Dan Shechtman is the Philip Tobias Professor of Materials Science at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, an Associate of the US Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory, and Professor of Materials Science at Iowa State University. On April 8, 1982, while on sabbatical at the U.S. National Bureau of Standards in Washington, D.C., Shechtman discovered the icosahedral phase, which opened the new field of quasiperiodic crystals. He was awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for “the discovery of quasi-crystals”. Shechtman is the fourth Israeli to win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in under a decade. Note : The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2016 was awarded jointly to Jean-Pierre Sauvage, Sir J. Fraser Stoddart and Bernard L. Feringa ”for the design and synthesis of molecular machines”.

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Dan Shechtman is the Philip Tobias Professor of Materials Science at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, an Associate of the US Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory, and Professor of Materials Science at Iowa State University. On April 8, 1982, while on sabbatical at the U.S. National Bureau of Standards in Washington, D.C., Shechtman discovered the icosahedral phase, which opened the new field of quasiperiodic crystals. He was awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for “the discovery of quasi-crystals”. Shechtman is the fourth Israeli to win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in under a decade. Note : The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2016 was awarded jointly to Jean-Pierre Sauvage, Sir J. Fraser Stoddart and Bernard L. Feringa ”for the design and synthesis of molecular machines”.

The Sangeet Natak Akademi, on July 14, 2010 announced the Ustad Bismillah Khan Yuva Puraskars for 2009. Recipients of the award in different fields are as follows: Music: Omkar Shrikant Dadarkar – Hindustani vocal; Murad Ali – Hindustani instrumental – sarangi; Sanjeev Shankar and Ashwani Shankar (joint award) – Hindustani instrumental – shehnai; C.S. Sajeev – Carnatic vocal; Mysore A. Chandan Kumar – Carnatic instrumental – flute; V. Balaji - Carnatic instrumental – mridangam; Anil Srinivasan – creative and experimental music; and Moirangthem Meina Singh other major traditions of music – Nata Sankirtana of Manipur. In Dance the awardees were: Ragini Chander Shekar – Bharatanatyam; Monisa Nayak – Kathak; Hanglem Indu Devi – Manipuri; Chinta Ravi Balakrishna – Kuchipudi; Lingaraj Pradhan – Odissi; Menaka P.P. Bora – Sattriya; Manjula B. Murthy – Mohiniattam; Swamimalai K. Suresh (music for dance) – Bharatanatyam nattuvangam and vocal.

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The Sangeet Natak Akademi, on July 14, 2010 announced the Ustad Bismillah Khan Yuva Puraskars for 2009. Recipients of the award in different fields are as follows: Music: Omkar Shrikant Dadarkar – Hindustani vocal; Murad Ali – Hindustani instrumental – sarangi; Sanjeev Shankar and Ashwani Shankar (joint award) – Hindustani instrumental – shehnai; C.S. Sajeev – Carnatic vocal; Mysore A. Chandan Kumar – Carnatic instrumental – flute; V. Balaji - Carnatic instrumental – mridangam; Anil Srinivasan – creative and experimental music; and Moirangthem Meina Singh other major traditions of music – Nata Sankirtana of Manipur. In Dance the awardees were: Ragini Chander Shekar – Bharatanatyam; Monisa Nayak – Kathak; Hanglem Indu Devi – Manipuri; Chinta Ravi Balakrishna – Kuchipudi; Lingaraj Pradhan – Odissi; Menaka P.P. Bora – Sattriya; Manjula B. Murthy – Mohiniattam; Swamimalai K. Suresh (music for dance) – Bharatanatyam nattuvangam and vocal.

Uday Prakash is a Hindi poet, scholar, journalist, translator and short story writer from India. He has worked as administrator, editor, researcher, and TV director. He writes for major dailies and periodicals as a freelance writer. He has also received several awards including 2010 Sahitya Akademi Award in Hindi for his collection of short stories, Mohan Das. Prakash was born on January 1, 1952, in the “backward” village of Sitapur, Shahdol, Madhya Pradesh, India. He raised and received primary education there by a teacher. He graduated in Science and obtained his Master’s degree in Hindi Literature, receiving a Gold Medal from Saugar University in 1974. From 1975-76 he was a research student at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU). Note : Every year since its inception in 1954, the Sahitya Akademi Award prizes to the most outstanding books of literary merit published in any of the major 24n Indian languages recognized by the Akademi. In 2016 Nasira Sharma got Sahitya Akademi award for his novel Parijat.

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Uday Prakash is a Hindi poet, scholar, journalist, translator and short story writer from India. He has worked as administrator, editor, researcher, and TV director. He writes for major dailies and periodicals as a freelance writer. He has also received several awards including 2010 Sahitya Akademi Award in Hindi for his collection of short stories, Mohan Das. Prakash was born on January 1, 1952, in the “backward” village of Sitapur, Shahdol, Madhya Pradesh, India. He raised and received primary education there by a teacher. He graduated in Science and obtained his Master’s degree in Hindi Literature, receiving a Gold Medal from Saugar University in 1974. From 1975-76 he was a research student at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU). Note : Every year since its inception in 1954, the Sahitya Akademi Award prizes to the most outstanding books of literary merit published in any of the major 24n Indian languages recognized by the Akademi. In 2016 Nasira Sharma got Sahitya Akademi award for his novel Parijat.

Cooperative farming has succeeded only in countries with totalitarian government. It was at its best in the former USSR (now Russia). Cooperative farming was practised there in the form of collective farming in which member-owners engaged jointly in farming activities. There were both kolkhozy (cooperative-run type) and sovkhozy (state-run type) cooperatives. The collective farms were highly mechanized and the machine tractor stations, maintained by the state, played a crucial role in the success of these farms (Cooperation Principles, Problems and Practice, by T.N. Hajela, p. 489-502).

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Cooperative farming has succeeded only in countries with totalitarian government. It was at its best in the former USSR (now Russia). Cooperative farming was practised there in the form of collective farming in which member-owners engaged jointly in farming activities. There were both kolkhozy (cooperative-run type) and sovkhozy (state-run type) cooperatives. The collective farms were highly mechanized and the machine tractor stations, maintained by the state, played a crucial role in the success of these farms (Cooperation Principles, Problems and Practice, by T.N. Hajela, p. 489-502).

Bengaluru, the capital city of Karnataka, is known as Electronic City after an information technology hub located there in Anekal taluk. It is one of India's largest electronic industrial parks, spread over 1.3 km² in Konappana Agrahara and Doddathogur villages in Bangalore. There are approximately 200 IT/ITES companies located in Electronic City.

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Bengaluru, the capital city of Karnataka, is known as Electronic City after an information technology hub located there in Anekal taluk. It is one of India's largest electronic industrial parks, spread over 1.3 km² in Konappana Agrahara and Doddathogur villages in Bangalore. There are approximately 200 IT/ITES companies located in Electronic City.