India moved up one spot to 130 among 188 countries in the Human Development Index (HDI) rankings released by the United Nations Development Programme.

The 17 major states of India, with their sizeable population and geographical area, are bigger than many countries in the world. If the 17 states were to be deemed as separate countries, then these would rank from 104 (Kerala) to 163 (Bihar), according to the scores in the latest UN report.

Thus, Kerala would be the only state classified by the UN to have high human development since it has a score greater than 0.7 (in a scale of 0-1). The remaining 16 would be classified as either medium or low human development

Earth’s axis of rotation (polar axis) is always inclined at an angle  23.5 rom the elliptic axis

Raghuveer Chaudhari^{[note 1]} is a novelist, poet and critic from Gujarat, India. He has also worked as a columnist for numerous newspapers, such as Sandesh, Janmabhumi, Nirikshaka and Divya Bhaskar. He was a teacher at the Gujarat University until his retirement in 1998. His most significant contributions have been in Gujarati language but he has also written Hindi articles. He received the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1977, for his novel trilogy Uparvas. He received Jnanpith Award, considered to be India's highest literary award, in 2015.
Raghuveer chaudhari awarded sahitya puraskar award enriched the literature in  gujarati. (he is also a poet in hindi)

Novels

His novel Amrita (1965) explores the concept of existentialism. His 1975 trilogy titled Uparvas, Sahwas and Antarvas won him the Sahitya Akademi award in 1977. Rudramahalaya (1978) and Somtirth (1996) are historical novels.
His other novels include Venu Vatsala (1967), Purvarang, Laagni (1976), Samjyaa Vinaa Chhuta Padavun (2003) and Ek Dag Aagal Be Dag Paachhal (2009) and Avaran.^[1][2][5]


Sikhs have worst sex ratio; Christians best: Census. The Sikh community has alarmingly low sex ratio of 900 females per 1000 males in the state, said the Census of India 2011 report 'Population by Religion-2011' recently.Aug 29, 2015

27	Uttar Pradesh	912	902	898	916
28	Punjab	895	846	876	798
29	Sikkim	890	957	875	963

Salma bint Hazab al-Otaibi won a seat in the Madrika district of Mecca, the holiest city of Islam, while Hanouf bint Mufreh bin Ayad al-Hazimi won a seat in al-Jawf, in northern Saudi Arabia.

Wendelstein 7-X fusion device produced its first hydrogen plasma on 3 February 2016 at Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (IPP) in Greifswald is a city in northeastern Germany.by states Project Head Professor Dr. Thomas Klinger.  the push of a button by Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel, a 2-megawatt pulse of microwave heating transformed a tiny quantity of hydrogen gas into an extremely hot low-density hydrogen plasma. “With a temperature of 80 million degrees and a lifetime of a quarter of a second, the device’s first hydrogen plasma has completely lived up to our expectations”, states Dr. Hans-Stephan Bosch, whose division is responsible for operation of Wendelstein 7-X.

The Wendelstein 7-X (W7-X) reactor is an experimental stellarator (nuclear fusion reactor) built in Greifswald, Germany, by the Max Planck Institute of Plasma Physics (IPP), and completed in October 2015. It is a further development of Wendelstein 7-AS.

As of August 2013, 22 countries, including 12 Latin American countries, have laws for compulsory voting 

112 years old woman noroji devi wins gram pradhan election from from Aadmamau village of Phulpur block in Azamgarh. Noraji Devi has defeated her nearest rival with 545 votes.For the last 10 years, her grandson Amar Singh is the village head and she said that she works for women empowerment.