Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid the foundation stone and inaugurated development projects worth ₹33,700 crore in Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh, focusing on infrastructure, housing, healthcare, education, energy, and tribal welfare. Key initiatives include three lakh new homes for the poor, many ...

Majuli, one of the largest inhabited river islands in the world, has a number of satras - Vaishnavite monasteries, some of which are 16th century. The Institution of Satra is a unique phenomenon in Vaishnavism in Assam, established by Sankardeva, the father of Assamese culture, the satras are much ...

Here is list of booker prize winners from 1969 to 2024 Booker Prize winners from India YearNameName of Work1971V.S. NaipaulIna Free State1981Salman RushdieMidnight’s Children1997Arundhati RoyThe God of Small Thing2006Kiran DesaiThe Inheritance of Loss2008Arvind AdigaThe White Tiger ...

In Bhuj, Gujarat, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday opened the country's first-ever earthquake memorial, Smriti Van. The Smriti Van is a special memorial in that it contains a list of names of over 12,000 people who died in the devastating earthquake that struck this region in January 2001. ...

The Cripps Mission Proposals (1942) were the British government’s plan to negotiate a form of Indian self-governance during World War II, dominion status, and the establishment of a Constituent Assembly after the end of the War. Primarily due to British distrust of Indian leadership, the British ...

What is Election Commission of India? - Provision in relation to ECI can be found in Articles 324 to 329 Part XV of Constitution of India, 1950 (COI). - The body administers elections in India to the Lok Sabha, Rajya Sabha and the State Legislative Assemblies in the country as well as the ...

Mission Amrit Sarovar, which was initiated in April 2022, pledged to construct or rejuvenate 75 Amrit Sarovars (ponds) in each district, for a total of 50,000 ponds all across the country. Each Amrit Sarovar was to have a pondage area of about 1 acre (except in hill states/UTs), and a water ...

The Ambubachi Mela is one of the largest gatherings in eastern India, the most significant annual festival of the Kamakhya temple, which is held every June. It is more of a ritual of austerity, although Shakti rites will be taking place. The belief is Kamakhya is the mother cult, the Shakti. ...

India had a successful outing at the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games, winning a total of 61 medals: 22 Gold 16 Silver 23 Bronze India rank 4th place in the Commonwealth Games 2022. Gold Medal Winners Athlete(s)Sport/CategoryMirabai ChanuWeightlifting – Women's 49kgJeremy ...

The Constitution of India succeeded the Government of India Act (1935) on January 26, 1950, and became India’s governing document. The Constitution proclaimed India a fully independent republic within the Commonwealth of Nations after over 200 years of foreign control. The Constitution of India ...

The Simon Commission, created by the British Government in 1927 to assess the 1919 Government of India Act for constitutional progress in India, was completely British, which led to widespread protests and illustrated India's great opposition to colonialism that decided their future without Indian ...

The South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) is a regional intergovernmental organization and geopolitical union of states in South Asia between eight member states: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. The organization was ...