A voting machine is a machine used to record votes in an election without paper. The first voting machines were mechanical but it is increasingly more common to use electronic voting machines. Traditionally, a voting machine has been defined by its mechanism, and whether the system tallies votes at each voting location, or centrally. Voting machines should not…
Election An election is a formal group decision-making process by which a population chooses an individual or multiple individuals to hold public office. Elections have been the usual mechanism by which modern representative democracy has operated since the 17th century. Elections may fill offices in the legislature, sometimes in the executive and judiciary, and for regional and local government. This process is also used in many other private and business organisations,…
Vrindavan India Also known as: Brindaban, Vrindaban Vrindavan, town in western Uttar Pradesh state, northern India. It is situated on the west bank of the Yamuna River, just north of Mathura. The town is the sacred center of the Hindu deity Krishna and those who worship him. It is especially important to the Gaudiya sect of Vaishnavism and is a major pilgrimage site. It was…
Israel Also known as: Isrāʾīl, Medinat Yisraʾel, State of Israel Israel, country in the Middle East, located at the eastern end of the Mediterranean Sea. It is bounded to the north by Lebanon, to the northeast by Syria, to the east and southeast by Jordan, to the southwest by Egypt, and to the west by the Mediterranean Sea. Jerusalem is the seat of government and…
Rainwater Water harvesting technology Rainwater harvesting system, technology that collects and stores rainwater for human use. Rainwater harvesting systems range from simple rain barrels to more elaborate structures with pumps, tanks, and purification systems. The nonpotable water can be used to irrigate landscaping, flush toilets, wash cars, or launder clothes, and it can even be purified for human consumption. With water scarcity a pressing problem…
हरियाणा राज्य, भारत हरियाणा, उत्तर-मध्य भारत में राज्य। यह उत्तर-पश्चिम में पंजाब राज्य और केंद्र शासित प्रदेश चंडीगढ़ से, उत्तर और उत्तर-पूर्व में हिमाचल प्रदेश और उत्तराखंड राज्यों से, पूर्व में उत्तर प्रदेश राज्य और केंद्र शासित प्रदेश दिल्ली से और आगे से घिरा है। दक्षिण और दक्षिणपश्चिम राजस्थान राज्य द्वारा। चंडीगढ़ केंद्र शासित प्रदेश…
Unlike many other major inventions, the original idea of the automobile cannot be attributed to a single individual. The idea certainly occurred long before it was first recorded in the Iliad, in which Homer (in Alexander Pope’s translation) states that Vulcan in a single day made 20 tricycles, which Wondrous to tell instinct with spirit roll’ed From place to place, around…
What is the chemical composition of the human body? Chemically, the human body consists mainly of water and organic compounds—i.e., lipids, proteins, carbohydrates, and nucleic acids. The human body is about 60 percent water by weight. What are the four main types of tissue in the human body? The four main types of tissue in…
Have you ever wondered as to why we normally associate Krishna with colour blue? Have a few chain of thoughts on this topic to share with you… Let’s first refer to the Vedas… There we will not find a direct reference to Krishna, as they were written long time before He arrived on Earth……
Privacy and the Internet Concerns about privacy in cyberspace are an issue of international debate. As reading and writing, health care and shopping, and sex and gossip increasingly take place in cyberspace, citizens around the world are concerned that the most intimate details of their daily lives are being monitored, searched, recorded, stored, and often misinterpreted…