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Tuesday, November 5, 2024
TopicMahatma Gandhi

Topic: Mahatma Gandhi

‘Possible oversight, but won’t restore changes’: NCERT director on ‘silent’ Gandhi deletions from books

A controversy erupted Wednesday as NCERT was accused of surreptitiously purging certain portions on Mahatma Gandhi from revised Class 12 books released after a pruning exercise.

‘Bapu did not hold a degree in entire law’ — Tushar Gandhi mocks J&K L-G’s remarks on Mahatma’s education

In a keynote address Thursday, Manoj Sinha said the Mahatma only had a high school diploma. The comments did not go down well with Tushar, who called them ‘ignorant’.

After FIR, ‘Gandhi-lookalike’ Mahishasura at Hindu Mahasabha’s Durga puja in Kolkata gets makeover

Akhil Bharatiya Hindu Mahasabha argued similarities were 'coincidental', but after condemnation from BJP and other parties, plus police action, placed a wig & moustache on idol.

Quest to put AAP genie back in the bottle & ‘raiders of the lost Congress’

The best cartoons of the day, chosen by the editors at ThePrint.

Mahatma Gandhi statue in Queens, New York vandalised for 2nd time in two weeks

Perpetrators completely destroyed the statue with a sledgehammer; hate crime in the city has gone up 15.7% as compared to last year.

2nd Gandhi statue targeted in New York, Queens lawmakers condemn ‘hate crime’

Assemblywoman Jenifer Rajkumar — the first South Asian woman to be elected to the NY office — said the incident was a crime against the Hindu community.

London home of UK’s first Asian MP Dadabhai Naoroji to get prestigious ‘blue plaque’

The scheme was started in 1866 and is accorded to eminent people. One of the founding members of the Congress, Naoroji lived in the Anerley Park house from 1895 to 1904.

‘Ideologically poles apart’ – Savarkar on Gandhi museum’s special magazine issue triggers row

Antim Jan is a monthly magazine published in Hindi by the Gandhi Smriti and Darshan Samiti (GSDS). Its June issue was dedicated to Savarkar.

Yashwant Sinha files nomination for Presidential poll flanked by Rahul Gandhi, Sharad Pawar

A former Union minister, Sinha is likely to launch his campaign on 28 June from Chennai and will also cover Kerala and Karnataka during his first round of campaigning.

SubscriberWrites: You can idolize both Bhagat Singh, and Gandhi. There is no need for ‘either or’

They had different philosophies and methods, but a shared vision and life’s purpose- the dream of independent India, writes Sourabh Bansal.

On Camera

Trudeau is nursing snakes in his own backyard. Misguided Sikhs in Canada are losing the plot

By turning a blind eye to the snakes in his own backyard, Trudeau is setting the stage for a disaster of epic proportions for his country, his people, and the world at large.

Watch CutTheClutter: Flattening INR-USD rate, and debate on pros and cons of a ‘strong’ rupee

In Episode 1544 of CutTheClutter, Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta looks at some top economists pointing to the pitfalls of ‘currency nationalism’ with data from 1991 to 2004.

India carries out 1st patrol in Depsang since disengagement with China, to take things ‘slow’

While there are patrolling points (PP) 10, 11, 12, 12A and 13 in the Depsang Plains, the patrol in the region Monday was carried out to only one point as decided by India and China.

Xi wanted to teach India about imbalance of power. We should take a budgetary lesson from it

While we talk much about our military, we don’t put our national wallet where our mouth is. Nobody is saying we should double our defence spending, but current declining trend must be reversed.