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We say that we love India. But can we tell why we love India?

This is now the tallest Ravana ever built in India. This is built in Panchkula. Before you used to see big Ravana in Barara Haryana. Shilimar Ground Sector 5, Panchkula, Haryana 134108 Video Source  – https://www.youtube.com/lovetoknowindia

The Geographical Indications Registry today announced that the Rosogolla or rasgulla, unanimous with the Bengali identity, originated in West Bengal and not Odisha. What is GI Tag? A GI tag is a sort of intellectual property identifier recognising the origin of a product. West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee celebrated the news on twitter. Odisha and Bengal got into bitter…

Children’s Day is celebrated on 14 November, on the birthday of the first Prime Minister of independent India, who was fondly called Chacha Nehru.    

The owner of this 116 year old factory informed me that this process — as seen in these images — evolved from the process devised in king Harshavardhan’s time. And that the process has not changed much! He informed me that people tried different things over the years, but reverted to the time-tested Harsha-era process. He also informed that Harsha-era…

Krishna Sobti has been awarded the 53rd Jnanpith Award for the 2017 for her pathbreaking contribution in Indian literature. The Jnanpith Award is an Indian literary award presented annually by the Bharatiya Jnanpith organisation to an author for their “outstanding contribution towards literature”. Jnanpith Award List Year Recipient(s) Language(s) 1965 G. Sankara Kurup Malayalam (1st) 1966 Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay Bengali (2nd) 1967 Umashankar Joshi Gujarati…

Here is the list of Five Indian women who make it to world’s 100 most powerful women list. #32 Chanda Kochhar, CEO-Managing director, ICICI Bank Age : 55 Residence : Mumbai, India Citizenship : India Marital Status : Married Children : 2 Education : Master of Arts, Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies; Bachelor of Arts / Science, Jai Hind…

Ashish Nehra Interview on His Retirement      

Ashish Nehra set to retire from international cricket on November 1st, 2017. Here are top five performances from him. 6/23 vs England at Durban in 2003 during the 2003 World Cup game 6/59 vs Sri Lanka at Colombo RPS in 2005 during the tri-series final in 2005 4/35 vs Sri Lanka at Johannesburg in 2003 during the 2003 World Cup…

India Olympic Medal Winner List   NAME GAMES MEDALS Norman Pritchard ATHLETICS 200 m 1900 Paris SILVER Norman Pritchard ATHLETICS 200 hurdles 1900 Paris SILVER Hockey 1928 Amsterdam GOLD Hockey 1932 Los Angeles GOLD Hockey 1936 Berlin GOLD Hockey 1948 London GOLD Hockey 1952 Helsinki GOLD K.D. Jadhav 1952 Helsinki BRONZE WRESTLING Hockey 1956 Melbourne GOLD Hockey 1960 Rome SILVER Hockey 1964 Tokyo GOLD Hockey 1968 Mexico City BRONZE Hockey 1972 Munich BRONZE Hockey 1980 Moscow GOLD Leander Paes (singles) 1996 Atlanta BRONZE TENNIS doubles Karnam Malleswari 2000 Sydney…

Heena Sidhu – Gold in the women’s 10m Air Pistol File photo of Heena Sidhu Deepak Kumar – Bronze in 10m Air Rifle event Gagan Narang – Fourth in 10m Air Rifle event

Full Name : Vallabhbhai Jhaverbhai Patel Popular name : Sardar Patel Father Name :Jhaverbhai Patel Achievements : First Deputy Prime Minister of India ( 15 August 1947 – 15 December 1950 ) Born Date : Vallabhbhai Jhaverbhai Patel 31 October 1875 Place of Birth : Nadiad, Bombay Presidency, British India (now in Gujarat, India) Died : 15 December 1950 (aged…