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Both Boeing C-17 Globemaster and Ilyushin IL-76 are transport aircrafts.

The project is a 50:50 joint venture between Gujarat Urban Development Corporation (GUDC) & IL&FS and is envisaged to come up over 1,000 acres of land at Shahpur village, located between Gandhinagar and Ahmedabad.

The Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China (COMAC) has unveiled its manufacturing facility for its ARJ21 planes. The ARJ21, an acronym for �Advanced Regional Jet for the 21^st Century,� is the first regional jet that China has fully developed independently

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The Preah Vihear Temple is a Khmer temple in the Preah Vihear province of Cambodia near the border with Thailand. In 1962, following a significant dispute between Thailand and Cambodia over ownership of the temple, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague awarded the ownership to Cambodia. On July 7, 2008, Preah Vihear was listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

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Outcome budgets are progress reports of Ministries on what they have done with the money allocated to them in the national budget that is presented in parliament each year. It helps in the evaluation of various schemes and improvement in their delivery. Introduced during 2005-06, the outcome budget was meant to be a tool to discipline all Ministries in terms of how and when they spend their allocated money, and ensure that expenditures were not staggered towards the last quarter of the fiscal.

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Recently the Publications Division, Ministry of I&B has invited entries under Bharatendu Harishchandra Award scheme for the year 2007 and 2008 respectively. The last date for receipt of entry in the Publications Division is 20^th November, 2009.

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The Sikkim Democratic Front (SDF) chief Pawan Chamling led the party to power for the fourth consecutive term to create history by bagging all the 32 Assembly seats and the lone Lok Sabha seat.

The Indian Navy's INS Airavat, the fifth indigenously built Landing Ship Tank (large), was commissioned. This was the third in the Shardul class of ships and was built by the Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers (GRSE) in Kolkota.

The HighNoon project, a collaboration between the EU and India, will evaluate the impact of the retreat of Himalayan glaciers and potential changes in the Indian summer monsoon on the spatial and temporal distribution of water resources in northern India.

The Justice Liberhan Commission was asked to probe the role played by the (then) Chief Minister Kalyan Singh (BJP) and his government in connection with the demolition Ramesh Pokhriyal of the BJP took over as the new chief minister of Uttarakhand earlier this year.

Ramesh Pokhriyal replaced B. C. Khanduri, who had resigned owing moral responsibility for the rout of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the recent Lok Sabha elections.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was the chief guest at this year's French National Day celebrations on July 14. French President Nicolas Sarkozy was the chief guest at the Republic Day parade here last year. The French National Day marks the anniversary of the storming of the Bastille fortress-prison on July 14, 1789.

Ustad Ali Akbar Khan was a Hindustani classical musician of the Maihar Gharana.

Baaz - MiG-27

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Javed Akhtar - Best Lyricist

The Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Bill envisages 25 per cent reservation for weaker sections in private schools.

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Abhisit Vejjajiva - Thailand

Indian pharmaceutical companies* were in news recently for cornering an overwhelming majority of drug approvals under the US President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). The PEPFAR programme, started in 2003, aimed at the prevention, treatment, and care of people infected with HIV/AIDS worldwide.

Under the Business Correspondent (BC) model, the RBI is keen on encouraging banks to expand their services to the village-level by building a network of BCs, such as kirana shops and NGOs, to provide basic banking services through a well-monitored and regulated platform. The BCs, in essence, will perform the task of micro-ATMs, without actually having to invest in setting up an ATM and other support services.

The largest bank failure in the current crisis was Washington Mutual, which had assets of $307 billion when it was shut down in September 2008.

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The award was first given to Parliamentarians for Global Action in 1986. Former Soviet Union Leader Mikhail Gorbachev was the first individual to win the award in 1987

The 2009 SASTRA Ramanujan Prize will be awarded to Professor Kathrin Bringmann of the University of Cologne, Germany, and the University of Minnesota, U.S. This annual prize, established in 2005, is for outstanding contributions to areas of mathematics influenced by the genius Srinivasa Ramanujan (1887-1920). The age limit for the prize is 32. The $10,000 prize will be awarded on December 22.

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Bunker Roy is the founder-director of the Barefoot College at Tilonia in Rajasthan's Ajmer district.

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