St. John's College, Agra

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'''St John's College''', [[Agra]] was established in 1850 by the [[Church of Missionary Society]] of England along with Agra C.M.S. association. During 1862 to 1888, the college was affiliated with [[Calcutta University]] and till 1927, with [[Allahabad University]]. In 1927, when Agra University came into existence, it became affiliated with [[Agra University]] (now known as [[Dr. Bhim Rao Ambedkar University]]).

Since 1893, this college is offering post-graduate courses and it is one of the oldest colleges in India to do so. The current Principal of the college is Professor (Dr) F.M.Prasad, an eminent Scientist and Educationist.

==Academics==
St. John's offers undergraduate and post graduate degrees in:
*English
*History
*Political science
*Economics
*Psychology
*Geography
*Hindi
*Sanskrit
*Urdu
*Business Administration
*Accounts & Law
*Business Economics
*Physics
*Chemistry
*Mathematics
*Statistics
*Zoology
*Botany.

St. John's offers one Ph.D. in Science and Commerce. Additionally, students can take vocational courses in: Foreign Trade, Advertising and Sales Promotion, Insurance, Computer Science, Demography, Yoga Psychology & Mental Health and Communicative English. The college also runs a study centre of [[Indira Gandhi National Open University]].

== Alumni==
* [[Shilendra Kumar Singh]], [[Governor of Arunachal Pradesh]]
* [[Babu Gulabrai]], eminent Hindi writer and philosopher

[[Category:Agra]]
[[Category:Universities and colleges in Uttar Pradesh]]

Archive:Effect of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake on Somalia

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[[Image:Somalia.png|right|thumb|200px|Map of Somalia with Puntland roughly highlighted in blue. The Hafun is the small peninsula in the northeast.]]
The '''effect of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake on Somalia''' was devastating. Villages and coastal communities in [[Somalia]], as far as 4,500 km (2,800 miles) from the [[epicentre]] of the [[2004 Indian Ocean earthquake]], were swept away and destroyed by the resulting [[tsunami]] on [[26 December]] [[2004]]. The confirmed death toll stood at 298, as of [[5 January]] [[2005]]. According to presidential spokesperson [[Yusuf Mohamed Ismail]] of the transitional government, more than 50,000 people were displaced.

Most of the damage was in the coastal region of the semi-autonomous [[Puntland]] area, particularly the region between [[Hafun]] in the [[Bari, Somalia|Bari]] region and [[Garacad]] in the [[Mudug]] region. The narrow and low-lying peninsula of [[Hafun]], 1150 km (715 mi) northeast of [[Mogadishu]], was particularly devastated. In Puntland, rising waters destroyed properties in especially Hafun and Kulub, while parts of the towns and villages of Bander Beyla, Eyl, Foar and Bargaal were flooded. Other coastal areas, including [[Lower Juba]], were also somewhat affected. The UN reported that the waves destroyed 1,180 homes, smashed 2,400 boats and rendered freshwater wells and reservoirs unusable. The village of [[Kulub]], near [[Gara'ad]], was still partially submerged as of [[6 January]]. At [[Kulub]], [[Hurdiye]] and other places, teams from the [[World Food Programme]] reported that all the boats and other fishing equipment used by the residents to make a livelihood had been lost.

== Aftermath ==

Around 12 tonnes of [[rice]], [[maize]] and [[vegetable oil]] were delivered to Hafun on [[30 December]], four days after the tsunami. Previous attempts to deliver aid failed after trucks were unable to pass tsunami damaged roads near [[Foar]], a village of 1000 people living in [[mud-and-wattle]] huts that had been destroyed. The main sand bridge which connects the Hafun peninsula to the mainland was damaged, so the twelve tonnes were then transferred onto two four-wheel drive vehicles that managed the 60 km (40 mi) trip from Foar to Hafun in seven hours. The UN warned that the tsunami had worsened the situation after four years of [[drought]] in northern Somalia and further aid is desperately needed. It has distributed 200 [[tonne]]s of food aid to 12,000 people, but states that food for 30,000 is needed. The UN had four teams in the area and on [[4 January]] appealed for [[U.S. Dollar|US$]]13,000,000 to assist 54,000 Somalis affected by the tsunami. As part of the flash inter-agency appeal of US$977,000,000 made by the [[UN Secretary-General]] on [[6 January]], US$10,000,000 was requested for Somalia. In February, the U.S. government made one million dollars available for tsunami relief in Somalia. <ref name="1 MILLION dollars!">[http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/KHII-69E4K3?OpenDocument&rc=1&cc=som US provides 1 million dollars to help tsunami-hit Somalia], [[Xinhua]], [[7 February]] [[2005]]</ref>

Much of the remote 1,000 km (600 mi) coast is controlled by various clan-based militias, making obtaining accurate information difficult. Relief officials were unable to make observation flights because of the fear of being fired upon by anti-aircraft batteries. The transitional Somali government was based in [[Nairobi]], [[Kenya]] because the capital city of Mogadishu was too unsafe. Prime Minister [[Ali Mohammed Ghedi]] cancelled a trip on [[4 January]] [[2005]], which would have been his first visit to Somalia since being appointed.

== Notes ==
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==External links ==
* [http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2005-01-06-somalia-usat_x.htm Remote Somali village reels from latest hardship], [[USA Today]], [[6 January]] [[2005]]
* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4147097.stm Somali tsunami victim toll rises], [[BBC]], 5 January 2005
* [http://mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?cg=BreakingNews-Africa&ao=177267 Somali tsunami death toll climbs], [[Mail & Guardian]], [[2 January]] [[2005]]
* [http://www.irinnews.org/S_report.asp?ReportID=45125 SOMALIA: After the tsunami], [[Integrated Regional Information Networks]], [[19 January]] [[2005]]
* Hermann M. Fritz and Jose C. Borrero, [http://scitation.aip.org/journals/doc/EASPEF-ft/vol_22/iss_S3/S219_1.html "Somalia Field Survey after the December 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami"], ''Earthquake Spectra'', Vol. 22, No. S3, pp. S219–S233, June 2006

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