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1. What is the current population of India?
1. 1,173,108,018 

2. What is the total fertility rate in India?
1. 2.65 children born/woman. 

3. What percentage of the Indian population lives below the poverty line?
1. 25% of people live below the poverty line

4. Briefly describe two terrorist attacks inside India.
1. On Feb. 13, people thought to be Islamic terrorists bombed a restaurant in the northern city of Pune, killing 17 people. A complex suicide and car-bomb attack in the heart of Kabul on Friday showed the continued ability of theTaliban to stage sophisticated operations in the heavily guarded capital, with the aim of undermining international support for the Afghan war. The attack was directed at two guesthouses here favored by foreigners, killing at least 16 people, 9 of them Indians. The rest were an Italian, a Frenchman, three Afghan police officers and at least two people whose nationalities had not yet been identified.

5. The Human Development Report of the United Nations ranks the countries of the world by poverty.  Where does India rank on this list?
1.  It ranks 87 on the poverty list

6. Briefly describe the effects of the moonsoons on india.
1. With water brimming well past the permitted levels at the 350-foot Ukai Dam, according to official records, and the skies showing no sign of relief, the engineers apparently threw open the reservoir’s 21 sluice gates. Water then did what water does. It surged downriver, swallowing this city of three million people like a hungry beast. The diamond lanes of India became a warren of muck and ruin.

7. What are some of the probles indians have getting clean water to their people?
1. Indians are lacking basic services like water and sewage disposal.

8. What is the literacy rate in india?
1. definition: ages 15 and over can read and write, total population: 61%, male: 73.4%, female: 47.8%

9. What are the major religions in India?
1. Hindu 80.5%, Muslim 13.4%, Christian 2.3%, Sikh 1.9%, other 1.8%, unspecified 0.1% 

10. When did india acheive independence and from what country?
1. India celebrates its Independence Day on 15 August, commemorating the day it gained its independence from British rule in 1947.