This was the first of several famines to hit India during British rule throughout the 1700s and 1800s. From 1757, the East India Company began to control the government, economy and education ...

Satyendranath Tagore, Rabindranath Tagore's elder brother, became India's first IAS officer in 1863. He broke barriers under British rule and left a legacy as a reformer, writer, and cultural pioneer.

In the 1700s and 1800s, India experienced several devastating famines. These famines were partly caused by the weather, and the region had suffered from famine before British rule, but British ...

History gives every country a period when it advances its development journey manifold. This is the period (Amritkaal) in ...

India Post discontinued its iconic ‘Book Post’ service, a low-cost initiative that allowed book lovers to ship five kilos of ...

Across India, major streets in megacities have been renamed, but the new names have failed to catch on in everyday conversations.

He was greatly impressed by Mahatma Gandhi’s denunciation of Indian Princes for their support of British rule in India. Lal Bahadur Sashtri was only eleven at the time, but the process that was end ...

Newspapers and magazines described the murder as "perhaps the most sensational crime committed in British India", and it became "the talk of the city" during the investigation and subsequent trial.

In 1970, India had fewer than 100 medical colleges for a population of 54 crore but today, there are 766 medical colleges across both government and private sectors for a population of 144 crore.

After five decades at 24, Akbar Road, the Congress has moved to a new headquarters, Indira Bhawan, a kilometre from the BJP ...

A federal judge blocked the Biden administration’s new Title IX rule nationwide, crushing its efforts to strengthen discrimination protections based on sexual orientation and gender identity.