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Friday, November 21, 2025
TopicNational Archives of India

Topic: National Archives of India

APJ Abdul Kalam’s papers get a new home — 4 boxes from Rameshwaram now in National Archives

The late former President APJ Abdul Kalam’s family officially handed over his documents and signed an agreement with the National Archives of India on 28 April.

Kashi, Ujjain, Prayagraj priests are now adding to National Archives of India

The National Archives of India is harnessing traditional knowledge and community records, director general Arun Singhal said at the South and West Asian Regional Branch of the International Council on Archives meeting in Delhi.

National Archives of India acquires private paper collection of Rafi Ahmad Kidwai

This includes original correspondences between Kidwai and other eminent leaders of India, including Pt. Nehru, Sardar Patel, Shyama Prasad Mukherjee, and P.D. Tandon.

National Museum guards, guides aren’t just worried about artefacts—’Will I have a job?’

A part of Modi govt's Central Vista project, Yuge Yugeen Bharat National Museum will open in three months. But work on moving the artefacts at the National Museum has not yet begun.

Godrej, Cipla, Tata— private archives are filling the gaps in the story of modern India

The National Archives of India has almost no record of India's Green Revolution but National Centre for Biological Sciences in Bangalore does.

Assam State Archives shows how it’s done—5 lakh documents, 6000 maps, digitisation drive

Under Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, history in Assam has gained a new sheen with a digitisation drive.

‘Whose history?’: In Telangana and Andhra Pradesh, the archives are fighting

The bone of contention is the brief overlap between when the state of Hyderabad acceded to India and when the state of Andhra Pradesh was created.

Wars to Green Revolution to Emergency, National Archives are full of gaping holes

Many ministries have lagged for decades in sending records to National Archives of India, according to its director-general Chandan Sinha. The losers are scholars and public alike.

Why fugitives should get ‘visa on (CBI’s) arrival’ & revenge is a dish best served by bulldozer

The best cartoons of the day, chosen by the editors at ThePrint.

The two anxieties surrounding India’s archives

It is the records kept in places such as the National Archives that are referred to when the government’s version is at cross purposes with the people’s history.

On Camera

Dr Umar Nabi has shattered a popular misconception about terrorism

The good and the bad in the Islamic tradition are so intertwined that there is no good Islam to fight the bad one. The way out is not the true Islam, but the true nationalisation of it.

At Charcha 2025: Local entrepreneurship, not just big IT, will drive next wave of distributed AI work

While global corporations setting up GCCs in India continue to express confidence in availability of skilled AI engineers, the panel argued that India’s real challenge lies elsewhere.

IAF’s leased KC-135 lands in Agra, American firm’s pilots to man mid-air refueller

India’s refueller fleet comprises six Russian Ilushin-78 tankers, first inducted in 2003, which are facing huge maintenance and serviceability issues.

INDIA has a Congress-sized hole. And the fix begins with a little humility

Without a Congress revival, there can be no challenge to the BJP pan-nationally. Modi’s party is growing, and almost entirely at the cost of the Congress.