BANGBANDHU Sheikh Mujibur Rahman (17 March 1920 – 15 August 1975) is called the “Father of the Nation” in Bangladesh. He
BACKGROUND Operation Bluestar was an Indian military operation carried out between 1 and 8 June 1984, ordered by Indira Gandhi
21 MAY 1991 Rajiv Gandhi was campaigning for the upcoming elections in southern states of India. On 21 May, after successfully
INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY International Women’s Day (IWD) is celebrated on the 8th of March every year.It is a focal point
TAXILA Taxila is an important archaeological site in Indian subcontinent located in the modern city with the same name in Punjab,
IMPACT OF LENIN Following the Russian Revolution in 1917, Bipin Chandra Pal and Bal Gangadhar Tilak were amongst the prominent Indians
BACKGROUND Following the partition of India, the new state of Pakistan represented a geographical anomaly, with two wings separated of
CORNA VIRUS CORONA The evacuation over the weekend of 654 individuals — 647 Indians and seven Maldivians — on two Air India flights
BACKGROUND Hashim Qureshi, a Srinagar resident who went to Peshawar on family business in 1969, met Maqbool Bhat of the National
OPERATION The armies of India and Myanmar carried out a three week-long coordinated operation from May 16 in their respective border
CONSTITUTION OF INDIA The Constitution of India Bhāratīya Saṃvidhāna) is the supreme law of India. The document lays down the framework
BACKGROUND On December 24, 1999 IC 814 with 178 passengers and 13 crew members left Kathmandu for Delhi. It entered Indian airspace at
JAMTARA Do you get calls inquiring about the passwords of your bank accounts, insurance, credit cards and so forth? If you do,
BACKGROUND Japan, as well as South East Asia, was a major refuge for Indian nationalists living in exile before the start of
CAPITAL PUNISHMENT Capital punishment is a legal death penalty in India. It has been carried out in five instances since
BACKGROUND A woman veterinary doctor is gang-raped and killed. The assailants burn her body on the outskirts of Shadnagar in
HOW IT STARTED? In the 1980s, the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP), belonging to the mainstream Hindu nationalist family Sangh Parivar,
BACKGROUND The early history of British expansion in India was characterised by the co-existence of two approaches towards the
BACKGROUND Fort William was established to protect the East India Company’s trade in the city of Calcutta, the principal
BACKGROUND After independence from colonial rule India and Pakistan fought a war over the princely state of Kashmir. At the end