On Bhagat Singh's 117th birth anniversary, Utkarsh Mishra recounts fascinating incidents from the legend's life.
The logo, which Big B posted via Twitpic, features the recently released symbol for the Indian rupee in the background, an addition Amitabh has claimed as his own.
The new notes will be available from 2012.
According to DMK, the voters are already consolidated on ideological lines, hence the impact of anti-incumbency, whether against the BJP Centre or the DMK state may not be too much, notes N Sathiya Moorthy.
Indications are that the DMK combine will win more seats than the AIADMK and BJP, but is facing a tough fight in about half a dozen from the rest, predicts N Sathiya Moorthy of the electoral contest in Tamil Nadu.
'The moment a new election comes, new guarantees are announced.' 'The BJP is adept at diverting people's attention.'
Design of these notes to be issued now is similar in all respects to the Rs 1000 Banknotes in Mahatma Gandhi Series-2005 issued earlier, RBI said.
All the finalists made sure the design reflected Indian-ness and at the same time had an international appeal.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday said that Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot has already 'accepted defeat' by requesting him not to stop schemes initiated by the Congress in Rajasthan, and gave a guarantee that the Bharatiya Janata Party will not stop any scheme but only try to improve it.
'It's not possible for me, or any middle class family, to purchase a new home in Mumbai.'
The convertibility is RBI Governor's 'next big ambitious goal'.
The face of the new Rs 20 coin shall bear the 'Lion Capitol of Ashoka Pillar' with 'Satyameva Jayate' inscribed below.
Thackeray, whose Maha Vikas Aghadi government fell after a rebellion in June last year by his cabinet colleague Eknath Shinde, who went on to become CM, also warned he would extract revenge for his ouster.
Targeting Rahul Gandhi over his party's alliance with fodder case convict and Rashtriya Janata Dal supremo Lalu Prasad, Narendra Modi on Wednesday asked if the Congress vice president plans to guard the country's resources by allying with leaders accused in scams.
The bright yellow coloured notes will hit the market just a day after the announcement by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley that the government has given a go-ahead to the RBI to issue the new currency bill.
The scam-ridden Congress government in Chhattisgarh has become a model of misrule and people have decided to root it out in the upcoming assembly elections, he said.
Addressing the annual Dussehra rally at the iconic Shivaji Park ground in Mumbai, Thackeray lashed out at Shinde, whose rebellion in June this year brought down the Thackeray-led Shiv Sena-NCP-Congress government in the state.
For now, the DMK can be expected to sound the bugle for Opposition unity at the national level, predicts N Sathiya Moorthy.
The World Environment Day 2015 logo has an Indian touch.
'Wherever in the world there is political instability, those countries are beset with severe crises today. But India is in a much better position than the rest of the world due to the decisions taken by my government in the national interest,' President Droupadi Murmu said in her address to both Houses of Parliament.
Amitabh Bachchan was preparing to pack up his bags and return to Allahabad if Zanjeer failed.
Here's the full text of President's Ram Nath Kovind's address to the joint sitting of both houses of Parliament on the first of Budget Session 2022.
The speed at which he led the central bank in different areas -- ranging from internal reorganisation to inflation fighting, stabilising the currency, taking on rogue corporations, cleaning up bank balance sheets, and opening the sector -- makes one believe that Rajan knew he had only three years to do his job. A fascinating excerpt from Tamal Bandyopadhyay's MUST-READ Roller Coaster: An Affair with Banking.
Digital canvassing is expected to benefit from political money looking for alternative blow horns.
Mayawati said marvelous memorials and parks built to honour "ignored" gurus and sants born in Dalit and OBC communities are a new grand identity and tourist attractions in the state.
On a relative worldwide scale of 0-100, the search value index of the rupee stood at 100 in August so far.
AAP will have to learn to be patient as such electoral changes do not happen in a hurry, asserts Ramesh Menon.
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A weak rupee makes imports costlier, including oil and other commodities.
A farmer is shown ploughing a field on the front side of the coin while the image of Mt Everest is embossed on the flip side.
Colorado-based cartoonist Dr Thomas A Kodenkandath, also known as Thommy, has won a prize for his cartoon headlined 'Indian Rupee gets a Symbol' from the Kerala Lalithakala Akademi.
From the brink of defaulting on international payments to a Budget that changed the face of India - A K Bhattacharya takes us through the twists and turns.
Instead of linking MPs' salary to the cost of living index, it should be anchored to the growth rate so long as India boasts the world's second-highest growth, feels Sunanda K Datta-Ray.
D Udaya Kumar made history when his design was selected as the symbol for the Rupee. Manu A B profiles the brilliant creator.
The by-elections to 18 assembly constituencies will decide if the ruling AIADMK remains in power or not.
Now that the rupee has a symbol that is on its way to global recognition, the time has come for the government to take the next logical step: globalise the way money is counted in India.
'Once Mohanlal's ever-swelling entourage grasped his enormous worth, once it realized that the innate Mohanlal appeal could be profited from, it set about to exploit, to make uproars, to create the Mohanlal brand.' 'And he wasn't meant to be a brand. He was meant to be an artist, a tireless explorer of the unique seas inside him,' asserts Sreehari Nair.
President Ram Nath Kovind addressed the nation on the eve of India's 75th Independence Day. Here's the text of what he said:
The ruling AIADMK is leaving no stone unturned to win the Vellore Lok Sabha poll and push its tally to two in the state, with its candidate even donning the skull cap to woo minority votes. But the DMK's stars are clearly on the ascendant in the lone constituency that goes to the polls on August 5. A Ganesh Nadar reports.
'Second-class citizenship would have been meaningless to a Hindu in the Mughal empire.'
A proposed 24 percent hike in the salaries of 2.6 million employees and pensioners, will land the railways with a wage bill of about $4.7 billion.
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