Iceland is Cool

Well you might be thinking I am mad to say that but this is not my finding but various indicators shows that. According to recently released report of GPI(Global Peace Index) by Vision of Humanity, it has been said that Iceland is the most peaceful country in the world, so isn't that COOL :), maybe its something related to its name ICE depicts white colour and the white colour signifies peace.
In the survey of 140 countries(last year it was 121 countries) across the world from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe, Nordic countries comes out on the top of the list with Denmark and Norway securing third and fourth ranks in the list and if you think rich countries can secure high rank then think twice as only one out of G8 countries secure Top 10 rank, with Japan securing fifth rank.

Other key findings:

-- Small, stable and democratic countries are the most peaceful -16 of the top 20 are western or central European democracies
-- The G8 fared very differently: Japan (5), Canada (11), Germany (14), Italy (28), France (36), UK (49), United States (97), Russia (131)
-- Iraq is the lowest ranked country on the Index (140)

India ranked 107th this year performing better than only Pakistan(127) and SriLanka(125) among its neighbouring countries, but it improved its rank from previous year of 109 and also its score improved slightly from 2.530 in 2007 to 2.355. Countries most at peace are ranked first. A lower score indicates a more peaceful country
Global Peace Index 2008

Country Rank Score
Iceland 1 1.176

Denmark 2 1.333

Norway 3 1.343

New Zealand 4 1.350

Japan 5 1.358

Ireland 6 1.410

Portugal 7 1.412

Finland 8 1.432

Luxembourg 9 1.446

Austria 10 1.449
...

India 107 2.355

View all Rankings | View Regions

Read More

GPI : Global Peace Index

The Global Peace Index is an attempt to measure the relative position of nations’ and regions’ peacefulness. It is maintained by the Economist, an international panel of peace experts from peace institutes and think tanks, together with the Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Sydney, Australia. The list was launched first in May 2007 and the second list is published in May 2008 and is claimed to be the first study to rank countries around the world according to their peacefulness. The study is the brainchild of Australian entrepreneur Steve Killelea and is endorsed by individuals such as the Dalai Lama, Nobel Laureates Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Professor Joseph Stiglitz and Professor Muhammad Yunus as well as the Fulbright Center.

This year the Index has been expanded to rank 140 countries - from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe - according to how peaceful they are, both domestically and how they interact with the outside world. The Index is constructed from 24 indicators of external and internal measures of peace including UN deployments overseas and levels of violent crime.
For more Visit :
Official Site of GPI
Article on Wikipedia

Read More

Opting Public Administration in Civil Services, this article would be of some help to you

From many years Public Administration become choice of most of the students in the civil services because of its relevance to the service, easy understanding, help it gives in GS paper, easy availability of books accompanied by good support system.
There has been some good teachers around to guide in your endeavor like Ravindaran Sir, Bhawani Singh Sir, Mohanty Sir and Atul Lohiya Sir to name few, they all have proper understanding of the subject and a good experience so if you have money and time you can surely take help of these as they better know tricks of trade and mould you in better frame.


And if you are thinking to go for self-study then also this subject will not create any problem as such as it not has much jargon of itself, go through standard books and you can score good marks in this. Keep abreast of new happenings and if possible quote from books and journals.
What you should take care while answering is that you should present your answer with proper facts and reason and not just plain copying from book, analysis is very important in this subject also like most of other optionals.
While answering question take proper care of terms like Explain, Comment, Compare and Contrast, Illustrate, Discuss, Analyse, Critically Evaluate as all these term has their own meanings and if not follow those your marks will be deducted accordingly.
So, in conclusion I can only say from my experience that this subject is not that easy which people in general thinks because one can easily get average marks but to get good marks it needs thorough preparation.
Good Luck !

You can also visit :

1. Public Administration Syllabus
   
2. How to prepare for Public Administration ?
3. What should be the approach for preparing Public Administration
   
4. Mains Question paper 1997 to 2007
   

Read More

CBSE XII Result Declared

CBSE (Central Board of Secondary Education) announced the results for Class XII exam for Chennai, Ajmer and Panchkula regions.

The result for the Delhi, Guwahati and Allahabad regions will be out on Friday.

The results of the CBSE exam have been put up on the website, www.cbseresults.nic.in

You can also enrol there to get result in your email box as and when it will be declared.

Update : CBSE also declared the result of remaining regions (23rd May 2008)

Read More

SC stays UPSC list

Supreme Court says no Double Quota for reserved category candidates
Read more
so, it seems some OBC students will be adversely affected while some general candidate students will benefit from this.

Read More

CSP 2008 Answer Keys

IAS 2008 Preliminary Exam
Visit :

GS Q Paper and Answer Key

General Studies

Geography or

Geo Q Paper and Answer Key

Geography

Mathematics

History

Sociology

Public Administration or

Pub Admn Q Paper and Answer Key

Chemistry

Political Science question paper and Answer Key

History Q Paper and Answer Key


Answer keys from Vision IAS are more accurate specially in Public Administration paper Shankar IAS academy key has many wrong answers which are factual and easily available in any standard book

source : Visionias.wordpress.com,Shankariasacademy.com and parikshaguru.com
Note : All links will open at their respective websites

Read More

ICS Prel.2008 GS Answer Key

ICS Prel. General Studies : Series A

Q.No.	Question	Ans
1	Roman numeral	C
2	Physics Noble www.competitionexam.com	C
3	Autobiography of Madam Curie	B
4	Min. Population	D
5	Jet Engine and Rocket	A/C
6	Laser printer	A
7	Diatonic scale	C
8	Rubies and sapphire	B
9	Stranger gas	C
10	Explosion in mines	C
11	Lightest and heaviest metal	B
12	Barrelwww.competitionexam.com	B
13	Gandhian teacher by profession	C ?
14	Abul kalam azad journal	A
15	National congress 1885	B
16	Unbritish competitionexam.com	C
17	New lamps for old	A
18	Premchand, bankim Chandra	C
19	Tapovan and vishnugarh	C
20	Sarosh zaliwala	C
21	Bimbavati devi	A
22	Chimanglur mandya	D
23	Ebrahim Alkazi	C
24	V R Krishna Aiyar	B
25	Sabyasachi, anirudh bahal	B
26	Median age	B
27	Largest Lok sabha consistuency	B
28	UAE Emirates	C
29	India member of APEC	A
30	Moldova competitionexam.com	A
31	Population Decreasing world	B
32	Highest rural population	A
33	Amnesty CIS Danube	A
34	Kp singh, vikram pandit	D
35	Rio + 10	C
36	CDM Kyoto	C
37	Million plus city	D
38	GoI undertaking	D
39	Language amendment act	C
40	LA member 450, 25 year age	B
41	DPSP Prohibition	B
4	IBRD GATT competitionexam.com	B
43	Desalination plant	A
44	Institute location cell science	C
45	BRIT	C
46	Tennis Events	B
47	Malta	B
48	Cryogenic engine	C
49	Intelligence agencies	C
50	C Rangrajan	B
51	Ph of blood	C
52	Vice Pres of India	B
53	Capital of Andhra	B
54	India football Olympic	B
55	Namchik Namphuk coalfields	A
56	N E Borlaug	A
57	Yom Kippur War	C
58	Probiotic Food	C
59	Albedo competitionexam.com	A ?
60	Match Person Position Nagendra AN Ray	B
61	Language after Hindi	C
62	Heavy water discovered	B
63	Kim Dae Jung	C
64	Ogaden	D
65	Palitana	A
66	Euro 2004	C
67	Mars and Uranus	B
68	Cristina Kirchner	B
69	Rowlatt Act	C
70	Radioactive water leakage	C
71	Person above 65 year	D
72	Spacecraft	B
73	ITER competitionexam.com	B
74	Themis Mission	C
75	Biosphere reserve	B
76	Orange prize and Pulitzer prize	A
77	UNESCO memory of world Register	D
78	Selene 1	C
79	Barak Anti missile	A
80	Major Green House	D
81	Dharamchakra in the national flag	D
82	Himalayan Vegetation	B
83	Eastern ghat and western ghat meet	C
84	Tributary and river	D
85	Salt water crocodile, shrew and tapir	C
86	Largest livestock population	C
87	High courts with more than one state	B
88	Female kills male	C
89	Snake diet another snake	D
90	Insectivorous plant	B
91	Lays egg and does not produce young ones	A
92	Control mosquitoes	C
93	Scheduled areas schedule	B
94	Border management	B
95	Verrapa moily	D
96	Elizabeth hawley	C
97	states Coastline	C
98	James Watson Noble prize	D
99	Boards and HQ	B
100	National parks competitionexam.com	A
101	Not an ape	C
102	Square	B
103	6 letters and 6 envelopes	A?
104	Two red two black two white balls	C
105	Number of triangles	A
106	Letter occupying 100th position	B
107	Number of terms in series	B
108	A B C D one above other	D
109	Carpenter chair	C
110	SP of pens	D
111	Schoolteacher and student	C
112	Total number of students	A
113	Bisphenol A	C
114	Indias economic indicator	D
115	March 1 2002	B
116	Rural electrification policy	B
117	National population policy	C
118	Biodiesel mission	D
119	IGNOAPS	D
120	Training and skills to women	D ?
121	Agent orange	B
122	Reconstitution of viceroys council	B ?
123	Free Indian legion	B
124	Prisons dilemma	C
125	First factory in India	B
126	Rejected knighthood	C
127	Damanganga pamba	D
128	Power generation competitionexam.com	D
129	Straits nearest IDL	B
130	Waterfall and rivers	B
131	Nearest to equator	D
132	Tehri hydro power	B
133	Minerals Chhattisgarh	D
134	Continental drift	B
135	Baudhayan sulva sutra	A
136	Collins, brin, wales	D
137	S & P 500 competitionexam.com	D
138	RG National Flying Institute	B
139	Cricket test match captain	C
140	Subh E Azadi	B
141	Six feet tall height	C
142	Car and reaction	C
143	Omkareshwar project	B
144	Nuclear suppliers group	D
145	Dhruv competitionexam.com	C
146	Hand in hand	A
147	AR : liver	A/C
148	AR : Red light	D
149	AR : Radio waves	A/D
150	AR : Congress ministries resigned	A

source : CompetitionExam.com

I tried to put most appropriate answer but if someone has any clarifications then comments are most welcome.

Read More