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THE BIRTH OF THE REPUBLIC OF INDIA

The Constituent assembly of India was formed to frame the Constitution of India. It meet for the first time in December 9, 1946 in the Constitution Hall now known as the Central Hall in the Indian Parliament. The Constituent Assembly was created by means of indirect election from the members of Provincial Legislative Assemblies. The [...]

January 21, 2013No CommentRead More

Jawaharlal Nehru Responsible for The War of 1962 ?: Herderson Brooks-Bhagat Report

“I remember many a time when our senior generals came to us, and wrote to the defence ministry saying that they wanted certain things… If we had had foresight, known exactly what would happen, we would have done something else… what India has learnt from the Chinese invasion is that in the world of today [...]

October 15, 2012No CommentRead More

Have you heard of the ghost walls in Lathiya, UP?

They were walls that existed hundreds of years ago – of buildings to house royalty and even deities. Today they are reduced to “ghost walls”. In Lathiya, Uttar Pradesh, the existence of a bustling temple complex has been traced by archaeologists just by unearthing these invisible walls. It was a tall stone pillar perched atop [...]

September 24, 2012No CommentRead More

First man on Everest was Edmund Hillary, not Tenzing Norgay: book

London, Sep 16: The first man on Mount Everest during the 1953 expedition was the celebrated mountaineer Edmund Hillary, and not his colleague Tenzing Norgay, but this fact was suppressed to defuse an anti-colonial backlash in India and Nepal, a new book claims. The fact was covered up by the then British ambassador to Nepal, [...]

September 16, 2012No CommentRead More

Making Nehru PM was a mistake, confessed Maulana Azad

“Humaare se ye galti hui, Sardar Patel ko prime minister banana chahiye tha aur Pandit Nehru ko president ,” Maulana Abul Kalam Azad told veteran journalist Kuldip Nayyar, a few years after he joined Nehru cabinet. Kuldip Nayyar disclosed this during an exclusive interview with ‘The indian Express’. The interview revolved around the contents [...]

July 15, 2012No CommentRead More

For the Indian scientists Satyendra Nath Bose, Father of the ‘God Particle,’ a Long Journey from Dhaka

The discovery of a new elementary sub-atomic particle, which almost matches the properties of the elusive Higgs Boson (also called ‘God Particle’) has a strong Indian connection. In the word “boson,” as media reports have plentifully pointed out during the past two days, is contained the surname of Satyendra Nath Bose, the Calcutta physicist who [...]

July 6, 2012No CommentRead More

10 Lost Treasures

From human fossils to buried gold, here are 10 lost treasures. Post Footer automatically generated by Add Post Footer Plugin for wordpress.

May 24, 2012No CommentRead More

How Paragliding Works

Do you ever dream of flying — making lazy circles in the sky like a seagull or a hawk? If you do, you’re not alone. Dreaming of flying is quite common, and if you believe dream analysis, it’s a sign of good things to come. It means you’re on top of a particular situation and [...]

April 26, 2012No CommentRead More

Jalianwala Bagh Massacre

JALLIANVALA BAGH MASSACRE, involved the killing of hundreds of unarmed, defenceless Indians by a senior British militry officer, took place on 13 April 1919 in the heart of Amritsar, the holiest city of the Sikhs, on a day sacred to them as the birth anniversary of the Khalsa. Jallianvala Bagh,. a garden belonging to [...]

April 13, 2012No CommentRead More

Nainital History

According to an ancient belief, Nainital was the site where one of Parvati’s eyes fell. When Parvati, the wife of Lord Shiva, the Hindu Destroyer of the Universe, died, Shiva was filled with grief and carried her corpse wherever he went. Parts of Parvati’s body fell on Earth, and her eye fell in Nainital, forming [...]

April 10, 2012No CommentRead More