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Science and Engineering Research Board is a statutory body under the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India, established by an Act of the Parliament of India in 2009 (SERB ACT, 2008). [1] The Board was chaired by the Secretary to the Government of India in the Department of Science and Technology. [2]
Most sovereign states have alternative names. Some countries have also undergone name changes for political or other reasons. This article attempts to give all known alternative names and initialisms for all nations, countries, and sovereign states, in English and any predominant or official languages of the country in question.
India and Serbia maintain diplomatic relations established between India and SFR Yugoslavia in 1948. History In 1926, Rabindranath Tagore gave two lectures at the University of Belgrade. Both countries were founding members of the Non Aligned Movement with Serbia being part of Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia at the time. Countries had developed close friendly relations during the ...
The international name Slivovitz is derived from Serbian. [202] Plum and its products are of great importance to Serbs and part of numerous customs. [203] A Serbian meal usually starts or ends with plum products and Šljivovica is served as an aperitif. [203] A saying goes that the best place to build a house is where a plum tree grows best. [203]
In the work About the Vlachs (1806), Metropolitan Stevan Stratimirović stated that Roman Catholics from Croatia and Slavonia scornfully used the name "Vlach" for "the Slovenians (Slavs) and Serbs, who are of our, Eastern [Orthodox] confession", and that "the Turks (Muslims) in Bosnia and Serbia also call every Bosnian or Serbian Christian a ...
However, according to English linguist Monier Monier-Williams, name of Srbinda is formed by Sanskrit words "Sr" (to flow) and "Bind" (to break), [4] therefore unrelated to the Serbian ethnonym, which probably have different etymology. [5] [6] (check Name of the Serbs and Serbia)
Developed India's first synthetic drug, methaqualone in 1950. [12] [13] Developed Optical Glass at CGCRI [14] for defence purposes. Developed first Indian tractor Swaraj in 1967 completely based on indigenous know-how. [15] Achieved the first breakthrough of flowering of Bamboo within weeks as against twenty years in nature. [16] [17]
Bharat is another name of India, as set down in Article 1 of the Constitution, adopted in 1950, which states in English: "India, that is Bharat,..." [18] Bharat, which was predominantly used in Hindi, was adopted as a self-ascribed alternative name by some people of the Indian subcontinent and the Republic of India. [19]