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The Constituent Assembly adopted the tricolour on that day, a few weeks before independence, after a committee under Dr Rajendra Prasad settled the design.

The Indian elephant, Elephas maximus indicus, was declared the National Heritage Animal in 2010 on the recommendation of the Elephant Task Force, so that its protection could be given the same weight as that of the tiger.

The State Emblem of India was adopted on the day the Constitution came into force and the country became a Republic.

The committee on civil services reforms under P. C. Hota, a former Chairman of the Union Public Service Commission, was set up in 2004 and gave its report the same year.

The State Emblem of India is adapted from the Lion Capital that crowned Ashoka’s pillar at Sarnath, near Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh.

Sucheta Kripalani became Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh on 2 October 1963 and held the office till 1967, which made her the first woman to head any state government in India.

The Indian Institute of Pulses Research works at Kanpur in Uttar Pradesh and is one of the institutes of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research.

President Sukarno of Indonesia was the chief guest at India's first Republic Day on 26 January 1950, the day the Constitution came into force.

After India, Nepal has both the largest number of Hindus and the largest Hindu share of any country, with roughly four out of five Nepalis following the faith.

The Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry was set up in 1927 by G.D. Birla and Purshottamdas Thakurdas on the advice of Mahatma Gandhi, so that Indian business would have a voice of its own during the freedom struggle.

Parliament passed the Arms Act in 1959, and it came into force in 1962 along with the Arms Rules. It replaced the colonial Indian Arms Act of 1878, which the British had brought in after the Revolt of 1857 to disarm Indians while exempting Europeans.

The World Bank has its headquarters at Washington DC in the United States of America. The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund were both set up after the Bretton Woods conference of 1944 and began work in 1945, and both have their offices in Washington DC.

ABS stands for anti-lock braking system, a safety device that keeps the wheels from locking during hard braking.

Angkor Wat stands near Siem Reap in Cambodia and is the largest religious monument in the world. It was built in the early twelfth century by King Suryavarman II of the Khmer empire as a temple of Vishnu, and it later became a Buddhist place of worship.

The Bogibeel bridge crosses the Brahmaputra near Dibrugarh in Assam and links the south bank to the north bank on the way to Pasighat in Arunachal Pradesh.

Vatican City is an independent state of well under half a square kilometre lying entirely inside the city of Rome, and it is the smallest country in the world by both area and population.

The Bay of Bengal is the north-eastern arm of the Indian Ocean, bounded by India, Bangladesh, Myanmar and Sri Lanka, and it is the largest bay in the world.

The Andes run down the whole western edge of South America, through seven countries from Venezuela to the southern tip of Chile and Argentina, and form the longest mountain range above sea level.

Baikal lies in southern Siberia in Russia, fills a deep rift in the earth's crust and is the deepest lake in the world.

Greenland lies between the Arctic and the Atlantic, is covered almost entirely by an ice sheet and is an autonomous territory of Denmark.