Partition Of India 1947

India is observing the 'Partition Horrors Remembrance Day' today - August 14 - to pay tribute to those who lost their lives and were displaced during the country's partition in 1947.

A museum themed on the Partition, telling the story of the 1947 tragedy and representing the pain and trauma suffered by people on both sides of the border, is all set to open at the Mughal-era Dara Shikoh Library building here on May 18.

Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh chief Mohan Bhagwat on Friday said people of Pakistan were not happy after more than seven decades of Independence and they now believe the partition of India was a mistake.

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) general secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya on Tuesday said post-independence and Partition in 1947, whatever was left of India constituted a "Hindu Rashtra".

Seventy-five years after they separated during the Partition in 1947, the families of two Sikh brothers met at the Kartarpur Corridor, singing songs and showering flowers on each other in an emotional reunuion made possible through social media.

Jalandhar-based Sikh man Amarjit Singh's happiness knew no bounds when he met his Muslim sister from Pakistan at Gurdwara Darbar Sahib in Kartarpur, 75 years after he was separated from his family at the time of Partition.

The Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) should set up a centre to study the 1947 partition in depth to fill the historical gaps, Vice Chancellor Santishree Dhulipudi Pandit said on Sunday.

The Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) is planning to set up a centre to study the 1947 partition in depth to fill the historical gaps, Vice-Chancellor Santishree Dhulipudi Pandit said on Sunday.

The BJP video featured Cyril John Radcliffe, whose partition map split Punjab and Bengal almost in half, and questioned how a person who had no knowledge of Indian cultural heritage was allowed to divide India in merely weeks.

The government is set to hold exhibitions on "horrors of the Partition" at key public places such as railway stations, airports and malls between August 10 and August 14.

Durga pujas themed on the issues of National Register of Citizens (NRC) and the partition of the country in 1947 featured among the list of "Serar Sera Puraskar" (Best of the best award) announced by the West Bengal government on Monday.

Haldibari-Chilahati rail link: The newly inaugurated railway line, reopened after 55 years, has become the fifth operational rail link between the two countries

The Muslim League would not have allowed the country to function and there would have been more "direct action days" if partition had not taken place, Congress leader K Natwar Singh said on Sunday.

A UK High Court judge, who ruled in favour of India in a decades-old legal dispute with Pakistan over funds belonging to the Nizam of Hyderabad at the time of Partition in 1947 and deposited in a London bank account, on Thursday ordered Pakistan to pay millions of pounds in legal costs.

A decades-old legal dispute between India and Pakistan over around 35 million pounds belonging to the Nizam of Hyderabad at the time of Partition in 1947 and deposited in a London bank account has reached an important stage in the UK High Court.

India is observing the 'Partition Horrors Remembrance Day' today - August 14 - to pay tribute to those who lost their lives and were displaced during the country's partition in 1947.

A museum themed on the Partition, telling the story of the 1947 tragedy and representing the pain and trauma suffered by people on both sides of the border, is all set to open at the Mughal-era Dara Shikoh Library building here on May 18.

Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh chief Mohan Bhagwat on Friday said people of Pakistan were not happy after more than seven decades of Independence and they now believe the partition of India was a mistake.

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) general secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya on Tuesday said post-independence and Partition in 1947, whatever was left of India constituted a "Hindu Rashtra".

Seventy-five years after they separated during the Partition in 1947, the families of two Sikh brothers met at the Kartarpur Corridor, singing songs and showering flowers on each other in an emotional reunuion made possible through social media.

Jalandhar-based Sikh man Amarjit Singh's happiness knew no bounds when he met his Muslim sister from Pakistan at Gurdwara Darbar Sahib in Kartarpur, 75 years after he was separated from his family at the time of Partition.

The Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) should set up a centre to study the 1947 partition in depth to fill the historical gaps, Vice Chancellor Santishree Dhulipudi Pandit said on Sunday.

The Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) is planning to set up a centre to study the 1947 partition in depth to fill the historical gaps, Vice-Chancellor Santishree Dhulipudi Pandit said on Sunday.

The BJP video featured Cyril John Radcliffe, whose partition map split Punjab and Bengal almost in half, and questioned how a person who had no knowledge of Indian cultural heritage was allowed to divide India in merely weeks.

The government is set to hold exhibitions on "horrors of the Partition" at key public places such as railway stations, airports and malls between August 10 and August 14.

Durga pujas themed on the issues of National Register of Citizens (NRC) and the partition of the country in 1947 featured among the list of "Serar Sera Puraskar" (Best of the best award) announced by the West Bengal government on Monday.

Haldibari-Chilahati rail link: The newly inaugurated railway line, reopened after 55 years, has become the fifth operational rail link between the two countries

The Muslim League would not have allowed the country to function and there would have been more "direct action days" if partition had not taken place, Congress leader K Natwar Singh said on Sunday.

A UK High Court judge, who ruled in favour of India in a decades-old legal dispute with Pakistan over funds belonging to the Nizam of Hyderabad at the time of Partition in 1947 and deposited in a London bank account, on Thursday ordered Pakistan to pay millions of pounds in legal costs.

A decades-old legal dispute between India and Pakistan over around 35 million pounds belonging to the Nizam of Hyderabad at the time of Partition in 1947 and deposited in a London bank account has reached an important stage in the UK High Court.