News for 'Bhagat'

Disciplinary breach: Antim Panghal, entourage to be deported

Disciplinary breach: Antim Panghal, entourage to be deported

Rediff.com8 Aug 2024

In a major embarrassment for India, Antim Panghal, her sister and coaches face deportation from Paris after the young wrestler handed over her official accreditation to her younger sibling to collect her personal belongings from the Games Village and was caught by security.

Soon, Bhagat Singh memorial in Pak

Soon, Bhagat Singh memorial in Pak

Rediff.com22 Jun 2007

Pakistan will also name some streets of Lahore after the names of eminent literary personalities of the past like Bulle Shah, Warris Shah and others.

Medal alert! Nitesh enters men's badminton SL3 final

Medal alert! Nitesh enters men's badminton SL3 final

Rediff.com1 Sep 2024

The IIT Mandi graduate thus ensured that India return with a medal from the SL3 category, after Pramod Bhagat clinched the gold when para badminton made its debut three years ago in Tokyo.

Food Trends At Weddings Reach New Heights

Food Trends At Weddings Reach New Heights

Rediff.com13 Mar 2025

Customised restaurant recreations, cafe setups, pop-ups by Michelin-star chefs, bespoke table linens with monograms and couple-themed hashtags.

Swatantrya Veer Savarkar Review: Lost In Politics

Swatantrya Veer Savarkar Review: Lost In Politics

Rediff.com23 Mar 2024

With the kind of money and talent that has gone into making this movie, a really good biopic of a personality like Savarkar could be made. But this film is lost in polemics, as is the case with almost every biopic and period drama today, observes Utkarsh Mishra.

Santosh Trophy: Services ride momentum to enter quarters

Santosh Trophy: Services ride momentum to enter quarters

Rediff.com21 Dec 2024

Earlier in the day, Jammu & Kashmir kept themselves alive with a 3-0 blanking of Telangana in a do-or-die match.

Priyanka Gandhi likely to be part of simultaneous polls JPC

Priyanka Gandhi likely to be part of simultaneous polls JPC

Rediff.com18 Dec 2024

The two 'One Nation One Election' (ONOE) bills, including one requiring an amendment in the Constitution, that lay down the mechanism to hold simultaneous elections were introduced in the Lok Sabha on Tuesday after a fiery debate.

Will HE be the next Chetan Bhagat?

Will HE be the next Chetan Bhagat?

Rediff.com5 Apr 2012

Debutante author Kartik Sharma, from the same alma mater as bestselling writer Chetan Bhagat, is also an investment banker by profession. But is he destined for similar success?

Chetan Bhagat faces backlash over 'what do historians do' tweet

Chetan Bhagat faces backlash over 'what do historians do' tweet

Rediff.com30 Oct 2015

The author's remarks come in the light of more than 50 historians, including the noted Romila Thapar, voicing their protest against the "highly vitiated atmosphere prevailing in the country, characterised by various forms of intolerance".

RSS wants Bharat Ratna for Bhagat Singh

RSS wants Bharat Ratna for Bhagat Singh

Rediff.com21 Jan 2008

The BJP's demand for Bharat Ratna for former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee has found little favour with the RSS which has suggested that Bhagat Singh or the Indian soldier deserved the country's highest civilian honour.

Bhagat Singh's books rotting in Lahore

Bhagat Singh's books rotting in Lahore

Rediff.com27 Sep 2007

Freedom fighter Bhagat Singh's collection of books that was confiscated and used as evidence to award capital punishment to the revolutionary leader in the 1929 Lahore Conspiracy case, is currently lying in a state of neglect in Lahore.

Centre sanctions Bhagat Singh Chair in JNU

Centre sanctions Bhagat Singh Chair in JNU

Rediff.com14 Sep 2007

The Centre has approved the setting up of Bhagat Singh Chair at Delhi's Jawaharlal Nehru University. The Bhagat Singh Chair will focus on the revolutionary movements in the country since 1757.

Six lessons to learn from Bhagat Singh's life

Six lessons to learn from Bhagat Singh's life

Rediff.com23 Mar 2011

On the day of the martyr's death anniversary we look at some of the things we can learn from the life Bhagat Singh led.

What a mess! Indian wrestlers can't focus on training

What a mess! Indian wrestlers can't focus on training

Rediff.com5 Aug 2024

Wrestlers busy getting daily passes for personal coaches after arrival at Games Village

Bhagat Singh's kin demand airport to be named after the martyr

Bhagat Singh's kin demand airport to be named after the martyr

Rediff.com28 Sep 2015

A close relative of martyred freedom fighter Bhagat Singh urged the Centre to name the new civil air terminal in Chandigarh after the legendary freedom fighter

Amid row on Netaji, now Bhagat Singh's kin allege spying

Amid row on Netaji, now Bhagat Singh's kin allege spying

Rediff.com11 Apr 2015

Bhagat Singh's family claimed that they had been kept under surveillance for several years and demanded that the government declassify all files pertaining to him.

Congress 'old fox' Bhagat passes away

Congress 'old fox' Bhagat passes away

Rediff.com29 Oct 2005

Despite his acquittal in three cases relating to the 1984 riots, he could never get over the stigma following serious allegations that he had led mobs in the aftermath of Indira Gandhi's assassination in 1984.

J-K polls: BJP releases, withdraws, re-releases candidate list

J-K polls: BJP releases, withdraws, re-releases candidate list

Rediff.com26 Aug 2024

The BJP's Central Election Committee had met on Sunday evening to finalise the party's candidates for the polls.

LIVE UPDATES: Chetan Bhagat launches his new book

LIVE UPDATES: Chetan Bhagat launches his new book

Rediff.com9 Aug 2012

As India's most popular author launches his latest book -- What Young India Wants -- we bring you minute-by-minute updates from the venue in Mumbai.

Power Minister asks Chetan Bhagat to charge up his officials

Power Minister asks Chetan Bhagat to charge up his officials

Rediff.com2 Jun 2014

Adopting villages for electrification and introducing corporate-style induction programmes in ministries were some of the ideas thrown up when Power and Coal Minister Piyush Goyal got celebrity author Chetan Bhagat to speak to his staff.

Was Bhagat Singh also a parjivi, Tikait asks PM Modi

Was Bhagat Singh also a parjivi, Tikait asks PM Modi

Rediff.com9 Feb 2021

Without naming the Prime Minister or using his 'andolanjivi' phrase, Tikait said, "In Parliament, they are saying these are parjivis (parasites). Was Bhagat Singh who sacrificed his life for this nation a parjivi? What about 150 farmers who died during this agitation? Were they parjivis too? Had they gone to Delhi to agitate and die?"

'Power of my name': Brij Bhushan claims credit for Vinesh's victory

'Power of my name': Brij Bhushan claims credit for Vinesh's victory

Rediff.com8 Oct 2024

"If she wins by using my name, it means I am a great man. At least my name has enough power to help her sail through," he said.

Video: EROTIC promo of Chetan Bhagat's new book

Video: EROTIC promo of Chetan Bhagat's new book

Rediff.com21 Jan 2012

Video: EROTIC promo of Chetan Bhagat's new book

'We Were Handcuffed, Our Legs Were Chained'

'We Were Handcuffed, Our Legs Were Chained'

Rediff.com6 Feb 2025

'Prime Minister Modi should sit with Trump and find a solution to this issue.'

Somnath Express halted in Punjab following bomb threat

Somnath Express halted in Punjab following bomb threat

Rediff.com30 Jul 2024

All passengers were evacuated at Kasu Begu railway station, they said.

13 assembly seats in 7 states go to bypolls today

13 assembly seats in 7 states go to bypolls today

Rediff.com10 Jul 2024

The electoral exercise, the first since the Lok Sabha elections, will decide the fate of many veterans and some debutantes including Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu's wife Kamlesh Thakur.

Chetan Bhagat: Why I wrote 2 States

Chetan Bhagat: Why I wrote 2 States

Rediff.com16 Apr 2014

'When I wrote the book, people asked me why I was writing it. Ek Duuje Ke Liye was made many years ago. Hema Malini and Dharmendra got married and there is a dialogue in the film also.' Chetan Bhagat tells Aseem Chhabra about his reasons for writing 2 States.

Pak roundabout to be finally named after Bhagat Singh

Pak roundabout to be finally named after Bhagat Singh

Rediff.com16 Nov 2012

A Pakistani government committee has endorsed the renaming of a roundabout in Lahore after freedom fighter Bhagat Singh despite stiff opposition from extremist groups like the Jamaat-ud-Dawah.

Before Tihar, Kejriwal Seeks Parents' Blessings

Before Tihar, Kejriwal Seeks Parents' Blessings

Rediff.com3 Jun 2024

The Delhi chief minister and Aam Aadmi Party national convenor surrendered later at Tihar Jail at the end of the interim bail granted to him by the Supreme Court to campaign for the Lok Sabha elections on May 10.

CBI has never been autonomous: Arun Bhagat

CBI has never been autonomous: Arun Bhagat

Rediff.com7 May 2013

Arun Bhagat, former Central Bureau of Investigation additional director and Intelligence Bureau retiree tells Gyan Varma that the CBI has never been autonomous, thanks to government interference in cases involving important personalities

Arjun Kapoor: Chetan Bhagat's favourite actor?

Arjun Kapoor: Chetan Bhagat's favourite actor?

Rediff.com15 Jul 2016

'You can say I kind of fit into the everyman role that Chetan Bhagat writes about.' 'It's an amazing compliment for me. Rather than play the hero, it is more about playing the character.' Arjun Kapoor discusses his movies and more.

Bhagat Singh not named in FIR on British cop's murder: Pak police

Bhagat Singh not named in FIR on British cop's murder: Pak police

Rediff.com4 May 2014

Bhagat Singh's name was not mentioned in the first information report for the murder of a British police officer in Lahore in 1928, the Lahore police have found, in a major boost to prove the legendary freedom fighter's innocence in the case 83 years after his execution.

IOA increases support staff ratio for Paris Olympics

IOA increases support staff ratio for Paris Olympics

Rediff.com17 Jul 2024

Trying to give the best support to Indian contingent but still being criticised: IOA chief PT Usha

When Chetan Bhagat locked horns with Pak literary greats

When Chetan Bhagat locked horns with Pak literary greats

Rediff.com2 Dec 2011

On Day One of the Times of India Literary Carnival in Mumbai, Chetan Bhagat took on his two Pakistani counterparts Mohammed Hanif and Mohsin Hamid. Here's what happened.

Chetan Bhagat: I was asked to contest by all parties

Chetan Bhagat: I was asked to contest by all parties

Rediff.com17 Apr 2014

'I wish I could find a party that could offer the best of the three parties,' best-selling novelist Chetan Bhagat tells Rediff.com's Aseem Chhabra in New York.

A study on Bhagat Singh's life at JNU

A study on Bhagat Singh's life at JNU

Rediff.com30 Mar 2008

The government took the step following recommendation of the National Implementation Committee for observing the anniversaries of major events in India's history like First War of Independence, birth centenary of Bhagat Singh and 60 years of independence.

Wrestler Antim back in India post Paris drama

Wrestler Antim back in India post Paris drama

Rediff.com9 Aug 2024

Antim Panghal returns to India after Olympic controversy

Renaming roundabout after Bhagat Singh put on hold in Pak

Renaming roundabout after Bhagat Singh put on hold in Pak

Rediff.com31 Oct 2012

Giving in to the pressure from hardline groups like the Jamaat-ud-Dawah and a section of local residents, Pakistani authorities have put on hold a move to rename a roundabout in Lahore after freedom fighter Bhagat Singh.

Kohli's wax statue leaves fans scratching their heads

Kohli's wax statue leaves fans scratching their heads

Rediff.com18 Apr 2024

Virat Kohli's wax statue unveiled in Jaipur Wax Museum