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Rakesh Sharma: Our First Space Man

IAF officer Sqn Ldr Rakesh Sharma flew aboard a Soyuz T11 spacecraft on April 2, 1984, and became the first Indian to journey into space. He spent 7 days, 21 hour...

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Chanakya's end: The bizzare death

According to a legend which is a later jaina invention, while Chanakya served as the Prime Minister of Chandragupta Maurya, he started adding small amounts of poi...

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The 15 Prime Ministers of India: Meet the 'movers and shakers' of the country

List of the Prime Ministers of India till date.   Since independence, India has progressed rapidly under the guidance of our dy...

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One of the World's Most Famous Inventors   Thomas Edison was one of history's most influential inventors, whose contrib...

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Today in History: Oct. 27.

  Today is Thursday, Oct. 27, the 301st day of 2016. There are 65 days left in the year.   Today’s Hi...

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Battle Of Saragarhi - Where 21 Sikh Soldiers Killed 600 Afghans In The Greatest Last Stand Ever

Those who were fascinated with the movie '300' would be even more impressed by what a group of 21 young Sikh men did in the Battle of Saragarhi.

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HOW THE THREE NATIONAL ANTHEMS OF INDIA, BANGLADESH AND SRI LANKA MET IN UNION…THANKS TO TAGORE

What was once merely a rumour that flowed through the Tagorean grapevine has recently been proved to be a blissful reality bringing joy to many Tagore devotees. T...

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Martyrdom of Guru Arjan

  On 16 June 1606, the Mughal Emperor Jahangir ordered that Guru Arjan Dev Ji, the fifth Sikh Guru be tortured and sentenced to death after th...

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The Battle of CHAMKAUR

In western history, battles that have changed the course of history are well chronicled. They also form part of the folklore of the country. Two such examples are...

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The Untold Story Of 'The Turkman Gate Massacre' During India's Emergency

Remember, remember not the Fifth of November but our own gunpowder, treason and plot.  We see of no reason why this censored out season should ever be forgot...

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12 Facts About Bhagat Singh That You Still Didn't Know

86 years ago today, one of India's greatest revolutionary freedom fighter, Bhagat Singh, was given the death penalty by the British colonisers. And though he ...

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The Evolution of Warren Buffett’s Career from 1936 to 2013

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History of Prisons

From the birth of modern civilization in 3rd millennia BC, almost every major ancient civilization used concept of prisons as a mean to detain and remove personal f...

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Why do Hindus prefer birth anniversaries to death anniversaries?

Hindus do prefer birth anniversaries (jayanti) over death anniversaries (punya tithi). However, we can qualify this by saying most Hindu festivals are about the bir...

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The Failed Inventions of Thomas Alva Edison

Thomas Alva Edison held 1,093 patents for different inventions. Many of them, like the lightbulb, the phonograph, and the motion picture camera, were brilliant crea...

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Today in history: Oct. 13.

On Oct. 13, 1792, the cornerstone of the executive mansion, later known as the White House, was laid by President George Washington during a ceremony in the Distr...

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The Story of Banarasi Sarees

History of Banarasi silk sarees

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Ancient footprints re-write humanity's history in the Americas

The findings push back the date at which the continent was colonised by its first inhabitants by thousands of years

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7 Unheard Facts About India

1. In West Bengal, cows need a photo ID. Yes, it’s true. Cows need to have a photo ID in West Bengal. It was being difficult for a...

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Today in History: Oct. 25

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Today in History: Oct. 11.

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How Colonization's Death Toll May Have Affected Earth's Climate

Did the mass death of indigenous Americans cool down the planet?

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Napoleon in France and Tsar Paul I in Russia wanted to invade India. What stopped them?

An excerpt from ‘Mapping The Great Game: Explorers, Spies & Maps in Nineteenth-century Asia’, by Riaz Dean.  

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Not think about to survive a day—world’s oldest conjoined twins flourish with resilience and sympathy!

The world record for the most seasoned conjoined twins was already set by Giacomo and Giovanni Tocci, who were conceived in Italy in 1877, and passed on in 1940 at ...

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Sanjay Dutt's Emotional Throwback Post Will Make You Miss Veteran Actors Sunil Dutt, Nargis

The actor, who is gearing up for Saheb Biwi Aur Gangster 3, often misses his parents and talks about them.  

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