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  2. Indian numbering system - Wikipedia

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    The Indian numbering system corresponds to the Western system for the zeroth through fourth powers of ten: one (10 0 ), ten (10 1 ), one hundred (10 2 ), one thousand (10 3 ), and ten thousand (10 4 ). For higher powers of ten, the names no longer correspond. In the ancient Indian system still in use in regional languages of India, there are ...

  3. National symbols of India - Wikipedia

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    Flag of India [1] 15 August 1947 ( Dominion of India) [6] 26 January 1950 ( Republic of India ) A horizontal rectangular tricolour with equally sized deep saffron at the top, white in the middle and India green at the bottom with the Dharma Chakra, a 24-spoke wheel, in navy blue at its center. [1] The ratio of width of the flag to its length is ...

  4. Indian National Congress - Wikipedia

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    The Indian National Congress ( INC ), colloquially the Congress Party or simply the Congress, is a political party in India with deep roots in most regions of India. Founded on 28 December 1885, it was the first modern nationalist movement to emerge in the British Empire in Asia and Africa. [b] [30] From the late 19th century, and especially ...

  5. Hindu–Arabic numeral system - Wikipedia

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    Origins. Sometime around 600 CE, a change began in the writing of dates in the Brāhmī-derived scripts of India and Southeast Asia, transforming from an additive system with separate numerals for numbers of different magnitudes to a positional place-value system with a single set of glyphs for 1–9 and a dot for zero, gradually displacing additive expressions of numerals over the following ...

  6. National identification number - Wikipedia

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    The identification number has 8-digit standard format: NNNNNNN (N), where N is a numeric digit 0–9. The first numeric digit N has special meaning, and it can be one of the following digits: '1', '5' or '7'. '1': The first-time date of issuance of ID card to the bearer was 1992 or later.

  7. Azad Hind stamps - Wikipedia

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    Azad Hind Stamps. The Azad Hind stamps are a set of prepared but never issued stamps for the planned Provisional Government of Free India under Subhas Chandra Bose. All stamps were printed by photogravure in sheets of 100 at the Reichsdruckerei, the Government Printing Bureau in Berlin. [1] The smaller nominal values of the Azad Hind stamps.

  8. History of the Indian National Congress - Wikipedia

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    The Indian National Congress was established when 72 representatives from all over the country met at Bombay in 1885. Prominent delegates included Dadabhai Naoroji, Surendranath Banerjee, Badruddin Tyabji, Pherozeshah Mehta, W. C. Banerjee, S. Ramaswami Mudaliar, [1] S. Subramania Iyer, and Romesh Chunder Dutt.

  9. National Institute of Advanced Studies - Wikipedia

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    www .nias .res .in. National Institute of Advanced Studies ( NIAS) is a premier institute in India engaged in interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary research in natural sciences, social sciences, arts and humanities. [1] It was founded by J. R. D. Tata for providing an avenue for administrators, managers and social leaders for interaction and ...