Notes and Study material for Exams
POST INDEPENDENT ERA The era after India’s independence from colonial rule starts with its partition into two halves – India and Pakistan. Lord Mountbatten became the first Governor General of free India and M.A. Jinnah that of Pakistan. The transition was violent, with blood curling massacres all over the country, ample proof to the historic … Read more
Gandhiji was arrested in 1922 and sentenced to 6 years of imprisonment. The result was the spread of disintegration, disorganization and demoralization in the nationalist ranks. After a defeat of their resolution of ‘either mending or ending’ in the Congress, CR Das and Motilal Nehru resigned and formed the Congress-Khilafat Swaraj Party in December 1922. … Read more
Launch: October 22, 2008 Site: Satish Dhavan Space Centre, Sriharikota The objectives of the programme were: To develop and orbit a spacecraft around moon using an Indian-made launch vehicle. To prepare a three-dimensional atlas of both the near and the far side of the moon. Chemical and mineralogical mapping of the entire lunar surface. To … Read more