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During the Second World War, the Royal Indian Navy (RIN) had rapidly expanded from a small naval force composed of sloops to become a full–fledged navy. [6] The expansion occurred in an ad hoc basis as operational requirements changed over the course of the war, the naval headquarters was moved from Bombay to New Delhi during this period, the navy acquired a varied assortment of warships and ...
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4 September – Street violence between Muslims and Hindus in Bombay. 27 November – Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru appeals to the United States and the Soviet Union to end nuclear testing and to start nuclear disarmament, stating that such an action would "save humanity from the ultimate disaster." 1946 Cabinet Mission to India on March 24
A modern display of the Indian National Army trials. The Indian National Army trials (also known as the INA trials and the Red Fort trials) was the British Indian trial by court-martial of a number of officers of the Indian National Army (INA) between November 1945 and May 1946, on various charges of treason, torture, murder and abetment to murder, during the Second World War.
One hundred years ago on this day - 12 January 1925 - a group of men attacked a couple on a car ride in a upmarket suburb in Bombay (now Mumbai) in colonial India, shooting the man dead and ...
Direct Action Day (16 August 1946) was the day the All-India Muslim League decided to take a "direct action" using general strikes and economic shut down to demand a separate Muslim homeland after the British exit from India. Also known as the 1946 Calcutta Riots, it soon became a day of communal violence in Calcutta. [5]
The Las Vegas Police Department released graphic new photos that provide a chilling look inside Stephen Paddock's 32nd-floor Mandalay Bay Hotel room, from which he committed the worst mass ...
The Royal Air Force strikes of 1946 was a series of demonstrations and strikes at several dozen Royal Indian Air Force stations in the Indian subcontinent beginning on 22 January 1946. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] As these incidents involved refusals to obey orders they technically constituted a form of mutiny .