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There are over 200 million illiterate women in India. This low literacy negatively impacts not just their lives but also their families and the country's economic development. A girl's lack of education also has a negative impact on the health and well-being of her children.
Sachin Tendulkar
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India (Bhārat), officially the Republic of India is a country in South Asia. It is the second-most populous country, the seventh-largest country by land area, and the most populous democracy in the world. 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, unfolding as the language of the Rigveda, and recording the dawning of Hinduism in India.[disputed – discuss] 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 organized system of belief. In South India, the Middle kingdoms exported Dravidian languages scripts and religious cultures to the kingdoms of Southeast Asia.
In the early medieval era, Christianity, Islam, Judaism, and Zoroastrianism put down roots on India's southern and western coasts. Muslim armies from Central Asia intermittently overran India's northern plains, eventually establishing the Delhi Sultanate, and drawing northern India into the cosmopolitan networks of medieval Islam. In the 15th century, the Vijayanagara Empire created a long-lasting composite Hindu culture in south India. In Punjab, Sikhism emerged, rejecting institutionalized religion. The Mughal Empire, in 1526, ushered in two centuries of relative peace, leaving a legacy of luminous architecture. Gradually expanding the rule of the British East India Company followed, turning India into a colonial economy, but also consolidating its sovereignty. British Crown rule began in 1858. The rights promised to Indians were granted slowly, but technological changes were introduced, and ideas of education, modernity and public life took root. A pioneering and influential nationalist movement emerged, which was noted for nonviolent resistance and became the major factor in ending British rule. In 1947 the British Indian Empire was partitioned into two independent dominions, a Hindu-majority Dominion of India and a Muslim-majority Dominion of Pakistan, amid large-scale loss of life and unprecedented migration.
India has been a federal republic since 1950, governed in a democratic parliamentary system. It is a pluralistic, multilingual and multi-ethnic society. India's population grew from 361 million in 1951 to 1.211 billion in 2011. During the same time, its nominal per capita income increased from US$64 annually to US$1,498, and its literacy rate from 16.6% to 74%. From being a comparatively destitute country in 1951, India has become a fast-growing major economy and a hub for information technology services, with an expanding middle class. It has a space program that includes several planned or completed extraterrestrial missions. Indian movies, music, and spiritual teachings play an increasing role in global culture. India has substantially reduced its rate of poverty, though at the cost of increasing economic inequality. India is a nuclear-weapon state, which ranks high in military expenditure. It has disputes over Kashmir with its neighbors, Pakistan and China, unresolved since the mid-20th century. Among the socio-economic challenges, India faces are gender inequality, child malnutrition, and very unhealthy air pollution. India's land is megadiverse, with four biodiversity hotspots. Its forest cover comprises 21.7% of its area. India's wildlife, which has traditionally been viewed with tolerance in India's culture, is supported among these forests, and elsewhere, in protected habitats.
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Ahmedabad: Family settled at Sabarmati Ashram by Mahatma Gandhi to be evicted
A family settled at the Sabarmati Ashram by Mahatma Gandhi h ..
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India's COVID HELL
JULY 01, 2021
CJI NV Ramana said that the mere right of the public to change their ruler once every few years by itself need not be a guarantee against “tyranny”.
লক্ষ্য মোদীর স্বপ্নপূরণ, গাঁধী আশ্রম থেকে উচ্ছেদ দু’শোর বেশি দলিত পরিবার নিজস্ব প্রতিবেদন কলকাতা ০২ জুলাই ২০২১
India has become only the third country to report over 400,000 Covid deaths after the US and Brazil. (While there have been 600,000 deaths in the US, there have been 520,000 fatalities in Brazil.)
Prices of kitchen goods, apart from petrol and diesel, have skyrocketed during the second wave of the pandemic. In the last year, prices of essential food items have increased by 40 to 100 percent. This is making it very difficult for families to make ends meet.
"Vague, misconceived:" Madras High Court declines to entertain PIL to educate people of Tamil Nadu to show respect while referring to India
The case arose in the backdrop of debate over the CM's statement that Tamil Nadu will continue using "Ondriya Arasu", ("Union Government") in official communications instead of "Mathiya Arasu" ("Central Government")...read in detail
AMIDST reports of widespread violence, the BJP claimed to have swept elections for block panchayat chiefs held on Saturday in Uttar Pradesh, saying candidates backed by it had won 649 of 825 posts. Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, who celebrated the victory at the BJP office, said the conduct of the polls had shown “individuals and parties can contest elections peacefully” in UP.
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