Chandannagar commemorated the 75th anniversary of its Independence from French rule, which it achieved on 2 May 1950. At the time, Chandannagar was a French colony, even after India gained Independence from British rule on 15 August, 1947.
National Conference President Farooq Abdullah on Saturday responded to RSS Chief Mohan Bhagwat's remarks on 'India's Independence'.
India's premier mega-geoscience Conference and Exhibition GEO India 2024, the 6th South Asian Geosciences Conference and Exhibition, will touch upon the role of geoscience towards energy independence and adapting to a changing global energy ecosystem.
The Indian diaspora joyously celebrated their homeland’s cultural richness and religious diversity at the 42nd India Day Parade honouring the nation’s Independence.
June, July and August of 1947 were marked by frenetic political activity, stormy meetings and historic decisions at the highest levels of the Government of India, princely India and political parties who were to shape the course of history, with the partition of India fast becoming a reality.
Reading Darrin McMahon’s book Equality, especially on the 60th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the result of the most transformative movement of the 1960s led by Rev.
Diminishment of hallowed Constitutional posts is an old story. From Presidents, Governors, Election Commissioners, to even supposedly apolitical governmental institutions, the taints of partisanship have persisted since Independence.
While the proverbial journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step, one marvels on how the journey of a thousand years begins.
The British Raj had once introduced occidental music, namely western classical music, to this city when they reigned supreme in an era long gone into the past.
In the heyday of the Congress one-party dominant system, Speaker Mavlankar stipulated that an official opposition party status would require a minimum presence of 10 per cent in the Lok Sabha. The underlying assumption was that with the maturing of democracy, a balanced party system would evolve and a well-defined space would facilitate accommodation of the opposition to be effective and articulate and eventually become part of the government, as is the practice in Britain
