His success made him India's first national leader with a multicultural base and facilitated his rise to power within Congress, which had previously been unable to reach many Muslims.

In the 1980s, India's national stations Doordarshan showed Fawlty Towers, Yes, Minister and Mind Your Language.

India's national police training academy is also named after him.

* Board of Control for Cricket in India, India's national cricket governing body

India's national broadcaster, Doordarshan, promotes a free-to-air DBS package as " DD Direct Plus ", which is provided as in-fill for the country's terrestrial transmission network.

The need for such centralized training establishments became apparent in the late 1940s following India's national independence, and subsequently the TDBG was established on 15 August 1951 at Sungai Petani, Kedah, Malaya.

In 1950 ( after India's independence ), the song's first two verses were given the official status of the " national song " of the Republic of India, distinct from the national anthem of India, Jana Gana Mana.

The problem first gained national media attention in India during the 1970s, when a new generation of female journalists began investigating the scope of the murders in India's newspapers.

This partition is claimed to have undermined India's national movement against British imperialism, and is said to have been politically motivated.

Corbett National Park is India's first national park which comprises 520. 8 km < sup > 2 </ sup >.

Named by Wisden as the Indian Cricketer of the Century in 2002, Kapil Dev was also India's national cricket coach for 10 months between October 1999 and August 2000.

* Permanent account number, India's national identification number for taxpayers

The airline operated closely with Air India, India's national carrier.

Although cricket was introduced to India by European merchant sailors in the 18th-century and the first cricket club in India was established in Calcutta in 1792, India's national cricket team did not play their first Test match until 25 June 1932 at Lord's.

Following India's first-round elimination from the 2007 Cricket World Cup, Harbhajan was replaced by other spinners in the national squad for both formats.

As a consequence of national pride, anglicised names have been officially discouraged in many places: Ireland's Kingstown, named by King George IV, has reverted to its original Irish name of Dún Laoghaire ; India's Bombay is now Mumbai, even though this is not the oldest local name ( see Toponymy of Mumbai ) and " Bombay " is still commonly used in the city ; Calcutta is Kolkata and Madras is Chennai.

Shaktimaan (), was a fictional Indian television superhero created by Dinker Jani and Mukesh Khanna, and telecast on Doordarshan, India's national television network.

He used literature for the purpose of arousing public awareness about national and social issues and often wrote about topics related to corruption, child widowhood, prostitution, feudal system, poverty, colonialism and on the India's freedom movement.

The Indian Agricultural Research Institute ( IARI ) is India's premier national Institute for agricultural research, education and extension.

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.

In 2006 India's intelligence agency, the Research and Analysis Wing estimated that 20, 000 armed cadre Naxalites were operating in addition to 50, 000 regular cadres and their growing influence prompted Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to declare them to be the most serious internal threat to India's national security.

The football team has been successful since its establishment and has maintained its status as one of India's most successful clubs, having won multiple trophies of national significance such as the Federation Cup, Rovers Cup, Durand Cup, IFA Shield, National Football League and the Domestic League.

Khan contributed the song " Gurus of Peace " to the album Vande Mataram, composed by A. R. Rahman, and released to celebrate the 50th anniversary of India's independence.

Other examples include Alan Hovhaness's And God Created Great Whales ( 1970 ), George Crumb's Vox Balaenae ( Voice of the Whale ) ( 1971 ) and Gabriel Pareyon's Invention over the song of the Vireo atriccapillus ( 1999 ) and Kha Pijpichtli Kuikatl ( 2003 ). a j mithra, India's only know zoo-musicologist has composed music using natural birds, animals and frog sounds since 2008

The song " Rang Barse Bhige Chunar wali " which Bachchan sings during the film is said to be one of India's best known folk songs., its lyrics were by poet Harivansh Rai Bachchan.

This romantic salsa hit single was India's first number-one song.

The film coincided with the 50th anniversary of India's independence from the United Kingdom, which made the song " I Love My India " very popular due to its nationalistic tone.

At that time consideration will be given to whether in the light of the United States supplies of rice available for Title 1, disposal, India's production, consumption and stocks of food grains, other imports from the United States and countries friendly to the United States, India's storage capacity, and other related factors, any increase would be possible in the portion of the total rice programmed which is currently planned for procurement during the first year.

* 1897 – Anglo-Afghan War: The Siege of Malakand ends when a relief column is able to reach the British garrison in the Malakand states adjacent to India's North West Frontier Province.

* 1975 – India's first satellite Aryabhata is launched.

The writer Arundhati Roy is famous for her anti-nuclear position and her activism against India's massive hydroelectric dam project, sponsored by the World Bank.

The economy is closely aligned with India's through strong trade and monetary links and dependence on India's financial assistance.

Its paradigmatic ethnographic example is the division of Hindu society into rigid social groups, with roots in India's ancient history and persisting until today.

The idea of dharma as duty or propriety derives from an idea found in India's ancient legal and religious texts that there is a divinely instituted natural order of things ( rta ) and justice, social harmony and human happiness require that human beings discern and live in a manner appropriate to the requirements of that order.

The long road from Bandar-Abbas in southern Iran to highway 1 in southern Afghanistan is carried out by state-owned Border Roads Organisation ( BRO ), the mission statement of which states that the BRO is India's " most reputed, multifaceted, transnational, modern construction organization committed to meeting the strategic needs of the armed forces.

The Taj Mahal Palace & Tower in Mumbai is one of India's most famous and historic hotels because of its association with the Indian independence movement.

Hip hop music in India had started at around 1990 and Baba Sehgal is credited as India's first rapper.

The Indian Ocean is bounded by India's Lakshadweep Islands to the north.

According to India's claim, it also shares a 106 km ( 66 mi ) border with Afghanistan in northwestern Kashmir, which is under Pakistani control.

It is expected that, in 2020, the average age of an Indian will be 29 years, compared to 37 for China and 48 for Japan ; and, by 2030, India's dependency ratio should be just over 0. 4.

Indira Gandhi is associated with fostering a culture of nepotism in Indian politics and in India's institutions.

* 1931 – Alam Ara, India's first talkie film, is released.

Nigeria supplies 20 % of India's crude oil needs and is India's largest trading partner in Africa.

The house, located at the epicenter of India's ruling Mughal elite, is so large that in 2001 it housed eight different families.

India's government held the view that the Himalayas were the ancient boundaries of the Indian subcontinent, and thus should be the modern boundaries of India, while it is the position of the Chinese government that the disputed area in the Himalayas have been geographically and culturally part of Tibet since ancient times.

India's three stage nuclear power programme is possibly the most well known and well funded of such efforts.

Tabloid journalism is still an evolving concept in India's conservative print media.