This day was one of those unfortunate days, which
witnessed eruption of riots between two religious
communities at Muzaffarnagar, Uttar Pradesh, India.
September 17, 2013: The
riots ended on this day. The riots erupted on August
27, 2013, resulted in at least 62 deaths and injured
93 and left more than 50,000 displaced.
INDISCIPLINE IN PARLIAMENT
August 03, 2015:
25 Congress MPs
suspended for indiscipline. Lok Sabha
Speaker Sumitra Mahajan suspended 25 Congress MPs for five days
for repeatedly disrupting the proceedings of the House. The
Speaker, after several warnings, “named” 25 Congress members who
were in the Well demanding the resignation of external affairs
minister Sushma Swaraj and Rajasthan CM Vasundhara Raje over the
Lalit Modi row and Madhya Pradesh CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan over
the Vyapam scam. Throughout the monsoon session, which was
entirely washed out without passing even a single bill, had been
a story of total indiscipline.
August 13, 2015:
The monsoon session
of the Rajya Sabha of the Indian Parliament
was entirely washed out today when it ended with no
business allowed to be conducted by the Congress
party which kept demanding the resignation of
certain Ministers of the BJP. Some regard this
development as the beginning of the end of democracy
in India.
RESERVATION QUOTA - Protest by Patel
Community of Gujarat.
August 25, 2015:
The violence started on 25-8-2015 after a
massive rally of the Patel community.
Hardik Patel, who is leading the stir, had
called for a state-wide bandh on 26-8-2015.
Six people were killed in firing by police and
paramilitary forces, while two others died following
clashes.
Meanwhile, several religious leaders, including
Morari Bapu and Pramukh Swami Maharaj of the
Swaminaryan sect, have issued appeals for peace.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi appealed for peace
and emphasised that all the issues can be resolved
through talks. "I appeal to all brothers and sisters
of Gujarat that they should not resort to violence.
The only 'Mantra' must be 'Shanti'," said Modi.
Incidentally, Patel community is known to be
one of the richest communities of India.
OFFICE OF PROFIT TO MLAs:
September 08, 2016:
In a huge setback to the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP)
in Delhi, its order appointing 21 lawmakers as
parliamentary secretaries has been set aside by the
high court. If the Election Commission decides that
the appointments were illegal, the lawmakers will
stand disqualified, making an election necessary in
Delhi.
Mar 23, 2018:
The Delhi high court had set aside the Election
Commission’s disqualification of 20 AAP MLAs for holding
office-of-profit. It remanded the matter back to the
Election Commission to first decide the “all important
and seminal issue; what is meant by the expression
‘office of profit held under the government’.” The court
told the poll panel to then “re-examine the factual
matrix to decide whether the petitioners (MLAs) had
incurred disqualification on appointment as
Parliamentary Secretaries, without being influenced by
the earlier order or observations on the said aspect in
this order”.
Jul 24, 2018:
Delhi high court referred to a larger bench a
petition filed by some Aam Aadmi Party MLAs challenging
an Election Commission (EC) decision disallowing them to
cross-examine Prashant Patel, the petitioner who had
accused them of holding ‘office-of-profit’ upon their
appointment as parliamentary secretaries by the Arvind
Kejriwal government.
August 03, 2014
- Handed over back to his mother in Nepal
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He, a Nepalese youth, then 10
years of age, had got lost in India
and Narendra Modi,
the present Prime Minister of India,
found him in Ahmedabad. Since then
Modi was acting guardian to him,
helping him in his well being and
development.
Soon after arriving in Nepal on
a two-day visit, Modi handed over
Jeet Bahadur to his mother
Khagisara.
He features in the doubles events
in the ATP Tour and the Davis Cup tournament.
He has won eight doubles and
six mixed doubles Grand Slam titles and finished as
runner up in numerous other Grand Slam finals.
He is considered to be one of the greatest and
most respected contemporary doubles and mixed
doubles players in the world.
He is the oldest man to have won a grand slam
title.
On Aug-03, 1996, he won a
bronze medal at the Atlanta Olympics and became the
First Indian to win a medal in an individual event
ever since K. Jadhav won a bronze medal in 1952
in wrestling.
He and
Mahesh
Bhupathi became the first doubles
team to reach the finals of all four Grand Slams,
the first time such a feat has been achieved in the open era
and the first time since 1952. On 26 April, 1999,
they became the world no. 1 doubles team.
Awards &
Accolades
Recipient of India's highest sporting honour, the
Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award, in
1996–1997.
Indian Freedom Fighter - A
prominent personality of the Indian
Nationalist Movement.
Date-wise Events / Works
August 03, 1885 -
She got married to Rustom Cama, an affluent pro-British
lawyer. She did not enjoy her married life and spent most of her
time performing social welfare activities.
1896 - Bombay presidency was hit by a
natural calamity, followed by spreadng of epidemic. Madam
Cama was instrumental in working hard for
rescuing other people and inoculating them, she herself
became a victim of the infection. She became very weak, but
somehow managed to survive.
1902 - she went to Europe for
subsequent medical care.
August 22, 1907 - She raised the flag
for India's Independence at the International Socialist
Conference in Stuttgart, Germany.
January 26, 1962 - Indian Posts and
Telegraphs Department issued a stamp in her honour.
Other Events &
Developments
She was born to a Parsi family
in Bombay (now Mumbai).
She came from a well off family;
her father Sorabji Framji Patel was
an influential member of the Parsi
community.
While Madam Cama was in London,
she served as the private secretary
to Dadabhai Naoroji, who was the
first Asian to be elected to the
British House of Commons.
When Bhikaji Cama was in Paris,
she happened to come across a number
of notable leaders of the Indian
Nationalist Movement.
During her stay in France, the
British Raj authorities requested
her extradition, but the French
Government did not show their
willingness and refused to
cooperate. In return, the Britishers
confiscated Madame Cama's legacy.
She kept fighting for gender
equality.
Commemoration
There are many cities in India
that have streets and places being
named after Bhikaiji Cama.
The Indian Coast Guard consists
of a ship that has been named after her.
15th Prime Minister of India (Sworn in on
May 26, 2014)
Date-wise Events / Works
Works:
In 2001, he co-authored Setubandh, a
biography of the RSS leader Lakshmanrao Inamdar.
In 2007, a book comprising a collection of Modi's poems
titled Aankh Aa Dhanya Chhe (Our Eyes Are
So Blessed) was published.
He also authored a book Karmayog which
was a 101-page booklet.
His Gujarati book titled Jyotipunj was
published in 2008 and contains biographical profiles of
various RSS leaders by whom he was inspired.
He has authored eight other books, mostly comprising
short stories for children.
Events:
May 26, 2014 - He was sworn in as
the 15th Prime Minister of India. Modi invited leaders of the
SAARC countries to
his swearing-in as prime minister to strengthen
ties among its member states.
October 2014 - He launched the
Swachh Bharat
Abhiyan ("Clean India") campaign, a national
cleanliness drive.
August 03, 2014 - He reached Nepal
on this day on 2 days State visit to help speed up
negotiations on a power trade pact.
Soon after arriving here,
Modi handed over Jeet Bahadur, his Godson, to his mother
Khagisara and brother Dasharath Sarumagar and younger
sister. (Jeet Bahadur is a Nepalese youth, who had
got lost in India and Narendra Modi, found him in
Ahmedabad. Since then Modi was acting guardian to him,
helping him in his well being and development).
August 30, 2014 - He began a
five-day trip to Japan.
September 17, 2014 - Chinese
President Xi Jinping arrived in India.
September, 2014 (Last week) - He had a successful visit to the United States, which led to an improvement in
relations between India and the US.
September 23, 2014: He
arrived in Dublin, Ireland on this day; after a
gap of around 60 years, any Prime Minister of India
arrived in Ireland.
September 27, 2014 - He addressed
to the United Nations General Assembly; Modi asked for the
adoption of 21 June as International Yoga Day,
and a resolution doing so was approved by the 193-member
body.
June 01, 2015 - He launched the "Housing for All
By 2022" project, which intends to eliminate slums
in India by building about 20 million affordable
homes for India's urban poor.
June 25, 2015 - He launched a flagship scheme for developing 100 smart
cities.
July 01, 2015 - He launched Digital India Week
in Delhi.
July 15, 2015:
Skill India is a campaign launched by Prime
Minister Narendra Modi on this day with an aim to train
over 40 crore (400 million) people in India in different
skills by 2022. It includes various initiatives of the
government like "National Skill Development Mission",
"National Policy for Skill Development and
Entrepreneurship, 2015", "Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas
Yojana (PMKVY)" and the "Skill Loan scheme".
August 16, 2015 - He arrived in
Abu
Dhabi on this day to begin the first UAE visit by an Indian
Prime Minister in 34 years. The all-out efforts were made
to ensure that this visitleaves an indelible impact on the lakhs of Indians
living in this “mini-India”.
September 2015 - India was the world's
top foreign direct investment destination,
overtaking China and the United States.
September 2015 - Modi visited
silicon valley
in USA to meet the likes of Mark Zuckerberg, Sundar
Pichai and Satya Nadella promoting the Digital India
program.
November 18, 2015: A
personalised postage stamp featuring Prime Minister
Narendra was issued by Turkey in remembrance of the just
concluded G20 Leaders Summit here. The stamp of 2.80
Turkish lira bears a picture of Modi and the Indian
national flag. It has 'Narendra Modi - Prime Minister of
Republic of India' written at the bottom.
December 25, 2015: He made a surprise stopover in
Lahore to meet Nawaz Sharif on his birthday, his first visit to
Pakistan. Modi and Nawaz held a brief meeting at the
latter's Raiwind Palace. This was the first time an Indian
premier visited Pakistan in more than a decade. Modi also
attended wedding ceremony of Sharif's grand daughter.
April 02, 2016: Prime
Minister of India Visit to Saudi Arabia:
He met L&T workers at Riyadh.
He said that India has potential and
manpower that the world wants today.
He said that government's e-migrate
programme is to regularise migration and resource
centre to benefit workers.
PM Modi presented King Salman bin
Abdulaziz Al Saud a gold-plated replica of the
Cheraman Juma Masjid in Kerala. Cheraman Juma Masjid
is symbol of active trade relations between India
and Saudi Arabia since ancient times.
He exhorted Saudi industries to invest in
India.
Saudi Arabia conferred its highest
civilian honour on PM Modi during his visit of Saudi
Arabia.
April 03, 2016: On this
day, Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, gifted gold-plated
replica of Cheraman Juma Masjid to Saudi King.
Cheraman Perumal was the Chera King and a
contemporary of the Holy Prophet. Cheraman Perumal
went to Arabia and embraced Islam after meeting the
Holy Prophet at Mecca. The Cheraman mosque has an
ancient oil lamp that is always kept burning and
believed to be over a thousand years old. People
from all religions bring oil for the lamp as an
offering.
April 05, 2016: Stand up India
- This day, he launched the Stand Up
India Initiative at Noida.
The launching ceremony coincided with the birth
anniversary of Babu Jagjivan Ram, former Deputy
Prime Minister of India.
Hihlights of PM's speech:
'Stand up India' aims to empower every
Indian and enable them to stand on their own
feet.
Job Seeker has to become a Job Creator.
This scheme is going to transform the lives
of people from Dalit and Tribal communities.
E-rickshaws will be given to those who do
not own rickshaws; the beneficiaries of this
will be the poor.
PM Modi appealed e-rickshaw beneficiaries to
educate their children particularly the
daughters.
June 04, 2016: He and Afghan President
Ashraf Ghani today jointly inaugurated a
landmark dam, a Rs 1,700 crore Afghan-India
Friendship Dam, earlier known as Salma Dam, on
river Chist-e-Sharif in western Herat neighbouring Iran,
will irrigate 75,000 hectares of land and generate 42 MW of
power. On this day, Modi was also honoured with Amir Amanullah Khan Award
- Afghanistan's Highest Civilian Honour. He was the first Indian, and amongst
only a handful of foreign leaders to receive this award.
June 08, 2016 - He addressed
the joint session of the US Congress.
August 20, 2016 - A suit once worn
by him has entered the Guinness Book of World Records.
In Feb 2016 a man from Surat bought the suit at an
auction for over Rs 4.3 crore, making it the most
expensive suit ever auctioned. Laljibhai Tulsibai Patel
shelled out exactly Rs 4,31,31,311 for the suit that
Modi wore on the occassion on US President Barack
Obama's second state visit to India. A diamond baron and
a private airline owner, Patel took home the suit at an
auction whose proceeds went to the Namaami Gange Trust
fund, an initiative of the Modi cabinet. The final
auction price was an extraordinary figure, given that it
reportedly cost only Rs 10 lakh to make, and was given a
base auction price of Rs 11 lakh.
October 30, 2016: On
this day, he celebrated Diwali with soldiers in a remote
and strategic area in Himachal Pradesh, adjoining the
Chinese border. He had celebrated his first Diwali after
coming in power in 2014 with soldiers posted in Siachen.
In 2015 at the Diwali occasion, he was at the
India-Pakistan border in Punjab.
November 08, 2016: In
an address to the nation on this day evening, he
announced one of the boldest and the most drastic
measures to demonetise the 500 and 1000 Rupee Notes with
effect from 12 O'Clock midnight the same day in order to
curb the black money circulating in the country.
November 10, 2016:
He
left for Japan today on a three day visit to attend the
annual Summit meeting with Japanese Prime Minister
Shinzo Abe and have an audience with the Emperor of
Japan in Tokyo on November 11, 2016.
While on way to Tokyo, he made a brief stopover
at Bangkok, Thailand, and departed for Tokyo after
paying his final respects to late Thai King
Adulyadej Bhumibol in Dulsit Maha Prasat Hall in
Bangkok.
November 25, 2016:
He laid the foundation stone of All India
Institute of Medical sciences at Bhatinda in Punjab.
He said that fields of farmers must have
adequate water that belongs to India and assured
farmers their right over the water that flows
through Indus adding that he will strive to have
that water back.
He said that black money and corruption have
affected the middle class and deprived poor of their
rights.
December 31, 2016:
He announced two subsidy schemes under Prime
Minister Awas Yojana (PMAY).
Homebuyers earning less than Rs 6 lakh per
annum will get a subsidy of 6.5 % on a principal
component of Rs 6 lakh, regardless of their total
loan amount.
In the next bracket, people earning up to
Rs 12 lakh per annum will get interest subsidy of 4
% on a principal component of Rs 9 lakh.
The income category of Rs 18 lakh per annum will
get a subsidy of 3 % on a principal component of Rs
12 lakh.
July 03, 2017:
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister
Yogi Adityanath announced that Prime Minister Narendra
Modi will adopt Kakrahia, a village in Varanasi known
for its wrestlers and wrestling arenas. He said Modi had
chosen to adopt Kakrahia under the Sansad Adarsh Gram
Yojana. In the past two years, Modi has adopted Jayapur
and Nagepur in his Lok Sabha constituency of Varanasi.
Sep 14, 2017: On this day, he and
the Japanese Prime Minister Abe laid the foundation
stone for India’s first ever high speed rail project
between Mumbai and Ahmedabad.
Sep 14, 2017 On this day, he and
the Japanese Prime Minister Abe laid the foundation
stone for India’s first ever high speed rail project
between Mumbai and Ahmedabad.
Aug 15, 2018: In his
independence day speech from the rampart of the Red
Fort, he summarised the mission of his government in the
following words:
House for all
Power for all
Cooking for all
Water for all
Sanitation for all
Skill for all
Health for all
Security/Insurance for all
Connectivity for all
And for achieving this mission, he said he
was:
Besabra (Restless)
Bechain (Worried)
Vyaakul (Upset)
Vyagra (Anxious)
Adheer (Impatient)
Aatur (Eager and wishful)
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Developments
The 15th and current Prime Minister of India. He is
currently the Member of Parliament (MP) from
Varanasi.
First Prime Minister of India to be born after
Indian Independence.
Modi, a leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), also
served as the Chief Minister of Gujarat
state from 2001 to 2014.
Modi was a key strategist for the BJP
in the successful 1995 and 1998 Gujarat state election
campaigns.
He became Chief Minister of Gujarat in October 2001 and
served longer in that position than anyone
else to date.
He led the BJP in the 2014 general elections,
which resulted in an outright majority for
the BJP in the Lok Sabha (the lower house of the Indian
parliament) – the last time that any party had secured an
outright majority in the Lok Sabha was in 1984.
Awards and Accolades
Best Chief Minister in a 2007
nationwide survey by India Today.
In March 2012 he appeared on the cover of the
Asian edition of Time, one of the few Indian
politicians to have done so.
The 2014 Time list of the 100 world's most
influential people.
Forbes Magazine ranked him the
15th-most-powerful person in the world in 2014 and
the 9th-most-powerful person in the world
in 2015.
In 2015, Modi was one of Time's "30 most
influential people on the internet" as the
second-most-followed politician on Twitter and Facebook.
In 2015, Modi was ranked fifth on
Fortune magazine's second annual list of 'World's
Greatest Leaders'.
He received an overall approval rating of 87% at the end
of his first year in office, with 68% of people rating him
"very favorably" and 93% approving of his government.
In 2015, he was ranked 8th in the TIME
magazine’s Person of the Year.
In 2016, his statue featured in the Madame
Tussauds wax museum at London alongside other world
leaders such as Barack Obama, David Cameron and Angela
Merkel.
Member Special Class of the Order of Abdulaziz
al Saud, April 2016. ( Saudi Arabia ).
Amir Amanullah Khan Award -
Afghanistan's Highest Civilian Honour - conferred on
June 04, 2016. He was the first Indian, and amongst
only a handful of foreign leaders to receive this award.
Other
He and his brother used to sell tea on
the streets to support the family.
In his early teens, he joined Akhil Bharatiya
Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), the student wing of
Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS).
During the emergency imposed by Indira Gandhi, the then
Prime Minister of India, he went underground and wrote a
book, Sangharsh ma Gujarat (Gujarat in
Emergency), which chronicles his experiences as a political
fugitive.
In 1987, he joined the Bharatiya Janata Party
(BJP), which stood for Hindu nationalism.
In 1995, he was elected BJP national secretary.
In February 2002, while Modi served as chief minister of
Gujarat, Gujarat riots started after burning of
train at Godhra by certain miscreants. Though he
was heavily criticised and accused by the Congress party for
massive killings, the Indian Supreme Court concluded there
was no evidence about Modi being at fault.
He was reelected chief minister of Gujarat
in 2007 and 2012.
He is credited with bringing prosperity and
development to Gujarat and is seen as a
corrupt-free and efficient administrator.
Former cricketer of India -
the world's greatest
cricketer ever.
Date-wise Events / Works
He scored 100
international centuries.
Other Events &
Developments
He scored his much awaited 100th international hundred
on 16 March 2012, at Mirpur against Bangladesh in
the Asia Cup. He became the first person in history to
achieve this feat. Incidentally, it was Tendulkar's first
ODI hundred against Bangladesh.
He became the first cricketer to score 10,000 runs in one
day international cricket, while playing against Australia
at Indore. He completed this target in his 266th match.
Apr-20, 2002 - he hit his 29th test century
equalling the record of Donald Bradman.
Highest run scorer in ODIs, Highest runs scorer in Test
Cricket, Most number of hundreds in ODIs - 49,
Most number of hundreds in test cricket - 51, Most
number of man of the match in ODIs, Highest run scorer in
World Cup (2560) with an average of 56.95, Man of
the tournament in Cricket World Cup 2003, He is the only
player to have scored a century in all his debus in Raji Trophy,
Duleep Trophy and Irani Trophy. These constitute a few of a avery
long list of records made by him.
He is considered as the Virtual God of Cricket in India
His world record of scoring 100 centuries that might take a century
to break.
Awards & Accolades
Recipient of BHARAT RATNA, the highest civilian
honour for a citizen of India.
Other
Presently he is also a Member of the Rajya Sabha of the
Indian Parliament.
July 02, 1972 -
The Simla Agreement was signed between India and
Pakistan on this day in Simla, India.
August 03, 1972 - On this day, the
Indian Parliament approved the draft Simla Agreement signed
by and between India and Pakistan on the 2nd July, 1972. So
this agreement became effective from this day.
December 17, 1971: The agreement converted the cease-fire line of
this day into the Line
of Control (LOC) between India and Pakistan and
it was agreed that "neither side shall seek to
alter it unilaterally, irrespective of mutual
differences and legal interpretations".
Description
It followed from the Bangladesh Liberation war
in 1971 that led to the independence of Bangladesh.
The treaty was signed in Simla, India, by
Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, the President of Pakistan, and
Indira Gandhi, the Prime Minister of India.
The agreement also paved the way for diplomatic
recognition of Bangladesh by Pakistan.
Few major outcomes of the Simla
Agreement are:
Both countries will "settle their
differences by peaceful means through bilateral
negotiations".
The agreement converted the cease-fire line of
December 17, 1971 into the Line
of Control (LOC) between India and Pakistan and
it was agreed that "neither side shall seek to
alter it unilaterally, irrespective of mutual
differences and legal interpretations".
The agreement has not prevented the relationship between
the two countries from deteriorating to the point of armed
conflict, most recently in the Kargil War
of 1999.
In Operation Meghdoot of 1984 India seized all
of the inhospitable Siachen Glacier region where
the frontier had not been clearly defined in the agreement
(possibly as the area was thought too barren to be
controversial).
He plays
as a striker for Bengaluru FC in the
I-League.
He helped India win the 2007
Nehru Cup, 2009 Nehru Cup, the 2012
Nehru Cup as well as the 2011 SAFF
Championship.
He was also one of India's
best players during the 2008 AFC
Challenge Cup in which India won the
tournament and thus qualified for their
first AFC Asian Cup in 27 years.
He then
led India in scoring during their
short-lived campaign at the 2011 AFC
Asian Cup with two goals.
Awards and Accolades
He had been named AIFF Player of the
Year thrice in 2007, 2011 and 2013.
He inspired the formation of
Chinmaya Mission in 1953 to spread the message of
Vedanta. The mission has over 300 centres
in India and internationally.
Other Events &
Developments
He is also known as Chinmayananda Saraswati,
was born with birthname
Balakrishnan Menon in Ernakulam, Kerala, India.
Sivananda
Saraswati of Rishikesh, who
founded the Divine Life Society, was
his Guru.
He also
struggled for the freedom of India
and joined the independence
movement in 1942.
Soon he was
arrested and jailed,
where he contracted typhus disease.
The jail
authorities threw him out on
the street in the hope that
he would soon die.
But he was
saved by a christian lady
who took him home and cared for him.
While with
The National Herald
as a journalist, he went to meet
Sivananda Saraswati at Rishikesh to
write an article criticizing the
monks.
But this
meeting became a turning
point in his life, when he
adopted the Hindu spiritual path.
He took
sanyas deeksha
(monkhood) from Sivananda on
Mahashivratri day in February, 1949,
when he was given the name
Chinmayananda Saraswati -
the one who is saturated in Bliss
and pure Consciousness.
After his
stay at Rishikesh for several years,
Sivananda sent him to study under
Tapovan Maharaj, a
guru in the Himalayas, under whom he
studied for the following years.
After being
educated there for about 8 years, he
left the Himalayas with a mission
to spread the knowledge of
Vedanta in the world.
He started
the tradition of Jnana
Yagnas, in an effort to
spread the message of the
Gita and the Upanishads.
He also
promoted a rural development
project, known as the
Chinmaya Organization for Rural
Development or CORD.
Awards and Accolades
Dr. Kshama
Metre, National
Director, CORD, was awarded
the Padma Shree award for Social
Work.
June 28, 1914: Assassination
of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the throne of
Austro-Hungarian empire, in Sarajevo, Bosnia July 28, 1914: Begining of the World War - I, when
Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia. See the
ww-I timeline attached November 11, 1918: Armistice day; fighting ceases at 11am
May 07- June 28, 1919: Treaty of Versailles drafted and
signed
Description
It was a Global warfare involving
Europe, Africa, the Middle East, the Pacific Islands, China
and off the coast of South and North AmericaBut centred in
Europe.
A small conflict became a
big warfare and soon Germany, Russia, Great
Britain, and France were all dragged into the war.
Despite the death of millions of soldiers
in brutal conditions, neither side had gained any
advantage.
Angered by attacks upon its ships in the Atlantic,
USA also declared war on Germany in April,
1017.
In November, 1917, Russia pulled out of the war because
of the Bolshevik Revolution at home.
A deadly outbreak of influenza, in
1918, took heavy tolls on soldiers of both sides.
Eventually, the governments of both Germany and
Austria-Hungary began to lose control.
The fighting ended in the late fall of 1918, after the
member countries of the Central Powers signed armistice
agreements one by one. But the final end of the war was
achieved only after signing of the treaty of
Versailles.
Germany, under the Treaty of Versailles, was
severely punished with strict sanctions.
Some historians believe that the excessive
punishment of Germany had actually actually planted
the seeds of World War II, rather than
foster peace.
India Gate in New Delhi was built as a
War Memorial to commemorate the
death of 90,000 Indian soldiers, who were killed in
the North West Province during the First World War and the
Afghan Fiasco of 1919.
