As India's first Prime minister and external affairs minister, Jawaharlal Nehru played a major role in shaping modern India's government and political culture along with sound foreign policy.

Amidst India's growing role in Liberia, the Liberian Minister of Mines and Energy, Dr. Eugene Shannon visited India in October 2005 to participate in the Confederation of Indian Industry-Africa Conclave.

He played a pivotal organizational, technical and political role in India's Pokhran-II nuclear tests in 1998, the first since the original nuclear test by India in 1974.

The 2001 documentary film Bombay Eunuch examines the changing role of India's hijras, some of whom are also eunuchs.

Previously a change to republican status had been seen as incompatible with continued membership, but negotiations with the other Commonwealth members resulted in recognition of the British monarch as a ceremonial Head of the Commonwealth, despite the end of the King's role in India's constitutional system.

* Youth cadet organizations with no wartime role, e. g. India's National Cadet Corps

" The party is pledged to build up India as a strong and prosperous nation, which is modern, progressive and enlightened in outlook and which proudly draws inspiration from India's ancient culture and values and thus is able to emerge as a great world power, playing an effective role in the community of nations for the establishment of world peace and a just international order.

Bindusara's son Ashoka the Great became one of the most influential kings in India's history due to his important role in the history of Buddhism.

Named in the list of beneficiaries were British MP George Galloway and his charity, the Mariam Fund ; former French Interior Minister Charles Pasqua ; and Shaker al-Kaffaji, an Iraqi-American businessman, India's foreign minister, Natwar Singh, was removed from office because of his role in the scandal.

It is largely due to his commitment and guidance that the Communist Party of India ( Marxist ), of which he was Politburo member and general secretary for 14 years, has become such a domineering political force, playing a vital role in India's new era of coalition politics.

Ballia became known as " Baghi Ballia " ( Rebel Ballia ) for this significant role in India's freedom movement.

India's SEBI Committee on Corporate Governance defines corporate governance as the " acceptance by management of the inalienable rights of shareholders as the true owners of the corporation and of their own role as trustees on behalf of the shareholders.

The Immortals played an important role in Cyrus the Great's conquest of the Neo-Babylonian Empire in 547 BC, Cambyses ' campaign against Egypt in 525 BC and Darius the Great's invasion of India's smaller western frontier kingdoms ( western Punjab and Sindh, now in Pakistan ) and Scythia in 520 BC and 513 BC.

As Bhang has served such an important role in India's culture and spiritual practices it would be impossible to criminalize cannabis completely in the country.

His first leading role in a Bollywood movie was in Sooraj R. Barjatya's romantic family drama Maine Pyar Kiya ( 1989 ), one of India's highest grossing films.

The Government of India played a significant role in using the audio-visual media for increasing mass education in India's rural swathes.

It plays an important role in India's Hindustani classical music tradition.

With the role of India increasing and the requirement for protection of India's interest in far off shores become important, the Indian Army and Indian Navy are jointly planning to set up a marine brigade.

* 29 April – Minister for Coal and Mines Ram Vilas Paswan resigns on the issue of the Gujarat violence, which he says has " tarnished India's image " while the government's role appears to be that of a " silent spectator ".

Its primary role is to guard India's international borders during peacetime and also prevent trans border crime.

Mandira Bedi ( born 15 April ) is an Indian actress, model and television presenter who gained celebrity status playing the title role in the 1994 television serial, Shanti, shown on India's national channel, Doordarshan which was the first ever daily soap on Indian television.

India's strategic location at the tip of the Indian Ocean, its massive production of armaments, and its huge armed forces played a decisive role in halting the progress of Imperial Japan in the South-East Asian theatre.

Khatris played an important role in India's transregional trade under the Mughal Empire.

Emperor Bahadur Shah is seen by some in India as a freedom fighter ( the mutiny soldiers made him their Commander-In-Chief ), fighting for India's independence from the Company.

Yashpal, supposedly fought a revolutionary fighting for India's freedom, was twenty-eight years old when he was caught, tried and sentenced to fourteen years of hard labour.

With the UN's and PVA's acceptance of India's proposal for an armistice, fighting ended July 27, 1953, by which time the front line was back around the proximity of the 38th parallel.

During India's First War of Independence Mundargi Bheema Rao and Hammige Kenchanagouda died fighting the British here in June 1858.

India's lack of recognition of the Taliban regime in Afghanistan complicated negotiations between Indian authorities and the hijackers.

India's lack of previous contact with the Taliban regime complicated the negotiating process.

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.

India's independent judicial system began under the British, and its concepts and procedures resemble those of Common Law countries.

Although Gandhi wanted a total focus on the task of winning independence and not speculation about India's future, he did not restrain the Congress from adopting socialism as its goal.

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 ).

Given India's historic position that the original intent of the line was to separate the two nations by the highest mountains in the world, in these locations India extended its forward posts northward to the ridges, regarding this move as compliant with the original border proposal, although the Simla Convention did not explicitly state this intention.

Despite their common efforts, bilateral trade has been comparatively low, valued at US $ 12. 09 million in 2005 ; India's exports to Tajikistan were valued at US $ 6. 2 million and its imports at US $ 5. 89 million.

** India's Missionaries of Charity chooses Sister Nirmala to succeed Mother Teresa as its leader.

* July 24 – The government of India announces its New Industrial Policy, marking the start of India's economic reforms.

After India's independence, Madhya Pradesh state was created with Nagpur as its capital: this state included the southern parts of the present-day Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra.

On 16 August 2008 ( one day after the Independence Day of India ), the gay community in Mumbai held its first ever formal pride parade ( although informal pride parades had been held many times earlier ), to demand that India's anti-gay laws be amended.

M S Golwalkar, one of the main proponents of Hindutva believed that India's diversity in terms of customs, traditions and ways of worship was its uniqueness and that this diversity was not without the strong underlying cultural basis which was essentially native.

He said that the credibility and endurance of India's unity and democracy are founded on its tradition of tolerance, and spoke of the need for Hindus, who form the majority, to express the traditional spirit of their religion.

Despite its changed status, India's leaders desired the country to remain a member of the Commonwealth.

It is one of the churches of India's Saint Thomas Christian community, which traces its origins to the evangelical activity of Thomas the Apostle in the 1st century.

That same year he founded the Self-Realization Fellowship ( SRF ) to disseminate worldwide his teachings on India's ancient practices and philosophy of Yoga and its tradition of meditation.

The concept of Integral Humanism has a special place in its ideology, the BJP's right-wing politics include some aspects of modern conservatism, social conservatism, progressivism and enlightened nation which draws inspiration from India's ancient Indian culture and values.

It is well known for its stock market indices, the U. S .- based S & P 500, the Australian S & P / ASX 200, the Canadian S & P / TSX, the Italian S & P / MIB and India's S & P CNX Nifty.

In India, organized professional Paintball began in early 2005 when The Paintball Co. was established with the help of PALS ( Paintball Asia League Series ) which governs this sport in the Asian Circuit and started its first professional Paintball Gaming arena at Damdama, Gurgaon-Harayana ( near India's capital New Delhi ).

The London Declaration, which permitted republics to remain within the Commonwealth, was made shortly afterwards in response to India's desire to continue as a member once its new republican constitution was finalised.

packets of essential medicine was delivered to the Heath Ministry of ST & P as a goodwill gesture In turn, the Republic of São Tomé and Principe has announced its support for India to be awarded a permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council and is the 47th country of Africa to join the Government of India's Pan-African e-Network Project.