A high-level meeting was held on Tuesday at the Delhi Secretariat in the presence of Delhi Government's Minister for Art, Culture & Language and Tourism, Kapil Mishra, and Environment Minister, Manjinder Singh Sirsa, to review preparations for the upcoming 350th remembrance anniversar
Zubeen Garg passed away in Singapore after an unfortunate "drowning" incident. His mortal remains were flown back to Delhi and then transported to Guwahati.
Amid a row over NCERT's new module on Partition Horrors Remembrance Day, Director (Research and Administration) of the Indian Council of Historical Research, Dr Om Jee Upadhyay, said that the new generation should know the truth.
The High Commission of India in London observed Partition Horrors Remembrance Day with a commemorative event to honour the lives lost and the strength of those who survived during the partition of India in 1947.
He added that while the whole country was preparing to celebrate independence on 15 August 1947, just a day before that, the country was divided into two parts.
Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath tore into the Congress on Partition Horrors Remembrance Day, calling the 1947 Partition a "dark chapter" born out of appeasement politics that shattered Sanatan Bharat's unity and inflicted deep wounds on the nation, a press release said.
The Kerala Higher Education Department has issued a directive prohibiting the observance of the Partition Horrors Remembrance Day in colleges across the state.
In a post on X, Pawan Kalyan noted, "Hearing painful and horrific stories from partition times make us to dwell deeply into human nature. How neighbors could become blood thirsty killers and friends could become foes?!"