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On March 31, 2025, Union Home Minister Amit Shah unveiled a statue of Maharaja Agrasen, inaugurated an ICU facility, and laid the foundation stone for a PG hostel in Hisar, Haryana, alongside CM Nayab Singh Saini. He praised Haryana’s historical contributions, Maharaja Agrasen’s economic ...

Union Home Minister Amit Shah launched development projects and welfare schemes worth over Rs 800 crore in Bihar on International Cooperative Day. The initiatives include Rs 111 crore for cooperative sector development, focusing on cooperative banking, agricultural credit, and PACS. Rs 421 crore ...

Majuli, one of the largest inhabited river islands in the world, has a number of satras - Vaishnavite monasteries, some of which are 16th century. The Institution of Satra is a unique phenomenon in Vaishnavism in Assam, established by Sankardeva, the father of Assamese culture, the satras are much ...

Here is list of booker prize winners from 1969 to 2024 Booker Prize winners from India YearNameName of Work1971V.S. NaipaulIna Free State1981Salman RushdieMidnight’s Children1997Arundhati RoyThe God of Small Thing2006Kiran DesaiThe Inheritance of Loss2008Arvind AdigaThe White Tiger ...

In Bhuj, Gujarat, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday opened the country's first-ever earthquake memorial, Smriti Van. The Smriti Van is a special memorial in that it contains a list of names of over 12,000 people who died in the devastating earthquake that struck this region in January 2001. ...

The Cripps Mission Proposals (1942) were the British government’s plan to negotiate a form of Indian self-governance during World War II, dominion status, and the establishment of a Constituent Assembly after the end of the War. Primarily due to British distrust of Indian leadership, the British ...

Bhupen Hazarika was a multi-faceted artist with far-reaching impacts on Assamese music, cinema, and literature. Through his music, he popularized the ideals of unity, communal harmony, and universal brotherhood and helped develop Assam's culture and folk music in the national forum. He worked as a ...

What is Election Commission of India? - Provision in relation to ECI can be found in Articles 324 to 329 Part XV of Constitution of India, 1950 (COI). - The body administers elections in India to the Lok Sabha, Rajya Sabha and the State Legislative Assemblies in the country as well as the ...

Mission Amrit Sarovar, which was initiated in April 2022, pledged to construct or rejuvenate 75 Amrit Sarovars (ponds) in each district, for a total of 50,000 ponds all across the country. Each Amrit Sarovar was to have a pondage area of about 1 acre (except in hill states/UTs), and a water ...

Amlan Borgohain, who already is the national record-holders at 200m, now has the national record-holder at 100m as well. The 24-year-old from Assam broke the six-year old national record for 100m (10.26s by Amiya Kumar Mallick) by running 10.25 seconds (wind +1.8, legal) at 87th all-India ...