Banu Mushtaq received this year’s International Booker Prize for Heart Lamp. A collection of 12 short stories translated into English from Kannada by Deepa Bhasthi. It is the second Indian…

Today is celebrated as  Guru Gobind Singh Ji Jayanti, also called Prakash Utsav or Prakash Parv. Guru Gobind Singh Ji Maharaj was one of the ten revered Sikh gurus. Gobind Rai,…

Former Supreme Court Judge Shri Justice V Ramasubramanian today assumed the charge of Chairperson and Justice (Dr.) Bidyut Ranjan Sarangi as a Member of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC)…

Study by the Indian Institute of Technology-Gandhinagar (IITGn) confirmed the Lothal dockyard theory. The study ‘Sabarmati and its connection with the Harappan port Lothal and the Nal corridor: A study…

Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar (1820-1891) The grammarist, polymath, scholar, humanist, educationist, reformer, and doyen of the Bengal Renaissance was born on 26 September 1820 in a poor Brahman family in a…

Battle of Chappar Chiri: 1710 A.D. The Battle of Chappar Chiri, also called Battle of Sirhind,[ was fought between Mughal Empire and the Sikhs led by Baba Banda Singh Bahadur…

Mahavir Jayanti will be celebrated on the 21st of April. It is one of the most important religious festivals for the Jain community. Also known as Mahavir Janma Kalyanak, this…

Architect of the Indian Constitution, Bharat Ratna, Baba Saheb Dr Bhimrao Ambedkar , a jurist, economist, politician as well as social reformer was born on April 14, 1891.       …

LEARNING FROM HOME/ WITHOUT CLASSES/BASICS Pakistani economist Mahbub-ul-Haq developed Human Development Index (HDI) as a measure to track progress on three key dimensions of human development — a long and…

Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, Bhonsle clan, the founder of the Maratha Kingdom was born, to Shahaji Bhonsle, mother was Jijabai, on 19 February 1630 at Shivneri Fort in District Pune in…