India Archive

"The worst feeling is not being lonely, sometimes it is being forgotten by someone you can't forget": Forgotten legacy - Rakesh Sharma became the 1st Indian to orbit space in 1984, carrying out scientific experiment for the joint Indo-Soviet Space Mission

India has been reaching remarkable heights in various fields including space research. However, often overshadowed are people who paved the way for those who came later.

Notorious smuggler Subhash Kapoor who stole and sold ancient Hindu deities has been sentenced to 10 years of rigorous imprisonment by the court in the case of stealing and smuggling 19 antique murtis. Along with Kapoor, 5 of his accomplices who helped him in the act have also been convicted.

On November 19, senior state police and intelligence officials reportedly said that Gangster-turned-terrorist Harvinder Singh Sandhu alias Rinda died in a hospital in Lahore, Pakistan.

December 5, 1971, has been written in the golden words in the history of India, as on this day, 120 soldiers of the Indian army fought with 2000-3000 Pakistani soldiers accompanied by 30-40 tanks on the land of Laungewala. Laungewala proved to be one of the defining moments in the war.

“I see this all the time in academia…people conflate their own political views with an evaluation of the health of democracy. I think academics have a real moral responsibility to be careful about not allowing our biases to influence our expert judgements,” said Prof Salvatore Babones in an exclusive interview with Firstpost, while questioning the validity of various established indices.

New Delhi: The date November 17, 1962, will forever be etched in golden letters in the military history of India. On this day, Maha Veer Chakra (MVC) awardee Rifleman Jaswant Singh Rawat truly lived up to the epithet ‘Maha Veer’ by laying down his life after single-handedly holding off hundreds of Chinese soldiers for three days in the icy heights of Arunachal Pradesh during the 1962 war between India and China.

Ghaziabad police on Monday arrested a woman, who with the help of her boyfriend had killed her husband four years ago and buried his body in her boyfriend’s house. The deceased had officially gone missing four years ago, in the year 2018.

KOLHAPUR: Maharashtra’s Satara district administration on Thursday demolished unauthorized structures on government land near the tomb of Afzal Khan, a general of the Adil Shahi dynasty of Bijapur, amid heavy security.

The Punjab and Haryana High Court in its order dated September 13, 2022, granted divorce to a man who accused his respondent-wife of taunting his physical disability, snatching his crutches, manhandling, and throwing him around. While the High Court allowed the appeal on grounds of physical and mental cruelty by the wife, the court also ordered the disabled man to pay permanent alimony to a ‘cruel’ wife and minor son. 

Guna (Madhya Pradesh): ‘Hanuman Chalisa’ was recited on Thursday at a Catholic school here after a class VII student was allegedly made to sit on the floor of the school for four straight periods as punishment for raising ‘Bharat Mata ki jai’ slogan at the end of school assembly on Wednesday.