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Rashtriya Rifles. National Crime Records Bureau. Bureau of Police Research and Development. Department of Criminal Intelligence. National Institute of Criminology and Forensic Sciences. North Eastern Council. North Eastern Police Academy. Office of the Registrar General and Census Commissioner, Census of India.
The Government of India comprises three branches: [251] Executive: The President of India is the ceremonial head of state, [252] who is elected indirectly for a five-year term by an electoral college comprising members of national and state legislatures. [253] [254] The Prime Minister of India is the head of government and exercises most ...
The Indian National Congress (INC), colloquially the Congress Party or simply the Congress, is a political party in India with deep roots in most regions of India. Founded on 28 December 1885, it was the first modern nationalist movement to emerge in the British Empire in Asia and Africa. [b][32] From the late 19th century, and especially after ...
Indian Railways is a statutory body under the ownership of the Ministry of Railways of the Government of India that operates India's national railway system. As of 2023, it manages the fourth largest national railway system by size with a track length of 132,310 km (82,210 mi), running track length of 106,493 km (66,172 mi) and route length of ...
The Government of Maharashtra is the executive governing authority of the Indian state of Maharashtra. The government is led by the chief minister (currently Eknath Shinde since 30 June 2022) who selects all the other ministers. The state has had a Shiv Sena-led government since 2022. The chief ministers and their most senior ministers belong ...
Rajiv Gandhi[ 1 ] (/ ˈrɑːdʒiːvˈɡɑːndiː / ⓘ; Hindi pronunciation: [raːdʒiːʋ ɡaːndʱiː]; 20 August 1944 – 21 May 1991) [ 2 ][ 3 ] was an Indian politician who was Prime Minister of India from 1984 to 1989. He took office after the assassination of his mother, then–prime minister Indira Gandhi, to become at the age of 40 the ...
India occupies 2.41% of the world's land area but supports over 18% of the world's population. At the 2001 census 72.2% of the population [ 51 ] lived in about 638,000 villages [ 52 ] and the remaining 27.8% [ 51 ] lived in more than 5,100 towns and over 380 urban agglomerations.
Himachal Pradesh (/ hɪˌmɑːtʃəlprəˈdɛʃ /; Hindi: [ɦɪˈmäːtʃəl pɾəˈd̪eːʃ] ⓘ; lit. "Snow-laden Mountain Province" [ 9 ]) is a state in the northern part of India. Situated in the Western Himalayas, it is one of the thirteen mountain states and is characterised by an extreme landscape featuring several peaks and extensive ...