- Avocado: Rich in vitamin E- an important antioxidant.
- Blueberries: Rich antioxidant. Builds healthy connections between brain cells.
- Broccoli: Contains antioxidants like vitamin C and brain-protecting plant compounds known as carotenoids.
- Curry: Contains spices that reduce inflammation. Its ingredient curcumin is effective at clearing away proteins called amyloid plaques that can cause serious brain problems.
- Dark chocolate: Dark chocolate with at least 70% cocoa has a good amount of of brain-boosting elements. It is also a good antioxidant. Dark chocolate boosts your serotonin to keep you happy. Contains just about OK level of caffeine to keep you alert.
- Green and black tea: Rich source of catechines (antioxidants). Keep a check on frequency of drinking tea to not more than two to three cups a day since it contains caffeine.
- Oily fish: Salmon, sardines and mackerel are rich in omega 3 fatty acids- essential for increasing brain function. Improves cognitive strength and alertness.
- Seeds: Pumpkin seeds contain lots of zinc and magnesium which are brain-boosters.
- Water: Every cell in the body needs water to remain healthy. Drinking enough water helps in boosting the brain power.
- Wholegrain food: Increases cognitive function. Folic acid, vitamin B12 and vitamin B6 found in whole grains help in improving the memory.
Thursday, December 4, 2014
Best Brain-booster Foods
Constituent Assembly
- The constituent assembly was formed on the recommendation of the Cabinet Mission which visited India in 1946.
- The Constituent Assembly met for the first time in New Delhi on 9 December, 1946 in the Constitution Hall which is now known as the Central Hall of Parliament House.
- Mr. Sachchidanand Sinha was elected provisional chairman of the assembly.
- Dr Rajendra Prasad later became the permanent chairman of the constituent assembly.
- On 13 December, 1946, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru moved the Objectives Resolution which resolved to proclaim India as an Independent Sovereign Republic and to draw up for her future governance a Constitution.
- The Constituent Assembly took almost three years (two years, eleven months and seventeen days to be precise) to complete its historic task of drafting the Constitution for Independent India.
- The Constituent Assembly held eleven sessions covering a total of 165 days.
- India is governed in terms of the Constitution, which was adopted on 26 November, 1949, which was the last day of the Eleventh session of the Constituent Assembly.
- This date finds mention in the Preamble to the Indian Constitution thus IN OUR CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY this twenty-sixth day of November, 1949, do HEREBY ADOPT, ENACT AND GIVE TO OURSELVES THIS CONSTITUTION.
- The honourable members appended their signatures to the constitution on 24 January, 1950.
- The Constitution of India came into force on 26 January, 1950. On that day, the Constituent Assembly ceased to exist, transforming itself into the Provisional Parliament of India until a new Parliament was constituted in 1952.
Important Dates - Constituent Assembly to Constitution
Constituent Assembly met for the first time - 09 Dec 1946
Objectives Resolution moved - 13 Dec 1946
Constitution adopted - 26 Nov 1949
Signed by members - 24 Jan 1950
Constitution came into force and Constituent Assembly ceased to exist - 26 Jan 1950
Wednesday, December 3, 2014
LEDs To Light Up Central Offices
LED lights will capture corridors and rooms of central offices, ministries and departments soon.
P K Mishra, Additional Principal Secretary to Prime Minister Narendra Modi
The Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) is learnt to have suggested in a recent communiqué that all government departments and their subordinate offices procure only LED lights and bulbs for lighting, and not CFLs or tube lights.
The rationale: Though costlier, LEDsconsume less electricity and can prove more effective in the long run.
The communiqué, sources said, also cited studies showing LEDs were 25 per more efficient than CFLs, 23 per cent more efficient that tube lights and 80 per cent more efficient than incandescent lamps.
“Though the price of LEDs is higher than other light sources, their lifetime cost is much lower,” officials said.
LEDs’ high energy efficiency can be gauged from the fact that a nine-watt LED bulb gives the same amount of light output as a 12-watt CFL or a 60-watt normal bulb, the communiqué is said to have argued.
A few months ago, the government had embarked on a major cleanliness drive at all central offices and buildings and disposed of tonnes of unused computer peripherals, cupboards and chairs.
Modi Govt To Observe ‘Good Governance Day’ To Remember Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Bharatiya Janata Party patriarch’s birthdayfalls on December 25 will be observed each year as national ‘Good Governance Day’ as a mark of respect to former prime minister.
Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Former Prime Minister of India
The BJP has decided to celebrate Vajpayee’s birthday as “good governanceday” from this year onwards and has asked party Members of Parliament to spend an hour on December 25 in their constituency to work for cleanliness as part of the Swachh Bharat programme.
The Prime Minister also asked the BJP MPs to work for an hour in their respective constituencies for the ‘Clean India’ campaign. The Rajya Sabha Members of Parliament was also asked to choose a constituency which the party has never won for this purpose.
Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs Rajiv Pratap Rudy said a core committee, with him and Chemicals and Fertiliser Minister Anant Kumar as members, has been formed to chalk out the plans for celebrating Vajpayee’s birthday.
Vajpayee, who will turn 90 on December 25, has been ailing for sometime. While the amiable former Prime Minister is liked across party lines, marking his birthday as “good governance day” has started murmurs that the BJP is trying to appropriate yet another important day.
The Modi government launched Swachh Bharat programme on October 2, the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi while Indira Gandhi’s death anniversary saw the government celebrating Sardar Patel’s birthday.
Rudy said BJP will organise seminars, and also highlight the achievements of the NDA government under Vajpayee on December 25.
Sunday, November 30, 2014
Hyderabad ranked 2nd best place in world to see in 2015: Magazine
In the December 2014-January 2015 issue, the periodical ranked Hyderabad at second position on the list.
Hyderabad is the second best place in the world that one should see in 2015, according to an international travel publication.
ఏపీ టెట్ కమ్ టీఆర్టీ కొత్త పరీక్షా విధానం
ఆంధ్రప్రదేశ్లోని ప్రభుత్వ, జిల్లా పరిషత్, మండల పరిషత్ పాఠశాలల్లో 9061 ఉపాధ్యాయ పోస్టుల భర్తీకి పాఠశాల విద్యాశాఖ నవంబరు 21న నోటిఫికేషన్ విడుదల చేసింది. తాజా ప్రకటన ద్వారా 1849 స్కూల్ అసిస్టెంట్స్, 812 లాంగ్వేజ్ పండిట్స్, 156 వ్యాయామ విద్య ఉపాధ్యాయులు (పీఈటీ), 6244 సెకండరీ గ్రేడ్ టీచర్ పోస్టులను భర్తీ చేయనున్నారు. ఈ నియామక రాత పరీక్షలను 2015 మే 9, 10, 11 తేదీల్లో నిర్వహించనున్నారు. టీచర్ ఎలిజిబులిటీ టెస్ట్ కమ్ టీచర్స్ రిక్రూట్మెంట్ టెస్ట్ (టెట్ కమ్ టీఆర్టీ) పేరుతో ఈ పోస్టులను భర్తీ చేయనున్నామని రాష్ట్ర మానవ వనరుల అభివృద్ధి శాఖ మంత్రి గంటా శ్రీనివాసరావు వెల్లడించారు. ఇప్పటివరకు ఉపాధ్యాయ నియామక పరీక్షను డీఎస్సీగా వ్యవహరించేవారు. ఇకపై ఉపాధ్యాయ అర్హత పరీక్ష (టెట్) ప్రత్యేకంగా ఉండదని, టెట్ కమ్ టీఆర్టీలోనే అంతర్భాగంగా ఉంటుందని మంత్రి చెప్పారు.
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Mathur: The Village That Speaks Sanskrit
For the last 600 years, the Sankethis, a community of Brahmins that migrated from Kerala, have been living together and leading an insular way of life. Daily life revolves around Sanskrit. Aham Gacchami (I am going) and other expressions in the ancient language can be heard on the street. Since the language is spoken by people wearing jeans and t-shirts or while talking over a cell phone or riding a motorbike, Mattur has become a quaint metaphor for ancient India in modern times.
Most residents of the village are happy that the Narendra Modi government plans to replace German with Sanskrit in CBSE schools. "Of course, children in India must necessarily study Sanskrit. The Vedas can help children lead fuller lives as they teach about how to lead a better family life, to understand the metaphysical aspect of life and so on," says Madhukar, who resigned from his job at Cisco as a software engineer and returned to the village to set up a garments business.
Almost every house in this Brahmin village has an IT professional and many of them are working abroad. The Sankethis are proud of their culture and almost every NRI makes it a point to attend rituals and festivals back home.
[From: http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2014-11-23/news/56385155_1_sanskrit-village-mattur - the author makes some stupid questions about why a sanskrit village should have mobile phones etc.. Shows how shallow people think and I have left out those parts from this excerpt.. ]
The crime rate is extremely low, given that the village by itself is one extended family. "There is not a single property dispute pending before courts from this village. We have a culture of cohesion that has been around for generations and we have managed to keep it going," says Yadu, who, like Madhukar, goes by one name and is a software professional.
The Mattur school has one of the best records in the district and boasts of toppers year after year. The teachers at the school say that learning Vedas and the chanting have helped children with their memory and focus. The software engineers here say their training in chanting has helped them with their academics.
Yadu, who works with Hewlett Packard, says that the daily practice of chanting was the reason for the village boasting of hundreds of software engineers. "We naturally developed an aptitude for maths and logic as well," he said.
Source:-http://hinduismnow.org
Thursday, November 27, 2014
Know About India’s Soldiers Defending Siachen
For Indian forces deployed in Siachen, it is less of a challenge to watch out for the frail Pakistani forces but to just stay atop this 76 kilometers long glacier at 5,400 meters altitude (nearly twice the altitude of Ladakh and Kargil) in itself means you have to defy all of your physical, mental and spiritual limits.
1. In Siachen, you are at the risk of getting a deadly frostbite if your bare skin touches steel (gun trigger, for example) for just over fifteen seconds.
2. Mountain climbers climb when the weather is at its best; soldiers serve in these treacherous terrains all year round.
3. The human body just cannot acclimatize over 5,400 meters
4. Speech blurring is as obvious as toothpaste freezing in the tube
5. Snowstorms in Siachen can last 3 weeks.
6. Yearly snowfall in Siachen can be well over 3 dozen feet
7. The 7th Pay commission may consider the unique challenges faced by the army jawans who man the territory all through the year.
8. Soldiers find ways to entertain themselves when they can.
9. Fresh food – that’s rare. Very rare. At Siachen, an orange or an apple can freeze to the hardness of a cricket ball in no time.
10. Army pilots literally push their helicopters well beyond their optimal performance, every day!
11. In the last 30 years, 846 soldiers have sacrificed their lives at Siachen.
12. A War Memorial at the Bank of Nubra River has the names of Indian soldiers who laid their lives in Siachen.
13. Local saying: “The land is so barren and the passes so high that only the best of friends and fiercest of enemies come by.’
14. In Siachen, the Indian Army spends as much as 80% of its time preparing soldiers of deployment.
15. “We do the difficult as a routine. The impossible may take a little longer”
16. When you go home, tell them of us and say, for your tomorrow we gave our today.
"SALUTE TO OUR SOLDIERS AT SIACHEN"
Aadhaar based authentication of Life Certificate for pensioners.
To view Department of Pension & Pensioners' Welfare OM No. 1/19/2014-P&PW (E) DATED 25-11-2014 please Click Here.
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