IndiaCensorship

Hanson Oh Period 0 India Censorship __** A. PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY **__ 1. India 2. Varies from tropical monsoon in South to temperate 3.  a.  20 00 N, 77 00 Erelative Between Burma and Pakistan. b. Upland plain in South, flat to rolling plain along the Ganges deserts in West, Himalayas in North c. Total 3,287,590 sq km, land 2,973,190sq km, water 314,400 sq km __** B.  POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY **__ 4. Federal Republic, Bahujan Samaj Party or BSP [MAYAWATI]; Bharatiya Janata Party or BJP [Rajnath SINGH]; Biju Janata Dal or BJD [Naveen PATNAIK]; Communist Party of India or CPI [Ardhendu Bhushan BARDHAN]; Communist Party of India-Marxist or CPI-M [Prakash KARAT]; Dravida Munnetra Kazagham or DMK [M. KARUNANIDHI]; Indian National Congress or INC [Sonia GANDHI]; Janata Dal (United) or JD(U) [Sharad YADAV]; Jharkhand Mukti Morcha or JMM [Shibu SOREN]; Left Front (an alliance of Indian leftist parties); Lok Jan Shakti Party or LJSP [Ram Vilas PASWAN]; Nationalist Congress Party or NCP [Sharad PAWAR]; Pattali Makkal Katchi or PMK [S. RAMADOSS]; Rashtriya Janata Dal or RJD [Laloo Prasad YADAV]; Samajwadi Party or SP [Mulayam Singh YADAV]; Shiromani Akali Dal or SAD [Parkash Singh BADAL]; Shiv Sena or SS [Bal THACKERAY]; note - India has dozens of national and regional political parties; only parties or coalitions with four or more seats in the People's Assembly are listed s  5. Capital: New Delhi 6.  ADB, AfDB (nonregional members), ARF, ASEAN (dialogue partner), BIMSTEC, BIS, C, CERN (observer), CP, EAS, FAO, G-15, G-20, G-24, G-77, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC, ICRM, IDA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, IHO, ILO, IMF, IMO, IMSO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO, ITSO, ITU, ITUC, LAS (observer), MIGA, MONUC, NAM, OAS (observer), OPCW, PCA, PIF (partner), SAARC, SACEP, SCO (observer), UN, UNCTAD, UNDOF, UNESCO, UNHCR, UNIDO, UNIFIL, UNITAR, UNMIS, UNMIT, UNOCI, UNWTO, UPU, WCL, WCO, WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO 7. Male and Female:16-49 8. Language: Hindi 41%, Bengali 8.1%, Telugu 7.2%, Marathi 7%, Tamil 5.9%, Urdu 5%, Gujarati 4.5%, Kannada 3.7%, Malayalam 3.2%, Oriya 3.2%, Punjabi 2.8%, Assamese 1.3%, Maithili 1.2%, other 5.9%. Religion: Hindu 80.5%, Muslim 13.4%, Christian 2.3%, Sikh 1.9%, other 1.8%, unspecified 0.1% 9. population: 1,147,995,904, population growth rate: 1.578% 10. New Delhi 11. Infant mortality rate: //total:// 32.31 deaths/1,000 live births //male:// 36.94 deaths/1,000 live births //female:// 27.12 deaths/1,000 live births
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Life expectancy //total population:// 69.25 years //male:// 66.87 years //female:// 71.9 years

12. teachers and doctors per population 13. GNP or GDP: $2,900 14. //arable land:// 48.83% 15. Natural Gas 16. textiles, chemicals, food processing, steel, transportation equipment, cement, mining, petroleum, machinery, software 17. major exports: $175.7 billion and imports : $287.5 billion 18. Indian rupees (INR) per US dollar - 43.319 (2008 est.), 41.487 (2007), 45.3 (2006), 44.101 (2005), 45.317 (2004), 46.583 (2003) 19. Indian rupees (INR) per US dollar - 43.319 (2008 est.), 41.487 (2007), 45.3 (2006), 44.101 (2005), 45.317 (2004), 46.583 (2003) 20. http://www.webindia123.com/history/facts/time.htm https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/in.html ***Sources required for the Country Profile II. Background: (20 points) a.  Every country has a different level of censorship, which varies from the culture and history of the country. This can include arguments about religion, national security, parental claims, economic issues, and governmental issues b.Censorship are placed by the government and it blocks the information that citizens are trying to learn. c. Government block certain things to protect the citizens, but some say they are going too far. d. India signed the Official Secret Act in 1921 to protect citizens from knowing government secrets. III. UN Involvement: (25 points) a. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_in_India http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/5194172.stm b. UN, Government c. UN has done nothing in India to reduce the censoship d. Indian Government IV. Country Policy/Possible Solutions: (35 points) a. Signed the Official Secret Act to censor any government secrets b. India is becoming more like China and is increasing Censorship in the Internet, Books, Movies, and Video Games c. India has not reduced the censorship, but increased it, trying to protect. d. Country does support Heavy Duty Censorship e. India would like to propose REACT (Reducing Enormous Acting Censors Treaty) that would reduce censorship that is not necessary in certain things.
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 * 1987 ||  || India deploys troops for peacekeeping operation in Sri Lanka's ethnic conflict. Goa becomes the 25th state of India. ||
 * 1989 ||  || Rajiv Gandhi's Congress defeated in ninth general elections; minority government led by Janata Dal's V.P Singh comes to power ||
 * 1990 || - || Indian troops withdrawn from Sri Lanka. ||
 * 1991 || - || V.P Singh's government falls . Rajiv Gandhi assassinated. Congress government return to power with P.V. Narasimha Rao as Prime Minister ||
 * 1992 || - || The dome of Babri Masjid in Ayodhya demolished by hindu fanatics; triggering widespread Hindu-Muslim violence. ||
 * 1996 || - || Congress suffers worst ever electoral defeat as Hindu nationalist BJP emerges as largest single party. In May 16 AB Vajpayee is PM, until May 28; [|United] Front Coalition forms government under Prime Minister H.D. Deve Gowda ||
 * 1997 || - || Congress withdraws support to coalition government; I.K. Gujaral sworn in Prime Minister. ||
 * 1998 || - || BJP forms coalition government under Prime Minister [|__Atal Bihari Vajpayee__]. ||
 * 1999 || - || Vajpayee makes historic bus trip to Pakistan to meet Premier Nawaz Sharif and to sign bilateral Lahore peace declaration. ||
 * 1999 || - || Intense fighting in Kargil ||
 * 2004 || - || Congress Party win in general elections. [|__Dr. Manmohan Singh__] is sworn in as Prime Minister. ||