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February 1

Smārta tradition, Adi Shankara is regarded as an incarnation of Shiva
.

Adi Shankara toured

Hindu scriptures in forming his teachings. He also includes polemics against opposing schools of thought like Samkhya and Buddhism in his works. (more...
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Crushing by elephant – Irfan Pathan


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February 2

Trivandrum Central

Thiruvananthapuram District. It is located on the west coast of India near the extreme south of the mainland.It is characterized by its undulating terrain of low coastal hills with wide, clean roads and busy commercial alleys. India's Father of Nation Mahatma Gandhi
had referred and designated this lovely beach side city built on hills as the "Ever Green City of India". With almost 745,000 inhabitants at the 2001 census, the city itself is the largest and most populous city in Kerala; the wider urban agglomeration has a population of about one million.

The city is the State Capital and houses several Central and State Government offices, organizations and companies. Apart from being the political nerve center of

Technopark is home to many of the world's leading technology companies. (more...
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Crushing by elephant


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February 3

South-East Asia to form the Southern Branch of Buddhist art. In India, the land of its birth, Buddhist art flourished and even influenced the development of Hindu art, until Buddhism almost disappeared around the 10th century with the expansion of Hinduism and Islam. (more...
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K. M. Nanavati vs. State of Maharashtra


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February 4

The

expression, freedom of association and peaceful assembly, freedom to practice religion, and the right to constitutional remedies for the protection of civil rights by means of writs such as habeas corpus. The punishment for encroaching on these rights is upon the discretion of the judiciary and the punishments laid out in the Indian Penal Code
.

The Fundamental Rights are defined as basic

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Recently appeared: Buddhist art – Thiruvananthapuram – Adi Shankara


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February 5

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Fundamental Rights in India – Buddhist art – Thiruvananthapuram


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February 6

Location of Mirzapur

1971
. In certain time-zone maps, IST is designated as E*.

Indian Standard Time is calculated on the basis of 82.5 °E longitude which just west of the town of

Allahabad in the state of Uttar Pradesh. The latitude difference between Mirzapur and the Royal Observatory, Greenwich in the UK translates to an exact time difference of 5 hours and 30 minutes. Local time is calculated from a clock tower at the Allahabad Observatory (25°09′N 82°30′E / 25.15°N 82.5°E / 25.15; 82.5) though the official time servers are located in New Delhi. (more...
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Fundamental Rights in India – Buddhist art


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February 7

Muhammad Iqbal

knighted by the British government. Scholars have hailed his poetry in Persian as some of the best in modern times. Iqbal was a strong proponent of the political and spiritual revival of Islamic civilisation across the world, but specifically in India. He is commemorated as the national poet of Pakistan. (more...
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Fundamental Rights in India


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February 8

moral obligations on all citizens of India which help promote a spirit of patriotism and uphold the unity, integrity and sovereignty of India. These duties, given in Part IV–A of the Constitution of India, concern the self, the environment, the State and society. and the Nation. (more...
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Kochi (India)


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February 9

dock—the world's earliest—made the city a vital centre of trade between Harappan cities, West Asia and Africa. The dock, its wharf, lock-gate system, and sophisticated drainage system are unusual marvels of engineering. Lothal yielded the most important Indus-era antiquities in modern India. Its scientists divided the horizon and sky into 8–12 whole parts, pioneering the study of stars and advanced navigation. (more...
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Recently appeared: Fundamental Rights, Directive Principles and Fundamental Duties of India – Muhammad Iqbal – Indian Standard Time


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February 10

Location of Kottayam in Kerala

Red rain in Kerala was a phenomenon observed sporadically from 25 July to 23 September 2001 in the southern Indian state of Kerala. Heavy downpours occurred in which the rain was primarily red, staining clothes and appearing like blood. Yellow, green, and black rains were also reported.

It was initially suspected that the rains were coloured by fallout from a hypothetical meteor burst, but the Government of India commissioned a study which found the rains had been coloured by spores from a locally prolific aerial algae. Then in early 2006, the coloured rains of Kerala suddenly rose to worldwide attention after media reports of an extraordinary theory that the coloured particles are extraterrestrial cells, proposed by Godfrey Louis and Santhosh Kumar of the Mahatma Gandhi University in Kottayam. (more...)

Recently appeared: Lothal – Fundamental Rights, Directive Principles and Fundamental Duties of India – Muhammad Iqbal


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February 11

Academy Award for lifetime achievement in 1991 shortly before his death in Kolkata. (more...
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Recently appeared: Red rain in Kerala – Lothal – Fundamental Rights, Directive Principles and Fundamental Duties of India


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February 12

Virupaksha temple, Pattadakal, built 740

The

Brahminical traditions. The 11th century saw the birth of Telugu literature under the patronage of the Eastern Chalukyas. (more...
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Recently appeared: Satyajit Ray – Red rain in Kerala – Lothal


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February 13
The Bombay Stock Exchange is the country's main stock exchange.
The Bombay Stock Exchange is the country's main stock exchange.

The

foreign trade and foreign direct investment. Since the early 1990s, India has gradually opened up its markets through economic reforms by reducing government controls on foreign trade and investment. The socio-economic problems India faces are the burgeoning population, growing inequality, lack of infrastructure, growing unemployment and growing poverty. (more...
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Recently appeared: Chalukya dynasty – Satyajit Ray – Red rain in Kerala


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February 14

A temple from the Chola dynasty period. Cholas were an important ruling dynasty in the history of Tamil Nadu.

The region of

Pallavas
, who restored the traditional kingdoms. The Cholas, who re-emerged from obscurity in the ninth century by defeating the Pallavas and the Pandyas, rose to become a great power and extended their empire over the entire southern peninsula.

With the decline of the three ancient dynasties during the fourteenth century, the

independence of India, the Tamil Nadu state was created based on linguistic boundaries. (more...
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Recently appeared: Economy of India – Chalukya dynasty – Satyajit Ray


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February 15

Bhagat Singh in 1929

Marxists in India and has been labeled so by the Communist Party of India (Marxist). He was one of the leaders and founders of the Hindustan Socialist Republican Association
(HSRA).

Born to a family which had earlier been involved in

Hindustan Republican Association (HRA) and became one of its leaders, converting it to the HSRA. Singh gained support when he underwent a 116 day fast in jail, demanding equal rights for Indian and British political prisoners. He was hanged for shooting a police officer in response to the killing of veteran social activist Lala Lajpat Rai. His legacy prompted youth in India to begin fighting for Indian independence and also increased the rise of socialism in India. (more...
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Recently appeared: History of Tamil Nadu – Economy of India – Chalukya dynasty


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February 16

The

Hoysala Empire was a prominent South Indian empire that ruled most of the modern day state of Karnataka between the 10th and the 14th centuries. The capital of the empire was initially based at Belur but was later moved to Halebidu
.

The Hoysala rulers were originally hill peoples of

Deccan
India.

The Hoysala era was an important period in the development of art, architecture, and religion in

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Recently appeared: Bhagat Singh – History of Tamil Nadu – Economy of India


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February 17

The

Indian Institute of Information Technology. (more...
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Hoysala Empire – Bhagat Singh – History of Tamil Nadu


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February 18

non-violence (ahimsa). (more...
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Hoysala Empire – Bhagat Singh


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February 19

The Himalayan mountain range in North Sikkim.

Kanchenjunga, the world's third highest peak, is located in Sikkim, straddling its northern border with Nepal. Sikkim has become one of India's most visited states owing to its reputation for untouched scenic beauty and political stability. (more...
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Hoysala Empire


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February 20

The

1947. The war lasted five weeks, resulted in thousands of casualties on both sides and ended in a United Nations (UN) mandated ceasefire. It is generally accepted that the war began following the failure of Pakistan's "Operation Gibraltar" which was designed to infiltrate and invade Jammu and Kashmir
.

Much of the war was fought by the countries' land forces in the region of Kashmir and along the

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Recently appeared: Sikkim – Mahatma Gandhi – Indian Institutes of Technology


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February 21

film and television industry, producing the world's highest number of films annually. Mumbai is also one of the rare cities to accommodate a National Park within its municipal limits. (more...
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Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 – Sikkim – Mahatma Gandhi


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February 22
Rabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath Tagore

Bengali poet, Brahmo (syncretic Hindu monotheist) philosopher, visual artist, playwright, composer, and novelist whose avant-garde works reshaped Bengali literature and music in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. A celebrated cultural icon of Bengal, he became Asia's first Nobel laureate when he won the 1913 Nobel Prize in Literature
.

A

Indian Independence Movement and befriend Mahatma Gandhi. Despite the loss of virtually his entire family and his regrets regarding Bengal's decline, his life's work — Visva-Bharati University — endured. (more...
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Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 – Sikkim


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February 23
Dried Peppercorns
Dried Peppercorns

table salt. (more...
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Indo-Pakistani War of 1965


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February 24

Vice-President
in 1992, Narayanan went on to become the President of India in 1997.

In India, where the office of the President is largely

general election of 1998 by becoming the first Indian President to vote. (more...
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Recently appeared: Black pepper – Rabindranath Tagore – Mumbai


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February 25

The

Minister of Home Affairs, the new Government of India employed frank political negotiations backed with the option of military action to weld a nation. (more...
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Recently appeared: K. R. Narayanan – Black pepper – Rabindranath Tagore


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February 26

Shaheed Minar

Bengali or Bangla (বাংলা, Bengali pronunciation:

Pāli and Sanskrit. Bengali is native to the region of eastern South Asia known as Bengal, which comprises present day Bangladesh and the Indian state of West Bengal. With nearly 200 million native speakers, Bengali is one of the most widely spoken languages in the world (it is ranked between fourth and seventh). Bengali is the main language spoken in Bangladesh; in India, Bengali is ranked as either the second or third most spoken language. Along with Assamese, it is geographically the most eastern of the Indo-European languages. (more...
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Recently appeared: Political integration of India – K. R. Narayanan – Black pepper


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February 27

Norman Borlaug in 2003

humanitarian, Nobel laureate, and the father of the Green Revolution. During the mid-20th century, Borlaug led the introduction of his grain and modern agricultural production techniques to Mexico, Pakistan, and India. As a result, Mexico became a net exporter of wheat by 1963. Between 1965 and 1970, wheat yields nearly doubled in Pakistan and India, greatly improving the food security in those nations. These collective increases in yield have been labeled the Green Revolution, and Borlaug is often credited with saving over a billion people from starvation. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1970 in recognition of his contributions to world peace through increasing food supply. More recently, he has helped apply these methods of increasing food production to Asia and Africa. Borlaug has continually advocated the use of his methods and biotechnology to decrease world famine; although his work has faced environmental and socioeconomic criticisms, he has repudiated most of those accusations. In 1986, he established the World Food Prize to recognize individuals who have improved the quality, quantity or availability of food around the globe. (more...
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Recently appeared: Bengali language – Political integration of India – K. R. Narayanan


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February 28
The New Delhi Metro railway
The New Delhi Metro railway

union territories (Delhi, Puducherry and Chandigarh). Sikkim is the only state not connected. The Railway Budget deals with the induction and improvement of existing trains and routes, the modernisation and most importantly the tariff for freight and passenger travel. (more...
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Recently appeared: Norman Borlaug – Bengali language – Political integration of India


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