Government Official country name: India Government System: Constitutional Federal (federation) Republic Head of State: Pranab Mukherjee Official Languages: Hindi‚ English Region: Asia Allies/blocs: Russia‚ Singapore‚ South Korea People Population: 1‚220‚800‚358 Growth Rate: 1.51% Major religions/cultures: Hinduism‚ Islam‚ Christianity‚ Sikhism‚ Buddhism Standard of living: Overall life expectancy rate: 65 infant mortality rate: 72 per 1‚00 live births literacy rate:
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It was in the year 1947 that both India and Pakistan were granted independence on the midnight of August 14-15 but Pakistan celebrates its independence on August 14 and India on August 15. Ironic but interestingly‚ Pakistan first independence day was celebrated as August 15 and later on it became August 14. Another reason was that British Viceroy Mountbatten‚ who chose August 15 symbolizing the surrender of Japan to Allies two years ago as the date‚ preferred to transfer power to Pakistan on August
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India as a superpower What is a superpower? What does a superpower exactly mean? Superpower is a developed‚ self reliant and is a truly independent nation. Not powerful merely for material development and worldly prosperity of the nation but as a spiritually developed nation as well‚ based on the solid foundation of the country’s legacy of enduring values. Officially Republic of India‚ Hindi Bhārat or Bhāratavarsha‚ India is a country that occupies the greater part of South Asia. It is a
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’India has a potential to lead the world’ - Management Guru at NMIMS July 26‚ 2008 [pic] Mumbai: Leading management Guru Prof. C. K. Prahlad‚ visited the Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies (NMIMS) recently to lay out his vision for India@75. The event was organized by NMIMS in partnership with the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) and Yi. Prof. Prahlad‚ while addressing faculty members and students of NMIMS and other distinguished academicians‚ corporate executives and members
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Education of Indians had become a topic of interest among East India Company officials from the outset of the Company’s rule in Bengal.[65] In the last two decades of the 18th century and the first decade of the nineteenth‚ Company officials pursued a policy of conciliation towards the native culture of its new dominion‚ especially in relation to education policy.[65] . During the 19th century‚ the Indian literacy rates were rumoured to be less than half of post independence levels which were 18
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In ancient India‚ tribes from across India had to carry out lots of funerary practices. These practices varied from jumping into fires to hiring professional mourners. These practices were completely different to Western countries. Like in ancient Jewish culture when a family member dies‚ they can’t watch television for 1 whole year! In ancient India when the widow’s husband died‚ she would have to jump into the fire with her husband and burn to death. This was called Sati. Another practice was‚ when
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Humanity spreads and settles On this earth‚ there are four kinds of ancient and prosperous civilization appeared long ago， They are the ancient Egyptian civilization‚ Sumerian civilization‚ ancient India and Chinese.The four civilizations have the same points and different points.In my opiniom‚the same point is the key to make a civilization in this time. First ‚they all lived near water.Sumerian near the Euphrates，India have Ganges River‚China have yellow river and Egypt have Nile.Water is the most
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Political affiliation in brackets. * All India Central Council of Trade Unions (Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation * All India Trade Union Congress (Communist Party of India) * All India United Trade Union Centre (Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist)) * Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh (Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh) * Indian National Trade Union Congress (Indian National Congress) * Indian National Trinamool Trade Union Congress (All India Trinamool Congress)
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Indian geography is a showcase of diversity. It is the world’s largest democracy that occupies around 73 % of Southern Asia. With a population of 1.2 billion‚ India is one of the most populous nations in the world and falls slightly behind China. India‚ which is 12 times largest that UK and 8 times largest than Japan occupies just 2.4 % of the total surface of the earth in spite of being seventh largest in regards to the total covering area. India’s landscape varies from snow-capped peaks to deserts
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RThe Emergence of India 401550990 葉慈諭 The story of the book: Slumdog Millionaire is a 2008 British drama film directed by Danny Boyle‚ written by Simon Beaufoy‚ and co-directed in India by Loveleen Tandan. It is an adaptation of the novel Q & A (2005) by Indian author and diplomat Vikas Swarup. Set and filmed in India‚ the film tells the story of Jamal Malik‚ a young man from the Juhu slums of Mumbai who appears on the Indian version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?and exceeds people’s expectations
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