Aurangzeb, the sixth Mughal emperor, is a controversial figure in Indian history. His tomb is in Khuldabad, Maharashtra, not in Delhi or Agra. Aurangzeb preferred a simple grave, rejecting the ...

The China Yearbook, available in both Chinese and English, emerged as one of the highlights at the London Book Fair held from March 11 to 13. As a definitive chronicle of China's development ...

The immediate cause of Nagpur riot was unfounded rumours that the Quran had been burned during a protest by a right-wing group demanding the removal of Mughal emperor Aurangzeb's tomb in Sambhaji ...

But the power-hungry emperor was also unmatched on the battlefield in his time and excellent at building alliances, said Audrey Truschke, historian and author of the book Aurangzeb: The Man and ...

When the U.S. military refused to let women pilots enlist and the editor of an aviation magazine scoffed at “the woman who thinks she ought to be flying a high-speed bomber when she really has not the ...

Aurangzeb's tomb row: The ongoing dispute over the demand to remove Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb's tomb sparked unrest in central Nagpur on Monday evening, resulting in violent clashes, incidents of ...

PTI Police disperse an agitating crowd as communal tension prevailed Chitnis park area following the VHP-Bajrang Dal protest, in Nagpur Tension gripped central Nagpur on Monday when stones were hurled ...

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Centering mostly on rabbis and their wayward, modernity-seeking children, the novel — a melancholy book that also happens to be hopelessly, miraculously, unremittingly funny — offers an ...

Four years after winning the Nobel Prize in Literature, writer Abdulrazak Gurnah returns with a spellbinding family saga set in his home country of Tanzania. After graduating from university ...