Police get powers to act against landlords defying tenant verification rules

While imprisoned at Yeravda Jail in Pune from 1932 to 1933, Mahatma Gandhi turned confinement into resistance, urging Indians to spin their own cloth as a rejection of British rule. When photographer Margaret Bourke-White arrived to capture his portrait, she was first required to learn how to use a charkha. The iconic portrait of Gandhi reading beside his wheel became an enduring symbol of his pacifist philosophy and non-violent civil disobedience.

Found in a German soldier’s album, this 1941 photograph titled "The Last Jew in Vinnitsa" captures an Einsatzgruppe D member executing a Ukrainian man. This chilling image documents the Holocaust in Ukraine, where nearly one million Jews were murdered by Nazi forces, including the German Army and auxiliary groups.

On June 19, 1981, Isro launched its first communication satellite, Apple, aboard Ariane-1 from Kourou in French Guiana. This satellite, iconically, was transported on a bullock cart—a reflection of Isro's humble beginnings—just six years after Aryabhatta, when both the agency and the nation’s infrastructure were still developing.