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Parliament passed the Life Insurance Corporation Act in 1956, and the Life Insurance Corporation of India began work on 1 September that year, after the life insurance business of 245 private insurers and provident societies was taken over and merged into it.

Girish Karnad wrote Yayati in 1961, his first play, which takes from the Mahabharata the story of the old king who asks his son to trade youth with him, and Tughlaq in 1964, on the reign of Muhammad bin Tughlaq.

A solar cell turns sunlight straight into electricity by the photovoltaic effect at a semiconductor junction, usually of silicon, so nothing inside it turns or slides.

Pashmina is the very fine wool combed from the undercoat of the Changthangi goat, reared by herders on the cold high plateau of Ladakh, and it was first spun and woven into shawls in the valley of Kashmir.

The Ryotwari settlement was worked out by Thomas Munro, along with Captain Alexander Read, and introduced from 1820 in the Madras Presidency, where Munro was then Governor.

The Seventh Schedule of the Constitution divides subjects into three lists, and public order and police are the first two entries of the State List, so each state makes its own laws on them and runs its own force.

Amul grew out of the Kaira District Co-operative Milk Producers' Union, started at Anand in Gujarat in 1946 when the farmers of Kheda district organised against the low prices paid to them by middlemen.

Muhammad Yunus, an economist from Bangladesh, founded Grameen Bank. He grew it out of a lending experiment begun in the village of Jobra in 1976, and the bank was given formal status by law in 1983.

Hydrogen has three isotopes: protium with one proton and no neutron, deuterium with one proton and one neutron, and tritium with one proton and two neutrons.

Hogenakkal Falls lies on the river Kaveri in the Dharmapuri district of Tamil Nadu, close to the border with Karnataka.

Guru Gobind Singh died at Nanded in 1708, and before his death he had sent Banda Singh Bahadur to Punjab to lead the Khalsa against Mughal authority.

India marched behind its own flag at the Olympics for the first time at Antwerp in 1920, and the athlete Purma Banerjee carried it at the opening ceremony.

Article 324 places the superintendence, direction and control of elections to Parliament, to the State Legislatures and to the offices of President and Vice-President in the hands of the Election Commission of India.

A whale is a mammal, not a fish, so it breathes with lungs and must come to the surface to take air through a blowhole on top of its head.

Disguised unemployment is the situation in which more people work at a job than it actually needs, so taking some of them away would not reduce output at all.

The call ‘Workers of the world, unite!’ closes the Communist Manifesto written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in 1848, and it became the rallying cry of the socialist movement that carried the Bolsheviks to power in Russia in 1917.

The Planning Commission was set up in March 1950 by a resolution of the Union Cabinet, not by the Constitution and not by an Act of Parliament, which made it an extra-constitutional advisory body.

Article 17 abolishes untouchability and forbids its practice in any form. It sits in Part III among the Fundamental Rights, under the right to equality, and it is one of the few rights that works against ordinary citizens as well as against the State.

Ropar, the modern Rupnagar on the left bank of the Sutlej, was the first Harappan site excavated after Independence, and its trenches showed a sequence of occupation from the Harappan period through Painted Grey Ware to later historical levels.

The Punjab Vidhan Sabha is a single chamber house of 117 elected members, the strength fixed for the state after the reorganisation of 1966 and the delimitation that followed; Punjab has no Legislative Council.