Tag: National Flag

Who Designed Tricolour
Independence Day Celebrations | Remembering National Flag Designer Pingali Venkayya

The country will be commemorating the 75th Independence Day on 15th August this year. The Tricolor or the Tiranga or the National Flag will be hoisted across the country to celebrate this milestone.

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  • Wednesday, 10 August 2022
40 years before freedom, Bhikaiji Cama hoisted the first Indian flag in Stuttgart
40 years before freedom, Bhikaiji Cama hoisted the first Indian flag in Stuttgart

Probably unknown to Bhikaiji Cama, around that time, a young Indian Gujarati barrister had launched his first anti-apartheid political movement in 1906 in South Africa, and decades later became a household name worldwide - Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. However, 13 years before, he was thrown out of a train in that country in June, 1893.

  • Sunday, 31 July 2022
Postage stamp to be released in memory of Pingali Venkayya
Postage stamp to be released in memory of Pingali Venkayya

The Central government is organising a 'Har Ghar Tiranga' campaign to mark 75 years of independence. Tiranga yatra will be held in Delhi on August 3.

  • Sunday, 31 July 2022
Pema Khandu Hoists 104 Ft Tall National Flag At Tawang
Pema Khandu Hoists 104 Ft Tall National Flag At Tawang

Taking to Twitter, Khandu said, Proud to dedicate to patriotic people of Arunachal a 104 ft national flag, which was hoisted today at Ngangpa Natme (Buddha Park) in Tawang.

  • Thursday, 03 February 2022
Tricolour Flies High
WATCH | Indian Army Unfurls National Flag Amid Heavy Snowfall In J&K

WATCH | Indian Army Unfurls National Flag Amid Heavy Snowfall In J&K

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  • Wednesday, 26 January 2022
Jeypore Unfurls South Odisha's 'Biggest National Flag'
Jeypore Unfurls South Odisha's 'Biggest National Flag'

The National Flag measuring 20 feet in length and 30 feet in width is fluttering atop a 110-foot high pole.  

  • Sunday, 09 January 2022
STOP Plastic National Flag Usage: MHA Asks States To Ensure Appropriate Action
STOP Plastic National Flag Usage: MHA Asks States To Ensure Appropriate Action

Since plastic flags are not biodegradable like paper flags, these do not get decomposed for a long time and ensuring appropriate disposal of national flags made of plastic commensurate with the dignity of the flag is a practical problem.

  • Sunday, 08 August 2021
Rabi Ray
Bihar CM Nitish Kumar to attend last rites of Rabi Ray today

Bhubaneswar: Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar  among other leaders of Odisha will attend the last rites of eminent socialist leader and former Lok Sabha Speaker Rabi Ray and his ancestral village Bhanragada in Puri district in the afternoon today. Odisha is observing one-day state mourning in his honour.The National Flag was flown at half-mast across […]

  • Wednesday, 21 July 2021
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Complaint against 3 MPs for insulting national flag in Pakistan

A complaint was filed on Thursday with the Odisha police against three Members of Parliament (MPs) for insulting the national flag while they took part this week in the Saarc Young Parliamentarians Conference in Pakistan

  • Friday, 02 July 2021
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