‘Ghazni was Indian’: BJP takes aim at Hamid Ansari, seeks Rahul Gandhi’s viewBJP leader CR Kesavan strongly criticized former Vice President Hamid Ansari's statement that Mahmud Ghazni was an Indian, not a foreign in...
30 Jan, 2026, 03.31 PM IST
Gaurav Gogoi writes to Education Minister over historical inaccuracies in Class VIII textbooksGaurav Gogoi, Deputy Leader of the Opposition, has urged Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan to rectify historical inaccuracies in ...
13 Aug, 2025, 05.42 PM IST
"Insult to nation, Muslims of India": Rajnath Singh on political parties 'glorifying' AurangzebDefence Minister Rajnath Singh criticised political parties for praising historical figures like Babur and Aurangzeb, questioning their mot...
18 Apr, 2025, 10.42 PM IST
Our gods and goddesses were not that powerful: Samajwadi Party MLA Indrajeet SarojSamajwadi Party MLA Indrajeet Saroj defended his controversial remarks questioning the power of Indian gods during historical invasions, su...
15 Apr, 2025, 11.43 AM IST
'Painful', 'What's the problem': Intense debate over court notice on Ajmer dargah pleaA court case in Ajmer questions the origins of the revered dargah. The plaintiff claims a Shiva temple once stood on the site. The case fol...
28 Nov, 2024, 05.38 PM IST
In PM Modi's native village in Gujarat, remains of 3,000-year-old human settlement foundThe findings have just been published in a paper titled 'Climate, human settlement, and migration in South Asia from Early historic to medi...
17 Jan, 2024, 02.28 PM IST
10 Best Books on Indian History You Must ReadThere are numerous events that have occurred in India. From the palaeolithic age to the present, ranging from stories about how freedom fig...
30 Mar, 2023, 11.49 AM IST
Name-dropping, a waste of timeThe court underlined the assimilative powers of Hinduism - along with Hindustan, the name itself given by outsiders to a way of life as pra...
28 Feb, 2023, 10.54 PM IST
Ukraine condoles death of Indian student in KharkivUkrainian envoy Igor Polikha sought to compare the Russian invasion of Ukraine with the "massacre by Mughals against Rajputs".
02 Mar, 2022, 12.09 PM IST
Disproportionate attention to caste, Muslim chroniclers in NCERT, Kerala textbooks: Thinktank tells Parl PanelThe report has criticised NCERT and Kerala textbooks for giving more weightage to accounts of Muslim chroniclers such as Ibn Batuta and Al ...
08 Jul, 2021, 11.30 PM IST
Delimitation of assembly and parliamentary constituencies to take place after assembly pollsDelimitation of assembly and parliamentary constituencies in Assam is likely to take place after the assembly polls next year. Assam financ...
08 Nov, 2020, 11.27 PM IST
Govt will bring a law barring agents from going to the home of borrowers for recovery of debt: Himanta Biswa SarmaLast year Assam saw a spate of loan defaults and stress in rural households, raising the spectre of repayment crisis that hit Andhra Prades...
28 Oct, 2020, 08.51 PM IST
Maharani Jindan Kaur's necklace triggers bidding war at UK auction, goes for 187,000 poundsThe necklace surpassed its estimated price between 80,000 and 120,000 pounds.
25 Oct, 2018, 05.46 PM IST
See the world in a grain of biryaniThalassery, a town in Kannur, is known to make the best Malabar biryani and is loved for its delightful flavours, made unique by the use of...
08 Jul, 2017, 11.30 PM IST
How the Mughals sold Bengaluru for Rs 3 lakh 330 years agoThe transaction made Mysore's ruler Chikka Devaraja Wadiyar extremely powerful. The city became the point of communication for the Mughals ...
06 Jul, 2017, 02.37 PM IST
Valmiki community have Brahmin past says BJP leader Bizay Sonkar ShastriShastri said his “study on Valmiki community reveals that the people are related to 10 % of Brahmin community & 90 % of existing Kshatriya ...
13 Sep, 2014, 04.00 AM IST
- Sarai Amanat Khan: Mughal era caravan sarai
Sarai Amanat Khan is one example of the Mughals’ foresight when it came to easing travel for merchants and armies.
29 May, 2008, 10.59 AM IST