Tag: Hamid Ansari

Rourkela: In a major embarrassment to the State government functionaries, the aircraft of the Chief Minister was pushed on the runway at the Rourkela Airport by police personnel in a four-wheeler style on Saturday. After Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik disembarked, the aircraft was supposed to leave the runway so that the plane of Vice President […]

New Delhi: Vice President Dr Mohammad Hamid Ansari today described the legendary leader and former Odisha chief minister Biju Patnaik as a visionary leader and man of multi-faceted genius. “There was a generation of leaders who had played a role across national borders in the service of good causes and Biju Babu was one such […]

New Delhi: NGOs working among the Muslims in India are filling the space left vacant by the state but they remain isolated despite the dream of a new India by 2022 held out by the Narendra Modi government, former Vice President Hamid Ansari said on Tuesday. “Many NGOs mentioned in the book operate in spaces left […]

Bengaluru: Amid raging debate over the role of the press and its freedom in the country, Vice President Hamid Ansari on Monday said only a “free and responsible” media could hold power to account in this age of “post-truths” and “alternative facts”. Addressing the re-launch event of the Congress-run National Herald newspaper, Ansari said here […]

Mumbai: Software engineer Hamid Nihal Ansari, who spent six years in a Pakistani jail on charges of espionage, returned to his hometown Mumbai on Thursday morning, two days after was handed over to India at the Wagah-Attari border. Ansari, 33, along with his parents left from New Delhi in the morning in an Air India […]

The nation on Thursday remembered Mahatma Gandhi on his 66th death anniversary with President Pranab Mukherjee and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh leading the country in paying homage to the Father of the Nation