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The term 'ready reckoner' was coined by the schoolmaster Daniel Fenning with the publication of The ready reckoner; or trader's most useful assistant in 1757. [6] This was a modernised and extended version of Leybourn's work, which was reprinted in Boston, Massachusetts, about 1770, and translated into German in Germantown, Philadelphia, 1774. [7]
The plane, originally scheduled to take its maiden flight in 1991, has taken 17 years to develop and will not be ready for service until 2010. 9 January-21 February – More than 100 million people – almost 2% of the world's population – attend the Maha Kumbh Mela festival in Allahabad, making it the largest gathering of human beings in ...
The sector is predicted to grow at an average annual rate of 8.8% to US$9 billion by 2026 (3.1% of GDP). Mumbai's tourism industry accounted for 5.4% of India's total travel and tourism-related GDP in 2016, and employed 2.4% of the country's total workforce. [102] Foreign tourists accounted for 35.7% of all tourism-related spending in Mumbai in ...
With an overseas gross of ₹ 10.84 crore [42] (US$2.2 million) in 2001, it was the year's second highest-grossing Indian film overseas, preceded only by Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham.... [61] Lagaan ' s overseas gross included £ 600,000 in the United Kingdom , US$910,000 in the United States and Canada , and US$180,000 in the Arab states of the ...
The 2001 census of India was the 14th in a series of censuses held in India every decade since 1871. [1] The population of India was counted as 1,028,737,436 consisting of 532,223,090 males and 496,514,346 females. [2] The total population increased by 182,310,397, 21.5% more than the 846,427,039 people counted during the 1991 census. [2]
The city was capital of Bombay state before the formation of state of Maharashtra. It became financial centre of India and attracted people from all across India which resulted in booming population growth of the city.The following is a timeline of the growth of Mumbai's population over the last four centuries: 1661: 10000 inhabitants [1]
Mumbai Metropolitan Region (ISO: Muṁbaī Mahānagara Pradēśa; abbreviated to MMR and previously also known as Greater Bombay Metropolitan Area), [6] [7] is a metropolitan area consisting of Mumbai and its satellite towns in the northern Konkan division of Maharashtra in western India.
Before 1971, abortion was criminalized under Section 312 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860, [8] describing it as intentionally "causing miscarriage". [9] Except in cases where abortion was carried out to save the life of the woman, it was a punishable offense and criminalized women/providers, with whoever voluntarily caused a woman with child to miscarry [10] facing three years in prison and/or a ...