugle

The first book length treatment to offer a detailed analysis of how Islamic scripture, jurisprudence, and Hadith can accommodate a sexually sensitive Islam. Numerous scholars and commentators maintain that the Qur'an and Hadith rule unambiguously against same-sex relations. This pioneering study argues that there is far more nuance to the matter than most believe.

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Jihad in the West: Muslim Conquests from the 7th to the 21st Centuries - Paul Fregosi

Jihad, the Muslim holy war against Christians and others, has raged for 1300 years with bloody conquests in Europe dating from campaigns to convert the infidels in the 7th century to today's random acts of terrorism in the name of Allah. Yet this huge unrecorded 'hole' in European history has been censored and stifled by political and literary authorities who have feared reprisals from angry Muslims trying to hide a legacy of brutality vastly more bloody and six times longer in duration than the atrocities of the crusades. 

This is the engrossing factual account of the immense and little-known Islamic military invasions of Europe, and the major players who led them, beginning around 650CE. The Islamic Arabs (and later the Moors) occupied a number of the Mediterranean Islands, and invaded Spain and Portugal in 711CE, and ruled over much of the Iberian peninsula for the next 800 years. France was attacked and invaded, as was Italy, and the European coasts all the way to Ireland and Iceland. The Muslims swept over the Balkans, besieged Vienna, and were intermittent masters of Greece, Bulgaria, Romania, and Hungary into the 19th century, destroying the Byzantines, taking Constantinople (turning it into Istanbul). Ambitious and unrelenting, the Muslims also sought to conquer Austria, and Russia. In a bright and brisk narrative, Paul Fregosi's unique and provocative work is the first, and only, general history of the Jihad, the most neglected and disregarded phenomenon in European history.

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Why I Am Not a Muslim - Ibn Warraq

Those who practice the Muslim faith have resisted examinations of their religion. They are extremely guarded about their religion, and what they consider blasphemous acts by sceptical Muslims and non-Muslims alike has only served to pique the world's curiosity. This critical examination reveals an unflattering picture of the faith and its practitioners. Nevertheless, it is the truth, something that has either been deliberately concealed by modern scholars or buried in obscure journals accessible only to a select few.

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Made in India: Decolonizations, Queer Sexualities, Trans/national Projects

Made In India explores the making of "queer" and "heterosexual" consciousness and identities in light of economic privatization, global condom enterprises, sexuality-focused NGOs, the Bollywood-ization of beauty contests, and trans/national activism. In examining seemingly disparate and high profile events in post/neo colonial India, since the 1990s, Made In India demonstrates the relationships between identity formation and the political economy of trans/national sexualities. These events demonstrate the material, political, and cultural contexts within which postcolonial subjects negotiate their lived experiences within moments of decolonization and recolonization. Bhaskaran's unique analysis makes Made in India an important addition to postcolonial studies, gender studies, and diaspora studies courses.

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Water/Waste Processing April 2012

Based on your industry status, you're exactly the kind of top-level executive who should be reading every issue of Water/Waste Processing magazine. 

The success of every publication depends on getting it into the hands of the audience it was meant to serve. This is why you’re invited to receive a complimentary subscription to Water/Waste Processing's host publication, Processing magazine. With Processing magazine you get the processing industry’s most objective coverage of new products in fluid handling and so much more. 

The April issue of Water/Waste Processing is now online and ready for viewing. 

Feature articles in this issue include:

When 'Good Enough' Isn't Good Enough 

Water & Sewer Costs are Skyrocketing; Here's What You Can Do About It 

Meter Replacement, Other Moves, Reduce Utility's Water Consumption 22% 

Chinese Industry Makes a Beeline for Membrane Bioreactor Technology 

New Product Spotlight 

Industry News

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Hindu Nationalism and Indian Politics: The Origins and Development of the Bharatiya Jana Sangh

This book presents a comprehensive and perceptive study of the Bharatiya Jana Sangh through the first two decades of its history from 1951. The Bharatiya Jana Sangh was the most robust of the first generation of Hindu nationalist parties in modern Indian politics and Bruce Graham examines why the party failed to establish itself as the party of the numerically dominant Hindu community. The author explains the relatively limited appeal of the Bharatiya Jana Sangh in terms of the restrictive scope of its founding doctrines; the limitations of its leadership and organization; its failure to build up a secure base of social and economic interests; and its difficulty in finding issues which would create support for its particular brand of Hindu nationalism. Bruce Graham ends with a major survey of the party's electoral fortunes at national, state and local levels.

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An Area of Darkness: A Discovery of India

A classic of modern travel writing, An Area of Darkness is Nobel laureate V. S. Naipaul’s profound reckoning with his ancestral homeland and an extraordinarily perceptive chronicle of his first encounter with India.

Traveling from the bureaucratic morass of Bombay to the ethereal beauty of Kashmir, from a sacred ice cave in the Himalayas to an abandoned temple near Madras, Naipaul encounters a dizzying cross-section of humanity: browbeaten government workers and imperious servants, a suavely self-serving holy man and a deluded American religious seeker. An Area of Darkness also abounds with Naipaul’s strikingly original responses to India’s paralyzing caste system, its apparently serene acceptance of poverty and squalor, and the conflict between its desire for self-determination and its nostalgia for the British raj. The result may be the most elegant and passionate book ever written about the subcontinent.

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The Tantric Body: The Secret Tradition of Hindu Religion

Is tantra just about exotic sexual practice or does it amount to something more? This lively and original book contributes to a more complete understanding of tantra. It argues that within the different Hindu traditions, it is ritual and ascetic practice which fully explains corporeality. Without minimizing its sexual dimensions, Flood argues that the tantric body is more than just a sexual entity, and cannot be understood apart from the religious traditions and texts that give it form. Through ritual and yogic practice the body is formed into a pattern determined by these traditions, and the practitioner thereby strives to mould his or her life into the shape of the tradition.

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Discourses By Meher Baba

Meher Baba's Discourses throw the light of true knowledge on many of life's most perplexing problems. Inspiring and practical, the Discourses provides an ever-fresh framework of spiritual perspective on the challenges of everyday life. As Meher Baba said, "Words that proceed from the Source of Truth have real meaning." Discourses bears eloquent testimony to that fact and after 50 years in print remains an incomparable companion for anyone seeking spiritual direction.

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Gandhi: Naked Ambition By Jad Adams

The pre-eminent political and spiritual leader of India's independence movement, pioneer of non-violent resistance to tyranny through mass civil disobedience (satyagraha), honoured in India as 'father of nation', Mohandas K. Gandhi has inspired movements for civil rights and political freedom across the world. Jad Adams offers a concise and elegant account of Gandhi's life: from his birth and upbringing in a small princely state in Gujarat during the high noon of the British Raj, to his assassination at the hands of a Hindu extremist in 1948 only months after the birth of the independent India which he himself he had done so much to bring about. He delineates the principal events of a career that may truly be said to have changed the world: his training as a barrister in late Victorian London; his civil rights work in Boer War-era South Africa; his leadership of the Indian National Congress; his focus on obtaining self-government and control of all Indian government institutions, and the campaigns of non-cooperation and non-violence against British rule in India whereby he sought to achieve that aim (including the famous 'Salt March' of March/April 1930); his passionate opposition to partition in 1947 and his fasts-unto-death in a bid to end the bitter and bloody sectarian violence that attended it. Jad Adams's accessible and thoughtful biography not only traces the outline of an extraordinary life with exemplary clarity, but also examines why Mahatma Gandhi and his teachings are still profoundly relevant today.

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The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana

The "Kama Sutra" is famous as an ancient Hindu sex manual. But its significance goes much deeper -- it is also a spiritual guide. In the Tantric sects, the union of the god Shiva and the goddess Shakti symbolizes the union of all opposites in the One, and also symbolizes the unity of the individual consciousness with the One. As the Upanishads put it, "In the embrace of his beloved, a man forgets the whole world, everything both within and without. In the same way, he who embraces the Self knows neither within nor without."

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The Taj Mahal is A Temple Palace - P. N. Oak

P N Oak is dead. His book is just "Trash Mahal." A bigoted Shiv Sena activist he put forward the absurd theory that Taj Mahal was a Shiva temple, now you know the biased angle. Tajmahal does have some/minor characterizations of Hindu architecture. This was due to some local synthesis and influence, but the major architecture is the Safavid Persian influence using local material ie Makrana Rajasthan marble and sandstone. Now please erect a samadhi for this liar PN Oake and call it TRASH MAHAL a perfect tribute. Book was thoghtfully banned in India. He even lost a Indian Supreme Court case in year 2000, about 400 years after Emperor Shahjehan's death who he was falsely accusing. Good riddance.

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Slow Death by Rubber Duck: The Secret Danger of Everyday Things

Pollution is no longer just about belching smokestacks and ugly sewer pipes—now, it’s personal. The most dangerous pollution, it turns out, comes from commonplace items in our homes and workplaces. To prove this point, for one week authors Rick Smith and Bruce Lourie ingested and inhaled a host of things that surround all of us. Using their own bodies as the reference point to tell the story of pollution in our modern world, they expose the miscreant corporate giants who manufacture the toxins, the weak-kneed government officials who let it happen, and the effects on people and families across the globe. 

This book —the testimony of their experience —exposes the extent to which we are poisoned every day of our lives, from the simple household dust that is polluting our blood to the toxins in our urine that are created by run-of-the-mill shampoos and toothpaste. Ultimately hopeful, the book empowers readers with some simple ideas for protecting themselves and their families, and changing things for the better.

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