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Wing Commander Rakesh Sharma flew in April 1984 aboard the Soviet spacecraft Soyuz T-11 as part of a joint programme between the Soviet Union and India, and spent about eight days aboard the Salyut 7 space station.

The fort at Gwalior stands on a steep sandstone hill and has been called the Gibraltar of India for its strength.

The Panna belt in Madhya Pradesh holds the only working diamond mines of India, and the town gives its name both to the diamond field and to the Panna National Park, which lies on the Ken river beside it.

Pachmarhi lies in the Satpura range and is the only hill station of Madhya Pradesh. Dhupgarh, the highest point of the state, rises near it, and the Satpura National Park and the Pachmarhi Biosphere Reserve lie around it.

Madhya Pradesh sends twenty nine members to the Lok Sabha and elects eleven members to the Rajya Sabha, while its own Vidhan Sabha has two hundred and thirty seats.

The High Court of Madhya Pradesh has its principal seat at Jabalpur, with benches at Indore and at Gwalior.

Mahakaleshwar stands at Ujjain on the bank of the Shipra, the city where the Simhastha fair is held, and Omkareshwar stands on an island in the Narmada in Khandwa district.

The Great Stupa at Sanchi in Raisen district was first raised in brick by the Mauryan emperor Ashoka in the third century before the common era, to hold relics of the Buddha.

The rock shelters of Bhimbetka lie in Raisen district, in the foothills of the Vindhya range not far from Bhopal.

The Khajuraho group of monuments in Chhatarpur district was built by the Chandela rulers of Bundelkhand between the tenth and the twelfth century.

Kanha National Park, spread over the Mandla and Balaghat districts, is famous for bringing the hard ground barasingha, or swamp deer, back from the edge of extinction.

The Narmada rises at Amarkantak on the Maikal range in Anuppur district and flows westward through a rift valley lying between the Vindhya range in the north and the Satpura range in the south.

Chhattisgarh became a separate state on 1 November 2000, taking sixteen districts from the eastern part of Madhya Pradesh, with Raipur as its capital.

Bhopal is the capital of Madhya Pradesh and the seat of its Vidhan Sabha and secretariat. It is called the city of lakes because of the Upper and Lower Lakes at its centre, and it holds the Van Vihar National Park within the city limits.

Hima Das, who comes from Dhing in Assam and is called the Dhing Express, won the women's 400 metres at the World Under-20 Championships held at Tampere in Finland in 2018.

Field events are those in which an athlete jumps or throws rather than races, and the triple jump, with its hop, step and jump, is measured for distance in a sand pit.

Milkha Singh reached the 400 metres final at Rome in 1960 and finished fourth in a race so close that the first four all broke the existing Olympic mark.

The body was founded in 1912 as the International Amateur Athletic Federation, became the International Association of Athletics Federations, and was renamed World Athletics in 2019.

The rules fix the men's javelin at a minimum of 800 grams with a length of about 2.6 to 2.7 metres, while the women's javelin weighs 600 grams and is shorter.

She took the bronze in the long jump at the 2003 World Championships at Paris, and that was the first medal India won at a senior World Athletics Championships.