Tag: Nathuram Godse

The Supreme Court on Monday refused to entertain a writ petition seeking stay on the release of the film "Why I Killed Gandhi" on over the top (OTT) platform "Limelight" and asked the petitioner to approach the concerned High Court on the issue.

A petition has been filed in the Supreme Court seeking a stay on the film "Why I Killed Gandhi", which is set to release on various OTT platforms on January 30, the anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi's assassination.

While everyone knows that Nathuram Godse had killed Mahatma Gandhi, very few of them know that the murder of the Father of the Nation was meticulously planned and executed

Gwalior: An idol of Nathuram Godse, installed here by the Hindu Mahasabha on November 15, was removed on Tuesday by the authorities, an official said. Godse is the killer of Mahatma Gandhi and was hanged for his crime in 1949. Additional District Magistrate Shivraj Singh Verma told IANS: “The idol of Godse, installed inside the […]

About 33 years after the death of Raghu Nayak who showed exemplary courage in capturing Mahatma Gandhi's killer Nathuram Godse, the Odisha government today provided a financial assistance of Rs 5 lakh to his widow

New Delhi: A PIL was filed in the Delhi High Court on Tuesday seeking action against actor-turned-politician Kamal Haasan over his recent statement terming Mahatma Gandhi’s assassin Nathuram Godse as the first Hindu terrorist of free India. BJP leader Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay mentioned the petition which sought debarring of candidates and de-registration of parties abusing religion […]

New Delhi: BJP’s Lok Sabha candidate from Bhopal Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur on Thursday kicked up a major row by describing Mahatma Gandhi’s assassin Nathuram Godse as a “deshbhakt” (patriot), a comment which her party immediately condemned and asked her to apologise for her remark. The comment by Thakur, an accused in the Malegaon blast […]

Chennai: Enraged by actor-politician Kamal Haasan’s ‘Hindu terrorist’ remark, a person threw his slipper at him at Thiruparankundram in Tamil Nadu. Haasan was addressing an election rally in support of his Makkal Needhi Maiam candidate when the attack took place on Wednesday night. Police said the person who threw the slipper has been taken into custody. […]

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said he will never forgive BJP’s Lok Sabha candidate from Bhopal Pragya Singh Thakur and others for glorifying Mahatma Gandhi’s assassin Nathuram Godse as “deshbhakt” (patriot). “Whatever statements have been made on Gandhiji or Godse are very bad. They need to be criticised as these are not […]

Chennai: Actor-politician Kamal Haasan on Friday said it was ignorance that made Mughals give the name ‘Hindu’ to the nation. In a tweet, Haasan said the 12 Alwars (Vaishnavite poet-saints) or the 63 Nayanmars (Saivaite poet-saints) did not mention the word Hindu. Haasan said the term ‘Hindu’ was given by Moghals or by others who […]

New Delhi: A day after BJP’s Lok Sabha candidate from Bhopal Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur kicked up a major row by describing Mahatma Gandhi’s assassin Nathuram Godse as a “deshbhakt” (patriot), the Congress on Friday changed its Twitter handle profile picture with an image of Mahatma Gandhi. The party’s official twitter handle earlier carried its […]

Aligarh: The controversy over Nathuram Godse refuses to die down. The All India Hindu Mahasabha on Sunday celebrated the birthday of the assassin of Mahatma Gandhi with a “havan” here. A heavy deployment of police was seen at the Bidas compound under Gandhi Park police station where the “havan” was held. The Hindu Mahasabha had […]

Mumbai: The Maharashtra government on Monday transferred Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) Joint Municipal Commissioner (Special) Nidhi Choudhari to Mantralaya, and served her a show-cause notice, official sources said here. The official had tweeted disrespectfully about Mahatama Gandhi in a recent post. An officer of 2012 batch of the Indian Administrative Service (IAS), Choudhari has now […]

Bhubaneswar: Members cutting across party lines on Monday expressed displeasure in the Odisha Assembly over delay in beginning of the celebrations marking the 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi in a big way. The issue was raised by Congress Legislature Party leader Narasingha Mishra during Zero Hour which was supported by the MLAs of his […]

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 […]