Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani said the fruit would now be called kamalam, Sanskrit for the lotus flower. The lotus is sacred to Hindus and is India's national flower. Relations have ...

2. It is the national fruit of not one but three countries The mango is the national fruit of Pakistan, India and the Philippines. It is also the national tree of Bangladesh. Almost all of these ...

We are used to valorising the mango as our ‘national fruit’ and rightly so, because of its all-India profile and many ...