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India Republic of India , is a country in South Asia . It is the seventh-largest country in the world by area and the most populous country . 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 at least 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 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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15 November 2024 – Ten infants are killed and 16 others are injured in a fire inside a neonatal intensive care unit at the Jhansi Medical College hospital in Jhansi , Uttar Pradesh , North India . (AP)
13 November 2024 – 2024 Indo-Pakistani smog New Delhi , India , reports its 15th consecutive day with a "very poor" recorded air quality index due to significant air pollution causing zero meter visibility smog . (The Hindu ) 13 November 2024 – Bulldozer Justice The Supreme Court of India rules that it is unconstitutional for the government to demolish property belonging to people suspected of crimes without a legal process , a practice common in states ruled by the Bharatiya Janata Party . (The Times of India ) (DW)
4 November 2024 – 2024 Almora bus accident At least 36 people are killed and 27 others are injured when a bus plunges into a gorge near Marchula , Uttarakhand , India . (The Indian Express ) (ABC News)
3 November 2024 – Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir At least eleven people are injured in a grenade explosion caused by an unknown militant group in a flea market in Srinagar , Jammu and Kashmir , India . (Reuters)
Three rebels are killed and four security personnel are injured during two separate shootouts in Anantnag district , Jammu and Kashmir, India. (AP)
3 November 2024 – Naxalite–Maoist insurgency Two police officers are injured in a stabbing attack by Naxalite insurgents in Sukma , Chhattisgarh , India, with their weapons being stolen. (Indian Express )
24 October 2024 – Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir Islamist insurgents target an Indian Army vehicle with small arms fire near Gulmarg , Jammu and Kashmir , India , killing two soldiers and two civilian porters and injuring three other soldiers. (The Indian Express ) 23 October 2024 – China–India relations Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi holds a bilateral meeting with President of China Xi Jinping on the sidelines of the 16th BRICS summit in Kazan , Russia . This is the first bilateral meeting between India and China in five years and comes in the aftermath of the 2020 border skirmishes between Indian and Chinese troops . (India Today) 21 October 2024 – Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir Seven people are killed and five others are injured in a mass shooting at a camp for construction workers near Sonamarg , Jammu and Kashmir , India . (Al Jazeera)
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... that Indian violin player Dwaram Durga Prasad Rao India's highest award for the performing arts , was once an apprentice to a painter?
... that an Indian rhinoceros Pope Leo X
... that Indian harmonium player Appa Jalgaonkar
... that Winter Renouf Indian Civil Service , thought that farmers in the Punjab should grow Canadian wheat varieties?
... that despite losing almost one thousand men capturing Malacca in 1641 Dutch East India Company did not invest much time or energy into it afterward?
... that Barren Island , located in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands
... that Indian author and publisher Pramod Kapoor Chevalier de la Legion d'Honneur for his contribution to promoting India's heritage?
... that after its merger with India , the last raja of Jubbal State Indian Foreign Service ?
... that Butt Drugs Corydon, Indiana , had Butt Liquors and free parking in the rear?
... that the name of the Indian city Bangalore Kannada word meaning 'town of boiled beans'?
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