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Ladakh Corral Improvement Program – the History
Ladakh Corral Improvement Program – The History Background: Proclaimed in 1981, the 3,350 square kilometer Hemis National Park is located in northwestern India in the Ladakh District of Jammu and Kashmir State. Besides offering excellent snow leopard habitat, it harbors four species of wild sheep and goats—giving this park international biodiversity importance. Elevations in this stark arid transHimalayan landscape range from 10,800 feet to some 21,000 feet. The Zanskar River cuts a spectacularly deep and rugged gorge through the park. While the canyon is impassable in summer, in winter people can walk along the frozen riverbed. Although the vegetation is sparse, there is a diverse range of large mammals amid varied mountain and riverine habitats. Current biological surveys are needed to obtain reliable wildlife population estimates, but previous rough estimates in the existing park and the potential extension are as follows: up to 100 snow leopards, a few lynx, 25-50 wolf and wild dog. Blue sheep are the most abundant ungulate, with an estimated 3,000. Two ungulate species are endangered: the Ladakh urial (±300), and the Argali (±25). Hemis is located at the very edge of Asiatic ibex range, with an estimated ±50 individuals. An analysis of scats or droppings indicates that blue sheep are the snow leopard’s main prey, followed by domestic livestock, marmot, Tibetan hare, pika or mousehare, and such gamebirds as the snowcock and chukor partridge. About 1,600 people live in the park in 16 small settlements scattered in three valleys – the Rumbak valley (4 villages); the Markha valley (7 villages) and the Shang Valley (5 villages). -
Early Modern European Explorers at the Mountain Jade Quarries in The
Early Modern European Explorers at the Mountain Jade Quarries in the Kun Lun Mountains in Xinjiang, China Hermann Schlagintweit and Ferdinand Stoliczka next to a map of ancient Turkestan by A.Petermann, printed 1877 in Gotha, Germany by Herbert Giess Zürich Switzerland 1 Part IV 7.0 The Geologist Explorer, Dr. Ferdinand Stoliczka, in 1873 at Gulbashen in the Karakax Valley. The explorations of the northern territories beyond the Himalaya and Karakorum chain increased in frequency as the power vacuum left by the weak Chinese empire brought an aggressive southward expanding Imperial Russia closer to the boundaries of the British Empire in India. The two frontiers were, as the crow flies, just approximately 220 miles distant. The frontier of British India with Chinese Turkestan, was in Aktagh, a mere 30 miles from Shahidulla (now Xaidulla), and the “Great Game”, between Russia and the British Empire was in full swing. Several British missions, with scientists such as Dr. F.Stoliczka attached to them, traveled through this area on their way northward toward Kashgar and Yarkand. Dr. Ferdinand Stoliczka was born the 7th of July 1838 in Bilany/Kromeriz in Moravia in an old family of foresters whose members had served on the local forest estate of the Archbishops of Olomouc for several generations. He studied natural history in Vienna and graduated as Ph.D at the University of Tübingen in Germany on the 14th of November 1861. He was encouraged to work in geology and paleontology by Professor Eduard Suess and, as early as 1859, he communicated to the Vienna Academy a description of some freshwater mollusks from the Cretaceous rocks of the North-Eastern Alps. -
PRELIM SNIPPETS October 21St 2019 1. Plethora 2 (PLT 2) 2. Railway Board 3. Bhashan Char Island
PRELIM SNIPPETS st October 21 2019 1. Plethora 2 (PLT 2) Why in News? Researchers from IISER have discovered a protein that regenerates primary and lateral roots of the plants. About: Regeneration is a process that a part restores the original position after it is being broken or sliced off. Plethora 2 is a protein which helps to regenerate the primary and lateral roots of the plants. This discovery ensures the quick repair of the plants which is damaged either by high wind or rain. However, excess dosage of this protein beyond the threshold level reduces the regeneration potential. 2. Railway Board Why in News? Indian Railways have recently decided to reduce the Railway Board members by 25%. About: The Railway Board is the apex body of the Indian Railways that reports to the Parliament of India through the Ministry of Railways headed by the Railway Minister of India. Currently Railway Board has 200 officials including the Chairman, Officers and Directors. Now the board will be reduced to 150 members by transferring the other 50 members to the Zonal Railways to enhance efficiency. It is also to be noted that Bibek Debroy Committee on Indian Railways in 2015 has also recommended the restructuring of the Railway Board to improve the efficiency. 3. Bhashan Char Island Why in News? Rohingyas living in Bangladesh refugee camps have agreed to move to the Bhashan Char Island in the Bay of Bengal. About: Bhashan Char or Thengar Char is an island under the jurisdiction of Bangladesh which emerged only 2 decades before in the Bay of Bengal. -
Lepidoptera) (Zweiter Teil) 1)
ΡARNASSIANA NOVA XLIX DIE ARTEN UND UNTERARTEN DER PARNASSIIDAE (LEPIDOPTERA) (ZWEITER TEIL) 1) von CURT EISNER Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie, Leiden Mit zwei Tafeln Parnassius honrathi honrathi Staudinger Zugänge: SultanHazreth Geb. 1 ♂ 1 ♀; Sarafschan 3 ♂; SultanHazreth Geb. 2 ♂ 1 ♀; Sarafschan 1 ♂ 1 ♀; Kargaisk, KandykTau 1 ♂, f. costalis nigroocellata n.c. 1 ♂; Samarkand 1 ♂ 2 ♀; Barschepky 1 ♂; Sultan HazrethGeb., f. nigroocellata n.c. 1 ♂; Samarkand 1 ♂; Karategin 1 ♂; Pamir(?) 1 ♂; SultanHazreth Geb. 1 ♀. Sie bestätigen die Merkmale dieser markanten Unterart. Parnassius honrathi ernesti Bryk Zugänge: WestPamir 1 ♂ 1 ♀; Karategin 2 ♂; WestPamir 1 ♂; Tur kestan (?) 1 ♀; Garm 1 ♂; WestPamir 1 ♂ 1 ♀; Garm, f. nigroocellata n.c. + inpicta n.c. 1 ♂, 2 ♀; Pamir(?) 1 ♂ 1 ♀; Garm 1 ♂. Bezüglich der vagen Fundortangaben und der damit zusammenhängenden Schwierigkeit der Einordnung verweise ich auf das darüber in 1950 (Parn. Nov. xxix: 144) Ausgeführte. Allgemein lässt sich aus dem mir vorliegenden Material von honrathi Staudinger sagen, dass seine Vertreter im Westen des Fluggebietes am dunkelsten und kräftigsten gezeichnet auftreten und nach Osten zu einen helleren Habitus zeigen. Parnassius honrathi alburnus Stichel Zugänge: Chorog 3 ♂ 2 ♀, ex c. Sheljuzhko; Pamir(?) 1 ♂ 1 ♀; Chorog 1 ♂ 1 ♀, ex c. Sheljuzhko; Chorog 7 ♂ 3 ♀, f. posteriorsubmarginalis extenta (= Submarginale wurzelwärts in ein bis zu den Costalflecken und 1) Zu Erster Teil (Zool. Verh., 135) : Aus der Arbeit von P. R. Ackery "A guide to the genera and species of Parnassiinae (Lepidoptera: Papilionidae)" (1975, Bull. Brit. Mus. (Nat. Hist.), Entom., 31(4)) habe ich entnommen, dass im ersten Teil dieser Arbeit (Parn. Nov. xlix) zwei der dort angeführten Namen Synonyma sind: Parnassius clarius Eversmann (p. -
Himalayatraooroer ALTAI -HIMALAYA
10 JO 40 jo 04 - 00 - 345-5 Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2016 with funding from This project is made possible by a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries https://archive.org/details/altaihimalayatraOOroer ALTAI -HIMALAYA ALTAI- HIMALAYA A Travel Diary By NICHOLAS ROERICH WITH TWENTY REPRODUCTIONS FROM PAINTINGS FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY NEW YORK MCMXXIX Copyright, 1929, by CORONA MUNDI, INTERNATIONAL ART CENTER, INC. All Rights Reserved PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA —— PUBLISHER’S NOTE Zuloaga, visiting the Roerich Museum in New York, in an interview for the press, said: “In the creative art of Roerich, I see that which I have always felt. Here is evidence that from Russia some force is coming to the world—I cannot measure, I cannot impart what it is—but I realize its approach: Roerich great artist, great worker; his creation expresses proud and lofty sentiments.” Boris Grigorief has said: “His name is on the lips of the entire world. Before me is the magazine, Studio, dedicated to our great artist, and I am proud when I think that Roerich is so able to arouse the human soul.” In the Foreword (1925), Serge Whitman, valuing the inter- national significance of the last work of Roerich, wrote: “We who search the paths of international understanding and the structure of universal peace, must look upon Roerich as the apostle and forerunner of this new world of all nations.” Ivan Narodny, in a recent article, “Prophet of Universal Beauty,” said: “Leonardo da Vinci was at the same time a painter, an architect and an engineer. -
Himalaya Tour (‘Himalaya 1’)
Extreme Bike Tours HIMALAYA TOUR (‘HIMALAYA 1’) A Rough Guide to the Tour and Places of Interest 2 Contents OVERVIEW ............................................................................................................................................ 3 PARVATI VALLEY ................................................................................................................................... 3 KULLU VALLEY ....................................................................................................................................... 4 NAGGAR ................................................................................................................................................ 4 MANALI ................................................................................................................................................. 5 MANALI-LEH ROAD ............................................................................................................................... 5 LAHAUL VALLEY .................................................................................................................................... 6 FIVE PASSES ON MANALI-LEH ROAD ..................................................................................................... 7 Rohtang La ........................................................................................................................................ 7 Balalacha La ..................................................................................................................................... -
समाचार पत्र से चियत अंश Newspapers Clippings
June 2020 समाचार पत्र से चियत अंश Newspapers Clippings A Daily service to keep DRDO Fraternity abreast with DRDO Technologies, Defence Technologies, Defence Policies, International Relations and Science & Technology Volume: 45 Issue: 1 1 June 2020 35 1 रक्षा िवज्ञान पुतकालय Defenceरक्षा िवज्ञान Science पुतकालय Library रक्षाDefence वैज्ञािनक सScienceूचना एवं प्रल Libraryेखन क द्र Defence Scientific Information & Documentation Centre रक्षा वैज्ञािनक सूचना एव ं प्रलेखन क द्र Defence Scientificमेटकॉफ Informationहाउस, िदली -& 110 Documentation 054 Centre Metcalfe House, Delhi - 110 054 मेटकॉफ हाउस, िदली - 110 054 Metcalfe House, Delhi- 110 054 CONTENT S. No. TITLE Page No. DRDO News 1 DRDO Technology News 1 1. TEDBF: At $71 million flyaway costs, TEDBF It will be cheaper then Rafale 1 M and F-18 E/F Defence News 2-15 Defence Strategic National/International 2-15 2. Daulat Beg Oldi: Read about India’s strategically important airstrip in Ladakh that 2 keeps the Chinese troops in check 3. Chinese air activity goes down, limited troop pullback effected 3 4. Explained: The strategic road to DBO 4 5. China confirms: Both are taking steps to ease LAC situation 6 6. Major Generals exchange ideas, more talks lined up on Sino-Indian stand-off 7 7. Russia does not want to interfere in India-China stand-off: Top lawmaker 8 8. Army plans to expand roles for elite special and airborne forces known for 9 surgical strikes 9. भारतीय सेना को मले 21 हेलकॉटर पॉयलट 10 10. -
1. Interpol to Hold the General Assembly in India in 2022 • India Recently Won the Vote for Hosting the 91St Interpol General
www.gradeup.co 21st October 2019 1. Interpol to hold the general assembly in India in 2022 • India recently won the vote for hosting the 91st Interpol General Assembly in India in the year 2022 as part of celebrations of the 75th anniversary of Indian Independence. Related Information International Criminal Police Organisation (Interpol) • It is a 194-member intergovernmental organisation headquartered in Lyon, France. • It was formed in 1923 as the International Criminal Police Commission and started calling itself Interpol in 1956. • India has been a member since 1956. • Like any member nation, India maintains a National Central Bureau which serves as the national platform for cooperation between domestic law enforcement units and the international police community. • The NCB is the designated contact point for the Interpol. • India has collaborated with the Interpol in tackling a myriad of organised crimes such as poaching, wildlife trafficking, spurious drugs and fake medicine rackets, among others. • It aims to enable police around the world to work together to make the world a safer place. Different Interpol notices Red Notice • A Red Notice is a request to locate and provisionally arrest individual pending extradition. • It is issued by the General Secretariat at the request of a member country or an international tribunal based on a valid national arrest warrant. Yellow Notice • A Yellow Notice is issued to help locate missing persons, often minors, or to help identify persons who are unable to identify themselves. • This is highly useful in cases of human trafficking or in case of missing persons due to calamities Blue Notice • A Blue Notice is issued to collect additional information about a person’s identity, location or activities in relation to a crime. -
Final English Version of E-Bulletin
Embassy of India 21 - 27 October 2019 Jakarta INDIA'S LATEST NEWS NEWS MISSION'S ACTIVITIES HIGHLIGHT Bali Jatra: Odisha’s Biggest Trade Fair. Highest altitude all weather bridge opened in Ladakh. Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology holds First Start Up Summit. IAF test first 300 km range BrahMos surface-to-surface missiles. 14 Small Foreign Satellites to launch on the next 3 PSLVs : indianembassyjakarta.com : IndianEmbJkt : IndiaInIndonesia : IndianEmbJkt 1 BALI JATRA: ODISHA’S BIGGEST TRADE FAIR Bali Jatra, one of the biggest trade fairs of Odisha, is scheduled to commence on the 12th of November, 2019 and will go on until the 20th. The festival is held every year in Cuttack with several cultural programs, different games, and food stalls selling Odia delicacies. It is celebrated to mark the day when ancient Sadhabas (Odia mariners) set sail to distant lands of Bali, Java, Sumatra, as well as Sri Lanka for trade and cultural expansion. Source : NewsBharati HIGHEST ALTITUDE ALL WEATHER BRIDGE OPENED IN LADAKH Col. Chewang Rinchen Setu, India’s highest altitude all-weather permanent bridge, was inaugurated on the 21st of October, 2019, by Defence Minister Rajnath Singh. The bridge is located in eastern Ladakh, 45 kilometres from the country’s border with China. Singh reiterated the government’s commitment to strengthen border infrastructure to effectively deal with any threats that the country might face. The 1400 ft long bridge, going over Shyok River, is situated in Sub-Sector North at an altitude of 14,650 ft and named after the ‘Lion of Ladakh’ Col Chewang Rinchen. -
Mainstorming 2020 National Security
2 MAINSTORMING 2020 NATIONAL SECURITY (JANUARY 2020 TO OCTOBER 2020) 1. LINKAGES BETWEEN 4. ROLE OF SOCIAL MEDIA AND DEVELOPMENT & SPREAD OF INTERNAL SECURITY CHALLENGES .... 32 EXTREMISM............................................ 4 4.1 Fake News Crackdown - The Flaws ........... 32 1.1 Measures Taken to Develop LWE Hit States .. 4 4.2 Preventing Misuse of WhatsApp ................ 33 1.2 Decision on Red Corridor Region ................ 5 4.3 How is WhatsApp trying to prevent the misuse of its platform? ............................................. 34 1.3 Impact of Covid on Left Wing Extremism ... 6 4.4 Surveillance in India ................................... 35 1.4 Bodo Accord ................................................... 8 4.5 Internet Shutdowns in India ...................... 36 1.5 Bru Agreement .............................................. 9 4.6 Significance of Internet ............................... 38 1.6 Naga Peace Talks ......................................... 11 4.7 Restoring 4G Internet in J&K - SC Direction 1.7 Dealing with Conflicts ...................................... 13 39 1.8 Dealing with the Discourse on ‘Urban 4.8 Trump’s Order against Online Platforms . 41 Naxals’ and ‘Anti-Nationals’ .................................... 15 1.9 Myth of Urban Naxalism ............................. 16 5. CYBER SECURITY ............................ 42 5.1 Response to cyber attacks ........................... 42 2. BORDER MANAGEMENT ................. 17 5.2 Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Center . 44 2.1 Darbuk-Shyokh-Daulat -
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¼ÛT.¾.hÐGÅ.Gż.ºHá¼ü REG. No. JKENG/2013/55210 Rs. 15/- R EACH VOL. 7 ISSUE 10 PAGES 8 L ADAKH B ULLETIN June 1-15, 2019 In Conversation with Reach Ladakh Expert talk Dr. Motup Dorje 5 Ramzan, the holy month 4 Find us on FACEBOOK: Reach Ladakh Follow us on twitter: ReachLadakhBulletin Visit our website: www.reachladakh.com rd Brief News Leh celebrates 2563 Buddha Jayanti with BJP candidate Jamyang Tsering Namgyal religious fervour sweeps Ladakh parliamentary election Wins with a huge margin of 10, 930 votes DISCLAIMER Reach Ladakh does not take re- sponsibility for the contents of the Advertisements Display/classified published in this newspaper. The paper does not endorse the same. Readers are requested to verify the contents on their own before acting there upon. Quiz and painting competition held in Nyoma Nyoma: A quiz and painting competi- tion was held at Cluster Resource Cen- ter Middle School Nyoma on May 25. Stanzin Dasal and students from different schools were Stanzin Dasal turnout of 62.76 per cent while Kargil re- present. corded a voter turnout of 79.49 per cent. Mumtaz Hussain, Zonal Education Leh: Marking the celebration of 2563rd Leh: Making a historic move on May 23, Planning Officer, chief guest appreci- Buddha Jayanti, thousands of devotees His Eminence Togdan Rinpoche talked BJP candidate Jamyang Tsering Namg- Expressing his gratitude to the people for ated the participation of the students. commemorated the Birth, Enlightenment about the life of the Buddha and empha- yal sweeps Ladakh parliamentary elec- all the support, Jamyang Tsering Namg- He encouraged them to participate and and Mahaparinirvana of Lord Buddha on sised on inculcating good heart, selfless tion by securing 42, 914 votes out of 1, yal said that the people believed in the work hard in extra-curricular activities May 18 at Pologround. -
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daily Vol No. 50 No. 245 JAMMU, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 2014 REGD.NO.JK-71/12-14 16 Pages ` 3.50 ExcelsiorRNI No. 28547/1992 Over 50 ‘baratis’ feared dead, 14 others killed in J&K floods FLOOD FURY: Boys watching flooded river Tawi in Jammu, jawans of 9 IRP rescue people at Pantha Chowk in Srinagar and an Army jawan of 2 RR helps children to safety at Kangamdara in Magam area of Baramulla on Thursday. More pics on page Nos. 3 and 7. — Excelsior pics by Rakesh, Amin War and Aabid Nabi 200 still trapped, 60 rescued; Jhelum breach affects 70,000; roads closed, 350 houses damaged 300 villages inundated, 2000 rescued Gopal Sharma by the Divisional 7 am by SPP Poonch and his Poonch and many parts of Fayaz Bukhari and several other major roads Begum, wife of Haleem Khan, merged. Administration as the river team. Later, the building col- Rajouri has been snapped as are under water. resident of Gudwel. A Meteorological Department JAMMU, Sept 4: Over 50 Chenab, Tawi, Ujh, Suran and lapsed and its apportion washed many big electric towers and SRINAGAR, Sept 4: Five The incessant rains led An official statement said official said heavy to heavy members of a marriage party Poonch river were flowing PM condoles loss of hundreds of electric poles have persons died in floods across swelling of rivers and rivulets that Jhelum was flowing at rain/thundershower will occur at were feared killed in a flood- above danger mark. Water level been washed away. Entire area Kashmir since yesterday and across Kashmir including above 30.7 feet at Sangam in a most places over the State in ed nallah in Lam area of in river Chenab near Akhnoor lives in J-K floods has been plunged into darkness.