Over 1,200 Indian students stranded at Zaporizhzhia in Ukraine make a desperate call for help.
'Even if not me, there are other deserving candidates from Maharashtra in the Congress who should have been given the Rajya Sabha ticket.'
Sachin Tendulkar and Rekha's tenures in the Rajya Sabha end this month.
Hamid Nihal Ansari, a software engineer from Mumbai, returned to India in December 2018 after spending six years in a Pakistani jail for illegally entering the neighbouring country from Afghanistan, reportedly to meet a girl he had befriended online. He was arrested in 2012 and lodged at Peshawar jail after Pakistan had slapped espionage charges against him. The decision to release him was on account of relentless pressure from New Delhi and Sushma Swaraj, who was the external affairs minister and was personally monitoring the case. Speaking to Syed Firdaus Ashraf/Rediff.com, Ansari recalls the time he spent with her and says that if it wasn't for her efforts, he would still be rotting away in a Pakistani cell.
Syed Firdaus Ashraf/Rediff.com recounts the history of the Indian flag and how it has evolved over the years.
'You need to have enough funds to maintain the primacy of public transport and it should not suffer because of lack of funds.'
'My father's life sends a message that there are positive things happening between India and China, no matter what happens at the border.'
Why is the government unwilling to disclose the winners of its DigiDhan Yojana?
'He was provided sustenance by the British.' 'Many times he wrote to the British that he needed an increase in pension.'
'I was not there at the spot and I don't know who was driving the car.' 'It is a matter that needs to be investigated by the police and it is their job,' says the father of the journalist who was killed in Lakhimpur Kheri.
'The Indian Army and paramilitary have to land more in Assam as the situation is very bad, especially in upper Assam,' says BJP MLA Binod Hazarika whose home was burnt down by mobs.
'Switching loyalty from one party to another is completely unfair as it devalues my vote.'
'All this while he has been maintaining that he is innocent and, if that is the case, why will he run away?'
'Had it not been for the complicity of the state and Biren Singh's leadership, these riots would not have spread this far and for so long.'
Indians waiting patiently in serpentine queues outside Mumbai banks tell Rediff.com's Syed Firdaus Ashraf they are ready to suffer for the larger good of the country.
'All is well in Visakhapatnam for now.'
'The people of Jharkhand know that Modi is not going to become chief minister, so why should they vote for the BJP?'
'Therefore, these people want Imran Khan out of the elections whenever it is held.' 'For this, he will have to be disqualified from contesting on the basis of cases against him, declaring that he is not sadiq (honest) and ameen (righteous).'
'Siddaramaiah was openly taking on the BJP's communal agenda, which very few non-BJP politicians do.'
'With the Citizenship Amendment Bill, Hindus from Pakistan can come to India. They have got a way,' says Gurumukh Jagwani who came to India on his honeymoon, loved the country so much that he stayed back and got Indian citizenship.
'Israel has received an extremely hard and rude reminder that it cannot go ahead and talk of normalisation of relations with other Arab countries without addressing the issues pertaining to Palestine.'
'People of my constituency told me they will continue loving me, but will not vote for me if I am with the BJP.'
'The collegium system will remove any such doubts from the minds of people and the political parties.'
'We are losing the battle of secularism, but we have not lost.'
'Since I was held at gunpoint I had no option but to give them the car keys.' 'They took the car and drove away.'
'We are a country of amazing ability and the way we have responded to the pandemic is evidence.'
'A slum free Mumbai cannot happen with Dharavi at the centre of the city.'
'This trope must have been taken in 30 films.' 'The rogue agent is a common trope and not something unique.'
'Modi warned China, therefore they have come to the talks.' 'Nothing will come out of these talks.'
'As far as I know, Sachin Pilotji is not going to the BJP.'
'I am not sure of the numbers killed, but they were not as high as the use of the word 'genocide' suggests.' 'There is another meaning you could take, 'cultural genocide', in that the Pandit community is extremely small and their forced departure led to a wiping out of their culture.'
'We moved out just in time. The fire spread so fast.'
'When the Congress is put against someone like Narendra Modi, they do not have anything new to offer to the people of India.'
'It was Maulana Azad's foresight which created the IITs, UGC, science academies across the country.'
'If we want a stable society, then all groups must feel that they have a seat at the table of power.'
'The Congress didn't win elections only on soft Hindutva.'
'William Mustoe, the director of horticulture during British rule, named the Presidential Palace garden after the Mughals.' 'He simply kept the name because it was made on the pattern of a Mughal garden.''He simply kept the name Mughal gardens because it was made on the pattern of Mughal garden.'
'The Indian government evacuated its citizens from the clutches of the Taliban and Covid-hit Wuhan, so I am not worried.'
'Ajit Pawar's speech leaves no room for reconciliation.'
'At present there might be at least 500 Indians stuck in Iran for various reasons and we have no idea when they will come back.'
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