So Nehru decided he should pay his first official visit to the USA, in 1949.The visit was a disappointment and belied Nehru’s expectations of major US assistance for India’s economic development.

As the Dalai Lama turned 90, Congress leader Jairam Ramesh on Sunday recalled his four-hour conversation with then Prime ...

The concept of Bharat Mata was visualised for the first time around 120 years ago when the renowned Bengali artist, Abanindranath Tagore, brother of writer and ...

As the Dalai Lama turned 90, Congress leader Jairam Ramesh on Sunday recalled his four-hour conversation with then Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru in Mussoorie in 1959.Thereafter, the Dalai Lama went ...

Tenzin Gyatso,  the 14th Dalai Lama, was only 23 years old when he fled Tibet in March 1959 into China. His arduous journey, which started from Lhasa where he disguised himself as a Chinese soldier, ...

Crowned as the capital of Madhya Pradesh, Bhopal is widely known for its exquisite culture, historical places, and calm lakes ...

Dining at restaurants is a leisure activity that people practice to break the monotony of daily life and enjoy different ...

He saw first-hand how India, then a nascent software power, had used the Y2K dot com crisis to emerge as a potential global technology leader. The West’s discovery of India had begun.

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Though the Indian Union is an infant state, India is no newcomer to history, no offshoot or colony newly risen to nationhood. She is a mother country, venerable in her own right; and her past, which ...

Air pollution in India resulted in 1.67 million deaths in 2019—the largest pollution-related death toll in any country in the world—and also accounted for $36.8 billion in economic losses, according ...

The Ramayana in Sanskrit was authored by Valmiki There was no literature meant for commoners prior to the Ramayana Only Vedic literature existed before it That s why Valmiki is referred to as adi kavi ...