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Wednesday, December 17, 2025
TopicThird Battle of Panipat

Topic: Third Battle of Panipat

Haryana completes modalities to acquire land to honour 1761 Panipat battle’s Maratha heroes

Project seems to be aimed at wooing Marathas in Maharashtra, historians say, but there are contradictions in the narrative being developed by BJP governments in Haryana and Maharashtra.

Babur, Akbar, and Abdali—the losses Panipat doesn’t want to battle anymore

From crumbling memorials to misplaced narratives, Panipat's historic battlefields bear witness to a legacy of defeat—and the struggle to reclaim it.

Forget battle over the film, Panipat is at the heart of 3 battles that shaped our history

Ashutosh Gowarikar’s period drama Panipat has offended Jats and Afghans for 'wrong portrayal' of Jat ruler Maharaja Surajmal and Afghan king Ahmad Shah Abdali.

Panipat runs into trouble in Rajasthan as Jats upset over ‘poor portrayal of King Surajmal’

Rajathan's Jat community claims Maharaja Surajmal is shown as being greedy in the film Panipat, when, in fact, he helped the Marathas against the Afghans in the third battle of Panipat.

Panipat review: Almost another lavishly mounted caricature of Muslim invaders as brutes

Arjun Kapoor, Kriti Sanon and Sanjay Dutt star in Ashutosh Gowariker's portrayal of the Third Battle of Panipat.

Panipat was a bloody military debacle for Marathas. Will patriotism-high India see the film?

Panipat, releasing 6 December, the day Babri Masjid was demolished in Ayodhya, is about battle that Amit Shah said ‘paved way for foreigners to enter India’.

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Who grounded IndiGo flights? They are the culprits, not DGCA

The IndiGo crisis is nothing short of a threat to India’s stability. Could it be an experiment? Can this happen in any other crucial sector like power or railways?

India’s merchandise exports to US rising month-on-month despite Trump tariffs, govt data shows

November exports to the US saw 10% growth from the previous month. Overall, in the first 8 months this fiscal, the merchandise exports to the US touched has touched $59bn.

Israel has ‘realised who its real friend is’, eyes defence expansion in India amid arms curbs by others

It is argued that India-Israel ties are moving from buyer–seller dynamic to one focused on joint development & manufacturing partnership, a shift 'more durable' than traditional arms sales.

India’s top airline just handed sarkar the keys. That’s IndiGo’s real ‘crime’

Don’t blame misfortune. This is colossal incompetence and insensitivity. So bad, heads would have rolled even in the old PSU-era Indian Airlines and Air India.