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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.
India has no national language. [371] Hindi , with the largest number of speakers, is the official language of the government. [ 372 ] [ 373 ] English is used extensively in business and administration and has the status of a "subsidiary official language"; [ 6 ] it is important in education , especially as a medium of higher education.
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 ...
Indian people. Countries with a significant population with Indian ancestry. Indian people or Indians are the citizens and nationals of the Republic of India. In 2022, the population of India stood at 1.4 billion people, of various ethnic groups. According to United Nations forecasts, India overtook China as the world's most populous country by ...
The Parliament of India a bicameral legislature composed of the Rajya Sabha (Council of States) and the Lok Sabha (House of the People). Membership is limited to 245 members. 233 are elected by the State legislative assemblies, and 12 are nominated by the president of India for their contributions to art, literature, science, and social services.
The Digital Rupee (e₹) [39] or eINR or E-Rupee is a tokenised digital version of the Indian Rupee, issued by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) as a central bank digital currency (CBDC). [40] The Digital Rupee was proposed in January 2017 and launched on 1 December 2022. [41]
(per 1000 births, under age 1, national average) 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. [53] India's ...