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Some important facts of India

                                      





1)     As we know that, on 15th august in 1947 India was declared as an independent country by separating it from the Muslim country Pakistan.

 

2)      In the year 1948, the great leader and one of the great freedom fighters the Mahatma Gandhi was killed by Nathuram Godse.

      During this year, the reorganization of the state's process was started in India.

 

3)      In the year 1949, India accepted article 370, which gave a special status to Jammu and Kashmir.

    During this year, the constitution of India was adopted by the Indian Constituent Assembly on 26th November.

 

4)      On 26th January in 1950, this day the constitution of India comes into effect with a democratic government system in the whole of India and from this day India celebrate the day of 26th January as a Republic day of India

 

5)      In the year 1951, the first five-year plan was introduced by former Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, which mainly focused on the development of the primary sector of India, especially agriculture and irrigation.

 

6)      The first general election was held in India between 25th October 1951 and 21 February 1952 and Shyam Saran Negi, a retired school teacher was the first voter of this election.

 

7)      In the year 1956, 2nd five-year plane was launched by the government of India. The main objectives of the second plane are an increase of 25 percent in real national income over the five-year period for a large expansion of employment opportunities; rapid industrialization and reduction of economic inequalities.

 

8)      India was divided into 14th states and 6th Union Territory in the year 1956 by Faizal Ali Commission.  

 

9)      The constitution of Jammu and Kashmir was adopted on the 17th November 1957 and came into effect on 26th January 1957.

 

10)   Mahagujarat movement, known as Mahagujarat Andolan occurs. This movement was a political movement demanding the creation of the state of Gujarat for Gujarati-speaking people from the bilingual Bombay state of India in 1956. Finally, on 1st May in 196015th state Gujarat was formed and the name of Bombay was changed in Maharashtra.

 

11)   In the year 1962, Pondicherry was added as the next union territory in India.

 

12)   On November 21 in 1963, India has launched the first rocket from Thumba Equatorial Rocket Launching Station in the fishing village of Thumba, Kerala, now known as the Vikram  Sarabhai Space Center. 

13) In the year 1965, the Indo-Pakistan war occurred on the issue of Jammu and Kashmir.

 

 

14)   In the year 1967, the state of Punjab was divided on the linguistic basis as Punjab, Haryana, and Himachal Pradesh.

    This year is the evergreen revolution period for India.

 

15)   In the year 1969The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) was established in India. This year Indian government nationalized the 14th commercial bank for good economical support as well as the development of India.

 

16)   In the year 1971, the joint forces of the Indian Army and Mukti Bahini later known as Bangladesh Army forces defeated Pakistan forces in East Pakistan in the war of East and West Pakistan, and the independent state of Bangladesh was created.

 

 

17)     In the year 1972Meghalaya was separated out from the Assam state.

 

18)   In the year 1974, India tested a nuclear bomb in Pokhran. 

 

 

19)   On 25 June 1975, former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi declared an "emergency" across the country due to internal disturbance. Its effect lasted till 1977

            This year on 19th April, India was launched its first satellite "The Aryabhata Spacecraft" 


20)  42nd Constitution Amendment, which is also known as mini-constitution, comes into existence in 1976.

 

21)  In 1977, Kalpana Chawla was the first Indian woman and second Indian to fly to space. 

In the year 1980, the 6th five-year plane was launched by the Indian Government.

 

22)   Operation Blue Star was the code name of an Indian military action which was carried out between 1 and 10 June 1984, in order to remove the Sikh Damdami Taksal leader Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale and his followers from the buildings of Harmandir Sahib Complex in Amritsar, Punjab.      

 

      During this year, the contemporaneous Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was shot dead by her Sikh bodyguard.

      On 3rd December in 1984, a gas leak incident occurred at the Union Carbide Indian Limited (UCIL) pesticides plant in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India. This incident is also known as the Bhopal gas tragedy.

       During this year, Indian astronaut Rakesh Sharma was the first Indian citizen, who's travel in space.    

23)   The Indo-Sri Lanka Peace Accord was an accord signed in Colombo on 29 July 1987between Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and Sri Lankan President J. R. Jayewardene.

 

24)   In the year 1990 Cauvery Tribunal was formed.

 

25)   On 21 May 1991, the former Prime Minister, Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated through a bomb blast in Sriperumbudur, Chennai, in Tamil Nadu.


26) The demolition of the Babri Masjid was illegally carried out on 6 December 1992 by a large group of activists of the Vishva Hindu Parishad and allied organizations in the city of Ayodhya, in Uttar Pradesh. The demolition ignited communal violence across the country, leading to the death of over 2,000 people.

 

27)   On March 12, 1993, the city of Mumbai was rocked by 13 explosions in different parts of the city. It resulted in 257 fatalities and over 700 were injured and the death toll was over 300. The serial blasts were a conspiracy by Mumbai's underworld kingpin Dawood Ibrahim to set off a fresh round of violence against the Hindu community.

 

28)   The first publicly available internet service in India was launched by state-owned Videsh Sanchar Nigam Limited (VSNL) on 15 August 1995


29) The Pokhran-II tests were a series of five nuclear bomb test explosions conducted by India at the Indian Army's Pokhran Test Range in May 1998. The tests were initiated on 11 May 1998, under the assigned code name Operation Shakti, with the detonation of one fusion and two fission bombs.

 

30)    On 24th December 1999, an Indian flight 814, which was also known as IC 814 flew from Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu, Nepal to Indira Gandhi International Airport in Delhi, India was hijacked by a group of Afghanistan terrorists, known as the Taliban. The main motive behind this hijacking was to release Islamist terrorists from the central jail of India. At last, India was convinced to release three terrorists – Mushtaq Ahmed Zargar, Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, and Masood Azhar.

 

31)   In 2000, new states Uttarakhand, Jharkhand, and Chhattisgarh were formed.

 

32)     On 25th December in 2001, a terrorist attack on the Parliament of India in New Delhi by Lashkar’e’ Taiba and Jais’e’ Mohammad. This incident is known as the Indian parliament attack.

 

33)    On 15th June 2005, India got the Right to Information Act.

 

34)  In the year 2007, Prathibha Patil was the first Indian female citizen who became the first women president of India.  


35)  In the year 2008, 10 members of Lashkar’e’ Taiba, an Islamic terrorist organization of Pakistan conducted bomb blasting in different sectors of India, including the Taj hotel.

      This year on 22nd October, Chandrayaan-1 was the first Indian mission to the Moon and it was launched by the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO).


36)  In February 2010, the UIDAI launched a nationwide logo competition for Aadhaar. April 2010, finally the logo and the brand name “Aadhaar” was launched. In the year 2010 on 29th September, the first UID (Unique Identification number) was issued to a resident of Nandurbar, Maharashtra.

     The Right to Education (free and compulsory) Act is enacted on 4 August 2009 and it came into effect on 1st  April 2010.


37) On 5th November 2013, India introduced the first mission to Mars, which was launched by the Indian Space Research Organization.  

     On 21 February 2013, two bomb explosions occurred in Hyderabad city. These bombs are exploded by Mohd Ahmed Sidibapa alias Yasin Bhatkal (IM co-founder) Zia-ur-Rahman alias Waqas Asadullah Akhtar alias Haddi Tahaseen Akhtar alias Monu Ajaz Shaikh in Dilsukhnagar, Hyderabad. In these explosions, eighteen people were killed and 131 injured badly.

    On 17th April 2013, a bomb explosion occurred near the Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) Karnataka New State Office Jagannath Bhawan, on Temple Street 11th Cross, Malleswaram, Bangalore at 10:30 AM. The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) confirmed that this blast was a terror attack. Syed Ali and Jahan Aamir were arrested by the Bangalore Police as a suspect for this attack. Fortunately, only 16 people were injured in this blast and no people died in this blast.

   In June 2013, devastating floods and landslides occurred in the North Indian state of the Uttarakhand due to cloudburst, which is the country's worst natural disaster since the 2004 tsunami.


38) In the year 2014, In Mars Orbiter Mission, which is also known as the Mangalyaan mission, India successfully entered the Mangalyaan into the Mars orbit

      In the same year, a new state of India "Telangana" was formed.

     In the year 2014,  Bharatiya Janata Party won the Indian general election with majority votes and Narendra Modi was sworn in as the Prime Minister of India

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