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PUNJAB AND BENGAL PARTITION
79 years ago, a man who had never visited India & knew little about its complex landscape drew a line that divided India and PakistanRadcliffe Line 1947: In 1947, British lawyer Sir Cyril Radcliffe chaired the boundary commissions that demarcated the Radcliffe Line, divid...- Paschimbanga Divas revives debate over Bengal's birth, identity and historical memoryWest Bengal's June 20, marking its partition-era birth, has become a potent political symbol. The BJP government's official observance of P...
- Secure Northeast access via underground rail at ‘chicken’s neck’: Assam CMA new underground rail link is planned for West Bengal's strategic 'Chicken's Neck' corridor. This project aims to create a secure transpor...
- Bangladesh unrest: When homelands are near & yet so farThe recent political upheaval in Bangladesh, marked by the ousting of Sheikh Hasina's government and the instatement of Nobel laureate Muha...
- INDIA bloc can betray anyone for power: PM ModiPM Modi attacked the Haryana Congress on the issue of corruption, saying its past chief ministers would not look beyond the welfare of thei...
- PM Modi's remark on CAA aimed at Gujarat and Lok Sabha polls: TMCPrime Minister Narendra Modi Monday said by giving citizenship in Gujarat to persecuted Sikh families from abroad it has been underlined th...
- View: I-Day ruminations — Could Partition have been avoided?The most popular narrative says Jinnah’s obduracy compounded by Congress’ lack of spine caused Partition. But historians globally disagree ...
- Plot to increase Muslim population; Assam, West Bengal critical: BhagwatBhagwat defended the controversial Citizenship Amendment Act and said every country had the right to know who its citizens were.
- Assam CM remembers Syama Prasad Mookerjee on Balidan Divas“Dr. Mukerjee, who attained the post of Vice Chancellor of Kolkata University at the age of 33 years, extended tremendous help in the expan...
- Former UK PM Attlee believed Bengal may opt to be separate country in 1947: Declassified documentsAttlee told Ambassador Douglas he wanted elected representatives from Punjab and Bengal to decide which of the two major dominions these pr...
- Put your reading glasses on! Here are some books to celebrate 70 years of independenceThis independence day, curl up in your bed with a nice drink and read to your heart's content.
- Name change admits a reality: There's no rewind to one BengalThe decision of the Mamata Banerjee government is significant. Apart from rising in the alphabetical hierarchy of the states, the name chan...
- Confer Bharat Ratna on Master Tara Singh: Tarlochan Singh"The government should confer 'Bharat Ratna' on Master Tara Singh for his contributions in the unification of India and the Sikh community."
- Key member of community demands separate state for SindhisBuxani said the Sindh linguistic territory within the existing boundaries of India consist of princely state of Kutch ,Jaiselmer, Barmer, J...
- Punjab seeks debt relief grant from 14th Finance CommissionBesides, the state also sought from the Commission to recommend state specific grants of Rs 9,639 crore and Rs 8,775 crore for agriculture ...
- Poke Me: Why India needs freer immigrationImmigrants work harder. Plots cultivated by native West Bengal peasants are less productive than those run by their cross-border brethren.
- Lord Mountbatten should be called "Mount Blank": JaswantJaswant Singh said the last Viceroy of British India should be called "Mount Blank" as he did not do anything to stop the "massacres" that ...
- Indian Muslims are unique communityThe distinctiveness of Indian Muslims is asserting itself again.
- Indian Muslims are unique communityThis highlights the distinctiveness of Indian Muslims which has evolved through centuries of Indian history.
- Left hums saffron tunes on MuslimsMuslims own marginally more land than Hindus in Rajasthan and Gujarat.
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