Source: Times Of India. MEERUT: After years of requests by archaeologists and local historians, the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) has finally approved the excavation of what locals believe is the site of the ‘Lakshagriha’, the house of lac which features in an important incident in the Mahabharata. The site is
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Source: - Swarajya Mag. A new book by Ramanand Sagar’s son on the former’s life narrates how the former overcame many administrative and practical hurdles to deliver the Ramayan series. Ramanand Sagar’s Ramayan Snapshot A new book by Ramanand Sagar’s son on the former’s life narrates how the former overcame many
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Source: - Financial Express. In just over a year of its unveiling, the Statue of Unity has surpassed the footfall at the 133-year-old Statue of Liberty in the US, with an average of over 15,000 tourists visiting the monument in Gujarat daily. “With 74 per cent increase over the daily average of
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Source: - Swarajya Mag. On May 28, 2016, the 133rd birth anniversary of Savarkar, Ajaz Ashraf, a freelance journalist wrote an article titled 'Reading Savarkar: How a Hindutva icon justified the idea of rape as a political tool', in a leftist webzine. The article went viral. The gist of the article is
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Source: - http://www.columbia.edu t the invitation of the Mahomedans of Meerut, Sir Syed Ahmed went to that town on the 14th of March [1888], and delivered two
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Source: - https://www.kurdistan24.net ERBIL (Kurdistan 24) — German and Kurdish archaeologists have uncovered a 3,400-year-old Bronze Age palace on the eastern bank of the Tigris River in one of the most important recent archeological finds in the region, the Tübingen University said on Thursday. German-Kurdish research team came upon a surprising discovery
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Source: - www.memri.org PDF documents of a series of children's Islamic schoolbooks that encourage intolerance against non-Muslims were recently shared on Telegram.[1] The schoolbooks, titled Noorani Talim and released in Urdu and English in 1970, were written by Jalaluddin Ahmad Amjadi, an Islamic scholar from the madrassa Darul Uloom Baraon, located
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Source: - Dharma Dispatch. Among other unspeakable crimes he committed against India, the deplorable “Lord” Curzon is notable for three measured by the impact and scale of destruction: The infamous Partition of Bengal in 1905, his “education policy” which singularly wiped out Sanskrit education that had existed unbroken for hundreds of
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Source: Hindupost.in Much has been written about the process and methods of radicalization of Muslims in this age of ISIS and Al-Qaeda. Intellectuals and politicians alike are eager to lay the mistake at the door of Saudi Wahhabism, funded by oil money, radicalizing by appropriating the tools of modern technology, namely,
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Source: - Nepali Times. BBC Nepali, 15 August The new Civil Code has sparked a lot of debate. Anyone involved in proselytising will face a five year jail term and Rs50,000 fine. The BBC’s Sharad KC spoke to KB Rokaya, a pioneer Christian and former member of the National Human Rights Commission,
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