They were observed in the Gir Wildlife Sanctuary and National Park, in the Tadoba-Andhari Tiger Reserve in Maharashtra, on India's east coast, and in eastern Gujurat.

In India's Laokhowa Wildlife Sanctuary 41 rhinos were killed in 1983, virtually the entire population of the sanctuary.

The lake was declared a wildlife sanctuary in November 1999 under India's Wildlife Protection Act, and designated a wetland of international importance in November 2002 under the international Ramsar Convention.

The centre is both a registered trust and a recognized zoo under the Wildlife ( Protection ) Act, 1972 and is India's leading institution for herpeto faunal conservation, research and education.

The lake was notified as a wildlife sanctuary in November 1999 under India's Wildlife Protection Act of 1972, and designated a wetland of international importance in November 2002 under the international Ramsar Convention.

In June 2011, the head of India's Wildlife Conservation Society was fired for being part of a government committee that backed tribal rights over forest lands under the Forest Rights Act.

By most accounts, Coca-Cola was India's leading soft drink until 1977 when it left India after a new government ordered The Coca-Cola Company to turn over its secret formula for Coke and dilute its stake in its Indian unit as required by the Foreign Exchange Regulation Act ( FERA ).

The Forest Rights Act passed by the Indian government in 2006 grants some of India's most impoverished communities the right to own and live in the forests, which likely brings them into conflict with wildlife and under-resourced, under-trained, ill-equipped forest department staff.

India's Design Act, 2000 was enacted to consolidate and amend the law relating to protection of design and to comply with the articles 25 and 26 of TRIPS agreement.

Pursuant to the provisions of the State Bank of India Act of 1955, the Reserve Bank of India, which is India's central bank, acquired a controlling interest in the Imperial Bank of India.

According to India's 1971 Prevention of Insults to National Honour Act, it is an offence to show disrespect to the national flag or let it touch the ground.

The duties and functions of the service were formally defined in the Coast Guard Act, which was passed by India's parliament on 18 August 1978 and came into immediate effect.

The Official Secrets Act 1923 is India's anti-espionage act held over from British colonisation.

The States Reorganisation Act of 1956 was a major reform of the boundaries of India's states and territories, organising them along linguistic lines.

Although additional changes to India's state boundaries have been made since 1956, the States Reorganisation Act of 1956 remains the single most extensive change in state boundaries since the independence of India in 1947.

The Act came into effect at the same time as the Constitution ( Seventh Amendment ) Act, 1956, which ( amongst other things ) restructured the constitutional framework for India's existing states.

Belgaum district was incorporated into the newly formed Mysore state ( now Karnataka ) with the passage of the States Reorganisation Act ( 1956 ), which reorganised India's states along linguistic lines since majority of the people ( more than two-third of population ) in the district including city spoke Marathi.

The Government of India's purported intention in 2006 to amend the RTI Act was postponed after public disquiet, but has been revived again in 2009 by the DoPT.

Recent changes to India's Citizenship Act 1955 ( see Indian nationality law ) provide that Indian citizenship by descent can no longer be acquired automatically at the time of birth.

Recent changes to India's Citizenship Act 1955 ( see Indian nationality law ) provide that Indian citizenship by descent can no longer be acquired automatically at the time of birth.

She continued to receive major Indian awards in subsequent years, including India's highest civilian award, the Bharat Ratna, in both 1972 and 1980.

Although Pakistan began the development of nuclear weapons in 1972, Pakistan responded to India's 1974 nuclear test ( see Smiling Buddha ) with a number of proposals to prevent a nuclear competition in South Asia.

He was awarded the Padma Shri in 1970, followed by the Dadasaheb Phalke Award ( India's highest award in cinema, given by the Government of India ) in 1972 for lifetime contribution to Indian cinema.

The Government of India honoured him with the Arjuna Award ( 1967 ) and Padmashri ( 1972 ), India's fourth highest civilian honour.

He is convicted for the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts case and killing of India's music baron Gulshan Kumar in 1997, Indian actress Manisha Koirala's secretary, a builder and more than 50 other cases.

When the mobilization against India's Central Government turned ugly with the targeted killing of six Hindu bus passengers at Dhilwan, Punjab on October 5, 1983, he sent money to the victims ' families and a telegram to the Sant Harchand Singh Longowal to call a halt to the campaign for a few weeks, until peace returned.

Its protected status has gained publicity through a widely reported court case, in which one of India's leading film stars, Salman Khan, was sentenced to five years imprisonment for killing two blackbucks and several endangered chinkaras.

Shalimar evades the authorities and eventually returns to India's home, with the intention of killing her.

Nehru also outlined a commitment in his five-year plans to guarantee free and compulsory primary education to all of India's children.

* The United States Department of State issues a travel warning advising all Americans except for essential diplomatic personnel ( about 60, 000 people ) to leave India because " conditions along India's border with Pakistan and in the state of Jammu and Kashmir have deteriorated.

Although pleas for commutation were made by India's prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru and by Gandhi's two sons on the grounds that a death sentence would dishonour the legacy of a man opposed to all forms of violence, Godse was hanged a week later.

| India's first all weather observation spy satellite. ANUSAT is the first satellite built by an Indian University.

Though this area covers barely five percent of India's land, 27 % of all species of higher plants in India ( 4, 000 of 15, 000 species ) are found here.

In 2000, India's Supreme Court directed all Indian cities to implement a comprehensive waste-management program that would include household collection of segregated waste, recycling and composting.

In 2006, India's Sariska Tiger Reserve lost all of its 26 tigers, mostly to poaching.

Control over this region was of vital importance to the power and stability of all of India's major empires, including the Maurya ( 320 – 200 BC ), Kushan ( 100 – 250 CE ), Gupta ( 350 – 600 CE ), and Gurjara-Pratihara ( 650 – 1036 CE ) empires.

The Koshi is known as the Sorrow of Bihar for contributing disproportionately to India's death tolls in flooding, which exceed those of all countries except Bangladesh.

The IIM Council is headed by India's Minister of Human Resource Development and consists of the chairpersons and directors of all IIMs and senior officials from the Ministry of Human Resource Development of the Government of India.

At 4 a. m. on 13 September 1948, India's Hyderabad Campaign, code-named " Operation Polo " by the Indian Army, was commenced, with Indian troops invading Hyderabad from all points of the compass.

Morarji Desai had described the Research and Analysis Wing ( R & AW ), India's external intelligence agency, as the praetorian guard of Indira Gandhi and had promised to stop all activities of the R & AW after becoming prime minister.

The Central Asian finds are all from excavations and date from the 8th to 12th centuries AD, while the Indian / Sri Lankan material is as early as 300 BC. In addition India's superior iron ore has trace vanadium and other rare earths which unintentionally leads to the formation of carbon nano tubes in Indian crucible steel which was famous throughout the middle east for its ability to retain its edge even after prolonged usage.

A graph showing India's Test match results against all Test match teams from 1932 to September 2006

The 1980s saw Gavaskar and Kapil Dev ( India's best all rounder to this date ) at the pinnacle of their careers.

* 9 July-In Kashmir, the Indian army reports that it has all but ousted the infiltrators from the Batalik zone on India's side of the ceasefire line.

As of 2004, it supplied 14 % of India's oil requirement and accounted for about 38 % of all domestic production.

* Sonia Gandhi-seen to many the de facto Prime Minister of India ; named as a kingmaker on numerous occasions, Time magazine named her as such and called her India's leader in all but title.

Rangoli major symbols of a lotus flower, its leaves, mango, Tue vase, fish, different kind birds, parrot, swan, peacock, human figures and foliage are found in almost all India's Rangolioan.

The institution is among the handful India's most prestigious institutions for degree programmes in Commerce, Arts, Natural Sciences and Social Sciences and has been consistently ranked amongst the top five institutions in India for all of the said streams.

He remained the captain of the team for India's tour of Pakistan in 1989 and managed to draw all the four Tests of the series, which was seen by many as an honourable result.

Ajatasatru was monarch of a huge kingdom, which covered almost all of modern India's Bihar, Chandigarh, Haryana, Uttaranchal, Himachal Pradesh, Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, One fourth of north Madhya Pradesh, tip of Chattisgarh, bit of Jarkhand, west Bengal and Nepal.

The English School paintings, as these new art were called had seen the emergence of India's greatest artists of all times Raja Ravi Verma.

The four films he has directed, all starring Shahrukh Khan, have been India's highest grossing productions in the overseas market.