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Of the four countries offered here Bhutan is by far the smallest, a landlocked Himalayan kingdom whose border with India runs about 699 kilometres along Sikkim, West Bengal, Assam and Arunachal Pradesh.

Tauktae formed in the Arabian Sea in May 2021, intensified into an extremely severe cyclonic storm, moved north along the Konkan coast and made landfall in Gujarat, which is why it is remembered as an Arabian Sea system of the western coast.

Attlee, the Labour Prime Minister of Britain, told the House of Commons on 20 February 1947 that His Majesty's Government intended to transfer power to responsible Indian hands by June 1948, and announced at the same time that Lord Mountbatten would succeed Lord Wavell as Viceroy.

Telangana was separated from Andhra Pradesh and came into existence on 2 June 2014 as the twenty-ninth state of India.

Edwin Montagu, the Secretary of State for India, issued the declaration of August 1917 promising the gradual development of self-governing institutions, and together with the Viceroy Lord Chelmsford produced the report of 1918 on which the Act of 1919 was based.

The circular flow of income in a simple economy has only two sectors, households and firms, and it shows two streams running in opposite directions.

Stagflation is the awkward state in which prices keep rising while output stagnates and unemployment stays high, so the usual trade-off between inflation and unemployment breaks down.

HYVP was launched in 1966-67 and it carried the Green Revolution into Indian fields by spreading dwarf, high-yielding seeds.

The name itself means the birth of Kumara, that is Kartikeya, the son of Shiva and Parvati, and the poem tells how Shiva and Parvati were married and how their son was born to kill the demon Taraka.

Sublimation is the change from solid to vapour without passing through the liquid stage. It happens when particles of the solid gain enough energy to escape straight into the gas phase, and the reverse change, gas to solid, is called deposition.

The Government of India set up the Sarkaria Commission in June 1983, under Justice R.S. Sarkaria, a retired judge of the Supreme Court, to review the working of Centre-State relations.

Microfinance means small loans to poor households that banks treat as too risky, so a large loan is the opposite of the idea.

Maharashtra began its Jail Tourism scheme on 26 January 2021, Republic Day, at the Yerawada Central Jail in Pune, making it the first state in the country to open a working prison to visitors.

The Prime Minister announced the National Hydrogen Mission in his Independence Day speech from the Red Fort on 15 August 2021, with the aim of making India a hub for producing and exporting green hydrogen.

Bodo is the language of the Bodo people of the Brahmaputra valley and is spoken mainly in the Bodoland Territorial Region of western Assam.

Minerals that are washed out of their parent rock and settle in the sand and gravel of a river bed, flood plain or valley floor are called placer deposits.

Sindhu Netra was developed by the Defence Research and Development Organisation and was placed in orbit in February 2021 by the PSLV-C51 flight, the same flight whose main payload was the Amazonia-1 satellite of Brazil.

The Constitution never uses the word "budget"; it speaks instead of the "Annual Financial Statement", a statement of the estimated receipts and expenditure of the Government of India for the year, which the President causes to be laid before both Houses under Article 112.

Both are tiny algae grown in tanks and sold as protein rich food supplements, and both have been studied as food for astronauts.

Vaishnavism recognises the dashavatara, the ten incarnations that Vishnu is said to take whenever order in the world breaks down.