Portal:India/DYK
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- ...that Sabeena Saleem is the first mother to compete alongside her daughter at the Asian Games in Indian bowling history?
- ...that the Khooni Darwaza (literally Gateway of Blood) a 16th century monument at Delhi, India is so named due to the various incidents of bloodshed associated with it?
- ...that retired Indian footballer and FIFA Centennial Order of Merit awardee, Pradip Kumar Banerjee, at the age of 19 in 1955, was the youngest player ever to represent a state or country in an international tournament when he played for Indian Football Team in a quadrangular tournament in Dhaka?
- ...that the practice of collecting funds for the welfare of the armed forces personnel on the Flag Day (December 7) every year, started more than half a century back in 1949, even before India became Republic?
- ...that Indian film director Ritwik Ghatak's first feature film Nagarik premiered after his death, twenty-four years after it was made?
- ....that Vishnu Bhagwat was the first service chief in independent India to be sacked from his post in late 1998?
- ...that noted Bengali writer Rajnarayan Basu was a tutor of Asia's first Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore?
- ...Indira Gandhi (pictured) was the only female to have held the post of Minister of External Affairs in India?
- ...that the monkey Ramu, from the Indian state of Orissa was kept behind bars for five years on the charge of disturbing communal harmony?
- ...that the Sannyasi Rebellion was a series of clashes between Indian ascetics and the British East India Company during the eighteenth century in Bengal?
