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In 1960, India and Pakistan signed the Indus Waters Treaty, a World Bank-mediated deal under which they agreed to share the waters of the six Indus Basin rivers they both relied – and still rely ...
The Hindu explains the history of EVMs in India, and why they were pitched as vanguards in the fight against organised booth capturing and voter rigging.
Excerpted with permission from “A Brief History of Printmaking in India” by Paula Sengupta in Paper Trails: Modern Indian Works on Paper from the Gaur Collection, edited by Tamara Sears, Mapin ...
Godse was photogenic and articulate; in today’s India, he would have worked as a journalist on television, narrating his version of events on prime time, and possibly raking in high ratings.
A Brief History Of Privatisation In India: Policy, Politics and Failures . On July 16, 1969, Prime Minister Mrs Indira Gandhi asked her core team to finalise the modalities about nationalisation ...
A Brief History Of RSS In India The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh’s ideology of Hindutva and Hindu nationalism has shaped the political philosophy of BJP with top party, giving it many of its ...
But let's get into the history of Little India. Toronto's Little India is a unique little area in the city, anchored by the Gerrard India Bazaar BIA located on Gerrard Street between Coxwell and ...
The electoral history of India is a rich chronicle of the country’s evolution as a sovereign democracy. Since its first general election in 1951-52, India has conducted regular elections to ...
India deemed the device a “peaceful nuclear explosive”. 1980s: The rebellion in Kashmir By the early 1980s, Kashmir was back at the centre of India-Pakistan tensions.
India and Pakistan are locked in a rapidly escalating military exchange that threatens to explode into a fully fledged war, triggered by a deadly attack on tourists in Indian-administered Kashmir ...