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India , officially the Republic of India (ISO : Bhārat Gaṇarājya ), is a country in South Asia . It is the seventh-largest country by area ; the most populous country as of June 2023; and from the time of its independence in 1947, the world's most populous democracy. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south, the Arabian Sea on the southwest, and the Bay of Bengal on the southeast, it shares land borders with Pakistan to the west; China , Nepal , and Bhutan to the north; and Bangladesh and Myanmar to the east. In the Indian Ocean, India is in the vicinity of Sri Lanka and the Maldives ; its Andaman and Nicobar Islands share a maritime border with Thailand , Myanmar, and Indonesia .
Modern humans arrived on the Indian subcontinent from Africa no later than 55,000 years ago.
Their long occupation, initially in varying forms of isolation as hunter-gatherers, has made the region highly diverse, second only to Africa in human genetic diversity . Settled life emerged on the subcontinent in the western margins of the Indus river basin 9,000 years ago, evolving gradually into the Indus Valley Civilisation of the third millennium BCE .
By 1200 BCE , an archaic form of Sanskrit , an Indo-European language , had diffused into India from the northwest. Its evidence today is found in the hymns of the Rigveda . Preserved by an oral tradition that was resolutely vigilant , the Rigveda records the dawning of Hinduism in India. The Dravidian languages of India were supplanted in the northern and western regions.
By 400 BCE , stratification and exclusion by caste had emerged within Hinduism,
and Buddhism and Jainism had arisen, proclaiming social orders unlinked to heredity.
Early political consolidations gave rise to the loose-knit Maurya and Gupta Empires based in the Ganges Basin .
Their collective era was suffused with wide-ranging creativity, but also marked by the declining status of women, and the incorporation of untouchability into an organised system of belief. In South India , the Middle kingdoms exported Dravidian-languages scripts and religious cultures to the kingdoms of Southeast Asia . (Full article... )
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28 May 2024 – Cyclone Remal
Seventeen people are killed and six others are missing after a stone quarry collapses due to strong winds in Aizawl , Mizoram , India . (The Hindu)
26 May 2024 – 2024 Indian Premier League
In cricket , the Kolkata Knight Riders defeat the Sunrisers Hyderabad in the final of the Indian Premier League to win their third IPL title. (The Hindustan Times )
25 May 2024 – 2024 Rajkot gaming zone fire
At least 27 people, including many children, are killed in a building fire at a family entertainment venue in Rajkot , Gujarat , India . (NDTV)
13 May 2024 –
At least 14 people are killed, 75 are injured, and others are trapped after a billboard collapses during heavy rains in Mumbai , India . (Reuters)
10 May 2024 – Naxalite–Maoist insurgency
Indian security forces kill 12 Maoist rebels in Chhattisgarh . (Reuters)
10 May 2024 – Arrest of Arvind Kejriwal , 2024 Indian general election
The Supreme Court of India grants Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal interim bail for 21 days in connection with the Delhi liquor policy money laundering case, thereby permitting Kejriwal to campaign in the ongoing general election. (The Hindustan Times )
9 May 2024 – Israeli–Palestinian conflict
The Houthis claim responsibility for attacks on three container ships in the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean . (Al Jazeera)
9 May 2024 –
Air India Express cancels 85 flights due to staff calling in sick at the last minute, which is related to a protest against working conditions imposed by the airline's new owner Tata Group . (Al Jazeera)
8 May 2024 – Human trafficking in India
The Indian Central Bureau of Investigation arrests four people linked to a network of human traffickers who have been luring young men to go to Russia with the promise of jobs or university admission, then forcing them to fight in the war in Ukraine . The Ministry of External Affairs is working with Russia to secure discharges for 20 Indian nationals in the Russian Army . (Al Jazeera)
4 May 2024 – India–United States relations
Indian Minister of External Affairs S. Jaishankar rejects comments made by US President Joe Biden saying that India's economic growth was being held back by "xenophobia ". (Reuters)
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... that Barren Island , located in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands , is the only active volcano in India?
... that after its merger with India , the last raja of Jubbal State joined the Indian Foreign Service ?
... that Amrita Sher-Gil 's painting Hill Women appeared on a 1978 Indian postage stamp?
... that in 2022 Sandhya Dhar has received both a Nari Shakti Puraskar and a bronze medal in boccia at the Indian national championships?
... that the history of philosophy in India is characterized by its combined interest in the nature of reality , the ways of arriving at knowledge , and the spiritual question of how to reach enlightenment ?
... that Cusrow Baug in Mumbai had only a few tenants in the 1950s even at a low rent of 40 rupees per month?
... that Indian aristocrat and photographer Umrao Singh Sher-Gil left more than 3000 prints and negatives, including many of his daughter Amrita Sher-Gil , documenting life in Europe and India?
... that Butt Drugs in Corydon, Indiana , had Butt Liquors and free parking in the rear?
... that the Indian independence movement 's underground Congress Radio once submerged their equipment in the Godavari River ?
... that the Indianapolis African-American community raised $100,000 in just ten days in 1911 to establish the Senate Avenue YMCA ?
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