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Union of India or Indian Union may refer to: . The country of India; Dominion of India (1947–1950), which was also known as the Union of India; The Government of India, which "may sue or be sued by the name" of Union of India, as per Article 300 of the Indian Constitution
India has a quasi-federal form of government, called "union" or "central" government, [48] with elected officials at the union, state and local levels. At the national level, the head of government , the prime minister , is appointed by the president of India from the party or coalition that has the majority of seats in the Lok Sabha .
The Dominion of India, officially the Union of India, [7] was an independent dominion in the British Commonwealth of Nations existing between 15 August 1947 and 26 January 1950. [8] Until its independence , India had been ruled as an informal empire by the United Kingdom.
The Union Council of Ministers is the principal executive organ of the Government of India, which serves to aid and advise the President of India in execution of their functions. [1] It is chaired by the Prime Minister of India and consists of the heads of each of the executive government ministries.
Thereafter, a referendum was held in which 97.5 percent of voters supported abolishing the monarchy, effectively approving union with India. India is said to have stationed 20,000–40,000 troops in a country of only 200,000 during the referendum. [73] On 16 May 1975, Sikkim became the 22nd state of the Indian Union, and the monarchy was ...
The 2025 Union budget of India was presented by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on 1 February 2025 for the financial year 2025-2026. [1] This was the first full financial year budget of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's third term in office.
The partition of India in 1947 was the division of British India [a] into two independent dominion states, the Union of India and Dominion of Pakistan. [3] The Union of India is today the Republic of India and the Dominion of Pakistan, the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, and the People's Republic of Bangladesh.
Communications and Information Technology (India) August 1947 5 July 2016 Bifurcated into the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology and the Ministry of Communications (India) Drinking Water and Sanitation: 2011 30 May 2019 Merged with the Ministry of Water Resources, River Development & Ganga Rejuvenation and formed Ministry of Jal ...