NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi has hoisted the tricolor at the Red Fort for the 11th consecutive year, celebrating 78th Independence Day, also marking his first Independence Day in his third term as Prime Minister. With this achievement, he becomes only the third Prime Minister to do so, following Jawaharlal Nehru and Indira Gandhi.Jawaharlal…
NEW DELHI: BJP MP Anurag Thakur, whose caste attack on Rahul Gandhi in Lok Sabha has triggered a storm, on Thursday doubled down on his attacks against the Congress leader and invoked remarks of former Prime Ministers Rajiv Gandhi, Indira Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru to prove how his family has always been against reservations for…
NEW DELHI: The Centre on Monday lifted a long-standing ban on government employees participating in activities organized by the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS).The order stated, “It has been decided to remove the mention of Rashtriya Swayam Sewak Sangh (R.S.S.S) from the impugned OMS dated 30.11.1966, 25.07.1970 and 28.10.1980.”According to Amit Malviya, the head of the…
NEW DELHI: Union minister Suresh Gopi stirred political waters on Saturday when he described Indira Gandhi as the “mother of India” and late Congress chief minister K Karunakaran as a “courageous administrator”, labeling them as significant figures in India’s political landscape, as reported by PTI.He also hailed Karunakaran and Marxist veteran E K Nayanar as…
BATHINDA: It has been a long and hard initiation into active politics for 46-year-old Sarabjit Singh Khalsa, who contested as an independent candidate and won the Faridkot parliamentary seat.Sarabjit Singh, who completed his matriculation in 1995, was elected to LS on re-emergence of Panthic politics in Punjab along with self-styled Sikh preacher Amritpal Singh, who…
BATHINDA: The son of Beant Singh, one of the two assassins of Indira Gandhi, is drawing impressive crowds in Punjab‘s Faridkot Lok Sabha constituency, where he is contesting as an Independent.On Monday – which happened to be the 60th death anniversary of Indira’s father Jawaharlal Nehru – Sarabjit Singh Khalsa, 45, was greeted with slogans…
NEW DELHI: Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Wednesday responded to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ‘mangalsutra‘ remarks, questioning ‘what sacrifice has any BJP-RSS leader made for the country.’Kharge highlighted the contributions of former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, who donated her jewellery during the 1962 India-China war, and the sacrifices made by Pandit Motilal Nehru and Pandit…
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NEW DELHI: Defence minister Rajnath Singh on Thursday slammed Congress for accusing the BJP-led government of ‘undeclared Emergency’ and recalled his time in jail during the 1975 Emergency imposed by the Indira Gandhi-government, stating that he served an eighteen-month jail sentence without being granted parole to even visit his ailing mother or attend her last…
NEW DELHI: Raising the issue of Katchatheevu for the second straight day, PM Modi Monday targeted DMK over revelations that the party had consented to renunciation of the island in 1974.Taking to X, Modi mentioned official documents cited by TOI to say that notwithstanding DMK’s public protestations, party stalwart and then CM of Tamil Nadu…
