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Palaeolithic cave paintings found near Delhi in the Aravalli ranges in Haryana, experts say could be among the oldest

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Ancient cave paintings found in the Aravalli mountain ranges in Haryana, just outside national capital region and near Mangar Bani
Entertainment

Karan Johar announces biopic on C. Sankaran Nair and his Jallianwala Bagh Massacre courtroom battle

OpIndia Staff -
The C. Sankaran Nair movie will be an adaptation of the book "The Case That Shook The Empire" and will be produced by Karan Johar.
Culture and History

Third Battle of Panipat: Temple destruction and Jihad of the barbaric hordes, the valiant Marathas and the far-reaching effects of the loss

Aneesh Gokhale -
By the 1750s, Marathas had grown strong so as to be able to annex Malwa, Gujarat, Odisha, Berar as also some parts of the Ganga Jamuna Doab and Bundelkhand.
Variety

When Paris was overwhelmed with decomposed human corpses and ran out of burial places: The story of the Catacombs

Sanghamitra -
The Catacombs of Paris are the image of a scary world of the dead beneath the city of lights. Six to seven million human skeletons are stored there, stacked up in underground tunnels.
News Reports

Activist sends legal notice to make amends in NCERT books after RTI reveals no evidence of Mughals giving grant for temple repairs

OpIndia Staff -
RTI activist says history should be based on facts and not imagination and hence has sought to make amendments to books which claim Mughal rulers like Aurangzeb gave grants for temple repair work.
News Reports

‘Indian history was written by colonisers or their slaves, it is being undone now’: PM Modi inaugurates Maharaja Suheldev Memorial UP

OpIndia Staff -
PM Modi virtually laid the foundation stone of Maharaj Suheldev Memorial and a host of other beautification and development projects in UP’s Bahraich.
News Reports

‘Historian’ DN Jha, who lied about Ram temple at Ayodhya, was a member of CPI, the party reveals after his death

OpIndia Staff -
DN Jha was among the first to claim that disputed structure referred to as Babri Masjid was not built on Hindu Temple in Ayodhya
News Reports

DN Jha, who lied about Ram Janmabhoomi and Hindus attacking Nalanda University to save Muslims, is dead

OpIndia Staff -
Marxist 'historian' DN Jha, known for alternative history and distortion of India's ancient past, died on Thursday evening due to illness.
News Reports

From San Francisco to Bengaluru, over the North Pole: Four women pilots of Air India create history

OpIndia Staff -
Air India's all-women crew flew over North Pole, travelling over 16,000 km from San Francisco to Bengaluru.
News Reports

‘The girl in red bikini’: How a teenage girl jumped off a cruise liner to escape the Soviet Union in 1979 and find a...

OpIndia Staff -
Ukrainian woman Liliana Gasinskaya was known as 'Red Bikini Girl' for jumping off a ship in a red bikini to enter Australia in 1979
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