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BHARAT PETROLEUM CORPORATION LIMITED

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BHARAT PETROLEUM CORPORATION LIMITED Bharat Petroleum is India’s ‘best performing’ Maharatna Public Sector Undertaking and is an oil refining, exploration and marketing conglomerate. In 1928, Asiatic Petroleum (India) joined hands with the Burmah Oil Company, an active producer, refiner and distributor of petroleum products, particularly in Indian and Burmese markets to form the Burmah-Shell Oil Storage and Distributing Company of India Limited. On January 24,1976, as a 100% public sector enterprise, Bharat Refineries Limited, acquired complete ownership of Burmah Shell’s interests in India, including the largest refinery and a nationwide marketing organisation. Bharat Refineries Limited was later named as Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited. 'Those golden drops of Oil' - this is what is commonly seen as Bharat Petroleum’s logo. However, the genesis of this unique symbol takes one back several centuries to the ancient Chinese civilisation, where a similar

NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY SIKKIM

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NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY SIKKIM National Institute of Technology Sikkim (NIT Sikkim or NIT SKM) is a public engineering and research institution near the city of Ravangla in Sikkim. It is one of the 31 National Institutes of Technology in India and has been declared as an Institute of National Importance by the Government of India. The brown colour circular emblem of NITSKM using its acronym ‘NITS’ is a monogram, while ‘N’ and ‘T’ form the ‘pi’ symbol and the ‘i’ with the dot in yellow symbolising an enlightened person or student. The ‘S’ is written with a nice flourish dividing the circle into two halves making it look like ‘yin-yang’. The Yin-Yang or Yin and Yang concept in Chinese culture is complicated, having evolved over thousands of years. Yin and Yang are two opposing but complementing principles or cosmic energies that may be observed in nature. In essence, the meaning of Yin and Yang is that the world is controlled by a cosmic duality, a pair of