The Kashmir Division is a revenue and administrative division in the Kashmir Valley region of Jammu and Kashmir. It borders Jammu Division to the south and the union territory of Ladakh to the east, while the Line of Control forms its boundary with the Pakistani-administered territories of Gilgit−Baltistan and Azad Kashmir to the north and west, respectively. Srinagar is its main city and also the summer capital of the Jammu and Kashmir. Other main
The Indian union territory of Jammu and Kashmir consists of two divisions: Jammu Division and Kashmir Division, and is further divided into 20 districts: Contents 1History 1.1Princely state of Kashmir 1.2Partition 1.3Inside India 2Districts 2.1Jammu Division 2.2Kashmir Division 3References 4Bibliography 5External links History Princely state of Kashmir Main article: Jammu and Kashmir (princely state) Prior to 1947, Kashmir was a princely state under the paramountcy of the British Indian Empire.
Jharkhand, a state of India, has twenty-four administrative districts. Contents 1Administration 2History 3Administrative Divisions and District 4See also 5Notes and references 6External links Administration A district of an Indian state is an administrative geographical unit, headed by a district magistrate or a deputy commissioner, an officer belonging to the Indian Administrative Service. The district magistrate or the deputy commissioner
The northern Indian state of Himachal Pradesh is divided into 12 districts, the Revenue department of which is headed by a Deputy Commissioner or District Magistrate, an officer belonging to the Indian Administrative Service. The district magistrate or the deputy commissioner is assisted by a number of officers belonging to Himachal Administrative Service and other Himachal state services. A District Judge serves
Rohtak is a city and the administrative headquarters of the Rohtak district in the Indian state of Haryana. It lies 70 kilometres (43 mi) north-west of New Delhi and 250 kilometres (160 mi) south of the state capital Chandigarh on NH 9(old NH 10). Rohtak forms a part of the National Capital Region (NCR) which
Delhi Central Delhi 1,483 16,788 East Delhi New Delhi North Delhi North East Delhi North West Delhi Shahdara South Delhi South East Delhi South West Delhi West Delhi Haryana Bhiwani 25,327 11,031 Charkhi Dadri Faridabad Gurgaon Jhajjar Jind Karnal Mahendragarh Nuh Palwal Panipat Rewari Rohtak Sonipat Rajasthan Alwar 13,447 [20] 3,674 Bharatpur Uttar Pradesh Baghpat
India is a union of 28 states and 8 union territories. As of 2011, with an estimated population of 1.2 billion, India is the world’s second most populous country after the People’s Republic of China. India occupies 2.4% of the world’s area and is home to 17.5% of the world’s population. The Indo-Gangetic plains have one of the world’s biggest stretches of fertile flat-deep alluvium and are among the most
East Punjab (known simply as Punjab from 1950) was a province and later a state of India from 1947 until 1966, consisting of the parts of the Punjab Province of British India that went to India following the partition of the province between India and Pakistan by the Radcliffe Commission in 1947. The mostly Muslim western parts of the old Punjab became Pakistan’s West Punjab, later renamed
Sardar Hukam Singh (30 August 1895 – 27 May 1983) was an Indian politician and the third Speaker of the Lok Sabha from 1962 to 1967. He was also governor of Rajasthan from 1967 to 1972. Contents 1Early life 2Political career 3Speaker of the Lok Sabha 4Activities in retirement 5Author and editor 6References 7Further reading 8External links Early life
Haryana, with 22 districts, is a state in the northern region of India and is the nation’s eighteenth most populous. The state borders with Punjab and Himachal Pradesh to the north and Rajasthan to the west and south. The river Yamuna defines its eastern border with Uttar Pradesh. Haryana also surrounds Delhi on three sides, forming the northern, western and southern borders of Delhi. Consequently, a large area of Haryana is included in the National Capital