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This is a timeline of Indian history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in India and its predecessor states. To read about the background to these events, see History of India. also see the list of governors-general of India, list of prime ministers of India and Years in India.
1980 (age 43–44) Chandrapur, India. Education. Veermata Jijabai Technological Institute (VJTI), NMIMS. Occupations. Investment banker. crossword constructor. Mangesh Ghogre (born 1980) is an Indian crossword constructor who has had puzzles published in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and the Los Angeles Times.
Islam in India. Muslim period in the Indian subcontinent is conventionally said to have started in 712, after the conquest of Sindh and Multan by the Umayyad Caliphate under the military command of Muhammad ibn al-Qasim. [1] It began in the Indian subcontinent in the course of a gradual conquest.
The Bombay Times is a free supplement of The Times of India, in the Mumbai (formerly Bombay) region. It covers celebrity news, news features, international and national music news, international and national fashion news, lifestyle and feature articles pegged on news events both national and international that have local interest value.
Religion in India is characterised by a diversity of religious beliefs and practices. Throughout India's history, religion has been an important part of the country's culture and the Indian subcontinent is the birthplace of four of the world's major religions, namely, Buddhism, Hinduism, Jainism, and Sikhism, which are collectively known as native Indian religions or Dharmic religions and ...
The Tunguska event was a large explosion of between 3 and 50 megatons [2] that occurred near the Podkamennaya Tunguska River in Yeniseysk Governorate (now Krasnoyarsk Krai ), Russia, on the morning of 30 June 1908. [1] [3] The explosion over the sparsely populated East Siberian taiga flattened an estimated 80 million trees over an area of 2,150 ...
10 May. Mutiny and Murders at Meerut, troops head towards Delhi. 11 May. Europeans, and Christians slaughtered in Delhi. 13 May. Bahadur Shah Zafar proclaimed new Mughal emperor; British disarm the garrison at Lahore. 17 May. Delhi Field Force, under George Anson, advances from Ambala. 22 May.
At the 2008 Beijing Olympics, Abhinav Bindra came on top in the Men's 10 metre air rifle event and became the first Indian to win an individual gold medal. Vijender Singh got the country's first medal in boxing with his bronze medal in Middleweight category. The three medal haul for India was the best till that year.