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KOLKATA: India suffered two partitions: The partition of the country and the partition of Punjab and Bengal, believed Tathagata Roy, a seasoned politician and an expert in partition history, former governor of Meghalaya. Talking to The New Indian on the eve of India’s Independence Day, Roy said, “Punjab and Bengal partitions were qualitatively different. After […]

  DAUSA: Sitting at a corner of his dingy two-room house in the nondescript Aluda village in Dausa district, 51-year-old Nathu Lal Mahawar sounds upbeat when he says, “We are proud of our rich and glorious legacy. I feel the magic of the 1940s can be revived.” Nathu Lal is the son of Nanag Ram Mahawar, […]

PATNA: “In June 1940, Prabhavati Devi, the wife of Jai Prakash Narayan, after the Ramgarh Congress Convention, came to Patna Mahila Charkha Samiti with three charkhas and five women. They slowly started weaving the threads and gradually, women started participating in the independence movement and were even arrested. Prabhavati Devi was also arrested and Narayan, […]

  KANPUR: On the eve of the 75th Independence Day, the Uttar Pradesh Police’s Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) claimed to have nabbed a terror suspect from Kanpur. The suspect, a member of Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM), has been identified as Habibul Islam alias Saifulla, 19, a native of Fatehpur, UP. On Friday, ATS had arrested Mohammad Nadeem from […]

  SRINAGAR: Like other parts of the country, the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir is also submerged in the colours of the national flag on the eve of India’s 75th Independence Day. In a major departure from the past, when the Tricolour was only hoisted at district and tehsil headquarters, this year it has […]