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The Mission for Aatmanirbharta in Pulses was sanctioned with this allocation for the six years from 2025-26 to 2030-31, and the money pays for seed kits, certified seed, cluster-based cultivation in 489 districts and a thousand dal mills.

Oussudu Lake lies a few kilometres west of the territorial capital, astride the boundary between the Puducherry region and Tamil Nadu.

Garadi is danced by men dressed as the vanaras, the monkey warriors of the Ramayana, who move in a circle to drums and anklets through the night at temple festivals; it is the folk form most closely tied to the territory.

Parliament passed the Pondicherry (Alteration of Name) Act in 2006, replacing the anglicised Pondicherry with the Tamil original Puducherry, which means the new village or new town.

When the French East India Company obtained the fishing village of Pondicherry in 1674, Francois Martin was placed in charge and is counted as its first governor.

The Puducherry Legislative Assembly, constituted under the Government of Union Territories Act, 1963, has thirty directly elected seats. The Central Government may in addition nominate up to three members, so the house can reach a strength of thirty-three.

Arikamedu stands on the bank of the Ariyankuppam river a few kilometres south of the territorial capital. Excavations there have produced Roman amphorae, glassware, rouletted ware and beads, and the site is generally identified with the port of Poduke listed in the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea.

All four regions of Puducherry, including Mahe in Kerala and Yanam in Andhra Pradesh, come under the Madras High Court, which sits at Chennai.

Yanam is a small region of about seventeen square kilometres in the delta of the Godavari, surrounded by Andhra Pradesh, and Telugu is its official language.

Auroville, the city of dawn, was inaugurated on 28 February 1968. It was founded by Mirra Alfassa, the French-born disciple of Sri Aurobindo whom followers call the Mother, and planned by the French architect Roger Anger as a township where people of every nation could live together; the Matrimandir stands…

It listed Pondicherry in the First Schedule as a union territory after the legal transfer from France, and inserted Article 239A, which empowers Parliament to create by law a legislature and a Council of Ministers for the territory.

On that day France handed over the administration of Pondicherry, Karaikal, Mahe and Yanam, and India began governing them, although France still held sovereignty in law.

Mahe is the smallest of the four regions of Puducherry, about nine square kilometres on the Malabar coast, and it is completely surrounded by the Kannur district of Kerala.

Himansh was established in 2016 in the Spiti area of Himachal Pradesh, in the upper reaches of the Chandra basin, so that scientists can measure the mass balance, melt and movement of Himalayan glaciers through the year instead of only on short visits.

India was the first country to be granted Pioneer Investor status by the International Seabed Authority, in 1987, and holds an exploration area of seventy-five thousand square kilometres in the Central Indian Ocean Basin for polymetallic nodules, which are lumps on the deep seabed rich in manganese, nickel, cobalt and…

This autonomous institute of the Ministry of Earth Sciences designs and builds India's ocean engineering hardware, from desalination plants and moored buoys to deep-sea mining systems, and it is developing Matsya-6000 along with the systems that will support the dives.

Matsya-6000 takes its name from the design depth of six thousand metres and is built to carry a crew of three inside a titanium personnel sphere.

The Cabinet approved the Deep Ocean Mission in June 2021 with this ministry as the implementing agency and an estimated cost of about 4,077 crore rupees spread over five years in phases.

The Antarctic Treaty was signed on 1 December 1959 by twelve nations that had been active in the continent during the International Geophysical Year, and it came into force in 1961.

A marine biologist, he led the first Indian scientific expedition to Antarctica in 1981, a voyage that established India's presence on the continent and paved the way for accession to the Antarctic Treaty and for Consultative Party status in 1983.