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The Portuguese onslaught Part 3: How a naval battle off the tiny port of Diu, Gujarat changed the world and sealed India’s fate for...

Rukma Rathore - 3 February, 2025

The most important outcome of the "Battle of Diu" was that it confirmed that the Portuguese were in India to stay. Almeida had announced prophetically that those who rule the seas will rule the lands too.

Culture and History

The Portuguese onslaught Part 1: How Vasco da Gama’s ‘discovery’ of India brought years of bloodshed, murders and violence to our shores

Rukma Rathore - 30 January, 2025

King Manuel of Portuguese wanted to find a direct sea route to India to bypass Arab and Venetian merchants.

News Reports

Kerala: 2 Indigo employees Sajid Rehman and Mohammad Samil arrested for aiding smuggling of gold worth Rs 2.5 crores at Calicut airport

OpIndia Staff - 16 September, 2022

According to department officials, gold combined with other metals worth over Rs 2.5 crore was smuggled in with the help of two Indigo Airlines officials.

News Reports

Burning smell noticed in vents of Air India Express Calicut-Dubai flight, diverted to Muscat: DGCA

OpIndia Staff - 17 July, 2022

Dubai-bound Air India Express flight was diverted to Muscat after a burning smell was noticed.

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Kerala: Over 1 kilo gold seized by customs officials in two days in separate incidents at Calicut airport

OpIndia Staff - 7 September, 2020

In the gold smuggling case that stung the Kerala govt, NIA said that 150 kgs gold was brought to India through diplomatic ties

News Reports

‘He saved our lives’: Survivors of AI plane crash hail Captain Sathe, who served for ‘Golden Arrows’, which has recently been recommissioned with Rafale...

OpIndia Staff - 8 August, 2020

Captain Deepak Sathe was a decorated former India Air Force pilot. He passed out from AFA with the 'Sword of Honour' in 1981.

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