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TopicThird Battle of Panipat

Topic: Third Battle of Panipat

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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In Great Game for Kabul, India plays a patient hand. Multi-alignment to compartmentalisation

Pakistan’s reported air strikes on Kabul last night, coinciding with Acting Afghan Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi’s visit to India, seem intended to send...

Niti Aayog recommends fully decriminalising 12 offences under new I-T Act to ‘foster more trust’

Recommendations appear in Niti Aayog’s Tax Policy Working Paper Series–II. It says there is a need to shift away from fear-based enforcement to trust-based governance.

India, UK sign £350 mn deal for Martlet. What are these Lightweight Multirole Missiles

In service with the British military since 2019, it is also known as the Martlet missile. Ukrainians have also deployed these missiles against Russian troops.

How Pakistan thinks: Army for hire, ideology of convenience

Pakistan’s army has been a rentier force available to a reasonable bidder. It has never come to the aid of any Muslims including Palestinians or the Gazans, except making noises here and there.