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The National Commission for Women is a statutory body set up under the National Commission for Women Act, 1990. Parliament passed the Act in 1990, and the Commission was constituted in January 1992.

The line comes from Gandhi's writings on health, where he treats the body as a servant of the spirit. Gandhi wrote widely on diet, fasting, nature cure and self-control, most famously in his little book on health.

The Sixth Schedule fixes the term in exactly these words. Autonomous District Councils are set up under the Sixth Schedule for the tribal areas of Assam, Meghalaya, Tripura and Mizoram.

The Union Budget is always presented first in the Lok Sabha, and the money bills that give effect to it can begin only in that House.

Swami Sahajanand Saraswati, the foremost peasant leader of Bihar, was elected President of the All India Kisan Sabha at its Vijayawada (Bezwada) session of 1944.

In Census 2011, Greater Mumbai was the most populous urban agglomeration of India, followed by Delhi, Kolkata and Chennai. Census 2011 counted about 18.4 million people in the Greater Mumbai urban agglomeration, about 16.3 million in Delhi, about 14.1 million in Kolkata and about 8.7 million in Chennai.

Alexander Kerensky led that government until the Bolsheviks overthrew it in October 1917. After the February Revolution of 1917 ended the rule of Tsar Nicholas II, a Provisional Government took power.

The writ, whose name means to have the body, orders the person or authority holding someone to produce that person before the court, and the court sets the person free if the detention is illegal.

The League accepted the Cabinet Mission Plan on 6 June 1946, even though the plan had rejected the demand for a separate sovereign Pakistan.

Chile beat Argentina in the final of the 2016 Copa América Centenario to win the title. The 2016 tournament marked 100 years of the Copa América and was held in the United States, the first time it was played outside South America.

A survey of 1842 found that the average life span of workers in Manchester was only 17 years, far lower than that of any other social group.

It protects civil servants of the Union and the States against arbitrary dismissal, removal or reduction in rank. Article 311 lays down two safeguards.

Subhas Chandra Bose started Azad Hind Radio in Germany in 1942, broadcasting to India from Berlin. Bose escaped from house arrest in Calcutta in January 1941 and reached Berlin by way of Kabul and Moscow.

The Shompen are a Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Group who live in the forests of Great Nicobar Island. The Shompen are a semi-nomadic people who hunt, gather and grow a little food along the rivers of Great Nicobar's forested interior, and they have very little contact with outsiders.

The Rakshasa form, one of the eight forms of marriage described in the Dharmashastras, meant taking a bride away by force, often after defeating her relatives.

In 1609 Kepler showed that the planets move around the Sun in elliptical orbits, with the Sun at one focus of the ellipse.

Under Article 109, the Rajya Sabha must return a Money Bill within 14 days, so it can hold the bill up for only about two weeks.

The plan for 2017-2031 is India's third National Wildlife Action Plan and the first to deal with the impact of climate change on wildlife, but it has five components, not ten.

The Scottish botanist secretly took tea plants, seeds and skilled tea workers out of China for the East India Company, which made large-scale tea growing in India possible.

Humidity is the amount of water vapour present in the air. Air holds water as invisible vapour, and the amount it can hold rises with temperature.