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Sites of Satyagrah, India's non-violent freedom movement several sites 2014 iv, vi (cultural) Satyagraha, a form of nonviolent resistance or civil resistance, was developed by Mahatma Gandhi in the first half of the 20th century, as a part of the Indian independence movement. The nomination comprises 22 sites across India related to the movement.
Medicine. A statue of Sushruta (600 BCE), author of Sushruta Samhita and the founding father of surgery, at Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (RACS) in Melbourne, Australia. Angina pectoris – The condition was named "hritshoola" in ancient India and was described by Sushruta (6th century BCE).
The Trade Control and Expert System ( TRACES ), is a web-based veterinarian certification tool used by the European Union for controlling the import and export of live animals and animal products within and without its borders. Its network falls under the responsibility of the European Commission. TRACES constitutes a key element of how the ...
Formerly called. Central Board of Film Censors (1952–1983) The Central Board of Film Certification ( CBFC) is a statutory film-certification body in the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting of the Government of India. It is tasked with "regulating the public exhibition of films under the provisions of the Cinematograph Act 1952." [1]
Origin of modern archaeology. One of the earliest non-Indian scholars to take an interest in the archaeology of the Indian subcontinent were Western European travelers in the 16th, 17th and early 18th centuries. The earliest European written accounts of India's ancient monuments and Hindu temples were produced by sailors and travelers in the ...
Etymology The Indus civilisation is named after the Indus river system in whose alluvial plains the early sites of the civilisation were identified and excavated. [i] Following a tradition in archaeology, the civilisation is sometimes referred to as the Harappan, after its type site, Harappa, the first site to be excavated in the 1920s; this is notably true of usage employed by the ...
Sri Lanka in 1996 Cricket World Cup Semi-Final) Eden Gardens is an international cricket stadium in Kolkata, India. Established in 1864, it is the oldest [4] [5] [6] and second-largest cricket stadium in India and third-largest in the world. The stadium currently has a capacity of 68,000. [7]
Category. The World Wide Web ("WWW", "W3" or simply "the Web") is a global information medium that users can access via computers connected to the Internet. The term is often mistakenly used as a synonym for the Internet, but the Web is a service that operates over the Internet, just as email and Usenet do.