🇮🇳 FACTS ABOUT INDIA 🇮🇳 ======================= 📜 Which was India’s first fully organic State? Answer: Sikkim PM Narendra Modi declared Sikkim India’s first fully organic State on 18 January 2016 at Gangtok. The State had gradually phased out chemical fertilisers Read more
🇮🇳 FACTS ABOUT INDIA 🇮🇳 ======================= 📜 When did Jammu and Kashmir sign the Instrument of Accession to India? Answer: 26 October 1947 Maharaja Hari Singh signed the Instrument of Accession as tribal raiders backed by Pakistan advanced towards Srinagar. Read more
🇮🇳 *FACTS ABOUT INDIA* 🇮🇳 ======================= 📜 *When did independent India’s first general election begin?* Answer: 25 October 1951 Polling began in Chini (now Kalpa) in Himachal Pradesh, where snow would have cut off access later in winter; schoolteacher Shyam Read more
😳 *WHY?* ❓❓ Why is the sky blue? Sunlight looks white but is made of all the colours of the rainbow. When it enters the atmosphere, the tiny gas molecules of air scatter short-wavelength blue light much more than long-wavelength Read more
🇮🇳 *FACTS ABOUT INDIA* 🇮🇳 ======================= 📜 *Which border-guarding force was raised on 24 October 1962?* Answer: Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) Raised in the aftermath of the 1962 Sino-Indian War under the CRPF Act with four battalions, the ITBP is Read more
🇮🇳 FACTS ABOUT INDIA 🇮🇳 ======================= 📜 What is the name of India’s own satellite navigation system? Answer: NavIC (Navigation with Indian Constellation) Developed by ISRO and earlier called the Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS), NavIC gives accurate position Read more
🇮🇳 *FACTS ABOUT INDIA* 🇮🇳 ======================= 📜 *Which was India’s first lunar probe, launched on 22 October 2008?* Answer: Chandrayaan-1 ISRO launched it on a PSLV-C11 (PSLV-XL) rocket from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota; it entered lunar orbit on Read more
🇮🇳 FACTS ABOUT INDIA 🇮🇳 ======================= 📜 Which leader proclaimed the Provisional Government of Free India (Azad Hind) in Singapore on 21 October 1943? Answer: Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose Founded on 21 October 1943 during World War II, the Azad Read more
🇮🇳 *FACTS ABOUT INDIA* 🇮🇳 ======================= 📜 *Which traditional performance of the Ramayana, staged across North India during Navratri and ending on Vijayadashami, was inscribed by UNESCO on its Intangible Cultural Heritage list in 2008?* Answer: Ramlila Ramlila (‘Rama’s play’) Read more
🇮🇳 FACTS ABOUT INDIA 🇮🇳 ======================= 📜 Which Indian festival celebration was inscribed on UNESCO’s Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in December 2021? Answer: Durga Puja in Kolkata The festival is marked by community (barowari) pandals, Read more