India’s diverse economy encompasses traditional village farming, modern agriculture, handicrafts, a wide range of modern industries and a multitude of services. Accounting for more than half of India’s output, services are the major source of economic growth. Agriculture, which is done by three fifth of the work force of the country produce products like rice, [...]

Official name: Republic of India Geographic coordinates: 20° 00 N, 77° 00 E Land area: 2,973,190 sq km Total area: 3,287,590 sq km Population: 1,027,015,248 Government: Federal Republic President: Pratibha Patil Prime Minister: Manmohan Singh Languages: English and Hindi (official), Assamese, Bengali, Bodo, Dogri, Gujarati, Kannada, Kashmiri, Konkani, Maithili, Malayalam, Manipuri, Marathi, Nepali, Oriya, Punjabi, [...]

India is located in southern Asia, bordering the Arabian Sea and the Bay of Bengal, between Burma and Pakistan. It has a area which is slightly more than one-third the size of US. The total area is 3,287,590 sq km from which 2,973,190 sq km is land and 314,400 sq km is water. With land [...]

India is one of the largest countries that practice Hinduism with 80.5% of the country’s population being accounted as Hindus. The second largest religion practiced by Indian is Islam with 13.4% of the population. 2.3% of the population are Christians, 1.9% are accounted as Sikhs, other 1.8% and 0.1% as unspecified according to the census [...]