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What (where/who/when) is
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- 1Hornbill Festival'Festival of festivals'
First week of December, since 2000
Naga Heritage Village - Kisama, 12 km from Kohima,Nagaland
Organized by Nagaland's State Tourism and Art & Culture Department
To encourage inter-tribal interaction and promote cultural heritage of Nagaland - 2Railway track gauges in IndiaBroad (Indian) Gauge - 5 ft 6 in (1676 mm)
Meter Gauge - 1000 mm (3 ft 3,3/8 in)
Narrow Gauge - 2 ft 6 in, 2 ft
Standard Gauge - 1435 mm - 3Broad Gaugegreater stability during periods of high wind and unpredictable weather
- 4Metre GaugeNilgiri Mountain Railway (TN)
Lumding-SIlchar line (Assam) - 5Narrow gauge (Low cost - some private railways or simpler engineering permitting sharper turns in hilly areas)Darjeeling Himalayan Rly (WB)
Kalka-Shimla Rly
Kangra Valley Rly (Pathankot, HP)
Matheran Hill Rly (MH) - 6Standard Gauge (most metro railways)Calcutta Tramways Company
Metro rails
(no SG track operated by Indian Railways) - 7Delhi Metro...- Broad gauge + metre gauge
- Headway between 1-2 mins to 4-10 mins
- 25KV 50 Hz AC overhead catenary
- 5 colour coded + 1 Airport express lines
- Daily ridership ~2.6 mn
- Member Nova group of Metros
- World's 12th largest metro system - 8...Delhi Metro- DMRC, set up in 1995 - equal equity participation by GoI and GoDelhi
- Began operation in 2002
- 160 stations, Mangu Singh MD, Barahkhamba Road HQ
- Certified by UN as first rail-based system to get 'carbon credits for reducing green house gas emissions' - 9Mountain Railways of IndiaUNESCO World Heritage Site (1999, 2005, 2008)
1. Darjeeling Himalayan Railway
(Toy Train)
2. Kalka-Shimla Railway
3. Nilgiri Mountain Railway
-oldest, steepest, only rack and pinion track - 10Darjeeling Himalayan Railway (Toy Train)# Darjeeling-Ghum-Siliguri (narrow)+ New Jalpaiguri (broad) [Siliguri & Jalpaiguri]
# Ghum - highest station in India
# second railway to receive world heritage status - after Semmering Rly of Austria - 11MatheranWestern Ghats
Asia's only automobile free hill station - 12IRFCAIndian Railways Fan Club Association
- 13DibrugarhTea City of India
Assam
Communication, industrial hub of upper Assam
One of the 2 cities in Assam to receive urban development aid from Asian Development Bank
Bogibeel bridge - India's longest rail-cum-road bridge
Administrative centre of British 1826 (Lakhimpur district HQ)
Tea, Oil, gas , timber
Navratna - Oil India Limited
Dibru-Saikhowa National Park
Tinsukhiya district separated - 14Guantanamo's ChildBook by Michelle Shepherd
"The Untold Story of Omar Khadr"
A prominent case in Canada about disputed war crime charges and incarceration - 15Al Jazeera (JSC) (The Penninsula)Doha based state funded broadcaster
(partly funded by Qatar's ruling family, the House of Thani)
Only channel to cover the Afghanistan war live in 2001 - 16Global Peace IndexInstitute of Economics and Peace
- 17RAND CorporationPublic Policy Ph. D programme
- 18Ford Foundationa
- 19General Douglas A. MacArthur- SCAP Supreme Commander of Allied Powers from Sep 1945
- issued General Order No. 1 to Japan after WWII
- enacted several economic, military, political and social reforms there
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