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A sengol or sceptre is going to be installed in the new parliament building. What has it got to do with India’s independence, Chola dynasty and Tamil traditions? Read to find out.

Government removes significant historical and scientific facts from textbooks as it pursues a Hindu supremacist agenda.

The prime minister says his £120m parliament building will establish a new order – critics say the design doesn’t match that ambition

In a luxury hotel atop a hillock overlooking Srinagar’s Dal Lake, the enthusiasm was evident, and the hall packed ahead of schedule. It was the 13th and final press conference of the Bharat Jodo Yatra, before the march came to an end after travelling over 135 days from Kanyakumari in…

With the Rashtrapati Bhavan to their south, and the Nehru memorial to the north, the three statues at Delhi’s Teen Murti Circle have long stood witness to India’s tryst with destiny: from a brutal repression of the freedom struggle to the fall of the British Empire, and Independence.

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TV Newsance is back after a break! And guess what, nothing much has changed when it comes to the world of TV news. The big news of the week was the clash between Indian and Chinese troops in Tawang, Arunachal Pradesh, and we saw news anchors tripping over each other…

In October 1963, while inaugurating the Bhakra dam on the Sutlej river in Himachal Pradesh, then prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru used the evocative phrase “temples of modern India” to describe the infrastructural milestones in the formative years of India’s post-Independence economic rebuilding. The dam, which took nearly 15 years to…