First union of India

FIRST UNION CABINET OF INDIA
Mount batten, Governor General of India handed over the power to first
Indian cabinet  headed by Prime minister Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru.
There were 14 members in the first union council of Independent India.
Members of the first Cabinet of Independent India, who took the
oath of office on the 15th of August, 1947.

NAME PORT FOLIO
1 Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru- Prime Minister , Externel Affairs ,Common Wealth Relations and Scientific Research
2 Sardar Vallbhbhai Patel-Deputy PM & Home
3 Syama Prasad Mookerjee-Industry and Supply
4 Shanmugam Chetty -Finance
5 Moulana Abul Kalam Azad-Education
6 Dr. B. R. Ambedkar-Law
7 Rajkumari Amrit Kaur-Health
8 Dr. Rajendra Prasad- Food and Agriculture
9 Rafi Ahmed Kidwai-Communications
10 Babu Jagjivan Ram -Labour
11 Sardar Baldev Singh- Defence
12 Narhar Vishnu Gadgil- Public Works, Commerce, and Mines and Power
13 C.H bhaba-Commerce
14 N. Gopalaswami Ayyangar- Non-portfolio Minister

Dr. John Mathai became Minister of Finance, Railway and Transport followed
by Shanmugam Chetty on September 1948.K.C Neogy took ministry of Relief
and Rehabilitation on September 1947 and Jayaramdas Doulathram as
minister of Food and Agriculture followed by Dr. Rajendra Prasad.This
interim government existed till elected government came into power

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Tiger Reserves in India

Project tiger was started in 1973

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NATGRID

NATGRID
26/11 attacks on Mumbai exposed several weaknesses in India’s intelligence gathering and action networks. So, Chidambaram came up with the idea of National Intelligence Grid (NATGRID) NATGRID will integrate 21 categories of data from agencies like
1. Banks,
2. Railways and airlines,
3. Income tax department,
4. Credit card companies etc.
5. Visa and immigration
*. This combined data will be made available to 11 central agencies including the R&AW, the National Investigation Agency, the CBI, the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence, the Intelligence Bureau, the Narcotics Control Bureau and the Enforcement Directorate to help them prevent terrorist attacks and criminal activities.
*. NATGRID Will become fully operational in 2013-14
P. Raghu Raman is heading NATGRID.He was working with Mahindra.

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Indian Research stations on Antartica

Under Antartic Treaty of 1959,first Indian research station in Antartica was established in 1983.It was named "Dakshin Gangotri".It got buried under ice in 1989.
Second station was established in the same year.It was named "Maitri"
Recently,another station is being established.It is named "Bharathi".(2012)

India's first research station in Arctic Circle:
HIMADRI (2008).At Ny Alesund,Svalbard,Norway.

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INDIA ON "POLES'

First Indian to reach North Pole:
Sq.leader Sanjay Thapar

First Indian to reach South Pole:
Col Jatinder Kumar Bajaj
female: Reena Kaushal Dharamshaktu

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