The Prime Minister's Office has refused to furnish data on documents and records it held on the mysterious disappearance of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, saying the disclosure would harm India's relations with foreign countries.
India displayed its military might and vibrant cultural heritage on Rajpath on Wednesday with the grandest flypast with 75 aircraft to mark the 'Azadi ka Amrut Mahotsav' celebrations being the highlight of the 73rd Republic Day Parade, which was drastically scaled down in view of the Covid pandemic.
India will not raise the issue of retrieving the ashes believed to be that of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose during Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's ongoing visit to Japan as there is no 'political consensus' on the issue, a senior official said on Tuesday.
The Prime Minister's Office is considering declassification of some files on Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose in a move expected to bring to light fresh information about his mysterious disappearance.
Work on modernising, expanding and renovating the Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport will be taken up from January next year, civil aviation secretary Ashok Chawla said on Friday.
Earlier, the minister visited the site of the Indian National Army memorial and described it as a "poignant moment".
'Rahul Gandhi wants a group under the name 'new generation'. But look at the people who surround him.'
The Centre was still undecided whether the modernisation of the Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport in Kolkata should be done by Airports Authority of India or through joint venture, Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel said.
The state government has begun the process to acquire land for the university.
He also accused the TMC government of politicising the administration and criminalising the police.
Others who watched the movie with Patil were Information and Broadcasting Minister P R Dasmunsi, Rajya Sabha Deputy Chairman K Rehman Khan, BJP lawmaker Ananth Kumar and several Left lawmakers.
The former captain returned to a warm welcome at Kolkata's Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport on Friday morning.
This admission has come from a senior government officer in response to an application by Delhi-based Dev Ashish Bhattacharya under the Right to Information Act.
The three-volume report of the Justice Mukherjee Commission, constituted during the previous National Democratic Alliance regime, was tabled by Minister of State for Home S Regupathy.
During the hour-long proceedings, the ministry was at the receiving end as it failed to explain its reasoning that providing the documents could lead to unrest in the country, including in Netaji's home state of West Bengal.
Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose's grand nephew would meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Germany on Monday to demand declassification of files relating to the freedom fighter's mysterious disappearance in 1945.
Munshi was one of the cases in the Jessica Lal case.
Addressing a press conference at the Singhu border protest site, farmer leaders warned of multiple actions if their main demands are not met. They said that only five per cent of the issues raised by them have so far been discussed in meetings with the government.
'We are not a dictatorship. If the people do not desire some law, it is impossible for any government to implement it,' says BJP leader Chandra Kumar Bose.
"Forward block leaders met Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh and Home Minister Shivraj Patil and requested for extension of the commission's tenure since the probe is incomplete," Bose, a nephew of Netaji, told reporters in Nagpur on Saturday.
Researchers plan to move court if Shyam Benegal's film, Bose -- The Forgotten Hero, is released in its present form.
Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose's family declined the posthumous award.
'Muslims trusted him more than any other leader,' says Netaji's only child Anita Pfaff.
The state's final electoral rolls would be published by February 15.
A 30-year old Gujarati woman was arrested by the airport police in Kolkata Sunday night after she was sent back by immigration authorities at New York airport allegedly for using a passport of another person.
Soaked in patriotism, Indians marked the country's 71st Independence Day with the tricolour fluttering high and the national anthem reverberating at various spots across the nation.
A minor scuffle broke out between the media and police personnel during Martina Hingis' arrival at the Kolkata airport.
'For the first time one single party is getting 49% which is a record of its own.'
The Commission toured Russia from September 20 to 30, and visited archives in Moscow, Omsk, Irkhutsk and St Petersburg.
She said the Forward Bloc, which prides itself as a supporter of Netaji, had 'betrayed' the people of the country.
Armed with this note, Mission Netaji's Anuj Dhar and Chandrachur Ghosh approached the MEA and Prime Minister's Office last September and asked them to state the facts vis-a-vis the note under Right to Information Act.
Eight eminent personalities have appealed to people to "introspect and audit" the working of the Constitution.
The report has corroborated the evidence of Taiwan government that no air crash had occurred at Taipei airport or anywhere in that country on August 18, 1945, in which the Indian leader was supposed to have been killed.
A woman passenger claimed that she had explosives and threatened to blow up the aircraft mid-air but it turned out to be a hoax. No bombs were found following a thorough search of the plane after it made an emergency landing.
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