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In 2015, one and a half years after Narendra Modi led NDA came to rule the Centre with a thumping majority, a horde of so-called artists, authors and intellectuals started returning their awards in the protest of ‘increasing intolerance’ in India. Their allegation was that the Modi-led NDA government at the centre was a right wing government, which did not tolerate any dissent and allowed intellectuals to pursue only its own ideological persuasion. In this process, it was killing the space for ‘freedom of expression’.

A Delhi court has rejected a petition filed that sought the restoration of temples situated in Quwwat­ Ul-Islam mosque located at the Qutub Minar complex in Mehrauli. The suit was filed on behalf of Hindu deity Lord Vishnu, Jain deity Tirthankar Lord Rishabh Dev and others, seeking the restoration of 27 Hindu and Jain temples “dismantled, desecrated and damaged under the command and orders of Qutub-ud-din-Aibak”.

Rajguru was born, about 101 years ago, on Monday, the 24th August, 1908 (Triyodashi of Shravan month of year 1830 according to Hindu Calendar) in village Khed. By way of coincidence, Khudiram Bose (born 3rd December 1889), the great revolutionary, was hanged in the year 1908 only, thus sacrificing his life for the freedom of the nation at an even younger age of 19 years. Was it the unsatisfied soul of Khudiram Bose, which reincarnated itself to finish the remaining job?

The most effected and lethal weapon with which "The British Empire" won and ruled Indian Continent was "Secret Services". The entire period from the arrival of East India Company in India till the division of India (15th August 1947) was governed by the use of secret missionaries. Before announcing any new policy the British took the help of these secret missionaries, and the information being given by these missionaries has a great value for the policy makers.

This letter deals with the views of Bhagat Singh on the question of love and sacrifice in the life of a revolutionary. It was written on April 5, 1929 in Sita Ram Bazar House, Delhi. The letter was taken to Lahore by Shri Shiv Verma and handed over to Sukhdev it was recovered from him at the time of his arrest on April 13 and was produced as one of the exhbits in Lahore Conspiracy Case.

My father was born on the 28th May, 1860 and my mother in 1869. After passing the Matriculation (then called Entrance) Examination from the Albert School, Calcutta, he studied for some time at the St. Xavier’s College and the General Assembly’s Institution (now called Scottish Church College). He then went to Cuttack and graduated from the Ravenshaw College.

My father, Janakinath Bose, had migrated to Orissa in the eighties of the last century and had settled down at Cuttack as a lawyer. There I was born on Saturday, the 23rd January, 1897. My father was descended from the Boses of Mahinagar, while my mother, Prabhabati (or rather Prabhavati) belonged to the family of the Dutts of Hat- khola. I was the sixth son and the ninth child of my parents.

Facebook Parent Meta has unveiled its first standalone office in Asia in Gurugram yesterday. Along with the standalone office, Facebook India vice president and managing director Ajit Mohan announced a new centre to train 1 Cr small businesses and 250,000 creators in the next three years.

Direct-to-consumer (D2C) personal and home care products startup Clensta has raised INR 20 Cr (~$2.6 Mn) in Series A funding from Hem Securities Limited, Venture Catalysts and Inflection Point Ventures. Existing investor N+1 Capital also participated in the round.