ART & CULTURE (RAILWAY) – Part – 3

• Hindi speaking people, as per the 2011 census, is 52.83 crore, which is 43.63 per cent of the country's total population.

• It is a Protestant church dedicated to John the Baptist that was built in 1852.

• Its churchyard is the final resting place of Lord Elgin, the Governor General & Viceroy of India in 1861-1863.

• It is a harvest festival that is held in honor of Saljong, the Sun God of fertility.

• The celebrations of the Wangala Festival mark the end of a period of toil, which brings good output to the fields.

• It is part of the Language Bureau of the Ministry of Education.

• It was founded on 17 July 1969.

• On this day, devotees gather near the banks of the Indus River, which is known as the Sindhu River in India.

• The Sindhu Darshan Festival is held as a celebration of the River Sindhu.

• The present structure dates to 1523 AD, when it was rebuilt by the Portuguese, over the tomb of Thomas the Apostle, one of the Twelve commissioned by Jesus Christ.

• It is one of the only three churches of the apostolic age of ancient Christianity: the other two being the St Peter's Basilica in Vatican City and Santiago de Compostela Cathedral in Galicia, Spain.

• Saga Dawa is celebrated to mark the birth, enlightenment, and attainment of Nirvana of Gautam Buddha. Who is Founder of Buddha Sects

• The festival is celebrated in the fourth month of the lunar calendar which coincides with the month of May.

• The Old Testament is the original Hebrew Bible, the sacred scriptures of the Jewish faith, written at different times between about 1200 and 165 BC.

• The New Testament books were written by Christians in the first century AD.

• They are Tamil (2004), Sanskrit (2005), Kannada (2008). Telugu (2008), Malayalam (2013), and Odia (2014).

It opened numerous centres serving the blind, the aged, and the disabled.