The State of India, also referred as the Portuguese State of India or simply Portuguese India, was a state of the Portuguese Overseas Empire, founded six years after the discovery of a sea route between Portugal and the Indian Subcontinent to serve as the governing body of a string of Portuguese fortresses and colonies overseas.
Events in the year 1954 in the Republic of India.
Bharatiya Navshakti Party, is a political party in India. BNP is active in the Union Territory of Dadra and Nagar Haveli and the Adivasi areas in southern and central Gujarat. BNP is led by the Lok Sabha MP from Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Delkar Mohanbhai Sanjibhai.
The Daman Ganga also called Dawan River is a river in western India. The river's headwaters are on the western slope of the Western Ghats range, and it flows west into the Arabian Sea. The river flows through Maharashtra and Gujarat states, as well as the Union territories of Daman and Diu and Dadra and Nagar Haveli. The industrial towns of Vapi, Dadra and Silvassa lie on the north bank of the river, and the town of Daman occupies both banks of the river's estuary.
Dadra and Nagar Haveli Lok Sabha constituency is the only Lok Sabha (parliamentary) constituency in the union territory of Dadra and Nagar Haveli, which covers the entire union territory. The constituency is reserved for the Scheduled Tribes
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Dadra is a small town in the Indian Union Territory of Dadra and Nagar Haveli. It is an enclave lying a few kilometres north of Nagar Haveli in Gujarat.
Nagar Haveli is the larger pocket in the Indian Union Territory of Dadra and Nagar Haveli. It is surrounded by the Indian states of Gujarat and Maharashtra.
The Annexation of Dadra and Nagar Haveli, also known as the Invasion of Dadra and Nagar Haveli, was the conflict in which the territories of Dadra and Nagar Haveli passed from Portuguese rule to Indian Union rule in 1954.
A union territory is a type of administrative division in the Republic of India. Unlike the states of India, which have their own governments, union territories are federal territories ruled directly by the union government, hence the name "union territory"
The Tenth Amendment of the Constitution of India, officially known as The Constitution Act, 1961, incorporated Dadra and Nagar Haveli as the seventh Union territory of India, by amending the First Schedule to the Constitution. It also amended clause (1) of article 240 of the Constitution to include therein the Union territory of Dadra and Nagar Haveli in order to enable the President to "make regulations for the peace, progress and good government of the territory". The 10th Amendment retroactively came into effect on 11 August 1961.
The Dadra and Nagar Haveli Police is the law enforcement agency for the Union Territory of Dadra and Nagar Haveli in India.
Maghval, also known as Megwal, is a village in the Kaprada tehsil of Valsad district in Gujarat State, India. It is a small enclave belonging to Gujarat, but located within Nagar Haveli, just south of Silvassa in the Indian Union Territory of Dadra and Nagar Haveli.
Dadra and Nagar Haveli Cricket Association is the governing body of the Cricket activities in the Union Territory of Dadra and Nagar Haveli in India and the Dadra and Nagar Haveli cricket team. It is not affiliated to the Board of Control for Cricket in India. However it is affiliated to Gujarat Cricket Association as a District Association.
Dadra & Nagar Haveli Territorial Congress Committee (DNHTCC) is the wing of Indian National Congress in the parts of Dadra & Nagar Haveli. Mohanbhai Sanjibhai Delkar is the present president.
Shri Vinoba Bhave Civil Hospital (VBCH) is a government multi-speciality hospital located in Silvassa, Dadra and Nagar Haveli.
Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, Silvassa or locally known as JNV Silvassa is a boarding, co-educational school in Union territory of Dadra and Nagar Haveli in India. Navodaya Vidyalayas are funded by the Indian Ministry of Human Resources Development and administered by Navodaya Vidyalaya Smiti, an autonomous body under the ministry.
