MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD Subject: History Context: Egypt sentences Muslim Brotherhood leader to life in prison .Court finds Mahmoud Ezzat, acting supreme guide of the country’s oldest Islamist organisation, guilty of ‘terror’ acts. Concept: Muslim Brotherhood is a religiopolitical organization founded in 1928 at Ismailia, Egypt, by Hassan al-Banna. Islamist in orientation, it advocated a […]

    REHAT MARYADA Subject: History Context: SGPC demands action after Sikh youth says was asked to remove symbols of faith. Concept: The Sikh Rehat Maryada is a code of conduct and conventions for Sikhism, and its final version was approved by the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee, Amritsar in 1945 after centuries of use before […]

    GURU TEJ BAHADUR Subject : History Context : SAD president Sukhbir Singh Badal today requested that a world-class museum be established in Delhi to showcase the life of Guru Teg Bahadur on the occasion of his 400th birth anniversary. Concept : Guru Teg Bahadur (1621-1675) Guru Teg Bahadur was the ninth of ten […]

    UNITED BENGAL PLAN Subject : History Concept : United Bengal Plan British Bengal roughly consisted of modern-day Bangladesh and the Indian state of West Bengal. In 1905, Bengal was partitioned to achieve some political returns but people’s growing movement under the auspices of Congress led to the reunion in 1911. In 1947, along […]

    BATTLE OF FEROZESHAH Subject : History Concept : The Battle of Ferozeshah was fought on 21 December and 22 December 1845 between the British East India Company and the Sikh Empire, at the village of Ferozeshah in Punjab. It was the second battle in first anglosikh war. The British were led by Sir […]

    PERIYAR Subject : History Concept : Contributions Erode Venkatappa Ramasamy was born in 1879 in Erode, then a part of the Coimbatore district of the Madras Presidency. He later came to be called “Periyar”, which in Tamil means ‘respected one’ or ‘elder’. He was also popularly referred to as Thanthai Periyar. He was […]

    TOMAR DYNASTY Subject : History Context: A government seminar conducted recently in Delhi highlighted the legacy of the long-forgotten Tomar king — Anangpal II. Concept: Anangpal II, popularly known as AnangpalTomar, belonged to the Tomar dynasty that ruled parts of present-day Delhi and Haryana between the 8th and 12th centuries. Their rule is […]

    RIVER SARASVATI Subject : Geography / History Context :The Centre has reconstituted an advisory committee to chalk out a plan for studying the mythical Sarasvati river for the next two years, after the earlier panel’s term ended in 2019. Concept : The Sarasvati River is one of the main Rigvedic rivers mentioned in […]