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At the same time, both the Trump administration and American companies are rolling back policies that support working parents. That’s a result of both opportunity (“You can’t get pregnant by email,” Bloom told me) and availability (less time commuting equals more time for parenting). The on-again-off-again Trump ally Elon Musk, father of at least 14, has warned that “civilisation will disappear” if we don’t get busy.
The resulting Delhi Sultanate drew northern India into the cosmopolitan networks of medieval Islam. In the early centuries of the 2nd millennium Muslim armies from Central Asia intermittently overran India’s northern plains. India’s pre-existing Dravidian languages were supplanted in the northern regions. By 1200 BCE, an archaic form of Sanskrit, an Indo-European language, had diffused into India from the northwest.
In 2008, India’s share of world trade was 1.7%; in 2021, India was the world’s ninth-largest importer and the sixteenth-largest exporter. Until 1991, all Indian governments followed protectionist policies that were influenced by socialist economics. Since the end of the Cold War, India has increased its economic, strategic, and military cooperation with the United States and the European Union. The executive of the Indian government consists of the president, the vice-president, and the Union Council of Ministers—with the cabinet being its executive committee—headed by the prime minister.
Increasing access to electricity and clean cooking with liquefied petroleum gas have been priorities for energy in India. India’s capacity to generate electrical power is 300 gigawatts, of which 42 gigawatts is renewable. The Indian biotech industry grew by 15.1% in 2012–2013, increasing its revenues from ₹204.4 billion (Indian rupees) to ₹235.24 billion (US$3.94 billion at June 2013 exchange rates).
- Rice was partially cooked and layered alternately with sauteed meat, the pot sealed tightly, and slow cooked according to another Persian cooking technique, to produce biryani, a feature of festive dining in many parts of India.
- Cricket fans in the UAE are spending over Dh6,500 for a weekend trip to Colombo to watch the much-awaited India-Pakistan T20 clash live in the stadium on Sunday.
- Notably, the US is the top market for India’s textile exports, and 30% of all textile and apparel shipments from the country reach American shores.
- That’s a result of both opportunity (“You can’t get pregnant by email,” Bloom told me) and availability (less time commuting equals more time for parenting).
- After the 10th century, Muslim Central Asian nomadic clans, using swift-horse cavalry and raising vast armies united by ethnicity, repeatedly overran South Asia’s north-western plains,r leading eventually to the establishment of the Islamic Delhi Sultanate in 1206.
The new mountains—together with vast amounts of sediment eroded from them—were so heavy that the Indian-Australian Plate just south of the range was forced downward, creating a zone of crustal subsidence. When the two finally collided (approximately 50 million years ago), the northern edge of the Indian-Australian Plate was thrust under the Eurasian Plate at a low angle. Yet social legislation has done much to alleviate the disabilities previously suffered by formerly “untouchable” castes, tribal populations, women, and other traditionally disadvantaged segments of society. Earnest attempts have been made to instill a spirit of nationhood in so varied a population, but tensions between neighboring groups have remained and at times have resulted in outbreaks of violence.
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Rajeev Shukla, vice president of the Board of Control for Cricket in India, said on Tuesday it was good that a solution had been found. Ties with Bangladesh soured after then-Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina fled to Delhi in 2024 following violent protests against her government. India engaged in its worst conflict with Pakistan in decades in May. New Delhi’s ties with Islamabad and Dhaka have deteriorated in recent months, with political strains increasingly spilling into cricket. “The benefit is not only that the public is happy or that young people who play cricket are happy; it also increases business and public interest,” said cricket fan Rai Fayaz. The decision to reverse the boycott came after appeals from cricket authorities, including the Bangladesh Cricket Board.
India maintains a “no first use” nuclear policy and is developing a nuclear triad capability as a part of its “Minimum Credible Deterrence” doctrine. India has signed neither the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty nor the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, considering both to be flawed and discriminatory. India conducted its first nuclear weapons test in 1974 and BET365 carried out additional underground testing in 1998. China’s nuclear test of 1964 and threats to intervene in support of Pakistan in the 1965 war caused India to produce nuclear weapons.
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They were imitated all over India and led to both the resurgence of Hinduism and the development of all modern languages of the subcontinent. The Pallavas, in particular, traded extensively with the Roman Empire and with West and Southeast Asia. These cultures gradually evolved into the Indus Valley Civilisation, which flourished during 2500–1900 BCE in Pakistan and western India. Based on coalescence of Mitochondrial DNA and Y Chromosome data, it is thought that the earliest extant lineages of anatomically modern humans or Homo sapiens on the Indian subcontinent had reached there from Africa between 80,000 and 50,000 years ago, and with high likelihood by 55,000 years ago.
In a third change, the fact sheet now says India “intends to buy” more American products rather than “committed to buy” them—language that matches the February 7 joint statement signed by both countries. The updated fact sheet, released after the original version went public Monday, deletes “certain pulses” from the list of agricultural products on which India agreed to reduce tariffs. Are more such trade concessions and sweeteners from Trump in store before the mid-March signing of the formal deal? Moreover, the mention of India “removing” its digital services tax or Google tax was dropped altogether. The White House dropped the claim that India would reduce tariffs on “certain pulses” and changed the wording relating to the $500 billion purchase proposal. Now, if India does manage to get such a concession from the Trump administration, like Bangladesh, it will go a long way in easing concerns within the domestic textile industry.
It is now generally accepted that India’s geographic position, continental outline, and basic geologic structure resulted from a process of plate tectonics—the shifting of enormous, rigid crustal plates over the Earth’s underlying layer of molten material. It is bounded to the northwest by Pakistan, to the north by Nepal, China, and Bhutan; and to the east by Myanmar (Burma). Three other Indian cities—Bengaluru (Bangalore), Chennai (Madras), and Hyderabad—are among the world’s fastest-growing high-technology centers, and most of the world’s major information technology and software companies now have offices in India. At independence, India was blessed with several leaders of world stature, most notably Mohandas Karamchand (Mahatma) Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru, who were able to galvanize the masses at home and bring prestige to India abroad. Religious minorities, including Muslims, Christians, Sikhs, Buddhists, and Jains, still account for a significant proportion of the population.
There has been a long freeze in bilateral cricket matches between the nuclear-armed neighbours, who have not played a full series since 2012–13 and now meet largely at neutral venues. It had earlier directed the team to boycott the match in a show of solidarity with Bangladesh after they refused to tour India due to security concerns. He added that hotel fares have also increased and that even a single high-profile match like this can give a temporary boost to tourism activity in Colombo.
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The most significant import of cooking techniques into India during the last millennium occurred during the Mughal Empire, spreading into northern India from regions to its northwest, along with dishes such as pilaf. India has distinctive vegetarian cuisines, each a feature of the geographical and cultural histories of its adherents. The foundation of a typical Indian meal is a cereal cooked plainly and complemented with savoury dishes. The traditional shalwar kameez is rarely worn by younger urban women, who favour churidars or jeans.
In 1947, the British Indian Empire was partitioned into two independent dominions, a Hindu-majority dominion of India and a Muslim-majority dominion of Pakistan. A nationalist movement emerged in India, the first in the non-European British Empire and an influence on other nationalist movements. The rights promised to Indians were granted slowly, but technological changes were introduced, and modern ideas of education and the public life took root. Gradually expanding rule of the British East India Company turned India into a colonial economy but consolidated its sovereignty. The Mughal Empire ushered in two centuries of economic expansion and relative peace, and left a rich architectural legacy.
Moderately dense forest, whose canopy density is between 40% and 70%, occupies 9.39% of India’s land area. India also contains four of the world’s 34 biodiversity hotspots, or regions that display significant habitat loss in the presence of high endemism.t India is the habitat for 8.6% of all mammals, 13.7% of bird species, 7.9% of reptile species, 6% of amphibian species, 12.2% of fish species, and 6.0% of all flowering plant species. Temperatures in India have risen by 0.7 °C (1.3 °F) between 1901 and 2018.
During the election, critics accused Mr Modi and his party of using hate speech, attacking the country’s Muslim minority, and jailing opposition figures. The election saw a resurgence of India’s opposition, which won 234 seats. A teacher and former governor of Jharkhand State, she is the first person from a tribal community to serve as India’s head of state.
Indian mathematicians made early contributions to the study of the concept of zero as a number, negative numbers, arithmetic, and algebra. The decimal number system in use today was first recorded in Indian mathematics. In the classical period of Indian mathematics (400 CE to 1200 CE), important contributions were made by Aryabhata, Brahmagupta, Bhaskara II, Varāhamihira, and Madhava.
In spite of this complex mixture of religious traditions, generally, the prevailing artistic style at any time and place has been shared by the major religious groups, and sculptors probably usually served all communities. Over the following centuries a distinctly Indian style of sculpting the human figure developed, with less interest in articulating precise anatomy than ancient Greek sculpture but showing smoothly flowing forms expressing prana (“breath” or life-force). Almost all surviving ancient Indian art thereafter is in various forms of religious sculpture in durable materials, or coins. Many women marry before reaching 18, which is their legal marriageable age; child marriages are not uncommon, especially in rural areas. A very large majority of Indians have their marriages arranged by their parents or family elders. Multi-generational patrilineal joint families have been the norm in India, though nuclear families are becoming common in urban areas.
After World War I, in which approximately one million Indians served, a new period began. The railway network provided critical famine relief, notably reduced the cost of moving goods, and helped nascent Indian-owned industry. However, commercial cropping, especially in the newly canalled Punjab, led to increased food production for internal consumption.
Many British institutions stayed in place (such as the parliamentary system of government); English continued to be a widely used lingua franca; and India remained within the Commonwealth. Direct administration by the British, which began in 1858, effected a political and economic unification of the subcontinent. Eventually, some of those raiders stayed; by the 13th century much of the subcontinent was under Muslim rule, and the number of Muslims steadily increased.
Simultaneously, the vast Tethyan oceanic crust, to its northeast, began to subduct under the Eurasian Plate. India accounts for the bulk of the Indian subcontinent, lying atop the Indian tectonic plate, and a part of the Indo-Australian Plate. Disaffection with the company also grew during this time and set off the Indian Rebellion of 1857. Its further access to the riches of Bengal and the subsequent increased strength and size of its army enabled it to annexe or subdue most of India by the 1820s. Newly coherent social groups in northern and western India, such as the Marathas, the Rajputs, and the Sikhs, gained military and governing ambitions during Mughal rule, which, through collaboration or adversity, gave them both recognition and military experience.
The compromise resolution became articles 343–351 of India’s constitution, which came into effect on 26 January 1950. Hindi language protagonists wanted Hindi in the Devanagari script to be the sole “national language” of India whereas delegates from South India preferred English to have a place in the Constitution. Among them Mumbai, Delhi, Kolkata, Chennai, Bengaluru, Hyderabad and Ahmedabad, in decreasing order by population. In the 2011 census, there were 53 million-plus urban agglomerations in India. The slowing down of the overall population growth rate was due to the sharp decline in the growth rate in rural areas since 1991.