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The Sonepur Mela is held at Sonepur in the Saran district of Bihar, where the Gandak joins the Ganga. It begins on Kartik Purnima, the same full moon as the Pushkar Fair, and is named the Harihar Kshetra Mela after the Harihar Nath temple there, which tradition links to Rama.

The Pushkar Fair is held at Pushkar in the Ajmer district of Rajasthan, on the bank of the Pushkar lake and beside the temple of Brahma.

The Maasai are a cattle-keeping people of East Africa, living in southern Kenya and northern Tanzania around the Rift Valley and the Serengeti.

Bhagta Parab is observed by the tribal communities of Jharkhand in the weeks between spring and summer, and it is dedicated to Budha Baba.

The Toda are a small pastoral people of the upper Nilgiri plateau in Tamil Nadu. They live in hamlets called munds, herd buffaloes and treat dairy work as a sacred duty carried out at the conical or barrel-vaulted temple huts that appear in every photograph of them.

Ali Ai Ligang is the spring sowing festival of the Mising tribe of Assam. The name itself describes the occasion, for it refers to the sowing of roots and seeds, and the festival begins on the first Wednesday of the month of Fagun.

The Ambubachi Mela is held every year at the Kamakhya temple, which stands on Nilachal Hill in Guwahati, the largest city of Assam.

The National Institute of Oceanography, a laboratory of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, works from Dona Paula near Panaji in Goa and studies the physics, chemistry, biology and geology of the Indian Ocean.

The Assam Rifles traces its origin to the Cachar Levy raised in 1835, which makes it the oldest of the central armed police forces, and its Directorate General works from Shillong in Meghalaya.

The North Eastern Railway works from Gorakhpur in Uttar Pradesh, and its station there is known for one of the longest railway platforms in the world.

Bharat Dynamics Limited was set up in 1970 at Hyderabad to produce guided missiles for the armed forces, and it works closely with the DRDO missile laboratories DRDL and the Research Centre Imarat, which are in the same city.

ISRO was formed in 1969 and its headquarters, along with the office of the Department of Space, is at Bengaluru, which also holds the U R Rao Satellite Centre where satellites are assembled and the ISRO Telemetry, Tracking and Command Network.

The Central Food Technological Research Institute, a laboratory of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, works at Mysuru in Karnataka on food processing, preservation, packaging and nutrition, and many processes used by the Indian food industry were developed there.

The National Dairy Research Institute, an institution of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research, works from Karnal in Haryana and does research on milk production, dairy technology and cattle breeding.

It was founded in 1767, soon after the battle of Plassey, to map the territory the East India Company had acquired, and it is therefore counted as the oldest scientific department of the country.

The Geological Survey of India was founded in 1851, mainly to look for coal for the railways, and it remained in Kolkata, which was then the capital.

SIDBI was set up by an Act of Parliament in 1990 as the principal financial institution for the promotion, financing and development of micro, small and medium enterprises, and its head office is at Lucknow in Uttar Pradesh.

IRDAI was constituted under the IRDA Act of 1999 to regulate insurers, to register them and to protect policyholders.

Axis Bank, which began in 1994 as UTI Bank and was renamed in 2007, has its corporate office in Mumbai, the city that also holds the Reserve Bank of India, SEBI, the State Bank of India, the Central Bank of India, Union Bank of India, Bank of India and both…

In a scramjet, short for supersonic combustion ramjet, the air taken in from the atmosphere stays supersonic while the fuel is burnt in it, which is what allows sustained flight at hypersonic speed.