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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;
India is a federal union comprising 28 states and 8 union territories. [12] All states, as well as the union territories of Jammu and Kashmir, Puducherry and the National Capital Territory of Delhi, have elected legislatures and governments following the Westminster system of governance. The remaining five union territories are directly ruled ...
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 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.
The audio version of the serial broadcast on All India Radio network. The Swaraj serial was officially launched on August 5, 2022 by Shri Amit Shah , who is the Union Minister for Home & Cooperation, along with Shri Anurag Singh Thakur , who is the Union Minister for Information & Broadcasting, and Dr. L. Murugan, who is the Union Minister of ...
The National Cooperative Union of India (NCUI), is an umbrella organisation representing the cooperative movement in India. It was established in 1929 at Madras, now Chennai, as the All India Cooperative Institutes Association and its first president was Lallubhai Samaldas. In 1951 it was reorganised as the Indian Cooperative Union (ICU) by the ...
The following day, 15 August 1947, the Dominion of India (officially the Union of India), became an independent country with official ceremonies taking place in New Delhi, and with Jawaharlal Nehru assuming the office of the prime minister, and the viceroy, Louis Mountbatten, staying on as its first Governor General. [26]
Also in 1954, pro-India forces liberated the Portuguese-held enclaves of Dadrá and Nagar Aveli, declaring the short-lived de facto state of Free Dadra and Nagar Haveli. In 1961, India annexed it as the Union Territory of Dadra and Nagar Haveli. [6] [7] [8] [9]