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Juvenile delinquency in India

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-|}<div style="font-size:50%;text-align:left">'''World’s first oil paintings found in Afghan caves'''[[File:Afghan_art1.png|thumb|500px]]
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-Art Afghan art Afghanistan caves Bamiyan Silk Road TOKYO, Jan 25: Forget Renaissance Europe. The world’s first oil paintings go back nearly 14 centuries to murals in Afghanistan’s Bamiyan caves, a Japanese researcher says.
+[[File: SC talents main.jpg| [http://www.indpaedia.in/ind/index.php/Scheduled_caste_talents_in_Indian_cinema  Scheduled caste talents in Indian cinema]<br/> Readers Ashok Shambharkar, Ravidassia Vicky and Sarin Baboo added to this page by sending information to the Facebook community, [http://www.facebook.com/Indpaedia Indpaedia.com].|frame|left|500px]]
-Buddhist images painted in the central Afghan region, dated to around 650 AD, are the earliest examples of oil used in art history, says Yoko Taniguchi, an expert at Japan’s National Research Institute for Cultural Properties.
+[[File: Manipur main.jpg| [http://www.indpaedia.in/ind/index.php/Manipuri_cinema:_The_leading_actresses Manipuri cinema: The leading actresses]<br/> Reader Sanjoy Singh updated the [http://132.148.25.124/ind/index.php/Bala_Hijam  Bala Hijam] page by sending information to the Facebook community, [http://www.facebook.com/Indpaedia Indpaedia.com].  |frame|500px]]
-A group of Japanese, European and US scientists are collaborating to restore damaged murals in caves in the Bamiyan Valley, famous for its two gigantic statues of the Buddha which were destroyed by the Taliban in 2001.
+[[File: Lok Sabha main.jpg|[http://www.indpaedia.in/ind/index.php/The_16th_Lok_Sabha_%282014-_%29:_trends  The 16th Lok Sabha (2014- ): trends] |frame|left|500px]]
-In the murals, thousands of Buddhas in vermilion robes sit cross-legged, sporting exquisitely knotted hair.
+[[File: Miss Nagaland3.jpg| [http://www.indpaedia.in/ind/index.php/Miss_Nagaland Miss Nagaland]|frame|500px]]
-Other motifs show crouching monkeys, men facing one another or palm leaves delicately intertwined with mythical creatures.
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-The paintings incorporate a mix of Indian and Chinese influences, and are most likely to be the works of artists travelling on the Silk Road, which was the largest trade and cultural route connecting the East and the West.
+[[File: Rich list main2.png| [http://132.148.25.124/ind/index.php/Rich_List:_India  Rich List: India] |frame|500px]]
-The Los Angeles-based Getty Conservation Institute analysed
+'''About: ''' Indpaedia is an unfunded, volunteer archive-cum-encyclopædia that hopes to contain information about every Indian (if possible, South Asian) topic of general interest. Since 2013 we have uploaded around 15,000 articles, and we add or update roughly fifteen articles every day. Our country-wise links (above) are not working too well right now, but we already have a few hundred articles each about [http://132.148.25.124/ind/index.php?title=Category:Bangladesh&action=edit&redlink=1 Bangladesh], [http://132.148.25.124/ind/index.php?title=Category:Myanmar&action=edit&redlink=1 Myanmar], [http://132.148.25.124/ind/index.php?title=Category:Nepal&action=edit&redlink=1 Nepal] and [http://132.148.25.124/ind/index.php?title=Category:Pakistan&action=edit&redlink=1 Pakistan]. Please also try our ‘Search’ box (top right).
-samples extracted from the murals. Using gas chromatography methods, the researchers found that 19 had oil in the paint.
-“Different types of oil were used on the dirt walls with such a sophisticated technique that I felt I was looking right at a mediaeval board painting dating from 14th or 15th century Italy,” Taniguchi told AFP.
+'''General knowledge for researchers—and for the civil services and other ‘competitive’ exams:''' Detailed, year-wise statistics are available on Indpaedia about almost every topic likely to be of use to those studying India (and, wherever possible, South Asia).
-The discovery would reverse common perceptions about the origins of oil paintings. The technique is widely believed to have emerged in Europe leading into the Renaissance, which flowered from 1400 to 1600.—AFP</div>
+Indpaedia plans to allow readers to post new articles and updates directly. Till then you can send '''new articles, and update or correct ''' existing pages, and/ or send photographs to the Facebook page [http://www.facebook.com/Indpaedia Indpaedia.com]. All information used will be duly acknowledged. If you find anything posted on Indpaedia '''offensive ''' or if your article or photograph has been used without your permission, please report it to the same page.
+Both '''Indpaedia.com''' and '''Indpaedia.in ''' are the names of and lead to the same archival encyclopædia of South Asia.
+Indpaedia is based in Jammu, New Delhi and Jaipur. ([http://132.148.25.124/ind/index.php/About_Us About Us])
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+[[File: maring main2.jpg| The Maring Uparup Assembly provided the text and photographs for Indpaedia’s ten pages on [http://132.148.25.124/ind/index.php/The_Maring_tribe:_Culture_and_lifestyle The Maring Community] (Northeast)|frame|500px]]
+[[File: Monogenea India2.jpg|Most of our articles have been scanned from pre-1947, British Raj records. Therefore, some of them contain scann1ng errcrs. <br/>  Divya Grace Dilip edited the page [http://132.148.25.124/ind/index.php/Monogenea:_India Monogenea: India] and remcved all svch m1stakcs. This Assistant Professor in Zoology sent the corrected page to the Facebook community, [http://www.facebook.com/Indpaedia Indpaedia.com]|frame|left|500px]]
+[[File: Tamil main4.jpg| Reader Sajeeth Naveen Lourdes created the pages [http://132.148.25.124/ind/index.php/Colour_films_in_Tamil Colour films in Tamil] and  [http://132.148.25.124/ind/index.php/Colour_films_in_Telugu Colour films in Telugu] by sending photographs and information to the Facebook community, [http://www.facebook.com/Indpaedia Indpaedia.com]|frame|500px]]
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