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Kittur Rani Chennamma’s courage continues to inspire India’s soldiers, says MoS V SomannaAt Parliament House, Union Minister V Somanna paid tribute to Kittur Rani Chennamma during her birth anniversary festivities. He highlighte...- NCERT Class 9 new SST textbook will have Ram Rajya, Maharana Pratap’s resistance, Mahabharata, Sengol & UpanishadsNCERT Class 9 new textbook: NCERT has released the revised Class 9 Social Science textbook, Understanding Society: India and Beyond – Part ...
- In 2017, Lewis Pugh swam 1 km at South Georgia to campaign for protection. 7 years later, protected waters had grown from 2% to 36%, adding 166,000 km² of ocean in totalLewis Pugh swam one kilometer off South Georgia in 2017. This swim was part of a campaign for greater water protection. Protection rose fro...
- Delhi’s ageing Lutyens bungalows now carry a Rs 92-crore upkeep bill for ministersAnnual expenditure on Lutyens bungalows reached a record Rs 92.35 crore in 2025-26. This spending has more than tripled since 2014-15, refl...
- Independence Day 2026: The Kolkata chemist who sold foreign medicines, backed Swadeshi and built a pharma empireIndependence Day 2026: Butto Kristo Paul & Co. started as a modest establishment focused on importing foreign medicines. Over time, it blos...
- Independence Day 2026: The road to UPI — India’s payments revolution was centuries in the makingIndia’s payments ecosystem has evolved dramatically, from hundis and merchant networks that moved value across long distances to formal ban...
- Swadeshi 1.0 vs. Made in India 2.0: How India turned a 1905 boycott into a 2026 business strategyIndependence Day 2026: From the Swadeshi movement to Atmanirbhar Bharat. Early Swadeshi movements fostered indigenous industries against im...
- Empire buys back: After Tata, Adani can rewrite India's colonial pastAdani Ports is evaluating the acquisition of a controlling stake in UK's Associated British Ports (ABP) in a deal valued at nearly $10 bill...
- In 1789, one mysterious outbreak changed Australia's history; scientists may have solved itIn 1789, a horrific outbreak devastated Indigenous Australians around Sydney Harbor. Up to 70% of local First Nations people died. For over...
- Quote of the Day by Kenya’s first President Jomo Kenyatta: ‘When the Missionaries arrived, the Africans had the land…’ Lesson from one of history’s most powerful quotes on colonialismQuote of the Day by Jomo Kenyatta highlights a historical truth about colonial expansion in Africa. Missionaries arrived with religious tex...
- March 5 in world history: From Stalin’s death to the rise of the nuclear ageMarch 5 marks significant historical events, including the Boston Massacre in 1770, which fueled the American Revolution. Winston Churchill...
- Narco-colonialism: How Britain exploited Indians for its drug trade with ChinaIndia Independence Day 2025: A century-long British colonial opium trade in India exploited millions of farmers, becoming the regime's seco...
- India and China were the world’s richest nations — rice grew their wealth: Francesca Bray, University of EdinburghFrancesca Bray's research highlights rice's unique position in global commodity networks, resisting industrial monoculture and supporting s...
- UK extracted $64.82 trillion from India during colonial rule. Richest 10% got most of the cashOxfam International's report highlights how the UK extracted USD 64.82 trillion from India during colonial rule, with significant wealth tr...
- Independence Day: How the British pulled off a $45 trillion heist in IndiaIndependence Day: India's economic history is revealing its painful past under British colonialism. Economic historian, Utsa Patnaik's rese...
- How hunger links Ireland and IndiaIreland was the UK’s first colony, where it learned how to extract value from people who were denied political power.
- Miraculous medicines are always more myth than reality: Pandemics, prophylactics and pice packetsOseltamivir was that drug during bird flu several years back, and hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) is the drug today. President Trump’s demands for...
- 'Northeastern region must be involved to achieve Look East policy goals'The 'Look East' policy, therefore needs a reorientation to suit the development interests of the northeastern region, the book says.
- Boardroom battle at Amul gets bitter as Chairman Vipul Chaudhary accuses MD of 'divide & rule'Vipul Chaudhary accused MD of 'divide & rule'; his union's mouthpiece claims federation directionless after Kurien's exit.
- If you go by their ad, YV Reddy could become the next governor of Bank of EnglandThe successful candidate will have experience of working in, or with, a central bank or similar institutions; or will have worked at the mo...
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