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	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/1835
		January 7 - HMS Beagle anchors off the Chonos Archipelago, on voyage of 1831-1836 with Charles Darwin.
		September 7 – Charles Darwin arrives at Galapagos Islands aboard HMS Beagle
		Cachar Levy, forerunner of Assam Rifles, is founded in India
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/1835 (821 words)

	Flower class corvette - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Italian submarine Nani was sunk by HMS Anemone on 1941-01-07
		Albans and the corvette HMS Hydrangea on 1941-08-03
		Catharines, and the corvettes HMCS Fennel, HMCS Chilliwack, and HMS Kenilworth Castle on 1944-03-06
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Flower_class_corvette (2385 words)

	Welcome to Sentinel
		The annual general meeting of the Assam Higher Secondary School Teachers’ and Employees’ Association, Kamrup district committee was held recently at Ambikagiri HS Balika Vidyalaya, Maligaon with Mr Khabiruddin Ahmed, president of the Association on the chair.
		It may be mentioned here that the newly-floated Peace Forum had recently submitted a memorandum to the Chief Minister of Assam, Mr Tarun Gogoi and the Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil, seeking permission from the Government to go and meet NDFB chairman Ranjan Daimary to pursue him to get into negotiation with the Government.
		A number of headmasters of schools are being deprived of their dues as they remain headmasters in-charge till retirement instead of being appointed as full-fledged headmasters.
	www.sentinelassam.com /sentinel_en/archives/oct0204/regional1.htm (1871 words)

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		In Assam, the project will so finance the consruction and eqwupping of a new office building for the Family Welfare deprtmt, which currently operates in very crowded quarters; it will be used initially to house the project directoate during the project's lifetime.
		In Assam, the results of the National Health and Family Welfare Survey held in 1993 will substitute for the state-level baseline survey, but a conesponding survey for the tribal population will be carried out within a year of project effectiveness.
		Assam has suffered for many years from lack of development and investment in the proga.-m, due to the continuing security problems in the state.
	www-wds.worldbank.org /servlet/WDSContentServer/WDSP/IB/1994/05/26/000009265_3961005214442/Rendered/INDEX/multi0page.txt (15957 words)

	Excelsior... Nation
		The Assam Government has put the army, police and paramilitary forces on high alert in Lower Assam districts to foil any violence after or before the Bodo accord is signed in New Delhi on February 10.
		The Assam Government is mainly worried about the response of the Sanmilita Janagosthiya Sangram Samiti (SJSS), an umbrella organisation of several non-Bodo groups which are opposed to the creation of the BTC.
		HMS creates tailored programmes, drawing upon the vast scientific, technological and human resources comprising over 8,000 faculty at its educational institutions and 17 affiliated teaching hospitals.
	www.dailyexcelsior.com /web1/03feb09/national.htm (4323 words)

	NE Diary 1939-45; Warships Launched or Completed by N.E. Shipyards 1942-45
		On the night of 24th October 1943, in company with 'HMS Hurworth', 'HHMS Adrias' set off for a position south of Leros to create a diversion to protect ships landing stores on Leros for the British troops occupying the island.
		On their way there they ran into a newly laid minefield, both ships were struck by mines, the 'Adrias' was first to be hit, she had her bows blown off as far back as the bridge.
		the cruiser 'HMS Swiftsure' - the destroyers 'Myngs' - 'Zephyr' - the submarines 'Varne' - 'Virulent' - 'Vivid' - 'Voracious' - 'Votary' - 'Vulpine'.
	www.bpears.org.uk /NE-Diary/Bck/Warships2.html (1967 words)

	India: Plantations Labour Act, 1951: Workers' Rights - Worker's activities
		It is spread across the States of Assam, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and West Bengal.
		HMS gratefully acknowledges the support given by ILO in bringing this educational material out.
		The Plantations Labour Act, 1951 (PLA) applies to any land used or intended to be used for growing tea, coffee, rubber, cinchona or cardamom or any other plant which measures 5 hectares or more and in which 15 or more workers are employed on any day of the preceding 12 months.
	www-ilo-mirror.cornell.edu /public/english/dialogue/actrav/enviro/polcamp/planact.htm (2183 words)

	[Assam] Redeploy the 1 Indian Jawan against 50 Assamese to GET B'Desis &
		In the backdrop Mujib’s assassination, General Ziaur Rehman, acting under the influence of Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, deleted secularism from the constitution and lifted the ban on communal parties.
		Pushing the Islamisation process further, HMS Ershad declared Islam as the state religion.
		Bangladeshi migrants in Assam decide the outcome of election in 56 of the total 120 Assembly constituencies.
	www.mail-archive.com /assam@assamnet.org/msg01722.html (750 words)

	Excelsior... Nation
		The new ‘INS Mysore’ is the reincarnation of the indomitable spirit of her predecessor of the same name, which from the 50s to the 70s was India’s most powerful ship and had a distinguished history.
		She was commissioned as ‘HMS Nigeria’ in the royal navy in August 1940, and later commissioned into the Indian Navy on August 29, 1957, and played a vital role in the liberation of Goa and was the flagship of the Flag Officer Commanding Western fleet during the blockade of Karachi in the 1971 Indo-Pak conflict.
		She had to address the meeting at Vanapa hall in front of only a thousand odd people, as the Assam rifles parade ground was made inaccessible for her election rally.
	www.dailyexcelsior.com /web1/03nov18/national.htm (4725 words)

	HMS PUNJABI HISTORY - New European Regiment Forum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		In January 1943, HMS Eskimo was laying alongside HMS Nelson preparing for sea when a fire broke out in one of Eskimo's boiler rooms.
		She shared the Hurd Deep patrol with HMS Ashanti and the rest of her assignments were with the 10th D.F. from June 1944 onwards.
		HMS Bedouin was completely disabled, but HMS Partridge managed to get under way once more, towing HMS Bedouin.
	www.ner-clan.net /global/showthread.php?t=4134&page=1 (8254 words)

	1835 Definition / 1835 Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		A worldwide sea voyage aboard HMS Beagle and observations on the Galapagos Islands in particular provided inspiration and much of the data on which...
		Cachar Levy, forerunner of Assam RiflesAssam Rifles is an Indian paramilitary unit.
		First form of what is now the Assam Rifles was Cachar Levy, paramilitary police force of 750 men that was formed under British colonial rule in 1835.
	www.elresearch.com /1835 (3055 words)

	The Hindu : TU meet seeks scrapping of sops for Lankan tea
		Said to be for the first time in independent India, a host of central trade unions representing a spectrum of political ideologies held a two-day conclave here to find ways to duck the negative impact of the new economic policies and the signing of the WTO agreement on the plantation industry.
		Thampan Thomas, president and general secretary of the HMS and other leaders said the plantation-sector trade unions would launch a series of agitations shortly to save the sector.
		Reddy said the two-day meet was unique in that it was attended by representatives of the planters' associations and marked the beginning of a joint struggle to save the industry.
	www.hinduonnet.com /thehindu/2000/08/23/stories/0423211y.htm (571 words)

	Kingston And Saint Andrew Jamaican Travel Source (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Admiral Lord Nelson, then a 20 year old officer on the grig HMS Badger came here suffering from fever and dysentery and was nursed by Couba Cornwallis, a beautiful quadroon, noted healer and herbalist and mistress of then Governor, the Earl of Cornwallis.
		Cinchona was established in 1868 as a plantation of Assam tea and cinchona trees, whose bark was used to produce quinine for the treatment of malaria fever.
		The project was not profitable and the place was subsequently transformed into an English Garden with a variety of imported trees, flowers and vegetables including cork, oak, rubber, eucalyptus, tree ferns, cypress, pecan, and peach.
	www.jamaicanaffairs.com /kingstonJamaica/?html=knghills.html (3348 words)

	The Telegraph - Calcutta : Northeast
		The proposed GMCH supermarket will be set up on the lines of the market complex at the Postgraduate Institute of Medical Science in Chandigarh.
		The Hospital Management Society (HMS) has approached the State Bank of India for funds for the project.
		The decision to computerise the GMCH account was taken at the meeting presided over by Rajya Sabha MP and HMS chairman Dwijen Sarmah after the latest audit report of the hospital was submitted.
	www.telegraphindia.com /1041201/asp/northeast/story_4069254.asp (354 words)

	Last Chance Cafe: September 2005 Archives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		And in honor of the pirates and mutineers of the HMS Bounty, here's a link to The Bounty Trilogy* which I've just finished, and one to an acount of Pitcairn Island: Life and Death in Eden where they mostly wound up killing each other off (I'm reading that right now).
		Assam coal is, technically, a sort of solid petroleum deposit (it is a marine sediment like oil, not a carbonised forest like conventional coal).
		Assam coal has much sulphur, so it is a high-pollution fuel for thermal power.
	www.petefredbob.com /cafe/archives/2005_09.html (11774 words)

	tribuneindia...Spotlight
		The Opposition enforced the strike to press their demand for the resignation of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and snap general election under a caretaker government.
		The Synod Executive Committee the highest executive body of the Mizoram Presbyterian Church, in a statement here said the church at Joynagar in the district was burnt down on the night of October 26.
		The sponsoring committee of the trade unions comprising the AITUC, CITU, the HMS, the UTUC, the TUCC and the AICCTU and various federations of bank, insurance, state government and Central government employees decided this at a meeting held here on Friday.
	www.tribuneindia.com /1999/99nov09/spotlite.htm (597 words)

	Strike cripples business, transport
		Strike was complete in Maharashtra, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Assam, Manipur, West Bengal, Tripura, Bihar, Haryana, UP and Madhya Pradesh, he said, adding that in other states, it was partial.
		In the financial sector, including banks and insurance, the strike was total all over the country, Pandhe said, adding, in coal and iron ore mines, overwhelming majority of workers struck work.
		In Mumbai, clearing of cheques was affected at the clearing house as the employees of majority of commercial banks went on a day's strike to protest against the government's privatisation programme.
	www.expressindia.com /ie/daily/20000512/ifr12037.html (845 words)

	1835 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		January 7 - HMS Beagle anchors off the Chonos Archipelago.
		October 2 - Texas Revolution begins: Battle of Gonzales - Mexican soldiers attempt to disarm the people of Gonzales, Texas but encounter stiff resistance from a hastily assembled militia.
		Cachar Levy, forerunner of Assam Rifles, is founded in India
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1835 (805 words)

	Victoria Cross Research - M
		While serving on board HMS River Clyde in the Dardanelles in 1914-15, during the landing of the Expedition Force, on V Beach, Cape Helles, on 25th April, 1915 Midshipman Malleson, assisting Commander Unwin, swam from lighter to lighter with a line after Midshipman Drewry had become too exhausted.
		Memorials on grave at Portman Royal Naval Cemetery, Dorset and on a plaque to HMS Foylebank in St Paul's Church, HMS Osprey, Portland, Dorset.
		After a gunnery course at HMS Excellent he joined HMS Harrier when she was commissioned at Portsmouth in August 1860.
	www.victoriacross.co.uk /descrip_m.html (19123 words)

	uboat.net - Allied Warships - Flower (rev.) class Corvettes
		HMS Arabis (ii) (K 385) (To the Royal New Zealand Navy as HMNZS Arabis)
		HMS Arbutus (ii) (K 403) (To the Royal New Zealand Navy as HMNZS Arbutus)
		HMS Bugloss (K 306) (To the Royal Indian Navy as HMIS Assam)
	www.uboat.net /allies/warships/class.html?ID=41 (405 words)

	Print Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		With an estimated 5,000 elephants, Assam state has the largest concentration of wild Asiatic elephants in India, said M.C. Malakar, Assam's Chief Wildlife Warden.
		The big herds, faced with shrinking forest cover and human encroachment of their corridors, venture into human settlements looking for food and attack those who try to stop them.
		The seven-member governing council on the isolated island, first settled by mutineers from the HMS Bounty, unanimously chose Brenda Christian, the island's former police officer, to fill the post until a Dec. 15 election, British High Commission spokesman Bryan Nicolson said.
	www.sltrib.com /portlet/article/html/fragments/print_article.jsp?article=2453614 (670 words)

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		The master and 18 crewmembers from the Ixion were picked up by corvette HMS Marigold & landed at Greenock.
		All crew members abandoned ship in the lifeboats and were picked up by armed trawler HMS Daneman shortly thereafter 1941 - Corvette HMS Mignonette commissioned 1941 - Destroyer USS Woolsey commissioned 1941 - German trawler München is captured east of Iceland.
		The lifeboats were spotted on 17 May by a US Army crash boat and taken in tow for Ascension Island 1943 - Destroyer USS Purdy launched 1943 - U-447 sunk west of Gibraltar, in position 35.30N, 11.55W, by depth charges from two RAF 233 Sqn Hudsons.
	www.seawaves.com /newsletters/TDIH/may/07May.txt (2213 words)

	HMS Conway (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Also an "honorary" Old Worcester, he was seconded to teach in HMS Worcester on the Thames in 1953-54.
		It was the ambition of former Conways that some day they would return in command of their own HM Ships to sail past and salute their training ship.
		The Navigator of the first Canadian-manned escort carrier HMS Nabob was a former Conway Cadet.
	www.hmsconway.org /sea_career.html (1790 words)

	ML Update: a CPI(ML) Weekly News Magazine
		A one minute silence in memory of riot victims of Gujarat and the victim of the recent massacre The convention was addressed by leaders of several trade unions and federations.
		Nagaon district committee of All Assam Pragatisheel Nari Santha staged a demonstration at Deputy Commissioner's Office at Nagaon on 18 June to protest increasing incidence of repression on women, rape, murder, etc. The demonstrators sent a memorandum to the Chief Minister through the Dy.
		Commissioner in which citing a number of incidents it is stated that after the month of April offences against women have been alarmingly on the rise.
	www.cpiml.org /pgs/ml_upd/vol5/5_29.htm (3233 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The countrywide "rasta roko rail-roko" agitation called by all the central trade unions today passed off peacefully barring an unconfirmed report about police having opened fire on agitators at Tinsukhia in Assam and lathicharge at a few places as industrial workers courted arrest protesting the Government economic policies.
		Though the BJP-affiliated-BMS was not a party to the call, it supported the `satyagraha' and one of its representatives even addressed a rally here where 10,000 agitators, like in different part of the country including Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra and West Bengal, courted arrests.
		The satyagraha was marked by road and rail blockades besides meetings, marches and rallies where the Government's disinvestment and other economic policies directly affecting that working class and the masses were criticised.
	www.hinduonnet.com /thehindu/thscrip/print.pl?file=2003010903441100.htm&date=2003/01/09/&prd=th& (164 words)

	4 May 1944 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Minesweeper HMS Elgin was disabled when an acoustic mine exploded 150 feet from her stern in the English Channel 9 miles East of Portland at 50 28N 02 11W.
		She was towed to Plymouth but a survey showed the damage to be so great that she was not repaired.
		For the uninformed Zippos were very popular due to be able to use most any kind of gasoline in them and most of us smoked in those days.
	homepage.ntlworld.com /andrew.etherington/1944/05/04.htm (202 words)

	Netguruindia News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Prominent trade unions decided to observe a one day cease work in public sector undertakings to express their solidarity with the striking BALCO workers who are observing an indefinite strike in protest against the Central government's move which transferred the ownership of the company to private hands through a dubious deal in recent past.
		The AIBEA through a press release issued in Kolkata on Tuesday has decided to participate in the nation wide strike called by the central trade unions -AITUC, CITU, BMS, HMS- saying that it was in conformity to the association's ceaseless struggle against attempts to introduce privatisdation in the banking sector.
		Condemning the Central government's policy of privatisation, the association urged all bank empployees to observe the strike so that the right message could be conveyed to the authorities against attempts to privatise state run companies.
	www.netguruindia.com /news/May01/09/NAT6.html (209 words)

	Maiden Youth Conference of Hind Mazdoor Sabha (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Youth Convention Of the Hind Mazdoor Sabha (HMS), Assam State was held on July 25
		Besides the members from many affiliates of HMS like N.F.Railway Mazdoor Union, Indo-Bhutan Transport Workers Union, All Assam Forest Workers Union etc were also attended the meeting.
		Sri Giri Secretary of All India HMS Youth Committee pointed out that the new economic policy has been introduced and Trade Union Rights are being violated.
	kolkata.sancharnet.in /nfrmu/hmsyouth.htm (907 words)

	RE-SHAPING THE WORLD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Since the British were unwilling to pay high prices that the Chinese demanded for their tea, they acquired some excellent examples of tea plants and started plantations in the uplands of India, particularly Assam, and in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka).
		They also addressed the refusal of the Chinese to allow them to trade in the interior by importing high-grade opium poppies from the region of Turkey and planting them in many of those areas of southeast Asia where they now flourish.
		It took place in the 1790's when the HMS Bounty, commanded by Captain William Bligh was becalmed and running short of water.
	www.ku.edu /carrie/texts/LECTURES/100/sections/26reshap.html (3589 words)

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