Rajaji, an ardent follower of Gandhi, was a freedom fighter, scholar, jurist, statesman and the first recipient of the Bharat Ratna along with S Radhakrishnan and C V Raman.
RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat stated that the Sangh's objective is to unite society, not to seek power or become a pressure group. He emphasized that the RSS is not against anyone and aims to support positive efforts in the country.
Home Minister Amit Shah criticized the opposition in Rajya Sabha, linking the division of the 'Vande Mataram' song to the partition of India. He accused Congress and Jawaharlal Nehru of dividing the song for appeasement politics.
One hundred years ago, a group of 10 revolutionaries carried out an operation that shook the British Empire. Utkarsh Mishra revisits the 'Kakori Conspiracy Case', a turning point in the armed struggle for independence.
Ram Madhvani's series is all over the place and also boring to watch, complains Deepa Gahlot.
The two leaders had a complex relationship yet formed a partnership and even after their parting of ways, the two admired each other in their efforts for India's freedom.
The clashes broke out this morning when protesters attending a non-cooperation programme to demand the government's resignation faced opposition from the supporters of the Awami League, Chhatra League, and Jubo League activists.
Restrictions under Section 144 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC) continued to be imposed in the clash site and surrounding areas, they said.
A Delhi court on Wednesday rejected Kashmiri separatist leader Yasin Malik's contention that he was following the Gandhian principle of non-violence, saying despite the large scale of violence engulfing the valley, he neither condemned the violence nor withdrew his calendar of protest.
Modi said the new Parliament reflected the aspirations and resolve of the "new India" to set and work towards achieving new targets.
Aam Aadmi party leader Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday embarked on an indefinite fast to protest against the 'inflated' water and electricity bills of Delhi residents. AAP calls this a 'non-cooperation movement' and has urged people to join the movement by not paying their water and electricity bills.
As part of their mass non-cooperation movement, nearly four lakh pro-Telangana agitators have put their pens down to demand the creation of a separate state.Pro-Telangana parties have already dismissed the Shri Krishna Commission report and demanded that a separate bill for the formation of the state should be presented in the budget session of Parliament.The non-cooperation movement is their latest attempt to turn on the pressure on the central government.
Political Joint Action Committee chief Professor Kodanda Ram says that there is no way in which this agitation is going to stop.
The convenor of the Joint Action Committee spearheading the agitation for Telangana on Thursday warned the outfit might resort to non-cooperation movement if the Centre failed to meet its January 28 deadline for declaring a separate state.
After the Chauri Chaura incident, Gandhi decided to withdraw the Non-Cooperation Movement.
Companies whose products have not been picked up for distribution in Gujarat under a "non-cooperation movement" include Marico, Dabur, Emami, Britannia, Reckitt Benckiser, and Godrej Consumer Products.
"For decades in our country, the meaning of the Budget was restricted to what announcements were made in whose name. The Budget was turned into an account of the vote bank," Modi said.
Jail inmates produced goods generating gross sales worth Rs 223.4 crore in 2020, according to the government's annual Prison Statistics India report. The amount ranks at 496th place if compared with the latest net sales numbers of S&P BSE 500 companies, reports Sachin P Mampatta.
The bench observed that citizens should raise their voice against the menace of corruption and refuse to pay taxes by launching a non-cooperation movement.
'Jack', 'John' and 'Alpha' were among the National Investigation Agency's protected witnesses who helped nail banned Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front chief Yasin Malik.
Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad Sangma on Thursday said Union Home Minister Amit Shah has given firm assurances at a meeting held in Delhi of acting on his request for a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe into the 'firing by Assam Police' along the states' border.
'Just keep telling people that we have fixed the Muslims, and they will not be bothered about their empty stomachs or empty wallets.'
Prasanna D Zore discovered an electrifying atmosphere as the Yatra passed through Balapur in Maharashtra's Akola district.
Former Union Minister Arun Shourie on Sunday said Narendra Modi, Amit Shah and Arun Jaitley should be held accountable for the BJP's loss in Bihar elections.
Fifty years ago today, December 25, 1972, Chakravarti Rajagopalachari, one of the titans of India's freedom struggle, passed into the ages. Kalki Krishnamurthy, who penned the Tamil classic Ponniyin Selvan among numerous other novels, describes his first glimpse of the man who would become an august national leader and his cherished role model.
Malik had earlier pleaded guilty to all the charges including those under the stringent Unlawful Activities Prevention Act in a terror funding case.
On the 106th birth anniversary of this great partiot, the least we -- a generation of Indians who enjoy our freedom without really valuing it -- can do is remember men like him who paid with their lives to achieve that freedom.
The government of Andhra Pradesh is planning on invoking the provisions of Essential Service Maintenance Act as the employees of Telangana get ready to commence their pen-down strike.
First it was violence and now a non-cooperation movement. The next in the line will be rail roko starting on March 1 to intensify the demand for a separate Telangana state.
For the Congress party, it is 'mission accomplished' after the 'silent operation' it launched in what is being touted as the 'non-cooperation movement' with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.According to senior leaders, the party's leadership is satisfied that the message to Dr Singh to 'listen to the party' and 'hold wider consultations on key issues affecting policy matters' has been received by him loud and clear.
The airport operations are likely to be disrupted as the employees have threatened to start an indefinite 'non-cooperation movement' from march 12 after the government today rejected their demands for continuing operations of Bangalore and Hyderabad airports. The existing airports in both the metros are to be closed down once the new greenfield airports launch their operations.
Employees of Airport Authority of India began a "non-cooperation" drive across the country at the stroke of midnight opposing the closure of existing airports in Bangalore and Hyderabad. There has been no disruption in services so far. The domestic or international flights from Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai Hyderabad and Kolkata airports were on schedule. However, baggage services were affected in some airports.
At 6 pm on December 3, Mumbai's youth intend to stage a 'non-cooperation' movement of sorts at the Gateway of India. Suparn Verma, filmmaker and ex-rediff employee, has spearheaded the protest, inviting everyone to join him.
Over a hundred thousand people in my estimate turned up to show their solidarity to the idea of a modern non-cooperation movement. Had the Mahatma been watching he would have been proud of Mumbaikars today.
Almost a century before the current Sabarimala movement -- to facililate the entry of women between the ages of 10 and 50 into the Kerala shrine -- there was the Vaikom temple movement, to throw open temples in Kerala to all castes, a movement led by among others a man whose 71st death anniversary we mark today. A fascinating excerpt from Rajmohan Gandhi's new book, Modern South India: A History From The 17th Century To Our Times.
Vande Mataram means praising the mother, the vice president further said while referring to the people who are seeking to define nationalism.
At best, a serviceable buffoon with a flair for repartee, Kapil Sharma is awfully limited in his humour and screen presence to perk up this half-decent premise, feels Sukanya Verma.
CMO confirmed that Kerala had not figured in the list of states which would be presenting their tableaux on the R-day, but was yet to get an official communication in this regard.
Let Bihar be damned under its contradictions of having gone 'dry' and then having been submerged under flood, which is a recurrent phenomena? After all it is a godforsaken land, having lost its promises of overcoming its problems, says Mohammad Sajjad.
Modi's absence from an event to mark the centenary of a definitive moment in Indian history puzzles Utkarsh Mishra.
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