Indian History

An Illuminated Qutab Minar A signature monument of Delhi, Qutub Minar is a minaret that forms part of the Qutb complex, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in the Mehrauli area of Delhi.  Made of red sandstone and marble, Qutub Minar is a 73-metre (240 feet) tall tapering tower of five storeys, with a 14.3 metre (47 feet) base diameter, reducing to 2.7 metres (9 feet) at the peak. It contains a spiral staircase of 379 steps. Its design is thought to have been based on the Minaret of Jam, in western Afghanistan. Qutb-Ud-Din-Aibak, founder of the Delhi Sultanate and first Muslim ruler of Delhi, started construction of the Qutub Minar's first storey around 1192. In 1220, Aibak's son-in-law, Shamsuddin Iltutmish, completed a further three storeys. (chaugan). Iltutmish had ascended to the throne of Delhi Sultanate after a brief reign of Aram Shah after the death of Qutb-ud-din in 1210.  In 1369, a lightning strike destroyed the top storey of the structure. Firoz ShahTughlaq (1309-...

  Established in 5th century AD,  Nalanda  was a famous university of ancient India. During the rule of Harsha, the fame of university reached far and wide. Under the  Pala  ruler  Dharampal , the glory of the university reached its zenith.  The renowned Chinese traveler Hiuen-Tsang who came to India during the rule of Harshvardhan and studied at Nalanda, has mentioned the Nalanda university in glowing terms. From his accounts it can be said that the university was a great centre of education and was famous even in far-off countries. According to  Hiuen-Tsang , the number of students at the university was ten thousand and the faculty consisted of great minds drawn from different parts of India. Separate buildings were used for the study of the students. Some buildings had the sitting capacity of  ten thousand students . The library of the university was very big and consisted of three buildings, one of them nine storied. Admission to Nalanda ...

A BJP bastion, all elections to Bilaspur has been won by the party since 1996. Punnulal Mohle, a minister in the Raman Singh led BJP government in Chhattisgarh, emerged victorious from this parliamentary seat in 1996, 1998, 1999 and 2004. Dilip Singh Judeo of the BJP represented the seat from 2009 to 2014.  Contesting Candidates for Bilaspur Lok Sabha Elections 2024 Party Candidate Votes Polled % of Votes Polled BJP Tokhan Sahu     Congress Devendra Yadav    

        BJP Smriti Irani             Congress Kishori Lal Sharma     BSP Nanhe Singh Chauhan                Amethi is one of the most popular parliamentary constituencies in India. The seat is mostly represented by a member of the Gandhi Nehru family. This Lok Sabah seat in Uttar Pradesh has been represented four times by Rajiv Gandhi who won it in 1980, 1984, 1989 and 1991. Dynastic politics, though an antithesis of democracy, is an integral part of Indian politics, though loved by people.  The constituency has been won by Congress except in 1977, 1998 and 2019. In 1977 Ravindra Pratap Singh won the seat for Janata Party. Sanjay Singh and  Smriti Irani  won the...

  Party Candidate Votes Polled     % of Votes Polled Janata Dal (United) Kaushalendra Kumar     CPI(ML)L Sandeep Saurav    

Contesting Candidates for Krishnanagar Lok Sabha Elections 2024    Party Candidate Votes Polled   % of Votes Polled   Congress       CPI(M)   S. M. Saadi       BJP     Amrita Roy     TMC   Mahua Moitra      

 Party                                                                  Seats                                                        Votes Polled  BJP 303 37.7% Congress 52 19.7% DMK 24 2.4% Trinamool Congress 22 4.1% YSRCP 22 2.6% Shiv Sena 18 2.1% JDU 16 1.5% BJD 12 1.7% BSP 10 3.7% TRS 9 1.3% LJP 6 0.5% SP 5 2.6% NCP 5 1.4% Telugu Desam 3 2.1% CPM 3 1.8% IUML 3 0.3% JKNC 3 0.0% Akali Dal 2 0.6% CPI 2 0.6% AIMIM 2 0.2% ADS 2 0.2% AAAP 1 0.4% ADMK 1 1.4% AIUDF 1 0.2% AJSUP 1 0.1% JDS 1 0.6% JMM 1 0.3% KC(M) 1 0.1% MNF 1 0.0% NPEP 1 0.1% NPF 1 0.1% RSP 1 0.1% SKM 1 0.0% NDPP 1 0.1% VK 1 0.1% RLP 1 0.1% other parties 0 5.7% ...