Bhubaneswar: Followers of Mahatma Gandhi in Odisha have launched a signature campaign supporting Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik’s suggestion of incorporating the word “ahimsa” (non-violence) in the Preamble of the Indian Constitution. The campaign was launched at a function marking celebration of August Kranti Diwas here Friday. Noted freedom fighter and Padma Sri Bhabani Charan Patnaik […]
Agartala: Tripura Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb has supported Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s call for ‘one nation, one language’ and said he didn’t believe English language was the only key to development. Addressing a function here on Monday, the Chief Minister said, “There are examples of successful countries, like Japan, Russia, Germany and France, […]
New Delhi: Mahatma Gandhi is ‘set to return to life’ in the form of a hologram at UNESCO Paris to mark the International Day of Non Violence 2019. The life size 3D hologram will “address audience” to explain the Mahatma’s philosophy in a life-like audio visual medium. The 3D hologram will feature in the Ahimsa […]
New Delhi: The 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi on October 2 will witness the start of a unique Delhi-to-Geneva march. The 14,000-km-long march will wind through 10 countries and take one year to complete. The global march for peace and justice, called Jai Jagat 2020, will urge implementation of the UN Sustainable Development Goals […]
By Ashutosh Mishra London: On the eve of Mahatma Gandhi’s 150th birth anniversary, which is all set to be celebrated here on a grand scale, I spoke to a cross-section of people to know about their understanding of the man who had arrived on the English shores in 1888 as a nervous teenager in pursuit […]
New Delhi: French Riviera microstate Monaco has announced the release of postage stamps on Mahatma Gandhi on his 150th birth anniversary on October 2. Priced at 2.10 euros, 40,000 stamps will be on sale from October 2, at the ‘Office des Timbres’, the ‘Musee des Timbres et des Monnaies’- the post offices and philatelic counters […]
New Delhi: Nearly 600 prisoners, convicted of offences other than murder, rape and corruption, will be released from 150 jails across the country on Wednesday, the 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi. All these prisoners will be released under a special remission scheme. However, around 80 convicts selected from jails in Maharashtra and Haryana, will […]
Kathmandu: Mahatma Gandhi’s first statue in Nepal was unveiled on Wednesday on the premises of the Indian Embassy here to mark his 150th birth anniversary. India’s Ambassador to Nepal Manjeev Singh Puri unveiled the statue of Gandhi during a ceremony attended by former ministers, Parliament members, Indian Embassy staffers, business community, civil society leaders, professors, […]
Sambalpur: The Sambalpur Municipal Corporation (SMC) on Wednesday named the ring road of the city after Mahatma Gandhi on the 150th birth anniversary of the Father of the Nation. The 7.5 km road that originates from the Dr Nelson Mandela square and connects the National Highway-53, will now be called Mahatma Gandhi Marg. The ring […]
New Delhi: Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, the icon of peace, has been honoured by over 100 countries by issuing postage stamps. India, of course, led the world in releasing postage stamp on the Mahatma. The first postage stamp on Mahatma Gandhi was planned to be released on October 2, 1947, according to the Gandhi World Foundation. […]
Bhopal: As India celebrated the 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi, unidentified miscreants stole a portion of his ashes kept at Bapu Bhawan in Madhya Pradesh’s Rewa, police said on Thursday. The miscreants also wrote “anti-national” on the picture of the Mahatma that was put up on a hoarding-like structure inside the Bhawan. Rewa district […]
Paris: The UK government has decided to issue a commemorative coin to mark the 150th birthday anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi, said Britain’s Chancellor of the Exchequer Sajid Javid. The Pakistani-origin British finance minister said he had asked the UK’s Royal Mint to work on the coin so that the world never forgot what Gandhi taught […]
Ahmedabad: A question in a school exam on how Mahatma Gandhi committed suicide has shocked the Gujarat education authorities, prompting them to initiate an inquiry into it. Another question about boot-legging in dry Gujarat has also irked the education officials. “Gandhijiye aapghaat karwa maate shu karyu?” (how did Gandhiji commit suicide) was the question asked […]
By Sandeep Sahu At a time when the whole nation is celebrating the sesquicentennial year of the birth of Mahatma Gandhi, the School and Mass Education department of the Odisha government is justifiably drawing flak for rewriting history in respect of what perhaps is the best known event in the life of the Father of […]
Bhubaneswar: Strongly criticising the Odisha government for mentioning Mahatma Gandhi’s death as ‘accidental sequence of events’ in a booklet released by the School & Mass Education Department recently, the Mahatma followers have questioned why the government is hell-bent on providing misinformation to people, particularly the school students. Reportedly, the department had published a two-page booklet […]
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