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100 unusual facts about India


1956 Anjar earthquake

It caused considerable damage and casualties, especially in and around town of Anjar, India.

2001 Gujarat earthquake

Considerable damage also occurred in Bhachau and Anjar with hundreds of villages flattened in Taluka of Anjar, Bhuj & Bhachau.

ADEA

Automotive Dealership Excellence Awards, award that recognises excellence in automotive retail in India

Ahmed Shiyam

He is a graduate of the prestigious National Defence College of India, and completed his Infantry Officer Advance Course at Fort Benning, USA and is the first Maldivian graduate from the Command and Staff College in Quetta, Pakistan.

Alfred William Begbie

Alfred William Begbie was a British civil servant in India.

Amli

Amli, India, a town in the Union Territory of Dadra & Nagar Haveli

Annamacharya

Annamacharya was born on Vaishakha Shuddha Pournami in the year Sarwadhari (May 9, 1408) in Tallapaka, a village in current day Kadapa district of Andhra Pradesh, India.

Antu

Antu, India, a town in Pratapgarh District, Uttar Pradesh, India

Arjun Ray

He holds a master's degree in Defence Studies from the University of Madras, and he has attended the Higher Command Course and the National Defence Course at the National Defence College, New Delhi.

Asia Security Conference

18 countries represented at the ministerial-level: Korea, Australia, Cambodia, Canada, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Mongolia, Myanmar, New Zealand, Pakistan, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Timor-Leste, the United Kingdom and the United States.

Aurangabad district, Bihar

Blocks: Madanpur, Kutumbba, Daudnagar, Aurangabad, Barun, Obra, Deo, Nabinagar, Haspura, Goh and Rafiganj

Baker Nagar Sundrasi

Baker Nagar Sundrasi or simply Sundrasi is a village near cb ganj in Bareilly district of Uttar Pradesh, India.

Banga, Punjab

Banga, India in Shahid Bhagat Singh Nagar District, Punjab State

Battle of Kartarpur

The Battle of Kartarpur was a 1635 siege of Kartarpur by the Mughal Empire and was the last major battle of Early Mughal-Sikh Wars.

Bengala

Bengala is another name for the region of Bengal in modern India and Bangladesh.

Bhagwan Mahaveer Public School

Bhagwan Mahaveer Public School (or BMPS) (Now, Bhagwan Mahaveer Public Senior Secondary School Banga) is located in Banga, Punjab, India, on Happowal Road.

Bihari hindi

Also people from places like Madhubani and Darbhanga talks with too much respect and never uses word Tum(तुम)(you) instead word aap(आप) is used to talk to everyone.

Birth Control International information Centre

This included Sanger's tour of Scandinavia and the Soviet Union in 1934, How-Martyn's tour of India in 1934, and Sanger and How-Martyn's World Tour for Birth Control in 1935-1936, during which they spoke to numerous groups and organized birth control organizations in India, Burma, Malay, China, the Philippines, Japan, Hawaii, Canada, and the West Coast of the United States.

Brahmic scripts

Brahmi is clearly attested from the 3rd century BC during the reign of Ashoka, who used the script for imperial edicts, but there are some claims of earlier epigraphy found on pottery in South India and Sri Lanka.

Buddhist architecture

This simple plan was adopted by early Buddhists, sometimes adapted with additional cells for monks at the periphery (especially in the early cave temples such as at Ajanta, India).

Callian

Callian referred during British time, is present day Kalyan.

Care Highway

After finishing college, he worked with humanitarian aid projects in the United Kingdom, Bosnia, Croatia, Serbia, Albania, India and Sweden.

Chalakkara

Chalakkara is a revenue village which forms a part of Mahé municipality of Puducherry, India.

Chanchal Bharti

Chanchal attended India's Got Talent season 4, during the program she was accompanied by her group Chanchal Bharti and Party.

Cherukallayi

Cherukallayi is a revenue village which forms a part of Mahé municipality of Puducherry, India.

Chushi Gangdruk

The Dokham Chushi Gangdruk organization, a charity set up in New York and India with chapters in other countries, now supports survivors of the Chushi Gangdruk resistance currently living in India.

Coca-Cola Cup

Federation Cup in India, known as the Coca-Cola Cup for the 1995-96 season

Dalit Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industry

The Dalit Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (DICCI) is an Indian association that promotes business enterprises for Dalits.

Dangaria Kandha

Dangaria Kandha also known as 'Dongaria Kondh' is a tribe in the south-west part of Odisha, India.

Delhi–Lahore Bus

Customs and immigration checking are performed on arrival in the Pakistani town of Wagah and at the first stop in India at Kartarpur.

Denis Perera

General Deshamanya Joseph Everard Denis Perera, VSV, FCMI, ndc, psc, SLE (10 October 1930 - 11 August 2013) was a Sri Lankan general, military engineer and a diplomat who served as Commander of the Sri Lankan Army from 1977 to 1981.

Dependency theory

The improvement of India's economy after it moved from state-controlled business to open trade is one of the most often cited (see also economy of India, Commanding Heights).

Director-general

In India, there is a Director General of Police and Director General of Income Tax in each state.

Duvvuri

Duvvuri Subbarao Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer of Andhra Pradesh and present Governor of Reserve Bank of India.

Edmund Drummond

Edmund Drummond (17 January 1814 – 10 January 1895) was a British civil servant in India.

Elections in West Bengal

Elections in West Bengal, a state in India are conducted in accordance with the Constitution of India.

Epaisa

Started in India, the mobile application works as a point-of-sale system and terminal used by independent businesses including restaurants, salons, boutiques, grocers and other retailers.

Fort St. Anthony of Simbor

The Fort St. Anthony of Simbor, Forte de Santo António de Simbor in Portuguese, also referred as Fort of the Sea or Fort of Pani-Kota, is located on a small island in the bay of Simbor, about 25 km east of Diu in India.

G. A. Chandrasiri

General Chandrasiri is a graduate of the Defence Services Command And Staff College, Mirpur and National Defence College, India.

Gemunu Kulatunge

Major General Gemunu Kulatunge, RSP, USP, ndc, psc, Sri Lanka Sinha Regiment is a Sri Lankan general, who was the former Deputy Chief of Staff of the Sri Lanka Army.

Gokula

Gokula and his fellow farmers moved further, attacked and destroyed the Sadabad cantonment.

Gurdwara

Kartarpur Sahib, established in 1594 by the fifth Sikh Guru, Guru Arjan Dev ji, near river Beas, Jalandhar District, Punjab (India).

Himmanshoo A. Malhotra

Himmanshoo first came to light when he was selected to participate in Zee Cinestars ki Khoj in 2004.

History of Tripura

This was their most glorious period and their power and fame was even acknowledged by the Mughals, who were their contemporaries in North India.

India paper

The name arose because the paper imitated fine papers imported from India.

India's Dancing Superstar

This competition was being judged by Geeta Kapoor, a Bollywood choreographer, Riteish Deshmukh, a Bollywood actor and Ashley Lobo, also a choreographer who owns the Danceworx Academy (1998) and The Danceworx Repertory Company (2001).

Indian National Physics Olympiad

The Indian National Physics Olympiad (INPhO for short) is an Olympiad in Physics held in India.

Itihasa

The other branch of the Anavas under Titiksu moved east and founded the principalities of Anga, Banga, Kalinga, Suhma and Pundra.

Jafarabad State

Jafarabad was a tributary princely state in India, in the Kathiawar Agency under the suzerainty of the Bombay Presidency.

Jagmohan Singh Kang

From 2002 to 2007 he was the Minister for Animal Husbandry, Dairy Development Tourism & Fisheries in Punjab Government.

Janardan Singh Gehlot

Janardhan Singh Gelhot is an Indian sports administrator.

Jayantha de S. Jayaratne

Major General Jayantha de S. Jayaratne, VSV, ndc, IG, SLA was a Sri Lankan general, who was the former Commander Security Forces Headquarters - Jaffna (SF HQ (J)).

Joaquim Goes

Goés, from the region of Goa along the Indian west coast, was earlier part of the National Institute of Oceanography at Dona Paula.

Journal of Earth System Science

The editor-in-chief is D. Shankar (National Institute of Oceanography).

Kalyanasundaranar

Within the years 1954–1959 he became active in the film industry of southern India.

Kathia

Originally they resided in Bikaner, whence they migrated and founded the state of Kathiawar, which takes its name from the Kathia tribe, and is in modern day Gujerat State of India.

Kolitha Gunathilake

Abeywickrama is a graduate of the National Defense College, the Air Command and Staff College, Air University.

Legislative council

India: The Vidhan Parishad (or Legislative Council) in seven of the twenty-eight Indian states (Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Jammu and Kashmir, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu and Uttar Pradesh), the Vidhan Parishad serves as the upper house of a bicameral legislature

Lok Rajputs

The Lok Rajputs are Hindu caste found in the state of Rajasthan in India.

M. Chinnaswamy

Chinnaswamy was the President of Board of Control for Cricket in India from 1977 to 1980 and Secretary from 1960 to 1965.

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Mangalam Chinnaswamy (March 29, 1900 - November 8, 1991) was a prominent Indian cricket administrator.

Mae Sot District

India’s foreign minister met with Myanmar’s construction minister in Delhi on the 22 Feb 2012, and spoke about opening a highway between Moreh, India, and the Myanmar-Thai border near Mae Sot.

Marie Seton

According to her friend, Pamela Cullen, Seton "had a fascination for India and as a young woman she had been introduced to India’s fight for independence by one of India’s greatest political figures, Krishna Menon, who was then a struggling lawyer in London. She also had family associations with India through her father, who had served as an officer in the Indian Army and been seriously wounded during one of the many uprisings of the period".

Marutha

Marutha, India, a village in Nilambur taluk of Malappuram district

Mumbai College

this can refer to any of a number of academic institutions in Mumbai, India, including

Nalin Seneviratne

He is also a graduate of the National Defence College, New Delhi.

Nammoora Mandara Hoove

Although the rest of the movie is about this love triangle, the movie is generally noted for effectively capturing and utilising the natural beauty of the forests of Yana it's shoot around Sirsi, Uttara Kannada.

Nawab Abdul Latif

Abdul Lateef was one of the first Muslims in nineteenth century India to embrace the idea of modernization.

Nawanagar State

On June 19, 1959, the boundaries of the district were enlarged by the inclusion of the adjoining Okhamandal, and the district was renamed Jamnagar.

Nepalese handicrafts

Prior to the establishment of British regime over India and entering a peace treaty with Tibet in 1904 AD, Nepal was interpreted as the main route to Tibet for external trade with other countries.

North Eastern Hill University

North Eastern Hill University (NEHU) is a Central University established on 19 July 1973 by an Act of the Indian Parliament.

Official languages of Puducherry

4.Malayalam: It is also an official language of Puducherry but used only when communicating within Malayalam district (Mahé).

Panampilly Nagar

Panampilly Nagar is a residential zone in the city of Kochi in the state of Kerala, India.

PCOE

Parshvanath College of Engineering, an engineering college located in Thane (west) in Maharashtra state of India, and affiliated to the University of Mumbai.

Postage stamps and postal history of the postal convention states of India

As per the postal convention (or agreement), existing adhesive stamps and postal stationery of British India were overprinted with the name of the state for use within each convention State, for mail from one convention state to another, and to destinations in British India.

Putaani Party

Produced by Children's Film Society, India, the film was shot in a village called Honnapura situated near the town of Dharwad in South India.

Raja Jagat Singh

To commemorate their visit, Jagat Singh renamed Dhameri as Nurpur.

Rushyendramani

Rushyendramani (Telugu: ఋష్యేంద్రమణి) (b: January 1, 1917 - d: August 17, 2002)a trained singer, dancer was a famous stage/film actress and playback singer from South India.

Samudragupta

He was the third ruler of the Gupta Dynasty, who ushered in the Golden Age of India.

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Samudragupta, ruler of the Gupta Empire (c. 335 – c. 375 CE), and successor to Chandragupta I, is considered to be one of the greatest military geniuses in Indian history.

Sangat

Sangat, India, a city in Bathinda district in the Indian state of Punjab

Satyajit Padhye

His first major public performance using ventriloquism was as a finalist on India's Got Talent, a reality talent show on the television channel Colors.

Savara people

The Savara are an ancient tribe that lives in the northeast of India.

Shahkot

Shahkot, India, a town and Nagar Panchayat of Jalandhar district, Punjab

Shanti Devi

Shanti Devi (11 December 1926 – 27 December 1987) was born in Delhi, India.

Shri Keshavraiji Temple, Bet Dwarka

Pushkarna Brahmin along with Bhatia devotees, mostly from Sindh, Rajasthan, Kutch, Gujarat and Punjab, visited Bet Dwarka to worship Lord Keshavraiji most often.

South Asian Spelling Bee

The competition is open to any student in the between the ages of 8 and 14, who has at least one parent or grandparent who is of South Asian descent, or whose lineage can be traced to Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and/or Sri Lanka.

Suhaib Ilyasi

Suhaib Ilyasi (born 8 September 1966) is a producer, director and the host of India’s first reality TV show, India's Most Wanted.

Sumli

It flows through the villages of Boiragi, Chakma, Yachakrai, Kutna Kami and the town of Borokathal.

Suraj Mal of Nurpur

Suraj Mal (reign:1613-1618) was a Rajput ruler of Nurpur, Himachal Pradesh in India.

Surjit Singh Rakhra

He is Minister for Rural Development & Panchayat in the present Punjab Government.

Surya Group

It focuses on supplying textiles and accessories, manufactured in China, India and the United Arab Emirates, to markets in Russia.

Sweet Auburn

Artist such as Usher Raymond, Outkast, India.Arie, and Raven-Symoné have started out performing on stage at the festival.

Taliban guest house

According to the Indian press American ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad accused Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf of knowing which guest houses in Pakistan Osama bin Laden, and other senior members of the Taliban and al Qaeda were being hosted.

Tarsa

Tarsa, India, village in Mouda tahasil of Nagpur district of Maharashtra, India

Thimmasamudram

Thimmasamudram may refer to any of the following places in Andhra Pradesh, India.

Tibetan diaspora

According to Nawang Thogmed, a CTA official, the most oft-cited problems for newly migrating Tibetans in India are the language barrier, their dislike for Indian food, and the warm climate, which makes Tibetan clothing uncomfortable.

Uchila

Uchila may refer to any of the following places in Karnataka, India.

World Vision Australia

Money raised in the 40 Hour Famine in 2002 has helped people in countries such as India, Cambodia and Afghanistan.

Yugal Bihar Saket Dham Mandir

The Yugal Bihar Saket Dham Mandir is a 200-year-old temple in Ayodhya Uttar Pradesh, India near the Sarayu River.


1966 Davis Cup

India then fell to defending champions Australia in the Challenge Round which was the 1966 Davis Cup finals.

2001–02 India–Pakistan standoff

The Pakistan military's information sources, the ISPR's spokesman Major-General Rashid Qureshi, claimed that the Parliament attack was a "drama staged by Indian intelligence agencies to defame the freedom struggle in 'occupied Kashmir'" and further warned that India would pay "heavily if they engage in any misadventure".

Aalim Muhammed Salegh College of Engineering

Aalim Muhammed Salegh College of Engineering or A.M.S College of Engineering is an engineering college affiliated to Anna University, India located in Muthapudupet, Avadi, Chennai, Tamil Nadu.

Ad Santel

Santel lost his World Light Heavyweight Championship to Gobar Goho of Calcutta (now Kolkata), India on 30 August 1921 in San Francisco.

Ahmad Dilshad

Asia Times called him a "leading LeT Lashkar-e-Tayyiba ringleader"—a militant group devoted to an independence for the portion of Kashmir occupied by India.

Australian Government Future Fund

In May 2011 the Future Fund was criticized by The Age newspaper for investing A$135.4 million in 15 foreign-owned companies involved in the manufacture of nuclear weapons for the United States, Britain, France and India.

Basel Evangelical Mission Parsi High School, Thalassery

The school, managed by the North Kerala Diocese of the Church of South India, was upgraded to a high school by Rev. C. Mueller who came here to assist German missionary Hermann Gundert.

Buddhist influences on Christianity

There were some contacts between Gnostics and Indians, e.g. Syrian gnostic theologian Bar Daisan describes in the 3rd century his exchanges with missions of holy men from India (Greek: Σαρμαναίοι, Sramanas), passing through Syria on their way to Elagabalus or another Severan dynasty Roman Emperor.

C. M. Gupta

After serving as the director of Institute of Microbial Technology, Chandigarh, India for five years and director, Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow for over ten years, he is currently working as distinguished biotechnologist at the Central Drug Research Institute.

Clan Rollo

The seventh Lord Rollo fought with distinction at the siege of Pondicherry in India where he commanded a force of marines.

Clara Bloodgood

" She next appeared with Arnold Daly in "How He Lied to Her Husband," and a production of "The Gentleman from India," in Boston. In 1905 at the Hudson Theatre in New York she played Violet Robinson in George Bernard Shaw’s "Man and Superman," with Robert Loraine.

Click Asia Summit

The speaker lineup comprised various experts in the field of online and social marketing from across the globe, including Dr. Shashi Tharoor (Indian Parliament), Bingham Willis, Lucy McCabe (Ogilvy & Mather, Singapore), Nick Decrock (Yento!, Belgium), Aditya Anupkumar (Saatchi & Saatchi, India), Namrita Sehgal (Taj Hotels Resorts and Palaces, India), Ramon Vullings (new shoes today, Netherlands), and Ankit Fadia (eSecure Solutions, India).

Cox's Bazar District

Cox's Bazar is named after Captain Hiram Cox, an officer of the East India Company, who was assigned with the charges of the current day Cox's Bazar and its adjacent areas.

Dieter Duhm

During this period, Duhm says that he found inspiration in the works of Nietzsche, Hegel, van Gogh, Rudolf Steiner, Jesus, Laozi, Prentice Mulford, and Teilhard de Chardin; and he spent time in the Aktionsanalytische Organisation (AAO) with Otto Muehl at the Friedrichshof community in Austria, and with Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh in India.

Firdaus Kanga

This, along with the story of a young disabled man's sexual awakening as family life crumbles around him makes Sixth Happiness an interesting exploration of modern, urban India.

Goga

Gogaji', a folk deity of Rajasthan state in India also known as "Goga"

Government Pharmacy College, Bangalore

Government Pharmacy college is a government run Pharmacy college located in Bangalore, India.

Greenwood High International School

The majority of graduates attends university for their higher education either in India or around the world including ivy league universities,IIT etc.IB Diploma is well accepted by Indian universities including UGC, AICTE and MCI.

Gymnastics in India

Gymnastics came of age in India, when at the 2010 Commonwealth Games, Ashish Kumar won the first-ever medal in gymnastics for India, he also won a bronze medal.

Hasdeo Thermal Power Station

The Hasdeo Thermal Power Station is a 840 megawatt (MW) coal fired power station at Korba in Chhattisgarh, India.

Indian Depository Receipt

The benefit of the underlying shares (like bonus, dividends etc.) would accrue to the depository receipt holders in India.

Indies

The extensive East Indies are subdivided into two sections (from a European perspective), archaically called Hither India and Further India.

JDV

Jnana-Deepa Vidyapeeth, Pontifical University of Philosophy and Religion, Pune, India

Kaliyattam

In 1998, Suresh Gopi received the National Film Award for Best Actor, and Jayaraaj the award for Best Director for their work on the film.

Kamalapuram

Kamalapura (sometimes written Kamalapuram), a town in Gulbarga district, Karnataka, India

Kaz Rahman

From February to September 2011, his work was exhibited at the San Jose Museum of Art as part of the group show Roots in the Air, Branches Below: Modern and Contemporary Art from India.

Kosal

Dakshina Kosala Kingdom, a colony of Kosala kings identified to be the Chhattisgarh state and western Orissa region of India

Kurli

Kurli, Maharashtra, a village in Sindhudurg district, Maharashtra state, India

Marcelo Figueras

Cartagena Film Festival: Golden India Catalina Award; Best Screenplay for Kamchatka, 2003.

Mohan Singh Oberoi

He was awarded the Padma Bhushan, one of India's highest civilian awards, in 2001.

Muslims of Uttar Pradesh

Famous Muslims from Uttar Pradesh include the famous writer and poet Javed Akhtar, actress Shabana Azami, Vice President of India Mohammad Hamid Ansari, Maolana Dr. Kalbe Sadiq Vice President of Muslim Personal Law Board, actor and director Muzaffar Ali, Journalist Saeed Naqvi, Persian Scholar Dr. Naiyer Masud Rizvi, Governor Syed Sibtey Razi, historian Irfan Habib, politician Salman Khursheed and cricketer Mohammad Kaif.

Narym River

Modern descendents of the ancient Alats are Alats in the Altai, and Khalaches and Khalajes in the northern India and eastern section of the Iranian plateau.

NRSA

National Remote Sensing Centre (formerly the National Remote Sensing Agency): A central organization of the government of India responsible for managing data from imaging satellites.

Qalandar

Among the contemporary people who hold the title Qalandar are Shams Ali Qalandar of Punjab, Pakistan, Hazrath MASOOM SHAH BABA in WestBengal state of India Dist Bardhman Memari Sarif Takhtipur Hazrath Syed Shah Mohammed Khalandar Shah peeranvaliallah al Qadri al maroof Javagal Baba at Javagal Shareef(Hasan Dist.) in Karnataka state of India, Shahbaz Qalander, Nathar Vali of Trichy, Baba Fakruddin of Penukonda India.

Rhacophorus rhodopus

So the actual situation seems to be that the three taxa refer to two, not three species, with R. htunwini being a junior synonym of R. bipunctatus – possibly a restricted-range endemic of upland forest at the eastern end of the Himalayas, though it might occur south to Malaysia –, and R. namdaphaensis a junior synonym of R. rhodopus, a species that ranges widely from eastern India to the east and south and also occurs in lower-lying regions.

Sainik School, Amaravathinagar

Football, hockey, volleyball, basketball, cricket, athletics, cross-country running, swimming, gymnastics, canoeing, cycling, horse riding, mountaineering, parasailing, trekking (hiking), obstacles course, rifle shooting, boxing, NCC,karate,music clubs, literary clubs, theater arts, elocution, photography, fine arts, craftwork, philately, aero-modeling, ship-modeling, Marching band, Choir

São Matias, Goa

São Mathias also known as Malar is a village on Divar island, Tiswadi, in the Indian state of Goa.

Sourabh Vij

Born in New Delhi, Vij won his first medal at the 2004 Commonwealth Youth Games, where his mark of 18.45 metres brought him the shot put gold medal (India's second athletics gold of the competition along with Hari Shankar Roy).

SRFI

Squash Racquets Federation of India, the apex body for the squash racquet sport in India

Sri Lanka Time

The Sri Lanka Time reverted on 15 April 2006 to match Indian Standard Time calculated from the Allahabad Observatory in India 82.5 ° longitude East of Greenwich, the reference point for GMT.

TANLA

Located in 9 countries such as India, Singapore, London, Colombo, Dubai etc., Tanla employees more than 300 telecom professionals and is listed in BSE and NSE in India.

Tata Coffee

Tata Coffee entered into a coffee sourcing and roasting agreement with Starbucks Coffee Company to supply coffee beans to its coffee chains in India.

Telecommunications in Sri Lanka

The most recent survey was conducted in July 2008 in eight Asian countries, including Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Maldives, Pakistan, Thailand, and the Philippines.

Terhuchu

Terhuchu is a two-player abstract strategy board game from India, and specifically from Assam and Angami.

The Adventures of Blinky Bill

The animals he rescued were Ling Ling the Panda, Slippery the Seal, Yoyo the Monkey, Princess Penelope the Poodle, Leo the Lion and Tico Toucan (who originally works for the Circus Bros.) They went to Antarctica, the African Plains, China, the Amazon Rainforest, India and Paris.

Theretra silhetensis

Larvae have been recorded feeding on Colocasia antiquorum and Ludwigia species in southern China, Colocasia esculenta in Japan, Ludwigia repens and Boerhavia species in India and numerous other hostplants from elsewhere, including Arum, Caladium, Pistia, Kochia, Ipomoea, Boerhavia, Ludwigia, Rosa and Trapa species.

TTK Group

The TTK Group is an Indian business conglomerate with a presence across several segments of industry including consumer durables, pharmaceuticals and supplements, bio-medical devices, maps and atlases, consular visa services, virtual assistant services and health care services.

Volkswagen Vento

Besides the "Breeze', Volkswagen India, in collaboration with the IPL authorities, annually offers a special IPL edition at a slight premium.

William Henry Hoare Vincent

In 1887 he joined the Indian Civil Service, rising to vice-president of the legislative council of India and a member of the Council of India from 1923 to 1931.

Zhu Faya

The Chinese surname Zhu 竺, which originally meant "a kind of bamboo" and was later used for "India (abbreviating Tianzhu 天竺)" and "Buddhism", was adopted by many early Buddhist monks, such as the polyglot translator Zhu Fahu 竺法護 or Dharmarakṣa (c. 230-316).