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'TMC almost destroyed Bengal through looting': Giriraj Singh backs PM Modi, claims 'second independence' under BJPUnion Minister Giriraj Singh echoed Prime Minister Modi's views on West Bengal's history, accusing Congress of appeasement politics post-Pa...
On This Day in History, June 3: Muhammad Ali’s death, Tiananmen Square crackdown, Tagore’s knighthood, Partition plan and first American spacewalkOn This Day in History, June 3 witnessed several landmark events that shaped the modern world. From Muhammad Ali’s death in 2016 and the Ti...
NCERT new modules blame Congress for partition, say leaders 'underestimated Jinnah' and failed to foresee horrorsNew NCERT modules hold Congress partly responsible for India's Partition. The modules cite Jinnah's demands, Congress's acceptance, and Mou...
When a ‘neutral umpire’ almost gave Lahore to India15th August India Independence Day: Partition of India was an expedited process that resulted in significant turmoil. Lord Mountbatten had ...
Gandhi: The 'one man army' behind the 'Great Calcutta Miracle'"It was a brave decision to step into the middle of a carnage and it was certainly well thought out if not an audacious plan. The ripple ef...
Rare handwritten notes by Gandhi to Mountbatten before Partition to be exhibited in UK by Mumbai artistEach envelope is addressed to Mahatma Gandhi and is the only surviving record of an exchange he had with Lord Louis Mountbatten.
The forgotten founders of IndiaMany of our republic’s founders are national icons. But beyond the inner circle, there were hundreds of others.
Rajnath Singh, other Union ministers to take part in BJP's 'Jan-Jagran Abhiyan' rally in JammuThe proposed rally is the part of the BJP's ongoing nationwide campaign on the abrogation of special status of Jammu and Kashmir.
Kanyakumari to Kashmir: How a few South Indians had vital links to Kashmir's modern historySouth India has a few vital links to Kashmir’s modern history, and by extension, to its destiny.
How Kashmir was won from Mountbatten & JinnahLord Mountbatten was the first person to raise the issue of the future of the state of Jammu and Kashmir with Maharaja Hari Singh once the ...
The Kashmir chronicles: The history behind the geography that India just altered foreverThe genesis of the state's uneasy ties with the Union of India lies in the turbulent post-partition months.
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...
How the clause on a Uniform Civil Code was rendered toothlessBhimrao Ambedkar, Kanhaiyalal Munshi and Minoo Masani were all prolific writers and firm advocates of a Uniform Civil Code as a fundamental...
Nedou's hotel: ITC will redesign & rebuild what is touted as Asia's oldest hospitality property in SrinagarNedou’s hotel, built in the late 19th century, is home to all the visiting British dignitaries, businessmen and maharajas of princely state...
When Benazir Bhutto opposed a Kargil-type operation!Pakistan Army had planned a Kargil-type military operation much before the summer of 1999 when Benazir Bhutto was the PM but she opposed it...
Sardar Patel agreed to the idea of partition before Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi: Narendra ModiChidambaram quoted excerpts from Azad's book to say that Sardar Patel had agreed to the idea of division of the country before Nehru and Ga...
Anti-Sardar Patel book sold from RSS HQ in GujaratNarendra Modi displayed great alacrity in banning Jaswant Singh's Jinnah book in Gujarat.
- Post Slumdog, British filmmakers eye India
The international success of feel-good drama "Slumdog Millionaire" has inspired many British filmmakers to explore India and Bollywood as t...