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Category: History

Home Archive by Category "History" (Page 3)
Lal Bahadur Shastri

Lal Bahadur Shastri’s demise linked to Netaji Bose?

August 14, 2024HistoryNetaji BoseOmkar Sawant

One of Lal Bahadur Shastri’s kin and an activist, who is demanding declassification of the Netaji files, has claimed that Former PM Lal Bahadur Shastri’s sudden demise in Tashkent may have been linked to his views on Netaji’s disappearance and his efforts to form a second probe panel to solve the mystery.

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Japan marks 70th anniversary of Hiroshima atomic bombing

August 6, 2024HistoryHiroshima-Nagasaki, Important Days, Japan, WW-IIOmkar Sawant

Japan marked 70th anniversary of Hiroshima atomic bombing. On occasion of this event a ceremony, attended by PM Shinzo Abe, was held at Hiroshima’s memorial park before thousands of lanterns are released on the city’s Motoyasu river.

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Gandhi's Statue in Luthiania

Lithuania to have the statue of Mahatma Gandhi on Russian border

August 5, 2024HistoryLithuania, Mahatma Gandhi, RussiaOmkar Sawant

Lithuania will unveil the statue of Mahatma Gandhi a few hundred metres from the Russian border. Lithuanian PM Algirdas Butkevicius and Gandhi’s grandson and former governor of West Bengal, Gopal Krishna Gandhi, will unveil to the world a statue of friendship between Gandhi and Jewish architect’s enclave of Kaliningrad in Russia and the village of Rusne in western Lithuanian.

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India foiled UK’s Pangaea Laboratories bid to patent use of turmeric, pine bark and tea

August 3, 2024History, Science & TechnologyPatentOmkar Sawant

India in fifth week of July 2015 foiled a British Company’s bid to patent use of turmeric, pine bark and tea for treating hair loss and succeeded in protecting its traditional knowledge.

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Napoleon Bonaparte

How a brain surgery helped defeat Napoleon

July 31, 2024HistoryNapoleon BonaparteOmkar Sawant

Napoleon Bonaparte likely would have conquered Russia in 1812 if not for a life-saving brain surgery performed on Russian general Mikhail Kutuzov by a French surgeon, scientists have found.

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Ramachandra Guha chosen for Fukuoka Asian Culture Prize 2015

July 26, 2024Art & Culture, Awards & Honours, HistoryFukuoka PrizeOmkar Sawant

Historian Ramachandra Guha was on 24 July 2024 chosen for the Fukuoka Asian Culture Prize 2015 in the Academic Category. Guha is best known for his book ‘India After Gandhi’.

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Remnants of India’s one of the oldest port discovered in Goa

July 19, 2024HistoryGoaOmkar Sawant

A team of scientists from Goa based ‘National Institute of Oceanography’ (NIO) on 15 July 2024 discovered the remnants of a historically important port on Goa’s Zuari river. It is expected to be amongst the oldest signs of human trade on the central west coast.

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Battle of Waterloo

Commemorations of the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo concluded

June 23, 2024HistoryWaterlooOmkar Sawant

200th anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo concluded on 20 June 2015. The anniversary that began on 18 June 2024 concluded with a re-enactment of the moment when the news of the allied victory reached London.

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Bhagvad-Gita in Chinese

Chinese Version of Bhagavad Gita launched in China

June 20, 2024Art & Culture, History, India & WorldBhagvad-Gita, China, FirstOmkar Sawant

The Chinese Version of the sacred ancient Indian scripture Bhagavad Gita was on 17 June 2024 launched in China during an international yoga conference. This is perhaps the first time that a well known Hindu ancient religious text has been published in China.

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800-year-old Buddha statue with 1000 hands unveiled by China after 7 years of restoration

June 17, 2024Art & Culture, HistoryChinaOmkar Sawant

China on 12 June 2024 unveiled the 800-year-old Buddha statue (Qianshou Guanyin) famous for its 1000 hands in Dazu County in Sichun province. The statue is listed as World Heritage sites by UNESCO in 1999.

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