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Paramilitary Forces of India

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Indian paramilitary forces

Paramilitary forces of India comes under the Ministry of Home Affairs. Following is brief information regarding all the paramilitary forces in India.

The Border Security Force (BSF)

BSF is a border patrol agency of Indian Government. It is the only paramilitary force which has its own air wing, water wing, and artillery regiments which extend support to the general duty battalions in their operations during peace/war.

The Indo-Tibet Border Police (ITBP)

This Indian paramilitary force conceived on October 24, 1962, for security along the Indo-Tibet border. It was established on December 1, 1965. It is one of the Central Armed Police forces. The border with Tibet autonomous region of China, border covering 2115 kilometers. The border posts manned by ITBP are exposed to high-velocity storms, snow blizzards, avalanches, and landslides, besides the hazards of high altitude and extreme cold, where the temperature dips up to – 40 degree Celsius.

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The Assam Rifles

Assam Rifles are one of the paramilitary forces of India. The unit can trace its lineage back to the paramilitary police force that was formed under British in 1835 called Cackar levy. The name Assam Rifles was adopted in 1917. In times of war, they can also be used as a combat force to secure rear areas if needed.

The Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF)

Like all other Central Armed Police Forces, CRPF is a paramilitary security agency functioning under the aegis of Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), Govt of India. CRPF’s primary role lies in assisting the state/union territory in police operations to maintain law and order and contain the insurgency. It came into existence as the crown representative’s police on 27th July 1936. After Indian independence, it became the Central Reserve Police Force on enactment of CRPF act on 28th December 1949.

The National Security Guard (NSG)

NSG is a special response unit in India that has primarily being utilized or counter terrorism activities. It was created by Cabinet Secretariat under the National Security Guard Act of Indian Parliament in 1986. The NSG has a total personnel strength of about 14,500.

The Central Industrial Security Force

Established in its present form on 15th June 1983. CISF is another paramilitary security force in India. It was setup by an Act of parliament on 10th March 1969 with the strength of 2800. CISF was subsequently made an armed force of the Union of India by another Act of Parliament passed on 15th June 1983. Its current strength is about 145,000. CISF is the largest industrial security force in the World. It is directly under the Central Ministry of Home Affairs and its Head Quarters are in New Delhi. The CIS provides Security cover to 308 industrial units located all over India.

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The Indian Home Guard

Indian Home Guard is an Indian paramilitary force which is tasked as an auxiliary to the Indian Police. The Home Guards Organisation was reorganized in India in 1962 after the Sino-Indian war with the People’s Republic of China, though it existed in smaller unit individually in some places.

The Sashastra  Seema Bal (SSB)

SSB is one the India’s paramilitary forces and is currently under the administrative control of Ministry of Home Affairs, GoI. SSB was set up in early 1963 in the wake of the Sino-Indian war. It was formerly known as the Special Service Bureau.

The Rashtriya Rifles

It is a counter-insurgency force in India. It is a paramilitary force deployed in Jammu and Kashmir.

Rapid Action Force (RAF)

The Rapid Action Force is a specialized wing of CRPF established on 11th December 1991 and became fully operational in October 1992. It was constituted to deal with riots and strife. Currently, it has 10 battalions.

The force has made its impact against troublemakers and rejuvenated the confidence in people.

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Central Vigilance Commission – CVC

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Central Vigilance Commission
Central Vigilance Commission

The Central Vigilance Commission was set up by the Government in February 1964 on the recommendations of the Committee on Prevention of Corruption, headed by Shri K. Santhanam, to advise and guide Central Government agencies in the field of vigilance. Nittoor Srinivasa Rau was selected as the first Chief Vigilance Commissioner of India.

The CVC is headed by a Central Vigilance Commissioner who is assisted by two Vigilance Commissioners. The Central Vigilance Commission has its own Secretariat, Chief Technical Examiners’ Wing (CTE) and a wing of Commissioners for Departmental Inquiries (CDI).

The current Central Vigilance Commissioner is Sh. K.V. Chowdary; and the Vigilance Commissioners are Sh. Dr. Tejendra Mohan Bhasin and Sh. Sharad Kumar.

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CVC is conceived to be the apex vigilance institution, free of control from any executive authority, monitoring all vigilance activity under the Central Government and advising various authorities in Central Government organizations in planning, executing, reviewing and reforming their vigilance work.

The CVC Bill was passed by both the houses of Parliament in 2003 and the President gave its assent on September 11, 2003. Thus, the Central Vigilance Commission Act 2003 (No 45 of 2003) came into effect from that date.

The Commission shall consist of:

  • A Central Vigilance Commissioner – Chairperson;
  • Not more than two Vigilance Commissioners – Members.

The Central Vigilance Commissioner and the Vigilance Commissioners are appointed by the President after obtaining the recommendation of a Committee consisting of:

  • The Prime Minister — Chairperson
  • The Home Minister — Member.
  • The Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha — Member

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10 Ways to Overcome Exam Fear

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overcome exam fear

The major cause of fear for students are exams. There are students who commit suicide just because of exam fear. Exam fear and exam anxiety are things which are common among students of all age groups. Some are capable to overcome exam fear and exam stress in their own way. Some fall prey to effects of exam fear and go to depression, perform badly in exams or even take extreme measures. First step would be to find ways to relax yourself before and during the exam. You don’t want to be too relaxed, of course. Ideally you want you mind to be highly focused but not overly tense.

There are several steps you can take to overcome exam fear, which will benefit your grades and your overall mental health.

Effective Study from the Beginning

Start your study and preparation from the beginning, do not wait until the exam starts. Start paying more attention to studies as soon as exam is scheduled with several days or even a week before, you’ll feel more relaxed because you have plenty of time to learn the material. So to overcome exam fear you should start your efforts from the beginning.

Revision Timetable

Make a realistic revision timetable and set out what topics, subjects you want to cover each day and stick to it. Start planning it well before the exams begin. Work out what revision timetable best suits you. Don’t leave revision to the last hour. When the exam finally arrives, it is too late to worry, over whether you have revised enough.

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Concentrated Studies

If you can concentrate well in the morning then do most of your studying before lunch, not late at night when you can’t concentrate. If you can study at night then study at later half of the day, but go to bed at reasonable hour and get enough sleep. If you really cannot concentrate it may be because you are tired, hungry, or just bored. Take a break and come back to it 10 minutes later. Short bursts of concentrated studies are often better than hours of staring at the same page.

Meditation

Exercise and physical activity are great ways to reduce anxiety and to achieve a state of relaxed mental alertness is through meditation. The easiest form of meditation is probably “awareness” or “mindfulness” that focuses on breathing. Try to relax your mind by meditating for a few minutes. Physical activity releases endorphins that will elevate your mood. This should help to immediate overcome exam fear.

Positive Thoughts

Practice positive self-talk as you prepare for the test. Create a mantra to help you calm your test anxiety. Repeat a phrase by saying yourself such as, “I’ve studied, I’m prepared”. Push back against negative thoughts that creep into your mind. Throughout the test, you should still be focusing on positive thoughts.

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Stop Negative Thoughts

When a negative thought enters your head, stop what you’re doing and think about it. By breaking down negative thoughts, you can find that most of them are unrealistic, and then replace them with more positive thoughts.

Healthy Meal

Don’t go to the exam with an empty stomach. Make sure your meals are nutritious. Fresh fruits and vegetables are often recommended to reduce stress. Take a small snack, or some other nourishment to help take your mind off of your anxiety.

Enough Sleep

Healthier people who are well-rested often do better on exams. Keep your mind and body healthy by getting enough sleep. Relax the night before your test. Commit to getting a full 8 hours of sleep every night. This will ensure that your brain has been properly rested and you can start studying with a fresh mind.

 

Review Yourself

After the test, review how you did, list what worked, and hold onto these strategies. It does not matter how small the items are; they are building blocks to success. List what did not work for improvement.

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Reward Yourself

Reward yourself after the test is over. The reward gives you the break you deserve after all of your studying. Treating yourself also helps you stop thinking about the test and analyzing every little mistake you may have made. Celebrate that you are on the road to overcome exam fear.

Here are some statements that can help you to improve your attitude and overcome exam fear.

  • Feel positive about the upcoming exam.
  • You know you can do it, no matter how difficult it becomes.
  • An exam is an exciting challenge.
  • Feel confident before and during the exam.
  • It’s only a test. You will not be punished and you are not going to die.
  • Every exam is an opportunity for you to show our knowledge.
  • You know that you did everything to ace the exam with ease.
  • Be confident and relaxed state of mind that helps you to remember everything you studied.

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World’s Most Popular Sports

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most popular sports

Sports are simple games of endurance and skill, which are acted as on training grounds as well as for competitions for the entertainment of the masses.The term most popular sports, means here is ‘most watched’, ‘most played’, and ‘most revenue-earning’ sports.

List of Most Popular Sports

Association Football

Soccer comes on the top of the list with 3.5 to 4 billion fans following all around the Europe, Africa, Asia, South America. Association football is popularly known as football or soccer. It is the worlds most popular sports which is played between two teams of eleven players and with a spherical ball. In this game there is a goal post at each end on a rectangular field. The aim of playing this game is to do goal by using any part of the body besides the arms and hands. The goalkeepers are the only players in this game who are allowed to touch the ball with their hands.

FIFA World Cup is the most iconic event of this sport. The most watched game is football in the sports world and no sport in the world can match Football’s popularity. Soccer is the biggest global sport as well as the dominant sport in South America, Europe, Asia and Africa. Top International Teams are Brazil, Argentina, Germany, Italy.

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Cricket

The most popular sports in the world with 2-3 billion fans is Cricket which is played across India, Pakistan, Australia, England, South Africa, Srilanka, New Zealand, West Indies, Bangladesh and Zimbabwe. Cricket is said to be a gentleman game that was introduced in 20th century by Britishers.

This game is played between two teams of 11 players on a field with bat and ball at the center of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. Each team gets a turn to bat, and score runs, while the other team fields. Cricket is followed by three different formats i.e. Test, ODIs and T20. Popularity of cricket has been increased greatly after introduction of T20 format.

Basketball

The most popular sports in the USA and the most most popular sports in the world is Basketball. This game have about 2-3 billion fans following all over US, Canada, China and Philippine mainly. In the late 19th century Americans developed this game and they due to their intense interest dominate this game. This sport has one specialty that it requires generally tall and energetic players and it is considered as a rich man’s sport.

Basketball is a sport played by two teams of five players on a rectangular court. This game is played by shooting a ball into a hoop of 18 inches in diameter which is mounted to a backboard at each end and is 10 feet high. In the end the team who scores most points in the game wins.

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Tennis

The most loved sport in the world is Tennis and holds a strong position in world of sport and follows 2 billion fans across the world. Tennis is very popular in countries such as Spain, England, America, Russia, Europe, Asia, Australia. Generally people claims Tennis as a rich man sport and is very expensive sport to learn. Both males and females play this game and has many exciting grand slam occasions.

People usually play individually in this sport against a single opponent (singles) or between two teams of two players each (doubles). The ball is played in such a way that the opponent is not able to play a good return, this is the aim of this game.

Hockey

The most popular sports on earth with 2.2 billion fans is Hockey which is played mostly in Asia, Europe, Africa, Australia and many more countries. There are two forms of hockey which is famous all over the world. They are : Field Hockey and Ice Hockey. The National game of India and Pakistan is Field Hockey. And Ice Hockey is Lot More Popular in Europe specially in Canada, USA, Latvia and Sweden .

Two teams play against each other in Field Hockey by trying to maneuver a ball or a puck into the opponent’s goal using a hockey stick on ground. Ice hockey is a sport played which is played on ice, usually in a rink, in which two teams of skaters use their sticks to shoot a vulcanized rubber puck into their opponent’s net to score points.

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Baseball

Baseball is also the most popular sports in the world and is very similar to Cricket that holds around 500 million fans in US, Japan, Cuba, Dominican Republic. Baseball is played between two teams of nine players with a bat and ball who take turns in batting and fielding. The sport was formed from a game of rounders.

Volleyball

Volleyball is the most popular sports and simplest sport in the world with around 900 million fans around Asia, Europe, America, Australia. Since 1964 Volleyball is played in the Summer Olympic Games. Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team’s court under organized rules. Mostly the sport is played on beaches and enhances enjoyment for beach lovers.

Table Tennis

Table Tennis also known as ping pong is the most popular sports in the world with around 900 million fans from Asia, Europe, Africa and Americas. This sport is played with two or four players in which they hit a lightweight ball back and forth using table tennis rackets on a hard table divided by a net. The fastest sports in the world is Table Tennis which requires players with quick reflexes.

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Rugby

Rugby is the most popular sports all over the world with having 390-410 million fans around France, England, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa mainly. Rugby is a style of football that was developed at a rugby school, it is considered as one of the most dangerous sports in the world. The sport is played in different formats ; sevens and fourteens. Rugby is widely played In France and has a strong tradition in the Basque, Occitan, and Catalan people areas along the border regions between Spain and France. The English speaking settlers in the 19th century introduced this game in South Africa so its very popular over there.

Golf

Golf is one of the most popular sports and loved in the world with more then 390 million fans in US, Canada, Europe. Golf is defined, in the rules of golf, as “playing a ball with a club from the teeing ground into the hole by a stroke or successive strokes in accordance with the Rules.” Golf is a ball sport in which competing players, known as golfers, use various clubs to hit balls into series of holes on a course. Golf does not require a standardized area, the course must have nine or 18 holes.

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Legendary Sports Personalities of the World

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Sports Personalities

These Legendary Sports Personalities are taken from various sports and have been great sport players at times by possessing a variety of attributes and contributing prowess. Over a considerable period of these sports personalities have earned the respect of his/her peers/followers. As a result of it, in a short span of time these sports personalities have attained a demi-god status too.

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Sports Personalities of the World

Pele

Edison Arantes do Nascimento, well known as Pele, is the only footballer to be the part of three World Cup-winning teams and is a retired Brazilian professional footballer. In 1363 games, he scored 1281 goals. Around the world every kid who plays soccer wants to be Pele. Pele won three times football World Cup with Brazil in the year 1958, 1962, and in 1966. For his accomplishments and contribution in football Pele is regarded as the greatest football player. Several times Pele has been honoured with titles such as FIFA World Cup (Best Young Player), FIFA World Cup (Silver Boot) in 1958, FIFA World Cup Silver Ball in 1958 and many more.

This Brazilian scored on average a goal in every game he played and is a legend of all-time leading scorer of the Brazil national football team. Pele is a well known advocate of overcoming poverty and has become a global ambassador for sport. He has been a worldwide ambassador for football ever since his retirement in 1977, and currently he is the Honorary President of the New York Cosmos.

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Muhammad Ali

“I’m not the greatest; I’m the double greatest. Not only do I knock ’em out, I pick the round”- Muhammad Ali
The most influential sports personality of the 20th century was Muhammad Ali, an American professional boxer. He was Olympic champion as well as the greatest heavyweight boxer in the history of the sport. With his athletic prowess and formidable personality Muhammad Ali dominated the sport.

His first world championship title he won in the year 1964. The title “Sportsman of the Century” was honored to him by Sports Illustrated in 1999 and “Sports personalities of the Year” by the BBC. Ali is not just known as the greatest boxer to have lived, he is also considered one of the greatest sportsmen of all time. The title “Fighter of the Year” by Ring Magazine was also crowned to him as he defeated almost every top heavyweight in his era.

Usain Bolt

The fastest man on earth is Usain Bolt as he has set three world records at a single Olympics. The 100 metres race he completed in 9.69 seconds, the 200 metres race in 19.30 seconds, also the world record for the 4×100 metres relay. In both 100 metres and 200 metres races he is the world no.1 athlete. The greatest Jamaican, athletics Usain Bolt has conquered the world of athletics in a very short span of time. He is generally known as ‘Lightning Bolt’. He has been honoured with titles of IAAF World Athlete of the Year, BBC Overseas Sports Personality of the Year and Track & Field Athlete of the Year in 2008 and 2009,Laureus World Sportsman of the Year in 2009 and 2010 and many more.

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Sachin Tendulkar

One of the greatest batsmen of Indian Cricket Team is Sachin Tendulkar who is commonly known as the “Master Blaster”. In international cricket he is the only player of world who have scored 30,000 runs in his career. He also played in 200 Test matches and in 2011 won world cup with India. This former Indian cricketer and captain bowed cricket out in November 2013.

At the age of eleven he took up cricket and he left cricket after 24 years in his career which can never be forgotten. He is the only player to have scored one hundred international centuries, the first batsman to score a double century in a One Day International, and the holder of the record for the number of runs in both ODI and Test cricket. The first and youngest ever sportsperson to receive the award Bharat Ratna, India’s highest civilian award, till date is Sachin Tendulkar.

Michael Schumacher

Michael Schumacher, a German is the greatest Formula One racing driver of all time. He became the youngest double formula one world champion in 1995. For seven times he remained Formula One World Champion. With Benetton he won two titles in 1994 and 1995 respectively before moving to Ferrari where he drove for eleven years. He won five consecutive titles between 2000 and 2004 with Ferrari. He was honoured and awarded many times for his achievements and contribution in motor race. In 2002 and 2004, he was awarded with the Laureus World Sportsman of the Year, in 2006, he was awarded an FIA Gold Medal for Motor Sport and more.

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