What is ISIS ???

India has described as “rubbish” the charges made by an American non-proliferation lobby group that the country had violated nuclear export control and information security norms.
“These are the same sort of charges which were trotted out in 2006,” Foreign Secretary Shiv Shankar Menon said when asked about a recent report by the U.S.-based Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS). These charges were totally baseless, he said.
The ISIS alleged that India had leaked out sensitive centrifuge component design drawings as part of a tendering process for components initiated by India Rare Earths, an undertaking of the Department of Atomic Energy. It also charged the DAE with importing tributyl phosphate (TBP) — described as a “dual use chemical” used to separate plutonium — through “illicit” means.

The ISIS is run by David Albright, a prominent pre-war advocate of the Bush administration’s claims that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction.

Answer Them !

1) During the period of the Delhi Sultanate, the police was under the
a) Intelligence Dept. b) Wazir c) Chief Qazi d) Qazi-i-askar

2) Which was the smallest unit of administration during the Sultanate ?
a) Shiq b) Village c) Pargana d) Subah

3) Who received Sultan Mahmud of Delhi when Timur invaded India ?
a) Alp Khan b) Dilawar Khan c) Hoshang Shah d) Jalal Khan

4) In 1389, Malik Sarwar reached the position of

a) Diwan b) Wazir c) Sadr d) Diwan-i-Bayutat

5) Who named the fort of Champaner as Muhammadabad ?
a) Ahmad Shah b) Bahadur Shah c) Muzaffar Shah d) Begarha

For ur info

Al-Sultan al-'Azam wal Khaqan al-Mukarram Zahir ud-din Muhammad Jalal ud-din Babur Padshah Ghazi was born in Samarqand in 1482 as the son of Umar Shaikh Mirza. HIstorian Rushbrook calls Babur as the "Empire builder of the 16th Century".

Test Yourself from India Year Book

1) In which year was the National Song sung for the first time ?

a) 1897 b) 1899 c) 1896 d) 1894

2) Which is the first month of the Saka era ?

a) Baisakh b) Chaitra c) Shravan d) none

3) Kuchipudi dance form owes its origin to

a) Tamil Nadu b) Andhra c) Kerala d) Orissa

4) Lalit Kala Akademi was established in

a) 1948 b) 1965 c) 1953 d) 1954

5) Which dance form is an influence of the Mughals ?

a) Kathakali b) Kathak c) Odissi d) None

6) What is BHarat Rang Mahotsav ?

a) first ever National Song Festival b) first ever National Theatre Festival c) first ever National Dance Festival

d) first ever National Film Festival

7) The headoffice of the Anthropological Survey of India is in

a) Mumbai b) Delhi c) Allahabad d) Kolkata

8) The National Mission for Manuscripts was launched in

a) 2000 b) 2001 c) 2003 d) 1999

9) The headquarters of the National Research Laboratory for Conservation of Cultural Property is in

a) Lucknow b) Etawah c) Dehradun d) Cuttack

10) Arrange the following Commissioned Ranks in the Navy in ascending order :
1 : Rear Admiral 2 : Commander 3 : Liutenant 4 : Vice-Admiral

a) 3,2,1,4 b) 4,1,2,3 c) 3,4,1,2 d) 2,3,4,1

UPSC plea dismissed

The Delhi High Court has upheld a Single Bench judgment directing the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) to disclose the model answer papers and the cut-off marks obtained by candidates in the preliminary examination of civil services held in 2006.
A Division Bench comprising Justices A.P. Shah and S. Muralidhar dismissed the appeal filed by the UPSC against the judgment. The Single Bench had last year upheld the ruling of the Central Information Commission (CIC) directing the UPSC to disclose the information sought by a group of students who had taken the examination.
Mr. Justice B.D. Ahmed had ruled that the disclosure of the information “cannot harm the interest of the UPSC or any third party.”
The UPSC had argued that if information regarding the marks was given, there was a possibility that it could be misused by coaching institutes and this would harm the interest of meritorious students. The scaling system was sensitive and could not be revealed in an open court. The UPSC had earlier challenged the CIC’s ruling before the Single Bench.

More Medieval

When you find questions with 2 statements, study them carefully and determine which one of them is/are correct & mark any of the following if :

a) only 1 b) only 2 c) Both d) None is correct

1) 1 : Akbar gave the title of Amir-ul-Umara to Shaikh Farid Bukhari
2 : Farid Bukhari was the son of Khwaja Abdus Samad

2) 1: In 1608, the grandson of Shaikh Salim Chisti was posted to Bengal.
2: Khan-i-Jahan Lodi was placed in charge of Deccan by Jehangir

3) Tarikh-i-Akbari was written by

a) Mutamad Khan b) Muhammad Arif Qandahari

c) Nizam-al-din Ahmad d) None of them

4) A : Rafiuddin Shirazi 1 : Tazkira-i-Humayun-o-Akbar
B : Bayazid Bayat 2 : Zubdat-ut-Tawarikh
C : Nur-ul- Haqq Dihlavi 3 : Tazkirat-ul-Akbar
a) A-2, B-3, C-1 b) A-3, B-1, C-2

c) A-2, B-1, C-3 d) A-3, B-2, C-1

5) Arrange Aurangzeb’s conquests or suppressions of revolts in chronological order :
1 : Palamau, 2 : Yusufzai, 3: Ahoms 4 : Chittagong

a) 1,3,4,2 b) 3,1,2,4 c) 4,1,3,2 d) 1,2,3,4

6) 1 : Beni Prasad’s theory of the Nur Jahan junta has been criticized
2 : In their memoirs, the Europeans do not indicate any fissures between Mehrunnisa & Khurram after 1616.

7) 1 : Abdullah Khan sent two embassies to Akbar in 1572 and 1577 respectively
2 : Akbar rejected the proposal for a joint attack on Persia in 1578

8) 1 : The Mughal forces successfully entered Balkh in 1646
2 : Nazr Muhammad was forced to seek shelter in Badakshan

9) Khwaja Asad returned with a Persian emissary named
a) Jalaluddin Mahmud b) Sulaiman Aqa c) Sam Mirza d) Khwaja Kalan

10) Which among the following was NOT a subah in 1580 ?

a) Awadh b) Multan c) Khandesh d) Malwa