Partition days revisited on Vibhajan Vibhishika Smriti Divas
Inter-University Accelerator Centre(IUAC) and Consortium for Educational Communication (CEC) jointly organised the Vibhajan Vibhishika Smriti Divas to recall the struggles…
Inter-University Accelerator Centre(IUAC) and Consortium for Educational Communication (CEC) jointly organised the Vibhajan Vibhishika Smriti Divas to recall the struggles…
The Balfour Report was prepared by the Committee on Inter-Imperial Relations at the Imperial Conference held in London in 1926.
Chandraprakash Dwivedi said that movies made on the subject of 'partition' evokes response but it should be a constant effort in that direction.
Congress leader Jairam Ramesh said, "The real intent of PM to mark August 14 as Partition Horrors Remembrance Day is to use the most traumatic historical events as fodder for his current political battles.”
PM had last year announced that August 14 will be observed as 'Partition Horrors Remembrance Day' to remind the nation of the sufferings and sacrifices of Indians during the partition in 1947.
The day is being observed to give a fitting tribute to all those who lost their lives and were displaced in one of the most horrific tragedies in human history.
Bengal, the biggest province of the country before partition lost its preeminence in truncated India after independence, due to its much reduced population.
Supporting Defence Minister Rajnath Singh's statement on the country's partition, Abdullah said had there been no partition, the country would have been more powerful with both the communities co-existing peacefully.
Rajnath was inaugurating ''Swarnim Vijay Parv'', an event commemorating the valour and professionalism of the armed forces and their contribution to the liberation of Bangladesh in the Indo-Pak 1971 war, at India Gate Lawns here. The event marks the culmination of year-long celebrations of 50 years of India's victory in the war.
Relatives separated from their families could not be traced for years, and many reconciled to live without their loved ones. It was never confirmed whether people lost in the migration survived or were killed on the journeys.
