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Some states have bi-cameral Legislature ( having two Houses). The six states having two Houses are Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar.  Legislative Council (vidhan Parishad) is a permanent body like the council of state (Rajya Sabha). 

GOVERNOR GENERALS AND VICEROYS(1858-1947). Lord Canning (1858-1862). Lord Elgini(1862-1863).  Sir John Lawrence (1864-1869). Lord Mayo(1869-1872).  Lord Northbrook (1872-1876).  Lord  Lytton(1876-1880).  Lord Ripon (1880-1884).  Lord Dufferin(1884-1888).  Lord Lansdowne (1888-1894).  Lord Elgin II (1894-1899).  Lord Curzon (1899-1905).  Lord Minto II (1905-1910).  Lord Hardings (1910-1916).  Lord Chelmsford (1916-1921).  Lord Reading (1921-1926).  Lord Irwin (1926-1931).  Lord willingdon(1931-1936).  Lord Linlithgow(1936-1943).  Lord Wavell(1943-1947).  Lord Mountbatten(March-August 1947).

Jawaharlal Nehru was the first Prime Minister and the longest serving so far. (15 August 1947 - 27 May 1964).    The first and the only acting Prime Minister was Gulzarilal Nanda. (27 May 1964 - 9 June 1964). Lal Bahadur Shastri was the PM which died abroad, while in office at Takshent. ( 9 June 1964 - 11 January 1966). Gulzarilal Nanda has acted twice as the Prime Minister.  ( 11 January 1966 - 24 January 1966). Chaudhary Charan Singh was the only PM who did not face Parliament, while being in office.  ( 28 July 1979 - 14 January 1980). The Youngest Prime Minister was Rajeev Gandhi ( 31 October 1984 - 2 December 1989) and the oldest Prime Minister was Morarji Desai(24 March 1977 - 28 July 1979). AB Vajpayee government had the shortest tenure. (13days).  (16 May 1996 - 1 June 1996). V.P.Singh was the first Prime Minister to loose-confidence of the House.  (2 December 1989 - 10 November 1990).

The Lok Sabha at present consists of 543 members (530 members are directly elected from the states and 13 from Union Territories.  The Lok Sabha is the Lower House of the Parliament and it's first sitting took place on 13th May 1952.

GOVERNOR GENERALS OF FREE INDIA (1947-1950). LORD MOUNTBATTEN (1947-1948).  C. RAJAGOPALACHARI (JUNE 1948 - January 25, 1950).

GOVERNOR GENERALS OF INDIA (1833-1858). Lord William Bentick (1833-1835).  Sir Charles Metcalfe(1834-1836).  Lord Auckland (1836-1842).  Lord EllenBorough (1842-1844).  Lord Hardings I (1844-1848).  Lord Dalhousie (1848-1856).  Lord Canning (1856-1858). 

GOVERNOR GENERALS OF BENGAL (1774-1833). Warren Hastings (1774-1785).  Lord Cornwallis (1786-1793).  Sir Johan Shore(1793-1798).  Lord Wellesley (1798-1805).  George Barlow(1805-1807).  Lord Minto I (1807-1813).  Lord Hastings (1813-1823).  Lord Amherst (1823-1828).  Lord William Bentick (1828-1833). 

Jawaharlal Nehru :-  Exteernal Affairs and Commonwealth Relations. Sardar vallabhbhai Patel :- Home, Information & Broadcasting.  Dr Rajendra Prasad :- Food & Agriculture.  Jagjivan Ram :- Labour.  Sardar Baldev Singh :-  Defence.  CH Bhabha :- Works, Mines and Power.  Liaquat Ali Khan :- Finance.  Abdur Rab Nishtar :- Posts and Air.  Asaf Ali :- Railwaya and Transport.  C Rajagopalachari :-  Education and Arts.  II Chundrigar :- Commerce.  Ghaznafar Ali Khan :- Health.  Joginder Nath Mandal :- Law. 

Biggest Planet:- Jupiter.  Biggest Satellite:- Ganymede (Jupiter).  Blue Planet:- Earth.  Green Planet:- Uranus.  Brightest Planet:- Venus.  Brightest Planet and outside Solar System:- Sirius (Dog Star).  Closest Star of Solar System:- Proxima Centauri.  Coldest Planet:- Neptune.  Evening Star:- Venus.  Farthest Planet from Sun:- Neptune.  Planet with maximum number of Satellites:- Saturn(Overtaking Jupiter).  Fastest revolution in Solar System:- Mercury.  Hottest Planet:- Venus.  Densest Planet:- Earth.  Fastest rotation in Solar System:- Jupiter.  Morning Star:- Venus.  Nearest Planet to Earth:- Venus.  Nearest Planet to Sun:- Mercury.  Red Planet:- Mars.  Slowest Revolution in Solar System:- Neptune.  Slowest Rotation in Solar System:- Neptune.  Smallest Planet:- Mercury.  Smallest Satellite:- Deimos(Mars).  Earth's Twin:- Venus.  Only Satellite with an atmosphere like Earth:- Titan. 

There are seven Parliamentary Constituencies in Himachal Pradesh  (four- Lok Sabha :- Hamirpur, Kangra, Mandi & Shimla and Three Rajya Sabha).  Each Lok Sabha Constituency consists of 17 Legislative Constituencies.  The Shimla Lok Sabha Constituency is reserve for Scheduled Castes (SC). 

The first Attorney General of Independent of India was MC SETALVAD (1950-1962) 

The Government of India decided to create new category of 'Clasical Language' (2004) and laid down the criteria for conferring the classical language status (2006). At present six language:- Tamil(2004), Sanskrit(2005), Telugu(2008), Kannada (2008), Malayalam(2013), & odia(2014) are granted the classical language status. 

In India, the Tropic of cancer (23.5°N latitude) passes through 8 States.  Gujarat, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, West Bengal, Tripur & Mizoram.