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Uttar Pradesh has given its approval to a project costing close to ₹37 crore for setting up India's first museum devoted to locks, to be located in Aligarh. The museum will trace how locking devices have evolved over tim...
The women's 4×400m relay team has delivered India's first gold medal in athletics at the 2026 Asian Games. The race took place at the Nagoya City Mizuho Park Athletic Stadium in Aichi-Nagoya, Japan, the host region of th...
For the first time in Asian Games history, India has taken gold in the team recurve archery event for women. The medal came at the 2026 Asian Games, being held in Aichi-Nagoya, Japan. Until now Indian women had never sto...
The Union government has sanctioned five Centres of Excellence for the classical languages Assamese, Bengali, Marathi, Pali and Prakrit. They will support research and help preserve, document and digitise literary herita...
Bodhana Sivanandan, aged 11, has become the youngest-ever Woman Grandmaster (WGM) in chess history. She secured her third and final WGM norm at the 2026 Women's Chess Olympiad held in Samarkand, Uzbekistan. A player must...
Shooter Neeru Dhanda has created history by becoming the first Indian to clinch an individual gold medal in the women's trap event at the Asian Games. She achieved the feat at the 2026 Asian Games being held in Nagoya, J...
The Meenakshi-Sundareswarar Temple in Madurai was consecrated after a gap of 17 years. Believed to be about 1,800 years old, it has 14 gopurams including four raja gopurams, the Golden Lotus Tank and many granite mandapa...
India defeated Sri Lanka by 72 runs in the final of the Women's Twenty20 (T20) Asia Cup 2026, played in Dubai. The win gave India its eighth title in the tournament, extending its own record as the most successful team i...
IntroductionRenowned modern Indian historian, pioneer of subaltern and Marxist historiography, and former professor of history at Delhi University, Prof. Sumit Sarkar, passed away on 17 August 2026 at the age of 87, leav...
IntroductionPartition Horrors Remembrance Day (Vibhajan Vibhishika Smriti Diwas) was observed across India on 14 August 2026 to honour the memory of millions of innocent citizens who lost their lives, suffered displaceme...
The Supreme Court of India has published 'Judgments and Gender: Sensitivity and Compassion in Writing Judgments', which supersedes its 2023 Handbook on Combating Gender Stereotypes. The document advises replacing the wor...
IntroductionIndia observed 9 August 2026 as the 84th anniversary of the Quit India Movement, one of the most decisive episodes of India's independence struggle. The day, also known as August Kranti Day (August Revolution...
