India
Officially the Republic of India, is a sovereign country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world.Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south, the Arabian Sea on the west, and the Bay of Bengal on the east, India has a coastline of over 7000 kilometres.It borders Pakistan to the west;China, Nepal, and Bhutan to the north-east; and Bangladesh and Myanmar to the east. In the Indian Ocean, India is in the vicinity of Sri Lanka, Maldives, and Indonesia.
Home to the Indus Valley civilization and a region of historic trade routes and vast empires, the Indian subcontinent was identified with its commercial and cultural wealth for much of its long history. Four major world religions, Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism and Sikhism originated here, while Islam, Christianity, Judaism and Zoroastrianism arrived in the first millennium CE and shaped the region's variegated culture. Gradually annexed by the British East India Company from the early eighteenth century and colonised by the United Kingdom from the mid-nineteenth century, India became a modern nation-state in 1947 after a struggle for independence that was marked by widespread use of nonviolent resistance as a means of social protest.
In the sixty years since, India has become the world's fourth largest economy in purchasing power and the twelfth largest economy at market exchange rates. Although India's standard of living is projected to rise sharply in the next half-century, it currently battles high levels of poverty and illiteracy, persistent malnutrition, and environmental degradation. A pluralistic, multi-lingual, and multi-ethnic society, India is also home to a diversity of wildlife in a variety of protected habitats.
Our Emblem
The state emblem is an adaptation from the Sarnath Lion Capital of Ashoka. In the original, there are four lions, standing back to back, mounted on an abacus with a frieze carrying sculptures in high relief of an elephant, a galloping horse, a bull and a lion separated by intervening wheels over a bell-shaped lotus. Carved out of a single block of polished sandstone, the Capital is crowned by the Wheel of the Law (Dharma Chakra) .
In the state emblem, adopted by the Government of India on 26 January 1950, only three lions are visible, the fourth being hidden from view. The wheel appears in relief in the centre of the abacus with a bull on right and a horse on left and the outlines of other wheels on extreme right and left. The bell-shaped lotus has been omitted. The words Satyameva Jayate from Mundaka Upanishad , meaning 'Truth Alone Triumphs', are inscribed below the abacus in Devanagari script.
National symbols of India
Flag : Tricolour
Emblem : Sarnath Lion Capital
Anthem : Jana Gana Mana
Song : Vandē Mātaram
Animal Royal Bengal Tiger
Bird : Indian Peacock
Flower : Lotus
Tree : Banyan
Fruit : Mango
Sport : Field hockey
Calendar : Saka
Parliament Bhavan
Type : Bicameral
Houses: Rajya Sabha & Lok Sabha
Members : 795
Leader of Rajya Sabha: Dr.Manmohan Singh
Leader of Lok Sabha: Pranab Mukherjee
Speaker LokSabha: Somnath Chatterjee
Ruling Party: Indian National Congress
Last elections :May 10, 2004
Meeting place :Parliament House
Web site : parliamentofindia.nic.in
Source from........http://en.wikipedia.org
Home to the Indus Valley civilization and a region of historic trade routes and vast empires, the Indian subcontinent was identified with its commercial and cultural wealth for much of its long history. Four major world religions, Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism and Sikhism originated here, while Islam, Christianity, Judaism and Zoroastrianism arrived in the first millennium CE and shaped the region's variegated culture. Gradually annexed by the British East India Company from the early eighteenth century and colonised by the United Kingdom from the mid-nineteenth century, India became a modern nation-state in 1947 after a struggle for independence that was marked by widespread use of nonviolent resistance as a means of social protest.
In the sixty years since, India has become the world's fourth largest economy in purchasing power and the twelfth largest economy at market exchange rates. Although India's standard of living is projected to rise sharply in the next half-century, it currently battles high levels of poverty and illiteracy, persistent malnutrition, and environmental degradation. A pluralistic, multi-lingual, and multi-ethnic society, India is also home to a diversity of wildlife in a variety of protected habitats.
Our Emblem
The state emblem is an adaptation from the Sarnath Lion Capital of Ashoka. In the original, there are four lions, standing back to back, mounted on an abacus with a frieze carrying sculptures in high relief of an elephant, a galloping horse, a bull and a lion separated by intervening wheels over a bell-shaped lotus. Carved out of a single block of polished sandstone, the Capital is crowned by the Wheel of the Law (Dharma Chakra) .
In the state emblem, adopted by the Government of India on 26 January 1950, only three lions are visible, the fourth being hidden from view. The wheel appears in relief in the centre of the abacus with a bull on right and a horse on left and the outlines of other wheels on extreme right and left. The bell-shaped lotus has been omitted. The words Satyameva Jayate from Mundaka Upanishad , meaning 'Truth Alone Triumphs', are inscribed below the abacus in Devanagari script.
National symbols of India
Flag : Tricolour
Emblem : Sarnath Lion Capital
Anthem : Jana Gana Mana
Song : Vandē Mātaram
Animal Royal Bengal Tiger
Bird : Indian Peacock
Flower : Lotus
Tree : Banyan
Fruit : Mango
Sport : Field hockey
Calendar : Saka
Parliament Bhavan
Type : Bicameral
Houses: Rajya Sabha & Lok Sabha
Members : 795
Leader of Rajya Sabha: Dr.Manmohan Singh
Leader of Lok Sabha: Pranab Mukherjee
Speaker LokSabha: Somnath Chatterjee
Ruling Party: Indian National Congress
Last elections :May 10, 2004
Meeting place :Parliament House
Web site : parliamentofindia.nic.in
Source from........http://en.wikipedia.org
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