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THE DISCRETIONARY POWERS OF GOVERNORS OF STATES IN INDIA

THE DISCRETIONARY POWERS OF GOVERNORS OF STATES IN INDIA: DISCRETIONARY POWERS OF GOVERNORS - MEANING : The Governor is the nominal head of the state where all of his decisions are taken by consulting the Chief Minister and the Council of Ministers. Thus in the normal times, he is the De-Jure head of the state. But the constitution has provided him with the discretionary powers. The powers vested with the decision making of the Governor at his discretion and not bound to the ruling party in the state are called the discretionary powers of the Governor.  HISTORY OF THE ROLE OF GOVERNORS OF STATE IN INDIA: The role of Governor and his powers were very limited during the Nehruvian era of 1950-67. The mediator between the center and the state was the outsider from the government but not the Governor as now. Thus, the Governors of different states were dissatisfied with their job and protested to make the post significant or to remove the post for all. Sarojini Naidu, the t...

INVENTIONS IN ROCKET SCIENCE IN INDIA

INVENTIONS IN ROCKET SCIENCE IN INDIA: The rocket science mainly deals with the satellites. The first satellite of India is Aryabhatta built in 1975 by ISRO and developed by Soviet Union and the first satellite to be placed in the orbit is Rohini. The explanation of all the inventions is given individually as follows: ARYABHATTA: ·        The first satellite to be invented by India in 1975. ·        The main intention to take up this project by ISRO was to gain experience in this field. ·        The main objective was to conduct experiments in X-ray astronomy, Aeronautics and Solar physics. ·        It was physically a polygon with solar cells. ·        After 4 days of going into space, a powerful failure halted the experiments in space. All signals were lost after 5 days. It re-entered earth in 1992. ·   ...