Culture and History

Narendra Modi unveiled the Statue of Valour as a bronze monument measuring 125 ft high in memory of the distinguished Ahom military general Lachit Borphukan on 9th March

Gopanath Mahadev's shrine is located near Zanzmer village in Talaja taluka, Bhavnagar district. OpIndia's team visited this old temple in Bhavnagar. The team discovered that the temple was attacked the Islamists in the 16th century killing numerous Hindus.

The Prime Minister calling the said mountains Shankaracharya Hill holds immense significance given the past attempts at Islamising the place as ‘Takh-e-Suleman’. There have been countless efforts to erase the Hindu heritage across the country, but none at the scale seen in Jammu and Kashmir.

The holy city of Dwarka drowned just as Lord Krishna was stuck with an arrow of a hunter while he was resting in a forest.

The existence of a fire temple called Aateshgah at Surakhani, Azerbaijan, speaks significantly of the civilisational heritage and unceasing continuity of Vedic culture of fire worship even outside Bharat.

According to popular folklore, Lord Krishna himself installed the statue of Lord Shiva at the Valinath temple in Mehsana.

Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan and Prime Minister Modi welcomed sadhus of the BAPS Swaminarayan Sanstha during PM Modi’s visit to the UAE in 2018

Numerous historical evidence, inscriptions from medieval era, and ASI reports reveal that mosques were indeed built on preexisting temples.

Madras High Court restricted entry of non-Hindus in temples in its order on 30th January.

Devideen Pandey killed 700 Mughal soldiers before sacrificing his life for the cause of Ram Janmbhoomi in Ayodhya.