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Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System
The Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS), officially Navigation with Indian Constellation (NavIC), is India's independent regional satellite navigation system operated by ISRO over India and surrounding areas.
Indian religions
Indian religions, also called the Dharmic or Indic religions, are the family of traditions originating on the Indian subcontinent, conventionally Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, and Sikhism, followed by about 22% of the world's population.
Indian removal
Indian removal, also called Native American removal, was the United States policy of forcibly relocating Native American tribes, enforced mainly through the Indian Removal Act of 1830.
Indian Removal Act
The Indian Removal Act, signed by Andrew Jackson on May 28, 1830, authorized land exchanges and removal treaties moving eastern Native tribes west of the Mississippi, leading to the Trail of Tears.
Indian reservation
An Indian reservation, also called an American Indian or Native American reservation, is land set aside in the United States as a permanent homeland for one or more tribes.
Indian Revenue Service
Indian Revenue Service (IRS), the Indian civil service administering income tax under CBDT and customs, excise, and GST under CBIC; formed as an independent Central Service in 1953, with UPSC recruitment and 16-month NADT training.
Indian rhinoceros
Indian rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicornis), greater one-horned rhino: largest Asian rhino, Vulnerable, 4,075 wild animals in India and Nepal as of 2025, recovered from about 200 in the early 1900s; single keratin horn, armor-plated skin folds, floodplain grassland grazer.
Indian River County
Indian River County, Florida: Atlantic-coast county formed from St. Lucie County in 1925, county seat Vero Beach, 159,788 residents in 2020, agriculture-based economy, 22.4 miles of coastline.
Indian Roads Congress
The Indian Roads Congress (IRC), founded in New Delhi in 1934, is India's national body for road and bridge engineering and publisher of the IRC highway design standards.
Indian roller
Indian roller (Coracias benghalensis), a blue-winged roller of the Indian Subcontinent and Arabia; resident, Near Threatened since 2025 after eBird and SoIB data showed Indian declines of roughly 30% over three generations.
Indian Runner duck
Indian Runner duck: an East Indies (Java, Lombok) mallard-derived domestic duck breed with upright penguin-like carriage, imported to Britain about 1835, a prolific egg layer (250-280 eggs/year) and ancestor of the Khaki Campbell.
Indian rupee (भारतीय रुपया)
The Indian rupee (भारतीय रुपया) is the official currency of India, represented since 2010 by the symbol ₹ and managed by the Reserve Bank of India.
Indian rupee sign
The Indian rupee sign (₹), U+20B9, is the official symbol of the Indian rupee (INR), designed by D. Udaya Kumar, approved 15 July 2010, encoded in Unicode 6.0; distinct from the generic ₨ U+20A8.
Indian School of Business
The Indian School of Business (ISB) is a business school founded in 2001, with campuses in Hyderabad and Mohali, known for its one-year Post Graduate Programme in Management.
Indian Science Congress Association
Indian Science Congress Association (ISCA), Kolkata society founded 1914 by Simonsen and MacMahon; runs the annual Indian Science Congress, inaugurated by the Prime Minister; DST funding withdrawn 2023, 2024 congress canceled.
Indian Scout (motorcycle)
The Indian Scout is a cruiser motorcycle made by Indian, produced from 1920 to 1949 in Springfield, Massachusetts, and revived in 2015 by the Polaris-owned company.
Indian scroll painting
Indian scroll painting is a family of Indian narrative art traditions in which itinerant storytellers unroll long painted scrolls panel by panel while singing or reciting the story.
Indian silverbill
Indian silverbill (Euodice malabarica), also white-throated munia, a small estrildid finch of the Arabian Peninsula through Iran to the Indian subcontinent; Least Concern, resident, white rump distinguishes it from the African silverbill.
Indian South Africans
Indian South Africans: a community of over one million people, 2.6% of South Africa's population, descended mainly from indentured workers who arrived in Natal from 1860 and Gujarati 'passenger' traders.
Indian Spitz
Indian Spitz: a small-to-medium Spitz-type companion dog developed in India from German Spitz stock brought under British rule; KCI-recognized in Lesser (22-25 cm) and Greater (35-45 cm) varieties, heat-hardy, often mislabeled Pomeranian, popular 1980s-90s, Tuffy's breed.
Indian Standard Time
Indian Standard Time (IST; भारतीय मानक समय), also called India time, is the single civil time observed throughout India, defined as UTC+05:30 and introduced in 1906.
Indian Statistical Institute
Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), founded 17 December 1931 by P.C. Mahalanobis in Kolkata, is an Institution of National Importance under the ISI Act 1959, MoSPI-funded, with campuses in Delhi, Bengaluru, Chennai, Tezpur, and Giridih.
Indian subcontinent
India (region), also called the Indian subcontinent or South Asia, is the landmass south of the Himalayas comprising India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, and Sri Lanka, defined by shared geography, history, and culture.
Indian summer
Indian summer is a spell of unusually warm, calm, hazy weather in late autumn, common in the central and eastern United States and parts of Europe, not India.
Indian Summers
Indian Summers is a two-season Channel 4 drama (2015-2016), created by Paul Rutman and co-produced with PBS Masterpiece, set in Simla in 1932 and 1935 during the decline of the British Raj, starring Julie Walters.
Indian Super League (इंडियन सुपर लीग)
Indian Super League (इंडियन सुपर लीग), India's top-tier men's football league, launched 12 October 2014 under the AIFF, FIFA/AFC-recognised 2019; 14 clubs, first relegation in 2025-26, club-led commercial model from 2026-27.
Indian Telecom Spectrum Auction
The Indian telecom spectrum auction is the Government of India's competitive bidding process for assigning radio spectrum to telecom operators, run by the Department of Telecommunications since 1994.
Indian Television Academy Awards
Indian Television Academy Awards (ITA Awards), annual Indian awards founded in 2001 by Anu and Shashi Ranjan honoring Hindi TV, OTT, and news excellence; 25th edition held December 2025 in Mumbai.
Indian Territory
Indian Territory: US lands west of the Mississippi reserved for removed eastern tribes, now eastern Oklahoma; never formally organized, merged with Oklahoma Territory into the State of Oklahoma on November 16, 1907.
Indian Trails
Indian Trails is a family-owned intercity bus company in Owosso, Michigan, founded in 1910 and one of the oldest bus companies in the United States.