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India’s Sports
January 4, 2009 |
India’s official national sport is field hockey, administered by the Indian Hockey Federation. The Indian field hockey team has won the 1975 Men’s Hockey World Cup and Olympic gold medals. However, cricket is the most popular sport; the India national cricket team has won the 1983 Cricket World Cup and the 2007 ICC World Twenty20. [...]
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Indian’s Economy
January 4, 2009 |
For most of its post-independence history, India adhered to a quasi-socialist approach with strict government control over private sector participation, foreign trade and foreign direct investment. However, since 1991, India has gradually opened up its markets through economic reforms and reduced government controls on foreign trade and investment. Foreign exchange reserves have risen from US$5.8 [...]
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Indian’s Geography
January 4, 2009 |
India, the major portion of the Indian subcontinent, sits atop the Indian tectonic plate, a minor plate within the Indo-Australian Plate.
India’s defining geological processes commenced seventy-five million years ago, when the Indian subcontinent, then part of the southern supercontinent Gondwana, began a northeastwards drift—lasting fifty million years—across the then unformed Indian Ocean. The subcontinent’s subsequent [...]