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With an estimated 1,428,627,663 residents in 2023, India is the world's most populous country. [ 14] 1,210,193,422 residents were reported in the 2011 provisional census report. [ 363] Its population grew by 17.64% from 2001 to 2011, [ 364] compared to 21.54% growth in the previous decade (1991–2001). [ 364]
India was the lower Indus basin in Herodotus's view of the world. The English term is from Greek Indikē (cf. Megasthenes' work Indica) or Indía (Ἰνδία), via Latin transliteration India. [4] [5] [6] The name derives ultimately from Sanskrit Sindhu, which was the name of the Indus River as well as the lower Indus basin (modern Sindh, in ...
The Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation ( BIMSTEC) is an international organisation of seven South Asian and Southeast Asian nations, housing 1.73 billion people and having a combined gross domestic product of US$5.2 trillion (2023). [ 6][ 7] The BIMSTEC member states – Bangladesh, Bhutan, India ...
Karnataka = KA Kerala = KL Madhya Pradesh = MP Maharashtra = MH Manipur = MN Meghalaya = ML Mizoram = MZ Nagaland = NL Odisha = OD Punjab, Punjab (India) = PB Rajasthan = RJ Sikkim = SK Tamil Nadu, Tamizh Nadu = TN Telangana = TG Tripura = TR Uttarakhand = UK Uttar Pradesh = UP West Bengal = WB Union territories Andaman and Nicobar Islands = AN ...
HDFC Bank Limited. HDFC Bank Limited (also known as HDFC) is an Indian banking and financial services company headquartered in Mumbai. It is India's largest private sector bank by assets and the world's tenth-largest bank by market capitalization as of May 2024. [ 9][ 10][ 11] The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has identified the HDFC Bank, State ...
Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) is an Indian multinational Central Public sector life insurance company headquartered in Mumbai. It is India's largest insurance company as well as the largest institutional investor with total assets under management worth ₹ 52.52 trillion (US$630 billion) as of March 2024. [ 3 ]
The Indian Institutes of Technology ( IITs) are a network of engineering and technology institutions in India. Established in 1950, they are under the purview of the Ministry of Education of the Indian Government and are governed by the Institutes of Technology Act, 1961. The Act refers to them as Institutes of National Importance and lays down ...
Full results from India’s marathon election, which began in mid-April, were released Wednesday. The BJP won 240 seats, well below the 272 needed for a majority in a stunning outcome.