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States and union territories of India by the spoken first language. The Republic of India is home to several hundred languages.Most Indians speak a language belonging to the families of the Indo-Aryan branch of Indo-European (c. 77%), the Dravidian (c. 20.61%), the Austroasiatic (precisely Munda and Khasic) (c. 1.2%), or the Sino-Tibetan (precisely Tibeto-Burman) (c. 0.8%), with some languages ...
Top center: Indira Gandhi was the first and only woman to serve as prime minister. Top right: Morarji Desai was the first non- Congress prime minister. Bottom left: Atal Bihari Vajpayee was the first non-Congress prime minister to complete a full 5 year term. Bottom center: Manmohan Singh was the first prime minister from a minority religion.
As of July 2024, the office of the chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir is vacant with no elections held since the former state was reorganized in 2019. Only one of the incumbents is a woman — Mamata Banerjee in West Bengal, who is serving since 20 March 2011 (for 13 years, 48 days), having the longest continuous incumbency.
India is a federal constitutional republic governed under a parliamentary system consisting of 28 states and 8 union territories. [1] All states, as well as the union territories of Jammu and Kashmir, Puducherry and the National Capital Territory of Delhi, have elected legislatures and governments, both patterned on the Westminster model.
List of presidents of India. Top left: Rajendra Prasad was the first and longest-serving President of India. Top right: Zakir Husain was the first President from a minority community as well as the shortest-serving President of India. Bottom left: Pratibha Patil was the first female President of India. Bottom right: Droupadi Murmu is the ...
The Indian constitution is the world's longest for a sovereign nation. [4] [5] [6] At its enactment, it had 395 articles in 22 parts and 8 schedules. [a] [16] At about 145,000 words, it is the second-longest active constitution—after the Constitution of Alabama —in the world.
The National Democratic Alliance (NDA) is an Indian national Parliamentary group in the country of India. It is the Bharatiya Janata Party -led alliance founded by the former Prime Minister of India Atal Bihari Vajpayee and the former Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of India L. K. Advani in 1998 .
A popular obesity drug may help treat a dangerous disorder in which people struggle to breathe while they sleep, a new study finds. Tirzepatide, the medication in the weight-loss drug Zepbound and ...