Mahatma Gandhi
- Hyderabad
Hyderabad meat shops to remain closed on October 2
Hyderabad: All slaughterhouses along with retail meat and beef shops within the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) limits will remain closed on October 2, 2026. The GHMC issued the closure order on…
- India
Five new sites added to India’s UNESCO World Heritage tentative list
New Delhi: Four sites, including Udaigiri Caves, in Madhya Pradesh and places linked to Satyagraha, present both in India and South Africa, are the five new additions to UNESCO Tentative List of…
- India
PETA India urges Centre to ban meat advertisements from Oct 2
New Delhi: Animal rights organisation PETA India has urged the Centre to prohibit advertisements promoting meat on billboards, television, online platforms and other media from October 2, saying the move would honour…
- India
Shiv Sena UBT slams all-vegetarian menu at BRICS Summit
Mumbai: Shiv Sena (UBT) on Thursday criticised the Centre over the all-vegetarian menu served to foreign delegates at the 18th BRICS Summit in New Delhi, alleging that it amounted to imposing dietary…
- Bangalore
Nirmala Sitharaman moved by M S Subbulakshmi’s legacy
Bengaluru: Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman was visibly moved while attending a special musical programme organised in Bengaluru on Wednesday, September 16, to commemorate the 110th birth anniversary of legendary Carnatic vocalist…
- Opinions
What India’s Left and Right have in common: Criticising Gandhi
Mahatma Gandhi’s ideas are contested in India today as rarely before, in the country he led to independence on August 15, 1947, and where he was shot dead on January 30, 1948.…
- Bangalore
Sugar, jaggery prices surge; officials’ meeting on Monday: Lamani
Haveri: Sugar Minister Rudrappa Lamani on Saturday, August 22, said he would convene a meeting of officials on Monday to review the sharp rise in the prices of sugar and jaggery. He…
- India
Mahatma family with us is a certificate of our patriotism: Dipke
Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar: Hitting back at certain sections for labelling agitators as anti-nationals, anarchists, and violent, CJP convenor Abhijeet Dipke on Wednesday, August 19, said members of Mahatma Gandhi’s family are standing with…
- India
Quit India Movement participants remain inspiration: PM Modi
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday remembered those who participated in the historic Quit India Movement, and said their courage will always remain an inspiration for every Indian. The Quit…
- India
Legacy of hunger strikes woven into warp and weft of India’s politics
New Delhi: Mahatma Gandhi, Bhagat Singh, Potti Sreeramulu, Irom Sharmila, Anna Hazare… And Sonam Wangchuk today. The list is long, the causes different, the means the same – fasting to register protest…
- Opinions
Palestine: Sonia Gandhi piling moral pressure on Narendra Modi
With Palestine emerging as the Narendra Modi government’s Achilles’ heel, Congress leader Sonia Gandhi is mounting moral pressure to take a more humanitarian stand, with Gaza being turned from an open-air prison…
- India
‘Green conscience’ needed to combat climate crisis: JIH panel
Bhopal: The women’s wing of Jamaat-e-Islami Hind (JIH) recently held an online national panel discussion to mark World Environment Day, bringing together academics, activists and environmental advocates to examine the ecological crisis through…
- Bangalore
Karnataka HC dismisses PIL on Gandhi assassination inquiry
Bengaluru: The Karnataka High Court has dismissed a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) seeking directions to the Union Government to constitute a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) to investigate why no judicial commission was…
- Opinions
BR Ambedkar shared Sangh worldview, tried to save Nathuram Godse from hanging
Contrary to popular perception, Dr BR Ambedkar had a close identity of views with Sangh Parivar ideology. There is a lot of material that holds a mirror to this side of Ambedkar.…
- Delhi
Excise case: Kejriwal invokes Satyagraha, refuses to appear before Delhi HC judge
New Delhi: Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) chief Arvind Kejriwal has written a strongly worded letter to Delhi High Court Judge Swarana Kanta Sharma, declaring he will neither appear personally nor through counsel before…