Netaji's daughter-in-law visited Peshawar, the last post of the revolutionary leader's great escape to Kabul.
The Chief Information Commissioner on Friday directed the Union Ministry of Home Affairs to disclose all its records used by the Justice Mukherjee Commission to probe the alleged disappearance of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose in 1945.
Glowing tributes were today paid to Captain Lakshmi Sehgal with President Pratibha Patil describing her as a great patriot and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh saying the country had lost an icon of selfless service in her death.
The University Grants Commission (UGC) on Friday declared 21 universities as "fake" and not empowered to confer any degree, majority of which are in Delhi followed by Uttar Pradesh.
A frail Capt Lakshmi Sehgal, who had led the women's wing of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose's Indian National Army, met patients at her Kanpur clinic a day before she suffered a heart attack last Thursday.
Shah said the decision was taken to free the nation from colonial imprints as the Andaman and Nicobar Islands had an "unparalleled place" in the country's freedom struggle and history.
Rejecting the Prime Minister's Office's refusal to provide a list of classified files relating to Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose, the Central Information Commission has asked it to make public a list of 29 such files.
The stalemate still continues over the China-bound United Arab Emirates Air Force aircraft detained at the Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International airport in Kolkata after arms and ammunition were found on board as the Customs authorities are yet to get green signal from the Ministry of External Affairs.
His comments came amidst a fierce attack that BJP mounted on the UPA for its range of plans aimed at the uplift of minorities, especially Muslims, in the light of the Sachar committee report.
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.
Buddhadev Bhattacharjee criticised the Congress for not according the 'due importance' to Netaji, as it did to Mahatma Gandhi.
The railways observed a week of Azadi ki Rail Gadi, from July 18-23, through 27 trains and 75 railway stations, across 24 states that are linked to the Indian freedom struggle.
Amid speculation that Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose may be named for the Bharat Ratna, a Congress leader on Sunday said Bahujan Samaj Party founder Kanshi Ram and Aligarh Muslim University founder Sir Syed Ahmed Khan should also be given the country's highest civilian award.
He also re-opened the issue of a fresh enquiry about the mysterious disappearance of Netaji and felt it would be more effective to have an investigative inquiry by experts to find out the reality.
The 26-member Cabinet, including the Chief Minister, has three women members; two from the Scheduled Castes and one from the Scheduled Tribes.
It was on the occasion of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose's birth anniversary.
Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose's family declined the posthumous award.
It has been the poor man's Madame Tussads for years but the private wax museum, a star tourist puller in the hill resort town of Udhagamandalam (Ooty), is on the verge of 'melting down' following lack of patronage and 'indifferent' attitude of local authorities.
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.
The Commission toured Russia from September 20 to 30, and visited archives in Moscow, Omsk, Irkhutsk and St Petersburg.
A JetLite aircraft with 139 people on board suffered damage to its tail while taking off from Mumbai on Wednesday but managed to land safely at the National Subhash Chandra Bose Airport in Kolkata.No one was injured in the incident described by the airline as a 'tail scrape'. In a statement, JetLite claimed that "at no time was the safety of the passengers and crew compromised" in the incident. The tail of the Kolkata-bound Boeing 737 was damaged while taking off from Mumbai.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said he would be receiving family members of Subhash Chandra Bose next month but avoided any reference to declassification of secret files related to him which is being demanded by various sections after West Bengal government did so.
She said the Forward Bloc, which prides itself as a supporter of Netaji, had 'betrayed' the people of the country.
Justice Mukherjee, who arrived in Moscow on Tuesday on a 10-day visit, spoke to three witnesses.
Brig Habib Rehman claimed he saw the charred body of Bose lying beside the aircraft that crashed in Taiwan.
A state health department official, however, said that the baby boy was alive when his parents took him out of the hospital even as doctors asked them not to do so as the child's condition was serious.
A large number of freedom fighters from all over the state assembled in front of the statue of Netaji on the GT road and placed garlands on it.
The suggestions have been part of the final position paper on social sciences, which is a key perspective document that helps in the development of new NCERT textbooks on the subject. The proposal has yet to get a final nod from NCERT.
Banerjee also said that no reason was cited for the tableau's rejection, a decision, which she said had 'pained' people.
A declassified file contained a letter written by Netaji's nephew Sisir Kumar Bose to his father and Netaji's elder brother Sarat Chandra Bose in 1949 that he had information on Netaji going on the air on a radio channel.
India play their first Day/Night Test against Bangladesh in Kolkata from November 22 and both the teams have reached the eastern megapolis.
During the procession that lasted for more than three-and-half hours, he passed through 14 assembly constituencies.
Shiv Sena-Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray chief Uddhav Thackeray on Sunday claimed a "Godhra-like" incident may take place during the "return journey" of the large number of people expected to converge at Ayodhya in Uttar Pradesh from across the nation for the inauguration of the Ram temple.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has sparked off a new debate on whether freedom fighter Subhash Chandra Bose was alive or not after 1945.
A deputy of freedom fighter Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose, an 'old friend' of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru and a former Indian ambassador, ACN Nambiar, has been described as a Soviet spy.
Government on Tuesday said it has no plans to conduct any probe into reports of Amidst a raging controversy over reports of surveillance on family members of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose.
In his letter, Singh hinted since the Central Public Works Department's tableau already featured Bose, West Bengal's float was not included for the parade, without saying it in so many words.
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