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Dantidurga founded the Rashtrakuta dynasty in the middle of the eighth century, threw off the overlordship of the Chalukyas of Badami by defeating Kirtivarman II, and took imperial titles; his successors ruled from Manyakheta, the modern Malkhed.

Cleanliness was a lifelong concern for him; he cleaned latrines himself at Sabarmati and Sevagram, insisted that every satyagrahi do the same, and declared on more than one occasion that sanitation mattered more than political freedom, because a nation that could not keep itself clean would not know what to…

Successive assessments by the Forest Survey of India have placed Madhya Pradesh first among the States in the absolute area under forest cover, a position it owes to its very large size and to the extensive teak and sal forests of the Satpura, Vindhya and Baghelkhand tracts.

The pinna is the outer, visible flap of the ear, and its funnel shape collects sound from the surroundings. Sound gathered by the pinna travels down the ear canal to the tympanic membrane, or eardrum, which starts to vibrate.

The tiny pores on the surface of a leaf, found mostly on its lower side, are called stomata. Each stoma is a slit guarded by two bean shaped guard cells, which swell to open it and shrink to close it.

Popir is a folk dance of the Adi people of Arunachal Pradesh, danced by women at the Mopin harvest festival.

Minicoy is the southernmost island of the Lakshadweep group, and it lies well apart from the rest of the archipelago.

The Supreme Court set up in 1774 sat at Fort William in Calcutta, the city now called Kolkata. It was created by the Regulating Act of 1773, the first British law to take direct notice of the Company's rule in India.

A loan becomes a non-performing asset when interest or an instalment of principal stays overdue for more than 90 days.

The All India War Memorial in New Delhi is the monument known today as India Gate. It was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens in memory of the Indian soldiers who died in the First World War and in the Third Anglo-Afghan War.

India is the standard example of a holding together federation, because one large country chose to divide its powers among states while keeping a strong central government.

The Consumer Protection Act, 1986 was the first comprehensive consumer law in India and created the three-tier machinery of district forums, state commissions and the National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission.

In photosynthesis a green plant absorbs sunlight through chlorophyll and uses that energy to join carbon dioxide and water into carbohydrate.

Bacillary dysentery, also called shigellosis, is caused by bacteria of the genus Shigella, which invade the lining of the large intestine and produce frequent stools with blood and mucus, along with fever and cramps; it spreads through contaminated water and food.

Napoleon Bonaparte was finally defeated on 18 June 1815 at Waterloo in present-day Belgium by the allied armies led by the Duke of Wellington and the Prussian commander Blucher.

A VVPAT unit is attached to the balloting unit of an electronic voting machine and prints a slip showing the serial number, name and symbol of the candidate the voter has chosen; the slip is visible through a window for about seven seconds and then drops into a sealed box…

Article 324(2) says the Chief Election Commissioner and the other Election Commissioners shall be appointed by the President, and under the Act of 2023 the President acts on the recommendation of a Selection Committee of the Prime Minister, a Union Cabinet Minister and the Leader of the Opposition in the…

A retired officer of the Indian Civil Service who had served in the North-Western Provinces, Hume issued an appeal to the graduates of Calcutta University in 1883, organised the body he called the Indian National Union, and brought its first session together at Bombay in December 1885, where it took…

The annual session of the Indian National Congress in December 1920 met at Nagpur under the presidency of C. Vijayaraghavachariar, and it confirmed the programme of non cooperation that a special session at Calcutta had approved in September of that year.

Begum Hazrat Mahal, a queen of the deposed ruler of Awadh, led the revolt at Lucknow in 1857 and had her young son Birjis Qadr proclaimed the ruler of Awadh.