VHP today demanded that all roads and monuments named after Mughal emperors be re-christened, claiming that the country sh
A section of historians and scholars have criticised the rec
Amid raging controversy over renaming of Aurangzeb Road in Lutyens' Zone after A P J Abdul Kalam, a street in south Delhi
Aurangzeb Road in Lutyen's Delhi will soon be known as APJ Abdul Kalam Road with the New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) t
Insisting that cow should be protected, Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh today said even the Mughals were aware of the fa
BJP today hit back at Congress Vice-President Rahul Gandhi for targeting Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the farmers issue
Calling the Humayun's Tomb site museum project a "magnificent partnership" between the government and private en
A Mughal era fort on the banks of the river Barak in Assam's Karimganj district would soon be restored.
The
This is old news, but I had somehow missed the BBC story which has a photo:
Madhu is the illiterate great-great-granddaughter of emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar and has been employed to run errands in Coal India's offices.
A letter of employment will be formally handed over to her by the coal minister at a function in Calcutta next month.
She and her mother currently run a tea stall in the slums of Calcutta.
..."It will be great to have Madhu working for us. Actually, it will be a great tribute to the last Mughal emperor who played a key role during the first war of independence in 1857," Coal India Chairman Partha Bhattacharyya said.
...The move by Coal India follows sustained efforts by a Delhi-based journalist Shivnath Jha, who launched a campaign to rescue her from poverty.
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