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Jairam Ramesh, Narendra Modi (File photos) NEW DELHI: Congress leader Jairam Ramesh on Sunday hit out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi for linking the 1937 Congress Working Committee (CWC) statement on Vande Mataram to the partition of India. Ramesh, in a post on X, shared excerpts from The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi to counter…
Every Chhath Puja, returning home to Bihar turns into an adventure — trains bursting with passengers, traffic jams that defy physics, and conductors who redefine honesty. Atul Thakur relives his experiencesIt was 2014. End-October. I was in Delhi — where I work — but needed to go back home to Bihar for the Chhath Puja….
Justice Surya Kant (File photo) NEW DELHI: Paying tribute to Mahatma Gandhi and former PM Lal Bahadur Shastri on their birth anniversary, senior-most SC judge Justice Surya Kant Thursday said their life and philosophy guided humanity to focus on villages, self-reliance, simple living and giving a voice to rural masses.Speaking after visiting the Mahatma Gandhi…
Tej Pratap Yadav and Tejashwi Yadav (File photos) PATNA: Former Bihar minister Tej Pratap Yadav, whom his father Lalu Prasad recently expelled from the RJD, on Thursday asked his younger brother Tejashwi Yadav to show him the respect that Lord Rama had got from Laxman.The Hasanpur MLA, who has now floated his own party, Jan…
A famous anecdote about Mahatma Gandhi claims he was once asked by a reporter what he thought of Western civilisation. He ostensibly replied: “It sounds like a good idea,” a tongue-in-cheek remark critiquing the moral decay that surrounds any society built on the edifice of slavery and the opium trade. The same could be said…
New Delhi: BJP MP Lahar Singh Siroya has taken a swipe at Congress leader Rahul Gandhi for a mistake in narrating history linked to his family and India’s struggle for independence from British rule. Rahul Gandhi on his official YouTube channel which has 92 lakh subscribers spoke about Mahatma Gandhi and India’s first prime minister…
Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge, Congress Parliamentary Party chairperson Sonia Gandhi and LoP in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi during the extended CWC meeting, at Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Memorial, in Ahmedabad. NEW DELHI: On the second day of the national convention, the Congress party will hold its All India Congress Committee (AICC) session on Wednesday on the…
NEW DELHI: Lok Sabha on Wednesday witnessed a fiery showdown between Assaduddin Owaisi and BJP‘s Jagdambika Pal after the Hyderabad MP registered his protests by tearing a copy of the Waqf (Amendment) Bill.During his speech on the ongoing discussion on the proposed bill, Owaisi cited the example of Mahatma Gandhi while he was in South…
NEW DELHI: Central Rural development ministry’s Empowered Committee hailed Uttarakhand for implementing the Centre’s scheme and said that their achievements led to increased allocations and special bonuses for the upcoming financial year.Key highlights:DAY-NRLM success:Uttarakhand successfully utilised its allocated Rs 105.67 crore under the Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana – National Rural Livelihoods Mission (DAY-NRLM). As a result,…
You I could not save, Walk with Me, is a showcase of lens-based works, new media and installations that zooms in on the last 18-odd months of the life of Mahatma Gandhi. The show, on at Durbar Hall Art Centre, is a revelation to an aspect of the Mahatma that most of us would only…
