Unesco will soon set up the Mahatma Gandhi Institute for Peace and Sustainable Development in the national capital, the organisation’s director general said Monday.
‘Our general conference, the highest governing body that includes member states, approved the creation of the Mahatma Gandhi Institute for Peace and Sustainability, which I am confident will contribute to shaping more [...]
After being neglected for decades, the memorial of India’s first president Rajendra Prasad here is finally set for a makeover on the lines of Rajghat — Mahatma Gandhi’s memorial in New Delhi.
Officials at the chief minister’s office Monday said that government has decided to spend Rs.2.5 crore in the first phase for the development and [...]
Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor, who hit the media headlines once again for his reported remarks, this time on Jawaharlal Nehru, Sunday said sections of the media were doing a disservice to the country with ‘inaccurate, dishonest, irresponsible and tendentious reporting’.
‘I am dismayed by the inaccurate and tendentious reporting of a statement [...]
Frustrated over police inaction in a two-year-old theft case, a complainant took to Gandhigiri to lodge his protest! He cut a cake, in the shape of letters F.I.R, on the premises of MP Nagar police station here to mark the second anniversary of the complaint.
‘The equipment stolen from Navjeevan Press of the National Herald group [...]
Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor, once again under fire for his reported observations, this time on Jawaharlal Nehru, Sunday morning called a press conference to say that sections of the media were doing a disservice to the country with ‘inaccurate, dishonest, irresponsible and tendentious reporting’.
Tharoor was caught in yet another controversy when [...]
Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor was once again in a bit of a spot Saturday, this time with his observatiions on India’s first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru.
Tharoor said Friday that while Nehru’s foreign policy had taken India to a new level in the international arena, he agreed with criticism that it ammounted [...]
One of the old warhorses of Africa’s colonial struggle, Kenneth Kaunda, who was a contemporary of Indira Gandhi, wants India’s help in fighting a new adversary – HIV/AIDS.
‘India has made significant advances in the development of drugs. I wish to appeal for assistance to us in this region so that we can fight the AIDS [...]
India Wednesday offered lines of credit totalling $125 million to Zambia, even as both countries agreed there was need to reinvigorate ties to reflect changed times.
On the second day of his visit to Zambia, the first by an Indian leader in two decades, Vice President Mohammed Hussain Ansari held formal discussions with George Kunda, the [...]
Mahatma Gandhi is the son of Africa and was also influenced by the principles of non-violence during his days spent in that continent, said Amusaa K. Mwanamwambwa, Speaker of the Zambian National Assembly, here.
‘He (Gandhi) is the son of Africa. We also share with India the legacy of Mahatma Gandhi,’ Mwanamwambwa told IANS on the [...]
A member each of the families giving their lands or homesteads for railway projects would be given jobs in addition to compensation, Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee said here Monday.
‘If anybody gives his land or homestead for our projects, one member of the family will be given jobs in the railways. For this, we have [...]
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New Delhi, Jan 3 (IANS) In 1924, when Mahatma Gandhi asked young Chithira Tirunal, the 12-year-old prince of the erstwhile princely state of Travancore in Kerala, if he would remove untouchability [...]
In the Congress’s centenary year in 1985, Rajiv Gandhi delivered his famous ‘brokers of power’ speech in Mumbai, castigating the party for converting a ‘mass movement into a feudal oligarchy’.
The self-criticism underlined a realisation that the party was riding on past glory and had done little in recent years to commend itself to the public. [...]
New Delhi, Jan 1 (IANS) In yet another effort to instil civic sense among Delhi residents, civic authorities Friday announced launch of a new campaign asking people not to spit, pee on or litter the roads ‘at least for the sake of the Commonwealth Games’.
The Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) has created a number of [...]
Chandigarh, Dec 29 (IANS) The first 600 MW unit of the Rajiv Gandhi Thermal Power Project (RGTPP) at Khedar in Hisar district of Haryana became operational Tuesday, an official said.
‘The unit will be operated at a load of around 40 to 50 MW for a few hours during which all the leakages and problem areas [...]
London, December 29 (ANI): The house that witnessed the birth of renowned British novelist George Orwell in Bihar is set to be converted into a museum.
Local authorities in Motihari, Champaran district, are drawing plans to raise the colonial bungalow from its fallen state of [...]
Guwahati, Dec 25 (ANI): Theatre artists from various parts of Northeast came together on one platform recently to stage plays based on the theme of ‘peace and violence’ in Assam.
The two day theatre event on ‘Peace and Violence’ that attracted four drama troupes from Manipur, Assam and Tripura, [...]
New Delhi, Dec. 25 (ANI): The Prime Minister of Japan, Yukio Hatoyama, will pay an official three-day visit to India from December 27 to 29 at the invitation of his Indian counterpart Dr. Manmohan Singh.
His wife Miyuki Hatoyama will accompany Prime Minister Hatoyama. [...]
Mumbai, Dec 25 (IANS) Two sisters proceeding in a pilgrim group for Jejuri were killed Friday when a water tanker rammed into their Qualis jeep from behind on the outskirts of Mumbai, police said.
The accident occurred just before the Vashi toll checkpost in Navi Mumbai around 7.20 a.m. on Christmas morning when traffic density was [...]
New Delhi, Dec 22 (IANS) India and Bhutan Tuesday inked a dozen agreements, including four on hydropower generation, after Bhutanese King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck held extensive talks with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. The other agreements were in civil aviation, health and IT fields.
The 29-year-old Bhutanese sovereign is on his first foreign visit since his [...]
Patna, Dec 22 (IANS) Maoist guerrillas in Bihar have warned of action against dishonest officials if rampant corruption is not curbed in the implementation of government sponsored welfare shemes, police said Tuesday.
The outlawed Communist Party of India-Maoist in its stronghold Arwal district, about 80 km from here, asked the authorities to immediately curb rampant corruption [...]
New Delhi, Dec 17 (IANS) Parliament Thursday approved a bill renaming a flagship rural jobs scheme after Mahatma Gandhi.
Rural Development Minister C.P. Joshi sought to shift the onus of the deficiencies of the Rs.39,000 crore Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) on the 250,000 panchayats in the states, regardless of which political party [...]
New Delhi, Dec 15 (IANS) The bill to control communal violence may not be introduced in parliament’s winter session which ends Dec 21, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal said Tuesday.
‘There is legislative agenda besides some discussions. There may not be enough time to introduce the bill,’ Bansal told IANS. The Lok Sabha is expected [...]
Chicago/Washington, Dec 15 (IANS) Pakistan-born Chicago businessman Tahawwur Hussain Rana ‘knew well in advance’ about the deadly Mumbai terror attacks, blamed on Pakistan based Lashkar-e-Taeba (LeT), and offered congratulations to the killers, according to ‘fresh evidence’ filed by the FBI.
In papers filed in federal court in Chicago Monday, prosecutors said Rana, who was arrested last [...]
Kolkata, Dec 13 (IANS) Urging all political parties in West Bengal to shun violence, outgoing Governor Gopal Krishna Gandhi Sunday said the state will suffer ‘irretrievable damage’ if peace was not restored.
‘Unless all inter-party, inter-cadre or inter-supporter violence is halted, West Bengal will suffer irretrievable damage. All political organisations must together bring West Bengal out [...]
Kolkata, Dec 13 (ANI): Outgoing West Bengal Governor Gopalkrishna Gandhi on Sunday urged the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM) activists to discontinue their fasting protest.
The GJM activists are undertaking a 96-hour long fasting to press for the creation of Gorkhaland state.
Gandhi on Sunday demitted the office of the West Bengal Governor at the end of his [...]
Kolkata, Dec 13 (IANS) On the last day of his five-year term as West Bengal governor, Gopal Krishna Gandhi Sunday called on Marxist patriarch Jyoti Basu, who said ‘I have been quite happy with you’.
The nonagenarian Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) leader’s expression of satisfaction with the stint of Mahatma Gandhi’s grandson at Raj Bhavan [...]
Kolkata, Dec 13 (IANS) Mahatma Gandhi’s grandson Gopal Krishna Gandhi Sunday bade adieu as West Bengal governor by hosting the state’s creme de al creme to tea after occupying the Raj Bhavan for five momentous years.
The 64-year-old former IAS officer and diplomat, who took over as governor Dec 14, 2004, found his tenure coinciding with [...]
Oslo, Dec 10 (DPA) US President Barack Obama Thursday accepted the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize saying he was a ‘living testimony to the moral force of non-violence’, while at the same time defending the use of force.
Crediting the achievements of non-violence proponents like Mahatma Gandhi and 1964 laureate Martin Luther King, Obama also underlined that [...]
Washington, Dec 10 (IANS) US President Barack Obama does not consider himself in the same league as Nelson Mandela and Mother Teresa, but would nevertheless address critics who question his fitness for the Nobel Peace Prize even as he fights wars in two countries.
He may even pick up a few thoughts from Mahatma Gandhi as [...]
Hyderabad, Dec 9 (IANS) The Andhra Pradesh assembly was adjourned without any business being transacted for the second day Wednesday with Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) legislators demanding a resolution on a separate state of Telangana as their chief K. Chandrasekhara Rao’s fast-unto-death entered the 11th day.
Speaker Kiran Kumar Reddy adjourned the house thrice, the third [...]
