jawaharlal nehru

Dr Saifuddin Kitchlew was a barrister, educationist and a freedom fighter who was at the forefront of the protests against the Rowlatt Act in Amritsar, while devoting his life to preserving communal harmony in India.

Jawaharlal Nehru, India's first Prime Minister, made his first visit to Leh on 4 July 1949 at the invitation of the 19th Kushok Bakula Rinpoche, the 'Architect of Modern Ladakh'.

While Indian diplomats worked full time behind the scenes to get the international community on board for their peace proposals, it was the on-ground soldiers who ensured that India followed through on its promises, bringing peace in Korea.

Among the key recommendations of their report was that a woman should have an absolute control over some part of the family income and a share in the husband's property which he cannot will away.

Launched by JRD Tata on the request of Nehru, Lakmé was India's first made-in-India makeup brand that found its genesis in aftermath of our Independence from the British Raj.

Following the massive port explosion in Beirut which killed over 200 people, the Lebanese government resigned. This is about accountability at the highest levels of government.

Delivered for 10 hours non-stop, Bhulabhai Desai's stirring defense of three #INA soldiers under trial had a profound impact on India's struggle for independence. #ForgottenHeroes

Nehru announced the birth of a free India in 1947 in his iconic speech—A Tryst with Destiny, and India was never the same again!

As the legendary science fiction author Arthur C Clarke once suggested, “JBS Haldane was perhaps the most brilliant science popularizer of his generation”. #LostTales

The park was officially opened on 1 November 1959, but sometime in the same year, possibly in September, a small group of wild Painted Storks happened to fly around the zoo. They might have been scouting for a safe place to nest.