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   Manohar Parrikar- The first IITian who became a CM            Hailed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi as the 'builder of modern Goa', Chief Minister and former Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar was the first IIT alumnus to hold the office of CM in Indian public services. He was Chief Minister of Goa from 2000 to 2005 and from 2012 to 2014 and from 2017 to 2019.  He also served as the Minister of Defence from October 2014 to March 2017.  In January 2020, he was posthumously awarded Padma Bhushan. Manohar Parrikar was known to travel by his bicycle to Goa Vidhan Sabha and refused all government benefits after becoming chief minister.  He insisted on using his old Innova even after becoming CM. His name appears in the closing credits of the movies 'The Bourne Supremacy' 220 million tons of old computers and other technological hardware are trashed in the United States each year. The amount of worldwide e-waste generation is expected ...

  Alamgirpur                  Alamgirpur is one of the most eastern site found in Indus Valley civilization. The most astonishing fact about this site is that it situated along the Yamuna River ,which also suggest that as there may be more other sites along the course of Yamuna river as previously were founded on course of Indus river and on course of Ghaggar-Hakra river.  Recent geochronological, geochemical and geophysical studies hypothesize that the rivers Yamuna, Sutlej and Beas were probably flowing into the palaeo-Ghaggar and that their migrations disconnected the river from its perennial glacial sources  It has been proposed that owing to river avulsions, the Yamuna moved away during 49-10 ka and the connection to the Sutlej was lost during the Early-Holocene (~9 ka). Due to discovery of Site of Alamgir many new things about our history got unfolded. The change of course of rivers may have been one of the reasons of dec...

  Industry 4.0  is one of the big  buzzwords  flying around our ear nowadays. We all wonder about what exactly it is!!!Basically it refers to the 4th industrial revolution where we have seen transformative technologies that have changed the industries.  We are now having machines -intelligent Robots connected with smart factories around us. How did we get here? First industrial revolution  had started in 1770s where we moved from hands to machines, from farms to first factories using steam and water power. Implementing these new technologies were not so easy, it took a long time to go ahead with these technologies. More newer things were happened to iron industry, mining and agriculture. They had soon adopted that. Second industrial revolution  had arrived 100 years later I.e., from 1871 to 1914 where electricity was invented. It has given birth to automation, assembly lines. Increasing electrification has given the kickstart to factories for modern pr...

  What is the Iron Pillar? The Iron Pillar in Delhi is a structure 23 feet 8 inches (7.2 metres) high with 16 inches (40.64 cm) diameter that was constructed by  Chandragupta II , and now stands in the  Qutab complex  at  Mehrauli  in  Delhi , India. The Iron pillar is a testimony of high-level skill achieved by the ancient Indian iron smiths in the extraction and processing of iron. It has attracted the attention of archaeologists and metallurgists, as it has withstood corrosion for nearly 1600 years. [i]           History of the Iron Pillar: An iron pillar weighing over 6 tonnes, more than 7 metres tall is constructed in a single forge and is erected on top of the Vishnupada hill (somewhere in modern central India) with Sanskrit inscriptions on it in the Brahmi script about the great Gupta ruler Chandragupta Vikramaditya. Later about seven centuries ago it was installed in its current position by To...

    INSPIRING STORIES Success Story of Ratan Tata "I don't believe in taking the right decisions, I take decisions and then make them right" . One of the Ratan Tata's inspiring words which made us dream beyond shadows. Ratan Tata the name that immediately draws recognition from all. The tata group scion earned reverence not only as a successful industrialist but as a great human being and philanthropist.   Recognized as the best chairman in India, he always put social and employee welfare above commercial gains.    EARLY LIFE EDUCATION Ratan Naval Tata  (born 28 December 1937) is an  Indian  industrialist , philanthropist, and a former chairman of  Tata Sons . He was also chairman of  Tata Group , from 1990 to 2012, and again, as interim chairman, from October 2016 through February 2017, and continues to head its charitable trusts. He is the recipient of two of the highest civilian awards of India, the  Padma Vibhushan  (2...