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India , officially the Republic of India (ISO : Bhārat Gaṇarājya ), is a country in South Asia . It is the seventh-largest country by area ; the most populous country as of June 2023; and from the time of its independence in 1947, the world's most populous democracy. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south, the Arabian Sea on the southwest, and the Bay of Bengal on the southeast, it shares land borders with Pakistan to the west; China , Nepal , and Bhutan to the north; and Bangladesh and Myanmar to the east. In the Indian Ocean, India is in the vicinity of Sri Lanka and the Maldives ; its Andaman and Nicobar Islands share a maritime border with Thailand , Myanmar, and Indonesia .
Modern humans arrived on the Indian subcontinent from Africa no later than 55,000 years ago.
Their long occupation, initially in varying forms of isolation as hunter-gatherers, has made the region highly diverse, second only to Africa in human genetic diversity . Settled life emerged on the subcontinent in the western margins of the Indus river basin 9,000 years ago, evolving gradually into the Indus Valley Civilisation of the third millennium BCE .
By 1200 BCE , an archaic form of Sanskrit , an Indo-European language , had diffused into India from the northwest. Its evidence today is found in the hymns of the Rigveda . Preserved by an oral tradition that was resolutely vigilant , the Rigveda records the dawning of Hinduism in India. The Dravidian languages of India were supplanted in the northern and western regions.
By 400 BCE , stratification and exclusion by caste had emerged within Hinduism,
and Buddhism and Jainism had arisen, proclaiming social orders unlinked to heredity.
Early political consolidations gave rise to the loose-knit Maurya and Gupta Empires based in the Ganges Basin .
Their collective era was suffused with wide-ranging creativity, but also marked by the declining status of women, and the incorporation of untouchability into an organised system of belief. In South India , the Middle kingdoms exported Dravidian-languages scripts and religious cultures to the kingdoms of Southeast Asia . (Full article... )
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25 May 2024 –
At least 24 people, including many children, are killed in a building fire at a family entertainment venue in Ahmedabad , Gujarat , India . (Reuters)
13 May 2024 –
At least 14 people are killed, 75 are injured, and others are trapped after a billboard collapses during heavy rains in Mumbai , India . (Reuters)
10 May 2024 – Naxalite–Maoist insurgency
Indian security forces kill 12 Maoist rebels in Chhattisgarh . (Reuters)
10 May 2024 – Arrest of Arvind Kejriwal , 2024 Indian general election
The Supreme Court of India grants Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal interim bail for 21 days in connection with the Delhi liquor policy money laundering case, thereby permitting Kejriwal to campaign in the ongoing general election. (The Hindustan Times )
9 May 2024 – Israeli–Palestinian conflict
The Houthis claim responsibility for attacks on three container ships in the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean . (Al Jazeera)
9 May 2024 –
Air India Express cancels 85 flights due to staff calling in sick at the last minute, which is related to a protest against working conditions imposed by the airline's new owner Tata Group . (Al Jazeera)
8 May 2024 – Human trafficking in India
The Indian Central Bureau of Investigation arrests four people linked to a network of human traffickers who have been luring young men to go to Russia with the promise of jobs or university admission, then forcing them to fight in the war in Ukraine . The Ministry of External Affairs is working with Russia to secure discharges for 20 Indian nationals in the Russian Army . (Al Jazeera)
4 May 2024 – India–United States relations
Indian Minister of External Affairs S. Jaishankar rejects comments made by US President Joe Biden saying that India's economic growth was being held back by "xenophobia ". (Reuters)
3 May 2024 – Canada–India diplomatic row
Three Indian men are arrested in Canada and charged with the murder of Sikh separatist leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar last year. The Canadian government is investigating whether the men had ties to the Indian government . (Reuters) (Toronto Star )
1 May 2024 –
At least nine people are killed in an ongoing heatwave in eastern India . (Reuters)
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... that in the 1932 baseball game in which pitcher Eddie Rommel won his last game, he pitched 17 innings in relief, an American League record?
... that St Mary's Anglican Church, Busselton , Australia, has been a part of six dioceses , namely Canterbury , Calcutta , Sydney , Adelaide , Perth and Bunbury ?
... that Akbar Bhawan , which houses the South Asian University and offices of India's Ministry of External Affairs, was originally a hotel?
... that the horse Sardar was gifted to Jacqueline Kennedy during her 1962 goodwill tour of Pakistan ?
... that William N. Salin was twice decorated with the Sagamore of the Wabash ?
... that Colonel Hugh Pettigrew observed that troops who thought that the Scottish Highlands resembled Waziristan on India's North West Frontier were "of little use to anyone"?
... that after training for the Soyuz T-11 mission, Indian Air Force pilot Ravish Malhotra stayed on the ground as a backup astronaut for Rakesh Sharma , who became the first Indian in space?
... that Indian singer Sudakshina Sarma sang in Assamese as Mahatma Gandhi 's ashes were immersed in the Brahmaputra River ?
... that the only person killed by the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami on the island of Socotra was a seven-year-old in Qulensya ?
... that despite losing almost one thousand men capturing Malacca in 1641 , the Dutch East India Company did not invest much time or energy into it afterward?
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