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Mumbai bungalow with independence movement past sold for ₹276 crore
Constructed in 1904 by a Parsi family, Laxmi Niwas was sold to he Kapadia family in 1917 for ₹1.20 lakh
Published on Mar 20, 2025 07:12 AM IST
INA veteran to mark 100th birthday by paying tribute to fallen heroes at Kartavya Path
Lieutenant R Madhavan Pillai, a veteran of the INA, will celebrate his 100th birthday by honoring heroes at the National War Memorial on March 13.
Published on Mar 13, 2025 08:04 AM IST
HT Correspondent, New Delhi
We will free Bharat Mata from an autocratic regime: Uddhav
Uddhav Thackeray calls for a movement to free India from an "autocratic regime," criticizing rivals for undermining democracy and the Constitution.
Updated on Jan 26, 2025 06:36 AM IST
HT Picks; New Reads
On the reading list this week is a book that traverses places that played an important role in the Independence movement and those of contemporary significance, a selection of Kiran Nagarkar’s writing, and a novel about migration and belonging
Published on Sep 06, 2024 08:01 PM IST
HT Team
Scottish independence hit as SNP suffers 'black night' in UK poll
Scottish independence hit as SNP suffers 'black night' in UK poll
Published on Jul 05, 2024 11:17 AM IST
AFP |
Haryana minister Anil Vij pays tributes to Netaji on his birth anniversary
Haryana home minister Anil Vij said this while paying tributes to Netaji on his birth anniversary at Subhash Park in Ambala Cantonment. Vij mentioned that the first flag in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands was hoisted by Netaji
Updated on Jan 24, 2024 05:54 AM IST
HT Correspondent, Karnal
PM Modi at HTLS: 'Poverty can't be fought with slogans, but solutions'
PM Narendra Modi said India has been breaking mental barriers since 2014.
Published on Nov 04, 2023 07:52 PM IST
London's India Club, once nationalist hub during freedom struggle, to shut down
Proprietors Yadgar Marker and his daughter Phiroza launched a “Save India Club” appeal as they fought to keep it going but now announced its impending closure.
Published on Aug 26, 2023 11:27 AM IST
PTI | | Posted by Nisha Anand
Excerpt: Unknown Heroes of India’s Freedom Struggle
On India’s Independence Day, a new anthology from Tulika Graphix reminds us of many unsung freedom fighters. This extract is from Demati Dei Salihan's story
Updated on Aug 15, 2023 06:33 PM IST
P Sainath
Nation remembers Bhagat Singh, Rajguru and Sukhdev on death anniversary
Shaheed Diwas: The martyrdom day of Shaheed Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev and Rajguru is annually observed on March 23, the day on which in 1931, the three were hanged in the Lahore conspiracy case.
Published on Mar 23, 2023 07:20 AM IST
Mahatma Gandhi: An inspiring human
He was the leader of India’s non- violent independence movement against the British rule and organised a boycott against British institutions in peaceful forms of civil disobedience.
Updated on Oct 01, 2020 03:24 PM IST
Abhishek Kumar
‘The Cellular Jail should be a place of pilgrimage’
Says author Vikram Sampath, whose new book charts Vinayak Damodar Savarkar’s journey from a small village in Maharashtra to the heart of the Indian independence movement
Updated on Oct 02, 2019 04:42 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Navneet Vyasan
Celebrating 100 years of a first act of Independence
The exhibition titled 100th Anniversary of the March 1st Independence Movement: One Shiny Day, presents the underlying themes of the sorrow and restoration of South Korea, which has modern history similar to that of India.
Updated on Aug 17, 2019 12:57 PM IST
New Delhi | Indo Asian News Service
Why Hindutva nationalism is unsettling
It is not merely proclaiming pride in Hinduism as a religion; it threatens to unmake India and replace it with a different nation.
Updated on Jun 03, 2019 09:38 PM IST
Mimi Mondal
Lok Sabha elections 2019: Home to Amul, Anand is Gujarat’s bellwether seat
The BJP is hoping that it will be able to retain all the 26 Lok Sabha seats that it swept in the 2014 general election. Gujarat will go to polls in a single phase on April 23. Anand, a traditional Congress bastion, will be a bellwether seat.
Updated on May 02, 2020 09:13 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Anand/Ahmedabad | Chetan Chauhan
Bhagat Singh and his comrades showed politics has no age bar
Their lives, Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev, and Rajguru, are proof that one is never too young to be politically aware, to educate oneself about the truth of the world at large, and to actively play a role in shaping the society one wants to live in
Updated on Mar 22, 2019 06:10 PM IST
Hindustan Times | HT Correspondent
London’s India Club with ties to freedom movement saved from demolition
Thousands of people had signed an online petition to save the club near the Indian High Commission.
Updated on Aug 01, 2018 06:39 PM IST
Prasun Sonwalkar, Hindustan Times, London | HT Correspondent