The Independent India is a Union of 29 States and 7 Union Territories (UT), Telangana being the latest to be added in February 2014.
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23rd Nov 2024 | Updated at 03:04am 23rd Nov 2024
Andhra Pradesh Chief Ministers’ Conflict with Judiciary
- 16 Dec 2020
Decades before Jagan Mohan Reddy, the present Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh (AP) wrote a letter to the Chief Justice of India making wild allegations against the High Court judges, Damodaram Sanjivayya, the second Chief Minister of Andhra...
Emperor Krishnadevaraya and World Heritage Hampi
- 08 Dec 2020
Recently the news flashed in The Hindu of Chennai attracted global attention since it is of international as well as historical importance: “Tourists can no longer get too close to the iconic stone chariot in front of the Vijaya Vittala Temple...
Heritage and History
- 04 Nov 2020
Born in an affluent Afridi Pathan family of Malihabad, 13 miles from Lucknow, Shabbir Hassan Khan “Josh” (5 December 1898 Malihabad, India – 22 February...
The history in making keeps on taking new routes. The BJP, the new Avatar of Jan Sangh, the right-wing political party established in 1951 by Dr Syama...
Despite Lord Curzon, the Viceroy of British India, issuing circular trying to tame the rulers of Princely States, Maharaja Sayajirao Gaekwad III of Baroda...
Even before Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan met Mahatma Gandhi, he had interacted with Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru. He is better remembered in India as Frontier Gandhi or Badshah Khan.
“India will be raised, not with the power of the flesh, but with the power of the Spirit; not with the flag of destruction, but with the flag of peace...
