There are 70 lakh Indians in Arabian Gulf countries, 6.5 of them in Qatar.

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--India ranks 136th on the World Press Freedom index, slipping three places since last year. **********

--India has 15 million blind people, which translates to one out of every three blind people in the world.

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--A whopping 4.48 lakh people were displaced in India due to internal conflicts and violence in India last year,

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--About 14 lakh electronic voting machines (EVMs) will be used in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections - the world’s biggest democratic exercise - in which 85 crore electors are eligible to vote. EVMs have been successfully used in conducting 107 general elections to the state legislative assemblies and three LokSabha polls over the last 23 years.

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--90 million families, or 54.6 per cent of India’s 1.3 billion people depend on....

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