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India was the world's second-largest textile exporter after China in the 2013 calendar year. [313] Averaging an economic growth rate of 7.5% for several years prior to 2007, [304] India has more than doubled its hourly wage rates during the first decade of the 21st century. [314]
India is the world's biggest producer of mica blocks and mica splittings. [75] India ranks second amongst the world's largest producers of barite and chromite. [75] The Pleistocene system is rich in minerals. India is the third-largest coal producer in the world and ranks fourth in the production of iron ore.
Alvin J. Johnson's map of Hindostan or British India, 1864. Hindūstān (pronunciation ⓘ) was a historical region, polity, and a name for India, historically used simultaneously for northern Indian subcontinent and the entire subcontinent, used in the modern day to refer to the Republic of India. [1]
I2U2 Group also known as West Quad is a grouping of India, Israel, the United Arab Emirates, and the United States who aim to cooperate on "joint investments and new initiatives in water, energy, transportation, space, health, and food security."
India was the lower Indus basin in Herodotus's view of the world. The English term is from Greek Indikē (cf. Megasthenes' work Indica) or Indía (Ἰνδία), via Latin transliteration India. [3] [4] [5] The name derives ultimately from Sanskrit Sindhu, which was the name of the Indus River as well as the lower Indus basin (modern Sindh, in ...
In Hindi, the constitution replaces India with Bharat everywhere, except the part defining the country’s names, which says in Hindi, “Bharat, that is India, shall be a Union of States.”
India was home to the ancient Indus Valley civilisation, and is the birthplace of four world religions: Hinduism, Sikhism, Buddhism, Jainism. India endured colonisation , eventually being administered by the United Kingdom from the mid-19th century to the mid-20th century.
The National Capital Region (NCR) and its planning board were created under the National Capital Region Planning Board Act of 1985. [1] That 1985 Act defined the NCR as being the whole of Delhi; the Haryana districts of Gurgaon (then including the Nuh district), Faridabad and Sonipat, Rohtak (then including Jhajjar tehsil) and the Rewari tehsil then in Mahendragarh district; and the Uttar ...